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Feb 6, 2017 · The film was directed by Penelope Spheeris, who knew Wayne’s World producer (and Saturday Night Live creator) Lorne Michaels from the 70s, when she produced S.N.L. shorts for Albert...
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Spheeris was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her Greek-immigrant father owned the Magic Empire Shows carnival and was a side-show strong man. Her mother, of Irish heritage, was raised in Kansas and later worked as a ticket taker for the carnival. Her father was 40 years old and her mother was 19 when they began a relationship. Spheeris has three fu...
Spheeris launched her career by producing short subjects for comedian Albert Brooks, many of them being highlights in the first season of the television series Saturday Night Live. Her first feature film was The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), a punk rock documentary that she produced and directed. She followed up with Suburbia in 1983, pro...
Spheeris has a daughter, director Anna Spheeris Fox, born in 1969. Since September 9, 1998, Spheeris has been in a relationship with a man known as Sin, whom she met while filming the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. In a 2015 interview, she revealed that he was in an institution in Florida after he stopped taking his medic...
Spheeris appeared on WTF with Marc Maronon June 29, 2015. She appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselorpodcast on October 18, 2016. In December 2021, she appeared on the fourteenth episode of The Ghost of Hollywood, where she discussed her work career in filmmaking, with a focus on Suburbiain particular. An interview with Penelope Spheeris and j...
Spheeris' work has received recognition from the Directors Guild of America, The Recording Academy, Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Deep Ellum Film Festival, the LA Femme International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, the Los Angeles Silver Lake Film F...
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1. The Thing in Bob's Garage– A script was written but never made into a film 2. The Gospel According to Janis – An autobiography about Janis Joplin was developed by Spheeris for 15 years, and she had received help from David Dalton on the script. In 2004, the project finally began moving forward when singer Pink was cast in the lead role. Peter Newman had helped finance. Zooey Deschanel replaced her two years later.In 2009, Deschanel declared the project dead. 3. Closers – A romantic comedy...
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Penelope Spheeris at IMDbPenelope Spheeris at the TCM Movie DatabaseMar 12, 2019 · [Sin and I] just spent two years building a house together, and we have six houses, ... Penelope Spheeris’ body of work, including her short films, music videos, ...
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Sep 28, 2021 · Latest News from Vulture. 19 mins ago. 7:00 a.m. Penelope Spheeris sat down to discuss her legendary documentary trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which captured life in LA’s punk,...
Jul 15, 2015 · Factory. Spheeris and Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister in the '80s. Later this year, Penelope Spheeris will turn 70 years old. “You get to a certain age and you go, ‘OK, what is my identity?’” the...
Jun 26, 2015 · Spheeris grew up in trailer parks around the beach cities of Orange County in the 1950s and '60s. Her father owned a traveling carnival in the American South, and she describes her mother as "a ...
