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...title, even exist? What's so special about Pluto? All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American. So here you have a recipe for Americans falling in love with a planet that really is just a tiny ice ball. (See pictures of Mars...
...though Wyeth might occasionally paint a dog sleeping sweetly on a bed, the comical cheer of Rockwell is not for him. What people mean when they accuse Wyeth of sentimentality is not that he gets cute, but that the world we see in his paintings seems like a place we might long to inhabit sometimes but don't actually live in. And the people he shows us - with their Yankee rectitude, the weathered parchment of their faces and their Nordic inwardness - seem to inhabit some prelapsarian America, the one that existed before automobiles and television. Wyeth's popularity coincided with...
...dogs are remarkably well-behaved and easy to train and exhibit no desire to examine each other's privates. Or, for that matter, fight. Are they dogs, or are they large gerbils? Complaining about the plausibility of a children's movie is generally a pointless venture - the best kids' films include major flights of fancy - but parents should go into Hotel for Dogs prepared to defend their right to not bring home each and every dog at the shelter. Real dogs are nothing like these dogs...
...Hotel for Dogs worthy of Malia and Sasha's time? The adults are cartoons, the production values basic at best, and the ending is mindlessly sentimental, but overall it's an amiable experience. There are so few good theatrical releases for children that for many parents, this will suffice. The great films, the ones that challenge and entertain, like Wall-E, are rare. More often children are offered fare like The Tale of Despereaux, which had parents up in arms over how scary it was for a G-rated film, or Bolt, which was cute but began with a noisy...
While Wyeth works, his favorite dog Eloise, a miniature black poodle with a just-so Continental clip, digs holes and sprays both the artist and his watercolors with dirt. When Eloise thinks it is time to get out of the cold, she trots up to Wyeth's watercolor pan and tips it over with her nose. The artist nuzzles into her curly fur, murmuring a ritual incantation, "Eloise, ocean breeze!" Then he comes home with her and Rattler, the gold hound depicted in Distant Thunder...