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Pop Star "Pink" To Play Janis Joplin in Biopic
Cinematic Happenings Under Development (CHUD) ^
| April 2, 2004
| Devin Farachi
Posted on 04/03/2004 11:44:23 AM PST by Long Cut
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Some lighthearted news on a slow day.
Janis could sure belt the blues back in the day, but TWO movies about her? C'mon.
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posted on
04/03/2004 11:44:24 AM PST
by
Long Cut
To: All
To: Long Cut
God rest her soul....but Joplin "sang" like she had throat cancer before she died.
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posted on
04/03/2004 11:50:38 AM PST
by
JimVT
(.)
To: All
This is "Pink", the singer who will play Joplin...
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posted on
04/03/2004 11:52:36 AM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Long Cut
Pink better start slopping at the trough if she's going to portray a realistic Janice...
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posted on
04/03/2004 11:53:02 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
To: Long Cut
Well, I'm not crazy about Pink playing Janis Joplin, but it could be worse. At least it's not Britney Spears in the role!
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posted on
04/03/2004 11:56:52 AM PST
by
NYCVirago
To: Joe 6-pack
True statement...
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:00:03 PM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: NYCVirago
It was almost Melissa Etheridge, until her gal-pal (who was supposed to direct the flick) figured out that she couldn't act.
They would have turned it into a Femi-Lesbo fest.
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:02:04 PM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: NYC GOP Chick; hchutch
Some movie news...
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:03:20 PM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Long Cut
Not Courtney Love??
To: Long Cut
Eww! BAD idea.
If I were doing the film, it would have been in the can a long time ago and would have starred Lili Taylor as Janis.
Not someone whose previous acting experience was a cameo in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (and a pox on the idiot who opted for that title).
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:04:30 PM PST
by
Houmatt
(This is not here.)
To: Long Cut
I have no idea who "Pink" is.
Back in the late 60s/early 70s, when it seems like rock stars were dying every week - Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, etc., I was convinced that the CIA was knocking them off. Of course, I was young and stupid back then - it never occurred to me that the fact they were all drinking and drugging 24/7 might have been a contributing factor to their early demise.
To: Long Cut
at least Pink is a working-class girl who has struggled. I think she'll make a good Joplin. She's smarter than the average pop-chick, and has a good work ethic.
To: GreenHornet
if you notice that the majority of the pop stars who died in the 60/70's, most were counterculturalists. if the CIA/NSA etc didn't have a hand in it, those deaths nevertheless didn't hurt the cause (CIA et al)
To: Eleventy-leven
She's not hard on the eyes, either...
I also heard her say in an interview that when she first went to LA, she carried a concealed gun regularly.
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:26:11 PM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Eleventy-leven
I agree with you. I think Pink will do just fine. I hope the script is decent. She does have the vocal qualities to pull this off, plus the degree of cockiness. I think the casting person was spot on, regarding his / her choice.
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:26:35 PM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: taxed2death
Pink's one of the very few modern pop stars whose albums I've actually purchased, and listen to. Her music's actually pretty good...fun to listen to in the car, too.
She's rumored to absolutely HATE Brit Spears, too, which at least shows that she has good taste.
Have you seen her video for her song, "Trouble"? What a hoot!
Yep, I can easily stand her, and only two others...Shakira and Gwen Stefani.
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:31:51 PM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Long Cut
I don't know but that is hard on MY eyes!
To: Long Cut
I never cared about Janis Joplin and care even less about Pink.
To: TightyRighty
That photo's a little squashed. Plus, unfortunately, Pink seems to go out of her way to hide or obscure her looks. Were she to grow out of her "punk" phase, and try to appear a a woman instead of a girl, she'd be quite beautiful.
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posted on
04/03/2004 12:46:44 PM PST
by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
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