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Murray Kempton got this story right in 1955, in his book Part of Our Time . The Hollywood Communists, most of them screenwriters, were overpaid hacks, not dangerous revolutionaries.
Isn't that America's last bastion of mobsters, racists, and hacks?"
Pop music is mostly minstrelsy: Following "After The Ball," while black ragtime composers starved, white Tin Pan Alley hacks stuck "rag" in the titles of their novelty songs and sold millions.
The Hackathlon will be officiated by Deputy Editor Jack Shafer, who apparently feels there isn't enough bad writing in Slate . Four self-proclaimed hacks (insert earnest demurral here: Oh, no, they're actually extremely talented, etc., etc., etc.) will compete in trying to produce a piece in a hurry.
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.