Circus animals are still notoriously not ... Hands down, Water for Elephants is the best movie of the year. Its lush landscape, coupled with top notch performances from its cast, makes it the ...

He even named the circus after her ... Ultimately, anthropomorphism becomes the movie's battlefield. A female psychologist, Gay Bradshaw, decides that elephants like Flora have post-traumatic ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus as the circus ended a practice ... Just as in the Disney movie "Dumbo," elephants in the past have been dressed up as people and trained to do a range of tricks: play ...

Theirs was a circus family. “My childhood was filled ... “The story Hollywood wanted to do was a funny, ha-ha, on-the-road-with-elephants movie. The reality was he was a man having a mid ...

From serious dramas to ridiculous comedies to informative documentaries, here are 14 movies featuring elephants for a good pachyderm kick. This 2011 circus-set love story stars Robert Pattinson as ...

Now comes “Water for Elephants,” based on a bestselling ... August (Christoph Waitz), the circus’ owner, is a jealous, sadistic guy. The movie draws you in early on, with its period detail ...

In 1959 he made another circus movie, doubling for David Nelson in ... he performed stunts in the 1930s-set Water for Elephants. In the 1970s his credits on big and small screen included several ...

Shana Carroll, a founder of the Montreal collective the 7 Fingers, is credited with the circus design for “Water for Elephants” on ... by Christoph Waltz in the movie adaptation from 2011 ...

In Massachusetts, exemptions include animals performing in zoos and on movie sets — activities ... have long been associated ...

It's hallowed ground for a circus elephant who died on the grounds 80 ... She spent time in California where she appeared in silent movies. "At the start of WWI," he said, "she and the elephant ...

This scene, in the first act of “Water for Elephants,” a new musical that ... methods of the show — a synthesis of theater and circus, bedazzled for a Broadway audience.