Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Janis Joplin, the subject of this willfully empty-headed documentary, died of an overdose of heroin in 1970 in a Hollywood motel room, all alone. There is no sense whatsoever in this film of the loneliness and desolation that could have led to such an end; indeed, there is no mention at all of her death, not even the fact of it. Instead, we are presented with a lot of concert footage and some spliced-in interviews, mostly gath ered from old television spots. Joplin reveals as much of herself as most people do under the flighty scrutiny...
...fixture on the seedy North Beach scene in the past few years, the pair-especially Eben-according to Grim developed another expensive taste: hard drugs. Eben is chronically depressed and often disturbed, and is a serious user of heroin. Grim says that Amy was an occasional user of cocaine. He further maintains that in the weeks before her death both Eben and his sister were being shaken down by the same drug dealer; Amy, he says, may have owed the dealer as much as $5,000, Eben as much as $2,500. The dealer, he implies, threatened the pair...
...Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...
Those who sniffed became ill, and nine hours later the band's drummer, Robbie Mclntosh, 24, was dead of a heroin overdose. Cher, who didn't take a snort, is credited with saving Bassist Alan Gorrie's life by walking him around all night, preventing him from lapsing into a coma. Last week it was revealed that a Los Angeles County grand jury had charged Moss, whose last address was British Honduras, with murder. Ironically, Robbie's last single with the band, Pick Up the Pieces, is currently heading for the top of the charts...
...against him. To protect that right, New York and California have both provided that even though a prisoner pleads guilty, he may still mount a constitutional attack with an appeal in state courts. But may that attack continue into federal courts via a habeas corpus petition? In a heroin possession case, a four-man minority argued that "the great writ was not designed as a means of freeing persons who have voluntarily confessed guilt." Justices Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun endorsed the procedure as a practical way of permitting "the constitutional issues...