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26 Austin American-Statesman Sunday, April 10, 1988 'Big Mama' jf I "Stand up and cheer for a movie with heart It's the 'ROCKY' of the classroom." -Pai Collins, WWOR-TV Pearl Bailey adds wisdom to owl role EDWARD JAMES OLMOS LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS StandandDeliver A true story about a modem miracle. nimiiii rfnii inta rr OHM 1. Mt Tbe I PNESIDIO THEATRES I GENERAL CINEMA I GENERAL CWtUA BARTON CREEK HIGHLAND HAIL 337-8361 I 451-7326 1 1 OOOO teiencn 346-693) osaasQ we 6 "A wonderful, terrific film I loved it!" Biloxi Blues' is 'Biloxi Blues' is fATT-tgWBOEHERtCK 1, if funny and warm. Like Goldie Hawn in 'Private brimming with laughter, truth and nostalgia and sparked by top-notch performances!" Benjamin -MHamsiHeiRea). AIThiUOVlES By Mary Chandler Scripps Howard News Service Pearl Bailey performing alone in a sound booth? It's hard to imagine.

The woman who practices her own brand of shuttle diplomacy, who crusades for love without making it corny Bailey seems to cry out for an audience. But this was Disney calling, and the singer said yes to giving voice to Big Mama, the combination mother figure and Greek chorus in the animated feature The Fox and the Hound. "It was overwhelming," Bailey said of her association with Disney. "I figured if I never got another movie job, that's all right. I think they're class.

"They asked me if I wanted to do a Disney picture and I said, 'Hot They explained that it was animated. I never saw anybody," she said of the other actors involved (including Mickey Rooney, Sandy Duncan, Jack Albertson and Jeanette Nolan). "They explained the story and I did it." Although Bailey claims she didn't bring much of her personality to the part of Big Mama "I think the owl brought herself to me" she admits that when you see Big Mama dispensing advice or setting things in motion in the film, you see Pearl Bailey, too. "I'm not a bird person. I love all animals, but I don't go up and start stroking the birds.

Especially not owls. But I've been a reader since I was three years old, and the owl has always been wisdom. If I could imagine myself as a bird, I'd imagine myself as an owl. "Just think of Dolly Levi," Bailey said of the matchmaker in Hello, Dolly, a part for which Bailey won a special Tony award in 1968. "She was nothing but an owl.

She puts things together. She gathers up everybody. You look at that owl, it's like she just gathers everybody up in her arms. She pulls all the stuff together." After five books and hundreds of movie, television and stage projects, Bailey is not slowing down. She just turned 70, and she's planning a trip to the Persian Gulf.

"I lectured at the Pentagon Feb. 10. All the top brass, everybody, was there," she said, laughing. "I told (Defense Secretary) Frank Carlucci I feel I should talk to the boys in the Gulf like I was their mother. They could be my sons.

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