Ms. Pinkett Smith chose a more pleasant — and less pleasing — alter ego.
Please change the labels.
Also, an article in Chile's constitution, which previously granted all citizens the right to live, stay, and travel within the country as they pleased, was altered in 2012 so as to treat Easter Island as an exception.
Please don't alter your expectations for this child.
Please don't alter the home's documents until you consult an estate-planning attorney.
I really think the whole story is altered to please the audience.
Tampering with a writer's words underscores both editors' extraordinary hubris and a cavalier attitude embraced by more and more people in this day of mash-ups, sampling and digital books -- the attitude that all texts are fungible, that readers are entitled to alter as they please, that the very idea of authorship is old-fashioned.
Karen Ahmed and Scott Webber, who worked for Rhino/WB and who I worked with, were in contact with Prince's representation asked me to try to alter it to please him.
I mean that), and went on for hours, his voice light and airy as he altered history to please his ear, until the Zuni were not only worshippers of deep pits, navels (Yes, fucking navels!), in which their souls and histories were prefabricated, but also stargazers who could see the future with ninety-nine-point-nine-per-cent accuracy.
But Mr. LeBlanc, who on Thursday was nominated for his comedic performance in "Episodes," a Showtime series that casts him as an exaggerated, self-centered version of himself, made it known that both he and his on-screen alter ego were pleased with this latest distinction.
