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Rita Moreno: Rockford Files
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Rita Moreno has remained busy the past 20 years. She continues to appear in movies, most recently in the highly praised independent film Slums of Beverly Hills in 1998. On television she has spent several seasons on another critic’s favorite, the HBO prison drama Oz. She has been performing solo concerts since the early ‘70s, and last year she did a series of cabaret shows in San Francisco and New York.
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Moreno's career in both film and stage has continued, with recent roles in the films "Wharf Rat," "Angus," "Carlo's Wake," "Blue Moon," and "Pinero." In 1995 she returned to the New York stage in Anne Meara's "After Play" and in Circle Repertory's production of "Size of the World." She ... keeps busy performing concerts across the country as a guest artist with symphony orchestras for their Pops series. In 1993 she was invited to perform at President Clinton's inauguration and later that month was asked to perform at the White House. Her latest endeavor has been in cabaret and has met with great critical success. In 2002 she appeared with the San Francisco Symphony in a production of "Candide."
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In 1982 Moreno returned to television in the sitcom version of the hit film 9to5. While it did relatively well from 1982 to 1983, the time-slot was changed and its rating fell. Despite the demise of the series, Moreno was nominated for an Emmy. She went on to do Alan Alda's The Four Seasons, with Carol Burnett in 1993, and then in 1994, the highly acclaimed Columbia Pictures release Like It Like That. In 1995 Moreno was featured in Showtime's, Wharf Rat, opposite Lou Diamond Phillips and Judge Reinhold and in the feature film Angus with George C. Scott. Then she found herself on Broadway again in the short-lived gender-switched version of The Odd Couple, co-starring with Sally Struthers.
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Moreno (born Rosita Dolores Alverío) moved with her mother to New York City at the age of five. When she was eleven years old, she lent her voice to Spanish-language versions of American films. She had her first Broadway role (Angelina in Skydrift) by the time she was thirteen, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts. For the next ten years, Moreno played roles in movies which she considered degrading.
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In addition to her film, stage, television, and concert careers, Moreno filled her spare time by lecturing to various organizations as well as to university audiences. She has spoken on the history of film, television and theater and the importance of self-esteem and education. She is ... involved with a number of civic and charitable organizations and events. She has served on the National Foundation for the Arts, as a commissioner on the Presidents White House Fellowships, and as a member of the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
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Still, Moreno stays incredibly busy. Recently she has been promoting Casa de los babys, in which she plays a hotel owner in a South American country where American women stay while waiting to adopt babies. The film was written and directed by John Sayles, one of the most respected independent filmmakers. "It is a really, really good movie," she says.
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