Word: pussycats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that, The Owl and the Pussycat sets out on a sea of hysteria, and their cramped tub somehow manages to stay afloat. Felix is the owl, a pedantic would-be writer who works in a Fifth Avenue bookstore. Doris is the pussycat, a randy stray from New York's back alleys who has been in two television commercials, a movie entitled Cycle Sluts, and countless beds. By the time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length...
...mother of eight?urges that Sept. 30 be made a National Celebration of Womanhood Day: each wife should wear her most frilly, feminine dress and should "sing before breakfast," serve her husband breakfast in bed and "tell him how great he is." Still more improbable is New York's Pussycat League, Inc., which believes "the lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." Its perfectly appropriate slogan is "Purr, Baby, Purr...
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...
...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 experience to increasingly...