October 22, 2007
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Michelle Nieto wears a mustard dress from Forever 21, H&M cardigan, H&M bag and shoes from Ebay. "It's hard to match mustard with stuff, so I thought I'd keep it...
Korn in a "Haze," but not for the reason you'd expect
Another day, another band affiliating itself with a video game. Ubisoft's announced that Korn - yes, the nu-metal band - has written and recorded an original song inspired by the...
Oscar Watch: Loose Lips
I had fun dishing today with Tom O'Neil, the Hedda Hopper of Oscar bloggers, for this podcast on his saucy Gold Derby blog, which appears on the L.A. Times' The...
FORGET TONY LA RUSSA & BOBBY VALENTINE
Cross two names off the list of the next potential Yankee managers.Tony La Russa took himself out of the running when he announced today that he's returning as manager of...
Malcolm in the Middle
"We weren't the best of friends and I regret that I didn't pick up the phone and say, How are you?,'' Malcolm McDowell tells Kyle Smith in today's Post, referring...
Feel Free
Dear Ranger fans, with regard to commenting, you now have two options. You can continue to post and wait for approval, or you can create an account with which you...
Balkman could debut Friday
By MARC BERMANLost in the waste of space that was Allan Houston's comeback was the preseason loss of Renaldo Balkman. At shootaround this morning, Balkman said he will be reevaluated...
First Awards Nominations of the Season: Penn, Baumbach, Zobel Lead Gotham Nods; Ellen Page Cited
The Gotham Awards, the East Coast version of the Indie Spirit Awards, announced their nominations today and Craig Zobel's ultra-low-budget indie "The Great World of Sound'' leads with three nominations,...
Nude Portman Boards 'Darjeeling Limited' En Route (Sorta)
Despite mixed reviews, Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited'' sold a more-than-respectable $6,580 worth of tickets per venue at 202 locations over the weekend. Fox Searchlight is adding an extra attraction...
Starr Report
Tomorrow marks Elisabeth Hasselbeck's (right) last day on "The View" before taking maternity leave. "OLTL's" Kassie DePaiva will be the first guest-sub for Hasselbeck on Wednesday's show.Elisabeth, by the way,...
Tempus Fugit
Congratulations to Patrick Fugit and Croatian director Goran Pasic, whose "Wristcutters: A Love Story'' opened to North America's largest per-screen average over the weekend, an eye-popping (for a micro-budgeted flick)...
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
AT some workplaces, computer games get played surreptitiously in a cubicle when the boss is looking elsewhere. At the offices of Motley Fool, a financial Web site, the playing field...
A FAMILY AFFAIR
WHEN Dave talks about the stress his family has caused him over the years, he hardly knows where to begin. Does he start with the financial support he gave his...
ROLLING ON THE RIVER
Marty Kelliher loves the water. He lives near the beach in the Rockaways with his wife and four kids. His hobbies are fishing for sea bass and surfing. And his...
60 SECONDS WITH...MARIO MOUSSA
The new book you wrote with G. Richard Shell, "The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion To Sell Your Ideas," is all about sharpening your skills of persuasion. What are...
GO TO GREG
Q. Why do so many people seem to hate HR? It doesn't give me confidence to seek their help in a career matter, but I don't know where else to...
ROBERT MOSES - NEW YORK'S MASTER BUILDER
Love him or hate him, nearly every aspect of New York City has been shaped by this controversial but masterful builder. Robert Moses was not an architect, engineer, contractor or...
A VIEW TO A THRILL
WE couldn't help but notice that one of the main trends this fall - all that hard-edged shine, leather, punk hardware, ankle boots and black - has a distinctly post-'80s...
PULSE SALES
ELIE TAHARI 510 Fifth Ave., between 42nd and 43rd streets; (212) 398-2622 Sale: Oct. 23-27. Tue.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m./Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Leather jackets, $349 (reg. $798-$1,398), winter down coats,...
BUSCH GOES BACK TO CAMP IN REVENGE TALE
CHARLES Busch taps into his inner diva again for the lu ridly titled "Die Mommie Die!" - donning lavish wigs and dresses and playing the sort of archetypal camp character...
TIME TO ENJOY 'VIEW'
FROM Bob Glaudini, au thor of last season's ac claimed "Jack Goes Boating," comes "A View From 151st Street" - and it couldn't feel more authentic. Few playwrights are better...
COMIC 'HEROES'
CAN a new hero save "Heroes"? That would appear to be the goal of casting cult cutie Kristen Bell, formerly of "Veronica Mars," as the newest super-powered personage on the...
BEFORE SHE WAS 'BIONIC'
'THE Bionic Woman" is the biggest star you've never heard of. Until three years ago, Michelle Ryan, 23, the intensely private British actress who plays the new version of the...
COLBERT: BID FOR PREZ NO JOKE
STEPHEN Colbert said yesterday that his cam paign for president was no joke - and that could be a problem. "I don't want to be president. I want to run...
RIGHT SLAMS 'COLD CASE'
THE crime series "Cold Case" has at least some conservatives hot over a recent episode about abstinence. The episode, called "That Woman," was about the unsolved murder of a young...
STARR REPORT
'View' sub surfaces Tomorrow marks Elisa beth Hasselbeck's last day on "The View" before taking maternity leave. "OLTL's" Kassie DePaiva will be the first guest-sub for Hasselbeck on Wednesday's show....
MALCOLM REMADE
WITH roles on "En tourage" and "Heroes" and a creepy turn as the shrink in the re make of "Halloween," Malcolm McDowell is again one of Hollywood's most in-demand character...
ELEX BIGS FEAR FRAUD IN GOV LICENSE PLAN
ALBANY - State election officials are worried that Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses will make it difficult for them to catch people voting illegally....
SPITZER STEERING US TOWARD A CRASH: DEMS
ALBANY - Top Democrats fear that Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens has endangered their party's candidates across the state - and even threatens the...
76G IS FOUND MONEY FOR MIKE
ALBANY - To a billionaire like him, it may be pocket change, but Mayor Bloomberg collected nearly $76,000 this year in unclaimed funds from the state Comptroller's Office, The Post...
GREAT STRIKE WAY
The curtain could fall on Broadway's lucrative holiday season, after theater stagehands voted yesterday to authorize a strike that could shut down the Great White Way's most popular shows. Nearly...
HERO CREW MAKES A DOUBLE SAVE
The pleasure-boat crew that rescued one man from an overturned craft made yet another save on its way back to shore - picking up a windsurfer who had been clinging...
'MY BEST FRIEND DIED IN MY ARMS'
Trapped inside a capsized fishing boat near the Verrazano Bridge, with hypothermia setting in, a New Jersey man was clutching the body of his best friend when he felt a...
FUTURE TAXI TO BE KEEN AND GREEN
Taxi drivers may be striking today, but they'll be styling tomorrow. The city has hired a British engineering firm to help design a new cab that is both iconic and...
CABBIES TO STRIKE IT RICH
If this morning's taxi strike comes off as scheduled, commuters will pay more for their rides, but have no trouble getting around - and the big winners will be cabbies...
SOAP KOS SUPERBUG
Doctors and politicians joined forces yesterday to back two effective antidotes in the battle against a dangerous drug-resistant superbug - soap and water. "We need to start doing what mother...
GIULIANI BERN SHIELD
Rudy Giuliani's law partner has been told to monitor the criminal probe of disgraced ex-NYPD boss Bernard Kerik, which threatens to muddy up the former mayor's bid to become president....
A CHANCE FOR LANCE
America's hopes of ending its 25-year drought in the men's field of the New York City Marathon may rest with cycling great Lance Armstrong - as the top 130 U.S....
COPS TAKE CENTER STAGE
Broadway stars, singers and comedians will be sharing the stage with cops at a variety show benefiting a foundation that helps grieving families. It's named for the young son of...
WITNESSES SOUGHT IN WEIRD HIT-AND-RUN
State Police are seeking three drivers who may have witnessed a bizarre hit-and-run accident that killed a Long Island college student after she was pulled over for speeding early Saturday...
WEST SIDERS 'SNAP' OVER TRAFFIC CAM
A $90,000 camera meant to prevent treacherous illegal turns at a notorious West Side crosswalk is a big-bucks bust that doesn't do what it is supposed to, a congressman and...
BENZ BOTCH FURY
The bereaved father of a murdered Queens pawnbroker says the grief of losing his son was compounded by an NYPD blunder - his son's Mercedes-Benz, which the department promised to...
A BOND BUILT IN ANGUISH
A New Jersey couple whose 18-year-old daughter died mysteriously while on a school trip to Africa six months ago has formed a grim bond with the mother of Natalee Holloway,...
WIFE BLASTS 'LOVE JUNKIE' NET STAR
New Jersey Net star Jason Kidd has such an "insatiable" need for female companionship that he insists on including his girlfriend in sleepover visits with his children, according to court...
BIDDER UP: '350G' GEHRIG JERSEY ON BLOCK
A possible $350,000 windfall awaits Ken Neubert next month - and all because nobody skinned a knee while playing for his great-grandfather's church softball team in Passaic, N.J., back in...
MOM SEES CAR HIT KID
A 10-year-old boy was fighting for his life early today after he was struck by a car in Queens as his mother looked on in horror. The youngster, whose name...
SAVE OUR PARK!
A battle to save Greenwich Village's Pier 40 and its oasis of ball fields has prompted a group of high-powered parents to step up to the plate in a bid...
PRETEND-GUN SHOOTING LEADS TO REAL FATAL ONE
A 25-year-old aspiring boxer was gunned down yesterday after pointing his finger and pretending to shoot another motorist in Harlem, cops said. The shooting occurred at 5:49 a.m. at East...
BIG SIS BLAMES SELF FOR TRUCK TRAGEDY
An inconsolable 13-year-old Bronx girl is blaming herself as her baby sister clings to life after being hit by a truck over the weekend, a relative said yesterday. "She keeps...
HALVE & HAVE NOT
A Long Island woman says a lottery machine spit out two halves of a $25,000 winning ticket - and is blasting officials for calling the ticket a fake. "I started...
PLANES LAND SAFELY AFTER MIDAIR COLLISION
Two single-engine planes clipped wings over Long Island last night, but their pilots managed to land them safely. A two-seat Cessna 152 and a six-seat Piper PA-152 were on approach...
BUSH RIPS ATTACKS ON TURKS BY KURDS
President Bush yesterday condemned Kurdish rebel attacks that killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers, calling the bloodshed unacceptable and saying it must stop. "President Bush strongly condemns the violent attacks...
VAMPIRE FANS GET THE FANG OF IT
The vampire chiller "30 Days of Night" bloodied the competition at the box office over the weekend, according to studio estimates released yesterday. The "genre flick that aimed for and...
BRIT'S KISS AND 'SWELL'
Maternally challenged Britney Spears may be paying lip service to the wholesome image of star mom Angelina Jolie - with a shocking new pair of lookalike puckers. Spears was spotted...
SEEKING $UPPORT ON 'FUNDER' ROAD
Presidential front-runners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are mixing it up on the campaign trail, but they have one thing in common back home - East End Avenue. A...
HILLARY'S THE 'ROAST' OF THE TOWN AT GOP DEBATE
ORLANDO, FLA. - The Republican presidential candidates portrayed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as a laughingstock unfit to be president last night. "In case you missed it, Hillary Clinton tried to...
MALIBU ON FIRE
Wildfires ravaged parts of Southern California yesterday, killing one person and destroying homes and a church in celebrity-studded Malibu, and briefly threatening Pepperdine University. At least 10 blazes stretched from...
COPPERFIELD'S $2M AN ILLUSION
The FBI says it didn't find any cash - let alone $2 million - in David Copperfield's Las Vegas storage space last week. More than a dozen FBI agents raided...
A RED STORM BREWING OVER HOOPS-SEAT PLAN
Red Storm basketball boosters are thundering mad over St. John's University's decision to seat season-ticket holders partly on the basis of their donations to the school. Fans are especially steamed...
KID ROCK SCRAP RAP
Bad-boy belter Kid Rock battered a man at a Waffle House in Atlanta yesterday, cops said. The moody musician, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, and five members of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A thief has been busted for swiping more than $2,200 at gunpoint from a Bensonhurst store and locking four employees in a walk-in refrigerator, authorities said yesterday. Thomas Marra,...
CROOKED-COP CASES SURGE
THE number of NYPD cops using drugs, stealing property - even from the dead - and committing other acts of corruption, including extorting sex from female suspects, spiked sharply last...
'TRICKS' PROBE IS TAINTED: GOP
THE state Public Integrity Commission's probe of the Dirty Tricks Scandal has been "thoroughly discredited" by improper influence from the Spitzer administration, GOP state senators charged yesterday. That influence includes...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 512; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 0953; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 430; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
OTB: OFF TRACK AGAIN
Here we go again. The city's Off-Track Betting Corp. is crying bankruptcy: Its chairman, David Cornstein, says it will be "out of money" come the end of the fiscal year...
TAKE OUT THE TRASH, SHELLY
New York City leaders - from Mayor Bloomberg on down - know exactly what needs to be on the agenda today, as state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver brings his members...
NUKE NIGHTMARE
ON Sept. 6, Israel struck a remote target in eastern Syria. The story didn't really break for weeks, and details are still emerging - but the consensus view is that...
BILLIONAIRES ON FARM GRAVY TRAIN
AS the Senate debates a five-year, $286 billion agriculture-subsidy extravaganza, consider the heartwarming rhetoric about saving family farms. Who ever imagined such families included the Rockefellers? As the Environmental Working...
RUDY'S MACHINE
CURT Pringle, the conservative mayor of Anaheim and onetime speaker of the California Assembly, is a pro-life Republican who endorsed pro-choice Rudy Giuliani for president last March and since then...
GOP'S LINE-ITEM LUNACY
MITT Romney is an intelligent man who sometimes seems eager to find bushel baskets under which to hide his light. Romney faults Rudy Giuliani for opposing the presidential line-item veto....
GOV PLAYS HARDBALL: SPITZER'S CRUEL NEW LOW
Is there an impeachment process in place for state governors ("Young & Poor Hit Hardest," Oct. 17)? What Gov. Spitzer is doing to Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, who has...
A WIRETAPPED-OUT MILITARY
Spec. Alex Jimenez's case should give every American chills and cause to question why they would want a Democrat in the White House ("Lawyering the War," Editorial, Oct. 16). After...
HOLLYWOOD PIRACY FIGHT WIDENS
As the entertainment industry ramps ups the pressure on Google, MySpace and other Web companies to better police the illegal online trading of movies and music, it's already looking toward...
NYBOT-TOMS OUT
The New York Board of Trade is planning to officially shut down its futures pits in the next six months as electronic commodities trading takes over, according to sources familiar...
FOREST CITY'S NEW PREZ
Forest City Ratner Cos., the company behind the Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn, has named Joanne Minieri as president and chief operating officer. At the same time, Bruce Ratner,...
BLACK: 'LIARS' DID ME IN
Disgraced and convicted media baron Conrad Black is showing no sign of contrition and still believes he can win an appeal, even as his sentencing hearing next month fast approaches....
ROCCO FORTE SCOUTS U.S.
Sir Rocco Forte is looking to bring his European luxury hotels to the States. Sources say the European-based hotelier is already scouting locations in Manhattan for one of his first...
SILLY SEX SELLS
With audiences as diverse as Union Square at rush hour, women's mags have their work cut out for them. But there's big money to be made in those rare idle...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat Soulja Boy, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Beautiful Girls, Sean Kingston 4. Kiss Kiss, T-pain 5. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 6. Ayo...
MEDAL OF HONOR CEREMONY AT WHITE HOUSE
By Associated Press Writer President Bush publicly honored a fallen Navy SEAL Monday by presenting his grieving parents with the Medal of Honor - and privately honored their sacrifice by...
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: FRANCESA, RUSSO BUTCHER TORRE STORY
TOO bad. Not that we needed him to know it, but Joe Torre was so good at it. He routinely, perhaps unwittingly, exposed Mike Francesa and Chris Russo for the...
DICE ROLLS WINNER
BOSTON - All Terry Francona's hands were on deck. But first, all eyes were on Daisuke Matsuzaka. Thanks to a bad decision by Kenny Lofton to stretch a single into...
THIS DYLAN THOMAS IS POETRY IN MOTION
IF the past is any guide, a galaxy of stars will burst into the spotlight in the 11-race Breeders' Cup program at Monmouth Park this weekend. The $5 million Classic...
DUSTIN 'EM OFF
BOSTON - If you put your ear to the ground at Fenway Park last night at 11:57 p.m., amid the chaos you could hear soft sobs originating from 200 miles...
A-PAUL-ING MESS FOR THE INDIANS
BOSTON - Two hours before last Game 7, Indians pitcher Paul Byrd did his best to defuse a published report that linked him to human growth hormone. Byrd said he...
BOSS' HOSS HURT, OUT OF JUVENILE
The Boss is having a run of bad luck. The Yankees lost to Cleveland, Joe Torre took a hike, A-Rod's on the fence, and yesterday George Steinbrenner's star 2-year-old colt...
'BREED' IT AND WEEP DOGS TODD
Which New York coach has the best, most expensive athletes, always has a winning season, but his team often disappoints in the playoffs? Good guess, but we're talking about a...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: BC grabs No. 2 spot Ohio State, Boston College, LSU, Arizona State and Oregon were the top five teams in the second Bowl Championship Series standings released yesterday. In...
HONDO PLAYING JAX
Hondo split with the Bucs and Titans yesterday but made up some serious ground with the Bosawx (game and ALCS) last night to slash the deficit to a manageable 15...
CHECK OUT MADDEN'S SCORING!
The Checker King actually leads the Devils in goal-scoring. If Brent Sutter underestimated John Madden a month ago, he doesn't any longer. The 2001 Selke Trophy winner as the league's...
JINTS CAN SAN FRAN
It's official. Jeremy Shockey wants to change sides. "I wish I could switch over and play a little defensive end for this defense," Shockey said yesterday in the aftermath of...
BULLIES ARE BACK ... ON BOTH SIDES OF
THIS is the way the Bill Parcells/Lawrence Taylor/Harry Carson Giants did it, and the Sam Huff Giants before that. Bully for the Tom Coughlin Giants. The Big Blue Bullies are...
INVISIBLE MANN
SOMETIMES silence is the most blissful of all Sunday noises, better than the steady roar of 78,912 people enjoying every bit of a 33-15 rout by the home team, better...
GORE: SORRY NINERS LACK TRUST IN EACH OTHER, PLAY CALLING
An injured young quarterback, an immobile backup, a struggling team mistrusting the play calls and the beleaguered coordinator calling them. No, not the Giants to start the season, but the...
OSI ENJOYS AN LT-LIKE AFTERNOON
Shades of LT. Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora wanted no part of the Lawrence Taylor comparisons afterward, but he sure looked like the second coming of No. 56 yesterday on...
PIERCE HAS 'NO REGRETS' ABOUT LATE HITS
Antonio Pierce knows he'll be getting that dreaded Federal Express envelope this week, courtesy of the NFL. FedEx packages at your locker mean a fine from the league, and the...
SPECIAL TEAMS NOT GETTING THEIR KICKS
Despite a routine and one-sided 33-15 victory over the 49ers, at least one segment of the Giants roster continues to understand if things continue going the way they are, the...
CRASH LANDING IN CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI - Jonathan Vilma sat at his locker humming to himself in an effort to prevent succumbing to an emotional meltdown. "I can't really say what I feel," he said....
CAN'T PENN THIS ONE ON CHAD
CINCINNATI - Go ahead and call for Chad Pennington's job today. If you think Pennington was the reason the Jets lost to the Bengals 38-31 yesterday, though, you should go...
DYSON A SECONDARY CONCERN
CINCINNATI - Eric Mangini shook things up with some surprise moves in the secondary yesterday. Cornerback Andre Dyson was left off the active list as a healthy scratch, a clear...
TARGET PRACTICE
Allan Houston is leaving the Knicks, but he's not sure he's leaving a playoff team. Asked directly if the Knicks are a playoff team, Houston, who officially cut short his...
NETS HAVE A BACKUP PLAN
The Nets signed Darrell Armstrong knowing he would have a shot at seeing some significant playing time early in the season. After all, backup point guard Marcus Williams is out...
RESEARCH CENTER
SCOTT Gomez made his living in New Jersey as one of the NHL's best playmakers by using his speed and vision working with wingers who played an up-tempo, give-and-go game...
JOE GOES FIRST
Don Mattingly is still perceived as the favorite to replace Joe Torre as Yankees manager, but the order in which the team will interview candidates has been altered. Joe Girardi...
STEINBRENNERS OPTING TO TALK WITH A-ROD
The Yankees are making plans for a face-to-face meeting with Alex Rodriguez in the hope they can persuade their All World third baseman and cleanup hitter to stay in The...
FORGET TONY & BOBBY V
TAMPA, Fla. - Cross two names off the list of the next potential Yankee managers. Tony La Russa took himself out of the running when he announced today that he's...
GIRARDI STATES HIS CASE
TAMPA Hank Steinbrenner says Joe Girardi is smart and the Yankees arent stupid. So, do they have a match to fill the colossal shoes left behind by Joe Torre in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Memory loss? Fuhgeddaboutit. Malaysian Health Ministry Secretary Datuk Lee Kah Choon has advised senior citizens to take up video games as a way to help fend off Alzheimer's disease. "Senior...
Knicks D in disarray
By MARC BERMANStarting tonight vs. Boston, the homestretch of preseason begins with three games in five nights that conclude the exhibition schedule. Then the Knicks have a full week of...