August 26, 2007
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Presidential candidateHILLARY RODHAM CLINTON â Late Show With David Letterman, THURS., 11:35 P.M., CH. 2 4188450ÂMostly movie starsJULIE ANDREWS â Ellen DeGeneres, THURS., 4:00 P.M., CH. 4 1117ÂMARC ANTHONY âEl...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DRAMA Hed: Unexpected guest The extended Henrickson family is rocked by the appearance of an unexpected guest as they prepare for the festivities surrounding Salt Lake City's Pioneer Week...
'I CAN'T CRY ANYMORE'
IT all comes down to chemistry. That's how Andrea Roth, the beautiful blond 39-year-old actress who plays Janet Gavin on the FX show "Rescue Me," characterizes her often tortured, always...
'MR. OCTOBER'
Reggie Jackson couldn't miss in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series. Neither could the guy who plays him in "The Bronx is Burning," the popular ESPN drama that celebrates...
AN OFF-KEY 'MUSICAL' MOMENT
The sellout of ABC News to parent company Disney continues, no apparent shame attached. Last week's ABC News "Person of the Week," as announced and saluted by anchor Charles Gibson,...
NETWORK DRAMAS CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO CABLE
The networks are fighting a losing battle with cable. The arena in which they're losing is TV drama, and this summer, the cable networks have been presenting quality dramas that...
THE VIEW FROM THIRD BASE
Graig Nettles says he doesn't remember how he well he played when he won his first World Series. But that didn't stop him from telling ESPN what the games should...
FEW CHEERS FOR ONE-YEAR CHAMP
THE strongest tournament in history begins in two weeks with the title of world champion and $1.3 million at stake. And the response so far from the world's fans is...
BRIDGE
MY friend the English profes- sor bemoans his students' ill-preparedness. He says things are the same way in other disciplines. The prof has a colleague - an instructor of music...
HOT LIST
1 Tennis, anyone? Andy , Venus, Maria and gang head to Queens for the Open. Don't want to spend cash on a ticket? Watch the matches for free at Rockefeller...
VAVOOM TOWN
IF watching a zaftig blond seductress mix a martini with her breasts sounds like your idea of a good time - and really, why wouldn't it - then The New...
TRICKS OF THE TRADER
KYLE MacDonald is not in finance, but he might just be the world's most successful investment professional. Between July 2005 and July 2006, he took an investment of one red...
FALL'S BEST FEET FORWARD
From mocs to crocs - shoes, booties and boots for every budget.
'MONSTER' HIT
SEATTLE - Mel Brooks flipped the switches on his latest creation here, inject ing life into his new Broadway-bound musical, "Young Frankenstein." The Monster's off the table, singing, dancing and...
MORE TEAM PLAYERS
The Wes Anderson-Owen Wilson-Jason Schwartzman trifecta is back with "The Darjeeling Limited" (Sept. 28), in which three brothers (Schwartzman, Wilson and Adrien Brody) take a train trip through India. Also...
HOT SEAT
THE pitch for "The Darjeeling Limited" is enough to send any hipster movie fan scrambling onto Fandango. Director Wes Anderson ("The Royal Tenenbaums," "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou") teams...
THE HOLLYWOOD STOCK EXCHANGE
Betting on anything in Hollywood is a fool's errand. There are really only two sure things: monkeys = comedy, and KFed will never win an Oscar. Nonetheless, The Post waded...
COMING TO A LIVING ROOM NEAR YOU
ONCE-SOARING sales of DVDs have flattened, but with Hollywood still making considerably more revenue from home video than from theatrical releases, the flood of titles continues unabated. This fall, big...
REEL-TO-REEL MUSICALS
KIDS today! They've got no idea what good music really is. This seems to be the prevailing mood of the fall's music-centric film offerings, which lean heavy on the nostalgia...
BEN FOSTER WON'T MISS THE '3:10 TO YUMA'
THE patented Ben Foster move: Get cast in a minor role, dissolve yourself into it entirely and proceed to steal scenes out from under whichever more-famous actor has the misfortune...
VIGGO'S 'PROMISES'
E'S A monster," David Cronenberg whispers dramatically. "I'll deny I said that when he gets here." We are awaiting the arrival of Viggo Mortensen, star of Cronenberg's new movie, "Eastern...
THE FILM LIBRARY
LAST WEEK, a shocking (or perhaps not so) statistic was released: One in four Americans didn't read a single book in 2006. An Alabama construction worker summed up the mood:...
ANOTHER VIETNAM?
HOLLYWOOD has always been good at ripping stories "from the headlines" - guess it beats ripping them from the pages of Crochet World - and this fall yields a bumper...
LOVE STORY
AH, young love in Iran. Yes, the "morals police" are always on the lookout for hanky-panky. But, says Iranian-American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz, that doesn't stop young people from lusting after...
VIVA MIDTOWN
MEXICO City-born chef Julian Medina has worked at some of the city's best Mexican restaurants - everywhere from Pampano to Maya, and most recently Zocalo. With Toloache, the Theater District...
PROOF POSITIVE
TEQUILA, like cilantro in a quesadilla or celery in tuna fish, is something you either love or hate. For some, the spirit triggers fond memories of licking salty body parts....
KENNEDY, 23, AND TUNCER, 31
JUNE 21 - According to Siobhan Kennedy, silence speaks volumes. "I met Tunc in October last year when I first moved to Williamsburg, and he seemed very distant and formal...
IORDANOVA, 45, AND MAYER, 55
JUNE 30 - Elissaveta Iordanova and William Mayer found true love on a New York City night in 1999 at the Bulgarian consulate. "He happened to have Bulgarian friends," explains...
HARDTKE, 31, AND FREDELLA, 25
JULY 7 - "Matthew and I met while working at a credit-card company in September 2003," says Diana Fredella, an accountant for First Data Corp. in Melville, L.I. "Whenever I...
SAYAR, 31, AND LATHROP, 35
JULY 1 - Moments before Erin Sayer was to meet Jimmy Lathrop at the altar, their wedding became even more of a family affair. "At the last minute, the ring...
SALVO, 33, AND GLICK, 31
JUNE 14 - Mixing work and play came naturally to Susy Salvo and Michael Glick. "We met working for a restaurant called Gaia in Greenwich, Conn., in 2004," explains Salvo....
FACING SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Reports of violent incidents in New York City schools rose sharply last year, according to new numbers released last week by the state Education Department. And to hear city education...
CHEER THE BRONX
The Yankees have climbed back into the playoff race, and it's showing at the box office: The team has already posted 35 sellout home games. Unbeknownst to many fans, however,...
INDIAN COUNTRY
THE Iraqi Police station in Karmah doesn't look like anything run by the NYPD. Behind the concertina wire and high walls, sandbagged fighting positions crown the compound's rooftops. This isn't...
TO SAVE THE SCHOOLS
LAST week I went shopping in our small rural home town, where my family has attended the same public schools since 1896. Without exception, all six generations of us -...
FOREVER SOCIALIST
PARIS FRENCH libraries are said to file their nation's constitutions - there have been more than a dozen since 1789; the current one is a relatively ancient 49 years old...
ICK! THIS KNICK'S TRICKS ARE AS SICK AS VICK'S
Stephon Marbury's remark in defense of Michael Vick - that "dog- fighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors" - is despicable ("Knick Sticks Up for Vick," Aug. 22)....
AT THE HELM OF N.Y. NOTORIETY
Leona Helmsley achieved wealth and notoriety the old-fashioned way - she married it ("Leona Helmsley, 1920-2007," Editorial, Aug. 22). Without her husband, who was a legitimate real-estate legend, she would...
IN TIMES OF WAR
From the first page, Joel N. Ross's second novel, "White Flag Down," brims with action. Unwittingly, almost organically, we are introduced to characters and their respective worlds as events tumultuously...
BEHIND THE MAN
IN the first few pages of "The Great Man," Kate Christensen's compelling new novel, the great man is, literally, dead. Oscar Feldman, we learn through his obituary, was a New...
DUBAI DUBAI DO
Its pockets stuffed with petro-dollars and its rulers no longer content with mundane investments like U.S. Treasuries, the Middle Eastern emirate of Dubai is snapping up trophy properties worldwide -...
FOREIGN FUNDS FUEL U.S. FUROR
As sovereign wealth funds, with a total of $2.5 trillion in assets - more money than all the hedge funds in the world combined - begin to flex their muscles,...
PAIRING UP CLIENTS EQUALS MEDIA ATTENTION PETER LAURIA
TINSELTOWN talent agents couldn't help but laugh at recent speculation in celebrity rags and gossip blogs that Britney Spears and magician Criss Angel were an item after the duo were...
HEDGE FUGITIVE FREED
He ripped off nearly $80 million - and now it looks like he'll get away with it. That's the word from investigators who collared fugitive hedge-fund grifter Angelo Haligiannis this...
TOP OF THE CLASS
The halo effect of strong iPhone and iPod sales is giving a whole new meaning to the schoolhouse practice of putting an Apple on the teacher's desk. Apple is experiencing...
DISNEY'S NO MICKEY MOUSE NETWORK
Disney is scoring major ratings and redrawing the competitive landscape of teen cable with its one-two punch of "High School Musical 2" and "Hannah Montana." Last week the tween network...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSBEN BERNANKE Fed head sees move to drop discount rate calm jittery markets, restore investor confidence and bring volatility index down.BRUCE WASSERSTEIN Closes deal to sell American Lawyer Media for...
COLLEGE HELPER
More than five million families could be in line for additional financial help with their college bills - and 600,000 households might get their first taste of tuition helper -...
PAYPAL NO FRIEND OF MIFFED VENDOR
Dear John: I am writing to you because of the fraudulent actions of PayPal, a subsidiary of eBay. I oftentimes sell designer handbags on eBay that I find at flea...
DERIVATIVES INDUSTRY LEAVING SOUR TASTE IN BUYERS' MOUTHS
IT'S an export once loved round the globe - coveted for its efficient pricing, good value and perceived quality. But of late. buyers worldwide who have been freaked out about...
'GREEDY' COP GROUP TO HAND OUT $9M IN 9/11 DONATIONS
Caught helping itself to 9/11 donations, the state Fraternal Order of Police has agreed to surrender more than $9 million to families of fallen cops and to a health-care program...
H2OWE BATTLE PITS HOSPITALS VS. CITY
The city is refusing to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars in water charges it raked in by overcharging hospitals, according to a series of lawsuits. At least six...
'TRIP' SUITS VS. CITY IN A FREEFALL
Sidewalk trip-and-fall cases aren't all they were once cracked up to be. The number of claims filed against the city has been dropping dramatically over the past years, a phenomena...
THE DOG HAZE OF SUMMER
High temperatures will mix with outrageous humidity today to make the city steam as hot summer weather returns. The "feels like" temperature in the Baked Apple will be above 90...
CHARTER KIDS OUT OF 'HELL'
Students and teachers at a fledgling charter school in The Bronx are celebrating a new school year - and era - in the wake of the resignation of an embattled...
I.D.-THIEF WEDDING CRUSHERS
Many brides fear being left at the altar, but in New York City they also have to fear theft at the altar. In the case of Denise Daskalakis' nightmarish nuptials,...
BANK-RAZE BIZ'S HISTORY OF HORROR
When Michelle Smith heard that two firefighters were killed in a burning building that was undergoing demolition by general contractor Bovis Lend Lease, she thought, "My God, it's happened again."...
'FLEE' INFESTATION
Oops, they did it again. A teenage robbery suspect slipped his cuffs and fled through a window in a Brooklyn police station Friday - just one day after a murder...
BLAZE SENDS MAN TO HOSP
A fire tore through a Brooklyn home yesterday, causing one man to collapse from smoke inhalation and sending plumes of black smoke out to the street. The blaze broke out...
DELIVERY TRUCK IN DEATH SMASH
A drunken driver killed one man and sent three to the hospital - including an 11-year-old boy - when he slammed his van into a parked delivery truck at 50...
TICKETING 'CYCLE' SLOWER
Fewer city cyclists are being hit with costly summonses this year, the first drop in bike tickets in three years, even as the number of people pedaling reached an all-time...
GIRL, 7, SHOT IN KIN GUN GAFFE
A 7-year-old Brooklyn girl was hit by a bullet accidentally fired by her cousin - and other relatives tried to cover it up, police said yesterday. The girl's mother first...
'PERVERT' DENTIST IN COURT
A dirty-dancing dentist, who allegedly imprisoned a female patient in his Brooklyn office, was released without bail yesterday after being arraigned on sex charges. Dr. Neil Mate, 54, who runs...
BEAUTY'S ADVICE
Miss New Jersey - a victim of attempted blackmail over pictures she posted on the Web - gave freshmen at her Staten Island college yesterday rules to protect themselves online....
HARLEM FIRE HERO SAVES 3
A courageous passer-by ran into a smoke-filled Harlem building last night, kicked down a door and rescued a 9-year-old girl, her father and the building's superintendent from a blaze that...
HERO FIRE MOM BURNED
An asthmatic Bronx mother of two was in critical condition yesterday after being burned over most of her body while trying to evacuate neighbors from their burning building. Sandra Adorno,...
SPOKES MEN
Make way for the bureaucrat bike brigade. In an effort to both "green up" their agency and make New York City safer for cyclists, bike-riding Department of Transportation road inspectors...
ABRACADA-'BROS'
The Pinzon brothers helped discover America and document syphilis in the 15th century. Now their offbeat 21st-century descendants are conquering Halloween. Brothers Robert and Joe Pinzon - direct descendants of...
'WIFE BEAT' SHOCK
Police are questioning the ex-con husband of a beloved Baptist minister found viciously beaten in her Brooklyn kitchen early yesterday. Marie Moye, 58, is in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital...
BLDG. BOSS 'SHAFTED'
A Manhattan building superintendent fell 10 feet down an elevator shaft yesterday after trying to board a freight lift that wasn't there. Christopher Heubach, 27, was hospitalized with minor rib...
SINGER 'OWING' MACHINE
Seagram's chief Edgar Bronfman and the World Jewish Congress slapped the organization's disgraced former chairman Israel Singer with two separate lawsuits last week, claiming he's ignored a state attorney general's...
CO-ANCHORING
Alycia Lane - the twice-divorced TV anchorwoman who got into hot water sending bikini photos of herself to married NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen - has a new pal: Channel...
SPEED-DEMON SPEARS
Pop tart turned professional party girl Britney Spears just couldn't wait to get to Las Vegas early yesterday - but her lead foot landed her in trouble with the cops....
LOVING MOM: VICK'S MY DAWG
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Michael Vick may have hit rock bottom last week after he admitted to his part in a brutal dogfighting ring, his own father ratted him out...
A BIG UNEASY AS THREAT OF NEW DISASTER LOOMS OVER NEW ORLEANS
Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in United States history, was also a warning shot. Right after the tragedy, many people expressed a defiant resolve to rebuild the city. But among...
HE WAS JUST PLANE NUTS
A deranged airline passenger gave his fellow travelers a mid-air fright yesterday when he ran to the back of a New York-bound jet and tried to rip open the exit...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Two people were held up at gunpoint in Central Park early yesterday, police said. The thief approached the victims, a man and woman both 25 years old, shortly before...
A MONSTER HIT
SEATTLE - Mel Brooks flipped the switches on his latest creation here, inject ing life into his new Broadway-bound musical, "Young Frankenstein." The Monster's off the table, singing, dancing and...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 116; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 4448; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 838; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 7708;...
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...
GET YOUR TRIGGER FINGERS READY
THE upcoming Labor Day weekend means hunters throughout the area will turn their attention to ducks, geese and other types of waterfowl. From September goose hunting across the state to...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Team USA cruises In Las Vegas, the United States turned up the defense and turned away Canada. The Americans held the Canadians to two field goals in a dominant...
IF YOU CAN'T GET GATES - WAIT!
YOU CAN count on one finger how many tight ends should be taken before you fill your starting key starting spots. That's one for the entire league. Antonio Gates is...
HONDO GOES TRIBALISTIC
Hondo bounced back from Friday night's small disaster with the Rangers, breezing with the Bosawx yesterday to increase the wad to 110 maldonados. Today, he expects Carmona to rev the...
MICHAEL'S CHOICE
* Can we please stop saying Michael Vick made a mistake? How can you call an action you repeatedly make for six years a mistake? It was a choice: a...
'SPUN' WINS A HARD ONE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - In an incredible display of courage, Hard Spun, cutting back to seven furlongs after contesting all three Triple Crown races and the Haskell, dug in after being...
WASN'T EASY FOR 'STREET'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - David fought Goliath yesterday at the Old Spa, and Goliath won. In a desperate duel to the wire, Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, heavily favored at 1-5,...
THE RUMBLE
SCOOTER'S SPECIAL SENDOFF NEWER PAL'S MASS CARD WAS FROM HEART We'll all miss Phil Rizzuto - especially John Pennisi, who befriended Phil, Cora and daughters Patty and Penny several years...
A MAHAN FOR ALL REASONS
An epiphany in the form of some serious tough love might end up being the reason Hunter Mahan goes on to win The Barclays today at Westchester Country Club. It's...
MICKELSON NEEDS TO GO LOW TO HAVE A SHOT TODAY
Phil's looking for a Mickelson Miracle. That means a return today to the old, wild style that first won him fans, if not majors. He's still aiming at capturing The...
STRICKER'S IN POSITION AGAIN
Steve Stricker, who owns the lead at 14-under-par entering today' final round of The Barclays after shooting a 6-under-par 65 yesterday, has been here before. He's been in the final...
FOUR-WEEK GRIND IS ATHLETIC TEST FOR WORLD'S BEST
FORGOTTEN amid the talk of the $10 million annuity, the points standings, and whether or not it should be considered "The Playoffs," the FedEx Cup also is an endurance test...
RETURN OF THE RUNNER
What's become of that marquee position known as running back? It wasn't so long ago that having a premier back was a requisite for being a championship contender. Now? The...
TROJANS HAVE THE HORSES
Maybe it's in our nation's DNA. Ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, we've been pushing west. If it wasn't land, it was gold. If it wasn't gold, it...
THE POST'S TOP 25
1. USC (11-2, beat Michigan 32-18 in Rose) Coach: Pete Carroll, 65-12 in six seasons Star: LB Keith Rivers Stat: Trojans have nine highly recruited players at RB. Key game:...
DRUNKEN LOUTS NOT WELCOME
WHO says NFL preseason stats mean nothing? Try these on: After their first home preseason game, attended by no more than 40,000, the Browns announced that there had been 86...
THANKS, TIGER
TIGER Woods is the one receiving all the grief this weekend for being somewhere other than the place where professional golf's brass and cognoscenti want him to be: in Westchester...
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...
ELI DOESN'T HAVE RIGHT TO TORCH TIKI
* Giants quarterback Eli Manning does not have the standing to criticize former teammate Tiki Barber, but Barber has more than enough standing to criticize Manning. Manning still has to...
A GIANT START
The Giants dominated on the field but not on the scoreboard last night while their starters were in action against the Jets. It was a 12-6 Giants lead at halftime...
IT'S TIME TO WORRY
A YEAR ago, to employ a boxing analogy for the benefit of Eric Mangini, the Jets were Cinderella Men. A rookie head coach, a fragile, surgically armed quarterback forced to...
CALENDAR NOT ON INDECISIVE STRAHAN'S SIDE
Unless multiple sources claiming to know Michael Strahan's intentions are all wrong, the gone-but-not-forgotten Giants defensive end will finally end his holdout and return to work this week. If Strahan...
WAGNER BEGS OFF PITCHING
In what could become an alarming situation, Billy Wagner told the Mets he wouldn't be pitching yesterday against the Dodgers at Shea Stadium and wouldn't guarantee he'd be able to...
DAVID TO ALL WOULD-BE MRS. WRIGHTS:
David Wright remains the Prince of the City. At the age of 24, he is enjoying all the glitz and glamour New York has to offer. His Mets are in...
'EL' OF A GAME BY DUQUE, DELGADO
The brilliance has been almost uninterrupted for a while now. Orlando Hernandez simply keeps doing it. Every start and practically every inning. El Duque continues to pitch like the Mets'...
IT'S NOT OFFICIAL, BUT NL EAST RACE IS OVER
MEMO to Jimmy Rollins: The best team won. Yes, it's still the dog days of August and the Mets have to travel to beautiful Philadelphia tomorrow, but the NL East...
FINALLY SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT
The Shea Stadium crowd of 52,655 rose to its feet in the fifth inning yesterday for an ovation that was as much a plea as it was a cheer. Once...
SERENA A THUMBS-UP
Serena Williams flashed the thumbs-up yesterday when asked about the injured finger that has kept her out of tennis since Wimbledon. It was the most indicative sign Williams is ready...
CONTRERAS CONTROLS JOBA RULES
DETROIT - The Joba Rules may change, but if they do it will come from organizational pitching guru Nardi Contreras and nobody else. The Rules state that the 21-year-old Joba...
MORNING GORY
DETROIT - Looking for somebody to blame for the Yankees-Tigers game starting at 11:06 Friday night, 4 hours and 1 minute late? Try MLB offices at 245 Park Avenue, New...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Yankees' rookie slugger about growing up in a baseball family, life in the big city and a few of his favorite things: Q:...
JOE'S BITTER AFTERTASTE
THE Yankees have committed so thoroughly to young arms that even within the sweltering oven that is a pennant race, they have devised and are living by the restrictive Joba...
YANKEES PULL A FAST WANG
DETROIT - The Yankees will go as far as Chien-Ming Wang takes them. With Andy Pettitte in the middle of a scintillating second-half string of dominance, it's up to Wang...
DAMON REDISCOVERS HIS JOY
DETROIT - For much of this season it ap peared as if Johnny Damon's pilot light had gone out. His career had been fueled by enthusiasm, a looseness and a...
LEGEND IN OUR MIDST
Roger Federer and Tiger Woods sat in the small men's locker room at Flushing Meadows last September, sharing a bottle of champagne, savoring their greatness. Federer has just won his...
GAME, SET & MATCH: MARIA SHARAPOVA
The Post's Marc Berman poses 10 questions you've always wanted to ask the reigning U.S. Open women's champion: Other than tennis and shopping, what do you enjoy doing most? Maria:...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Two belligerent parents in Mt. Olive, W.Va., have been charged with forcing their daughter to fight another girl. Debra Sue and Thomas Grubb were charged with assault and battery after...
MEET MARKET
Whether she's doing karaoke in Koreatown or plugged into her iPod on the subway - it's all the same to Lauren. "I have a disease in which I know all...
DATE-BY-NUMBERS
FOR Josh, a 30-year-old graphic design graduate student who lives for concerts and Coney Island, it's all about the unconventional. However, his date with Marne, a 25-year-old jewelry designer whom...
GHOSTS (OR NOT) OF PREPPY'S PAST
'SUPER Preppy always has a beautiful lady with him," an older gentleman observes as the two of us mingle with the blue-jacket, gold-button set. We're away for the weekend again,...