February 22, 2007
Tarr time
Bela Tarr, the Hungarian auteur, is an acquired taste. His films are long and slow, and shot in solemn black and white. He's not to every taste, but he does...
El Duque has arthritis
By MARK HALE Just finished up a conference call with Omar Minaya, who announced that El Duque has neck arthritis.El Duque got a cortisone shot, and Minaya said he should...
Boy Wonder dazzles
By GEORGE KING On a perfect day for baseball at Legends Field, Phil Hughes had Jason Giambi and Todd Pratt compaing him to Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling.His curveball locks...
Seduced and Abandoned
Part of this blog's mission statement, or whatever you want to call that big red box at the top of the page, is the growing epidemic of movies that are...
Father and Son
Actor James Cromwell, the distinguished character actor best known these days as Jack Bauer's evil dad in "24'' and the snobbish Prince Philip in "The Queen,'' will appear Friday at...
Oscar Roundup
It's three days to the big night, but columnist Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times just couldn't wait to name his "Winners and Losers.'' He rounds up the usual suspects,...
Babel Buzz
One of my oldest and most trusted Oscar sources thinks "Babel'' will pull off the Big One come Sunday night. "Whoever wins is going to have significantly less than 50...
Deal of the Day
It's back to basics and gym class with this gray wool/cashmere hoodie. The Gap has gone Rocky-chic with their riff on the classic hoodie. Every gal needs a staple like...
New additions to the Xbox 360 Platinum Hits series
Out on March 16, the latest additions to the Xbox 360 Platinum Hits series will include the following games, at a cost of about $30:âBattlefield 2: Modern CombatââBurnout Revenge"âCall of...
Mondo Critico
Sometimes even movie critics get reviews. Here's how Jim Hoberman of the Village Voice described the film I will introduce Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving...
How "comfortable'' can Isiah be
By MARC BERMAN Perhaps Isiah Thomas was so miffed at the Knicksâ awful performance in Philly last night because it occurred on the eve of the trading deadline and heâs...
Duque hurting
By MARK HALEGM Omar Minaya just told reporters that today Orlando Hernandez headed to New York to be examined because of neck "discomfort."Minaya termed it "more preventitive stuff than anything...
Today on the Haute List
Go now (no seriously, now), if you want to pick up this $885 J.O.B. red satchel at Henri Bendel. Plus, the skinny on David Beckham's scent (fresh grass and hair...
Day 13: Sheffield and Crosby
Bubba Crosby and Gary Sheffield collided in the second inning of Game 5 of a 2005 AL Division Series game, turning a long Adam Kennedy flyball into a two-out, two-run...
Attack of the Mogul
I don't always agree politically with my former boss, John Podhoretz. But the ever-incisive Pod has some very good advice for Democrats in the wake of DreamWorks founder David Geffen's...
MCSTEAMY'S
THIS is a city of unsolved mysteries, riddles that range from practical (How do I find a decent apartment without donating an organ?) to unsolvable (Why does anyone like the...
FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS
JAMES Cromwell is one of the most recognizable character actors in Hollywood, currently ubiquitous as Jack Bauer's menacing dad on "24" and the acerbic Prince Philip in the Oscar-nominated "The...
3 DAYS TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS
* Forest Whitaker is the odds-on favorite to win the Best Actor Oscar Sunday night, but there's one person who sure isn't voting for him: Jaffar Amin. That would be...
HAUTE LIST
Puffy, we'll be missing you WITH all the waist-free puffy dresses and tunics in stores right now, it's hard to imagine a better fashion season to get knocked up. After...
'BANQUET' A FEAST FOR YOUR EYES
AS Peter Martins' New York City Ballet approaches the end of its Lincoln Center winter schedule, it has come up with one of the season's best programs, which it calls,...
WHAT IS SHE DOING?
'DANCING with the Stars" producers asked Heather Mills to do the show - but not because of her headline-grabbing nasty split from Paul McCartney, they say. "We approached her," "Dancing"...
IF 'L&O' DID IT
DICK Wolf, who made a franchise out of "Law & Order," has a second franchise in the works: Killing off disgraced publisher, Judith Regan. Friday night will mark the second...
TWINS FOR MARCIA CROSS
'DESPERATE Housewives" star Marcia Cross has got her hands full now - with a baby in each. Cross, 44, gave birth to twin girls, Eden and Savannah, Tuesday in Los...
STARR REPORT
Charles in charge ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" failed to retain its total viewership victory last week - but it did continue its streak of winning the key demos....
OPRAH VS. OPRAH
OPRAH Winfrey is competing today with the one TV personality who could possibly beat her in the ratings - herself! The rare Oprah vs. Oprah face-off has been made possible...
HOW THEY REVIVED LOST RKO CLASSICS
John Cromwell's "Double Harness" is one of six RKO films that languished in legal no man's land for decades - until a viewer asked Turner Classic Movies why they never...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
There are no easy answers to the questions you are asking but that's good because it will encourage you to dig deeper than usual and discover what your existence is...
ED. DEPT. GIVES ARTS PROGRAM CULTURE $OCK
A decade-old, $67.5 million program to restore the arts in public schools has all but been eliminated in the Bloomberg administration's latest overhaul of the school system. Chancellor Joel Klein...
SCHOOL SAFETY GETS AN INCOMPLETE
The city Department of Education is grossly under-reporting the number of school-safety incidents, a new report charges. According to the department, just eight schools experienced 180 or more incidents -...
'TWO FRIENDS WHO WILL BE TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY'
They had made a pact to be best pals for life. Instead, the two tragic Long Island co-ed beauties - gunned down by the twisted boyfriend of a college buddy...
COSTLY AMERICAN DREAM
New York's taxes are so high, it's tough to meet other expenses, says a Bronx family. Pedro Rivas, 46, and his wife, Elizabeth Castro Rivas, saved for a home for...
APPLE'S TAX BITE ABSOLUTE WORST
Any way you slice it, the Big Apple is the tax capital of the nation - by a mile, according to a study released yesterday of tax policies in the...
GIULIANI'S RED-HOT IN BLUE STATES
ALBANY - Rudy Giuliani leads Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 48-43 percent in the race for president, and even ties the former first lady in the states that voted Democratic in...
CALORIES IN CHAOS
Fast-food chains are urging the city Health Department to rethink its policy requiring them to post calorie counts alongside their prices, saying doing so is too expensive and cumbersome. Restaurants...
CELEB DOC IN MYSTERY BURN ATTACK
A prominent Upper East Side doctor, who treated Andy Warhol during his final days, is recovering from a mysterious attack near his luxury East 72nd Street apartment building, police sources...
TEEN BASHED BY WOLFPACK
A group of vicious punks jumped a teen on a Brooklyn subway platform yesterday and punched and kicked him into semi-consciousness - then sauntered off with his cellphone, according to...
BRONX COLD-CASE 'BUTCHER' BUSTED
Police in Eastern Europe have arrested a suspected serial killer believed to have dismembered a Bronx woman 17 years ago before going on the lam and committing at least seven...
HORSE DIES IN FREAK BX. MISHAP
A racehorse suffered fatal injuries on the Cross Bronx Expressway yesterday when one of his legs fell through the wooden floor of the truck in which he was riding, authorities...
'HOOKER HOUSE' SCORES RUNS DRY
Mammary mecca Scores West landed in the lap of the law yesterday when its liquor license was lifted because the owners allegedly permitted prostitution at the club. The State Liquor...
BOY IN DEATH PLUNGE
A 12-year-old Harlem boy plunged five stories to his death while trying to sneak out in the middle of the night by lowering himself to the ground with bed sheets,...
CRIME UP IN FLUSHING MEADOWS
Crime in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens is on the rise, according to data released by the City Council yesterday, but the NYPD said two people, who have since been...
'COP DRAG' GUN BATTLE
Police opened fire on a car carrying two drug suspects who mowed down and dragged an officer who tried to question them in Brooklyn yesterday, police said yesterday. The shooting...
KIDS FIND SLAY-SUICIDE FOLKS AFTER DAD SNAPS
Marital insecurity turned deadly yesterday when a bus driver fatally shot his recently retired correction-officer wife, then blew his brains out. Hester Riley-Davis, 42, and Keith Davis Sr., 43, were...
HAIL MARY PASS
The president of Lithuania has taken up the cause of a lower Manhattan church - beseeching Edward Cardinal Egan to reverse his decision to shutter Our Lady of Vilnius, The...
L.I. FATHER WALKS INTO HELL HOUSE
A Long Island dad broke into his home yesterday after neighbors told him his estranged wife and three daughters had been desperately trying to stay warm in their car -...
MOB DAD SON BURN FEARED
Mob boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano is behind bars, but his son's defense lawyers are afraid the bad dad's reputation will seep into the young man's trial for allegedly bashing...
HYNES BARES SHOCK
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said yesterday he was shocked by the hat trick of misconduct by staffers that has roiled his office in the past several days. "Seventeen years,...
BRITISH SET FOR IRAQI HANDOFF
LONDON - British troops have achieved many tangible successes in Iraq: securing oil platforms, rounding up rogue police units and driving smugglers carrying weapons and contraband from waterways and border...
'IDOL'IZING J.LO
J.Lo is slated to sing on "American Idol," and she'll be immune from Simon Cowell's barbs. Jennifer Lopez will perform on the show April 11. The singer/actress will join a...
TOOTIN' RUDY DOES DIXIE
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani hit the stump in South Carolina yesterday, pitching leadership skills, his 9/11 experiences and a fence along the Mexican border. Giuliani told...
H'WOOD CLASH OF THE TITANS
WASHINGTON - With Hollywood as the backdrop, the campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama traded furious insults yesterday, each accusing the other of rank hypocrisy as the...
BRIT'S BAD REHABIT: SHE'S OUT
And . . . she's cured! In what has turned into a bad habit for Britney Spears, the pop tart allegedly walked out of a posh California rehab facility yesterday,...
I'M DAD, ANNA TOLD ME
Anna Nicole Smith's jilted photographer ex-boyfriend took the stand yesterday and told a rapt courtroom that on Valentine's Day last year, she confessed to him that she was carrying his...
JENNIFER IN LEGAL CHEST WAR
The makers of "The Break-Up" want to prevent the rest of the world from seeing what Brad Pitt and Vince Vaughn have already passed on - Jennifer Aniston's boobs. Topless...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A 49-year-old Norwood man was found stabbed to death in his apartment yesterday, police said. A co-worker became concerned when he hadn't heard from Luis Fernandez in two days...
MED ALERT FOR GOV TO REIN IN HEALTH $$
AS IF New Yorkers didn't already suspect that they're far more heavily taxed than residents of other big cities, the city Independent Budget Office yesterday issued a study proving it...
CLUELESS LIB STICKS HIS LEADING MAN WITH A STINKER
ADVICE to Democrats: Stay away from Hollywood liberals. They're like Voter Repellent. No matter what, Hollywood liberals can't keep their mouths shut, and when they open theirs to speak, their...
IT'S O.J. VU ALL OVER AGAIN WITH NUTSO JUDGE
LARRY SEIDLIN has a weird way with corpses. The judge, who decides tomorrow who gets custody of Anna Nicole Smith's rotting remains, is doing to the state of Florida what...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 152; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 9428; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 580; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 4040;...
TURN 'EM LOOSE TANYA
What was Judge Tanya Kennedy thinking in offering violent recidi vist rapper Busta Rhymes a sweet heart deal that will leave him on the streets after committing two violent assaults...
WHAT HILLARY'S FORGOTTEN
Of all the candidates now seeking the presidency in 2008 - Democrat and Republican - none has been as close-up to the office as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. During her...
NYC'S RIGGED 'REFORMS'
CITY Council Speaker Chris tine Quinn has announced that, "for now," she's not taking campaign donattions from "big time" lobbyists. Her aides are sending back some checks, even telling certain...
EVEN BUSH CRITICS CAN GET IT WRONG
INDISCRIMINATE criticism of President Bush is an infectious dis ease. Some conservatives seem to have caught it, but congres sional Democrats might be crippled by it. Consider some conservatives' reflexive...
AMERICAN NAZISM: SOROS' SORDID SLUR
George Soros' "latest slur" shows, once again, that he has stepped over the line ("Soros' Latest Slur," Editorial, Feb. 18). Futhermore, his treasonous and insidious remarks must really hurt our...
CHURCH CHIDES CITY'S MORALS
I am outraged that the Catholic Church once again seems to believe that it has an exclusive on morality (" 'Condom'nation by Outraged Church," Feb. 16). The distribution of condoms...
THE CITY GETS PLOWED
As Wednesday's temperature crept closer to 50 degrees, I saw my first sanitation salt truck this winter, complete with a plow, at Steinway and 30th Avenue in Astoria. It was...
BOY BAND KINGPIN'S PENNY ROOTS SHOWING
Before Lou Pearlman became a music kingpin who launched acts such as The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, he earned his first big bucks as a beneficiary of one of...
JUDGE: FEDS FAILED
A federal judge yesterday took the very rare step of throwing out a jury's conviction of former New York Stock Exchange specialist David Finnerty, citing a lack of evidence to...
NOT A BAD TIME TO MORTGAGE YOUR FUTURE
THE housing market has one thing going for it - the slowing economy. That might seem preposterous on the surface since people are supposed to feel better about making the...
'GOLD'MAN $ETS RECORD BOUNTY
The money well at Goldman Sachs is pumping out even bigger paydays than some Wall Streeters estimated - about a quarter-billion dollars altogether for its four top names. The giant...
JOURNAL TO SPLIT TOP EXEC ROLES
After years of complaints from corporate governance watchdogs, The Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. said yesterday it would split the roles of chairman and CEO between two...
SNOOTS ONLY
It's a strategy that has worked wonders for nightclubs: Turn away all but the rich and glamorous. Now a growing number of retailers, in an attempt to cultivate an exclusive...
LADIES NIGHT SPA SAYS THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s Camel brand of cigarettes is sponsoring a three-night smoking spa inside a SoHo bar, where women can kick back and light up while getting manicures and...
'WHOLE' BUYS 'OATS' FOR ORGANIC GROWTH
Billionaire supermarket czar Ron Burkle is cashing in again after organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market inked a deal to buy smaller rival Wild Oats in a deal valued at...
PUT CMOS ON LIST OF ENDANGERED EXECS
As hard as corporate America is on chief executives, it's even harder on chief marketing officers. Whenever a company faces severe cutbacks, stiff competition or sluggish sales, it seems the...
THIRD TIME'S A CHARM
Britney Spears has checked herself back into rehab after Kevin Federline threatened to take away their two sons unless she got help. The troubled pop princess was forced to seek...
BUSTA BUSTED AGAIN
Bad boy rapper Busta Rhymes was busted again yesterday - this time for driving without a license in Manhattan -- barely one day after appearing before a judge on two...
THE STARRETT STINK
DO the buyers of Starrett City have something up their sleeve? Local real-estate experts don't see how the new owners - who paid $1.3 billion, hundreds of millions above the...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Park Slope, Brooklyn $1.95 million Bedrooms: 2+ Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 2,200 Common charges: $573 With enough space for a third bedroom, this duplex condo loft offers a mix of...
MEMORY LANE
AS host of the 12-time Emmy-nominated "Inside The Actor's Studio" on Bravo (every Monday at 8 p.m.), James Lipton often seems to know more about his superstar guests than they...
CARVING TURKEY
Kmart queen Martha Stewart appears to be having her own "Blue Light Special," now that she's carved up her Turkey Hill Farm property and sliced the price in half. The...
JERSEY PEARL
THERE'S a certain type of New Yorker who'd never move to New Jersey no matter what. Some people are scared of spiders - these folks are afraid of crossing the...
UPPING THE ANTE
Once some buyers go Trump, they never go back. Take Michael Cohen, 40, an attorney and partner at Phillips Nizer. He purchased his first Trump apartment at Trump World Tower...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan MIDTOWN EAST $373,000 225 E. 57th St. Alcove studio co-op, 550 square feet, with central AC; Harridge House building features full-time doorman, garage, roof deck, laundry and storage. Maintenance...
GO FOR BROKER
I'm trying to sell an apartment myself and the brokers are calling all the time and making me crazy. What do I do? The term "for sale by owner" (sometimes...
DREAM HOMES
Edgewater, N.J. $6.499 million The brochure on this co-op proclaims that "you can't get any closer to Manhattan without being there." (Which, frankly, is what you'd expect when buying in...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Club owner fingers Pacman Tennessee Titans star Pacman Jones reportedly is accused of accompanying an unidentified man who is suspected of shooting three people last weekend at a Las...
TUA WANTS TITLE SHOT
David Tua is 34 years old and he figures time is growing short if he wants to achieve the ultimate goal he set for himself when he began his pro...
N.Y. RACING FRANCHISE REPORT IS RELEASED
Three months after recommending that Excelsior Racing Associates, a group headed by George Steinbrenner's son-in-law and Yankees' general partner Steve Swindal, should be granted the franchise to run thoroughbred racing...
HOLY CROSS, CTK WIN
If Holy Cross is expected to be a major factor in the CHSAA intersectional playoffs which begin Sunday, the Knights are going to need more than just their talented junior...
RALLY GOOD SHOW BY YORK
York College showed yesterday why it's the defending CUNY Athletic Conference hoop champion - rallying for a 65-62 win over City College in the CUNYAC semifinals on CCNY's home floor....
JOHNNIES LAY EGG IN L'VILLE
LOUISVILLE - This was the worst meltdown since Britney Spears shaved her head, slapped on a couple of tattoos and checked herself in and out of rehab. St. Johns got...
ANGRY DEVILS SHOOT TO KILL
It's more than a rivalry. There's malice, now, and bad blood still boiling 48 hours later. "We don't want the Rangers in the playoffs," Jersey Jimmy Dowd declared yesterday, prepping...
BARLOW, TEAGUE RELEASED BY JETS
The Jets yesterday released Kevan Barlow, the player they traded for last training camp with hopes he would replace Curtis Martin as the feature running back. Barlow, who was released...
STEPH 'TOEING' THE LINE
PHILADELPHIA - Stephon Marbury has a bad case of "turf toe" and canceled his Caribbean All-Star Weekend plans for treatment, The Post has learned. With Marbury already plagued with a...
KNICKS-NETS TRADE TALKS GO NOWHERE
The Knicks tried to get in on the Jason Kidd-Vince Carter sweepstakes, multiple sources confirmed last night. It's not happening, however, especially with what was being offered to the Nets...
DEEP-SIXED!
PHILADELPHIA - Finally fed up with his up-and-down Knicks, Isiah Thomas unleashed a caustic diatribe last night, saying the Knick fans want a playoff berth more than his squad. Thomas...
BURGOS' HEAT A ROYAL PAIN TO MILLEDGE
PORT ST. LUCIE - While facing Lastings Milledge yesterday in live batting practice, Ambiorix Burgos had a head-shaking, three-pitch sequence. On the second pitch he threw to Milledge during the...
WISHY-WASHY WILLIE
MESA, Ariz. - Four months and 2,000 miles removed from last year's NLCS Game 7, Cliff Floyd painted a scene of confusion and indecisiveness in the Mets dugout during the...
ROLLINS' REMARKS DON'T RANKLE METS
PORT ST. LUCIE - Carlos Beltran was told that Jimmy Rollins called the Phillies "the team to beat." Beltran's answer was to ask a question: "What'd they win last year?"...
FALL FAILURE FORGOTTEN? GUESS AGAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE - This can't come as a surprise to Willie Randolph, because if there is one person in all of baseball New York who knows how October works,...
TRADE RUMORS DWARF NET DUD
Trade talks continued. That was common knowledge, but the Nets also played a game last night, sources throughout the league insisted. In what became almost a secondary piece of the...
HENRIK FEELS URGENCY
It's only Feb. 22, but if you watched any of the Rangers' 2-1 loss to the Devils Tuesday night, you very easily could be fooled into believing it's the middle...
LOU: I WAS NEVER AFTER JOE'S JOB
MESA, Ariz. - Lou Piniella blasted an erroneous Daily News report from last October that he was going to replace Joe Torre as manager of the Yankees. "I was embarrassed,"...
JAYS HOPE FOR WORST
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Now that sleepover time is over between Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, how much will the off-the-field superstar breakup mess up the Yankees on the diamond? No...
CAPTAIN WINS DIAL-A-BERNIE SWEEPSTAKES
TAMPA - Joe Torre and Brian Cashman can't get Bernie Williams on the phone, but Derek Jeter can. "I have talked to him, he called me back," Jeter said. "I...
JOHNNY EAT GOOD
TAMPA - It doesn't exactly qualify as a spare tire but Johnny Damon's midsection is larger than it was last spring. "I found out the pants are a little tight,"...
SLY STEINBRENNER SLIPS PAST THE MEDIA
TAMPA - How bad do George Steinbrenner's handlers want to keep him away from the media? They designed a plan yesterday that ensured reporters couldn't get to The Boss after...
CROWDED HOUSE
TAMPA - Bernie Williams was jobless even before deciding upon unemployment. The token the Yankees had offered - and Williams rejected - was a chance to be the fifth outfielder,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Well, this is one way to stop the clock. A University of Southern California hockey goalie dropped his pants and mooned the crowd at Brigham Young University while riding his...