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Pam Grier is always prepared. “I’m always ready for an emergency,” Grier, 73 told Rolling Stone. “Clothes, keys, boots by the door in case of an earthquake. A backpack with extra water. Anywhere I go, I have a fire extinguisher in my truck, in case people throw a cigarette out the window. And a 20-inch chainsaw, oiled and ready to go.” And that chainsaw is on hand for any scenario, including cheating men, according to the actress. “I’ve seen them take their rings off in the elevators when I step in. You think you slick? You think you’ll come home...

During a routine doctor visit, actress Pam Grier was stunned when her physician sat her down for a serious talk about a bizarre and dangerous epidemic that was rocking the nether regions of women in Hollywood — a buildup of cocaine residue. The doc asked if she was doing drugs, and she said no. Then perhaps her partner might be sneaking off for a quick pre-coitus snort? “That’s a possibility,” she said. “I am dating Richard Pryor.” Of all the surprises in “Foxy,” a memoir from the Afro’d goddess of blaxploitation, “a chick with drive who don’t take no jive!”...