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Y&R: New Head Writer

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Wow blast from the past! Nice to see you posting again Adam. You cutie...hehe...

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.

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Isn't Jack Smith like 90 yrs old??

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.

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Isn't Jack Smith like 90 yrs old??

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.

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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.

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

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

What did she do in the past?

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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