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Consider Uggie, Day 78: Artist Wonder Dog Claims Top Golden Collar Award

Surely no one saw this coming: Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier and Artist wonder dog on whose behalf the Consider Uggie awards campaign has surged ever onward for nearly three months now , won the top prize Monday at the inaugural Golden Collar Awards. That’s really all I have to say about that, deferring instead to Uggie’s trainer Omar Von Muller, who put the purpose of the whole phenomenon in perspective while accepting the trophy with his winning pooch: Von Muller said the award was “overwhelming” adding: “He has been my buddy forever and is a great performer and great family member.” He also thanked award organizers DogNewsDaily.com saying: “This is very important for all the trainers in the movie industry, because we have never been recognized before, and people just don’t understand that it takes hundreds and even thousands of hours to train a dog.” Exactly . Respect! [ BBC ; photo via WireImage]

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Consider Uggie, Day 78: Artist Wonder Dog Claims Top Golden Collar Award

Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Great News’ is Actually Kind of Troubling

To say nothing of the Journey 2 , G.I. Joe 2 , and Fast Five star’s definition of “impact”: “Right now the best way that I can impact the world is through entertainment. One day, and that day will come, I can impact the world through politics. The great news is that I am American, therefore I can become President.” [ Huffington Post ]

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Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Great News’ is Actually Kind of Troubling

Ever Wanted to Bite the Head Off Uggie? Now You Can

Despite the Consider Uggie campaign ‘s global impact on social media , auteur awards strategies and the ever-sensitive dynamics of poster giveaways , many adversaries would just as soon see the Artist wonder dog shot into space, Laika-style , never to be seen or heard from again. I hesitate to acknowledge or dignify their numbers, but since this is news we can both use, let’s all rally round one of the best Uggie-specific developments to date: Uggie is now a cookie. Eleni’s , the New York-based bakery renowned for its Oscar-season confections, this week announced its 2012 collection of Best Picture , Best Actress and Best Actor cookies. Among the Best Picture assortment — which annually transforms one or two key story elements from each nominee into an edible treat — we find a Hawaiian shirt from The Descendants , a clock from Hugo , a bloated, dripping hunk of Oscar bait for The Daldry , and a cheerful Jack Russell terrier representing Michel Hazanavicius’s Oscar front-runner: True, the tree representing The Tree of Life seems a little underimagined, but it’s not like you want to be devouring the goddamned baby’s foot we’ve seen for the last year-plus. Anyway. Uggie! Is a cookie! As an avowed devotee of this particular awards tradition for years (nothing — and I mean nothing — will ever beat the airgun cookie from No Country For Old Men , but hey), I can’t overstate my pride in this milestone. I also can’t stop you from hungrily snapping the head off the little guy in punitive glee, followed by the tambourine from The Daldry just to add to the puppy cookie’s prolonged gastric suffering. The possibilities are endless. Or endless-ish. Whatever. The Best Picture set is available now for $75 at Elenis.com . Enjoy!

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Consider Uggie, Day 51: Artist Wonder Dog Visits Ellen, Facebook Following Hits 6K

Seeing Uggie, the Artist ‘s celebrated Jack Russell terrier, onstage Sunday night at the Golden Globes might have been enough to placate some observers who’ve demonstrated an interest in the wonder dog’s awards-season recognition . But for most who’ve joined the “Consider Uggie” chorus — 6,218 fans and counting — our mission is only getting started. We’ve seen the most measurable growth at both Movieline’s “Consider Uggie” Facebook page and the Weinstein Company’s @Uggie_theArtist Twitter feed, the latter of which in particular has become a comprehensive clearing house for all the #ConsiderUggie news and developments you can stand. And I hope you can stand a lot of them, because:

Jeremy Renner on Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise’s Action Advice and The Bourne Legacy

After earning back-to-back Academy Award nominations — in 2010, for his breakout role in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and in 2011, for his supporting part in Ben Affleck’s Boston crime drama The Town — Jeremy Renner decided to dive headfirst into the action genre with four consecutive big-budget action projects. The first, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol , which co-stars Renner as a mysteriously overqualified IMF agent assisting Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt on his latest globe-sweeping assignment, premieres this weekend in IMAX. The next three films, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters , The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy , will all hit theaters next year, making the California-raised actor the busiest action star of 2012.

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Trailer: Eating, Praying, and Loving Upstream

I don’t know if you can tell by its freakishly quirky title, but Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is freakishly quirky. Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, and a suddenly super-droll Kristen Scott Thomas star in what appears to be a Middle Eastern-set romcom with kooky supporting characters. There’s also a chance that it’s an Eat, Pray, Love for downtrodden white men, which would be despicable. You figure it out.

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Trailer: Eating, Praying, and Loving Upstream

Uggie’s Best Supporting BAFTA Hopes Dashed

The Weinstein Co., who along with Movieline have championed Uggie the dog ‘s gripping performance in awards season frontrunner The Artist , broke the news today via Twitter that the canine thespian, alas, has not qualified for contention in this season’s BAFTA race. “@BAFTA has stated that @Uggie_TheArtist is not qualified to run as Best Supporting Actor for the role of ‘DOG’ #Sadmomentintime,” the studio lamented. Fear not, Uggie — the Oscars may recognize your genius yet! ( Go Team Uggie! ) [ @WeinsteinCo ]

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Week in Review: The Americanization of Uggie

The masses have spoken, and their cry is clear: “Consider Uggie!” Yes, The Artist ‘s unbelievably moving doggie is tearing up news outlets and Facebook with his Oscar potential, and I emit a silent woof in approval! Enjoy this first weekend in December (and Advent, if you still celebrate your repressed Catholic upbringing like I do), and check out this week’s highlights.

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Consider Uggie, Day 3: The Artist’s Wonder Dog Storms TV, Social Media [Video]

What a difference two days makes: Less than 48 hours after the launch of Movieline’s “Consider Uggie” crusade , the movement’s Facebook page has acquired 1,100 followers and counting, its honoree has his own Twitter page, and Uggie himself joined trainer Omar Mueller for a campaign stop on E! News. Crazy! And overdue .

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Consider Uggie, Day 3: The Artist’s Wonder Dog Storms TV, Social Media [Video]