Danny, I brought you your lunch.
Thank you! Oh!
I, your most loyal child, who is most deserving
to benefit in your will, appreciates you.
Yes.
What are you doing?
I am not gonna let you tear down this special hotel.
Now, this is one of Columbus's greatest landmarks.
This is crazy!
Now you're gonna make me lose this very easy, high-paying job!
I'm sorry, Daniel.
But like Kurtis Blow says, those are the breaks.
And give me that. I might need it myself.
Sir?
It seems as though we have a bit of a situation.
Is everything okay?
Papa Doc just called me a boy toy.
This lady that I barely know, the mother of a dumb jock
I knew in school, just chained herself to the door.
What?
Why won't this man leave me alone?
Hey, Papa Doc. Always nice to hear from you.
Tell him everything's fine. I'll handle it.
Moz, come and get your crazy mama!
♪ We shall overcome ♪
And hurry. She's starting to sing Negro spirituals!
♪ Someday ♪
♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪
♪ I do, I do, I do believe, oh ♪
M'Dear, what's going on?
This hotel is too important to history, and to me, to destroy.
She's losing it.
Pop, I'm sorry, but I think it's time to discuss
that nice retirement home by the lake.
I'll retire you in the lake.
Understood. Understood.
Uh, M'Dear, what's so great about this old building...
Mazzi, put that down!
...where my children might get lockjaw?
Yeah, I'd stay at a Motel 6, 7 or 8 before this place.
Well, 80 years ago, you wouldn't have been welcome
at any of those hotels.
When the Cresthaven opened,
it was the only hotel in town where Black people
were allowed to stay.
Even in the 1950s, hotels that catered to people of color
were few and far between.
The Cresthaven hosted dignitaries,
local businessmen,
and even some of the stars of the Chitlin' Circuit.
My mother was the hospitality manager,
so I spent a lot of time here.
I remember meeting two young singers, Greg and Maurice,
when I was about seven.
Oh! They were terrible bullies!
-Ha! -Hey!
Ow! You hit as hard as Joe Louis.
No, harder. And don't you forget it.
Come on! It's time for rehearsal.
-♪ My darling, my dear ♪ -♪ My dear ♪
-♪ I look to you ♪ -♪ I look to you ♪
-♪ My darling, my dear ♪ -♪ My dear ♪
♪ I'll love you through and through ♪
♪ When thine eyes met at a glance ♪
♪ At a glance ♪
♪ Caught in a trance, just by chance ♪
-♪ Beautiful song ♪ -♪ Beautiful song ♪
♪ Then we danced ♪
-♪ And we danced all night long ♪ -♪ All night long ♪
Now we're cooking with gas.
Right, Amelia? Did we flip your lid?
Listen. Every Tom, Dick, and Louis Armstrong can sing.
Get yourself some tap shoes, dreamboats.
♪ Jesus ♪
And that is how the Hines Brothers got their start.
So you're telling us that Maurice and Gregory Hines,
two of the greatest dancers the world has ever known,
only became dancers because of you?
Did I stutter?