When I connect with Alicia Silverstone on Zoom, she’s in animal rescue mode.

“Why is your collar so tight?” she says to the off-screen canine who’s materialized at her side in the sunny loft where she’s crashing for her New York stay. Her friend’s dog declines the assist: “He doesn’t want me to,” she says when she reaches down to loosen his collar. Ah well. The Los Angeles-based Silverstone is a longtime dog person; at one point, she tells me, she had 11 dogs. “It was insane, but it was awesome,” she says with a laugh. These days, she’s down to just one: Pinto Bean, a pit bull who occasionally stars in her Instagram posts .

Silverstone, 49, has long been known for her animal rights activism, almost as much as she’s known for being the “Clueless” queen of the ’90s . Lately, though, sh

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