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Y&R: New Head Writer


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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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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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