Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
My West Side Story
My West Side Story: A Memoir | George Chakiris
2 posts | 2 read
Natalie Wood and “lovely” Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and “passionate” Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. “I know exactly where my gratitude belongs,” Chakiris writes, “and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the time, the joyful path of my life was paved one night in 1949 when Jerome Robbins sat Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents down in his apartment and announced, ‘I have an idea.’"
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
travelingwoman333
post image
Pickpick

The autobiography of the actor George Chakiris, who portrayed Bernardo in the original film version of the movie West Side Story (1961).

review
Melismatic
post image
Mehso-so

I love West Side Story so the insight there was so fun....but the bulk of this memoir is about what came after in his career (and a seeming personal vendetta against his former agent) so....meh.