*Although he was ungenerous on this occasion, Gleason wasn’t blind to the reasons behind Janis leaving Big Brother. In an interview after her death, he said, “I really dug [Big Brother] together, as a group, but it was perfectly obvious that you couldn’t have a partnership, you know, a cooperative group, with everybody as an equal partner, if you had a star. . . . It was perfectly obvious that Janis was gonna leap out of that thing and be a star.” (Author interview with Ralph J. Gleason, October 3, 1973.)