You have probably heard by now that composer and EGOT — that’s a winner of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards — Marvin Hamlisch has passed away at the age of 68 following a “sudden, brief illness.” He worked for stage and screen, composing scores for movies including The Spy Who Loved Me and Sophie’s Choice, and songs for shows like A Chorus Line and The Goodbye Girl. Most recently, he worked on the score for the Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra. But for many people, he made a huge impression with The Way We Were, which starred Barbra “Katie” Streisand and Robert “Hubble” Redford and was about “an outspoken Jewish girl with a big nose who goes to Hollywood with her beautiful blond husband and gets disgusted.” At least that’s how Gilda Radner told it when she performed “The Way We Were” in her show, Gilda Live. And I think it’s a sweet way to remember a man who wrote songs that could bring a deeply romantic geek to tears. (via YouTube)