[Note: Hamilton also wrote the detective melodramaRopein 1929, a Leopold and Loeb-style murder story, later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948.West Side Storyis still one of the best film adaptations of a musical ever created, and the finest musical film of the 60s.The opening sequence was parodied at least twice: (1) Neil DeGrasse Tyson""sCosmosscience series, hat used Gershwin music and the Manhattan skyline, and (2) the UK""s Channel 4, low-budget, cult sit-comSpaced (1999-2001) (in Season 2, Episode 1).As she fires aimlessly, her husband withdraws into a corner of the room: "D-D-Doris, please-please-oh, don""t, don""t Doris, don""t.It""s no biggy." Glen hinted hat when he had nightmares, he would tell himself that it was a bad dream and then he would wake right up.