When the Canadian comic actress Catherine O’Hara died last week at 71, fans mourning her loss had no shortage of works to revisit: “Waiting for Guffman,” “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek. ” But it was her turn in Christopher Guest’s 2000 mockumentary “Best in Show” that people seemed to gravitate to when looking to remember her gifts. O’Hara played Cookie Fleck, a small-time dog handler in Florida whose Norwich terrier makes it all the way to the final round of the fictional Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. During the real-life Norwich terrier breed judging on Tuesday, the bleachers in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center were packed and the crowd extended six people deep in all directions. Several fans were there to pay their respects

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