Episode 48

It’s our West Side Story episode!!!

A narrative on America then and now!

Join us as we review everything West Side Story, from the music,

to the actors, locations and differences between the 1961 movie and the 2021 remake.

Thanks for joining us!

Steven Spielberg directs the 2021 West Side Story

His movies always have aliens in them but not this one

Dolly loves Leonard Bernstein and his music

Rita Moreno (Anita in the 1961 movie is in the Spielberg production)

It’s set in the early 1950s

We give an overview of the story

The 2021 cast members who are also broadway singers

Dolly like guys that look like Officer Krupke (aka Chicago style gangsters)

Erik’s favorite line in the original movie “What are we doing pooping around here with dumb broads?”

Life Lesson: Sometimes it takes a great tragedy to make people realize things need to change

The story of Natalie Wood (the original “Maria”)

Hollywood used to use white actors/actresses for ethnic roles

Ansel Elgort was sick when he auditioned for Steven Spielberg

Auto Tune is a standard these days in all productions

ADR audio was the old Hollywood way

Erik hates cameras that have “Rolling Shutter”

Ariana Debose (Anita 2021) is our hero!!!

True life story of love across social divides

The new movie addresses the terrible actions of the white gang (The Jets) in how they treat Anita,

when she comes to help Maria connect with Tony.

Anita calls them what they are: “Rapists”

Erik’s theater experience watching West Side Story 2021

Erik’s Covid weight loss plan

The suspected murder of Natalie Wood

Cool real life Hollywood connections: Stories from the cast members

The color schemes in the original film were the best

The “Love at first sight” scene from the movie

Russ Tamblyn: The original “Riff”

Spielberg’s night shots are his “Bread and Butter”

The Psycho remake: Shot for shot

The famous daughter of the Psycho actress

The genius of Alfred Hitchcock

The history of the Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press

West Side Story and the main actresses won at the (non-existent) Golden Globes this year

Conspiracies surrounding the Golden Globes

And much more…