The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The film was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee. The supporting cast included Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Gwen Verdon and Fred Gwynne. The film was noted for its over-budget production costs, and took a total of five years to make. Critical reception was mostly positive and "The Cotton Club" was
Bob Hoskins Emmys. The 2011 film "In Search of La Che" features a character, "Wermit", whose every line of dialogue is a quote of Bob Hoskins. On 8 August 2012 Hoskins announced his retirement from acting having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011. In 1967, aged 25, Hoskins spent a short period of time volunteering in kibbutz Zikim in Israel, and also herded camels in Syria. When asked in an interview which living person he most despised, Hoskins named Tony Blair and said that "he's done even more damage than Thatcher". He despised Blair to the point that he decided in