Well sure, the three-hour Radio Music Awards were great TV and all, but the real action was behind the scenes at the schmooz-drenched parties.

        Produced by Von Freeman, the former WKRQ promotion manager who hit the big time in Los Angeles as marketing and promotion director for all of Clear Channel's L.A. stations, the RMA has turned into such a huge deal in only two years that everyone goes — Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Backstreet Boys, 98`, a whole bunch of Jacksons.

        Like Joe Jackson, father of Janet and Michael, who got the daylights schmoozed out of him by Omar Farag, the Indiana oldies producer who does about 10 shows here a year, and ad exec Rob Riggsbee.

        With some pretty promising results: “Joe's not running Michael and Janet's careers, but still has clout,” Riggsbee says. “He and Omar spent about a half hour talking about a Janet and Michael concert, maybe in their hometown of Gary, Ind. It would be their first duo concert since superstardom and kind of a homecoming.”

        Turns out Papa Joe loved the idea, asked for a proposal (Farag wrote it on the plane on the way home) and asked for a meeting. Though Riggsbee stresses: “You know how these things are. Nothing's definite 'til it happens. It's early, but looking good so far.”

        Praising hair: Gracious hello, we are going to need a round of applause here this morning. Clap it, if you will, for one Chuck Landers.

        Because he creates great hair styles, that's why.

        That from the October Allure.The ever so tony, ever so trendy fashion magazine has a directory of the best of the best beauty services in the country. Landers, an ex-seafood chef and newlywed who has been doing hair in Hyde Park for 18 years, is one of them.

        His most famous client (at least when she's in town) is none other than Rebecca Budig, the Fort Mitchell native who used to be the sweet Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light,but now is the lusty debutante Greenlee Smythe on All My Children.

        All of which has him pretty pumped, but what has him even more excited is the new place he's opening in January in Fort Mitchell — a full service, Mediterranean-themed salon.

        Calling Carmon: It was all so casual. Someone said, “Of course, you saw Carmon on the cover of the Chicago phone book.”

        Well, no, but we have now. It's Cincinnati Ballet music director WRRM-FM Sunday morning host Carmon DeLeone, right smack in the middle of the yellow pages serving Chicago Heights and environs.

        Naturally, he dragged one home for all to see. It shows him conducting the Illinois Philharmonic, where he's principal guest conductor.

        But just to keep his head from getting too big about it all, it shows him right atop an ad for Super Rooter sewer and drain repair.

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