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mm CALGARY HERALD Thursday. May 31, 2007 D5 Perfection Has Its Price. Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan ENTERTAINMENT Country Alternative Current Hard Rock This Last This Last Th'5. t. Last This Last This Last week National Artist week week National Artist week wecK National Artist week week National Artist week week Nationa) Artjst week 1 1 Carrie Underwood 1 1 1 Maroon 5 1 2 1 1 LinkinPark 11 1 Timbaland 1 Some Hearts It Won't Be Soon Before Long It wont Be Soon Before Long Minutes To Midnight Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 3 Dixie Chicks 3 2 2 LinkinPark 1 2 3 1 2 2 Ozzy Osboume 2 2 Justin Timberlake 3 Taking The Long Way Minutes To Midnight Minutes To Midnight Black Rain FuturesexLove Sounds 3 4 TimMcGraw 4 3 5 Feist 2 3 5 0z Osbourne 3 3 Daughtry 5 3 3 AmyWinehouse 2 Let It Go Reminder Black Rain Daughtry Back To Black 4 2 Gretchen Wilson 2 4 3 The Used 46 Michael Buble 244 Megadeth 2 4 5 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 4 One Of The Boys Lies For The Liars Call Me Irresponsible United Abominations Strengths Loyalty 5 6 Rascal Flatts 5 5 4 AvrilLavigne 3 5 9 Mst 357 Nine Inch Nails 3 5 4 Akon 5 Me My Gang Best Damn Thing Reminder Year Zero Konvicted 6 5 Taylor Swift 8 6 6 Daughtry 8 6 7 TheUsed 6 6 Finger Eleven 4 6 7 Fergie 7 Taylor Swift Daughtry Lies For The Liars Them Vs.

You Vs. Me Dutchess 7 9 Keith Urban 6 7 10 Wilco 4 7 8 AvrilLavigne 5 7 5 Rush 6 7 6 Ne-Yo 6 Love Pain A The Whole Crazy Thing Sky Blue Sky Best Damn Thing Snakes Arrows Because Of You 8 7 Martina McBride 7 8 12 Nine Inch Nails 6 8 13 Carrie Underwood 7 8 10 Three Days Grace 9 8 8 Joss Stone 8 Waking Up Laughing Year Zero SomeHearts One-X Introducing Joss Stone 9 12 Alison Krauss 10 9 7 AmyWinehouse 5 9 11 Daughtry 15 9 12 Buckcherry 9 10 Corinne Bailey Rae 9 Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection Back To Black Daughtry 25 1 Corinne Bailey Rae 10 8 Johnny Reid 10 8 GwenStefani 9 10 15 Timbaland 8 10 9 Billy Talent 7 10 16 Cashis Kicking Stones Sweet Escape rimbaland Presents Shock Value Billy Talent II County Hounds EP MOVIES PERFORMANCE Personal tale goes public Dandys stay cool for Calgary gig I. around 2002, to keep the surname an absent-minded hotel receptionist had bestowed him), barely acknowledged the crowd until halfway through the set, but then thanked Canada for catching onto the Portland, band well before the Americans did. And Canada Calgary at least seemed to love The Dandys as they played a set heavy on early material and college radio singles: Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth, Get Off, Godless, Bohemian Like You, Horse Pills, You Were The Last High, I Love You, and more. Perhaps aware this was their first excursion into Calgary, the Dandys played little from their last two albums and instead focused on a stronger, "best of set list.

And they also debuted an excellent new song (Now You Love Me) from their forthcoming album, due in spring 2008. To be fair, asking me to review the Dandys is a bit like asking Waylon Smithers to pen an essay on Mr. Burns. But I say this while remaining objective The Dandy Warhols totally rocked. Opening for them were fellow Portland stoner rockers The Upside Down, who had a great sound somewhere between the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Interpol.

Because they are a six-piece (the Dandys are a quartet), they seemingly built up a bigger wall of noise on space jams than their tour mates, and should rightfully have won over a few new fans. NLEWISTHEHERALD.CANWEST.COM NICK LEWIS Calgary Herald Courtney Taylor-Taylor brought The Dandy Warhols to Calgary on Tuesday night, allowing me, finally, to see my Favourite Band In The World. And just my luck, the front-man's voice didn't quite make the journey. A bit crackly on the high notes, a bit mumbly on the low ones, Taylor-Taylor was sometimes indecipherable on tunes until their choral hooks rang through. But otherwise, there was very little to find fault in in a great psychedelic rock show at MacEwan Ballroom on Tuesday night.

REVIEW With the The Dandy warm, stag-Warhols at nant smell of MacEwan sweat, weed Ballroom. Thic chi-Hju ana Deer breath blan- was sold out. ketingthe shoulder-to- shoulder crowd, The Dandy Warhols came out to the fantastic Be In off 1997's Come Down, blades of green light casting a kaleidoscopic aura behind them, a projector at the sound booth casting cartoon imagery and static on them. They looked as cool as they sounded, a ponytailed Taylor-Taylor striking New Wave poses behind the mic, mop-haired guitarist Peter Holm-strom shoegazing, doll-faced keyboardist Zia McCabe swaying to the music as if in a dream, shirtless drummer Brent De Boer keeping time with relative ease. Taylor-Taylor (he decided, Elisabeth Shue puts childhood story on screen GINAPICCALO Los Angeles Times Elisabeth Shue took a deep breath.

It was still early in the media push for her new film Gracie, an indie drama based on her own soccer-obsessed youth, and she was clearly still grappling with what she called the "sacred-ness" of her past, the "nerve-racking" aspect of making it public. The film, which opens Friday, tells the story of a feisty 15-year-old girl (played by Carly Schroeder) growing up in a middle-class SPOTLIGHT homeinlate-Gracie opens in i97sNew theatres on Jersey. She's Friday. the only daughter in a family of three sons and, after her eldest brother dies, she competes on a boys soccer team to win her father's approval. This with a few tweaks is Elisabeth's story.

But it was only at the insistence of her middle brother, Andrew who co-wrote the original script, then co-produced and co-starred in the film that she agreed to support the project and open up about her childhood. Telling her tale has had profound repercussions. For one, the film inspired Elisabeth to rekindle her athletic drive and take up tennis professionally. After months of intense training, the 43-year-old aspires to be ranked by fall For Andrew, the premiere of Gracie fulfills a commitment to honour William and the family's passion for soccer. He persuaded Elisabeth's husband, Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim An Inconvenient Truth to direct and wrangled financing from Gatorade, the state of New Jersey and a hedge fund.

One of his greatest hurdles was persuading Elisabeth to play a character inspired by their mother and reassuring her that the film would honour, not exploit, her childhood. In fact, Elisabeth didn't fully embrace the project until months after the film wrapped, Guggenheim said. "There was always this hand-wringing that perhaps telling a story based on her life and also telling the story of her brother was something cheap or exploitative, just in the act of doing it, and a worry we didn't get it right and capture his spirit," he said. "And the feeling of maybe, 'How dare she think that her story is so special?" Elisabeth spent much of her childhood in the shadow of her brothers, so it felt somehow incongruous to her and even, initially, to Andrew to spot- iMIH A. 1 ill 1 it Hfi'1 Beatrice de Gea, Los Angeles Times Elisabeth Shue had to be convinced to portray a character based on her own mother in the loosely autobiographical film, Gracie.

light those years in a film. Told by Guggenheim his script was really his sister's story, Andrew quipped: "Really? She was the underdog? But she always got the good pillow! She was the girl!" From ages nine to 13, Elisabeth was the only girl playing on an all-boys soccer team. But like Gracie in the film, her athletic abilities and fierce determination went relatively unnoticed by her family. "There is no footage of me playing soccer as the only girl," she said. "For four years.

None. In some ways, I could judge and say I can't believe. And I'd love to sometimes. But on the other hand, it was also an acceptance that that was not that extraordinary. I had been playing soccer with my brothers on the side yard my whole life." Unlike the girl in the script, who triumphs over stereotypes to compete with the boys, Elisabeth quit when she hit puberty, just as she was poised to play boys varsity soccer.

She was worried her tomboy ways would alienate her from her peers. It was something she later regretted. Gracie, she said, has helped her reclaim some of that old fire. And if the "The heart of the movie," Elisabeth said, "is that his passing away really is what has changed our lives and in some ways has been one of the most painful gifts that we could have ever been allowed to have." Elisabeth was 24 when William died. Guggenheim remembers meeting her about a year later, when she was still "in a fog," devastated by the loss.

"I don't think you can continue after that and live on the surface," Guggenheim said. "You cannot approach life without seeing there's a wonderful, horrible duality to things." Recently, Elisabeth's father visited to watch her play tennis. It was an important moment, bringing full circle her childhood yearning for his attention and the reticence it bred decades later about seeing that painful truth depicted on film. This time, though, there was a more satisfying ending. "It did feel like it was art imitating life," Elisabeth watching me play was so important to me.

Almost as it is to Gracie. It was really cooL It sort of healed that part of my life. We don't change as much as we think." film inspires girls to fight for their goals, Elisabeth said, then "it's worth putting my life out there." Gracie is set in South Orange, N.J., where the Shue children grew up. The family in the script struggles financially, as the Shues did. James Shue was a public defender and the captain of his college soccer team.

He was a good coach to his kids, drilling them constantly, telling them: "You can do anything," a line that became a mantra in the film. William became the heart of the family and, in many ways, a surrogate parent. He was captain of the high school soccer team and an Eagle Scout He once rescued a baby hawk and nurtured it back to health. Andrew said he remembers being five and crawling into bed with him, scared after watching The Wizard of Oz. "He was our protector," Andrew said.

There are lots of moments in the film to immortalize William and the Shues' childhoods. Gracie releases a baby hawk back into the wild. And Andrew made sure William's Eagle Scout uniform hung on the set in the bedroom of Sof-fer's character, serving as a memento and a talisman. i 1 Mikael Kjellstrom, Calgary Herald Lead singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor of The Dandy Warhols performs at the University of Calgary on Tuesday evening. Character Is Built One Century At A Time.

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