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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:16 am
I wanted to smack the son last night. An just keep smacking him. The more I look at that makeup the worse it looks.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 11:19 am
Yeah, the black-to-white makeup just isn't working. They just look bi-racial. I was reading that most of the audience has stopped watching.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 11:20 am
Bruno needs a beatdown. I think the only reason he made and showed that "rap" video was to stir the pot. I think he was disappointed that the only negative responses were from his family. I think the Sparks felt the same way I did and decided not to indulge his bigotry. My husband and I looked at each other and said "what a moron". Yeah, Nick needs a smack. I think part of his problem is that his parents tried so hard while he was growing up to insulate him from what they went through, that he has no clue. He walks around in his own little world.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 11:27 am
Bruno does need an ass whoopin'. He seems to equate black with bad behavior. He sure uses it as an excuse to say any crap that pops into his head.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 9:50 am
So this show is about to start up here in Canada (yes we are a little behind on this one). Is it worth watching?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 9:55 am
I stopped watching.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:00 am
It was boring to me. Not what I thought it'd be like. I think they are all close minded or flaky. Except for maybe one (Brian.)
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:15 am
Thanks Julieboo and Mocha. Why did you stop watching Mocha?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:16 am
Bruno pissed me off too much. I couldn't take him anymore.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:27 am
LOL - Thanks Mocha!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 10:56 am
Yw 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 11:25 am
The only part I like is watching Rose and her poetry friends. Bruno is a piece of work.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 11:50 am
I liked watching Renee last week. She was not as closed minded as she'd seemed in the past. I just think she and Carmen were not a good fit.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 1:30 pm
I agree, it was nice to see her having a good time, she and that lady really clicked.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 1:46 pm
The Poetry Leaders seemed to be the SAME ones that made an appearance on STARTING OVER recently. (I think they worked with Lisa2 to get her to open up about her emotions.) If they are the same ones, the Leaders are brother and sister.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 4:41 pm
I totally agree LadyT. Carmen must have driven her up a wall (can't say I would blame her either!) cuz with Carmen she seemed very uptight and close minded. With the other lady, she seemed totally nice.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 5:23 pm
It does seem as though Carmen learned something from the experience, which is more than I can say for Bruno.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:05 pm
What do you know ... seems Rose is an actress. Has she really learned anything or is this a role for her? She is currently a "surfer" on Disney Channel Movie Surfers. Click on Meet the Surfers and then Rose.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:12 pm
I thought we heard the were all actors, and they weren't even married
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:20 pm
couldn't find anything on the black family or Carmen ... just Rose and Bruno
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:52 pm
I can't remember where I saw it, it was a newspaper article..I think
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:53 pm
it had interviews with ppl from that bar saying that they edited out all the positive stuff
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 11:08 pm
Hmm well Rose said in her interview from that Surfer site that she wants to be a writer and listed a Cranberries song as her favorite, so that is consistent. Just taken on face value (sigh, about being actors).. Bruno is a lost cause and very irritating. Renee and Carmen are oil and water but I liked that each of then went out and found another woman of the other race so that they could have perhaps the experience that they were billed to have on this show, but didn't. I agree that the makeup isn't working so well. Ladytex, what you said,
quote:Yeah, Nick needs a smack. I think part of his problem is that his parents tried so hard while he was growing up to insulate him from what they went through, that he has no clue. He walks around in his own little world.
That hit the target for me. I think his parents are seeing that they (so it seems) put him in a position where he isn't aware of who he is. In a way, it is a little bit of what one would worry about a white family adopting a black, hispanic, asian baby, raising the child in a colorblind way, meaning well, being protective, but that child still has to be in the real world. It really hurt to hear Nick say that it didn't bother him when kids said things that SHOULD bother him, or as his dad noted, that the little white girl WAS bothered by, with Nick claiming it was no big deal. And of course he could be trying to seem above it all, as kids so often do, not wanting to raise a fuss. So that's another possibility that he IS bothered but won't admit it. Jimmer, I think it might be worth a try, if you don't get your expectations high about what it could have possibly been, there is still much to be seen, much food for thought. But I can understand why some people have walked away from it, too.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 8:30 am
Yeah I think I mentioned up above that Rose and Bruno are actors. I read that on uptoparr.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Friday, April 14, 2006 - 1:34 am
I found it interesting that Nick was chastised because he refused to allow the "n-word" to have the power to hurt him. His parents were doing their best to make him regard the "n-word" as a dangerous weapon that anyone could wield to do him harm....when in reality, Nick's dismissal of it's alleged power actually made the word both powerless and meaningless!
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