Word: sheepdog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Disney released The Shaggy Dog, the studio's first live-action comedy feature. The film -- about a teenager transformed into a talking sheepdog -- wasn't much, but it grossed $9 million on a $1 million budget (while the more costly animated feature Sleeping Beauty was earning only $5 million on a $6 million budget). The same elements of domestic fantasy, special effects and easy laughs were cloned over and over for Disney hits from The Love Bug to Splash. Hollywood's future auteurs were watching too. When they grew up they adapted the Shaggy Dog comedy-fantasy into...
DISENCHANTED housewife...white house in Long Island fully-equipped with bounding sheepdog and Lincoln Continental...chic cocktail parties in Manhattan that one expects Robin Leach to attend...and other cliches of the Yuppie generation ad nauseum. "These are a few of our favorite things," croon the directors and producers of today's American film industry. With Hello Again, Director Frank Perry takes off on these themes and runs with them in circles...
...shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
...wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish sheepdog and two cockatoos." One of her schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work but I'd get paid just the same . . . I'd also like to have lots of different things, dresses for every day of the week, to have good jeans and lots of other things. Because...
...Atlanta, where Chapman spent most of his childhood, he joined a high school rock band and, like millions of others, worshiped the Beatles. He wore his hair long, in the distinctive Beatles cut, with strands flopping like a sheepdog's over his forehead. He experimented with drugs, which his idols condoned, and dropped acid when he was only 15. His parents strongly disapproved of the drugs, as well as of the Beatles, and would not let him play their records in the house. They searched his room, and once, when his mother warned him not to lock his bedroom...