Rita Moreno defends Lin-Manuel Miranda over "In the Heights" casting controversy
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Actress Rita Moreno is pushing back against critics of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" after the film and its creators were criticized for its lack of Afro-Latinx representation in major roles.
"You can never do right, it seems," Moreno said in a Tuesday interview with "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert. "I'm simply saying, can't you just wait a while and leave it alone?" "In the Heights," the film adaptation of Miranda's award-winning musical, debuted on June 11 and was criticized for casting light-skinned Latinx actors for the lead roles. Miranda first wrote the story in 1999 — an effort to show Latinx representation through the story of a summer blackout in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. Miranda has since apologized and vowed to do better in his future projects.On Nov. 13, 2016, Dr. Eric "Scott" Sills, a renowned California fertility doctor, called 911 and reported finding his wife and business partner Susann Sills unresponsive at the bottom of the stairs. An initial investigation revealed some evidence that was consistent with an accidental fall. But as "48 Hours" correspondent Tracy Smith reports, other evidence pointed to something more sinister. DETECTIVE: How do you know she — she got an email? MARY-KATHERINE SILLS: I woke up and my dad was just like on the covers just laying there like there wasn't enough room to get in I guess. So, he was just laying there.