November 7, 2007
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
WHAT: The Fall 2007 collection, straight from the Twinkle runway, plus equally whimsical Twinkle Living home collection, selling at up to 70% off.Intricate handknit chunky sweaters retail for $340, now...
Oscar Watch: Naked Viggo Grabs for that Naked Gold Guy
A couple of weeks ago, I speculated about flatlining fall releases that might be rushed out on DVD before year's end to revive their Oscar chances. Neither "In the Valley...
Scene
Aya Kanai, works for Nylon. She is wearing Alexander Wang's green coat with a Cacharel sweater and a Miu Miu puffed skirt."I like to wear big things with small things,...
Deal of the Day
Need a breezy black top to throw over jeans but still look like you're wearing more than just any old cotton shirt?Check out this Mike and Chris Barnaby Top in...
Ohmigosh, this could get ugly
Weâre not ready to claim the writers strike will destroy our quality primetime entertainment. (No âTwo and a Half Menâ?!? Perish the thought.) But if the last writers strike is...
Heidi Launches 'Project Runway'
The Post had a front-row seat to Heidi Klum's fashion show preview for "Project Runway" yesterday in Lincoln Center Plaza. The 15 new designers of Season 4 each put together...
OCD Archives: The Reeler 'Loses' It
Glad to see someone shares my minor obsession with "Losin' It,'' a 1983 teen sex/road comedy with Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley and a pre "Risky Business'' Tom Cruise. On...
Starr Report
Its release is somewhat relevant with the current writers strike entering its third day today. Back in 1988, when the last writers strike paralyzed late-night TV, Carson began writing his...
Oscar Watch: 'Gangstergate'
On Sunday, I linked toSusannah Cahalan's interview with Richie Roberts, the former cop and prosecutor who Russell Crowe plays in the hugely successful "American Gangster.'' Roberts had some beefs with...
Mosleys Give Cotto No Chance
Miguel Cotto defends his welterweight championship against four-time world champion Shane Mosley Saturday night at the Garden. HBO Pay-Per-View. Here's the latest... Team Mosley was exuding confidence during its media...
NEW PEOPLE, OLD STRUGGLES
Our series Immigration - The Story of America's People, continues. IN the 1800s and early 1900s, many immigrants may have come here intending to eventually return home. But most of...
COMPOSING A CLASSIC
I graduated from Stein way Junior High School in Astoria, Queens, but I've never been inside the nearby piano factory featured in this delightful documentary beginning a two-week run today...
'ROAD' GETS ON THE SHOW
IT'S the Dead Sea Scroll of the Beat Generation: the 119-foot-long sheet of paper on which Jack Kerouac - during a highly caffeinated three weeks in 1951 - typed his...
HAUNTING 'MURDERS' IS A TELLING TALE
SQUEAMISH souls, relax: The killings in Adrienne Kennedy's "Ohio State Murders" aren't depicted onstage. This lyrical memory play by the acclaimed dramatist, which has never before been given a full...
THEY WANT IT ALBA
JESSICA Alba may be following in Madonna's footsteps. The sexy star of "The Fantastic Four" is being courted to star in a Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" in the...
STARR REPORT
The write stuff? There's a new (and quite elaborate) DVD set out called "Heeere's Johnny: The De finitive DVD Collection" covering Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" years. Its release is some...
MADE FOR EACH OTHER
WHAT happens when a no-win network meets a no-win sit uation? Maybe for once it won't be the same old shtick. I'm talking about the proposed marriage between MSNBC, which...
HEIDI ANXIETY
VIVACIOUS Heidi Klum threw a public fashion show yesterday to kick off the new season of "Project Runway." The popular Bravo reality show starts its new season next week. So...
'PLANET' DUMPS NYC PET POLICE
ANIMAL Planet's oldest series about a controversial branch of the ASPCA's law enforcement arm appears to have been put to sleep. "Animal Precinct," the 6-year-old series that tailed cops working...
OPRAH, 'DWTS' HIT BY OZ DAD
MARIE Osmond's father George Osmond, 90, died yesterday throwing "Dancing with the Stars" into a tizzy - again. Osmond, who is survived by 55 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren, died of...
THAT DERN 'RECOUNT'
LAURA Dern turned heads in Tallahassee this week, dressed for her role as Katherine Harris, the former Florida Secretary of State, in HBO's new movie, "Recount." Filming got underway on...
WHAT THE TRUFFLE?
IT'S white truffle season again, and all those people out there who don't put anything in their mouths that costs less than a used car are in luck. It's no...
TRUFF TALK
DON'T understand why diners would pay an extra $120 to have fungus shaved on their pasta? Get in line. But to white truffle aficionados, the answer is easy. "It's a...
BULLISH ON THE MARKET
BLT Market makes you glad New York's great French-born chefs like Laurent Tourondel managed to laugh off the post-9/11 "freedom fries" lunacy. His new restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton pulls off...
MEAN EATS
EATING "local" is the thing du jour at swish restaurants - but how local are these touted heirloom tomatoes and earthy chanterelles? They can be from as far as 100...
YO HOMEY!
MAYOR Bloomberg is famous for - among other things - intimate dinner parties in his Upper East Side townhouse. An evening with Mike might mean 10 or 12 at the...
TOP 25 INFLUENTIALS
Whether brokering multi-million dollar deals, setting the fashion world on fire or creating shows that capture the nation's imagination, one thing is clear - these 25 New York Latinos have...
BEN THERE, DONE THAT
BENJAMIN Bratt - father of 5-year-old Sofia and 2-year-old Mateo - has acquired a brand new skill: "I can almost change diapers with one hand," chuckles the hunky actor. "But...
A FREE SPIRIT
Alejandra Alberti's road to a Latin Grammy nomination reads like a musical fairy tale. The 23-year-old college student got kicked around for several years by major labels as she shopped...
RING OF TRUTH
With the most important bout of his career around the corner, 27-year-old Miguel Cotto is doing what you'd expect a Generation Y athlete to do on his day off. He's...
FROM DUSK 'TIL DON
WHEN supermarket cashier Vanessa Rodriguez heard that Don Omar was being interviewed for this story in a West Harlem eatery around the corner from where she works, she hurried over...
DUBIOUS GRAMMYS
If you're a Spanish-language awards show and desperately want people to tune in, what do you do? You nominate Beyoncé for an award! So what if she's not Latina? Is...
SCHUMER STANDS TALL
Sen. Chuck Schumer herewith gets an attaboy for his support for Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination to replace departed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Mukasey was well-received at his Senate Judiciary Committee...
MEASURING MUSHARRAF
The world got another reminder (as if it needed one) of the greater Middle East's volatility this weekend with President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan....
MAYOR BIGFOOT
Mayor Bloomberg, green as the Jolly Giant these days, was off to Seattle last week to wag a censorious finger at befoulers of the global environment. In his private jet....
MUSHARRAF'S COUP: WHAT TO DO
ONCE a paratrooper, always a paratrooper. That's how Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf could be described in the wake of his decision over the weekend to suspend the Constitution and...
THE TRUTH ON TRADE
PRESIDENT Bush urged Congress yesterday to pass four pending trade agreements, telling a White House audience that open markets boost economic growth, raise standards of living by creating higher-paying jobs...
GRADING SCHOOLS: RESULTS MATTER
MANY parents often hear their children whine about the incessant annoyance of grades - the stress, the demoralization, the disappointment. "Why can't we just be rewarded for trying our best,...
FAKING THE NEWS IN A 'GOOD' CAUSE
YOU don't have to be a Harvard University re searcher to figure out that the media is infected with liberal bias - or to realize that some left-wing journalists will...
HILL'S PATHETIC HOPE: TO BE VICTIM-IN-CHIEF
THE ISSUE: Sen. Hillary Clinton's accusations against her rival candidates of "piling on." If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton can't stand the heat, she should get back into the kitchen ("Her...
POISONOUS POLITICS IN PAKISTAN
THE ISSUE: The declared state of emergency in Pakistan and U.S. stakes in security there. If anyone thinks that the War on Terror is unnecessary, last weekend's events should prove...
BIG MACK ATTACK
Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack could become the next Wall Street bigwig to find himself on the hot seat after two analysts predicted his firm is poised to book a...
BEWKES' PAY TIED TO TIME WARNER PRICE
Time Warner is planning to tie a large portion of CEO designate Jeff Bewkes' compensation to its share price performance, The Post has learned. When details of Bewkes' pay package...
CBS NEWS GOES LOGO
CBS News is expanding its brand presence on Logo, the gay network from Viacom's MTV Networks. Starting Monday, the venerable news division launches "CBS News on Logo," a weekly half-hour...
RAY RAIDS MARTHA
IT'S now getting personal between Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart. Every Day with Rachael Ray has finally landed a new publisher for the magazine, filling a post that's been vacant...
BANDIER INKS POP HIT MAKER
Music publishing power broker Marty Bandier continues to stockpile talent at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, this time outbidding Warner Music Group's Warner Chappell Music Publishing for the rights to the song...
BOSS' GOING TO THE BEEF
FASHION house Hugo Boss plans to move into about 4,100 square feet at the former Western Beef building at 401 W. 14th St. - the same place where Apple expects...
GEFFEN THROWS RED-STONES
How's this for irony: David Geffen thinks Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone is a bully. "Redstone, he is accustomed to bullying people. And I will not be bullied," Geffen is quoted...
NASDAQ CLOSE TO DEAL FOR THE PHLX
The Nasdaq Stock Market is close to inking a deal to acquire the 218-year-old Philadelphia Stock Exchange for roughly $650 million. The tech-heavy market wants the PHLX so it can...
CITI SLACKERS
As the search sputters for replacements to take the CEO posts at headless banks Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, a couple of surprising dark horse candidates are popping up on the...
FACEBOOK MOVES TO SHAKE UP AD BIZ
After months of speculation, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage yesterday to introduce a long-awaited ad system the company needs to make real money. As expected, Facebook...
CRUDE PRIMED TO HIT CENTURY MARK
Oil could break the $100-a-barrel barrier today, fueling fears of an economy-wrecking inflation rate that could empty Christmas stockings. Crude soared past $97 a barrel yesterday, with analysts saying the...
SUBWAY TEXT PLAN WILL GIVE MORE TRAIN INFO 2U
The MTA plans to hire a firm to develop a text- message and e-mail alert system that will give riders up-to-the-minute information about service changes and disruptions, officials said yesterday....
CHARTER SCHOOLS GOING UNCHARTED
While the city graded 1,224 public schools from A to F for the first time this week, report cards for its 60 charter schools were stamped with a different mark:...
NY MAG IS OFF 'HOOK'
Lonely hearts around town won't be able to find rent-a-dates in the back pages of New York magazine anymore. The popular weekly announced yesterday it will stop accepting sex ads...
PAUL'S NEW N.Y. HONEY PIE
Lovelorn Paul McCartney is putting his lonely days behind him by rushing into the arms of a married millionaire New York businesswoman. The divorcing, legendary ex-Beatle was spotted in the...
77% CALL SPITZER PLAN A BAD ID IDEA
ALBANY - An overwhelming number of Americans oppose Gov. Spitzer's idea to give illegal aliens driver's licenses, a new Rasmussen Reports poll shows. Asked "Should we allow people who are...
GOV'S PLAN GIVES GOP ELEX BOOST UPSTATE
Upstate Republicans yesterday got an electoral lift from Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. But the issue played a lesser role on Long Island,...
DENY THIS, MIKE
ALBANY - One of the state's most prominent political figures confirmed yesterday that a top aide to Mayor Bloomberg had talked with a leading Republican strategist about Hizzoner running for...
SUBWAY LOVE AT 1ST SITE
This smitten straphanger has put his heart on the subway line. Brooklyn Heights Web designer Patrick Moberg, 21, is on a quest to track down the "girl of his dreams"...
'ID-THEFT RING' PICKS THE WRONG TARGETS - COPS
An ID-theft ring that targeted New York City cops has been busted in Westchester, police announced yesterday. The personal information of 10 NYPD officers was stolen by the thieves, who...
RAPE-DIARY DEFENSE
A Queens man convicted of raping his wife's teenage sister says the girl's diary tells a different story. Luis Gomez, 36, who faces seven years in prison at sentencing today...
COPS TAKE 2ND CRACK AT SLAY APT.
Baffled cops yesterday reinterviewed building workers and removed bags of potential evidence from the Fifth Avenue apartment of Linda Stein, the slain punk pioneer turned real estate agent to the...
RADIO-ACTIVE BOSS
Famed left-wing radio station WBAI is run by an alcoholic, coke-snorting general manager who coerced a popular female deejay into having sex with him, according to an explosive sex-harassment suit....
GIDDY DIDDY GETS SPARED PAL-SLAP RAP
His Diddyness has dodged a bullet. Prosecutors have declined to pursue criminal charges against Sean "Diddy" Combs in a nightclub slapfest with an acquaintance, Stephen Acevedo, the rap impresario's attorney,...
THE FUR FLIES ON CITY SET OF 'SEX'
Samantha of "Sex and the City" is on slippery footing with animal-rights activists. The fur-wearing sexpot played by actress Kim Cattrall is the victim of a faux-blood-splattering attack by animal...
CAR KILLS POLL WORKER, 63
A 63-year-old Brooklyn poll worker on her way to her Election Day job was killed by a speeding driver who blew a red light, police sources said. Lillian Mustapha, 63,...
'ERASER' HEAD OF THE MOB
Mafia kingpin Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico wanted to "erase" a rival to his Colombo crime-family throne when he orchestrated the man's 1999 murder, prosecutors charged yesterday. The feds leveled the...
'DOG' WHIMPERS EXCUSE: GUESS I'M NOT BLACK
It took Duane "Dog" Chapman 54 years to figure out what the world has long known - he's not black. The blond-haired bounty hunter explained last night that he thought...
TOT HURT IN FALL
A toddler was clinging to life last night after he accidentally fell out of a window of his family's Bronx apartment building, cops said. The three-year-old boy, who was not...
PAINT STAIN 'SMEAR'
Embattled art dealer Lawrence Salander blamed the alleged lies of a business partner with a "personal vendetta" for causing the collapse of the famous Salander-O'Reilly Galleries as he filed for...
BLOODY DOOM OF 'PERFECT MATCH'
When Mazoltuv Borukhova's sister introduced her to an up-and-coming orthodontist in 2000, it seemed like the perfect match. Their families lived blocks apart in Forest Hills, Queens, tied together by...
B'KLYN 14-YEAR-OLD SLAIN IN HAIL OF BULLETS
A 14-year-old Brooklyn boy was shot to death yesterday in the lobby of an apartment building, devastating his close-knit family. Jamel "Sunny" Carter was shot four times in the chest...
BRIT MUST K-FEED 120G TO EX
Kevin Federline speared $120,000 from his ex yesterday. The rapper wannabe and former Mr. Britney Spears had pleaded poverty to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge when seeking $154,500 to...
BUTT OUT, BUBBA!
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton found himself in an unusual and uncomfortable position yesterday - drawing intense fire from Democratic presidential candidates and a brushback from his wife's own campaign. Barack...
CNN'S INTRIGUING EDIT JOB SPINS SURVEY CLINTON'S WAY
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is either seeing rivals eat away at her lead, or remains the "person to beat" in the race for the presidency - depending on whether...
JUDI BARES RUDY CANCER SHOCK
Judi Giuliani told cancer-treatment advocates yesterday that her stunned husband, Rudy, had trouble accepting the news of his prostate cancer. It took him a few moments before he realized "that...
KID-MUSEUM BIG IN PERV BUST
An executive at the National Children's Museum in Washington, D.C., was busted on federal child-pornography charges after an online sting in which an NYPD detective posed as a mother and...
QUITCOMS HIT TV
Six TV sitcoms, including the Charlie Sheen hit "Two and a Half Men," ceased production yesterday, and ABC's "Desperate Housewives" will shut down today - victims of the industry's paralyzing...
DEFIANT PORN POOHBAH TO SELL AMY VID
A Los Angeles porn peddler yesterday said he's going forward with plans to sell an Amy Fisher sex tape, despite her threats to take him to court. David Joseph, CEO...
ATKINS' FAT LIP
You might lose weight with the high-fat Atkins Diet of eggs, meat and cheese - but it could put you at risk of heart disease by raising your cholesterol and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX A love-triangle murder suspect and his correction-officer girlfriend were taken into custody yesterday morning at her Allerton home after a man was shot dead in Queens, authorities said....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 405; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 3898; Lucky Sum: 28 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 284; Lucky Sum: 14; Evening Win-4 Tue.: 5131; Lucky...
FINNISH GUNMAN KILLS 8, WOUNDS 11 IN SCHOOL SHOOTING
TUUSULA, Finland -- An 18-year-old gunman killed eight people and wounded 11 at a high school in southern Finland today, then shot himself but survived, police said. It happened hours...
HEADS UP, BERNIE
Federal prosecutors are set to ask a grand jury to indict Rudy Giuliani's former police commissioner Bernard Kerik today and are preparing to unseal the charges at an arraignment Thursday....
BX. JAZZ MUSICIAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS FOR HELPING AL-QAEDA
A Bronx jazz musician and martial arts master was sentenced to 15 years behind bars on terrorism-related charges for a chilling plot to train al Qaeda recruits in hand-to-hand combat....
CHOP SHOP
A Queens bodega owner armed with a machete sliced two fingers off an armed robber yesterday, cops said. "He had a gun and I took him out," said store owner...
MCFADDEN RATES HEISMAN LOOK
HEISMAN voters can be like Christmas shoppers the day after Thanksgiving. You know, the ones who rush to the stores at 5 a.m. convinced if they don't get that G.I....
THREE MORE REPORTEDLY BOUGHT STEROIDS
The list of baseball players who allegedly acquired steroids and human growth hormone from a Florida clinic under investigation grew longer yesterday. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that documents implicate...
SEVERAL GMS LIKE THE IDEA OF REPLAYS
ORLANDO - Having instant replay for debatable home runs at least moved forward yesterday, as Major League Baseball general managers voted to pursue the idea. Thanks to the 25-5 vote,...
MOSLEY'S DAD JABS AT COTTO
If Sugar Shane Mosley is shy about calling Miguel Cotto a dirty fighter, his father and trainer Jack Mosley isn't. "I might be wrong, but looking at tapes, every time...
TURF'S UP FOR PICK 6 JACKPOT AT BIG A
A two-day Pick 6 carryover of $154,615 is up for grabs as Aqueduct begins the third week of its fall-winter meet. We'll play a $120 ticket ($2x2x5x3x1x2x1), but only if...
SPORTS SHORTS
NHL: Lindros ready to retireEric Lindros reportedly is expected to announce his retirement from the NHL today. He scored 372 goals and 865 points in 760 games during 14 injury-filled...
MATVICHUK FARMED OUT
Loyal Devils defenseman Richard Matvichuk yesterday cleared waivers and was assigned to their Lowell (Mass.) farm. Matvichuk, 34, played with a herniated disc in his back in the spring of...
BLUE DEMON
THE surging Giants will lose again, maybe even this week. Whenever they do, be it in Sunday's first-place showdown with the Cowboys or the following week in Detroit against the...
'KING' KILLERS
Take it from Billy Guerin, who began his career on the other side of the Hudson and now is captain of the team on the other side of the East...
KNEE DEEP
Eric Mangini yesterday acknowledged linebacker Jonathan Vilma will have knee surgery today in Florida. In step with his no-information policy, Mangini would divulge little else - not which knee it...
OFFENSE GOES FOURTH IN WIN
Chants of "Ed-dy, Ed-dy" rained down at the Garden in the final minute. Eddy Curry wasn't just racking up inside points with ferocity, he was blocking shots, playing rugged defense...
BALKMAN BRINGS DEFENSIVE PUNCH IN CRUNCH TIME
ON THIS visit by the Nug gets, nobody threw a punch. Then again, for most of three quarters, practically nobody got a hand up, either. Both teams kept their pledge...
BIG BILL GIVES SPIEL ON KNICKS
Bill Walton has always been outspoken on issues pertaining to basketball and life. These days, the lines that separate the two have begun to blur. With the new NBA season...
NO PEACE BETWEEN ZEKE, KARL
Nuggets coach George Karl said three years ago he would love to one day become Knicks head coach. Karl and Knicks coach Isiah Thomas are engaged in a feud, stemming...
FORGET ALEX, METS WRIGHT MAN'S AT THIRD
ORLANDO - The Mets should sign Alex Rodriguez only if they are ready to move David Wright, and not to second base or left field. The Mets would have to...
LO DUCA, METS FAR FROM A DEAL
ORLANDO - The Mets met with Paul Lo Duca's agent on Monday afternoon, but the free-agent catcher is far from a deal with the team. Andrew Mongelluzzi, Lo Duca's agent,...
ANTOINE MAKES THINGS WRIGHT
Richard Jefferson helped them get there. Jason Kidd then pushed them back there. Vince Carter helped them stay there. Then defense and Antoine Wright did the rest. In another effort...
COLLINS HITS RARE BASKET
Elvis rode a unicorn into a convenience store in Moonachie and bought some diet soda. Martians landed and took up residence in a nice little two-bedroom flat outside of Helsinki....
CALL A CAB-RERA
ORLANDO - Miguel Cabrera is the only third baseman on the market - and executives at the GM Meetings say Florida is definitely open to listening on the slugger -...
HE MIGHT BE STAY-ROD
ORLANDO - The last tiny, but real, lifeline between the Yankees and Alex Rodriguez still exists - arbitration. When asked last weekend if the Yanks would offer arbitration to Rodriguez,...
METS TALK TO POSADA, CASTILLO AGENT
ORLANDO -- Tony Bernazard and agent Seth Levinson sat together last night at the GM meetings, a session that paired the Mets executive with someone who represents both the market's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This can't be kosher. A Missouri woman won an annual White Castle hamburger recipe competition by mixing meat from the fast-food chain with traditional Jewish latkes. Leslye Louis blended 10...
Finally a reason to smile
By MARC BERMANIt is tough for Knick fans not to feel giddy today for several reasons.Can anyone remember Eddy Curry in a Knick uniform ever making a big block like...
Isles Top Rangers Again
The winning streak is over. Outmatched by the Islanders, the Rangers couldn't come up with the equalizing goal in a game they had every opportunity to win. The game-tying goal...