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THE PALM BEACH POST TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2000 3D Frenetic hairdresser to stars chop chops her way to success 1 i I 11 7 A. 'f i If vintage denim, where she ran into two friends, actress Peggy Lipton and Lulu, the British singer best known for To Sir, With Love. Furiously rifling the racks, Hershberger held up a pair of $1,100 dirty-denim jeans studded with colored rhinestones in an elaborate floral pattern. "I die over these," she said to the two women. Lulu clapped her hands.

A quick spin in and out of the dressing room and it was settled: the jeans and shirt would be Hershberger's opening-night ensemble. "Done," she said. "On we go!" Total shopping time: 18 minutes. Next stop: FaheyKlein, a Los Angeles gallery that specializes in fashion photography. There she met with John Frieda to choose art for their salon.

"I want photographs of models, I want fashion, I want beauty," Hershberger declared. One of her first celebrity connections was the photographer Herb Ritts, who met Hershberger when she was 23 and a few years out of beauty school, working on Olivia Newton-John's Let's Get Physical tour. "He was shooting the concert, and I was doing hair," Hershberger recalled. "One day, he said we should do editorial together, and we ended up working together, like, every day after that for years." It was also through her association with Ritts that Hershberger solidified her aesthetic alissimo. When one admired her vintage Gucci bracelet at her salon recently, she replied: "Maxfleld's.

You must go. Go! Right now!" Still, in a town like Los Angeles, where salons double as social scenes, Hershberger will be put to a new test. Her name is now on the building, and her reputation will be scrutinized afresh. Hence the importance of her opening party. It had to set exactly the right tone.

While this prospect might make fainter hearts flutter, it appeared to be having the opposite effect on her. "Never ponder, never agonize," she said, galloping up the 'Youth' a sad, but sincere look at sensibility, which she described as follows: "All things simple arid beautiful, but eminently livable.Jt doesn't matter whether you re talking about hair or housesor clothes they should be clcjin. glamorous, but not too perfect Perfection should be a httj' wrecked. It has to be uvea As obliging FaheyKlein em ployees brought out a succession of Irving Penn and Helmut New ton prints, Hershberger shook her head. "No what else? No what else? Too small.

We need big. Big. Bigger. Bigger and'in color!" She and Frieda did a quick huddle on the couch, leafing through catalogs and books. "Adoring this David Bailey' Hershberger remarked, pointing.

"Yes," Frieda said, "except if we want it we can just call David. What about this one of Twiggy?" "Yeah, except if we want if we can just call Twiggy," Hershberger said. For a moment their very plugged-inness seemed to paralyze them. If they knew all the artists, what were they doing at the gallery? The tepid breath of indecision threatened to descend until Hershberger snapped out of it "Enough," she said. "Lei's move." She selected several (great big) Irving Penn black-and-white shots of Amber Valetta, Shalom Harlow and Naomi Campbell, ranging from $6,500 to $19,000, to be held for eventual purchase.

grunge life flashes of bravado and fear, talking the talk but revealing the emptiness beneath the bluff. Itwe care about these lost souls and it is not always clear that that js Lonergan's intention it is bp-cause of Isaac's penetrating performance. Samara Siskind is another find as sassy, smaiit-mouthed Jessica, able to negofi-ate the characte contradictions, tough yet vulnerable. And rounding out the cast Is Nick Bixby as take-charge buljy Dennis, glib, quick-witted and just as lost as his colleagues. i Despite the spirited production, there is an abiding sadness to This Is Our Youth.

The dark comedy of young squandered lives evokes hollow laughter. hapersteinpbpost.com American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. 1 Face Lift Neck Lift Forehead Lift Eye Lid Surgery Nose Surgery Lunch Time Treats Botox Collagen, Dermologen Microdermabrasion Laser Blemishes Liposuction Face, Neck, Body wmm imtummm I ft" I By Ellen Tien New York Times News Service Sally Hershberger was slalo-. ming around the limos in the parking lot of the Ron Herman Fred Segal Melrose store in Los Angeles. "Just so you know," she said, pausing at the entrance, "I am the fastest shopper." Hershberger, the Hollywood hairstylist who has become something of a celebrity in her own right coiffing stars like Meg 1 Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tom Cruise, was on a high-speed mis-j- sion: to outfit both herself and her new Los Angeles salon, Sally Hershberger at John Frieda, for, its opening party last week.

"Generally, I live in black leather pants and a T-shirt," she said. "But for the party, I might try something more vivid." Something, no doubt, epito-, mizing what appear to be her three e's of style; easy, edge- pushing, expensive. "Let's go!" No dawdling. Hershberger, 40, who resembles a cross be- tween Annette Bening and Mackenzie Phillips, seems to be in perpetual motion, chop-chopping between Los Angeles, where she grew up; the John Frieda Salon in New York; her homes in Los Angeles, New York, Connecticut and East Hampton; promotions for the John Frieda Sheer Blonde line of hair products she helped develop; and on-location jobs for her star clients. While she is renowned for her signature undone hairdos, it is TODAY Byron Stripling, well-traveled trumpet virtuoso, has played with big bands, or- chestras and even on television theme songs.

He plays a tribute to "Louie and the Legends of Brass," 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton West Palm Beach, 630 Clearwater Park Road. Tickets: $15. Sponsored by the Jazz Arts Music Society. Call 833-1234.

Kennedy, the English violinist born Nigel Kennedy, 8 p.m. at the Kravis Center. His classical tour features the Philharmonic Folkwang Essen. The program includes violin concertos by Bach and Beethoven. Tickets: Call 832-SHOW.

COMING WEDNESDAY Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2 p.m. at the Kravis Center. Conductor Dennis Russell Davies leads the orchestra with pianist Peter Ser- More of Oscar's winners, snoozers Most surprising musical performance: Faith Hill. Especial ly since it was supposed to be Whitney Houston. But Houston was replaced for unspecified reasons at the last minute by Oscar musical directors Burt Bach-arach and Don Was.

Best musical performance: Robin Williams in Blame Canada. After listening to all five Best Song nominees, could anybody i i. through her combination of charisma and blunt confidence that she has managed to pull away from the pack of fame-hungry cut-and-colorists and corner the glam hair market When Hillary Clinton was going on the cover of Vogue, Hershberger got the call. The first woman to achieve the status of an Oribe or Frederic Fekkai, Hershberger can command $400 for a regular haircut and a day rate of $4,000 for fashion shoots. But she has not adopted the schmoozy, cosseting approach of her male counterparts.

She issues style dictums and fashion tips to clients with the authority of a hip gener kin in a program that includes Schwertsik's Sinfonia-Sinfonietta and Mahler's 10th Symphony. Tickets: $25. Phone: 832-SHOW. LOOKING AHEAD Clematis by Night featuring reggae with Safari, p.m. Thursday, fountainside at Centennial Square, downtown West Palm Beach.

Also features art and food. Call 659-8007. "St Petersburg: City on the Water," 7 p.m. Thursday in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101, on FAU's Glades Road campus in Boca Raton. Features lecture on architect Alexander LeBlond's design for the Russian city.

Free. Call 297-2966. Sally Hershberger describes her aesthetic sensibility: 'All things simple and beautiful, but eminently livable. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about hair or houses or clothes they should be clean, glamorous, but not too perfect. Perfection should be a little wrecked.

It has to be lived NANCY SIESEL The New York Times stairs at Fred Segal. Racing by a long shelf of cashmere sweaters with graphic designs, she tapped her finger on each sweater and sprinted through her commentary: "Love, don't love, love, kind of love," Then, pausing at a $600 cream ribbed crew neck with a large blue heart on the front: "Looooove." At that instant, a $110 glitter-appliqued "I Love You" baseball by Chloe caught her eye. "Oh, really love. That's faaaabulous." She grabbed it and turned on her heel. "OK Downstairs." Back on the first floor, she made a beeline for the Bedazzled section, a line of embellished THIS IS OUR YOUTH Where: GableStage at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Coral Gables When: Through April 9 Tickets: $28.

Call (305) 445-1119. The verdict: A despairing portrait of affluent, educated, desperate post-teens, buoyed by a trio of energized young performers. during mystery how to attract young adults to the theater. Lonergan sets This Is Our Youth in 1982, coinciding with his own empty post-high school days. The records are on vinyl, the co caine prices are low and Ronald Reagan is the face on the dart board.

Otherwise, one suspects, the play's aimless amorality could well represent kids today. Parents are relegated offstage and out of sight. In Warren's case, that means an abusive father with criminal connections, "arguably the most dangerous lingerie "DON'T REPLACE YOUR OLD REGLAZE IT! $150i regularly 250 wcoupon I I EASTERN REFINISHING CO. Ask About I 1-800-463-1879 "k' COUPON EXPIRES 4300 manufacturer in the world." Whether that is true, Warren has just stolen $15,000 from him and arrives at his drug-dealer friend Dennis' apartment fearing for his life. After rejecting Dennis' suggestion that they take off for France, Warren agrees to a cocaine transaction to enable him to replace the money.

Hilariously, the plan goes awry in nervous, inept Warren's hands, just as the Killer Joe gang botched its murder-for-hire insurance scam. Although the stolen money is at the center of This Is Our Youth, the play's heart is Warren's tentative wooing of the alluring, argumentative, yet every bit as lost Jessica. As in-over-his-head Warren, Oscar Isaac registers alternating By Hap Erstein Palm Beach Post Theater Writer CORAL GABLES Those trying to understand what is going on with the wayward younger generation may not learn much from Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth, but they will have their worst fears confirmed. The rudderless, drug-fueled existence of affluent, educated Upper West Side New York 20-year-olds had never been captured onstage until this seamy slice of slacker life premiered off-Broadway four years ago. The play is as untidy as the grunge-garbed characters it chronicles, yet there is no denying this exciting new playwright's been-there, wasted-that portrait of post-modern alienation.

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