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	DVDAnswers.com - DVD Reviews - Best in Show (Region 1)
		The best part of Best in Show is not the simple story or any of the many comedic scenes, it's the performances.
		Best in Show was shot in 16mm and for that reason the image quality is not as good as one would expect from a recent theatrical release.
		Warner Brothers has labelled Best in Show as a special edition and while it doesn't have as many features as some of their other special editions it's still a good collection of features for a movie that didn't really make a major showing at the box office.
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	Best in Show
		Best in Show follows a clutch of dog owners as they prepare and preen their dogs to win a national competition.
		Rather, the dog show environment and culture serve merely as a way of revealing the foibles of different sorts of characters in contemporary culture, as well as the genius of talented writers and performers.
		Best in Show is a wonderful "mockumentary" with all the melodramatic wit you would expect from such great improvisational actors.
	www.dvdvan.com /info/B00005ALS0/Best_in_Show.html (729 words)

	Best in Show
		Best in Show was nominated in the "Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy" category at the Golden Globe Awards last year, and it is not difficult to see why.
		Best in Show should properly be regarded as a mocumentary; its quarry is wacky and highly unusual world of competitive dog showing.
		Christopher Guest, probably best known for his films Waiting for Guffman and This Is Spinal Tap, works overtime in Best in Show, getting his name in the credits as both an actor and a director.
	www.earlham.edu /~efs/best.htm (224 words)

	Best in Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Best in Show is the story of a group of monomaniacs whose lives are devoted solely to preparing their neurotic dogs for the annual pilgrimage to the Westminster show in Philadelphia.
		Best in Show, which shows in every frame the influence of Robert Altman, is not a great movie.
		Best in Show opened at a few theaters and spread to a larger number as its popularity grew.
	www.selu.edu /kslu/bestinshow.html (346 words)

	Best In Show
		The characters that he follows are uniformly amusing (though Meg and Hamilton grate on the nerves early on) and their ability to improvise give the film the feel of a real group effort.
		"Best in Show" doesn't have the homey, even-handed charm of "Waiting for Guffman," but it stands on all fours as a movie for and about dog lovers and what those, at the levels shown here, are willing to go through to bring their beloved pets to victory.
		The true star of "Best in Show," however, isn't one of the competitors, but the Mayflower's vapid color man Buck Laughlin (Fred Willard, "Waiting for Guffman").
	www.reelingreviews.com /bestinshow.htm (1530 words)

	BEST IN SHOW
		Though similar in style and cleverness, BEST IN SHOW lacks the cohesiveness of plot and heart of Guffman.
		The pace and humor picks up a notch during the actual dog show due to the performance of Fred Willard, who is crude and hysterical as one of the event's announcers.
		BEST IN SHOW is a clever movie and a great way to pass the time, especially if you're a dog lover.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsB/f_best_show.html (515 words)

	A Dog's Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BEST IN SHOW When all seven Variety Groups are done, it is time for Best in Show competition.
		There may be a competition for Best Brace in Show, or the best Junior Handler may be allowed to strut his dog.
		I was stewarding at a show last weekend in Columbus when the assistant show chairman came over to watch one of the breeds being judged.
	dogslife.blogspot.com /2002_11_01_dogslife_archive.html (14312 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Best in Show"
		He literally steals the show as one of the commentators of the big dog show finale, and delivers some of the best lines that I've heard all year.
		In sum, "Best in Show" is not even good enough for TV, let alone one red cent more than the $5 dollars I paid to see it at the theatre.
		The 'Spinal Tap' for dog shows, Best In Show is a completely over the top send up, not only of dog enthusiasts but of life in middle America in general.
	www.joblo.com /bestinshow.htm (1818 words)

	USATODAY.com - Top Best in Show contenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She'd always been devoted to bichons — she co-owned J.R., the 2001 Westminster Best in Show winner- but the minute she laid eyes on Stump, it was all over.
		Only once has a bull terrier won Best in Show at Westminster, in 1918, which, prior to last October, was also the last time the Boston Red Sox won the World Series.
		He is prolific in the show ring — his Best in Show wins happened in less than a year's time — and has more wins than his father in that category.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/2005-02-13-best-in-show-contenders_x.htm (1537 words)

	Best In Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Show might not elicit as much empathy as Spinal Tap or Guffman -- the characters aren't as deep and the narrative isn't as strong -- and it might not plumb the same depths of hilarity, but it's still one of the best comedies of the year.
		In Guffman, however, the participants are all from the same community and are putting on a show; they've already forged a bond, and their own hearts and souls are what's thrown up there on the stage.
		Stealing the show, though, are Cookie (Catherine O'Hara) and Gerry Fleck (co-writer Eugene Levy), a couple as down-to-earth as their sawed-off Norwich terrier Winky.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/00/10/12/best_in_show.html (675 words)

	Best in Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like Guffman, Best in Show was devised by directed Christopher Guest, and improvised from a basic outline by its cast, which in this case includes Guest, Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban and Fred Willard.
		Best in Show doesn’t have the universality of Guffman or Tap; even if you are or know dog fanciers, the characters’ passions don’t extend beyond their context.
		Best in Show is funny, but that’s all it is.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/b/bestinshow.shtml (188 words)

	Best in Show (2000): Reviews
		Best in Show has an uproarious wild card in Fred Willard, who plays a hack commentator convinced that he's the most amusing fellow on television
		Best in Show succeeds only insofar as you're willing to laugh at a bunch of sad freaks.
		This film is not only the best mockumentary ever made, but most likely the best comedy ever made, from two very important aspects = 1) It makes you laugh repeatedly & 2) It has a wonderful idea that no film writer besides Guest and Levy has yet to explore as a comedy.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/bestinshow (988 words)

	Best in Show
		Best in Show - Conferences with at least two wins in the 2001 NCAA's; number of tournament teams in parentheses.
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	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0877417.html (483 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Best in show
		More than 23,000 dogs and their owners will be the guests of The Kennel Club at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, competing for the title of Best in Show in front of 120,000 visitors and television audiences in 49 countries.
		Organisers insist that Crufts is more about cachet than cash, with the Best in Show prize fetching only £100 for the winner, and the seven group titles a mere £50.
		The five-year-old is one of six Salukis who live with Anne and her husband Angus: he stands 26 inches, with a fawn coat and fl fringing and feathers, the culmination of 30 years of breeding.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=232122005 (1905 words)

	BEST IN SHOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A cat fight amongst dog owners, vying for Dog Of the Year at the Philadelphia Dog Show, this uproarious film is by the guy that did 'Spinal Tap' and "Waiting for Guffman.' Last seen in 'American Pie', the actor with Letterman teeth, Eugene Levy, is always a joy to watch.
		Competing in a dog show must be a traumatic affair yet the dogs generally handle themselves unfussily and with great poise.
		For their bosses however the dog show is a turning point in their lives.
	www.4micate.com /sam02/html/reviews/film/FILM_BESTINSHOW.HTML (358 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Best in Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Melanie's Aunt Peg, who runs the show, directs her to work with two eccentric sisters from Georgia who look alike, dress alike and finish each other's sentences "like a pair of bickering bookends." When one of them falls on a hotel porch and is fatally injured, it looks like an accident-at first.
		The descriptions of a large dog show are right on, down to the snobbish attitude of the breed exhibitors towards the obedience competitors (Terry makes a particularly nasty and inappropriate remark here, but some breed people are like that, thank goodness not all).
		If you're a dog show insider, you will recognize some of the prominent people and sympathize with Melanie as she survives the week at the National (at least I do, our National is beginning to take up 9 days).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1575667835 (988 words)

	Best in Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This time a national dog show, rather than a small-town talent show, is the focusing event for the improv riffs of Guest's expert cast.
		Willard pours it on as the folksy gabber who knows nothing about dog show protocols and Piddock is a superbly patient straight man.
		Much of Best in Show's premise is anticipated not only by Waiting for Guffman but by Errol Morris's classic "real" documentary about pet cemeteries and their patrons, Gates of Heaven, but the easygoing overabundance of comic talent and belly laughs overshadow such quibbles.
	www.eccentrix.com /members/filmlit/bestinshow.html (107 words)

	Best in Show (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Best in Show (2000) is a mockumentary film following five entries in a prestigious dog show.
		The film shows how much dog owners love their pets...
		Christopher Guest directed, having written the script with Eugene Levy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Best_in_Show_(movie) (160 words)

	Best in Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Best in Show is another satire from the cast and crew behind the hilarious pageant send-up Waiting for Guffman, revolving around a few random dog lovers and the Mecca of their lives: the annual Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia, PA.
		This justifies Fred Willard's sidesplitting character for being the way he is, a dog show commentator who's reasonably bored with watching the dogs trotted out before a live audience time after time that at one point, he suggests a Sherlock Holmes hat and pipe would increase the bloodhound's chances of winning.
		Best in Show will play out better to cat lovers, for the dog owners are really put on the spot, and anyone else who likes dogs but thinks ceremonies built around them are really stupid.
	www.ajhakari.com /b/bestinshow.html (725 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Best in Show"
		But even within those terms, on the basis of the three "mockumentaries" he has played a key part in -- from 1984's "This Is Spinal Tap" to 1996's "Waiting for Guffman" to the new, and delightful, dog-world comedy "Best in Show" -- Christopher Guest has proved himself to be a breed apart among satirists.
		Guest co-wrote "Best in Show" with his "Waiting for Guffman" collaborator, SCTV veteran Eugene Levy.
		"Best in Show" follows a ragtag group of dog owners who travel from all over the country, hoping against hope that their pups will take the blue ribbon at the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/09/27/best_in_show (674 words)

	FOXSports.com - Best Damn Sports Show Period- Best Damn Sports Show
		See if former major leaguer and Best Damn co-host Rob Dibble has still got it as he squares off against the Cleveland Indians' C.C. Sabathia in a destructive pitching duel.
		Listen to the Best Damn guys talk with Lakers Executive VP Jeanie Buss about her relationship with head coach Phil Jackson and what new talent has been brought into the team.
		Danica speaks on her success with super-cool boss David Letterman, plays a little flute and nearly laps the boys in a three-wheel race.
	msn.foxsports.com /bestdamn (670 words)

	Best in Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact, I really don't care for the companionship of man's best friend, but this movie made me laugh the hardest I have in a long, long time.
		These people, along with hundreds of others, bring their dogs to the show hoping to bring home the coveted "Best of Show" award.
		Both are "mockumentaries" that have the same feel, and many of the same cast members, as Best in Show.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/smokingmonkey/bestinshow.html (222 words)

	Best in Show (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The director, writer and star of Best in Show, Christopher Guest, is no newcomer to fake documentaries.
		The other characters are as banal and human as they can be; the braces-wearing yuppie couple, played with aplomb by Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock, take their dog to a therapist because the dog is depressed and angry about having seen the couple in the Congress of the Cow Kama Sutra position.
		Best in Show has its share of comedic highs, most notably, the interplay between Buck Laughlin (Fred Willard), the hopelessly clueless commentator, and Trevor Beckwith (Jim Piddock), the British dog expert.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0218839 (645 words)

	Axis of Ævil » Best in Show
		Otava couldn't go to a recent puppy show, but I went anyway with a friend just to see all the adorable puppies.
		I had originally imagined that it would be an amateur sort of fun show for owners and their pets, but there were a lot of serious owners there looking for serious competition although it wasn't quite
		The Kaapelitehdas is an old cable factory with a large space inside, which was filled to the gills, and giant windows that allowed sunshine to pour in, creating wide beams and pools of bright light like stage spotlights in each ring.
	www.axis-of-aevil.net /archives/2005/03/best_in_show.html (391 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Best In Show [2001] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		No-one can deny that the British love their dogs, but Best in Show proves that the Americans are just as canine crazy.
		Then, suddenly the laughs start coming thick and fast with most coming from The commentator at the dog show who clearly has no idea what is going on and feels the need to try to liven up proceedings with his own brand of wit.
		Director and co-screenwriter Guest has been centrally involved with the creation of four of the best "mockumentaries": This Is Spinal Tap (1983), Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), and A Mighty Wind (2003).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MHNF (1546 words)

	Best in Show
		Prior to Best in Show, the best send-up of a dog show took place at the Westminster Dog Show, with Robert Smigel's Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
		While Smigel's sketches were profane and sarcastic, Christopher Guest's Best in Show takes everything seriously, reveling in the basic ridiculousness of the entire matter.
		Their reactions are clearly not in any script, and the actors must deal with whatever happens while they are ad-libbing.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/best_in_show.html (514 words)

	BEST IN SHOW. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
		At the Mayflower Dog Show, everything is being organized with the utmost precision under the watchful eye of Mayflower Kennel Club President Dr. Theodore W. Millbank III (BOB BALABAN) and the show's chairman, Graham Chissolm (DON LAKE).
		He shows us that these people have value even though they are a bit on the nutty side.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /best_in_show.htm (843 words)

	Best In Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We have three generations of Best In Show winning shih tzu resident at Celerity.
		Home to Best In Show Winner, multi Best in Group, class in Group and class in Show winners under local, national and international judges.We breed sparingly and aim to breed dogs to the Aust/US standard.
		MO was our first lhasa who went on to become a nationally ranked Best In Show dog.We show in Canada and the United States.
	o.webring.com /hub?ring=bestinshow (2293 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| 'Best in show' at the CES tech fair
		Everything from strange exercise equipment which requires the use of your entire body, to the largest plasma screen in the world which towers at 102 inches (2.6 metre), was on show.
		MSI's Mega View, which made its fashion statement debut at the show, is a lightweight Linux-based device which plays and records in MPEG4 from any video source.
		The set is due out in June this year and was an innovation in engineering and design award winner at this year's show.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/4160731.stm (1217 words)

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