As a hack writer, Ban Gu's course of literary works can be divided into two periods.

班固是御用文人，他的创作可分为前、后两期。

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As their marriage deteriorated, Scott went to Hollywood to become a hack screenplay writer, and Zelda checked into a sanitarium.

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The Ghost in question is a young, broke, hard-drinking hack writer (Ewan McGregor) who signs on to rewrite the memoirs of a retired, Tony Blair-like Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan).

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