"Circa 1973, Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand united in Sydney Pollack’s The Way We Were, filmed in New York’s Central Park, Columbia University, and Los Angeles soundstages. Redford, acclaimed for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), hesitated to accept the role of Hubbell Gardner, considering him underwritten until screenwriter Arthur Laurents revised the part. Streisand, fresh from Funny Girl (1968), was deeply invested, often staying late at Warner Bros. rehearsing. Tension arose ov