The Owl and the Pussycat

This was the film responsible for showing me why so many people though Barbra Streisand was sexy. She is voraciously electric in this romantic comedy of a mismatched pair of New Yorker's trying to get on in the world. As I seem to be learning about "romantic comedies"...they tend to be heavy on the romance and light on the comedy. Here, there is an equal mix of both with some wonderful gut busters and some genuine tears. Even better, director Herbert Ross manages to incorporate the sometimes mean spirited nature of couplings and the results are truly whqat good film making is about. George Segal perhaps gives the performance of his career here and look for a brief scene with Marilyn Chambers but don't be fooled...this one is all about Babs who is just friggin' out of this world. In the scene where she delivers the famous line "you are intruding on my personal time so fuck off"...oh man.....you can just tell...she ain't acting! By all means let THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT intrude on your personal time.