Buzzine » Marvin Hamlisch Interview

Romance and comedy were more his bag â€" slapstick yucks that made Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run and Bananas all the funnier, while his beautifully heartfelt work on The Way We Were, Sophie's Choice and Ice Castles broke out the Kleenex. ... You have piccolos, kazoos and a bass saxophone which gives you a hoedown while Mark is taking a polygraph test. So all of this stuff is really zany, but it's all part and parcel of the brain of Mark Whitacre. ...