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By the 1990s, Hines' (https://lebeauleblog.com/2022/02/14/february-14-happy-birthday-gregory-hines/) film career was losing steam. The Terminator knockoff, Eve of Destruction, and the period dark comedy, A Rage in Harlem, both failed to find an audience. Even a proposed sequel failed to Running Scared failed to develop due to poor drafts as well as the resistance that he and Billy Crystal had towards it. He would find himself getting knocked down to supporting player in films like Renaissance Man, Waiting to Exhale, and The Preacher's Wife which was his villainous turn as a greedy real estate mogul looking to tear down a Baptist church. His high points during this period remained on the stage as Hines performed a successful year long run as Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam which earned him his one and only Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
When the movie roles (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-21-tv-34488-story.html) stopped, Hines turned to (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/09/15/lithgow-hunt-take-comedy-emmys/486b49ff-0e27-448f-b210-1573af8acfed/) television (https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/the-gregory-hines-show-2-1200451106/). He had (https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gregory-hines-discusses-his-new-t-v-show) a short lived sitcom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gregory_Hines_Show) on CBS (https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-07-09-9807090076-story.html) in 1997 (https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0918/091897.feat.tv.2.html) but had a long run as the voice of Big Bill on Nick Jr.'s Little Bill. He won new audiences over on NBC's Will & Grace where he played Debra Messing's boss who fires her only to strike up a romance with her. It was a recurring character that revived Hines' sexy charm to female audiences of the time. He also appeared in a number of made-for-cable flicks such as The Cherokee Kid, Who Killed Atlanta's Children, and The Red Sneakers.
By the 1990s, Hines' (https://lebeauleblog.com/2022/02/14/february-14-happy-birthday-gregory-hines/) film career was losing steam. The Terminator knockoff, Eve of Destruction, and the period dark comedy, A Rage in Harlem, both failed to find an audience. Even a proposed sequel failed to Running Scared failed to develop due to poor drafts as well as the resistance that he and Billy Crystal had towards it. He would find himself getting knocked down to supporting player in films like Renaissance Man, Waiting to Exhale, and The Preacher's Wife which was his villainous turn as a greedy real estate mogul looking to tear down a Baptist church. His high points during this period remained on the stage as Hines performed a successful year long run as Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam which earned him his one and only Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
When the movie roles (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-21-tv-34488-story.html) stopped, Hines turned to (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/09/15/lithgow-hunt-take-comedy-emmys/486b49ff-0e27-448f-b210-1573af8acfed/) television (https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/the-gregory-hines-show-2-1200451106/). He had (https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gregory-hines-discusses-his-new-t-v-show) a short lived sitcom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gregory_Hines_Show) on CBS (https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-07-09-9807090076-story.html) in 1997 (https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0918/091897.feat.tv.2.html) but had a long run as the voice of Big Bill on Nick Jr.'s Little Bill. He won new audiences over on NBC's Will & Grace where he played Debra Messing's boss who fires her only to strike up a romance with her. It was a recurring character that revived Hines' sexy charm to female audiences of the time. He also appeared in a number of made-for-cable flicks such as The Cherokee Kid, Who Killed Atlanta's Children, and The Red Sneakers.