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Hollywood legend Rita Moreno, who turned 92 in December, sharply criticized the rhetoric comparing former President Trump’s 91 criminal charges to President Biden’s age of 81. In an interview on “The View,” Moreno said the presidential candidates’ apparent political weaknesses are not comparable, but she’s not surprised that many focus on Biden’s age, pointing to the political climate. “Actually, I’m not surprised given the tenor of what’s going on in this country right now,” Moreno said, when asked what she makes of the discussion.

The 92-year-old revealed on "The View" that many women in show business were rude to her in her "little Puerto Rican past."Rita Moreno just let loose at The View's Hot Topics table. The 92-year-old Hollywood icon joined the talk show on Monday to promote her role in the new comedy filmThe Prank, in which she plays a mean-spirited professor falsely accused of murder, and revealed that she channeled the prickly dispositions of select peers to prepare for the role. "I just thought, how am I going to play this terrible person? And I thought of all the women in my...

Rita Moreno says people who criticize President Biden’s octogenarian status “don’t understand anything about old age.” The legendary “West Side Story” actor, who turned 92 last week, opened up to ITK when asked recently whether she considers Biden’s age an issue in the 2024 presidential race. Eighty-one-year-old Biden is the oldest president to be elected to the White House. “I think people are mistaking something of President Biden,” Moreno said. “I think that because he walks like an elderly person — which he does — they don’t think this is working,” Moreno said, pointing to her head. “They don’t understand...

Rita Moreno spoke out this Friday about the botched illicit abortion she had during her romance with Marlon Brando, years before Roe v. Wade. Her remarks came the day the US Supreme Court overturned Roe, the landmark 1973 ruling that guaranteed abortion rights throughout the country. The 90-year-old told Variety she had her pregnancy terminated by 'a real doctor - Marlon paid him $500 - as opposed to something in a back alley.' Rita and Marlon met in 1954 and began a tempestuous eight-year affair that was scarred by his womanizing and eventually drove her to attempt suicide. During the...