“Funny Girl. Once again, we know the players. I got to work with Omar Sharif in England. And we had just filmed something and Mary was coming to join us in the hotel where we were all staying, and we’re in the lobby and I said, “Here comes my wife.” No, “my fiancée.” And he didn’t literally do this, but he basically pushed me aside and said, “Out of my way, boy,” and started to put the… Well, not moves, but was charming to you beyond belief. Well, he kissed my hand. And, yeah, he was deeply, deeply charming. And I asked him, “Of all your leading ladies, who were you the most in love with?” And it was Ms. Barbra Streisand. That was his answer, so. And a little Barbra Streisand story, because you did, when we went to her home once, see the dress she wore in this. She has a… famously has a sort of mall underneath her guesthouse. And there’s this beautiful room with this glass window, and in the window is the dress, the famous black-and-white dress from Funny Girl. Suddenly I was like… I was back in North Little Rock, Arkansas, watching that movie with my friend Kevin McConnell. -So that was cool, yeah. -Pretty cool.”
