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Where the wild things star
It wasn’t the pictures that got small. The insects got big. Real big.
For all its ribbon-wearing , left-leaning tendencies, Hollywood remains a Homo sapiens-centric place. But real talent comes in all shapes, colors, species and spatial dimensions. What would "Alien"' have been without the alien? Or "Black Stallion" without the horse? Even if she never won an Oscar, surely it's time for Lassie to have a listing of her own on IMDB.
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SIT. STAY. TRY TO LOOK AMUSED. Lassie calls for another round at a 1949 dinner celebrating MGM's 25th anniversary. With more than a dozen films, a radio show and a TV series under her belt, she remains Hollywood's most famous gender-bender — all of the nine dogs who played Lassie over the years were male. But her immortality is guaranteed — not only is she one of only three dogs with a star on the Walk of Fame, it was Lassie who made the collie the ultimate family dog. |
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IT'S KEEN TO BE GREEN He belched, he ate bugs — and then he got the girl anyway. "Shrek" not only stomped away with the first Oscar for best animated picture, its star also redefined Hollywood's image of a leading man. |
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CREATURE FEATURES The giant-insect/oversized-animal genre took Hollywood by storm in the 1950s, resulting in such Raid-craving moments as this scene from 1954's "Them!," in which mutant ants run rampant. |
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WHAT A 'BABE' Forget Arnold from "Green Acres" or that hammy Muppets maven — for sheer adorability, many insist this is a pig without peer. |
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OH, MICKEY Imagine for a moment a world without Mickey, the mouse who launched 1,000 pirates, princesses and Arabian nights. |
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ANOTHER FINE MESS There are two incontrovertible truths: Bugs will say the line and eat the carrot and Daffy will wind up on the business end of some dynamite. |
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