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All The Rage

Some other moments that made the summer memorable

FAVORITE COMEBACKS Eugene Levy (American Pie); Santana (''Smooth''); the Red Hot Chili Peppers (''Scar Tissue'')

BEST PLUG LFO's ''Summer Girls'' single, with the lyric ''I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch...''

BEST MOONLIGHTING GIG Calista Flockhart's rave run in Neil LaBute's play Bash Off Broadway

MOST UBIQUITOUS PERSON UNDER 3 FEET TALL Verne Troyer (Austin Powers), who embraced his Mini-15 minutes, in a Madonna video, in an upcoming episode of Pamela Anderson Lee's T&A-fest V.I.P., and at Woodstock

WORST WEEKEND TO HAVE OPENED YOUR MOVIE Aug. 6, which saw The Thomas Crown Affair, The Sixth Sense, Mystery Men, Illuminata, and The Iron Giant all go head-to-head, but it was Sixth that came in first

PSSST...WE SEE AN OSCAR NOM FOR The Sixth Sense's Haley Joel Osment, 11 -- if the Academy has a brain

MOST POPULAR SUMMER ACCESSORY (FEMALE) Pashmina shawls. ''Mostly in baby blue and baby pink,'' says designer Corinne Auge, who's sold her wares to the likes of Melissa Joan Hart and Brooke Shields. ''The nice thing is, if you get sick of it, they look great thrown over a couch.''

MOST POPULAR SUMMER ACCESSORY (MALE) The HeadBlade. A $15 razor that can make you as follically challenged as Governor Jesse Ventura. It's selling out at Fred Segal and has become a locker-room must for the entire L.A. Lakers team.

BEST REASON FOR DAVID E. KELLEY TO STICK TO TV Lake Placid, which grossed $30.1 million

BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE Welsh weirdo Rhys Ifans in Notting Hill

WORST LOVE SCENE Eyes Wide Shut's ''digitally enhanced'' Amadeus-meets-Boogie Nights orgy

BEST GARBO IMPRESSION Adam Sandler, who refused all requests for print interviews prior to the opening of Big Daddy

BEST SUMMER STYLE ARBITER Sex and the City. From Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie necklace (right) to power lesbian eyewear, who needs love when you've got fashion sense?

MOST MEMORABLE LOVE SCENE Between Saddam Hussein and Satan in South Park

BEST SUPPORTING UNDERWEAR The Hanro cami-and-panty set Nicole Kidman wore in Eyes Wide Shut

BEST SUMMER RERUNS Everybody Loves Raymond and Will & Grace, which both saw ratings spurts

BEST CHUM Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

BEST LYRIC TO SING IN THE HALLS (SO YOU CAN GET FIRED BEFORE NEXT SUMMER) South Park's ''Shut your f -- -in' face, Uncle F -- -a''

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Originally posted Sep 03, 1999 Published in issue #501 Sep 03, 1999 Order article reprints

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