Sammy Davis Jr. was one of young Gregory Hines' inspirations, as were the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Hines drew on Robinson's style for some of his work in "Jelly's Last Jam." ...

Sammy Davis Jr. was one of young Gregory Hines' inspirations, as were the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Hines drew on Robinson's style for some of his work in "Jelly's Last Jam." ...

Sammy Davis Jr. was one of young Gregory Hines' inspirations, as were the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Hines drew on Robinson's style for some of his work in "Jelly's Last Jam." ...

and I could walk and talk, I could dance.'' Sammy Davis Jr. was one of young Gregory Hines' inspirations, as were the Nicholas Brothers and Bill ''Bojangles'' Robinson.

Sammy Davis Jr. was one of young Gregory Hines' inspirations, as were the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Hines drew on Robinson's style for some of his work in "Jelly's Last Jam." ...

The 25th anniversary of the death of Sammy Davis Jr. passed without fanfare on Saturday. “Mr. Bojangles” should have been blaring over loud speakers up and down Las Vegas Boulevard.

Hines is survived by his fiancee, Negrita Jayde, his father Maurice Sr., his brother, his daughter, Daria, his son, Zach and his stepdaughter, Jessica. Private services will be held in Los Angeles.

TAPPING OUT A THANK-YOU Many years before he became President Bartlet's aide Charlie on "The West Wing," Dulé Hill was watching TV and saw Gregory Hines dance. "He did this step," says Hill. "If ...

In the 1989 film, "Tap," some of Mr. Hines' tap-dance heroes, including Sammy Davis Jr., Sandman Sims, Harold Nicholas and Jimmy Slyde, appeared in the tribute to tap, a tale of a man who cannot ...

"Gregory always thought of himself as a student with the old guys, Chuck Green, Jimmy Slyde, Buster Brown, Lon Chaney, all of the old hoofers, and Sammy Davis Jr.," Glover said.

On Sammy Davis Jr.’s farewell tour with his old buddies Frank Sinatra and Liza Minelli in 1988-89, he mixed a little dancing into his act. It was a short interlude, a few basic steps, but it was ...