Word: joplin
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...sermons and sins of fathers everywhere, personified by four generations of American pops. One father would die in a tsarist pogrom; the next would become a friend of organized crime; the third would eat Nazi bullets in World War II; the fourth would write Bob Dylan songs for Janis Joplin, and his son would embody the New Decadence, without ideals or issue...
...classic point to be made about American pop music is that so many types of music emerged with so few lines in common. Bakshi seems to realize this, putting Scott and Janis Joplin, Fabian, and Lou Reed songs in the same movie. But by trying to make more connections than actually exist, he stretches the attractive canvas he has drawn into a demented and confused statement, encompassing family, war, drugs, love, and music, but saying nothing about them...
...score for last year's A Little Knife Music; this year's score seems far the better--more memorable tunes, more intricate ensemble writing, and a generally more subtle, less showy approach. His references are, well, eclectic--there are snatches of Brahms, the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, and Scott Joplin mixed in with Schubert's own tunes...
...Samuel Eliot Morison, has reverted some what to Bartlett's original concept of familiarity, and what is familiar today is pop culture. So step aside Shakespeare - a few inches, anyway - to make some room for Bob Dylan ("The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"), Janis Joplin ("Down on me, down on me/ Looks like everybody in this whole round world/ Is down on me"), Timothy Leary ("Turn on, tune in, drop out"), Wladziu Valentino Liberace ("I cried all the way to the bank"), Yogi Berra (";The game isn't over till it's over...
Back there, she drifted through a couple of jobs, then drifted away again with a guitar player she met at the county fair. They settled in Santa Cruz, and formed a rock band that allowed her to play around in a rubbed-raw Janis Joplin style. After she married the band's manager, her luck turned all bad. He broke his neck in a diving accident and was paralyzed for three years. The band broke up. Her father died...