By Barbara Ellington,
Senior Gleaner Writer
Emmy winner Cliff Hughes (second right) shares the spotlight with his daughter Jheanelle (right), mother Delrose Freeman (second left) and brother, Gregory. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
WHILE GOLFING enthusiasts putted away on the brightly lit Cable and Wireless Golf Academy in New Kingston last Friday night, members of the media fraternity gathered in the foreground of the complex with family and friends of ace journalist Cliff Hughes to celebrate the Emmy award won by his television programme Impact.
The history-making feat was accomplished through collaboration with Fox News that used Impact's 'The Potter and the Clay' in a documentary which won the coveted statuette. Those who missed the episode, got a chance to see excerpts as well as get the story of its genesis first-hand from Mr. Hughes during his acknowledgement of the team effort.
THE RIGHT ELEMENTS
"It nearly didn't happen, it took the team to convince me that we had a story," Hughes told his large audience. But in the end, the story which examined how convicted Jamaican sniper Lee Boyd Malvo managed to become one of America's most terrifying serial killers, had all the right elements, from the influence of a father figure to his school friends.
"The team is what makes me the success I'm perceived to be," concluded a grateful Hughes as hundreds of moths overhead were drawn to the light bulbs in the same way that guests were drawn to the exhibit that chronicled Impact's proudest moments. Special guest, Terri Toliver, in revealing that this was her fourth Emmy, spoke about how impressed the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was with "The Potter and the Clay" from which they drew valuable information for their winning documentary, "The Search for Answers (Malvo Exclusive Insights). "I made several calls here before coming down for three days and we subsequently made a half-hour documentary using that broadcast all I can say is that the Jamaican team rocks!" Tolliver said.
GRAND NIGHT
Altogether, it was a grand night for celebrating and as politicians from both sides of the fence mingled with members of the business community, others enjoyed the delicious fare attractively presented in bandanna draped tents by Kaiteure Foods by Bevon Morrison and her team, and yet others de-stressed on the dance floor.
Among those out and about were: Desmond Richards, Desmond Allen, Garfield Grandison, Jenni Campbell, Mark Wignal and his "Chupski", Kay Osborne, Elaine Wint-Leslie, Horace Burrell and his partner, Ryland Campbell, Don and Ayisha Creary, Paul and Mrs. Burke, Owen and Lorraine Clunie, R. Christine King, Cliff's mom Delrose Freeman, his daughter Jheanelle Hughes and brother Gregory Capelton, Fae Ellington, Kevin Richards, James Robertson, Bobby Pickersgill, Bobby Montague, Colin Campbell, Colin Blair, Naomi Francis, Carol Narcisse, Yvonne Wilks, Andrea Whyte, Milton Walker, Novia McDonald White."
