For the umpteenth time I have just watched that superb film On the Waterfront (1954) – 8 Academy Awards – 1955. I am always totally gobsmacked by its quality. And I love black and white. Marlon Brando is fabulous and Eva Marie Saint got an Oscar for her role. The casting is immaculate. There …
The shooting of dogs in Paramount’s ‘Yellowstone’ was unnecessary animal cruelty. Any television programme should never show egregious animal cruelty. Ever. And this it seems is what happened in the latest episode of Yellowstone, which according to news media includes the shooting of several Broken Rock Reservation (‘rez’) dogs. The shooting of the dogs …
Conclusion: the latest incarnation of Puss in Boots is a male orange tabby-and-white random bred cat (moggy). The question in the title is wide open to interpretation as there are very many Puss in Boots characters. Old and recent history is littered with them. The original Puss in Boots appears to have been a …
The New York Cat Film Festival for this year starts tomorrow. The dog version starts at the same time. Just to be fair ✔️. Although the cat film festival is a more recent innovation. Both were founded by Tracie Hotchner, a leading authority on cats and dogs (and human pregnancy 👍). She said: “I …
Luka Magnotta is notorious for killing two kittens by suffocation and uploading the video to the Internet. You can see that video on this website. He went on to kill a Chinese international student Jun Lin. A Netflix TV series was made about the online manhunt to find Magnotta, called: Don’t F**k with Cats: …
The reason why TV characters don’t have pet cats, according to Michael Jamin a Hollywood screenwriter, is because it takes too long to film the scene. And it takes too long to film the scene because even with trained Hollywood domestic cats they are sometimes not cooperative enough due to various factors such as …
Bagpuss was a striped tabby moggy. In other words, a mackerel tabby random bred or mixed breed cat. He was not a purebred cat. It is rare for the creators of fictional cats to think of specific cat breeds. Bagpuss was meant to be a marmalade cat (red tabby) but the business that manufactured …
The video shows Lady Gaga on the Jimmy Kimmel Live. I have arranged for the video to start at the point where she discusses a scene that was cut from the film House of Gucci, in which she starred. Apparently, Lady Gaga floated the idea of a sex scene between her character Patrizia Reggiani …
