Today is Barbra Streisand’s 70th birthday, and TCM is celebrating by presenting six of her movies in a mini-Babsathon. The salute begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1973’s The Way We Were, starring Robert Redford, but I have a soft spot for this 1968 movie version of the Broadway musical. The story of follies comic and singer Fanny Brice, It’s one of the high school stage musicals for which I designed the lighting, back when Richard Nixon was President. All these years later, I’m still friends many of the folks who put on that show – and am collaborating, right now, with one of the members of that stage crew.