CREEMEDIA

Back in the days when casting directors automatically hired Italians and Greeks to play the roles of Latins, Hollywood brought us a stylized filmic version of what had been a stylized Broadway play—West Side Story. Choreographed as precisely as a revue by the June Taylor Dancers, in this movie two rival New York teenage street gangs called the Jets (the white guys) and the Sharks (the pseudoPuerto Ricans) inflicted instantly regretted mayhem upon one another.