But he's gone now and the Soviet Union has become our cold war enemy. That was in fact one of FDR's main contributions to our body politic, winning over budding revolutionaries like Streisand to support our democratic, (big and small "D") way of life. Streisand's not quite the Communist she once was, a picture of FDR is now in her room. Their love gets really tested in the post World War II period during the Red Scare. Politics seem to take a back seat to romance and Streisand lives out a real life fairy tale as a Brooklyn Jewish Cinderella. But when the USA does get into World War II and Redford is in the Navy and Streisand now working for the Office of War Information now meet. All, but Redford who's impressed by her convictions even if he doesn't share them. We see her talking about the cause of Republican Spain and the budding young Ivy League Republicans on the campus are hooting her down. When we see her she's got a picture of Lenin in her dormitory room. ![]() She's a member of the young Communists and is one eloquent campus radical for her cause. One of those girls who thinks Redford is Prince Charming is Barbra Streisand as Katie Marofsky. ![]() An elegant WASP Ivy League future is in store for him if he wants it. Redford as Gardiner is your all American athlete and the Prince Charming of many a young girl's dreams. Meet Hubbell Gardiner and Katie Marofsky from the Thirties at Columbia University. That's a piece of wisdom that Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford should have remembered for their characters in The Way We Were. I recall a line from The Alamo in which John Wayne says to Linda Cristal that political differences don't make for good breakfast talk between a man and a woman.
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