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Dec 11, 2023 · Penelope Spheeris was born on December 2, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Gypsy Spheeris and Andrew Spheeris. She grew up in the United States with her parents, Gypsy and Andrew. Her father, Andrew, was the owner of The Magic Empire Shows Carnival, whereas her mother worked as a ticket taker at the same establishment as her father.
Feb 1, 2022 · Released on Feb. 14, 1992, Wayne’s World was a massive (and shocking to director Penelope Spheeris) box office success, raking in $183 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. The movie would ...
Jun 25, 2015 · Interview: Penelope Spheeris. By Nick Pinkerton on June 25, 2015. While most abridged biographies of modern filmmakers tend toward a logical careerist progression, Penelope Spheeris’s is genuinely eccentric and unpredictable. She was born into a New Orleans circus family, her father the operator of (and a performer in) the Magic Empire Shows ...
May 16, 2024 · Spheeris’s second wife Juanita aka Gypsy claimed Andrew was a former Olympic wrestler, but his name doesn’t appear in a list of U.S. teams. See Peter Fenton, “The Decline of Civilization and the Ascent of Penelope Spheeris,” L.A. Weekly, 20 Mar 1981, 4. It’s possible Gypsy was recalling Andrew’s association with Great Olympic rather ...
Mar 15, 2024 · Penelope is a feminine given name derived from the Greek πηνελόπη (pēnelópē), which has two possible meanings: "weaver", and referring to Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. The name has been used since ancient times, and was popularized in the medieval period by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de ...
Jun 30, 2015 · When film director Penelope Spheeris asked her daughter Anna Fox to come and work for her, Fox agreed — on one condition. Spheeris’ best-known film is the wildly successful “Wayne’s World ...
Oct 21, 2019 · Penelope Spheeris’ ‘Suburbia’: Not Just a Teenage Wasteland. In Suburbia, writer-director Penelope Spheeris begins on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the city lights glimmering in the distance as a woman (Dorlinda Griffin), with her toddler in tow, pulls over to pick up teenage hitchhiker Sheila (Jennifer Clay). After catching a flat and ...
