We are called “homo sapiens.” This means “wise humans.” To become wise, one must study, and be open to new experiences that can widen our cultural horizons as given to us in our otherwise closed world. In the movie/play, West Side Story, there are two gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. The Jets are white and the Sharks are Puerto Rican. The neighborhood used to be all Jet and then the immigrant Sharks showed up. Each group had notions about the other based upon rather narrow experiences, or just fear of being rejected by their group. Neither group had much education. Love was the only thing that could cross the divide and the crossing led to death. Love educates. It makes us grow toward the sapiens we are capable of. Study means we challenge, explore, question and then open to new experience about what we are told. A good teacher is one who does this. Now for the quiz. Who played Maria in the play and who played her in the movie. Hint: they are not the same person.
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Not fair, father. Especially for us octogenarians. “That’s easy, she played in ahhhh….and in the movie ahh… and she was married to what’s his name”. My phone says Natalie Wood.
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Carol Lawrence (married to Robert Goulet) was Maria on Broadway; and Natalie Wood (songs dubbed by Marni Nixon) was the movie Maria. Guaranteed to be from my memory---not Googled.
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