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Nuggets From Kickass Pam Grier

By Michael Musto, Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:00AM
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Categories: Featured, film, my column

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My column this week details a gay weekend in Atlantic City, including a meet-and-greet with L Word actors like Pam Grier, the glam star of '70s blaxploitation flicks who keeps on kicking ass.

I'll share with you the extra nuggets the gorgeous Pam gave me.

What has she been doing since The L Word? "That show lives on in perpetuity," she said. "The messages about women and the great stuff I learned about the lesbian, bi, and bicurious community."

But she's been busy anyway, having finished her memoirs, in addition to filming the role of Queen Latifah's mother in a movie called Just Wright. Hmm, that's not straying very from that community!

Working with Quentin Tarantino on 1997's Jackie Brown? Amazing, Pam said. "And he was working on writing Inglourious Basterds back then. He told me about it!"

And in 2002, Pam said, Halle Berry optioned Foxy Brown--Pam's old vehicle about a kickass nurse battling a drug ring--but she ended up doing Catwoman instead. "Bad idea," I screeched and Pam playfully put her finger to her lips.

Her fondest wish? "I'm hoping the Smithsonian will call me for the dress from Foxy Brown. The blue one with the ruffles. I'm holding onto it. Call me, Smithsonian!"

But she also wants to bring down Bin Laden and cracked to me, "I saw him in a casino the other day. I can take him out!" More importantly, she'll look fierce while doing so.

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elron says:

You scooped Page Six. Two days after your blog, they just ran an item about Madonna, Jesus, Jessica Seinfeld, and Anderson Cooper going to Bourgeois Pig. They say they also went to Eastern Block.

They left out that Anderson's boyfriend was with them and he's the owner of Eastern Block. Weird.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:18AM
hilda crane says:

Pam Grier wants to take down Bin Laden? Fi-eeerce!

Funny, Dubya never cared much to do that.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:19AM
franco says:

"What'chu talkin bout, Jackie brown???
Crack will make one say mad stupid things and shit."

While permitting a variety of games and sports, Islam prohibits any game which involves betting, that is, which has an element of gambling in it. We have already quoted the saying of the Prophet, 'He who says to his friend: 'Come, let us gamble,' must give charity.' It is not lawful for the Muslim to seek relaxation and recreation in gambling, nor is it lawful for him to acquire money through it.

- The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam,
Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:27AM
fanny fan-fan says:

Halle Berry probably did Catwoman instead of Foxy Brown because the money was in line, and you know how she is about money.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:27AM
young straight person says:

Why would the Post leave out the little fact that they went to Eastern Bloc because Anderson's boyfriend owns it???

They're so squeamish all of a sudden?? They better catch up.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:35AM
Drew Hunkins says:

That is one smoking hot babe! I'm 38 years old so I missed her hey day by a few years. Hollywood just doesn't turn them out like Pam Grier anymore. She had it all: beautiful face, astonishing figure with curves; she didn't look like some emaciated anorexic magazine cover.

She easily had the best body ever to come out of Hollywood.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:42AM
patches says:

Dated Richard Pryor. That must have been fucked up.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:45AM
cjay says:

Pam Grier is one foxy soul mama! And she's got a lot going on, being sixty? and all. She looks better than most twenty year olds.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 12:01PM
F. Packer says:

What a sexy, sensual woman!

That photograph gave me a "special feeling".

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 12:48PM
Jennifer says:

If Halle Berry even breathes on Foxy Brown, I will have a stroke.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 2:21PM
Jonster says:

Love me some Pam Grier. And I like the Gefilte-Fish-Out-Of-Water line, ha!!

Joy Behar? I'm glad she has her own show. She deserves all she has and a lot more. Everyone must be back in town after the summer. The parties you're writing about sound fabulash!!!!

MacKenzie wrote that book because she had to pay off her lawyers for her drug bust last year. She got a sweet deal on two felony charges. Unsupervised probation. That costs $$.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 9:18PM
nostradavid says:

Pam is the TOTAL package: talent, equipment and attitude!
Coffy, Foxy, Jackie ... wow!
(thanks for the picture)

The Coen brothers' trailer for A Serious Man
is the funniest I've seen in a long time.
http://filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/a_serious_man

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 1 2009 @ 10:57PM
Vagino Dickson says:

Someone who couldn't recognize a joke felt it was necessary to diss Pam Grier, the strongest argument alive for queer guys to doubt the wisdom of homosexuality.

I couldn't believe my ears when she did a few interviews to promote Jackie Brown. Not only was she smart and witty, she had lefty-politics of the good kind. And when I saw the movie much later (not being a fan of Tarantino, so shoot me), she'd also become a much better actress than her earlier blaxploitation vehicles.

And that's how one Pam Grier fan became an even bigger Pam Grier fan.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 2 2009 @ 2:14AM
CMG says:

It is totally true about the IG script. He had been working on it for close to two decades. I think the fact Chinese Democracy beat him to the punch gave him motivation to finally finish.

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 3 2009 @ 1:32AM

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