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...roles in feature films, but Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and a seven-year-old Sammy Davis starred in shorts. TCM runs Robert Benchley and Joe McDoakes comedy shorts and Fitzpatrick travelogs. The weirdest series: MGM's early-'30s Dogville Comedies, one-reel movie parodies (The Dogway Melody, The Big Dog House, Trader Hound), in which pooches were dressed up and made to walk on their hind legs and "talk" with fish wire. Paging PETA...
...sailed ashore in 1788 with six cows, 29 sheep and 717 English convicts to form the first British colony in New South Wales. Non-native herd animals replaced the nomadic Skippy as the continent's meat source of choice. Australia began exporting kangaroo in 1959, and many an Aussie dog has feasted on it for decades. But it wasn't until the 1990s that most Australian states legalized the domestic sale of kangaroo as people food. John Kelly, executive director of the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia (KIAA), blames the British palate. "If the French had gotten here first...
...triptych like Three Studies for a Crucifixion from 1962, with its invertebrate lovers grappling in the center panel and its butchered carcass in the right, the body is the visible sign of the eternal devils of human nature, the dog beneath the skin that bares its fangs in war and in bed. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles, and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim...
...term, Obama has already signed a $700 billion stimulus bill, tried to bail out Detroit, lifted a ban on stem-cell research, planned a withdrawal from Iraq, reached out to Cuba and authorized the release of Bush-era torture memos. Oh, and he got a dog. Roosevelt didn't adopt his beloved Fala until the end of his second term...
...excellent teacher,” what most impresses him is Giribet’s abundance of energy. “He’ll wake up before everyone and go running, and then still get more done throughout that day than anyone else. When everyone is dog-tired from scuba diving and collecting and identifying organisms, he’s still awake working. We’ll all go to bed at eleven and he’ll stay up until one…and then still wake up before us. He’s the one bringing everyone...