Pam Grier

Memoir by well-known movie and television icon whose many roles include Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, Jackie Brown, and currently as, Kit Porter on Showtime’s The L Word. Grier shares thoughts about her career, her relationships with Richard Pryor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Freddie Prinze, ... (more)Sr., and her experiences as a backup singer and a blaxploitation star. She candidly speaks about the persecution she feels that blacks, especially women, have had to endure in order to make a name for themselves in show business.

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. In this prickly autobiography, ... (more)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.

Memoir by well-known movie and television icon whose many roles include Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, Jackie Brown, and currently as, Kit Porter on Showtime’s The L Word. Grier shares thoughts about her career, her relationships with Richard Pryor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Freddie Prinze, ... (more)Sr., and her experiences as a backup singer and a blaxploitation star. She candidly speaks about the persecution she feels that blacks, especially women, have had to endure in order to make a name for themselves in show business. $10 Admission / $5 Hammonds House Museum members. Advance ticket purchases at http://www.wineandwordseventpamgrier.... or http://www.writtenmag.com. For more information, please call (404) 753-8315.

Meet actress and author Pam Grier as she reads from and signs copies of her book, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts. Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin' Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on The L Word. But that only defines one part ... (more)of the legend that is Pam Grier.