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Maria Arena Bell disses JFP's Y&R in SOD

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As we know Maria Arena Bell had an interview in SOD talking about what she is up to. She said she won't be at emmys as she will be out of country. She loves what Prospect Park is doing with AMC/OLTL. Then she really nails JFP/JG for throwing out her stories like the Phyllis/Paul storyline for their own stories. She founds the show very flat with no excitement and tons of unfamilar characters. She also said she always fought for her vision and kept Y&R the golden standard and kept the show recognizable. She said while she would have loved to have come back shes moved on. She would never say never to a daytime return and would like to do a non network show. This is my commentary: I honestly can't believe the stuff out of this woman's mouth. She really should shut up. She was FIRED rightfully so. Ratings were falling, her budget was out of control hiring old soap vets in terrible miscast parts, Victor/Sharon are enough said. While I am finding JFP/JG's Y&R a bit dull its nowhere near as offensive as MAB's show. I honestly think MAB despises JFP for taking her job and I don't think Jill could give a damn about Maria. She was offered to be EP of number 1 soap u think JFP would turn down that gig. Maria has alot of sour grapes about her firing. Its probably cause she is rich and is used to getting what she wants, she is a socialite.

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I know this is a terrible, horrible thing to say, but.............

Every time I see a picture of Maria Arena Bell, I think to myself, "White trash who married up".

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JFP is one the BIGGEST hacks/soap killers out there. I applaud anyone putting her down.

What you said. Furthermore, I highly doubt that MAB did the amount of widespread and irreversible damage that bootleg Janet Wood inflicted on soap after soap.

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Maria Arena Bell said:

(She) kept Y&R the golden standard and kept the show recognizable.

:lol:

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What you said. Furthermore, I highly doubt that MAB did the amount of widespread and irreversible damage that bootleg Janet Wood inflicted on soap after soap.

Uhh yes. I would go as far as saying that MAB made the show so unwatchable and cheesy that it was worse than anything JFP ever did. If you don't believe me read up on Y&R and the character history. Get a feel of how this once golden show was, watch some old clips, then watch MAB's Y&R & I promise you will change your mind on who is worse because its definitely MAB.

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What you said. Furthermore, I highly doubt that MAB did the amount of widespread and irreversible damage that bootleg Janet Wood inflicted on soap after soap.

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MAB killing off Liz Foster was akin to Phelps killing off Bridgit on AW; killing off Hope was akin to killing off Maureen. The deaths of Colleen, Jana, and Diane were as in insulting as the death of Frankie Frame. Bringing Genie Francis to Y&R was as bad if not worse than bringing Marcy Walker to GL. Ross/Howie on GL was fun; Patty/Emily, Lauren/Sarah, Cane/Caleb were not.

So yes, MAB DID do the same amount of damage if not more and far worse.

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Uhh yes. I would go as far as saying that MAB made the show so unwatchable and cheesy that it was worse than anything JFP ever did. If you don't believe me read up on Y&R and the character history. Get a feel of how this once golden show was, watch some old clips, then watch MAB's Y&R & I promise you will change your mind on who is worse because its definitely MAB.

I'll be honest in saying that I have more knowledge of bootleg Janet Wood's destruction of GH than I do of MAB's tenure at Y&R. While I'm sure (from what I've read of the show post-2007) that MAB'd made a mess of Y&R (of which I'm sure I'll find to be true if I followed your advice and looked up her Y&R), the fuckery that bootleg Janet Wood made of GH and OLTL (and from what I've been told of AW and GL) is in a disastrous league of its own.

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MAB killing off Liz Foster was akin to Phelps killing off Bridgit on AW; killing off Hope was akin to killing off Maureen. The deaths of Colleen, Jana, and Diane were as in insulting as the death of Frankie Frame. Bringing Genie Francis to Y&R was as bad if not worse than bringing Marcy Walker to GL. Ross/Howie on GL was fun; Patty/Emily, Lauren/Sarah, Cane/Caleb were not.

So yes, MAB DID do the same amount of damage if not more and far worse.

Oh, I'm not begrudging anyone for believing that MAB sucked donkey balls at all, let alone debating it or how she cheapened the show. I'm simply saying that what I've read of her worst is no way comparable to what I've seen bootleg Janet Wood do and what old-schoolers have told me about her ass.

Frankly, I'm with the first poster that I responded to (whose name escapes me at the moment - my apologies) on high-fiving anyone who roasts that showkiller over the coals, as that is how much I loathe what she'd done over the past almost-fifteen years.

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My issue isn't so much JFP's track record (when I look back, I can see that her GL, while not something I enjoyed, was not always terrible in the 93-95 years...but I think she was pretty destructive at OLTL and AW), it's that MAB is opening her mouth about this at all. It just shows how petty she is, IMO. Say what you will about LML and Lechowick, they never went around trashing MAB, and this was someone who, unlike JFP, practically sang from the rooftops about how she was going to dismantle everything they'd done.

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I guess it takes one to know one, being a hack.. that is LOL

JFP's Y & R is horrible, but a different horrible then MAB's.. imho

Yep! JFP is more boring, though. I liked Maria's trainwreck under Raunch. YR no longer feels like a Bell show. Brad is alsova hack but BB feels Bell. Jill is ABC soap to the core.
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Don't you be mean about my Crispy Pork Dumpling Sean Kanen! Love him, porky or not (though I do think Deacon was on the wrong Bell soap).

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