This is the love theme to the film Prince of Tides, the best movie Babs ever directed and one of the best she starred in (about Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) the brother of a bipolar poet trying to piece her life together after a serious suicide attempt, he comes to New York hating the city but falls in love with his sister's psychiatrist, played by Streisand). The theme tune is played over and over in the film, but this sung version is never heard. Barbra felt that putting her voice all over it would be too intrusive...
It's a very sad story about lovers who cannot stay together. (Though having seen the film at least three times, I fail to understand why...)
OK I just read the Wikipedia digest of the plot and found out Tom Wingo was MARRIED. No bloody wonder. You see ~ unless something is double-underlined in red someone like me is sure to miss it...
Here's the song:
That movie was filmed near where I live. And Pat Conroy lives in this area as well.
ReplyDeleteWhere abouts would that be...?
ReplyDeleteI tried reading the book but it was nowhere near as rivetting as the film. No Barbra Streisand for one thing. Ya know. And (good) books are usually SO MUCH BETTER than the films...
o I just googled it: South Carolina ~~~~~~~ isn't that area notorious for hurricanes??