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‘Lion King’ roars back
with DVD release
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The king of
cartoon cats is about to reclaim his
throne.
“The Lion King” debuted on DVD
Tuesday with hullabaloo more befit-
ting a new movie than a 9-year-old
flick. Walt Disney Pictures loading
the DVD with hours of extra material
for children and parents alike. Over
the weekend, Disney staged a DVD
premiere party at Hollywood’s lush
El Capitan theater, shutting down
Hollywood Boulevard during a cele-
bration that included African musi-
cians and dancers, a live lion cub,
and Elton John performing songs
from the film.
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Publishers Weekly
best-selling books
Publishers Weekly does not include
children’s books in their weekly adult
charts
HARDCOVER FICTION
li “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)
2. “The Da Vinci Code”
by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
3. "Bleachers”
by John Grisham (Doubleday)
4. “The Wedding”
by Nicholas Sparks (Warner)
5. “Quicksilver”
by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
6. "Remember When"
by N. Roberts and J. Robb (Putnam)
7. “The Teeth of the Tiger”
by Tom Clancy (Putnam)
8. "The Namesake”
by Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton-Mifflin)
9. “Dune: The Machine Crusade”
by B. Herbert and K. Anderson (Tor)
10. "The Lovely Bones”
by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. “The Ultimate Weight Solution”
by Phil McGraw (Free Press)
2. “The South Beach Diet”
by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale)
3. “Who's Looking Out For You? “
by Bill OReilly (Broadway)
4. “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell
Them” by Al Franken (Dutton)
5. “Madam Secretary”
by Madeleine Albright (Miramax)
6. “The Purpose-Driven Life”
by Rick Warren (Zondervan)
7. “Bushwhacked: Life in George W.
Bush's America” by Molly Ivins, Lou
Dubose (Random House)
8. “Shut Up & Sing”
by Laura Ingraham (Regnery)
9. “Atkins for Life” by Robert C.
Atkins, M.D. (St Martin’s)
10. “The Essential 55: An Award-
Winning Educator's Rules”
by Ron Clark (Hyperion)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. “Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution”
by Robert C. Atkins (Avon)
2. “Angels and Demons”
by Dan Brown (Pocket)
3. “Mystic River”
by Dennis Lehane (HarperTorch)
4. “The Runaway Jury”
by John Grisham (Island Books)
5. "Seabiscuit: An American Legend”
by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine)
6. “No One to Trust”
by Iris Johansen (Bantam)
7. “Deception Point”
by Dan Brown (Pocket)
8. “The Future Scrolls”
by Fem Michaels (Kensington)
9. "Chasing the Dime”
by Michael Connelly (Warner Vision)
10. “Full Speed” by Janet Evanovich
and Charlotte Hughes (St Martin’s
Paperback)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “The Secret Life of Bees”
by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
2. “Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in
Italy” by Frances Mayes (Broadway)
3. “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
(Picador)
4. “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
(Harcourl/Haivest)
5. “Dr. Atkins’ New Carbohydrate
Gram Counter" by Robert C. Atkins,
M.D. (M. Evans)
6. “Blessings” by Anna Quindlen
(Random House)
7. “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
(Penguin)
8. "Seabiscuit: An American Legend”
by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine)
9. "Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the
Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-
That the Poor and Middle Class Do
Not!” by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L
Lechter (Warner Books) with Sharon
L Lechter.
10. "Three Junes” by Julia Glass
(Anchor)
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‘Memcri Mortem’
“Scaring Americans” by Donna Meeks
Meeks, Kopriva
to open exhibit
at Megnet Gallery
on Saturday
By MARK SHOW
Staff Writer
Donna Meeks, chair of the Lamar art depart-
ment, and Sharon Kopriva, an internationally
known Houston artist, are presenting a two-per-
son show, beginning Saturday through Oct. 26 at
the Megnet Gallery, 581 N. Ninth St. corner of
McFaddin, in Beaumont’s Old Town district.
The show, titled “Memori Mortem,” will open
with a public reception on Saturday at the gallery
from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
“‘Memori Mortem’” is Latin for “remember
death,” Meeks said. “I was first introduced to the
phrase through my elementary school catechism.
It is a phrase that reminds us to be ever mindful
of our mortality as human beings and, therefore,
to value life. Ms. Kopriva, like myself, was also
raised as a Catholic.”
Meeks’ works are primarily paintings that are
wall-mounted but involve three-dimensional
aspects. She has exhibited extensively over the
past 20 years.
“In my work in this exhibition,” Meeks said,
“I am presenting a number of ‘skins’ that often
involve Latin phrases in conjunction with tattoo-
like images as well as bruises and scrapes in vari-
ous states of aging or healing. In my mind, slabs of
skin that have been removed from the body, to
some extent, infer human mortality.”
Meeks’ works are included in the permanent
collections of the Fine Arts Center at Wabash
College in Crawfordsville, Ind. Among other
places her works are on exhibit include the Hoyt
Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, Pa., and the
Kirkland Fine Arts Center at Millikin University
in Decatur, 111.
Kopriva has exhibited widely and has won
countless awards and grants. In 2000, she showed
her work at the Menil in Houston. In 2001, she
was the Texas Artist of the Year at the Art League
in Houston. Kopriva is also known for her three-
dimensional style artwork, although her work is
mostly of life-size figures and is based on religious
content.
After Saturday’s reception, the works will be
on display by appointment because Grace Megnet
is not always at the gallery.
Megnet may be reached at 835-1222.
Web site aims to give artists lessons in business
By JOANN LOVIGLIO
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — You
can be an artist without starving.
That’s essentially the message of
a new Web site unveiled this week
that aims to help painters, sculptors,
designers and artists of all disciplines
become more business savvy.
The site, www.paartistentrepre-
neur.com, features interviews with
lawyers, accountants, bankers and
gallery owners as well as links to job
sites and advice on opening a studio
to create and show your own work.
“We want to make sure our
artists aren’t starving,” said Marc
Kramer, president of Kramer Comm-
unications, which developed the site.
The Web site, funded with a
$50,000 grant from the state Depart-
ment of Community and Economic
Development, will have more inter-
views added as it develops. It is
geared toward Pennsylvania but
Kramer said the hope is that artists
from elsewhere will discover it, too.
Other sites, like the New York-
based Emerge Project, also provide
resources for young artists. But the
Pennsylvania site’s business focus is
valuable because recent art school
graduates often are short on financial
resources, business expertise and
marketing skills, said Matt Brown of
the nonprofit Mid Atlantic Arts
Foundation.
“A lot of artists tend to be really,
really focused on their work — and
they get so focused on their product
that they don’t pay attention to mar-
keting themselves,” Brown said.
“Artists who are successful have to
learn how to be business people and
we’ve found they’re not getting that
in art school.”
There are 250,000 professionally
trained artists in the Mid-Atlantic
region that Brown’s organization
serves. So it makes good economic
sense to seek out and foster arts busi-
nesses just like any other small busi-
ness, he said.
“Artists can really be major con-
tributors on the local economic level,
though they’re really overlooked,” he
said.
Steve Bujno, 38, an artist and
entrepreneur who was interviewed
for the site, said he had a lot to learn
after graduating from college in 1987.
He came up with a business plan,
secured a bank loan and opened shop
in 1991; today he has eight employees
and a company that produces hand-
made stoneware pottery.
“In art school you spend four
years learning how to hone your cre-
ative eye, but not how to use that
after you graduate,” he said. “I could-
n’t even get a minor in business —
and I tried.”
His advice to young artists: start
out with an open view, visit trade
shows and galleries to see what’s out
there, then find a niche within your
craft that needs to be filled. And be
prepared to work long hours, under-
stand your market and believe in
your work.
“So many people just get disillu-
sioned,” Bujno said. “Had I known in
1991 how much work I had ahead of
me, I probably would have hesitated.
But I can’t imagine myself doing any-
thing else.”
On the Net:
Pa. Artist Entrepreneur
http://www.paartistentrepreneur.com
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation:
http://www.midatlanticarts.org
Bujno Pottery:
http://www.bujnopottery.com
MODEL SUBJECT ™“
Sculpture models are seen in the studio of the late sculptor Daniel Chester French in Stockbridge, Mass.
French, whose statues grace cities across the nation and is best known for his statue of Abraham Lincoln
at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, spent many years creating at this 120-acre country estate and
studio known as Chesterwood.
Black’s ‘School of Rock’
rolls to first in box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Black’s comedy “The School
of Rock” went to the head of the class at the box office, debuting
as the No. 1 weekend movie with $19.6 million. Denzel
Washington’s thriller “Out of Time” opened in second place with
$16.2 million. The top 10 movies at North American theaters
Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross,
number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total
gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by
Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. and Nielsen EDI Inc. are:
1. “School of Rock,” Paramount, $19,622,714,
2,614 locations, $7,507 average, $19,622,714, one week.
2. “Out of Time,” MGM, $16,185,316,
3,076 locations, $5,262 average, $16,185,316, one week.
3. “The Rundown,” Universal, $9,682,780,
3,154 locations, $3,070 average, $32,646,055, two weeks.
4. “Under the Tuscan Sun,” Disney, $7,682,053,
1,697 locations, $4,527 average, $20,740,822, two weeks.
5. "Secondhand Lions,” New Line, $5,183,674,
3,032 locations, $1,710 average, $30,624,785, three weeks.
6. "Underworld,” Sony Screen Gems, $5,068,277,
2,715 locations, $1,867 average, $44,808,894, three weeks.
7. “Lost in Translation,” Focus Features, $4,163,333,
864 locations, $4,819 average, $14,017,704, four weeks.
8. The Fighting Temptations,” Paramount, $3,386,543,
1,762 locations, $1,922 average, $24,576,247, three weeks.
9. "Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” Sony, $2,626,304,
2,097 locations, $1,252 average, $53,068,097, four weeks.
10. “Cold Creek Manor,” Disney, $2,511,141,
1,938 locations, $1,296 average, $18,340,205, three weeks.
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