What the hell…The Matrix

Spread the news, Dorothy Parker is back on cinema screens around the world. What does Dottie have to do with the No. 1 movie in the country? How is she linked to Keanu Reeves? If you see The Matrix — the sci-fi thriller that is blowing up box offices — Parker fans are smiling. When Reeves’ character, Neo, utters his very first line in the movie, it is Pure Parker: “What the hell…” The three words are credited to Parker by the Oxford English Dictionary. So more than 60 years after Parker coined the phrase, Hollywood scriptwriters are keeping her memory going. Now, if only George Lucas is a Parker nut…