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...Matrix, the recent box-office hit now on DVD, Keanu Reeves and his leather-clad gang spend quite a bit of time staring at green columns of digital characters that stream down their computer monitors. These columns, our protagonists explain, represent the incredibly complex digital reconstruction of the 20th century human world--a vast computer program affectionately known as, well, the Matrix. By staring at these columns, those outside the Matrix can "see" what's going on within. "I don't even see the code," boasts one of the male techies as he points to various spots in the flickering...
...green columns of digital characters that stream down my computer screen. The ASCII characters on my screen don't look nearly as cool as the ones created by Warner Brothers. Nor do these characters represent anything close to an elaborate human prison designed by intelligent robots gone sour. But Keanu's Matrix is my Unix, and like my stolid friend, I can see what people are up to. Sort...
...some pundit or other tells us, it's about honesty. Snorting coke isn't about drugs, it's about the media. Shooting up your high school class isn't about gun control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through the b.s. Suddenly we wake up, like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, and find ourselves in a tub of goo with robots ruling the world. "Rock says everything you want to say but that you're not quite sharp or smart enough to think of yourself," says MTV president Judy McGrath, who signed...
Caveat: When Keanu Reeves' slightly slanted specs from The Matrix become publicly available in August, they could also be contenders
...onscreen is that we caught him on Broadway a few years ago. This week sees Ally McBeal venturing into an "Athenian" forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Indeed, the hottest writer of treatments in Hollywood (as he was three years ago) is that high-concept old guy Shakespeare. Keanu Reeves in Shamela? Bette Midler and Stephen Dorff in The Merry Wives of Windsor? Who knows where it will...