Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several of the Crusader middle-distance stars who make up one of the best mile relay teams in the East are out with injuries. Loren Maloney, Bob Credle, Bill Hack, and Bob Miller all could be on the beach...
William Holden plays a hard-drinking hack screenwriter, given exactly 48 hours to hatch a movie script. He is assisted by Audrey Hepburn, the loveliest little stenographer a hack ever had, who reports to his Paris hotel suite with an overnight bag full of Givenchy originals. While falling in love on the job, Hepburn and Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George...
...Carre's ability to etch characters and his fine hand with dialogue are characteristics of a good novelist, not merely of a writer of good spy stories. It would be a pity if he settled down to become a hack adventure writer after his success with this book
...wrong with Texas, though, is what's wrong with all Clan pictures: the attitude of the people on the screen. They constitute an ingroup, and they seem bored with the outside world. Sometimes, perish the thought, they even seem bored with each other. They scratch, they mumble, they hack around. They appear less concerned to entertain the public than to indulge their private fantasies. Maybe they ought to call their next picture...
...Turnbull. "The thing that lies behind all great careers from Shakespeare's to Lincoln's is the sense that life is a cheat and its conditions those of defeat." So wrote the novelist near the end of his life when he was poor, neglected and wasted by hack writing and alcohol. But these letters, most written then, contain some of his very best writing...