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The latest rumble between the Jets and the Sharks has come to a close as director Steven Spielberg wrapped production on his iteration of West Side Story. The official Amblin Twitter account posted pics from the set as well as a letter of gratitude from the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who notes that the production…

Norman Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda have partnered on a new doc exploring the life of West Side Story and One Day At A Time star Rita Moreno. The pair are working up Rita Moreno: The Girl Who Decided to Go For It (w/t) for PBS and its Thirteen strand. The film, which will premiere in 2020, will explore the Puerto Rican…

It’s a very good day for One Day At A Time cast and creatives who learned that the Norman Lear comedy, cancelled earlier this year by Netflix, has been picked up for a fourth season by Pop. CBS Corporation and Sony Pictures TV reached a deal to give the critically praised multi-camera family comedy a 13-episode fourth…

EGOT winner Rita Moreno is set to receive the Peabody Career Achievement Award as part of this year’s Peabody Awards. The honor will be bestowed May 18 at a gala event at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The Peabody Career Achievement Award is for individuals whose work and commitment to electronic media has…

As fans of Netflix’s One Day at a Time digest its cancellation today, Deadline takes a look back the update of Norman Lear’s classic 1975-84 sitcom. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. The series followed three generations of a Cuban-American family sometimes-reluctantly cohabitating and navigating the ups…

The Actors Fund has named playwright Harvey Fierstein, actress Rita Moreno, Broadway producer John Gore and IATSE president Matthew D. Loeb as its 2019 Medal of Honor recipients. The awards will be handed out at the Fund’s annual gala on Monday, April 29. "Harvey, John, Matthew and Rita are legends in our community,"…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the role of Anita in 1961’s West Side Story, EGOT winner Rita Moreno will return to the next big-screen adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim lyric musical that Oscar winner Steven Spielberg is directing. In addition, Moreno will also…

NATPE’s annual half-dozen recipients of the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards in 2019 will include actors Betty White, Rita Moreno and Henry Winkler as well as industry notables Byron Allen, Bob Greenblatt and Mara Brock Akil. The 16th annual Tartikoffs will be handed out at NATPE’s conference in Miami in January. They…

UPDATE, MONDAY 9 PM after 4:26 PM post: There was buzz today that Rita Moreno was joining Jon M. Chu’s feature take of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical In the Heights. What actually occurred, we hear, is that the production expressed interest in the West Side Story Oscar winner for the role of Abuela Claudia…

For a third consecutive year, FX reigned as top winner at Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards feting programming and performances in the 2017-2018 TV season. Three of FX’s four awards went to Cold War thriller The Americans, including Program Of The Year, Best Drama, and a Drama Series Individual Achievement…

Living legend Rita Moreno is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd Annual Gracie Awards. The ceremony will take place on May 22 at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles with host, Emmy-winning producer and broadcaster Lisa Joyner. West Side Story icon Moreno is one of only 12…

It was a very good year for women, for fish and for non-pros next door in a multiplex theater. Not such a good year for high-speed water conveyances, set design and big-box shop shipping containers. Here are some of the high/medium/low moments of Oscars90. JIMMY KIMMEL ACCURATELY FORECASTS THE SHAPE OF WATER HAD TO…