{"id":8667,"date":"2017-09-21T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T03:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2017-10-07T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T04:00:50","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/21\/grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/grace-jones-tiff-interview-bloodlight-and-bami#_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Interview<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"h-custom-headline topsy h1\">FIVE MINUTES WITH THE LEGENDARY GRACE JONES<\/h1>\n<div class=\"x-raw-content\">\n<p><em>By<\/em> <a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Michael-Oliver Harding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/author\/michael-oliver-harding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Michael-Oliver Harding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLxtZ0ElBss\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an early scene of the new documentary<em> Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami<\/em>, the ferocious songstress and boundary-smashing model\u2014whose prior silver screen highlights include portraying an Eiffel Tower-scaling Bond henchwoman and a centuries-old vampire stripper\u2014signs autographs for fans huddled behind a barricade. One of them asks if she\u2019d ever act in another movie, to which she commandingly answers, \u201cMy own!\u201d This sets in motion a globetrotting journey a full decade in the making, acquainting us with Jones\u2019 loved ones while peeling away her enigmatic, larger-than-life persona.<\/p>\n<p>Director Sophie Fiennes is with the avant-pop legend when she delivers powerhouse performances in a Dublin theatre, attends church with her mother and revisits her Pentecostal upbringing in Jamaica, sips Cristal in her hotel room in a fur coat and reconnects with her former co-conspirator (and father to her son) Jean-Paul Goude in Paris. Over the course of the film, the subversive 69-year-old performer\u2014who reminds us men should be penetrated at least once \u201cso they know what it\u2019s like to receive\u201d\u2014reveals herself like she seldom has before. Judging by the outpouring of praise during a post-screening Q&amp;A at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, audiences were relieved that the ageless diva\u2014who once threw her baby shower at the legendary Paradise Garage dressed as a toy soldier\u2014has lost none of her bite or risk-taking spirit.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Interview<\/em> meets her the following evening for an expeditious five-minute chat in the dining room of an opulent Yorkville hotel, Jones is feasting on a hearty meal of steak frites. \u201cI have to eat and talk, darling, so I\u2019m afraid you\u2019ll hear my munching on your recorder.\u201d And with that said, Jones proceeded, her wit unimpaired and her laughter as rip-roaring as ever.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/grace-jones-tiff-interview-bloodlight-and-bami#_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Interview<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Interview FIVE MINUTES WITH THE LEGENDARY GRACE JONES By Michael-Oliver Harding In an early scene of the new documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, the ferocious songstress and boundary-smashing model\u2014whose prior silver screen highlights include portraying an Eiffel Tower-scaling Bond henchwoman and a centuries-old vampire stripper\u2014signs autographs for fans huddled behind a barricade. 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