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Section THIS WEEK IN ENTERTAINMENT Authors head out Write Around Alberta See Page C3 At the Movies: Can Kurt Russell take audiences Sky High? Reviews of new video games and gadgets MUSIC'TELEVISION'MOVIES'THE ARTSPOP" CULTURE Editor: Steve Jenkinson 235-7580 WWW.CALGARYHERALD.COM Thursday, July 28, 2005 ENTERTAINMENT DAILY DISH Alberta Ballet loses director DANCE Ann Lewis is calling it quits after three and a half lham lWdllifdtiBi) I feel this is the opportunity of a lifetime We're so delighted. "Pretty much everything he talks about fits in with the type of theatre that we are but with a little more sizzle. "That's what we were looking for something to jazz things up and send out new energy. Dennis has got all those things." A native of London, Ont. the 37-year-old Garnhum, who has directed at all the major theatre companies and festivals in Canada including Edmonton's Citadel, Toronto's CanStage and both the Shaw and Stratford Festivals has spent the past three years living in New York.

He's no stranger to Calgary, having directed Down the Main Drag as part of Alberta Theatre Projects' 2004 playRites festival "I feel this is the opportunity of a lifetime, because I think Calgary is the place to be in the country I can't tell you how how many people have told me that in the last week and I think this company is the place to be in Calgary," Garnhum says. Dennis Garnhum, Theatre Calgary's new artistic director Theatre Calgary, which has a subscription base of nearly 9,000, offers stage fare aimed at a broad audience. Its 200506 roster of plays, for example, includes the 1959 Broadway hit, The Miracle Worker; another instalment in the popular Wingfield saga by Canadian author Dan Needles; A Christmas Carol; George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan; Trying and the classic Frank Loesser musical, Guys Dolls. Garnhum says he intends to steer much the same course as his predecessors. "I love the mandate of Theatre Calgary," Garnhum says.

See THEATRE, Page C3 thickened when Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry subsequently said Monaco likely would make a guest-star appearance this season on the hit ABC serial. "I don't know. Should there be a rematch between the two? Maybe that's what years as executive director of Alberta Ballet. Her resignation, announced Wednesday, takes effect immediately. Lewis cites Ann Lewis the difficulty of seeing Alberta Ballet through a year of financial hardship due to the temporary closure of the Jubilee Auditoria in both Edmonton and Calgary as a significant factor in her decision.

"I don't think anybody understood how hard that year would be," she says. "But we've weathered it very well, and everything is absolutely in place to go forward. I'm tired, but very proud of the company and everything that's been done. The timing for me is perfect." Says Larry Clausen, the company's board chairman "The challenge in front of us (at the time) was to get the ballet back in the black. It was a tough job but a job done." Calgary Idols still in running TELEVISION 'Calgary's two Canadian Idol finalists are safe for another week.

Ashley Leitao, 18, of Burnaby, B.C., was voted out of the competition Wednesday based on her performance of Sir Duke on the Stevie Wonder tribute show a night earlier. Calgary teen Melissa O'Neil again found herself among the bottom three vote-getters Wednesday. O'Neil, 17, and Calgary's other competitor, Amber Fleury, remain in the running. Moss wins libel lawsuit in U.K. COURTS British supermodel Kate Moss has accepted substantial libel damages from a newspaper that alleged she had collapsed into a coma after taking cocaine, says her lawyer.

An article published in Britain's Sunday Mirror in January alleged that during a visit to Barcelona, Spain, in June 2001, Moss, 31, collapsed into a drug-induced coma after taking large amounts of cocaine. Coldplay's voice, Idol sexy vegans CELEBS Coldplay singer Chris Martin and Carrie Underwood, who won the American Idol crown in May, shared the title of the World's Sexiest Vegetarian in animal rights group PETA's annual online poll. More than 13,000 votes were cast. McCreadyout ofhospital CELEBRITIES Country singer Mindy McCready has been released from a Florida hospital, four days after an apparent suicide attempt, authorities said. mm i Artistic director ups the 'energy' BOB CLARK Calgary Herald The Calgary theatre community's biggest ship has a new face at the helm.

And Theatre Calgary is counting on Dennis Gar-nhum to bring more "sizzle" to its stage. Theatre Calgary announced Wednesday that the Canadian director has signed a five-year contract to become the company's ioth artistic director. Gar-nhum succeeds Ian Prinsloo who held the position from 1997 until 2005. "I can't tell you how excited I am," says Theatre Calgary board chair Maggie Schofield. "We're just bursting at the seams.

Lorraine Hjalte, Calgary Herald Dennis Garnhum already feels at home with Theatre Calgary. pointed at host Tara McCool chatting away on-air with a twentysomething about the latest juicy tidbits in the supermarket tabloids. Two camera operators snicker to themselves about the latest Tom Cruise PR fiasco as they take position for the next segment. See CITY, Page C2 LOCAL TV TELEVISION Big A falls to new City Controversy could spin into rematch ED BARK The Dallas Morning News Dancing With the Stars will change partners, and possibly its voting format, when the summertime sensation returns to ABC in midseason. we'll do," ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson told TV critics.

McPherson, who attended the finale, said he more or less agreed with the verdict. "He (O'Hurley) is an incredibly charismatic guy, and really played ALEXANDRA BURROUGHS Calgary Herald Calgary's television landscape is undergoing its own reality makeover. If all goes according to plan, by the time daylight shines on downtown Calgary this morning, the large illuminated that has marked the home of A-Channel on 7th Avenue downtown for more than 10 years will be gone. By Friday morning, City TV will be the new kid in Calgary's television market. The sign is being removed as part of a branding change from A-Channel to City TV, after City-TVs parent company, Toronto's CHUM Limited brought A-Channel owner Craig Media in 2004 for a cool $265 millioa For the station, it's the end of an era, but you wouldn't know it by peeking inside the studio.

The first thing that strikes me as I walk into one of the last live tapings of The Big Breakfast is the free pastries and coffee. The second is that there isn't anyone in the room that looks a day over 35. "There's never a dull mo- i Fjtff Lorraine Hjalte, Calgary Herald News anchor Susanne Fox shows off her station's new City TV sign, which will replace the old A-Channel moniker. Monaco And because of lingering controversy over the first final verdict, there might even be a onetime "dance-off' between winning couple Kelly Monaco and Alec Mazo, and runners-upjohn O'Hurley and Charlotte Jorgensen. Kelly Some fans then hit TV critics and ABC with e-mails after Monaco (of ABC's General Hospital) and her partner received a perfect 30 score from the show's three judges despite at least two noticeable slips during their climactic routine.

The perception, among some viewers, is that her ABC connections played a role in the outcome. The synergy to the audience. That doesn't necessarily mean that he wins the dance competition," McPherson said. Sources said O'Hurley was incensed backstage following the finale, according to Entertainment Weekly. McPherson said the new season might go with an American Idol- style format in which a live "results" show follows the previous night's competitioa ment," says the morning show's floor director Glenn Stevenson, dressed in a rockT-shirt and dark jeans.

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