October 25, 2007
Live bait in Fish backfield
Halloween came early for the Dolphins, as their petrifying season took another terrible turn last week.With RB Ronnie Brown lost for the year with a knee injury, the only fantasy...
more problems
As I sit here writing this, I'm still trying to shake off the litany of angry e-mails I've received for having the audacity to support Chad Pennington when everyone out...
Scene
Sarah Cho bought her cute cropped mustard jacket from a San Francisco area boutique called Tulle, highlighted with a neck scarf and Ferragamo bag."I'm usually kind of casual. I like...
Knicks 6th, Nets 9th
By FRED KERBEREveryone is entitled to their opinions.Even whacky ones. The "Sports Illustrated" NBA preview issue places the Nets out of the playoff running and in ninth place in the...
Deal of the Day
The season of layering is upon us, so it's important to get your weights and proportions right to avoid looking like the Michelin Man or that looped old broad who...
Starr Report
Back in a 'Big' way. Elisabeth Rohm returns to series TV tonight with a four-part story arc on ABC's "Big Shots" - her first series appearance since leaving "Law &...
The New Season: Killer Buzz
Box office cashiers have had plenty of time to text message, or whatever it is bored teens do these days, since Labor Day. It sure looks like this will be...
Nichols is cut
By MARC BERMANIt's over for Demetris Nichols. The Knicks just announced their cuts today and Nichols, as expected, is gone. I couldn't help but laugh at seeing all the comments...
A Change of Pace
A good start doesn't necessarily imply a good finish. Look at the Mets. Also, making it into the post-season alone doesn't mean a championship awaits. Look at the Yankees.While resorting...
UPDATE: Big Bird goes all commercial
After years (years!) of anticipation, world's largest tin bird (the Airbus A380) ever lands in Sydney, ending its first genuine passenger flight. (Well, sort of - seats on board were...
Scoop! Kaufman L.I. City Studios
The first movie I ever got blurbed in an ad for -- way back in 1981, kids -- was "Squeeze Play,'' a softcore, softball-themed update of "Lysistrata'' set in a...
TAXICABS - YOUR OWN PERSONAL LIMO
New York City is known for its taxicabs. We love them and loathe them, but we can't live without them. WHAT exactly is a taxi? It's a vehicle that transports...
BOO WHO?
LEONAS and diapers and big hair, oh my! Ditch that run-of-the-mill cheerleader costume and gangster get-up for something a little more au courant this Halloween. From war-mongering despots to self-destructive...
DANCING INTO THE PAST
GEORGE Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Jerome Robbins - a choreographic roll call of the first Golden Age of American classic dance was recalled to duty for Tuesday's opening gala of...
HAUTE LIST
LOVE a bargain? It's your lucky day. Lucky magazine's annual Lucky Shops event starts tomorrow at the Metropolitan Pavilion. You'll need a ticket to get in - available online at...
DAZZLING BLEND OF EROTIC, HYPNOTIC, AQUATIC
IN "Fuerzabruta" - the latest extravaganza from creators of the hit "De La Guarda" - the audience is not only forced to stand, but is also periodically herded through the...
STARR REPORT
Back in a 'Big' way Elisabeth Rohm returns to series TV tonight with a four- part story arc on ABC's "Big Shots" - her first series ap pearance since leaving...
PSST! GOT '24'?
FANS of "24" will get a sneak- peek at the show's upcoming season - both today in Times Square and tonight during the World Series. Call it a Jack Bauer...
WOMEN'S 'PRISON'
'PRISON Break" is spinning off in a decidedly different direction. The Fox drama will be the springboard for "Prison Break: Cherry Hill," which will be set in a women's prison,...
NEWS UP FROM FIRE
THE California wildfires are TV news' biggest story in a long while, and ratings are beginning to show it. Tuesday's special edition of "20/20" about the fires, anchored by Charlie...
ISRAEL MAY DROP CNN
CNN might be dropped by Israel's biggest cable company and replaced by - are you ready for this? - Al-Jazeera. Negotiations have been heated between Atlanta-based CNN International and the...
'GOSSIP' GUY
AS illogical as it may seem, the breakout star of the CW's new series "Gossip Girl" is not a girl at all. Actually, it's a guy - Penn Badgley. "He's...
HELMER'S HORROR
IN some ways, Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma and the creator of "The Toxic Avenger," is the Rodney Dangerfield of New York filmmakers. On one hand, his string of low-budget,...
RETURN OF THE CALORIE COPS
Undaunted by their loss in federal court, city health officials are pressing ahead with a new plan to force fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts. The new proposals would mandate...
'ALIEN' LICENSE PLAN HITS A NEW POTHOLE
ALBANY - Problems with scanners to be used to verify documents from illegal aliens applying for driver's licenses threaten to undermine Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan. Recent testing by the Department...
INSIDE THE MOB PLOT TO KILL RUDY
The bosses of New York's five Mafia families in the mid-1980s came a hair-trigger away from sanctioning a hit on then-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, according to bombshell FBI records made...
S.I. CEASE-POOL
Some Staten Island neighborhoods still don't have sewers - a situation that Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday would be remedied with $35 million in the Annadale section. The installation is scheduled...
AXES OF GOOD
The pint-sized, ax- wielding Long Island shop clerk who chased a gun man out of her family's convenience store is a chip off the old chop ping block - her...
GOV TIGHTENS GAS CAP ON POWER PLANTS
Gov. Spitzer shined a light on global warming yesterday - unveiling draft regulations to cut power-plant greenhouse-gas emissions in the region by over 15 percent. As part of the Regional...
COMPTROLLERS TELL BANKS TO LEND A HAND
Local banks and mortgage companies must reach out to financially shaky homeowners and tighten lending rules to keep New York foreclosures from spiraling out of control, the state and city...
DRY-CLEAN KILLER GUILTY
The triggerman in a Queens payroll heist that left a dry-cleaning executive fatally shot was convicted yesterday. It was the second trial in Queens Supreme Court for Denworth Davidson, after...
BET HE SAYS IT'S A FRAME
The feds painted a New Jersey man a thief yesterday, charging him with snatching a masterpiece Goya painting off the back of a truck last year. FBI agents arrested Steven...
PREPPY KILLER: I WANTED TO BE GOOD
Preppy Killer Robert Chambers said yesterday he tried to turn his life around after getting out of prison for slaying Jennifer Levin, and doesn't know why he is now in...
NOW FACE 'TICS' OFF JUDGE
A Bronx judge who admonished an openly gay lawyer for dancing "in a flamboyant nature" in the courtroom lashed out at the co-counsel yesterday for allegedly making facial gestures. Judge...
FARE HIKE ON A FAST TRACK
The MTA is working hard to make sure the fare hikes run on time. Elected officials and transit advocates have pleaded with the agency to delay next year's planned fare...
HELP US SWAT SUPERBUG: CITY
The city's Board of Health is proposing that laboratories begin reporting every case of the superbug to city health officials. Recently there have been outbreaks of MRSA, short for methicillin-resistant...
BILLIONAIRE GAVE TEEN A 'LICKING': SUIT
The case of the insane, drug-addicted, transgendered model wannabe, who's suing the billionaire moneyman with an alleged penchant for underage girls and a sculpture of dog feces in his Upper...
I TAPED GALS UNDRESSING: PERV LAWYER
He groveled for mercy. He was "stupid," he admitted. "Creepy," even. But the plea failed to convince a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to dismiss the charge, and now peeping-Tom Legal...
KILLER-COP FURY
The grieving fiancée of an unarmed man shot to death by an off-duty cop blasted the officer yesterday for not identifying himself before firing during the road-rage confrontation. "All you...
ACTOR, 89, KILLED IN UPPER E. SIDE HIT-RUN
Every night after quaffing a glass of red wine, veteran stage and film actor Alan Stevenson would buy a cup of coffee for his doorman. At 2:30 a.m. yesterday, as...
COLUMBIA 'TORTURER' IS SANE & RAZOR-SHARP
He's officially fit for trial - but the homeless ex-con charged with raping and torturing a Columbia grad student has been less than a model prisoner. Accused sadist Robert Williams...
DAY THE DON GOT CLIPPED
Fifty years ago today, Albert Anastasia, the most ruthless killer in Mafia history, was dispatched to that great Sitdown in the Sky by two button men as he sat in...
SCHOOLGIRL SIN
A saucy senior at a prestigious Catholic girls' high school in the Bronx has rocked the 152-year-old academy by turning her talents toward something more modern: online gangsta porn. The...
WOMAN SET ABLAZE IN B'KLYN
An argument in a Brooklyn housing project hallway turned deadly last night after a woman was set on fire when flames shot out of an incinerator, which had been doused...
NOW & GWEN
A glamorous Gwen Stefani looks as if she just stepped off a music video shoot as she struts out of the Waverly Inn. The sultry songbird appeared in good spirits...
KURD KABOOM
Turkish warplanes bombed and destroyed several Kurdish militant bases inside northern Iraq yesterday as the undeclared border war escalated sharply, officials said. Turkish officials were weighing whether to carry out...
STRESS MESS IN U.S.
We're stressed out, we can't sleep, we're drinking too much - and it's getting worse. Forty-eight percent of Americans say they're more stressed now than they were five years ago,...
CLINTON ROMPS
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is dominating her Democratic rivals in a new poll, seizing a 31-point lead over Barack Obama, while getting strong support for her decision to stick with...
MCCAIN'S NEW AD HITS HIPPIE HILL
John McCain unveiled a TV ad yesterday that uses hippie scenes from the 1969 Woodstock festival to blast Hillary Rodham Clinton for trying to steer $1 million in federal funds...
RED-MENACE RAID ON CONDI
WASHINGTON - Unflappable Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice kept her cool yesterday as a frightening war protester with "bloody" hands menacingly confronted her before a congressional hearing. "The blood of...
ARSON FIENDS ADD TO AGONY
A mammoth fire that engulfed million-dollar homes in the ritzy hills of Orange County was set by one or more arsonists, authorities said yesterday. FBI arson investigators and Orange County...
PRINCESS OF POLITE SUES BORAT
An Alabama etiquette expert who was pranked in the hit "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" is suing the bad-mannered moviemakers. Kathie Martin wants...
SATIN DOLL JEN AN INDIGO-GO GIRL
Hot mama Jennifer Garner, who's been chasing her little Violet around the city, is a portrait of shimmering blue elegance in the pages of Gotham magazine. Garner and her Broadway...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A thug beat, robbed and tried to sexually assault a young woman on a Sunset Park street, cops said yesterday. He walked up to the 24-year-old just before 9...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 793; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 0306; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 586; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 5121;...
ELIOT'S MIRACLE MACHINES
Just last Friday, Gov. Spitzer hung a plea for his dubious drivers-li censes-for-terrorists plan on the claim that it would impose "the strictest set of security measures" in America. Oops....
CONGRESS' PORK-POURI
Here's a dog-bites-man story: Demo crats, who took over Congress prom ising to plug the hole Republicans had tapped in the federal treasury, are instead using their power to drill...
PITIFUL IN PINK
Sometimes you just can't ignore them - but Condoleezza Rice came pretty darn close. The secretary of State was about to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday morning...
CHUCK'S SLAP AT ELIOT
SEN. Chuck Schumer isn't known for holding his tongue, but on the subject of Gov. Spitzer's plan to issue driver's licenses to undocumented New Yorkers, he's been practically mute. Asked...
MAKING TAXES SIMPLER & FAIRER
WASHINGTON has long been a city overflowing with good intentions and, ultimately, bad results. The latest example is the Alternative Minimum Tax, or AMT -Washington's most recent evidence for Will...
ABORTION WAR'S NEWEST FRONT
NATIONAL anti-abor tion leaders yesterday put finishing touches on a letter to be sent to all members of Congress urging suspension of more than $300 million in federal funding of...
FIRED UP IN POLAND OVER POPE'S 'PICTURE'
THE ISSUE: Kyle Smith's skepticism over a parish's visions of late Pope John Pual II in a bonfire. While Kyle Smith certainly has a good sense of humor, he obviously...
LOWER STANDARDS = CORRUPT COPS
THE ISSUE: A police report that shows a rise in crimes commiteed by cops last year. Over the last few years, the New York Police Department has done nothing to...
LYNCH PINNED
The breathtaking third-quarter loss that Merrill Lynch reported yesterday due to its problematic portfolio of loans and securities isn't likely to be the final chapter in what is proving to...
RUMORS FLYING ON NEW CEO
Merrill Lynch's dismal earnings report yesterday fueled speculation across Wall Street about possible replacements for battered Stanley O'Neal. Mother Merrill has typically pulled people from inside its own ranks, but...
WHO'S THE FED CHAIRMAN TALKING WITH NOW?
I wonder who Ben Ber nanke is talking with this week? Ben is apparently a very sociable sort of guy and he doesn't seem reluctant to hold meetings and phone...
PECKER AIMS FOR A MERGER
High-level merger talkNs are underway between American Media Inc. and Ron Burkle's Source Interlink Cos. and the two sides could be close to inking a deal, sources told The Post....
MICROSOFT EXCELS
In agreeing to invest $240 million in Facebook, Microsoft did something yesterday it hasn't done in some time: Beat Google. As The Post first reported, Microsoft and Google went right...
TRIBUNE CO.'S LOSS IS ACTUALLY A GAIN
Tribune Co.'s $8.2 billion buyout backed by real estate mogul Sam Zell got a step closer to getting done after the Chicago media conglomerate posted better-than-expected quarterly results. Profit fell...
D'OH!LANS FLOP
The Red Hot Chili Peppers once sang, "Walk away and taste the pain," and for Cablevision shareholders the lyric could not be more appropriate. After the founding Dolan family's stinging...
GROWTH WORRIES SKEWER AMAZON
On second thought, investors aren't quite so bullish on Amazon.com's third-quarter results after all. Despite quadrupling profits and reporting a 41 percent jump in revenue on Tuesday, analysts' concerns over...
SALLIE DEAL'S ALIVE
Sallie Mae and New York billionaire J. Christopher Flowers have come to an agreement that allows the student loan provider to continue operating without oversight from Flowers while they battle...
JUDGE DENIES MICHAEL SKAKEL NEW TRIAL
Convicted murderer Michael Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, who is serving 20 years to life for bludgeoning to death his 15-year-old neighbor Martha Moxley with a golf club, was...
PREPPY KILLER SHOWN WITH DRUGS IN PICTURES
Cops say they've got him dead to rights. This is Preppy Killer Robert Chambers seen in two video stills taken from a police surveillance camera. It's not clear when this...
ROBERT CHAMBERS PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO DRUG CHARGES
Wearing the same rumpled, filthy clothes that he was arrested in, Preppy killer Robert Chambers pleaded not guilty to drug charges in Manhattan State Supreme court today. Justice Charles Solomon...
HOME SWEET HOME INSIDE FOOD-FEST GURU
YOU can take Lee Brian Schrager out of New York, but you can't take New York out of Schrager. The founder of the Food Network's extraordinarily popular South Beach Wine...
KROFT SPACE
Steve Kroft and his family are ditching the controversial Apthorp rental after buying a co-op apartment a few blocks away. The "60 Minutes" correspondent and his journalist/author wife, Jennet Conant,...
GREEN STREAK
It has all the earmarks of a disaster flick: Something big and green is out there - and it's spreading like primordial ooze. But this big green thing engulfing New...
FOLLOW MY LEED
LATELY, the real-estate world has been tossing around the term "LEED-certified" like it threw around "loft-style living" a few years ago. Which raises the question: What does LEED certification really...
DREAM HOMES
Saddle River, N.J. $4.65 million Looking for a "country retreat" with "Hamptons-style architecture" that's only about 30 miles from Manhattan? Have we got the place for you. This newly constructed...
BETTING THE FARM
Kerry Potter-Kotecki is your typical suburban mom. She chauffeurs her three children to sports and dance classes, does bookkeeping for husband Leon's construction business and tends to her old Rockland...
ON THE MARKET
WESLEYHILLS 3-BR COLONIAL: $1.3M Property includes 3.66 acres (enough space for up to three horses) with a main house and three cottages. Agent: Carole Novick Realty, (845) 638-1600RAMAPO 2-PLUS-BR: $550,000...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Chelsea $1.949 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,850 Maintenance: $1,239 Housed inside the "fabulous" Jensen Lewis Building on 15th Street, this co-op loft boasts 14-foot vaulted ceilings, lots...
HOT-BLOODED
I'M still wearing shorts and the landlord has put the heat on - the temperature is unbearable in my apartment. How can I get the building to turn down the...
GARDEN PARTY
GIVE a city boy land, and he thinks he's a farmer. Where I saw a weed-choked patch of hostile earth, my husband envisioned a fertile field for growing organic fruits...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan SUTTON PLACE $725,000 333 E. 53rd St. Prewar one-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 700 square feet, with renovated windowed kitchen, renovated bath and planted terrace; building features doorman, roof deck, gym,...
MOD SQUAD
Gone are the days when the words "modular home" conjure images of trailer parks and mobile homes. Forget those vinyl-sided ranches, plopped down indiscriminately on tracts of land, each one...
THERE'S LIVE BAIT IN FISH BACKFIELD
HALLOWEEN came early for the Dolphins, as their petrifying season took another terrible turn last week. With RB Ronnie Brown lost for the year with a knee injury, the only...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Thomas may miss Giants game Linebacker Zach Thomas might not make the Dolphins' trip to London because he was in a minor car accident last weekend. "There's potential for...
CUP FEVER IN MIDTOWN
Breeders' Cup Limited and New York City OTB have teamed up to sponsor the Times Square Racing Pavilion, where racing fans will be able to watch and wager on all...
BEAN BALL FOR HONDO
Rudy's Red Sox came through for Hondo last night, steamrolling the Rockies to reduce the deficit to 20 wambsgansses. Tonight, Mr. Aitch will stick with Boston for 10 units, and...
AS 'DOGS, CAL CAN!
THEY haven't garnered the accolades of the other undefeated schools. And that's hard to do. Think about it, when unheralded Boston College, Kansas, heck, even Hawaii, can win a national-recognition...
HOKIES' CHANCE TO TANGO WITH '2'
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The most important story of this season - the one that will be remembered here long after Appalachian State's shocking upset of Michigan and Stanford's stunning win...
EURO BUREAU
OCEANPORT, N.J. - It rained at Monmouth Park yesterday, hard at times. More rain is expected, raising the prospect of an off-track for the Breeders' Cup World Championships' three races...
CRY AND CATCH ME SCRATCHED
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Bob Baffert's 2-year-old filly Cry and Catch Me, coming off a victory in the Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita, was scratched from the Juvenile Fillies...
FORGET DISCRETION, 'CAT' THE FAVE
OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Breeders' Cup has included the Mile on turf since its inception in 1984. But many American dirt runners, for whom the six-furlong Sprint was too short...
SPOTLIGHT ON BAFFERT
OCEANPORT, N.J. - It's been five years since the mercurial trainer Bob Baffert played a winning hand in the Breeders' Cup, but with a pinch of luck he could end...
HOYAS, CARDS RANK AS BIG EAST FAVES
When the wrecking ball known as the ACC finished pulverizing the Big East, one question flashed like a rescue beacon: How were the non big-time football playing members of the...
ROCKIE HORROR PITCHER SHOW
BOSTON - A staggering 23 Red Sox reached base last night before five innings were over. Dustin Pedroia, Boston's leadoff man, went to the plate five times in the first...
BOSTON NOW OWNS OCTOBER SWAGGER
BOSTON - Maybe now you know. Maybe now it makes sense. Maybe now you can see why there was such a backlash built against the Yankees back in the day,...
SOX ADJUST TO LEFTY-HEAVY 'PEN
BOSTON - The Rockies have enough lefty relievers to prompt the Red Sox to alter their lineup. In ALCS Games 6 and 7, the Red Sox's bottom four hitters were,...
BULL'S-EYE ON GOMEZ
Heads up, Fester. Brent Sutter sounds as if he thinks the left-behind should resent Scott Gomez's defection, and that he wouldn't mind someone smearing him tonight, even if just for...
OSI'S HOME GAME
As the only British citizen playing for the Giants, it would be natural to expect Osi Umenyiora to serve as tour guide this weekend for this unprecedented international football game...
FEELY IS DOLPHINS' CAN'T-MISS KID
The Giants during their five-game winning streak have not been blessed with strong production from kicker Lawrence Tynes, who has hit 10 of his 12 field-goal attempts, which is not...
CHAD NEWS BEARS
Like it or not, Jets fans, Chad Pennington is still your starting quarterback. Coach Eric Mangini, stepping slightly out of character and quelling the "Pennington or Kellen Clemens" chatter that's...
VILMA DONE FOR YEAR?
There is growing concern inside the Jets that linebacker Jonathan Vilma, a captain and leader of the defense, might be lost for an extended period - possibly the season -...
REG HINTS: GET STERN ON ZEKE
TNT's Reggie Miller, who played for Isiah Thomas in Indiana, took a whack at his former coach last night and seemed to call for NBA Commissioner David Stern to discipline...
ZACH VOWS 'SURPRISE' FOR KNICKS
For the last three seasons in Portland, Zach Randolph was on the same depressing "golf course" as the Knicks. With most prognosticators feeling the Knicks are only the fourth best...
KNEE WOES SLOW COLLINS
Mardy Collins said he isn't worried about being passed by Nate Robinson and Fred Jones in the Knicks' guard rotation. He can't say the same thing about his balky left...
KIDD PUTS SMILES ON NETS' FACES
Lawrence Frank couldn't help but notice. Many of his Nets walked off the court after a hard practice with smiles and a couple expletives to express a pleasant disbelief. Yup,...
IT'S TONY'S TURN IN YANKS' SEARC
TAMPA, Fla. - After three extensive days of interviewing Joe Girardi, Don Mattingly and Tony Pena for the job of Yankees manager, GM Brian Cashman could present the Steinbrenner family...
GIRARDI: I HAD 'GREAT INTERVIEW'
If Joe Girardi thinks he's going to become the Yankees' manager in the coming days, he's keeping it to himself. "It was a great interview (Monday)," Girardi said last night...
ALL THREE MADE STRONG PITCH
TAMPA, Fla. - Judging by Hank Steinbrenner's comments about the way Joe Girardi, Don Mattingly and Tony Pena interviewed this week for Joe Torre's former job as Yankees manager, you...
TORRE'S SUCCESSOR GETTING GOOD TEAM
BOSTON - Hank Steinbrenner really needs to stop talking publicly or he really needs to begin saying stuff that is not, well, dumb. Yesterday on the way into Legends Field,...
YANKEES TO CHOOSE NEW MANAGER
Yankee management is meeting right now to determine whether Joe Girardi or Don Mattingly will be the team's next manager. Asked this afternoon if they had made a decision, Hank...
CASH'S CALL
Brian Cashman is deciding a job right now, and it is his as much as that of Yankees manager. His superiors, notably Hank and Hal Steinbrenner and team president Randy...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Florida burglar got caught between a rock and a hard place when he tumbled down an airshaft and was stuck for 10 hours. Jeffrey Mumani allegedly was trying to...
As Zach attacks, Curry disappears
By MARC BERMANIsiah Thomas wouldnât answer the question but he rarely answers questions nowadays â in as dark a mood with the media as Iâve ever seen.Eddy Curry and Zach...
Tell it to 'Sweeney'
One Steve Biodrowski, former L.A. correspondent for Cinefastique magazine and now its webmaster, somehow found himself at a focus-group screening of "Sweeney Todd,'' which he claims is finished except for...