Hardscrabble doesn't begin to describe the childhood award-winning actress Rita Moreno (neé Rosita Alverio) experienced growing up in the Bronx. Her ...
NEW YORK -- Nickelodeon is reuniting four members of the classic mob drama "The Sopranos" for a kids TV movie.
The new film, "Nicky Deuce," stars Mic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Harry Pachon, an acclaimed activist-scholar who focused on the political and educational aspects of the country's growing Latino community, died of lu...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.