Word: rin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire collection, says she has no idea how many items there are or what their value might...
...those of you who entered the Lassie Look-alike Contest, the winner will be announced at the next Harvard showing of "Rin Tin Tin Makes a Mess in the Kitchen...
...film craftsmen, who rarely betray the slightest knowledge of their medium's past and who have in the last year or so trashed all kinds of potentially interesting material (Gable and Lombard, W.C. Fields, the early screen cowboys in Hearts of the West, not to mention the hapless Rin Tin Tin) while seeking a market in movie nostalgia that has so far been more apparent than real...
Blood, the dog, is no Rin Tin Tin. He curses like a trooper, puns, philosophizes, teaches, and even conjugates Latin verbs. In print, Ellison creates the character intelligently enough that the reader comes to believe, empathise and imagine him. But on the screen it doesn't work. The camera strips away that imaginative process and instead offers a voice-over for Blood's thoughts, making him sound like a disembodied canine version of Mr. Ed, spouting bits of arcane knowledge. If it sounds absurd, it is, and with the premise of A Boy And His Dog destroyed, the film slowly...
...tyrannical studio director-plus cameo appearances by Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming and some 60 Hollywood veterans. No matter that Won Ton Ton bears a striking resemblance to another German shepherd screen star of the same era. A Los Angeles judge has already decided against a producer of the Rin Tin Tin television series and the wife of the movie dog's trainer, who had charged Paramount Studios with unfair competition. Acting, after all, is a dog-eat-dog business...