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...only actress in Hollywood history who has built a two-decade star career without ever playing a traditional romantic lead. (Sommersby was about as close as she got.) It's no surprise that, within the film's first 15 minutes, David is killed as he and Erica walk their dog in Central Park. He's pounded into mulch by three thugs (of carefully indeterminate race), one of whom records the assaults on his picture phone. Erica is also beaten but survives...
...Everybody seems upset at Vick for mistreating dogs, yet where's the outcry over jockeys who beat horses as they race them to exhaustion, rodeo riders who torture calves and bulls, and sled-dog drivers who run their dogs for hours through freezing weather? Jerry Sturdivant, Las Vegas...
...Vick's Vice Michael Vick's cruelty to animals has made him more famous than football alone could have [Sept. 3]. As a veterinary student who has worked in emergency rooms, I can say that the sight of a dog after a fight is horrific. These dogs are missing ears, are covered in excrement and sawdust and are in a state of shock, with a core body temperature that puts them closer to death than to life. Vick deserves everything he gets and more. Anya Gambino, Ithaca...
...start in mud painting as a toddler, accompanying his healer mom through the Alabama woods. Using his fingers as a brush, plywood as canvas, and sugar, berries and turnip greens for color and texture, Sudduth, a star of the folk-art explosion of the 1980s, painted his life--his dog, farm animals and, after traveling, the U.S. Capitol. Sudduth's works are in the permanent collections of a number of museums and the Smithsonian...
...three of the homeless men he chucked into the sewer survived; and one was lucid enough to identify Pichuzkin and to corroborate his modus operandi. And Pichuzkin's final victim - a co-worker at his grocery store - was skeptical enough about his tale of wanting to show her his dog's grave in the park that she told her son where she was going and gave him Pichuzkin's cellphone number. Pichuzkin was also caught on a subway surveillance cameras with the victim, and when confronted with the taped evidence, he confessed to everything. Proudly, though he did admit...