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Janis Joplin

mustache Oct. 5, 2022

Bob Weir Might Be the Best WWHL Guest Ever?Telling wild stories about the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and a ghost.

By Wolfgang Ruth
confessions on a late night show June 24, 2022

Evan Rachel Wood Previews Her Madonna-pression for Upcoming Weird Al BiopicJimmy Fallon also made her do Alanis and Janis, and it was all definitely unplanned.

By Jason P. Frank

rip May 20, 2022

Bob Neuwirth, Folk-Music Fixture and Bob Dylan Confidant, Dead at 82He played with Bob Dylan and co-wrote Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz.”

By Zoe Guy
vulture guides Dec. 1, 2020

Keep the Throwbacks Coming After Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts With These AlbumsFrom Janis Joplin to Blondie to Ashlee Simpson.

By Justin Curto
books Aug. 2, 2018

Peggy Caserta, Janis Joplin’s Love, Comes Clean (for Real This Time)Four decades ago, her first memoir made her infamous.

By Greg Evans
chat room Dec. 4, 2015

D.A. Pennebaker Reflects on His Storied CareerFrom Dylan to Joplin to Hendrix, he has a story about everyone.

By Bilge Ebiri
Nov. 27, 2015

Two Great News Docs on Tasers and Janis JoplinWhat do Tasers and Janis Joplin have in common? They’re both the subject of two really good new documentaries.

By David Edelstein
anecdotes Nov. 16, 2015

That Time Janis Joplin Made the Hell’s Angels Do Household Chores“Sometimes she was a giant.”

By Jonathan Shia
biopics Oct. 16, 2012

Lee Daniels Eyeing Amy Adams’s Janis Joplin FilmHe’s already making The Butler. Might as well stay historical.

By Zach Dionne
in development July 9, 2012

Janis Joplin Biopic Lands Its Director and StarVenus in Fur’s Nina Arianda and Martha Marcy May Marlene’s Sean Durkin.

By Zach Dionne
30 rock June 5, 2012

‘Criterion’ Poster for Jackie Jormp-JompJenna Maroney is Jackie Jormp-Jomp.

By Eliot Glazer
casting July 15, 2010

Weirdly, Amy Adams May Star in a Janis Joplin BiopicReally weirdly.

By Willa Paskin

killjoys Jan. 23, 2009

30 Rock Prompts Predictable Wikipedia LockdownAll references to Janis Joplin’s fear of toilets have been deleted.

By Lane Brown