Perfect Man

He seemed like the perfect man when she met him in the strip club. Beautifully dressed. Well-mannered. Intelligent? Why, yes. He was a lawyer, wasn't he? Craig Rabinowitz seemed like "the perfect man trapped in an unhappy marriage," said Shannon Reinert, the dancer known as Summer, in an interview with the TV show "American Journal" to be aired Wednesday on KYW-TV (Channel 3). Rabinowitz, of course, violently ended that marriage last April 29 by strangling his wife, Stefanie, 29, in the bathtub of their Merion home while their baby daughter slept in an adjoining room.

Once upon a time there were made-for-television movies. Now there are made-for-television movies for movie theaters. The Perfect Man, another anemic Hilary Duff vehicle, is a case in point. This project is so misguided as to cast TV vixen Heather Locklear as a sweet, working-class victim in jeans(!), when everyone knows she owns the market on shrewish executrix mansharks in toast-size skirts. Nobody dumps Locklear. Yet, in The Perfect Man, she's perennially dumped and desperate.

Frothy as a Margarita and just as salty, Sex and the City all but mambos its way onto the screen. The one about the four friends who formerly sought the perfect man and now, more or less happily attached, seek the perfect apartment may well be the most effervescent film fantasy since Beauty and the Beast. As almost everyone knows, the Sex 's heroines are bosom buds who imbibe without getting tipsy, eat without gaining weight, enjoy sex without spreading STDs, shop without maxing out credit cards and offer mutual support without (intentional)

A NON-WHITE CHRISTMAS It's the day after Labor Day, so it's time to begin thinking about Christmas, right? Well, some of you might have heard distressing rumors that the U.S. Postal Service wants to ban colored Christmas-card envelopes. It is true that white envelopes are easier for new automatic letter-sorting equipment to handle. But postal officials promise that if you buy cards that come with envelopes that are red or green or some other color, they will happily deliver them.

When Brian Henesey played football at Radnor High, he could have won an award as best supporting football player. Oh, Henesey compiled statistics worthy of a leading man. He rushed for nearly 1,000 yards as a senior fullback and was an all-league defensive back. But Henesey didn't get the attention given to Radnor's top ground-gainer and game-breaker, tailback Michael Hopson. Henesey is getting plenty of attention at Bucknell University, however. The Bucknell senior tailback entered the season needing only 37 yards to become the third player in Bisons history to rush for 2,000 yards in his career and only 660 yards to become Bucknell's all-time rushing leader.

Hal McRae, whose aggressive, hard-nosed style personified Kansas City baseball during its successful decade from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, was named the Royals' manager yesterday. McRae, whose son Brian starts in center field for the Royals, succeeds John Wathan, who was fired Wednesday with the Royals in last place in the American League West. McRae, who was the Montreal Expos' hitting coach before accepting a position he turned down in 1987, said he was eager but nervous.

Frothy as a Margarita and just as salty, Sex and the City all but mambos its way onto the screen. The one about the four friends who formerly sought the perfect man and now, more or less happily attached, seek the perfect apartment may well be the most effervescent film fantasy since Beauty and the Beast. As almost everyone knows, Sex's heroines are bosom buds who imbibe without getting tipsy, eat without gaining weight, enjoy sex without spreading STDs, shop without maxing out credit cards, and offer mutual support without (intentional)

Frothy as a Margarita and just as salty, Sex and the City all but mambos its way onto the screen. The one about the four friends who formerly sought the perfect man and now, more or less happily attached, seek the perfect apartment may well be the most effervescent film fantasy since Beauty and the Beast. As almost everyone knows, the Sex's heroines are bosom buds who imbibe without getting tipsy, eat without gaining weight, enjoy sex (almost) without STDs, shop without maxing out credit cards and offer mutual support without (intentional)

Hollywood's summer primer on how to be an improved husband and father just keeps getting better. Let's summarize. "City Slickers" advised the self-doubting dad to participate in a cattle drive, thereby learning just how lucky he is, even if he has a crummy job and is married to Patricia Wettig of "thirtysomething. " "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" recommended that you try to be more like the title character. Yes, he's a robot assassin from the future, but in a protective, attentive and nurturing kind of way. (The movie's heroine observes that, compared to her human boyfriends, the cyborg is a better influence on her teen-age son.)

A 24-year-old gay man lives in the house of his father, a widower. The son brings his pickups to the house with the open approval of the father, who prides himself as an undemanding live-and-let-live parent, even while pining for a more conventional relationship and the grandson he will never have. One day the son announces he has fallen in love with the perfect man, and about the same time, the father reveals that he is more than casually interested in the latest prospective wife that a matrimonial matching service has fetched him. Thus opens the emotion-charged saga of the Mitchells of Footscray, an industrial suburb of Melbourne, Australia, as presented in "The Sum of Us. " The play by David Stevens launched the five-play Studio Season of the Walnut Street Theatre Co. "The Sum of Us" won a major off-Broadway best-play award in 1991.

Frothy as a Margarita and just as salty, Sex and the City all but mambos its way onto the screen. The one about the four friends who formerly sought the perfect man and now, more or less happily attached, seek the perfect apartment may well be the most effervescent film fantasy since Beauty and the Beast. As almost everyone knows, the Sex's heroines are bosom buds who imbibe without getting tipsy, eat without gaining weight, enjoy sex (almost) without STDs, shop without maxing out credit cards and offer mutual support without (intentional)

Frothy as a Margarita and just as salty, Sex and the City all but mambos its way onto the screen. The one about the four friends who formerly sought the perfect man and now, more or less happily attached, seek the perfect apartment may well be the most effervescent film fantasy since Beauty and the Beast. As almost everyone knows, Sex's heroines are bosom buds who imbibe without getting tipsy, eat without gaining weight, enjoy sex without spreading STDs, shop without maxing out credit cards, and offer mutual support without (intentional)

Frothy as a Margarita and just as salty, Sex and the City all but mambos its way onto the screen. The one about the four friends who formerly sought the perfect man and now, more or less happily attached, seek the perfect apartment may well be the most effervescent film fantasy since Beauty and the Beast. As almost everyone knows, the Sex 's heroines are bosom buds who imbibe without getting tipsy, eat without gaining weight, enjoy sex without spreading STDs, shop without maxing out credit cards and offer mutual support without (intentional)

Once upon a time there were made-for-television movies. Now there are made-for-television movies for movie theaters. The Perfect Man, another anemic Hilary Duff vehicle, is a case in point. This project is so misguided as to cast TV vixen Heather Locklear as a sweet, working-class victim in jeans(!), when everyone knows she owns the market on shrewish executrix mansharks in toast-size skirts. Nobody dumps Locklear. Yet, in The Perfect Man, she's perennially dumped and desperate.

Before all the boxes in his new home were unpacked, Stephen Mikalic went to his new neighbor's house, knocked on the door, shook the hand of the man who answered, and told him that he had the use of Mikalic's pickup truck should he ever need it. "He always left his keys in the truck, in case someone needed to borrow it," said Diane Mazzacano, Mikalic's wife of six years, remembering the couple's June move to Cherry Hill. "He was the perfect man - perfect husband, perfect son-in-law, perfect everything.

You've seen his face - not to mention his arms and legs - somewhere before. Every Friday and Saturday night, that's him, spread-eagled, in the opening credits of CBS's "Now and Again" and NBC's "The Pretender. " That's him, too, on the local news, dressing up the logo for the KYW (Channel 3) medical feature, "Eye on Health. " Before he was on KYW, he was the health-beat poster boy for WTXF (Channel 29). Trapped forever inside a circle and a square, he's all over the World Wide Web, helping to sell everything from athletic supporters to cell phones.

He seemed like the perfect man when she met him in the strip club. Beautifully dressed. Well-mannered. Intelligent? Why, yes. He was a lawyer, wasn't he? Craig Rabinowitz seemed like "the perfect man trapped in an unhappy marriage," said Shannon Reinert, the dancer known as Summer, in an interview with the TV show "American Journal" to be aired Wednesday on KYW-TV (Channel 3). Rabinowitz, of course, violently ended that marriage last April 29 by strangling his wife, Stefanie, 29, in the bathtub of their Merion home while their baby daughter slept in an adjoining room.

A 24-year-old gay man lives in the house of his father, a widower. The son brings his pickups to the house with the open approval of the father, who prides himself as an undemanding live-and-let-live parent, even while pining for a more conventional relationship and the grandson he will never have. One day the son announces he has fallen in love with the perfect man, and about the same time, the father reveals that he is more than casually interested in the latest prospective wife that a matrimonial matching service has fetched him. Thus opens the emotion-charged saga of the Mitchells of Footscray, an industrial suburb of Melbourne, Australia, as presented in "The Sum of Us. " The play by David Stevens launched the five-play Studio Season of the Walnut Street Theatre Co. "The Sum of Us" won a major off-Broadway best-play award in 1991.

When Brian Henesey played football at Radnor High, he could have won an award as best supporting football player. Oh, Henesey compiled statistics worthy of a leading man. He rushed for nearly 1,000 yards as a senior fullback and was an all-league defensive back. But Henesey didn't get the attention given to Radnor's top ground-gainer and game-breaker, tailback Michael Hopson. Henesey is getting plenty of attention at Bucknell University, however. The Bucknell senior tailback entered the season needing only 37 yards to become the third player in Bisons history to rush for 2,000 yards in his career and only 660 yards to become Bucknell's all-time rushing leader.

Hollywood's summer primer on how to be an improved husband and father just keeps getting better. Let's summarize. "City Slickers" advised the self-doubting dad to participate in a cattle drive, thereby learning just how lucky he is, even if he has a crummy job and is married to Patricia Wettig of "thirtysomething. " "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" recommended that you try to be more like the title character. Yes, he's a robot assassin from the future, but in a protective, attentive and nurturing kind of way. (The movie's heroine observes that, compared to her human boyfriends, the cyborg is a better influence on her teen-age son.)