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Larry Wachowski, the half of the Matrix trilogy writer-director sibling team who is widely rumored to have had a sex change, and is currently shacking up with a dominatrix by the name of Ilsa Stix, clearly isn't screwing around when it comes to his "alternative lifestyle" existence. But with their upcoming movie, V for Vendetta, soon to unleash a shorn Natalie Portman onto the world, the spotlight-shirking filmmaker will inevitably have to contend with the fact that his life is about to become an open, though deeply confusing, book:

[E]xecs at Warner Bros. a very hot studio right now are concerned that this time out, Larry Wachowski's personal life is going to get big-time exposure. [...]


First up may be Rolling Stone, which is said to be planning a big investigation into this unusual couple. West Coast investigator Paul Barresi and a famed torture-meister named Tom Moore are said to have led Jann Wenner's rockin' journos into the belly of the beast.

In a town like Hollywood, where the men are men and the dames are dames (at least the last time we checked, which was 1943), many simply just don't know what to make of the Wachowski hybrid vehicle, much less the ruby-lipped disciplinarian on his arm. But for Warner Bros. to see this free publicity as anything other than a positive thing seems rather old-fangled thinking, especially in the year of the LGBT Oscars. On the contrary, you would think they would use the hot topic of sexual confusion to their PR advantage, setting the Vendetta trailer up with a bassy announcer intoning, "From the formerly-penised mind who brought you the Matrix..."