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Many men who enter female-dominated fields endure winks, nudges and misunderstandings. "My parents thought I was gay," says massage therapist Patrizio. In child care, some of the concerns are so serious as to harm job prospects; some nanny-placement agencies refuse to consider men, for fear of hiring a pedophile or turning off parents. But in many cities, parents with hectic schedules and energetic boys are increasingly asking for male nannies. "I have a larger demand than the pool of available male nannies," says Cliff Greenhouse, president of the Pavillion Agency in New York City, which has placed three...
...darkened theater if you want. But for the real red-pill experience, you're going to have to swap that bucket of popcorn for a console and controller. The Wachowski brothers, raised on video games, always intended it that way--and created an intricate plot for a game called Enter the Matrix that wraps around the second movie like one strand of a DNA double helix around another...
Video games with cinematic tie-ins are often wan, but Enter the Matrix is rich, complex and compelling--almost a new movie in itself. In production since February 2001, it puts Jada Pinkett Smith's Niobe--not exactly a central figure in The Matrix Reloaded--front and center. There are two hours' worth of new scenes that pop up between levels, and Pinkett Smith submitted to several months of highly advanced "mo-cap"--a motion-capture technique that turns body movements into digital information--so that you're literally playing...
That may ultimately make Enter the Matrix a little beyond the reach of less tech-savvy gamers, but it will increase the Internet buzz about the game--and the Wachowskis' street cred. If in the future no self-respecting sci-fi director can make a movie without producing a video game at the same time, blame the brothers. Like the film that spawned it, Enter the Matrix already has the makings of a cult classic. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...staying home. B.S. (Before SARS), Rahul Shukla, a director of Citigroup Global Market, had the usual peripatetic travel schedule: on the road up to five days a week, dividing his time between Taipei, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong. Since SARS? "Zero, almost zero," he says. "We can't enter Taiwan, Singaporeans are concerned, and even in Seoul, clients prefer conference calls...