Marvin Hamlisch dies at age 68

Marvin Hamlisch, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including "The Sting" and the Broadway smash "A Chorus Line," has died in Los Angeles. He was 68.

...Hamlisch composed more than 40 film scores, including "Sophie's Choice," ''Ordinary People," ''The Way We Were" and "Take the Money and Run." He won his third Oscar for his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for "The Sting." His latest work came for Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant!"


On Broadway, Hamlisch received both a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for the long-running favourite "A Chorus Line" and wrote the music for "The Goodbye Girl" and "Sweet Smell of Success." He was scheduled to fly to Nashville, Tenn., this week to see a production of his musical "The Nutty Professor," according to his publicist.

It has been almost 40 years since The Sting was released. People now forget that Hamlisch`s orchestrations of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting caused a resurgence of interest in ragtime, a musical genre that lad been largely ignored for the previous four decades.