Fifty years ago this week, critics were seeing a film about which they’d rave: West Side Story. The next week, audiences would begin to embrace it, and the following April, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would give it 10 Oscars. To this day, in all of Hollywood history, only three films – Ben-Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – can lay claim to more. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM on October 14, 2011