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Cholly Atkins was born Charles Atkinson on Sept "That was his life In the 1940s, Atkins did a stint in the Army and then toured with such jazz greats as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton " The couple moved to Las Vegas in 1975, where Atkins continued to work with various stars Choreographer Cholly Atkins Dies at 75 Apr 21, 6:30 PM EST Cholly Atkins, who choreographed the smooth moves of countless Motown artists and won a Tony Award when he was 75, has died " His work earned him a Tony Award Atkins continued to teach dance until doctors diagnosed his cancer in February Atkins married Maye Harrison Anderson in 1963 and gained his greatest fame two years later when he became choreographer for Motown Records , and became a singing waiter and dancing bootblack He worked with countless Motown artists over the years, including the Cadillacs, the Supremes, the Temptations, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye The pair toured with the likes of Cab Calloway and the Mills Brothers before she died of a brain tumor in 1962 He found his career in 1923, after winning a Charleston dance contest in Buffalo, N He made a name for himself as a tap dancer in the 1930s, touring small black venues before forming The Rhythm Pals with William Porter He divorced his first wife, Catherine, and married dance partner Dottie Saulters He was 89 13, 1913, in Pratt City, Ala Y "He loved his work," said his wife, Maye Atkinson, 84 He teamed with legendary tap dancer Charles "Honi" Coles to perform in the Broadway musical "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," with Nat "King" Cole He dusted off his tap shoes in 1988 to choreograph the Broadway musical "Black and Blue In 1993, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded him its highest honor, a three-year fellowship to record his memoirs and tour colleges to teach choreography and dance Atkins died of pancreatic cancer Saturday night at a hospital, according to his family Schepisi, the Australian director of "Roxanne" and "A Cry in the Dark," spent time in local restaurants and bars and found that people sounded like anyone in middle America Platt helped the actor hide his English accent and sprinkle his speech with understated New Englandisms "Getting the sound right is hard," she said Larch in that film But other talented actors have tried the accent and ended up producing caricatures, said Jess Platt, a dialogue coach who worked with Michael Caine on "The Cider House Rules The film's cast is studded with Oscar winners Paul Newman, Helen Hunt and Ed Harris But Caine's delivery may have been a rare exception "You just don't hear the accent much anymore," said Dee Cooke, a native Mainer who is a casting consultant on the film 'Empire Falls' Avoids Bad Maine Accents Aug 16, 2:32 PM EST Actors who try to mimic a Maine accent often get it wrong â€â€? talking too slowly, wheezing through dialogue and generally sounding dumb " The worst example was Vincent Price in "The Whales of August," Girardin said, when the actor combined a Maine accent with his creepy B-movie villain voice "That dialect has lots of specific sounds that you people would recognize Though part of her job is to help people make movies in Maine, Girardin has never been asked for help on the accent Poor accents sound overripe to native Mainers and "obnoxious" to everyone else, Platt said Today most Mainers don't have the accent, which was why "Empire Falls" director Fred Schepisi decided not to ask actors to affect it Moviegoers will remember Caine's lilting delivery of this line: "Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England " "I didn't want people saying 'hahd' instead of 'hard,'" Platt said "It's just not real," said Platt from his home in California " Lea Girardin, director of the Maine Film Office, said she's winced at some affected accents, even in otherwise good productions like the Stephen King miniseries "Storm of the Century " Caine won an Oscar in 2000 for the role of Dr So perhaps it's good news that none of the stars cast in the HBO adaptation of Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Empire Falls," will affect the accent |
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