A year ago (almost to the day, interestingly enough!), we reported that Daniel Kaluuya was working on some kind of Barney movie about the purple dinosaur as a “modern-day hero” and questioning whether ...

My column this week has been prompted by two events. First was the recent 20th anniversary of the passing of my beagle, Barney, who accompanied me on more than 2,500 TV segments between 1991 and 2002.

Every '90s kid remembers the silly-looking purple dinosaur that appeared on TV screens from 1992 through 2009. It doesn't matter if you loved him, hated him, or were indifferent — Barney was an icon.