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2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars.She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer Dave Getz). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee".

Janis Joplin in Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)

My advice to everyone is come to California and I&#39;ll buy you a drink.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home
alone.

[asked by a reporter what &quot;acid rock&quot; was] I wouldn&#39;t know. I&#39;m a juicer.

You know, I have to have the umph. I&#39;ve got to feel it, because if it&#39;s not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren&#39;t going to feel it either.

They&#39;re frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I&#39;ve never known a one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own.

I don&#39;t believe in gate-crashing. The people aren&#39;t up there when I&#39;m sweating on a stage at a festival, breaking my ass. You can get the money to buy a concert ticket, man. Sell your old lady, sell your dope. Look at me, man, I&#39;m selling my heart.

I&#39;m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn&#39;t know what to do with it. But now I&#39;ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I&#39;m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you&#39;re on stage and if it&#39;s really working and you&#39;ve got the audience with you, it&#39;s a oneness you feel.

Oh Lord, won&#39;t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends. So Lord, won&#39;t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Oh Lord, won&#39;t you buy me a night on the town? I&#39;m counting on you, Lord, please don&#39;t let me down. Prove that you love me and buy the next round. So Lord, won&#39;t you buy me a night on the town.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I&#39;ll retract it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That&#39;s what music is to me.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Don&#39;t compromise yourself. You&#39;re all you&#39;ve got.

Tomorrow never happens. It&#39;s all the same fucking day, man.

To sing blues, you&#39;ve got to be able to,... be willing to, feel things.

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Janis Joplin

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