Culture Monster: Critic's Notebook: Leonard Bernstein and Lorin Maazel, subversives by Mark Swed

Saturday morning a major story out of Washington had this headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Times: "Bush-era Surveillance Went Beyond Wiretaps." That evening, "West Side Story" was screened in all of its widescreen glory at the Aero in Santa Monica as part of the American Cinematheque's tribute to director Robert Wise. A critic's exercise is to connect the dots.

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