wachowski thread ready for a title change

Started by pete, May 03, 2004, 11:28:49 AM

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pete

http://www.suntimes.com/output/zwecker/cst-ftr-zp29.html


'Matrix' co-creator ready to be whole new woman

April 29, 2004

BY BILL ZWECKER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Sounds as though Larry Wachowski -- one half of the Chicago-born, super-successful brother team (along with Andy Wachowski) that created the "Matrix'' films -- is about to make a life-altering move.

According to those close to the extremely reclusive duo, Larry is about to finally become "Linda.'' Wachowski, who has been living and dressing as a woman for some time, reportedly is preparing to take the final step and have sex-change surgery. As always, it was impossible to get any comment from the press-shy Wachowskis, but several longtime friends of the Rogers Park native confirm Wachowski is planning to complete the process of becoming a woman.

Wachowski's sexuality and sexual preferences have made headlines since his nine-year marriage to Thea Bloom turned into an ugly divorce battle over the past couple of years. During courtroom fights over the millions generated by the "Matrix'' films, Bloom made veiled reference to her husband's proclivity for cross-dressing and his taste for less-than-conventional sexual activities. Bloom accused Wachowski of being "extremely dishonest with me in our personal life,'' and blamed the couple's initial separation on "very intimate circumstances concerning which I do not elaborate at this time for the reasons of his personal privacy.'' Numerous press reports have highlighted a long-term S&M dominatrix relationship Wachowski maintained with the owner of a Los Angeles area sex shop.
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Pubrick

under the paving stones.

Gold Trumpet

its safe to say no one here really identifies with his fantasy so I think this subject is really open to all jokes.

Sleuth

That's not true, there was a thread about this sort of thing before, I think it involved budgie.
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godardian

Quote from: SlombThat's not true, there was a thread about this sort of thing before, I think it involved budgie.

Besides, I find the logic that we should feel free to ridicule and mock anything we don't directly identify with to be pretty ill-considered... This kind of thing is unfortunate for the personal traumas the people involved have to go through, but it is very fortunate that he's (evidently) finally ended that trauma for both himself and his ex-wife and taken a brave and necessary step.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

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cron

So this is where my money (and yours) ended up. COOL :yabbse-thumbup:  :yabbse-thumbup:
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Pubrick

Quote from: The Gold Trumpetits safe to say no one here really identifies with his fantasy so I think this subject is really open to all jokes.
just to be safe, we should check with Andy K.
under the paving stones.

mogwai

i can't help thinking about the lesbian sex scene in "bound" after reading about the surgery.

SHAFTR

I'd be willing to try anything after the disaster that is Matrix Revolutions.
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SoNowThen

Quote from: godardianBesides, I find the logic that we should feel free to ridicule and mock anything we don't directly identify with to be pretty ill-considered... This kind of thing is unfortunate for the personal traumas the people involved have to go through, but it is very fortunate that he's (evidently) finally ended that trauma for both himself and his ex-wife and taken a brave and necessary step.

I'd like to substitute "ridiculous" for "brave"...
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

cine

Calling them "the Wachowski brothers" will become a thing of the past.  :P

pete

"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ

Quote from: The Gold Trumpetits safe to say no one here really identifies with his fantasy so I think this subject is really open to all jokes.

How do you tell a joke about this?  I mean you can say anything, but really nothing is funnier (i.e. - more twisted) than actually thinking about what the hell is going on.
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

cine

Quote from: Walrus, KookookajoobHow do you tell a joke about this?
I thought I made a valiant attempt...

cowboykurtis

ill be curious to see if this affects his career -- will people be hesitant to work with him?
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