February 13, 2007
Postcard from L.A.
By MARC BERMANLOS ANGELES - Knicks superfan Spike Lee attended the Knicks morning shootaround at UCLA and will be near Jack Nicholson tonight, courtside at Staples Center. He flew in...
A Modest Proposal
Everyone is on to Britney about putting on some knickers. But the real issue is that she seems to be buying clothing for herself circa 2002 and looking like she's...
Life Without Mo
Jorge Posada represents the passion Yankee players have for Mariano Rivera.Add Posada to the long list of Yankees who understand life without Mariano Rivera isn't something they are looking forward...
Ghost Whiners
Well, my invitation to Thursday night's premiere of "Ghost Rider'' at the E-Walk has finally arrived...and I think I'll wait until after it opens. My intrepid colleague Kyle Smith, though,...
Cops Rock
CBS seems to have the police beat covered: It captured the top five cop shows for the week of Feb. 5 - 11. NBC's "Law and Order: SVU" nabbed sixth...
Hounddog Followup
Talk about hiding your light under a bushel. Consider yesterday's press release about Deborah Kampmeier -- whose widely-derided Sundance shocker "Hounddog'' is still without a distributor -- winning a free...
DAY 4: SIGNS OF THE TIME
OK, I told you that it is hard to go 25-for-25 in picking the roster for Opening Day on the first day of spring training.Already, my picks feel outdated. The...
"Idol" Sings: Top Ten Prime-Time Network Shows
Ratings for Feb. 5 - 11, 2007From Nielsen Media Research"Idol" stays on top.1. "American Idol" Tuesday (FOX) 33,356,0002. "American Idol" Wednesday (FOX) 27,909,0003. "Grey's Anatomy" Thursday (ABC) 25,197,0004. "House" (FOX)...
Rivera Report
By GEORGE KINGTAMPA - The thought of Mariano Rivera leaving the Yankees before his Hall of Fame skills erode has to make Yankee fans shake from head to toe. For...
To Do: Visit Dubuque
"Do you really think people think Larry King is a movie critic?" he asks. "Come on! I'm the guy on CNN who liked the movie. I mean, after Roger Ebert,...
Oscar Bounce
As this dismal season for ticket sales shows, studios can no longer count on using Golden Globe wins and Oscar nominations to sell their movies. The biggest and happiest exception...
'Borat' Meets 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
There's been much speculation about Sacha Baron Cohen's followup to "Borat.'' But now it appears that film's director, Larry Charles, isn't through with courting controversy. Footage from an untitled, Charles-directed...
DAY 4: CAMP OPENS, TRY THIS GAME
Today is not only the first day of spring training, but often a long and boring one. You get to Legends Field nice and early, around 8 a.m., and essentially...
Strange Bedfellows
Well, it turns out that far-fetched report I linked to the other day about Tom Cruise co-starring with Ben Stiller in the action comedy "The Hardy Men'' is true. Though,...
YOU CUBED
THE Eiffel Tower looms large in the background, and the Seine is at your fingertips. In fact, you can almost smell Paris, as long as Jeanie Ahn orders French takeout...
THE BODEGA BOUQUET
IT is the last refuge of the desperate or the cheap, $20 that keeps you off the couch. Strapped by a cheap rubber band, wrapped in cellophane, destined to die...
POLICE WALK THE BEAT
It's almost like ... synchronicity. Surprising no one, the Police announced yesterday that the band is reuniting for a tour - the day after the group ripped through "Roxanne" to...
2 JEWS, 2 VIEWS, 1 STAR
WILLIAM Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta" are both 16th-century dramas featuring revengeful Jewish moneylenders as central characters. That's about all the similarity you'll...
STARR REPORT
Re-'Coop'-erating Former "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper" star Mark Curry tells Montel Williams on Thursday's show (4 p.m./ Ch. 9) about the horrific burns he received last spring after an accident...
KENNEL CLUB SNUB
IT'S not fair and it's not right - that damned Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show I mean. Every year at this time, hundreds and hundreds of poufed-up, blow-dried, clipped-tailed, pedicured,...
'MUSICAL' KIDS BACK ON BOARD
A crisis seems to have been averted on the set of "High School Musical 2." The film's entire cast is intact and production is underway in Utah, a Disney rep...
RESCUE ME
LAST night's two-hour episode of "24" raised the bar on the show's trademark violence - drilling it home in a big way. "24" upped the ante from knives, electrical wires...
ASTRO-NUT MOVIE ON LAUNCH PAD
PUT the Huggies away - a TV movie about diaper-wearing "Astro-Nut" Lisa Nowak has been shelved for now. Granada America says it was "premature" in announcing a deal last Thursday...
ANNA NICOLE EQUALS RATINGS
BREATHLESS coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith boosted the ratings of celebrity newsmagazines like "Access Hollywood" and "Entertainment Tonight" last Thursday and Friday. Syndicated celebrity mags watched their...
NEW PILL PACKS MORE THAN A MEAL'S WORTH OF PUNCH
SO many foods that are so good for us - kale, soy, green tea, blueberries, red wine - but how to fit it all into a normal diet? Don't you...
A POSSIBLE SHOT AT ETERNAL YOUTH
THE search for the fountain of youth is an old one, but it looks like scientists may just have found the real deal, at the tip of a syringe. No,...
FDNY HAS $$ CURE FOR WTC WOES
Thousands of sick World Trade Center rescue workers - including firefighters and paramedics - will get free prescription drugs to help treat their medical conditions, the FDNY said yesterday. Fire...
CITY IN FOR A SNOW BELT TONIGHT
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your shovels. A snowstorm could dump up to six inches on the metropolitan area tonight. That's good news for hardware stores, where snowblowers and the like...
A 'LYING' COP'S 'SORRY' EXCUSE
The disgraced Brooklyn cop accused of trying to shield her husband after he allegedly shot an officer whined a "sorry" apology yesterday - but the irate dad of the wounded...
SHE HAS KNACK FOR PICKING MR. WRONG
She was the quintessential dutiful daughter growing up in the poor immigrant section of Brooklyn's trendy Park Slope. When her devoutly religious parents ordered her to Catholic school, pretty Jacqueline...
SILVER BACKS BUMPING UP N.Y. PRIMARY
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver believes pushing New York's presidential primary up by a month - and potentially boosting the campaigns of home-state candidates Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...
DINAPOLI 'FAILS' TO IMPRESS STAFF
ALBANY - Employees of the State Comptroller's Office were appalled yesterday that their new boss, Thomas DiNapoli, flunked a pop quiz on the basics of his job. "A lot of...
BRUNO: DREAM ON, GOV
ALBANY - Senate Republican Leader Joseph Bruno accused Gov. Spitzer of "hallucinating" in thinking he can engineer a Democratic takeover of the Senate and urged him to stop acting like...
GOPER BLAMES ELIOT (& BUSH)
ALBANY - Badly bruised state GOP boss Joseph Mondello is blaming a "wildly popular" Gov. Spitzer and an "extraordinarily unpopular" President Bush for the Republican Party's defeat in last week's...
HEAVEN'S GATE LOCKS CHANGED
The New York Archdiocese yesterday put new locks on a side door and a bathroom of an East Harlem church where a group of parishioners are holding a sit-in to...
MOVING STORY
Refusing to send her 5- and 6-year-olds to school on a city bus one more day, a Queens waitress arranged to pack up and move to a new apartment in...
N.J. HEIST BAGS 193G
Two bandits stole a hefty $193,000 from a bank in New Jersey yesterday, cops said. No one was injured during the huge heist, which took place around 5:30 p.m. in...
L.I. TEEN: BELL MADE ME TACO ILL
A 16-year-old boy says he suffered "severe and permanent personal injuries" after eating food from a Long Island Taco Bell. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, James Robinson, of...
CITY BOOSTS HS TESTS FOR SEX DISEASE
About 40,000 city high-school students will be offered voluntary, confidential urine tests next year to detect two sexually transmitted diseases - double the current number who are offered tests, The...
NOSY CONDO SUIT
Subway's bread may be fresh, but it stinks to high heaven, residents of an Upper East Side condo claim. The condo has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the downstairs Subway...
SEX SLAVE TRIAL
An alleged sex-torture victim consented to shocking S&M acts, finally objecting only because she feared online pictures of them would derail her dream of becoming a city schoolteacher, a lawyer...
BILL COSBY A DOG STAR
Bill Cosby has been one of TV's top dogs - and now his dog is top terrier. Cosby's canine, Harry, won the popular terrier group at the Westminster Kennel Club...
CALL FOR DIGITAL CAM IN COP CARS
A Queens lawmaker wants the city to outfit NYPD squad cars with digital cameras to help cops fight domestic violence. Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) has written to Council Speaker Christine...
HOW FIRE HEROES SAVED TOTS
A little girl's smile was all the reward a group of modest FDNY heroes needed after saving 2-year-old twins from a burning Harlem building, they said yesterday. After learning the...
DR. MIKE'S RX FOR U.S.
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg - maybe he should be called "Dr. Bloomberg" - came to Washington yesterday, sounding like a stern physician as he delivered his health remedies to the...
'MUST SEE' TIKI
Giants great Tiki Barber is joining NBC Sports and NBC News, the network will announce today. The telegenic Barber, 31, will become a correspondent for the "Today" show and will...
GIULIANI: I'M IN IT TO WIN IT
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday he's "100 percent committed" to a White House bid and wasted no time taking a shot at potential foe Sen....
OBAMA'S WIFE RIPS HIS FOES
WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama has lashed out at her husband's 2008 rivals for peddling "baseless claims" against him - including charges that "he is not black enough, he is not...
A DETOX STAY WITH BABE ON WAY: EX
NASSAU, Bahamas - Doomed vixen Anna Nicole Smith checked into a drug-detox program while she was pregnant, her former boyfriend claims in explosive court papers. Larry Birkhead claims the Playboy...
SMITH 'SEX BRIBE'
Anna Nicole Smith had a fling with the Bahamian immigration minister to protect everything dear to her - her baby daughter, the hundreds of millions the child could inherit, and...
LAZY PET LOVERS SAY: HELLO, POLLY
It's a pet lover's dream: A bird that you don't have to clean up after or worry about flying out the window. All it takes is four AA batteries. Expected...
BUSH FETES SUBWAY HERO
WASHINGTON - New York subway hero Wesley Autrey was honored by President Bush yesterday alongside prominent black sports, cultural and political figures at the White House yesterday. Autrey, 50, a...
NEW RAPE CLAIM JOLTS DUKE UNIV.
Duke University is embroiled in another sexual-assault scandal after an 18-year-old woman told police she was raped over the weekend at an off-campus party. According to investigators, the woman is...
MALL MASSACRE
A shotgun-toting madman randomly killed five shoppers in a Utah mall last night before he was finally gunned down by an off-duty cop, police said. Another four people were hospitalized...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* Police are asking for the public's help in finding this Bedford-Stuyvesant boy (pictured), who has been missing since Saturday morning. Albert Devoe, 12, was last seen at his Pacific...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 222; Lucky Sum: 6 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 3068; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 242; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 2332;...
PYONGYANG'S PROGRESS
The tentative deal announced yesterday to begin disarming North Korea's nuclear weapons program is indeed "a step forward," as described by chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill. But just how big...
BARACK'S BLUNDER
Sen. Barack Obama, all of 25 months removed from the Illinois state legislature, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States on Saturday - and immediately began trading...
CREEPY KIM'S CRIMINAL CASH
WHILE U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill struggled in Beijing to cut a diplomatic de-nuclearization deal with the regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, some of us here in...
A PUTRID PAYOFF
FOR decades, intelligence agencies have assured the world that Kim Jong Il, the dictator of North Korea, is a psychopathic lunatic with a massive collection of pornography and a habit...
PUTIN'S PIQUE
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin went off on the United States and the West this past weekend in a keynote at a German security conference, claiming Washington and its European allies...
NEW YORK NEEDS SPITZER TO DRAIN SILVER'S POWER
THE ISSUE: Gov. Spitzer's concern with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver remaining in office. "Spitzer Wants Silver Booted" (Feb. 10)? It's about time. This fossil has been around much too long!P.J....
ON TRACK IN ST. LOUIS
The people quoted in "Total Wa$te On & Off the Road" (Feb. 4) are the people actually responsible for St. Louis' public-school system's demise. When a $70 million budget deficit...
PIRATES FLAGGED
MySpace.com's newly unveiled technology to block pirated video clips from showing up on its popular social-networking Web site is bound to send shock waves through rival YouTube. YouTube has come...
JEFFERIES' 'PARTY' BOSS GETS THE BOOT
Jefferies & Co. sent a longtime executive packing last week as it continues to clean house in the wake of its involvement in a travel and entertainment scandal with Fidelity...
WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM ANNA NICOLE SMITH
WHENEVER someone dies unexpectedly like Anna Nicole Smith, the first thing investigators look at is, who stands to gain? If that criterion were applied to the case of the former...
4 SEASONS IS SUITE FOR GATES, PRINCE
Using part of Bill Gates' billions, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is nearly quadrupling his bet on the luxury Four Seasons Hotel chain. And Gates didn't do too badly, either,...
PAPERS SEE $$ IN SCENTS
There's a popular adage in journalism that if two is a coincidence, three is a trend. If that's true, then scented advertising is the latest craze sweeping the newspaper industry....
OFFENSIVE FOULS CALLED OVER SUPER BOWL SPOTS
This year's Super Bowl ads managed to offend fast-food workers, gays and the depressed and suicidal. General Motors' spot depicting a sad robot that dreams of jumping off a bridge...
TRIB SAYS ADIOS
Tribune Co. yesterday said it was selling Hoy New York to the owner of its archrival El Diario/La Prensa, ending a long and bitter rivalry between the two Spanish-language daily...
SCHUMER DEMANDS STARRETT PROTECTIONS
The federal government must guarantee that Starrett City won't be turned into luxury apartments - or block the $1.3 billion sale of the Brooklyn housing development, Sen. Charles Schumer said...
WEST SIDE CONDO PROJECT PLAN
NOW that preservationists have failed in their far-fetched campaign to landmark the former Dakota Stables, we've learned exactly what Related plans to build in their place. The west blockfront of...
HOME DEPOT DROPS SUPPLY
Home Depot yesterday distanced itself yet again from former Chief Executive Robert Nardelli when it announced that the company was considering a sale, spin off or initial public offering of...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Duke booted from Top 25 Duke, saddled by its first four-game losing skid in 11 years, fell out of the Associated Press poll yesterday for the first time since...
PHILIPAKOS JOINS RED BULLS
After an odyssey that included playing for four different Greek teams since 2004 and nearly being killed by his own fans, Peter Philipakos is finally back home, in training camp...
BALLHOG BRYANT
EDDIE Jordan could have been accused Sunday of plagiarizing Phil Jackson's words and simply applying them to his own pin-up player except that the Zen Hen had swallowed them. Shortly...
MLBPA TO COURT: NO NAMES
SAN FRANCISCO - The Major League Baseball Players Association asked a federal appeals court yesterday to revisit its December decision to allow investigators probing steroids in sports to use the...
ESPN SIGNING UP VIñA
As pitchers and catchers prepare to report to camps across Florida and Arizona, The Post has learned ESPN is on the verge of making another acquisition this offseason - former...
SCHOTT DOWN
SAN DIEGO - Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer was fired last night in a shocking move by team president Dean Spanos, who cited a "dysfunctional situation" between the coach and general...
NO SURGERY FOR MADDEN
The Devils said yesterday star checker John Madden will not require surgery on the right eye and cheek injured in Sunday's loss to Tampa Bay, although he might not face...
OUT OF THE BLUE
So now we have some insight into what life around the Giants is going to be like with Jerry Reese calling the shots as the general manager. If you are...
DEDUCTIVE REESE-ONING: NO DEAD WOOD
AFTER only a couple of weeks on the job, this much is now obvious: Jerry Reese's Pieces will be different than Ernie Accorsi's Pieces and Tom Coughlin's Pieces. The makeover...
ISIAH IS STILL PLEN-T ANGRY
LOS ANGELES - Isiah Thomas is still so disturbed by two technical fouls called against the Knicks in Saturday's devastating overtime defeat in Utah that he's sending a tape of...
KOBE CONCERN
LOS ANGELES - Isiah Thomas is less worried about his job security and more worried about a vengeful Kobe Bryant dropping 50 points on his Knicks at Staples Center tonight...
GREEN: I'M NOT RETIRING
Although a report said Shawn Green is considering hanging up his spikes after this season, the Mets right fielder said yesterday he anticipates playing in 2008. "There's been no decision...
MET-AMORPHOSIS
PORT ST. LUCIE. - The goal has never been simpler, yet more challenging for the Mets. Next stop, ultimate October success. When I asked David Wright yesterday what is the...
FRANK CAN SEE D-LIGHT
The Nets have been a couple steps forward, couple steps back team all season. In the two games before the All-Star break - tonight against the always-powerful Spurs and tomorrow...
OFF GUARD
The Nets' center, Nenad Krstic, is out. Their small forward, Richard Jefferson, is out. And now their point guard, Jason Kidd, could be joining them for a game or two....
OZOLINSH HITS RANGERS' CAP WHERE IT HURTS
WITH the trade deadline two weeks from today, the Rangers' season cap charge stands at approximately $41.2 million, which means the team has the ability to add between $7.5-8M in...
READY FOR MO OF THE SAME?
TAMPA - Here is something that should pebble the skin of every Yankee fan. A year from now Mariano Rivera could be wearing another hat. The MVP of the Joe...
CASH USING COLD LOGIC ON HARD DECISIONS
TAMPA - Take a look around the room. That is what Mariano Rivera needs to do over the next month. He will notice Andy Pettitte is back and Bernie Williams...
SIX ON THE BEACH
HAPPY Valentine's Day for tomorrow, and congratulations in advance for that big yes you'll give to any marriage proposals you may be fielding tomorrow. While you could start making calls...
LOVE AT FIRST SITE?
OPPOSITES attract goes the old saying, but that might not be the case for travelholics looking for love. After all, how are you going to maintain a relationship when your...
ROAD TO ROMANCE
NIKI Sepsas met millions of women as a social ambassador on Silversea cruises, for well-heeled passengers who like to travel to exotic locales. "It is like a candy store, you...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A snooping landlady thought she was preventing a tenant's suicide when she found his farewell note and immediately called his boss. She didn't realize the note was part of a...
Still outraged by Kobe suspension
By MARC BERMANLOS ANGELES - Koby Altman, no relation to Kobe Bryant, emailed me after the Jan. 30th Knicks-Lakers game in which Kobe Bryant got suspended for his lone Garden...
On The Road Again
By KEVIN KERNANLike that other song says, Iâve been everywhere, man. Travel, Iâve had my share, man.I canât tell you how many times in the past couple weeks people have...