The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.

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He used to say to my wife 'what's a braw looking lassie like you doing wi' a pig like him?

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James Comisar, who has a 5, 000-piece collection of film and TV memorabilia in Beverly Hills, recently spotted a box of Lassie memorabilia--including two milk bones and a whistle--on Ebay.

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The Fed minutes from 2007 reveal that members of the Federal Open Market Committee began to struggle to find a middle ground between action that was internationalist enough to ward off a systemic financial collapse on the one hand, and Lassie-Faire enough to avoid moral hazard on the other.

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