America has not, Mr Obama ventured to suggest, gone to the dogs.
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Reno, Nevada (CNN)Hillary Clinton's stump speech has gone to the dogs.
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The Clooneys have gone to the dogs — and they're walking away with another rescue.
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Classical music has gone to the dogs in Sarasota, Florida, and the audience loves it!
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Life, he said, has "gone to the dogs," and meddling from outside is to blame.
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Mika Brzezinski has gone to the dogs -- in a good way -- after Donald Trump viciously attacked her.
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CreditCreditvia Gillie and Marc New York has gone to the dogs, but the rabbits and rhinos aren't far behind in their assault.
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What in the World The government of Tanzania has gone to the dogs in its effort to stop the flow of ivory taken from elephants.
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Hoffman, Michael. (2011-07-17) It seems Japan has literally gone to the dogs. The Japan Times.
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"Recall of the wild". The Guardian, 9 May 2007Mitchell, Sandy, "Tear down the barricades". Country Life, 15 November 2007.2009\. "Knepp Castle: gone to the dogs, and horses, and pigs...".
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Speed, p. 80. Other aspects of Wallace's films that are relatively unusual for the period are the comedic treatment of haunted houses in Harmony Row and Gone to the Dogs and scientific experimentation in Gone to the Dogs, which emphasize the resourcefulness of Australian filmmaking in the face of Hollywood's international dominance.Speed, pp. 79-80. George Wallace's transition from stage to screen parallels the career progressions of many internationally famous vaudeville performers in a period when movies' popularity was eclipsing live theatre.
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Gone to the Dogs is a 1939 musical comedy vehicle starring George Wallace. It was the second of two films he made for director Ken G. Hall, the first being Let George Do It (1938).
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Fleeting had previously appeared in Gone to the Dogs (1939). Singing star Jean Hatton appeared in her second movie, after Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1938). The film was the first starring future Australian filmstar Chips Rafferty (as an uncredited extra).
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Gone to the Dogs is a 2003 novel by Emily Carmichael. It is the third is a series about a self-centered young woman who dies and is reincarnated as a Welsh Corgi so she can make amends for her conduct in life. The novel was generally reviewed well in critical reception.
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She received a BAFTA nomination in 2002 for this role. A few years later in 2005 her role in Last of the Summer Wine came to an end. At about the same time, she stopped making films. Her last screen appearance was in the short film Gone to the Dogs (2006) with Antony Booth.
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Gone to the Dogs is a 2006 film by director Philip Barnard. It has been described as the shaggiest dog story ever told. The film stars British actors Dora Bryan and Antony Booth, the father-in-law of Tony Blair. Appearing alongside the human cast are 15 dogs trained by former Boomtown Rats guitarist Gerry Cott.
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Gone to the Dogs is a television miniseries broadcast by ITV in 1991 in the UK. The six episode comedy drama series revolved around the relationship of Jim Morley (Jim Broadbent) and Lauren Patterson (Alison Steadman) in the world of greyhound racing. The series had a notable cast and much of the greyhound racing filming took place at Walthamstow Stadium.
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The plot revolves around Jack (Booth) who dies and returns as a dog which is adopted by his widowed wife Rose (Bryan). The Gone to the Dogs website was nominated for the BAFTA Interactive, Film award in 2005. It includes a game "powered by CATS (Canine Algorithmic Transfer System)" which, extending a theme of the film, can suggest a breed of dog corresponding to the user's personality.
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George Wallace signed with Cinesound in February 1937. Stuart F. Doyle announced that Gone to the Dogs would be his first movie for the company but he ended up making Let George Do It first. As with all Cinesound comedies in the late 30s, uncredited work on the script was performed by Hall, Jim Bancks and Bill Maloney. Frank Coffey was Cinesound's in house story editor.
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He also produced the Andrew Strong album, Gypsy's Kiss. Coad worked extensively with the Gutter Brothers, producing: Isometric Boogie, Gone to the Dogs, The Failsafe, Already Dead, and recently El Krusho. They also worked together on the soundtrack for the Christmas episode of Only Fools and Horses, "Miami Twice" for BBC Television. In addition, Coad produced the album, Sparky's Dinner, by The Surfing Brides for I.R.S. Records.
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This season has Erik Pold as artistic director and the theme is Super Market. The first Spectacle 'Fiaskomonologerne' (The Failure Monologues) is about three characters who, for one reason or another, are a failure. They have failed with an important project, have gone bankrupt or perhaps even gone to the dogs. The spectacle takes place in three different locations in the center of Odense.
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At this time his family bought and managed a café at New Farm, Queensland and it was from here that Jovanovitch set a record in 1937, by cycling 630 miles (solo) from Brisbane to Sydney in 54 hours. He continued cycle racing and regularly trained and competed in road races, as a member of Muswellbrook Cycle Club in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1930s Jovanovitch was an acting student at Cinesound Talent School and appeared as an extra in the Australian comedy movies Ants in His Pants and Gone to the Dogs as well as 40,000 Horsemen. Leading Australian actor Alec Kelleway selected Jovanovitch as a featured extra to hold the leash of the 9th greyhound dog in the race scene in the feature film Gone to the Dogs, and Jovanovitch can be seen onscreen in the part on modern DVDs of the film.
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Monument to Windham erected by his wife at St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg. (upper plaque) A spendthrift, Windham frittered away his considerable fortune which, combined with the £20,000 legal fees from his case, eventually forced him to declare bankruptcy and sell Felbrigg Hall to John Ketton (formerly John Kitton) in 1863. It was said at the time that "Windham is gone to the dogs. Felbrigg has gone to the Kittens".
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Enfield left after the first series, and was replaced in the second series by Neil Morrissey as Tony. Enfield is a professed fan of opera and fronted a Channel 4 documentary series on the subject. In 1991 Harry also starred in the series Gone to the Dogs as Little Jim. After a short break from television, Enfield signed a new contract with BSkyB, but produced only one series, Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show.
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Danilo Jovanovitch (3 September 1919 – 17 September 2015) was an Australian poet, actor and singer. He appeared in the Australian feature films 40,000 Horsemen, Gone to the Dogs and Ants in His Pants. His published poetry anthologies include Songs of a Bushland Rover and Rhyming Australian Poetry. His poetry has been published in such Australian newspapers as The Land, The Lyndhurst Chronicle, The Mudgee Guardian, The Western Advocate, The Muswellbrook Chronicle, The Tablelands Post, and The Manning River Times.
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Hall made two films the comic, George Wallace: Let George Do It (1938) and Gone to the Dogs. In between these two he made a third Rudd film, Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938), which featured a performance from a young Peter Finch. Hall gave Finch a bigger role in Mr Chedworth Steps Out (1939), a vehicle for Cecil Kellaway. Hall produced and co-wrote but did not direct Come Up Smiling (1939), a vehicle for Will Mahoney.
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Stuart F. Doyle signed George Wallace to a contract with Cinesound in February 1937. It was originally announced that he would be making Gone to the Dogs, set against a background of greyhound racing. That turned out to be Wallace's second Cinesound movie; this was the first. As with most Cinesound comedies of the late 1930s, Hall employed a team of comedy writers to help with the script along with credited screenwriters Wallace and Frank Harvey.
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The script was based on the English novel, Mr Chedworth Hits Out (1936) by F Morton Howard. It was intended as the first of a projected £200,000 five-film program by Cinesound Productions, the others being Gone to the Dogs (1939), Robbery Under Arms, The Further Adventures of Dad and Dave (which became Dad Rudd, MP 1940), and The Haunted House. Robbery Under Arms and The Haunted House were never made. The film was specifically designed as a vehicle for Cecil Kellaway.
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She was executive producer of the 2008 web series Puppy Love, and short films Gone to the Dogs (2008) and Whose Dog is it Anyway? (2009). She also wrote the series Fetching for AOL's On Network in 2012. Harris was consulting producer for teen drama Gossip Girl (2007–12) and wrote the episodes "Memoirs of an Invisible Dan" and "Cross Rhodes". From 2013 until its cancellation in 2014, Harris served as executive producer of Sex and the City prequel series The Carrie Diaries.
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The same year he played the role of Martin Fisher, the chairman of a football club, in The Manageress and the role of Managing Director of an engineering firm, Vic Wilcox, in the TV adaptation of the David Lodge novel Nice Work. He also starred in an episode of Lovejoy entitled "Bin Diving". ’’Chelmsford 123 (series 2,1990) episode ‘4,Odi,Et Amo’. Clarke played Larry Patterson in Gone to the Dogs (1991), which was followed by the series Gone to Seed (1992), in which Clarke again starred.
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Les Tanner (15 June 1927 - 23 July 2001) was an Australian cartoonist and journalist. Les Tanner was born in Redfern, Sydney. He began drawing at the age of five, at went to school at Glebe Primary School and North Newtown Intermediate High. As a child he appeared in a number of films including comedian George Wallace's Gone to the Dogs, Our Gang, an RTA commercial co- starring Gloria Dawn and Forty Thousand Horsemen. He began his career at The Daily Telegraph in 1942, as a printer's devil.
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A set built for the film was promoted at the time as being the largest ever built for an Australian movie at over 12,000 square feet.'Record Set For New George Wallace Film', The Courier-Mail, Thursday 9 March 1939, p6 Some location shooting took place at Taronga Zoo.'George Wallace Has "Gone to the Dogs"', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane), Thursday 17 August 1939 Section: Second Section. p 8 While on location in Campbelltown, a scene was filmed where George Wallace was run over.
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Michael Billington writes that Townsend "was ahead of the game" in treating the royal family as a suitable subject for drama. He writes: "Far from seeming like a piece of republican propaganda, the play actually made the royals endearing." A later book in a similar vein, Queen Camilla (2006), was less well received.Alex Clark "The country's gone to the dogs", The Observer, 29 October 2006Tom Payne "It's no knockout", Sunday Telegraph, 26 November 2006 On 25 February 2009, Leicester City Council announced that Townsend would be given the Honorary Freedom of Leicester (where she lived).
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In the 1990s he directed Gone to the Dogs, Gone to Seed and Roughnecks. In Australia he directed Supernova starring Rob Brydon. He directed the final two episodes of the first series of Kingdom and a 2007 episode of The Last Detective. In 2001 he directed Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (TV series) starring Stephen Mangan and Alison Steadman, written by Sue Townsend. In 2008 he directed Love Soup, written by David Renwick and starring Tamsin Greig, and Series 2-7 of Benidorm (29 episodes from 2008 to 2015) written by Derren Litten.
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John Fleeting, real name Claude Stuart Fleeting (1908 - 24 March 1984),"Obituaries", Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 1984 was an Australian actor best known for his film appearances for Ken G. Hall. In 1936, he appeared in an amateur production of The Last of Mrs Cheyney alongside Shirley Ann Richards. Both were seen by a talent scout from Cinesound Productions. He was subsequently seen by Ken G. Hall in the play Men without Wives and Hall cast him as the romantic male lead in Gone to the Dogs.
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Cinesound Productions were looking for someone with wrestling skills to play the part of a gorilla in Gone to the Dogs (1939), so Taylor auditioned. He did not get the part but met Alec Kellaway who persuaded him to join Cinesound's Talent School.'New Romantic Lead', Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 15 February 1940, p24 Ken G. Hall said that one of the problems of the Australian industry of this time was they "were consistently short of trained juveniles and ingenues".Ken G. Hall, Directed by Ken G. Hall, Lansdowne Press, 1977p 157 Cinesound in particular had a great deal of trouble finding male romantic leads.
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Liz Tuccillo is an American writer and producer best known for her work on the HBO comedy series Sex and the City and for co-authoring (with Greg Behrendt) the self-help book He's Just Not That Into You, for which they won a Quill Award. Her first novel, How to Be Single, was published in June 2008 and adapted into a feature film in 2016. Tuccillo wrote the 2005 television series Related, which aired on the WB network. She directed and wrote the 2008 film Gone to the Dogs and the film Take Care which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2014.
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He starred in five films, all comedies and was the biggest, if not the biggest, Australian star. Three of these, His Royal Highness (1932), Harmony Row (1933) and A Ticket in Tatts (1934), were directed by F. W. Thring for Thring's company, Efftee Film Productions. Wallace was under contract to Efftee during this time for an estimated £3000 – £5000 per year, during which he also made stage appearances for the company."Counting the Cash in Australian Films"', Everyones 12 December 1934 p 19-21 He said in 1933 that he turned down an offer from Universal to film in the US. The other two, Let George Do It (1938) and Gone to the Dogs (1939), were directed by Ken G. Hall for Cinesound Productions.
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Bryant began her career as an actress playing minor characters in film as The Broken Melody (1938) and Gone to the Dogs (1939). Her film breakthrough came when she played the lead character in Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940), which was the "first Australian film to win international success". Reportedly discovered by screenwriter Elsie Blake- Wilkins, she was described by the film's director Charles Chauvel as "the most important film personality discovered in Australia since Errol Flynn". In June 1941, while in Singapore promoting Forty Thousand Horsemen, Bryant fell in love with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sales manager Maurice "Red" Silverstein (died 1999), and they got married a few days later in Sydney; the couple would go on to have three children.
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Due to an unexpected political shift, Eritrea is now slipping deeper and deeper into a dictatorial and patriarchal state system, in the center of which is President Isayas Afewerki, surrounded by other autocratic leaders with vested interests in holding onto power. Although the first steps towards democratization were made in the mid-1990s, including economic reforms and the formulation of a constitution, today it seems as if all of this had been done in order to legitimize the actions of the political elite.Ogbazghi: Personal Rule in Africa: The Case of Eritrea, pg. 6 Bereket Habte Selassie, a former member of the Eritrean Constitutional Committee, has also criticized this abrupt change in the trajectory of Eritrea’s politics: “It seems to me [that] the rule of law has gone to the dogs in Eritrea.
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Steadman's television work includes Fat Friends as Betty, Grumpy Old Women, Stressed Eric, Let Them Eat Cake, The Singing Detective, No Bananas, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years as Pauline Mole, opposite James Bolam in the television film The Missing Postman, and Pride and Prejudice as Mrs. Bennet. In 1991, she also appeared as Edda Göring in Selling Hitler and as Lauren Patterson in Gone to the Dogs, which was then followed up by Gone to Seed. Television productions directed by Leigh in which she has appeared include Nuts in May, Hard Labour and Abigail's Party. She also appeared in the BBC comedy The Worst Week of My Life. In 2007 she featured in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about her Welsh family history, with roots in Trefarclawdd and Ruabon. In October 2007, Steadman appeared in Fanny Hill on BBC Four.
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