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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 12:43 PM        Gregory Hines dies
"Tony Award winner Gregory Hines, the tap-dancing actor who started on Broadway and in movies including “White Nights” and “Running Scared,” has died, his publicist says. He was 57. Hines died Saturday in Los Angeles of cancer, publicist Allen Eichorn said.

THE DANCER, among the best in his generation, won a 1993 Tony for the musical “Jelly’s Last Jam.”

Hines became internationally known as part of a jazz tap due with his brother, Maurice, and the two danced together in the musical revue “Eubie!” in 1978. The brothers later performed together in Broadway’s “Sophisticated Ladies” and on film in 1984’s “The Cotton Club.”

In “The Cotton Club,” Hines also had a lead acting role, which led to more work in film. He starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1985’s “White Nights” and with Billy Crystal in 1986’s “Running Scared,” and he appeared with Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett in 1995’s “Waiting to Exhale,” among other movies.

On television, he had his own sitcom in 1997 called “The Gregory Hines Show,” as well as a recurring role on “Will and Grace.” This past March, he appeared in the spring television series “Lost at Home.”"

http://www.msnbc.com/news/950595.asp?0cv=CB10

I didn't even know he had cancer. :/
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 12:57 PM       
I've never heard of him until now, but thats too bad.
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 01:22 PM       
What, are you 10 years old or something?
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 01:48 PM       
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What, are you 10 years old or something?
No, I'm just not terribly interested in musicals.
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 02:28 PM       
Broadway is for fags.
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 02:48 PM       
i never heard of him too. i hope we find a cure for cancer some day.
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 03:56 PM       
there are many cures for cancer numbnuts, only they don't always work.
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Old Aug 10th, 2003, 08:35 PM       
Not much of a cure, then, is it?

I loved Running Scared. I was unaware he was ill.
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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 12:22 PM       
If it were a "cure", then it would ALWAYS work.

There are many treatments for cancer. There is no cure.
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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 01:56 PM        :(
This actually makes me cry. I saw him in the movie Tap many years ago and was just amazed. In high school I busted my ass to get a summer scholarship to study dance with him. One of the best summers of my life.

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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 04:44 PM       
Poor guy, all these movies and yet still he didn't quite make it all the way there. He always did a great job acting but seemed to be missing that "thing" that makes you a "super celeb"
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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 05:14 PM       
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He always did a great job acting but seemed to be missing that "thing" that makes you a "super celeb"
Too narrow head with bulging, yet lazy eyes. Caucasian example: Vincent Schiavelli.

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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 05:34 PM       
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Vincent .S. always plays these "obscure" side parts in movies and hardly anyone I know remembers him by name (if they even remembered the poor guy)! Every time I see Vincent he plays the part of a crazy patalogist, nutty doctor, or crazy patient, etc. Gregory Hines had "one up" over him, Hines at least played a couple of movies as the main character.
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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 05:38 PM       
Yeah, but Vinnie was the crazy ghost that kicked Patric Swayze's ass and yelled 'IT'S MY TRAIN!!!'

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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 05:40 PM       
Aha, good catch!...How could I forget that one?! He was VERY cool as the angry ghost!
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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 06:14 PM       
Didn't he play a holographic weapons dealer in an ST:TNG episode?
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Old Aug 11th, 2003, 06:21 PM       
I sure hope he did.

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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) playing "Minosian Peddler" in episode: "The Arsenal of Freedom" (episode # 1.19) 9 April 1988

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Old Aug 12th, 2003, 08:12 PM       
NNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSSS

I would also like to express my sadness over the untimely death of Herb Brooks.
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Old Aug 12th, 2003, 09:47 PM       
He got killed in "Wolfen"...one of my favorite movies.....
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Old Aug 18th, 2003, 05:30 AM       
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He always did a great job acting but seemed to be missing that "thing" that makes you a "super celeb"
Too narrow head with bulging, yet lazy eyes. Caucasian example: Vincent Schiavelli.

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Vinnie was the crazy ghost that kicked Patric Swayze's ass and yelled 'IT'S MY TRAIN!!!'
From X-entertainment (http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0820/):

"Gregory Hines died. He's the black guy who looks like the white guy who said 'get off my train!' in Ghost."

Matt stole my stuff And he got the Ghost quote right
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