"Here they are, the snapping, dancing gangsters." Look up "West Side Story" on , and you can find that pithy description alongside a clip from the 1961 film version, the prologue in which we're ...

ARMS flick out like knives as the warring gangs engage in mid-air conflict with balletic grace, their clicking fingers echoing the mean pulse of the streets. This is their rite of initiation to become ...