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The legendary singer, 83, performed a section of \u201cThe Way We Were<\/a>,\u201d the title track of Sydney Pollack<\/a>\u2019s 1973 romantic drama, in which she co-starred opposite Redford. The iconic duo played mismatched lovers \u2014 Streisand\u2019s fiery activist against Redford\u2019s golden boy athlete-turned-writer \u2014 whose passionate but ultimately doomed romance became one of the era\u2019s most defining love stories.<\/p>\n Written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman<\/a> and Marvin Hamlisch<\/a>, the song became Billboard<\/a>\u2019s No. 1 in its day, winning an Oscar and song of the year at the Grammys in 1974.<\/p>\n From the stage, Streisand noted that Redford originally turned down the part in the film, because he felt his character \u201chad no backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow, Bob had real backbone on and off the screen,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barbra Streisand brought a poignant moment to the 2026 Oscars on Sunday night, taking the stage during the In Memoriam section to deliver an emotional tribute to her late friend and collaborator, Robert Redford. The legendary singer, 83, performed a section of \u201cThe Way We Were,\u201d the title track of Sydney Pollack\u2019s 1973 romantic drama, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2330749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Barbra-Streisand-Honors-Robert-Redford-With-Moving-Performance-of-The.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330751,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330749\/revisions\/2330751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}