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B2 Province Show ease Thursday, May 30, 1996 El MM 1 Anderson relaxed, honest and Too Cool wasn't doing the other," she said in an interview with Country, Canada's country music magazine. "But heck, I'm 40 and if I start looking ugly I'll just sit back and write songs. "I find the performing side can be like cellophane at times and, if I can't be real and honest, then I won't want to do it." Profit got credit bu it wasn't enough Canadian Press EDMONTON Country star Sharon Anderson, whose new single Too Cool is gathering momentum across Canada, says she gets a kick out of both sides of the music business writing and performing. "I think I'd miss one aspect if I So actress logs another series M. 1UW1IIVV MTntafW i i to 1 Tancouver-based actress Allison Hossack says she's stuck in OZZY OSBOURME network series limbo.

The Manitoba native starred in Profit, the made-in-North Vancouver TV jm 1 1..... jr i THURSDAY, JUNE 6 7:30 P.M. pi GENERAL MOTORS PLACE Tickets at TicketMaster or call 280-4444. series that has just been dropped by Fox. "It was astoundingly well received and got stacks of wonderful reviews," shrugs Hossack.

"We always said it would either go down in flames or be a huge hit. Everyone who watches it loves it or they just won't watch it." The show's executive producer, DAIVUAN INWOQD Celebrities A Cannell Films, is looking for a new network home for the series, which airs locally on U.TV on Mondays at 9 p.m. Seven episodes plus a two-hour pilot were shot but rotten ratings led to Fox dropping the show before the May sweeps. Hossack says she feels quite calm about her fate. She plays Nora Gracen, wife of a partner In a stock exchange firm where skulduggery Is the name of the corporate Jk-ii.

a. 'llS Statt photo by Le Bauo Allison Hossack is stuck In TV series limbo: She starred in Profit, which has been axed. SEE THE SHOW FROM THE FRONT GRAND PRIZE: Front row tickets Secondary Prizes: Tickets to the show Copy of Ooy's latest CD release Ozzmosis Autographed poster Ozzy Osbourne CD library Province merchandise Contest clow Jut 3 5:00 p.m. MEET OZZY UVE AT MIDNIGHT AFTER THE AT Ok6oouncV343J EAST HASTINGS SWEET! game. "It's odd but I'm getting used to the limbo sense of living," she says.

"I feel quite calm about It. I've kind of dissociated from It, not got my hopes up too high. Otherwise you would go insane." Hossack has been in a cancelled show before. She co-starred In Cobra, which went (or 22 episodes before being axed. "With Profit, we knew right after the second episode there was a problem," she says.

"The producers called saying, 'The reviews are great, the ratings They just kept sucking." GUEST SPOT Hossack Isn't letting the grass grow under her fit-t, however. She landed a guest spot on Poltergeist, playing a schoolteacher who's plain and quiet by day and by night Is an evil witch, rllually abusing her charges. Hossack grew up In the little town of Klllamey, population 1,500, southwest of Brandon. "It was great until I hit puln-rty," she laughs. "Then I was a teenager In a small town and It Just became a place to escape Irom.

The goal was to see ll there was lile outside." She did musical theatre at school and went to university In Brandon ns a piano major. "I got and switched to a voice major," Rhe adds. "I went into a drama program and by the time I graduated I was only Interested In ting." lloss.u worked In Toronto lor IS months and then went to New York lor three years lo work on the daytime soap, Another World. "New York was great for two years but by the third I was back in escape mode," she says. "It was trial by fire in front of millions of soap watchers.

I was playing a 17- or 18-year-old, which was a bit shocking as I was 24." She played a teen who was "obsessed with a married man, finally got him divorced, lived with him, got pregnant, lied about the father. I was paralysed at one point all those things people do on soaps." Hossack says she's happy living In Vancouver with her husband, stand-up comic and writer Jamie Ollivler. They've recently bought a house In the Stratheona district of East Vancouver and Hossack says she's struggling with whether to try the acting scene In Los Angeles. "It's an ongoing battle because part of me wants to have a healthier life," she says. "Up here, I can create a balanced life, a house, a relationship and my friends," she says.

"I'm thinking In a year or two I'd like to maybe have a child so I'm searching for a balanced lile. It comes up against my ego and ambition to do more. "I always Inipped along ami was happy to he working and gypsylng around." Nonetheless, she thinks she may pop down to I. A. In the to check things out.

"Part of mc wants to run. escape and sec what rise there Is," she says. "Then at least I'll know II hate It or If I love it or II I want to quit. Otherwise I'd never know and that would bug me." sp i K.I Iw.n.' "f-wr. tamy 9 pfn t'ww vrtv, Send your tntries to OZZY, co Provinc Promotions, P.O.

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