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Actor, dancer, and Broadway great Gregory Hines who tap danced his way to our hearts is dead. Gregory Hines, 57, died of cancer.
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Gregory Hines, the Tony Award winning tap dancer for the musical Jelly's Last Jam was best known for his roles in films such as "The Cotton Club" released in 1984, and based around the seminal 1920s New York Jazz club, in which he played Sandman Williams. He also starred in the 1985 thriller "White Nights" with Mikhail Barysnikov, and alongside Billy Crystal in the comic thriller "Running Scared.
Hines had his own TV show, The Gregory Hines Show, in 1997. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.
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Tap dance great Gregory Hines will be honored by the Los Angeles Tap Festival on Saturday, August 15, 2003 at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
The roster of artists will include Fayard Nicholas, Debbie Allen (Debbie Allen Dance Academy), Leonard Reed, Dianne Walker, Arthur Duncan, Jason Samuels Smith, Chloe Arnold, The Jazz Tap Ensemble, the Kennedy Tap Company, and Anyone Can Get It.
Tribute starts at 7 p.m. in the Norman J. Pattiz Concert Hall at the high school.
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