How Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford’s ‘The Way We Were’ Was Inspired by a Real-Life Gay Romance (Book Excerpt)
was historic, a Jewish actress playing a proudly Jewish character. “The Way We Were”would build on that breakthrough, providing Streisand with her first dramatic role in which being Jewish was again central to the story. With “The Way We Were,” she was going back to the well of “Funny Girl,” only she was delving deeper.