Rita Moreno’s Hollywood life, from suicide attempt to superstardom
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nypost.comgot their first glimpse of Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake during this year’s Oscars, they heard a familiar voice singing the famous song “Somewhere” in the trailer: Rita Moreno.
The original Anita from 1961’s “West Side Story,” Moreno has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. The EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner executive-produces and appears in Spielberg’s film, out in December; she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime artistic achievement in 2015 and a new documentary about her life, “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl who Decided to Go for It,” hits theaters Friday after screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.“It goes up and down,” Moreno, 89, says in the doc of her eight decades in showbiz.
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