Penelope Spheeris made her bones flitting back and forth between big budget studio comedies such as Waynes World and Black Sheep to edgy independent documentaries, The Decline of Western Civilization series. Her latest film is The Kid & I, a low budget comedy written by and starring Tom Arnold. Arnold plays Bill Williams a down-and-out actor who is unexpectedly hired to write a True Lies-like action film. When Bill learns that his co-star is Aaron Roman [Eric Gores], a cerebral palsy afflicted rich kid with...
That really captured the moment better (for me) than Decline did. We were the kids who weren't old enough to be the club-scene hipsters, we just hated our parents and loved the music and each other. We were fucking aliens. The people that are still alive from those days are still my best friends in the world.
I'd love to see a DVD with some of the kids and you doing a commentary
Favorite line: You can't sleep on the ground; the snails'll crawl on your face!
courtneyriot
STAFF
Los Angeles, CA
NOV 30, 2005 06:00 AM