{"id":3529,"date":"2012-08-07T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/marvin-hamlisch-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:52:26","slug":"marvin-hamlisch-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/07\/marvin-hamlisch-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Hamlisch Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/movies\/column-post\/marvin-hamlisch-oscar-winning-composer-dies-68-50971\" target=\"_blank\">from The Wrap<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Marvin Hamlisch, Composed &#8216;The Way We Were,&#8217; Dies at 68<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Official_2011_MH_.jpg\/220px-Official_2011_MH_.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"auto\" align=\"right\" \/>Composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, best known for the torch song &#8220;The Way We Were,&#8221; died Monday. He was 68 years old.<\/p>\n<p>In a career that spanned over four decades, Hamlisch won virtually every major award: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony, and three Golden Globes.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlisch composed more than forty motion picture scores, including his Oscar-winning score and song for \u201cThe Way We Were,\u201d and his adaptation of Scott Joplin\u2019s ragtime music for \u201cThe Sting,\u201d for which he received a third Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlisch&#8217;s musical scores, though intricately conceived, never drew attention to themselves. They served to compliment the on-screen action, not overwhelm it &#8212; enhancing each gesture, each glance, each moment of drama. That subtle approach allowed him to be something of a musical chameleon, easily gliding from searing dramas to off-beat comedies and making him a close collaborator to a diverse group of directors such as Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh and Alan J. Pakula.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/movies\/column-post\/marvin-hamlisch-oscar-winning-composer-dies-68-50971\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Wrap<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wrap Marvin Hamlisch, Composed &#8216;The Way We Were,&#8217; Dies at 68 Composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, best known for the torch song &#8220;The Way We Were,&#8221; died Monday. He was 68 years old. In a career that spanned over four decades, Hamlisch won virtually every major award: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}