The Los Angeles Times recently interviewed Rainer, who won two best actress Oscars and turned 100 in January.
Rainer says she never read her contract; her only condition was that she be allowed to bring her beloved Scottish terrier, Johnny, with her from Europe. “I was permitted to take my Scottie with me,” she says. ” I have a photograph here upstairs [at the Beverly Wilshire] of Johnny. I loved my Scottie.”
Alas, the Scottie News has not been able to find a photo of Johnny. If you know where one is, please let us know.
In the mean time, browse the Famous Scottish Terrier archives to see Scotties belonging to Humphrey Bogart, Joan Crawford and Julie Andrews among others.
Update: And heeere’s Johnny. One of the Scottie News‘ knowledgeable readers/detectives came through for us — as always.
Were all those much vaunted New Yorker fact-checkers taking a nap or something? Or maybe they just don’t bother with dogs? How else to explain these recent musings of art critic Peter Schjeldahl on the Jeff Koons retrospective at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art:
I remember my first encounter, in Germany, in 1992, with Koons’s famous “Puppy,” the forty-three-foot-high Scottie dog enveloped in living flowers. As I was judiciously taking descriptive and analytical notes, a bus arrived bearing a group of severely disabled children in wheelchairs. They went wild with delight. Abruptly feeling absurd, I shut my notebook and took instruction from the kids’ unequivocal verdict.
As the number one source of information on famous Scottish Terriers, the Scottie News would love to be able to claim Jeff Koons’ “Puppy” as one of our own, but alas, a good researcher must check out the full frontal view along with the profile.
And that, dear readers, is definitely a West Highland Terrier. Or maybe we should say it’s definitely a Westie when it’s been properly pruned. When those flowers get bushy, why it could even be a ChowChow or, of all things, a cat.
