Jane Fonda Shadows Barbra Streisand
Entertainment Tonight asked the two-time Oscar winner about the “In Memoriam” portion of the Academy Awards, and she noted that “we lost a lot of talented people.”
But something was clearly on her mind when she interrupted Denny Directo’s next question to make a light but pointed observation about Streisand’s tribute to “The Way We Were” co-star Robert Redford.
“I want to know why Streisand was there doing that for Redford,” Fonda said. “She only made one movie with him. I made four. I have more to say.”
Directo invited her to “say it now.”
“I was always in love with him,” Fonda responded. “The most wonderful human being with great values. And he did a lot for cinema. He really changed cinema, he promoted independent cinema.”
Streisand praised filmmaker and actor Redford, who died in September at age 89, as “thoughtful and bold.”
“I called him an intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail…I miss him now more than ever,” she said.
Then he sang part of “The Way We Were.”
Fonda starred alongside Redford in “The Chase” (1966), “Barefoot in the Park” (1967), “The Electric Horseman” (1979) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017). They also appeared in 1960’s “Tall Story,” in which she had a starring role and Redford played an uncredited role as a basketball player.
But she’s not a singing legend like Streisand with a classic song that seems almost tailor-made for moments like the Oscar tribute to the deceased.
Streisand also sang “The Way We Were” in 2013 to honor the passing of composer Marvin Hamlisch.
He also did justice to his friend Redford.
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