...about Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (20th Century, 12.7) are the occasionally creaky song lyrics, particularly in a pair of Jets tunes -- "Gee, Officer Krupke" ("With all the marijuana, they won't give me a puff," "leapin' lizards") and "Be Cool" ("Daddy-o," "go man go"). I can't imagine these James Dean-era expressions not sounding wrong to Millennial and Zoomer ears.
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