1996 was a year full of unique cultural moments. Dolly the Sheep was successfully cloned. Bill Clinton was reelected. The first version of Microsoft’s browser was released, and Charles and Lady Diana got divorced. Two other high-profile cultural moments dominated the airwaves. First, in promotion of his book Bad As I Wanna Be, Dennis Rodman donned a gorgeous custom French wedding gown and took a horse-drawn carriage through the streets of New York. He said he was marrying himself.
In more serious news, Robert Dewey Hoskins was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 1996. He’d been in legal hot water for some time after repeatedly stalking Madonna, telling her she was supposed to be his wife (and threatening her if he couldn’t “have” her). One day, while Madonna was away in Florida, he climbed the walls of her Hollywood home, jumped into her pool, and was shot by her security. Following the sentence, Hoskins was later sent to a Los Angeles mental hospital for an unrelated crime, before escaping and being recaptured a week later. These two unique 1996 historical oddities loosely fuel the horror-comedy Borderline, from Cocaine Bear writer Jimmy Warden.
