Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 11:05AM
Drew Wolfe

The Way We Were

The Way We Were with Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand is not a movie that I watched when it was first released in 1973. I guess I was too busy working on my Ph. D. while teaching full time.  It is not a great movie but it does show the collision of two worlds, a Protestant hunk and Jewish activist, which was a really big deal in the times depicted in the movie (WW II, McCarthy era, and Ban the Bomb). As you can guess it was well acted and directed with top stars like Redford and Streisand. I did enjoy revisiting the times when I was growing up and US was far different from what it is today.

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