May 13, 2007
Bad movie obsession of the week
So this weekend I went to see Georgia Rule, the pretty-much-universally panned Lindsay Lohan / Jane Fonda / Felicity Huffman chick flick. To be totally honest? I pretty much loved...
Impossible to Avoid: Shrek
Still living under that rock? It doesnât matter: âShrek the Thirdâ is probably advertising on the moss growing on your rock. You may be able to catch the entire movie...
The Shallow End of the Pool
You can probably blame the public's boredom with the antics of Lindsay Lohan (and the atrocious reviews, which still count for female-driven flicks) for the belly-flop of "Georgia Rule,'' which...
Happy Mother's Day
But for me, the hands down winner is the brilliant Angela Lansbury in one of my all-time favorites, "The Manchurian Candidate'' (Pictured, above, with director John Frankenheimer). Though Lansbury didn't...
FINALE FEVER
"Grey's Anatomy" specializes in the ultra-dramatic season finale; remember last year's death vigil for Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Derek walking away from his wife, Addison, mid-dance, to lure Meredith...
SOAPY IDOL
You might remember Constantine Maroulis as the "American Idol" contestant who seemed almost too cool for the campy reality TV sho. The Brooklyn-born rocker had his own band, long-haired locks...
REEL GOOD
GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999) Sunday, 8 p.m., AMC A suicidal, depressed young woman (Winona Ryder) does a stint in a mental institution where she meets a sociopath named Lisa (Angelina Jolie)....
THE DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: TRIBUTE Farewell Bob Bob Barker, who is retiring from "The Price Is Right," the CBS mainstay which he has hosted since 1972, is receiving a platinum-plated send-off on not...
IN CROWD
By the time you read this column, only three of the "American Idol" hopefuls in this picture will still be standing. And no one is trying harder to keep them...
''BROKEN NEWS" IS MORE LIKE IT
What do you think when you see the words, "Breaking News" suddenly appear on your screen? Does your heart, especially since 9/11, start working its way toward your throat? For...
BUZZ HIGH ON FALL PILOTS
Some networks, like CBS and ABC, definitely did better than others (NBC, Fox) this year. But which troubled shows will not make the cut? NBC seems to be renewing anything...
HAMILTON THE MAN ABSENT FROM NEW DOC
You would think that establishing The New York Post would have been enough to guarantee Alexander Hamilton everlasting fame. But apparently, launching The Post in 1801 was only one of...
RECLUSE BOBBY STILL FIGHTING HIS BATTLES
CHESS IT'S been two years since Bobby Fischer last made headlines, when he won a battle of wills with Japan and was freed from prison to start a new life...
HOT SEAT
IT'S a miracle that Cynthia Rowley finds time to sleep. Not only does the West Village mom balance designing her collections with raising two daughters, but she's a judge on...
HOT LIST
1. Murderous intentions No need to imagine what it'd be like to be a nerdy 25-year old who still lives with mom, has a hard time asking chicks out and...
HIGH STEAKS
ANYONE wondering what consumer product was left for Donald Trump to stamp his name on in the wake of Trump vodka, Trump bottled water, Trump suits, Trump magazine and Trump...
ABOUT BOB
AT first, hearing Bob Odenkirk cite the bleak Danish incest drama "The Celebration" as his primary inspiration for his new project sounds as bizarre as if Ricky Gervais had said...
POWERLESS
NINETEEN-EIGHTY-FOUR. Pictures of a leader splashed all over a decaying city. His voice perpetually crackles from TVs and radios. War - if not on one front, then another. Constant surveillance...
REQUIRED READING
Howard Jacobson's "Kalooki Nights" (Simon & Schuster, $26) is the finest, funniest and most perversely inspiring novels of the year. A huge force in England, Jacobson's ninth novel relates the...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
Pan's Labyrinth (2-Disc Platinum Series)4 STARS(New Line, $34.98) Yes, this is a movie filled with fairies, wonderful insects and a little girl's deep fantasy life. But it's hardly a kid's...
ADOPT ME
Agnes, a young Terrier mix, is quite the happy-go-lucky girl. And what a face! She's a good dog and loves nothing more than to pal around with her human friends...
NATURAL HEALING
A few weeks ago, my mother's cat Torkan developed a growth on her right flank. This fluffy little Persian is Mom's favorite baby, and at 6 pounds she's also the...
THE CAT LADY
GROWING kittens are eating machines. They take food in and burn it up at an amazing rate. In fact, kittens grow from about 4 ounces when they're born to about...
COLOR YOUR WARDROBE
Photographer: Caitlin Thorne and Liz Sullivan; Stylist: Candice Langley; Market associate: Christina Tam; Fashion editor: Serena French
PUB PALS
ALEX Turner, the frontman of the Arctic Monkeys, didn't become a rocker because of the bands he and his mates saw live at the U.K.'s star-studded summer music festivals. Rather,...
SQUEEZE PLAY
IT may give one pause to hear a middle-age man recall a dream in which 18 young women cavort around in pigtails. But the subconscious mind of Walter Kuehr added...
RUFUS 'ROUGH 'STARS'
OK. You have 13 bucks and you have a choice between a cheese pizza from John's on Bleecker and Rufus Wainwright's new CD, "Release the Stars." Don't hesitate for a...
HOLY NIGHTS
POPE John Paul II had spoken on many stages before, but not until now had the late pontiff preached from the Great White Way. You see, decades before he became...
A TASTY DANISH
IMAGINE, if you can, Michel Gondry's 2004 hit "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" as remade by Larsvon Trier after he's watched Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (1979) for the 103rd time....
THREE'S FAMILY
Like its title character, "The Wendell Baker Story" has a troubled past. The indie comedy, shot in 2003, is the brainchild of Luke Wilson, who wrote the screenplay, co-directed with...
HAL'S BEST PAL
IN the battle for movie-sequel box office next weekend, there's "Shrek," and then there's indie director Hal Hartley's latest, "Fay Grim." It's kind of like putting Oscar De La Hoya...
OGRE THE EDGE!
WE wanted to find out who's who in the cast of "Shrek the Third." There are new characters and old favorites, and DreamWorks' Tim Cheung, head of character animation, knows...
'SHREK THE THIRD' PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF ANIMATION
WORKING with real, live divas and all their on-set drama is nothing. As industry challenges go, try managing a grumpy monster, a princess and a sarcastic ass for three years....
BURGER KINGS
THE month of May is all about celebration - there's Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day and Memorial Day, not to mention Lost Sock Memorial Day (May 9) and National Dance...
TISOC, 34, AND COLLANTES, 29
APRIL 26 - When the time for marriage is right, you just know it. "We actually only started talking about marriage two days before the wedding," says Sheylla Collantes, a...
TERRUSA, 28, AND GOOGIN, 43
APRIL 14 - "The gods did not want us to have an untraditional wedding," laughs Diane Terrusa, who had her heart set on throwing convention to the wind. "We originally...
BURNIAT, 32, AND DOUGHTY, 32
APRIL 26 - Long distance can break a relationship, but for Tricia Doughty and Nicolas Burniat, it's what made it. The Gramercy Park pair met in October 2005 at the...
SANTIE, 25, AND GUT, 43
APRIL 22 - Veronica Santie and Stephen Gut invited 18 guests to their wedding on Bow Bridge in Central Park, but to the couple's surprise, they had more guests than...
LEE, 31, AND CACERES, 30
MARCH 31 - The rooftop ballroom at the St. Regis Hotel is a perfect location for a Manhattan couple who want a Manhattan wedding. And what's exactly what Ann Lee,...
POLITICAL OIL PROFITEERS
You may not believe it, but Sen. Charles Schumer thinks Big Oil is conspiring to inflate gasoline prices. Really, he does. Schumer said last week he'll ask the feds to...
'TALKING' TERROR
What if the months of planning and conversation that went into the 9/11 plot had been leaked in advance to The New York Times? Would the Times have reported it?...
DEMOCRATS & IRAQ: HERE'S HILLARY
FOR those who are too obtuse to understand Sen. Hillary Clinton's simple and clear position on Iraq, the following is an attempt to summarize it: * She voted in the...
HATE-CRIME HYSTERICS
POLITICAL entrepreneurship involves devising benefits to excite or mollify niche constituencies. Hence H.R. 1592, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, which has passed the House, trailing...
TOO FINE FOR PBS
I call on my fellow Motion Picture Academy members, whatever their politics, to protest this cowardly and un-American act of censorship. I HAVE to admit the first thing that attracted...
NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE: OBAMA'S FACT-TWISTER
THE ISSUE: Sen. Obama's statement that 10,000 people died the Kansas tornado. Due to some well-crafted speeches delivered by a formerly unknown and untested presidential wannabe, Sen. Barack Obama surged...
FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU
THE ISSUE: Whether content aired by publicly funded PBS is politically biased. If PBS wants to show the world that it is the great news outlet it believes it is,...
IT'S A WIRED, WIRED WORLD
A CROWD OF ONE: THE FUTURE OF INDIVIDUAL IDENTITYBY JOHN HENRY CLIPPINGERPUBLICAFFAIRS, 227 PAGES, $25 WHAT do eBay, Renaissance Florence, "network-centric warfare," terrorism, language, leadership and neuroscience have in common?...
MARRIAGE PROPOSALS: ALL FOR THE CHILD
Editor's Note: Family scholar David Blankenhorn's new book, "The Future of Marriage" (Encounter Books, 260 pages, $25.95), looks at marriage from prehistory to the contemporary gay-marriage debate. Recently, Eve Tushnet...
BRAINWASHING BRIDEZILLA
ONE PERFECT DAY: THE SELLING OF THE AMERICAN WEDDINGBY REBECCA MEADPENGUIN PRESS, 256 PAGES, $25.95 PLANNING an elaborate wedding has become part of the modern quest for happiness, and an...
COVERGIRL KERI RUSSELL SHOOTS WEB
Keri Russell's next role will be a Web-only event. The perky, very pregnant actress now getting rave reviews for her role in "Waitress" will debut next month in "The Keri...
ONE HIT WONDER
NBC brass are either geniuses or idiots. No one will know for sure which until next fall - at the earliest. The last-in-the-ratings Peacock network has developed for this week's...
HARSH REALTY
The housing market has not hit bottom yet and probably won't until sometime in 2008. Yep, there it is in black and white. And while no one really wants to...
DOW JONES BID SPOTLIGHTS INSIDER-TRADING SHENANIGANS
IT seems that it takes a deal right in the heart of the business media's own backyard to focus attention on a growing problem on Wall Street. That problem is...
DEBT FORGIVENESS IS NOT TAX FORGIVENESS
Dear John: Does working out a debt settlement with a credit card company have any tax implications? A.J. Dear A.J.: It sure does. According to Marc Albaum, a certified public...
THE MARKET MAKER
Investment banker June R. Reed will never call Wall Street a battleground again. The managing director at Saber Partners, an investment advisory boutique, walked away from her $1 million-a-year position,...
RECORD LABELS TAKE SPIN AT AD BIZ
The embattled music business, unable to sell enough CDs or downloads, is now selling advertising. With CD sales in free-fall and digital music purchases not yet able to offset declines,...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSDICK GRASSO Former NYSE chief wins big round when appeals court dismisses four of six claims over his $190 million pay package.STEVE JOBS Apple polisher says SEC has cleared him...
MLB ON THE BALL AS BONDS NEARS NO. 756
With Barry Bonds just 10 homeruns away from breaking Hank Aaron's career mark - and thus creating a souvenir worth roughly $500,000 - fans will soon be checking the schedule...
THEY'RE NO 'SCRUBS'
ON the Money would like to interrupt NBC brass this weekend while they huddle to decide which shows live and which die to make a plea to renew "Scrubs." The...
COPS: WE'LL 'TOW' LINE ON PERMITS
The NYPD is overhauling how it assesses bids and awards the permits that grant lucrative towing rights on the city's highways. Commissioner Ray Kelly last week stripped the five-member NYPD...
NYPD TO GET A CLUE AFTER CASE FOUL-UPS
Hundreds of crimes are going unsolved because of the NYPD's antiquated and inefficient system of collecting and storing evidence, according to city detectives. The system is so fraught with problems...
NEW YORK'S 50 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
They're moguls, mensches and moms - the sensational ladies on this year's Post list of New York's most powerful dames. Hillary Rodham Clinton, 59, senator/presidential candidate. New York's first female...
'KILLER' COP CHASED GAL
A neighbor said he broke up an angry confrontation between accused killer cop Harry Rupnarine and his stunning ex-fiancée, Guiatree Hardat, a week before the Brooklyn beauty was murdered. Witness...
AMY & JOEY SET DATE FOR LOVE
For love or money? That is the question as Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher are planning a romantic rendezvous for tomorrow night. Fresh from the pen and soon to be...
ME BACKS 9/11-FILE FUMBLER
The city's chief medical examiner defended a high-ranking official who carelessly left a laptop containing 9/11-related files - including photos of physical remains - in a car that was broken...
HOARD-HOUSE TRAGEDY
An elderly couple died early yesterday on Long Island in a fire that tore through their clutter-filled home. "There was a lot of debris in the house, floor to ceiling...
'FALL' CLASSIC AT STADIUM
A man was injured at the new Yankee Stadium construction site in The Bronx when he fell into a six-foot hole yesterday. The unidentified 35-year- old man stumbled into the...
CLERK RINGS UP N.J. JIHAD JERKS
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - It all began on a frigid January day with 10 bearded Muslim men huddled in the parking lot of a Circuit City debating who would go...
MAN LEAPS IN FRONT OF TRAIN
A man was killed last night when he jumped in front of an oncoming Long Island Rail Road train in Flushing, police said. The man, 39, leaped in front of...
RUTGERS DORM 'THIEF' NEEDED $$: KIN
The Rutgers beauty queen and class president charged with using her resident-adviser privileges to rip off classmates "made a mistake" and was hard up for cash, her brother said yesterday....
TEMPLE TROUBLE IN HARLEM
Allegations of theft, harassment and a fence-jumping rabbi are swirling around a dispute over the ownership of a landmark Harlem synagogue. A 34-year-old schism in a congregation of Orthodox Ethiopian...
SECOND-STRING SWEETIE FOR BILL
A New Jersey woman in the midst of a heated divorce says New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick still gives her piles of money - even while he's dating another...
RAILING AT RUDY
Ed Koch is willing to travel the country denouncing Rudy Giuliani if "America's mayor" wins the Republican presidential nomination . "If I had to sum it up in a few...
CRICKET BOWLS OVER HS KIDS
New York City public schools have gone googly-eyed for cricket - the sport of googlies and overs with breaks for tea. Next year, the city will become the first school...
'KILLER' NABBED IN '83 B'KLYN DOUBLE SLAY
A Brooklyn man who allegedly killed an in-law and his pal in 1983, then eluded cops for the next 24 years, is behind bars after police found him in the...
A BLOOMY RUN FOR GOV COULD GIVE SPITZ FITS
ALBANY - A battle between Gov. Spitzer and Mayor Bloomberg would be one of the most hard-fought, and certainly the most costly, statewide contests in New York history - and...
'TRANSIT TRAGEDY' FIX DONE
NYC Transit has finally fixed the broken alarm boxes that failed to shut down the third rail the night a track worker was electrocuted in a horrific subway accident -...
$400M TANGO FOR ATKINS WIDOW AND PAL
The saga of Veronica Atkins and the $400 million fortune she inherited from her diet-guru husband is as passionate and complicated as the Argentine tangos she adores dancing with her...
MOORE'S 'SICKO' LAWYER
First he helped Al Gore fight George W. Bush. Now, he's helping Michael Moore do the same thing. High-powered attorney David Boies - chief counsel in Gore's recount battle against...
GIULIANI HITS GREEN AT $1M TRUMP GOLF FEST
Florida donors golfed up a storm of cash for Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions yesterday - about $1 million, according to real-estate mogul Donald Trump, who hosted the "golf-raiser." "It's been...
FOES CAN STICK IT TO HILLARY
Her critics can finally pin her down. Hillary haters have something beside their votes to express displeasure with the New York senator and presidential wannabe - the Hillary Clinton voodoo...
HOKIE PRIDE GOES ON
It's been 28 days since the comfort of the classroom turned into a bloodbath for students at Virginia Tech. The April 16 shooting spree by Cho Seung-Hui left 27 students...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN The body of a man surfaced in the waters off Sheepshead Bay, police said. The unidentified victim, described as a white man in his 40s, was found near Emmons...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 514; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 6250; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 532; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
L.A.'S STORYHEATING UP
ROD Thorn's "bold" admission last week that he tried to trade Jason Kidd to the Lakers right up until the deadline is a dead giveaway the Nets' guard was intimately...
METS OWE BONDS DEBT OF GRATITUDE
AS SOCIAL studies go, MLB's official no-response to Barry Bonds' approaching home-run record makes for a rare one. I mean, how often do we get to see a ship desert...
AMERICAN WAY
A RITE of the baseball season begins Friday. That is when the AL again starts to treat the National League more like the International League. The AL has won the...
GANG GEEZER
THERE have been few more polarizing personalities in baseball history than Roger Clemens, a man who can inspire loathing and loving, hatred and hospitality, reverence and rejection, all depending on...
UNION CAN'T LET NHL SKATE
THE next and most critical step for the NHLPA in the wake of Ted Saskin's impeachment is not merely to find a leader who will create stability for the union,...
THESE STARS BEHIND BARS
PARIS HILTON is headed to the Big House for a whopping 45 days. Doesn't seem like a long time, unless you're stuck eating prison food, warding off infatuated felons, or...
PAIR OF KEVINS STUCK UNDER .200
AS the reality set in that No. 51 would not be gracing the Yankees faithful with his presence this season, a "berning" question started to sneak its way into the...
GLORY MULLIGAN
After a modestly successful junior career on the links as a 0.8 handicap, Post reporter Brett Cyrgalis is forging a comeback, attempting to compete with the best amateur golfers in...
YOUNGSTERS GOBBLE UP HUNTING OPPORTUNITIES
NEW York established a special youth hunt for turkeys in 2004, and since then, more than 5,000 junior hunters have taken to the woods each year with an adult companion...
TO HELL AND BACKMAN
ALBANY, Ga. - As he ruffled through a bag of baseball gear at his house last month, Wally Backman saw the jersey. Crisp white with pinstripes and teal lettering outlined...
RED BULLS TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL
The Red Bulls host Colorado today (3 p.m., MSG), hoping the MLS debut of Juan Pablo Angel is enough to help wash away the bad taste of their disappointing western...
VAC'S WHACKS
Pistons-Spurs would be a wonderful Finals match-up for hoops purists, and a perfect excuse to tune out for the other 90 percent of basketball fans. **** If you have even...
OLDER ROGER WON'T BE ROCKET OF OLD: SCOUT
When Randy Johnson crossed from the NL to the AL to join the Yankees, several scouts warned that he was not the same pitcher of memory. That he threw his...
THE RUMBLE
Oh, the humanity! Waldman's Rocket call an all-timer "Of all the dramatic things, of all the dramatic things I've ever seen, Roger Clemens standing right in George Steinbrenner's box announcing...
SPEED ERASERS
The pace scenario for Saturday's 132nd Preakness at Pimlico came into sharper focus yesterday when trainer D. Wayne Lukas announced that Derby Trial winner Flying First Class was his choice...
SONGSTER HITS THE RIGHT NOTE
Did we just see next Breeders' Cup Sprint winner? Songster, making first start since faltering in King's Bishop last August at Saratoga, was 1-2 favorite in field of five for...
CAP DAY FOR HONDO
Hondo's losing streak came to a halt at six yester day when the Tigers mauled Minny to elevate the earnings to 490 freehans. Today, Mr. Aitch will turn to the...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: T.O. in Cowboys minicampTerrell Owens once again caught some of his Cowboys teammates and coaches off guard. But instead of stirring controversy off the field, Owens surprised them by...
ROCKET'S RULES
* As eloquent as Mike Vaccaro was in his column regarding the Yankees' signing of Roger Clemens ["Pact pushes aside pinstripe principles," The Post and nypost.com, May 9], why should...
QUICK STUDY
For now, Aaron Ross is fine about embarking on his NFL career sur rounded by fellow rook ies and inexperienced players all attempting to carve out a niche and impress...
THREE LONGSHOTS AIM FOR THE GREEN
If the fickle gods of fate have their way, three players participating in the Jets' rookie minicamp that opened yesterday at Weeb Ewbank Hall will carve out rather unique NFL...
AMAZIN'S DEALT BREWTAL LOSS
Another dud from Mike Pelfrey, a listless offensive attack and a bullpen implosion. OK, Mets, start growing your hair back. In their worst home performance this season, the Mets yesterday...
PELFREY PROGRESS COMING SLOWLY
MIKE Pelfrey must be one of the luckiest players in the major leagues. In a sport where most pitchers are under pressure to produce instantly, Pelfrey is being given all...
NEWHAN HAS BLAST
David Newhan couldn't have done his job any better yesterday afternoon: Pinch hit, swing once, hit a two-run homer, call it a day. If only the rest of the Mets...
ALOU DEPARTURE ADDS INJURY TO INSULT
The scoreboard was bad, but the biggest hit the Mets took yesterday might have been Moises Alou's departure in the sixth inning. Alou pulled a left quad muscle while running...
THIS DOUBLE PLAY 2 BIZARRE
The beauty of baseball, its followers say, is seeing something unusual for the first time. It's hard to witness something more unique than two runners scoring on a popout to...
SWAMP SURGE
The consequences went without saying. Lose this one and all talk of a comeback from an 0-3 deficit would have been little more than talk. So the Nets went into...
JASON JUST MAGIC-AL
THERE were 5½ min utes left in the game, a game he'd already owned from the opening tap, a game he'd owned by putting every ounce of his Hall of...
ALL A-BOARD!
Mikki Moore and his fellow big men knew what the reaction was to the Nets being outrebounded badly in the first two games against the Cavaliers. "People thought we weren't...
JAMES' NUMBERS NOT FIT FOR A KING
LeBron James and Nets minority owner Jay-Z are solid friends and have spoken lots during this second-round series. "He can't be trash-talking," James said before last night's game. "I'm up...
BATS THE WAY!
SEATTLE - The best thing Matt DeSalvo had going for him last night was Miguel Batista. While DeSalvo certainly deserved his first major-league win, the neophyte Yankee right-hander was fortunate...
COUNT JETER ALL IN ON ROCKET RETURN
ONE of Derek Jeter's great strengths is that he can dissect any baseball situation quickly and with a sense of humor. So when I asked him what's the best thing...
ABREU SHOWS SIGN OF SHAKING SLUMP
SEATTLE - Bobby Abreu wasn't the lone Yankee swinging dead wood going into last night's 7-2 victory against the Mariners at Safeco Field. However, he was the only one among...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...ROGER CLEMENS
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with The Rocket via phone from Lexington, Ky., where the right-hander has begun workouts for his return to The Bronx. Q: You'll be with your...
FRANK TORRE TAKES TURN FOR WORSE
Twenty-four hours after reporting that his brother Frank had a "good day" Friday, Yankee manager Joe Torre painted a more serious picture last night. "We are keeping our fingers crossed...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: I just found out that the guy I've been dating for a month has a girlfriend who lives in New York (we're in LA). She moved there...
HAS YOUR ONLINE PROFILE GOTTEN STALE?
Profiles have a way of aging at the speed of light. Here's how to tell if yours is getting musty-and how to make it over with our expert's advice. Sign...
MEET MARKET
IF there's one surefire way to turn off a guy, it's when his date looks more like a dude than he does. "I was once set up by my grandma,"...
DATING DISCONNECT
SOME view having a threesome as the sexual Holy Grail. But a sixsome on the first date? There must be something in the water at Italian restaurant Per Lei. Though...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A cat survived a 35-day sea adventure with no food or water inside a container of motorcycle equipment shipped from China to Hendersonville, N.C. The feline apparently chewed through one...