Standard-Examiner staff
For the past year or two, filmmaker Penelope Spheeris has been smack-dab in the middle of it.
She spent a year working as a story editor on the TV sitcom "Roseanne," then segued into a gig as director of the rap band 2 Live Crew's long-form video, "Banned in the U.S.A." It's as though she went mining for showbiz controversy and struck the mother lode.
Of her experience on "Roseanne," a TV series now legendary for battles between writers, producers and stars, Spheeris likens it to "having a belated Hollywood boot camp. It was pretty horrendous."
And the matter of her touring with and filming 2 Live Crew, the music industry's bad boys? Well, we'll get to that later.
First of all, who is this Penelope Spheeris, anyway?
