Shining Examples

THE SHOW: “Entertainment Tonight”(syndicated, check local listings). Celeb news with anchor team Mary Hart and John Tesh, and sometimes Leeza Gibbons.

THE OVERALL LOOK: Tinseltown taken to the nth degree. We’re talking serious sparkles here, reflective clothes, hair, teeth, jewelry and even stage set. The lighting director must be a masochist. Or is he a saint? More Hollywood than Hollywood.

THE MARY HART LOOK: While other TV personalities may be content with consistency, Hart dares to be different. She is a complete style chameleon. Watching the show three nights in a row was like seeing three different Harts. On the first night she was demurely Des Moines in a bejeweled beige sweater and her hair pulled up and back. The next night, her long, blond hair was down and free-flowing, and she looked all Beverly Hills business in a suit of deep purples and blues. On the third night, her hair was partially pulled back and she was wearing a pearly luminescent sci-fi sailor suit that made her look like the first mate on a cruise ship to the moon. Through it all is her jewelry: big, shiny and lots of it.

THE LEEZA GIBBONS LOOK: She offers a more citified look to Hart’s Midwest beauty queen style. Definitely less flexibility in the hair department (seems to confine herself to one or two basic styles), but you have to admire anyone who’s still wearing the neons that even beachwear makers have abandoned. Follows Hart’s lead in big jewelry.

THE JOHN TESH LOOK: Very conservative clothing choices. In fact, Tesh seemed to wear the same black jacket three nights running. And his hair stays the same (in fact, it looks as if it hasn’t moved in quite some time). His ties stand out against the dark coat, but they follow the safely hip variety: impressionistic florals, abstracts, polka-dots.

THE LABELS: Lillie Rubin for Hart and Gibbons, Perry Ellis for Tesh. Selected jewelry from Christian Dior, Bijoux.

THE GOOD PART: Wow, Oscar glitz every night!

THE BAD PART: If they looked any slicker, they might qualify as marred by excess perfection.