Mash-Up by Russell Ray Johnson

Author:Russell Ray Johnson [Johnson, Russell Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sony hack, ai, transhuman, cyber crime, hardboiled detective, Women's Fiction, Stuxnet, cyberterrorism, computer crime, hardboiled fiction, female detective, Mary Poppins, transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence, mash-up, North Korea, LGBQT, cybercrime, Mystery, ransomware attack, mashup, mash up, Computer Learning, cyber terrorism
Publisher: Go-Go-Junior
Published: 2018-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

IN THE YEARS BEFORE his association with Easley Made Pictures, Kirk Williams’s filmography consisted of half a dozen bit parts on cut-rate cop dramas and a used car commercial. Back then he was just another Hollywood wannabe.

Today a deep dive on Google revealed page after page of exposés and puff pieces detailing his sudden ascendancy to the limelight. I loaded an archived review on Rollingstone.com that pegged Williams as a hot property after the release of his first collaboration with Easley Throckmorton, a movie called Demand.

“This gritty found-footage weeper about a young man’s descent into homelessness is set in a four-square block radius of an unnamed city. The film depicts one man’s hopeless struggle, seeking help from failing institutions as he unsuccessfully attempts to keep his life from spiraling into despair. It’s a story told largely in wide, single takes, keeping the audience at arm’s length and heightening the sense of alienation experienced by David, the story’s protagonist, portrayed by promising newcomer Kirk Williams. The sparing use of close-ups is made palatable by the sheer physicality of Williams’s intense performance.”

Unlike other industry up-and-comers, Williams rejected the L.A. club scene and rarely popped up on the hot gossip blogs. When he did, the stories weren’t hit pieces accompanied by embarrassing viral video clips. Instead they were grainy cell-phone shots of a hooded figure in sunglasses ducking in and out of trendy, organic green grocers paired with headlines like “Kirk Williams Spotted in Pasadena Sipping Mango Kale Smoothie at #MeToo March” or “Williams Ducks the Limelight in Search of Fair Trade Lentils!” His coverage in the celebrity press paralleled the mania associated with Bigfoot sightings.

A profile on HuffPo detailed the actor’s youth, sharing anecdotes of an adorable infancy and Polaroids of young Kirk roughhousing with a beloved cocker spaniel named Indigo. The piece paid special attention to his early interest in the theater. One picture showed Williams plying his craft in a competitive High School One-Act staging of Paul Rudnick’s meta-Broadway hit I Hate Hamlet. The article pinpoints Williams’s state championship win playing lead character Andrew Rally as pivotal in his decision to follow acting, spurring his relocation to Los Angeles in the late nineties. Another posting featured a rare family photo, Williams standing arm in arm with his mother on the edge of an ornate proscenium, while her older son from a previous marriage hovered behind them. The lanky, haunted figure wore dark sunglasses despite the dim lighting of the indoor environment. His name was Alexi Puccinotti, a Tuscan surname he later abandoned in favor of the abbreviated and more sensational Pux.

The acolytes of Humanity 2.0 discovered this connection in their sprawling efforts to digitize the Professor’s comprehensive biography for future generations. And they believed Alexi’s half-brother Kirk was the key to finding their missing cyborg sovereign.

But most of the Kirk Williams Google search results linked to websites chronicling the After the Wave publicity blitz.

Easley Made Pictures’ new film was still a week away from its December twenty-fifth release date.

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