Thursday, May 22, 2003

A new company is broadcasting funerals on the Internet, giving friends and relatives who can't make the service a chance to pay their respects. How great is that?

Those who can't get to the funeral also will be able to sign the electronic guest book and e-mail condolences to the family. The company captures funerals with a digital camera and broadcasts them live for seven funeral homes in South Dakota.

The Recording Industry Association of America will soon be concerned with the illegal downloading of dead recording artists' funerals.

Just be aware!

"The Matrix Reloaded" may be unloading the cash, but co-director Larry Wachowski will need more than "The Key Master" to unlock the vault to his money for the film.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has frozen Wachowski's business assets in a bitter divorce fight between the reclusive filmmaker and his estranged wife, Thea Bloom, who claimed he was concealing funds from her, according to newly disclosed court documents.

The filmmaker and his partner, brother Andy, earned upfront payments totaling $16 million in their deals with Warner Bros. to jointly write and direct "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions." They could make millions more through separate licensing deals for video and online games based, socks, and back-scratchers on the two sequels to the original "Matrix" movie.

Bloom said she and Wachowski mutually agreed to separate last July, after nearly nine years of marriage. Bloom said she learned that "Larry has received large payments (for the "Matrix" films) that I never saw deposited in our joint accounts."

"Larry has been extremely dishonest with me in our personal life, and I believe he is hiding information from me regarding our financial affairs," she said in the court papers. The court order freezing Wachowski's assets was filed last Wednesday. So looks like he's not lending me any money anytime soon.

There is also some strong reports that he is a cross-dresser with rumors to an upcoming sex-change.

I believe that makes Neo the Anti-Christ and that Agent Smith may be the true Savior in the next installment. But I could be wrong.

I was wrong when I thought Yoda was Luke's father.