A petite dynamo whose career has encompassed stage and screen, Rita Moreno is one of only eight individuals to have earned each of the major entertainment awards--the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony--in competition. (Helen Hayes, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Rodgers, Mel Brooks and Mike Nichols are the others.) While this is an impressive feat for anyone, in Moreno's case it is all the more so as early in her career she had to overcome ethnic typecasting. Indeed, she has played a wide array of role of diverse backgrounds and has avoided being typecast as the "Latin