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...record, Ellis pleads allergies, but you can see why one would ask. He became famous in 1985, at the tender age of 21, for his novel Less Than Zero, a not-very-tender account of the empty-eyed, drug-drenched L.A. teen-party scene, and along the way he acquired a reputation as a pretty hard-partying hombre himself. In 1991 he became notorious all over again for American Psycho, a semipornographic, ultraviolent best seller about an investment banker turned serial killer, which he successfully--and with some validity--passed off as an indictment of 1980s Manhattan greedhead culture...
...Because Charlie Kaufman asked them to. The Oscar-winning screenwriter made his directing debut with Hope Leaves the Theater, a play with many characters but just three actors. "The nonvisual aspect of it appealed to me," says Kaufman, who has Streep voicing a parody of herself and a black teen, among others. The play had short runs in New York City and London, and will go on to Los Angeles and Sirius radio. Could this be Streep's big break...
...prior models were prized for their turbocharged engines and bargain prices. The new edition, featuring a throaty V-6, scraps the turbo but still races to 60 m.p.h. in under 7 sec., for a base price of $24,300. Eyeing our test car in North Adams, Mass., a tattooed teen said he would donate a body part to own it. We hope that's not necessary, but it's a good sign for Mitsubishi. --By Daren Fonda
...parent's instinctive response may be to apply an electronic tourniquet, cutting off a teen's access. But experts agree that severing online links is not the solution. "The Internet is no longer just an advantage. A child is at a disadvantage not having it," says Brittany Bacon, an FBI-trained WiredSafety.org volunteer. She says teens need to learn boundaries and manners in cyberspace just as they must in other venues of society...
...many as 1,000 teenagers on Sundays. Prestonwood's executive pastor, Mike Buster, makes no apologies for the slick production values. It takes a good show to expose kids to the good word, he says, because there is so much competition from what he calls a "perverted" teen culture...