Multi-award winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman has died
You might know some of her songs, like The Way We We're, The Windmills of Your Mind, That Face, You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? and many others.
From CNN...
Along with her husband and collaborator Alan, Bergman was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of her career and won three, including for the song "The Way We Were" from the 1973 film that shared its name and starred Barbra Streisand. The song -- with music by composer Marvin Hamlisch -- also won two Grammys. ...
The Bergmans won two other Oscars for their song "Windmills of Your Mind" in 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair" and for the score of 1983's "Yentl," which was also directed by and starred Streisand. The couple also won four Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards, among others....
Bergman became the first woman elected to ASCAP's Board of Directors in 1985, per ASCAP, and went on to be elected President and Chairman of the Board in 1994. In 1980, Bergman and her husband were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
