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The Academy Honors Canine Stars With “Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin to Uggie”
3 May 2012 4:19 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Courtesy of AMPAS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate canine stardom with “Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin to Uggie” on Wednesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will feature Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, animal trainers Sarah Clifford and Omar von Muller sharing behind-the-scenes secrets, and a screening of ”Clash of the Wolves” (1925), starring Rin Tin Tin, with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.
“Man.s best friend” has gotten a wonderful publicity boost from the movies. Canine cinema mythology has enhanced human appreciation of the dog.s loyalty, heroism, humor and intelligence from the earliest days of film with such immediate audience favorites as “Rescued by Rover” (1905) and “The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog” (1905).
More than any other four-legged actor, the dog has achieved a »
- Michelle McCue
Smash Recap: Bonfire of Insanity
10 April 2012 11:08 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
I’ve said it before (and I can’t promise I won’t say it again): Smash is at its best when the show focuses on the drama of mounting a major Broadway production. And while I don’t expect it to serve us Law & Order-style “all work life, no home life” story arcs, I sometimes wish the pesky peccadilloes of its central characters were a wee bit less unrealistic.
Uma Thurman’s Smash Landing: Will Star Quality Save Bombshell or Detonate It?
I mean, I can suspend my disbelief to an extent, but NBC might as well have »
- Michael Slezak
Interviews: Tippi Hedren of ‘The Birds,’ TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz on the ‘Road to Hollywood’
4 April 2012 7:49 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Turner Classic Movies, the popular cable channel, will kick off their third annual TCM Classic Film Festival next week, from April 12th-15th. Recently, the festival preview came to Chicago, as TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and movie star Tippi Hedren introduced Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
Hedren portrayed Marion Crane in her 1963 film debut for “The Birds,” and gave an unforgettable performance as the unlikely victim of nature gone out of control. She introduced the film last week as part of the “Road to Hollywood” series that Turner Classic Movies and Ben Mankiewicz are hosting in anticipation of the upcoming film festival. HollywoodChicago.com caught up with both of them the day of the screening.
Tippi Hedren of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
Nathalie Kay “Tippi” Hedren was a model and actress on TV commercials when she was discovered by Alfred Hitchcock and thrust into the spotlight for her film debut. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
From the archive, 20 March 1960: The lure of the neo-Freudo-Marxian western
19 March 2012 9:35 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Originally published in the Observer on 20 March 1960: The western, unlike the thriller series, is very seldom totally unviewable
An eccentric viewer of my acquaintance, a rich, scholarly recluse who looks only at westerns, has asked me to protest for him at the Wednesday clash between Rawhide and Wells Fargo. This for him is as frustrating as one of those nights when the BBC gives Ibsen and ITV Shaw. Even viewed simultaneously on two sets, when there is apt to be a certain amount of merging of horns, hooves, hats, shots and shouts, these two are instructive as illustrating current trends in the reigning dwarf movie form that rides the small screen. Wells Fargo is a traditional thriller western slightly slicked up. In the last instalment I saw, there was a dwarf Dietrich mistress-minding the gold robbery. Rawhide is far out on the neo-Freudo-Marxian wing of the intellectual western, with sociological overtones, »
From the archive, 20 March 1960: The lure of the neo-Freudo-Marxian western
19 March 2012 9:35 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Originally published in the Observer on 20 March 1960: The western, unlike the thriller series, is very seldom totally unviewable
An eccentric viewer of my acquaintance, a rich, scholarly recluse who looks only at westerns, has asked me to protest for him at the Wednesday clash between Rawhide and Wells Fargo. This for him is as frustrating as one of those nights when the BBC gives Ibsen and ITV Shaw. Even viewed simultaneously on two sets, when there is apt to be a certain amount of merging of horns, hooves, hats, shots and shouts, these two are instructive as illustrating current trends in the reigning dwarf movie form that rides the small screen. Wells Fargo is a traditional thriller western slightly slicked up. In the last instalment I saw, there was a dwarf Dietrich mistress-minding the gold robbery. Rawhide is far out on the neo-Freudo-Marxian wing of the intellectual western, with sociological overtones, »
Uggie: Cutest Oscar 2012 Star
7 March 2012 3:45 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Artist's dog star Uggie Uggie, probably the most famous movie canine since the Benji's Higgins — perhaps even earlier, since the days of Lassie, Asta, and Rin Tin Tin — poses backstage at the 84th Academy Awards, held at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on Sunday, February 26, 2012. Golden Collar winner Uggie became a star after playing a key supporting role in Michel Hazanavicius' Best Picture Oscar winner The Artist. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) In addition to co-starring opposite Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in The Artist, Uggie also had a supporting role in Francis Lawrence's Water for Elephants, starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, and the elephant Tai. Besides Dujardin and Bejo, Uggie's fellow The Artist players were Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, John Goodman, James Cromwell, and Malcolm McDowell. »
- D. Zhea
Dog Art Fetches A Pretty Penny
6 March 2012 12:14 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles (AP) — Dogs seem to be as popular on a canvas these days as they are on a leash, with paintings of dogs drawing big bucks and big crowds.
At the annual "dogs only" art auction held after the Westminster Dog Show, two price records were broken this year, said Alan Fausel, vice president and director of fine art at Bonhams, the auction house that runs the event.
"Dejeuner," a painting that shows dogs and cats eating from a large dish, set a record for the artist, William Henry Hamilton Trood (1860-1899), when it sold for $194,500, Fausel said. That record was broken an hour later when Trood's "Hounds in a Kennel," showing a half-dozen dogs staring at a bird outside their cage, sold for $212,500.
Bonhams' Dogs in Show & Field auction is the only one in the country devoted solely to dogs. It was the best auction in years, Fausel said, »
- AP
Red Dog – review
25 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Based on a novel by Louis de Bernières which in turn was inspired by a real incident, Red Dog is the most popular Australian movie of the past year. Told in flashback as the eponymous pooch lies sick in the back room of a remote pub in Western Australia, a variety of tough guys relate how the Red Dog became a local legend around the remote coastal town of Dampier and brought together a community of lonely working men. Red Dog is played in the film by an Australian breed of sheepdog known as a red cloud kelpie, and there's now a bronze statue of him in the area. The film gathers incidents from every dog movie you ever saw, from Rescued by Rover and Rin Tin Tin to Greyfriars Bobby and Lassie Come Home. It's guaranteed to bring tears and laughter to popular audiences, and those who turn up »
- Philip French
Moi, attend the Oscars? It's hard when you feel unwelcome, says Miss Piggy
15 February 2012 7:49 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Porcine star's presence at awards in doubt as Academy's pig-headed attitude to animals leaves her down in the snout
It remains a case of two legs good, four legs bad at the Academy Awards, as organisers continue to espouse a segregated honours system that excludes animal stars. Now Muppet actor Miss Piggy has thrown her weight behind a campaign to end the ban, and is threatening to boycott next Sunday's event if her demands are not met.
Miss Piggy, age undetermined, joined calls from the likes of Steven Spielberg and James Cromwell for the Academy to rule four-legged performers eligible for acting Oscars. The clamour follows what has been seen as a vintage season for animal stars. In recent months, the likes of Uggie, the canine star of the The Artist, and Crystal, the chain-smoking monkey from The Hangover Part II – not to mention the 14 horses who played Joey in »
- Xan Brooks
First Set Images From Django Unchanied
2 February 2012 4:59 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To the untrained eye, these images from the set of Django Unchained look like any other western. The set is only a half-built clock tower away from Back To The Future Part III, or a foul-mouthed Lovejoy short of Deadwood – and for good reason.
The set for Quentin Tarantino’s latest film (a ‘southern’ rather than ‘western’, apparently) is located at the famous Melody Ranch Studios, where a host of wild west flicks have been shot over the years. Annie Oakley, Rin Tin Tin, Last Man Standing and Magnificent Seven were all filmed at the famous location, proving that whilst Tarantino often subverts genre traditions, he is rarely strays too far.
Check out the set pics below.
Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christophe Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kurt Russell. It arrives in UK cinemas December 2012.
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- Tom Fordy
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean – review
2 February 2012 1:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He had the world at his paws, and earned $1,000 a week
The creature at the centre of this remarkable book is an enigma. We never really know what he is thinking, and in fact he may not think at all, in the ratiocinatory sense. Susan Orlean presents to us a being who is driven by instinct, operating by a set of large, simple affects – love, honour, bravery and above all loyalty. He remains faithful throughout his life to the companion with whom at an early age he found himself paired, and while he acknowledges and even shows affection towards others, in truth he loves only his best friend. "He had become," Orlean writes, "as familiar to me as a family member, and, as is often case with a family member, he also remained a mystery. He was at once ingenuous and impenetrable …"
And then there is the dog.
Lee Duncan, »
- John Banville
Uggie Who? Martin Scorsese Seeks Kudos for 'Hugo' Doberman Star Blackie [Update]
30 January 2012 8:37 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Hollywood do-godders often wring their hands over the persistence of racism or sexism. Now there's a new scourge: breedism. According to Martin Scorsese, that's what's at work in this year's Best Movie Dog awards race, given the favoritism shown at the upcoming first annual Golden Collar prizes to "The Artist" star Uggie. Specifically, the director is miffed that, while the fuzzy Jack Russell terrier is nominated for work in two films (both "The Artist" and "Water for Elephants"), Blackie the Doberman Pinscher from Scorsese's own "Hugo" was shut out of the nominations. In an editorial in the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese argues that moviegoers (and animal lovers) have an unjustified prejudice favoring Jack Russells over Dobermans. The former are cute and adorable, the latter hulking and fearsome. Hence the awards love for Uggie, whose performance as a resourceful and heroic pet in "The Artist" has made the four-legged star a red-carpet fixture this season, »
- Gary Susman
The Taming of Ricky Gervais: Golden Globe Awards
16 January 2012 12:00 PM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: For the past two years I’ve written reviews of The Golden Globes excoriating Ricky Gervais for mostly tedious humor and lapses in judgment that resulted in so-called jokes that were in severely bad taste.
I’m not a prude and have enjoyed Gervais in the past when he came forth on other awards shows for five minutes or so with often ingenious biting patter, but somehow, to me — and quite a few others — once he became the host he went bonkers and said things that weren’t particularly creative or clever just to get a reaction with an outrageously bad pun at someone else’s expense.
So, it was somewhat of a shock that the Golden Globes committee invited him back for another turn and even more of one to see that, in spite of Gervais’ “warnings” in the Golden Globes promos the past »
- HollywoodNews.com
Golden Globes 2012 – as it happened
15 January 2012 9:29 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Continuing live coverage of the Golden Globe awards from Los Angles with Hadley Freeman and Joshua Alston
• All times Et
7:00pm: Hadley – Hello and welcome all to the start of the Golden Globes liveblog. So far I've been watching an hour of the red carpet coverage on E! and already feel like I'm slightly on E: so many bright colours! And overenthusiastic people! And no one making any sense!
High points so far include George Clooney showing off his latest blonde girlfriend (who, in a certain light, reminds me a lot of his aunt Rosemary, although she has yet to break out into a rendition of Sisters, Rosemary's most famous song), and Ricky Gervais being Ricky Gervais-ish.
7.13pm: Joshua – Evening Hadley! Looking forward to watching this year's installment of "Ricky Gervais Rankles The Glitterati…and Also Awards!" with you.
As always, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association offered its »
- Joshua Alston, Hadley Freeman
Uggie The Dog Plays With The Golden Globe Trophy!
15 January 2012 9:07 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Sure, Jean Dujardin won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and the film won Best Score, and it was nominated for a plethora of other awards, too. But let's be real: "The Artist" won Best Picture, Musical or Comedy because Uggie the Dog lent it his magic.
The beloved little Jack Russell Terrier has won the most praise for a canine since Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. And although the campaign to get him nominated for a major award has yet to produce any tangible results, he did get his just dues post-Globes show. On the red carpet with all his co-stars, Uggie played with that Golden Globe trophy like the true star he is.
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- Jordan Zakarin
Uggie The Dog Plays With The Golden Globe Trophy!
15 January 2012 8:36 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Sure, Jean Dujardin won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and the film won Best Score, and it was nominated for a plethora of other awards, too. But let's be real: "The Artist" won Best Picture, Musical or Comedy because Uggie the Dog lent it his magic.
The beloved little Jack Russell Terrier has won the most praise for a canine since Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. And although the campaign to get him nominated for a major award has yet to produce any tangible results, he did get his just dues post-Globes show. On the red carpet with all his co-stars, Uggie played with that Golden Globe trophy like the true star he is.
Photos:
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- Jordan Zakarin
Uggie The Dog Plays With The Golden Globe Trophy!
15 January 2012 8:36 PM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Sure, Jean Dujardin won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and the film won Best Score, and it was nominated for a plethora of other awards, too. But let's be real: "The Artist" won Best Picture, Musical or Comedy because Uggie the Dog lent it his magic.
The beloved little Jack Russell Terrier has won the most praise for a canine since Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. And although the campaign to get him nominated for a major award has yet to produce any tangible results, he did get his just dues post-Globes show. On the red carpet with all his co-stars, Uggie played with that Golden Globe trophy like the true star he is.
Photos:
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- Jordan Zakarin
Golden Globes 2012 – live blog
15 January 2012 6:22 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Live coverage of the 2012 Golden Globes with Hadley Freeman and Joshua Alston
• Full list of nominations
• All times Et
9.22pm: Hadley – Are you kidding me? That film was lame. Lame! Butat least we get to see Spielberg make a thank you speech. Which feels so, you know, 90s. Also, I'm pleased for lovely Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, who co-wrote the script. But all that aside, that movie was seriously lame. Yes, I'm a Tintin fan, but not an obsessive one, and I went to that film full of hope and goodwill. It was all dashed. Dashed, I tell you, dashed! That is a joke that Tintin won.
9.21pm: Gong! The award for best animated feature film goes to The Adventures of Tintin.
9.14pm: Joshua – Very well deserved. When you condense a field of performances down to five, the nominees are all deserving. Good for Peter Dinklage. There's no more »
- Hadley Freeman, Joshua Alston
question of the day: Does Uggie deserve an Oscar?
11 January 2012 2:25 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
You may have heard that fans of The Artist -- and in particular of “actor” George Valentin’s unnamed Jack Russell terrier costar and friend -- have launched a campaign for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Consider Uggie, the canine actor, for an Oscar. Certainly the consensus among critics and moviegoers is that the little dog is a scene-stealer. But worthy of an Oscar? It looks iffy for Uggie. From BBC News: The Academy appears to have had a downer on dogs since the first Oscar night in 1929 when, legend has it, German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin was voted best actor, only for the statue to be mysteriously handed to a human actor, Emil Jannings, instead. Some think today's Hollywood establishment are no less wary of sharing the awards night spotlight with a furry rival. "There is a good chance that a certain number of »
- MaryAnn Johanson
The Artist Dog Star Uggie a BAFTA Nominee?
8 January 2012 7:20 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean Dujardin, Uggie, The Artist Recently, we've been fed the b.s. story about Rin Tin Tin being the actual first Best Actor Academy Award winner. Now comes another canine story, this one starring Uggie, the four-legged scene-stealer in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. We're told that Uggie could have been a contender for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards — the BAFTAs — in the Best Supporting Actor category. Could is the word, as The Artist's UK-based publicity firm Premiere PR has recently sent the following information to the British Academy members: “We have received a number of inquiries regarding the eligibility of Uggie, the Jack Russell, in the role of ‘Dog’ for Actor in a Supporting Role in The Artist. Regretfully, we must advise that as he is not a human being and as his unique motivation as an actor was sausages, Uggie is not qualified to »
- Andre Soares
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