Near The Waterfront
Category: Movies and Television
It’s a Wonderful Lifetime
Happy heavenly birthday to the immortal Frank Capra!
Gaslit
Seven Assassins
Hack wrote this rip-off of Akira Kurasawa’s seminal classic Seven Samurai after watching it on TCM. It’s not a patch on the original but it surprisingly has its moments.
The Robot
Happy heavenly birthday to Fred Astaire!
Give Up The Butt
Hack wrote this as a sequel to his earlier novel Agent 99 . It’s essentially the same book but with a lot more emphasis on anal sex. Hack considers it to be his masterpiece.
Undercover Ninja
This is a sequel to Hack’s earlier sicko novel Innocence Bound, although he managed to make it even sicker.
What’s The Deal?
Hack is obsessed with the TV show Seinfeld but was so disappointed by the farewell episode that he novelized one of his own. It’s a typical Hack Werker story so saturated with gratuitous sex and violence that it’s virtually unreadable. The one good thing about it is that it’s so bad that it makes you appreciate how good the finale of Seinfeld actually was by comparison.
The Seductive Strikers
It’s Wordsmith Day, a holiday to celebrate the weavers of words, and Hack felt that was the perfect time to lend his support to the Writers Guild of America strike.
Hack joined the WGA in 1957 when he was hired to write additional dialogue for the cult classic “Teen Jailbait in Women’s Prison.” He was kicked out five years later for trying to form an ultra left-wing splinter union because he didn’t think the WGA’s tactics were violent enough. But he’s always been a supporter of collective bargaining and he knows that the provisions the union is asking for are fair and reasonable. Right will prevail.
Don’t look for Hack on any picket lines because he’s always far too hungover to get out of bed before 3:00 in the afternoon. But this novel is his means of saying that he’s behind the WGA all the way.
“Yes, I Can Hear You, Clem Fandango”
