Pam Grier - Grier Taught Pryor To Read
04 February 2011
Grier Taught Pryor To Read
Seventies movie sex symbol Pam Grier has revealed one of late comic Richard Pryor's secrets in her new tell-all book - the comedian couldn't read.
The movie star claims she taught Pryor to read, while she was dating him - because it was his dream to thumb through Leo Tolstoy's epic War & Peace.
Grier says, "He would learn his lines phonetically and people would help him learn his lines, but he'd say, 'Baby, I wanna learn how to read, and I wanna read War & Peace'."
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