Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic Narnia tales, refused to comment on the "difficult relations between child and parent or child and teacher." An author, he thought, "as a mere author, is outside all that. He is not even an uncle. He is a freeman, like the postman, the butcher, and the dog next door." This year, eleven outstanding books seem to have been composed by liberated spirits, outside the family but intensely interested in it. If the dog next door met any one of them, it would surely set its tail in wildly enthusiastic motion...
...canines keep coming. In various stages of gestation for 1988, or Year of the Dog II: K-9 (a movie about a cop and his you-know-what partner), The Dog Who Cried Wolf (a film comedy about, yes, a talking dog), The Adventures of Milo and Otis (a Japanese import about a canine and his cat friend) and Cold Dog Soup (a black comedy about a dead dog...
...Entertainment, a New York City trade publication, thinks the answer has a lot to do with the mood of the late '80s. "Times are tough," she says, "and we need a little innocence, something that hearkens back to childhood." Others might say that Hollywood hearkens to money: if one dog movie cashes in, ten imitations sprout up within a year...
...personality, talent and hard work all helped bring the latest crop of & dog talent to the fore. Bijoux, for instance, "looks as if they built her from spare parts," says Hooperman's executive producer, Rick Kellard. He adds, "This sounds kind of surrealistic, but the dog can do almost everything...
...dog that makes no bones about his star status is Beerbarker Spuds, whose muzzle appears on some 200 items, including T shirts, coffee mugs and posters. He has already filmed ten Bud Light commercials and has another upcoming. On Dec. 8 he or she -- some claim that Spuds is actually a female whose real name is Evie -- will be a guest veejay on MTV and early next year will appear in a supporting role in Robert Downey's new movie Rented Lips. "He wasn't playing Hamlet, but Spuds was perfect on the first take every time," says Film Producer...