“Six years ago, I had a deal with Lifetime Television to develop my bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, as a TV series. It soon became clear that the relationship wasn’t going to work, when two executives insisted that my pilot outline “wasn’t Latin enough,” because it told of middle class, educated American women who happened to be Latina. “This reads as if it were about me and my friends,” complained one executive in disgust. I didn’t know how to respond, so I asked her what she’d prefer. “Why don’t we make the girls debating whether or not to date men in prison? I know that’s what Latinas talk about, just like it’s what black women talk about.”” nbclatino/2013/06/07/opinion-the-problem-with-devious-maids-goes-far-beyond-hollywood/
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:00:01 +0000