Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) yesterday elected Jessica K. Jackson '99 to be its new president during the group's annual executive board elections...
...Jackson, who was not available for comment last night, will officially take charge of the board at the beginning of next semester...
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...
...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...
...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...