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SECTION COMING UP Don't work too hard on the menu for this Labor Day just relate your food to your job. THURSDAY IN FOOD INSIDE WEEKEND PREVIEW Comedian Sinbad returns to the big screen as a Secret Service agent in First Kid. PAGE 3D Palm Beach County Living Harding, band FASHION POLL 1996 stake shot at ACCENT i Wo ma you country tour This may be their last week at Country Nights for a while: Local band Straight Shooter is going on the road. A real tour. In a bus.

"We're ready," drummer Myron Stewart said. Thanks to Steven Craig Harding, 28, a promising singer from West Palm Beach who not long ago was sitting in with house bands, they'll realize a decade- 1 wear this? Do you look at the new fashions and wonder how in the world you could ever wear that? Do you have closet confusion a bunch of clothes but nothing to wear? Have VOU given nn on far-nnr. nvprnrirpH rlnrhiner? rf 0 j- Please let us know. It's been a while since The Post has surveyed our readers to find out what you love and hate about fashion (and thrown in the chance to win a little old dream. "He can sing a song like he's living it," said Ehab Coriaty of Dur United Entertainment in West Palm Beach.

He saw Harding at Country Nights, signed him, sent demos to Nashville, picked up songs by Baker Myers and Joe Diffie, and shot some videos. Dur, under its country shopping trip or some helpful fashion advice). The Post wants to bring you style news you can use. So, please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire (attach additional pages if necessary) This Betsey Johnson look came down the runway at the fall fashion shows. It's fun, it's funky, but it's totally unwearable.

iXTIOM and mail or fax it in. i We'll use your answers to write stories about your biggest fashion Smith questions. And we 11 select a few readers for closet makeovers i label, Prairie Moon, released the CD Aug. 5. A second single is do next where style experts examine your wardrobe and offer advice for stretching its potential and mini shopping sprees.

v'We're not looking to sell a million overnight, we're gonna build him," said Cafiaty, who's trying to sell a major label 9. Who is your favorite designer or brand? Why? 1. When a friend sees an outfit what does that outfit look like? Women giving fashion a good dressing down Women, we have the fashion industry worried. We used to let them tell us what to wear. And like sadistic fraternity brothers with a posse of eager pledges to haze, they'd send us out of the house dressed in matador garb one season or like a color-blind dandy the next.

Our reactions? "Thank you, sir, may I have another 10. What is the most you would ever enonrl On'. I DuJ Harding. "He doesn't sound like a lot of thjp other guys, and he's the first guy I've mef who really loves signing autographs." The guys from Straight Shooter, Stew-. art; Brian Cain (guitar), John Rhea (bass), Steve Siciliano (guitar) plus fiddler Tommy Greywolf and keyboardist Jim Wills fjQOi Silverado will back Harding, polishing the act on tour in Florida, Texas and Missouri.

And after all the time they've put injthey won't mind signing a few autographs either. Goldberg gone from WPBF post 4-Ffiday does it for Marc Goldberg, one o0h0 last original members of the news 2. What is your biggest fashion gripe? A suit raius Shoes Shirt A haircut. aivvw 1 AnnlAfl Something for a special uu 11. If you work outside the home, -do you have to dress? Is youj -office more or less casual than it used to be? 3 When you open your closet, do you Karyou see? you're happy, what JoSS secret? If not, what would you like to change? 12.

Which figure flaws make shopping a problem? team at WPBF-Channel 25. Despite a well-earned reputation as one of, if not the best sports-caster in South Florida, the station didn't renew his contract. In Goldberg's 7V4-year tenure, the station has seen four news directors and two general managers. Onlv snorts (ostrich-collared jacket, pencil skirt, baby doll Seems in the last couple years, though, we've gone independent. A recent New York Times article (sparking a frosty letter-to-the-editor by Vogue doyenne Anna Win-tour) meticulously documents our emancipation: Between tv' 7 4.

Do you spend as much money on clothhg as you did five years ago? Last Tell us how your clothing budge has evolved. If youYe spending more, wha types of oXs are you buying? If less, what is competing for your money? Goldberg 13. Is there a celebrity whose style most admire? Who is it and why? Nicole Piscopo FASHION EDITOR mi 1989 and last year, the fashion industry experienced a 12 percent drop in women's ago? Why or why not? If not, do you miss it? Tell us a little about yourself. How old are Te.u,uw-S? rhfldren? What is your apparel sales. Looks that we said "no thanks" your i vmir interests? profession: vnotoi-, Name to included nun chic (missed that one, huh?) and high-priced grunge wear, among others.

Even those items thought to be fail-safe as more women entered the workforce dress-for-success A What is your favorite outfit or item how much did you pay for it? Age Address Phone numbers blouses and hosiery showed declining sales, too. What really got industry hands scratching industry heads, though, 7. Where do you buy most of your clothes and why do you shop there? Check here if you would be interested in a closet makeover or mini shopping spree? photographer Rick Tucker remains from original news staff. Despite Channel 25's dismal ratings, c'cteh flow last year nearly doubled for owner faxson Communications, and these days in-broadcasting, quantity rules, not quality. tThe rest of this week and Monday, Gpidberg is spending his mornings subbing forl.ee Fowler at WJNO-AM 1230.

He likes to talk about sports, natch, and rock but he likes TV better, which mgans we haven't seen the last of him. The resumes are out, but unless something drastic and unexpected happens, "I don't forjesee anything happening around here," hdsaid. Taj Mahal tenting it at H.O.R.D.E. With such performers as Rusted Root, Blues Traveler, Son Volt and the mellifluous Cycomotogoat, Sunday's H.O.R.D.E. Festival at Coral Sky Amphitheatre is not yopr run-of-the-mill rock show.

With the presence of Taj Mahal, it will be even better, because of his set and because of Alchemy Cabaret. In a tent near the stage, the number of times depending on the positions of the sun and the stars, vibes and the availability of performers, Taj will work his magic. "Taj has always done impromptu things," Coral Sky publicist Woody Graber said. "He'll perform and do little workshops, but they usually end up like major jan)s. You never know who's going to show up and play with him, and usually it's better thjan the concert." A i.

Please see FASHION4D Mail or fax to: Fashion Editor Nicole Piscopo, The Palm Beach Post, on UnvCMfiQfi. 8. If someone gave you 100 to you spend the money? West Palm Beach, Fla. 334164700. Fax: 820-4445.

I 6Nick Freno9 has charm, but needs work Jamie Foxx: Gifted comic in bad sitcom 4D Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher 8:30 p.m. today, WDZL-Channel 39; 8:30 p.m. Friday. 4' (pBS delays debut qif spotty 'Ink' The'New York Times -NEW YORK In a setback to CBS' fall television schedule, Ink, a new comedy starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, is expected to miss its Sept. 16 premiere date because the first three episodes have fallen short of expectations.

regarded Ink as a centerpiece in the planned resurrection of its prime-time ratings, with 22 episodes at a price of about $1 million an episode. Executives fram CBS and the show's production company, the DpQamworks studio, said Monday that changes in Ink wuld be announced this week. i Executives familiar with the situation said negotiations were being conducted with Murphy Brown creator prane English to take control of Ink. The executives sajH it was likely the show would be retooled. y'Ink stars Danson as a newspaper reporter and Steenburgen as his ex-wife and editor.

In July, both stirs expressed reservations about the quality of the piles episode. A Ik WTVX-Channel 34 make Nick Freno watchable. His acting, though, still leaves a lot to be desired, but we're not talking Hamlet here. The producers would be wise to hire stronger supporting players. There are no standout students though the writers work hard to shove picked-on Orlando (Jonathan Hernandez) down your throat and Fust gets annoying quickly.

Veteran actor By KEVIN D. THOMPSON Palm Beach Post Arts Writer If Jim Carrey hadn't hit paydirt in the movies, he might be starring on a show like Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher. Instead, the WB network had to settle on an unknown, cheaper version: Mitch Mullany. It may be unfair to compare Mullany to Carrey, but the similarities are too obvious. Mullany resembles the rubbery-faced star, his manic, over-the-top performance steals from Carrey's and they're both stand-up comics.

Enough on the comparisons. What about the show? Mullany stars as Freno, an unemployed actor who lands a gig as a substitute English teacher. If it were up to Freno, though, he'd rather play a coma patient than teach. (Think that'll change?) In the pilot, Freno is called an "emotionally stunted man-child." And that's accurate. When the uptight Dean of Discipline Kurt Fust (Stuart Parkin) catches Freno goofing off with the kids and barks "What's going on Freno jumps back in his seat like one of his students.

Mullany is charming and likable enough to. Charles Cyphers, who plays burned-out shop teacher Al Yaroker, gets off some good one-liners. The show, however, belongs to Mullany. And the camera-mugging comic works hard to make the most of it..