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Modern Rebel looks back at subversive roots
These days, we call them "youth at risk." Back in the 1950s, troubled teens were known as juvenile delinquents, and they threatened to destroy the bedrock of American society.
Douglas Trumbull: a 2001a and beyond
Special effects wizard and film director Douglas Trumbull once changed the way we look at science fiction movies -- and yet he walked away from film 25 years ago after a career of frustration.
Incredible Inman: Young Natalie Wood
Dear Mr. Inman: I chose Natalie as the name I wanted my daughter to have when I was pregnant with her.
Biography - Stripping Gypsy: The life of ...
Natalie Wood played Lee in the 1962 movie 'Gypsy' Gypsy Rose Lee Welcome to an almost surreally incongruous world.
One of the best Westerns ever made, highlighted by the most complex and unsympathetic heroic role of John Wayne's career.
Mr. Know It All - Expanded Web column
Q: Marni Nixon is not a household name, even for regular moviegoers, but if you watch musicals, you heard her sing.
"Rebel Without a Cause" : While the film arguably catapulted stars James Dean and Natalie Wood to stardom, the film is said to be cursed after several of its young stars died in untimely and unusual deaths.
10 successful child actors who continued their success further too
Being born in the Barrymore family would automatically get you an acting career, but starting from 11 months is still commendable.
The woman who made it good to be bad
The long, fabulous life of Helen Gurley Brown has stretched between the heydays of two iconic blondes: Lorelei Lee and Carrie Bradshaw, the shoe-worshiping sex columnist and everygirl heroine of "Sex and the City." Jennifer Scanlon, a professor of gender and women's studies at Bowdoin College and the author of the first full-length biography of ...
Performing pedigree informs Thomas', Wagner's roles in Laurents' latest
Two experienced actresses whose parents were performers, may have some special insight into their roles in Arthur Laurents' new play, 'New Year's Eve.' Marlo Thomas and Natasha Gregson Wagner - one the child of Danny Thomas, the other of Natalie Wood - play mother and daughter, both actresses, in the play that will have its world premiere this ...
Yonkers composer's Holocaust work to be performed at Manhattan College
NEW YORK - A Yonkers composer whose music has been performed worldwide will have selections of his work on the Holocaust played Monday at Manhattan College.
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Tragic Romance: Sofia Escobar, as Maria, in a scene from West Side Story.
WHEN Sofia Escobar was a little girl growing up in Portugal she used to recreate scenes from West Side Story with her dolls in her bedroom.
One of the great cultural disappointments of my life came at the age of 23, when I watched the Academy Award-winning film version of the Broadway musical West Side Story for the first time as an adult.
Video artist shows an alternate history of Canada
Be the first to comment on this article... Peter Goddard SPECIAL TO THE STAR The 22nd annual Images Festival doesn't officially kick off until April2, but festival-related shows are already found at galleries around town.
on Opening Night: West Side Story - Leveling the Rumble Ground
The royalty of urban gang warriors - the Caucasian Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks of West Side Story , a Shakespeare-rattle-and-roll retelling of Romeo and Juliet - found their way into the Palace on March 19 for their fifth Broadway rumble.
Arthur Laurents: Happy 'New Year's'
Broadway legend Arthur Laurents sure is keeping busy, which is nothing new. The same week 'West Side Story,' which he is directing, opened on Broadway, New Brunswick's George Street Playhouse announced the casting for the world premiere of Laurents' latest play 'New Year's Eve.' 'West Side Story' opened Thursday and in this first Broadway revival ...
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Jennifer Lopez tells Vanity Fair she watched the 1961 "West Side Story" movie starring Natalie Wood "37 times" as a girl growing up in the Bronx, reports People online.
TMP stages fabulous 'Footloose' musical
The Tacoma Musical Playhouse production of "Footloose" is a rousing musical filled with upbeat music and high-energy dancing.
Latino liberation: Sharks sing in the language of their streets as...
Latino liberation: Sharks sing in the language of their streets as West Side Story goes bilingual on Broadway More than half a century after the story of Romeo and Juliet was teleported from the cobbled streets of Verona into the dark steaming alleyways of postwar Manhattan, West Side Story returned to Broadway last night in a revival that at last ...
IF you ever wondered what happened to Richard Beymer , Natalie Wood's co-star in the movie version of "West Side Story," you can check out his autobiog raphy - titled, aptly enough, "Whatever Happened to ...