Re: B&B: Interesting Trivia -- Ever wonder who actually lives in those Forrester Bel Air mansions they show from the air?

[Karen]

Zob <zobva1 @ gmail.com> wrote:
>> I happened across this article and it really *is* interesting. So,
>> the Bells are as wealthy as the Forresters that they created!:
>>
>> "Art imitating life: The Forrester Mansion as seen on TV was modeled
>> after the real life mansion of series creators William J. Bell and Lee
>> Phillip Bell (once owned by Howard Hughes) whereas the estate of their
>> son Bradley Bell served as the model for the house of Brooke Logan.
>> The backdrop shots of two other sets belong to houses owned by the
>> Bell dynasty, though the belonging sets used on the show share no
>> similarities with reality: The house of William J. Bell Jr. and his
>> wife 'Maria Arena Bell' serves as the Bel Air Mansion of Ridge and
>> Taylor Forrester, actress Lauralee Bell calls the Marone Mansion home
>> in real life. "
>>
>> There's some more interesting trivia about the show at the same site:
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092325/trivia
> --
>
> Zob

It always bothered me that many of these interiors have stairways to
no-where (Brooke's house, first floor to second floor doesn't 'coincide
with exterior architecture) and dead ends (the stairs going up from the
right of Adam's penthouse). Maybe I should pay less attention.

Karen

[Cheri]

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And Forrester Creations with all those stories.

Cheri

[Lynn Kelly]

On 10/31/13 @ 3:16:39 AM UTC-7, Zob wrote:

>I happened across this article and it really *is* interesting. So,
>the Bells are as wealthy as the Forresters that they created!:
>
>"Art imitating life: The Forrester Mansion as seen on TV was modeled
>after the real life mansion of series creators William J. Bell and Lee
>Phillip Bell (once owned by Howard Hughes)
>

>There's some more interesting trivia about the show at the same site:
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092325/trivia

Indeed, the Bell family own their shows and enjoy the full monetary benefits,
but it wasn't always like that. Columbia Television Pictures (now Sony
Picture Television) and CBS Television reaped huge financial rewards from
Bill Bell writing the cash cow that's Y&R. In the late 1980's, Bill Bell Jr.
(MAB's future husband) felt his father should get a bigger piece of the pie.
The Bells stopped delivering scripts for production until they can share in
the gross profits. The studio executives saw Bell as an employee and
threatened to fire him. Bell held his ground and TPTB agreed to pay him
a greater percentage of the gross profits. From then on, the Bell family
became a full partner with Columbia and an owner of Y&R.