Maurice Hines, the Broadway dancer, choreographer and actor who famously showcased his skills alongside his late younger brother, Gregory Hines, in a Nicholas Brothers-like act featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club, has died. He was 80.
Hines died Friday of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, his cousin and rep, Richard Nurse, told The Hollywood Reporter. He lived there for a couple of years.
The elegant, Harlem-born Hines received a Tony Award nomination in 1986 for best actor in a musical for Uptown … It’s Hot and starred again on Broadway in 2006’s Hot Feet. He conceived, directed and choreographed both productions.
In his THR review of the 2019 documentary Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back, Frank Scheck wrote that the Hines brothers had a falling out and didn’t talk for 10 years “for reasons that Maurice refuses to discuss to this day. He provides no explanation in the film,...
Hines died Friday of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, his cousin and rep, Richard Nurse, told The Hollywood Reporter. He lived there for a couple of years.
The elegant, Harlem-born Hines received a Tony Award nomination in 1986 for best actor in a musical for Uptown … It’s Hot and starred again on Broadway in 2006’s Hot Feet. He conceived, directed and choreographed both productions.
In his THR review of the 2019 documentary Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back, Frank Scheck wrote that the Hines brothers had a falling out and didn’t talk for 10 years “for reasons that Maurice refuses to discuss to this day. He provides no explanation in the film,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
Directed by Keith Patterson and Phillip Schopper
USA, 2014
The unapologetically liberal All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State profiles a species that’s harder to find in the real world today than fairies, unicorns, and vampires combined—the truly powerful Democratic politician in Texas. Even stranger than Richards’s ascent to her state’s governorship—and damn if it isn’t as strange as hell—is the fact that it wasn’t exactly ancient history.
Richards’s political career began in the early 1980s when she was elected State Treasurer and becomes the first female official elected to Texas state office in 50 years. Her goal: open the Treasurer’s office up to women and minorities. The result: lots and lots of money coming into the state of Texas.
A woman without fear and (perhaps more importantly) a natural comedienne,...
Directed by Keith Patterson and Phillip Schopper
USA, 2014
The unapologetically liberal All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State profiles a species that’s harder to find in the real world today than fairies, unicorns, and vampires combined—the truly powerful Democratic politician in Texas. Even stranger than Richards’s ascent to her state’s governorship—and damn if it isn’t as strange as hell—is the fact that it wasn’t exactly ancient history.
Richards’s political career began in the early 1980s when she was elected State Treasurer and becomes the first female official elected to Texas state office in 50 years. Her goal: open the Treasurer’s office up to women and minorities. The result: lots and lots of money coming into the state of Texas.
A woman without fear and (perhaps more importantly) a natural comedienne,...
- 4/19/2014
- by John Gilpatrick
- SoundOnSight
Six years after her death, filmmakers Jack Lofton and Keith Patterson team up to portray the most memorable woman in Texas politics in their directorial debut, Ann Richards' Texas. The documentary reminds me of a happier time when women's rights were championed by formidable progressive supporters in the Lone Star State. The movie screened at Aff after its world premiere at the 2012 AFI SilverDocs Festival, where it won the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award.
Former Texas Governor Richards was an outspoken woman who went from housewife and teacher to a politician who led the state in 1990. It was her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis that moved her into the spotlight and the Governor's Mansion -- a formidable accomplishment for a Democrat in a red state, not to mention for a woman who wasn't a "good old boy" millionaire like her Republican opponent,...
Former Texas Governor Richards was an outspoken woman who went from housewife and teacher to a politician who led the state in 1990. It was her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis that moved her into the spotlight and the Governor's Mansion -- a formidable accomplishment for a Democrat in a red state, not to mention for a woman who wasn't a "good old boy" millionaire like her Republican opponent,...
- 10/30/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
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