He has tried to get respectable portrayals of his people on the idiot box, but bosses and couch potatoes have rebuffed his efforts. Pierre is frustrated. Pierre is pompous. Pierre is amoral. He proposes a primetime minstrel show, featuring black actors in black face bowing to the racist comedy acts of Amos n Andy and Step n Fetch It.
Executives greenlight the project.
Viewers lap it up. Pierre s sadistic creation, a minstrel show for the new millennium, is a ratings juggernaut. Only in America could such a twisted phenomenon be possible, Mr. Lee, and only an American would dare make a movie imagining it. She cringes as she scrounges up talent for the production. She complains while facilitating the minstrel show s development.