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COMING WEDNESDAY IN GETAWAY: THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS LIVING ATLANTA TODAY C9 CLASSIFIEDS CIO COMICS C2, CO DIVERSIONS C7 MOVIES C8-9 TELEVISION C3 TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2001 INSIDE TODAY With shark attacks in the news, Time looks at shark behavior. Town Country shows off a French farmhouse owned by the CEO of WestPoint Stevens. The Newsstand, C7 EVERY WEEK Wednesday: Getaway Thursday: Buyer's Edge Friday: Weekend Preview Saturday: Living Leisure Monday: News for Kids THE WEB TODAY Napster's loss Is other sites' gain: Napster has taken some major hits in recent weeks, while rival sites continue to pick up visitors by the thousands. Still, Napster reigns supreme in numbers. C2 CONTACT US Nunzio Lupo, Features editor nlupoajc.com 404-526-5487 High Museum patrons viewing the Michelangelo exhibit are surprised when they run into Tony Bennett.

Peach Buzz, C2 I JL Y'F'C OF 1 rwM'VtNC j-. -Jj. 'N Sync is still doing what it does best forget Sam Cooke, but they trounce the current crop of cookie-cutter crooners. Timberlake and Chasez have taken a bigger role in the group's production and CD REVIEW "Celebrity" 'N Sync. Jive.

13 tracks. Grade: B- writing, with co-writer credits on 10 of the 13 tracks on the new album. They're not all home runs, but they've got a good batting average. The group knows hasn't performed well in the charts doesn't bode well. After nine weeks, the infectious, self-referential track has fallen to No.

47 from a peak of 19. Not exactly a smash hit, but you wouldn't know it from MTV, where the 'N Sync sycophancy continues unabated. The tune's video is battling with the Backstreet Boys' "More Than That," which hasn't hit the Top 20. Like any boy band, 'N Sync often denies kinship with others in its genre. The band members are staples of teen magazines and make pop just like the others do.

So why are "No Strings Attached" and "Celebrity" better than the rest (barring the Backstreet Boys' Let us count the ways. Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez are distinctive vocalists. They won't make you ance and the ability to capture it in the studio. While the Backstreet Boys looked set to be the Barry Manilows of the new millennium on the dreary "Black and Blue," 'N Sync isn't going quietly into adult-contemporary land. "Celebrity's" ballads, including "Gone," wouldn't be out of place there, but the funky slap of "Pop" and the clattering, two-step beats of "The Two of Us" might be more at home on rhythmic contemporary hits radio.

"Celebrity" shows admirable growth, bests the competitors and boasts more hooks than a meat locker. All that is overshadowed by the real question: Will it sell like its predecessor? Don't bet on it. To haar (election from "Celebrity," call 511, enter 8600 and Soundllne number 422. Each call costs 50 cents. ON THE WEB: More on 'N Sync: www.nsync.com By SHANE HARRISON sharrisonaJc.com When the VH-1 documentary "Behind the Music" picks at the corpse of teen pop, 'N Sync will hold a place of prominence for two good reasons.

They're arguably the best at what they do, and their last album, "No Strings Attached," holds the record for first-week sales (it moved over 2 million copies in seven days.) It looks like that record is safe for a while. None of the touted challengers beat it in 2000 and SoundScan is reporting a decrease in overall record sales for the first half of 2001. The Orlando-based quintet's "Celebrity" is being seen as a gauge of the health of the boy-band genre and, maybe, the music industry in general. The fact that the first single, "Pop," how to pick collaborators. The Neptunes (aka Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who have worked with Mystikal and No Doubt), Rodney Jerkins (responsible for chart toppers such as Destiny's Child's "Say My and BT (aka respected dance-music artist Brian Transeau) all add a creative touch to "Celebrity." And don't forget their youthful exuber- Carlo Dalla Chiesa 'N Sync's's new album, "Celebrity," is viewed as a boy band barometer.

SPEED READS Healthy Living Your Tuesday guide to medicine and health care BLIiiljlUli I 1 1 i IlliJ I III, I II I JL. II JJ I -II rs. 11 (SL WILLIAM BERRY Staff Should I or shouldn't Conflicting findings on hormone replacement put menopausal women in a maze of confusing options By PATRICIA GUTHRIE pguthrieajc.com hysicians shouldn't be prescribing hormone replacement therapy for the sole purpose of preventing heart attacks or strokes in postmenopausal women with heart disease, a panel of the nation's leading cardiologists said Monday. Zoo Atlanta peacock released by hospital Garbanzo, the Zoo Atlanta peacock who was attacked by an orangutan in April, is out of the hospital. Released Monday, Garbanzo still has some reminders of his unfortunate encounter.

His skin hasn't fully healed, and zoo vets clipped some of his feathers to better monitor his progress. But spokeswomari Megan Winokur said he is expected to recover completely. Garbanzo, a free-ranging fowl, was injured when he wandered into an orangutan's habitat and the ape pulled out some of his feathers. He'd had a similar simian run-in about two years before. At least for now, Garbanzo will be restricted to a habitat with other peacocks, though he may be allowed to range free eventually.

For Garbanzo, maybe the third time will be a charm. Eric Sundquist RELATIONSHIPS In a position statement aimed at clarifying findings from previous studies, the American Heart Association stressed that the decades-old practice of giving older women estrogen following heart attacks or other major cardiovascular events is no longer advised. The recommendation is based, in part, on the 1998 results of the Heart and Estrogen Replacement Study, one of the first large-scale randomized clinical trials to assess hormone therapy in women. It found that estrogen didn't protect women's hearts upending longstanding conventional wisdom. "There is so much confusion surrounding this issue," said Dr.

Lori Mosca, lead author of the new AHA guidelines Making sense of contradictory medical reports By NICK TATE ntateajc.com Can vitamins prevent cancer? Do cellphones cause it? Should women take hormones after menopause? Is salt a dietary evil? How about coffee? Or sugar? Or alcohol? We're bombarded with reports about conflicting health studies almost daily. Eggs, once deemed breakfast-table suicide, are now considered OK. For decades, margarine was hailed as a healthy alternative to butter; now the experts aren't so sure. And even vitamin touted as a disease fighter by Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and others, was recently found to cause DNA damage. Such dueling findings leave many health-conscious Americans confused and wondering why the experts can't seem to agree on what's good or bad for us.

Today's report du jour highlighting studies that hormone replacement therapy does not reduce the risk of heart disease in women is only the latest in a series of confusing scientific conclusions to get wide media attention. The new report might help doctors determine how best to prescribe hormones, but the head- Please see RESEARCH, C4 published in the AHA journal, Circulation, and director of preventive cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell universities. "The prevailing wisdom for many years has been that estrogen helps the heart. What we know now, using the latest state-of-the-art data, is that it is not beneficial to the heart for those with existing heart disease." Mosca stressed that women already taking hormones shouldn't stop if they don have heart disease and are taking them to relieve hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness or other menopausal symptoms andor to ward off osteoporosis. She also said more women need to consider lifestyle changes, such as quitting smoking, increasing exercise and eating a healthier diet, to reduce heart disease risks.

Please see HORMONES, C4 Jf ttff WALTER CUMMING Staff FALL TV: YOUR FIRST LOOK Secrets from spouses About 40 percent of married Americans admit keeping a secret from their spouses, but most have nothing to do with an affair or fantasy, according to a poll published Monday in the August issue of Reader's Digest. The most common secret is how much they spend. Of those with a secret, 48 percent said they had not told their spouses about the real price of something they bought. "I don't think there's a marriage where that didn't happen," said one respondent, a woman married 26 years. "You always get those good bargains, you know?" The No.

2 secret, at about 15 percent, is about a failure at work or a child's behavior. Only 2 percent, equally split among men and women, said they had an extramarital affair that remained a secret; 14 percent kept mum about being attracted to another person. The poll was conducted by Illinois-based Ipsos-NPD, which surveyed 1,000 husbands and wives by telephone in March. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Associated Press PEOPLE Michael Jackson cartoon Michael Jackson is starring in and producing his first animated feature.

In "The Way of the Unicorn, the Endangered One," Jackson, 42, will do the voice of Sailor, an orphan who works with a lonely rich girl and a group of endangered animals to save the planet. Pre-production on the $75 million film is scheduled to begin next month, said Dennis W. Peterson, chief executive officer of Las Vegas-based Big International Group of Entertainment Inc. "This is Michael's future, and he wants to devote his energies to it," said Peterson, Jackson's co-executive producer. Associated Press 'Downer' star's forte: Fearless ridiculousness I TV PREVIEW "The Downer Channel" 8:30 tonight on NBC (8927) Whether or not "The Downer Channel" sur-.

vives longer than the six episodes NBC has picked up, Krall, 30, is Angeles' streets with a leaf blower, performs street magic without doing magic, stands in front of the La Brea tar pits and announces, "What better place to bring your family than a hole crammed with thousands of animal carcasses?" "They go to me for character work I'm willing to be fat, ugly, it doesn't matter," Krall says of his role in the four-person ensemble show, executive-produced by Steve Martin and former "Late Night With David Letterman" Producer Robert Morton. "And they go to me to go out on the street and do something bizarre." without a job and a month later found himself auditioning for Steve Martin. "We saw Lance on a tape from Atlanta, he came in and auditioned and he was great blew away all of the sort of professional L.A. talent," Martin says. "I love it when that happens." "I watched his tape and said, 'What's his name? We want recalls Executive Producer Joan Stein.

"He had a sense of freedom and fearlessness. He's very much an adult with very much a child's imagination. He's a real find." Please see KRALL, C3 By DREW JUBERA djuberaajc.com Pasadena, Calif. "I'm shy outside the camera," says Lance Krall, seated anonymously in jeans and tennis shoes around an outdoor table one early afternoon at the Urth Cafe in West Hollywood. "But turn a camera on When the camera turns on for "The Downer Channel," the NBC sketch-and-real-life comedy that premieres tonight at 8:30, the Shiloh High School graduate who helped found the Whole World Theater improvisational group in Atlanta does just about anything: walks around Los this TV season's real-life TV movie.

The son of a Navy pilot father and a South Vietnamese mother who worked as a U.S. spy during a war that split her family in half her father was an ambassador to the Soviet Union for Communist North Vietnam Krall moved to L.A. last September CHRIS HASTON NBC Lane Krall, formerly of SnelMlle, Is one of four cast members of NBC's "The Dowirar Channel," premiering tonight. ir lPiJI uNat an i-m iwffcift nil, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION AJC.COM EVERY EVERY DAY.