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Maria Bell doesn't care about black people
Topic Started: Mar 30 2010, 02:47 PM (1,102 Views)
tatsw1


Isn't it funny how this series which was made #1 because of the rise in the black audience and the show acts as if we don't exist. They insult black people on a daily basis and for that fact the fans in general. But sticking to the topic. We have went from 8 African American contract players to less than 2. The fan base is majority black women and you'd think it was Jim Crow on the set of Y&R. They try to intimidate the black actors if they speak out against the racism that exist behind the scenes which translates onscreen with the lack of airtime. They give the least liked black character and non-actress the only screentime we are getting. Poll the black community and 9 out of 10 say chuck the B---ch! That's a check you can take to the bank.

Maria further insults black people as she knows nothing about our cluture so we end up with the all sorts of out of place happenings. Like Devon sleeping with his aunt. We don't do that! And how about having the sister of the Dru say that Tyra had the fire like Dru. Tyra ain't never had no fire nor no acting talent. She can take a picture like a mug, but she can't act worth a damn. And Maria tried to pawn her off as a Drucilla bot, as if you can just easily replace Dru with any sistah.

And then she had the nerve to lie and say she didn't get the name of Tyra from the model Tyra inwhich Eva Marcille became a minor celeberity from. appearing on her show ANTM. B---ch Please! I know Tyra Banks was too through with her for that one. She was saying "Don't attach my name to that mess...I said she could model...not act!"

Further that with the fact that Shemar Moore was willing to come back and play Malcolm and yet they didn't want to pay him his well worth. But they could sure hire Stephen Nichols to play the recast of Tucker and he don't come cheap. So what Maria is saying is that the brotha who brought in the most fans and took the most with him when he left is not worth much to you financially and ratings wise... yet Patch is?

So we end up with Darius who is too young and doesn't even look close to being Lily's father. What features did she get from him? And bless his little heart. The man is not a bad actor. He's just trying too hard to fill a role that he is not suited for. So they trot him off to the press saying "I'm a different Malcolm." Auuu YEAH and you look different too.

Maria seems to forget since she is supposed to be a Y&R history buff and likes to use history to pass off bad storylines that Malcolm was brought on as the sexy model-like, bad boy brother of Neils. His appeal was in his looks. That's what drew the women into the show. He learned how to act 4 years later, but that was not the draw. Now you got him looking like a truck driver or an exconvict trying to "get right" with his family.

Darius could have came on the show as an original character, but the incompetence that runs this series would never think of that.

And then how can you have 2 time Emmy Winner Kristoff Saint John and Emmy winner Bryton James reduced to day players. We sure thought Neil taking over Chancellor was going to be the start of a new era. Yet he was reduced to nothing as soon as Maria and B. Bloom got ahold of Tucker. They decided to make Neil dumb. Now Neil and Kay are more like Driving Miss Diasy vesres seeing Neil flourish in a real corp. storyline. Of course if Kristoff had stop being a a YES MAN a long time ago this would not have happened.

Bryton on the other hand Emmy Winner! Enough said. They got him running around saying "Are you okay lily?" WTF? F that. I would go to Maria on some real sh-t and say N please! Got him working 1 time a month meanwhile you got a readhead and her trusty sidekick running around acting like they in the 3rd gade play and someone's mother is out there leaning over and saying "that's my child up there!" Are you serious?

And then there is Roxanne. Tatyana Ali has proven to be a star in her own right. She is a media blitz and yet now when they need it the most she doesn't even mention Y&R. And why would she? Her web series Buppies got 5 millions the first day of the first episode. That means she got more hits the Y&R's total viewers a week. Of course Maria and her racist side kick Paul Rauch who once told a black actress who was the first to bring OLTL its highest ratings in a storyline that creator Agnes says is her favorite one she ever wrote that "she was not even worth it" when he fired her and then had his assistant tell the only other black actress on the same show that "she had worked her last day" as she was going to her car after taping an episode of show. So you see we have problems.

And let's be honest here. Stephen has done nothing for Y&R's ratings. Obviously that fan base has not tuned into Y&R to see him. And if the next two hires which I do praise them as actresses who have fan bases. If they don't spike the ratings than it is as I have said. They are doing everything but the right thing which is getting on that phone and getting back the one actress who has proven 3 times to spike the ratings and keep them up VR. And as all their other attempts fail you'll have to ask in the dying days of daytime why didn't Maira and CBS try everything they can to save the series, even if that means having to do what they know they should do.

By the way Vicky is good friends with Susan Flannery as well. Even she thinks its a travisty what they are doing as does Debbie Morgan and Eric Braeden and Sharon Case among others. By the way Peter Bergman was talking smack about Eric when he was gone and was shocked as i learned when he returned. Peter who talked about Vicky behind her back needs to be a man about and get his panties out his a-- he's a recast and can be replaced!
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^^ITA about you post there. MAB has proven to be as bad as LML, but at least LML uses the black actors on the show and have them integrate with the rest of the cast unlike Hell and Roach. I hope that ratings fall lower and then they will get fired for tanking in the ratings. tatsw, I with you that MAB don't care about black people. :angry:
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Not trying to be rude here but, all people have done is complain about the black actors/actresses who are working on the Y&R.

First it was Tyra, then this "Simone" woman who is coming to the show.. why are people so upset about it? Dru was killed off and I was very upset about it..but why is the black cummunity so upset at Y&R? Lets face it, there are shitty actors out there, we know. so Tyra was a shitty actress too.. atleast the writers tried to incorperate some black actors/actresses in the show, they know that there is alot of black viewers. This is why they brought back Malcolm.
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CraneEmpire101
Mar 31 2010, 07:46 PM
Not trying to be rude here but, all people have done is complain about the black actors/actresses who are working on the Y&R.

First it was Tyra, then this "Simone" woman who is coming to the show.. why are people so upset about it? Dru was killed off and I was very upset about it..but why is the black cummunity so upset at Y&R? Lets face it, there are shitty actors out there, we know. so Tyra was a shitty actress too.. atleast the writers tried to incorperate some black actors/actresses in the show, they know that there is alot of black viewers. This is why they brought back Malcolm.
They brought Malcolm back to do what?

He has barely been on.

I can count all his appearences with my hands.
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It's not just Y&R, it's the other 5 soaps too.

Black characters are becoming more and more sidelined everyday.
It's completely foolish and wrong on so many levels.

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So we end up with Darius who is too young and doesn't even look close to being Lily's father. What features did she get from him? And bless his little heart. The man is not a bad actor. He's just trying too hard to fill a role that he is not suited for. So they trot him off to the press saying "I'm a different Malcolm." Auuu YEAH and you look different too.


Well CKLily doesn't look clsoe to being a Baber & a Winters but that's beside the point. If this character Simone going to be a recast for Dru. It's going to fell just because all these black characters are surppoting roles for CKLily who is the weakest link in the Winters & Baber clan.
Edited by Immadashell, Apr 5 2010, 02:52 PM.
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DeeDee
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Eric83
Apr 2 2010, 10:36 PM
CraneEmpire101
Mar 31 2010, 07:46 PM
Not trying to be rude here but, all people have done is complain about the black actors/actresses who are working on the Y&R.

First it was Tyra, then this "Simone" woman who is coming to the show.. why are people so upset about it? Dru was killed off and I was very upset about it..but why is the black cummunity so upset at Y&R? Lets face it, there are shitty actors out there, we know. so Tyra was a shitty actress too.. atleast the writers tried to incorperate some black actors/actresses in the show, they know that there is alot of black viewers. This is why they brought back Malcolm.
They brought Malcolm back to do what?

He has barely been on.

I can count all his appearences with my hands.
+1.
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cassie1013


How about, they don't care about anyone BUT white people and half black people?
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Leia
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cassie1013
Apr 5 2010, 12:46 PM
How about, they don't care about anyone BUT white people and half black people?
You have the klan formula
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DeeDee
RIP GL

Leia
Apr 5 2010, 12:47 PM
cassie1013
Apr 5 2010, 12:46 PM
How about, they don't care about anyone BUT white people and half black people?
You have the klan formula
:lol:
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Blame the networks. It's them who tell the writers who to write for, I've learned.
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Nicole Walker


LOL. If she can't write good for the white people then I'm glad she's not writing for the blacks. She has done a shitty job with a lot of the white characters on this show. The only show that has a black family that is shown consistently is AMC and they actually do give them their own storyline and let them interact with different people.

"Like Devon sleeping with his aunt. We don't do that!"

LOL. Don't kid yourself. Every race has people that does that kind of sick shyt.
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"Even iron bends"..Victoria Rowell

Maria Bell cares about ANYONE who she can convince that her shit doesn't stank!!! She keeps bringing up William Bell Sr. in her interviews in a WEAK attempt to convince us that she cares about the history of the show!! BULLSHIT!!! She cares about shock value and plot-driven stories that do nothing but confuse the hell out of all those little old ladies at home that spent the 70s, 80s and 90s watching a show that was built around INTERESTING characters--- not psycho twins, dopplegangers or chipmunks!!!!

The only black character that Maria is interested in writing for is Lily, and that story is FAR from interesting. She has brought back Malcolm for SOME strange reason (after transforming the character from a mixed race black man to a man who is OBVIOUSLY not mixed race??????????!!!!!!!) and now he is on the backburner after declaring him the hottest actor she's seen in 20 years??? WTF???? If he's such a hot actor, where is his storyline??

And why can't they find a black woman to put Neil with??? I am not feeling Ashley and Neil!! I am not racist, and I have no problem with interracial pairings, but I would much rather see Neil with a sister, but they can't write interesting female characters, so they gave us Karen and Tyra, both of which failed dismally!! And they are afraid to rehire Victoria Rowell because they know that she is gonna come in there and rewrite ALL of their tired dialogue and start calling them on their bullshit.

I don't think Maria DISLIKES black people, she just seems AFRAID to write for them, afraid that she'll screw it up, so she just tries to minimize their presence on the canvas as much as possible. But I ain't no fool!! I want my Winters family back on the screen, and I want them involved in a meaningful, WELL-WRITTEN story. If Maria can't do that, she needs to hang it up and step aside for someone who CAN!!!
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RutherfordBHayes


This will be an area of concern that I will bring up when I interview Keith Hamilton Cobb (formerly AMC & Y&R) later today.


Update***
I had my interview with Keith Hamilton Cobb last night. Although he did not give specifics, or claim that he understood the reasons why, his experience at Y&R was less than memorable or fulfilling for him.
It really is a shame, in my opinion. Time and time again, we all have seen producers, writers etc...drop the ball. This is definitely one of them.
Edited by RutherfordBHayes, Apr 26 2010, 09:02 AM.
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