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
The Nigel Barton Plays The Nigel Barton Plays The Nigel Barton Plays are two semi-autobiographical television dramas by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1965 as part of "The Wednesday Play" strand. The first play, "Stand Up, Nigel Barton", follows the eponymous character's journey from his childhood in a small mining community to winning a scholarship for Oxford, while the second play, "Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton", sees him standing for Parliament as the Labour Party candidate in a by-election. Both plays develop themes and use dramatic devices that became hallmarks of Potter's later plays for television. The play opens with Nigel