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WATCH: ‘Django Unchained’ Star Christoph Waltz Talks Tarantino And Working With Uggie

“I witnessed the genesis,” Christoph Waltz says of this season’s hot awards contender, Django Unchained .  ” Quentin [Tarantino] l et me have twenty-thirty pages as he finished them !” Looks like Waltz and Tarantino have become true creative partners.  But the actor, whose performance is one of the highlights of Django Unchained , would love to get even more involved. He lamented that he wasn’t able to be around for post-production when the film takes shape and “it really becomes interesting,” he said. In a one-on-one interview, I also asked him about foreign actors being stereotyped in Hollywood as villains, and he agreed that — as a good guy in Django Unchained — it always “feels good to break the cliche”.  Plus he spills a secret about working with Uggie , Tinseltown’s top pooch, on Water for Elephants . Check out the full interview below: Get more on  Django Unchained , in theaters Christmas Day. Follow Grace Randolph on  Twitter . Follow Movieline on  Twitter . 

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Uggie Publishes Memoirs And Woofs Through Paris

He is the most glamorous four-legged A-lister alive, and Uggie isn’t wasting any dog years to cash in. The celebrated Jack Russell who stole the limelight in last year’s multiple Oscar-winning film The Artist is pushing his memoirs. The book titled simply, Uggie: My Story just came out and the lovable pooch headed to the City of Lights for a signing and photo call – naturally. Uggie even gave a couple of woof woofs for French newspapers at an event on the famed Champs Elysées, and used the Arc de Triomphe as a backdrop for photos. The famous pooch then headed to the world-famous Left Bank Brasserie Lipp for some gastronomic indulgence. Lipp counted fellow author Ernest Hemingway as a regular in addition to fellow actors Harrison Ford, Gérard Depardieu, Gregory Peck, Sharon Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even French Presidents Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac dined there – maybe another career goal for Uggie? Published by HarperCollins, Uggie shares about his love for Reese Witherspoon, with whom he starred in Water for Elephants and his much less glitzy start as an unwanted puppy at the dog pound. “Uggie is doing wonders for Franco-American relations,” his co-author Wendy Holden said via The Guardian. “After all his favorite word is ‘moi’ and he is a huge fan of saucisse . If only Mitt Romney had such charisma.” Uggie already has a product line, including an iPhone/iPad app. He’ll likely be well-off as he settles into his golden years at age 11 (that’s 77 to you and me). He’s travelling in style and the hotels have been kind enough to ask what he requires, but his needs are simple: clean water and the occasional fresh patch of grass. He was born to be a star,” added Holden. “The fact he is a dog is really by-the-by.” [ The Guardian ] [ Photo credit: David Livingston/Getty Images ]

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Consider Uggie, Day 210: Uggie Cements History with Grauman’s Chinese Pawprint Ceremony

Uggie Mania rolls on! On the occasion of his retirement from the biz, everyone’s favorite canine actor, Uggie the dog , (well, maybe not everyone’s ) was honored today with a history-making pawprint ceremony outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Guests celebrated with a fire hydrant-shaped cake as the Artist and Water for Elephants co-star sank his paws into the wet cement of Hollywood legend, making him not only the first dog performer to receive the honor, but the first cast member from the Oscar-winning The Artist (which also happens to be released on DVD and Blu-ray this week). [ CBS News ]

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Consider Uggie, Day 210: Uggie Cements History with Grauman’s Chinese Pawprint Ceremony

Consider Uggie, Day 210: Uggie Cements History with Grauman’s Chinese Pawprint Ceremony

Uggie Mania rolls on! On the occasion of his retirement from the biz, everyone’s favorite canine actor, Uggie the dog , (well, maybe not everyone’s ) was honored today with a history-making pawprint ceremony outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Guests celebrated with a fire hydrant-shaped cake as the Artist and Water for Elephants co-star sank his paws into the wet cement of Hollywood legend, making him not only the first dog performer to receive the honor, but the first cast member from the Oscar-winning The Artist (which also happens to be released on DVD and Blu-ray this week). [ CBS News ]

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Consider Uggie, Day 210: Uggie Cements History with Grauman’s Chinese Pawprint Ceremony

Consider Uggie, Day 210: Uggie Cements History with Grauman’s Chinese Pawprint Ceremony

Uggie Mania rolls on! On the occasion of his retirement from the biz, everyone’s favorite canine actor, Uggie the dog , (well, maybe not everyone’s ) was honored today with a history-making pawprint ceremony outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Guests celebrated with a fire hydrant-shaped cake as the Artist and Water for Elephants co-star sank his paws into the wet cement of Hollywood legend, making him not only the first dog performer to receive the honor, but the first cast member from the Oscar-winning The Artist (which also happens to be released on DVD and Blu-ray this week). [ CBS News ]

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Consider Uggie, Day 153: Artist Wonder Dog Attends White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Gets Book Deal

I know what you were thinking: “Whew! The Oscars are over! No more of this Uggie red-carpet business ! We can back to real celebrities and real celebrity issues — like what Jimmy Kimmel thinks about Kim Kardashian . Hard-hitting!” Alas, guess who went to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend? Moreover, guess who just got a freaking book deal ? First off, there’s the Artist wonder dog hamming it up on the WHCD red carpet, presumably awaiting a glass of pinot grigio and maybe a crab cake or just holding poor Diane Sawyer up on her way to the metal detector. It’s hard to know without having been there, and when you consider that a retired Jack Russell terrier was invited and you weren’t, it’s easy to think you should have been there, and what are you doing with your life, paying off five figures’ worth of student loans while this dog has awards campaigns and international social-media notoriety in his name, and maybe you went into the wrong line of business, and really who wants to live longer than 14 or 15 years anyway on this godforsaken rock, especially one riven by war, pestilence and, well, this … More from the AP [via Huffington Post ]: Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier who appeared in the Oscar-winning The Artist , has a memoir coming. Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday that Uggie: My Story will come out in October. His tale of tails will be transcribed by biographer and presumed dog whisperer Wendy Holden. Whatever. I’m totally willing to accept responsibility for this and apologize accordingly for the tsunami of existential woe about to wash over every struggling writer in America, on one condition: You’d better cut me in, Uggie. That is all. [Photo: Getty Images] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Uggie Oscar Mania Boosts Jack Russell Adoptions … And Also Risk of Abandonment

The Jack Russell Terrier Club of America loves your Uggie obsession , but a word of warning to those swept up in the hunt for lookalike pets: “Today, Jack Russell terriers are hot! Tomorrow, those of us who are truly devoted to the breed will be paying the price for this surge in popularity with greatly increased use of our rescue system.” [ANI via The Dog Files ]

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Christopher Plummer Stokes Beginners Beef with Uggie: ‘Our Dog Had Soul’

Backstage at the Film Independent Spirit Awards , Christopher Plummer (who vies for the Oscar tomorrow) celebrated his Best Supporting Actor win for Beginners and gleefully stoked the fires of a pup vs. pup beef between his own co-star in the film, Cosmo, and The Artist ‘s award season favorite Uggie . “We had a little private talk,” he explained of scene-stealer Cosmo. “Now that you mention it, I think our Cosmo was much more human than Uggie. Uggie was just a trickster. Our dog had soul .” Fighting words!

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‘I Go Nuts, Crazy!’ George Clooney’s 1986 Tiger Beat Profile is a Moody, Hilarious Jewel

Everybody knows that George Clooney broke out on The Facts of Life in the mid-’80s. But in the quarter-century before the once and possibly future Oscar-winner and all-around Hollywood royal’s media profile encompassed morning-show house tours and magazine covers from Esquire to Vanity Fair , where was the 25-year-old Clooney developing his public persona? Where else? Tiger Beat ! Just in time for this week’s Oscar build-up, the indispensable film-culture resource Looker points us to the heartthrob repository and its revelatory Clooney feature from February 1986. Parts of it sound uncannily familiar — the Descendants star’s self-effacing charm (“I ran outside in my rabbit suit shouting, ‘What’s happening?’ and I was known as Chicken Little for a long time!”), bachelor swagger (“I’m really bad at a lasting relationship — you can tell because I’ve never had one!”) and bracing humility (“I don’t think I dislike anything about this business except for the fact tat there are so many actors out of work!”) all come through loud and clear. But other parts of it of it are like, “Say whaaaa?” To wit: George Clooney has (or had, anyway) a temper! And a very large car: “The problem is that, especially in this business, you’re always on the edge, everything is so temporary. Sometimes, if I’m driving my car and the guy in front of me wants to turn left when he wasn’t signaling for a turn, I just want to ram into him! I go nuts, crazy! I have this big Oldsmobile that could drive over everything and that’s what I feel like doing. I have this bumper sticker on my car because I broke the dashboard with my fist: ‘Don’t worry about things you don’t have control over.'” Priceless . And this bit about “time for myself”: “I love my new apartment and being there just listening to music or studying my script.” Your move, Brad Pitt . [ Looker ]

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On the End of Uggie

Minutes ago came this terrible reminder from Moviefone: “Good news and bad news: awards season only lasts another five days — which means you’ve only got five more days to bask in the glow of Uggie the dog. He’s the dog you love to love; after all, despite Martin Scorsese’s campaigning, you don’t see Blackie from Hugo with a Facebook fan page numbering nearly 12,000 members .” Or with his own cookies! Anyway, this calls for a slideshow. Bring Kleenex. [ Moviefone ]

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