NEW YORK - Jill Hennessy says posing for the cameras is part of her job, but she's not a very good model.

The star of NBC's "Crossing Jordan" said she once was a model for a Nicole Miller fashion show and spent her whole time on the runway worrying about whether she'd break a heel.

"To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence," said Hennessy, "and more confidence to be more bare."

She ran into Miller at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designers of America awards, held at the New York Public Library. The big winners at the ceremony were Carolina Herrera, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Reed Krakoff, the president and designer of Coach.

Hennessy, 34, wore a white strapless gown with a bow and flower detail at the bust by Oleg Cassini.

"It's a new gown based on one of Jackie Kennedy's favorite gowns. It was one of the only ones she ever wore more than once," said Hennessy, who accompanied the 91-year-old designer to the ceremony.

NEW YORK - Steven R. Koonin, the executive vice president of TBS, has a theory about "Sex and the City," the hit HBO series scheduled to make its debut Tuesday on his basic cable channel."I don't think anyone watched it for sex and nudity," he said.Koonin has to hope he is right, because the explicit sex and frontal nudity are precisely what have been edited out - along with a few select, and not infrequently used, words - as HBO's editors cleaned up the show for broadcast on TBS, which like HBO is a unit of Time Warner.Still, the expurgated version will be frisky enough to be rated TV-14, meaning that the shows may contain "intense sexual situations, strong coarse language, or intensely suggestive dialogue," according to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board, which developed the television ratings.TBS, which reaches 88 million homes, will broadcast the program with commercials from companies including Mitsubishi Motors, which says that its sponsorship of the show is part of a strategy to reach "the more `young at heart' mindset."Next week TBS, Channel 7, will broadcast 10 shows from different seasons, to be shown two a night, back to back, on Tuesday through Saturday nights at 10 p.m..After that, starting on June 22, the entire series will be broadcast in order, with two back-to-back episodes showing each Tuesday at 10 p.m. and repeated at the same hour on Wednesday.TBS hopes that time slot will attract young adults looking for laughs when many competing networks are showing dramas, Koonin said.