February 10, 2007
Lost In Space
February 10, 2007 | 5:07pmWhat's up with that AP story about a supposed deal for a TV-movie about the diaper-wearing former astronaut Lisa Nowak -- based on a New York Times article -- that...
Eddie Money
February 10, 2007 | 4:57pm"Eddie Murphy delivered the biggest opening day of any film this year with the estimated $10.7 million gross for the comedy 'Norbit' on Friday, its first day of release,'' Gitesh...
WHAT'S UP
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amTODAYRAINBOW CONNECTION: Expect some serious Elmo-mania when the monster everyone loves to tickle (and the folks who love him) appear live onstage in "Elmo's Coloring Book." Sing along to faves...
DONNA KARAN
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amDonna Karan must be thrilled that Hillary Clinton has thrown her hat into the presidential ring. After all, this is a creator who had a woman being sworn into office...
WINTER JAM A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY IN CENTRAL PARK
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amGood news for sulky skiers and hyperactive kiddies: The forecast calls for over two-feet of snow today in Central Park. Snowbirds annoyed that global warming has put a hitch on...
CARMEN MARC VALVO
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amVanessa Williams doesn't just play a front-row kind of woman on TV--she got into character by attending Carmen Marc Valvo's show on Friday afternoon. The collection was a study in...
DENNIS BASSO
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amExcess is an understatement for what went on at Dennis Basso's first runway show on Friday afternoon. The furrier-turned designer had a room filled with a veritable Noah's Ark of...
ANNE KLEIN
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amAnne Klein alums include such big deals as Donna Karan, Richard Tyler, and most recently Charles Nolan. So the naming of Isabel Toledo, a designer with an established name and...
COSTELLO TAGLIAPIETRA
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe design duo known as Costello Tagliapietra specialize in incredibly minimalist dresses, most often made of jersey, that drape and fold around the body, pieces that seem effortless and yet...
DARFURGETIT
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amDARFUR: Still in trouble. Let's hope no one in the war-torn area was depending on the help of New York socialites and designers. Because last night's much-hyped "Designers for Darfur"...
FETCH, HEEL, ROLLED
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amMemo to Fashion Week employees: it pays to know who the big boss is. Model Dewi Dregen strutted in one of the opening looks at the Carmen Marc Valvo show...
BRAVE NEW WORLDS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amUPSIDE-down and topsy-turvy. That pretty much describes two shows playing this weekend - though the worlds they explore are poles apart. "Lookingglass Alice," newly arrived at the New Victory Theater,...
IT'S MORE STAGED, LESS FILLING
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amSTEPHEN Sondheim's "Follies" is back - and City Center Encores! has got it. Why is it this particular musical always comes off better in concert versions than in fully fledged...
'NEWS' FLASH: FOX IN 'ACTION'
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amFOX has grabbed "Action News," the highly anticipated sitcom pairing Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton. Fox has given the show a 13-episode commitment and plans to launch it in the...
JUST BITE ME!
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amWELL, he ain't your father's "Dracula," that's for sure. But he's not some futuristic creature who blows out of buildings, has blades for fingers, or has a working knowledge of...
KAT CD SELLS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00am'AMERICAN Idol" runner-up Katherine McPhee's self-titled new album, released Tuesday, had the best debut for a solo female artist since last July. But it was clobbered by Nora Jones' CD,...
THE KIDS STAY IN THE PICTURE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amTHEY'RE rolling out the red carpet again today - but don't expect Joan Rivers to be on it. Who's wearing what doesn't figure high on the list of priorities at...
HOME-ALONE FIRE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amTwo young siblings were caught in a fire after they were left alone last night at their family's Brooklyn house, leaving one of them badly burned, fire officials said. The...
'SUPREME' ESCAPES EXECUTION
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amNotorious Queens druglord and convicted killer Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff was spared execution yesterday as a federal jury gave him life in prison for planning the assassination of two enemies in...
HERO COP IN DWI BUST
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amA Bronx Emergency Service Unit sergeant lauded as a hero by Mayor Giuliani a decade ago was arrested for drunken driving yesterday, sources said. Washington Zurita, 38, was off-duty at...
'CROSS' SLASHING
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amOn direct examination, he was Fabio - exulting in sunsets, ballet, sacred Hindu texts, women as muses, and "sage green" as a great new color for his studio apartment. He...
'YOUR FALL FROM GRACE HERE HAS BEEN TOTAL.'
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amALBANY - Former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi escaped yesterday with a wrist-slap and a stern lecture about his "high level of arrogance" that lead to criminal behavior as he was...
SPITZER WANTS SILVER BOOTED
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amGov. Spitzer has "serious concerns" about Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver remaining in power, The Post has learned. Spitzer's war on fellow Democrat Silver and the Assembly escalated yesterday when those...
ALSO-RAN EYES CITY COMPTROLLER RUN
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amShunted aside by the Legislature for the state comptroller's job, Finance Commissioner Martha Stark is now considering running for city comptroller in 2009, The Post has learned. "She's thinking about...
A SAD FAREWELL TO 2 LITTLE GIRLS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amMore than 300 mourners packed a Brooklyn mosque yesterday to grieve for two little sisters who died Thursday in a fire sparked by a faulty electric space heater. The tiny,...
MANIAC KILLS MA
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amA brave Bronx mom was gunned down in the hallway outside her apartment when she dashed from her home to draw a crazed female intruder away from her helpless 2-year-old...
'FORGETFUL' RAPE SUSPECT
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amA British businessman accused of drugging and raping his personal assistant while on a trip to New York told her he is "99 percent sure" he didn't have sex with...
COLD KILLS 2ND B'KLYN WOMAN
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe bitter cold that has kept temperatures below freezing claimed its second victim, an 85-year-old woman who froze to death in her Brooklyn home, officials said yesterday. The woman, whose...
PHONY COPPER HAD HQ
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe creepy con charged with potentially scamming hundreds with his law-enforcement masquerade ran a "bureau" and employed 20 people to help him with his criminal enterprise, sources said yesterday. Henry...
3 SHOT AFTER DROPPING OFF GRANNY
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThree young men were shot outside a Hell's Kitchen building last night, cops said. Tyler Concepcion, 17, was shot in the arm and two of his friends also suffered minor...
TEEN ASSAULTED AT L.I. SCHOOL
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amA Long Island teen changing clothes after a school wrestling match was jabbed in his backside by a teammate wielding a wooden drumstick, a source close to the case said...
TASTELESS TAUNTS BY BRAINLESS 'NET BOOBS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amCruel and scathing gibes came from some corners of the Internet yesterday after the death of Anna Nicole Smith. While the traditional media largely treated the Playboy Playmate's passing with...
SEXPOT'S 3 MEN & A BABY
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe paternity fight over Anna Nicole Smith's 5-month-old daughter went from bizarre to royally insane yesterday when a judge ordered that the Playmate's voluptuous body be preserved for DNA testing...
FLA. CORONER: I'M SIMPLY STUMPED
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amAnna Nicole Smith died of either natural causes, a toxic drug cocktail or some combination of the two, a Florida coroner said yesterday as he struggled to get to the...
CARTOON EXEC'S JOB BLOWN TO BITS IN TERROR ERROR
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amTurner Broadcasting dropped the bomb on Cartoon Network general manager Jim Samples, who quit yesterday in the wake of last week's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" terror scare in Boston. In...
'HOPEFUL' BLITZ FOR 'PREZ' TRIO
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - It's Super Bowl weekend for top presidential hopefuls. Sen. Barack Obama is making his 2008 campaign official with an announcement today in his home state of Illinois, while...
FALL FROM SPACE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amIt's a long fall from rubbing elbows with the president to racing hell-bent down a highway in a dirty diaper to allegedly try to murder your crush's new squeeze. Just...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amBROOKLYN Authorities say this man has held up eight banks in Brooklyn and Manhattan since September. The note-passing thief first struck in Cobble Hill last Sept. 28, when he walked...
THIS BELLE TOLLS FOR THEE, BIMBOS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ugly death of Anna Nicole Smith should be a wake-up call to the upstart bimbo triumvirate of Paris, Lindsay and Britney. You, too, Nicole. From the hand of God,...
LOTTERY RESULTS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 515; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 6008; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 301; Lucky Sum: 4 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 2017;...
MURTHA'S THUGGISH THREATS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amPerhaps the flap over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plane wouldn't be so bad - had she and her trusty sidekick, Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), not reacted so obnoxiously. When the Pentagon...
. . . WHILE HEVESI SKATES FREE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amAlbany County Court Judge Stephen Herrick minced no words yesterday in sentencing former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi for fraud. "Your fall from grace has been total and from a very...
GONZALEZ PLEADS POVERTY...
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amEfrain Gonzalez - the Bronx state sen ator accused of looting more than $400,000 from taxpayers via a mem ber-item scam - is crying poverty. He says he's too poor...
AIR PELOSI
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amTHURSDAY morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped out of her Georgetown home and into a government-owned black Chevy Tahoe SUV. That gas-guzzler truck took her directly to the Rayburn House...
NOWAK & NASA: THE WRONG STUFF
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amI am shocked that astronauts are not psychologically tested regularly, but only when they initially join the space agency ("Lust in Space," Feb. 7). After the Lisa Nowak fiasco, perhaps...
RECORD-BREAKING COLD TESTS CASE FOR WARMING
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe U.N.-sponsored report on global warming proves that it's for real, but the Bush administration has chosen to essentially ignore it ("End the Hot Air," Editorial, Feb. 5). I guess...
EXECS BUILD FORTRESS FORTUNE AS IPO SOARS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe blow-out success of Fortress Investment Group's initial public offering added five new entrants to New York's list of billionaires yesterday, and has created a very tempting precedent for other...
500 TO GET AX AT MTV
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amViacom could lay off as many as 500 people from its MTV Networks division next week as part of a $250 million cost-cutting move, according to three sources close to...
BLACK SEEKING TO BLOCK PLEA DEAL
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amConcerned he might not get a fair trial, deposed newspaper baron Conrad Black is seeking to block his old holding company, Ravelston, from copping a plea. After a Canadian judge...
US AIR CHIEF DROWNS DELTA WOE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amWhat's a CEO supposed to do on the night his $10 billion takeover deal collapses? Get a designated driver. But that didn't occur to Doug Parker, 45, chairman and CEO...
PRIMEDIA IN $1B AUCTION
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amHenry Kravis continues to preside over the bust-up of his once-troubled Primedia empire, placing the enthusiast media group that includes Motor Trend and Automobile on the block. Industry watchers think...
SANTOS OUT OF HOSPITAL
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amMike Luzzi booted three home in front, C.C. Lopez had a two-bagger, and Hall of Famer Frank "Panco" Martin saddled a pair of winners at age 81. Jose Santos, who...
'ROMAN' TRUE TRIPLE THREAT
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amSeveral Kentucky Derby precedents have been broken over the past few years: Funny Cide's victory in 2003 made him the first New York-bred to win the roses; the following year,...
BULLS GRAB 5TH GOALIE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe Red Bulls acquired goalie Nick Rimando from Real Salt Lake yesterday in exchange for future considerations. The Bulls now have five goalkeepers, and it remains to be seen if...
AUSTIN CAN'T LIFT JASPERS OVER THE TOP
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amDevon Austin's line in the box score doesn't read as if his team lost. He had 38 points, eight rebounds, three steals, and was a perfect 7-of-7 from the line....
SPORTS SHORTS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amGOLF: Tiger out of NissanTiger Woods didn't enter the Nissan Open at Riviera next week, putting on hold his seven-tournament winning streak on the PGA Tour until the Accenture Match...
LU' & BEHOLD
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - Defeats don't normally elevate a boxer's career, but Luis Collazo made a name for himself last May in losing his WBA welterweight title to Ricky Hatton in...
DEFENSE LEADS ISLES' PUSH FOR PLAYOFFS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThe Islanders face off against the mediocre Bruins in Boston tonight looking to rebound from a 2-0 loss to the Devils on Thursday. The defeat snapped the Islanders' streak of...
STEPH: ISIAH'S DOLAN'S DECISION
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Stephon Marbury said the whole team wants Isiah Thomas back next season - but Marbury is not about to tell owner James Dolan what to do...
STEVIEKNICKS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Knicks hit the West tonight and Steve Francis is likely to hit the court. For better or worse. After a five-week absence to rehab his...
METS VISIT PARK PLACE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amLast week's development regarding Mets pitcher Dave Williams prompted this week's development with Chan Ho Park. Yesterday the Mets signed Park, a right-hander, agreeing to a one-year major-league deal for...
NETS HIT BENCHMARKS
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amBOSTON - Once again, the bench was huge for the Nets. And once again, Marcus Williams was huge off the bench. Williams scored 17 points - his seventh double-figure game...
MASS. DESTRUCTION
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amBOSTON - The Nets insisted they were not worried about being the potential victims of the Celtics putting an end to their franchise-record losing streak. Take one look at the...
LIGHT'S OUT
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThese were desperate times for the Rangers, an 11th-place team going in the wrong direction and time already at a premium. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Desperate times call...
CASE OF BERN OUT
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amBernie Williams last night threw a wet blanket on the Yankees' belief he would accept a minor-league contract and an invitation to spring training. Speaking before performing at a benefit...
HANK NEVER THOUGHT IN BLACK AND WHITE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amIN 1955, when the time finally had come to integrate the Yankees, Hank Bauer came through in the clutch - like he did so many times during his 14-year major-league...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 10, 2007 | 10:00amThere's nothing like a cold one at the end of a long day's escape from prison. Montana con Richard Sparks busted out of jail and tried to make his getaway...