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...most famous instance in which he was inadvertently involved, occurred when James was standing around in a south Florida wood when several 50 pound bales of Jamaican fell from...
...Harder They Come. Starring Jimmy Cliffe. The movie quickly became something of a cult phenomenon. And why shouldn't it have? It's got everything: set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a travelogue; a reggae singe on the up and up is bullied and beaten down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted...
Married. Peter Finch, 57, England's articulate, stubbornly independent film star (Sunday Bloody Sunday," The Pumpkin Eater, Far from the Madding Crowd); and Eletha Barrett, 30, a Jamaican minister's daughter whom Finch met and moved in with eight years ago; he for the third time, she for the first; in Rome. The couple has a three-year-old daughter...
...DANCE TO Loggins and Messina, but you can have just as much fun laughing, singing and drinking with them. Theirs is good time music about whimsical loves like Winnie the Pooh, rock and roll, and Jamaican girls. Full Sail, their third album, is slicker and, at times, too cute, but Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina seem to have survived stardom to remain distinctively refreshing...
...songs Yarrow performed Sunday are on That's Enough For Me. The album is uneven, one or two of the songs very ordinary, but Yarrow's voice and the arrangements almost always avert real disappointment. The Maytals, a Jamaican reggae group, are used to good effect, and if Yarrow's version of "The Harder They Come" falls short of Jimmy Cliff, how could it do otherwise...