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I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

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Ben Vereen
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 10
Actor
Dancer
Film Actor
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trekkie
Voice Actor
Laurinburg
North Carolina
Benjamin Augustus Vereen
Didn
Hughes
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