Robert Wagner Dying", "The Pink Panther", "Harper", "The Towering Inferno" and many more. Wagner is occasionally drawn into public attention regarding the 1981 death of Natalie Wood with whom he was twice married. An autobiography, "Pieces of My Heart: A Life", written with author Scott Eyman, was published on September 23, 2008. Wagner was born February 10, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of Hazel Alvera (née Boe), a telephone operator, and Robert John Wagner Sr., a traveling salesman who worked for the Ford Motor Company. His paternal grandparents were born in Germany and his maternal grandparents were Norwegian. Wagner
West Side Story Tribune" on September 27, 1957: The other reviews generally joined in speculation about how the new work would influence the course of musical theater. Typical was John Chapman's review in the "New York Daily News" on September 27, 1957, headed: "West Side Story a Splendid and Super-Modern Musical Drama". "Time" magazine found the dance and gang warfare more compelling than the love story and noted that the show's "putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history ..." The score for "West Side Story" was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal following detailed instructions from Bernstein, who then