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August 13. 2003
Page A7
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Jazz?...
Tap Dancing Great Dead at 57 "...if you
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B ern a d e tte P eters (right) a n d
Gregory H ines p erfo rm during th e
2 0 0 2 Tony A w ards in N ew York.
H ines, th e ta p d a n c in g a ctor who
s ta r te d on Broadway a n d in m o vie s
including W hite N ights a n d R unning
Scared, d ied Saturday. He w a s 5 7 .
(AP photo)
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(AP) — As soon as he could
walk and talk, Gregory Hines said,
he knew he could dance.
His dazzling feet kicked o ff a
career that stretched from gigs in
New Y ork clubs when he was five to
Tony Award glory on Broadway
and Hollywood stardom.
Hines, considered the greatest
tap dancer o f his generation, died
o f cancer Saturday in Los Angeles
at age 57.
“ I don’t remember not dancing,”
Hines said in a 2001 interview with
The Associated Press. “When I
realized I was alive and these were
my parents, and 1 could walk and
talk, 1 could dance.”
With his elegant tap style that
evoked Fred Astaire and Sammy
Davis Jr., Hines became interna
tionally known at a young age as
partofajazztapduow ith his brother.
Maurice.
H ines and his brother performed
together in the m usical revue
“Eubie!” in 1978, in Broadw ay’s
“Sophisticated Ladies” and on film
in 1984’s "The Cotton Club."
His role in “The Cotton Club" led
J He was the last o f
a kind o f immaculate
performer - a singer,
dancer, actor and a
personality.
- George C. Wolfe, director
to more offers from Hollywood. He
starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in
1985's Cold War-era dancers’ story
“W hiteNights"and with Billy Crys
tal in 1986’s “Running Scared” and
he appeared with Whitney Houston
and Angela Bassett in 1995’s"W ait-
ing to Exhale,” among other movies.
He won a 1992 Tony Award for
the musical “Jelly’s Last Jam.”
“ He was the last o f a kind o f
immaculate performer - a singer,
dancer, actor and a personal ity,” said
George C. Wolfe, who directed
“Jelly."“He knew how toeommand."
“His dancing came from som e
thing very real,” said Bernadette
Peters, who appeared with H ines as
co-hosts o f the 2002 Tony Awards
show. “It came out o f his instincts,
his impulses and his am azing cre
ativity. His whole heart and soul
went into everything he did.”
Gregory Oliver Hines was bom
on Feb. 14,1946, in New York City.
He has said his mother urged him
and his older brother toward tap
dancing because she wanted them
‘Suge’ Knight Called Gang Target
Police warn rap
artist to be
cautious
(AP) — Rap mogul Marion
. “Suge” Knight may be the ultimate
target o f a series o f deadly gang
shootings, according to a published
report.
Four ofthe eight people killed in
slayings that stretch back to 1997
were close associates o f Knight,
the Los Angeles Times reported.
Investigators have warned Knight
to be cautious.
“W ord on the street is there’s a
hit out on Suge Knight,” said Det.
Michael C aouetteof the Los Ange
les County S h eriff s Department.
Knight, who has been jailed since
June 27, was given 10 months in
prison after a parole board found
that he struck a Hollywood night
club valet.
Police and gang members told
the newspaper that Knight became
enveloped in infighting between
rival gang factions in the 1990s.
The rap impresario sparked further
bad blood by firing a bodyguard
? Black men get
murdered every day
in the ghetto. I ’m
not nervous. I got no
reason to be scared.
O ur S pecialty :
to have a w ay out o f the ghetto.
When he was a toddler, his
brother was already taking tap les
sons and would come home and
teach him steps. They began per
forming together when Gregory
H ines was 5, and they performed at
the Apollo Theater in Harlem for
two weeks when he was 6. In 1954,
they were cast in the Broadway
musical “The Girl in Pink Tights,”
starring Prench ballerina Jeanmaire.
On television, he had his own
series in 1997 called “The Gregory
Hines Show," as well asa recurring
role on "W ill and Grace." He was
nominated for an Emmy forhis lead
role in the miniseries “Bojangles”
and appeared in the spring televi
sion series “Lost at Home."
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who allegedly ordered several gang
killings.
That bodyguard vowed revenge
and joined with a drug dealer and
fellow gang memberalso angry with
Knight in an effort to pick o ff those
close to Knight one by one, accord
ing to the Times.
The 37-year-old Knight, who
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“ It’s not just my friends getting
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Rap Artist Has Something to Prove
Sarai is a n ew rap a rtist from
N ew York. (AP photo)
(AP) — Eminem has disproved
the notion that white boys can't
rap. W hite girls, on the other hand.
have had almost zero impact on the
genre in its 30-year history.
But now a new face, Sarai, might
be someone new - a Feminem - to go
where none have gone before.
Her debut album, “The Origi
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song “Ladies,” has been getting
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One o f Sarai ’ s producers is Scott
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Storch says when he first heard
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Until the superstar producer Dr.
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