I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

(Thrift stores) tend to do better on the East Side than the West.

West Side Story.

And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

We're going to call it the 'west side story' because there is a lot to tell.