Word: joplin
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...Leigh's mother Barbara Turner and directed by Ulu Grosbard, is a two-hander about the edgy relationship of show-biz sibs. Georgia (Mare Winningham) sings pop; she's famous and sensible, a caring mom and sister. Sadie (Leigh) sings barroom rock and thinks the way to be Janis Joplin is to do drugs, embarrass herself onstage and lurch toward an early, ugly death. At the mike, in the van, at the airport, she goes self-destructively, picturesquely nuts...
Steven Head Joplin, Missouri AOL: SHead52296...
...dying is cheap. For little added cost, it can turn a 32 cents T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.The fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes; he does it all himself, and his stove is usually covered with bubbling dye pots. Sebastian learned the craft from one one of its best- known practitioners...
...Janis Joplin...
...poet Neil Young finally was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today, along with Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa. Young's most recent album was last year's "Sleeps With Angels."Copyright 1995 Time Inc. All rights reserved...