November 19, 2007
"Rock Band" midnight launch tonight
Tonight's the night! To get down and rock n' roll with your bad selves.That's right, "Rock Band" is having a midnight release at a Best Buy near you. In NYC,...
The "Wanted" movie
Yet another item for the "not a video game, but it should be" category.I have been stoked for this movie ever since Bret Harrison from the CW's "Reaper" (super funny...
Game versus Game
This weekend, I had myself a Nintendo DS binge and played a bunch of newish and oldish games. (That is, when I wasn't playing "Mass Effect," which, good game.)Strangely -...
BAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
In case you missed it, the psycho Rayman Raving Rabbids are back for a second go around. Snuck into stores last Tuesday like the wascally wabbids that they are.Get "Rayman...
no hangover this monday
The usual sober Monday mood around Weeb Ewank Hall is absent today. Gone is the hangover vibe that's hovered over the Jets for the previous seven weeks without a victory.Replacing...
Captain Frustrated
By FRED KERBERJason Kidd didn't speak to the media after the two most recent Nets losses. He spoke to a couple guys today and his words said volumes. Kidd is...
Oscar Watch: 'My Kid' Can't Get an Documentary Nomination
As the number of documentaries continues to explode, the list of high-profile snubs on the academy's short list for academy features also grows. This year's 15 title list, unveiled today,...
Marbury bolts again
By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury didn't bolt Phoenix today but he bolted the practice court quicker than his burst to the basket at Lincoln High.Before the media was let in, Marbury...
Deal of the Day
De facto Australian fashion embassy, Elizabeth Charles always stocks an impressive roster of Aussie and Kiwi designers.The West Village boutique also marks merchandise to a reasonable sale price- (which I...
Farrell Flick To Open Sundance
"In Bruges,'' the directing debut of playwright Martin McDonaugh ("The Lieutenant of Irishmore'') will open the Sundance Film Festival on January 17 in Park City, Utah, it was announced today....
Scene
Kristy Santelli wears a green vintage dress with gold necklace by Erica Pena, and vintage Payless shoes."I'm hippie chic. Vintage and labels- I mix it all".Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©11-13-07
Starr Report
Hollywood is after Australia's nine-year-old wildlife warrior Bindi Irwin (right). But she's saying no to movie offers and the chance to move to L.A., her manager John Stain ton says."There...
Oscar Watch: D-Day Landing on Top
D-Day is also quite funny in a scene where a young preacher (Paul Dano of "Little Miss Sunshine,'' who will likely get nominated in support for a dual role) blackmails...
OCD Archives: The Post's Annual Turkey Awards, 2000-2001
On Thursday, the Post will publish its ninth annual Turkey awards, in which we baste Hollywood's annual production of cinematic Butterballs. (With apologies to Swift and Co.) In honor of...
STEP UP
IT'S been a year since you've gotten that entry-level job in the business you've been pining for since infancy. But you've failed to gain the enthusiasm of management, despite your...
GO TO GREG
QON a recent job interview, I was asked one of those trick questions: "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" I was caught totally off...
OFFICE DRAMA
ALL work and several plays make Adam Bock a happy boy. Indeed, the onetime temp has finally given up his day job to work full time on what he does...
BIRD MAN
LARRY Ashley was born on a turkey farm, and there he has stayed for 60 years. His father began the business in 1948 in Flanders, NJ - a small town...
TOIL TELLS
WHEN it comes to the workplace, expert consultants are more plentiful than paper clips in a Staples warehouse. There are platoons of them to weigh in on every topic you...
DREAM JOB: DANNY GOLDBERG
GOLD and platinum records do - as you'd expect - hang on the walls of music bigwig Danny Goldberg's Midtown office. There's a framed gold disc to mark 500,000 copies...
VLADIMIR LENIN - THE FATHER OF COMMUNISM
Ninety years ago, the Bolshevik Party overthrew the Russian monarchy. Today's page looks at its infamous leader. VLADIMIR IIyich Lenin was born in Simbirsk, Russia, on April 10, 1870. He...
NORSE CODE
WOTAN CLAN - Adrienne Landau knitted mink hooded vest, $1,195, at Zitomer, 969 Madison Ave. - Camden lace-panel belt, $58, at luckybrandjeans.com - Salih for Jaalbér Artisan Jewelry 24K gold,...
PULSE SALES
GIANFRANCO FERRE 317 W. 33rd St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (718) 747-1656 Sale: through Nov. 20. Mon., 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m./Tue., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Embroidered evening gown, $750 (reg. $2,500);...
JUST WONDER-FUL
STEVIE Wonder felt the heat of the spot light on his face. He heard the riotous standing ovation before he even sang a note - he seemed to taste the...
'SECRET' JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
NOTHING less than a cure for cancer is at stake in "Secret Order," Bob Clyman's entertaining comedy/drama about a naive young scientist caught up in the high-pressure world of medical...
HITTING ONLY A FEW NOTES
DON'T be lulled by the offer of cookies from the nice older lady onstage at the beginning of "The Piano Teacher," the new play by Julia Cho "Durango") that opened...
SNEAKY OPRAH
OPRAH pulled a fast one and staged her annual "Favorite Things" Christmas show in Macon, Ga. over the weekend. Some 300 lucky fans left the local convention hall pushing shopping...
MRS. OBAMA TO CO-HOST 'THE VIEW'
MICHELLE Obama, the tough-talking wife of Democratic hopeful Barack Obama, is co-hosting "The View" next month. The controversial Mrs. Obama will appear for the whole hour, sitting in with the...
CAUGHT RED-HANDED
WHETHER you like 'em or loathe 'em, for sure you can't be is neutral about 'em - not when it comes to the animal rights group, People for the Ethical...
PAYBACK!
'DESPERATE Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan had a bitter rivalry going with her co-stars, according to her ex-fiancé. Niklas Soderblom, the Swedish-born actor and trainer she dumped two years ago to...
STARR REPORT
All-about Bindi Hollywood is after Austral ia's nine-year-old wildlife warrior Bindi Irwin. But she's saying no to movie of fers and the chance to move to L.A., her manager John...
STUDENTS SEE RISE IN GANGS
Young people in the Big Apple believe that gang activity is on the rise in their schools and communities, a new survey says. The office of Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum...
IN 'WRONG' MINORITY
Three Chinese parents in Brooklyn are expected to file a federal lawsuit today challenging a popular city-run tutoring program on the grounds it discriminates against Asians, The Post has learned....
PLATE DEBATE
The federal government may have a $25 million reward for fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden, but a retired city cop says the Department of Motor Vehicles has banned his "GETOSAMA"...
QUINN PALS STUNG BY NIX OF HIV BILL
Council Speaker Christine Quinn's adamant refusal to support a bill that would expand services for homeless and poor people living with HIV has advocates grumbling that she's turned away from...
PIRRO GETTING THE MANSION
She may have lost a husband, but Jeanine Pirro is keeping the house. The Italianate mansion in Westchester where she and Al raised their two kids is "not on the...
GIULIANI PLAYING 9/11 CARD
Rudy Giuliani is trumpeting his leadership in the wake of 9/11 in campaign mailings to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. In one piece, Giuliani is hailed as "America's Mayor"...
$75M SUIT VS. SPITZER HAS 'TEETH'
A Park Slope dentist has filed a $75 million lawsuit, claiming Eliot Spitzer used the Attorney General's Office to trump up politically convenient charges of Medicaid fraud against him in...
THE NEXT 'WEST' THING
After years of planning, the MTA has unveiled competing proposals to convert the West Side rail yards into a complex with parks, housing and, in some cases, office towers rising...
DAD WALKS TRAGIC BRIDGE CYCLIST'S PATH
The grief-stricken co-founder of the Brooklyn Brewery yesterday retraced his son's tragic last bicycle trek - a fatal ride through what the dad called a confusing maze across the Manhattan...
2ND AVE. RAIL GETS A FED BOO$T
Federal transportation officials today will swipe a $1.3 billion MetroCard, all but guaranteeing that the MTA will be able to build at least the first phase of the Second Avenue...
NEW TRACKERS ON FDNY RADAR
The FDNY may soon get state-of-the-art tracking devices - thanks to the heartbroken dad of a firefighter who died in this summer's Deutsche Bank blaze. Joe Graffagnino Jr., 33, succumbed...
BROADWAY FLOP
Talks to end the nine-day Broadway stagehands' strike abruptly broke off last night - and producers declared the shows would not go on at least until the end of the...
BULLET SPRAY DAY IN B'KLYN
Less than a week after a crazed teen was shot dead by cops while holding a hairbrush, another mentally ill Brooklyn man died in a hail of police gunfire yesterday...
BIAS-SUIT WORRY FOR BERNIE
Rudy Giuliani's disgraced pal Bernard Kerik could be forced to take the witness stand to fend off charges that racism played a part in his promotion decisions when he headed...
AN EXPRESS RIDE TO LOVE
First, there were the subway sweethearts - and now, New York has a subway cupid. Like an underground matchmaker, Brooklyn stockbroker Antonio Priolo, 41, wants to connect smitten straphangers. Inspired...
WIDOW DEFENDS MAILER, SAYS HE 'LOVED WOMEN'
Norman Mailer's widow says the literary giant was many things - brilliant, big-hearted - but a misogynist was not one of them. Norris Church Mailer defended her husband's legacy against...
BX. FIREFIGHTER FALLS 2 FLOORS
A firefighter was seriously injured when he fell two stories out of a ladder bucket while fighting a blaze in The Bronx yesterday. Brian Smith, 43, an 11-year FDNY veteran...
THE SOLE OF B'KLYN
There were as many sneakers dangling over a Brooklyn neighborhood yesterday as there were far-flung explanations for the airborne footwear. The intersection of Kingsland Avenue and Jackson Street in East...
EARLY TIX TICK OFF DION FANS
Super diva Celine Dion hits New York City in a comeback tour late next year called "Taking Chances" - but she's not taking any with ticket sales. Dion won't sing...
'UNDER' OVER?
A Chelsea apartment building that was a stop on the Underground Railroad could lose its chance at landmark status unless the city revokes construction permits. H&H Building Consultants wants to...
8TH MISHAP ON CONEY I. BOARDWALK
Another person in Coney Island says she's walked the plank - becoming at least the eighth victim to be injured falling through the boardwalk of Brooklyn's famed but rotting landmark...
HAUNTED BY PAST
A Roman Catholic brother credited with turning around an all-boys Harlem high school was removed as principal after someone complained that he had been arrested two decades ago for allegedly...
B'KLYN H'WOOD
The Big Apple is in line to become a major Hollywood scene-stealer through a massive $100 million-plus expansion project at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Steiner Studios and its landlord, the...
POLLUTION: CEASED OR FAMINE
Manmade production of carbon dioxide - the main cause of global warming - is rapidly turning the Earth's oceans into toxic seas with dire consequences to human health, a UN...
GIZMO PUTS E-LIBRARY IN YOUR PALM
The next time you're heading to a beachfront resort, you won't have to lug 10 novels in your backpack, thanks to a new gadget from Amazon.com. With its revolutionary technology,...
A MINOR HERO IN 'BEOWULF'
"Beowulf" conquered the competition at the weekend box office - but the film's three-day take was less than epic, according to studio estimates released yesterday. Experts predicted that the computerized...
OBAMA: NO TIME FOR SLIME
Barack Obama said yesterday that his recent swipes against Hillary Rodham Clinton should stand as a warning to all that he won't stand for "slime politics." "If you don't get...
GANGSTER GETS 'STAY' FROM COURT
A notorious Mafia heroin trafficker recently freed from federal prison after two decades cannot be deported to his native Italy because he would be tortured to tell all he knows...
REPORT RIPS SMALLER HIGH SCHOOLS' DIP-LOW-MAS
New, smaller high schools graduated 20 percent more students than the citywide average last year, but a report charges that a majority of the grads earned low-standard diplomas that are...
A NEW 'JIHAD JANE'
The illegal immigrant with Hezbollah ties who faked a marriage to get U.S. citizenship, and then landed jobs as a top-level federal agent, has a former sister-in-law who pulled the...
TEACHERS 'DROP OUT'
Despite recent salary hikes, the city's school system is bleeding teachers, their union said yesterday. Just days after the Department of Education unveiled new support for principals seeking to can...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A Bronx man was arrested for smashing a bouncer on the head with a bottle at a Flatiron District nightclub, authorities said yesterday. Kenneth Green, 29, got into a...
'ELIOT'S BULLY' MADE THREAT: INSIDER
A TOP aide to Gov. Spitzer in volved in the Dirty Tricks Scandal angrily threatened to "professionally kill" a top utility executive for opposing the governor's energy policies, sources have...
'BIAS' IN KID QUIZ
A TOP Manhattan middle school offers something extra for your taxpayer dollar: readin', writin' and indoctrination. East Side MS on the Upper East Side earned an "A" on the recent...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 683; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 8120; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 159; Lucky Sum: 15; Evening Win-4 Sun.: 7508; Lucky...
DELUDING COPS
If Pat Lynch likes Nassau County so much, maybe he should try to get a job there. Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, is making great hay of the...
THE TAX MAN GRABBETH
Gov. Spitzer's Grinch Tax, floated and withdrawn in a trice last week, raised some disconcerting questions: * Just who is making policy at the state tax department? * What other...
BIG APPLE'S BITE
AS teammates on the New York Yankees, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez get to perform on a stage suited to their outsized talents. But Jeter's dispute with state tax officials...
CBS' BOGUS VET-SUICIDE STATS
THERE'S "startling" and "stunning" news of a "hidden epidemic" of veteran suicides. So claimed CBS News in two reports last week. Most of the airtime went for heart-rending interviews with...
'08 DEMS' IRAN DILEMMA
SEN. Barack Obama, desper ate to cut down Sen. Hill ary Clinton, didn't take ad vantage of one opening in Thursday's Democratic presidential debate. Obama pulled his punches on Clinton's...
RUDY & NYC'S COPS
PAT Lynch, who heads the city police union, took aim at Rudy Giuliani in The Post last week, blasting him for how he dealt with cops while mayor and saying...
JUAN CARLOS TELLS OFF CHAVEZ, A ROYAL PAIN
Thank goodness that Spain's King Juan Carlos has the nerve to tell Venezuela's strongman Hugo Chavez to shut up ("El Rey & El Loco," Editorial, Nov. 13). Maybe we need...
A BIRD-BRAINED CITY COUNCIL
It's amazing how every two months Councilman Simcha Felder comes up with another piece of sanitation legislation, like no restaurant flyers on your doorstep, designated times to sweep in front...
STRIKING HOME
The Hollywood writers' strike, which is bringing a premature end to the current TV season, now threatens to delay development of next fall's schedule, too. Industry observers predict that if...
UNIVISION MUSIC LOSING ITS APPEAL
Potential bidders for Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications' music assets are shaving their offer prices by at least $50 million due to concerns over its artist contracts, access to advertising on...
GILDED GIFT GRAB
Face it, no one likes Christmas shopping - much less paying the credit card bills. So what are we at Media City giving our nearest and dearest? Magazine subscriptions, of...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Cyclone, Baby Bash 4. Ayo Technology, 50 Cent 5. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 6. Bed, J. Holiday...
ROBERT DE NIRO SAYS GALLERY STOLE FATHER'S PAINTINGS
Robert De Niro is raging mad over the alleged theft of 12 of his late father's paintings - works of art the legendary actor claims were pilfered by bankrupt gallery...
GRINCH TO STAY CLOSED
The Grinch has been - Grinched. The owner of the theater that houses "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" yesterday squelched a deal that would have enabled the multi-million dollar holiday...
FRIARS REMAIN CHSFL CHAMPS
Jayson Holt had seen this before. A year ago, the Mount St. Michael quarterback was tackled just shy of the first down on the final play of the CHSFL AAA...
NECK INJURY KOS ROJAS
Raul Rojas, taken to North Shore Hospital after his mount, Bully for Us, took a bad step and fell in stretch of Saturday's sixth race, suffered two fractured verterbrae in...
JOHNSON RETAINS HIS CUP
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Jimmie Johnson won his second consecutive NASCAR Nextel Cup championship by driving a conservative, incident-free race and finishing seventh behind winner Matt Kenseth in the season finale...
BARKIN' BARKLEY SHOULD BACK OFF THE BONDS MESS
IT'S A Pavlov drill, one designed five years ago for a pandering and obedient media. And it works great. Charles Barkley uses his seat on TNT's NBA studio show to...
SPORTS SHORTS
FOOTBALL: Kansas No. 2 LSU was first and unbeaten Kansas was second in the Bowl Championship Series standings yesterday. The Tigers, who next face Arkansas at home, are No. 1...
KIWI DONE FOR YEAR
DETROIT - The sight no player wants to see occurred on the second play yesterday, as linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka had to be helped off the field. "A guy gets carted...
STRAHAN TRASHES REFS FOR 'GARBAGE' CALL ON TUCK
DETROIT - Looking back, it could have been the play that ruined the game for the Giants. They were clinging to a 16-10 lead with 2:17 remaining when Justin Tuck...
MAGIC IN MOTOWN
DETROIT - When it comes to sorting out the second tier of the NFC, there was nothing bigger than the game yesterday inside Ford Field, which is why the loser...
BIG BLUE HERO? THE BUTLER DID IT
THE ball, and the ballgame, and quite possibly the wild-card playoffs, and all the doubts about whether another second-half collapse from the Tom Coughlin Giants was on its way, all...
GIRARDI'S STAR IS RISING FAST
Granted, this isn't quite Dino Ciccarelli going undrafted before embarking on a 19-year NHL career in which he would score 608 goals. It's not even Luc Robitaille remaining on the...
THE SACK IS BACK!
All season, the Jets' pass rush had been the weakest link on a weak team, a one-win Gang Green that had mustered the fewest sacks in the NFL. But yesterday,...
HOME IS HOSTILE TERRITORY
Jets tight end Chris Baker sensed something different about yesterday's home game against the Steelers when he stepped onto the field for warm-ups. "You had no choice but to notice,"...
GANG GREEN STEELS ONE
Before yesterday, Sept. 23 was the last time the Jets tasted victory. Fifty-five days had passed since their only win of the season, which came against the Dolphins, who are...
JETS TURN STEELER DEFENSE INTO PITTS
Statistics can lie, too. How else to explain yesterday's display against the woeful Jets by the Steelers' supposedly vaunted defense? Pittsburgh came in with a rare NFL superfecta: first in...
CLEMENS UP TO CHALLENGE
THE Steelers let the game lay there and lay there, and there wasn't much Kellen Clemens was doing about it, frankly. Clemens did make some key plays early in the...
GO, STEPHON!
Since arriving back with the Knicks, Stephon Marbury has refused to elaborate on his claim that Isiah Thomas gave him permission to bolt Phoenix last Tuesday. But a friend of...
GLAV TO SIGN ATLANTA DEAL
Tom Glavine is headed to a Brave old world - back home to Atlanta, where he intends to finish his Hall of Fame career - but the Mets won't be...
NETS HIT THE ROAD
SALT LAKE CITY - For the Nets at the moment, the present isn't too swell, the past is even worse and the immediate future isn't looking too rosy. Oh yeah,...
MVP BEFORE
Alex Rodriguez isn't going to hit the mother load of daily doubles today because the details of the richest deal in baseball history won't be ironed out by the time...
A-ROD NAMED MVP ... AGAIN
Alex Rodriguez will have another trophy in his case when he finally re-signs with the Yankees. As expected, Rodriguez was named American League Most Valuable Player today, the second time...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Here, kitty, kitty - and there, kitty, kitty. An orange and white cat named Heathcliff - reported missing from his Sicklerville, NJ, home on Oct. 24 - was found more...
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction for the PS3 is, as simply as I can put it, a good game that doesnât have any fatal flaws, but it doesnât...
Giants beat Lions but suffer key injuries
Michael Strahan showed he's still got it, just days before he turns 36 and in a year he pondered retirement.READ: KIWANUKA AND JACOBS INJUREDStrahan had a season-high three sacks, helping...
OCD Archives: Bass-O-Matic Remake
"Major studio bosses have been wooing" a web designer and budding actress, wanting to film his "quest to track down a mystery girl he locked eyes with on the No....