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Paul Hayward Grier Due West...
Local politicians, ex-Football Star Roosevelt Grier, and Evangelists Rex Humbard and Pat Robertson attended. Barbara Mandrell sang the national anthem. There was a congratulatory letter from President Reagan. The festivities in Tulsa last week preceded not the kickoff of a football game but the opening of the City of Faith, the $150 million medical complex that Evangelist Oral Roberts claims he built on direct orders from...
...fact he now includes in his comedy routine. "I snorted up Peru," he says. "I could have bought Peru." Married and divorced three times, he has four children-three girls and a boy. A long-term relationship seems beyond his grasp, but his main companion right now is Pam Grier, who played his wife in Greased Lightning...
...short, what we have here is a little miracle of perseverance, all the more effective for the good-humored manner in which the story is presented. Beau Bridges does a pleasant turn as a white driver who becomes Scott's friend and, later, mechanic. Pam Grier, up out of the unlamented blaxploitation pictures of a few years back, is patient and supportive as Scott's long-suffering wife. Director Schultz, as he demonstrated in last year's Car Wash, has a loose, uninsistent style that gives the picture the quality of a yarn being retold on someone...
...yeah--on the field, there was a steady parade of the famous and not-too-famous: there were the six remaining original 1925 Giants--one of whom is, somewhat disconcertingly, currently confined to a wheelchair. Then there were the '56 Giants--Katcavage, Gifford, Rote, Grier, Connerly--still on their feet and looking like they could still put on the ol' uniforms in a pinch...