By Nicholas Stix
Based on the youtube comments, 99% of the people never saw the picture.
It was an exquisitely done, 1973 propaganda movie by director Sydney Pollack and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, idealizing Stalinists who’d supported mass murder, stealing most people’s property, and throwing millions of people into gulags.
This song won lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman their second Oscar, after “Windmills of My Mind,” which they’d co-written with their longtime collaborator, Michel Legrand, for the Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
The composer of “The Way We were,” Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012), had a year without equal. He won three Oscars, two for this picture (Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song) and one for The Sting, for Best Arrangement, for his charts of Scott Joplin’s ragtime music, “The Entertainer.”
“The Way We were” Memories, like the corners of my mind, Scattered pictures, of the smiles we left behind, Oh, can it be that it was all so simple then, Memories may be beautiful and yet, So it’s the laughter we will remember,
Lyrics by Alan (1925-) & Marilyn Bergman (1929-)
Misty, watercolor memories,
Of the way we were.
Smiles we gave to one another,
For the way we were.
Or has time rewritten every line?
And if we had the chance to do it all again,
Tell me, Would we? Could we?
What’s too painful to remember,
We simply choose to forget.
Whenever we remember,
The way we were.
The way we were.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Memories, of the Purge Trials, Gulags, and Mass Murders! Of the Way of Gore: Barbara Streisand Sings “The Way We were,” from the Eponymous Communist Propaganda Movie (Video)
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The Bergmans are still around?I wonder,at this point,if they remember the words to this great song,though I suppose it doesn't really matter.
--GRA
jerry pdx
Anatomy of a race "hate hoax": https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rush-to-judgement-an-autopsy-of-racial-power-grab-in-coronado
Excellent article by Eli Steele of FoxNews where he exposes an incident that was deemed racist by the usual suspects, but when Steele investigated he discovered much had been left out in media stories and there was wholesale misrepresentation of the entire incident. In short, it wasn't a hate crime incident at all, in fact, the tortilla's had been brought by a hispanic man named Luke Cerna who instructed players and fans to throw the tortilla's in the air if their team won, the White people in the crowd had the sense to ignore the instructions, only two overexcited members of the JV team actually threw tortilla's.
Didn't matter, even after the facts came out, most of the school board members, teachers,parents and outside agitator hate groups like the NAACP and BLM who had jumped on the hate crime bandwagon doubled down and continued to push the incident and a race incident.
Nothing unusual here at all, as usual when the facts are revealed it turns out there was no hate crime at all and the only racists are members of the supposed targeted "victims".
I know there was at least one more movie where Redford and Streisand co-starred,but truth be told,the odds of Redford being attracted to Streisand in real life,would be as far-fetched as Christie Brinkley being attracted to comic roaster Jeff Ross(Ross and Streisand could be twins,facially,)
Only in Hollywood.
--GRA
One of those films they'd show once a year or so on TV, and the whole family would watch -- like The Ten Commandants, The Wizard of Oz, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape -- among the ones I best remember.
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