I was LIKE EVERY straight Male back during the 1970s, and to me a youngster, back then: “PAM GRIER” WAS ABOUT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL/FINEST/SEXIEST WOMAN, I HAD EVER REALLY NOTICED. Pam was bigger than All the Myths of historical Beauties, but Pam was “The Baddest/Sexiest Kick-Ass/Bad Ass” “Foxy Brown” Woman, anywhere. even when I may have gotten a Hold of a few Play Girl Pages and a few Other Sexy Women Imaged Magazines; “Pam Grier” Gave many Young and Old Men, “WILLIE’S/WOODIE’S”!!!
But, Thanks to “BLACK DOCTOR. ORG”: HERE IS THE “REAL/TRUE/TRUTH” OF SOME OF WHAT THE GREAT HEART THROB FEMALE OF COLOR WAS BATTLING.
Pam Grier Pushes Past Cancer, Rape & Death: “They Only Gave Me 18 Months To Live”
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When people hear the name Pam Grier, several quotes and sayings from many of her Blaxploitation films may come to mind. Grier, now 72, was the queen of the 1970s tough-girl movies where no matter how rough the battle, she and her crew always came out on top.
But being a black woman in Hollywood hasn’t been Pam Grier’s toughest fight.
“I was very quiet,” Ms. Grier recalled her childhood, and she stuttered when she did talk.
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Growing up, Grier was a good student who dreamed of becoming a doctor. “When I was a young girl, I never thought of acting,” she remembers. “I never thought of television, of fans, movie stars, signing autographs. It never crossed my mind.”
One life-changing experience that she had to fight through was her diagnosis of stage-four cancer in 1988. Grier was in her late 30s, a self-described “health-nut”, running six miles a day, not eating meat and not abusing my body in any way”. She’d gone for a routine cervical smear and got a call from her doctor’s surgery who said they’d found abnormal cells in her test results. She was booked in for an operation to remove the abnormal tissue and told she’d be fine. But, afterwards, her pathologist called to say it wasn’t good news; the next day, her doctor sat her down to tell her she had 18 months to live.
Even though her adopted sister, Krista, died of breast cancer, the news of her own cervical cancer diagnosis came as a shock.
“They couldn’t operate or start treatment for another six weeks, as I’d already had surgery and my body had gone through so much trauma. They gave me only 16-18 months to live and was told to start preparing for treatment and to organize my will. I coped from minute to minute. I went home to ponder this 2in-thick folder [of information] they give you.”…CONT…
Foxy Brown Trailer – Directed by Jack Hill and starring Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Terry Carter, Harry Holcombe. A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. MGM – 1974
“PAM GRIER” 1/ONE OF THE “GREATEST TRAILBLAZERS”, BEAUTIFUL SEXY; BEFORE “Halle Berry” BEFORE “VIVICA A FOX” BEFORE “VANESSA WILLIAMS” AND BEFORE “GABRIEL UNION” AND “ALL THE OTHERS” WITHIN THE LAST 40 YEARS: WAS THE “GREAT PAM GRIER”!!!!
SOOO, WE BELIEVE THAT “WE” HAVE THE MODERN DAY “BADDEST KICK-AS_/BAD-AS_” BEAUTIFUL AND SEXY STAR TO COME, “SINCE THE GREAT PAM GRIER” AS IN HER NAME IS “ANGELA MERYL”
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