May 17, 2007
History Doomed to Repeat Itself?
Sixty years after Hollywood messed with the Bronte Sisters, British director Charles Sturridge is going to have another go at it. Surprisingly, American actresses Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and...
Temps Rising for Temperley
The Lookbook of Alice Temperley's Collection for Target is up on their website, and it is one of the hottest collections yet.My favorite look is #4, a Parisian School Girl...
Bee-ing About Nothing
So you thought the world's film critics were in Cannes to watch movies? "Jerry Seinfeld is standing just a foot or two over my head, perched on a platform on...
Burgers over Bowery
Had plans to cookout this weekend but turned out you had no grill and no yard? Head over to that unique little enclave of downtown Manhattan- Freeman's Sporting Club where...
DVD Extra: Don't Miss Pan
A lot of you haven't seen "Pan's Labyrinth,'' so I'm simply not accepting excuses for skipping the just-released DVD. I wasn't alone in proclaiming it the best movie of 2006...
Aaron Ward, Broadcaster
Bill Clement is firmly the League's broadcasting centerman in America, but Aaron Ward made a good showing in front of the camera two nights ago on the Versus telecast of...
Deal of the Day
A plum pick for summer attire is the ubiquitous short, which has elevated itself in the food chain of appropriate clothing these days with some clever riffing on the basic.Right...
Law of Diminishing Returns
Looks like the marketing department at Paramount is more excited about "Shrek the Third,'' which hits U.S. theaters tonight, than anyone else. "We're Ogre It,'' proclaims the headline on Kyle'stwo-and-a-half...
Sabres Survive
Derek Roy celebrates his goal at :09 of the first period.Buffalo jumped out to a 3-0 lead by the middle of the second period and finally looked like themselves in...
Get ready to rumble
These are the moments I profess to not understand women's fashion. But if Raakhee and Danica insist the $420 Fendi belt buckle featured in today's Haute List is cool, I...
COLORADO - THE CENTENNIAL STATE
Colorado became the nation's 38th state on Aug. 1, 1876. It's the eighth-largest state, covering 104,185 square miles. Its capital is Denver. THE land that would become Colorado was home...
SLAM JUNK
JELLY glasses, bricks, family crests, table eaves, bags of sand, boxes of letters, old photographs, shoe shining kits from the 1950s. New York lives in a deficit of space -...
HAUTE LIST
A head of the pack L.A. girls like Mischa Barton, the Olsen twins and Lindsay Lohan are losing their heads for one of summer's hottest accessories - the headband. Perfect...
MONKEY BARS ARE REPETITIVE
WHAT the Arctic Monkeys' show Tuesday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom was: a solid rock show. What it wasn't: an explanation as to why this band is one of the...
INDIAN LOVE STORY IS DELHI-LICIOUS
AFTER its all-star gala the evening before, American Ballet Theatre got down to the nitty-gritty of its new season Tuesday night with a gorgeous performance of Natalia Makarova's glamorous staging...
FATHER'S NIGHT OUT
LIKE many film and stage stars making their nightclub debuts, Peter Gallagher took the stage at Feinstein's with a perceptible mix of nervousness and excitement. Having recently concluded his stint...
'TOP' CATS
'AMERICA'S Next Top Model" winner Jaslene Gonzalez called herself the "Cha Cha Diva" on the show. Off the air, she's less sassy - but still full of the swagger that...
'VERONICA' LOOKS LIKE A GONER
'VERONICA Mars" sleeps with the fishes. The CW appears to have canceled the teen mystery drama - set in the fictional town of Neptune, Calf. - which developed a small...
STARR REPORT
Messing aroundDebra Messing, Bryan Greenberg ("October Road"), Merrin Dungey ("Private Practice") and Kyle MacLachlan ("Desperate Housewives") were all at Tuesday night's Gersh upfronts party at Monkey Bar. By the way,...
KIDS IN CHARGE
THIS is one town where kids will rule - literally. CBS' new reality show, "Kid Nation," will feature 40 kids, ages 8-15, who have 40 days to create a new...
'60 MINUTES' FOR ESPN
ESPN is producing a sports-oriented news program loosely based on the "60 Minutes" format. The show, called "ESPN Reports," will feature a rotation of correspondents, longform investigations, interviews and even...
RATHER DOES DRAMA
DAN Rather made his surprise acting debut yesterday when ABC showed advertisers its new drama, "Dirty Sexy Money." The walk-on role wasn't a stretch. Rather plays a reporter at a...
TAMYRA: 'MELINDA IS TOPS'
SIMON Cowell's favorite "American Idol" finalist, Tamyra Gray, is pulling for Melinda Doolittle to win the "Idol" crown next week. Gray, who starts a six-month run in "Rent" on Broadway...
WE'RE OGRE IT!
THE big new addition in "Shrek the Third" is Justin Timberlake as the high school-age future King Arthur, but if Timberlake contributed a song to the soundtrack it would have...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Taurus can be a stubborn sign and that fact will be much in evidence over the coming 12 months. The only danger is that if you refuse to budge too...
A HORSE IS A COURSE
IS Gordon Ramsay a neigh-sayer? On Tuesday's episode of his British TV show, "The F-word," the potty-mouthed chef sent journalist Janet Street-Porter to Cheltenham Racecourse to hand out . ....
9/11 RELATIVES HAIL RAGIN' RUDY
Several 9/11 family members yesterday cheered on Rudy Giuliani for his debate smackdown of a Texas congressman who said America shoulders blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "I think...
SWINGIN' IN THE RAIN
Joey Buttafuoco and his Long Island Lolita, Amy Fisher, reloaded their relationship last night on their first date in 15 years. Their big night out in Port Jefferson, L.I., was...
A 'BETTOR' PLAZA FOR LAS VEGAS
Move over, Elvis. Vegas needs Eloise impersonators. Elad Properties, owner of The Plaza, announced a $5 billion plan to build a "Plaza-inspired" casino-condo-hotel complex on the Las Vegas Strip yesterday....
WORLDS APART
Junk-food-filled bodegas and fast-food restaurants are far more common in Harlem neighborhoods than on the tony Upper East Side - a trend found by Health Department officials looking to combat...
JEHOVAH'S LUXE PLAN TO TURN PROPHET
The country's largest builder of luxury homes is praying it can land three apartment buildings in ritzy Brooklyn Heights that the Jehovah's Witnesses recently put on the market, The Post...
CITY DEFENDS WATER HIKES
City officials defended the New York City Water Board's recent 11.5 percent hike on water bills and asked the City Council to support their bid to have nonpayment of water...
BEATING IT IN ORDER TO BEAT BIG BILL
Jack Crowe is counting his blessings because he can head into retirement and out of the reach of New York's insatiable taxman. For decades, the 69-year-old Staten Islander, who ran...
STATE WORKFORCE HELPS LEVIE$ BURST
New York state's enormous tax burden is fueled in part by a massive taxpayer-financed workforce that is second only to California in salaries, experts say. State and local governments in...
FURY OVER FREED KID 'SNATCHER'
The release of a Brooklyn man charged with trying to abduct an 11-year-old girl is "potentially dangerous" to the safety of children, a city lawmaker warned yesterday. Peter Vallone Jr.,...
$384M ART AUCTION A RECORD WAR-HAUL
Christie's cleaned house last night in the priciest art auction ever - raking in an incredible $384.65 million in a sale that set a record for Andy Warhol paintings. The...
DUO'S TRUE 'CLIMB'
Cops are trying to figure out how a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde managed to elude security at some of the city's most exclusive addresses in a burglary binge that netted...
NYPD'S SECRETS REVEALED
Undercover NYPD officers infiltrated protest groups by attending their secret meetings in the months leading up to the 2004 Republican National Convention - and warned that cops could be attacked...
SLAVE FLICK A HIT WITH CRUELLA JR.
The feds are probing whether a millionaire couple accused of enslaving and torturing two Indonesian women at their ritzy Long Island home were aided by their four kids - including...
B'KLYN IS HAMPTON JITNEY'S NEXT STOP
Coney Island - fuhgedaboutit! For gentrified Brooklynites it's the Hamptons or bust this summer. East Williamsburg is looking more like the East Side these days as the Hampton Jitney -...
PARKS COMMISH FOILS RIVERSIDE MUGGER
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and his wife were hailed as heroes yesterday for teaming up to capture a purse-snatcher who robbed a London tourist outside Riverside Park. Benepe and his...
GOP LAUNCHES BLITZ ON SPITZ
ALBANY - Top state Republicans ripped Gov. Spitzer yesterday as a "hypocrite" for proposing campaign-finance reforms that he and his wife Silda Wall routinely violate. "I'm going to keep calling...
RE-BILL-DING CITIES GREEN
Renovation and conservation will go hand in hand under a groundbreaking initiative announced yesterday by former President Bill Clinton to restore city-owned buildings in New York and around the world...
PERV PETE SHRINK-RAPPED
Peter Braunstein's only a little nuts, the head of Bellevue's locked ward for crazy criminals testified at his Manhattan kidnap-sex-assault trial yesterday. The "fire fiend" suffers from mood and personality...
RIPPED-OFF JUDGE GETS NEW HOME
A retired judge who languished in a Bronx nursing home while his vast fortune dwindled under the care of court-appointed guardians finally left the facility yesterday, 2½ years after being...
GOUDA HEAVENS! WHAT A WHOPPER
The Big Apple toasted the Big Cheese. The world's largest wheel of cheese - 1,323 pounds of Gouda worth about $15,500 - was on display at Grand Central Terminal yesterday....
PRINCIPAL PACT
New York City public-school principals and other administrators overwhelmingly ratified their contract deal with the city that calls for a 23 percent raise in exchange for fewer seniority rights, their...
FATHER'S SLASHING RAMPAGE
A mild-mannered Manhattan man went berserk and tried to butcher his wife and two kids in their Upper West Side apartment yesterday morning, witnesses and authorities said. Diomedes Medina, 50,...
CLASS CLOWN BUSTED
A group of housing inspectors attending a routine lecture on how to prevent corruption got an on-the-spot lesson yesterday when authorities suddenly arrested one for taking a $100 bribe. The...
SCAM NURSE SENT TO JAIL
A Gypsy swindler who tricked an elderly East Side millionaire out of $208,000 by impersonating a nurse with breast cancer was sentenced to one to three years in prison yesterday....
COLD-CASE BLAME GAME
Investigators for the Brooklyn DA told a judge yesterday that an embarrassing 12-year delay in bringing to justice the alleged killer of a teenager wasn't their fault - it was...
WET AND WILD
A powerful spring storm blew into Gotham yesterday - uprooting trees, downing s and wreaking havoc on roads. A New Jersey man was killed when his car skidded off a...
COPS ARE STRAIGHT SCOOTERS
Criminals, beware: Starting today, a cop mounted on the city's newest crime-fighting weapon may come scooting after you at a lightning 12.5 mph. Ten Segway motor scooters - high-tech gizmos...
2ND E. SIDE SHOOT BUST
Cops have nabbed a second suspect from a shooting at a Lower East Side housing project, police sources said. Salvador Leon, 18, was charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting...
SPIRAL OF DEATH ENGULFING GAZA
Another 25 Palestinians were killed yesterday - including five Hamas gunmen shot by their comrades in error - as the Gaza Strip chaos careened into its fourth day. The conflict...
200G REWARD IN POW HUNT
U.S. helicopters dropped 50,000 leaflets over farmlands south of Baghdad yesterday, offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the return of three missing GIs. The military also...
HILLARY BRUISING BARACK
WASHINGTON - Democratic White House front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton easily outpaces her closest rival, Sen. Barack Obama, in a double-dose of good poll news yesterday. A new Harris Interactive-Wall...
GIULIANI RAKES IN $17M
Rudy Giuliani raised a cool $17 million last year between his time on the lecture circuit, his consulting practice and law firm, and royalties from his book, "Leadership," records released...
DOOLITTLE'S DONE FOR
"American Idol" favorite Melinda Doolittle - who had the backing of judge Simon Cowell - was booted from last night's show - setting the stage for next week's final showdown...
DEAL NEAR ON ALIEN CITIZENS
WASHINGTON - Senators last night were on the verge of a deal on an immigration overhaul that would let many of the nation's 12 million illegal aliens become citizens, while...
SHOCKING 'SPECTOR' 911 CALL
The horrified voice of Phil Spector's driver filled the courtroom at the music mogul's murder trial yesterday, as jurors heard the chauffeur call cops and say: "I'm Phil Spector's driver....
MINORITY REPORT
America's minorities have grown past the 100 million mark - making up one-third of the nation's inhabitants and accounting for a majority of its population growth, the Census Bureau said...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Cops are searching for a gunman who they say seriously wounded a passenger seated in a Jeep outside a trendy Midtown club. On March 11, Joe Fernandez allegedly shot...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 795; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 2966; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 069; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 1525;...
UPSTATE CON GAME
Just as New York was being reminded this week of its distinction as the most tax-burdened state in America, officials were announcing new steps . . . to make the...
RUDY READS THE RIOT ACT
Shades of the Old Rudy! America's Mayor provided the most electrifying moment of Tuesday night's GOP presidential debate when he ripped into Rep. Ron Paul for suggesting that U.S. foreign...
TOOTHLESS TIGER
ON paper, the appointment of three-star Gen. Douglas E. Lute as White House "war czar" - after five retired four-stars turned down the job - makes perfect sense. It's about...
PLAYING TO WIN
IN the great comedy football movie "Semi- Tough," Burt Rey nolds is a running back whose team is blowing it in the Super Bowl. Reynolds turns to a teammate in...
FOX FINISHED FIRST
WHO won the Re publican de bates? Fox News Channel, that's who. (And you don't have to work for one of FNC's sister companies, as I do, to think so.)...
A HAMMER FOR HITTING ROVE
ON the day presidential senior adviser Karl Rove ad ministered a tongue-lashing to a Republican con gressman, disturbing news about his former execu tive assistant was spread on Capitol Hill....
WALL STREET'S SHERIFF GOES WOBBLY AS GOV
I am amazed at your reaction to Gov. Spitzer's performance since being elected ("Eliot's Unmaking," Editorial, May 14). He has acted the same as every elected Democrat in the state...
ADVERSE EFFECT
Just days after the Securi ties and Exchange Commis sion hit Canadian pharma ceutical company Biovail with a so-called Wells No tice, the company's em battled founder Eugene Melnyk revealed...
ALWALEED EYES INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS
When Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal hits town to check up on his Citigroup stake, he might have a few more posh presidential suites to rest in. The Saudi billionaire...
MAYBE THIS WILL HELP TREASURY MOVE FASTER
WE'D love to help the U.S. Treasury comply with our request for information about the Working Group on Financial Markets. So The Post's lawyer is sending the following letter, reminding...
CHANGE IS IN STORE
Federated Department Stores said yesterday that it planned to increase advertising and make promotions available to a wider pool of people in the hopes of attracting more customers to stores...
NEW WEB WAY
After admitting its old Web strategy failed, CBS is now trying to prove that it's hip to the Internet. In its annual "upfront" presentation to advertisers yesterday, CBS held up...
FORMER GOLDMAN CHIEF RIPS WALL ST. MEGA-PAYOUTS
One of Wall Street's elder statesmen stunned his big-money buddies last night - by declaring he's outraged at the huge paydays Manhattan's financial-world players are taking home. "I'm appalled at...
DJ BOARD STANDS PAT
The board of Dow Jones yesterday declined to take a position on News Corp.'s offer to buy the Wall Street Journal publisher for $60 a share, the Journal reported last...
PAINT IT BLACK(BERRY)
The company that licenses Rolling Stones music says it never got paid for a deal in which the maker of the BlackBerry promised to put the band's name on its...
ROLLING PAPERS
Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones co-founder and lead guitarist, will soon be touring publishing houses to score a little satisfaction - and cart away a $5 million-plus deal for his...
PAKISTAN'S PRESIDENT IN PERIL
A SITUATION is brewing in Pakistan that may make Iraq look like a high-school-com mencement exercise. Although few Americans have noticed, Pakistan president and American ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf is...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Riverdale, The Bronx $1.08 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,446 Common charges: $1,062.51 This generously sized condo in the new Solaria building on West 237th Street features nice...
FANTASTIC 4TH
There's something in the Park Slope mindset that ends at Fifth Avenue. Seventh Avenue is that sublime block of baby carriages and bookstores. Sixth Avenue is the picturesque collection of...
CANAL STREET
FIFTH Avenue in Park Slope is so last year; today Fourth Avenue is the new Fifth. And Third Avenue is the new Fourth. Prominent developer Shaya Boymelgreen and many others...
POSITIVELY FIFTH AVE.
IF you want even more proof that New York City's luxury real-estate market is as frisky as ever, 141 Fifth Avenue is a pretty good case study. The Cetra/Ruddy-designed 38-unit...
SHAGADELIC PAD
After a two-year search, Mike Myers has finally found a swinging downtown bachelor pad. The "Austin Powers" and "Wayne's World" star has just signed a contract to buy a six-room...
PLEASE RELEASE ME
I want to give Wells Fargo my business, but the bank is having a hard time accepting that. My mortgage broker, Victor Angel of Manhattan Mortgage, is trying to place...
TABLE TALK
ABC CARPET & HOME 888 Broadway, third floor, at 19th Street; (212) 473-3000 Sale: Friday to May 31 Open: Mon. to Fri., 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m....
MAIL ORDER
I'll be away all summer, and my apartment will be empty. Is it inappropriate to ask my superintendent to forward my mail to me? You can ask your super anything,...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan MIDTOWN EAST $881,000 80 Park Ave. One-bedroom, one-bath condo, 830 square feet, with entry foyer, dining area, windowed bath, high ceilings and western exposure; building features 24-hour doorman, attended...
LEFFERTS ALL RIGHT
If you've been listening to the buzz, chances are you've heard that Prospect Lefferts Gardens (or PLG) is the next "it" neighborhood. While not as trendy as nearby Park Slope...
SURF AND TURF SALE
Going once, going twice and sold! That's what developers hope to hear when 20 beachfront condos go to auction this Saturday. So, if you're looking for a waterfront home at...
PARC PLACE
When plans were announced for City Place and Highgrove, two luxury high-rise condo buildings in downtown Stamford, Conn., the city was abuzz. With around 100 units apiece, both quickly garnered...
TOUR DE BROOKLYN
Can't quite afford that mint-condition Park Slope brownstone or that lovely corner Victorian in Prospect Lefferts? No worries. Brooklyn's house-tour season is well underway, and for a mere $20 (or...
DREAM HOMES
Darien, Conn. $4.549 million Stone walls are one of those wondrous features that make New England so, well, New-Englandy. So let us draw your attention to the one that lines...
ARROYO IN SPILL, DUE BACK TODAY
2ND RACE - The combination of Gary Contessa, Winning Move Stable and Alan Garcia swept the double as Ricardo A made a three wide move for the lead and then...
1-DERFUL TIME FOR OCHOA
Lorena Ochoa comes to this year's LPGA Sybase Classic, which begins play today at the Upper Montclair Country Club, in a completely different place in her life. She's the defending...
HONDO'S DOUBLE-DIPPING
Hondo had the good splitter working again last night as he hooked the Marlins but missed with the Twins to lift the earnings a bit to 310 stanges. CORRECTION: In...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Tank meets commish Bears defensive tackle Tank Johnson met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday in Manhattan to discuss legal problems that landed the player in jail, but no...
LUKAS EXPECTS 'FIRST CLASS' TRIP
BALTIMORE - Nothing if not dangerous and cunning at his best, that old flamethrower D. Wayne Lukas pulled into Pimlico yesterday with a long-shot speedball in tow, ready to set...
CHANGE TO 'GET HIM ON HIS TOES'
Trainer Larry Jones is preparing Kentucky Derby runner-up Hard Spun for Saturday's 132nd Preakness Stakes, hoping to derail the Triple Crown bid of Street Sense. This week, he shares his...
'SENSE' HAPPY WITH POST 8
BALTIMORE - As trainer Carl Nafzger paced the asphalt outside the Pimlico stakes barn like an expectant father - "That's the way I feel," he said - with thunder rumbling...
VAN GUNDY LANDS GIG AS TV ANALYST
Amid rampant speculation that Jeff Van Gundy has coached his final game with the Houston Rockets, he has accepted a position as guest analyst with ABC and ESPN for the...
MARBURY TEAMS UP WITH OPRAH
What do Stephon Marbury and Sarah Jessica Parker have in common? They both will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" tomorrow. In the largest coup in Marbury's attempt to spread...
URDANETA DRAWS 'ROIDS SUSPENSION
Add relief pitcher Lino Urdaneta to the ever-growing list of Mets who have tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance. Urdaneta, it was announced yesterday, will miss 50 games for violating...
JOSE SAYS HE WILL PLAY TODAY
Jose Reyes says there's "no doubt" he will play today, but just the fact he left last night's 8-1 victory over the Cubs with tightness in his left hamstring should...
LATE-LATE SHOW
Sleep fast. That was the best advice anyone could have given the Mets and Cubs as they left the field at 12:53 this morning with another game 12 hours away....
MADDENED MINAYA SCOLDS LASTINGS FOR LEWD LYRICS
Mets General Manager Omar Minaya yesterday scolded Lastings Milledge for his raunchy rap song, which uses the n-word and refers to women as "bitches" and "ho's." "I had a conversation...
LAST STRAW
JUST Sunday, I asked Omar Minaya about a player who would fit a current Mets positional need, who was talented and available largely because of his poor plate discipline. "I...
NETS HAVE LIFE
CLEVELAND - The Nets spoke of desperation and reverse pressure. The Cavs had all the pressure. They had to win one game to advance. The Nets had to win three....
MIKKI SHRUGS OFF GOON CHARGE
CLEVELAND - Mikki Moore simply laughed when he heard that the Cavs suggested he was targeting Sasha Pavlovic. And then after Pavlovic was charged with a flagrant foul on Moore...
SHOWING SPLIT PERSONALITY
CHICAGO - Chien-Ming Wang has been saddled with the label of staff ace since his coming-out season a year ago. Last night when the Yankees desperately needed him to pitch...
MUSSINA IS THROWN OFF BY TIME OFF
CHICAGO - Out of all the Yankees, Mike Mussina is easily the biggest creature of habit. So, when his routine was thrown off by a day off Monday and a...
ROCKET FUELED BY GAME, HISTORY
TAMPA - Roger Clemens knows this is much more than just another comeback. The way the Yankees are stumbling along, he can't get back soon enough. The man with 348...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
In Illinois, they shoot before they can even walk. The state issued a firearm owner's ID card to a 10-month-old baby. The boy, Bubba Ludwig, got the card after his...
Pronger Suspended
The League handed down a one-game suspension to Anaheim's Chris Pronger for his part in a questionable hit on Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom. During Game Three, Pronger and Rob Niedermayer both...