iqbal went to meet her. when i could understand what movies were, i wanted to be a movie star that was the word. not an actress so much, but a movie star. which i still here among very young people. yeah. and i say to them oh. 0h. let me tell you a few things! you went to hollywood during the golden age of cinema, though, didn t you? that s right, and you were bigger than life. what could be bad about that? and when i got my contract at mgm studios which, by the way, was the studio of my dreams because that was the studio that made all the great musicals. so when i met mr louis b mayer, can you imagine what that meant to this 15 , 16 year old girl? what did it.? a man who produced all of those great mgm musicals, and they wanted me to sign a contract with them? it was just unbelievable, unbelievable. they didn t know what to do with me because my name was rosita dolores alverio. they changed it to rita moreno.
you so much forjoining us. - now it s time to turn to our 100 women series and meet the oscar winning actress rita moreno. perhaps best known for the role of anita in the 1961 film west side story, now, at the age of 91, she s speaking out about racial stereotyping and representation in films and on tv. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal went to meet her. when i could understand what movies were, i wanted to be a movie star. that was the word not an actress but a movie star. and i still hear that among very young people, and i say to them, oh, let me tell you a few things. you went to hollywood during the golden age of cinema. and you were bigger than life. when i got my contract at mgm studios, which was the studio of my dreams, because that was the studio that made all the great musicals and when i met mr louis b mayer, can you imagine what that meant
you. thank you. tavis: the new book from rita moreno is called rita: a memoir. we started this conversation last night, and as has happened just a few times over the course of 10 years and almost 2,000 shows we will air our 2,000th broadcast on may the 24th; 10 years, 2,000 shows on pbs. wow. tavis: and only a handful of times over that period have i been in a conversation that was so rich that i couldn t stop, i had to go another night. so thank you for sticking around. you just love that dish, you dirty person. tavis: no, no, no, no. but but there s a whole lot more to get to, though. dirty, dirty boy. tavis: there s a whole lot more to get to. when we left this conversation last night, we were talking about your relationship with marlon brando, and we kind of went through that. but we had mentioned james forman, who was, for those of us who know the civil rights era, was very involved in sncc. i only raise this because i ve been told by so many of my friends who
schickel for time magazine and more books than everyone else put together. a couple of which we ll talk about today. one is guilty of tucson, his biography, which was critically acclaimed and armies of my hiscock conversation with scorsese, which is interviews with martin scorsese over several years than all of his great films. but our topic is the cold war hollywood and beyond. at the end what we do in the q&a who want to venture off, that s fine, too. so let s get started. their book is about how we forgot the cold war and maybe you can tell i was, why are we supposed remember the cold war and what exactly are we supposed to remember? what is our timeframe here? when richard starts tapping the table. i wanted to find out how americans are remembering the cold war and the project format the estate journey. i traveled this evening but preliminary question is what are we supposed to remember about the cold war and there is an official story of the cold war that democra
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. the new book is called rita moreno: a memoir. we started this conversation last night, and we will there are 2000 broadcast on may 24. 10 years, 2000 shows. only a few times have i been in a conversation so rich i have to keep going. you dirty person. there is awful lot more to get to. .- a lot more to get to when we left this conversation, we were talking about your .ssue with marlon brando we mentioned james forman. told by so many of my friends in dr. king s inner circle that everyone was jealous that he was dating you. who was jealous? is your interview. maybe dr. king himself for all we know. how did that happen? after thispened was amazing and event, we all stayed there. remember where it was, but we were in a little group of people talking. we were so wired. tavis: you had to be. that encompassed all of that. people walking, taking buses. it was thrilling. you know what was wonderf