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What makes Keanu Reeves so great? 2 Chicago writers reflect in a new essay collection

Keanu Reeves.

The name evokes visions of a rain-soaked Johnny Utah from "Point Break" or a very bronzed Prince Siddhartha in "Little Buddha" or the cancerous and weary John Constantine in the 2005 eponymously named film where hell and heaven is a day at the office. Reeves is a name so renowned that he played himself in "Always Be My Maybe" and the voice of a namesake kitten in the 2016 Key and Peele film "Keanu."

Chicago authors Larissa Zageris and Kitty Curran have penned an homage to Keanu in "For Your Consideration: Keanu Reeves." They are also the authors of "My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel" (2018) and the novella

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