Guest Shot: Adrian Lyne

January, 2000

With Tim Robbins' latest feature, The Cradle Will Rock, spurring interest in America's communist witchhunts, news that Columbia TriStar was releasing The Way We Were (1973) on DVD ($28) set off a few alarms. Director Sydney Pollack famously excised chunks of a subplot dealing with Hollywood blacklisting from the weepy period piece, against the protests of Barbra Streisand, the film's female lead. In a new 70 minute making-of documentary that appears on this 25th anniversary DVD, La Streisand bri...