The Left Lane
More 'Pie' at movies

Here are the other nine top-grossing films Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, as reported by Exhibitor Relations Co.: 2. "Rush Hour 2," $19.2 million. 3. "Rat Race," $11.8 million. 4. "The Others," $10.8 million. 5. "The Princess Diaries," $9.5 million. 6. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," $7.1 million. 7. "Planet of the Apes," $6.9 million. 8. "American Outlaws," $4.8 million. 9. "Jurassic Park 3," $4.3 million. 10. "Legally Blonde," $2.6 million.

Billy Kay, a co-star of the upcoming film, "L.I.E.," will be in Honolulu Saturday through Aug. 28 to promote the movie, which will debut Sept. 28 at Signature Dole Cannery Theatres. Kay, who also portrays a rebellious teenager, Shayne Lewis, on the CBS-TV soap opera, "Guiding Light," plays the character Gary in "L.I.E.," which stands for the Long Island Expressway. The drama deals with a suburban world of charming criminality, innocent perversion, and the complex throes of desperation and loneliness among adolescents learning to cope with their sexuality.

Magic seats reappear

More seats are available for David Copperfield's "Portal" magic show, tonight through Sunday at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Copperfield said that after he saw the hall, he realized he could restore some seats that were previously not sold because of equipment placement and staging areas.

Remaining performances are at 8 tonight through Sunday, and matinees at 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets: $55 to $85, with discounts for children 12 and under, seniors and military, at Blaisdell Box Office and TicketPlus locations; 10 percent discount for group sales of 15 or more (except for Saturday night) at 732-7733. Reservations: 526-4400.

When American author Eudora Welty wrote "Why I live at the P.O.," she couldn't have guessed it would lead to a popular e-mail application being named after her. Welty, the small-town Mississippi writer who died last month at age 92, inspired Steve Dorner, creator of the software named Eudora, to use the slogan "Bringing the P.O. To Where You Live".

Welty's short story, published in 1941, is about ambiguity in communication within a southern family. In 1988, Dorner had a vision about making communication easier. Instead of living at the post office, Eudora brings the post office to you, said Dorner, who first read Welty's story as a college student and named his software creation in honor of her in 1990.