Talk:The Rose (film)

Janis Joplin ?
1. Should we trust Mark Bego’s 1987 unauthorized biog’ on Bette Midler, the original Pearl script required not less than 5 years to be fully re-written (…and retitled !) by Bo Goldman  w/Mark Rydell, so that Bette eventually accepted to play her first leading role. And Bego does not mention at all the Joplin’s family’s refusal.

2. After several views of the film (spread on over 25 years), I'm convinced it just has nothing to do either w/ Janis Joplin the artist or w/ her last days of life. Of course, it was so easy, for the film promoters, to take an advantage from Joplin’s highs and lows, but it’s only lies. There’s only one obvious resemblance/similarity : both ladies are white American female singers. It’s not that much, as all the rest is only fiction.

Any other opinion ?