August 13, 2007
JUST BACK: Disneyland Tokyo!
Girls Gone Goofy: Posing in Tokyo/Jason Cochran I have now been to every Disney park in the universe. Rising costs aside, I am still a big fan. After all, I...
U.S. baseball legend Ripken takes on the world
By Sue PlemingWASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Baseball great Cal Ripken became a goodwill ambassador for the United States on Monday, with the Bush administration hoping his trademark determination will...
'Today' Tacks on Fourth Hour
Meet the co-hosts for the fourth hour of NBC's "Today" show. Ann Curry(left), Hoda Kotb and Natalie Morales will host the new 10-11 a.m. hour, which kicks off this fall...
Scene
Arianne Lasalle wears a tiny jumper from Urban Outfitters with a Betsey Johnson necklace and Irregular Choice shoes, vintage bag and sunglasses. "My look? Rock and roll, vintage, urban. I...
To buy or not to buy?
That is the question.This Marc by Marc white silk prairie dress first made an appearance at Bryant Park on Stam in September 2004.Currently there's a rail of them marked down...
Deal of the Day
In the right shade and fabric, camisoles are great year round staples.And this smartly patterned Gathered Cami from Geren Ford will take a gal from sweltering summer movies in Bryant...
Merv Griffin (1925-2007)
The first celebrity I ever met was Merv Griffin, at a taping of his eponymous TV talk show in the mid-1960s at the Cort Theatre, which just happens to abut...
THE GROWTH OF ROBINSON CANO
I saw something Sunday that should scare opponents of the Yankees. I saw Robinson Cano taking borderline pitches for balls; not to work the count as much as to wait...
DERAILED DIVORCES!
ROBIN Blakely was a freelance writer and mother of two when her marriage of 12 years ended in 1995. Trying to cope, she suddenly found herself "with two chronically ill...
PLAYING TOUGH
IT all started at age 12 for Keith Millman. That's when he entered his first invention contest and won the New Jersey state finals. His creation, the Mean Clean-Up Machine,...
PLAY BALL!
GROWING up in Highland, N.Y., Kevin Ponte loved playing baseball and football. At 16, he got a summer job as a groundskeeper at a local baseball field, and found he...
60 SECONDS WITH DOUGLAS HURST
As one of the city's biggest developers, it's fair to say that you've always had a reputation for going against the conventional wisdom of the real estate market. How should...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
Pest Control Worker What does a pest control worker actually do all day? Pest control workers rid homes and offices of unwanted guests, including bugs like termites, cockroaches and ants,...
GO TO GREG
Q. I've read that sexual harassment against men in the workplace is on the rise. I'm in an uncomfortable position with some co-workers, but as a man I feel awkward...
THE VILLAGE IN THE PARK
The land that became the city's communal playground was home to Manhattan's first community of African-American property owners - Seneca Village. Before Harlem was known as the Mecca of the...
WHO'S THAT GIRL?
GWYNETH as '70s supermodel Veruschka, Sienna looking like Nicole Kidman . . . and is that Courtney Love? Yep. Decked out in jewels and not much else in Harper's Bazaar,...
HONORABLE MENTIONS
* Best lip gloss: Lucky magazine's pick - Fresh Gloss Absolute in Dahlia ($25 at fresh.com), a luxe red gloss that works over a lipstick for added shine, under a...
FASHION ROCKS!
GET out the glitter makeup, the stiletto boots, the capes - Fashion Rocks, the annual star-studded concert in the middle of New York Fashion Week, arrives at Radio City Music...
PULSE SALES
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ALL IS IN TUNE IN 'OPUS'
MUCH like the fictional string quartet that is its subject, Michael Hollinger's drama "Opus" plays all of its notes with an utmost precision and delicacy. This portrait of the personal...
'HILL' HATH NO FURY
FORGET Paris vs. Nicole or Rosie vs. Elisabeth. TV's biggest feud returns with blond vengeance tonight, when Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag throw down in the season premiere of "The...
QUEASY WRITER
HEY, "Californication" cre ators: You got your "Sex and the City" in my "Entourage"! In this half-hour dramedy, David Duchovny's Hank Moody is a professional self-hater (a writer) who, as...
DREW WHEEL-Y HURT
DREW Carey was injured late last week on the set of "The Price is Right" when he caught his arm in one of the game show's famous spinning wheels. The...
CASTING THAT ALMOST WAS
TWO really good casting coups died quietly over the weekend: * Harvey Kietel is not going to join "Criminal Minds" to replace Mandy Patinkin. Joe Mantegna was signed late Friday...
STARR REPORT
'Ellen' on spin cycle Ellen DeGeneres needs a new DJ for her show after "DJ Johnny" (Jon Abrahams) de cided to move on after one season of aiding and abetting...
AND NOW A WORD (FROM OUR MOVIE)
AS the summer movie season winds down, it's time to take a look at how the big hits stack up - not in quality, of course, but in product placement....
VAN HALEN TO REUNITE FOR TOUR
Van Halen and David Lee Roth are set to rock and roll once more. Starting in September, Van Halen will kick-off a national reunion tour with original lead singer Roth...
POST: OPEN HEARINGS
ALBANY - Citing an "alleged abuse of power by the office of the governor," the New York Post has formally called on the state Ethics Commission to conduct its Troopergate...
FAMILY HM-WOE
ALBANY - Almost every HMO serving New York City has dramatically raised rates over the past year - forcing thousands of families to shell out nearly $4,000 a month for...
RUDY: I'D TAP MY OLD FOE BRATTON
GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani floated an extraordinary olive branch to bitter rival William Bratton, hinting he'd consider his estranged former top cop for a high federal post. In an...
BULLET TRAIN
A Bronx teen who was always the life of the party was killed in a blaze of bullets on a subway train early yesterday after a dispute between two groups...
$ICCING THE COPS
The NYPD's new patrol chief has ordered that special overtime money earmarked for cops in violence-prone precincts be given to "aggressive" officers rather than "do-nothings," The Post has learned. Chief...
BLOOD AMID CHEER
Hundreds of thousands of people lined Sixth Avenue yesterday to wave the Dominican flag with pride during a joyous celebration marred by up to three violent incidents. Mayor Bloomberg and...
PARTY GUY RUNS OVER GAL PAL'S MOTHER
A Long Island fiancée is standing by her man - even if he did just mow down her mother with his car. For better or for worse, Danielle Stark visited...
RUMBLE OVER JUMBO DUMBO APARTMENT COMPLEX
Political and community opposition is mounting against a prominent DUMBO developer's latest attempt to build an apartment tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge - although it's part of a plan...
CALL IT 'DEAD' HOOK
The once-hyped Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook is going through a down period this summer, with several prominent closures among the handful of restaurants, bars and stores on main drag...
'DWI' HORROR DEATH
A drunken driver fatally mowed down a 50-year-old mom as she got out of her car to walk her beloved pooch during a pit stop in Queens early yesterday, police...
POLS PUSH BLOOMY TO SECURE CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE
City officials yesterday urged Mayor Bloomberg to create a special commission aimed at improving the city's collapsing infrastructure. The call, led by Councilman David Weprin (D-Queens), came in the wake...
VILLAGE PERV AWAITS FATE
West Village neighbors of child molester Carl Timothy Fisher are praying that the Connecticut judge scheduled to see him tomorrow will do the right thing - and keep him up...
NIP-TUCK THUG'S '93 SLAY RAP
An accused Colombian crime boss who underwent massive plastic surgery to avoid detection but got caught in Brazil last week when agents recognized his voice has been charged with the...
GRANNY GOING POSTAL
A disabled, elderly woman is fed up with being left on the street to beg, "Please Mr. Postman" - she's demanding better access to the city's main post office for...
KID HAS BRIGHT IDEA
When Avery Hairston heard Al Gore talk about global warming, he saw the light - and now the 15-year-old East Sider aims to turn New Yorkers on to energy-saving light...
AUDIENCES FEEL 'RUSH'
"Rush Hour 3" outpaced the pack over the weekend. The action romp, which for the third time pairs Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, collected $50.2 million over the past three...
ROMNEY: I BLEW IT ON SONS' 'SERVICE'
WASHINGTON - Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who trounced lesser-known GOP candidates in Saturday's Iowa straw poll, admitted yesterday that he was wrong to compare his sons' stumping for him with...
GIULIANI IN ENERGY DILEMMA
Rudy Giuliani vows he'd be the first president to wean America off Mideast oil. A Giuliani presidency would promote ethanol and "clean" coal, expand nuclear, wind and solar power, and...
NFL SACKS VICK FOR '07 SEASON
Michael Vick, the star Atlanta Falcon quarterback who has been indicted on federal dogfighting charges, will be suspended for the entire 2007 season, it was reported yesterday. "The plan was...
PAMPERED PUPS
A $3,000 bottle of dog perfume, an $8,000 crystal-encrusted doggie vest and a $7,000 hypoallergenic designer cat might sound excessive - but when it comes to high-end pets and paraphernalia,...
IN LINE OF FIRE
With the execution-style slayings of three promising college kids in a Newark schoolyard, it's do-or-die time for the county's embattled prosecutor. Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow has for years drawn...
SCHOOL-SHOOTING FUGITIVES HAVE GANG TIES: LOCALS
As Newark cops yesterday continued hunting for three people suspected in a grisly schoolyard massacre there, residents said several of the men were part of a notorious street gang. It...
HAMPTONS IN HUFF OVER ROSS' FUND-RAISING FOLLIES
Time is precious, but so is money, and new fund-raisers for the experimental Hamptons school founded by Time Warner CEO Steve Ross are hogging way too much of both. That's...
MINE RESCUERS WEIGH OPTIONS
HUNTINGTON, Utah - With their efforts to drill deep inside a Utah mountain yielding no signs of six trapped miners, exhausted rescuers pondered alternatives yesterday - including drilling another hole...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A hospital cop helped nab an alleged thief as the suspect checked into a psych ward, more than a month after first spotting him on a security camera, authorities...
GOV'S PROBE 'SHHUTDOWN'
FAR from cooperating in the Troopergate probe, Gov. Spitzer's aides "moved to shut everyone down" after learning one of their own had unexpectedly confessed his role in the scandal to...
'BAD BOYS' LOVE YOU TO DEATH
THEY come in all races, shapes and haircuts, but just one gender and disposition: Male and rotten. And for reasons as ancient as the sexes, women just can't get enough...
H'WOOD MOURNS TV GREAT MERV
MERV GRIFFIN, TV's premier showman for 50 years, died yesterday of prostate cancer in Los Angeles. He was 82. In a show-business career stretching back to the 1940s, Griffin was...
EX-GUARD LAUDS HEROIC INMATE
A RETIRED correction officer has ended a 23-year search for an ex-cop, just to tell him: "Bless you, thank you, you saved my life." The Post over the weekend brought...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 927; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 1328; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 446; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
MIKE'S TIMELY VETO
Mayor Bloomberg deserves serious credit for standing up for order in the city schools - even after all but two City Council members voted in favor of chaos in the...
MATTINGLY SKATES
Last week's scathing review of the city's child-protection service may lead to vital changes that could wind up saving the lives of kids at risk. But undermining any potential gains...
HOW INDIAN POINT POWERS JOBS
ELECTRICITY and energy are the life-blood of our national economy; without them, we can't power our factories, our homes or our schools. The state of New York is at an...
HOMELESS HELL
THE West-Park Presbyterian Church has finally decided to do what its neighbors and the city's Department of Homeless Services have been urging for years: It wants to shut down the...
MTA'S ONLINE RAIL WRECK
WHAT a bunch of whiners we transit riders are. Sure, the MTA couldn't tell us up from down during last week's rainstorm, and its Web site collapsed. But you think...
HOG HEAVEN
WITH the midnight hour approaching Saturday Aug. 4 near the end of a marathon session, Democratic and Republican leaders alike wanted to pass the Defense appropriations bill quickly and start...
IN SEARCH OF THE BEST TERROR PLOT
Once again, The New York Times shows which side it is on in the War on Terror - the terrorists' ("Tips for Terror," Editorial, Aug. 9). It is still in...
SPITZER'S SMOKESCREEN: HYPING HOKEY HUMILITY
If anyone wants to see a politician in full smokescreen mode, just listen to the non-apology by that phony in Albany ("Eliot's Bizarre Dodge," Editorial, Aug. 8). Now that Gov....
AD MAN, AT LAST
Microsoft will announce another management overhaul of its online ad businesses after wrapping up a $6 billion deal for Web ad firm aQuantive this week, The Post has learned. Under...
SONY BMG COVETS MUSIC RIGHTS
Sony BMG CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz is pondering a move into the music-publishing business, and has his sights set on the European rights to some of BMG's former U.S. and U.K....
BIZ-ZZZZZZ RIVALS
As Condé Nast gears up to release the second issue of its closely watched business mag Portfolio this week, we here at Media City thought it would be prudent to...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Beautiful Girls, Sean Kingston 2. Party Like a Rock Star, Shop Boyz 3. Bartender, T-pain 4. Pop Lock & Drop, Huey 5. Buy You a Drink,...
LIFE AND TIMES OF KARL ROVE
Stats and timeline of Karl Rove: NAME: Karl Rove. AGE-BIRTH DATE: 56; Dec. 25, 1950. EDUCATION: Attended the University of Utah, the University of Texas at Austin and George Mason...
TWO HURT IN MIDTOWN SIDEWALK COLLAPSE
Two construction workers were hurt today after a sidewalk collapsed in Midtown Manhattan, MyFoxNy.com reported A Fire Department spokesman, Tony F. Sclafani, said those injured fell into a hole up...
BROOKE ASTOR DIES
Brooke Astor, the First Lady of New York society who dedicated her time and her millions into making the city a better place to live, died yesterday at age 105....
GOLFCASTERS JUST CANNOT KEEP IT SIMPLE
AFTER nearly four days of watching the PGA Championship on TNT and CBS, it hit me: All the cliché-speakers are Americans. And, perhaps because they weren't raised on cliché-speaking American...
WORTHY CONTENDERS
TULSA, Okla. - Tiger Woods won yesterday. But so did the PGA Championship, the so-called stepchild fourth major, Southern Hills, which had been maligned in some circles as a major-championship...
13 GOING ON . . .
TULSA, Okla. - Lucky 13 had a different vibe to it for Tiger Woods. Firstly, Woods' 13th major championship didn't come as easily as he might have expected or hoped,...
PRESIDENTS CHOICE
TULSA, Okla. - Woody Austin's runner-up performance at the PGA Championship clinched a Presidents Cup roster spot for him, supplanting Lucas Glover from the team. "That makes me real happy...
AMES LOST BEFORE FINAL PAIRING WITH WOODS BEGAN
TULSA - Stephen Ames never had a chance. Ames, who entered yesterday's final round of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills trailing Tiger Woods by three shots, sounded defeated on...
RED BULLS WONDER IF BECKHAM WILL PLAY
This was the performance the Red Bulls would like to duplicate for Saturday's David Beckham Show, if Beckham actually shows. While the Red Bulls romped to a 3-0 triumph over...
CYCLONES HONOR LEGEND ROBINSON
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers in a game against the Boston Braves at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. It was...
RED-HOT VELASQUEZ LEADS MEET
SARATOGA SPRINGS - A week ago, jockey Cornelio Velasquez was floundering with six wins at the meet. Then he got hot. How hot? With a victory aboard 13-1 Classic Pack...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle for bragging...
CHAIR-ITY SPURS RECORD CROWD
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Yesterday's giveaway, red Saratoga folding lawn chairs, lured all-time record paid admission of 72,745 (including many "spinners" who walked away with five chairs or more, now on...
SPORTS SHORTS
AUTOS: Stewart winsTony Stewart took advantage of a stunning mistake by Jeff Gordon with two laps to go and won the Centurion Boats at The Glen yesterday at Watkins Glen...
HONDO'S STRUMMING
Hondo cooled his bets yesterday when the Royals' Bannister took a step in the wrong direction, causing the deficit to rise to 180 quisenberrys. Tonight, Mr. Aitch is picking Santana...
JINTS DEFEND POROUS 'D'
They might as well have formed a line at training camp in Albany, as one by one members of the Giants defense sang the praises of the new system installed...
JETS' JONES DOWN
The noise coming from Hempstead was a collective gasp by the Jets when running back Thomas Jones went down with an injury yesterday in practice. The 5-foot-10, 215-pound Jones limped...
SHOCK FINISH
With three seconds left in yesterday's game and a tenuous chance for a playoff spot slipping away, the Liberty's Erin Thorn knew what she had to do. The guard hit...
A FOUR-GONE CONCLUSION
The Mets haven't been hemorrhaging of late. That would be too kind of a diagnosis. They've been bleeding like a stuck pig. Remember that five-game lead on Aug. 3? It...
BAD KARMA AT SHEA
THEY won a baseball game yesterday, but it's a stretch to suggest that the Mets played winning baseball in clubbing the Marlins 10-4 at Shea and even more of one...
GLAVINE DAY FORCES TOM INTO LIMELIGHT
Tom Glavine thought he had seen it all, experienced it all. Then he took the mound Saturday evening at Shea to throw his warmup pitches. The fans stood and cheered....
CASTRO ADDED TO CATCHING WOES
As their lead in the NL East dwindles, the dog days of the summer build and the injuries mount, the Amazin's are taking on the feel of a battered team....
TRIBE PUT TO SWEEP
CLEVELAND - Andy Pettitte did his job. Jason Giambi, Melky Cabrera, Robinson Cano and Derek Jeter delivered in the clutch. Now, Mariano Rivera was being asked to work himself out...
FROM BUMBLING TO BOOMING
CLEVELAND - Let's keep in mind the tough portion of the schedule has begun for the Yankees. Because when they are playing this way, the opponents are all going to...
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...
DAMON OK WITH SPOT DUTY
CLEVELAND - Joe Torre's communication skills have made a difference helping Johnny Damon cope with not playing every day. Whenever Damon isn't going to be in the next game's lineup,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Here's some food for thought. A Chinese journalist was sentenced to a year in jail for concocting a story that dumpling makers in Beijing were using softened cardboard, rather than...
Impossible to Avoid: Rerunsâ last gasp
As summer comes to a close, much of the talk-show circuit is in repeats before the back-to-sweeps September rush. But if you missed your favorite âIdolâ contestants (and judge), you...