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Gary Susman

25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Singin' in the Rain'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 05.27.2012

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In a year when the Best Picture Oscar went to a comedy about Hollywood's turbulent transition from silence to sound, "Singin' in the Rain" suddenly se...

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Laura Rowley

Rita Moreno, Hollywood Legend, On The Power Of Persevering

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Life Without Makeup, Alan Alda, West Side Story, Happily Divorced, Fran Drescher, Marlon Brando, Rita Moreno, Racism in Hollywood, Fifty News

When I met Rita Moreno in her suite at the Waldorf Towers in New York, I immediately noticed three things: She looks at least 20 years younger than he...

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PHOTOS: President Obama's Kissing Technique

AOL/The Huffington Post | Anna Brand and Andrew Tavani | Posted 02.14.2012

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Is there anyone in the nation's capital busier than President Obama? Hardly. Which makes it amazing that amid all of the demands of the nation's highe...

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Rita Moreno On Turning 80, 'Happily Divorced'

Posted 12.21.2011

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Betty White may be getting all the attention as a lovable actress still going strong in her golden years, but Rita Moreno is doing some impressive thi...

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With the Passing Of Activist Harry Pachon, A Look At Other Latino Pioneers

Posted 01.10.2012

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Harry Pachon, an acclaimed activist-scholar who focused on the political and educational aspects of the country's growing Latino community, died of lu...

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50 Years Later Rita Moreno Keeps On Dancing

AP | By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS | Posted 01.08.2012

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NEW YORK -- As Rita Moreno nears her 80th birthday, she's singing and dancing six nights a week in the biographical show "Life Without Makeup." Moren...

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Rita Moreno And John Leguizamo On Life In Hollywood

NPR.org | Posted 12.25.2011

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Rita Moreno — the only Latino performer to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — is reprising some of her most memorable characters in a so...

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The Never-Ending Search for Self

George Heymont | Posted 11.19.2011

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George Heymont

Two Bay-area theatre companies opened their seasons this month with plays about women who are either desperately trying to find themselves or looking back and acknowledging what they survived.

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Rita Moreno Stars in a World Premiere of Her Own Life Story

Erika Milvy | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Theater, West Side Story, Berkeley Rep, Musical Theater, Rita Moreno, Rita-Moreno, Latinos, Puerto Rico, Latin America, Racism, Hollywood, Jerome Robbins, Arts News
Erika Milvy

Rita Moreno is having a Betty White year. She is back on TV, back on the stage and although she might not be as ubiquitous as Betty White (she has yet to have a calender made about her) she certainly has better gams.

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Rita Moreno: On Her One Woman Show, Life, And J-Lo

Posted 10.24.2011

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Latina.com Rita Moreno has done it all. She's won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and she's already played the role of her dreams—the par...

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Lesbian and Gay Musical Ambassadors Play Carnegie Hall

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

The Big Apple Corps started out as a social organization, and continues today to offer a place where people can make friends -- and even fall in love.

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Celebrating History Can Inspire Us to Make it

Maria Shriver | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Taylor, Minerva Awards, California, Women's History Month, Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Billie Jean King, Amelia Earhart, Erin Brockovich, Sally Ride, California Museum, Alice Walker, Speaker Emeritus Karen Bass, Iron Chef Cat Cora, Lisa Ling, Rita Moreno, Women's Rights, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Maria Shriver

The engine of history is turning, but too slowly. This Women's History Month, let's help push pay inequity and other forms of gender inequality back into the past to stay.

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Beach Blanket Babylon: People Who Give A Damn

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Archer

BBB is quite possibly the most unforgettable emotional roller-coaster ride of camp and bone-tickling fun.

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A Great Lack of Latinos at the Academy Awards

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Cubias

In the eighty-one years the Academy has been handing out awards, just 14 Hispanics have been nominated for acting Oscars. The last was Adriana Barraza in 2007 for Babel.

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