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...meeting was two years ago, on a street in Hollywood: Pam Grier, queen of ultraviolent "blaxploitation" flicks in the '70s, ran into Quentin Tarantino, king of ultraviolent indie cinema in the '90s. The director, it turned out, was a big fan. He even had a poster of Grier's 1973 movie Coffy up on his office wall. THE BADDEST ONE-CHICK HIT-SQUAD THAT EVER HIT TOWN! boasts the poster, which sports an illustration of a shotgun-wielding Grier in low-riding stretch pants and a revelatory bikini top. "I got an idea," Tarantino told Grier. "I want to write...
...PLAYERS] Pam Grier, Sam Jackson, De Niro; dir. Quentin Tarantino...
...Well, not all of the '70s came back. Funk, polyester, and Pam Grier are back. Even the Village People are hip again. Ski sweaters ? and Denver's never-raucous blend of country, folk and white-bread pop ? simply have not received their...
...credentials will get you into The Clinton Coffees, Pts. 1-44 (1997). Just four bucks will get you a coffee movie. But what exactly is a coffee movie? Parallax View was set in Seattle, yet features maybe two cups of the stuff (although one does kill Hume Cronyn). Pam Grier's blaxploitation babe-fest Coffy (1973), despite its many merits, isn't one either...
Like Pulp Fiction and his 1992 debut, Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino's latest film is populated with jive-talking killers and other lowlifes. The plot revolves around a streetwise flight attendant, played by Grier, who double- and triple-crosses a gun dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) despite interference from an ex-con (Robert De Niro) and a stoned-out beach bunny (Bridget Fonda) who bounces between the two men. Filled with Tarantino-lingo overkill (the N word is reportedly used 10 times in the first scene alone), the film mixes ultra-violence with the director's usual pop-culture references...