FOXY BROWN cont.
Foxy Brown poster
The Most Commonly Seen Poster
The Press Kit provided for Foxy Brown contains an interesting slant on the publicity  used for this movie.  The actual movie credits give Antonio Fargas [a year away from his role as Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch] second billing behind Pam Grier.  But except for his name in the credits, he's  not mentioned in the press kit at all.  The press kit focuses on Pam Grier and Peter Brown with proposed press releases entitled "Pam Grier, New Star" and "Nice Dr. Greg Peters is a Killer."   [Peter Brown was popular in Days of Our Lives as Dr. Peters from 1972-79.]
Foxy Brown poster
Peter Brown and Pam Grier press kit shot for Foxy Brown
 Pam Grier and Peter Brown press kit shot for Foxy Brown
None of the posters or lobby cards even mention Antonio Fargas' name.  Every one highlights Pam Grier and states that it also stars  Peter Brown & Terry Carter and co-stars Kathryn Loder and Harry Holcomb.   All the posters and lobby cards prominently feature Pam Grier with small shots of the other characters around her feet.  No Fargas there either.  A single lobby card shows Grier with Terry Carter.
.Lobby card for Foxy Brown showing Pam Grier with Terry Carter
The press kit also contains a sample article about Juanita Brown, an actress whose movie credits began and ended in 1974 according to the information in the IMDb.   We have no theories for the disappearance of Fargas from the publicity.  Clearly Peter Brown was a more important star and probably should have been second billed.  Terry Carter was in a prime time TV series.   [Terry Carter was Dennis Weaver's partner in McCloud from 1970-1977.]  But Juanita Brown was an unknown so why she was featured and Fargas wasn't is a mystery to us.
OUR FAVORITE SCENES:  There was a male/female split in our Thursday NiteOwl Video Group vote for favorite scene. The women mostly went for the obvious -- Steve's dénouement.
Peter Brown in a scene that made the guys cringe
The guys just couldn't get around the "cringe" factor on that scene.  A lot of them liked the scene at Miss Katherine's where she tells one of her "girls" heading on an undesirable date, "just think of someone you want to be with".  The girl immediately looks over at Steve, who winks at her.  Miss Katherine then proceeds to lambaste the girl over some imagined flaw.
Hooker glancing at Steve when told to get thru a sex act by pretending she's with someone she likes
 Peter Brown as Steve Elias eyeing a hooker
And the Winner Is:  We finally settled on a funny scene we all liked.  Steve is leaving to pick up the dope and Miss Katherine is all over him as he tries to leave.  Peter takes the scene a little over the top with some theatrical eye rolling but does a great job of conveying the trapped feeling of an attractive man who for reasons of money and power must flatter and make love to a woman who disgusts him physically.
Peter Brown being fondled
Peter Brown trying to pull away
Miss Katherine being persistent
Peter Brown demonstrates a little eye rolling
FOXY BROWN -- our favorite Blaxploitation film:  Our video group did a four-Thursday marathon of Blaxploitation films including Coffy, the first Shaft movie, Superfly, Black Caesar, Blacula, and three with William Smith as the villain, Hammer, Black Samson & Boss.  We can't pretend that a bunch of 90's, mostly white yuppies have much intelligent to say about 70's Blaxploitation movies intended to empower a black audience.   But even from our perspective it was obvious Foxy had everything a classic Blaxploitation film needed  -- revenge on powerful white villains, black adults in love scenes, blacks working together to rid their neighborhood of drug dealers, a slimy black creep with a white girlfriend, action  and (for both the feminists and the men) a woman warrior.
Love scene between Pam Grier and Terry Carter
Pam Grier & Terry Carter
in a relatively tame love scene
Sleezy Link taking drugs with his white girlfriend
Link taking cocaine
with his white girlfriend
Low level drugdealer
Street Dealer
Vigilantes disposing of drug dealer
Disposed of by Vigilantes
Plus, Foxy had villains which were a cut above.  Although we do love William Smith as a blaxploitation villain extraordinaire, the Miss Katherine/Steve Elias match gave villainy a nice twist.  Where Bill Smith was aways a strong, mean, dominating Rottweiller of a villain,  Peter was a sleek,  nasty Doberman with a choke chain around his neck attached to a leash held by a fawning woman who turned him into a resentful lap dog.
 
Peter Brown with Kathryn Loder
Peter Brown kissing Kathryn Loder
Steve performing one of
his duties
Peter Brown and Kathryn Loder
 Peter Brown as Steve Elias
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