The Way I Was

Description for THE WAY I WAS by Marvin Hamlisch with Gerald Gardner: One of the most gifted popular composers of our time, Marvin Hamlisch has written an unforgettable book---outrageously funny, witty, brutally frank, and moving---about the remarkable career that brought him three Academy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and international fame by the age of thirty-one. It also left him alone, with nowhere to go but down. The son of Viennese Immigrants, he was sent to New York City's Julliard School of Music when he was only six, but the place made him a nervous wreck, and he unfailingly threw up before every final exam. He helped a young Liza Minnelli make her first record---as a Christmas present for her mother, Judy Garland. He next made his way downtown to Broadway, where he was a rehearsal pianist (and fetched Chocolate-covered doughnuts) for Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. He then hopped a train to Hollywood. ("After all, if God had wanted us to fly, he wouldn't have given u