For instance: This week Entertainment Weekly kicks off its fall preview with a two-and-a-quarter-page spread on Kevin Costner in For the Love of the Game.

Also on Aug. 1, Loehmann's stores in the metropolitan region will put on their annual fall preview, with informal modeling of the stores' stock of designer clothes.

Tell her what on the fall preview lists about to inundate us you've actually read, or seen, or worked on the set of, or worn, or gotten some serious inside dope on, and know for a fact to be a complete and utter dud.

It's like Teen People came out with its fall preview, and we're not even in it.

For confirmation, see this week's fall preview in New York magazine: "Nathan Zuckerman sits silently as another of Roth's blue-eyed Jews is built up and destroyed, this time by a self-involved actress with a Jewish past, a demanding daughter, and a British accent.

That said, I was struck recently by a 15-page release from the theatrical press agents Boneau/Bryan-Brown trumpeting their "fall preview 2004," meaning shows they are representing.

They have read the fall previews, and now they want to see, feel, try on and choose.

It will be shown tonight at 9 and on subsequent dates on the Disney Channel during its free fall preview.

Country's arrival was initially announced in fall previews in 2004 and then, because it hadn't shown up yet, in fall previews in 2005, by which point a friend of mine pronounced it the first restaurant he was bored of even before it opened.