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Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-Winning ‘The Way We Were’ Lyricist, Dead at 93
Marilyn Bergman, the songwriting giant and tunes marketplace fixture who, with her partner Alan, wrote the lyrics to Oscar-winning tracks like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Intellect,” has died at the age of 93. Bergman’s representative Ken Sunshine verified Marilyn’s dying from non-Covid-linked respiratory failure to the Hollywood Reporter Saturday. She is survived by her partner and collaborator Alan, who is 96. “It is with deep disappointment that I individually, and all of ASCAP, mourn the passing of Marilyn Bergman, one particular of the biggest lyricists who ever lived and definitely ASCAP royalty,” Paul Williams, fellow Oscar-profitable songwriter and present ASCAP president…