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...worm, then, is a sort of Moby Python, and young Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) is an Ahab with a happy ending. MacLachlan, 25, grows impressively in the role; his features, soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments...
Talk about role identification. Eight years ago, Kyle MacLachlan read in a newspaper that the rights to Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction fantasy, had been sold to a movie-production company...
...been with him for about ten years now," MacLachlan says of Paul, and when he was barely one year out of acting school, he got a chance to audition for the part of his boyhood hero. His punk haircut with "a little spike" was a problem, he recalls, but he promised Film Maker Dino De Laurentiis he would let his hair grow. And so what the actor calls his "Kyle-Paul meld" began in earnest. He read Dune five or six times before getting the part and has read it five or six times since. With the $40 million space...
...hacker, MacLachlan is a member of an intense, reclusive subculture of the computer age that has cropped up at the nation's top universities. The term hacker derives from "hack," meaning a subtle, sometimes elegant fix for a flaw in a computer program. Hackers spend hours typing commands on terminal keyboards to learn as much as possible about the strengths and weaknesses of a particular program or network. They tinker for the sheer fun of it, delving deeper and deeper into the mysteries of software...
...Large, 21, and Skef Wholey, 19, are SPICE rack regulars along with MacLachlan. Like most hard-core hackers, they do not think much about graduation or life after college: all that seems incidental to the computer experience. They generally study, work and talk in the SPICE rack, and when they go out for food, their choice of eatery is understood and unvarying: Jimmy Tsang's Chinese restaurant in Shadyside. Any suggestion that hacking is the least bit odd makes them bridle. Says Large: "Hacking just means doing something with enthusiasm. I know more about farming than the average person...