Yesterday morning, as Tony- and Emmy-award winning performer Gregory Hines went to his final rest in Toronto, I would like to believe that the thunder overhead was my friend tap dancing in heaven. The man acknowledged as the greatest tap dancer of his generation — who succumbed to bile duct cancer last Saturday in a Marina del Rey, Calif., hospital — chose a modest Roman Catholic church in Etobicoke and an Oakville cemetery for his farewell performance. Gregory, who died at 57, attended St. Mark's, which Father Marion Sobolewski described as a "very humble and simple parish church," whenever he...