Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris from its enemies and wins the hand of his true love, Louis XI's niece. Although the entire cast, including King, caricatures the parts in the familiar cinematic manner, and although there are painful moments when the immortal Villon must recite dreadful verses organized for him by Hollywood hack writers, The Vagabond King is high-spirited and good-looking enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Villon's jailbird army mobilizing to defend the city...
Robert A. Carter, 32-year-old hack writer of Larchmont, N. Y., hit upon a sure-fire plan for getting stories published and paid for. Unwilling to risk the unsure rewards of grinding out adventure tales for paper pulp magazines, mailing and re-mailing them to apathetic editors, he decided to model his compositions after successful stories already printed. Not only did he set about copying them as to sense, but as to content, letter perfect...