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Lee Remick’s latest role is mother of the bridegroom. This one is for real. Remick’s scheduled to be a January member of the wedding and she’s already got her dress. She’ll wear a long-sleeve, velvet-and-chiffon top with a cowl neckline over a mid-calf-length satin pleated skirt. Both are champagne color, which sounds particularly appropriate for a wedding. Listen hears this from Irit Ehrlich, who says Remick stopped by her Irit Designs studio in Beverly Hills just the other day. As for accessories, Ehrlich says she suggested two strands of pearls, one short and one longer, pale hosiery and champagne-colored satin pumps.

Even bad guys want something good for the holidays, so Gordon Thomson, who plays Adam on “Dynasty,” stopped in the Rick Pallack store recently for a new tweed trench coat. Of course that was nothing compared to the truckload of new threads bestowed on Michael J. Fox by the wardrobe people on “Family Ties.” According to Pallack himself, who designs just about everything in the Sherman Oaks store, Fox ended up with a whopping 24 ties, 21 shirts, 13 scarfs, 12 pairs of pants, 12 pairs of socks, 11 pocket squares, 11 sports coats, seven pairs of shoes, four sweater-vests, three suits and two overcoats. Actually, the outfitting of Fox was a lot easier than getting multi-talented Alan Thicke out of his hockey socks. Pallack says he managed to hide the socks and get the performer into a pair of properly fitted crocodile-and-leather slip-ons, which he will wear with an oversize suede blazer, leather-trimmed trousers, horizontal-stripe tuxedo shirt and a “wild” abstract bow tie when he and Pia Zadora appear in a series of post-Christmas concerts.

Don’t call her a good little starlet. Actress Olivia Barash likes to mix thrift-shop chic with true-vintage clothes. That is just the look the producers wanted for her new role on the series “Fame,” so they asked the actress to hit her usual Melrose-area haunts for a show wardrobe. Nan Rose, “Fame’s” key costumer, told Listen that on a recent jaunt, Barash bought $500 worth of ‘40s jackets, jewelry and hats at the American Rag Cie, and another $1,000 worth of offbeat stuff at Betsey Johnson, Tiger Rose and the Soap Plant stores on Melrose. It adds up to a street-smart look for her small-screen persona, but Barash has been known to dress even funkier in real life. At a recent cocktail party for friends, she was spotted in a plastic dress that laced up the back.

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We knew you had a small waist, Morgan. But please. Listen heard about actress Morgan Fairchild’s recent visit to L.A. Kids on Sunset, where she ended up shopping as much for herself as for the young ones on her list. The tiny actress bought some sweat shirts, sweaters, shirts and pants for a friend’s children, owner Marilyn White says. Then she proceeded to ask: “What do you have that will fit me?” Suspenders, for one thing--she bought two pairs. And belts. She bought six. “She can fit in a medium-size child’s belt and sometimes a small,” White reports.

Little Jessica Player, the 4-year-old who portrays Christina Carrington on “Dynasty,” has a head start on the New Year. Her long, straight locks were recently converted to something more stylish by Jack King at Tipperary, the kiddies’ hair salon in Beverly Hills. Her face is now “framed with softness,” thanks to a technique called “slithering.” King tells Listen that the network official who accompanied Player requested something soft and feminine to go with all the pretty clothes the young actress wears on the show. Viewers will get a look at Jessica’s slithered tresses, presumably above a pretty frock or two, sometime in January.

Loni Anderson got lucky. A costume designer friend of hers, who happened to be at a party, noticed a conch belt like one Loni wanted. The problem was, it belonged to somebody else. But that turned out to be a stroke of luck, because the owner, Tallulah, is a belt and jewelry designer, and the belt was one of her own styles. She tells Listen she custom-made a conch belt for Anderson just like her own. (Usually Tallulah sells her designs through Mr. Frank in Los Angeles.) Now, she says, Anderson wears the belt, “a very elaborate design on suede,” with a squash blossom necklace she has owned for some time. Wonder where she got that?

The fashion junkie will have a new toy in January when “Videofashion Monthly” begins producing a home edition of its monthly fashion report. The video fashion service has been distributing its programs to cable, pay TV and stores for the past decade. According to a note Listen found in the mail, the 35-minute cassettes will sell for $9.95 each, or $79 for a six-month subscription--”not much more than the cost of a print fashion magazine!” the letter boasts. Correction. A LOT more. You can subscribe by writing Videofashion Monthly, One West 37th St., New York, N.Y. 10018. Or call (212) 869-2154.

Joan Rivers is one lady who knows how to handle holiday overload. Publicist Susan Terry tells Listen that the vivacious talk-show hostess has given several members of her crew, plus husband Edgar Rosenberg, the ideal Yuletide gift: a personalized weight-loss program. To make sure the pounds melt, two members of Specialized Diet Consultants are backstage each week to plan menus and to hand out low-calorie goodies such as diet muffins. Rivers has made weighing in easy: She’s installed a scale in a studio conference room, but she probably won’t be stepping on it. We are told she’s too small to need any weight reduction. Do you suppose all that talk burns up calories?

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