E&P Editor Recalls "Between the Lines"

december 4, 2002  09:59 am
Greg Mitchell had a silver screen moment when he parlayed his long hair into a photo shoot for the 1977 low-budget film "Between the Lines." Set in Boston at a fictitious alt-weekly, the Back Bay Mainline was obviously modeled on the two Boston papers then in a fight to the death, the Phoenix and The Real Paper. Jeff Goldblum went on to become a star after playing the Mainline's "scuzzy rock critic."