Streisand, Minnelli, Franklin sing for Marvin Hamlisch
September 19, 2012|Reuters  By Christine Kearney  NEW YORK, Sept
18 (Reuters) - Three of America's leading stage performers -
Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and Aretha Franklin - paid
tribute to Marvin Hamlisch on Tuesday, honoring the late
composer for his contributions to Broadway and movies, as well
as their personal lives.  The invitation-only tribute for the
composer of numerous hit records, movies and musicals such as "A
Chorus Line" was held at the New York's Juilliard School for the
Arts where Hamlisch studied as a boy after three years earlier
displaying at the age of 4 a gift for mimicking music.  Hamlisch
died after a brief illness in Los Angeles on Aug. 6 at the age
of 68, causing an outpouring of grief from well-known
entertainers and fans and prompting Streisand, Hamlisch's friend
for the past 45 years, to organize the tribute.  Streisand
performed "The Way We Were - one of Hamlisch's best known songs
and one of Streisand's biggest hits -