Inhaling the Wind
Category: Movies and Television
The Pugcorcist
When Hack heard that the Exorcism scene from the cast album for Exorcistic, the extraordinary musical featuring the great Jesse Merlin, is dropping on Spotify, he excitedly wrote this rip-off novel. Trust me, the album is much better.
The album can be found here.
The Thin Man’s Wife
Myrna Loy was a huge star in the 1930s and 1940s best known for her onscreen partnership with William Powell, especially as Nick and Nora Charles in the popular “Thin Man” series of mystery movies. Hack fell in love with Loy in those films and grew to detest Powell, so he wrote this novel in which his signature team of great detectives, Jonny and Boris, have an affair with Nora Charles and her dog Asta so they plot to murder Nick. They ultimately come up with an outlandish plan where she trains Asta to brutally attack Nick, leaving him dead in a pool of his own blood. Since the police in those movies are nitwits and Nick isn’t around to solve the case, they get off scott-free.
He Liked to Watch
Hack was a big fan of “The Bob Newhart Show” in the 1970s but wrote this after he became obsessed with the concept that Suzanne Phleshette, who played his wife on the show, was much too beautiful to be believably married to the titular character. While most of Hack’s work based on television shows and movies resulted in legal action, no one could really argue with this one.
Beverly Park Circle
It’s William Holden’s birthday and Hack wanted to write a rip-off of Sunset Boulevard so he started thinking of who the most ridiculous counterpart for Nora Desmond would be and he decided on Carol Burnett. It’s one of his most stupid book but in a way, it’s so bad that it’s good.
The Pug Who Would Be King
What Ever Happened to Puppy Boris?
Junior Ranger and the Wolf Man of Griffith Park
The Dogfather
Citizen Boris
This was a total hatchet job Hack wrote when he became consumed with jealousy after Boris tagged along with him at a book signing and the people there were only interested in getting Boris’ paw print. The novel’s resolution where you learn what the title character’s final words “rose plug” means is disgusting.