Let's Dish

March can be rainy, and you want your dog to look right when it's walk time, so here's what's hot for the four-legged pedestrians: leather trench coats in red, black or tan with epaulets, sweatshirts with glitter, tuxes with satin bow tie for boys, worn under plastic raincoats, maribou evening sweaters for girls, also under raincoats, but do make these Burberry. Samuel L. Jackson comments on why he's crazy about golf: "The clothes. Only place I can go dressed like a pimp and fit in perfectly." In common with John Malkovich, P. Diddi, JLo, and a growing number of other celebs, quirky singer Macy Gray's got her own range of clothes. The star is renowned for her outlandish fashion sense -- but insists her own creations won't be like the ones she wears herself. Beauty updates: pity the dermatologists who invested millions (literally) in the Intense Pulsating Laser Light machines. These pricey gadgets produced exciting skin improvements but short-lived. And in many cases patients ended up with burns, scars, weird white patches, and other mishaps. There's a grapevine in the beauty world so demand has fallen off. Big, sexy blown-out hair is back again! And the can-I-help-it-if-the-wind-is-blowing? look has been spotted on many of the biggest style setters; the seventies are fresh again. Cautionary note: keep your hair clean and shiny; don't overwork it to get the look, or you'll regret it. Take Britney Sears, for example. She shocked onlookers on a recent day out because her hair extensions and damaged scalp could easily be seen, and the glue holding the extensions was clearly visible. The worst of it was the patches of missing hair that are the direct result of overuse of extensions. Some celebs will buy any make-up with a high enough tab, but many of Hollywood's biggest stars are using Dr. Hauschka makeup and skin-care products, including Moisturizing day cream ($21), Quince body moisturizer ($27) and sunscreen lotion with SPF 15 ($18.5). They're sold at natural-food stores nationwide, along with the green tea and medicinal herbs. Guess what: they're outstanding. Spring inevitably brings hopes, and mine center on whom I would like to see less of and whom more. Shall we start with less? Throw annoying ones into the pit? OK, here goes: Bernie Madoff, all AIG execs, and we'd better troubleshoot a lot of other exec bonuses, and while we're at it, we might as well toss the SEC, just because they've been too squirrelly. Let's hope Less: Paris Hilton "I'm-so-upset-that-sex-tape-got-out-blush-cringe." More to-gos: Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson (no need to say why in either case) and Liz Taylor. Just teasing about La Liz, as she's as likely to disappear as Mt. Rushmore. Her genius for remaining celebrated astounds, when you consider that she made her last movie in 1971.