Beethoven (film) Beethoven (film) Beethoven is a 1992 family comedy film, directed by Brian Levant and starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt as George and Alice Newton. The film is the first in the series of "Beethoven" films. It was written by John Hughes (under the pseudonym Edmond Dantès) and Amy Holden Jones. The story centers on a St. Bernard dog named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven and owned by the Newton family. "Beethoven" co-stars Nicholle Tom as Ryce Newton, Christopher Castile as Ted Newton, Sarah Rose Karr as Emily Newton, Stanley Tucci as Vernon, Oliver Platt as Harvey, and Dean
What the Dog Saw a dog, hence the title. "What the Dog Saw" is a compilation of 19 articles by Malcolm Gladwell that were originally published in "The New Yorker" which are categorized into three parts. The first part, "Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius", describes people who are very good at what they do, but are not necessarily well-known. Part two, "Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses", describes the problems of prediction. This section covers problems such as intelligence failure, and the fall of Enron. The third section, "Personality, Character, and Intelligence", discusses a wide variety of psychological and sociological topics ranging from