When I interviewed Stephen Sondheim on stage at Rutgers University last month, one of the pieces of news he delivered that night was that a movie remake of West Wide Story, with lyrics by Sondheim and music by Leonard Bernstein, was deep into initial development, with a revised screenplay by Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner that Sondheim said updated the rival gangs story line in a way that impressed and excited him. Kushner also wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln – and the director for the new West Side Story? Spielberg himself. Meanwhile, there’s this 1961 screen version, with its marvelous opening aerial shots of New York at that era, and with Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno co-starring with future Twin Peaks stars Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn.