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Faced with her first nude scene, the star of The Owl and the Pussycat got cold feet. "Herbie, I can't," she told her director. "I've got goose bumps and they'll show." While Director Herb Ross coaxed the reluctant nymph, George Segal, who was waiting for her in bed, took a nap. Finally Barbra Streisand tossed off her robe and glided across the set. "Cut and print!" shouted Ross. "Beautiful!" Perfectionist Streisand demanded a retake...
...company is the apex of a genuine black breakthrough that occurred off-Broadway during the 1960s. The small theaters, mostly below 14th Street in Manhattan, were the training or proving grounds not only for Moses Gunn but for James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) and Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat"), as well as for Gloria Foster, Clarence Williams III, Cicely Tyson, Barbara Ann Teer, Rosalind Cash, Lou Gossett, Vinie Burrows, Yaphet Kotto, Hattie Winston, Nathan George, Roscoe Lee Browne and many more. Simultaneously, a band of black playwrights got their first chance to render and explore black...
...Owl scrupulously avoids the fallen archness common among animal books. Service is fascinated by Owl as owl, not homunculus, and comes forth with a number of unexpected facts about the species. Owls' eyes, for example, do not move in their sockets. And Owl, Service found, could not see his own feet, or focus on anything closer than eight or ten inches away. For all Service could tell, owls may even see double all the time. Yet in the dimmest light Owl could spot a small moth 20 feet away-if it moved, and provided he was hungry...
...author admits to the impossibility of considering Owl without indulging in a certain amount of anthropomorphism-"he postures too much; he walks about hobbling like an old man with hands clasped behind back." But as a fair observer, Service, a writer and amateur naturalist, points out that human logic isn't much help in understanding a screech owl. For one thing, how do you know what the bird is thinking when, say, he shreds a piece of spinach into 55 fragments before leaving it? Or why he reacts with evident horror to the sight of an upright moving stick...
...Owl died one day with no more warning than had marked his arrival. In the family's routine he left "a very small blank-precisely owl-shaped." Service's very small book is not precisely owl-shaped, but it serves most excellently to fill a blank in an attentive reader's life that hardly anyone would suspect was there...