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could be making a long-awaited return to the stage this year - and insiders say it’s all in honor of her late friend .
The legendary singer, 83, is reportedly in talks to perform during the In Memoriam segment of the ceremony, though details are still being hammered out, per Deadline.
Sources said it hasn’t been decided whether Streisand will take the stage solo or share the spotlight with other artists.
Fans will remember in the 1973 romantic classic The Way We Were, directed by Pollack.
The film’s iconic title track, penned by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch and famously sung by Streisand, topped the Billboard charts in 1974 and scooped both the Oscar and for Song of the Year.
It’s been more than a decade since Streisand last graced the Oscars stage - she performed that very same song in 2013 to honor the late composer Hamlisch as part of the In Memoriam segment.
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Barbra Streisand could be making a long-awaited return to the Oscars stage this year - and insiders say it’s all in honor of her late friend Robert Redford; (pictured 2015)
The legendary singer, 83, is reportedly in talks to perform during the In Memoriam segment of the ceremony, though details are still being hammered out; (pictured 2002)
Redford, who won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People and also received an honorary Academy Award, sadly passed away last September at the age of 89.
At the time, Streisand remembered him in an Instagram post.
Redford, who won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People and also received an honorary Academy Award, sadly passed away last September at the age of 89; (pictured 1973 in The Way We Were)
'Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting - and one of the finest actors ever,' Streisand wrote in her tribute to Redford after his death; (pictured 1973)
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It’s been more than a decade since Streisand last graced the Oscars stage - she performed that very same song in 2013 to honor the late composer Hamlisch as part of the In Memoriam segment
Even after the cameras stopped rolling, their connection endured.
