Word: altering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...
Fellow Crimson editor Johnathan H. Alter '79, now a Senior Editor and Columnist for Newsweek, said it was no surprise that Whitaker replaced Parker...
...Alter said Whitaker's work ethic will help him with his new position...
...Alter said he remembers Whitaker as a student who was as devoted to The Crimson as to his academics...
...thought that the class was too hard for me to take, and Mark was teaching it," Alter said...