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	Penelope Spheeris - Interesting Motherfuckers - Acid Logic ezine
		When this new form of music and culture started germinating on the streets of Los Angeles, Spheeris**, who at the time was making some of the early rock videos for her company, Rock and Reel, knew she had to do something, so she grabbed a camera and filmed the explosion.
		So Spheeris decided to tackle the same subject matter in a narrative format and the result was “Suburbia” (1983.) “Suburbia” was basically a fictionalized version of “Decline” featuring a number of young actors who were essentially playing themselves.
		However, in recent times, Spheeris has bounced back with a third “Decline” film (haven’t seen it) and the Ozzfest rockmentary, “We Sold Our Souls to Rock and Roll,” (also haven’t seen it.) Both films indicate a Penelope Spheeris returning to her early fascination with rock music’s subcultures which is where she does her best work.
	www.acidlogic.com /im_penelopespheeris.htm (2108 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'Crooked E' Director Questions Air Date Move (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Director Penelope Spheeris said today that she was surprised and unhappy when she received a call two weeks ahead of the broadcast informing her that the movie had been postponed.
		Spheeris said she and producer Robert Greenwald, who made the movie for CBS, were upset at the sudden suspension and discussed whether the impending election and political pressure could have played a part.
		Spheeris said she had no preference for airing the Enron movie before or after the elections, but noted that "I like to get my movie out in a timely manner.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8518-2003Jan3?language=printer (559 words)

	Lycos Celebrity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Spheeris worked on two of comic Lily Tomlin's 70s TV specials, where her colleagues included Richard Pryor and Lorne Michaels, and went on to produce seven comedy shorts directed by Albert Brooks for the early "Saturday Night Live".
		Spheeris established her reputation as the producer, director and screenwriter of "The Decline of Western Civilization" (1981), a knowing, humorous but clear-eyed record of the late 70s L.A. punk rock scene.
		Spheeris joined Hollywood's big leagues helming the surprise comedy blockbuster "Wayne's World" (1992) based on "Saturday Night Live" sketches featuring Michael Myers and Dana Carvey as nerds with their own public access cable show.
	entertainment.lycos.com /celebrities/celebrity_bio.asp?id=11659&pagetemplate=purple (438 words)

	Penelope Spheeris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter.
		Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, she majored in film at UCLA in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, California.
		Spheeris launched her career by producing short subjects for satirist Albert Brooks, many of them being highlights in the first season of the TV series Saturday Night Live.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penelope_Spheeris (166 words)

	FILMMAKER MAGAZINE \| Winter 1998: No Future
		Penelope Spheeris began her career in the early '80s with The Decline of Western Civilization, an aggressively political and energetic chronicle of the late '70s L.A. punk scene featuring bands like Black Flag, X, and The Circle Jerks.
		As she was shooting, Spheeris discovered that many of the kids going to clubs are homeless; her focus shifted as she realized that the "decline" she first referenced in 1981 now had a new and more urgent connotation.
		Penelope Spheeris: I was moving along making millions of dollars doing commercial movies, and I saw an ad in a magazine that said "The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III" advertising some weird punk album.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /winter1998/nofuture.php (1291 words)

	INTERVIEW: Penelope's World; Spheeris Returns With Third Punk Doc
		Spheeris: The thing is, [punk rock] kind of went into recession, just in terms of the visibility of the music and the kids out on the street.
		Spheeris: In retrospect, the first movement was really quite historic in that it changed the way people played music and the way people thought and dressed and acted.
		Spheeris: I think these kids are used to a lot of pain, just in their upbringing, and 90% of their existence is devoted to survival.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Spheeris_Penel_000711.html (1629 words)

	For Penelope Spheeris, Fame Came at a Price
		Last time Penelope Spheeris came to Washington was for Ozzfest '99, when she filmed the metal band Slipknot as they ran around the Lincoln Memorial.
		Spheeris -- filmmaker, champion of punk rock, grandmother -- is a director both aggrieved and respected, with a career defined by a passion to do good work in an industry she says she loathes.
		Spheeris is busy filming interviews and molding special features for the year-end release of the DVD versions of "The Decline of Western Civilization," the seminal punk-rock documentary trilogy she began in 1981.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601651.html (783 words)

	Cyber Cafe - Live Reports!
		Known for her realism in creating films about the burgeoning punk rock scene of the late 70s, Spheeris explains that her work with the new wave era, and counterculture of the ensuing decades, represents her obsession.
		Spheeris directed instead a film that made a name for this unusual director who pursued the underground realism of the counterculture of the nuclear age.
		hile storytelling in the new millennium for Spheeris was a means of self expression, often focusing on violence and the dark, negative side of the new counterculture, Spheeris claims she is glad that she followed her passion, despite the fact that the road she was on seemed to be rough and convoluted.
	www.filmkauai.com /cafe/PenelopeSpheeris (650 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| The damned
		But mostly, Spheeris was working hard to redeem her subjects as both normal human beings and worthwhile musicians.
		The punks that Spheeris documented in 1979 for the first "Decline" film were a vibrant group of musicians, journalists and scenesters who were mapping out music culture's next turn.
		Spheeris doesn't present her story as an indictment of punk rock or teenagers, and well she shouldn't; had she cared to make a movie about ambitious, sober and inventive punks in the late '90s, there's ample subject matter to do it with.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/08/06reviewb.html (842 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Serious Rock & Roll Anthropology
		Penelope Spheeris is best known for directing such mainstream fare as Wayne's World but best loved for her Decline of Western Civilization trilogy, playing at this year's SXSW Film.
		Spheeris went on to direct two more documentaries in the Decline series (the second deals with mid-Eighties heavy metal bands, the third with destitute street punks, and both cleverly repeat the now-famous advisement from the first film), but the mainstream knows her best for directing the 1992 smash hit Wayne's World.
		Penelope Spheeris will be in Austin for a SXSW Film retrospective of her work.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-03-09/screens_feature.html (2966 words)

	filmcritic.com: Penelope Spheeris: Selling Her Soul For Cinema
		Since her early days working with Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live, Spheeris has spent the better portion of her life and her career playing both roles as documentarian of American music history and as a studio director of television show adaptation and SNL alumni comedies.
		Spheeris for a bite to eat and to discuss her latest documentary, the difficulties female directors have with the Hollywood system, and the best catalysts for filmmaking.
		Penelope Spheeris: Sharon Osbourne [Ozzy's wife] was interested in doing a movie about Ozzfest.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/95a45e26914c25ff862562bb006a85f2/a37b86f3bc88b6f808256b650013d989?OpenDocument (1751 words)

	RollingStone.com: Pink : Pink Channels Janis Joplin : News
		The film will be Pink's acting debut, but Spheeris was so blown away by her screen-test, that deciding to cast her was a no-brainer.
		Both Spheeris and producer Peter Newman are intent on depicting Joplin in a positive life.
		After coaching her for one day, Spheeris directed her in four scenes (an unusually challenging load for a screen-test), two of which featured Pink singing.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/6054633/pink?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple3&rnd=1104944295475&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040 (371 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Journeying into the nucleus of LA's punk scene, Spheeris discovers a new generation of young punks who live on the streets, and weren't even born when their spiked-hair musical heroes of the 1970s were at their peak of outrageousness (they in fact weren't even born when Spheeris's first DECLINE came out, back in 1980).
		In the final analysis, Spheeris is able to dredge some brutal truths from these punks, while making an attempt to find a way to justify their largely inert lifestyle.
		Her effort to find glimmers of humanity in the gutterpunk scene is clearly noble, but after seeing the film, one still comes away with the notion that if these kids were actually offered some charity, they'd spit in the good Samaritan's face, and happily return to their dumpster-diving lifestyle.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=41329 (653 words)

	Ask @ IMDb.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Joining us as guest columnists are screenwriter John August (Go, Charlie's Angels), director Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization, Wayne's World) and cinematographer Oliver Stapleton (My Beautiful Laundrette, The Cider House Rules, The Shipping News).
		Penelope Spheeris made her feature film debut with The Decline of Western Civilization, an energetic documentary about the L.A. punk scene in the early 1980's.
		She has since directed a number of diverse projects, including Wayne's World, Suburbia, and The Boys Next Door, as well as completing two more films in the Decline series (The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years in 1988 and The Decline of Western Civilization Part III in 1998).
	imdb.com /Indie/Ask (1486 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Penelope Spheeris
		Majoring in film at UCLA, Penelope Spheeris launched her career by producing short subjects for satirist Albert Brooks, many of which were highlights of "Saturday Night Live's" first season.
		Her first "auteur" feature project was The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), a punk-rock documentary that she wrote, produced, and directed.
		After several years' work in documentaries of a doggedly non-comic (and unappealing) nature, Spheeris returned to laughmaking with Wayne's World, which became one of 1992's biggest hits.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/99491/bio.jhtml (196 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Penelope Spheeris - 1992 - Wayne's World Movies Review
		To top it off, Wayne’s World is directed by Penelope Spheeris, infamous by that point for her classic observation of punk rock artists in Decline of Western Civilization (which had also been over ten years prior to the making of this film).
		I’m not sure how much creative input Spheeris had in the final product as the two stars of the film also created the characters, but there are signs that this was an enjoyable team effort.
		Spheeris may not be the best female director Hollywood has to offer but she’s certainly more talented with subjects than Mimi Leder(though Leder gets much higher profile material to work with).
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10000948 (1034 words)

	Penelope Spheeris @ Filmbug UK
		She made her debut with the acclaimed, highenergy documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, thought by many to be the definitive statement on the punk rock culture of Los Angeles.
		Spheeris then moved into dramatic features with Suburbia and The Boy Next Door, while completing "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years." She next catapulted the characters created by Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live into film heroes with the topgrossing 1992 hit Wayne's World.
		Tell us what you think of Penelope Spheeris in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/35206 (205 words)

	VH1.com : News : Is Pink The Reincarnation Of Janis Joplin? Penelope Spheeris Thinks So
		Spheeris, however, went in worried about whether Pink, who has only had a cameo in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," could act, but she was blown away by what she saw.
		The director's script begins with a lengthy montage of Joplin's childhood but primarily focuses on the time from when Joplin was a 19-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin to her death at age 27.
		Speaking of other Joplin scripts, Spheeris said she freaked out when she heard Paramount was making another movie, titled "Piece of My Heart" and with Renée Zellweger in the lead, but eventually she came to terms with it.
	www.vh1.com /news/articles/1486398/20040415/pink.jhtml?headlines=true (790 words)

	Penelope Spheeris -- HIP Magazine
		Spheeris took the millions of dollars she got from directing The Beverly Hillbillies, Black Sheep (with David Spade and Chris Farley), Wayne's World, The Little Rascals and Dudes and spent it on real movies like The Decline of Western Civilization and Decline II: The Metal Years.
		In Decline III, Spheeris takes us deep inside the dirtiest subculture ever made as: Squid, Darius, Eyeball, Gizzard, Hamburger, Little Tommy the Queer, Spoon Squid and Troll, go about their daily: eating, drinking, sleeping, squatting, mating, interacting with each other and adorning themselves with tribal designs.
		Even the girl who started an armband of infected cigarette burns around her bicep and was trying to get drunk enough to finish off the job seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.
	www.hipmagazine.com /spheeris.htm (1349 words)

	Pryor Bustin' Loose with Lawsuit - Jul 27, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The iconic comedian has filed a lawsuit against director Penelope Spheeris over the first film that Pryor ever starred in, which he claims Spheeris has, or had, in her possession.
		Copies of the early Pryor work were rumored to be non-existent after Pryor's former wife supposedly shredded the negative due to her frustration with his constant work on the would-be opus.
		The 64-year-old holds Spheeris, best known for helming Wayne's World, and his daughter Rain, also named in the suit, responsible for absconding with the film.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17038,00.html?fdnews (583 words)

	Amazon.com: Suburbia (1983): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Penelope Spheeris used real kids as opposed to seasoned actors.
		Penelope Spheeris should be 100% proud of it.
		Penelope had her finger on the pulse of the times.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Y3WH?v=glance (1554 words)

	Movie Habit: Penelope Spheeris
		Penelope Spheeris has submerged herself in both extremely personal films that delve into American subcultures (Decline of Western Civilization I, II, & III, Suburbia, and now We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘N Roll) as well as surprisingly commercial ventures that have been box office champs (Wayne's World, Beverly Hillbillies, and The Little Rascals).
		Her latest documentary takes a look at what is billed as America's most successful summer concert tour of the last five years, an all-day festival that attracts fans of all ages.
		Penelope Spheeris: an interview with the versatile director of We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll
	www.moviehabit.com /essays/spheeris01.shtml (982 words)

	Penelope Spheeris News
		News about Penelope Spheeris continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Los Angeles, Aug 7 The comedian Richard Pryor's daughter Rain Pryor claims his father's wife Jennifer Lee Pryor is behind the lawsuit against her and filmmaker Penelope Spheeris.
		Tom Arnold, who acted alongside the governor of California's in True Lies, is set to co-star, co-write and produce this comedy directed by Penelope Spheeris.
	www.topix.net /who/penelope-spheeris (178 words)

	ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO 2007
		From cutting edge independent features to mainstream studio comedies to historically significant documents of youth culture, the span of Penelope Spheeris' work has made her an internationally recognized artist.
		After graduating from UCLA Film School with a Master of Fine Arts degree, she worked as an editor and cinematographer, then formed Rock 'n' Reel, the first music video company in Los Angeles.
		She is best known for the critically acclaimed documentaries, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Decline II: The Metal Years, and most recently, The Decline: Part III about punk kids living on the streets, the profits from which are donated to charities for homeless and abused children.
	www.ascap.com /eventsawards/events/expo/2007/bios/spheeris.html (253 words)

	Chapman University-Media and Digital Arts Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Please join Industry Insiders for an evening with multifaceted filmmaker Penelope Spheeris, screening a yet-to-be-released film, "The Kid & I".
		Spheeris' many recognizable films include 1994's The Little Rascals, 1993's The Beverly Hillbillies, and an in-depth view of the famous Saturday Night Live skit, 1992's feature Waynes World.
		Spheeris hails from the jazz-filled city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
	ftv.chapman.edu /news/detail.cfm?id=984 (135 words)

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