Rin Tin Tin (dog)

Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Strongheart ... but not Asta. A travesty, we say!

2010-03-09 21:34:01

<![CDATA[Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Strongheart ... but not Asta. A travesty, we say!]]>

Matt Weinstock, April 9, 1960

2010-04-09 16:33:05

<![CDATA[Matt Weinstock, April 9, 1960]]>

Richard D. Zanuck, a Hollywood legend too busy for nostalgia

2010-04-12 21:33:33

<![CDATA[Richard D. Zanuck, a Hollywood legend too busy for nostalgia]]>

'Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood' by Cheeta the Chimp

2009-03-19 00:00:00

Rin Tin Tin and I are into what we call "extreme romping." Once a week, we head for the back country, where we leap crags and ford rivers -- just like in the movies, except there are no bad guys. Last week, before beginning our trip home, he mentioned...

'Sunnyside: A Novel' by Glen David Gold

2009-05-17 00:00:00

Sunnyside A Novel Glen David Gold Alfred A. Knopf: 576 pp., $26.95 Glen David Gold's massive new novel begins with a trick, a coup, the literary equivalent of sleight of hand. For a writer whose first book, "Carter Beats the Devil" (2001), concerned...

Top Dogs: 2010's Most Popular Pups

2010-01-28 00:00:00

For the 19th consecutive year, the Labrador Retriever is the most popular purebred dog in America, but could this be the last year for the Lab's reign? According to American Kennel Club� (AKC) 2009 registration statistics released today during a press...

1st Place: The Perfect Tree

2009-12-24 00:00:00

The Perfect Tree Often, December days were a steel gray that usually meant it's going to start snowing any minute, and that early Saturday morning in mid-December 1956 was no exception. Eagerly scanning the sky from the great picture window in the living...

'Supernatural,' 'X-Files' Director-Producer Kim Manners Dies

2009-01-27 00:00:00

Kim Manners, a producer and director of The CW's "Supernatural" and "The X-Files," died Sunday, Jan. 25 in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. "Everyone at 'Supernatural' is walking around in a daze, shocked and absolutely devastated," says...

Save the date: 1958

2008-12-21 00:00:00

Fifty years ago, Baltimore was a grimy, rowdy, unpretentious town of rolled-up sleeves and red-hot steel, a warren of row homes and warehouses, a place where a man could walk into a bar on Greenmount Avenue and gab with a Colts player over a cold Natty...

Movie Review: 'Leatherheads'

2008-04-04 00:00:00

Slapstick meets screwball in "Leatherheads," an amiable valentine to an era of breakneck repartee, bathtub booze and anything-goes gridiron warfare. The setting is 1925 Duluth, Minn., home base of the Bulldogs, a rough-and-ready pro football team in an...

Movie review: 'Firehouse Dog'

2007-04-03 00:00:00

3 stars (out of four) Once it figures out it's more drama than comedy, "Firehouse Dog" does the job. It begins unpromisingly. A carefully coiffed pooch named Rexxx (three X's) is apparently the most famous Hollywood dog since Rin Tin Tin and the...

"The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," by David Wroblewski

2008-06-14 00:00:00

From Anton Chekhov's "Kashtanka" and Franz Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog," down through Jack London's "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang," and including Albert Payson Terhune's improbably massive canine oeuvre, right up to such iconic names as Lassie,...

Paul Grimm finishes a painting for the Rin Tin Tin movie "Where the North Begins" (1923) in Truckee, California, as cameraman Vernon L.Walker (seated behind the camera) and crew patiently wait in the snow and cold, a disadvantage of early technique of glass shots.

2007-11-26 16:04:57