As for Barbra, she looked back on her own dynamic with Robert as she celebrated his life and legacy during the Oscars’ In Memoriam segment.
“I miss him now more than ever, even how he loved teasing me,” the Funny Girl star remarked. “He’d call me, ‘Babs.’ And I’d say, ‘Bob, you know, do I look like a Babs?’ But the way he said it made me laugh.”
“Many years later, we were chatting on the phone about the usual, politics, art, [Amedeo] Modigliani—our favorite,” she continued. “And as we were hanging up, he said, ‘Babs, I love you dearly, and I always will.’”