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ENTERTAINMENT EDMONTON JOURNAL C3 Brokop keeps getting better with her Undeniable gifts Our Lady Peace switches to Dinwoodie for Sunday gig Journal Entertainment Staff EDMONTON Our Lady Peace won't be playing at the Urban Lounge this Sunday. Instead, the Canadian rockers will perform at Dinwoodie Lounge on the University of Alberta campus. Tickets are still $15 and only available at the venue on the day of the show. (A limited number can be won through 100.3 FM The Bear.) The gig is part of Our Lady Peace's small club tour to promote their upcoming album, Spiritual Machines. But according to Sony, the Urban Lounge was too small to accommodate the band's equipment and stage gear.

SpirimdMachines is Lie in stores Tuesday, Dec 12. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2000 Newest CD recorded in Nashville studios with top-gun pickers i Peter North Country Music Maren Ord onstage Dec. 9 at West Edmonton Mall Lily Frost and the Bare-naked Ladies. Ord's own solo debut 3 i if BRUCE EDWARDS, THE JOURNAL single to date with Something Undeniable. all the talk about young singers in country music these days Billy Gill-man, Jessica Andrews and Adam Gregory immediately coming to mind we sometimes forget that the industry has set its sights on talented youngsters in the past A 13-year-old Tanya Tucker singing Delta Dawn was one of the stories of the 70s on Music Row and in this country Lisa Brokop was singing on the big stages in the early '80s when she was in junior high school Sitting in the sunlit lounge of the Mac-Donald Hotel the morning of the Huron Orole concert last Thursday, Brokop did not look like your average 13-year veteran of professional show business as she slid into one of those inviting overstuffed chairs that dominate the room's decor.

"Yeah, I was 14 when I started to get serious attention," began the singer with a straining smile. By the time the '90s were in full flight the pride of B.C's Lower Mainland had landed a deal with EMICapitol in Nashville. Three albums for that label brought her substantial video airplay in theU.S., and she also scored a handful of hits in her homeland on radio between '93 and '96. After EMI cleaned house of just about everyone other than GarthBrooks in V6 Brokop signed on with Sony Canada and released a disc in '98 that deserved a far better fate. "I really thought Td be with Sony for along time but things just didn't happen the way we hoped they would.

Sure I was disappointed at the time, but now with the release of the Undeniable album things are moving ahead in a positive way again." Lisa Brokop has scored her fastest-rising It does appear early in the game that Something Undeniable, the first single from the album, won't be denied It's her fastest-rising single to date as it steams towards the Top 10. Belting it out night after night across the nation on the Huron Carole tour can't hurt the momentum, either. "We wanted something that jumped out at the listener, something a bit bolder for the first introduction to the record," said the vocalist and tunesmith who co-wrote all 11 songs on the album that was largely recorded in Nashville with a fabulous cast of players. "Being an independent project, we had complete creative control, and Paul Leim who produced the album brought in the best." She's not kidding, either, as picker John Jorgenson, ex of the Desert Rose Band and the leader of Elton John's touring band, bassist Michael Rhodes (Rodney Crowell, Garth Brooks), guitarist Dan Dugmore (David Crosby) and fiddle ace Glen Duncan added their serious in which his character, a lawyer, becomes romantically involved with the tide character, played by Calista Flockhart Those episodes have been completed and will run until late January or early February. The network did not plan to reschedule any episodes that feature Downey, including a holiday-themed show, which was to air Monday night Because of the positive chemistry between Downey and Flockhart, Downey had been asked and recently agreed to appear in two additional episodes of the series.

Executives would not disclose the direction of the relationship, although in recent episodes the two characters have become increasingly romantically involved. David E. Kelley, the executive producer of Ally McBeal, declined comment on Downey and the arrest. The series, one of Fox's top-rated shows, has an average viewership this season of almost 13 million viewers, which is a bit lower than its audience this Journal Entertainment Staff EDMONTON Local singer-songwriter Maren Ord is slated to make her first Edmonton public appearance in more than a year. Ord will perform at 2 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 9 at the HMV in West Edmonton MalL Shell sing a selection of yuletide tunes, including The Christmas Song, which is featured on Nettwerk Records' new compilation album, Christmas Songs. The disc also features Nettwerk artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Tara MacLean, Staying in tonight? Check the TV-SCHEDULE For prime time picks and wee-hour nicks EDMOIIOS JflliilU TO" it strumental bite to Brokop's heartfelt vocals. Another ringer was tossed when Hal Ketchum agreed to sing a duet with her called Keep Mom and Dad In Love. That song will get a shot as a single down the road.

A distribution deal with Song Corp has worked out well thus far, and when it comes to taking care of the rest of her business, older brother Dean Brokop took hold of those reins last year. "It just feels like we're on the right track these days. And I couldn't ask for a better way to end the year than to be on the road with this great cast that makes up the Huron Carole," concluded the young performer who has chalked up a career's worth of experience since 1986. Lisa Brokop will be a featured performer on the televised broadcasts of The Huron Carole. CBC will air the Win-spear concert on Dec 11 and again on Christmas Day.

CMT is showing the event multiple times between those two dates. time last year. Downey, who has had substance abuse problems for several years, was cast in Ally McBeal just a week after being released in August from Corcoran State Prison, where he had served a year-long sentence for cocaine possession and subsequent violations of his probation. The actor was arrested at a Palm Springs resort after a tip from an anony-mous caller to 911 informing police that a guest had drugs and guns in his room. Police did not find any weapons.

Beyond his television stint on Ally McBeal, Downey was scheduled to appear next year in a stage production of Hamlet to be directed by Mel Gibsoa That production, initially targeted for January, had been delayed until at least the summer due to Downey's film commitments, said the actor's publicist, Alan Nierob. Nierob also said that the actor had "never stopped going" to rehabilitation and had been doing welL Downey's role on Ally McBeal up in air should be released early next year. The 19-year-old spent much of 2000 darting in and out of studios in New York and London with producer Stephen Hague (New Order, Pet Shop Boys) Ord, a graduate of Harry Ainlay Composite high school, signed to Nettwerk after performing at the 1998 Lilith Fair. srzciiL 1 IUTT0N KMOTt CM STtRTTI WiTH AIJTOMtTK COtD START FMHiRE CILLL2JALLL) WjIJ rTTTTrnmrpntTiT REMOTE START III Sioe.oo Vl SW Saturday December 2nd Convocation Hall, University of Alberta 7:30 p.m. Reception, Silent Auciisn, upen car p.m.

Performance end Live Auction -1 p.rx Dessert Drinks Tickets: $150.00 (includes narhine Ord 14m firm TW TIL- IS) i Anonymous tipster saw drugs and guns in room at resort GREG BRAXTON Los Angeles Times HOLLYWOOD The future of Robert Downey re-Gurring role on Fox's Ally McBeal remained uncertain Monday after the actor's Saturday arrest in Palm Springs on charges of cocaine and metham-phetamine possession. Downey, who was released on 15,000 bail Sunday, was expected to appear in the episode currently in production, but executives with the show said they did not know what days this week he was scheduled to film. He had not been expected Monday on the set where the legal comedy-drama is filmed. The actor originally had signed to appear in eight episodes of the series, in Alberta Ballet Ballet British Columbia 'Being in this location was one of the scariest things' 7' 'H ffT because of the amount of time it took to transport actors, crew and equipment up to the site and down again. Even more frustrating was the fact that they would get up there, complete their setups and then be forced to leave because of the weather.

"There were 22 days when we were blown off," Campbell grumbles. Td never been on mountains like that before. The weather changes on a dime." ODonnell says dealing with the unpredictable weather took its toll on everybody especially when it triggered a fast helicopter getaway. "A lot of times you'd get up there and then all of a sudden a storm would arrive and the mountain safety guys would say, 'We need to get out of I was lucky because the actors were the first things they took out of there but a couple of those rides going down scared the hell out of me." O'DONNELL Continued from CI He cites one sequence showing him leaping off an icy ledge across a deep crevasse and barely making it to the other side. The scene was shot in a series of brief takes, and safety was paramount at all times.

In preparation for the latter moments, showing ODonnell clinging to an ice pick buried on the side ofthecliff face following the leap, he was actually lowered down a rope and then "hooked onto these two lit-de rock clamps for safety." But as he dangled some 600 metres in the air, he didn't feel that safe. "Being in this location was one of the scariest things I had to do." Both Campbell and ODonnell say the changeable weather was a nightmare. A shooting day on the mountain was brief to begin with Accompanied by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and over 100 children from local dance academies choirs. JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Dec. 13 -16 at 7:30 pm Dec.

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