♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY!
WELCOME BACK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-- OH, FOLKS.
MY NEXT GUEST IS AN ACTRESS, EGOT WINNER, AND ALL-AROUND
ICON.
PLEASE WELCOME RITA MORENO!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )
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( APPLAUSE )
YOU MAKE AN ENTRANCE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
THAT IS HOW YOU WIN AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY, AND
PEABODY.
THE RARE PEGOT!
WHAT AN HONOR-- WHAT AN HONOR TO MEET YOU.
>> FIRST OF ALL, WHAT A BAND
>> Stephen: EXTRAORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY.
>> AND WILL, YOU ARE ONE SEXY WOMAN.
WOW.
( APPLAUSE ).
>> Stephen: YOU ARE UNIVERSALLY ADORED, I BELIEVE,
RITA MORENO.
THERE IS NOBODY WHO DOESN'T LIKE RITA MORENO.
BUT PERHAPS THE THING THAT LAUNCHED YOU INTO PEOPLE'S
CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERHAPS MOST BELOVED FOR IS YOUR PERFORMANCE
HERE.
( APPLAUSE )
AS ANITA, AS ANITA.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT PLAYING THAT ROLE?
>> YOU KNOW WHAT WAS SPECIAL ABOUT HER?
I COME FROM AN ERA WHERE THERE WERE NO ROLE MODELS, NONE.
THERE WERE NO MENTORS.
AND IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO FIND SOMEONE THAT I COULD MODEL
MYSELF ON.
AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE ANITA IN "WEST SIDE STORY."
BECAUSE THIS WAS A LATINA WOMAN WHO HAD DIGNITY.
SHE HAS A SENSE OF SELF-RESPECT.
AND I HAD NEVER, EVER PLAYED A LATINA LIKE THAT.
IT WAS USUALLY JUST "WHY DO YOU NO LOVE ME NO MORE, PETE?"
( LAUGHTER )
IT'S FUNNY NOW, WASN'T FUNNY THEN.
I DID A LOT OF STUFF LIKE THAT FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.
AND THEN I FOUND THIS WONDERFUL CHARACTER, ANITA.
AND OSCAR FOLLOWED.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE FORGET, TOO, THE GOLDEN GLOBE WHEN IT WAS
IMPORTANT.
( LAUGHTER )
IT HAD GONE FROM IN 19-- WHAT WAS THAT, 1961, THE FILM
VERSION, AND NOW YOU'RE EXECUTIVE PRODUCING STEPHEN
SPIELBERG'S UPCOMING REMAKE, WHICH--
( APPLAUSE )
BELIEVE LOOKING AT YOU, SEEING YOU DANCE, I CANNOT BELIEVE I'M
ABOUT TO SAY THESE WORDS-- THE FILM COMES OUT ONE DAY AFTER
YOUR 90th BIRTHDAY.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ).
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
>> Stephen: PLEASE CENT ME A BOTTLE OF YOUR LOTION, WHATEVER
IT IS YOU'RE USING.
>> DECEMBER 11 I WILL BE 90.
I'M 89 NOW.
AND THE FILM ACTUALLY OPENS ON DECEMBER 10.
I AM BESIDE MYSELF.
I'M SO PROUD.
>> Stephen: WELL--
WHAT DOES THIS FULL CIRCLE MEAN TO YOU?
LIKE-- SERIOUSLY, TO BE AN OSCAR-WINNING PERFORMER IN THE
ORIGINAL, BUT NOW TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU YOU TO NOW BE IN ONE OF THE DRIVER'S
SEATS FOR THIS CULTURAL EVENT?
>> AT ( BLEEP ) LAST.
( LAUGHTER ) ( APPLAUSE )
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-- KNOW-- I KNOW.
>> Stephen: ALL GOOD.
IT'S ALL GOOD.
>> I KNOW I WILL GET BEEPED, BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T GIVE A
( BLEEP ).
( LAUGHTER ) ( APPLAUSE )
>> Stephen: IF YOU WILL BE PATIENT WITH ME FOR JUST ONE
MOMENT, WE HAVE TO DO A COMMERCIAL.
BUT DON'T GO AWAY.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE RITA MORENO.
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