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GBN Daily Drop Podcast: The Honorable Grace Jones – Quote on How to Break Through Your Limits (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: The Honorable Grace Jones – Quote on How to Break Through Your Limits (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 10, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Thursday, February 10 entry in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 that features a quote from model, singer, songwriter, author, actor and Jamaican-born treasure, the Honorable Grace Jones (OJ).

(Btw, GBN’s Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 is 50% off at workman.com with code:50CAL until 2/28/22!)

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Thursday, February 10th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

As New York’s Fashion Week is about to begin, we offer an inspirational quote from model, singer, songwriter, author, actor and Jamaican-born treasure, the Honorable Grace Jones:

“If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind—often.”

To learn more about Grace Jones’ avant garde life and career, I highly recommend reading her mind-blowing 2016 autobiography I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, or watching the 2018 documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami directed by Sophie Fiennes, or check out the illustrated book Grace Jones A to Z: The Life of an Icon – from Androgyny to Zula by Steve Wide and Babeth Lafon. Links to these sources are provided in today’s show notes.

And of course, let’s not forget her fabulous music, like “Pull Up to the Bumper” off by Grace Jones’ 1981 LP Nightclubbing.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers. Intro beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot.

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Comprehensive Grace Jones Feature Documentary on BBC Films' 2015 Production Slate

By goodblacknews on March 26, 2015
Grace Jones

BBC Films is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an announcement of 15 new projects that will be released this year.
Among the 15 is a new documentary on Grace Jones from director Sophie Fiennes. Described as an observational portrait, the feature film is titled “Grace Jones – The Musical of My Life” and it will weave a multi-narrative journey through the private and public realms of the legendary singer and performer, mixing intimate personal footage with unique staged musical sequences.
It’s produced by Katie Holly, James Wilson, Emilie Blézat and Sophie Fiennes.
BBC Films join the BFI Film Fund and the Irish Film Board as co-financers.
No other details on the project are available at this time. It was 1 of 3 feature documentaries selected for funding by the BFI a year ago, following pitching sessions held at, and in partnership with the UK’s leading documentary festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest.

The shortlisted teams were asked to give a 7-minute pitch and show clips of footage, and then fielded questions from the panel about the strength of the stories, characters and cinematic potential of the projects.

Incredibly, this will be the first comprehensive feature film (fiction or non-fiction) on the personal and professional life of Grace Jones – so my research tells me.
No word on when exactly it’ll be released, or whether it’ll become available in the USA.
article by Tambay A. Benson via blogs.indiewire.com