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...that Family Dog is awful. It's a perfectly amiable, perfectly inconsequential cartoon show that seems better suited to Saturday mornings. The concept is appealing: life in a suburban household as seen through the eyes of the ignored and abused family pet. And the pooch itself is amusingly drawn: a woebegone, teardrop-snouted creature, rendered in the spare lines of 1950s UPA animation (Mr. Magoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Dog, No New Tricks | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...Disney's planned advertising (worth about $6 million) out of Time Inc. magazines. Six Flags refused to back down. A subsequent ad portrayed two dogs: a happy pup whose family had gone off for the day to visit Bugs Bunny at the local Six Flags park, and a lonely pooch whose owners had left town for Mickey Mouse's place in California. The message: "Get home in time to feed your dog." Last week a seething Eisner threatened to review deals under which Time Warner distributes Disney records, books and magazines. In response Time Inc. canceled a marketing conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Up, Doc? | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kid-Lit Capers | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here. The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites to hot-wire the dead-again pooch. It's a prize oddity from a child prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jul. 20, 1992 | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

HEALTH The high cost of pooch medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

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