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...home life means spending time with a menagerie of pets and her steady boyfriend, actor Luke Wilson (Bottle Rocket), at her newly converted barn tucked away in a Los Angeles canyon. She has managed to turn her movie teams into cozy families as well: during the filming of Ever After, in an isolated village in France, she endeared herself to the crew by supplementing the set's meager craft-services table with fresh fruits and sandwiches. A strict vegetarian who objects to harming animals, Barrymore also believes in the spiritual power of auras, karma, energy fields and the like. Maybe...
...ancestors on that very same tree. "You can spend five years on one link and get nowhere," he says, "but when you get that one name, you may be able to take it back several generations in a single day." Margot Williams, 50, a minister of education for St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is of African-American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold...
...Listen to some of the words on Kip Kinkel's favorite CD, Nevermind, by Nirvana: "Death/ With violence/ Excitement/ Right here/ Died/ Go to hell ... Take a chance/ Dead." It's not completely clear what Kurt Cobain had in mind with these lyrics, but they are lush with nihilism. Luke Woodham listened to goth rocker Marilyn Manson, and Mitchell Johnson to rapper Tupac Shakur. One doesn't have to support censoring any of these artists to see that hurt, isolated kids may not understand any intended symbolism...
There were other cultural loves. Woodham had implicated himself in a role-playing game at the behest of an older boy, Grant Boyette, now 19. "Grant said he knew I had been hurt by Christina, and he said there was a way to get revenge," Luke told a psychologist. "He said Satan was the way." He said Boyette introduced him to Hitler and Nietzsche, beat and burned his pet dog and eventually led him to a Satanic group believed to be called the Kroth (initially named the Fourth Reich). The Kroth played an interactive game called Star Wars--sort...
...believes that media violence undermines kids' resilience and self-control, psychological mechanisms that allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out. Some biologists--Harvard's E.O. Wilson has pioneered this thinking--believe there is a genetic component to these traits, that kids like Luke and Kip simply lack the DNA that keeps their fingers off the trigger. In the end, Satan is certainly the easier explanation, if less intellectually satisfying. As Kurt Cobain once sang, "Now the people cry and the people moan/ ... And try to find some place to rest their bones/ While...