Dog reminds Oscar winner McQuarrie to stay humble
If you become famous, who will love you in exactly the same way they do now? Your pet, of course!
Entertainment Weekly has a wonderful article about the wonderful movie, The Usual Suspects. The movie was a surprise hit and a surprise winner at the Academy Awards in 1996. If you haven't seen it, rent it immediately--but do NOT read anything about The Usual Suspects first. The movie is terrific, suspenseful, and twisty, and reading about it before seeing it may give away plot lines better unveiled while watching the flick.
In any event, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie had a heck of an evening after picking up the Oscar for Best Screenplay. But if he thought his pet would more appreciate his newly famous human companion, McQuarrie quickly found out the opposite. After partying through Oscar night, he returned home in the not-so-wee hours of the morning to find his German shepherd, Theo, waiting for him.
''No one had come around to let him out and he had taken a massive dump on the carpet,'' McQuarrie says. ''I put the Oscar on the coffee table, took off my tux, and got down on my hands and knees to clean up the mess. I looked at Theo and he had a look on his face that said, 'I don't care who you are or what you won. You still gotta clean up my s---.'''
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Entertainment Weekly has a wonderful article about the wonderful movie, The Usual Suspects. The movie was a surprise hit and a surprise winner at the Academy Awards in 1996. If you haven't seen it, rent it immediately--but do NOT read anything about The Usual Suspects first. The movie is terrific, suspenseful, and twisty, and reading about it before seeing it may give away plot lines better unveiled while watching the flick.
In any event, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie had a heck of an evening after picking up the Oscar for Best Screenplay. But if he thought his pet would more appreciate his newly famous human companion, McQuarrie quickly found out the opposite. After partying through Oscar night, he returned home in the not-so-wee hours of the morning to find his German shepherd, Theo, waiting for him.
''No one had come around to let him out and he had taken a massive dump on the carpet,'' McQuarrie says. ''I put the Oscar on the coffee table, took off my tux, and got down on my hands and knees to clean up the mess. I looked at Theo and he had a look on his face that said, 'I don't care who you are or what you won. You still gotta clean up my s---.'''
Read more on EW.com. (Registration required)
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