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- PEOPLE, Page 73Beyond the Blues and Boas
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- Janis Joplin became a legendary pop diva without ever
- going image shopping. Her impassioned defiance possessed a raw
- sincerity. But equally genuine was the tough-talking singer's
- penchant for self-destruction, a trait that has always made it
- impossible to think of JANIS JOPLIN apart from a hazy world of
- pills and Southern Comfort. Now a biography by her younger
- sister Laura Joplin provides a kinder, gentler perspective on
- the electrifying crooner. Included are touching letters Janis
- wrote to her family during the 1960s. In them she talks about
- her dog, asks for a Betty Crocker cookbook and lovingly details
- her life in the California music scene ("Guess who was in town
- last week -- Paul McCartney!!! And he came to see us!!! Sigh!").
- Laura Joplin unearthed the letters in 1988. "It was a very
- powerful experience,'' she said. "Kind of like meeting Janis
- again."
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