Hamlisch -- who entered Julliard's preparatory school at age 6 ½ -- doesn't want anyone calling him ``an old fogie. ``I don't mind listening to Britney Spears as long as you give me something else: Frank Sinatra.''
His latest project: composing music for the upcoming Matt Damon thriller, The Informant.
Hamlisch has lived a charmed professional life. In 1960, he became friendly with a high-school girl who wanted to give her mom an unusual Christmas present -- a demo record to prove she could sing. The two teens went into a studio and recorded four songs.
''I almost died right there,'' Hamlisch recalls, when young Liza Minnelli brought him home to play the demo for Judy Garland.
Four years later, Minnelli performed Hamlisch's musical arrangements during her famous London Palladium concerts with Garland.
''I've known Marvin Hamlisch since [I was] 14 years old. He was then, is now and will always be the best of the best -- and funny,'' said Minnelli in an e-mail to The Miami Herald. She's still singing a few of his arrangements on her new album, Liza's at the Palace.
In 1964, Hamlisch went to work with another young diva, as assistant vocal arranger for Barbra Streisand in Broadway's Funny Girl. The two have maintained a longtime professional relationship that earned Hamlisch a Grammy, Golden Globe and two Oscars in 1974 for The Way We Were (his third Academy Award that year was for scoring The Sting); and two 1995 Emmys for Barbra Streisand: The Concert, a videotaped record of their 1993 tour together.
Hamlisch says ''the award I'm very proud of, I just got.'' On Jan. 28, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame, his name inscribed on a plaque at New York City's Gershwin Theatre. A few blocks away, at the Shubert Theatre, Hamlisch helped create show-biz history. The original production of A Chorus Line ran there from 1975 to 1990, making it Broadway's longest-running American musical.
His latest project: composing music for the upcoming Matt Damon thriller, The Informant.
Hamlisch has lived a charmed professional life. In 1960, he became friendly with a high-school girl who wanted to give her mom an unusual Christmas present -- a demo record to prove she could sing. The two teens went into a studio and recorded four songs.
''I almost died right there,'' Hamlisch recalls, when young Liza Minnelli brought him home to play the demo for Judy Garland.
Four years later, Minnelli performed Hamlisch's musical arrangements during her famous London Palladium concerts with Garland.
''I've known Marvin Hamlisch since [I was] 14 years old. He was then, is now and will always be the best of the best -- and funny,'' said Minnelli in an e-mail to The Miami Herald. She's still singing a few of his arrangements on her new album, Liza's at the Palace.
In 1964, Hamlisch went to work with another young diva, as assistant vocal arranger for Barbra Streisand in Broadway's Funny Girl. The two have maintained a longtime professional relationship that earned Hamlisch a Grammy, Golden Globe and two Oscars in 1974 for The Way We Were (his third Academy Award that year was for scoring The Sting); and two 1995 Emmys for Barbra Streisand: The Concert, a videotaped record of their 1993 tour together.
Hamlisch says ''the award I'm very proud of, I just got.'' On Jan. 28, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame, his name inscribed on a plaque at New York City's Gershwin Theatre. A few blocks away, at the Shubert Theatre, Hamlisch helped create show-biz history. The original production of A Chorus Line ran there from 1975 to 1990, making it Broadway's longest-running American musical.
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