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Saturday 24 OctOber 2020
Animals, people rescue each other in heartfelt docuseries

By LYNN ELBER the series to a high stan-
AP Television Writer dard.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a "Rick said something to us
new docuseries, a child which I thought was just
who uses a walker meets great," Guttentag recalled.
a dog with its own version "'What I'd really like to do is
of wheels. Inmates find sol- come up with 10 little doc-
ace in training canines for umentaries that could all
adoption, and pigs strut make it into Sundance (film
their stuff in a "body positiv- festival) on their own.'"
ity" celebration. An episode of "That Animal
That and more is part of Rescue Show," which had
"That Animal Rescue Show," largely completed tap-
an endearing project that ing before the pandemic
reflects its unexpected cre- hit, cleared that bar with
ators as well as its stars, hu- an episode that was ac-
man and otherwise. All 10 cepted by the Telluride
episodes are out Oct. 29 on festival before it and oth-
the CBS All Access stream- This image released by CBS All Access shows Ace Ruelas-Jimenez, left, with dog Frances in a ers were canceled due to
ing service. scene from the episode "A Discount Service Dog" on the new original docuseries "That Animal COVID-19.
"What the series is about is Rescue Show," launching on Thursday, Oct. 29. Associated Press Even the title sequence is
people rescuing animals, notable, a nod to the early
and animals rescuing peo- ing and quirky stories. The films, which include "School ple. That's what you're look- photographic sequence
ple," said Oscar-winning other: Oscar-nominated of Rock" and the bookend ing for in a story," he said. that captured a galloping
documentarian Bill Gut- filmmaker Richard Linklater romances "Before Sunrise" He and his collaborators, horse with all hooves off
tentag ("Twin Towers," "You ("Boyhood"), who acknowl- and "Before Midnight." including Nayeema Raza, the ground. Cats, chickens
Don't Have to Die"), one edges that a documentary "I've often done films about Guttentag's writing-pro- and pigs are among those
of the big names behind is a rare venture for him. But people who are kind of ob- ducing partner, committed who get the cinematic
this small gift of touch- he sees a connection to his sessed or passionate peo- to holding themselves and treatment here.
The project found a myriad
Jacob Lawrence painting of subjects in and around
Austin, Texas, where long-
missing for 60 years time resident Linklater has
a farm and where the idea
for the series was born.
rediscovered Networking credit goes to
Dood, the Linklater family
pig that drew the filmmak-
By MARK PRATT series, and was added to er into the company of the
Associated Press the exhibit this week, ac- Central Texas Pig Rescue
A painting by American cording to The New York and managing member
artist Jacob Lawrence that Times. The owner of the Dan Illescas, described by
has not been seen in public long-lost panel lives on the Linklater as "kind of a pig
for 60 years has been found Upper West Side in New behaviorist."
and is taking its designated York City, but their name is Besides being schooled
place in a 30-piece exhibit not being disclosed. It is be- Visitors wearing protective masks observe COVID-19 prevention by Illescas on pigs — "You
of Lawrence's work, offi- ing loaned to the exhibit. protocols as they browse the "Jacob Lawrence: The American want to treat them like
cials at the Peabody Essex The painting had been pur- Struggle" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Saturday, dogs, but they're not dogs.
Museum in Massachusetts chased at a 1960 Christmas Oct. 17, 2020, in New York. They're pigs," — Linklater
said Thursday. charity auction to benefit Associated Press said he was introduced to
The exhibit of the series a music school, going for Two armies wielding mus- The existence of the missing the volunteer operation
"Struggle: From the History what the newspaper re- kets fixed with bayonets panel was known through caring for some 200 home-
of the American People," ported was "a very modest face off, with one of the a brochure that accompa- less pigs. (Many are given
completed in the mid- sum." bayonets piercing the flesh nied the first showing of the up by owners who find
1950s by the Black painter, "We are thrilled to learn of of a foe, causing a trickle series in New York in 1956. their so-called "mini-pig" is
was organized by the Sa- its discovery — one that of blood to splash to the The panels were exhibited an underfed animal des-
lem-based museum and came about thanks to ground. "Lawrence's dy- again in 1958 but had not tined to grow, Illescas says
is currently showing at The close looking and careful namic treatment of the been seen together as a in the series.) q
Metropolitan Museum of observation by a museum 1786–87 Shays' Rebellion re- group until the Peabody Es-
Art in New York City, with visitor," Peabody Essex Mu- inforces the overall theme sex Museum's organization Solution Sudoku
the missing piece — known seum Director and CEO Bri- of the series — that demo- of the current exhibit, "Ja-
as panel 16 — represented an Kennedy said in a state- cratic change is possible cob Lawrence: The Ameri-
by an empty frame. ment. only through the actions can Struggle."
A sharp-eyed visitor to the The vivid panel — titled by of engaged citizens, an ar- Even with the discovery of
Met had neighbors with a the artist "There are com- gument as timely today as panel 16, four panels re-
Lawrence painting in their bustibles in every State, it was when the artist pro- main unaccounted for,
collection and, suspecting which a spark might set duced his radical paintings according to the Peabody
it might be part of the se- fire to —Washington, 26 in the mid-1950s," curator Essex Museum. The exhibit is
ries, encouraged the own- December 1786" — de- Randall Griffey, of the Met's at the Met until Nov. 1. Af-
ers to contact the New picts Shays' Rebellion, the modern and contempo- ter that, it travels to Birming-
York museum. 1786–87 tax revolt in west- rary art department, said in ham, Alabama; Seattle
It was indeed a part of the ern Massachusetts. a statement. and Washington, D.C.q Puzzle on Page 13