How is the career of Film maker Penelope Spheeris?
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. Her first feature film was The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), a punk rock documentary that she wrote, produced, and directed. She followed up with The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years, this time about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1988, with footage and interviews of legendary metal bands such as Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Megadeth and Motörhead. She was also a writer for the TV series Roseanne (1988-1997). In the 1990s, Spheeris directed Wayne’s World, a comedy based on Mike Myers’ skits from Saturday Night Live. The movie grossed an impressive $121 million and became a popular hit. She directed the Wayne’s World music video work for “Bohemian Rhapsody” which was Grammy nominated. She chose not to direct the sequel. In 1996 she directed We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll, a documen
