March 25, 2007
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Had another wonderful drive across the Sunshine State, going from Tampa to Port St. Lucie over the weekend, and once again saw a sign of the Florida times, this one...
Yanks should leave youngster in minors
By GEORGE KING Just because Chien-Ming Wang, Andy Pettitte and Jeff Karstens are hurt doesn't mean GM Brian Cashman should rush the development of Phil Hughes and Ross Ohlendorf.Saturday when...
Obsessives: Sanjaya Malakar
"American Idol" has voted through bad singers before -- some have even won. But there's something about 17-year-old Sanjaya Malakar that people don't get -- even Howard Stern has jumped...
Day 44: Thoughts on Pavano, Chan Ho and Milledge
A few random thoughts on a Sunday:--When spring training began, I would have thought Allie Reynolds had a better chance of starting on Opening Day than Carl Pavano. I guess...
Chance to Climb Past Tampa Bay
The Rangers face the Isles for the first time since Chris Simon ended his own season with a stick to the face of Ryan Hollweg. That game was the epitome...
SPRINGER TIME
Reality TV is turning into a gold mine for talk show icon Jerry Springer, who attracted a large and loyal following on last season's "Dancing With The Stars." The inexperienced...
REEL GOOD
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) Monday, 12:15 p.m., AMC Way back when reporters were still considered heroes for breaking stories that exposed crimes at the White House, Bob Woodward (Robert...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
NATURE Land of penguins The Discovery Channel has mounted its most ambitious project to date: "Planet Earth," an 11-episode nature series filmed in HD and featuring never-before-seen animal behaviors and...
HERE'S THE 'DIRT'
Someone give Joey Tribbiani a front-row seat. After years of begging and pleading, Monica and Rachel are finally going to kiss! Longtime Friends Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston are going...
TEMPLE OF TONE
This was the perfect event for gawking Hollywood tourists: One hundred buff and beautiful personal trainers working out in the courtyard of the Hollywood & Highland theater and shopping complex,...
ABOUT FACE
Vanity, thy name is Gene Simmons. Or is it? Through A&E's hit fly-on-the-wall reality series "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," we've seen many sides of the irrepressible tongue-wagging, fire-breathing KISS frontman-canny...
SEASON FINALES RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
Thanks to an earlier Daylight Savings Time, the days have been getting longer earlier, but there's precious little time - roughly five weeks - before the television season comes abruptly...
ROSEANNE'S STILL FEISTY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
You meet so many famous people in a job like this that it's easy to grow jaded. But not this time. This was Roseanne Barr, a legendary figure whom I...
HOT SEAT
Just like curling and that weird gymnastics event performed with streamers, figure skating is a sport that's practically begging to be made fun of. And Friday, Will Ferrell, Jon Heder,...
HOT LIST
1. Shameless self-promotion Catwalk diva Naomi Campbell uses court-ordered community service to get ahead, wearing designer clothes in a deal with W magazine for a future photo shoot. Kind of...
JUST KIDDING
IF you've ever worried about the quality of American education, don't tune into Fuse's week-old show "The Whitest Kids U'Know." The episode's first sketch featured troupe member Trevor Moore rapping...
CHECKING INTO HOT HOTELS
BEFORE disco balls and trendily transformed industrial zones, hotel bars were the haunts of choice for nocturnal Knickerbockers. Throughout the '20s, Dorothy Parker's famed literary round table met daily at...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
HAPPY FEET 2 STARS (Warner, $28.98) UNTIL lead penguin Mumble finds his feet (the first 45 minutes), kids may be bored. Extras, however, are fun, especially two new shorts, a...
HE FOUND FLOYD
Joe Boyd is the Forrest Gump of the rock world. He was behind the mixing board when Bob Dylan went electric. He started the nightclub that made Pink Floyd the...
LESS THAN EQUAL SEQUEL
When the Light Goes Larry McMurtry 2 STARS Simon & Schuster, $24 LARRY McMurtry's first novel, "Horseman, Pass By," served as the basis for the film "Hud," starring Paul Newman....
HE SHALL PERFORM
WHEN Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint 9" debuted in New York last March, it set a box-office record for a single-screen opening at the IFC Center. Part of the appeal was...
REQUIRED READING
The first few pages of "The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of The Life of Poppa Neutrino" by Alec Wilkinson (Random House, $24.95) recounts how the 70-year-old subject...
KIBBLE CONTROL
THE past week's canned pet-food recall, prompted by the tragic deaths of several dogs and cats who suffered kidney failure, will have repercussions for years to come. (To check whether...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: I love feeding and building houses for the birds near my home, so I keep my two beautiful Siamese cats inside. Unfortunately, I can't stop other cats...
ADOPT ME
Pooky has such a serious face for a 2- year-old. But don't let her expression fool you. She's a great big softy - and a very cuddly kitty at that!...
THE WORLD IS FLATS
Tory Burch "Reva" ballet flats with gold brooch, $225, at Tory Burch, 257 Elizabeth St. OUR PICK Loeffler Randall Patent ballerina flats with skull cut-out, $395, at Nordstrom Arturo Chiang...
FAILING GOOD
Good Charlotte became a household name - among MTV homes, at least - by delivering angst-ridden pop-punk that drove its sophomore effort "The Young and the Hopeless" into multiplatinum territory....
NEVER SAY DIE!
IF you hear that a band called Heaven and Hell is playing a sold-out show at Radio City on Friday, don't wrack your brain wondering who they are. It's actually...
AURAL HISTORY
OK Go became Internet superstars with videos that championed goofy, choreographed content over slick production. So we really shoudn't have been surprised when singer Damian Kulash, who appears with the...
QUEEN VIKTORIA
THE spirit of the French New Wave is alive and well in Norway. I say that after seeing Joachim Trier's "Reprise," a black-and-white love story shot in the style of...
BLACK 'HAWK' DOWN & DARK
WHEN literary wild man Harry Crews published "The Hawk Is Dying" in 1973, it was sharply panned by a major reviewer. Nevertheless, Donald Sutherland - then at the peak of...
'LOOKOUT' FOR LEVITT
When you start your career as a teen TV star, the world watches with morbid curiosity to see how far off the rails you'll end up after your hit show...
SOCIAL BITES
GOING out to eat is an activity that can easily morph from a cozy twosome to a clan of 20. You tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and...
PASSARO, 27, AND BOGERT, 30
MARCH 3 - It was double the celebration at Lana Passaro and Joe Bogert's Manhattan wedding. The pair had two wedding cakes, two honeymoons and - a gift from the...
GINZBURG, 25, AND TEYF, 25
JAN. 7 - Every wedding has a snag, and for Yuriy Teyf and Oksana Ginzburg, technical difficulties almost ruined their perfect day. "We had requested for two televisions to show...
DE GAGNE, 34, AND LLANO, 34
FEB. 27 - Simon De Gagné and Catalina Llano have the Internet to thank for their love. "I always thought the Internet thing was tacky and strange, then a friend...
PILLAI, 29, AND PUPPALA, 31
FEB. 3 - The way to a woman's heart is through her shoes, so when Rekha Pillai's husband-to-be brought her the wrong pair right before their wedding, she freaked. "I...
WILLIAM, 37, AND CHUNIKHIA, 21
MARCH 20 - Jeffrey William and Maria Chunikhia's courtship can be characterized by spontaneity, especially when it came to popping the question. "It was only a month after we met,"...
HOW TO TREAT TERRORIST DOGS
The capture last week of Shiite insurgent leaders believed responsible for the murder of U.S. soldiers in Karbala last January is good news. As far as it goes. But we...
9/11-FUNDING SICKNESS
It's difficult not to sympathize with Mayor Bloomberg's plea to Congress last week that Washington es sentially pick up what promises to be an unaffordable municipal tab for 9/11 recovery...
WHERE AL'S WRONG
AL GORE and the many people he has inspired on the global-warming issue have good will and great intentions. However, he has gotten carried away and come to show only...
THE RISE OF RAGE
DURING the divisive War of 1812, a livid woman famous for her long hair rode to the White House, stood in her carriage, let down her tresses and proclaimed that...
WHEN SCHOOLS SUPRESS SPEECH
WHEN Joseph Frederick, a Juneau, Alaska, high school senior, unrolled a 14-foot banner proclaiming "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" at a 2002 Winter Olympics torch relay rally near his school, he...
CONSPIRING CELEBRITIES
THE ISSUE: Celebrities who question the government's role in the 9/11 attacks. Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell have no scientific background, obvious interest or experience with disaster response, relief or...
RUDY ADDS ETHNIC FLAVOR TO MENU OF CANDIDATES
THE ISSUE: Rudy Giuliani's presidential prospects as an Italian-American candidate. I will vote for Rudy Giuliani not because he is of Italian decent but because right now, in my opinion,...
BLINKERED BY OLD BATTLES
THE CHANGING FACE OF WAR: LESSONS OF COMBAT FROM THE MARNE TO IRAQBY MARTIN VAN CREVELD BALLANTINE BOOKS, 304 PAGES, $25.95 HISTORY professor Martin van Creveld's stated goal in "The...
DYING FOR COMPASSION
FINAL EXAM: A SURGEON'S REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITYBY PAULINE W. CHENKNOPF, 288 PAGES, $23.95 ONE of my patients, Mr. J, whom I'd taken care of for almost 20 years, died earlier...
TABLOID DOLLY
THE LADY UPSTAIRS: DOROTHY SCHIFF AND THE NEW YORK POSTBY MARILYN NISSENSONST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 618 PAGES, $29.95 NOTHING in Dorothy Schiff's background - growing up in luxury as the privileged...
OPEN SECRET
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - At Wal-Mart headquarters, the whispers and water-cooler talk about inappropriate behavior between executives Julie Roehm and Sean Womack started last summer when a co-worker spied the two...
TV'S MIDAS TRIES HAND AT HENRY VIII
BEN SILVERMAN, television's reigning King Midas, is about to find out if he can replicate the success he's had with comedies and reality shows in the dramatic arena. The producer...
$ELLERS BEWARE
When two Anna Nicole Smith diaries fetched $600,000 on eBay last week, the Web auction powerhouse got plenty of free publicity. After all, when you've got something to sell, nothing...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSSTEVE SCHWARZMAN Private-equity titan and Blackstone Group CEO files $4B IPO to attract, retain talent. JOHN THAIN NYSE top dog pockets $9.4M in 2006 compensation after getting base salary cut...
NY'S ONLY BIODIESEL SOURCE: HS TEENS
If the image of high-school kids with greasy hands, aprons, and cans of used cooking oil makes you think of french fries in a student cafeteria, think again. At the...
MOVIES IN A RAT RACE
The iconic restaurant-packed Manhattan neighborhood of Little Italy is worried that an indie horror flick to be shown at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival next month will give its...
CRACK BLACK HUMOR
CHICAGO - There's been just three days of testimony in Conrad Black's fraud and racketeering trial, but his lawyers have taken every opportunity to poke fun at their client's aristocratic...
'CARBON-NEUTRAL' CAN MEAN 'HYPOCRISY-POSITIVE'
It's not easy being green. Just ask former Vice President Al Gore. While the Oscar winner made what Katie Couric called a "triumphant return" to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Gore...
GAME TIME
The NCAA men's basketball tournament has the best nickname ever bestowed upon an extended sports event - March Madness - as it focuses the attention of millions of college hoops...
DOLLAR'S WEAKNESS GOES TO PERCEPTION
Dear John: Can you please explain why the dollar is weaker in relation to the euro when our economy is better than Europe's? C.J.S.Dear C.J.S.: That was spoken like a...
A DINNER DATE FOR MIKE, RUDY
Mayor Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani will make a rare joint appearance next month at the Manhattan Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner. Bloomberg aides said there's no special significance to...
KLEIN EDGES TOWARD SCHOOL REVOLUTION
The future of New York City public education could include privately run schools, universal pre-kindergarten for kids as young as 3 and a statewide test determining the path of all...
POL: 'LETTER' RIP VS. RATTY EATERIES
Restaurant-goers would know if they're in for a fine or filthy din ing experience under a new A-to- F rating system proposed by a state lawmaker. State Sen. Jeff Klein...
MY EX, THE SLIME-O GYNO
Disgraced "Dyno Gyno" Niels Lauersen romanced one of his former patients from behind bars, then borrowed money from her, used her to handle his books while he was locked up,...
GRANDMOM GRAVELY HURT BY TAXICAB
A taxi fender-bender outside Midtown's New York Hilton yesterday dominoed into a five-car pileup, leaving a 63-year-old tourist fighting for her life. The freak accident occurred about 10 a.m. when...
COP ADMITS HE FONDLED GAL DRIVER
A Brooklyn cop has dodged jail after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a woman he and his partner pulled over for a traffic violation. Officer Charles McGeean, 38, will get...
KILLER PET FOOD TOLL SOARS IN N.Y.
At least eight pets have died in New York City - and hundreds more have been treated - in the wake of the massive poisoned pet-food scare. A Post survey...
3 IN HOSP AFTER WILD BRONX GUN BRAWL
A wild tale of power and respect in The Bronx ended with a shooting and police chase that left three people - including a innocent bystander - in the hospital,...
CITY BULLYING SPECIAL-NEEDS TEEN OVER PRIVATE-TUITION $$
A family claims their daughter was bullied by classmates to the brink of suicide as officials at her former Staten Island public school turned a blind eye. And now that...
NO METAL BATS? GIVE US A BREAK
A Bronx high-school baseball team is hoping Mayor Bloomberg will shatter a proposed City Council ban on aluminum bats - considering their wooden ones are splintering left and right. Mount...
CLEARED JANITOR: 'BRANDED FOR LIFE'
The Brooklyn school janitor wrongly accused of raping an 8-year-old student described yesterday his chilling, Kafkaesque journey through the system, complete with grizzled detectives badgering him to confess and correction...
A HIGH 105 FOR BROOKE
She is still dressed every day in the finest outfits and jewels. And on fair days, when she's feeling fine, New York society doyenne Brooke Astor, who turns 105 on...
ELTON'S B'DAY SIMPLY DIVINE
To err is Elton, to forgive is St. John the Divine. Blustery rocker Sir Elton John, who recently described organized religion as "hateful" and worthy of being banned, was slated...
THE DRAMA KING
WASHINGTON - Plenty of people and politicians have skeletons in their closets. In the case of Rudy Giuliani, that closet is a walk-in. There are plenty of episodes in the...
YAYO'S KID RAP
Rapper Tony Yayo has been charged with pushing around a 14-year-old boy just for wearing the "wrong" T-shirt. Yayo, fellow rapper 50 Cent and others in their G-Unit crew spotted...
NAOMI'S PURSE BOY 'CARRYING' ON AND ON
The hunk who worked side-by-side with leggy lunatic supermodel Naomi Campbell as they both did community service last week yesterday said he enjoyed working with her. "It was a pleasurable...
CALL TO EX BY VILLAGE MURDERER A MYSTERY
An hour before mad gunman David Garvin killed a restaurant worker and two auxiliary cops in the Village, he called his ex-wife and casually chatted about their kids - but...
'IDOL' POWERHOUSE
To her mom, she's just KiKi. But to the locals of Flint, Mich., she's Queen LaKisha. And, perhaps most important, to Simon Cowell, who has professed his love for her,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding these two men, wanted for burglarizing a Bay Ridge home. The men broke into an apartment on 101st Street near...
BLDG. OWNERS SIT STILL FOR TAX WALLOP
WHEN property-tax assessments were released a couple of months ago, the Finance Department hammered the owners of 24,000 apartment and office buildings who didn't file income and expense statements. Their...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 426; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 7567; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 184; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 8090;...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the ABC and ESPN analyst who won NCAA titles with UCLA in 1972 and '73, and the 1977 NBA crown with the Trail Blazers:...
'LIVE' AND LET DIE
I AM writing this before I got the chance to see Peyton Manning's performance on "Saturday Night Live" last night, so I suppose there is a chance, and a very...
SPIRIT OF '82
As North Carolina began to pull away from Southern Cal in Friday night's Sweet 16 game, thus assuring today's No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown against Georgetown, former Hoyas coach...
TOASTIN' THE 'TOWN
HE WAS just like every other St. John's fan Friday night, suddenly thrust into the uncomfortable and unfamiliar place of not only rooting for Georgetown, but admiring the Hoyas, too....
BERGTRAUM COMES UP AA-CES
GLENS FALLS - Erica Morrow and her Bergtraum teammates were in the lobby of the Ramada Inn during the final minutes of the Rutgers-Duke women's NCAA tourney game yesterday. "We...
LINCOLN CHAMPS
GLENS FALLS - Devon Peterson watched Rice's press overwhelm Mount Vernon on Friday night and rather than be intimidated, the Lincoln guard was inspired. "I saw how they had four...
RIDE SHOTGUN TO TURKEY HUNT
THE key to a successful spring turkey hunt is knowing what your shotgun can and can not do. That will determine whether you walk out of the woods with a...
$81M MOANER
* Alex Rodriguez - and other athletes - should live in our shoes for a while: not knowing which bill to pay next; worrying about buying food to eat; trying...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Unit, Griffey debut The slider was sharp, the velocity was good and the back felt fine. Diamondbacks Randy Johnson threw 33 pitches in his debut in Tuscon, Ariz., throwing...
UNC MASCOT STILL 'CRITICAL'
A University of North Carolina student who suits up as the school's Ram mascot remained in critical condition yesterday after being hit by an SUV near his New Jersey hotel...
FUTURE CAR IS STAR TODAY
Tomorrow is today for NASCAR. The debut of the Car of Tomorrow (COT) will take place today at Bristol Motor Speedway in the Food City 500. Forty-three drivers will be...
DORAL CAN'T TAME TIGER
MIAMI - The odds for Tiger Woods' foes keep getting worse, because Woods keeps getting better. That said, the odds of anyone chasing down and catching Woods in today's final...
GRAPHICS GRAFFITI
THURSDAY night, CBS was cook ing. It had a compelling game - in the second half, a No. 5 seed, Tennessee, was handing it to Ohio State, a No. 1...
ONE-MAN BAND
THAT puff of smoke you may have spotted being sucked into the ozone Kobe Bryant is in was the last trace of Phil Jackson pretending to promote congruent-band basketball. Four...
ERRANT PASS STILL FOLLOWS FORMER HOYA
THE reminders are brought to him every March, none more so than this March, and especially today, when Georgetown meets North Carolina in the East Regional finals 25 years after...
GATOR HUNTING GATOR HUNTING
ST. LOUIS - Florida faces Oregon in today's Midwest Region final at the Edward Jones Dome with a Final Four berth at stake. The Gators will be facing Kentucky in...
CAN'T GO AGAINST HOYAS AND GATORS
EACH day during the NCAA tournament, hoop maven Tim Sullivan, the Post's two-time defending Satur day's Heroes champion, will offer his plays of the day: Georgetown (+31/2) over North Carolina:...
UCLA & OSU ARE 2 INTO 4
SAN JOSE, Calif. - UCLA had one question for all of its critics last night: Who you calling ugly? The Bruins had been derided for plodding victories in their last...
DORSEY DOESN'T THINK ODEN'S 'OVERRATED' NOW
SAN ANTONIO - To get ready for battle with 7-foot freshman Greg Oden, Memphis center Joey Dorsey on Friday night took an extra spin on the treadmill, trying, he said,...
ODEN, CONLEY JR. BUOY BUCKEYES
SAN ANTONIO - One by one, his teammates took turns cutting little pieces of the net to take home as a keepsake, but Greg Oden purposefully took a different tact...
THE RUMBLE
YOUR CHANCE TO BELT OUT ANTHEM FOR METS Five people have a chance to win the opportunity to sing the national anthem at Shea this year in what the team...
SKID YOU NOT: DEVILS WIN
SUNRISE, Fla. - There are still old and new heroes to be found in the Devils' locker room. Sometimes, all they need is a chance. Last night, it was 38-year-old...
FRANCIS UNHAPPY WITH HIS MINUTES
Isiah Thomas' frustration with Steve Francis' game keeps rising as does Francis' frustration with Thomas' handling of his minutes. After playing 20 minutes in Friday's lackluster 90-68 loss in Cleveland...
MORRIS THE 'CAT
With several teams taking a pass, the Knicks outbid the Raptors for Randolph Morris on Friday, according to the former Kentucky center's father. "The Knicks made him the best offer,"...
HAVING THEIR SHEA
PORT ST. LUCIE - For the category of which Met is most likely to go on "Dancing with the Stars" one day, Mike Pelfrey nominated Carlos Delgado with a laugh....
METS SPRING RESET
With a week remaining before the Mets open the 2007 season against the Cardinals in St. Louis, The Post's Mark Hale looks at the highs and lows of spring training:...
PARK SHIFTING INTO REVERSE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Chan Ho Park has been removed from the list of candidates for the Mets' rotation and has been assigned to a potential relief role. Willie Randolph...
RJ MUM ON 'TOUCHY' SUBJECT
CHARLOTTE - Richard Jefferson chose his words slowly and carefully. Outwardly, he was calm and composed. Inwardly, only he could answer. So he was asked about his slow start Friday...
THANKS, VINCE
CHARLOTTE - Maybe the season would not have gone totally up in flames. But put it this way - an undermanned Bobcats team that was playing with guys only NBA...
NOW, THIS IS HOCKEY!
BOSTON - It has taken almost two full seasons for emo tion to return to the game in the aftermath of the NHL lockout, the canceled 2004-05 season, and the...
NO REGULAR GAME
BOSTON - They have met 206 times over their 35-year Battle of New York, but only once previously has a regular-season game between the Rangers and Islanders carried the significance...
YANKEES SPRING RESET
With eight days remaining before the Yankees open the 2007 season at the Stadium vs. the Devil Rays, The Post's George King looks at the highs and lows of spring...
GO GET ROCKET
TAMPA - There is no time to waste. Circumstances dictate immediate action. The Yankees need to play their best hand and get Roger Clemens back in Pinstripes. The Red Sox,...
CHIEN STRAPPED
TAMPA - It could have been worse, but the news on Chien-Ming Wang's right hamstring isn't good. Don't look for the staff ace until late April at the earliest after...
'AMERICAN IDLE' TO OPENING DAY IDOL?
TAMPA - The "American Idle" is in line to be the Yankees' Opening Day starter April 2 against the Devil Rays at Yankee Stadium. Yes, Carl Pavano is the betting...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Cranberry, Pa., man was so unperturbed by losing a finger in a snow-blower accident that he didn't even bother to look for it. That left police with a real...
WILL HE CHEAT? HOW TO TELL
If you're worried your guy might cheat, try checking out his waistline. A new study says the size of his belly may reveal whether he'll stray. Even the tiniest suspicion...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: I am a 27-year-old male and have been dating this guy for about three months now. I feel like my sexual drive is much higher than his....
MEET MARKET
SERIAL players and clingy guys need not apply - Sabrina's looking for a man who occupies the middle of the commitment spectrum. "I need someone who isn't going to freak...
NO JOY IN MUDVILLE
THERE are bad dates, and then there are bad dates - a night so dull, you might as well be sucking down a bottle of Ambien. Such was the case...