More Self-Adoration From Exiting The Young and the Restless Showrunner Maria Arena Bell on Facebook
Soap Opera Digest has posted more lyrics from fired The Young and the Restless showrunner Maria Arena Bell's Facebook swan song. In it, she continues on about how much everyone loved her and how devastated they all are.
Funny, the Y&R cast has been pretty much radio silent on Twitter. Love her or hate her, but when Ri Ri's Y&R replacement, Jill Farren Phelps, was shown the door at General Hospital, much of the cast tweeted support — in their own words. As it is though, La Bell is only too happy to share how beloved she was, whether anyone else is saying it or not! Stated Bell:
"When I said my farewell today to the company of The Young and The Restless I stood between Eric Braeden [Victor], Peter Bergman [Jack], Melody Thomas Scott [Nikki] and addressed everyone. Then, spontaneously, each of them said something that was profoundly moving to me about how much they appreciated me, my work, my storytelling, my vision. The moment that will stay with me for the rest of my life was looking out at a se...a of faces, many of them in tears. And then Eric Braeden who was choking back tears himself to the point he could barely speak said that my leaving was a travesty that made no sense and that "This is the end of an era." In that moment I could feel my heart break a little... but I also felt that the commitment I had to that show... the seven day a week fifty two week a year craziness of it all was worth it... because I was part of the history of something truly great."
Sigh. Oh Maria, let's move on. I'm sure there's a fundraiser for the speckled Geese population of Pacific Palisades for you to plan. Let's leave the soap opera producing and writing to the professionals, shall we?
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17 December 2009
2 days 12 hours
waa waa waaa.
buh bye!
18 August 2009
6 hours 33 min
Ok I'm hoping that Peter Bergman (Cliff) was a typo from THIS site and that this woman didn't REALLY do that. PLEASE God tell me that this was just a typo from DC...please, I beg of you.....
16 October 2008
20 hours 45 min
I'm speechless.....too bad MAB isn't.......
22 January 2008
17 hours 57 min
@stoney07 I copied and pasted it from the SOD website. I just checked and they changed it to "Jack", so I will too. I wouldn't be surprised it MAB wrote "Cliff". She was obsessed with All My Children. LOL
30 March 2009
43 weeks 1 day
By reading her own words, you can quickly analyze what her major problems were. Look at how many times she uses the words "I", "me", or "mine." That is a definite indicator that she would listen to no one and does not understand the concept of collaboration, which the best artists understand inherently and know that it takes support to truly shine. Television, film, and theatre are impossible arts to create solely. Even a one-man show has a director or at least a set designer or someone running the lights. Maybe, her next venture should be visual arts- she can showcase her brilliance alone in that medium. Methinks, we see the emperor has no clothes.
Unsure that the next direction will be any better, but I am sure the company behind and in front of the cameras are pleased to be done with this regime- especially those that did not survive it. Perhaps, she should read a Steven Covey book before her next assignment.
18 August 2009
6 hours 33 min
@Jamey.....LOL I know she's obsessed that's why I was hoping this was all just a typo...I mean she already has the word ASS imprinted on her forehead, that was just make it ten times worse....smh.
8 September 2009
3 hours 29 min
Oh Maria, Eric Braden wasn't crying for yo azz...he was crying because he knows Jill Farren Phelps is going to tear the whole cast a new one!
6 May 2009
42 weeks 5 days
So is it out of the frying pan and into the fire for Y&R?
4 April 2008
8 weeks 4 days
She sounds almost mentally ill in these posts. Her grandiose sense of self is off the charts into pathological narcissism.
But it totally exemplifies why Sony absolutely did the right thing in firing her. She is so delusional of course she thought all the crap storylines and stunt casting she's been airing on this show for the past few years was great. Of course she ignored the audience, Sony, and anybody else that disagreed with her or told her her writing was crap. She seems to sincerely believe that she was some kind of genius.
She's going on and on about how much people appreciated "my work, my storytelling, my vision"? Damn, this woman needs some therapy.
26 September 2010
6 hours 48 min
So who do you guys think will be axed? Of course prob the ones we want will be the ones who'll stay! My list to go would be:
* Genevieve
* Tucker
* Sofia
* Sarge
* Billy
* Victoria (bring back Heather Thom)
* Kevin (unless they'd make him bad/crazy again)
* Cane
* Lily (unless they'd bring back Drucilla)
* Chelsea and her mom
* Abby
12 December 2008
1 day 11 hours
Somebody sedate her please. Then put her on meds she's seeing things that aren't there.
6 May 2009
42 weeks 5 days
Just herd that Eric Braeden will be on the Talk today, if you can stomach the Talk.
12 December 2008
1 day 11 hours
Maria if you're reading this please sit down for a moment I have something to tell you.
When it's all said and done and the history of the daytime soaps are written about you're name will always be referred to in the worst way. You will always been seen as one of the worst head writers to ever have a job in this industry. Nothing about the last 3 years of your tenure has been positive. You will never be seen as mover and shaker. A visionary. An admired talent. It will never happen. You will always be remembered as the woman who butchered The Young and the Restless. Lie to yourself all you want. We the fans know what was put on display for years now. It was uninspiring. It was generic. It should have never been allowed to go this far. You're pain over the situation is nothing compared to the joy thousands and perhaps millions of fans feel today. Good riddance. I hope you find a career in life you're good at and stick to that.
15 January 2009
3 hours 43 min
@Jamey Giddens: It is time to get Victoria Rowell on the phone and throw out the first offer. Have her come back to town as Dru seeking revenge on Phyllis.
Have Dru lure Phyllis to the Newman Cabin and then give her a Brooklyn Beat Down!
16 August 2009
3 weeks 12 hours
The narcissism of this woman! I swear...
She is either really, really deluded or she's smoking that shit. The squirt of sympathy I may have had for MAB is completely gone. Evaporated
She's doing herself no favors with these FB posts. Bill Bell Jr needs to seriously tell her to step away from the laptop/smart phone/tablet
4 May 2009
1 hour 11 min
I credit her with saving the show from the shithouse LML put it in when she took over. I credit her with the divine Paris remote. I credit her with giving us Billy Miller. I credit her with giving us the Marge/Kay redux. I credit her with giving us Nikki back on the bottle.
The fact remains though the stories told the last few years were not the level Y&R is used to being at and I doubt the combo of JFP and Josh will be able to do that either.
Too much Daisy, too much Sharon acting like someone else, too much Adam doing shit and not paying for it, too much of a bloated cast that needs paring down.
As I said before I have no issue Maria writing Y&R. She did have daytime writing experience before Y&R. When I started watching B&B in the early 90s, her name was in the credits. I would just like it if she was on the Y&R staff that it was with people like Kay Alden and Jack Smith with a little Trent Jones and Sally Sussman-Morina thrown in if possible.
Sigh...
9 February 2009
5 hours 21 min
it's the end of an era alright..
23 June 2009
16 weeks 14 hours
This BITCH is beyond delusional. I can just picture her having a Joanna Eberhart moment when she got the boot! Lady, you threw a character into a volcano, dressed another as a chipmunk, and because you couldn't get Sheila Carter back you wrote a HACK dual twin storyline and claimed to have been inspired by Strangers on a Train. GET F*CKED! You kept claiming you were writing Sharon in a way that would empower her as a female character and you turned her into a co-dependent kleptomaniac slut! F*CK OFF! This BITCH put plenty of nails in Y&R's coffin!
15 January 2009
3 hours 43 min
@Restless Vixen: She's pulling a Katherine Chancellor from the crazy house scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7LLtHzq784
22 January 2008
17 hours 57 min
If Dru ever does come back, I can almost guarantee she and Phyllis won't share scenes.
15 January 2009
3 hours 43 min
@Jamey Giddens: Guess they don't want to see what happens if some spit comes flying out...lol Yeah, I just heard from source close to the show that Vicky called and sent flowers to Griffin.
11 September 2008
1 week 1 day
I'm sorry but is JFP really an upgrade? JFP single handedly destroyed OLTL in the late 90's by chasing away Robin Strasser and Clint Riche, firing Kevin Stapleton who was the only actor to ever really work as Kevin, forcing the Rappaports down our throats and bringing on way too many actors from Another World.
In Y&R's future I see several cast members being shown the door because they don't click JFP and she will bring on a new core family that takes up way too much screen time and she will bring several of her "friends" from Another World, GH or OLTL to take up even more screen time from Y&R vets.
8 February 2010
11 hours 51 min
Can someone provide the link to her Facebook page? I can't seem to find it. Thanks!
25 July 2012
7 hours 14 min
Thank God I missed it since I was watching the final Days episode for the next two weeks thanks to the London Summer Olympics that start tonight with the Opening Ceremony. BTW, Days really, REALLY went out with a bang!
8 September 2009
3 hours 29 min
All the Black people will disappear when JFP comes in...so say goodbye to Neil, Sophia, Devon, Sarge, and Yo-Harmony. In terms of actors, I would also say start preparing to say goodbye to Tristan Rogers, Genie Francis, and Stephen Nichols.
Don't expect to see any older female actors come back, so enjoy Tricia Cast now. Jeanne Cooper (Kay Chancellor) will be relegated to damned near recurring status, as JFP doesn't believe in storylines for older actresses. Tracy Bregman is lucky she still has that tight face and gorgeous hair, because it may save her from getting backburned/axed.
It's going to be a bloodbath...
4 May 2009
1 hour 11 min
Preach it cheesehead!
Whenever I think of JFP at OLTL "Cherryvale" comes to mind everytime.
3 July 2008
1 day 3 hours
This woman needs therapy. No wonder Y&R had so many crazies running around ...
MAB should just stay quiet and leave with the little of respect she might still have. Somewhere on that planet. Universe. Or else.
4 May 2009
1 hour 11 min
The thought of seeing this at the top of every episode makes me sick:
Jill Farren Phelps
Executive Producer
15 January 2009
3 hours 43 min
@angrierblackerman: Not true. JFP's was at GL when they cast my beloved Amelia Marhsall as Gillian "Gilly" Grant and Monti Sharp as David Grant. In fact under her tenure the Grant family which included Gilly and Hamps mother
Vivian Grant (Petronia Paley) were also cast. Then there was Hampton Speakes (Vince Williams) and Kat Speakes(Nia Long). So under her tenure the African Americna cast grew and they had frontburner storylines.
So this does not mean that at Y&R that the blacks will be gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wHQZKIuIA
2 December 2011
12 hours 49 min
Actors crying? You don't say!
There is a school of thought that some actors might prefer 'the Devil they do Know' in MAB, with the reputation of Jill Faren Phelps looming over the ashes of soaps past, but they're actors and the most experienced know how to cry at the drop of a hat (Peter Bergman, Melody Thomas Scott and Eric Braeden being three prime examples).
This woman should harbor no illusions about her importance to this show, she has only ONE factor in common with the illustrious writers whose work would run circles around hers-- she too is now HISTORY!
I've made my peace with what Y&R has become as I have been under the belief for well over a year now that Sony wants to exit the soap production biz (as did Procter & Gamble before them) so it is no surprise that a woman with the reputation for killing shows now sits at the helm. MAB helped accelerate her own ouster with her lousy handiwork. I don't feel a bit sorry for this woman.
Maria, please take Hogan Sheffer with you when you leave.