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Focus
Ja Rule
Wins Dispute
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Tiny label wins
verdict against
music giant
A.
Recording a rtist Ja Rule.
(AP) — A 'small independent
record company won a $ 132 million
verdict against industry heavy­
weight Island DefJam Music Group
and its top executive in a dispute
over an unreleased record by rap­
per Ja Rule.
The verdict in the penalty phase
ofthe trial provides roughly $24 mil­
lion in compensatory damages and
$ 108 million in punitive damages to
New Y ork-based TVT Records.
Ja Rule, whose real name is Jef­
frey Atkins, started his career with
TVT in 1993 and moved to Island
D ef Jam with president Steve
Gottlieb's blessing five years later,
TVT attorney Peter Haviland said.
In spring 2001, Ja Rule and two
friends tried to make an album for
TVT that included early Ja Rule
recordings, but D ef Jam ’s parent
record company Universal Music
Group blocked its completion, the
lawyer said.
Haviland said Gottlieb was “left
in ruins” when he could not release
the album he was counting on.
Island DefJam lawyer James M.
Larossa agreed that Gottlieb and
his record company were entitled
to the finished but unreleased al­
bum, money for costs he cannot
recoup and other factors.
R egina King and
Eddie Murphy
S ta rin Daddy
Day Care. '
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Eddie Murphy Learns to Fill a Fathers Shoes
‘Daddy Day Care’
is a comedy about
three men who
start a childcare
service
One o f the funniest men in show
business, Eddie Murphy, brings big
laughs in Revolution Studios’ new
family comedy ‘Daddy DayCare.’
As with the classic comedies
J bird
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‘Mr. M om ’ and ‘Three Men and a
Baby,’ Murphy immediately saw
the comedy potential in ‘Daddy
D ayCare.’
M urphy plays Charlie who,
with his business colleague Phil
(Je ff G arlin), starts a day care af­
ter they loose high profile adver­
tising jobs. The two had previ­
ously been so consum ed by their
careers they missed out on the
jo y s o f fatherhood.
In Daddy Day Care, their kids
provide them wi th a crash course in
child rearing, with uproarious and to speak the children’s language.
heartwarming results.
They begin to teach the kids
Charlie and Phil figure that ifit is how to read, play games, interact
easy for the two o f them to take care and have fun at the same time. In
o f two kids, how much harder can it the process, Charlie and Phil bond
be to supervise 10? However, it is with theirown sons, coming to fully
much harder than they ever imag­ appreciate the priceless joys o f fa­
ined. Somehow they slowly get the therhood.
hang o f it and their new venture
Murphy began his career as a
begins to thrive.
stand-up comedian 25 years ago.
When the number o f kids in­ He joined the cast o f ‘Saturday
creases, they bring in a third care­ Night Live’ in 1980 at the age o f 19
taker, Marvin (Steve Zahn) who is and has gone on to enjoy a suc­
an overgrown k id himsel fand seems cessful career on the silver screen.
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Out o f viewing for almost 40 years, Thelma Johnson
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Streat’s art displays once more at the Portland Art Museum.
Johnson, an African American artist who grew up in the Northwest
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focuses her art on the w orld’s multiple cultures. The exhibit takes place
at the Portland Art Museum, 12I9S.W . Park. For more information, call
503-226-2811
Talisman Gallery’s Features Works
Painters Miriam Badyrka and Allen Schmertzler will be featured at the
Talisman Gallery, 1476 N.E. Alberta through May 25. Badyrka’s work
incorporates artistic patterns o f different cultures and periods from
around the world. Schmertzler creates political art combining painting,
caricaturing and expressionism for the purpose o f bringing political art
to the public.
People o fth e Columbia River Basin
“People o f the Columbia,’’a four-film session narrows in on cultures and
rights ofminorities in the Columbia River Basin. Documentaries vary from
a single black mother’s attempt to improve a neighborhood to a movie
about an Asian-Indian family tom between their new world and their
traditional old world. Documentaries show Tuesdays at 7 p.m., at
Kiggin’sTheater, 1011 Main St., in Vancouver. “American Gypsy” will
show on May 20. For more information, call the
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IFCC Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Washington artists Ellen George and MalPina Chan will display works
from different views o f their Chinese heritage at the Interstate Firehouse
Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate. George uses hand-formed polymer and
Mylar materials to display her take on her Chinese cultural influence.
Chan brings monoprints o f family and historical documents to express
the struggle between U.S. and Chinese cultures. Gallery hours are
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4 p.m. or by appointment. No admission is charged, but donations appre­
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Curtis Stigers Plays the Northwest Vocal Jazz Festival,
May 16
Curtis Stigers, a jazz singer and saxophonist who has played along side
Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Rait and Rod Stewart, will play the
Northwest Vocal Jazz Festival on Friday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mt.
Hood Community College gymnasium. Stigers gained wide success with
"The Bodyguard" soundtrack’s “W hat’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love
and Understanding." Tickets are available by calling 503-491 -6969 or
available at the door.
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