The Dish: Amy Adams will play Janis Joplin

A Pearl of a part It's a role that, deep breath, Lili Taylor, Renée Zellweger, Melissa Etheridge, Courtney Love, Brittany Murphy, Pink, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson have all variously been considered for and/or coveted. But it looks like the part of Janis Joplin will be played by Amy Adams in a film by Fernando Meireilles ("City of God," "The Constant Gardener").

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