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HBO Documentary: One Nation Under Dog

Americans have always had a love affair with canines, but lost amidst the pampering are unpleasant truths about dog ownership, care and commerce. ONE NATION UNDER DOG: STORIES OF FEAR, LOSS & BETRAYAL offers an eye-opening, three-part portrait of America’s complex relationship with dogs.

The documentary looks at FEAR, LOSS and BETRAYAL in it’s three episodes.

In FEAR, a dog owner is taken to court repeatedly for the aggressive behavior of his Rhodesian Ridgebacks.

LOSS covers the deep grief people can experience over the loss of their dogs.

And probably most difficult to watch, BETRAYAL presents an unflinching look at the issues of overpopulation, shelters, rescuing, spaying and neutering. Approximately two million dogs are destroyed in animal shelters each year.

As regular readers of The Randy Report know, dogs play an important part in my life and always have. I’m aware of how, for some, the responsibility of dog ownership falls short. In my home, Bruno, Bear, Tyler and Bandit have my attention every day. It is a relationship I take seriously.

I’ll be watching ONE NATION UNDER DOG. If you have HBO and love dogs too, I urge you to watch.

Watch Monday, June 19th at 9:00pm.

Thanks to reader Dave for the tip.

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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life available today on DVD

“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” the feature-film documentary about the life of Tony-winning Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing, is released on DVD by Entertainment One today, May 22nd.

Directed by Dori Berinstein (“Show Business: The Road to Broadway”), the new film features interviews with Channing, her late husband Harry Kullijian, Jerry Herman, Lily Tomlin, Margie Champion, Betty Garrett (who has since died), Chita Rivera, Barbara Walters, Tyne Daly, Debbie Reynolds, Phyllis Diller, Loni Anderson, JoAnne Worley, Bruce Vilanch and many more. Running time is 89 minutes plus extras.

The bonus features on the DVD include “Creating Dolly,” Hello, Dolly! opening-night crew stories, “Barbara Walters on Carol” and Joan Crawford’s wedding, among others.

From Playbill: “The story of legendary performer Carol Channing’s life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile,” according to production notes. In the film director Berinstein, with co-writer Adam Zucker, capture the “magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon — both onstage and off…past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway’s most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend.”

Plus – I’m featured in the film working with Carol and I get to share a story about how caring Carol was with the cast of “Hello, Dolly!”

Check out the DVD today on Amazon.

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“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life”

The men of "Hello, Dolly!" with Carol at Gypsy of the year

The legendary Broadway star Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
The legendary Broadway star Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
In late May 1994, I was an unemployed actor – again – in NYC. Upon checking the mail on a Wednesday morning, my last unemployment check had arrived and I had no acting job in sight. For years I had worked steadily and supported myself as an actor. It looked like that career was about to take a break. Continue reading ““Carol Channing: Larger Than Life””