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Wednesday, September 1,1993
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Entertainment
University Press
Lamar University
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RETROSPECTIVE
Port Arthur artist
shows lifetime’s
work at Dishman
Nedone Brantley
UP Entertainment Editor
“There is a temptation,
when standing before a body
of work that represents 40
years of artistic struggle, to
forget that a retrospective is
only a encapsulation of
countless works,” said Lynne
.Lokensgard, director of the
Dishman Art Gallery and
friend to artist Maudee
Carron.
“To believe that such an
exhibition can impart the
artist’s primary themes,
reducing a lifetime of experi-
ences to one message, leads
... to an over simplification
and ultimately, a distortion of
all those events and thoughts
that shape one’s life. They
cannot be comprehended dur-
ing one visit to a gallery, one
glance through a catalogue.”
The catalogue of Maudee
Carron’s life and works, writ-
ten and researched by stu-
dents and faculty of the
Lamar Art Department, is in
the process of being pub-
lished. Friends and fans will
be able to meet Maudee
Carron at 7 p.m. on Friday at
the Dishman Art Gallery.
Lokensgard and four of
her art students located over
40 people in the area who
collect Carron’s work and
who have known her well.
All shared in the writing of
the biography and each stu-
dent wrote an essay for the
catalogue.
Lokensgard wrote in the
concluding essay, “Maudee is
a universal woman. She is an
explorer of life, who tests
every fork in the road, every
possible approach and medi-
um. Her spontaneous process
... reveals an inquisitive
mind, always searching,
always discovering, and
always uncovering.”
Another friend, Robert B.
Rourke, said, “Maudee’s art
is comfortable to live with,
whatever the medium — oil,
watercolor, collage, sculp-
ture, welded metal or objets
trouves. Thankfully, we are
spared didacticism: she has
no message, no sermon, no
melancholia. Liberal as she
is, she accepts life as experi-
ence, both the harsh and the
beautiful.”
Bom in Melville, La., on
Oct. 1,1912, Maudee and her
family moved to Beaumont
around 1915 and eventually
settled in Port Arthur.
Her friends write, “At the
age of 6 she was already
delighting classmates with
her drawings. By the time
she was 14 she decided that
art was to be the guiding pas-
sion of her life.”
Maudee was 16 when she
met her future husband,
Deward Thames, a refinery
worker from Mississippi.
Though captivated by his
good looks, Maudee was not
eager for familial duties that
might stifle her creative out-
put. However, Dewey, as she
fondly called him, promised
Photo by Bonnie Reeves Evans
Maudee Carron at her Port Arthur studio.
her the freedom to develop
her art and to travel whenev-
er and wherever she felt the
need. Throughout their life
together, Dewey never broke
his promise.
After receiving her high
school diploma in 1932,
Maudee visited relatives in
New Orleans and it was there
that she studied under the
artist Saray. She also took
private tutoring in classical
Greek philosophy and
French, German, English and
American literature from
James Murray. During this
period, Maudee was equally
drawn to writing as well as
painting.
To be closer to Dewey, she
accepted an art scholarship
from the Creative Arts
School in Houston. She
studied there from 1934 to
1935 under Ola McNeil
Davidson, who used an
experimental teaching tech-
nique emphasizing develop-
ment toward a personal
vision and consciousness of
every vital current in con-
temporary art.
This experience provided
Maudee with a foundation
that directed her entire life.
Clearly, her educational
foundation prepared her for
a lifetime of exploration of
the new and innovative in
every area of intellectual
pursuit.
And even now, at 81,
Maudee Carron shows no
signs of slowing down.
John Connor (Sean Connery) and Web Smith (Wesley Snipes).
Crichton's "Rising Sun"
creates intriguing, non-racist
buddy-cop murder mystery
By Seames O’Grady
UP film reviewer
The summer is the most impor-
tant time of year for Hollywood,
because that’s when the big bucks
are made.
And with the fall of the once
untouchable summer box-office
champ, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
comes a new king. But the differ-
ence is this man is not an actor at
all, but screenwriter and novelist
Michael Crichton.
Movie Review
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out of 5
Crichton has already scored big
with “Jurassic Park” earlier this
summer and now he comes out
with his second hit, “Rising Sun,”
starring Sean Connery and Wesley
Snipes.
“Rising Sun” is the story of
John Connor (Connery) and Web
Smith (Snipes), two Los Angeles
police officers, investigating the
murder of an American woman in
a Japanese corporation office
building.
Connery and Snipes are the
two coolest men in the world.
They never upstage each other
and there is an ease and casual-
ness to both their performances.
Their screen chemistry make*
“Rising Sun” one of the best
“buddy-cop” movies ever.
Director Philip Kaufman does
pay tribute to film noir detective
pictures of the '40’s by having
low-key lighting and awkward
camera angles. Kaufman as well
juxtaposes the seemingly unlimit-
ed wealth of the Japanese execu-
tives and the poverty of the Los
Angeles homeless.
He also shows the conflicts of
Web’s crumbling domestic life
and the high life of Japanese busi-
nessman Eddie Sakamura, won-
derfully played by Cary-Hiroyuki
Tagawa.
Kaufman makes the mistake of
having a kung fu fight in the mid-
dle of a chase scene. It’s not that
good a fight anyway and comes
off as a bad imitation of “Kung Fu
Theater.”
“Rising Sun” is being labeled a
racist film by Japanese-
Americans, but that isn’t the case
at all. The film simply shows the
codes and ethics that are prevalent
in Japanese business.
“Rising Sun” is a good detec-
tive story and the Japanese-
American organizations are just
crying wolf, or rather, ookami.
New computer program makes
great American novel easier to write
A DISPATCH FROM-
MAGAZINE
IF.
By Associated Press
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*■ Think back about the turning
points of a lifetime — dramatic,
v funny or poignant You could write
a book, right?
With a new computer program
being offered at some colleges,
people are.
Memoirs can be stories about
coming to America, life on the
farm in the old days, old family
recipies or the people in the faded
photographs. Few if any of these
books are likely to be best sellers,
but they are sure to be popular
with relatives and friends.
‘There’s a wealth of information
and stories in the lives of all of us,
but these treasures aren’t always
passed on to future generations,”
said Joseph St George of Shjairing
Memories Inc., which offers a
computer program to compile the
books and a desktop publishing
center to print it.
Four students recently took the
course at West Chester
University’s Exton campus.
“It’s really a mix of people,” said
instructor Dennis Godfrey.
“They’re going in four different
directions, so we’re doing it work-
shop-style. I don’t lecture.”
Will they all be able to write a
book?
“Not within the eight-week peri-
od of the course,” Godfrey replied.
With this in mind, the university
offered the students a year’s access
to the computer lab.
Sharing Memories Inc. began by
offering its service to individuals,
but it soon became apparent that a
school setting had a lot to offer, St.
George said.
The course, which begins with
computer basics, helps people start
writing by giving them ideas that
have worked for others or sugges-
tions for jogging memories.
Students are urged to write about
brief incidents in their lives, be
they funny or serious.
Toni Smith, a coordinator at
Westmoreland County (Pa.)
Community College, said she tried
it herself. “It’s quite easy to use. I
just picked something — my
grandparent’s house — and started
typing. It does bring things to
mind. I’m sure you can ramble on
and on with it”
Another community college
looking at the program is Reading
Area Community College, where
Judy Taylor admitted to being
skeptical at first
“I thought, “Oh, here’s another
program someone's trying to sell!’
But this one’s easy to use, even for
kids trying to interview their
grandparents,” she said.
Bramlett and Ruth Beard of
Johnson County, Tenn., are using
the pf^gram to write a book as a
present for family members at their
50th wedding anniversary in
August
“I don’t know of any less costly
way to come up with 20 books or
so,” said Beard, a retired business
executive who teaches an autobig-
raphy course at East Tennesee
State University.
Beard is offering the program
next fall; he recommends the pro-
cess to anyone. “Just about every
grandparent is out to get this
done,” he said. ‘The children have
no idea how we were raised.”
When they write, the students
work on a chapter at a time, storing
them on a computer floppy disk.
When they’re finished, they ship
the disk off to Glenmoore, Pa.,-
based Sharing Memories, which
produces a spiral-bound galley.
After the writer checks the galley
for errors and submits changes, the
company prints the books. The
cost depends on the number of
pages and the number of copies;
for example, 20 copies of a 160-
page book cost $378.
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Coming This Christmas from Disnamax
When independent film distributor Miramax Films was bought in late April by
the Walt Disney Company, Variety wondered “how a traditionally conservative
company like Disney will live with Miramax’s often racy and controversial
films.” Others in the industry have voiced the concern that Miramax, which has
brought us sex, lies and videotape, Paris Is Burning and The Crying Game, will lose
its edge, becoming “Disneyfied.” On the other hand, maybe it’s Disney that
needs to watch out.
Beauty and the Beast: Beauty learns to
love the Beast despite his appearance,
but the Beast is horrified when he
discovers that Beauty has a penis.
Sister Act: The convent is scandalized
when the sisters find out that Whoopi
Goldberg is not really a nun and that
she has a penis.
Aladdin: Aladdin realizes that Princess
Jasmine likes him for who he really is
and that she has a penis.
Pretty Woman: Richard Gere falls in
love with wrong-side-of-the-tracks
Julia Roberts but learns that she has a
penis.
The Little Mermaid: Ariel wishes she had
legs. The prince wishes Ariel didn’t
have a penis.
Snow White: The Seven Dwarfs adore
and respect Snow White and so never
suspect that she has a penis.
Lady and the Tramp: The Tramp is
delighted to discover that Lady has a
penis but horrified when he realizes her
testicles have been removed.
—Daniel Radosh
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