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Peter Bart: America’s Pet Obsession Is Turning Movies, TV & Even Photo Shoots Into Real Dog-And-Pony Shows


In the tyranny of petdom, with even celebrities not agreeing to be photographed unless there’s also a camera-ready pet to hug, Peter Bart writes.

A mysterious black cat appears inconveniently in Fly Me to the Moon to upset Scarlet Johansson’s complex plan for the lunar landing. The New York Times last week ran an entire special section about pets, and a Wall Street Journal editor needed almost a page in his paper to unload about his deceased dog. In the prequel Lupita Nyong’o plays a hospice patient who escapes invading “death angels” with the help of a law student (Joseph Quinn).

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