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C6 EDMONTON JOURNAL ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 20(10 Prince blows his kiss to Napster pie's computers without the permission of the artists, record labels or publishers. "From the point of view of the mu sic lover, what's Prince going on can Rock star slams record companies for exploiting artists DERKK CANKY Reuten NEW YORK Funk and rock star Prince weighed in this week on music-sharing technology issues, calling services like Napster "exciting" and sharply criticizing the record industry for exploiting artists. Prince's remarks, put onhis Web site wwwjipgonlineltd.com earlier this week and released in a statement Wednesday, make their appearance before a looming courthouse showdown between Napster and the world's largest record companies. Napster is a free service that allows Internet users to download digital music files from other peo- cle in the Los Angeles Times two weeks ago as saying, "An increasing number of young people don't buy albums, so we are not only losing that immediate revenue. They are growing up with a notion that music is free and ought to be free." Said Prince: "This statement deals with the relationship between music and the public from a purely commercial point of view.

Nowhere in his statement is there any indication that what might happen with young people exchanging music is that they might develop a real appreciation of music in general and be perfectly honest citizens who realize that artists should be compensated for their work" Time Warner's Warner Music Group is among five major record labels suing the San Mateo, company for violations of copyright law. only be viewed as an exciting new development in the history of music," said Prince, whose hits include 1999, When Doves Cry and Cream. "And fortunately for (the music lover), there does not seem to be anything the old record companies can do about preventing this evolution from happening." He levelled his most pointed criticism at Richard Parsons, the president of Time Warner the parent company ofhis former label Warner Brothers. Parsons was quoted in an arti Her LA. pound puppies go everywhere with her KIDDER Continued from CI I was on the plane." Like so many actors of a certain age, Kidder has fought a losing battle with Hollywood's tendency to stamp an expiry date on female talent "At my age, I don't think I'd be working at all if it weren't for the fact I was Canadian," she says.

"Down there (the U.S.), you're supposed to disappear from about 40, 45 to about 60, 65 and come back and play really grey-haired old grandmothers and not make anyone suffer through the embarrassment ofwatching you age." In Hollywood, you're either A-list orX-list, Kidder adds. There is no middle ground. "The wonderful thing about working here is that there is a middle ground and I get to leap from odd character to odd character andmake enough to pay my mortgage and have a nice life back in Montana. "It's certainly not the kind of money I made when I was young but I blew it all then, Fd probably blow it all now." Kidder was happy to find a kindred spirit when it comes to discussing the many charms of the land of Jimmy Burfetf sLmngston Saturday Night. "Livingston in the 70s was wilder than New York or LA.

It was just crazy. Everybody came through and it was nuts. "That kind of eccentricity has prevailed, although the drugs and wild excesses are I guess there are still a few wild excesses," she says, laughing. "LivingstDnisabizarreplacefuIl of the quirkiest people you could possibly imagine being inonelit-de concentrated area. Cowboys, ranchers, environmentalists, eco-terrorists, writers.

"There's a few movie people who live around there, but very fewexceptforPeter Fonda, who's married to my first husband's first wife, who actually take part in the community." It is a worid away from LA, Kidder adds. "I hate going back. I did a movie there last year and I couldn't wait to get out The day we wrapped, Tomorrow When I spoke with her, she was still wearing the ornate wig of Queen Elizabeth the formidable monarch she will play in an upcoming episode of Mentors, the family TV series currently filming its second season in Edmonton. During the interview, she displayed an easy, throaty laugh and a quick, self-deprecating sense of humour. Keeping us company were her two LA.

pound puppies, now fully grown, Kendall and Zelda, who accompany her everywhere. Kidder strikes you as remarkably centred for a woman who has spent the better part of her adult life in treatment for manic depression. Her finalbreakdown made lurid headlines four years back when she was discovered sleeping in a leaf pile in a yard in suburban Los Angeles, disoriented and delusional, with her hair hacked off. She's climbed a longways back from that rock bottom. Kidder attributes her recovery to a controversial regimen called ortho-molecularmedicine, which combines various vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements, and as little drug intervention as possible, to treat the symptoms of mental illness.

"It's worked for four years which is nothing short of a miracle for me." She allows that there have also been some associated lifestyle changes. Quitting alcohol, for one, and a much tougher challenge giving up smoking six months back. She's still on the patch, she confesses, whacking her chest for emphasis. After living several years in a huge one-room log cabin with a sleeping loft in the rugged countryside outside of Livingston, Kidder moved into the town about a year ago. "It's great because whenever my daughter comes into town to shop I get to babysit the granddaughter, so it's perfect" A great friend of American painterlithographer Russell Chatham, the proprietor of the famed Livingston Bar Grille, FX II "Previously Owned Sale August 11, 12 13 Douglas Udell Gallery 10332-1 24 Street fr VX ELLERSLIEt i ry sign language 429-5450 5 1 'V Ofour complete guide to local Bingo Action NEW UNE-UP PROCEDURES No overnight line-ups.

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