Category: Movies and Television

Imaginary Lover

Hack’s back and Agnes has got him!

This was inspired by an incident when a famous actress was depicted as a character on the cover art of one of Hack’s novels. A reader was furious because he considered the actress to be his personal masturbatorial intellectual property and threatened Hack with violence if he so much as thought about her again.

The reader was apprehended by authorities and is now safely confined to Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

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Happy heavenly birthday to the great Barbara Stanwyck!

Ms. Stanwyck’s most famous film, Double Indemnity, has an immortal scene where the insurance inspector played by Edward G. Robinson shows up at her lover Fred MacMurray’s apartment so she has to hide behind his door to avoid Robinson seeing them together.It’s a great tense scene except that no building code in the world (then or now) allows a door to open out into a hallway like that. If it did, you would flatten anyone in the face who knocked on it.

That scene irritates Hack so much that he wrote a whole novel inspired by it.