June 3, 2007

Impossible to Avoid: Drowning in the "Ocean"

There’s nearly an appearance for each of the “13,” and there isn’t a day this week that they aren’t hijacking one talk show or another. It begins Monday with Matt...

ROTO FILES - Be selective in hunger to get younger

It's official: You’re not going to find proven talent on the waiver wire at this point in the season. Well, except maybe the perennially injured (i.e., Rocco Baldelli) or aging...

'Knocked Up' Scores

After four weekends of box office pyrotechnics, this one went pretty much according to calmer expectations at the box office. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' held onto first...

Tonight on FOX

By MARK HALEJust a heads-up -- if anyone's interested in watching, I'm scheduled to be on FOX tonight (in New York) in the 10:30 range ("Sports Extra"). I'll only be...

Recalling the 36-Cent Movie Ticket

How much has the price of movie tickets actually increased over the past 60 years, when adjusted for inflation? I got to wondering after reading a charticle in today's New...

REEL GOOD

ZORBA THE GREEK (1964) Sunday, 2 p.m., TCM Basil (Alan Bates) is a dour Englishman who has inherited some dough but still lives an unhappy life on a Greek island...

NEXT DANCE

Having just wrapped its most impressive season to date, "Dancing With The Stars" is already on the hunt for the next batch of celebrity hoofers. With the show scheduled to...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

CATEGORY: SPORTS Behind The Wheel Celebrities with race-car-driving fantasies can act them out in a weird new summer series, "Fast Cars & Superstars." The show will explore the interaction of...

BLOODBATH

Tony Soprano is losing it. The mob boss is surrounded by soldiers he can't trust - except maybe the docile Silvio - a family that he can't connect with for...

'HIDDEN PALMS'

At first glance, the CW's new summer series, "Hidden Palms," seems like a knockoff of "The O.C." You know the ingredients: a gorgeous backdrop (Palm Springs), beautiful but damaged teens...

FUTURE OF 'THE VIEW' NOT SO ROSIE

Rosie O'Donnell may have brought much-needed attention and ratings to a tired, 10-year-old talk show, but at what cost? A very steep one, when you stand back and observe the...

THE TRUTH ABOUT JOHN WAYNELONG ESTABLISHED NOTIONS WILL WHIP REALITY, EVERY TIME

Long established notions will whip reality, every time. Example 1: TV, this past Memorial Day weekend, was loaded with John Wayne movies, Wayne being the symbol of American stand-up-and-fight courage,...

HOT SEAT

AS Vinnie Chase in HBO's hit series "Entourage," Adrian Grenier leads the most envied posse in pop culture. For Grenier, a Brooklyn-raised actor who attended La Guardia High School, it's...

HOT LIST

1 Helmet head We're so into the Transformers Optimus Prime Voice Changer Helmet , 'cause it changes (transforms!) even the whiniest voice into that of a robot badass. New Transformers...

SLAM CHIC

Dear Paris: It saddens me to write this, as you are by far my favorite celebutard. Your 2006 top-10 album made you the envy of every karaoke wannabe. You were...

UNFREE LOVE

Our collective mythologies of the '60s would have us imagine a time of riotous young people - politically engaged, sexually liberated - getting high, getting laid and changing the world....

REQUIRED READING

ON Tuesday, the glossy and the grim collide when Oprah Winfrey hosts her latest book-club author, Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy - author of "All the Pretty Horses" and a dozen other...

WAGS & MUTTS

CANINES and comedy: What's the connection? People who act funny for a living are irresistibly drawn to dogs. And lately, New York's most talented stand-up comics have been standing up...

ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX

DEAR DR. FOX: My cat had surgery on a tumor, and the pathology report came back as vaccine-related fibrosarcoma. A month after the tumor was excised, it grew back in...

ADOPT ME

Sabina is such a delightful Tabby girl. At 8 years old, she's a very gentle and calm kitty who'd love nothing more than to curl up by your side. Meet...

KAMSKY GETS OVER THE HUMP IN ELISTA

CHESS BIG-LEAGUE chess has been played in some of the more world's more obscure locales, including Lone Pine, Calif.; Baguio City, the Philippines; and Linares, Spain. But none are as...

THIS WEEK'S DVDS

CHiPs: Season 11 STAR (Turner, $39.98) When "CHiPs" debuted 30 years ago, kids thought it was almost as cool as "Star Wars," thanks to high-speed chases, cute girls on roller...

BITTEN BY THE SJP FASHION BUG

IT'LL be hard not to bite when Sarah Jessica Parker's new fashion line, Bitten, launches, because it's so darn cheap. On Thursday, the former "Sex and the City" star launches...

THE REBIRTH OF ROKY

To see a clip of Roky Erickson singing and playing guitar for his band of '60s psychedelic pioneers, the 13th Floor Elevators, is to see the essence of rock 'n'...

PAUL MCCARTNEY: 'MEMORY ALMOST FULL'

Ready to turn 65 next week, and 40 years to the day after the release of the seminal Beatles' record "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Paul McCartney is making...

CHRIS CORNELL: "CARRY ON"

Post-Audioslave, Cornell offers a wobbly mish-mash that ranges from "Billie Jean" to Nashville-pop. Yet when he clicks on rockers like "Poison Eye" or the syncopated funk of "She'll Never Be...

COWBOY TROY: "BLACK IN THE SADDLE"

Hick-hop pioneer Cowboy Troy expands his open-range sound on his second CD. There's headbanger heaviness on "Hick Chick" and "Buffalo Stampede." Troy's mongrel style is a fantastic departure from almost...

BIG & RICH: "BETWEEN RAISING HELL & AMAZING GRACE"

Big & Rich, one of Nashville's best-selling acts, is back with another disc of insipid country pop ashamed to wear a Stetson. It's the kind of schlock that'll make Hank...

STILL JAMMIN'

After years of feverishly working to help reggaeton reach the masses, Daddy Yankee doesn't intend to sit by and watch his art form become old news. After all, once you're...

PIAF'S LIFE 'PORTRAIT'

IN the closing moments of "La Vie En Rose," opening Friday, the tiny, hunched figure of Édith Piaf steps onstage at the Paris Olympia concert hall to the kind of...

ALL ABOARD THE 'GHOST TRAIN'

I HAVE never been frightened the few times I've ridden the Tokyo subway (which, by the way, is just as crowded as New York's, but more civilized). But after watching...

SPECIES STARS!

Penguins must have an agent that puts Ari from "Entourage" to shame. In the last few years, small, flightless birds have shown up in more pictures than Jude Law -...

ROLL WITH IT

IF you can find two New Yorkers, you can find an argument: Mets vs. Yankees, East Side vs. West Side, Mary's Fish Camp vs. Pearl Oyster Bar. I'll go with...

HUANG, 30, AND IRIZARRY JR., 35

APRIL 28 - Hsin-huey Huang and Oscar Irizarry Jr. met when Irizarry worked as a security guard in Huang's parents' apartment building. After a yearlong engagement, the groom, who now...

BAJADA, 26, AND CARDONA, 26

MAY 11 - When Victor Cardona and Samantha Bajada decided to go hiking one afternoon in 2004 in New City, N.Y., Bajada thought it was just another trek up the...

NELSON, 28, AND ONOFREY, 27

APRIL 14 - Meaghan Nelson and Nicolas Onofrey met during their first class on the first day of school during their freshman year at Georgetown University. Nelson, a managing director...

MURAVCHIK, 25 AND ROMANOVA, 23

May 11 - "I was very nervous for our first date, but then it turned out that Boris was an easy person to get along with," says Julia Romanova, a...

LEIGH, 31, AND GOODWIN, 34

MAY 5 - Brian Goodwin showed up on Monique Leigh's Upper East Side doorstep on June 28, 2006, offering a bouquet of flowers - and a Tiffany engagement ring. Leigh's...

PIPELINE BOMB STRIKE FOILED

A chilling terrorist plot to blow up a fuel pipeline that feeds JFK Airport - that its four Muslim schemers hoped would be so large that "even the Twin Towers...

BAN COPTERS OVER LAND: POL

No tourists - or terrorists - should be taking helicopter rides over Manhattan, a lawmaker insisted yesterday. Rep. Anthony Weiner said he was introducing a bill to keep copters from...

PIPELINE SECURITY A JOKE

The terror-targeted Buckeye pipeline snakes through miles and miles of city streets, coursing with millions of gallons of potentially lethal fuel each day - and is so exposed that a...

GROUND CREW MAN'S WRATH

The defining moment for the alleged ringleader in the foiled plot to obliterate a swath of Queens came as Russell Defreitas was working at JFK Airport. The Guyana native, who...

CUNY ON AN ENROLL AS APPLICATIONS RISE

CUNY is moving toward the head of the class. The City University of New York received almost 16 percent more applications for the 2007-08 academic year than it did a...

FREED MAN ENJOYS LIFE'S SMALL THINGS

After being locked up for more than 20 years for a crime he didn't commit, Byron Halsey is readjusting slowly to life on the outside - enjoying the little things....

VIET HOSP 'LINK' TO TRAVELER'S TB

The Atlanta lawyer who ignored warnings not to travel with a deadly strain of tuberculosis may have caught it while visiting Vietnamese orphanages and hospitals last summer, according to a...

AMY & JOEY TO PLAY HOUSE WITH DR. PHIL

Loony Long Island lovebirds Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco are thinking of tying the knot - but not before a little public premarital counseling with talk-show shrink Dr. Phil McGraw....

BIAS SUIT SLAPS CITY NOBEL PROF

A Nobel Prize winner at Rockefeller University undermined and berated a female Iranian colleague, while another scientist called her a "camel driver," according to a discrimination lawsuit filed by an...

STAR AGENT SCAMMED US: WRITERS

Saul Bellow's former agent bilked some of her lesser literary lights out of $190,000 or more, and now - after resigning from her trade association for ethics violations - she...

STATEN STATUS QUO

Rest assured, Staten Islanders - you're still part of New York. The completely unofficial Staten Island Decision Race was held yesterday, with 10 sailboats representing New York and New Jersey...

CORZINE $$ MATCH

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has pledged to pony up $2 million for the building of the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero - not $20,000 as The Post reported yesterday....

'ROCKED' CHIC FREAKIN' ANGRY

When former members of the 1970s disco group Chic heard Chris Rock using their song last year to promote his sitcom, "Everybody Hates Chris," they didn't freak out - they...

QUEENS TOT AND GRANNY MISSING

A recovering Queens drug addict and her 2-year-old granddaughter were reported missing by relatives yesterday, cops said. Annette Marchado, 44, was babysitting Rosario Chassity when they were last seen at...

'DIVINE' LAND TUSSLE

There's no such thing as sacred ground when it comes to Manhattan real estate. A Morningside Heights community group wants the National Trust for Historic Preservation to declare St. John...

RADICAL FERVOR IN TRINIDAD

Most people think of Trinidad as a pretty vacation spot. But it also houses a local Muslim extremist group responsible for a spate of kidnappings, murders, narcotics trafficking and extortion...

TYSON RAPED ME: EX

Mike Tyson violently raped his wife Robin Givens and then threatened to kill himself 48 hours before the couple gave a now-infamous interview to Barbara Walters that branded the then-heavyweight...

JACKO 'JUNK' BRINGS $1M

Bad news for Michael Jackson: The memorabilia auction the singer tried to stop garnered more than $1 million - and now organizers say they're planning a new sale. "We still...

HILL'S WAR WORRY

Hillary Rodham Clinton's albatross is not her sex, or her once-wayward husband - but her record on the Iraq war, a new book claims. The road Clinton took from vocal...

CANDIDATES OUT FOR DEBATE BLOOD

WASHINGTON - Tonight's debate among Democrats is the first of a double-header this week in New Hampshire - home of the nation's first primary for the 2008 presidential election. Hillary...

A-ROD HAS A 'SUITE' DEAL

Alex Rodriguez's double life on the road is made easier by a contract that entitles him to swanky hotel suites in every city - an arrangement that keeps him and...

'ADDICT' ALEX IN HELP CRY

Men who go from strip joint to strip joint are often hooked on a sexual high as potent as a drug or gambling addiction - and risk getting caught as...

DRIPPING WITH DOLLARS

Easy Street is now a four-lane highway, and it's clogged with Rolls-Royces. In the last decade - despite the tech bust, a recession and 9/11 - the number of millionaires...

CALLING FOR JEEVES

Butlers are back - so much so that Manhattan is the epicenter of a worldwide shortage of quality valets. Local demand is skyrocketing as newly minted Wall Street millionaires are...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

MANHATTAN A 73-year-old woman has disappeared and police and her family are seeking help finding her. Bixia Liang was last seen at about 5 p.m. Friday, not far from her...

'TIME WARP' HOSP BIG $OCKED

A POLITICALLY con nected former execu tive at Coney Island Hospital who held down four part-time jobs couldn't account for 124 hours of time he claimed on his hospital time...

PARIS 'BAR' HOP

LOS ANGELES BRACING for a three- week stay in a place that is hardly a "Hilton," Paris told me: "I'm a very, very spirit ual person." Just a few days...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 115; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 5752; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 941; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...

CARIBBEAN TERROR

The arrest yesterday of what the authorities termed a "self-radicalized" American citizen and two others in an alleged plot to do calamitous damage to JFK International Airport and surrounding residential...

GRIDLOCK MIKE?

Tired of sitting in traffic while double-parked cars and trucks clog city streets? Well, guess who's to blame for a big part of that: Mayor Mike. That is, the very...

MOORE'S SICK RX

MICHAEL Moore's new film "Sicko," a critique of the U.S. health-care system and paean to socialized medicine around the world, premiered amid great fanfare at Cannes last month. Time magazine...

COMPETENCE CANDIDATES

One time, years ago, the veteran Baltimore newspaperman, H.L. Mencken, was checking copy coming in from the night editor and sighing at the rising number of errors he was noticing,...

PROTECT THE POLICE

THE ISSUE: The defeated bid to name a Brooklyn street after activist Sonny Carson. Money is the least of the NYPD's recruiting problems ("Ganging Up on Cops," Editorial, May 30)....

SONNY SIDE OF THE STREET? NO HONORING A RACIST

THE ISSUE: The defeated bid to name a Brooklyn street after activist Sonny Carson. There wasn't much shouting when the City Council voted itself a 25 percent pay raise, but...

PRESIDENTIAL BRAVERY

PRESIDENTIAL COURAGE: BRAVE LEADERS AND HOW THEY CHANGED AMERICABY MICHAEL BESCHLOSSSIMON & SCHUSTER, 430 PAGES, $28 Last-ditch efforts: Washington, Lincoln and Kennedy all did the right thing - but only...

FROM SADNESS TO SICKNESS

THE LOSS OF SADNESS: HOW PSYCHIATRY TRANSFORMED NORMAL SORROW INTO DEPRESSIVE DISORDERBY ALLAN V. HORWITZ AND JEROME C. WAKEFIELDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 279 PAGES, $29.95 ARE you sad or depressed? Do...

THE SURPRISE & FALL OF KATI

As you can see from the chart above, Katie Couric's first nine months at CBS aren't exactly going as planned - in fact, she's costing CBS an arm and a...

FACING REALITY

With one move, reality programming went from being television's bastard child to its favorite son. The move, Ben Silverman's appointment to co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, marks the first time someone...

BORROWERS BEWARE: WORST YET TO COME

Dear John: I remember well Alan Greenspan's statements touting adjustable-rate mortgages in 2004. I have been a sub-prime mortgage banker for 13 years. Whenever someone had a mortgage problem they'd...

TYING UP ASSETS

Gotta love a June wedding. What could be better than a bunch of happy people at an outdoor cocktail hour? The last thing anyone is thinking about is that the...

HAIR CLUB OFFERS SPA TREATMENT

The Hair Club, the hair-restoration chain started by Sy Sperling in 1976 that became a popular target for comics across the country, is looking to change its image - it's...

ICHALLENGERS

Can Prada fashion an iPhone upset? Verizon, whose LG-made Prada cellphone is popular in Europe, is weighing a move that would bring the touch-screen Prada smart phone to the U.S....

UNEMPLOYMENT'S THE TREND ON FASHION AVENUE

Seventh Avenue is showing its pink slip. Fashion-related jobs have been on the decline in New York City, plunging 33 percent in recent years, as production moves overseas. Now apparel...

THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS

WINNERSBEN SILVERMAN Sitcom magician appointed co-chairman of NBC entertainment. MARTIN BANDIER Sony/ATV CEO wins heated auction for Viacom's musicpublishing division Famous Music.CONRAD BLACK Dethroned press baron sees money-laundering charge against...

RUB-A-DUB-DUB, MAESTRO'S SPEECH SCRUB

Did you hear the one about the day former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan spoke and the markets didn't budge? Well, it's no joke. Greenspan, who has moved...

VANISHING ACT

FOR cable network TNT, the May sweeps period was anything but dynamite. Though the Time Warner-owned network topped the cable ratings heap for the month, it actually lost 15 percent...

WHEN THE JONESES AREN'T INVESTING, CONSIDER GETTING IN

WHEN the S&P 500 hit a new high Wednesday for the first time in more than seven years, the ingredients behind the recent bull run were widely recounted: hedge fund...

CASE OF JOE D & THE STOLEN BAT

The year 1941 may have been best summed up by Phil Rizzuto, then a rookie shortstop for the Yankees carrying an ominous draft number, same as every other healthy American...

DELAY THE CORONATION

WHILE much has been said, written and pantomimed about LeBron James' 48-point, nine-rebound, seven-assist, two-steal platinum presentation in Game 5, trying to rank it in NBA playoff history tends to...

UP GOES FRAZIER!

TODD Frazier hasn't changed since he was a 12-year-old Little League All-Star. He still has that same Huck Finn smile and love for baseball. At 6-4, 220, he's only gotten...

JACKSON TALKING FINALS - THANKS TO DOLAN

SIX degrees of Kevin Bacon. Don't look now (made you look!) but starting Thursday, it'll be an all-Knicks NBA Finals - Mike Breen, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy will...

(MAYBE NOT) BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

THERE was plenty of doubt about Roger Clemens even before his groin gave way yet again, and eliminated what was supposed to be his Yankee debut tomorrow against the White...

NHLER NOT ONLY STAR IN FAMILY

WHAT a dream Bobby Higgins lives. Not only is his son Chris the one out of thou sands who makes it to the pros, but in a one-in-30 chance, he...

BE SELECTIVE IN YOUR HUNGER TO GET YOUNGER

IT'S official: You're not going to find proven talent on the waiver wire at this point in the season. Well, except maybe the perennially injured (i.e., Rocco Baldelli) or aging...

TEN WAYS TO FISHING & BOATING FUN

THIS is National Fish ing and Boating Week, and here are the Top 10 ways you can make this week one to remember 1. Go fishing for free: In honor...

BRIGGS BAGGED

ATLANTIC CITY-Brooklyn's Shannon Briggs looked like a mountain of man in the ring against Sultan Ibragimov last night at Boardwalk Hall. Unfortunately for him, he moved like one, too. Briggs...

LIFE AFTER DALE

Today's Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway could be Martin Truex Jr.'s chance to prove Dale Earnhardt Incorporated's future is in good hands. A tough scenario to fathom with...

'LYNX' CAPTURES $1 MILLION ROONEY

Southwind Lynx closed off a hotly contested pace to nail Forensic Z Tam at the wire and capture last night's $1 million Art Rooney Pace, the richest race in the...

MONROE GAINS PSAL FINAL

Monroe advanced to its seventh PSAL baseball championship game in eight years by defeating JFK 11-5 in the semifinals yesterday at the College of Staten Island. The Eagles, who swept...

WEBB AND GAY RUN WILD AT GRAND PRIX

Almost every sport has been shaken by steroid scandals, seemingly none more than U.S. track and field. But at last night's Reebok Grand Prix, the sellout crowd of 4,990 at...

THE RUMBLE

Roger's payoff pitch Big tip a hit at Apple hotspot Roger Clemens doesn't toss his nickels around as if they're manhole covers. The $28 Million Man, whose Rocket II debut...

A-MATE OF THE MONTH

* In April we saw how good Alex Rodriguez can be; in May we saw how bad he can be. Will the real A-Rod please stand up? For better or...

SPORTS SHORTS

BASEBALL: Rutgers stays alive In Charlottesville, Va., second-seeded Rutgers barely avoided an upset yesterday afternoon, staving off elimination with an 11-10 victory over fourth-seeded Lafayette in an NCAA tournament slugfest...

HONDO GOES TO O'S

Hondo caught a nice price last night with the Ti gers, who did a number on the Native Americans to increase the earnings to 385 triandoses. Today, some say: Via...

CURTIS' PLAN IS TO RETIRE

The thought of Curtis Martin returning to play one more game or season with the Jets so that he can retire on his own terms is surely a romantic notion....

SOSA NOT SO-SO

Jorge Sosa arguably has made more of a contribution to his 2007 club than he did to two teams last year. And there are about four months to go in...

RIDING THE PINE

IT'S all about showing some spine, says Willie Randolph, and he wasn't referring to David Wright's, either. Asked yesterday morning if he expected to get a lift from the return...

SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...OLIVER PEREZ

The Post's Steve Serby sat down at Shea with the effervescent Mets lefty who is 6-3 with a 2.69 ERA: Q: Would you pay to watch Oliver Perez pitch? A:...

CASTRO'S CATCHING ON FOR METS

With a pair of dark sunglasses wrapped around his eyes, and wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, Ramon Castro looked as if he was going incognito as he left...

CARLOS BLASTS ANOTHER HR

The Big Boy is rolling. It's official. Even if the Big Boy himself isn't ready to make any bold proclamations we will: Carlos Delgado is back. Delgado blasted his fifth...

ALOU TO MISS MORE TIME

Don't call it a setback. Simply call it frustrating. Mets left fielder Moises Alou tested his strained left quadricep running yesterday morning, and he immediately scrapped his hopes of returning...

'FIRE' AND ICE

THE Rangers' expectation of getting a significant hometown discount from impending unrestricted free agent Michael Nylander has gone up in smoke, right along with the services of No. 92's club-friendly...

YANKS DOWN FOR COUNT

BOSTON - Word that Roger Clemens had bailed on tomorrow's scheduled start came before the seventh inning, so it's not as if the Rocket had second thoughts about joining the...

SLOPPY SEVENTH SYMBOLIC OF SEASON

BOSTON - The news of the day already had been grim, Roger Clemens' fatigued groin dissolving a fair burst of the steam the Yankees had generated Friday night. Then Derek...

NOT EVEN ROCKET CAN OUTRUN AGE

BOSTON - This was always the problem, of course. This was always the folly in investing so much hope, so much thought, so much energy into the body of a...

WHERE CLEMENS IS CONCERNED . . .

BOSTON - The Yankees have a chance now to re consider the whole Roger Clemens experiment. They have a chance to do with the Rocket what they never could once...

CLASSIC REVISITED

BOSTON - Andy Pettitte was terrific the last time he faced Josh Beckett, the only problem is few can recall that fact. "The loser usually doesn't get remembered too much,"...

ADD FIRST BASE TO DAMON'S GROWING LIST OF DUTIES

BOSTON - With Jason Giambi on the disabled list, the bulk of Johnny Damon's playing time is going to come as the designated hitter. However, the Yankees are making plans...

OUT TO LAUNCH

BOSTON - Roger Clemens' re-entry into the Yankees' universe won't be tomorrow night as planned. In a season dominated by injuries, the Yankees have a player hurt that was being...

DOUG DAZED AFTER COLLISION

BOSTON - The first indication Doug Mientkiewicz was hurt came when he didn't immediately get up after taking Mike Lowell's upper leg in the back of his head during a...

TORRE FUMES OVER 'MISLEADING' NEWS

BOSTON - Long before Joe Torre had to sweat out Mike Mussina facing David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez yesterday at Fenway Park, his day started out wrong. Informed by his...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Firefighters in a Cleveland suburb have been ordered to cut grass and trim shrubs when they're not busy battling blazes. "We have 54 firefighters, and they have a lot of...

MEET MARKET

IF the stomach is the way to a man's heart, Erica's got a leg up on the scores of New York women who consider their local Thai place a second...

WANDERING EYES

A woman may be forgiven for openly pining away for Johnny Depp or Jake Gyllenhaal. She may even be forgiven for mentioning that attraction on a first date. But admitting...