Steven Spielberg’s newadaptation of the musical “West Side Story” is circling the box office window at your local multiplex like a couple of all-singing, all-dancing gangs with snapping fingers and names like football teams.
The Jets in question here do live in New York City but they’re not the New York Jets.
Nor are the Sharks here Spielberg’s own “Jaws” or a 1950s precursor to the fictional Miami Sharks in Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday.”Instead, what they are is rival street gangs in a colorful, stylized, period take on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” with the setting updated to Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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