Eric Monte - "Norman Lear Is A Racist" (2006 Interview Snippet)
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2022
- Billionaire TV producer NORMAN LEAR may insist that he is "Just Another Version of You" in the documentary about his life. However, there is at least one person who feels differently about the producer of All In The Family, Good Times and The Jeffersons. Good Times co-creator ERIC MONTE was cheated out of 100s of millions of dollars in potential revenue for his involvement in creating some of TVs most beloved characters. In this exclusive clip from The Reelblack Vault (recorded in 2006), he dishes the dirt on exactly what happened that led to his being blackballed from Hollywood and eventually homeless. For those looking to break into Hollywood, Eric Monte's story is a cautionary tale. Eric Monte's new book, A PROPHET RANAWAY is now available on Kindle and in paperback at ericmontepublishing.com . Watch the Full 1 hour interview with writer Annette John-Hall only on RBTV. Special thanks Darrell K. Henderson. Camera: Mike D.
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Eric Monte deserves JUSTICE. Many thanks for posting this.
Eric Monte deserves back compensation from Norman Lears’s estate, for all the royalties and residuals he was cheated out of!
Norman Lear’s children’s children are still benefiting from Eric Monte’s creations that made Norman Lear extremely wealthy!
How do you think Norman Lear made it all the way to the ripe old age of 101?!
Eric Monte probably won’t live anywhere near that age!
JUSTICE? LOL.
@@cpman1987 they owe him more than just back residuals, they owe him the keys to every studio in Hollywood. Every single one. Especially Columbia Pictures, who has been profiting off the fruits of their labor since 1985 when Coca-Cola, founded by an ex-Confederate soldier in an unsuccessful attempt to cure a war-era addiction, bought Embassy and Tandem. Even though they only owned it for four years before they dumped everything on Sony, it was still Lear (and Jerry Parenchio, without whom Lear could never have bought Avco Embassy) they made the deal with.
George Jefferson’s dream will become a reality. I’ll see to that personally. #JusticeForEricMonte #JusticeForJJ #JusticeForGaryColeman
norman was another greedy jew
@@cpman1987And the lawyers, mgrs., agents & everybody who aided Lear.
Wow. I grew up on all these shows mentioned and never knew this at the time. This is a pure shame and something should come back to Eric Monte in dividends for his creativity. 😢
I want reparations for absolutely everything Norman Lear ever did, especially giving T0n¥ D@nz@ work after *Taxi* was cancelled. That thug should have gone to jail for assaulting a security guard. Instead, we paid for his crimes with one of the worst sitcoms ever, a ripoff of the mutually exclusive parts of *Gimme A Break!* and *Cheers.* They forfeited the right to throw shade at *Webster* for doing to *Diff’rent Strokes* what that show already did to *The Brady Bunch* first.
And while we are on the subject, Emmanuel Lewis should get reparations for Paramount’s gatekeeping of the syndicated seasons of *Webster.* He owns a piece of seasons 4-6. To date, only seasons 1-4 (the ABC years) are on DVD. And everybody on that show should get reparations for being pushed off ABC for *Full House.* Especially Chad Allen even though he was on another show by that point. You’d have to be openly racist and homophobic to prefer that show. And Robert Iger was there every step of the way.
Yes. Norman Lear also stole the story plot of "Good Times" from the original actor who played Lionel on the Jefferson's. That show was his creation and not Norman Lear.
Mike Evans was a writer on Good Times for many years. That’s why he left Jefferson’s. No one doubts that was his creation.
So sorry that this happened to him.
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!!
But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
Poor negotiating skills and lack of understanding of entertainment business. It is highly common to see multiple producer companies involved on show or movie. That's why you see so many production company logos at the start of movies and at the end of tv shows.
and jews fanageling practices...@@PhilMoskowitz
The tribe gets together and wins
EVEN IN MUSIC THESE SAME KIND OF NAZI EUROPEANS DO THIS
This man is due a lot of money
This is just heartbreaking.
Lear never gave credit to the writers
He was and is a total fraud in addition to being a buckbreaker. He isn’t funny. Nothing he has ever said himself is funny. His biography is barely readable. All of his writers did better work without him.
Bud Yorkin came up with the idea to do *Diff’rent Strokes* but got none of the credit for it. Meanwhile, Lear treated his studio like an afterthought while launching a smear campaign against the American right and pushing a tr-nscult agenda even at the expense of Gays. He is no ally. He is the gravedigger of every civil rights and social reform movement in this country.
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!!
But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
Sounds like Beyonce who people worship
@@sunflowerpwr.8821 and all the top rappers of today .. but lear had him blackballed after he sued for royalties
And that's a shame😘❤️🖤💚🙏🏽❤️🖤💚
I just saw about him on tik tok. Eric Monte you are an amazing man.
Salute to you Mr Monte, yet another example of someone’s creativity stolen and someone else taking credit. Many of these we will never hear
We need to see more of these actors, screenwriters, producers, etc. coming forward with the truth. It is is 2024 & it is time!!! No fear. Name names. No self-censorship.
In order to do that you have to name the small group of people who control Show Business and the media
Sorry this happened to you. I think if we knew the real deal about people we would not put them on pedestals. Thank you for your part in creating these amazing shows. I wish you got the credit you deserved. Not fair at all. Our society stinks sometimes.
The man is a creative genius, who was surrounded by vultures. This has me really upset.
That happened even in historic empires. The conquerors would always take that which was good from the conquered, and apply it to their own culture, and try and take the credit for it.
@@MrCJ-qz9dl You’re right I guess if he was an astute businessman He wouldn’t have been a creative genius
Esther Rolle 1921-1998 and John Amos had issues with Norman Lear 1922-2023 regarding Jimmie Walker's character James Evans Jr aka JJ. Redd Foxx 1922-1991 didn't take no mess from Norman Lear.
Not sure about Redd Foxx. He died penniless. Even Demond Wilson didn’t help him in the end. John Amos was sore because Jimmie Walker’s character took over the show.
Not so much sore,he just thought that JJ's character should be a little more serious and not so baffonish. @@DJ-bj8ku
@@rogereverett9599 Growing up, I loved JJ and I thought his buffoonish character was a good counterpoint to John Amos’ serious character.
@@DJ-bj8ku Mr. Foxx lost his money because of a tax issue So Mr. Eddie Murphy cast in a movie and he was on a T.V. show and was back in Vegas when he passed.
@@DJ-bj8ku Mr. Amos wanted a more positive role on T.V. for the black community and that's where the riff came from. They loved the fact that they could use J.J. to accomplish their goals.
So Called Views Ganged Up On Him And Stuck It To Him !! Probably Him And Many More So Unfortunate But They Steal Everything!! Not Shocked 🤷🏽♀️
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! He kept trying to make Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah?!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
Something else I noticed that wasn't quite right, why did that idiot interviewing Demond Wilson tell him Muhuumad Ali and Norman Lear were his 2 heroes growing up?!?! Did that man ever see 1 episode of "Sandford &Son?!"
And if Norman Lear had almost nothing to do with a show that was never created by Norman Lear or his late partner Bud Yorkin, but a show that was copied from another TV show from the United Kingdom called "Steptoe & Son!"
Norman Lear was a brilliant, prolific TV show producer/writer. But also cheated a struggling writer (Eric Monte) out of his share of the lucrative profits of "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" TV shows!!! So I don't blame Eric Monte for his "brutal" honesty!
This was the best authentic interview I've ever seen!!
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!!
But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
Damn Shame to Mr.Monte. This Man deserve better Treatment because he Produced and Created the Characters of those Shows from the 70s and 80s.
We definitely need more powerful Black attorneys 😢
If you think for two seconds black attorneys are somehow more pious you’re missing the mark. Unfortunately your own kind takes advantage of this and will double cross you the same. You need an attorney of good character. Period. If he gets me my money I don’t give an F about the rest.
You sound as misguided as Michael Evans.
@@JM-st6ut No We Need More Good Black Attorneys & Doctors & Farmers & Engineers in this Evil Kkkountry of AmeriKka!!
@@vegasmitch1472 looking black doesn’t make you black. Hustlers play fools like you all the time bc you’re gullible
As if the color of their skin makes them different from other lawyers looking for that $$$$$ and will turn a blind eye to you if your case isn’t something that will bring in the $$$$$.
Brother still bringing the real. Man, I love your commitment.
Michael Evans ( Lionel) was always my favorite on All in the Family, especially. He was highly intelligent, funny and intuitive. Many people never noticed his name in the credits on Good Times. He deserved money and respect not all the stress and hassle he got for his excellent efforts also.
Was he the father??
Thank you for speaking truth here! Overdue.
Hope Mr. Monte writes a good book. 👍 Need to share more about how things really worked.
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!!
But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
I believe EVERY word he's saying 😘❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚
Of course. He has been saying this for years. He is just one of the many blacks that have
been "screwed" by Norman Lear.
He died pretending he created those shows wanting black people looking up to him for what black people created
he probably thought he was doing
Good, I think he was sincere.
I DIDN'T WATCH ANY..
White privilege was even stronger back then. If things are as bad as they are today, I can't imagine what it was like back then. Black people VS white people in old times in legal matters must have been 95-5 against no questions asked(5% of the time must have been only if the black person was a celeb and the white person was not, the celeb had a bigger name than the white celeb, the white judge/cop chose to do the right thing, or the black person was connected to somebody important/important to the courts). FROM THIS ACCOUNT, IT WAS A MUGGING WITHOUT RECOURSE!
It wasn't white privilege it's Semitic privilege. Until people realize the two distinctions are total opposites, they'll continue to pawn their scandalous deeds on white folks. Research the learned elders of zion if you wanna know what these cretins think about us goys.
Exactly, if they wanted it they strong armed u and took it, then made u look bad so no one would want to work with u
@@brianwaloweek6770Jerry Perenchio wasn’t Jewish.
@@Attmay Who is Perenchio? He wasn't mentioned. But I think all the others mentioned - Lear, Eisner, Weintraub, Orenstein, Turteltaub, Yorkin - were jewish.
@@jgrantsf now you see the bigger picture
On a far lower scale....I have also been beaten out of writing credit with a very well known musical group. The pain is real and so so unacceptable! I feel for this man and he deserves the credit that was seemingly taken away! i don't know why people have to TAKE what they didn't create and KEEP credit for themselves. Very Disheartening and unfair!
Well as a publishing agent. You did agree to it but you may have missed it in your contract. Just a thought. I wrote many contract amendments in my day and each victim did agree to things they complained about. In court they loose every time. James Earl Jones taught me this when I was in college. Understanding the nature of support and payment is important.
I had no contract, I was very young and I didn't know about the music business.Thank you for your comments.
@@BlindMellowJellyInc 😂😂 I love your username
ONE WORD ~ GREED !
yupp....Thank you . And in the end I still have my talents and no longer have to deal with scum who have to take what they didn't create. @@brucebeamon5460
That's a shame, why can't they just to the right thing and pay Mr.Monte, because they made millions then and they're still making millions off of his work..... Not fair and not a good look 😢
How much money are these shows generating per year and where is the money going? Probably paying for Sony‘s middle management. I imagine *Seinfeld* still makes more in reruns just for being more recent.
Lear is a scam clearly.
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!!
But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
THIS IS A HATE CRIME AGAINST BLACK AMERICANS... NO OTHER RACE WOULD ALLOW THIS.. WOULD EUROPEAN JEWS ALLOW RACIST STEREOTYPES MADE INTO A NETFLIX SERIES... I THINK NOT.
The New Good Times animated series on Netflix is a glorified stereotypical show that has damaged the image of the original Good Times family show that started in 1974 through 1979. The goal of the original Good Times show was to disrupt the flow of negative stereotypes about black families.
This New series promotes violence, culture destruction of the Black community and alcohol abuse. This glorifies the degenerate, destructive behavior that some in MOST community's engage in, but this series aims to promote this as a normal behavior in the black community.
It’s time to put a stop to this ANTI-BLACK Propaganda Racist Hate Crime By Netflix. This will lead to bad outcomes towards black people period. It will promote more hate, police brutalities as it reinforces the DEHUMANIZATION of a whole people like they did during the Jim Crow Era which lead to mass killings of innocent black Americans.
BOYCOTT THIS TRASH.
NETFLIX NEEDS TO BE CHARGED WITH PROMOTING A GENOCIDE.
Well that's most of Hollywood lol.
Lear finally passed away at a really old age but I often wonder if he hung on because he feared meeting his maker to atone for his immense sins. In the next life Eric Monte will be rewarded. What a talented and decent man.
On the contrary, they already know that they will not enter into God's kingdom. So their sole goal in life is to make sure that you also, do not enter.
He, Bob Saget, and Matthew Perry are in Hell right now, burning in agony as punishment for making us suffer through their crappy and degenerate television shows.
I feel so bad for him. After he was forced to accept pennies on the dollar in his lawsuit in which he should have received hundreds of millions of dollars, he was blackballed by Hollywood. He used the money to finance a play that bombed and ended up homeless. While homeless he became an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. He dried up and moved to Chicago, then to Oregon. If he's still around, I hope he's doing well.
I swear the CIA invented crack cocaine just to target him specifically. It was “discovered” just as *Good Times* premiered on CBS.
Television producers & creators are still crediting norman lear is eric monte. Monte should've got a lawyer at ghe time.
He tried they had it fixed so no lawyer would take his case.
I heard monte say that before they thought monte was stupid but he was art.@@sunflowerpwr.8821
So you didn't watch the video 😂😂
What’s even worse is that people still believe the narrative once it has been discredited. They even give Lear credit for shows he had nothing to do with. I still have to point out to UA-cam video documentarians how many shows were made by his collaborators without him. Frankly, those hold up better.
Movie, TV, and music was always a cut throat business. Remember hearing an interview from James Garner how he didn’t get paid for what he was worth from The Rockford Files and all the reruns.
Eric Monte seems like he’s telling the straight truth. You can’t debate or second guess his veracity. You know how that did back then to talented black writers, producers, actors, and actresses
Norman Lear is the exact kind of white liberal wolf that Malcolm X warned about. If you want to really deep dive into Lear, find Tim Kelly’s podcast.
Tell that to Ricky Schroder and his glorified pimp of a mother. I seriously wish they had taken *Silver Spoons* to another production company just because seeing a cast that good wasted on a buckbreaking grifter like Lear breaks my heart to this day. They could have carried a show from any production company. I honestly wish they had taken the show to Alan Landsburg. His company made *Gimme A Break!* and *Kate & Allie,* and those are on DVD in their entireties, so maybe that show would be, too. Instead, it is stuck with Sony and they are gatekeeping the Franklyn Seales and Alfonso Ribiero episodes because they do not want to see any role models for Black MEN, especially not Gay Black MEN. They are also gatekeeping *227* (a Black father who lives at home, can support a whole family on a single income, and isn’t a bigot or a bully? Can’t have that, now can we?) and *Benson,* particularly the episodes where he is no longer the butler and actually has a political position. Never mind the last episode where he runs for governor. And do not throw the “poor sales“ excuse in my face. Tell that to my copies of all these shows on DVD.
Evil in that town.
Everyone Monte is mentioning ... all last names have one thing in common
And they wonder why people don’t like them
Exactly.
Norman Lear’s partner in TAT Communications was of a different tribe. The one that makes offers you can’t refuse.
Men...Two eyes ..Two legs...what? Smart ? I'm waiting race baiter
Not only did they screw Eric Monte they did the same thing to Mike Evans of the Jefferson.
George Jefferson was one of the greatest TV characters ever. He deserved MTM Enterprises-level writing, not to be stuck being shamed with gaslighting “you’re no better” false equivalences at a glorified grindhouse like Embassy, whose only hits after 1977 didn’t even credit Norman Lear at all.
*Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons, 227,* and especially *Married with Children* make me question whether Norman Lear was integral to the success of anything his name was actually attached to. He wasn’t credited on any of them, but every TV show that actually had his name in the credits concurrent with those five shows was a bomb. Notice how virtually nobody remembers *Palmerstown USA, aka Pablo,* or *Sunday Dinner,* and how at the twilight of his life, nobody in Hollywood wanted anything from him but rehashes of the same old same old when the OGs are still in reruns and mostly on DVD and have had the unfair advantage of never having to compete with *Amos ‘n’ Andy* in syndication or on anything remotely resembling a level playing field.
I never knew what’s happening was based off of Cooley High. That makes sense.
The movie got a Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition, and everybody from it who was still alive was invited to participate in the creation of extras. Everyone, that is, except for Eric Monte.
When Columbia released the TV show to DVD, they invited no surviving cast members to participate in extras.
Yes the credit and money always falls into the wrong hands
Wow. Thanks for sharing. This has been so relevant
Eric Monte looks so much like "Roger Thomas".
That makes the character wanting to be a screenwriter all the more ironic. What if Roger had gotten what he wanted and sold a script to a major studio? Would he have been chewed up and spit out just like Eric Monte was?
@@Attmay Roger was smart enough to hide his money from his own father so I think he would have protected himself more aggressively from the sharks in Hollywood.
Man deserved better.
It is interesting that he never received credit for anything to do with the Jeffersons. According to his Wiki page, he wrote the script for 'All in the Family' that introduced the Jefferson characters in 1971 but according to the show's credits and IMDb, it was Jerry Mayer. But in his IMDb bio, it does say he successfully sued Norman Lear in 1977 for stealing his ideas (including The Jeffersons, Good Times and What's Happening) and won $1,000,000. Considering these show's legacies, that doesn't seem hardly enough. I'm not sure this makes Norman Lear a racist, per se, but it certainly makes him a sleazy businessman.
So he wrote one script for the show and he thinks he deserves credit for the entire show? Something ain't right here.
@@theotheleo6830 You clearly have no idea who Eric Monte is.... There would be no Jefferson's, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Cooley High, What's Happening without Eric Monte. Cooley High is based on his life story growing up in Cabrini Green. He deserves more than some damn credit...
@@theotheleo6830 When you write _the first_ script for a show which serves as the basis for _the entire_ show, you deserve credit and consideration for the lifetime of that show. Would I call Norman Lear a racist? Not based on what was described here. The first person I would lash out against is Bernie Weintraub. Speaking as Mr. Monte, Weintraub's supposed to be _my_ agent, but he's also representing Turteltaub and Orenstein. Weintraub threw Monte under the bus by signing the rights to the production company formed by Turteltaub, Orenstein, Yorkin, and Lear knowing full well Monte didn't want to do business with Lear after the Jeffersons deal. Everything after that happens as a result of Weintraub's original agency violation. Normal Lear couldn't have stolen the idea if Weintraub didn't steal it first by conspiring to sell out Monte.
@@NeilTruick He didn't write the first script for the Jeffersons. He wrote one script for All In The Family, which introduced the Jeffersons characters. He didn't create the show.
@@theotheleo6830The spinoff supporting characters were the product of Nicholl, Ross, and West, the same people who left to work for Don Taffner on *Three’s Company.* Taffner was also the first to syndicate *The Benny Hill Show* in the US, and the money from the UK-adapted ABC sitcom made that possible.
No wonder NBC was willing to gamble on *Gimme A Break!* It wasn’t based on a British show and it wasn’t produced by Norman Lear, just the producers who took over AitF (Mort Lachman) and *The Jeffersons* (Sy Rosen) after NRW left Lear for Taffner. But they showed Lear was nothing without his collaborators and business partners. Could he have run Tandem without Bud Yorkin? The name of the company is literally “a bicycle built for two,” just like HAL sang in *2001: A Space Odyssey* but without Kubrick’s mastery of the technical aspects of filmmaking, or even film! He certainly couldn’t have bought out Embassy without the assistance Jerry Perenchio.
Just as Karl Marx is the weak link in Marxism (seriously, lefties, ditch him for Theodore Herzl), Norman Lear is the weak link in every Norman Lear show.
This is just dirty Love you Eric monte❤
This is sad that we get everything stolen. Music, television, history, everything.
I wish he could sue the estate..
He was a huge part of that era that’s so underrated
Truth Be Told❣️
The Stein's were on Code against this Brother. Not surprising!
@Maas did you listen to the video? Lmfao
I agree 100%! they control Hollywood so the house always wins!
always on code. that's why its so upsetting when we are not.
@@troym1023 Thank You!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Very Sad Unfortunately 🤷🏾♀️
.....if anyone believes Norman made Cooley High...a movie about inner city Chicago....they're a fool. They robbed this man BLIND to the tune of hundreds of millions or billions. Evil. Absolutely evil.
It’s not racism, it’s theft. This happens all the time in the industry. He should’ve started with the lawyers first, formed the production company, gotten contracts together, then bothered with agents and studios. Creatives are always taken advantage of.
Yeah not to say racism didn't
Exist back then, but people
Nowadays use that to explain
Everything, it makes it hard
To take people seriously.
The part where his own lawyers sell him out to their own tribe members. Gross!
#thenoticing
No offense but what were their last names..?
The Public never really knows "What's Happening?" do we? As Paul Harvey said: "...And now you know the rest of the story."
He was done wrong by Orenstein, Weintraub, Lear, etc.. does anyone notice the common denominator there?
In reality, ALL of us have some racist tendencies. Including this guy here. Also including everyone commenting on this, and everyone you and I come in contact with every single day. He said several times he had "proof" that he created George and Louise Jefferson's characters? Also, the other two shows? What is the proof? I find it VERY, VERY hard to believe that IF he in fact had "the proof and the evidence" as he said multiple times in this clip than NO lawyer in the whole "town" of Los Angeles would take the case?????????? Nope. He said himself he sued ABC. He also agreed to the million dollar settlement and the time was one week before - as HE says, the "statue" of limitations would expire - LOL. Dude, YOU screwed up and you were taken and it's NOT because anyone else is or was racist. YOU took some bad advice and YOU were not sophisticated enough to look out for yourself. Not good.
Cooley High is still an awesome movie to this day, better than American Graffiti I think
Never knew this. Norman Lear is fortunate that Eric Monte was a man of great character who tried to settle things legally. What a shame.
They've got that entire entertainment industry on lockdown.
They're dedicating to exploiting Black talent.
Notice the last names of the guys he's talking about..
Yeah... you got railroaded. Norman doesn't seem so virtuous to me now. You called him many things ... you forgot GREEDY
Lesson one: Never enter an industry you are unprepared for. Monique did this by having a dummy husband who manages her....bad move. She agreed on something then complained when she failed to ammend. Negeotations are important. Now you see why😅
You're saying this years after the fact. That's like saying artist from the 80s and 90s should have never recorded hip hop music because they weren't prepared for being taken advantage of by the music industry.
Monique fulfilled all her obligations she was hired to do. The issue was when the movie (PRECIOUS) took off they wanted her to do more press and promotion and she wanted compensation for it and they said no so she refused to do it, and everything went down hill from there.
I heard show business was cutthroat. Didn’t know it was this bad. I hope mr. Monte gets the justice he deserves.
I think it best for one to be legally protected; before sharing one’s work. It’s “Cover your ass 101”☝🏾
The truth is coming out and we are finding out all the shite! Bless this writer, how disgusting these schemers were/are.
I wonder whta that 1 point on Good Times gets him today?
"What's Happening" has no resemblance to "Cooley High". Do you see any Rerun or Dee in "Cooley High"?
The original pilot is on IMDB, Roger's character was Preach. The network thought the content was too deep and dramatic and retooled it into the comedy sitcom and renamed/ re-casted the show.
All of a sudden banned Michael Jackson lyrics come to mind.
Oscar Hammerstein II has left the building.
Just plain evil. I never knew...
It's not evil, it's the product of the times.
💡Kanye said that European Jews weren't doing good business with him they called him antisemitic.
This is what Kanye West was talking about.
Yes! Absolutely!
Back then racism did happen
But its different now.
All i hear is he didnt riew the contact. Handshakes dont count 💯💯💯
Greedy lawyers....he couldn't find a lawyer to fight for him in all of LA? Lear my have been behind that
Welcome to show "business." Double-dealing, backstabbing attorneys, agents, studios, etc. are par for the course. The issue is that people are naive. And don't have a good lawyer.
Likewise in the music industry. Don't you dare sign that contract without reviewing it with a microscope.
Wow I believe it, he is the one that said in 1985 to The Cosby Show success, that “ Black People don’t live like that” as if he knows smh Glad he is able to tell his story Talented man Eric Monte❤
It’s hilarious in hindsight to see how so many post-Amos ‘n’ Andy; pre-Cosby sitcoms with Black actors were pretty much systematically denounced as racist in the lead-up to *The Cosby Show* and how that was held up as the gold standard while he was engaged in sexual violence against women of all races, religions, and sexual orientation behind the scenes.
Not at all surprised to hear this.
That man should have been paid what he was worth for all those successful IPs
Kenneth Williams is his birth name so glad 2 hear his story..
Eric Monte screwed himself because of his own inexperience and greed. He wanted to own the show What's Happening. But very few get that privilege. It takes decades, regardless of your race, to get to a position where you can own the rights to a TV show. He worked as a TV writer for about 3 years or so, and wanted to reach a position that took Norman Lear and others decades to achieve. Eric should have been happy with the "created by" credit. That alone would have netted him millions for a hit show. But he instead sued, and had to settle for $1 million. A third goes to the lawyers, and he squandered the rest from a drug addiction. He needs to own up to his mistakes and stop blaming others.
people nowadays use racism
as a excuse for everything bad
Happening to them, it really annoys
Me.
Wow. I'm glad he said what he said.
No no no.....we're taught and asked not to pull the race card.
Because race doesn't always have
To do with everything.
Mr. Monte will get the real reward, Lear is hotter than hell right now.
Norman Lear is rich too
He is how so??
Preach🎉
What a decent man.
Shocked 😮😳
Norman wasn't as much of a racist than a thief
And big liar
@youtubeSOFTashell yea its kinda obvious
Lear wouldn’t do that to a member of his tribe
@youtubeSOFTashellColumbia pushed Bud Yorkin (aka Mr. Cynthia Sikes) out of *What’s Happening Now!!* just as Eric Monte got muscled out of the OG.
WOW!!
Is anybody surprised that this happened ?
💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏽
Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!"
Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!"
Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!!
But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh.
Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!!
bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!"
Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear
"froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood!
Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!
Eric and Rihanna have the same lips!
Not only is this brother telling the truth but this is just another reason among many why WE MUST SEPARATE AND HAVE OUR OWN!! OUR OWN EVERYTHING!! AS LONG AS WE HAVE TO GO TO THEM we won't have independence and be independent from them
We tried that already , several times and each time the( folks) never wanted us to be successful. So many jewels inside of the culture for sure that never makes it all the way to the top. But we shine whether they like it or not. In the light or in the dark.
Awww we should have known . I hope he gets his flowers credits etc...$$$$$$$$$$$
Dirty, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty azzes
I'm hearing a common denominator in those names....hmnnn ??? But Hollyweird is not run by____
I heard it too.
I think we can take a stand against racism without injecting antisemitism.
@@mapleva Where was antisemitism injected?
Real Talk 💯
You can’t deal with the SOS
Isn’t this the Norm for black writers back in those days. No pun intended.
Interesting story. I always knew Lear was a snake.
I once knew a Black woman married a white MAN, and that’s exactly what she called him.
Lol was it because of his actions
Or his skin color??
His own rep sided with the opponents!!
Things have not changed. People get screwed all the time.
Yep, they play hardball in the performing arts; and if you lack representation you will be taken advantage, Everything Monte says is true, but this has happened to many many thousands in and around business enterprise. Welcome to life, it ain't fair but that has been the process of human development. Everyone has a hard luck story, and some are harder than others.
1:22-1:29 pause.
1:29-1:38 wow
You know why. You know who all those people were, they positioned themselves so that they can still degrade you, because to fulfill a dream of yours you would have to go through them, whether it be Music, TV, Movies, etc. they had the market covered, and held your future in their hands for a degrading price, if you were willing, or should I say if you chose to do whatever it was,
Going into the game, should have known it was rigged & fixed from the jump. To expect anything else, from the start or end, is foolhearty.