Hamlisch, Marvin

Hamlisch wrote the score for Save the Tiger in 1972, but really hit the big time in 1974, when he collected two Oscars for his work in the film The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand, and a third for his adaptation of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for The Sting. The title tune of The Way We Were, co-written with Marilyn and Alan Bergman , provided hits for Streisand and Gladys Knight and The Pips . Hamlisch's own rendition of Joplin's...