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"This would not have sold to the networks," says creator Dennis Leoni. But one bright spot, for Latinos at least, is Resurrection Boulevard, a drama about four generations of a Latino family of boxers, scheduled to start on Showtime this summer. "Diversity does not mean blacks alone," says board member Marta Garcia.
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What progress there has been in the industry has tended mostly to benefit blacks, to the frustration of groups like the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "If we were casting Tim Conway, it wouldn't be a racial issue," says executive story editor Dianne Houston.Įven if City does well, the reward for other minorities is unclear. singer, fearing that it might tar black men as drunks. City's creative team cut most of a scene where a drunk hospital administrator (Garrett Morris) goes to the morgue to take his picture with the nude corpse of an R. Imagine the line with a black grandma, a black daughter.and Anthony Edwards. When Price intervenes to have a young black woman sprung from jail to care for her children while her elderly mother has surgery, grandma tells her prodigal daughter to "get on your knees" and thank Price.
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Here they represent the problems and the solutions-the gang bangers and sainted victims as well as the buppies-and it complicates the usual racial politics of guns-'n'-blood TV dramas. On medical and cop series, black people too often merely represent society's problems. Watching City, you realize how rare it is to see two black professionals talking about anything on TV-be it discrimination or budgets. It's just that race turns out to be the only interesting aspect of a drama that's otherwise as routine as an appendectomy. So Bochco is right that City is not only about race.