Word: dog
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...Emma Roberts of Nancy Drew), 16, and Bruce (Jake T. Austin of TV's Wizards of Waverly Place), 11, have been in five foster homes since their parents died three years ago. Thanks to a combination of determination and Bruce's mechanical ingenuity, they've managed to keep their dog Friday with them secretly the whole time. Their latest foster parents, Lois (Lisa Kudrow) and Carl (Kevin Dillon) Scudder, are such dimwits, they haven't noticed Friday swiping the bacon off their breakfast plates. (Apparently there are characters dopier than Phoebe Buffay and Johnny Drama...
...about him, they'd likely puree him for dinner. It almost seems as though we're about to head into some tough ethical territory, a sort of tween version of the 2008 critics' darling Wendy and Lucy, which featured Michelle Williams wrestling with the bleak prospect that her beloved dog might have a better life with someone else. Then Friday leads his young owners into an abandoned hotel, vacant but for two adorable stray dogs, and suggests, with a sidewise crook of his fluffy white head, that he'd prefer the Hotel Francis Duke to Chez Scudder anyway...
...content of puppy movies rarely gives parents paws. (Sorry. Another plus of dog flicks: the puns.) Marley dies but at the end of a long, mischievous life. The Chihuahua flirts, but the only doggy style in the movie is her couture. There are few worthier--or safer--recipients of a child's affection. "Dogs are not attached to any gender," says Alan Beck, a professor of human-animal studies at Purdue University. "They have no age, no race, no background. You don't have to justify anyone's love for them." With a few Cujo-like exceptions, dog movies...
Everything he did that March 4 conveyed confidence and a break from what he called foolish tradition. Following a hot-dog lunch at the White House, the new President, in holiday mood, beamed indiscriminately as Al Smith, cowboy star Tom Mix and six miles of jubilant Democrats paraded past his reviewing stand. Just a day after a decidedly unpleasant Red Room tea with the Hoovers, Roosevelt returned to the same room to greet 13 children on crutches, emissaries of hope from Warm Springs, Ga. Declaring, "It is my intention to inaugurate precedents like this from time to time," he looked...
...teams and electronic-warfare gear capable of jamming detonators designed to set off certain explosives. Electronic devices - like those already in use in the D.C. subway - will be used above ground, to sniff the air for biological or chemical agents. They'll be aided by at least four Army dogs that will be sniffing for hidden explosives. Mike, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois, has worked presidential details before, according to his handler, Staff Sergeant Daniel Konrardy. The dog is calm in crowds and the only thing that bothers him is gunfire. "Hopefully, we won't be hearing any gunfire...