“Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” finally arrives in theatres today, Friday, December 10 — one day before Rita Moreno’s 90th birthday. Over a year ago, when I interviewed the Oscar winner about two other projects (a documentary on her life I wrote about for Zoomer Everywhere and the final season of the revival series of
If you’ve seen Rita Moreno as Lydia Riera on One Day at a Time, you know the lady knows how to make an entrance. Lydia, a retired singer-dancer, likes to dramatically part the curtain that separates the kitchen from the living room in her extended family’s crowded Cuban-American house. Then she bursts through like she’s