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Tarantino was just coming off directing and promoting Pulp Fiction, one of the most successful films of the decade. Grier was just coming off a cameo in Posse, a modestly successful black western. Grier gave Tarantino a look and said, "Please." Not "pleeeese," meaning, yes, give it to me, thank you very much. But "puhhhhlease," meaning there's not a snowball's chance this joker is actually gonna come through with a script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GUNNING FOR '90S GLORY | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Today Grier throws back her dark avalanche of curls and laughs when she tells that story. On Christmas Day Tarantino's highly anticipated crime drama, Jackie Brown, will open--and Grier is indeed in the title role, alongside A-listers Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GUNNING FOR '90S GLORY | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Jackson, De Niro...Grier? If you watch Grier's blaxploitation flicks, you can see what Tarantino may have seen in her (MGM is re-releasing both Coffy and Foxy Brown on video, rechristening them "Soul Cinema"). In her most popular films, Grier played a strong woman out for revenge. "This is the end of your rotten life, you motherf___ing dope pusher," she cries in Coffy before blowing a dealer's head off. Grier was a woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GUNNING FOR '90S GLORY | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Grier found work in more conventional action films. Says Jack Hill, the white director of Coffy and Foxy Brown: "She wanted to play a more glamorous and respectable character than what she had done with me." But in doing so, Grier became more of a nostalgic figure than an iconic celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GUNNING FOR '90S GLORY | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Jackie Brown could make her a true mainstream star. She plays an airline stewardess who teams up with a white bail bondsman to steal half a million dollars from a gunrunning black thug. The film starts with a long, loving shot of Grier as she glides down a walkway through an airport. "I hope this film does for Pam what working for Quentin has done for other people," says co-star Jackson, alluding to his own post-Tarantino success and John Travolta's as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GUNNING FOR '90S GLORY | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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