“Dori Berinstein’s only regret about ‘Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love’ is that she couldn’t make it any longer,” writes Carson Griffith in Tuesday’s (12/10) Wall Street Journal. “ ‘It really should have been a miniseries,’ the filmmaker explained at the Paley Center for Media on Monday, where the new American Masters documentary about the artist’s life was screening. Ms. Berinstein, who was working with Mr. Hamlisch on a project when he died in 2012, said there was no shortage of volunteers for the candid interviews that are included in the documentary (Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Christopher Walken and Ann-Margret, among others).” The documentary will have its premiere nationally Friday, Dec. 27 on PBS. “Terre Blair Hamlisch … recalled fond memories of her late husband…. ‘I think that I didn’t even know it, he never told me, what he did for all these people, until after he died. We received hundreds and thousands of letters from people he helped along the way,’ she recounted.” At the time of his death, Hamlisch was principal pops conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Seattle Symphony.
Posted December 11, 2013
