Before Charles Manson — who died on Sunday at age 83 — and his murderous “family” of followers embarked on a plan to kill famous people in the ’60s, the group sought out celebrities as friends, roommates and professional connections.
Manson was drawn to the famous and glamorous, biographer Jeff Guinn explains to People: “Manson fully intended to become the most famous rock ’n’ roll star in history” — and he worked to connect with those who he believed could aid his career.
The time period is also important, Guinn says: From the mid- to late-‘60s, many celebrities embraced an egalitarian idea that...
Manson was drawn to the famous and glamorous, biographer Jeff Guinn explains to People: “Manson fully intended to become the most famous rock ’n’ roll star in history” — and he worked to connect with those who he believed could aid his career.
The time period is also important, Guinn says: From the mid- to late-‘60s, many celebrities embraced an egalitarian idea that...
- 11/20/2017
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Janis Joplin’s drug use is examined tonight on REELZChannel series Autopsy: The Last Hours Of… — as producers try to get to the bottom of what exactly killed the 60s legend. The rock singer and songwriter died from an accidental overdose at the age of just 27 in October 1970. But the series looks at what led to her taking the drug in the first place, and why she would also take prescription pills and “self-medicate” with alcohol. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter said: “The official verdict was that she died of a drug overdose, but in my opinion it’s...read more...
- 7/1/2017
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
With no starry, big-budget biopic in sight, Amy Berg’s new Janis Joplin doc is an insightful reminder of a vivid yet complex figure
Hollywood’s long-promised, big-budget Janis Joplin biopic has been in the pipeline for what seems like 30 years now. And it never happens. I bet there’s been a Janis movie on the docket of one studio or another ever since the day she died in October 1970. The most recent projects have at one time or another attracted stars such as Amy Adams, Renée Zellweger and Zooey Deschanel. Pink has been slated to play her, as was the late, great Brittany Murphy at one time. Directors such as Catherine Hardwicke, Fernando Meirelles, Jean-Marc Vallée and Lee Daniels have been attached, only to pull out months or years later. In memory, she remains frozen in a kind of mish-mash of 1974 concert documentary Janis, Monterey pop festival and Woodstock footage,...
Hollywood’s long-promised, big-budget Janis Joplin biopic has been in the pipeline for what seems like 30 years now. And it never happens. I bet there’s been a Janis movie on the docket of one studio or another ever since the day she died in October 1970. The most recent projects have at one time or another attracted stars such as Amy Adams, Renée Zellweger and Zooey Deschanel. Pink has been slated to play her, as was the late, great Brittany Murphy at one time. Directors such as Catherine Hardwicke, Fernando Meirelles, Jean-Marc Vallée and Lee Daniels have been attached, only to pull out months or years later. In memory, she remains frozen in a kind of mish-mash of 1974 concert documentary Janis, Monterey pop festival and Woodstock footage,...
- 2/1/2016
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Dir/scr. Amy J Berg. Us, 2015, 103 mins.
Three decades before Amy Winehouse there was Janis Joplin, another dynamic, feisty, bluesy female vocalist whose life came to a tragic end at the rock world’s unlucky age - 27. A different Amy – documentary-maker Berg – pays joyous, moving tribute in this feature-length film to the girl from Port Arthur, Texas, whose breakout performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ushered in a short but intense three-year period of rock fame before her death from a heroin overdose in October 1970.
If there’s one thing Janis: Little Girl Blue conveys brilliantly it’s the exuberant love for life and sense of fun that emanated from every pore of this snub-nosed singer.
Co-produced by PBS’ long-running American Masters series, Janis: Little Girl Blue is a classic rock documentary, told using a conventional but well-sifted mix of present-day and archive interviews with performance and backstage footage. It’s a good...
Three decades before Amy Winehouse there was Janis Joplin, another dynamic, feisty, bluesy female vocalist whose life came to a tragic end at the rock world’s unlucky age - 27. A different Amy – documentary-maker Berg – pays joyous, moving tribute in this feature-length film to the girl from Port Arthur, Texas, whose breakout performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ushered in a short but intense three-year period of rock fame before her death from a heroin overdose in October 1970.
If there’s one thing Janis: Little Girl Blue conveys brilliantly it’s the exuberant love for life and sense of fun that emanated from every pore of this snub-nosed singer.
Co-produced by PBS’ long-running American Masters series, Janis: Little Girl Blue is a classic rock documentary, told using a conventional but well-sifted mix of present-day and archive interviews with performance and backstage footage. It’s a good...
- 9/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
Part I.
1971 was an incredibly violent year for movies. That year saw, among others, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack, with its half-Indian hero karate-chopping rednecks; William Friedkin’s The French Connection, its dogged cops stymied by well-heeled drug runners; Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, banned for the copycat crimes it reportedly inspired; and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, featuring the most controversial rape in cinema history. Every bloody shooting, sexual assault and death by penis statue reflected a world gone mad.
It seemed a reaction to America’s skyrocketing crime. Between 1963 and 1975, violent crimes tripled; riots, robberies and assassinations racked major cities. The antiwar and Civil Rights movements generated violent offshoots like the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Citizens blamed politicians like New York Mayor John Lindsay (the original “limousine liberal”), who proclaimed “Peace cannot be imposed on our cities by force of arms,” and Earl Warren’s Supreme Court,...
1971 was an incredibly violent year for movies. That year saw, among others, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack, with its half-Indian hero karate-chopping rednecks; William Friedkin’s The French Connection, its dogged cops stymied by well-heeled drug runners; Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, banned for the copycat crimes it reportedly inspired; and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, featuring the most controversial rape in cinema history. Every bloody shooting, sexual assault and death by penis statue reflected a world gone mad.
It seemed a reaction to America’s skyrocketing crime. Between 1963 and 1975, violent crimes tripled; riots, robberies and assassinations racked major cities. The antiwar and Civil Rights movements generated violent offshoots like the Weathermen and Black Panthers. Citizens blamed politicians like New York Mayor John Lindsay (the original “limousine liberal”), who proclaimed “Peace cannot be imposed on our cities by force of arms,” and Earl Warren’s Supreme Court,...
- 5/28/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
[Spoiler Alert: This article contains references to plot points in the series finale of "Mad Men," the May 17 episode "Person to Person."]
Donald Francis Draper, a legendary ad man and a creative director at several top New York advertising agencies throughout the 1960s, finally met his fate, on a day in October 1970. What that fate was proved ambiguous; he was last seen on a California hilltop, smiling mysteriously.
Draper was born Dick Whitman in late 1925 in rural Illinois, the son of farmer Archie Whitman and a prostitute who died in childbirth. Whitman's childhood, according to the few times he ever spoke about it (including during one memorably agonizing pitch meeting with Hershey's Chocolate that all but cost Don Draper his job) was a Dickensian nightmare, marked by his father's alcoholism and the resentment of his stepmother, Abigail, who routinely referred to him as "whore's child." Shortly before the birth of his half-brother Adam, the 10-year-old Dick saw his drunken father killed by a kick in the face from a spooked horse.
Donald Francis Draper, a legendary ad man and a creative director at several top New York advertising agencies throughout the 1960s, finally met his fate, on a day in October 1970. What that fate was proved ambiguous; he was last seen on a California hilltop, smiling mysteriously.
Draper was born Dick Whitman in late 1925 in rural Illinois, the son of farmer Archie Whitman and a prostitute who died in childbirth. Whitman's childhood, according to the few times he ever spoke about it (including during one memorably agonizing pitch meeting with Hershey's Chocolate that all but cost Don Draper his job) was a Dickensian nightmare, marked by his father's alcoholism and the resentment of his stepmother, Abigail, who routinely referred to him as "whore's child." Shortly before the birth of his half-brother Adam, the 10-year-old Dick saw his drunken father killed by a kick in the face from a spooked horse.
- 5/18/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Beginning on Halloween night and running through November 7th, New York's Lincoln Center is once again playing host to a horror film festival called Scary Movies, which will see both world premieres of new horror films as well as screenings of genre faves from the past.
With oodles of filmmakers in attendance, and tons of movies being shown, it looks to be another can't miss event. Read on for all the details!
From the Press Release
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual horror fest Scary Movies returns for its 7th edition featuring several U.S. and New York City premieres among its lineup of highly anticipated horror films and thrillers, genre rarities and fan favorites. Appearances include filmmakers Eli Roth, Andrew van den Houten, Cliff Prowse and Derek Lee.
Among the nine U.S. or NYC premieres are; Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson’s high school horror-revenge film...
With oodles of filmmakers in attendance, and tons of movies being shown, it looks to be another can't miss event. Read on for all the details!
From the Press Release
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual horror fest Scary Movies returns for its 7th edition featuring several U.S. and New York City premieres among its lineup of highly anticipated horror films and thrillers, genre rarities and fan favorites. Appearances include filmmakers Eli Roth, Andrew van den Houten, Cliff Prowse and Derek Lee.
Among the nine U.S. or NYC premieres are; Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson’s high school horror-revenge film...
- 10/16/2013
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
It’s a club that the famous are dying to get into, literally. The 27 Club (The Forever 27 Club) is the name for an iconic group of influential musicians who all died at the age of 27. Their untimely deaths have often been connected with uneasy lives and psychological issues, with a lot of physical neglect in between, usually due to drink or drug abuse, or both. An independently published book named, “The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll” meticulously details the phenomenon. The author states, “More rock stars have died at 27 than at any other age.”
Bluesman Robert Johnson, who died on August 16, 1938, was an immense musician. His talent was unquestionable; he has been cited – by Eric Clapton, no less – as “the most important blues singer that ever lived”. Johnson’s untimely death wasn’t self-inflicted, and there are a number of conflicting opinions, but the general consensus is...
Bluesman Robert Johnson, who died on August 16, 1938, was an immense musician. His talent was unquestionable; he has been cited – by Eric Clapton, no less – as “the most important blues singer that ever lived”. Johnson’s untimely death wasn’t self-inflicted, and there are a number of conflicting opinions, but the general consensus is...
- 6/9/2013
- by john glynn
- Obsessed with Film
Codeblack Films opens Shola Lynch's Free Angela & All Political Prisoners in USA theaters today, April 5th - a film we've covered thoroughly over the last 12 months, and that we strongly encourage you to see. In October 1970, Angela Davis was arrested in New York City in connection with a shootout that occurred on August 7 in a San Raphael, California courtroom. She was accused of supplying weapons to Jonathan Jackson, who burst into the courtroom in a bid to free inmates on trial there (the Soledad Brothers) and take hostages whom he hoped to exchange for his brother George Jackson, a black *radical* imprisoned at San Quentin Prison. In the...
- 4/5/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
After nearly everyone from Zooey Deschanel to Pink was considered for role of Janis Joplin, an actress has finally been found. Tony winner Nina Arianda will play the rock icon in "Joplin," reports Deadline.com. The biopic, which is being helmed by "Martha Marcy May Marlene" director Sean Durkin, will chronicle the last six months of the singer's life.
The $20 million production will contain "exclusive use of 21 of Joplin’s best-known songs," so fortunately, this production won't have to rely on the Beatles' catalog like the Jimi Hendrix biopic, "All Is By My Side." The producers are reportedly confident in Arianda's Broadway chops -- and they should be.
Only a few short years after receiving her Mfa from New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, the 27-year-old took home a Tony for her role as actress-seductress Vanda in the Off-Broadway play, "Venus in Fur." Arianda has also played...
The $20 million production will contain "exclusive use of 21 of Joplin’s best-known songs," so fortunately, this production won't have to rely on the Beatles' catalog like the Jimi Hendrix biopic, "All Is By My Side." The producers are reportedly confident in Arianda's Broadway chops -- and they should be.
Only a few short years after receiving her Mfa from New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, the 27-year-old took home a Tony for her role as actress-seductress Vanda in the Off-Broadway play, "Venus in Fur." Arianda has also played...
- 7/10/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Everett Janis Joplin in the 1960s in the documentary, “Janis,” released in 1975.
Janis Joplin was a blowtorch blues singer and hell-raiser who never missed an opportunity to whip herself into a possessed frenzy. But with the release on April 17 of “The Pearl Sessions” (Legacy), we learn that Joplin in the fall of 1970 also was a tireless, passionate studio artist who had finally figured out how to dial back her scorching delivery without sacrificing emotion.
On the new two-cd set—recorded...
Janis Joplin was a blowtorch blues singer and hell-raiser who never missed an opportunity to whip herself into a possessed frenzy. But with the release on April 17 of “The Pearl Sessions” (Legacy), we learn that Joplin in the fall of 1970 also was a tireless, passionate studio artist who had finally figured out how to dial back her scorching delivery without sacrificing emotion.
On the new two-cd set—recorded...
- 4/13/2012
- by Marc Myers
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Conan the Barbarian Conan from the Marvel Comics of the 1970s Conan - 1st appearance in print: Weird Tales -a pulp magazine-(December, 1932) 1st Comic Book Appearance, Conan the Barbarian #1 (October 1970), a Marvel Comic book. Arnold Schwarzenneger as Conan The character of Conan began in Depression-era Texas with a writer named Robert E. Howard. Howard wrote adventure and fantasy short stories for the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the early 1930s. Howard, who also created the characters Kull the Conqueror and Solomon Kane, revised an unpublished Kull story, and created a barbarian character from the wilds of a fictional land he called Cimmeria. Howard named this barbarian Conan, whose introduction to the world took place in the December, 1932 issue of the magazine Weird Tales. Conan was a native of a cold, dark, windswept land of gaunt hills named Cimmeria. Howard described Conan's native land in a poem he...
- 8/17/2011
- ComicBookMovie.com
Director Robert Altman's 1971, British Columbia-lensed feature "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, will screen @ Vancouver's Vancity Theatre, January 28, 29, 30 and February 2 and 3, in celebration of Vancouver's 125th birthday this year :
"...Happy Birthday, Vancouver, 125 years young! To kick off the celebrations, what better movie than Robert Altman's masterpiece 'McCabe & Mrs Miller', probably the greatest film ever made in British Columbia, and set in the fictional town of Presbyterian Church in the early years of the twentieth century, just up the road from our own fair city.
"Warren Beatty stars as 'John McCabe', a hazy romantic and professional gambler with entrepreneurial dreams of setting up a saloon and a brothel on the gold rush trail. He finds an ideal partner in Julie Christie's madam, 'Constance Miller', a businesswoman with all the savvy McCabe himself patently lacks.
"But their luck runs out when a zinc...
"...Happy Birthday, Vancouver, 125 years young! To kick off the celebrations, what better movie than Robert Altman's masterpiece 'McCabe & Mrs Miller', probably the greatest film ever made in British Columbia, and set in the fictional town of Presbyterian Church in the early years of the twentieth century, just up the road from our own fair city.
"Warren Beatty stars as 'John McCabe', a hazy romantic and professional gambler with entrepreneurial dreams of setting up a saloon and a brothel on the gold rush trail. He finds an ideal partner in Julie Christie's madam, 'Constance Miller', a businesswoman with all the savvy McCabe himself patently lacks.
"But their luck runs out when a zinc...
- 1/20/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
On 'American Idol,' Bowersox earned big praise for singing Janis Joplin's posthumous hit.
By Kyle Anderson
Crystal Bowersox performs on "American Idol" on Wednesday
Photo: Ray Mickshaw / Fox
Once again, one of the highlights of Tuesday night's episode of "American Idol" — which was focused on songs that had hit No. 1 on the pop charts — was Crystal Bowersox's performance. Armed with her trusty guitar and her disarming voice, the rocker sang "Me and Bobby McGee," which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.
There's a bittersweet feeling within the lyrics of "Bobby," as well as in the story surrounding it. The song was written by country legends Kris Kristofferson (who has had a string of hits himself) and Fred Foster (who produced much of Roy Orbison's best work and helped introduce the world to Dolly Parton) and was recorded by "King of the Road" singer...
By Kyle Anderson
Crystal Bowersox performs on "American Idol" on Wednesday
Photo: Ray Mickshaw / Fox
Once again, one of the highlights of Tuesday night's episode of "American Idol" — which was focused on songs that had hit No. 1 on the pop charts — was Crystal Bowersox's performance. Armed with her trusty guitar and her disarming voice, the rocker sang "Me and Bobby McGee," which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.
There's a bittersweet feeling within the lyrics of "Bobby," as well as in the story surrounding it. The song was written by country legends Kris Kristofferson (who has had a string of hits himself) and Fred Foster (who produced much of Roy Orbison's best work and helped introduce the world to Dolly Parton) and was recorded by "King of the Road" singer...
- 3/24/2010
- MTV Music News
From a press release
E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film + Television and Big Motion Pictures in association with Astral Media’s The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central announced today that principal photography is underway on the Canadian original television series Call Me Fitz (working title). The series stars actor/director Jason Priestley (The Day of the Triffids, My Name is Earl, Beverly Hills 90210) as the charismatic used car salesman known as Fitz. Created and written by producer/writer Sheri Elwood (Defying Gravity), the 13‐part, half‐hour comedy series is filming an hour outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Annapolis Valley region until mid‐January. The series is scheduled to air on The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Movie Central (Western Canada) in 2010.
In Call Me Fitz, Jason Priestley stars as Richard “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, a balls‐out, used car dealer who pushes the boundaries of acceptable behaviour just a few steps too far.
E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film + Television and Big Motion Pictures in association with Astral Media’s The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central announced today that principal photography is underway on the Canadian original television series Call Me Fitz (working title). The series stars actor/director Jason Priestley (The Day of the Triffids, My Name is Earl, Beverly Hills 90210) as the charismatic used car salesman known as Fitz. Created and written by producer/writer Sheri Elwood (Defying Gravity), the 13‐part, half‐hour comedy series is filming an hour outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Annapolis Valley region until mid‐January. The series is scheduled to air on The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Movie Central (Western Canada) in 2010.
In Call Me Fitz, Jason Priestley stars as Richard “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, a balls‐out, used car dealer who pushes the boundaries of acceptable behaviour just a few steps too far.
- 11/26/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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