Word: rita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow, old-line Cuban Communist Blas Roca "resolutely supported" Khrushchev's blast at Albania, grinned while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...
...Wise's driving direction, its set pieces are socko and incessant. Natalie Wood has the right dark glow as the Latin heroine; Richard Beymer is winsome as the hero, and as a tan teen Tybalt and a nubile Nurse of anything but the usual Shakespearance, George Chakiris and Rita Moreno are strikingly slummy. On-screen as onstage, Stephen Sondheim's lyrics sting like a tongueful of tamales. Leonard Bernstein's music, as usual spinelessly eclectic, fails (as the whole film fails) to merge the moods of sweetness and blight; but it is often swell strutty stuff...
Miss Wood as Maria, Richard Beymer as Tony, and Tamblyn as Riff are all surprisingly good. But the star of the movie is Rita Moreno, as Anita. Her performance in the duet "I Have a Love" with Maria is all by itself worth the rather steep price of admission...
...veteran of four previous husbands in 22 years, Love Goddess Rita Hayworth, 42, tearlessly shed the latest incumbent, Writer-Producer James Hill, because he was disparaging ("He said I was not a nice woman in too loud a voice") and aloof ("He would come home and go straight to his room...
...What Rita Hayworth was to the American G.I., a lissome lass named Jane was to the British Tommy-and more. Jane was the comely blonde heroine of a comic strip in Britain's giant Daily Mirror (circ. 4,593,263). She somehow managed to lose her clothing at least once a week, and she was so popular that the morale of the R.A.F. was said to rise and fall with her skirts. Minor victories from the Mediterranean to Malaya were attributed to the fact that Jane was unblushingly bare on a particular morning. After the war Jane continued...