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Marvin Hamlisch: The Way He Was

October 18, 2024October 12, 2024Bill Thompson

The Sting. The Way We Were. A Chorus Line.

Composer Marvin Hamlisch was well-known for all of those, and much more.

Hamlisch is one of only a handful of entertainers to have ever won the “EGOT” — an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. And he’s one of only two people to have won all four of those, plus a Pulitzer Prize.

I met him in 1992, when he wrote a memoir of his decades in show business, starting with his early years at Juilliard. He called it The Way I Was.

So here now, from 1992, Marvin Hamlisch.

Marvin Hamlisch died in 2012, at age 68.

Marvin Hamlisch

October 19, 2020October 18, 2020Bill Thompson

What comes to mind when I say the name Marvin Hamlisch?

You may think of The Sting. Or Tthe Way We Were. Or A Chorus Line. Certainly Hamlisch is known for all of that, but much more.

I met him some 28 years ago, when he wrote A memoir of his decades in show business, starting with his early years at Juilliard.

So here now, from 1992, Marvin Hamlisch.

Marvin Hamlisch is one of only 16 people to have ever won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. And he is one of only two people to have won all four of those, plus a Pulitzer Prize.

Marvin Hamlisch died in 2012, at age 68.