with Coppola, said the studio and financier notes from 1984 showed that to show business gatekeepers, things had not changed very much since the 1920s. “I mean, the fact that here was a black club and black entertainers of the highest order, and black people can't get in to see it—that mentality more or less carried over into the distribution people who were telling Francis to cut it down and keep out the black tap dancing,” he said.
“It was the story of two families, two brothers. And it was balanced,” Coppola said. “So, when we had the note from the financier that there's too many black people, and I started tampering with the scenes of the African American family, then it became out of balance.”“Too long" was the critique. “Too good” was closer to the truth, according to Maurice Hines, now 75. “There was some sort of controversy.
Evans, now 89, did not respond to email questions, but did send this statement, invoking his youth in Harlem, where his father had a dental practice: “There are three sides to every story… Yours, mine and the truth and none of us are lying. Memories served differently to everyone. My side is, I was brought up in Harlem as a young man for 10 years. I knew it well. It was an extraordinary canvas for an even more extraordinary film,” Evans wrote.
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