Y&R: New Head Writer

[Adam]

Thanks, Ron

I lurk now and again, but you are right, have not posted in a while. Its nice to see some the regulars still here.

[amybrickwallace]

PREACH, Cat!! You really just said it all.

[Paul Raven]

Isn't Jack Smith like 90 yrs old??

[Cat]

If he is still alive, cogent and can touch-type... he'd still be 1000 times more useful to Y&R than the team currently in place.

[SOAPSFOREVER]

I believe Jack Smith is around Kay Alden's age, 67 or so. The greats (Irna Phillips, Anges Nixon, Bill Bell) kept writing way past their sixties.

[Darlotto99]

id trust a 90 year old Jack Smith and Kay Alden before Chuck Pratt that hack

[DramatistDreamer]

Hell, there's probably a good voice recognition software that could help with the typing.

[amybrickwallace]

Does Lee Philip Bell have any role with Y&R anymore - even as a consultant?

[allmc2008]

What did she do in the past?

[amybrickwallace]

She did co-create Y&R with her husband - and I thought she still had some pull. I could be wrong. I'm sure someone here would know more.

[vetsoapfan]

Charles Pratt, Jr.

UGH!

I have loathed his cretinous writing ever since his rancid scripts decimated the once-erudite, sensitive family drama LIFE GOES ON.

The Daytime Emmy awards for writing are no indication of talent, of course. Any hack writer can be put in charge of a serial, and even though their overall performance is dreadful, great scriptwriters like Patrick Mulcahey can save their reputations by making silk purses out of the sow's ears handed down from the hacks in charge. Two scripts written by scribes like Mulcahey, who blatantly ignore the headwriter's dreck, can be offered to the judges at Emmy time, and make it appear that the headwriter has some skill...even when it's clear, to anyone who actually watches their work all year 'round, that they don't

I'd describe Pratt's style as mean-spirited, low-brow camp, with misogynistic overtones, and the regular infusion of cheap violence for shock value.

UGH, redux.

[Cat]

THIS.

It's like Sony and JFP are just going down a list looking for the most ill-suited HWs for Y&R.

Can't ignore them connections, though -- JFP, Pratt, Guza, Frons and Steve Kent were all buddy-buddy back in the day at NBC's Santa Barbara.

[vetsoapfan]

It's the recycling of untalented "writers" which has pretty much destroyed what's left of daytime TV.

[amybrickwallace]

At least most of the work they did at SB was GOOD. What happened??? *SIGH*

[Cat]

They ejaculated too early.

Apologies, that was really gross. What I meant to say was, they've been riding on SB's coattails ever since.