Rita Moreno
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"Rita Dolores Moreno" is a Puerto Rican people/Puerto Rican actress and singer. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, which include an List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards/Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award/Oscar.

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Apparently, I think it's Columbia Records has Betty Wand's name on all of the stuff that I did, too, and that's made me very, very unhappy.

I think it was absolutely a noble cause. Kids watched it for the entertainment, but they were learning at the same time. I think it's something brilliant that deserves to be out there again.

The reason was that there simply weren't enough Hispanic - forget Puerto Rican - Hispanic male and female dancers at the time who could do the kind of professional job that was needed for Jerome Robbins' choreography, which is, you might have noticed, extremely complex and very difficult.

I love the people here. I love New York.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

They've had to overcome a great deal - not as much as I did - but it's become OK to be Latino.

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever.

Never stopped aspiring.