” With her slight English accent, fastidious manners, hand-me-down clothes, and fondness for afternoon tea, she scarcely fit in with her peers. ’ ” They settled in Denver, Colorado, which she described to Kincaid as “rough. “Like, ’Daddy, can I go to the movies? ’ ’Negative! ’ ’Why can ’t you say ‘No, ’ like anybody else ’s father? ’ He ’d say ‘Negative! ’ or ’Affirmative. Military jargon prevailed even at home: “It was a different mentality, a way of life, ” she told Los Angeles Times writer Bob Ellison. ” She was born in Winston-Salem, South Carolina her father ’s military job kept the family traveling, and she grew up in Europe, returning to the United States when she was 14. “I never thought of television, of fans, movie stars, signing autographs. “When I was a young girl, I never thought of acting, ” Grier claimed in an Ebony profile.
Since then she has pursued a variety of film and television work, though 1970s nostalgia has only made her blaxploitation heroines -Friday Foster, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and others -loom ever larger. Above all, they are the only films to show us a woman who triumphs! ” Yet rather than be hemmed in by such roles, Grier took a break from her film career that began to look like retirement until she returned in a challenging, unglamorous role in 1981 ’s Fort Apache: The Bronx. contributor Jamaica Kincaid dismissed the films themselves as “mostly simplistic, sensational, violent, and technically faulty ” but celebrated their presentation of “a woman who is independent, resourceful, self-confident, strong, and courageous. Vibe ’s Darius James - an expert on the genre -rhapsodized, “Grier reigned over the altars of adolescent onanism in a dangerous double-D cup like a black-skinned goddess Kali. ” Though she continued to work in the ensuing decades, Grier established herself as a box-office draw in the “blaxploitation ” genre, generally playing tough, sexy crimefighters. Film critic Roger Ebert, in his Movie Home Companion, referred to Pam Grier as “one of the most intriguing action stars of the 1970s.
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