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RIP Volier Johnson
2021-07-10 13:28:10
2021-07-10 13:51:23
In reply to nitro
Oh Wow,Wow!!!! Walk Good Maffie Oliver is a lot lonelier on this planet now
2021-07-10 14:02:53
RIP
2021-07-10 15:20:31
Looks like a sudden death to rhatid
2021-07-10 18:03:28
In reply to nitro
Definitely will miss Maffie. Walk good, sah.
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2021-07-24 19:32:02
In reply to nitro
Final public appearance
2021-07-24 21:03:40
In reply to FanAttick
Final public appearance
The Harder They Come must certainly be one of his first appearances. Aloun Ndombet-Assamba posted on the JBC Reunion site a clip from it showing when a young Volier 'maffied' Jimmy Cliff on Ringo's first arrival in Town. The full movie is on YouTube here. Scroll forward to about the 2:50 mark.
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2021-07-24 21:39:16
In reply to JayMor
Has always, always been one of my favorite scenes
2021-07-25 04:37:54
In reply to JayMor
Yeah..I remember him well in THTC
2021-07-25 05:22:45
In reply to JayMor
Thanks. For me it was great to see the beautiful Beverly Anderson whom I recognized instantly.
2021-07-25 07:42:42
I love that scene too, Brerzerk. In fact, I'm going to watch the entire movie again later today. Will BlueTooth it on to a big screen for better enjoyment.
FanAttick, yuh betta dan me. Despite the closeness of JBC to the arts and thespian world, I wasn't aware that Maffie was in THTC until now.
Yes, Missa Fantom, I even had a boyhood crush on her. Saw her for the first time when she came with Uriel Aldridge to broadcast the Fair from Black River around 1968-69. Armed with my school's Yashica double-lens reflex camera, I couldn't help but to take a snap of her.
BTW, yuh no inna de clear now man-- MM gone and DK gone now too. LOL.
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2021-07-25 11:42:02
In reply to JayMor
FanAttick, yuh betta dan me. Despite the closeness of JBC to the arts and thespian world, I wasn't aware that Maffie was in THTC until now.
@Jaymor….I’ve watched that movie maybe a dozen times…and even introduced it to my kids
Have you watch Henzell’s other classic - “No Place Like Home”?
2021-07-25 22:40:13
In reply to FanAttick
I’ve watched that movie maybe a dozen times.
I can definitely see why, Fan, especially after I viewed it again last night. In more than one way, it is truly a Jamaican treasure.
Have you watch Henzell’s other classic - “No Place Like Home”?
You're putting me to shame now, boss. Fuss time me deh hear 'bout dat. 
From your clip though I see some of the old faves-- Carl Bradshaw, Hiram Keller and Grace Jones. Worth tracking down. What's the story with it, was it unfinished when Perry Henzell died and it was stitched together by others (maybe his son) much later?
I found No Place Like Home to be an entertaining movie, although one could see the results of a film that had been re-worked from footage shot several years ago. It felt like some pieces of the film were missing, and that is a shame because I believe it could have been a great movie for Jamaican cinema (up there with "The Harder They Come"), had it been completed as the director initially intended. It was going in a good direction, then it reached a point where it seemed that they had stopped filming and the rest of the movie felt different from then on. All the same I was happy with it as it showed a different side of Jamaica than most Jamaican movies have to date. It looked at the lives of Jamaicans outside of the crime and poverty stricken areas of Kingston (what most Jamaican movies seem to incorporate into the story somehow or another). We were also treated to some beautiful scenery from rural areas of the island as well as given a chance to see the natural beauty of Negril before it was turned into the haven for large resorts that is today. The story also had the potential to be very politically conscious as well, had it been able to run its course. I was happy to hear that at the time of the first screening they were not finished working on the film and more work was to be done with editing and sound. Hopefully they will be able to add a scene or two in there to help the story out.
That's a user review giving it 8 out of 10 stars. Do you know if it's available anywhere?
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2021-07-26 00:19:06
In reply to JayMor
Nice man
2021-07-26 00:19:49
At every opportunity I've introduced that movie to Americans. Because I was a big Jamaican 'Theatre' Fan since '70's bway days I knew it was Maffie who 'lamps' Jimmy
2021-07-26 01:20:20
In reply to Brerzerk
I knew it was Maffie who 'lamps' Jimmy
As yuh say dat me memba... Sunday gone I played a session (to/for myself) of Desmond Dekker and the Aces. As I listened, sang and danced to 'Madda Young Gal' I reflected on the line "Wha' mek yuh fool and lamp me?" and thought to myself how some words have fallen out of Patois in my own lifetime. Yes, him gyp him, him samfy him. LOL.
In reply to Chrissy
Thanks, sis. BTW, a month ago I passed several days in the Mona-Liguanea area and thought of you. But uncertainty about how serious they were re the 8-day quarantine had me not do too much.
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2021-07-26 12:19:37
In reply to JayMor
As yuh say dat me memba... Sunday gone I played a session (to/for myself) of Desmond Dekker and the Aces. As I listened, sang and danced to 'Madda Young Gal' I reflected on the line "Wha' mek yuh fool and lamp me?" and thought to myself how some words have fallen out of Patois in my own lifetime. Yes, him gyp him, him samfy him.
You can add "kyaad" = CARD to the list
2021-07-26 19:03:56
In reply to JoeGrine
That too fe true, Missa Grine.
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2021-07-26 19:52:50
In reply to JayMor
You're putting me to shame now, boss. Fuss time me deh hear 'bout dat. cry From your clip though I see some of the old faves-- Carl Bradshaw, Hiram Keller and Grace Jones. Worth tracking down. What's the story with it, was it unfinished when Perry Henzell died and it was stitched together by others (maybe his son) much later?
@JayMor…I’ve not watched it yet but I’ve been looking, My understanding is that he had archived the footage because he ran out of money…it was rediscovered a couple of decades later and remastered. He saw the Toronto screening the day before he died so wasn’t around for the screening in Yard..
2021-07-26 20:16:44
I also liked Maffie in what is perhaps the best Jamaican Movie 'MILK N HONEY'
where he was the taxi-driver. (wi a guh a airport)
2021-07-26 23:13:09
In reply to Brerzerk
All my life I've never been a movie fan. But I'd like to see some of the Yardie ones now that the topic is raised here. Milk and Honey, eh? Ah gwine haffe look fe it.
In reply to FanAttick
I’ve not watched it yet but I’ve been looking
I will have to see if I can find it too.
Perry Henzell himself is who recruited me for his production of the "Life is Just for Living" Red Strip advert. Was just out for a bite to eat in Half Way Tree and saw him walking the opposite way when he stopped me and asked. I come into view from the right at 1:38 and again from the left at 1:43 as the camera pans back the other way.
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2021-07-26 23:20:14
In reply to JayMor
That movie is hard to find because it is a Canadian production, seems rights are owned by CBS. Ewart may be able to give some guidance. That ad is one of the best along with Charles Hyatt's Red Stripe too
2021-07-27 00:10:44
In reply to Brerzerk
Anything with Charles Hyatt will be a riot, but I more recall him doing an ad for some rum or other-- might have been Edwin Charley (that "RUMarkable rum") wherein while he was busy in conversation, the open bottle on the table started to levitate. Charles grabbed it and put the cork back on to "keep the spirit in" so it would stay on the table. Some funny stuff.
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2021-07-27 00:39:24
In reply to JayMor
So you knew the great Perry Henzel. I only saw him once when Jakes hotel was being opened. Good body of work.
2021-07-27 00:57:34
In reply to JayMor
Perry Henzell himself is who recruited me for his production of the "Life is Just for Living" Red Strip advert. Was just out for a bite to eat in Half Way Tree and saw him walking the opposite way when he stopped me and asked. I come into view from the right at 1:38 and again from the left at 1:43 as the camera pans back the other way.
Wow! Thanks for bringing back the memories. I dont think there’s a better commercial in the history of advertising. Simply brilliant with the melodious voice of the great Ernie Smith. I wonder how much it would cost to run that ad today…at 3 minutes that would certainly be a hefty price tag!
Do you remember what year D&G switched to the short fat bottles from the long neck red stripe bottles?
2021-07-27 03:08:22
In reply to FanAttick
Look what I found for you: https://us.redstripebeer.com/heritage/ Go half-way down the page. They say 1965.
That surprises me though. I emigrated ten years later and I don't recall seeing the short bottle before then. I could swear I only started seeing them after leaving.
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2021-07-27 03:19:27
In reply to nitro
So you knew the great Perry Henzel. I only saw him once when Jakes hotel was being opened.
You're a young whipper-snapper, what do you expect? He was at least two generations your senior. LOL. And I wouldn't say I knew him. I've certainly met him on that occasion and worked with him on the Red Stripe project, but nothing beyond. Good guy though.
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2021-07-27 04:23:15
In reply to JayMor
Look what I found for you:https://us.redstripebeer.com/heritage/ Go half-way down the page. They say 1965.
That surprises me though. I emigrated ten years later and I don't recall seeing the short bottle before then. I could swear I only started seeing them after leaving.
That surprises me though. I emigrated ten years later and I don't recall seeing the short bottle before then. I could swear I only started seeing them after leaving.
I find that surprising too..i could swear that I was drinking from the long neck bottle up to the late 70s….
2021-07-27 04:56:57
In reply to FanAttick
Let's take a closer look though; they word it thus: "The Red Stripe stubby bottle was introduced." I guess it doesn't mean 'replaced'. I'm all but certain I never saw it in Jamaica before I left.
Whichever, I'm just glad that Red Stripe is readily available here in N.A. Not the same alcohol content as the Yard original but I'll take it anyway.
Brata:- Some 007 Red Stripe facts.
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