Word: hoofers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lucy character began as a saxophonist who bleated, a chanteuse who croaked, a hoofer who fell down. Even in the final season, when the Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers...
Jerome Rabinowitz has enjoyed walking into theaters ever since his childhood in Weehawken, N.J. From the start, he had an insatiable aesthetic curiosity, especially for dance. His parents tried to dissuade him from the hoofer's trade. He recalls, "They sent me to every relative they could find, saying 'Don't do it.' But I wanted to do it." And as would happen so often, what Jerry wanted, Jerry...
...original story about one man's struggle between money and happiness, Tap is, nonetheless, one of the best dancing movies to come out in years. The brilliant footwork of Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr.(Mo), who stars as a hoofer dedicated to convincing Max to try and combine modern music with old-fashioned tap dancing, rejuvenate a well-worn plot...
...appreciate the innovation involved, it is important to understand that Collins was not technically a tap dancer, but a hoofer. Whereas a tap dancer concentrates on the effect of movement, a hoofer expresses himself through percussion, creating melodies with his feet. As Dizzy Gillespie explains during the film, "Leon was one of the pioneers of the bebop of dancing, along with Teddy Hale and Baby Laurence. They would dance one of my solos or one of Charlie Parker's, and they'd do it perfectly. They used to knock...
...comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could play an existential hero (Duck Amuck), a base canard (You Ought to Be in Pictures), a hard-breathing hoofer (Show Biz Bugs) or a World War II draft dodger (Draftee Daffy). Wily farceur, dynamite showman, he made 126 pictures before retiring in 1968. For years he could be seen only on kiddie TV shows or -- oh, the ignominy of it all! -- commercials. But now he has returned, pretty much...