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Sarasota News Leader HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! June 7, 2013 Page 75 Then, and to my complete surprise, there came an email from 21st Century Fox. Normally, I avoid foxes (as well as Bobcats, Great Horned Owls, Unidentified Flying Hawks, Snakes, Blue Jays, Monarch Butterflies, Cuban Tree Frogs — imagine a phobic Adrian Monk sprouting Owl feathers!), but curiosity got the better of me. I opened the email. Many of you may remember that my earlier identification in these pages of a mystery bird as a roc, that fabled, terrifying bird of the Tales of the Arabian Nights, met with some skepticism, if not outright derision, by both journals of the National Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology, birding's highest authorities in the country. After I submitted A famous producer, whom I cannot name until my manuscript, the editors actually suggested our contract is roc solid, asked to "option" my I had "rocs in my head." Imagine my chagrin! roc article as a soon-to-be-made TV sitcom on which I would be the principal scriptwriter. My spirits having hit roc bottom, I determined Well, all my feathers fluffed up to the point to resign from the column, mothball my iPad where I could be mistaken for the fabulous (after feasting on as many moths as I could fuzzy phoenix, or even a roc! Anyway, we stuff into my craw), abandon the study of agreed to "take a meeting" (that's Hollywood cryptozoology and devote myself to noctur- parlance for "talk") and that "his girl would call my girl" to arrange details. I guess Nenal mousing.