Anyone can, but we don't have to deal with contracts.

Sure. Good point.

Honestly, don't you already have a very clear idea about who you'd hire if you were an HW? Now that you mention this, I've yet to find out about your taste in writers. Apart from Labine and Curlee.

I don't know much about your taste in writers either.

I also remember when someone mentioned how well written Claire Labine/Paul Avila Mayer's Ryan's Hope was and she dimissed it, simply becuase the production values of the reruns look "so dated." WTF?

What does production have to do with good writing and a good overall show?

Oh, yes! That one, too, was equally distressing!!

She didn't actually say anything scandalous. I, however, have this capability of detecting certain things others might not see or hear.

She said how she doesn't like the fact that there is no mentor/pupil relationships in daytime and how she thinks that it's the way things should be: a HW during hi/hers tenure should train a younger writer who shall over time take the head-writing responsabilities. But that is not the problem – I somehow felt her comment was dismissive of other writers who might be a better fit than her protégé.

She generally seemed to be clueless about many, many things. As if she was living in the 19th century. Her kids also have horrible taste in television (Entourage )... She completely misunderstood today's younger generation etc. It was distressing hearing her.

Also, she somehow didn't actually reply to some excplicit and clear questions, she was sortf of evasive, for the lack of a better word and had a minor ego problem.

As far as B&B is concerned, she seemed to dismiss it saying how it was a cute little show Bill Bell created for Brad to helm, basically how it's silly, funny, nonsensical piece of a show. B&B is a soap opera, no matter how funny, not a sitcom, woman!! I had this feeling she discredited it together with Brad.

That is why her hiring is such a surprise to me since I thought she didn't get along with Brad. Perhaps, and I still have this feeling, this is just a business deal, not a declaration of love.

All that I wrote in this post is, of course, my impression, nothing else. Other people might have judged the interview differently.

Ah okay. That's cool. Yeah, I didn't see it that way at all. But hey, different strokes.

I watch Entourage.

I don't know much about your taste in writers either.

It's shocking what we've just realised! All this time, and apart from discovering both of us hate Guza, dislike Kay Alden and love Labine and Curlee, there's not much else the two of us know about each other's taste in writers! Or am I mistaken?

P. S. I love it when you say dearest!

Ah okay. That's cool. Yeah, I didn't see it that way at all. But hey, different strokes.

I watch Entourage.

It's so funny how you and I have such thoroughly different tastes in television!

So Beth Milstein is going to Y&R...Wow thats a coup, she was excellent at Days..what postition? script writer?

It's shocking what we've just realised! All this time, and apart from discovering both of us hate Guza, dislike Kay Alden and love Labine and Curlee, there's not much else the two of us know about each other's taste in writers! Or am I mistaken?

I think I'm very indifferent towards Alden. I don't see her as the God-like figure some have come to see her over of the past year on the boards. Yes, she's better than most current writers, but she's very hit and miss and a lot of times, her misses are more apparent than her hits, you know?

P. S. I love it when you say dearest!

I think I'm very indifferent towards Alden. I don't see her as the God-like figure some have come to see her over of the past year on the boards. Yes, she's better than most current writers, but she's very hit and miss and a lot of times, her misses are more apparent than her hits, you know?

I know, I know.

I was indifferent at first, but then all of a sudden people started praising her, especially after the MIT interview, and I had to take large blunt hammer and pound the message home – she is nothing special. And a lot of the time, she is a mess.

but she's very hit and miss and a lot of times, her misses are more apparent than her hits, you know?

In your opinion, what were her hits and misses?

The only two storylines I remember liking are: the Takeover and the Prom.

I don't remember what else she wrote (because I didn't really pay that much to Y&R back then).

Michelle Patrick is gone from AMC? Dear lord. Please tell me she left on her own and the idiots didn't fire the best writer still currently employed at AMC? This is troubling to me.

So Beth Milstein is going to Y&R...Wow thats a coup, she was excellent at Days..what postition? script writer?

Her tenure as interim HW was good, but nothing spectacular or anything. But I definitely think she should've been Hogan's Co-HW from the beginning, instead of Meg Kelly.

I don't know if she's writing scripts or breakdowns or both.

Michelle Patrick is gone from AMC? Dear lord. Please tell me she left on her own and the idiots didn't fire the best writer still currently employed at AMC? This is troubling to me.

I heard she didn't leave on her own.

Ugh this is all terrible. First the GL hacks are back (I don't even think they were gone in the first place), but actually knowing that they're back is even worse and now Scott Hamner's back. Fantastic.

Edited April 14, 200817 yr by AddictedToSoaps

I understand it takes time to assemble a team, but this transition has been very rough and the changes in the story aren't helping matters. They decided to replace LML's flops by turning Lily, Victoria and the dreadful Sabrina into Y&R's new leading ladies. Gloria is still running things and the writing for Victor is downright sick. It's clear someone's stroking his ego. I was VERY optimistic with LML and look how that turned out. HWs like Maria Arena Bell and Ron Carlivati are going to have to work hard for my support. So far MAB hasn't come close. I do think the style of writing fits Y&R and the dialogue is good, but overall the show is the definition of "meh."

May sweeps better have some fire.