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I have not trusted Spielberg since CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) and I'm not about to start trusting him now. He's never been anything to me but a highly skillful but highly glorified hack.

I wasn't suggesting they leave out the dance at the gym. I was just suggesting they add a scene where they meet more casually first and then when they see each other all dressed up at the dance, that might incur greater interest and then they start dancing with each other...something like that.

I wasn't objecting to the casting. I just thought it was funny that the actress is partially the same ethnicity as the character of Tony. Thanks to your urging, though, Jake, I did look up Ms. Zegler on Google Images, the first time I've seen her, and she certainly looks more Latina than Polish...

One of the above posts says the actress hired to play Maria is Colombian and Polish, which makes her much closer ethnically to Tony (who was Polish in the original) than to any of the Sharks, all of whom would have considered her white. Hell, Natalie Wood (Russian) was probably ethnically more...

You mean like this?

Is this gonna be an update or a period piece? If it's an update, it would be foolish to have a Puerto Rican gang, since they don't exist anymore. The gang should be Dominican or El Salvadorean or Mexican. Those gangs exist, esp. Dominicans, which have been in the news since a savage, murderous...

More like a slight resemblance, but okay. Thanks.

I don't get the reference.

Inspired by this thread and the Jerome Robbins centennial last Thursday and the fact that I recently located a press kit of original WEST SIDE STORY publicity stills, I decided to build a blog entry around them and add a few anecdotes about my long history with the film...

A lot of the original movie cast members are still around and still active in show biz. I bet a lot of them would jump at the chance to make cameos in this film.

I used to see WEST SIDE STORY regularly in theaters in the 1960s and early '70s. They revived it a lot in New York before its first TV showing in 1972. Since then, I've only seen it once in theaters--at a repertory theater in 1975 on a double bill with BLACK ORPHEUS.

They cut them out. "I like to be in Vero-o-na..." Another one was "Dear Signor Krupke."

Jaime Rogers and Eddie Verso are both Puerto Rican.

"Maria & Anita are Latina" seemed to me to be a dig at the 1961 movie for casting Natalie Wood as Maria. "Must be able to sing" seemed to me to be a dig at Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer, both of whose singing was dubbed by other voices. (Rita Moreno was dubbed, too, even though she's been a...

Looks like I was wrong. It's for real: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/movies/west-side-story-steven-spielberg-tony-kushner.html?ribbon-ad-idx=11&rref=movies&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Movies&pgtype=article

Somebody posted this on DVD Talk and I swear it's a gag. Just read how some of the requirements are worded.

I think Cannon did that version in the 1980s:

They did "West Side Story" at my daughter's high school back in 2001 or so and the casting was all over the place, with whites, blacks, Latinos, Asians intermingled on each side. I think the idea was to give the biggest parts to the best people, regardless of ethnicity. It was kind of weird, to...

Actually, Jaws should be the star and all those awful characters should be shark bait. And the shark gets to sing all the songs: "Some enchanted evening, you will bite a stranger..." "There is nothing like a dame...(chomp, chomp)" "I'm gonna wash that man right out of my teeth..." :P