Actress Annette Benning and actor Warren Beatty posed with Target’s mascot, Bullseye, at the American Film Institute’s 40th Anniversary celebration in Hollywood yesterday.

The AFI festivities featured 10 classic American films all shown in one night with introductions by the film’s star or filmmaker. The movie list included masterpieces such as Beauty and the Beast, Rocky, Star Wars, The Birds and several others.

Kenny Ortega’s dog Manly chills out during a photo shoot for High School Musical. The dog plays Ashley Tisdale’s character’s playful pooch Boi in High School Musical 2.

Isn’t he picture perfect?

Last month we did a post about a dog with an amazing talent of creating her own artwork, traveling to her own shows and selling the goods. We were so in awe, we felt inclined to do our usual prying to get more info and boy did we get the poop, err scoop. No, actually we did get the poop on Tillamook Cheddar… continue reading for the full interview.

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…it’s also a dog and not just any dog, but a dog with a talent. Meet Tillamook Cheddar, AKA, Tillie, our latest celebrity dog, who at the age of five months began creating works of abstract art.

Art critics and collectors took notice and Tillie sold her first piece of work four months later for $100. That might may raise a few eyebrows but it’s nothing compared to the coffee-table book in the works and the shocking, $2500 piece she’s sold.

Now, in addition to creating masterpieces, Tillie is also making the TV show circuit rounds by appearing on Good Morning America, Inside Edition and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. She also recently had her own exhibition in New York and there’s more to come in Los Angeles and Bermuda.

Read more and get to know Tillamook Cheddar at her very own website, there are some cute photos of her too.

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Iwao Takamoto, the animator responsible for the creation the animated dogs, Scooby Doo and Mutley, has died at the age of 81.

A spokesman for Warner Bros, where he was vice president at the time of his death, said that he died of heart failure.

Takamoto began his career at Disney before moving to the Hanna Barbera studios.

During his time there in the 1960s, Takamoto created the remainder of Scooby Doo’s friends, including Daphne and Fred, as well as the characters in The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

He also worked on numerous animated films in his 60-year career, including 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty and Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella and directed Charlotte’s Web.

In 2005 he was honoured with a Golden Award to mark over 50 years of working in the animated industry.

His death comes three weeks after that of Hanna-Barbera co-founder Joseph Barbera, who died at the age of 95.

Takamoto is survived by his wife Barbara and two children.