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I'm glad he's happy. I understand why he liked Pratt at AMC, but at the same time I don't think Pratt did for Tad what was outlined in that anecdote about him.

 

This is particularly affecting:

 

In the old days of All My Children on 63rd street in Manhattan, it was home for most of us.  I knew every inch of that place.  I was very aware of staying a little too long at the party back in New York.  After 2008, when the money crunch came down, we really started tightening belts.  After 20 years on the show, my star was dimming somewhat.  How many times can I marry on-screen Cady McClain?  And because of where I was in my life, that had pretty much become me, and my sense of identify.  There was a certain sense of feeling trapped … good, bad, or indifferent.  I was thinking this is me, and I don’t know what else is out there.  There were five years of me basically getting used to a new life out in Los Angeles.  Most of it good, and some of it difficult.   But when I got the call from Y&R, I thought: I am still my age, what could I contribute? Could I still do it?  How long would it be?  Back at All My Children, we were living under the threat of when is the axe going to fall in the last few years, and when are they going to do it.  I am still pissed off that people had to leave New York, sold their houses, moved their kids out of schools, and moved here to Los Angeles, and then they dropped us on our heads.  It was the one time in my life I felt I didn’t have a career, but I had a job.  If you are in a place, and at a job for 30 years, there are only so many people that can take things away from you.  If you are in one job for that long, and it’s going on three decades, and somebody shows up at the network and says, “You’re not worth it,” then there is very little you can do about it.  It’s a powerlessness, frustration, and anger I didn’t do so well with at the time.

 

I wish he'd spoken about what was clearly his planned return to AMC 2.0. He did a voice-over setting it up.

I must have lost whatever was left of my mind because I SWEAR very, very little of what MEK describes Pratt doing for Tad on AMC actually made it to air.  Tad got shot, Tad started acting weird (or weirder than usual), Tad sang "High Hopes" at a funeral, and then, not too long afterward, it was as if none of that had occurred.