No Nukes.(how director Tim Robbins incorporates conspiracy into plots of his films)

In the imagination of Tim Robbins, there are no accidents.

His movies seethe with conspiracies-right-wing conspiracies, vast right-wing conspiracies so scary that Sid Blumenthal should not see them without a parent or other accompanying adult.

In his recent film AntiTrust, Robbins plays Gary Winston, a paranoid and predatory software tycoon loosely based on Microsoft chairman and chief technol-the hell with it, it's an impersonation of Bill Gates. A visionary technogeek, Winston runs the Pacific Northwest corporate campus of his monopolistic NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision) like a cross between Jonestown and the Manhattan Project. In his drive to meet the launch deadline for Synapse, a new software application that will link all communications devices in one all-enveloping web, he arranges for the murder of competitors whom he cannot co-opt.

For Robbins, a 42-year-old actor-activist-writer-director-Nation Institute board member, the role of a crypto-right-wing monster is no stretch. In fact, it is a career:

-- In Arlington Road, Robbins played an outwardly neighborly shopping- mall architect who secretly masterminds an antigovernment terror network and plots to blow up the FBI building.

-- In Bob Roberts, which Robbins wrote and directed, he played a folk- singing "New Right" Senate candidate who will stop at nothing to get elected.

-- In Cradle Will Rock, which he also wrote and directed, right-wing know-nothings from the House Un-American Activities Committee stop the Federal Theater Project's production of The Cradle Will Rock, a proletarian musical by Communist composer Marc Blitzstein.