In 1992, Bill Plympton made history by drawing an entire film on his own

Film: Rescued From Semi-Obscurity: In 1992, Bill Plympton made history by drawing an entire film on his own






Sometimes largely forgotten pieces of pop culture need to be dusted off and given a fresh look. Rescued From Semi-Obscurity does just that.
These days, independent creators have plenty of unlikely side roads to mainstream success. Like animator James Curran, who created his own animated opening-credits sequence for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures Of Tintin, released it to the web, watched it go viral, and ended up with a job offer from Spielberg himself. Or E.L. James, who wrote a series of erotic Twilight fan-fiction pieces, then turned them into novels and self-published them as the 50 Shades Of Grey series, which sold so well as e-books that the brick-and-mortar publishing houses came sniffing around and put them into print.
But back in 1992, there were fewer opportunities for a wholly independent creator to get national attention. That never stopped DIY animation pioneer Bill Plympton, who in 1992 released ...

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1992: The year college rock died

Music: For Our Consideration: 1992: The year college rock died






Dave Markey’s 1992 documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke captures Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Nirvana, and other contemporaneous alt-rock and grunge bands touring Europe mere months before Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind, would come out and change the lives of nearly everyone in the film. Even Sonic Youth, which had been around for a decade by that point—and was already one of the alternative scene’s most respected and critically acclaimed bands—would make the leap from beloved cult act to semi-regular MTV rotation in the wake of Nevermind, during the years when major labels and radio programmers were throwing everybody with a flannel shirt and torn jeans onto the air to see who’d fly. This was the era when the Grammys added an “alternative music” category, and the hot new radio format was “modern rock.” Popular culture was thick with weirdoes.
And when the dust cleared, college ...

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Hollywood Walk of Fame Gets Its $4 Million-Plus Facelift

Hollywood Walk of Fame Gets Its $4 Million-Plus Facelift



In typical Hollywood fashion, the star-studded Walk of Fame is getting a three-phase facelift, one that is expected to be two-thirds finished by the year's end.

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