February 4, 2007

Murphy's Law

My former seat mate, Michael Kane, is back in town and he thinks this week's arrival of "Norbit,'' a broad comedy which Eddie Murphy plays an obese woman for not...

Marty Breaks the Curse

No surprise at Saturday night's Directors Guild of America awards -- Martin Scorsese finally won the feature directing trophy after coming home empty seven times in the past.Scorsese, of course,...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

FASHION Puttin' on the Ritz If you were one of the unfortunate people who were snubbed when the invitations to the wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Homes went out,...

CBS GOES INTO OVERKILL FOR BOWL

We often get the feeling that TV's strategists try to be so slick that they slip on the banana peels intended for us. Two Sundays ago, the teams that would...

LIGHTS. CAMERA. ACTION.

Anne Heche said it best: "Love isn't safe. You can't trust it will stay the same -- you might not feel ready to move on, but you have to." Actually,...

'DAWSON'S CREEK' KILLER

When the network calls and asks you to play on Super Bowl Sunday, you strap on your shoulder pads. On the Thursday before Christmas, the network called Ed Bernero, executive...

WEIGHT A MINUTE

Nobody is taking height and weight measurements at New York Fashion Week to make sure the models aren't too thin. And if foul-mouthed former model Janice Dickinson has her way,...

REEL GOOD

SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Monday, 12 noon, TCM Glorious Gloria Swanson threw caution and her fading glamour to the wind when she transformed herself into lonely loon Norma Desmond, a silent...

'LOST' GOES BACK TO THE BEACH

'Lost' is both cursed and blessed. The show boasts some of TV's most passionate fans, but keeping them tuned in can be a tricky proposition. Last season, the show's message...

'IDOL' OFFERS ITS MOST PATHETIC AUDITIONS

When did "American Idol" morph into some kind of televised mental ward? Maybe it has always been this way, but it seems that this season - the sixth and, so...

FETCH SKETCH

As segment producer of the recurring late-night dog-and-pony show that's No. 1 on every animal lover's top 10 list - "Stupid Pet Tricks" on the "Late Show with David Letterman"-...

THE CAT LADY

COUNTERS and tables are desirable places for cats because they're up above things - where our feline friends like to be. But I don't allow my cats on those levels....

ADOPT ME

Audrey is a gentle and beautiful young miniature pinscher with a Mona Lisa smile that'll follow you anywhere. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society...

HOT SEAT

BOB Saget is a mad, filthy genius - who also happens to be a dedicated family man. The father of three and former TV head of the Tanner household on...

HOT LIST

1 "Rolling VIP" It's bound to be Kevin Federline's most successful job to date - his much-talked about Nationwide commercial, which premieres during the Bowl. Get a preview at nationwide.com...

A BEAUTIFUL MIND

SINCE 1985's "City of Glass," Paul Auster's writing has come to compose a canon - a single book of labyrinthine literary references, dark psychology and minimalism. The mind alone has...

WHEN TWO KNIGHTS JUST AREN'T ENOUGH

CHESSPARK-BENCH players often abide by informal rules. You may see a player - who has no material left - start counting the 21 moves in which he claims his opponent...

LACOSTE

It was a cozy walk in the park, or the French countryside, at yesterday's Lacoste show, which drew Julianne Moore, Entourage's Kevin Connolly and sultry singer Cassie, who said she...

KAREN WALKER

It's Day Two and designers need to lay off the lurex already. At Karen Walker, it was more of the same. The metallic yarn, highly offensive when used with extreme...

RUFFIAN

Seriously: why is it that Brian Wolk and Claude Morais, the boys behind Ruffian, are not bigger stars? These two consistently create exquisitely constructed, thoroughly modern looks; for fall '07,...

ALICE ROI

There was a lot of black, white, and brown at Alice Roi, a lot of chunky knits of varying textures, some Japanese styling, some English-schoolgirl quirk, some Western elements, some...

ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH

Women have always had to be pretty fashion-forward to pull of Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchcovitch's looks, but for fall he put a bit more of a democratic spin on things....

FASHIONABLY LATE KIMORA STIRS A PANIC

Overheard: Forty minutes after Kimora Lee Simmons' Baby Phat show's scheduled start time, an aggravated publicist started hyperventilating and screaming into her headset: "Oh, my God! She wants to go...

STRUNG OUT ON LUREX

It's Day Two and designers need to lay off the Lurex already. The metallic yarn, highly offensive when used with extreme frequency, crept into Karen Walker's rib dresses, capes and...

YOKO REMIXED

Yoko Ono's been in the headlines again recently with a nasty story about her long-time driver's betrayal, which involves secret tapes, photos and blackmail. But she doesn't let a messy...

AN ONLINE FALLING OUT

Right now, the Internet's definitely more of a foe than a friend for Fall Out Boy. Concurrent with the band's meteoric rise over the past year, the Web's been host...

STATE AND MAIMED

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Oscar-nominated playwright and screenwriter David Mamet has written a book about Hollywood that, in many cases, decimates it with exactly the sort of taut, decapitating verbiage one...

TENDERIZED

In the movies, there's nothing like a royally screwed-up childhood to mold a memorable character. Just ask Batman, Willy Wonka, Norman Bates . . . Now we can add one...

NOT SO BIG BEN

We were just beginning to settle into the idea of a Ben Affleck comeback. His role as George Reeves in "Hollywoodland" earned him a Golden Globe nomination and a best...

TRADING FACES

SINCE his early days on "Saturday Night Live," Eddie Murphy has been a comedian known for his versatility in creating characters - be it Mr. Robinson, Buckwheat or Gumby. With...

END ZONE DIET

WITH the Bears battling the Colts in the Super Bowl today, we decided to get to the root of every team's strength - their stomachs. Indeed, if you are what...

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE PARIS

IRONIC as it may be, a classic Brooklyn diner can be tough to find in Brooklyn. One could wade through the hulking, stucco restaurants of Bay Ridge, Canarsie, or Sheepshead...

SWEENEY, 32, AND MAHON, 35

DEC. 9 - Four years after meeting at Duffy's restaurant in West Brighton, Staten Island, Michael Mahon, a firefighter with Brooklyn's Engine Co. 201, proposed to Laura Sweeney, a fifth-grade...

STEFANCZYK, 26, AND MYERS, 26

DEC. 9 - Kathryn Myers and Keith Stefanczyk can both attest that love often follows in the wake of tragedy. "We first met during freshman year at Fairfield University in...

BREHENY, 28, AND ANDREAE, 32

NOV. 17 - It's hard to find love in the big city, but for Tara Breheny, the challenge was finding her engagement ring. On Sept. 9, 2005, one of Breheny's...

COLBERT, 32, AND BABBITT, 32

When envisioning their perfect wedding day, most brides don't picture falling out of a chair. But for Adeena Colbert, that's just what happened. "During the hora, a bunch of guys...

KLATCH, 35, AND HAMMERICH, 31

Danielle Klatch, a pharmaceutical representative for Sintarus, and Dalf Hammerich, who works at Libertas Partners, had their dream wedding without having to leave the comfort of their neighborhood. After taking...

HANGING UP ON COMMON SENSE

Political inertia can be deadly. The latest victim of this truism is a Borough Park man who froze to death last month after a car accident on a stretch of...

A BAN ON 'VICTORY'

Question: When is a U.S. military victory not a victory? Answer: When it's reported by The New York Times. Read the account from Baghdad in the Jan. 30 Times about...

FOOD FIGHT

IT'S causing chaos for the city's upper-end eateries - without apparent benefit to anyone except the folks wreaking the havoc. They say their goal is social justice, but some would...

HURRICANE CONSCIENCE

MIAMI OCCASIONALLY - very occasionally - a football person says something that punctures the fog of George Patton-style rhetoric that football people emit. Before a Super Bowl in the 1970s...

VOTERS HOPE FOR A PIECE OF SPITZER'S BUDGET PIE

THE ISSUE: Gov. Spitzer's presentation of his $121 billion state budget. The new state spending, as reported by E.J. McMahon, proves that Gov. Spitzer did not really beat the incumbents...

HILL FEARS PASSED WAR BUCK

THE ISSUE: Sen. Clinton's resentment of the war President Bush may leave behind. I really resent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for her phoniness, arrogance political partisanship and for putting her...

MIDEAST DÉJÀ VU

POWER, FAITH AND FANTASY: AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1776 TO THE PRESENTBY MICHAEL B. ORENW. W. NORTON & CO., 672 PAGES, $35 'CONGRESS balks at funding Mideast war against...

FREEDOM'S PHILOSOPHY

RADICALS FOR CAPITALISM: A FREEWHEELING HISTORY OF THE MODERN AMERICAN LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENTBY BRIAN DOHERTYPUBLIC AFFAIRS, 768 PAGES, $35 LIBERTARIANISM is the political philosophy that champions free markets, looks skeptically at...

STALIN'S TRUE INTENTIONS

STALIN'S WARS: FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR, 1939-1953BY GEOFFREY ROBERTSYALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 468 PAGES, $35 'WHILE his policies and actions undoubtedly contributed to the out break of the Cold...

ARE YOU A JETROSEXUAL? BE HONEST...

With Wall Street bonuses hitting record levels, private jet companies multiplying like rabbits, and Gen-Xers discovering a taste for upscale travel, luxury vacations have become the hottest area in the...

BATTLE-TESTED

In three days, Disney CEO Bob Iger will make another round of celebratory bows before Wall Street, having pulled off another quarter of solid earnings and revenue growth. The Street...

PROF. BERNANKE ACES FIRST YEAR

HAPPY Anniversary Ben Bernanke, your freshman year at the helm of the Federal Reserve is over, and by all accounts it has been an auspicious start. No freshman curse, only...

UPSTATERS CHEER RISING COST OF GAS

While most New Yorkers are getting burned by the rise in oil and natural gas prices over the past few years - by paying more to fill up their cars...

MANNING INKED TO MEMORABILIA DEAL

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, already the NFL's No. 1 pitchman, has lengthened his lead - before he even takes the field in today's Super Bowl. Steiner Sports, the New...

BONUS BOOM POLL

In a year when generous Wall Street bonuses were the norm, commodities trading and sales were where the most greenbacks were buried, according to a coming survey of which departments...

THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS

WINNERSDICK FULD Lehman Brothers' CEO buys 20 percent stake in high-flying London hedge fund Spinnaker Capital Group.JONATHAN GRAY Co-head of the Blackstone Group's real estate arm appears to have outmaneuvered...

OBIT MAGAZINE IS WAITING FOR SHELF LIFE TO BEGIN

Hold the death notices for Obit magazine. The launch of the mag that will chronicle the lives of recently departed major figures has been delayed for six months - but...

DOWN WITH VOD

COMCAST is exploring the creation of an urban-focused channel for its video-on-demand platform, On The Money has learned. That would explain why hip-hop stars Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs, along...

PITFALLS TO AVOID DOING YOUR TAXES

Dear John: What are the most common mistakes people make when doing their taxes using computer packages for the first time? P.W. Dear P.W.: The first mistake people like me...

GEORGIA ON THEIR MIND

Florida will always be the Sunshine State, but its prospects as the ultimate retirement haven may be getting a little cloudy. For the first time, there's a hint that skyrocketing...

GLOBAL-WARMING BID ON GOV FRONT BURNER

Gov. Spitzer wants to prioritize the state's tiny Climate Change Office by giving it a huge boost in staff and funding. His inaugural $120.6 billion budget would add 12 people...

MIKE SET FOR BUDGET BATTLE

Gov. Spitzer's plan to cut $350 million a year in revenue sharing to the city hasn't sparked the kind of outrage that greeted Albany's decision to eliminate the city's commuter...

ELIOT PLANS TO 'DOC' FUNDING

Gov. Spitzer plans to trim millions of dollars in "charity care" aid to hospitals that actually are uncharitable - treating only a few uninsured patients, The Post has learned. Spitzer...

SECRET SCENE OF 'INN' CROWD

"Don't take it personally," the young waiter tells the two attractive women in their mid-30s being seated in the far back corner of the garden atrium at the Waverly Inn...

B'KLYN COPS DIG FOR DEMISED GUYS

Cops dug for human body parts in a Brooklyn back yard yesterday - just blocks from the so-called Gotti Graveyard, where the corpses of three whacked mobsters have been found...

THIS PARTY WILL BOWL FAN$ OVER

As host of arguably the fanciest Super Bowl XLI party in New York today, Brooklyn actor and party promoter Robert "Toshi" Chan won't serve nachos and buffalo wings. Try beef...

ELEVATOR PLUNGE KILLS CLUBGOER

A Bronx man celebrating his birthday plunged five floors to his death down an elevator shaft yesterday at the swanky Chelsea nightclub BED, after being knocked through the door by...

L.I. HOME INVASION SLAYING

A Long Island man was shot to death while struggling with a trio of masked home invaders but not before firing off a few bullets from the thugs' gun -...

STARRETT CITY VENTS RENT FEARS

Nervous residents of the Starrett City complex in Brooklyn joined elected officials yesterday to demand that whoever buys the affordable-housing complex keep the rents reasonable. "I have lived here all...

TRAGIC FIRE IN QUEENS

A devastating house fire in Queens left a Guyanese immigrant clinging to life with head-to-toe third-degree burns yesterday afternoon - but also showcased the heroism of neighbors who saved a...

FOUR COPS HURT IN B'KLYN CRASH

Four cops were injured - one critically - late last night when the two patrol vans they were in collided while responding to an officer needs assistance call in Brooklyn,...

DRIVER VENTS: WE'RE ALL GOING NOWHERE FAST

Kids and parents aren't the only ones frustrated and angry about chaotic school-bus service - one driver complains that 90 percent of the changes have been useless. "There is simply...

3-HOUR NIGHTMARE FOR KID & KIN

The city has made a three-mile trip to and from school a hellish odyssey for a bright little first-grader and her exhausted mom. Since the Department of Education kicked 6-year-old...

TOTAL WA$TE ON & OFF ROAD

History is repeating itself - and if it continues, New York is in major trouble. The firm pocketing $16 million to cut the fat from the city's education budget has...

A PAINFUL SKINNY ON THE QUEST FOR SIZE 0

Eight weeks of trying for size 0 turned sexy, savvy British TV starlet/writer Dawn Porter into a teary wreck, barely able to drag herself from bed. The pretty author of...

HUGE BLAZE HITS QNS. BUILDING

A raging six-alarm blaze tore through a Far Rockaway, Queens, apartment building last night, sending five residents to the hospital. The fire in the six-story building at 10-57 Neilson Street...

REAL FOES IN L.I. RACE: SPITZER & BRUNO

A high-stakes battle between Gov. Spitzer and state Republicans is playing out on the small stage of a special election for a Nassau County state Senate seat - making this...

GIVING MOMMY HOPEFULS A 'GOOD' EGG

A new method to pinpoint human eggs capable of producing healthy babies could increase the success rate of in-vitro fertilization and reduce the likelihood of risky multiple births, a new...

FIREMEN FILE ARSON LAWSUITS

Two city firefighters who got burned in separate Brooklyn arsons are now scorching the building owners with multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Joseph Lennon, injured in 2004, and Vincent Brindisi, hurt in a...

SAN GENNARO'S CHARITY $HOCK

First, the mob was cut out of the San Gennaro feast. Now charity's getting the squeeze. The Little Italy festival didn't give one cent to local causes last year after...

MODEL IN TWO-FRONT TUG-OF-LOVE

A stunning former model is fighting to get back custody of her two daughters after a judge placed them separately with her ex-boyfriends - one a bouncer with multiple arrests,...

'ANGEL' MOURNED

The daughter of a stunning Staten Island singer gunned down - allegedly by her ex-husband, a retired cop - tearfully remembered her slain mom yesterday as "an angel without wings."...

NEWBORN TOSSED TO HIS DEATH

A 14-year-old Brooklyn girl was in police custody yesterday after admitting that she tossed her newborn son out a third-floor window, police sources said. The girl, whose name is being...

CHELSEA TEACH GROPED GIRLS: DA

A 50-year-old science teacher sexually abused seven teenage students, manhandling the girls' buttocks and bare thighs at their Chelsea high school, prosecutors allege. Hector Aquino's extracurricular activities allegedly included quizzing...

TRUMPETER KNIGHT DIES

God's trumpeters will be grooving to a salsa beat now. Pedro Knight, the husband of the late great "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was...

TOON-ATICS SCORE TV RATINGS BOOST

It worked. The guerrilla marketing campaign that panicked Boston over a possible terror plot boosted the ratings of the obscure cartoon cable-television show it was promoting. Viewership was up 4...

NYPD BLOTTER

BROOKLYN Police say Michael Soto, 24 is wanted in connection with a shooting death in Coney Island. He is being sought for questioning in the slaying last May 27 of...

SILVER IN A BID TO WOO THOMPSON

ASSEMBLY Speaker Sheldon Sil ver made a last-ditch attempt last week to recruit city Comptroller Bill Thompson for the state comptroller's job in hopes of heading off an all-out war...

FREE LOUIMA COP LOOKS BACK & AHEAD

CHUCK SCHWARZ had just dia pered his 2-year-old son Wil liam, who was steal ing pens from his dad's shirt pocket, and said: "I have lost 10 years of my...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 092; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 4138; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 102; Lucky Sum: 3 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 7051;...

WHO OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES?

MIAMI - There will be plenty of stakes sitting neatly in piles on the Super Bowl table late this afternoon, when the world gathers at Dolphin Stadium and Bears vs....

PEYTON WILL TRADE MONKEY BUSINESS FOR TROPHY LIFE

MIAMI - It is Peyton Manning's time, his turn, his Super Bowl, his Lombardi Trophy to hoist to the heavens. It is Manning's day to ascend to the throne, to...

SCREAM SAVER

LOOKING for a lock bet tonight in the Super Bowl? We've got one. But first, some perspective: Imagine being at the game and, immediately after the kickoff, as you lean...

THERE'S WINNING, & THERE'S MISERY

THERE is a pertinent lesson for our local baseball teams playing out today in Miami. The Colts are big favorites in the big game. Interestingly, of the last four Indianapolis...

'CASTING CALL

Joe Girardi is sitting with his beautiful wife Kim on a couch in the lobby of a midtown hotel. On this morning of a getaway weekend from their home in...

MORE LABOR PAINS

TAMPA, Fla. - According to the res olution adopted last week authorizing Sheila Block to conduct an inquiry into the hiring of Ted Saskin and all attendant matters, the NHLPA...

DON'T BE CHI ABOUT ACCEPTING 'DOG DARE

TODAY Bears (+7) over Colts; Over 48: Take the relevant statistics put up by the Colts and Bears this season . . . black out the names of the teams...

WIN AND BEAR IT TAKE POINTS . . . TO THE BANK!

Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over 49 foes in Playbook's long-running Wise Guys Contest with an overall record of 25-11 ATS (going 16-2 on...

END OF THE LINE FOR THE LORAN?

LORAN users could soon be facing a clo sure of the land- based, low-frequency radio system that has served boaters and anglers for decades. The Department of Homeland Security, parent...

LET'S GET THE BOWL ROLLIN'

MIAMI - The game of the Colts' and Bears' lives finally unfolds in all of its pomp, circumstance and drama when Super Bowl XLI kicks off shortly before 6:30 tonight...

THE MAESTRO

MIAMI - Anywhere from 50 to 60 or so times in Super Bowl XLI today, Peyton Manning will stand behind center at the Colts' line of scrimmage against the Bears...

WAY TO GO, BRO

MIAMI - Little Brother is watching. And rooting. For his Super Big Brother. Eli Manning is Little Brother. Peyton Manning is Super Big Brother. "He's been a great big brother,"...

DEFEAT, FAIL US NOW

MIAMI - Winning is easy. Not so much the achievement, but the handling of it. No one prepares to lose, and so the blow often comes without warning. The Bears...

JONES RUNNING IN TIKI'S FOOTSTEPS

MIAMI - Thomas Jones took over at running back at the University of Virginia for Tiki Barber, who went to the Giants in the 1997 NFL Draft. Tonight, Jones gets...

FINISH LINES

Sure, you can throw caution to the wind - and money out the window - today by playing some of these ridiculous multi-sport proposition bets. But keep in mind: With...

IT'S INDY OVER THE WINDY CITY

MIAMI - There are, as usual, delicious subplots to this Super Bowl. You begin with Peyton Manning, whose big-game prowess likely will be questioned until he finally nails down a...

SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...ROBBIE GOULD

The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Bears' Pro Bowl kicker, who will go up against his childhood hero Adam Vinatieri tonight in Super Bowl XLI: Q: Super Bowl dream?...

CLICK AROUND THE CLOCK

We have studied the coaches' film for two week to come up with the perfect viewing game plan. We are going to ask a lot from you, but we know...

RED STORM NEED SURGE FOR TOURNEY

By tonight, you will know the Super Bowl champ. And by the night of Feb. 15 you will know if St. John's has a realistic shot at making the Big...

HOMECOMING GAME

The Jersey kid wanted to stay at home and the Big East Conference teams in the Garden State wanted to sign the Jersey kid, so what the heck happened? How...

VAC'S WHACKS

If you have any kind of New York City basketball memory, then the only thing sadder than the final score the other night at the Garden - Georgetown 72, St....

VICTORY AT LAST

The crowd of 2,111 that nearly filled Iona's Hynes Center stood and cheered for the final seconds of yesterday's game, but head coach Jeff Ruland waited. "After what I witnessed...

THE RUMBLE

You had to be there New book (re)views great moments In a soon-to-be released book entitled "Being There" (Lyons Press), Eric Mirlis gets the list of the Top 5 Sports...

HORSE NONSENSE

* I cried as I watched Barbaro being pulled up in the Preakness with a catastrophic injury. My tears stopped when I read how severe the injury was and that...

SPORTS SHORTS

MLB: Pirates sign Sanchez National League batting champion Freddy Sanchez chose not to go to arbitration and agreed to a $2.75 million, one-year contract yesterday with the Pirates. The Pirates...

FOR DEVILS, GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES

The occasion honored, and yes, demanded greatness, too. With their 1995 Cup-winners looking on, these Devils delivered in clutch comeback fashion, their biggest victory of the season. "One of the...

HEY, SNUB THIS!

ORLANDO - It was billed as the young-stud-center battle between newly minted All-Star Dwight Howard and recently snubbed Eddy Curry. Curry won the battle and, more important, his Knicks won...

NO MAGIC CHARM

AS IF the NBA (and its high profile alumni: Latrell Sprewell, Alvin Robertson and J.R. Rider) doesn't exhibit enough black eyes. As if the league doesn't have enough cynicism and...

JEROME IN CENTER OF ACTION

ORLANDO - Isiah Thomas has made a bold decision and decided to start Jerome James for Channing Frye in a two-center look he plans to go with into the All-Star...

HIGH NOON IN NETSVILLE

Whatever good vibes the Nets had built up after salvaging their five-game road trip, they ruined with back-to-back embarrassing blowouts. If they thought they'd fixed their earlier defensive woes, three...

SINKING BLUE SHIP

TAMPA - The too-many-men-on-the-ice call against the Rangers that gave the Lightning the power play on which they scored the winning goal midway through the third period was debatable. But...

JOCKS' PROTEST CANCELS CARDS

Following a terrifying spill in Aqueduct's fifth race that sent jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. to the hospital and left two horses dead, the second fatal accident at the Big A...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

According to the NYPD, Russell Falkena rowed his boat ashore and ran a red light. Falkena, of upstate Orange County, received a ticket in the mail with a photo of...

SIGH, BABY

DO dead animal parts sound like your idea of the perfect Valentine's Day gift? If so, then the new CD "A Date With John Waters" might be your ideal romantic...

OUTDOORSY GUY SEEKS NATURE GIRL

MOST people would say that the person, not the place, makes or breaks a date. But if you ask Cory, a landscape architect, sometimes a vile venue can kill the...

TAKES 2 TO TANGO

FIRST dates and partner dancing are similar in that they're both finely choreographed activities that have great potential to go horribly awry. But were there missteps when Andrew, a 38-year-old...