Holiday Movie Preview  Sexy Feast  Liam Neeson weighs in on past
roles -- As the title researcher in ''Kinsey,'' the actor is
ready to talk about sex and more  It's August 2003, and on the
New Jersey set of his latest film Liam Neeson has morphed into
his character, the infamous sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, from
head to toe. Actually, make that head to ankle. While dressed in
a natty gray suit appropriate to the 1942 setting of today's
dinner-party scene, Neeson's also wearing. . . ratty Top-Siders,
and (horrors!) no socks. No, the wardrobe department hasn't run
out of petty cash. It's just, as Kinsey writer-director Bill
Condon explains between takes, ''Liam's obsessed with
comfortable shoes!''  Flash forward a year, and the actor
explains: ''I'm like Imelda Marcos — I just have a thing about
shoes. If they're not right, it totally throws me, because it's
the base of your column, your whole center of gravity. So any
time we weren't shooting my feet, I wore these old boat shoes.
They don't interfere with any