November 8, 2007
Oscar Watch: Academy Qualifies 'Beowulf' as Animated Feature
"Beowulf,'' featuring a motion-capture performance by Angelina Jolie, is one of 12 titles accepted for consideration in the animated feature category, the Motion Picture Academy announced today. Under academy rules,...
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Iâve always really enjoyed the Lego Star Wars games.As a kid, Iâd spend countless hours building spaceships and staging mock battles with â for my 12-year-old hands â massive Star...
Curry braces for Florida heavyweights
By MARC BERMANAs the Knicks prepare for back-to-back games against the NBAâs two Florida teams, it will be a chance for center Eddy Curry to really make a statement in...
'Actors, Writers Will Not Be Divided'
Talk about strike fever.TV stars are joining the writer strike in hopes of communicating that, in fact, all writers and actors are created equal.Joy Behar, Roseanne Barr, David Duchovny, and...
One Confused Big Cat
By FRED KERBERJamaal Magloire is confused.Magloire is not griping or whining, mind you, but he is confused over his (lack of) playing time in the early part of the season."It...
Everybody Loves COD4
According to Kotaku's gathering of scores, anyway.The multiplayer beta, before Halo 3 turned everyone into Spartan pod people, was so much fun that I couldn't believe it. Better, there weren't...
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Student Darin Kingston wears a cute Vince cape, a conservative and striped J Crew top, two scarves (one designer and one from the street), a Chloe bag, Chuck Taylor sneakers...
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Heather Steele wears a great motorcycle jacket with white trim by Blue System with an H&M dress, Sigerson shoes and a bag from a boutique in Newton, Ma."My look is...
'Keeping Up' With Kim Kardashian
The Post attended Kim Kardashian's launch event for fashion line Morgan 4 Ever last night and got the scoop from the "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" It girl.Click here to...
'Office' league gets serious
This week, on a new episode of "The Office," the battle for the Dunder Mifflin fantasy football crown heats up. Michael Scott: Man, I'm doomed. DeShaun Foster has been terrible,...
The Long and the Short of It
Vince Vaughn works in the North Pole's "Naughty or Nice'' department in the misbegotten "Fred Claus,'' arriving Friday at a theater near you. But it's Warners publicists who are checking...
Oscar Watch: Cody Goes Both Ways
Cody Diablo, the fetching stripper turned screenwriter of the hot Oscar prospect "Juno,'' worked the picket lines outside Paramount's L.A. studios yesterday. But she tells Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere...
Box Office: UA's Risky Business
An article in the Post's business department last week by Peter Lauria dubbed "Lions for Lambs'' a "Ticking Tom Bomb'' and raised concerns it could hurt MGM's attempts to revive...
Instigator
Remember the good old days of hockey? Not long ago players were responsible for what they did on the ice. There used to be an unwritten code of on-ice ethics...
Deal of the Day
Baby, it's cold outside. We all could have used this Baby Rib Long Sleeve Turtleneck from American Apparel when we got dressed this morning.The top is a simple soft piece...
EGYPT'S GOLDEN BOY UNMASKED AT LAST
The face of Egypt's most famous ruler, Tutankhamen, also known as King Tut, was finally revealed to the public after more than 3,000 years. ALMOST everyone has heard of King...
CAN'T TAKE THE EDGE OFF THIS JOYFUL TROUPE
OVER the years - 37 and counting - Garth Fagan's Garth Fagan Dance has developed a unique dialect of dance based on rhythmic runs, off-center balances, wild curvetting spins and...
PRIM KARDASHIAN
Kim Kardashian likes to get Spanx-ed . . . on her bottom. "I try to contain it," she says about her butt - the same (in)famous rear view that features...
HAUTE LIST
IT'S time to hit the books. In addition to ankle boots, fingerless gloves and wide-leg pants, some of this season's must-haves are fresh off the bookshelf - not the catwalk....
CRUNK'S ANGELS
GETTING "crunk" takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the tunes the guys in Family Force 5 play - it's a genre they're pioneering called "crunk rock."...
A THING WE DON'T WANT
JONATHAN Marc Sherman seems to be working out some personal demons in his new dark comedy, about three brothers torn apart by alcoholism, rivalries and the tragic events of their...
MARIE KEEPS ON 'DANCING'
MARIE Osmond says she'll be back on "Dancing with the Stars" next week - following the death of her 90-year-old father Monday night. The family - more than 100 Osmonds...
CH. 2 TAKES SLEEPY STEVE
ANCHORMAN Steve Bartelstein has found his way back on to local television while simultaneously battling cancer. Bartelstein, 44, begins a new job Saturday as a weekend morning anchor at CBS-owned...
'DOG'-GONE
IF Duane "Dog" Chapman, the embattled star of "Dog the Bounty Hunter," is trying to save his hit show, he's not doing a great job. In the wake of a...
MEAN GREEN
'30 Rock," the funniest, smartest and best-written comedy on broadcast television, is getting even funnier tonight. If it's possible. Riffing on NBC's own "Green is Universal" push (which apparently doesn't...
LINDSAY MAKING 'UGLY' COMEBACK?
Lindsay Lohan may make her first post-rehab appearance on "Ugly Betty." The troubled film star might play a fallen beauty queen who takes over as the manager of the fast...
WRITER STRIKE KOS '24'
NOT even Jack Bauer could save "24" from the writers' strike. Fox last night postponed indefinitely the new season of the popular Keifer Sutherland-secret agent drama which, like many other...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
You will have to fight a few battles over the next 12 months but the biggest battle will be with your own ego. It's okay to believe in yourself and...
LICENSE BILL MAY SIDESWIPE HILL
In a move that could put Sen. Hillary Clinton on the spot, Rep. Pete King will soon introduce a bill in Congress that would block New York and other states...
SUBWAY LOVE AN EXPRESS 'SUCCESS'
The little Romeo that could has found his subway sweetheart. Patrick Moberg, a Brooklyn Web designer who embarked on a multimedia quest to find the rosy-cheeked straphanger for whom he...
CITY SIZZLES AMID U.S. HOUSING MARKET'S BIG CHILL
Housing prices may be cratering across the country, but buyers aren't snatching up any steals in New York, where the apartment market remains hot and sale prices continue to climb,...
THE $150M CASTLE
A billionaire buyer has signed a letter of intent to pay $150 million for a massive triplex apartment at the Upper East Side condo tower The Mark, sources close to...
ELTON GIG FOR SLAIN BROKER
Pop superstar Elton John is planning a memorial concert for slain celebrity real-estate agent Linda Stein, with the proceeds going to breast-cancer research. According to Hope Faith Consolo, another high-powered...
BX. TERRORIST GETS 15 YRS.
A Bronx jazz musician and martial-arts master was sentenced to 15 years behind bars yesterday for a chilling plot to train al Qaeda recruits in hand-to-hand combat. Tarik Ibn Osman...
CHARGES LOOM FOR 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 tomorrow....
HEATHER IS AP'PAUL'LED
Heather Mills is seething with rage over her soon-to-be-ex-hubby's lip-locking love affair with a wealthy Hamptons socialite. "Why didn't you tell me?" Mills allegedly shouted at the beloved Beatle during...
LESSON IN NAVAL HISTORY
City officials yesterday unveiled plans for a historical center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The yard, which was decommissioned by the Navy in 1966 and sold to the city, is...
RCN COUGHS UP THE CASH
RCN, the microwave-satellite provider, failed to report more than $26 million in revenue over seven years and stiffed the city for $1.8 million in franchise fees, Comptroller Bill Thompson reported...
VID TWIST IN DENTIST-SLAY CUSTODY WAR
The parents of slain orthodontist Daniel Malakov today will offer new video in court of their granddaughter dancing and singing in their home, in a bid to regain custody of...
BRONX PUPILS $CORE
It's payback time for the seventh-graders at MS 302 in The Bronx. The Longwood students joined thousands of their counterparts across the city yesterday in enjoying cash rewards of up...
FDNY BOOSTS INSPECTIONS
Firefighters will spend more of their time inspecting buildings and will have access to a master database of all high rises under construction or demolition, officials said yesterday. The move...
PSC SLAPS CON ED FOR $18M
Con Ed has been ordered to return $18 million to its customers as punishment for power outages that plagued its system last year, including the nine-day Queens blackout and windstorms...
AXED MANN SATIRIST IS SUING
A teacher fired from Horace Mann School gave the exclusive Bronx institution bad grades in a lawsuit yesterday, charging he was fired for publishing a satirical novel about an elite...
UMBRELLAS TO RAIN SUPREME
It's raining umbrellas in Park Slope. A group of merchants and local activists will shower Fifth and Seventh avenues with 400 bright-yellow umbrellas next week. When raindrops start to fall,...
MIKE WTC PLAN
People who perished after breathing in toxins while working at Ground Zero will be honored - but not by having their names listed with those who died on 9/11, Mayor...
MOB KIN WAS TOLD TO DUMMY UP
The terrified daughter of a Colombo crime family mobster who vanished in 1999 was warned to stay silent about his murder or risk violence to her family, she testified yesterday...
'CHOP' SHOP
A Queens bodega owner, armed with a machete, hacked a finger off an armed robber yesterday, cops said. "He had a gun and I took him out," said store owner...
A 'FARE' AMOUNT OF ANGER
Queens straphangers lashed out at MTA officials last night, arguing that service improvements must be made before the agency even thinks about raising the fare. "Your service is lousy. Your...
WIFE KILLER GETS LIFE
A career criminal who butchered his wife on a sidewalk in front of her office building in the Financial District was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. "I...
'OD' CEO COSTS HIS BIZ $10M
The embarrassing resignation of a high-end hotel CEO after his young girlfriend fatally OD'd in his Vegas pad cost his company nearly $10 million - and any chance of breaking...
JERSEY POL IN N.Y. PONZI BUST
A city council president from Bergen County was hauled in handcuffs before a Manhattan Supreme Court justice last night - as one of three New Jersey lawyers charged in a...
A RAP SESSION
It was Escalade Parking Only outside Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday. Four rappers with the same taste in Cadillacs - along with the same court date and 9:30 a.m. appearance time...
SLAIN GI SPURNED RETURN TO STAY WITH COMRADES
A New Jersey soldier who put off surgery in the United States to stay with his comrades in Iraq was killed Monday in a roadside bombing. Sgt. John D. Linde...
REV. PAT: RUDY HAS THE 'RIGHT' STUFF
Christian televangelist Pat Robertson blessed Rudy Giuliani's campaign for president yesterday - saying "America's mayor" is the best candidate to confront "the bloodlust of Islamic terrorism." Robertson - a darling...
N.H. GOES COLD ON CLINTON
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-commanding lead in New Hampshire has been slashed - a sign that the simmering driver's-license controversy may have bled into the critical first-primary state, a...
PRIEST COLLARED AS CONAN'S STALKER
A Boston priest has been busted for sending threatening notes to talk-show host Conan O'Brien, contacting his parents and showing up at his Rockefeller Center studio, prosecutors said yesterday. "I...
MET STAR HAS BALL AT PREZ GALA
Ex-Met pitcher Tom Glavine looked at a different kind of plate as he attended the White House dinner in honor of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Glavine was one of the...
TV'S DEPP WISH
Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp trumps Oscar winners Clint Eastwood, Julia Roberts and John Wayne in a ranking of the most "wish-listed" actors by subscribers to TiVo. The wish list...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX A 20-year-old man was shot and critically injured in Melrose, police said. The victim, whose name was withheld, was shot in the torso near the Concourse Village Houses...
I'VE GOT 'RAT' STUFF
Brian Tucker, a writer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live," reports from the strike line in Queens. IT WAS going to be a great week. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was hosting...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 677; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 8127; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 560; Lucky Sum: 11; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3181; Lucky...
VOTERS TO TRENTON: GET REAL
New Jersey Gov. John Corzine hoped for a medical revolution; social con servatives feared a bio-ethical nightmare. But what long-suffering Garden State taxpayers saw was yet another publicly financed boondoggle...
GRADE THE CHARTERS, TOO
The city's new policy of grading indi vidual schools, A to F, marks a big step toward greater accountability in public education in New York. But reform has a gaping...
HILLARY'S LICENSE TO LOSE?
How happy is Sen. Hillary Clinton that Gov. Spitzer stirred up his licenses- for-illegals firestorm? Not very, we'd guess. She's been talking from both sides of her mouth on the...
REBEL DIPLOMATS
JUST when things seem to be im proving in Iraq, a cabal of State De partment Foreign Service officers rebelled at the prospect of being forced to serve at the...
THE UGLY HONESTY OF 'GANGSTER'
'AMERICAN Gangster" opened last weekend and many of those who bought tickets - $43.6 million worth from Friday through Sunday - surely came away feeling as Mark Twain did when...
THOMPSON SELF-ABORTS
FRED Thompson was well into a prolonged dialogue about abortion with Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday when he said, "I do not think it is a wise...
OBAMA'S BAD-NEWS BUDDIES
WHEN Sen. Barack Obama picked up the endorse ment of New York City Councilman Charles Barron, the first words to come from an Obama spokesperson were: "Sen. Obama disagrees with...
CRUNCH TIME FOR THE TWU
SOON after the end of the Transit Workers Union's illegal 60-hour walkout in December 2005, Local 100 President Roger Toussaint boasted that his members had made good on a "credible...
(A)LL (B)UT (C)LUELESS: SHOCK-JOCK COMEBACK
Anyone in the broadcasting field who would hire Don Imus must be blind and deaf ("Kuby Rants About Losing Job to Imus," Nov. 5). Imus is a total bigot who...
THE CARTER-NOVAK CONFUSION
In a feast of lies, all the Arab suffering that Robert Novak and Jimmy Carter attribute to Israel is the result of the corruption and violence that pervade Arab society...
CLIPPED HEDGE FUND AQR PULLS OFFERING
AQR Capital Management, the giant Greenwich-based hedge fund, has been forced to shelve its planned initial public offering after a dismal performance caused several large investors to pull their cash...
DOLLAR'S COLLAR
A toxic combination of events sent stock market indexes into free-fall yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging more than 360 points amid worries about the dollar, subprime mortgages...
BANKS' BALANCE SHEETS WILL HIT FAN IN JANUARY
IF you think banks have trouble now, just wait until they report financial results in January. That's when the balance sheet will really hit the fan. The problem involves a...
NEW TITANIC THREAT
More than $500 billion of potentially worthless paper is padding the balance sheets of the nation's top-10 banks - and could also be contaminating the huge pensions and annuities that...
FANNIE & FREDDIE HIT IN CUOMO ASSESS PROBE
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo served government-sponsored lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with subpoenas yesterday as he expands his probe into bad behavior in the mortgage business that's...
SILVER TONGUED
NBC may be trying to claw its way out of the prime-time TV ratings cellar, but that's not stopping the network's party-hearty new savior, Ben Silverman, from praising himself and...
NEWS CORP. REVENUE UP 19% IN QTR.
Strong box office receipts for "The Simpsons Movie" and "Live Free or Die Hard," and a jump in cable channel operating income helped News Corp. report a 23 percent increase...
AT&T HITS HANG-UP ON CROSS-AD SALES STAFF
AT&T was eager to make a splash on Madison Avenue earlier this year with an ambitious advertising pitch. In January, the telecom titan said it would start selling ads across...
FAT TARGETS: TIME & AOL
Time Warner's third-quarter results underscored why CEO-designate Jeff Bewkes is expected to take a long, hard look at AOL and Time Inc. - those units were the only two of...
REPORT: ADVERTISERS JUMP TO 'NET
After lagging for years, the nation's biggest advertisers are now leading the charge online, a new report suggests. Major marketers have been cautious about moving into Internet advertising even as...
HANK'S COOL HAND
Hank Greenberg yesterday lost about $1.2 billion on his shares in insurance giant AIG, but he expects to make it back many times over in his comeback as Wall Street's...
BLOOMBERG PRESENTS CONEY ISLAND PLAN
The following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg's speech as prepared. Please check against delivery. "Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for those kind words. It's also great to...
BLOOMBERG UNVEILS NEW PLAN FOR CONEY ISLAND
By RICH CALDER Coney Island's fabled beachfront area would become home to America's largest urban amusement park, about 4,500 new apartments and a bunch of major retail establishments under a...
KERIK TO BE ARRAIGNED ON CRIMINAL CHARGES TOMORROW IN WHITE PLAINS
NEW YORK -- Bernard Kerik, the police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani who nearly became head of the Homeland Security Department, will surrender to federal authorities Friday to be...
CONAN PRIEST HOOD
The Boston priest who was busted for stalking Conan O'Brien followed the "Late Night" star all over the country - and even popped up in Italy in search of his...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Turtle Bay $1.45 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 1/2 Square feet: 1,390 Common charges: $1,363 This duplex condo on East 49th Street has been "tastefully renovated" with custom closets and...
FIX IT UP RIGHT
The renovation fantasy of many women is a contractor with golden hair, blue eyes and a leather tool belt slung seductively around his hips who perfectly remodels your kitchen in...
RITZY DITZES
One broker could single-handedly lower New York's collective IQ, after parading two of California's better-known bottle blondes through Manhattan apartments. And oops, Britney Spears is looking to buy in New...
SEXY EAST
FOR most New Yorkers, East Harlem is just a subway ride away. Singersongwriter Holly Jean Cosner, on the other hand, crossed the continent to buy a condo in the up-and-coming...
DANBURY DEALS
Allison Frusciante remembers the moment two years ago when she and her husband, Richard - both originally from The Bronx - arrived in Danbury, Conn., and found the house of...
ROOM FOR RENT
Connecticut's Fairfield County - home to tony towns like Greenwich and Darien - isn't just filled with rambling estates on tree-filled acres. Many properties also contain small apartments - usually...
CLOSURE CALL
IT'S simple arithmetic: More foreclosures equals more opportunities for rock-bottom real-estate investment opportunities, right? That's what Winston Ragle was hoping when he attended a property foreclosure auction at the Downtown...
GREET DEBATE
I just moved into a doorman building and am sort of freaked out by the constant need to greet the door staff, because I don't know what to say. How...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CHELSEA $1,195,000 165 W. 18th St. One-bedroom, one-bath condo, 800 square feet, with chef's kitchen, floor-to-ceiling windows and southern exposure; Slate building features doorman, concierge, parking, gym, Pilates room,...
DREAM HOMES
Summit, N.J. $10.5 million Commuters know that if you make it to Summit, you've made it to the top in more ways than one. Set on one of the town's...
MOSLEY SEES YOUTH IN COTTO'S CORNER
When Miguel Cotto versus Shane Mosley was first proposed earlier this year, Top Rank boss Bob Arum went to his matchmaker, Bruce Trampler, to hear his thoughts on how the...
MATTHEWS TALKS HGH WITH MLB
There were steroid-related developments on both coasts yesterday. In San Francisco, the sentencing of admitted steroids dealer Kirk Radomski was delayed until Dec. 14. In New York, Angels outfielder Gary...
GRID TALK HEATS UP 'THE OFFICE'
THIS week, on a new epi sode of "The Office," the battle for the Dunder Mifflin fantasy football crown heats up. Michael Scott: Man, I'm doomed. DeShaun Foster has been...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Phillies cut deal Closer Brad Lidge was traded by the Astros to the Phillies along with infielder Eric Bruntlett last night in the first deal of the general managers'...
CLEAN BILL OF STEALTH
THEY are the "other" Cinderella story in the Big 12 North. The one that's not undefeated, the one that isn't coached by a guy who looks like an extra on...
LEETCH, CAMMI HONORED
THESE are the 10 Days of New York Hockey Celebration, 10 days that commenced with Al Arbour's return to the Coliseum on Saturday and will be capped by Mark Messier's...
ELIAS TO SUTTER: I'M NOT SLACKING
It was the Summit at the Bottom: Patrik Elias and Brent Sutter, face-to-face, long after a second straight punishing Devils practice. The former captain and the coach who demoted him...
BURRESS LIGHTS UP PRACTICE
There was an unusual reaction yesterday out at practice as Plaxico Burress hit the field for the first time in seven weeks. "It was so funny, the first ball I...
BATTLE OF NFC EAST BIG BOYS
The mood could best be described as frisky, even playful. Eli Manning yesterday stepped on the practice field and immediately began showing off the results of his bye week respite....
JACOBS' TASK: RUN 'EM OVER
THERE was a Bring on the Cowboys feel to the Giants yesterday on a day when Plaxico Burress and his barking ankle returned to practice on a limited basis. "The...
BIG BLUE: WITTEN WON'T BEAT US THIS TIME
Two months and a six-game winning streak later, Antonio Pierce still groans at the mention of Cowboys tight end Jason Witten. Asked to describe the Giants' defensive effort - if...
CLEMENS EAGER TO CALL TIMEOUT
Life has been moving rather rapidly of late for Kellen Clemens. With the Jets off until Monday because of the bye week, this weekend will provide a nice slowing of...
HOME COOKIN'
Considering it took them until Dec. 4 to win their second home game last season, the Knicks have to deem their current start a step in the right direction. A...
METS MEET, BUT ALEX UNLIKELY TO LAND IN QUEENS
ORLANDO - The Mets had their meeting with Scott Boras more out of courtesy and curiosity than a passionate pursuit of Alex Rodriguez. The Mets came, they saw, they listened,...
DEFENSE KEEPS NETS ON WINNING TRACK
There was a time not so long ago that if Vince Carter struggled, so would the Nets, and if Nenad Krstic slumped with him, they'd likely get blown out. It...
TOM STICKS WITH HENRIK
If there can be too much of a good thing, nobody has told Rangers coach Tom Renney. The Rangers' backbone in goal, Henrik Lundqvist, is expected to start tonight at...
ROCKET AIMING AT ASTROS' JOB
Roger Clemens will be leaving the Yankees for the Astros for the second time in his career - but this time not to be a pitcher. Through his agents, Clemens...
FULL 'COURT' PRE$$
ORLANDO - Hank Steinbrenner wanted nothing lost in translation. He repeated himself several times. He emphasized the key words. His message could not have been clearer. The Yankees' new Boss...
DAMON IS ON TRACK TO COME BACK
ORLANDO - Over breakfast with Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi yesterday, Johnny Damon learned he is the Yankees left fielder and leadoff man, and that will only change, Damon said,...
POKE & A-PROD
ORLANDO - The Red Sox were scheduled to meet last night with Scott Boras, with Alex Rodriguez among the topics. However, Boston GM Theo Epstein continued to say retaining Mike...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Martha Stewart has nothing on these guys. Two Illinois college students were busted for kidnapping a man after a drug deal went bad, beating him with a wooden paddle and...
Mosley Has Eyes On Pretty Boy
Shane Mosley is eyeing a fight with Floyd Mayweather next year and proposing the winner claim most of the purse. By George WillisShane Mosley is eyeing a fight with Floyd...
Manhattan Movie Tickets Hit $12
The operators of Manhattan movie theaters have an early Christmas present for you. My ever-alert colleague Frank Scheck e-mails that movie tickets now cost a whopping $12 at the Chelsea...
Pedro Martinez And Moises Alou Help Storm Survivors in Dominican
"I think it's probably worse than what you've seen in the paper or on TV," said Alou, who also lives in the Dominican Republic.Martinez's wife, Carolina, joined him in Manoguayabo,...