`Hairspray' star is hair apparent // Ricki Lake hopes to fill Divine's shoes

Ricki Lake is trying to ignore the pressure weighing on her likethe world's largest lacquered beehive. The cheerful, chubby,19-year-old actress is emerging as hair apparent to Divine, herscreen mother in the dance comedy "Hairspray" (playing at localtheaters).

When Harris Glenn Milstead, best known as the 300-pound femaleimpersonator Divine, died last month, only two weeks after the movieopened nationally, Lake was among the most shattered. "Time stopped.I was a mess. I still am. I'm not the same. I don't think I I everwill be," she said during a telephone interview from her WestchesterCounty, N.Y., home.

Some look to her as Divine's successor.

"I …