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Letras de Canciones. Novedades Musicales. TOP Artistas. Once more, the clan of the Montagues are at odds with the Capulets. This time, Riff's gang of rebellious second-generation New Yorkers, the Jets, and Bernardo's brass gang of Puerto Rican immigrants, the Sharks, fight over the control of the neighbourhood. Under those volatile circumstances, a climactic rumble is unavoidable; however, not before Tony, a former Jet, and Maria, Bernardo's little sister, fall head over heels in love with each other.
Now, there's no turning back--and in a classic Shakespearean fashion--there can be no easy way out. Just this once, can there be a happy ending? The two feuding families are replaced by brawling street gangs. At a dance, Tony, former leader of the Jets and Riff's best friend, and Maria, Bernardo's little sister, see each other across the room and it's love at first sight. With opposition from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper. However, the gangs are plotting one last rumble, a fight that will finally end the battle for control of the streets.
Will Tony and Maria's love carry through a battle that threatens to destroy the people they love around them? Sign In. Edit West Side Story Jump to: Summaries 6 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». To the Negro kids, to the Puerto Rican kids, to the Chinese kids, to every nationality, listen to this. I mean, I'll talk to her from time to time and she is as knowledgeable on current issues that I may be debating as someone on my staff.
I was constantly rehearsing because I felt that I wasn't up to the talents of the young dancers. There are all these power dynamics between men and women in that culture at that time. Everything is great in the United States and everything is terrible in Puerto Rico, that dichotomy -- I think there's a lot of Puerto Ricans that don't share that view and feel that that is a denigrating picture of Puerto Rico. She takes that role that's limited to begin with, and in -- in overcoming the limitation of the role and demonstrating the power of a Puerto Rican woman's performance, she challenges the stereotype.
Bernardo's pig, and -- and -- and all kinds of -- all kinds of terrible, terrible names, and I just -- suddenly I left the scene.
And all of the wounds that I thought had closed, all the scars opened all over again. But for me, the breakthrough for Rita I believe is when after her attempted suicide, she said, 'I'm going to live. I wanted to do it because I couldn't take the pain anymore of the relationship I had with Marlon Brando. And I hated myself so much, it was a very strange reason -- most people, I don't think, do this -- I wanted to get rid of myself because I didn't think I deserved to live.
When I got home from the hospital and I survived the attempt, I went back into therapy, and stayed in therapy for about another month and then I said, I think it's time for me to go, I think I've done what I had to do.
And it takes me back to being a little girl again and being maligned, but I can't seem to get rid of that -- that hurt. The insanity That opened an old scar of when he would take advantage of me, when he had other women.
Knowing that those were very personal tears and having nothing to do with the scene. I think it gave me closure, really, because I at least was able to get even with him in my very childish way. The stars arriving and the general feeling of excitement that is here on this biggest of all nights for the motion picture industry.
Rita Moreno in 'West Side Story'! Latinos were sticking their heads out the windows screaming, 'She did it! She did it! And it was so hard not to just run up there and grab it out of the arms of Rock Hudson, who was the fellow who gave it to me. I was offered some things, but they were all these Latina characters in gang movies.
So I just said, no, you know, I tucked my little gold man under my arm, I said, Unh-uh, I'm not going to do that stuff anymore with the accents. After London, I got my very first leading lady part on Broadway and I was so excited. So he goes to the theater all dressed up on New Year's Eve and people are starting to trickle out.
How could I be stood up by this guy?! So he runs back into the theater, he runs backstage and he knocks on her dressing room door and he opens it and he says, 'Are you Rita Moreno?
My father made my mother laugh so much, which I think is such a great basis for a relationship. We would do things like go out to dinner together and we would play that game where you see sort of an odd couple and we would all make up stories about how they were together and why they were there and what were they hiding.
How is she? Have you gotten used to not being with her? We've kind of established that, like, we're not going anywhere for each other any time soon. Did you see the first episode? I wonder if you have any idea what a major figure you are in my life, in my childhood. I mean, first of all, 'West Side Story,' the album was one of, like, only six albums we had in our house, and we'd just play it over and over and over again. And Gladys giggled, 'Let me glow!
We got green salad, sardine salad, tangerine salad, magazine salad, jelly beans salad, blue jean salad, and the special today, gasoline salad. I always loved to visit. Her career did not take off after 'West Side Story,' rising with bigger and better parts.
I mean People are like, 'I gotta --' You know, it's like, we just were working, we didn't know we could get an EGOT, you know. So we did the work and people saw it and said, 'We -- we like what you did,' you know, 'We like what you did. So I'm thinking, maybe with all this publicity, something might come up, and, uh, a couple of years later, I'm playing a nun working in a prison on 'Oz.
The reason that I wanted Rita to do it was because she just brings such authority and such honesty to whatever she's playing, and I thought it would be great amongst all these rough and tumble prisoners to have this strong and powerful woman telling them that they can have sex. I mean, she certainly was great in it, but she's convinced that she -- that somehow 'Oz' brought her back. And then I looked at that T-shirt and I thought, I love what it says and it is so who I am, so it's the first time I will not be wearing a gown to one of these fancy things.
I've also been on the road with her as her backup singer and dancer, traveling like gypsies. My mother had a road manager, and at that time we were doing big shows like in Vegas and Atlantic City, and this road manager one day got sick on the road and couldn't do the lights. You know, every so often they would get really irritated with each other, like most married people, but for the most part, they were a pretty amazing couple.
Did you end up more Jewish, or did he end up more Puerto Rican? He was a wonderful, loving person, but boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, did we have problems. And of course, that's why I married him -- until the day when I wanted to grow up in our relationship, and it wasn't working.
And look what happened, grandsons whom I just adore, so, no, not I don't regret that, but I regret that I stayed way past the time I should have. So when he passed away and she got, again, self-awareness, what she's processing, she's going back into therapy.
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