Triangle's TV Certificate
for the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Time Out's Tony's Hit List Essential
New York
Bronx Times Article dedicated to
the Beta Awards
Article about Strange fruits tv
on cable is from the Riverdale Press Newspaper
Eric Booth Holding up the two Beta
Awards
Strange Fruits TV soap opera is the brainchild
of Eric Stephen Booth, a GMoB member. With the help
of other GMoB members and The Point, CDC, the first episode premiered
on BronxNet Public Access, Christmas week of 1997. The Strange Fruits
cast grew from eleven core characters, (Brandy, Jody, Robert Dai,
Big Guy, Onassis, Constantinople, Councilman Mark Davenport, Lilly,
Guapo, Terry & Marcus), to well over 100 characters. A year later
in late 1998, Strange Fruits TV started broadcasting on BCAT, (Brooklyn),
MNN, (Manhattan), and QPTV, (Queens). QPTV pulled the show in 1999
but now in 2003 we are back on the air in Queens.
In
2001, Strange Fruits TV won 2 BETA Awards, (Bronx Excellence Television
Access); Best Innovative Program and Best entertainment/variety
program. In 2002, Strange Fruits TV
was written up in the TIMEOUT magazine as the "#8 Public Access
show we flip from HBO to watch."
The premise of the soap opera is that all
the characters are real people and they live in a society where
being black, white, gay or straight has no merit. The one with the
most money is king/queen and the rest are peons struggling to be
kings/queens themselves. Strange Fruits has evolved into two featured
films, “Nemesis,” (a private viewing in Feb. 2003),
and “Forbidden Fruit,” (presently in production).
There is a future for Strange Fruits TV,
the producers are looking for a network to pick up the story from
its last episode - Miss Bebe Montana marries Guapo and they inherited
$300,000 from Bebe’s late husband, Terry. Bebe and Guapo move
to Greenwich CT. and cause havoc among the natives. -
