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Thomas W. Ashworth

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Ohio born, Arizona raised, San Diego college & married (40 years) SoCal resident.

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When Hack was contemplating writing a rip-off of Agatha Christie’s long-running play The Mousetrap, he learned that his cover artist Jonny M. had once played Christopher Wren in a successful production of the show. So, he based the thinly veiled imitation of the Wren character on Jonny and included thinly veiled imitations of the other personalities in Christie’s script. The only original character was a ditzy blonde nymphomaniac who stood out like a sore thumb from everything else in the book, but it was the only way Hack could keep himself interested.

Happy heavenly birthday to Agatha Christie! #agathachristie #themousetrap #pulpart #hackwerker

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Happy heavenly birthday to Dick York, the original Darrin Stevens on Bewitched, who never realized what a good deal he had. If Jonny had hooked up with Samantha, his many enemies would no longer be an issue.#bewirched #pulpart #dickyork #elizabethmontgomery

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Happy Wednesday from Hack Werker, Jonny M., Boris and the Jonny Pals! Just remember that we ALL have someone who’s out to GET us!!! #pulpart #filmnoir #hackwerker

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Happy Tuesday, everyone! Be careful out there! #pulpart #filmnoir #pug #mitchmcconnell

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Happy birthday to the great Harrison Ford from Hack Werker, Jonny M., Boris and the Jonny Pals! #harrisonford #witness #raquelwelch #pug

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Happy birthday to the great Meryl Streep from Hack Werker, Jonny M., Boris, and the Jonny Pals! #merylstreep #sophieschoice #pulpart #hackwerker

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Happy 100th birthday to the legendary Marilyn Monroe from Hack Werker, Jonny M., Boris and the Jonny Pals! #marilynmonroe❤️ #marilynmonroe #thesevenyearitch #marilynmonroe💋

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Happy World Belly Dance Day! #worldbellydanceday #bellydance #pulpart #hackwerker

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Tom.

Had a great time working with actor/dancer/chameleon @twashworth

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When Hack realized that today is William Shakespeare’s birthday. he thought the time was overdue for another of his adaptations of one of the Bard’s plays.

We begged him not to. #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #juliuscaesar #pulpart

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Happy World Art Day from Hack Werker, Jonny M., Boris and the Jonny Pals! #worldartday #pulpart #hackwerker #pug

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The highbrow crowd in Van Nuys—fur coats draped over hollow hearts—had already written Jehoshaphat Merlin’s obituary in permanent ink. Eighty-three years old, a bullet lodged in his skull, he’d gone down mid-soliloquy while playing Romeo like time had forgotten him. It should’ve been a perfect curtain call. But death took one look at Merlin and passed. The old tragedian clawed his way back, and when Jonny and Boris dragged his longtime dresser Robert Vestal, his would-be killer, to the noose, Merlin repaid the favor the only way he knew how—by announcing another farewell. King Lear, Van Nuys Performing Arts Center, World Theater Day. The faithful few came crawling back, clinging to the myth like it might still breathe.

Jonny and Boris didn’t trust the invitation, but they took it anyway. They figured maybe the old buzzard had discovered gratitude in his second life—maybe a handshake, maybe a couple of comp tickets if the planets lined up just right. Instead, they got Merlin in his dressing room, marinating in greasepaint and ego, wrapped in velvet like a relic that refused to stay buried. His voice rolled out in that baritone of his, stretching words until they nearly snapped. A “luminary” like him, he said, needed protection in a cesspool like Van Nuys. Since Vestal swung, he couldn’t keep a dresser longer than a fortnight. So he offered the detectives a job—valets and bodyguards, no extra pay, no gratitude, no illusions.

Boris gave it a moment, head tilted, the way he did when he was trying to find the upside in a bad deal. He said it might be worth a shot—two weeks in show business, keeping an eye on a company that had been taking potshots at its leading man all tour long. Merlin didn’t like the tone. Said he was a harsh master, the kind that broke men and called it discipline. Seventy years serving Shakespeare, and no one had ever met his standards. Then he lowered the boom, voice turning soft and deadly. He promised them one thing: after two weeks in his employ, the two miserable souls who despised him most in the entire company would be Jonny and Boris.

In Van Nuys, that wasn’t a warning. It was prophecy. #worldtheatreday #kinglear #shakespeare

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