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With the phenomenal success of their film The Matrix ($27.7 million in its opening weekend), brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski confirmed that in Hollywood, being your brother's keeper--and co-director--can make your mother very proud indeed...
ANDY & LARRY WACHOWSKI PAST FILM Bound CURRENT FILM The Matrix AGE DIFFERENCE: Larry, 33, is two years older FUN FAMILY FACT: Former carpenters, the brothers built their parents a house RECURRING MOTIFS: Intimidating women HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "[Gina] Gershon [seen recently in Showgirls] learned that the brothers speak as one." --Chicago Sun Times
...open ground level has become a Sunday gathering spot for Hong Kong's Filipina maids. It has probably done more to change the way people think about what Foster calls "the culture of office buildings" and the relation of the corporate to the public domain in a city's matrix than any other 20th century structure...
Bunch of guys at a Manhattan 'plex watching The Matrix. Carrie-Anne Moss kicks some 'droid butt, makes a streetwide leap from one building top to the next, then crash lands through a small window. "The bitch is bad," one of the guys opines. "Go, girl!" Then Laurence Fishburne shows up as Morpheus--a morphing Orpheus, a black White Rabbit, an R.-and-B. Obi-Wan Kenobe, a big bad John the Baptist, a Gandalf who grooves; every wise guide from literature, religion, movies and comix. Though he's in a dark room in the dead of night...
...same thing applies to their reflections on such matters as artificial intelligence, alternative realities and the space-time continuum. You feel they have at least read the better magazine articles on these topics--enough to provide a little more subtext than we expect to find in enterprises like The Matrix. Besides, there's real wit in their presentation of the Zionist oracle (who turns out to be a motherly black lady baking cookies in an old-fashioned kitchen), and real sexiness in Carrie-Anne Moss as super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their...