Marilyn Bergman, award-winning lyricist for Barbra Streisand and others, dies at 93
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Jan 08, 2022
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Marilyn Bergman, the prolific lyricist who as half of a songwriting duo with her husband, Alan, wrote the words for dozens of widely interpreted songs including “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” and the Oscar-winning theme from 1973’s “The Way We Were,” died Saturday. She was 93.
Her death, at her home in Beverly Hills, was confirmed by her spokesman, Ken Sunshine, who said the cause was non-COVID-related respiratory failure.
A member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Bergman wrote about romance — its first flush and its last gasp — with a flair for striking visual imagery and an almost
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