Word: showmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memories of his child-star days. The many photos of old Hollywood sets -including a sun-flooded reconstruction of Ford's Theater for The Birth of a Nation -attest to the resourcefulness of movie craftsmen in the pre-sound-stage period. The eccentricities of Hollywood's first showmen are hilariously evoked in a picture that shows Cecil B. DeMille directing a scene to the accompaniment of his personal violinist...
...Briggs adds a Hollywood flash. He waggles his hips as he taps, throws in a little jump, grins like a self-satisfied, grown-up L'il Rascal. Amazingly, the Sandman outsteps his friends, dancing like Ali if Ali had been a dancer, cool, hustling, full of street energy and showmen's finesse, heel to toe, over and over in a thousand combinations. Nierenberg's camera captures each...