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DAYTON DAILY NEWS C3C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1998 MUSIC DAYTIME DRAMAS Artists recognized Soap opera awards to be presented for achievements Wl iff I L. 5 How to watch WHAT: 12th annual Soul Train Music Awards, honoring the best in soul, jazz, rap and gospel. WHEN: 8 tonight on 8 p.m. Saturday on Channel 51 (tape). HOSTS: Patti LaBelle, Ery-.

kah Badu and Heavy D. yt If' a I A I I i. Drake Hogestyn and Leeza Gibbons Digest Awards' tonight. Soul Train Awards honor black performers overlooked by the Grammys. By Tonya Pendleton KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE In 1996, singer D'Angelo was nominated for three Grammys and three Soul Train Music Awards.

He went home empty-handed from the Grammys, but won all three Soul Train Awards. That same year, Grammy darling Mariah Carey, nominated for six awards, picked up only one Soul Train nomination. Soul Train has traditionally picked up the slack where Grammy nominations fall off for black artists. It recognizes soul, jazz and gospel artists in 11 categories and gives two annual achievement awards the Quincy Jones Award for career achievement and the Sammy Davis Jr. Entertainer of the Year Award.

This year, Whitney Houston and Sean "Puffy" Combs are the honor-ees. "Typically, the Soul Train Music Awards have been a barometer for the public sentiment of African-American people," said Dyana Williams, whose Philadelphia-based International Association of African-American Music hosts an annual music conference, among other programs. It an opportunity to recognize people who are overlooked by Grammy voters." As usual, Grammy perennials Luther Van-dross, Take 6 and Patti Labelle are nominees. Chaka Khan is inexplicably nominated in the Vocal Performance category for a jazz song, while Carey is nominated in the same category and for Best Song for Honey, '4 4 1 L- it r'-1 will co-host the 'Soap Opera Favorite New Character: Cassie (Laura Wright, Guiding Light); Matt (Mitch Longley, Port Charles); Mel (Stephen Markle, One Life to Live). i Li' 'AVa 1 ll Readers of 'Soap Opera Digest' tap their favorites.

Talk show host Leeza Gibbons and Days of Our Lives star Drake hogestyn will co-host tonight's 14th annual Soap Opera Awards. NBC (Channels 5 and 22) will broadcast the awards live from the Universal Amphitheater in Universal City, from 9-11 ni -The awards are voted on by the subscribers of Soap Opera Digest. Yahoo! Chat, NBC Live and Soap Opera Digest Online will ool their resources on the Internet (chat.yahoo.com). The first chat will be from 2-4 p.m., with pre-show coverage from 8-9 p.m., followed by a backstage awards exhatat9. Nominees Best Show: All soaps are eligible.

Outstanding Lead Actor: -John Callahan (Edmund, All My Children); Tom Eplin (Jake, Another World); Kin Shriner (Scott, Part Charles). 00 Outstanding Lead Actress: -Eileen Davidson (KristenSusanMary, Days of Our Lives); Vanessa Marcil (Brenda, General Hospital); Kim Zimmer (Reva, Guiding Light). Hottest Male Star: Shermar Moore (Malcolm, The Young and lthe Restless); Ronn Moss (Ridge, The Bold and the Beautiful); Ingo Rademacher (Jax, General Hospital). Hottest Female Star: Jan-sen Buchanan (Vicky, Another World); Sharon Case (Sharon, The Young and the Restless); lassie DePaiva (Blair, One Life to Live). Hottest Romance: Mateo nd Hayley (Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa, All My Children); Holden and Lily (Jon Hensley and Martha Byrne, As the World iTiirns); John and Marlena Hogestyn and Deidre Hall, Days of Our Lives).

Outstanding Supporting Actor: Michael E. Knight (Tad, 'All My Children); John McCook (Eric, The Bold and the Beautiful); Robert Newman (Josh, Guiding Light). Outstanding Supporting Actress: Tricia Cast (Nina, The Young and the Restless); Judi Evans Luciano (Paulina, Another Kelley Menighan-s Hensley (Emily, As the World Turns). 1 Outstanding Younger NEW PRODUCT Banishing Smokers and nonsmokers give their opinions on this odor-eater. By Ellen Sweets DALLAS MORNING NEWS "They said someday you'll find All who love are blind.

When your heart's on fire, You must realize Smoke gets in your eyes." And your hair, and clothes and, if you spend enough time in a smoke-filled setting, into your underwear and the skin it covers. Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern omitted such details when they penned that 1930s ditty. So if you're a terminal smoker, what are you supposed to do in our relentlessly anti-smoking setting? A Minneapolis-based company thinks it has found a solution: Banish the smell of smoke with a product called, uh-huh, Banish. This was good news and no news to a group of smokers and nonsmokers who gathered at a Dallas hangout that attracts a cross-section of lawyers, college students, media types and neighborhood regulars. This is a table of 30-, 40- and 50-year-olds.

Ad man Mike Foley, a con- fessed pack-a-day smoker, offered to try Banish, a liquid, in deference to his wife, Susan. "I'm a dental hygienist, and I work in an environment that's "Sterile, so the last thing patients want to smell is smoke," she says. "But living with a smoker, well, sometimes, I open my purse and it smells of smoke. So this Grant Aleksander (as Phillip Spaulding) and Beth Ehlers (as Harley Cooper Mallet) star in 'Guiding ifc rtn-r i 1 Tl clearly a pop song. The only first-time nominee in the entire female cate-, gory is Erykah Badu.

Grammy voters virtually ignored queen Mary J. Blige, whose only Grammy nomination is for Best Album. Meanwhile, she's a three-time Soul Train nominee this year for the single Everything and for Best Female Album, and Album of the Year. Not surprisingly, the ever-present Combs received five nominations from Soul Train and four from the Grammys, including Best New Artist. He and Badu, both artists who cross over to the pop charts, -were almost equally recognized by both Grammy and Soul Train voters.

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Outstanding Villainess: Sarah Buxton (Annie, Sunset Beach); Alison Sweeny (Sami, Days of Our Lives); Cynthia Watros (Annie, Guiding Light). Outstanding Male Newcomer: Jensen Ackles (Eric, Days of Our Lives); Michael Park (Jack, As the World Turns); Clive Robertson (Ben, Sunset Beach). Outstanding Female Newcomer: Sabryn Genet (Tricia, The Young and the Restless); Jennifer Hammon (Karen, Port Charles); Florencia Lozano (Tea, One Life to Live). Outstanding Male Scene Stealer: Ivan G'Vera (Ivan, Days of Our Lives); John Ingle (Edward, General Hospital); Eric Morgan Stuart (Chris, Another World). Outstanding Female Scene Stealer: Jennifer Bassey (Mar-Ian, All My Children); Tracey E.

Bregman (Lauren, The Bold and the Beautiful); Kathleen Noone (Bette, Sunset Beach). Favorite New Couple: Grant and Cindy (Mark Pinter and Kim Rhodes, Another World); the smell Banish nothing to sniff at. stuff might work on my but what about getting it out of my hair? I mean, why not just take a shower and put on some clean clothes?" As the bottle is passed around, sticklers for detail read the fine print: Not recommended for use on silk or suede; test fine fabrics for colorfastness or watermarking. "I've been smoking since I was 14," Shirley Baccus, 74, says. "The smell of smoke doesn't bother me because it's a smell I like but I understand that there are people who don't like that smell.

Give it here; let me try it." She does, and pronounces vinegar as a component. But Banish does remove the smell of smoke from her hands. She shrugs. "If you put vinegar in a room, it Will dispel odors," she says. "I guess this would be worth buying for the people who are offended by my smoke.

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