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George Chakiris - My West Side Story: A Memoir
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Academy Award and Golden Globe winner George Chakiris discusses his autobiography: "My West Side Story: A Memoir," – available for purchase wherever books are sold!
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.'"
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