John Badham on WEST SIDE STORY
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When you're a Jet you're a Jet! Ten Academy Awards went to Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' enduringly popular screen version of the Romeo & Juliet-derived Broadway smash. New York City delayed the razing of several blocks in West Manhattan to provide tenement backgrounds for dance numbers. That area is now Lincoln Center. John Astin makes his film debut as Glad Hand the social worker.
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