Ready to rumble once again with the Sharks and Jets? Then join us in checking out this weeks lush and luminous new Blu-ray release of the classic Oscar winning film "West Side Story," a 50th Anniversary Edition via MGM Home Entertainment. Something’s coming...

Title: "West Side Story" (50th Anniversary Edition)

Grade: 5

Cast: Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Richard Beymer

Director: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 153 minutes

Release Company: MGM Home Entertainment

Website: www.mgm.com

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10 - Harrison University - "Old School"

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British pop star Leona Lewis is in talks to take on the lead role of Maria in Broadway hit West Side Story, when it returns to the New York stage for its 50th Anniversary next year.

Lewis, who is currently riding high in the U.K. pop charts with her debut single Bleeding Love, has been approached by singer/actor David Winters - who played A-Rab in the original 1961 stage and movie productions - about starring in the musical.

Winter is hopeful the singer will agree to join his upcoming Broadway Spectacular reprisal of West Side Story, scheduled to open towards the end of 2008.

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Oscar-winning Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson was so disappointed with her performance of Somewhere from West Side Story at the Movies Rock event in Hollywood on Sunday she insisted on re-taping the song after the show.

Although she sang to a virtually empty Kodak Theater after most of the audience had left, Hudson's reworked performance is the one that will appear when the show airs on Friday.

Online blogger Marc Malkin reveals, "She insisted on a redo because of a piano glitch. Producers obliged, but it occurred after the theater was cleared and most were on their way to the aft...

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Among the highlights was a moving rendition of West Side Story love theme Somewhere from opera quartet Il Divo, who performed as images of children blowing out candles were beamed onto a huge screen behind them.

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Screen classic West Side Story has topped a poll naming the greatest screen musicals of all time, beating out competition from such favorites as Singin' In The Rain and Mary Poppins. The 1961 movie, which starred Natalie Wood, was scored by Leonard Bernstein. Second place in British newspaper The Observer's poll is Gold Diggers Of 1933.

The 10 Greatest Screen Musicals are:

1. West Side Story (1961)

2. Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933)

3. Singin' In The Rain (1952)

4. Jailhouse Rock (1957)

5. Mary Poppins (1964)

6. Oliver! (1968)

7. Cabaret (1972)

8. Grease (1978) ...

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Singin' In The Rain has topped the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 25 Greatest Movie Musicals. The feel-good 1952 Gene Kelly classic beat off competition from Natalie Wood weepie West Side Story and Judy Garland favorite The Wizard Of Oz.

The top five movie musicals are as follows:

1. Singin' In The Rain (1952)

2. West Side Story (1961)

3. The Wizard Of Oz (1932)

4. The Sound Of Music (1965)

5. Cabaret (1972)

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