Word: nierenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Nierenberg brought Green and Sims and Bunny Briggs together for a "competition" at Small's Paradise in Harlem, music courtesy of Lionel Hampton and his band. Nierenberg's film is a tough-paced homage to these nitty-gritty dancers, fading stars of a dying...
...used to advise Fred Astaire. Bill Robinson, the old pro who tapped up and down stairs with Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel, died a while ago. But No Maps has spectacular old footage of their sequences. Chuck Green was Bubbles' protege, and the two keep in touch. Nierenberg presents one painfully candid phone call from Green in a Harlem restaurant to Bubbles at home on the West Coast. They reminisce, anxious about the dwindling state of tap, anxious about each other...