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SECTION ion A 429-5346; entthejournal.southam.ca EDMONTON JOURNAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2000 i Mi Producer snookers us again! In the end, Tagi Alliance put the axe to Colleen FILE PHOTO Colin Linden always adds a jolt of sonic energy to his musical endeavours; he performs in workshops this Saturday. The always percolating Colin Linden David Staples Print Survivor Survivor producer Burnett did his best to sucker viewers again in last night's episode. Right up until the end, he led us to think that Kelly or Sean would get voted on the island. There was Rich, lazing on the beach, still digesting the 98 strips of bacon from his morning feed courtesy of Sean, watching Colleen and Kelly fight it out in the immunity challenge. Colleen was safe no matter what happened, Rich said.

And Kelly was doomed. If not her, then Sean. Next time Hollywood needs someone to play a debauched Roman emperor giving the thumbs down to a gladiator, Rich is the man. But, of course, in the end, Rich and the Tagi Alliance axed the biggest threat, Colleen. Other highlights? I Oops I did it again: Just when I thought Sean couldn't goof up any worse, he tells Colleen Kelly that she gets to come to breakfast with him on the yacht, then changes his mind at the last second, instead taking Rich.

On the yacht, Sean got a massage, and he's heard telling the masseuse, "Does my ass look as bony as it feels?" No, Sean, that'd be your head. I Secret Island Fact, Part 1 In thp reward challenge, we found out that pound-for-pound, insects are a better source of protein than beef. This, of course, explains how Rich has maintained his bulk, secretly stuffing his face with mosquitoes and tent caterpillars every night. I Secret Island Fact, Part 2: Host Jeff Probst quizzed the Rattana tribe on what the longest venomous snake in the world is, asking them to choose either cobra, sea snake, python or viper. My question: How did Kelly stay off that list? I No Truer Words: Colleen on treacherous Kelly, the Gollum of the Island: "Kelly was a double agent talking to the Pagong, then reporting back to her teammates." I How Hot is She? Part 1: Even with her legs covered in pus-oozing bug bites, even half-starved and covered in grime, Colleen looked better than Hollywood types like Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow on their best days.

How Hot is She? Part 2: If you tell your girlfriend you don't think Colleen's all that good-looking, that is jh'''lf i when she II get ticked Richard off at you, because it proves she's with a guy who has absolutely no taste, not to mention the testosterone level of a she-squid. I Romance, Shmomance: No, Greg and Colleen were never really an item, despite what Burnett led viewers to believe. "I wouldn't be willing to lose my virginity on the island," Colleen told Access Hollywood TV. I Voted Off the Planet: After Survivor 2 in Australia, Burnett is going to take the concept to outerspace, getting a TV network to pay $20 million so 13-15 contestants can compete to see who gets a trip to the Russian space station Mir, and spend 10 days orbiting Earth. I Sign.SEALed, Delivered: Thank goodness Rudy is still there, the last truly Rudy decent contestant, and the fourth-most-deserving after Gretchen, Greg and Colleen.

Count on it, the old Navy SEAL will win. Sean is hopeless, Kelly isn't trusted and the Pagong-dominated jury can't stand Rich and Sue. Rudy wins every Final Two showdown. Of course, if Rich figures out he can't beat Rudy, watch him backstab the old SEAL, no matter that Rich promised to stay loyal to the end. Mark ff Till -1' wMj.

"1 Iffl'iil n.r i mii mi n-rrr i Margot Kidder as the Virgin Queen. What a Kidder Hollywood's 'Lois Lane had a rough landing, but she rules again as Queen Elizabeth I Richard Helm Television Margot Kidder was more than 1,000 pages into her memoirs when the realization struck home. There was no way her stories could be told. Oh, what stories those must be. The Canadian-bom actor, who sailed to star dom as Superman's Lois Lane in the late 1970s, burned through a lot of money and alcohol in the early lavish years of her fame.

She also worked through quite a string of off-screen consorts, from director Brian DePalma and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau to American novelist Tom McGuane, her first of three husbands. All ofthat, coupled withher highly pub-Hdzed struggles wthmentalillness, provided Kidder plenty of grist when she dove into her autobiography, which she tided Calamities. "I wrote well over a thousand pages of it and itwas good, itwas interesting, and then I went, You know what, there's no Kidder, stretched out on a couch at Ed- monton'sAUarcom Studios. "That didn't please Simon and Schuster very much, to say the least" Hie trouble was thatinanyworkof that sort me writer earned be entireryself-ab-sorbed, Kidder says. Inevitably, you find yourself divulging someone else's secrets.

"I don't want to hurt my mom, I don't want to hurt my granddaughter. You get I to a point where you say, hey, it was great therapy, but I'm sorry, you can't publish it "I don'tknowhowpeople can do it and live with themselves." And Kidder is living quite comfortably with herself these days. She's 52 now, a proud grandmother, and finding steady work with character parts like the one that brought her to Ed-l monton last week. See KIDDER I C6 FIlirHOTO Margot Kidder, 52, without her stage makeup. iiJiiiLa-nmiij mj.il I Whatever this high-energy roots musician touches turns to quality Peter North FblkFest Apparently there are enough hours in a day for Colin Linden but just barely.

As one of the busiest roots musicians on the scene today, Linden can literally find himself shifting roles from producer to co-writer, then into performer mode and on to session guitarist and back to producer in the space of a few days. The Toronto resident is also one of those musicians who has an invisible asterisk beside his name as far as many listeners, roots radio programmers, concert promoters, festival directors and his fellow musicians are concerned. Based on longtime listening experiences ofboththe live and recorded variety, you just know that when his name is attached to something, it's high-quality. It could be as the producer of the latest Bruce Cockburn, StephenFearingor Sue Foley discs, all of whom also happen to be at this year's Folk Festival, or as a member of Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, which will commandeer the second slot on mam stage this evening. Also on the recorded end is a superb, fresh out of the box, 17-song Linden compilation titled Sad and Beautiful World (1975-1999) that has just been issued by Sony.

Along with tunes culled from the more recent sofoeSortsSouthatEight, North at Nine; Through Hie Storm Through The Night and Raised By Wolves, Linden and Rob Bowman of Sony Music went to the vaults and came up with winning tracks from a variety of sources and time frames. "The idea for this album was actually Larry Le Blanc's," said Linden of the Canadian music journalist who is best known for his weekly contributions toBiUboard. 1 hadacertain amount of input and Rob really dug hard to find some of the stuff," added Linden, who then went into his personalized version of "ask and you shall receive." It concerned theversionof Mean Old Frisco from 1979 that was issued on the Sam Chatmon and His BBQ Boys disc on which Linden played guitar. "I thought it would be a real challenge to find the master tapes from that session which was released on the FryingFish label Onedaylbumped into JimMcLean, who was the harmonica pkyer rathe BBQ Boys. He lives in the same building as me and I mentioned it to him.

"Jim, who was known as Dr. Limbo, says that he just happens to have the masters in his place. Now I'd like to see that entire record come out again," Linden said of the disc that put the spotlight on the late Chatmon, one his heroes who was an original member of the Mississippi Sheiks. Other Linden rarities included on SadAndBeautiful World are a stunning instrumental Version of The Band's Whispering Pines, taken from a RykrjateoHijpflauontidedE Slides, and his own live version oiRem-edy, which originally surfaced on The Band's Jericho album in 93. One Blackie and The Rodeo Kings track was included, that being Vale of Tears from last year's Kings of Lave release.

When Linden, Fearing and Tom Wilson toured through here in support of that album last fall, the show turned out to be one of the concert highlights of99. "That national tour was a fantastic event for us and we gainedalot of confidence. It's like we're really comfortable in these suits, and more and more it feels like a band. Tom says we're the band that never says never," added Linden, who has also recently had his talents tapped by CONCERT PREVIEW Edmonton Folk Fest 2000 TODAY'S LINEUP Jackson Browne Linda Tillery the Cultural Heritage Choir Lennie Gallant Bill Bourne, Lester Quitzau Madagascar Slim (Tri-Continental) Hans Theesink and Blue Groove When: today through Sunday Where: Gallagher Park Tickets: sold out Bone Burnett Bone produced the soundtrack to the latest Coen Brothers film, Brother, Where Art which is just fantastic. He got me to play an instrumental version of Skip James' Hard 7irrKMZm'FloonwWchismthe movie, and I was told it has an 85-per-cent chance of being on the soundtrack release." Not only was it a treat for Linden to once agam work in the studio with one ofhis piodueingheroes in Burnett, the icing was a concert featuring the music from the film.

"It was an incredible celebration in Nashville. The Fairfield Four, Emmy-lou Harris, John Hartford, Gillian Welch and Ralph Stanley were all on the show. And Bone was such a gracious host," said Linden, who also sounded like he couldn't wait for this weekend to unfold. He's slated for three workshop appearances on Saturday, all with blues themes. Tm really looking forward to hearing Khrunie Rhodes and Linda Tillery again, too," concluded the always percolating Colin Linden..