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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 220463" data-attributes="member: 57984">When Diahann Carrol was shopping herself around the nighttime soaps in 1984, she said one producer told her point blank that his show &quot;will never have a black character on it.&quot;Assuming Miz Deveraux didn&#039;t make up that quote, one has to assume it was Katzman. (Clearly KNOTS&#039; David Jacobs would never have said that, and FC would have anybody who asked to appear -- although Filerman would have likely held out for Lena Horne). And of all the shows, DALLAS was indeed the only soap of the era which remained non-integrated --- and I recall Ray Parker Jr offering his services to appear on DALLAS and &quot;be kissin&#039; on Sue Ellen,&quot; but it was never going to happen.That said, Rebecca Wentworth should have been fully one-half Mexican, allowing Pam&#039;s genetic heritage to be just one more reason JR didn&#039;t want her at Southfork.&nbsp; I somehow suspect Dora Mae didn&#039;t own The Oil Baron&#039;s club atop the Dallas skyline.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 220463, member: 57984"] When Diahann Carrol was shopping herself around the nighttime soaps in 1984, she said one producer told her point blank that his show "will never have a black character on it." Assuming Miz Deveraux didn't make up that quote, one has to assume it was Katzman. (Clearly KNOTS' David Jacobs would never have said that, and FC would have anybody who asked to appear -- although Filerman would have likely held out for Lena Horne). And of all the shows, DALLAS was indeed the only soap of the era which remained non-integrated --- and I recall Ray Parker Jr offering his services to appear on DALLAS and "be kissin' on Sue Ellen," but it was never going to happen. That said, Rebecca Wentworth should have been fully one-half Mexican, allowing Pam's genetic heritage to be just one more reason JR didn't want her at Southfork. I somehow suspect Dora Mae didn't own The Oil Baron's club atop the Dallas skyline. [/QUOTE]

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