No matter how hard they tried, it just wasn’t cold enough to see your breath.
If Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story revives audience passions for Hollywood hoofers, it won’t be the first time for the title. When Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ adaptation emerged in 1961, Hollywood film musicals had lost momentum. An all-shook-up riff on Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, West Side Story arrived ready to rumble, its fresh-sculpted quiffs poised to take on the challenges of TV and a rising rock’n’roll youth culture.