May 2, 2007
Is David All Wright Again?
Met fans have been wondering What's Wrong with Mr. Wright, even booing their golden boy Monday as his slump deepened. But over the last two games he's looked as comfortable...
Leo Meets Leo the Lion
Overrated auteur Michael Mann and Leonardo DiCaprio, who came thisclose to working together on "The Aviator,'' are looking for a studio to bankroll a $120 million film noir that will...
HAMMYTIME AND OTHER QUESTIONS
Life can be tricky. It appears Phil Hughes simply over-strided and popped his hammy. It could have happened anywhere, anytime, a max-effort injury. Still, you have to wonder about all...
Deal of the Day
Red bags and shoes are wonderful splashes of sass for any look.And this lux Cole Haan Lily Croc Frame Bag is a great piece to put in rotation.It's classy and...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A NEW MAINE MAN
It is Week Four for Awards Wednesday and we are certain only of this: The Yankeesâ new group will not be winning strength and conditioning coaches of the year. AL...
AIR SUPPLY: Look ma, no stop!
By the time Nov. 18 rolls around, baseball will be over, the NBA and NHL will already be in the throes of next season, and college football will be knee-deep...
CORRECTION: Tahiti nonstop
Tahiti: Closer to you In the article entitled "BUNGA-LOW" that appeared in today's travel section, see where it says that the nonstop flight between JFK and Papeete on Air Tahiti...
Spidey Shoots for the Record Books
Steve Mason of Fantasy Moguls, citing an armful of off-the-charts tracking numbers, thinks it can. "My early opening week estimate for Spider-Man 3 is for $130-$140 million, and if you...
Tangled Webs
There's no shortage of "Spider-Man'' news in today's Post. The Riedler -- that's what we affectionately call snarky B'way columnist Michael Riedel around here, even if it makes him sound...
Tom Poston (1921-2007)
Does any remember "Zotz!" (1962)? This supernatural comedy directed by William Castle, which I saw at a children's matinee at the old Loews Triboro, starred the sublime Tom Poston as...
DUNST UPON A TIME
DATING a superhero doesn't mean you have super taste. But, in Kirsten Dunst's case, it's obvious that she has courage. The starlet has been on a world tour promoting the...
BUBLÉ OF THE WARM YET STILL FIZZY VARIETY
ALL it took was one look at Canadian saloon singer Michael Bublé to see how the guy is a study in contradictions. At Webster Hall Monday, for a small club...
WEB OF JIVES
WHEN Peter Parker was young and impressionable and learning to be Spider-Man, he and his alter-ego listened to the mainstream rock of Alien Ant Farm and Sum 41 - what...
SPINNING A $30M SHOW
A few quick hits today: * "$pider-Man" Could the upcom ing stage version of "Spider-Man" be the most expensive musical of all time? Word is that the show, which is...
SANJAYA SNUBBED AT HOME
SANJAYA Malakar is back home - but it seems his hometown couldn't care less. City officials in Federal Way, Wash. - a suburb of Seattle - won't give the "American...
BEAR WITH ME
DAVE Salmoni, host of "Predator vs. Prey" and the new Animal Planet series "Rogue Nature," has faced bigger threats than Cheyenne, the three-month-old bear cub. But he still had his...
JORJA'S RULES
Jorja Fox and William Petersen examine what's left of her career. JORJA Fox was supposed to die at the end of "CSI" this year - but she has refused to...
NBC'S VA. TECH MANIFESTO TO BE ANALYZED ON A&E
NBC News has given a New York forensic psy chologist access to all of the videotaped and written material mailed to NBC by Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho. But the...
STARR REPORT
GLAAD all over Isaiah Washington, the "Grey's Anatomy" star, who used a gay slur last fall to de scribe co-star T.R. Knight, will film public service an nouncements for the...
COLORING THE TRUTH
IN 1990, a successful Quebec artist, Vic tor Pellerin, burned every last one of his paintings, then vanished. Fifteen years later, a clever young woman named Sophie Deraspe decided to...
RECIPE DONE RIGHT
IT'S impossible at this point to separate "Waitress," a charming little bitter sweet Southern comedy by the late Adrienne Shelly, from the tragic circumstances surrounding the filmmaker's demise. Shelly, who...
CHEATING OUT
IF you're a Zagat Survey participant, you are very likely rushing to file your online ballot by May 13, the cutoff date to receive a free copy of the 2008...
DIG INTO SEASON'S FLY FISH
IT'S spring, and you know what that means - gills gone wild! Salmon connoisseurs, get ready to rumble. Capturing the plump, oil-heavy fish as they start migrating from the Pacific...
JUST OPENED
Insieme 777 Seventh Ave., at 51st Street (212) 582-1310 Starters: $12 to $17; entrees: $26 to $39 The name means "together" in Italian. For their 75-seat trattoria in the Michaelangelo...
A RICAN ROSE
At the height of his recording career in the 1980s, a conservative few in Miami opposed to singer Danny Rivera's political views on Cuba burned his records in a series...
MIKE TAKES TOLL ON QNS. BEEP
For five very uncomfortable minutes, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall stood next to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as he let loose with a fierce tongue-lashing of elected officials who oppose congestion...
CUNY CRISIS PLAN
ALBANY - In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, CUNY is speeding up a program to text-message students in campus emergencies, officials told a state Senate committee yesterday. "Even...
S.I. POL SLAPPED FOR PETIT RHYME
City Councilman Mike McMahon was publicly slapped on the wrist yesterday for misusing city-government resources and personnel by asking his staff to type his daughter's schoolwork and make personal calls....
SPITZ JETS OFF TO CHASE CALIF. $$
ALBANY - With the state Legislature in session, Gov. Spitzer headed to California yesterday for a mysterious fund-raising trip, drawing the ire of Republicans and even raising some eyebrows among...
MACY'S SHOPPER BAGS NAKED PERV
A 16-year-old girl bravely fought off a naked sex fiend who broke into her dressing room at Macy's Herald Square, authorities said yesterday, "I was traumatized," Ashley Sims told The...
'I DON'T TRUST ANYONE! HELP!'
"He wanted to kill me! Help me! Please!" Peter Braunstein's victim shrieked in a gut-wrenching 911 tape played at his kidnap-sex-torture case yesterday. The gasping woman was so hysterical in...
BX. JUDGES IN RAISE RALLY
Judges stood on the steps of Bronx Supreme Court yesterday asking for justice - in their paychecks. The more than 60 men and women wearing their black robes noted that...
WILLETS FACE LIFT ON DECK
Polluted and blighted Willets Point, home to 60 acres of auto-repair shops, would be transformed into a gleaming development of 5,500 homes and shops under a plan announced yesterday by...
JETBLUE MEANIES BUSTED
Four JetBlue employees had their wings clipped yesterday after prosecutors charged they had been using passengers' credit cards to live the high life. Three of the four are customer-service agents...
MAN'S WHOLE LIFE UNTRACKED
An 18-wheeler carrying one man's life from Texas to New York was sliced in half by a train when the rig got stuck on the tracks. The rig contained not...
MRS. IMUS IN HARLEM
Under a security phalanx fit for an NBA star, the wife of fallen shock jock Don Imus came to East Harlem to promote a plan for an environmentally friendly medical...
TRUCK THIEF IN 100-FOOT BRIDGE LEAP
The driver of a stolen truck survived a jump from the Tappan Zee Bridge last night after leading cops on a 50-mile, high-speed chase from New Jersey, into The Bronx...
BUS NIGHTMARE
A crook in a stolen SUV turned a trip home into a ride of horror for disabled schoolchildren in Queens yesterday when he smashed into their bus, flipping it over,...
HAUL LOT OF TROUBLE AT POSH HOTEL
Guests at the luxury Helmsley Park Lane Hotel were forced to schlep their own luggage yesterday after workers staged an impromptu sit-in. Angered by what they called hazardous work conditions,...
MIKE DENIES 'INDY' JONES
The buzz about him running for president doesn't have "a lot to do with reality," Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday. The mayor was reacting to a story in The Wall Street...
SHEA BAN ON METS' DIM-BULB FAN
It didn't take three strikes to get an overzealous Mets fan out of Shea Stadium. It took just a single high-powered flashlight he used to blind opposing players during the...
PILOT ERROR DOOMED LIDLE: FEDS
Bad piloting doomed Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor, federal probers said yesterday in their final report on why the duo's plane crashed into an Upper East Side...
COP A SHIRK JERK
A 12-year police veteran who was collecting a disability pension for a shoulder injury was ordered back to active duty after getting caught on videotape doing heavy-lifting construction work, The...
MEAL FIT FOR A 'KILLER' KING
A Latin Kings "warlord" ordered a teenage gangbanger to shoot a man - and then, as the victim lay dying, sat down to a hearty meal with the gunman, a...
METTLE & PEDAL FOR 9/11 HERO
When 9/11 firefighter Joe Montaperto won a free bicycle at the start of last year's Five Boro Bike Tour, he vowed he'd improve his breathing problems in time to ride...
HOT WATER FOR DVD PIRATES
With the summer movie season fast approaching, Mayor Bloomberg is stepping up the city's war against film piracy. The mayor yesterday signed into law a bill that will make it...
BLOOD TRAIL OF TRAGIC NEWBORN
A Brooklyn woman, accused of covering up the murder of her sister's newborn girl, told a grand jury she dumped three bags of bloody towels on the frigid back porch...
'AMERICA' IS ON A MISS-ION
Miss America plans to testify against the alleged cybercreeps she helped bust in a sex sting that was featured last week on "America's Most Wanted." "Of course she will," a...
SANIT UNION BIG NOT GUILTY
A honcho in the sanitation union - arrested last year and charged with slugging a department chief during a labor dispute - has been acquitted on all criminal charges. Thomas...
$3M 'ROBBER' COP QUIT IN DISGRACE
A troubled ex-cop, who was arraigned yesterday on charges that he swiped nearly $3 million from a Manhattan insurance firm, resigned from the NYPD in disgrace a decade ago after...
ALEC WARNED BY DR. PHIL
Alec Baldwin got some no-nonsense advice from TV shrink Dr. Phil McGraw after angry comments the actor made to his 11-year-old daughter were made public nearly two weeks ago. "[Baldwin]...
SPACE SNUB HAD NASA NUT RAGING
Noxious know-it-all astronut Lisa Nowak had been passed over for a prime shuttle mission just before wigging out on her romantic rival, court documents revealed yesterday. Nowak's co-workers told NASA...
BUSH KOS 'CHAOS' PLAN
In a historic showdown with the Democratic-controlled Congress, President Bush last night vetoed a bill to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq this year, blasting it as "a prescription for...
ARIZ. BIG IN BOOST FOR RUDY
Arizona's Republican Party boss is officially staying neutral in the state's GOP presidential primary - a snub to hometown Sen. John McCain and a boost to Rudy Giuliani, who has...
GIULIANI LOSES SOME GROUND
GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's popularity has slipped in the early battleground states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, while rival Arizona Sen. John McCain is ahead in all...
FLIGHTY HILL CHANGES PLANES - CONSTANTLY
WASHINGTON - Jet-setting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is a fussy frequent flier who used three different planes in a single day during a recent campaign swing through South...
SPECTOR TRIAL ON HOLD AFTER ILLNESS
LOS ANGELES - The judge in Phil Spector's sensational murder trial yesterday told jurors to take five until next week, so hot-shot defense lawyer Bruce Cutler can recover from an...
'COWARD' MCG
Jim McGreevey's estranged wife said the former New Jersey "love gov" delivered news to her that he was gay "in cowardly installments," and clearly "never loved" her. "I felt like...
REAGAN FELT SON-BURNED
Ronald Reagan's son gave him nearly as much aggravation as menacing world leaders like Libya's Moammar Khadafy, according to the late president's diary. Excerpts from the five leather-bound volumes were...
GAL'S TIPS FOR 'TRICK' CHICKS
WASHINGTON - The "D.C. Madam" who has official Washington on edge peppered her workers with advice, as any good boss would - only in her case, she explained how to...
ANNA'S LOUISVILLE FILLY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend arrived in Kentucky from the Bahamas yesterday with their infant daughter, and said he is looking forward to introducing the baby to his...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan* Police yesterday were searching for a 13-year-old girl who disappeared from her East Harlem building. Rachael Bowen (pictured) was last spotted at her East 105th Street building near Lexington...
EVIL BLAST FROM THE PAST IS PERV'S ADMIRER
He slithered out of the crypt where creeps and scoundrels reside, just to spoil my lunch. Before Peter Braunstein waged a one-maniac reign of terror on the women of this...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 471; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 9742; Lucky Sum: 22 Evening Nos. Tue.: 097; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 6241; Lucky...
JON CORZINE, SPEED ADDICT
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday accepted a ticket for not buckling his seatbelt on April 12 - a decision that almost cost him his life in a Garden State...
OUT-REFORMING ELIOT
Assembly GOP leader James Tedisco has fired a shot across the campaign-finance bow at Gov. Spitzer, announcing he'll introduce a bill to limit the practice of "bundling" - campaign cash...
ENCOURAGING THE ENEMY
President Bush last night resolutely vetoed an Iraq-war-funding bill that would have tied the hands of his military commanders and forced a U.S. capitulation to bloody-handed terrorists in a matter...
HE WENT TO MY SCHOOL
LONG before he joined al Qaeda, Mohammed Junaid Babar was a sometime student at Jamaica High School, where I work. About 18 months ago, a reporter called the school, looking...
BORDER CHAOS
THE New York Times is always ready and willing to serve as lead public-relations staffers for the open-borders movement. Yesterday, on May Day, the day of mass illegal-alien protests, the...
LONDON PLOT - N.Y.C. PLOTTER
THE testimony of "turned" al Qaeda member Mohammed Junaid Babar was critical in Monday's terror convictions in London. But New Yorkers might want to focus on how Babar used the...
PARADOXES & OUTRAGE
A READER writes: "Liberals hold us individually responsible for nothing but collectively responsible for everything." * Sometimes it seems as if everybody is trying to rip off his own little...
JOE'S RESOLVE RESOUNDS WITH REPUBLICANS
THE ISSUE: Sen. Joe Lieberman's demand that Americans "stand and fight and win" in Iraq. Sen. Joe Lieberman's insightful article, "Iraq: No Retreat, No Surrender," (PostOpinion, April 28) is further...
A LOGICAL RULING ON PARTIAL-BIRTH
THE ISSUE: The Supreme Court's decision to uphold Congress' Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Jacob Sullum's opposition to the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the ban on partial-birth abortion is unbelievable...
$5B BID FOR WSJ
Success for the $5 billion takeover bid News Corp. has made for Dow Jones hinges on whether the offer will entice the controlling Bancroft family to seriously weigh the offer....
GENERATION GAP OVER FUTURE
Five generations of the Bancroft family who control the Wall Street Journal empire have been at odds for the past decade on whether to cash in their withering family fortune...
UPSET AT THE ELLIES
IN what has to be considered a staggering upset, The New Yorker was completely shut out in its bid to garner National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine...
ON THE 4TH TRY, DOLANS ARE NEAR DEAL TO TAKE CABLEVISION PRIVATE
For father-and-son duo Chuck and Jim Dolan, the fourth time's a charm. The mercurial family was late last night in advanced discussions to take Cablevision private for $36 per share,...
GAP EYES TAILORING WITH LAYOFFS
Struggling apparel giant Gap Inc. is considering potentially sizeable layoffs to help reduce expenses and also to eliminate the bureaucracy that has stifled creativity in recent years, The Post has...
BULK FICTION
A closer look at the latest circulation figures from the New York Daily News reveals the paper's overreliance on bulk sales is propping up a single-copy sales disaster. According to...
KRAVIS UNDER SCRUTINY AT TRIAL
CHICAGO - New York socialite Marie-Josee Kravis, once a high-profile director on the board of Conrad Black's Hollinger International, was accused yesterday of changing her story about ill-gotten executive bonuses...
REIT'S BROADWAY PLAY
SL Green Realty Trust is preparing another of its noncore assets for market. We've learned the real estate investment trust, or REIT, should pull in well over $300 million from...
FUZZY FREQUENCY
The takeover of radio giant Clear Channel Communications is headed for a shocking rejection after powerful proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services yesterday recommended shareholders vote down the $27.1 billion buyout....
LIZ LOSS BATTERS SHARES
The shares of Liz Claiborne tumbled 19 percent after the apparel maker reported a steeper than expected plunge in first-quarter profit and lowered its guidance for the remainder of the...
MCGREEVEY EYES PRIESTHOOD: REPORT
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey is headed for priesthood in his newly adopted Episcopal faith. He hopes to begin a three-year seminary program in the fall, according to a...
'STREET' MAKES PERFECT 'SENSE'
LOUISVILLE - If there is one horse pointed, primed, polished and perfected to win the Kentucky Derby this Saturday it is the local idol, Street Sense. By any measure -...
THERE'S METHOD TO MY MADNESS
Trainer Larry Jones returns to his old Kentucky home to run Hard Spun, winner of the Lane's End Stakes, in Saturday's 133rd Kentucky Derby. This week, he shares his thoughts...
FIGHT GAME NEED$ OSCAR-FLOYD GEM
Saturday, Oscar De La Hoya will face Floyd Mayweather in the most highly anticipated fight of this decade. Post boxing writer George Willis breaks down the bout this week. Fourth...
DOSAGE DUAL-QUALIFIERS: GREAT 8 THIS YEAR
There are eight Dosage System dual-qualifiers in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, the most ever in one year: Street Sense, Scat Daddy, Circular Quay, Great Hunter, Nobiz Like Shobiz, Stormello, Any Given...
'BLUE,' 'X' DROP OUT
LOUISVILLE - Cobalt Blue and Xchanger were withdrawn from the Kentucky Derby yesterday, opening the way for Teuflesberg and Imawildandcrazyguy, who ranked below them on the list of graded-stakes earnings...
MGM OUT OF BIG A RACINO
MGM finally pulled the plug on its long-delayed deal with the New York Racing Association to build and operate a slots casino at Aqueduct, NYRA chairman C. Steven Duncker announced...
STORMELLO IS BREWING
LOUISVILLE - With Cobalt Blue and Xchanger dropping out yesterday, making room for longshots Teuflesberg and Imawildandcrazyguy, the field is set at 20 for Saturday's 133rd Kentucky Derby. In Teuflesberg,...
HONDO: LET'S PLAY TWO
Hondo gave some back last night when the Nats were neutered in San Diego, causing the earnings to drop to 665 dalrymples. Today, he has some double- dippage in the...
THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE
KANATA, Ontario - The Devils already have triumphed from this hole once in these playoffs. Even they aren't sure if they're old pros at it, or pushing their luck. "A...
BANKS LIKES KIWANUKA AT LINEBACKER
As a former punishing outside linebacker for the Giants, Carl Banks has little trepidation and, in fact, is brimming with anticipation at the news that erstwhile defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka...
CUT KEY MAY LAND ON JINTS
The Giants last offseason tried to sign WR Keyshawn Johnson as an unrestricted free agent, but he opted to take more money and head to Carolina. Johnson yesterday was released...
SEPT. 10 TRIAL DATE FOR ISIAH
Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas will spend his summer preparing for the NBA draft, free agency - and trial. A trial date of Sept. 10, in U.S. District Court in Manhattan,...
FIRST BLOOD
Mike Pelfrey showed glimpses of a rookie and an ace. The reshuffled Mets offense showed signs of life and of lifelessness - not to mention recklessness. Pelfrey recovered from a...
MIKE LEARNS LESSON
HAVEN'T we've seen this before? Aaron Heilman is still giving up big home runs. On a night that saw Mike Pelfrey make significant progress and David Wright snap out of...
ALOU BACK IN LINEUP AFTER MRI
After making two DL moves on Monday, the Mets received some good medical news yesterday. Moises Alou underwent an MRI on his right shoulder, and the test revealed nothing more...
RALLY KILLER
TORONTO - You know all that stuff the Nets were saying about how tough it is to close out a series? Well, they weren't lying. After stomping the Raptors twice...
KIDD HONORED - AGAIN - FOR HIS DEFENSE
TORONTO - Jason Kidd is averaging a triple double in the playoffs, something no one player can claim. And while the numbers impress, Kidd takes just as much pride -...
GARDEN OF EVEN
Ten years after coaching the Rangers to the Eastern Conference Finals, Colin Campbell is again the toast of Broadway. Who would have believed it? For it was Campbell, in his...
LUNDQVIST SAVES HIS BEST FOR LAST
IT probably was in. It just couldn't be proved on a super slow-mo replay that was even more a blur than Henrik Lundqvist's right pad. Out to play the puck,...
SABRES KEEP THEIR COOL AFTER NO-GOAL CALL
Lindy Ruff was just about certain with what happened in the final seconds of last night's conference semifinal. "I saw it as a goal," the Sabres head coach said after...
PHIL FEELS NO-NO PAIN
ARLINGTON, Texas - There's cruelty, then there's what happened last night to the Yankees. Has any 10-1 victory in the team's history seemed so depressing? There was Phil Hughes, the...
WONDERFUL, TERRIFYING NIGHT FOR HUGHES
ARLINGTON, Texas - They can break your heart, can't they? First they grab hold of it, cradle it in their arms, make you believe that anything is possible, because that...
JOHNNY TO RETURN TONIGHT
ARLINGTON, Texas - Johnny Damon had several sessions with his chiropractor in Orlando over 1½ days and said his aching back had responded, but Joe Torre still thought added time...
STARK FIGHTS TONIGHT TO AVENGE ONLY LOSS
Gary "Kid" Stark Jr. will enter the main event of tonight's Broadway Boxing card at the Manhattan Center determined to prevent a reoccurrence of his controversial loss by decision to...
YANKEES SEE FIRST CASUALTY
There is now a first casualty to report due to the Yankees' abysmal start, The Post has learned. Marty Miller, who was hired before the season to run the Yankees...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
As if cops didn't have enough trouble with gun-wielding maniacs, officers in Philadelphia had to contend with a woman brandishing poisonous snakes. As cops were trying to stop her from...
The best FX has to offer: "The Shield"
While the rest of FX's lineup didn't live up to its hype -- "The Riches" and "Dirt" haven't exactly sparkled, and stalwart "Nip/Tuck" took a nose dive earlier this year...