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‘Green Mile’ actor Duncan dead at 54: reps
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This March 26, 2000 file photo shows US actor Michael Clarke Duncan showing off his watch on his arrival at the Shrine Auditorium for the 72nd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California. Duncan, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “The Green Mile”, died September 3, 2012 in Los Angeles. Age 54, Duncan had suffered a heart attack in July and was in an intensive care unit for over a month. Photo/AFP

By AFP
Posted Tuesday, September 4 2012 at 05:40
Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in “The Green Mile,” an adaptation of a Stephen King work, died Monday at age 54, his representatives said.

Duncan “passed away peacefully today,” the manager, Dan Spilo, told AFP. “He was a great man with a huge heart, and it was an honor and a privilege to represent him.”

Duncan’s girlfriend Omarosa Manigault, one-time star of the reality television show “The Apprentice,” asked for privacy through Duncan’s publicist Joy Fehily.

The actor “suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered,” Fehily said in a statement.

“Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date.”

Born in Chicago on December 10, 1957, Duncan moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. The imposing actor, who was 6’5″ (1.96 meters), worked as a bodyguard for Will Smith and Jamie Foxx while securing smaller roles.

His breakthrough performance came when he was cast as convict John Coffey in “The Green Mile,” a man wrongly accused of child murder and rape, who has supernatural powers. Tom Hanks co-starred as a prison guard.

Beyond his Oscar nomination, Duncan also earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nods.

Duncan acted in about 50 films. He was notably featured in “Armageddon,” a role that was the stepping stone to his casting in “The Green Mile.”

That damn badword law
BY KARYL WALKER Online news editor [email protected]
Monday, September 03, 2012
LAST Saturday a policeman fatally shot a heavily pregnant Kayann Lamont and injured her sister after the woman was heard mouthing a string of choice Jamaican ‘cloths’ in Yallahs, St Thomas. Several sectors of society have expressed rage.

The policeman accused of the murder and shooting has been jailed but the tragic event is still fresh in the minds of many Jamaicans.

Lamont’s untimely death has brought into focus the relevance of the law governing indecent language.

Under section 9C of The Town and Communities Act any person who shall make on any fence, wall or other building, any obscene figure, drawing, painting, or representation, or sing any profane, indecent, or obscene song or ballad, or write or draw any indecent or obscene word, figure, or representation, or use any profane, indecent or obscene language publicly can be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,500 or to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding thirty days.

While the fine is now $1,500, ‘bad words’ were once described as 40 shilling words as that was the fine for using them under the rule of the colonial master.

Is it that the law was implemented to curtail the use of certain slang words used by people of African descent, which were not fully understood by the former slave owners?

The law was drafted in 1834 and was last amended in 1997 and does not specify which words or phrases are deemed to be obscene, profane or indecent but instead leaves the police to make that determination.

It was not clear what choice words Lamont used while describing to a friend, her ordeal of being robbed of her cell phone and money that was to be used to purchase back to school supplies.

But her rants drew the attention of the cop who ended up taking her life.

That section of the act which speaks to indecent language is irrelevant, archaic and clearly a hangover from our colonial past.

Pussyfooting is a legitimate word and we all know that the pussy willow is a tree. So why should any person be carted off to jail for adding a bit of fabric to a word that is used to describe a cat?

Blood runs through human veins and we use cloth for a wide variety of purposes so what is the sense charging someone for combining two legitimate words?

Another section of the act that is clearly nonsensical is one that deals with disturbing religious worship.

The law states that any person “who shall willfully disturb any meeting or assembly, or any congregation assembled for religious worship, or for any religious service or rite in any burial ground, or disturb or molest any person thereat, shall be guilty of an offense and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding four dollars”.

Four dollars?

There are too many laws on our books that are clearly out of date and serve no purpose in the building process of modern Jamaica. After 50 years of independence we should be able to at least get some things right.

Our legislators need to take a serious look at some of our outdated laws and move post haste to erase them from the law books.

One can’t help thinking that if there wasn’t an outdated law like the one which speaks to indecent language, Kayann Lamont might not have lost her life and the cop accused of shooting her would not be behind bars.

Saturday is one day ‘s family will want to forget, but will always remember. It was on that day the eight-month pregnant woman was shot dead by a policeman in the Yallahs square, St Thomas, and her sister shot and injured.

Now the family is left to face the fact that not only will they have to go on without her, but they will have to painstakingly explain to her two remaining children, ages nine and five, why they will see their mother no more and who is responsible.

The grief and anger were evident in Logwood district, Yallahs, yesterday, as family and friends gathered at her home to express their shock and show support.

last conversation

Her father, Eric, remembered Kay-Ann, who was his second of seven children, as a comedian. This caused persons to always want to be in her company. “She was a friendly person. Everyone liked her,” he recalled in a dejected tone. “She liked to give jokes, she was a little joker.”

He recounted the last conversation he had with her a few days before her death. “She seh to mi, ‘daddy suppose you see how mommy get fat, a now u woulda want fi deh back with mommy’,” he said, adding that his daughter was unemployed at the time of her death but was by no means unemployable as she was skilled at doing nails and weaving hair.

As the small group stood at the entrance to the house, some bowed and shook their heads, others looked on in bewilderment, yet others were too overcome with anger to show any other emotion.

One thing was evident, everyone condemned the killing as they remembered Kay-Ann, the life she lived, and knew she didn’t deserve such a gruesome ‘send off’.

Kay-Ann’s stepmother, Naomi Mcleod, who nurtured her from childhood, told THE STAR that she was angry at the incident. She reasoned that Kay-Ann had made plans to find out the sex of her unborn child next week as she was scheduled to undergo an ultrasound.

Kay-Ann’s shooting occurred in full view of several people, maybe none were more affected than her sister, Chem, who was with her sisters when they were shot. In fact, she narrowly escaped death as she alleges that the gun was pointed at her following her sisters’ shooting.

Chem said she and her sisters had just returned from shopping in Kingston where Kay-Ann’s handbag containing her cellphone and other things were stolen. This, she. said, is what caused Kay-Ann to use an expletive as she cursed about losing her phone.

“We come from town and come off a bus and we a talk and meanwhile we a talk she curse a bad word, and a police come up to her and said him overhear her curse a bad word,” Chem recalled.

She said the cop tried to take Kay-Ann who refused claiming that everyone uses expletives, including the police themselves. She said as other police officers watched the incident unfolded.

It is alleged that the lawman drew his weapon and shot Kay-Ann in the head. She immediately fell to the ground and was shot again – in the head. The other sister she said, was then shot in the shoulder.

injured women

It was then that the other police officers ran over. Some placed the injured women in a jeep and took them to hospital while others took the policeman into the Yallahs Police Station nearby.

By this time, residents who had witnessed the incident became irate and began blocking the square and calling for justice. The demonstration continued until late in the night forcing cops to call for reinforcement to bring things under control.

Yesterday, the police said the cop involved in the incident has since been removed from front-line duty and his family placed under protection.

The Independent Commission of Investigations has launched a probe into the matter.