The 2008 election: Where are they now? Nov 10, 2008
He was informed that it is actually a bootleg copy of "Coffy," starring Pam Grier. He blamed Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild for "poor research skills.". (Salon)
DVD reviews: Incredible Hulk, Casino Royale Oct 31, 2008
The L Word: The Complete Fifth Season Lesbians in love resume their romantic drama in the series featuring Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Marlee Matlin and Pam Grier among a circle of women in Los Angeles. The four-disc set has year fives 12 episodes. (MSNBC -- Movies)
TV movies migrate to cable, abandon networks Oct 17, 2008
Ladies of the House: Donna Mills, Pam Grier and Florence Henderson reluctantly renovate an old house to raise funds for their church. By Gary Levin, USA TODAY The made-for-TV movie, all but gone from the major networks, is being reinvented on cable. (USA Today)
Mike Myers 'Thrilled' To Work With Quentin Tarantino, Play A British General In 'Inglorious Bastards' Oct 3, 2008
Mike Myers 'Thrilled' To Work With Quentin Tarantino, Play A British General In 'Inglorious Bastards. He has such a complete vision of how he wants it to go,' Myers says of director. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Locklear seeks depression treatment; McAvoy on kissing Jolie; catching up with Bobby Womack Jun 27, 2008
If you watched Quentin Tarantino's blaxploitation homage "Jackie Brown" or Denzel Washington's "American Gangster," then you heard Bobby's '70s hit "Across 110th Street." Coincidentally, Bobby used to date "Jackie Brown" star Pam Grier back in the day. If you heard KCi and Jo Jo singing "If You Think You're Lonely Now," be aware that Bobby wrote and recorded that song in the 1980s. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Evolution of Women Heroes in Film Jun 4, 2008
Corman was a visionary and invested in the early films of a true pioneer for women in film, Pam Grier. Blaxploitation films were often schlocky and Grier might ve gotten slapped around a little, but she could give as good as she got. (Suite101.com)
/C O R R E C T I O N -- Starz Entertainment/ May 23, 2008
Posse's other cast members included an array of interesting choices: cult actress Pam Grier, comedian Nipsey Russell, Blair Underwood, "South Park's" Isaac Hayes and, in his last speaking role, Western icon Woody Strode. "I'm a true product of America," says Mario. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Still sexy after all these years Apr 16, 2008
Sean Connery, George Clooney and Pam Grier and Sophia Loren have all seemed to master the art of looking better with each additional birthday candle. Image experts say the key is self-confidence - and perhaps a little chemical help. (Florida Times-Union)
Women love their guns Apr 12, 2008
But Pam Grier and those women, they become gun women, and they seek revenge. Q: What was common to the women with guns you photographed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Grier, Pullman to get award Mar 28, 2008
Pam Grier, Bill Pullman to get award ... Pam Grier, Bill Pullman to get award ... 27, 2008 12:00 AM WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Actress Pam Grier will be honored next month during a North Carolina film festival. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
NC Film Festival to Honor Pam Grier Mar 28, 2008
This is a 1974 photo of actress Pam Grier at an unknown location ... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Actress Pam Grier will be honored next month during a North Carolina film festival. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Hallmark announces lineup at upfronts Mar 26, 2008
New telepics for later this year include "Second Honeymoon," with Teri Polo and Jason Priestley; "Thanksgiving Reunion," starring Jacqueline Bisset; "The Gunfighter's Pledge," with Luke Perry; "Herb's Murders," with Bob Newhart; "The Ride of Their Lives," with Stephen Collins; "Ladies of the House," with Pam Grier, Florence Henderson and Donna Mills; and "Saving Grace" (working title), with Mark Consuelos. Fresh Disney titles, which will run on both Hallmark and its Hallmark Movie Channel... (Variety)
Read on... Jan 12, 2008
Rob Dyrdek and Christopher Big Black Boykin - Entertainment News, Web Exclusive, Media - Variety. Eye on the Oscars: Nomination Wrap. (Variety)
Stop right there Nov 28, 2007
If he lives in his mamas basement and got woodpaneling on the wall and a crush velvet picture of Pam Grier and a black fishet on the ceiling. If he hasn t bought any furniture since 1976. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Old School Dating Nov 8, 2007
or, anything with Pam Grier in it. By AmazonRed 2. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Making some noise at Fenway Oct 26, 2007
We're told the Rockies extended invites to "Foxy Brown" actress Pam Grier and singer Joe Cocker, both of whom have connections to Colorado, but they're out of town. The team also hoped to get the Fray to play, but the band is touring in Ireland and the UK.. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Cult film 'Spider Baby' is the perfect Halloween DVD Oct 17, 2007
Talented director Jack Hill is now a lionized cult figure, thanks to a filmography that includes Pam Grier blaxploitation ("Coffy," "Foxy Brown"), high school titillation ("The Swinging Cheerleaders"), and women-in-cages exploitation ("The Big Doll House"). On the DVD featurette, he seems almost embarrassed to admit that the movie's subtitle of "The Maddest Story Ever Told" was a pun on the title of the dramatized life of Jesus, "The Greatest Story Ever Told." He also theorizes that "Spider... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Tarantino wants to cast Ringo in film Sep 28, 2007
Pulp Fiction' has often been credited with reviving the career of John Travolta in 1994, while 'Jackie Brown' brought the 58-year-old Pam Grier out of obscurity in 1997. In 2003's 'Kill Bill' Tarantino put martial arts expert David Carradine back in the limelight almost 20 years after he had last appeared in a high profile film role. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Logo Picks Up ‘The L Word’ Sep 24, 2007
The sixth season of the show, which premiered on Showtime in 2004 and stars Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner, Katherine Moennig, Pam Grier, Rachel Shelly and Daniela Sea, is set to debut on the premium network in January. The show will benefit from significant online components at Logo s AfterEllen. (Multichannel News)
Big hair glorified in 'Hairspray' is everywhere Jul 23, 2007
Whether stately (Marie Antoinette, Jackie Kennedy), sexy (Farrah Fawcett, Pam Grier) or just plain mall-rageous (Melanie Griffith and Joan Cusack in "Working Girl"), big hair will always have an appeal that defies explanation. "Women definitely feel sexier in bigger hair," Calcasola says. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
A honey of a read: Elmore Leonard's female lead might be the best since Jackie Burke Jul 1, 2007
95) may be the best of them since "Rum Punch," (1992), whose female lead was later immortalized by Pam Grier in the movie "Jackie Brown." The story gets rolling when U.S. Marshal Carl Webster, first introduced in "The Hot Kid" (2006), tracks the escapees to Detroit and enlists Honey to help him find them, which gives her an excuse to pop in on her ex and shout, "Sig Heil, y'all.". As usual, Leonard tells his story in his flawlessly colloquial prose style, with pitch-perfect dialogue. (North County Times)
Maestro misplaces his mojo May 26, 2007
Or '70s blaxploitation star Pam Grier, rescued from obscurity through her starring role in Jackie Brown. Much quoted and much copied, Tarantino's films have contributed images and phrases to popular culture that may well outlast the memory of the film themselves: the suited bank robbers walking in slow motion towards camera to the song Little Green Bag, for example, is as immediately recognisable as anything in cinema history. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Martha loves our Scott Peacock May 26, 2007
Actress Pam Grier is 58. Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is 58. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Today in History May 26, 2007
Secondary Navigation. By The Associated Press Sat May 26, 12:02 AM ET. (Yahoo News)
Happy birthday! May 26, 2007
Pam Grier (actress) 58. Philip Michael Thomas (actor) 58. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Stop it, Mr Tarantino, you're killing us May 23, 2007
He has saved whole careers: John Travolta, all but forgotten, became a star again thanks to Pulp Fiction, while the '70s blaxploitation star Pam Grier was rescued from obscurity through her starring role in Jackie Brown. Much quoted and much copied, his films have contributed images and phrases to popular culture that may even outlast the memory of the films: the suited robbers walking in slow motion towards the camera, for example, is as immediately recognisable as anything in cinema history. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A FUNK QUEEN STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS May 19, 2007
" (She denies, with a laugh, that the song was about Miles Davis.) "Stepping in Her I. Miller Shoes" celebrates Devon Wilson, the former Cosmic Lady and Jimi Hendrix paramour who died in a mysterious fall from New York's Chelsea Hotel. Sympathy for strong but troubled women remained a constant theme in her music. Although Angela Davis and Pam Grier were changing perceptions of women of color in the popular culture, Davis' 1973 debut made little splash. Vincent says, "She was too black for rock... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Want to date a celebrity?" May 16, 2007
if it Halle Berry or Pam Grier I am down like four flat on a broken down Civic. will be back gotta run they making me earn it today. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Sex appeal: What's age got to do with it? Apr 29, 2007
Sex appeal: What's age got to do with it. - Sexploration - MSNBC.com. (MSNBC -- Health)
Grindhouse’ a great experience but not for everyone Apr 20, 2007
Jackie Brown was actually about Pam Grier s career in the blaxploitation films of the 1970s, and Kill Bill is nothing more than Tarantino really, really wanting to do one of the samurai movies he loves so much ... He doesn t make movies so much as he makes love letters: to Pam Grier, to samurai movies, to crime films, and now, to the second-rate horror movies of the 1970s. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
This Old Grindhouse: Apr 9, 2007
Pam Grier wasn't famous because she was a good actor, she was famous for her ferocity and because she had a great rack. Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat. (Slate)
The house that grind built Apr 8, 2007
One of Pam Grier's early starring roles features the Amazonian Afro-American as a nurse who single-handedly (with the help of a short skirt and a sawed-off shotgun) takes down the gangsters and drug dealers who made a junkie of her pubescent sister ... Only five minutes pass in Coffy (1973) before the Amazonian vigilante played by Pam Grier proves her cred by blowing the top of a drug dealer's head off with a shotgun and sticking a junkie with a syringe full of poison ... Just follow the... (Toronto Star)
Michael Biehn & Jeff Fahey Apr 6, 2007
In Jackie Brown, for example, the director single-handedly resuscitated the careers of Pam Grier and Robert Forster; in almost all of his other films, he gave choice roles to overlooked character actors like Sid Haig or Michael Parks. So when Grindhouse was proposed, it seemed only natural that he and co-conspirator Robert Rodriguez find some familiar but forgotten faces for key characters. (IGN FilmForce)
Top 10 Grind House Films Apr 5, 2007
Coffy is the 1973 blaxploitation film that launched the career of Pam Grier, who would follow up the flick with another genre classic, Foxy Brown. Here Grier plays the title role of a nurse-cum-vigilante who sets out on a one-woman war against crime after her sister becomes addicted to drugs. (IGN FilmForce)
Quentin Tarantino interview Apr 4, 2007
Fred Topel, CraveOnline April 2, 2007. Every time you hear an interview with Quentin Tarantino, you invariably learn about some wild old film you ve never heard of, but want to see. (Crave Online)
Zombies lurch, blood spurts and babes drive fast in Grindhouse Apr 4, 2007
Says Rodriguez: "We thought, wouldn't it be great, like when you go see a Pam Grier double feature, if it's two women-in-prison movies, she's a prisoner in one and the warden in the other? So we've got crossovers.". Tarantino, in his first directing foray since the 2003-04 Kill Bills, drew from high-octane car-chase pics (notably the 1971 cult classic Vanishing Point) and slasher pics in which a maniac stalker preys on a bevy of nubile beauties (Tarantino cites Bob Clark's 1972 Yuletide terror,... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
'Amped-up and crazed' Apr 2, 2007
Says Rodriguez: "We thought, wouldn t it be great, like when you go see a Pam Grier double feature, if it s two women-in-prison movies, she s a prisoner in one and the warden in the other? So we ve got crossovers.". Tarantino, in his first directing foray since the 2003-04 Kill Bills, drew from high-octane car-chase pics (notably the 71 cult classic Vanishing Point) and slasher pics in which a maniac stalker preys on a bevy of nubile beauties (Tarantino cites Bob Clark s 1972 Yuletide terror,... (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Tarantino and Rodriguez team up for 'Grindhouse' Mar 30, 2007
A tagline that runs "Their bodies were caged, but not their desires." Plus Pam Grier. What's not to like. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Rosario Dawson Talks Female-Focused 'Grindhouse,' Tarantino's Foot Fetish Mar 29, 2007
Somebody in Tennessee would be like, "Pam Grier took off her top in this scene. I 00004000 'm just going to 'snip snip' and take this for my own personal collection!" We have that exact same thing. You are really at the edge of your seat ready to see something, and then it just says, "Missing reel, sorry for the inconvenience." What. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Top 10 movie recommendations were difficult to nail down Mar 24, 2007
The Pam Grier film about an aging flight attendant with a chance to steal enough money to turn her life around simply drips with 70s-style cool. But it s also got some depth. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
'Deliverance' To 'Breakfast At Tiffany's': Movies We'd Like To See Remade Mar 22, 2007
supported by Pam Grier as the mom. Put Clooney collaborator Steven Soderbergh behind the camera and watch the fireworks fly. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Dating : Missing your ex? Mar 15, 2007
hhhmmm mmmmmmm now i wouldnt say my epitome of everything is real we are talking about a mixture of Pam Grier with two shots of Angela Basette and a dose of Michelle Williams. sooooo hey if that came i am cool but i know she doesn t exist sooo i am just looking for that person thats for me. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Hell Ride Revs Up Mar 14, 2007
The project is yet another example of Tarantino resurrecting the careers of washed-up actors, following on the heels of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Pam Grier in Jackie Brown, and others. Related Links. (IGN FilmForce)
All around the world Mar 14, 2007
hhhmmm mmmmmmm now i wouldnt say my epitome of everything is real we are talking about a mixture of Pam Grier with two shots of 00000436 Angela Basette and a dose of Michelle Williams. sooooo hey if that came i am cool but i know she doesn t exist sooo i am just looking for that person thats for me. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Fincher: The San Francisco Treat Mar 7, 2007
Here, Pam Grier s narration isn t shy about the actor/activist s leanings, and fills in biographical details omitted in Portraits of the Artist. We hear about his embrace of Communism, his unwillingness to criticize Soviet leaders excesses, and his assertions that he only really understood his African roots after moving to London. (San Antonio Current, TX)
MrSkin.com Presents March Nakedness 2007 - The Nude Answer to the NCAA Tournaments! Mar 6, 2007
Other brawlers-in-the-buff include, Halle Berry in Monster's Ball (2001), Bo Derek in 10 (1979), Alyssa Milano in Embrace of the Vampire (1995), Anne Hathaway in Havoc (2005), and drive-in skinsation Pam Grier in Coffy (1973). About Mr. Skin. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Diva guns for a career change with aces up her sleeve Feb 9, 2007
" Georgia Sykes is Keys's character, a smokey assassin, a mix of a darker Uma Thurman from Kill Bill and Pam Grier from her Foxy Brown days. Sykes gets around in heels, fishnets and barely there shorts but seems better armed than the average aircraft carrier. Early in her career, Keys wore dreadlocks and famously preferred pants over "disempowering" skirts. Judging by the way she looks today, she's moved on. Her hair has a layered salon look and she's wearing a tailored black and green dress... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Starz InBlack Recognizes Black History Month With Month-Long Celebration Featuring Films From a Different Decade Every Night in February Feb 1, 2007
Decade of Movies from the '70s - Week of Feb. 5 * The Landlord 2/5 - (Beau Bridges, Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands) * A.K.A. Cassius Clay 2/6 - (Muhammad Ali, Richard Kiley, Malcolm X) * Cotton Comes to Harlem 2/7 - (Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart) * Black Mama, White Mama 2/8 - (Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig) * Black Caesar 2/9 - (Fred Williamson, Art Lund, Gloria Hendry) * Scream Blacula Scream 2/10 - (William Marshall, Pam Grier, Don Mitchell) * They Call Me Mister... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
EW review: 'Smokin' Aces' Jan 28, 2007
They're played by Alicia Keys, who has just enough sleek attitude to evoke the young Pam Grier, and Taraji Henson, who convincingly mans -- or, should I say, womans -- a weapon powerful enough to have Donald Rumsfeld muttering with envy. "Smokin' Aces" is one of those movies in which criminals lock and load their guns as rhythmically as rock drummers, and the camera work is so fetishistically propulsive that it's like the filmmaker's own glorified form of gun-cocking. (CNN -- Showbiz)
I Like to Watch (53) Jan 16, 2007
I've never watched the "L Word" but I do know that Pam Grier is approximately 60 years old- so was Havrilesky kidding when she talked about Grier trying to get an abortioin. is there some inside joke for which I need enlightenment from the regular viewers. (Salon)
Time to reflect Jan 13, 2007
98) has the great Pam Grier starring as the sexy "Foxy Brown," plus "Coffy," "Cooley High," "Hell Up in Harlem" and "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.". Here's a look at a few of the titles included under each banner and sold for $14. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Sunday's best bets Jan 7, 2007
In the fourth-season premiere, "Legend in the Making," Bette (Jennifer Beals) and her daughter are on the run, Shane (Katherine Moennig) receives a surprise from her stepmother, Kit's (Pam Grier) pregnancy has complications, and Helena (Rachel Shelley) adjusts to life without her mom's money. (MA) 982216. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
