September 7, 2007
Double Fine's Epic Fighter!
The supreme creators of uber-game Psychonauts have unleashed their latest game unto the world in the form of a flash game.If you love Tim Schaeffer (and how can you not?)...
'Knocked Up,' the Teen Girl Version
No civilian moviegoer in their right mind would want to see a pair of grim and intense flicks like "Rendition'' and "No Country For Old Men'' (see below) back-to-back with...
Toronto Oscar Watch: Two for Jones?
Well, the buzz out of Cannes was correct: "No Country for Old Men'' really is The Coen Brothers' best flick since "Fargo.'' Adapted from a novel by Cormac McCarthy, it's...
Toronto Oscar Watch: Meryl's 'Nasty Business'
There are a lot of impressive things about Gavin Hood's "Rendition,'' which screened for the press this morning at 8:45 a.m. One of them is Meryl Streep, who looks like...
Report from the front line: Doo.ri
Publicists for Doo.ri KCD should pay more attention to what's happening in their house before the show starts. The aluminum benches they had as seating at the Milk Gallery were...
Delgado out, while Gomez is here
Carlos Delgado spoke today for the first time since the diagnosis of his strained right hip flexor, and the first baseman doesn't have a sense yet of how long he'll...
ABC Reverses 9/11 Decision
Following a deluge of angry e-mails, calls and bad press, WABC/Channel 7 caved in to the demands of outraged 9/11 kin yesterday and will expand its coverage of the Sept....
FIVE-THOUGHT FRIDAY: YANKEE ROSTER AND WRIGHT'S MVP CHASE
Back with Five-Thought Friday:1. Imagine in spring training if I had told you that in their most important game of the season -- Game 140 against of all teams the...
Deal of the Day
Ready or not, Docs and grunge are coming back which is good news for the feet, bad news for the eyes (depending on who you ask of course).Get a jump...
Beyond the Bombers
???The Bronx Is Burning??? was such a great success for the same reason ESPN may be shying away from fictional programming: As big a part as the Yankees winning the...
Lust, Boredom
Even with three sizzling sex scenes that earned an NC-17 rating, "Lust, Caution,'' Ang Lee's, much-anticipated followup to "Brokeback Mountain,'' is a tough sit at 157 minutes. Beautifully crafted with...
Shootout at the Boxoffice Corral
Westerns, which have been an endangered species since "Heaven's Gate'' nearly three decades ago, are back for another comeback this month. The first, and if you ask me the best,...
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI - A VOICE FOR THE AGES
Yesterday, the music world lost one of its most brilliant voices. Luciano Pavarotti died of cancer at age 71. He's probably not on your iPod, but he should be. Why?...
THINK GLOBAL, VIEW LOCAL
MAYBE you didn't manage to hit all the exotic spots you planned to this summer. Don't despair. The fall art season is just around the corner, and thanks to a...
YOU BET JURASSIC!
Autumn is full of family-friendly fun - and some of it's even free. No time machine required to see T-Rex and friends in their teeth-gnashing, tail-swinging glory: "Walking with Dinosaurs...
FROM REGULAR GAL TO ROCK STAR
Fergie and Alicia Keys weren't the only ones getting pampered before last night's Fashion Rocks concert - Monni McCleary , winner of The Post's "most stylish superstar" essay contest, got...
BOLD COLORS, BRIGHT STARS
Demi Moore must have felt right at home at the star-studded Miss Sixty show yesterday morning. The Fashion Week presentation was straight out of her Brat Pack days: silver-studded V-throat...
WAGES OF FAME TAKE TOLL
Fashion Week claims its first victim. When Gwen Stefani left her show late Wednesday night, so many paparazzi followed her out that a security man was trampled and had to...
FLATS & HEELS
IT was beauty and the beat last night at the annual Fashion Rocks concert at Radio City Music Hall. If you're planning to watch the show tonight when it's broadcast...
ROCK, STOCK AND BARREL
IN the old days you may have been asked the "Beatles or Stones?" question, and armchair analysts would have instantly been able to define you by your answer. Since then...
WHAT A SCREEN!
YOU don't need a ticket to catch the biggest opening nights of the season - just follow the giant screens. The New York Philharmonic will simulcast its season opener in...
FALL BRINGS 'SPRING'
YOU don't have to be a "Spring Awakening" fan to enjoy two up coming shows at the Spiegeltent, the temporary downtown venue at South Street Seaport (spiegelworld.com, or call Ticket...
JUST MAYBE THIS MIME CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS
I usually look forward to an evening of mime about as much as my annual prostate exam. But Billy the Mime's one-person show "America LoveSexDeath" is a happy exception. Those...
GRAHAM CRACKLES AT 80
The Joyce Theater gives dance an early jolt-start when the Martha Graham Dance Company opens its two-week season there Tuesday. This 80th anniversary season runs through Sept. 23 with three...
IT'S ALL ABOUT RIGG
THE day before she opened in the Lon don stage version of the movie "All About My Mother," the great Diana Rigg told the BBC: "Good or bad, applauded or...
PUTTIN' ON THE KICKS
SEVENTY-FIVE years ago, Herbert Hoover was in the White House, Amelia Earhart was in the air - and tickets to the first Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular were 75...
VINTAGE VAMP TAPS THE PAST
SHE may have been the tiniest dancer of all - 5-foot-3, with a 4 ½ shoe - but Viola Varble's long on memories, 60 years on. For a small-town farm...
THE HIT MAN COMETH
EACH fall, Broadway's crammed full of good intentions and wishful thinking. But wishes go only so far, so it's nice to see Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll" is headed our...
GREAT SHAKES & CHO BIZ
Tourist-friendly, gimmicky entertainments have moved off-Broadway. This fall you'll find "Jump," a Korean martial-arts/slapstick extravaganza, "Frankenstein" - which may attract the gullible into thinking they're seeing the new Mel Brooks...
COMING HOME
IF "The Sopranos" fi nale was the most memorable TV finale of, well, all time, then James Gandolfini's HBO documentary Sunday night, "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq," is definitely...
'I'M NOT ENDORSING OBAMA'
OPRAH Winfrey has en dorsed Barack Obama for president - but Tyra Banks, who is interviewing him later this month, isn't ready to go there just yet. "If you look...
CARMELA DOES COMEDY
EX-"Sopranos" star Edie Falco has landed a sitcom gig with another type of family. Falco, who played mob wife Carmela Soprano, will guest-star on three episodes of "30 Rock" this...
STARR REPORT
A Wolf at the door So what's with Ellen De Generes' jones for Wolf Blitzer? DeGeneres, who ran a promo last week calling her self "The Wolf Blitzer of day...
CAN'T 'CATCH' US
NBC's besieged child-perv show "To Catch a Preda tor" is fighting back against charges it is responsible for the suicide of a Texas prosecutor. NBC News launched a pre-emptive strike...
BEST WESTERN
WESTERNS, which have been headed for Boot Hill for 30 years, get a reprieve with "3:10 to Yuma," an extremely well-acted and well-directed remake of a 1957 oater based on...
STELLAR LUNAR DOCU
WINNER of the audience award at Sun dance, "In the Shadow of the Moon" takes a fresh look at the U.S. lunar program of the late '60s and early '70s...
BALKAN TALE BALKS
GENOCIDE doesn't lend itself well to comedy, even the darkest varieties. And that's the main problem with Richard Shepard's shaggy-dog thriller "The Hunting Party," which wants to be a Balkan...
MARVELOUS MUSICAL HITS ONLY QUIRKY NOTES
A chain-link "Moulin Rouge," the crazy-ass musical "Ro mance & Cigarettes" fea tures James Gandolfini singing, Kate Winslet talk ing dirty and Susan Sarandon beating a guy senseless with a...
GUNPLAY FUNPLAY
THE season's first guilty pleasure, "Shoot 'Em Up" is a joyously silly, R-rated, John Woo-in flected Looney Tune, with Clive Owen as a carrot-chomping, gun-toting Bugs Bunny matching wits with...
BOY MEETS WORLD & IT'S ODD
OBSERVE the dark savagery of a severely isolated little tribe: the Wackowealthy. They populate the grounds of a massive New Jersey estate in 1978, drawing pornography on rocks with chalk,...
A CUT ABOVE USUAL SLASH
TWO years after Hurricane Ka trina, New Orleans is the setting for "Hatchet," which describes itself as an "old-school" slasher film, the pre-torture porn kind they made in the early...
STORY'S NOT ALL LIGHT AND AIRY
CAN a Palestinian guy find love and happiness with an Israeli guy? "The Bubble" - directed and co-written by Eytan Fox, who was born in New York and raised in...
SALVADOR ALLENDE
PATRICIO Guzman's 2004 documen tary "Salvador Allende" is receiving it's first run in New York. Allende was, for folks who don't go back that far, the democratically elected, Marxist president...
THE BROTHERS SOLOMON
IN a stillborn mashup of "Dumb & Dumber" and "Knocked Up," the moronic titular siblings (Will Forte and Will Arnett) hire a surrogate mother (Kristen Wiig) to deliver a grandson...
MISS SIXTY SHOW
I don't know about you, but Miss Sixty is a very hit or miss line for me. I love the idea of it - crazy European club clothes with lots...
G STAR SHOW
G Star reprised their impeccably-choreographed chaos on a moving runway, where models ditched the predictable clomping and stomping for slow, sexy walks and movements that meshed with the high-energy soundtrack....
KAREN WALKER SHOW
Still a relatively unknown name in the US, Kiwi Karen Walker is, well, quite a big deal outside our borders - and every season at her New York Fashion Week...
KELSEY GRAMMER: SISTER'S KILLER WON'T GO FREE
Kelsey Grammer has vowed to be at the January parole hearing for the man who killed his younger sister in Colorado Springs in 1975 if the man, Freddie Lee Glenn,...
ADAM SHOW
It's amazing what they can do with burlap sacks these days. At the Spring '08 showing of Adam Lippes' first-name only line, it appears they can be transformed into pleated...
PREEN SHOW
Despite the taxi strike, the who's who of left-of-center fashion turned out for Preen's first New York show at the Soho Grand Thursday afternoon -- and they weren't disappointed. The...
VERA WANG SHOW
Vera Wang is on her game. Continuing to explore her love of ancient Rome and the shapes, form and influences that come from that era, Wang's collection was a spectacular...
TRACEY REESE SHOW
She may not be the most forward-thinking, adventurous designer, but Tracey Reese always, always delivers exquisite, feminine pieces that are incredibly wearable. For Spring '08, she mixed pinstripes with sequins,...
SEE JANE 'DANCE'
Jane Seymour has a five-step plan for surviving "Dancing With The Stars," which begins on August 24th. At 56, she's the oldest woman ever to compete on the show. First,...
MERV'S LAST GAME
Entertainment king Merv Griffin passed away in August, but his legacy lives on in the three game shows he left behind: "Wheel of Fortune," "Jeopardy!" and his newest show, "Merv...
GRIM 'LOCKUP' OFFERS PRISON SURVIVAL GUIDE
How would you fare in prison? From watching the prison documentaries on MSNBC, I have learned that the answer depends on a series of crucial decisions like these: * Should...
OPRAH'S GARDEN PARTY
ALL it took for David Letterman to be a guest on "Oprah" was for the Queen of Daytime to move her entire show to New York for a day. Letterman...
MASTERING THE ART OF THE OBVIOUS
New York's TV newscasts continue to cater to the audience least likely to watch the news: morons. Every local station is doing its fair share, too - whatever it takes...
'CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM'
Larry David was on the phone with about 10 reporters and he didn't pick an argument with any one of them. That may seem surprising to fans of his HBO...
REEL GOOD
THE PROFESSIONAL (1994) Monday, 9 p.m., Starz A great one from Luc Besson about a 12-year old girl (Natalie Portman) who finds her awful, drug-dealing parents and beloved little brother...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY Heroes in our midst The veterans of the Iraq war receive a big boost from "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini who returns to HBO with a documentary, "Alive Day...
DOO.RI SHOW
Doo-ri Chung is a very talented young designer who has a deft hand when it comes to using pleats and draping. That said, this was not her best collection. She...
COSTELLO TAGLIAPIETRA SHOW
The Brooklyn-based design duo behind Costello Tagliapietra makes dresses that are almost the high-end, nighttime analogue of the A.P.C. aesthetic: deceptively simple and seemingly uniform in aesthetic, from collection to...
J MENDEL SHOW
The gloriously elegant-yet-luxe J Mendel show was an interesting hybrid - think Daisy Buchanan-meets-Talitha Getty (the '20s and the '70s, actually, seem to be the dominant decades of reference so...
HOT PICKS
GO FIGURE In the Skating Club of New York's Exhibition of Champions at Chelsea Piers, Olympic ice dancers Johnny Weir, Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov perform "Fallen Angel" Sunday at...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
AEROSMITH: Having sold 150 million albums over the past 37-plus years, these guys surely know how to put on a show by now. Come find out at 8 p.m. Wednesday...
BROADWAY
"A CHORUS LINE": 2 ½ STARS A clean carbon copy of a great original. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CURTAINS": 2 STARS Tony-winning David Hyde Pierce...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": 3 STARS John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": 4 STARS Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "THE COLOR PURPLE": 3 STARS Broadway...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ABSINTHE": 3 ½ STARS The sequel to last year's hit European-style burlesque show, performed in a vintage traveling tent at the South Street Seaport, (800) 276-2392. Closes Oct. 1. "ANGRY...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND:Tuesday through Sep. 15: Pharoah Sanders Quartet. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Al Di Meola: World Sinfonia 07-08. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S...
CLASSICAL
TOMORROW and SUNDAY: The Shanghai String Quartet plays string quartets by Beethoven (No. 11 in F minor), Ligeti and Dvorak at 8 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday at Bargemusic,...
CABARET
BLUE NOTE: Monday: Allan Harris pays homage to Nat King Cole. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. CARNEGIE CLUB: Tomorrow: Steve Maglio performs Sinatra. 156 W. 56th St.; (212) 957-9676....
DANCE
DANCE THEATRE WORKSHOP: The 13th annual Dancenow/NYC Festival continues showcasing routines of seven minutes or less emphasizing veteran ensembles, new choreographers and smaller studio performances. Tonight at 7:30, tomorrow at...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: On Wednesday, Roger Copeland's "The Unrecovered" explores the live of people who died on 9/11 but whose bodies were never recovered. 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BAM...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Hal Sparks and Rich Vos. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Today and tomorrow: Allan Havey, Mario Joyner, Jim Norton, Keith Robinson and Dave Attell. 117 MacDougal...
MUSEUMS
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM. 45 W. 53rd St.; (212) 265-1040. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Central Park West at 79th Street; (212) 769-5000. BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: 1040 Grand...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
UNITED NATIONS FESTIVAL: Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., a street fair on 47th Street between First and Second avenues. BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL: Tomorrow from 11 a.m....
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY - The "AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE" tour hits the Boardwalk Hall Arena tomorrow at 7 p.m. Tickets: $39.50-$72.50; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. - JERRY SEINFELD performs at the Atlantic City...
PREVIEWS
EDGE: Anjelica Torn stars in this biographical one-woman show about Sylvia Plath. Arclight, 152 W. 71st St.; (212) 352-3101. Opens Sunday.FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE ROAST OF UTOPIA: All of Broadway's fair...
UPCOMING
LUCINDA WILLIAMS: Three-time Grammy- winning country crooner Lucinda Williams plays five shows in six nights, performing one of her albums in its entirety each evening. Tickets ($50) are on sale...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
4 train: Bronx-bound trains run express from 125th Street to Burnside Avenue. 5 train: Trains run in two sections: from Dyre Avenue to East 180th Street and from East 180th...
CELL-VETO SLAM
A City Council committee unanimously voted to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of a cellphone bill for kids in school yesterday, paving the way for the entire body to do so...
CITY HOSPS TAKE 'CHEST'-BEATING IN STUDY
Several prominent New York City hospitals scored below the state average in crucial areas - such as treating heart failure and pneumonia - in a health-care report released yesterday. Of...
NYC LOADED WITH OUT-OF-STATE GUNS
Holy shoot! The federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has revealed that 85 percent of guns recovered in New York City last year, and that could be traced...
MR. MET'S MAD DASH FOR HOME
It ain't over till it's over! So tell the fat lady to shut up - Mr. Met's bid to land in the Mascot Hall of Fame is not dead. Mr....
GONE BUST AFTER 64G BANK ERROR
A city sanitation worker was hauled away by Long Island cops after spending $64,000 a bank mistakenly put in his account - and allegedly refusing to pay it back. Leonard...
WHEELY UNFARE GOUGING
Making double or triple their normal pay wasn't enough for some greedy scabbies, who used the final day of the strike as an opportunity to rip off desperate New Yorkers...
GANGS RULE SCHOOLS
In too many of the city's middle and high schools, the three R's have become rowdiness, rampages and rumbles, according to a grim survey of 340,000 public-school students. More than...
SILENCE 'DOOMED' SOHO GAL
Her testimony could have saved her life. That's what prosecutors were saying yesterday after Denise Deperrie, 36, was found Wednesday stabbed to death in her apartment on Crosby Street in...
EX: $25 MIL LOSS WAS ZAHN JOB
Paula Zahn's husband says he didn't take her $25 million fortune - she spent it all. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, lawyers for Richard Cohen said his estranged...
COP CAPTAIN STRIPPED IN CORRUPTION PROBE
A veteran NYPD captain has been stripped of his badge and gun as part of a federal corruption probe that already has led to the indictment of an Internal Affairs...
GOV GAL SKIRTS 'COVER' CHARGE
ALBANY - The head of the state Senate's probe into Gov. Spitzer's dirty tricks scandal accused the state inspector general of a coverup after she repeatedly refused to say yesterday...
5TH SLAY TIED TO EX-G-MAN
Brooklyn prosecutors gearing up for the quadruple-murder trial of former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio are seeking to introduce evidence of an uncharged fifth killing, sources told The Post. In a...
PHIL 'HAD ENOUGH' LANA SEX
Phil Spector had his way with actress Lana Clarkson and wasn't seeking any more sex the morning she died, a defense lawyer told jurors yesterday. In a dramatic new theory,...
MOB-SOB STORY FROM WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
A weepy Gambino soldier was hit with a 30-year sentence for putting his crime family before his blood relatives by joining in plots to whack a cousin and his sister's...
KISS-OFF FOR COP
For a kiss, he lost everything - his career, his livelihood, his reputation. A Midtown police officer pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to a grotesque romance with an infatuated 13-year-old...
WTC ONWARD, UPWARD
Just days before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, developers unveiled new details of the World Trade Center designs yesterday and laid out a specific timeline for the project's...
TOXIC TOWER STALL
Demolition work on the former Deutsche Bank building could be stalled for several weeks, a top state official said yesterday, as government agencies bicker over how to fix the deadly...
9/11 KIN SLAM ABC SNUB
Six years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, WABC/Channel 7 will cut short its coverage of the memorial ceremony - enraging victims' families. Channel 7 will carry the first...
EDWARDS GETS TWU NOD
Democrat John Edwards came to rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's turf yesterday and boasted of fighting for the underdog as he picked up the Transport Workers Union endorsement. "We have...
MIKE'S PREZ-ENCE OF MIND
Just as the buzz about his presidential prospects was subsiding, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday declared his intention to speak out forcefully on "the big challenges we face as a nation." The...
STRONG CANDIDATE
Fighting childhood obesity is a heavy lift, but Brooklyn bodybuilding buff Vincent Ferguson believes kids will keep active if they find a sport they love - so he introduces them...
FAKE-COLLEGE BRAVEST FINED
Fourteen FDNY members caught submitting bogus college credits bought from an online diploma mill have agreed to pay fines totaling about $136,000, The Post has learned. The individual penalties range...
STINGING BLOW TO 'BRIBE POLS'
The FBI swept up 11 current and former New Jersey officials yesterday after they allegedly took bribes to steer government contracts to a phony company set up for a sting,...
CYBER BUST OF HIGH-PROFILE 'LOWLIFES'
A former Homeland Security agent, an ex-village treasurer and a lawyer are among 21 men charged by Long Island authorities as online child-sex predators. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice and...
RAID COPS FIND TOT IN BOX
Cops got a tip about guns and drugs in a Brooklyn apartment yesterday - but no one told them about the baby in a shoe box. Police walked out of...
COP CHARGED IN IMMIGRANT SLAY
A Mount Kisco cop who responded to a drunken 911 call from a homeless illegal Guatemalan immigrant was charged yesterday with killing him. The manslaughter indictment of Officer George Bubaris,...
L.I. DRIVER IN DEEPER FIX
The Long Island driver busted after The Post found drugs he allegedly threw away after he struck and killed an 84-year-old grandmother is unlikely to get out of jail soon....
THREE BUSTED IN SUBWAY MURDER
Three suspects were arrested last night in the savage stabbing and shooting death of a 19-year-old restaurant worker who was attacked in an elevated subway station in Queens. Two Bronx...
CBS MAKES DIGITAL DEAL
CBS content is coming to a grocery store near you. Bolstering its efforts to tie in food with the marketing of its TV shows, CBS yesterday announced a deal to...
HOMEOWNER STABS S.I. 'NINJA' BURGLAR
A "ninja" already wanted for a string of burglaries on Staten Island was wounded by a knife-wielding homeowner defending himself against a nunchuck attack yesterday, cops said. The masked burglar,...
SSSAVED IN CENTRAL PK.
Meet Rocky Bal-boa. The 6-foot snake, who was abandoned in Central Park, got his name the hard way. He got stuck in a rock fissure yesterday, but animal rescuers managed...
NUT BUSTER
Beware, sugarplum fairies of the political world, there's a new nutcracker in town - and her name is Hillary. The Hillary Nutcracker, which sells for $19.95, is quickly becoming the...
JUST DYE ALREADY!
Osama bin Laden - his bushy beard newly dyed as black as his evil heart - plans a new video addressing the American people to mark the sixth anniversary of...
BE VEWWY QUIET I'M HUNTING WABBITS!
Those wascally Kwemlin wadicals will weck Wussia, he-man Vladimir Putin weckons, uh, reckons, unless he does something about them. The Kremlin released a Rambo-style photo of the buff and bare-chested...
FEISTY FREDDY
DES MOINES, Iowa - With a slick new movie and country music for background, Fred Thompson took the stage yester day for the first time as a presidential candidate and...
GIRLS' SUICIDE SHOCK
The number of girls committing suicide soared dramatically in 2004, and hanging was the most common method, according to new figures released by federal researchers. During that year, the latest...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying and locating this man for holding up a Sheepshead Bay bank last month. The note-passing thief walked into a Roosevelt...
A PASSION FOR PASTA AND PEOPLE
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI was having a rough year - tax troubles, marital woes - and so, when I was invited to his Central Park apartment seven years ago, I brought a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 773; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 2706; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 087; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 2868;...
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, 1935-2007
Not since the great Caruso at the dawn of the 20th century was there an opera singer whose public following - and, arguably, whose talent - was as great as...
... AND A TERROR PLOT IN GERMANY
Meanwhile, peace and freedom won a big one this week in Germany. Authorities there announced Wednesday that phone taps helped them foil an Islamist terror plot aimed at airports, discos...
THE AID & COMFORT UNION...
The busy little beavers of the New York Civil Liberties Union are at it again. Yesterday, they joined with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to release a hoked-up report meant...
'HELP' THAT HARMS
THE U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which turns 50 this week, remains an important vehicle for public debate on civil-rights issues - as evidenced by its controversial new report questioning...
FALLING BRIDGES
IN the wake of the deadly Minnesota bridge collapse, most Americans seem to think we need to spend much more to fix what The New York Times calls our "crumbling...
A WEIRD WAY TO WAGE WAR
AS Americans mark the sixth anniversary of the start of the War on Terror this Tuesday, we can be thankful that our response to the attack, so far, has averted...
ENTER FRED THOMPSON...TARGET: RUDY
NOW that Fred Thompson has officially entered the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, the Tall Drink of Water from Tennessee has to knock Rudy Giuliani out of the top...
BUT WHY IS HE RUNNING?
THE conventional wisdom about Fred Thompson is that he might have waited too long to get into the presidential race, even though by the standard of past election cycles he's...
MILLION-DOLLAR POLS MAKE POOR SPOKESMEN
THE ISSUE: Sen. Hillary Clinton's claim that workers, not rich people, make America great. Isn't blasting rich people and the concentration of wealth hypocritical when it comes from the Clintons...
POST'S PITIABLE PAPARAZZI
THE ISSUE: The media coverage of actor Owen Wilson's attempted suicide. I am disgusted and appalled at the front-page coverage of Owen Wilson's recent mental collapse ("Owen's Ordeal," Sept. 4)....
APPLE MAKES NICE
A day after chopping $200 off the of the most advanced model of the iPhone, Apple is trying to appease angry customers who paid full price for the gadget by...
SORRELL SPINS WEB TO 'AD' TO EMPIRE
WPP Chief Executive Martin Sorrell - who's been on the prowl since buying online ad firm 24/7 Real Media earlier this year - could be close to making another significant...
HULLABALOO OVER HULU
Hulu is in deep doo-doo with Lulu. Hulu.com, NBC Universal and News Corp.'s soon-to-launch video Web site, has been slapped with a trademark infringement lawsuit by Lulu Enterprises for picking...
NEW CEO FOR BOOK PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster yesterday said that Carolyn Reidy at year-end will replace Jack Romanos as CEO of the nation's fourth-largest consumer book publisher. Romanos, who's stepping down after 40 years...
RIGOR MORT-IS AT MAG
MORT Zuckerman's U.S. News & World Report is said to be working on a radical plan to change the magazine's format and end its years of red ink. To do...
TAX BACKED
Washington lawmakers again traded blows with the private-equity industry yesterday over efforts to close a loophole that allows buyout billionaires to pay less tax than everyone else. At one point,...
ON THE PAPER TRAIL
An erroneous research report declaring the demise of a massive investment fund has turned the spotlight on a form of short-term financing that could become the latest example of the...
AUCTION HOUSES HOPE BIDS RISE IN THE EAST
In their biggest gambles ever, Sotheby's and Christie's are betting more than $1 billion that newly minted billionaires from Russia and China will replace Wall Street's cash-squeezed crowd to keep...
RUNWAYS FOR REAL PEOPLE
Nestled in a specially constructed lounge above the front-row throngs, a group of fashion lovers sip champagne as they peer through a one-way mirror at the runway shows taking place...
'TOO LITTLE TOO LATE'
Foxy Brown thanked the judge who locked her up and promised to change - but the down-and-out diva was told she'll likely do a year in the slammer for repeatedly...
TRANSIT COP SHOT IN BRONX
A female transit officer was shot in the leg at West 176th Street near Jerome Avenue in the Bronx early Friday evening. The shooting occured at the #4 subway stop...
WE KNOW: YOU'RE KEITH HERNANDEZ
"GILLIGAN'S Is land" had Thurston Howell III; Mets' telecasts have Keith Hernandez, the one and only. We warned you, even before Hernandez began as an SNY/Mets regular, that he'd be...
COTTO-MOSLEY TAKES THE CAKE
AT a boxing press con ference yesterday that was so civil it could have been held in church, Miguel Cotto helped roll out a birthday cake in honor of Sugar...
RUTGERS, BYU SHARE MISSION
THERE are two college football programs located about 2,000 miles apart that seemingly have nothing in common. Rutgers is located within an hour of Times Square. BYU is situated within...
IT'S BEST OF TIMES
FOR those of you who haven't put your tackle away, the best fishing of the season is at hand. My suggestion is to get in as much fluke fishing this...
FIRST & ROLL
INDIANAPOLIS - Tony Dungy has warned his Colts that the desire to turn one championship into two is contrary to normal human nature. Then again, so are freaks of nature...
FLUSHING HONORS HUNT
Flushing will play its first varsity football game since 2001 when it hosts Stevenson tomorrow at Flushing Memorial Park, but the Red Devils will be without Blake Hunt, who suffered...
REPORT: ANKIEL GOT HGH
Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel reportedly received shipments of human growth hormone (HGH) in 2004 from a Florida pharmacy that was part of a national illegal drug-distribution operation. Ankiel, a former...
LEADING MAN
Eli Manning's motivational skills were called into question by former teammate Tiki Barber - but if the fourth-year quarterback can't lead his team into the end zone, then his ability...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...PHIL SIMMS
WITH the NFL season opening this week, NYP TV Sports' Justin Terranova caught up with CBS football analyst Phil Simms, who will be at the Meadowlands for Sunday's Jets-Patriots game.Q:...
HONDO GOES TO HILL
Hondo's faith in the Indians, which had paid off so reliably all season, went unrewarded last night as they failed in Anaheim to trim the earnings to 330 trillos. Today,...
SPORTS SHORTS
NHL: Niedermayer mulls futureScott Niedermayer is certain about only one thing in his hockey future - he won't be on the ice when the Anaheim Ducks open camp next week....
JACOBS' LADDER
Book publishing is in the air around the Giants, bursting forth from former players (Tiki Barber), former general managers (Ernie Accorsi) and even former holdouts (Michael Strahan). This is all...
AMANI'S BACK TO HELP OUT ELI
WE all need someone who's got our back when times get difficult. It could be a wife or husband, a best friend, or maybe someone you would least expect. Eli...
AIKMAN: BARBER'S TO BLAME
Tiki Barber's presence in the Giants' backfield was immense, but Troy Aikman said he believes Barber's attitude off the field is one of the reasons the team did not win...
STRAHAN PLAYING CATCH-UP
Michael Strahan admitted yesterday he was "a little confused" during practice as he continues to fast-forward the learning process and suit up for Sunday night's season-opener in Dallas. Other than...
FAMILIAR STRANGERS
With the Jets and Patriots, familiarity breeds a number of elements that make Sunday's season-opening showdown so deliciously compelling. When the two teams clash at Giants Stadium, it'll mark the...
READY TO BENDER OVER BACKWARDS
EVERY night, while Nich olls State middle linebacker Cory Vavala, watched television in the three-bedroom place he shared with teammate Jacob Bender, a commercial would come on and Bender would...
COACHES ARE STILL A BIT CHILLY
There was a funny exchange at yesterday's Eric Mangini press conference when he was asked about Bill Belichick. "Are you feeling more pressure preparing for this game or how you're...
MAKING A 'STAND
The absence of Carlos Delgado is balanced out by opportunity for the Mets. Delgado will be out for at least a week with a strained right hip flexor. But although...
RETURN'S BEEN BIT SLUGGISH FOR ENDY
Endy Chavez has been off the disabled list for 10 days, but his return to the Mets hasn't resulted in much success. Chavez comes into tonight's game against the Astros...
NETS READY TO SIGN ALLEN
The Nets are about to add more size and experience up front by signing 6-10 free agent forward Malik Allen. The six-season veteran will sign a one-year non-guaranteed contract today....
RANGERS TO RETIRE LEETCH'S NO. 2
Those without season tickets will have to watch on TV. The Rangers say they won't be selling individual game tickets for their Garden clash with the Thrashers Jan. 24, when...
VENUS' DAD: HENIN HAS NO CHANCE
Richard Williams, reverting to his old braggadacio ways, predicted his daughter Venus will beat Justine Henin in today's semifinals and win the U.S. Open. In a rambling interview, Papa Williams...
ANDY GROWLS AT FEDERER'S 'CAKE' WALK
Not only can't Andy Roddick handle Roger Federer's shots on the court, he can't even handle the Swiss Maestro's sarcasm. Roddick was agitated in the post-match press conference early yesterday...
NOVAK ROARS INTO SEMIS
To those critics who claim tennis has no personality, no flavor, the sport can answer with two words: Novak Djokovic. The young Serb gives the sport an infusion with both...
AFLEET ALEX THE SAFE BET
Here comes another soft part of the schedule for the Yankees. In other words, beware, Yankees fans. It's not the last portion of this nine-game road trip - next weekend's...
RODRIGUEZ SEEMS A LOCK TO JOIN ELITE FRATERNITY
It could be time to add another face onto the Mount Rushmore of Yankees' lore. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and now Alex Rodriguez. Barring an enormous...
JOBA'S DAD TRAVELING TO K.C.
A dream comes true tonight when Harlan Chamberlain will be at Kauffman Stadium to see his son Joba in a Yankee uniform. "There probably will be a tear or two...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
WHO'S ON THIRD?
After receiving an MRI exam on his right ankle, talking his way into Wednesday's lineup as the DH against Seattle, and hitting two home runs in the seventh inning, Alex...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Whoever said smoking pot makes you stupider wasn't joking. Two Northeastern University students in Boston were busted when cops heard one yell across the street from his apartment window that...
And we're off
The first game of the NFL season has come and gone, though it wasn't much of a game.Here's what we can deduce from the first four quarters of action: Eric...
FASHION ROCKS FROCKS
No judgments, just dresses.JENNIFER LOPEZAVRIL LAVIGNENICOLE RICHIEMARY J BLIGEFERGIEMARTINA McBRIDEASHLEE SIMPSONJESSICA ALBA
DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY
And he still rocks.Plus he's the only guy we know who can pull off a leopard blazer paired with striped pants.
HOLY HAIR
There is just no other way to say this: O.M.G.