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...Fifteen years ago I killed my sister." Much of Adam Rapp's Nocturne, now playing at the American Repertory Theater, is as stark as this line. The work is essentially a symphony on the theme of these words. The nameless Son is a humdrum high school student when he accidentally runs over his nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue...
Until a Colorado grand jury indicted them for racketeering, JAMES and REGANA RAPP ran a $1.5 million-a-year business dredging up and selling confidential data on celebrities. BRUCE WILLIS, CALISTA FLOCKHART, JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver. The Rapps, according to authorities, assumed a variety of false identities to filch bank, phone, credit-card and stock-transaction records. Now investigators are seeking to zero in on the end users of the information, who are believed to be news media, prominent among them...
Until a Colorado grand jury indicted them for racketeering, James and Regina Rapp ran a $1.5 million-a-year business dredging up and selling confidential data on celebrities. Bruce Willis, Calista Flockhart, John and Patsy Ramsey and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver...
...direct descendants of Holden Caulfield. Now, though, says Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Front Street Books, "the heat has been turned up." Front Street helped bring so-called bleak books to early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year...
...First Presbyterian Church. Complications, of the sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would use to showcase memorably bent characters. Rapp's idea of character comedy is to have the movie's villain literally caught with her hand in the cookie jar. This little essay on greed and blurred...