Although Sarah Jessica Parker was recently named one of the wealthiest women in New York, she has money-saving tricks like the rest of us proles. When suffering from a shiny T-zone, the actress sneaks into the ladies' room and tears off a piece of a tissue toilet-seat cover and dabs her chin, nose and forehead. No need to buy those oil-blotting sheets. How do we know this? "The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets" by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman (Plume Books, $15) tells all. In it are hundreds more candid secrets from the stars.

— Paula Rath

BRAIN GAME

POP QUIZ FOR A GOOD CAUSE

Always wanted to play College Bowl but don't want to go back in time? Well, have your fun and drink it, too, when College Connections Hawaii hosts a fundraiser, Quiz Bowl 2007, on Feb. 10 to raise funds for a nonprofit that prepares local students for college. There'll be dinner, cocktails and the Quiz Bowl — teams of alumni or corporate types will vie for bragging rights as smartest no-longer-kid on the block. Individual tickets: $50. Registration deadline: Jan. 26. Information: Wren Wescoatt, 737-8955, wren@collegeconnections.org.

FINAL WORD

"The show is so cool, and there's so many places to take these characters."

Liev Schreiber | the film actor ("The Painted Veil") on why he joined the cast of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" this season, in TV Guide