Pam Grier's Forthcoming Memoirs Promise To Be Memorable
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Sep 12, 2008
Pam Grier is finding time between "The L Word" camera calls to continue work on the memoirs for which she has a March deadline. What a book it's bound to be -- including not only her life as the Blaxploitation movie queen of "Coffy" and "Foxy Brown" renown, but lesser known chapters such as her journey into Islam when she was dating "Lewis Alcindor. He was converting his last year at UCLA," she recalls of the basketball legend best known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Pam Grier's Forthcoming Memoirs Promise To Be Memorable (Image: Wenn)
Her time with Richard Pryor also produced unique experiences. Grier recalls an exploit she's recently been going over with writer Andrea Kagan, in which Pryor had been given a small horse he named Ginger by producer Burt Sugarman. One morning, she found Pryor "standing outside weeping in his bathrobe. Ginger had been attacked by a pack of wild dogs and was hemorrhaging to death. We didn't have a horse trailer. I said, 'We'll put her in the back seat of my car and get her to the vet.'"
That car was a yellow Jaguar XL6, and somehow they got the horse into it and headed out for the 405 freeway in the San Fernando Valley. "The horse's tail was out one side of the Jaguar. People were following us. The back was dragging, and sparks were flying out the back," she says. Everyone at the veterinarian's knew what was coming, and a disbelieving crowd awaited the Jag. In the end, Ginger was saved.
Grier's tome will no doubt also cover her work with animal rescue, getting a ranch of her own in Colorado -- an achievement indeed, for a horse-crazy girl who was denied admission into riding academies as a child because she's African-American -- her "Jackie Brown" resurgence, and her deep spirituality and faith.
Besides filming the final "L Word" season, Grier has the Hallmark Channel movie "Ladies of the House" coming up Oct. 18, with Donna Mills, Florence Henderson, Richard Roundtree and Lance Henricksen. It has the three women taking on the challenge of renovating a house for charity, only to find that their own lives are in need of renovation as well.
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