February 11, 2007
Losing their late-game bravado
By MARC BERMANLOS ANGELES - There have been very few times this season you could have used this word about these Knicks, but it is what happened last night in...
Family Ties
Pity the late Anna Nicole Smith's poor little daughter Danielynn even more if it turns out that Prince Frederick von Anhalt's paternity claim turns out to be true. Not only...
Harvey and Bob's Big Bet
One of the spring's more anticipated films is "Grindhouse,'' a loving double-feature simulation of '70s exploition movies from, who else, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodgriguez. Variety reports the Weinstein's most...
Murphy's Slide
For all the talk (here and everywhere else) about Eddie Murphy's chances for an Oscar being hurt by "Norbit'' and his SAG and Golden Globe acceptance speeches, it's worth noting...
Taking Him for Granted
The funniest speech I've ever heard at a movie event was at a press conference for the first Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. It was given by Hugh Grant, whose...
War Front: The WWII Game Where The Germans Aren't Always The Bad Guys
The video game industry has been obsessed with World War II for a long time. The reasons are simple and obvious, but one of them is also a bit lazy:...
GENDER GAP'S DUE TO MORE GUYS THAN GALS
Chess AN article in the current issue of Psychological Science tackles the mystery of the vast disproportion between male and female masters - and finds the reason is simply that...
SHOWHOUNDS
FORGET "Top Model," "Top Chef" and "Top Design." Tomorrow and Tuesday, Madison Square Garden officially goes to the dogs for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, where dozens of champion...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: I recently had my newly adopted cat spayed. The day after, she immediately went into heat. The vet performed an ultrasound, which showed nothing. I have had...
ADOPT ME
Lilly is a doe-eyed Tabby, just over a year old. Even though this youngster suffered an amputation, she's still playful and very sweet. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4...
HOT SEAT
Entertainment Weekly surprised a lot of people last year when they declared the Wayanses the most powerful family in Hollywood - and backed that up by stating that Wayans associated...
HOT LIST
1. Being a baby momma Yes, that's right! Nonstop club hoppin' notwithstanding, Britney Spears really is a mom - she was spotted feeding older son Sean Preston, with a bottle,...
LADIES FIGHT
With the sole exception of Nintendo Wii's "Red Steel," I'm a total newbie spaz when it comes to first- and third-person shooter games like X-Box 360's "Gears of War." Before...
FRISKY BUSINESS
IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY, and for those in a relationship, it's a time to celebrate romance, togetherness and commitment. For everyone else, it's Wednesday. And whether you're spending the holiday with...
MISSIONARY
OVER the past 20 years, Ron Jeremy's built a reputation as the hairy everyman of porn, known not only for the size of his member but also his domination of...
CHANGING OF THE GARB
USUALLY, FASHION WEEK is a time to envy a designer's line and the fashion savviness of the A-list crowd that attends their shows, like Sarah Jessica's bohemian chic, Jennifer Aniston's...
OUTSIDE WANTS IN
Like his music, John Mayer flips between his cerebral Dr. Jekyll and his gritty Mr. Hyde. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter is certainly best known for his emotionally gentle pop songs such...
MADE-FOR-TV MUSIC
Now that your TV has edged out radio as the best place to hear good new music, it shouldn't be a surprise that many of tonight's Grammy-nominated songs were featured...
BEYONCÉ, BARKLEY & MORE
For years, the Grammys were an endurance test, making the most devoted music fans doze off. But even the sleepiest Grammy broadcast manages to have a surprise or two -...
FOR GRANTED
'Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know," Ernest Hemingway once said. If that's true, Hugh Grant is a bona fide genius. Despite his fame and wealth, the...
REAL CLASS ACT
IT'S a bit odd to find out that American teen comedies from the 1980s resonated not only with audiences in the United States, but around the world, as well. And...
DUTCH TREAT
FORGET Sundance, which long ago lost its creative edge. The hottest happening in chilly January is the Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands. You won't find a red carpet, publicists...
'TOP DESIGN'
He considers himself more Paula Abdul than Simon Cowell. More sympathetic than snarling. And for celebrated interior designer Jonathan Adler -- one of three judges on Bravo's new reality contest,...
REEL GOOD
LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD (2006) Sunday, 2:20 p.m., MAX The U.S. government sends a comedian, Albert Brooks, abroad to discover what makes Muslims laugh in India and...
DRESSED FOR SUCCESS
It's all about bubble wrap this week on "Ugly Betty." ABC's latest stroke of marketing genius in promoting the Golden Globe-winning series, which has included the deployment of over a...
FREQUENT FLIERS' RERUN
When host Phil Keoghan first heard the concept for the upcoming installment of "The Amazing Race," he thought it was a terrible idea. "The Amazing Race: All-Stars"? No way. That...
'FRONTLINE' DOC PROBES 9/11 CONTROVERSY
It gets awfully confusing. Last week, on the New York Times' half-owned Discovery Times cable network, a compelling documentary, "Why Intelligence Fails," was broadcast. In it, the filmmakers provided evidence...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
DOCUMENTARY The Big Easy After seeing the endless footage of Hurricane Katrina, people are probably in the mood for a show that celebrates the distinct culture of New Orleans, not...
GRAMMY NOMINEES HELP CBS GET HIP
Mary J. Blige, Nelly Furtado, Kid Rock: It's not the line-up of performers for tonight's Grammys, it's a list of top-notch musical performers that are turning in cameo performances on...
SYNDICATORS SILENCE TALK SHOWS
Talk shows. They're dropping like flies. Syndicators are swatting away the new daytime talk shows. The latest to bite the dust is "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show," the third -...
KILLER COCKTAILS
DEATH & Company may sound like an HBO spinoff of "Six Feet Under," but it's actually a fiercely hot new cocktail lounge in the East Village. Since opening in January,...
REILLY, 29, AND JOHNSON, 43
JAN. 13 - Newlyweds Matthew Johnson and Tricia Reilly had the kind of destination wedding dreams are made of - or at least their dreams. Johnson, who owns Sushi Samba,...
FELLNER, 31, AND KANG, 26
DEC. 9 - Karen Kang and Henry Fellner opted to put aside their religious leanings for no-fuss nuptials. "I'm Catholic and he's Jewish, so we didn't want to have anything...
MULLIN, 28, AND OUTHWAITE, 32
NOV. 18 - Nothing spells romance like an exotic locale and a handsome tour guide. Stacey Mullin, a management consultant at financial service company Mercer Oliver Wyman, first met John...
OBERMAN, 25, AND TRIPP, 29
DEC. 16 - Though the most memorable event of Liza Oberman's wedding day was exchanging vows with Noel Tripp, another memorable moment for the bride was finally meeting her childhood...
FULTON, 29, AND WHITE, 28
DEC. 9 - The night Kate White met Ian Fulton during a night out with friends in 2003, she realized that true love is worth waiting for - literally. "He...
FITZ'S CURIOUS PROSECUTION
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has finished presenting his case against former vice presidential chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby - and nothing we've seen in the past three weeks has...
MIKE'S TIN EAR
Nearly two full weeks into a fiasco solely of its own making, the Bloomberg administration is seemingly content that the calls from frustrated parents over the bus mess have dropped...
LIBBY & THE LEAK
THE judge in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of Lewis Libby is trying mightily to keep courtroom pro ceedings focused on the narrow question of whether Libby lied...
BEYOND REAGANISM
IN this winter of their discontents, nostalgia for Ronald Reagan has become for many conservatives a substitute for thinking. This mental paralysis - gratitude decaying into idolatry - is sterile:...
PELOSI'S FLYING HIGH IN POSITION OF POWER
THE ISSUE: Speaker Nancy Pelosi's request for a government-funded personal jet. The truth is out: The Democrats want to slash funds for the soldiers in Iraq so that House Speaker...
UFT'S COOKIE JAR
Though I'm a big fan of chocolate chips, Thomas W. Carroll's ideas on charter schools are half-baked ("Randi Wants All the Cookies," PostOpinion Feb. 6). If proponents think that charter...
CHRISTIANS' GIFT TO THE JEWS
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: AMERICAN JEWS, CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS, AND ONE MAN'S EXPLORATION OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL JUDEO-EVANGELICAL ALLIANCEBY ZEV CHAFETSHARPERCOLLINS, 231 PAGES, $24.95 A RECENT review argued that...
MIDDLE CLASSIC
POSITIVELY AMERICAN: WINNING BACK THE MIDDLE-CLASS MAJORITY ONE FAMILY AT A TIMEBY CHUCK SCHUMERRODALE BOOKS, 288 PAGES, $24.95 MORE than a century ago, Mr. Dooley - a fictional Chicago bartender...
BETTER THAN A 'REAL JOB'
GRINDHOPPING: BUILD A REWARDING CAREER WITHOUT PAYING YOUR DUESBY LAURA VANDERKAMMCGRAW-HILL, 224 PAGES, $16.95 IS avoiding the corporate rat race the more conservative career route? Laura Vanderkam, author of "Grindhopping,"...
GRAY'S ANATOMY
Midway through Blackstone's bid to buy the country's largest commercial landlord, Jonathan Gray got some bad news. The 37-year-old head of the investment firm's U.S. real estate operation learned his...
ZELL'S THE CANNIEST $6B MAN
Investors in Equity Office Properties ought to thank the company's billionaire founder Sam Zell for putting nearly $6 billion in their pockets in less than two months. The 65-year-old real...
DIAMOND DOUBTING
Thousands of men will pop the question on Valentine's Day, give their beloved a pricey diamond ring and begin to plan a wedding. But many will never reach the altar....
IT'S 'ILK' LIKE ME THAT KEEPS AN EYE ON BIG OIL
Dear John: Why don't you ever write a column approximating how many hundreds of billions of dollars are lost by oil companies when their drilling and exploration come up dry?...
FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
Go to the top of the Empire State Building this Valentine's Day and count how many men are down on one knee. Blech! So cliché, gentlemen. Congratulations on your engagement,...
NHL TAKES SHOT WITH NEW ADS
Nearly two years after a season-long work stoppage nearly killed the sport and 12 months after a spike in interest greeted hockey's return, the National Hockey League is battling to...
'OBIT' FIX
The soon-to-launch Obit magazine is an independent project of Robert and Barbara Hillier and not affiliated with The Hillier Group. Also, the magazine does not have any agreements with several...
QUICK DRAW JEFF
GENERAL Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt was quick (perhaps too quick) this week to deny reports in this paper and on the Internet that he might sell or spin off his...
ROBISON BOOK DUE IN SEPTEMBER
The much-buzzed about memoir by John Robison, "Look Me in the Eye," about the author's lifelong battle to live with Asperger Syndrome, is slated to hit shelves in September, the...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSBOB IGER Disney chief sees Q1 profits double, propelled by sales of last year's best-selling DVDs, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Cars."SAM ZELL Head of EOP squeezes...
FULL SPEED AHEAD
Toyota is taking its Tundra truck for a spin in Ford territory. Ford is the "official truck of Nascar," but that isn't stopping its foreign rival from targeting American auto...
HEAVE-HO FOR HOTEL HELLS
There's no room for these inns. That's the message the city wants to send to illegal hotels popping up all over Manhattan. A coalition of elected officials will today announce...
ELIOT'S 9 SURGICAL STRIKES
It's closing time. The Spitzer administration has signed death warrants to begin phasing out nine underused hospitals - and orders to downsize dozens of others - as part of a...
MIKE TO NEW MOMS: NURSE FOR 6 MONTHS
Now that he has weaned New Yorkers off smoking and trans fats, Mayor Bloomberg is launching a multimillion-dollar good-parenting campaign that includes a push to put more newborns to the...
COP-SHOOT HUBBY'S NYPD WIFE BUSTED
A Brooklyn policewoman was arrested last night and charged with trying to stash a bullet-riddled car her parolee husband drove home after shooting a plainclothes cop yesterday, police sources said....
TEEN JERK'S OBSESSION IS 2 DIE 4
Linda was just out of eighth grade when her boyfriend, a high school grad, began text-messaging her more than 75 times a day. The pretty freshman from Washington Heights -...
CRASH DEPOSITS CAR INTO BANK
A Midtown collision with a yellow taxi sent a Honda Civic careening into the lobby of a closed Bank of New York branch yesterday afternoon. Witnesses said the northbound cab...
ASTRO-NUT'S HARD FALL A CASH-LANDING FOR KID
A New Jersey toddler is set to benefit financially from space cadet Lisa Nowak's fall from grace. Eighteen-month-old Nathan Horvitz of Jersey City has more than $10,000 toward his college...
CONNELLY'S HUBBY IN DUST-UP AT CHIC BAR
The man who played murderous albino monk Silas in "The Da Vinci Code" brought a bit of his character to an exclusive Village restaurant when he lost his cool and...
CHINATOWN COP HIT WITH KID-PERV RAP
An NYPD cop was nabbed and charged with sex abuse in Chinatown after "kissing" a teenager over and over, cops said yesterday. Officer Robert Friedrich, 31, was arrested at the...
SPITZER TARGETS ENEMY'S HIDDEN SILVER TREASURE
In his ongoing attack on sleazy Albany politics, Gov. Spitzer said yesterday that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver should disclose the salary he pockets as an attorney for a major personal-injury...
TESTY POL GETS 'F' IN FISCAL ED.
He's clueless. Three days into the job as state comptroller - a position demanding financial decisions that affect the pension funds of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers - former...
ISIAH IGNORING N.Y.-BASED SON
The estranged love child of Isiah Thomas has moved to the city and is living less than a mile from his absentee dad's home court, but father and son might...
HEIR SUES FOR BITE OF CHIPWICH
Talk about a meltdown. Seagram's fortune heir Matthew Bronfman is suing the inventors of the Chipwich, claiming the cookie ice-cream sandwich entrepreneurs froze him out when they sold the company...
KID COURAGE HOME
The young Little League pitcher who captured a town's heart after he was almost killed by a line drive returned home yesterday to a major-league welcome. Nearly 35 family and...
TOT'S GREAT SAVE
A 5-year-old boy whose baby brother was trapped alone in a burning apartment became a hero when he ran into the halls of their Brooklyn building and got the help...
GALLAGHER'S BURNS AT THE STEAK
A small electrical fire tore through the front of the landmark Gallagher's Steakhouse last night, clearing out the famed eatery's dinnertime crowd and ruining its pricey stock of aged beef,...
APPLE'S ACES OF HEART
When it comes to Valentine's Day romance, New York is a city of infinite possibilities. But the city's ultimate power couples say the quest for romance can be a tangled...
OF NOTE: BANK STICKUPS DROP
Armed bank robbery in New York City plummeted by 40 percent last year to the lowest level since 2001 as thieves increasingly wielded notes rather than guns to demand a...
'FUHRER' OVER ART AUCTION
A valuable Impressionist painting lost in the Nazi conquest of France has resurfaced on the auction block at Sotheby's - but descendants of the owners may have missed the chance...
'MY DEAD SON WAS CALLING ME'
Anna Nicole Smith was tormented by dreams of her son, Daniel, and had slipped into a deep depression since his death five months ago, she revealed in her last interview....
MAD 'DADDY' IN HEIR RAID
Howard K. Stern, the man listed as the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter on her birth certificate, swooped into the Bahamas yesterday to hold the baby girl at the...
STERN'S MURKY, 1-CLIENT CAREER
Howard K. Stern, the pseudo-husband blamed for Anna Nicole Smith's death by her family, is a mysterious figure who emerged from nowhere to take control of her life - and...
DRUG BUST FOR SON OF SANIT BIG
The namesake son of Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty - himself a sanitation worker - better clean up his own act after being arrested for possession of crack and marijuana,...
OBAMA: COUNT ME IN
Outside the building where Abraham Lincoln began his fight against slavery, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama yesterday officially launched his bid to become the nation's first black president, vowing to end...
RUDY'S CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rudy Giuliani sounded like a GOP cheerleader yesterday in a keynote address to the California Republican convention. In his first campaign swing since filing a statement of...
HILL ON THE GRILL IN N.H. SWING
BERLIN, N.H. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was repeatedly peppered with voter questions about the war in Iraq yesterday during her first Granite State trip in a decade. The Democratic...
FEDS SOUR ON 'SPICE' GUARDS
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham won't be able to bring her eight-man security detail to the United States when she moves here this year with her soccer-playing hubby, David - because...
NYPD BLOTTER
QUEENS An Ozone Park man was charged with forcing himself on an underage girl, authorities said yesterday. Nabel Diaz, 24, sexually assaulted the 15-year-old inside his 88th Street home at...
PAYBACK TIME FOR FIRED ACS WORKER
A CITY caseworker who missed work for six years while bat tling disciplinary charges has been vindicated in a searing decision that awarded him his job back - and more...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 488; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 3087; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 399; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 6989;...
SEN. BARACK OBAMA'S SPEECH
Text of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's speech, as prepared for delivery Saturday in Springfield, Ill., and released by his campaign, in which he announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination...
HOT AS A PISTOL
THEY are talking about Pistol Pete again, which is as it should be, of course, if you know anything about the history of American basketball, if you care about that,...
GETTIN' BACK IN THE SWING
IF BARRY Bonds is the never-ending blight on baseball, here is the blessing: spring training is upon us and optimism abounds throughout the sport. And this is not just that...
STALWARTS & SPOIL SPORTS
It takes all kinds of New York professional sports personalities to keep us loving and hating them so passionately. Here, for the 11th straight year, is The Post's Best and...
PIAZZA ONE PROUD POP
HE'S A 12-time All- Star, has slugged two World Series home runs, has hit more homers than any catcher in major league history and is headed straight to the Hall...
FANS FIGHT BACK
IF WE were to think abused sports fans are limited to big-market and/or big-league towns, we'd be big-time wrong. One by one, right-headed fans are feeling it, being pushed closer...
CAP OVERFLOW
WASHINGTON - After an initial hard-cap sea son that was followed by Ted Saskin's decision to adopt an artificially low $44 million upper limit for 2006-07, it appears as if...
TURKEY PROJECTS CRUCIAL
THE New York State Depart ment of Enviromental Conser vation is preparing for the second field season of two large-scale wild turkey research projects. The first project is a turkey...
SHAKIN' BAKE
Gerry McNamara knows what he wants and he doesn't care where he has to go to find it. The former Syracuse guard wants a shot at the NBA. He's already...
MOSLEY WHIPS UP ON COLLAZO
LAS VEGAS - Shane Mosley says he wants to become the dominant fighter in the welterweight division. No one is about to argue with him after his performance last night...
HALL FOULS OUT AGAINST 'NOVA
John Garcia looked down the Seton Hall bench after teammate Paul Gause fouled out of yesterday's game with 1:26 to go and saw no one there. "I didn't know the...
STORM SURGING
SYRACUSE - There must be some irony to the fact that the St. John's Red Storm plays at Syracuse today after what they are referring to as "The Great Storm...
VAC'S WHACKS
I like Peyton Manning and all, and I'm happy that he got that big, old monkey off his back. But that vote for Super Bowl MVP was more fixed than...
THE RUMBLE
Maria's look is in Vogue Teen mag celebrates 'anti-model' Powerhouse Vogue editor Anna Wintour will throw a party Tuesday in Manhattan for reigning U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova to celebrate...
GOLD SUB-STANDARD
* It's becoming apparent Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist loves Sweden more than the NHL. He has ranked in the bottom 10 percent of starting goaltenders since he won the gold...
SUMMER DOLDRUMS WINS WHIRLAWAY
Summer Doldrums, coming off 81/2-length romp over inner dirt track in his first start of year, made it two straight in $65,000 Whirlaway Stakes, Triple Crown prep at mile-and-sixteenth. Taking...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: U.S. takes Davis Cup lead In Ostrava, Czech Republic, Bob and Mike Bryan beat Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 yesterday in doubles on the red clay,...
DEVS PUSH AWAY CAP CONCERNS
The salary cap never goes away, and it will still hamstring the Devils next season, unless Lou Lamoriello suddenly snaps and breaks up his gangbusters in the next 16 days....
HORROR SHOW
SALT LAKE CITY - With owner James Dolan watching in horror, the Knicks lost their wind and choked in the altitude of Utah. This was nearly a great, great win...
SCOTT STILL MUM ON HIS DAZE IN APPLE
SALT LAKE CITY - Nobody is looking forward to the All-Star Break more than former Knicks GM Scott Layden. "We'll have a nice family reunion," Layden said last night at...
TEAM FOR THE AGES
Joining the pitchers and catchers this week in Port St. Lucie will pressure, the kind of pressure that wasn't there before. Last season, the Mets made the playoffs for the...
OFF THE BENCH
The Nets' starting rotation is bruised and battered, but their bench is doing just fine. The Nets defeated Orlando 93-78 last night in front of 18,657 fans at the Meadowlands...
SWAMP EXODUS
IF IT'S not already a living lock, the time has come, the walrus says, for the 24-27 Nets to make a command decision - today, not tomorrow, not next week...
'FIX' DOESN'T FOIL RANGERS
WASHINGTON - Maybe before the next game the Caps play in their home arena the NHL will do something about the apparently rigged carpentry work on the boards at the...
FUTURE IS NOW
Sexy issues constantly smother the Yankees universe. Big-ticket talent has a way of bringing them with it. However, it's hard to recall a recent spring training in Tampa that will...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...ANDY PETTITTE
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the left-hander who returns to the Yankees after three seasons with the Astros: Q: Best piece of advice from Roger Clemens? A: How to...
O'NEILL FEELS FOR BERNIE, UNDERSTANDS DECISION
More than anything else, Paul O'Neill sounded philosophical when talking about what appears to be the end of Bernie Williams' career as a Yankee. No matter how great a player...
FAMILY TIES
BASEBALL can make time stand still. On Friday, it will be 1961 all over again for Roger Maris' family. On that day at Roger Maris Field in Gainesville, Fla., Randy...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This guy should be charged with DWI - driving with iPod. Ryan Engle's tractor-trailer tipped over as he adjusted his digital music player, spilling 40 tons of cow intestines and...
MEET MARKET
AS far as attraction goes, for Michelle there's no point in beating around the bush. How can a guy tell if she's into him? "He'll know," she says. And if...
A MISMATCHED PAIR
SHE likes to party, he doesn't drink. He'd try escargot, she only wants to stick with salad. There was no denying that Cory, a 29-year-old landscape architect, and Katie, a...
HOW I WON MY SWEETIE BACK
When it comes to begging forgiveness, some people will do just about anything for love. We salute them with these awards!The "Keep It Under Raps" Award "I had a fight...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: I'm not dating anyone but I am stuck with a feeling of sadness. The hardest part of a relationship is letting go. I recently fell for a...
So many questions
Of course there are more than five Yankee issues that are in Sunday's Post. After you get by Joe Torre, Alex Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera, Carl Pavano and Kei Igawa the...
Rookie ball
It was interesting last spring how many baseball people I talked to â notably scouts â who would come back from watching the Tigers with wondrous words about Justin Verlander...