do we have Arthur to thank for Barbra? We certainly have him to thank for WEST SIDE STORY, as well as GYPSY, directing LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the script for Hitchcock’s ROPE, THE TURNING POINT, and THE WAY WE WERE. By the way, he cast Barbra in her first show, I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE, in the part originally written for a fifty-year-old spinster. Read his memoirs, ORIGINAL STORY BY, for a fascinating account of a slice of Broadway and Hollywood history…He recently directed the bi-lingual production of WEST SIDE STORY, and said in an interview on the television program, SUNDAY MORNING, that he still enjoys an active sex life…yes, Arthur, yes!
