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...using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict who turned out to be nothing more than a ghost from her typewriter...
...game opens, Niobe, along with fellow supporting character Ghost, has to retrieve a letter that has been left for them by the crew of the Osiris, shown in the Animatrix short, The Final Flight of the Osiris--a letter that shows up in Neo's hands, with scant explanation, in the movie. Tantalizing intersection points like this are the Wachowskis' way of making you drop another $50 on their world the day after you leave the theater. (The game will be released the same day as the movie on all formats: PC, PS2, Xbox and GameCube. TIME got an exclusive...
This could be an essay in contempt--the movie's title suggests a corrective fart aimed at the ghost of folk pop--but what's the fun in that? These gifted improv-ers of course locate the ludicrous. (Lynch does a roguish parody of everything that is creepy and false about show-biz poise.) But Guest also trusts any actor's tendency to fall in love with his character--and find elaborate rationales for goofy behavior. "There had been abuse in my family," Higgins solemnly recalls. "But it was mostly musical...
...crew members spend the next few minutes enjoying the light show while tending to their suits and instruments and feeling for the return of the first ghost of gravity. When the ship is pulling only one-hundredth of a G, McCool is heard commenting that when he drops a card, it falls, a sure sign that Columbia is crossing the line from extraterrestrial to terrestrial...
...much, the motorbikes laden with squawking ducks bound for market, the green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds in his lap. "At that moment I thought: I have to get out of here...