Infamously-Bad Cats Movie Starring Taylor Swift and Ian McKellen Made Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber Get a Dog

The movie version of Cats was so bad that composer Andrew Lloyd Webber got a dog. Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning, the musical maestro said that star-studded film version of Cats, his popular theatre show, was "appalling" for a list of reasons he did not have enough time to explain. Webber, whose other musical hits include Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera and Evita, is widely seen as the most successful theatrical composer of all time, with dozens of Tony Awards and Grammy Awards to his name, as well as a peerage in the U.K., where he is a Lord. When it comes to the big screen adaptation of Cats, however, Webber is happy to distance himself from the project. "After the appalling Cats movie, I went out and bought myself a little Havanese puppy," Webber said, explaining that the pooch is now his "therapy dog on planes." "I just write a note to the airline saying, you know, 'reason for dog on plane' and I put: 'Cats movie.' And they always come back saying, 'No doctor's certificate required.'" When asked for more detail on what about the Cats movie Webber found so offensive, the composer replied: "Well, is this a very, very long interview we're doing? Because it could be a

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