Want to watch some
real dancing? Skip Michael Jackson videos and catch
TAP,
a lovely homage to the world of traditional tap starring such aging but
still then-energetic legends as Jimmy Slyde, Sandman Sims, Henry
LeTang, and Harold Nicholas (one half of the incredible team, the
Nicholas Brothers), plus three contemporary tappers: Gergory Hines,
Sammy Davis, Jr. and a young Savion Glover. The movie centers on an
oft-recycled plot, “Will the hero (Hines) go straight or stay crooked”
and is packed with sometimes totally illogical excuses to dance. But who
cares? Once these pros start tapping, logic be damned. Sadly, most of
the cast is now gone, including Davis and Hines, but a grown-up Savion
Glover carries on the tradition, and thank goodness for celluloid.
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