The movieWest Side Story(1961) is an updated version ofRomeo & Julietas told through the lives of two Upper West Side street gangs in New York City: The Sharks (mostly recent Puerto Rican immigrants) and the Jets (mostly second generation European immigrants) circa 1960. This PopSpot concerns...
WEST SIDE STORY also stars Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Josh Andrés Rivera, Ana Isabelle, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, and Rita Moreno, who was featured in the 1961 film version, and who serves as an executive producer. The film’s creative team additionally includes...
Steven Spielberg’s first movie musical is a doozy: A remake ofWest Side Story, based on the 1957 Broadway show which later became the basis for the 1961 film that earned that year’s Academy Award for Best Picture. The new movie maintains the original 1950s New York setting (and was s...
Other films to feature Cipriano’s playing included The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), West Side Story (1961), Cleopatra (1963), The Wild Bunch (1969), The French Connection (1971), The Karate Kid (1984), Up (2009) and many more. Cipriano – through his own work and his tenure in the...
And finally, a much-talked about scene from the movie featured West putting her head (rather sensually) into the mouth of a lion. In reality it appears to be a camera trick: West was actually placing her head to the side of the lion’s mouth. Still, a gutsy move by West. As for ...
“Brookfield Renewables is a similar story. The company enjoys utility-like inflation escalator clauses on 77% of its revenues, but on the other side is riding the decarbonization wave with new developments that augur 10% plus growth in funds from operations per unit for years to come. The ...
Stories about Mars are getting some attention these days with “The Martian” and the upcoming film “The Space Between Us,” and now television is joining in: A series adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel “Stranger in a Strange Land “...
Rather better served by television, Midge briefly enjoyed a higher screen profile as the spirited love interest of Tony Young's post-Civil War military intelligence operative in the off-beat CBS western series Gunslinger (1961). The premise did not catch on, however, and Gunslinger was cancelled...
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(1961) took the fear of density to the opposite extreme. Within it, the Malthusian pressure of population on food requires the British government to halt the outward growth of London in order to preserve every scrap of farmland, forcing the “internal colonization of the city.” Londoners ...