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Inside I relights embers of Bible-themed film controversy Tomorrow Black female filmmakers want a bigger role in Hollywood in Sunday Arts -the big fteais Arts 1 Lifeline 2F Comics 6-7 Saturday February 7 2004 Televisior 12F WWWSTAR-TELEGRAMCOM COLD COMFORTS Warming ideas for winter days Toasty tootsies This time of year if your feet get chilled they tend to stay chilled You can set the thermostat on 80 degrees and still have freezing feet And once they're cold a simple pair of socks doesn't help much Solution Lavender-scented microwaveable slippers These Do Not Disturb Sole Warmers contain removable packets full of rice and lovely lavender Put the packets in the microwave for half a minute stick them in the soft fleece booties and voila welcome warmth and a relaxing scent Sole Warmers sell for $35 a Sole Warmer kit which includes lotion and plastic foot-wrapping sleeves for a full foot-silkenmg experience goes for $40 Find Do Not Disturb products in boutiques and gift shops or order online at wwwdodisturb com Alyson Ward tW A 4 I a A i i DO NOT DISTURB INC Prime-time new guest stars: products ylvie is a comely creature: auburn hair green eyes a Cindy Crawford-style mole above her upper hp When embarrassed she tends to lash out She swears And her sense of humor can smart you stupid or are you just trying to tick Product placement worms its ugly way into prime-time sitcoms and dramas By BRIAN STEINBERG and SUZANNE VRANICA THE WALL STREET JOURNAL me been known to ask Many a man has probably dreamed of a woman like Sylvie attractive smart direct And now they can have her all two dimensions of her thanks to Peter Plantec and the increasingly science-nonfiction age in which we live new hook and CD VTr-tuil Humans (AMACOM $3495) offeis anyone with substantial time patience and will the ability to create their own Sylvie a virtual human who can actually carry on a conversation get angry and crack jokes on cue Build-it-Yourself Kit Complete with Software and Step-hy-Step says the cover More on VIRTUAL on 9F AMACOM BOOKS Peter Plantec a psychologist writer and graphic artist among other things has been fascinated with "man-computer linkages" since he was a child If it were a made-for-TV movie it might be called Invasion of the Advertisers With audiences for network television shrinking and more viewers zapping through commercials on recorded TV some of the most powerful advertisers are securing roles for their products inside prime-time sitcoms and dramas once considered off limits for such overt promotions commercials resonate better when they accompany products placed within a says Jeff Bell vice president of marketing for Chrysler and Jeep at Chrysler Group a unit of DaimlerChrysler AG Forms of product placement have been around almost as long as TV advertising itself but the practice has been limited largely to sports telecasts live entertainment and more recently reality shows and soap operas not the blue-chip scripted shows that are among the most valuable real estate on TV But even those shows are no longer sacrosanct on some networks In the current season for example Ford Motor Qo vehicles haVe been featured on 24 the acclaimed action drama on News Fox And a shiny orange Beetle convertible from Volkswagen AG had a big role in the teen superhero drama Smallville on Time WB network last year NBC the No 1 network among 18-to-49-year-old viewers most sought-after group) is grappling with how much content territory to cede to marketers NBC rejected a lucrative deal involving marketers including Ford's Lincoln Mercury and Sony Corp Sony Electronics for its glitzy new dra-More on ADVERTISING on 9F I THE OSCARS WILL AIR OH KB 29 AT 7 PM ON WFAA 8 LEAPING through the OSCARS If there were an Oscar for most unforgettable scene surely it would go to this one "You're not a man of God1 You're not a man of screams Crispina (Eileen Walsh) at the priest who has taken advantage of her in The Magdalene Sisters Most directors would have stopped the proceedings after 10 or 20 seconds But director Peter Mullan lets Crispina scream and scream and keep on screaming forcing the audience to feel the head-on rage and fury of a generation of young women wrongfully and abused in Ireland -Christopher Kelly 29 moments to remember Our daily countdow Ai fj nl ny.