July 25, 2007
Mickey Goes on the Patch
Shame on Disney CEO Robert Iger for bowing to political correctness and announcing he's banning smoking from all-Disney branded flicks -- and saying it would be "discouraged'' from Touchstone and...
Blu-ray Hits the Target
I was talking to a couple of publicists at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment a couple of hours ago, and they said a big Blu-ray story would be breaking tomorrow. Well,...
Peter Som Sample Sale!!!
260 W. 39th St., 5th floor, between Seventh and Eighth avenues(212) 221-5991Sale: July 25-27.Open: Wed., Thu., 9 a.m.-7 p.m./Fri., 9 a.m.-2 p.m.The designer marks down prices for his spring/summer collection....
Finally, a chance to guest star on "CSI"
Oh, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," where would we be without you? Probably spending more time outdoors or, like, reading. (But, if we did that, we wouldn't know all about plushies,...
Hope for the Oilers?
Click to enlargeThis isn't the freshest news. Because it's rumor and conjecture, I let it go for a few days, but it's still a talking point. Hockey Buzz has an...
Gary Sheffied could be in more trouble.
Gary Sheffield's controversial year continues to get worse and worse with off the field problems. Sheffield, currently an DH with the Detroit Tigers, is being accused of using a performance-enhancing...
Deal of the Day
Does Gingham ever go out of style?No, and neither will these Top Model Espadrilles from Stuart Weitzman, so wear them for a month and put them away for next year....
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-ROD, UTLEY STILL LEAD
Week 16 of Awards Wednesday:AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2. Magglio Ordonez, Tigers. 3. Victor Martinez, Indians. Getting to 100 RBIs quicker than any Yankees since Lou Gehrig and Joe...
Donaghy's brush with Knick writer
By MARC BERMANThis is one small piece to the Tim Donaghy puzzle but a piece.Four years ago, Donaghy had an ugly incident with one of the Knicks beat writers at...
THE MONKEY KING
Adopted From the Classic Chinese Tale By Ji-li Jiang Illustrated by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy STORY SO FAR: With the defeat of his army, and Monkey still free, Jade Emperor listens...
WINNING THE 'GOLD' MEDAL
IT'S among the most exclusive lists in all of Hollywood - harder to get into than the "naughty" section in Wilmer Valderrama's black book. It's "The Simpsons" guest star list,...
THE SPROUTBACK
SYDNEY, Australia - When it comes to musicals, Australians like 'em swishy. A few seasons ago, Hugh Jackman flounced his way to Tony glory as Peter Allen in the Down...
KEEPER BY THE DOZEN FROM COLLABORATION
SIX dancers, 12 chairs, video, music from Miles Davis to Arvo Part, and bingo! - dance history was made. Dancers have come and gone during the 37 years Pilobolus has...
'BIG' MOVE
HBO is hoping Sunday nights will show "Big Love" a bit more love again. In the absence of "The Sopranos," the drama, which follows the complicated lives of a family...
BET-TER
IMAGINE a chic L.A. res taurant where patrons are seated according to race. How about a nail salon where the Asian nail lady tells black customers, "Your feet look like...
NAT GEO PLANS MUSIC CHANNEL
I want my National Geo graphic Music TV. That may be the case next fall when National Geographic launches its own music channel, titled Nat Geo Music. The channel is...
HBO SERIES PUTS BITE ON VICK
HBO is rushing to finish a story it has been work ing on for six months about the "horrific" culture of dog fighting. Federal charges filed last week against Atlanta...
A GRACE-FUL FALL BREAKS NANCY'S FOOT
HEADLINE News anchor Nancy Grace, who's four months pregnant, broke her foot earlier this month while on vacation. Grace "missed a step going down some stairs and broke three mandible...
STARR REPORT
Night of the Hunter Holly Hunter's first foray into series television was a good one: Her new TNT se ries, "Saving Grace," aver aged 6.4 million viewers Monday night as...
WAY TO D'OH!
SCENE I - BURNS' OFFICE BURNS Smithers, release the review. SMITHERS You remember Simpson, that oxygen-waster in sector 7G? BURNS Never heard of him. SMITHERS He seems to have a...
NARRATION IS UNBEARABLE
THE North Pole adven ture "Arctic Tale" stars a creature who, despite severely inhospitable conditions and agonizing defeats, never quite becomes extinct, thanks to a thick, 2- to 4-inch layer...
N.Y.C.'S EPIC EPICUREANS
Sugar Sweet Sunshine takes the cake - for cupcakes. The Zagat Survey's 2008 New York City Gourmet Shopping & Entertaining guide comes out today, with best cupcake one of several...
AL IS OTB'S 'MANE' MAN
The city's Off-Track Betting Corp. has hired Al D'Amato as a lobbyist to try to convince Albany to revamp an onerous revenue-distribution formula that has the city's only legal bookie...
SPECIAL-ED WOE
Special education in public schools is in a "state of dysfunction," says a scathing audit to be released today by city Comptroller Bill Thompson. The audit reviewed the records of...
$500M DIABETIC SHOCK ROCKS CITY
The city's diabetes epidemic is taking a massive toll, with hospital costs at nearly a half-billion dollars a year and the death rate up a shocking 75 percent since the...
3 MOS. FOR JUDGE BRIBE
A Brooklyn father who admitting bribing crooked judge Gerald Garson to the tune of $10,000 was sentenced to three months in jail yesterday for his role in the corruption scandal....
'MAYOR' KELLY MEETS POLITICAL GURU
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had a sit-down with a prominent national political consultant amid speculation he may throw his hat into the mayor's race in 2009, sources told The Post....
RULING A BEGGARS' BANQUET
Thousands of panhandlers across the state could cash in on a ruling by a Manhattan federal judge, who is taking state and local law-enforcement agencies to task for continuing to...
CUOMO FOLLOWED 'PAPER' TRAIL
ALBANY - An upstate newspaper played a prominent role in a plot by Gov. Spitzer's top aides to publicly embarrass Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. Spitzer's aides hatched the campaign...
'RAPIST' DNA NAILS CONVICT
A convict - just seven months away from freedom - faced a Queens Supreme Court judge yesterday on rape charges after a DNA match connected the career criminal to two...
WORKERS SUE 'WTC' EATERY AS A SHAM
A restaurant that claims to be owned by former Windows on the World workers is "a hoax" - because the former World Trade Center employees have been forced out, a...
CAT 'FIX' EYED
A distressing rise in feral cats on Long Island has prompted one local shelter to ask veterinarians to spay and neuter the ferocious felines for free. "If everybody did a...
DRINK SHRINK'S ATTACK ON MOM
Last summer, a bipolar Florida psychiatrist with a history of alcohol abuse and violence went off his meds, got in his car and drove to New York City to better...
TRAGIC RIDE GAL BLAMED
Despite six years' experience working on Rye Playland's Mind Scrambler ride, Gabriela Garin still didn't follow its safety rules, Westchester investigators said yesterday. The report on Garin's death shows that...
SLAY RAP IN COP SHOOT
Now it's murder. A Brooklyn grand jury has returned first-degree murder indictments against three men charged in the cold-blooded killing of Police Officer Russell Timoshenko earlier this month, The Post...
SWEET HOMES
The old Domino sugar refinery on the Brooklyn waterfront will be turned into a sweet condo complex under a sweeping billion-dollar plan made public yesterday. Developers CPC Resources and Isaac...
FATAL DRAG-RACE TEENS MAY BE CHARGED
Prosecutors were mulling criminal charges yesterday against the drivers in a tragic high-speed racing wreck on Staten Island that killed a 17-year-old girl and left her 16-year-old boyfriend critically injured....
'SLAP' RAPPER KOS PLEA DEAL
G-Unit rapper and accused kid-beater Tony Yayo turned down a nine-month jail deal in Manhattan yesterday. Yayo's decision means he remains on the hook for misdemeanor charges that he roughed...
FIRED CITY WORKER IS OUT OF LEAK
Gee whiz - a Queens man who couldn't go has to go. A sanitation worker who says he was fired from his job because of his disability can't get it...
BLASTING BEEP SAYS CON ED NEGLECTS SAFETY
Safety is just a "side issue" to Con Ed bosses, Manhattan's borough president charged yesterday as workers continued cleaning up the mess in Midtown left by last Wednesday's steam-pipe explosion....
MOB 'LION' CUB FACES EXTORT RAP
The nephew of reputed Genovese boss Daniel "The Lion" Leo was hauled into federal court on extortion charges yesterday - based on more than a year of secret wiretaps that...
$CAM TWIST IN 'SUICIDE & SLAY'
A city cop who gunned down his teenage girlfriend in a murder-suicide may have been involved in an illegal check-cashing scheme and was in danger of being exposed, sources said....
'SLAY ACQUIT' GAL SUES CITY
A woman acquitted of killing her boyfriend with a gunshot to the head has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the city, saying the medical examiner never considered that the...
MODERN 'FREUD' DIES AT 93
Dr. Albert Ellis, the controversial shrink who founded a renowned psychotherapy institute on the Upper East Side and whose theories helped shape modern psychotherapy, died yesterday at age 93. Ellis...
CANCER KID LIVES TO HELP OTHERS
Brooklyn teen Sean Mellon, who had a heart transplant when he was 3 and is now battling cancer, plans to become a psychologist so he can help others. "I want...
PIER PRESSURE IN RED HOOK
With little movement by the city on plans to redevelop the Red Hook piers in Brooklyn, the City Council wants the Port Authority to extend shipping leases there. Councilman David...
'DIRTY TALK' TEACHER IN TROUBLE
Here's a lesson for pervy pedagogues - what happens in the classroom doesn't always stay in the classroom. Michael Williams, a 49-year-old former substitute teacher at Long Island City HS...
FAMILY 'KILLER' HAS RICH PEDIGREE
A merciless parolee who was charged yesterday in the horrific home invasion and arson that killed the family of a prominent Connecticut doctor is himself the scion of a wealthy...
ARMS FIEND CONVICTED
A weapons smuggler and five cohorts who schemed to sell more than $1 million in powerful anti-aircraft missiles and other military equipment to an FBI informant were convicted in Manhattan...
MYSTERY OVER BOOZE-BRACELET ALARM
Lindsay Lohan's attorney said she was able to keep hourly tabs on the arm-bending actress thanks to a booze-monitoring bracelet on her ankle - but that didn't stop the wild...
FILL-IN GOES ON GENDER BENDER
It was a drag being Lindsay Lohan last night. Not only did "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno rip the troubled former teen temptress in his monologue after she was forced...
BOOZER BIMBO AT NEW LO
With her career already on the skids, La La Land lush Lindsay Lohan checked herself into rehab again yesterday after another booze- and cocaine-fueled drunken-driving bust that left the starlet...
COMMISH RIPS 'TRAITOR' REF
NBA Commissioner David Stern said he felt betrayed by the "rogue" referee embroiled in the sweeping gambling scandal and yesterday likened him to devious traitors who "turn on their country."...
AIDES REFUSED TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH
ALBANY - Two of Gov. Spitzer's closest aides refused to cooperate with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigation of the political plot that was hatched against Senate Majority Leader Joseph...
CHUCK RIPS MERC WORKS
Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday said he is introducing a bill that would have the federal government substantially cut mercury emissions at power plants. His move follows a city Health Department...
DEM SNITCH HITCH RILES RUDY
Rudy Giuliani yesterday blasted Democrats in Congress for blocking a measure that would protect from civil lawsuits citizen tipsters who report suspected terrorist activity. Giuliani, the Republican 2008 presidential front-runner,...
HILLARY ON A TY'RANT'
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton blasted Barack Obama yesterday as "irresponsible and, frankly, naive" for saying he would meet the anti-American leaders of Iran, Venezuela and North Korea during his...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan An 81-year-old man tried to fight off these two vicious thugs in an Upper East Side push-in robbery, cops said yesterday. Dino Stefani was leaving his 18th-floor apartment at...
SECRETS OF 'WAIT $CALES
EVER wonder how much your waiter at Tao or BLT Prime or Umberto's Clam House makes? The question often runs through my mind as I eat my way through the...
MY 5-STEP FOR SPOILED STARS ANONYMOUS
LINDSAY. Of all the bimbos in all the world, you had the fresh looks, the raw talent and a real future. And you threw it away as easily and promiscuously...
DEPTHS OF 'FIX' MESS YET TO BE REVEALED
OURS is a city still scarred by the lingering stains of gambling scandals, still reeling, all these years later, from the betrayals of the bettors. Once, New York was the...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 785; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6082; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 324; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3601;...
THE PUBLIC & THE WAR
Are Americans having a change of heart over the war in Iraq? Maybe yes, maybe no. A new joint poll by CBS News and The New York Times shows that...
WHAT DID ELIOT KNOW?
So now comes word that two key aides to Gov. Spitzer refused to be inter viewed by Attorney General An drew Cuomo in connection with Albany's topsy-turvy Troopergate plot. Why...
NEWARK: FROM BETRAYAL TO HOPE
IN pleading not guilty to myriad federal cor ruption charges Mon day, former Newark Mayor Sharpe James reminded the world of just how badly he'd treated his city. Can brilliant,...
NO MIDDLE GROUND
ELIOT Spitzer is through . . . or he's not. The truth is, we don't know yet if he's going to survive the appalling scandal that has just torn his...
ANTI-GUN GOOFS
SEN. Joe Biden is the embodiment of snide. Snide is the embodi ment of the left-wing attitude toward gun owners. So when snide Joe Biden confronted a YouTube user who...
SOAK THE POOR, SAVE THE KIDS?
POLITICALLY, making smokers pay for chil dren's health insurance is a great idea: Ev erybody loves children, and everybody hates smokers. But once you get beyond the popularity contest, it's...
STEAMING OVER CON ED?
Did anyone else notice the tragic irony in The Post's "Midtown Volcano!" front page photo (July 19)? There were "Experience N.Y.C." signs clearly hanging from all the buildings surrounding the...
HILLARY'S HARRUMPHING: IT'S ALL ABOUT RETREAT
Kudos to Defense Undersecretary Eric Edelman for rebuking the lady who would be Commandress-in-Chief ("Pentagon: Hill is Helping Foe," July 20). By demanding an Iraq withdrawal plan, Sen. Hillary Rodham...
COUNTRYWIDE COLLAPSES AS CHIEF CASHES IN
Profits tumbled yesterday for the nation's largest home mortgage firm - Countrywide Financial - even as its chief Angelo Mozilo was quietly cashing out a $118.2 million options windfall ahead...
HOUSING STOCK
Wall Street's fear of the housing collapse triggered a fierce stock rout yesterday that spilled into the world's major capitals yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 226.47 to 13,716.95...
RODALE LOOKS TO BULK UP
RODALE, publisher of the South Beach Diet books and magazines such as Men's Health, Prevention, and Runner's World, is looking for a war chest for an expansion, and industry sources...
DOW JONES SHARES TAKE 3% HIT
Dow Jones & Co.'s stock price dropped yesterday as investors fretted that the media company's controlling shareholders might reject News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the company. The Bancroft family,...
TALK OF ICELAND IN SAKS' FUTURE
As Saks Inc. continues to polish its image after years of misguided management, the luxury department store chain is once again drawing speculation that a sale of the company is...
COULD BE I-PHONY
Fears are mounting that Apple's much-hyped iPhone may not be the instant hit many in media and tech circles were anticipating. Shares in Apple Inc. slid over 6 percent yesterday...
NETFLIX LOSES POWER; SERVICE IS OUT, TOO
Investors pulled the plug on Netflix yesterday - amid a service outage for the online rental service - on news of disappointing subscriber numbers and negative reaction to a plan...
JETBLUE STILL STUCK IN HOLDING PATTERN
JetBlue Airways continues to run into a bit of turbulence as the low-cost airline bounces back from a February ice storm debacle that left passengers stranded on runways for hours....
BENDEL FOR SALE
THE former Henri Ben del Building on 10-14 W. 57th St. could be sold for as much as $200 million and redeveloped into a bigger hotel retail project. We hear...
XM'S PANERO EXITS FIRM
XM Satellite Radio CEO Hugh Panero said yesterday that he would be leaving the company in August. Nate Davis, whom Panero actually recruited from Rannd Advisors to become president and...
SKECHERS TRIPPED UP BY POOR PROFITS
Red-hot sneaker maker Skechers stumbled yesterday when it reported sharply lower second-quarter earnings and reduced its profit forecast for the third quarter. The Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based company blamed higher costs...
BEST BUDDIES!
SAN FRANCISCO - Bud Selig said he was sitting at home in Milwaukee on Monday night watching the Giants-Braves game on TV when he decided he should be at the...
SCHUYLERVILLE KICKS OFF SUPER SARATOGA MEET
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Thoroughbred racing will hit one of the year's high notes at 1 p.m. this afternoon when the crowd joins with track announcer Tom Durkin for the traditional...
CATS SCRATCH HONDO
The Tigers phoned it in at U.S. Cellular Field yes terday, getting hosed by those darn Chisox to boost the debt to 665 aparicios. Today, Mr. Aitch will launch his...
MARSHALL, JANSSEN BACK WITH DEVILS
In a strange spate of signings, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello is bringing in two 34-year-old vets who spent most of last season in the minors and a 30-year-old crunching defenseman...
SPORTS SHORTS
CYCLING: More Tour doping woes Tour de France rider Alexandre Vinokourov tested positive for a banned blood transfusion after winning last weekend's time trial, prompting his Astana team to pull...
GIANTS' TOP TWO ON BRINK OF DEALS
Giants general manager Jerry Reese and assistant GM Kevin Abrams will meet today with the agent for first-round draft pick Aaron Ross in a Giants Stadium discussion that is expected...
MAINE HAS A REAL BLAST
John Maine didn't pitch nine innings, but he certainly finished with a complete game. Sure, Maine could have contributed more to the fans' enjoyment last night at Shea Stadium, but...
MILLION DOLLAR MAYBE
THE only positive thing to say about the Pirates is they may not be as bad as the Devil Rays. The only thing worse than watching the Pirates hit is...
GOTAY'S MAKING HIS CASE TO STAY
Ruben Gotay wants to make it very hard for the Mets to get rid of him. With Jose Valentin out indefinitely - perhaps for the remainder of the season -...
ALOU BACK, BUT SITS OUT
Moises Alou rejoined the Mets yesterday, just not in the expected capacity. He was back in uniform, yes, done with his rehab assignment, but there was one minor detail: He...
GLAVINE OPINES ON MILESTONES
While Barry Bonds is bearing down on Hank Aaron's all-time home-run record, he may well be passed one day by Alex Rodriguez. But there's a very real chance that Tom...
TOP MET PICK TASTES SHEA
The Mets had a new pitcher in the bullpen popping fastballs yesterday, but Eddie Kunz was only here to visit. The next time Kunz comes to Shea Stadium it will...
SCORING SPREE BURIES K.C.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - If the slow-pitch softball numbers keep oozing from the Yankees' bats, Johnny Damon believes there will be October games for his mates to play. "If we...
ALEX GETS WORK ETHIC >FROM MAMA A-ROD
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Don't be blinded by the light of milestones. Alex Rodriguez's sprint to 500 home runs is not just about his incredible talent, it's about work ethic,...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
BOMBERS DEBATE PLAN FOR DEADLINE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Yankees brass met in Tampa yesterday for 3½ hours. Though they came away knowing what they would like to improve the club with before Tuesday's trade...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A knucklehead 16-year- old drove his pickup truck to an island in the middle of a shallow Pennsylvania river only to find he couldn't get back. "I don't know anybody...
FLUSHING THE ROYALS
Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come. Sitting here at beautiful Kauffman Stadium, which is basically as old as Shea Stadium, yet actually is a joy to be...