• Janis Joplin's Kaleidoscopic Porsche Sells for $1.67 Million at Auction

    Thursday night at RM Sotheby's "Driven By Distruption" car auction in New York, Janis Joplin's renowned, kaleidoscopic Porsche sold for a total of $1.76 million. The pearl white 1965 porsche 365c 1600 Cabriolet, which is adorned with flower-power and psychedelic patterns, was only expected to only reel in between $400,000 and $600,000.

  • Janis Joplin Documentary ‘Little Girl Blue’ to Air on PBS Series 'American Masters'

    On the heels of the latest musican biopic and documentary fad, comes a fresh Janis Joplin documentary, 'Janis: Little Girl Blue.' Having already launched its brief theatrical run, its debut will be followed-up with an airing on PBS series 'American Masters,' which profiles and takes a deeper look into the lives of influential American cultural artists.

  • Jimi Hendrix Highest Paid Act at Woodstock With $18,000: See What The Band, The Who and Janis Joplin Earned

    Jimi Hendrix already had three groundbreaking releases under his belt before heading to Woodstock in 1969 to dazzle more than 400,000 people. He joined acts like The Band, The Who and Janis Joplin, among others, and the event has gone down as one of the most famous concerts in history and a defining moment for music in the 1960s. 'Ultimate Guitar' recently revisited Woodstock, posting archived documents with how much money each band and artist was paid to perform.

  • Joni Mitchell Halts Biopic About Her Career Starring Taylor Swift

    If you were looking forward to that Joni Mitchell/Carole King/Carly Simon biopic "Girls Like Us," then today, Nov. 25, you are out of luck. In an interview with "The Sunday Times," via "NME," Joni Mitchell revealed that she has pulled the plug on the project, citing the casting of Taylor Swift as one of the primary reasons."I squelched that!" Mitchell admitted. "I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.' It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes.""There's a lot of nonsense about me in books," Mitchell went on to say, "assumptions, assumptions, assumptions."The now-halted film was based on the book "Girls Like Us" by Sheila Weller, which followed the rise of Mitchell and her singer-songwriter contemporaries Carly Simon and Carole King during the 1970s. Swift was cast as Mitchell back in 2012, with "Mad Men's" Jessica Pare cast as Simon and "The Newsroom's" Alison Pill cast as King.

  • Brad Pitt to Play Bruce Springsteen in Biopic? Rumors Surface About Possible 'Boss' Flick

    Let the rumors begin. A-list actor Brad Pitt is reportedly trying to play Bruce Springsteen in a biopic. Early reports claim that Pitt is raising funds to make a movie tentatively titled "The Boss." Springsteen has been approached many times before, but a source told the "The National Enquirer" that Pitt's involvement has peaked the rock star's interest.Now, you have to take anything from "TNE" with caution, but it's certainly a discussion worth having. A comprehensive biography titled "Bruce" came out in 2012, and it would provide decent source material for a movie. The aging rocker is still as active as ever in the music scene, which would potentially hinder a film production, though. And it's great that Pitt may want to do this, but there are other actors to consider for the part of the polarizing frontman."Bruce is 65 now and he feels it's time, and this is Brad Pitt, so he is thinking it over," the source said. "Bruce and Brad share a desire to unite the world and serve the underrepresented and help the working people around the globe."
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