Seems that both sides are claiming to have done their part to get this movie nominated. Somewhere in there lies the truth, but we’ll probably never know. – Flexx

It would appear that the reason for Not The Cosbys XXX being overlooked at the recent Urban X Awards was not as sinister as it was made out to be, but more along the lines of failed communication.

After the press release from X-Play came out, in which they expressed their disappoinment with not receiving even a nomination at the awards show for ethnic related flicks, Giana Taylor, producer of the Urban X Awards show released a statement in which she said:

It really upsets me to read such stories such as the one released about the “Not The Cosbys XXX” not being nominated. The reason I am upset is because I put out press releases about the nomination deadlines, and I even extended them two times to give companies more time to submit movies.

For Jeff Mullin to put a negative story out such as the one he put
out is just very disrespectful to me, as the founder of Urban X Awards, and to his cast, to make them think that we would intentionally leave such a big movie out of the nominations.

She went on to advise members of the cast of Not The Cosbys XXX to “…contact the folks responsible for submitting that movie for dropping the ball…”

Soon after, a response came from Jeff Mullin in which he expressed that the press release was not meant to be disrespectful, but rather “tongue-in-cheek parody-like”. He continued to say:

As for Not the Cosbys XXX not winning an Urban X Award that is really not a problem at all and if they didn’t receive our DVD or my comments that Thomas Ward (Cliff Huxtable) would bring the house down as a presenter at their awards show (Misty Stone AKA Denise Huxtable was on their stage) then I can understand them not putting our movie on their nomination list to consider. I know they certainly knew about Not the Cosbys XXX but if exact protocol was not followed I can totally see their point of leaving it off their nom list.

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