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THE LATEST AT OUTWRITE:
Pam Grier signs 'Foxy: My Life in Three Acts' at Outwrite!
06/16/2010 5:00 pm
06/16/2010 6:00 pm
Book Signing Event
Pam Grier signs Foxy
at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Wed, Jun. 16, 2010
5:00 PM
About Pam Grier:
Pam Grier started her career in the early 1970s, starring in a string of
moderately successful women-in-prison films and blaxploitation films,
and has generally remained in the public eye, starring in movies such as
Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Jackie Brown.
Synopsis:
In this prickly autobiography, the iconic actress is almost as
hard-nosed toward lovers as her filmic alter -ego was toward enemies.
Grier recalls a flamboyant career, from B-movie starlet in Women in
Cages through blaxploitation diva in Foxy Brown to Tarantino muse in
Jackie Brown, all of it shaped by a rigorous Stanislavskian method. (Her
self-transformation into a strung-out killer prostitute for an audition
almost got her arrested by the NYPD.) Grier nods to the feminist and
black power movements that inspired her screen persona as a glamorous
badass shotgunning a white and/or male power structure—Hollywood's
answer to Angela Davis—while distancing herself from the myth: deep down
she's a Colorado farm girl, scarred by two rapes, who loves horses. But
there's a resemblance to her onscreen persona in her tough, wary
attitude toward domineering boyfriends like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who
futilely tried to convert her into a submissive Muslim wife, and
comedian Freddie Prinze, whose suicide garners less space and pathos
than does the death of her dog. “What harm would it do to say yes and
keep on watching his behavior?” she strategizes when a suitor presents
an engagement ring.
Location:
- Street:
- Outwrite Bookstore
- Additional:
- 991 Piedmont Ave NE
- City:
- Atlanta ,
- Province:
- Georgia
- Postal Code:
- 30309-4108
- Country:
- United States
