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Recently, I found myself arguing with a friend over the merits of John Williams, the composer of numerous film soundtracks including the upcoming Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. My friend was accusing Williams of being a shameless sell-out, a hack who borrows from a hundred other works, including his own soundtracks on occasion. The Star Wars soundtracks steal voluminously from Holst and Wagner, as well as Stravinsky; the soundtrack for JAWS is an amalgam of numerous traditional sea themes from dozens of sources. But while I attempted to make a comparison of Williams' use of so many different sources...
...what might have been the dumbest move in the history of journalism, I crashed the party--and was recognized as the local newspaper hack who had been hammering the Mob. When I was threatened--something about sleeping with the fishes--I turned to Goodman for help. He shrugged. I ran for my life. And 11 years later he makes no apologies. That's why he might be perfect for Las Vegas, a town that apologizes for nothing...
...blur in this hypnotic story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, who, like the real Billy Tipton, is shockingly discovered after his death to have been a woman. Told from the point of view of his grief-stricken widow Millie, his adopted son Colman and Sophie Stones, a tabloid hack hot on Moody's trail, Trumpet is about the walls between what is known and what is secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency--could Joss Moody have been both such a wonderful...
...scroll down the list far enough, hundreds of entries deep, and you'll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: "Enquire Within Upon Everything"--a nifty little computer program written nearly 20 years ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim Berners-Lee. Who knew then that from this modest hack would flow the civilization-altering, millionaire-spawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide...
They say that one sign of a good cook is being a good eater. By that measure, I should be a very good cook. Instead, I'm a hack in the kitchen. Every meal I make starts with a package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts or a box of pasta (or both). One summer I got my roommate sick by cooking week-old chicken. I learned all I know about cooking from "The Frugal Gourmet" and "Great Chefs" on TV. (Those were the bad old days before Emeril and the Food Network...