Winners and sinners:

Celebrity fashion critic Mr. Blackwell, known for his annual Worst-Dressed Women list, has named his five best- and worst-dressed soap stars in the Nov. 4 issue of TV Guide. Among the condemned are Andrea Evans, “a symphony of Spandex and spray-mounted tops” on ABC’s “One Life to Live,” and Finola Hughes, “Batgirl dressed by Mao Tse-tung” on ABC’s “General Hospital.” Other losers: Kim Zimmer (CBS’ “Guiding Light”), Robin Mattson (NBC’s “Santa Barbara”) and Darlene Conley (CBS’ “Bold and Beautiful”). The critic praised Marcy Walker, who embodies “old-time Hollywood glamour updated for the ‘80s” on NBC’s “Santa Barbara,” as well as Pat Crowley (NBC’s “Generations”), Lynn Herring, (ABC’s “General Hospital”), Erika Slezak (ABC’s “One Life to Live”) and Tracey E. Bregman Recht (CBS’ “The Young and the Restless”).

Buckley backlash: Socialite Pat Buckley, who is co-chairing a New York benefit Monday that hopes to raise $1 million for AIDS support groups, is being skewered for her husband’s views on AIDS--even though she doesn’t share them. Author William F. Buckley’s recommendations have included tattooing “AIDS” on the buttocks of gay people as a means of “private protection.” A columnist for “Out Week,” a new gay magazine, wrote that her good deeds were calculated to create “good public relations for her maniac husband.”

Crying time: One of the Democrats who helped force Richard Nixon’s resignation as President says the victory did not bring him joy. Speaking in Sun City, Ariz., former Rep. Peter Rodino Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon in 1974, called it “the saddest memory” of a congressional career that spanned four decades. Rodino, 80, said that immediately after the vote he went to his office, called home and “broke down and cried.”