Word: grier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eighth grade, when the school held a father-son night, John's companion was Roosevelt Grier, the former football star who in 1968 had tackled Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. But John would not talk about his dead father and uncle; classmates recall only one history class in his Collegiate career when John mentioned the President. If you didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack...
This show is sure to be two snaps, a twist and a kiss. David Alan Grier of In Living Color's Men on Film fame struts his stand-up at the Comedy Connection. And we guarantee he's nicer than Al Franken. Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall. 248-9700. 8 p.m., 10:15 p.m. $21. Also Saturday...
...moments like that are few and far between,mostly because of the absolutely chilling andmesmerizing performance by McGowan. She playsCourtney as a classic bitch, the type of girl notbothered by anybody or anything. Neither pressurefrom the police about the murder (Pam Grier as afirst-rate tough cop), nor having sex with MarilynManson (McGowans' real life boyfriend, thoughfrighteningly sans makeup in the movie) in Liz'sbed while her corpse stagnates underneath it,unnerves...
...sexual orientation. The hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor, life, energy. Weighed down by the tone of dead-serious satire, the jokes on Linc's usually land...
SHOULD WINRobert Forster--also the actor most certain of losing. His work on Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown was not only compelling on its own, but his love for Jackie brought us closer to her character than almost anything else in Pam Grier's own uneven performance...