KATHIE LEE GIFFORD NAMED `RATTIEST WOMAN OF 1999'

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD NAMED `RATTIEST WOMAN OF 1999'

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Kathie Lee Gifford may be cheesed off when she hears this: She's just been declared the "Rattiest Woman of the Year." The dubious honor is handed out each year by Los Angeles performance artist and self-proclaimed "rat woman exterminator" Susan Touchbourne. Gifford wins the 1999 honor -- and a pound of limburger cheese -- because of allegations that she still hasn't improved the sweatshop-like conditions of overseas factories that make her clothing line. Touchbourne says the runner-up for Rattiest Woman of the Year is Calista Flockhart, because her "holocaust-chic physique" provides a bad role model for women.