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       ARTICLE VIEW: 
       
       Rita Moreno tells a very charming story about meeting Lenny Kravitz
       
       By Lisa Respers France, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       2:01 PM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Rita Moreno is a legend, but that doesn’t stop her from introducing
       herself to those she admires.
       
       The EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winner shared just one such
       story on “The Jennifer Hudson” Thursday.
       
       Moreno talked about attending this year’s Academy Awards and
       afterwards the Vanity Fair party. She told Hudson she doesn’t get out
       much, but when she does she likes to do it up big.
       
       Since she’s a widow, Moreno said her date is often her daughter,
       Fernanda Luisa Gordon, who she was with when she spotted rocker Lenny
       Kravitz at the party.
       
       “I said ‘Let’s go say hello,’” Moreno recalled. “She said
       ‘Do you know him?” I said ‘No,’ but it’s a party and he was
       all alone.”
       
       The tripple-threat singer, dancer and actress wasn’t prepared for
       what happened next.
       
       “I went to him and I said, ‘Hello, I’m Rita Moreno’ and at that
       point - you’re not going to believe this - he fell to the floor and
       he got on his knees and he just went on and on and on about how much
       he’s admired me all these years and all that kind of stuff,” she
       said. “But you know I nearly peed my britches.”
       
       Moreno said she absolutely did not keep her cool and was
       “astonished.”
       
       In 1962, Moreno became the first Latina to win an Oscar when she when
       the Academy Award for supporting actress for her performance in the
       film version of the Broadway musical “West Side Story.”
       
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