No need to forget the old West Side Story, but here's another!
Sixty years after the big-screen musical first snapped, twirled and mamboed its way into theaters, a new version has arrived, the story of love almost finding a way amid a prejudice-fueled blood feud as timely as ever and the music as enduring as it gets.
The 1961 original's 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, score by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim notwithstanding, Steven Spielberg's 2021 release brings the story, if not into the 21st century, then into a more complicated 1950s New York than moviegoers were presented with the first time.
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