The legendary singer, 83, performed a section of “The Way We Were,” the title track of Sydney Pollack’s 1973 romantic drama, in which she co-starred opposite Redford. The iconic duo played mismatched lovers — Streisand’s fiery activist against Redford’s golden boy athlete-turned-writer — whose passionate but ultimately doomed romance became one of the era’s most defining love stories.
Written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, the song became Billboard’s No. 1 in its day, winning an Oscar and song of the year at the Grammys in 1974.
From the stage, Streisand noted that Redford originally turned down the part in the film, because he felt his character “had no backbone.”
“Now, Bob had real backbone on and off the screen,…
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