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Fifty years ago, George Segal and Barbra Streisand, under the direction of Herbert Ross (Steel Magnolias, The Turning Point) with a script by Buck Henry (Catch-22, The Graduate) made the film version of the hit Broadway play, The Owl & the Pussycat. What happens when an aspiring actress who turns tricks on the side bursts into the apartment of an aspiring writer who sells books in the meantime at three in the morning? They'll fall in love, eventually, but it's a rocky road getting there -- for the audience as well as the lovebirds.
By Eric PetersonFifty years ago, George Segal and Barbra Streisand, under the direction of Herbert Ross (Steel Magnolias, The Turning Point) with a script by Buck Henry (Catch-22, The Graduate) made the film version of the hit Broadway play, The Owl & the Pussycat. What happens when an aspiring actress who turns tricks on the side bursts into the apartment of an aspiring writer who sells books in the meantime at three in the morning? They'll fall in love, eventually, but it's a rocky road getting there -- for the audience as well as the lovebirds.