Another reason for people to hate Americans:
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Grace Jones
Clothes-Off — 18 years ago(February 21, 2008 09:02 AM)
From the trivia section of IMDb's bio page:
Was signed to one of New York's top modeling angencies
but Grace's looks were too strong for American magazines,
so she spent several years in Paris working as a successful model.
So we let this striking woman slip through our fingers while allowing Barbie dolls like Christie Brinkley permeate the fashion pages. (And BTW, Grace would've had Chevy Chase for lunch and then spit him out in
Vacation
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SmokyBrownEyes — 18 years ago(March 03, 2008 06:02 PM)
She was just too ahead of her time then. America wasn't ready for Grace back then so she had to take her business elsewhere. She was and still is a striking woman. I'm sure if she were coming onto the scene now, we (Americans) would give her a second look.
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jardinpapillion — 18 years ago(March 08, 2008 08:35 AM)
It seems America never really is ready for anything. You just have to try to move things along regardless of it being popular or not.
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thetheeyecreature — 17 years ago(August 21, 2008 05:13 AM)
I don't think it's that America wasn't ready culturally; it's just that magazines only care about the bottom line, and don't want to take any chances. They tend to be trend-followers, not trend-setters.
My God, Grace Jones is 60. Still 2000a JILF. (J for Jamaican.)
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sweiland75 — 17 years ago(October 31, 2008 12:32 AM)
too strong or too black?
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lksmash247 — 10 years ago(May 25, 2015 03:52 AM)Face it.. America is a majority white nation and seems at times to only be able to celebrate its whiteness.. Bruce Lee started out at about the same time that Grace Jones did; and look what America did to him. They took his creation "Kung Fu" the tv series and gave it to David Carradine; a man that was not half the martial artist that Bruce Lee was.. Sure we love Bruce Lee now; but back then, there simply was no place for him on American TV outside of being a sidekick. A woman that looked like Grace Jones had no chance to make it modeling in this country.