November 26, 2007

Cheating 'With The Stars'

Sneaky Marie Osmond was caught on camera trying to get a leg up on her "Dancing With The Stars" rival Mel B, Splashnews.com reports.Osmond and partner Jonathan Roberts were snapped...

Scene

Ilona Klaver wears a great vintage velvet dress from Cheap Jacks with two-tone Bebe shoes.Ilona describes her look as, "Cute, comfy, sexy, charming".Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©11-13-07

HOME IN WYOMING

Out here in Laramie, Wyoming. Yes, Kernan does get around.If you ever want to drop out of society and get lost, this is the place to be. The whole time...

Starr Report

Former Mets teammates Ron Darling (right) and Darryl Strawberry reunite tonight (6:30) on SNY's "Mets Hot Stove," hosted by Kevin Burkhardt. They'll discuss the MLB rumor mill (trades, etc.); the...

First look: Cavalli for The Spice Girls

Cavalli's designing the Spice Girls' tour costumes for their reunion world tour. Roberto Cavalli says “I have known Victoria Beckham for a long time, and have always admired her style...

CHECKING IN: Philadelphia

Philly may be more fun when you sleep over, but at these prices?/R. Kennedy-GPTMC Tomorrow's cover story is all about doing your holiday shopping in Philadelphia. I'm totally on board....

UPDATE: Get your groove back elsewhere, Stella

Ask anyone in the travel biz - Kenya is a premiere destination.Hiking. Safari. Sultry coast. Epic sex.Okay, so that last one isn't exactly advertised in the brochures, but it's true...

Oscar Watch: Cate Steps Up

The Weinsteins have decided to campaign Cate Blanchett for Best Actress for "I'm Not There,'' David Poland is reporting at The Hot Blog. Originally, the plan was to campaign Cate's...

RECREATION THERAPIST

What does a recreation therapist actually do all day? Recreation therapists work with people who are disabled or recovering from physical or mental illness or injury. Working in hospitals and...

IT'S THE SOURCE FOR SEEKERS

Four decades past, Richard Nelson Bolles got canned from his job as an Episcopal priest, starting a chain of events that ended with him penning what many consider the bible...

GO TO GREG

Q MY employer offers a flexible spending account that employees can use to pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses. But if you don't use everything you've contributed by the end of...

DREAM JOB: TONY DISANTO

MOST guys pushing 40 know zilch about teenagers, other than what they deduce from rolled eyes at the dinner table or sarcastic remarks during the drive home from soccer practice....

BRAND CAMP

ALEX Frankel was a teenager when he first decided he wanted to work for UPS. It began when a friend who worked there described the day two staff scientists analyzed...

JESSE JAMES - COLDBLOODED KILLER TURNED FOLK HERO

Today's page looks at Jesse James, one of the most infamous outlaws in American history, yet one whose life has been romanticized in folklore. JESSE James is one of few...

HELEN OF JOY

WE admit it - we've swallowed the Kool-Aid, and we're not looking to be deprogrammed. We've also got plenty of company: the cult of Helen Mirren is the new big...

PULSE SALES

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HELLUVA GOOD TIME

THE Theatre at St. Clement's may be located in a converted church, but by entering it you'll be going straight to hell. That, at least, is the setting for "The...

CONSTANT REMINDERS OF WHAT FUN PLAY CAN BE

IT only took some 300 years, but George Farquhar's rollicking comedy "The Constant Couple" has finally had its New York premiere, and for that we have the Pearl Theatre Company...

'REBEL' WITH A CAUSE

'I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong . . . that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are...

STARR REPORT

Good sports Former Mets teammates Ron Darling and Darryl Strawberry reunite tonight (6:30) on SNY's "Mets Hot Stove," hosted by Kevin Bur khardt. They'll dis cuss the MLB rumor mill...

ANALYZE THIS

HIDING a reality show in the middle of a drama has turned out to be a prefect way to inject new blood into "House." Tomorrow night, Dr. House will finally...

PLANE TRUTH OF TV REALITY

YOU thought the celebs have it rough on "Dancing with the Stars"? Consider head judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. Goodman and Tonioli commute from Los Angeles to London every...

BRIAN ASKED BROKAW FOR ADVICE ON 'SNL'

TOM Brokaw didn't approve of his successor as NBC news anchor, Brian Williams, hosting "Saturday Night Live" earlier this month. "He wrote to me beforehand," Brokaw told the CNN show...

COCKEYED LOVE

SHE might be tiny but she's hard to miss, especially if you've been grazing by MTV lately. She's Tila Tequila (real name: Tila Nyugen; age: 26; height: 4'11"), and apparently...

OPRAH VISITS ALLEGED SCHOOL ABUSE VICTIM'S FAMILY: REPORT

Oprah Winfrey slipped into her South African school Sunday for several meetings, including one with the family of a 12-year-old girl who left the school after complaining about incident's involving...

PAUL'S NEW ROSE

All he needs is love - and these days, Paul McCartney seems as if he can't get enough of it. The Billionaire Beatle was photographed this week holding hands with...

WII WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

Big Apple shoppers were on the hunt yesterday for the trifecta of holiday presents - video-game players, iPods and flat-screen TVs - as stores said demand remained very strong three...

BOOTLEG BIZ FEELING PINCH

Illegal peddlers who clog Manhattan's sidewalks with their cheap, counterfeit goods are getting hit with a double-whammy this holiday season - extra attention from cops and plummeting sales. That's great...

LI RANKS 2ND, NYC 8TH AS BEST PLACES FOR WOMEN

Long Island is the second healthiest place in America for women, while the Big Apple was eighth, according to a survey released yesterday. Nassau and Suffolk counties took second place...

GAL PALS IN REALTY 'ROBBERY'

Two Upper East Side women could soon be en route to the big house - for targeting rich Manhattan residents at open houses and making off with their valuables, cops...

NO FINER DINER IN NY

Murder was on the menu. So were the Yankees and next year's presidential race. The Lindenwood Diner in East New York, Brooklyn, has played host to surveillance of the Gotti...

JUNIOR'S 'POLICE SQUAD'

The feds haven't given up their crusade to put John "Junior" Gotti behind bars - and new charges planned against him will reveal a coven of cops who allegedly helped...

50-BULLET VICTIM'S KIN VISIT GRAVE

The grief-stricken parents of Sean Bell, killed by undercover cops in a hail of 50 bullets, visited their son's grave on Long Island yesterday on the first anniversary of his...

TAXI PLAN IS EAR-RAISING

The city's Taxi & Limousine Commission will try out new technology to allow passengers with hearing aids to better understand and communicate with cabdrivers, The Post has learned. For months,...

HOT-LINE AID FOR HUNGRY

New Yorkers who call the city's 311 hot line because they don't have enough food for their families will get help from operators trained to handle their emergencies, Mayor Bloomberg...

WAIT STAFF AT TIPPING POINT

Struggling Theater District restaurant owners yesterday said they may have to begin laying off workers as the theater stagehands' bitter strike entered its third week. But talks between the stagehands'...

NEW FAMILIES IN VISA LIMBO

The crib had been assembled and the stuffed animals lovingly arranged, awaiting the arrival of 6-month-old Oliver, in the Queens apartment. Writer David French and his wife, Chanin, couldn't wait...

TEEN FLIES AFOUL OF 'LIDLE RULE'

Manhattan's spectacular skyscraper canyons are a draw to sightseeing amateur pilots - and Itay Zecharia, 19, got such a close look at them on a flyby last summer, he might...

DREDGE REPORT: BROOKLYN GAINING NAVY YARDAGE

The one slice of the Big Apple where industrial business is thriving is about to get even bigger to meet growing demand. The 300-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard will soon be...

WRECKING BRAWL

Rapid real-estate development in the East Village has prompted preservationists to try to save the last remnants of the neighborhood's immigrant history with a bid to landmark six buildings, including...

TRIO'S BIRTHDAY OUTING ENDS IN SLASH BASH

Three Rockland County friends in the city for a birthday celebration were stabbed during a fight at a Midtown parking garage early yesterday, police and witnesses said. The incident happened...

WOMAN, 76, STRUCK BY BUS

An elderly woman was struck by a bus on the Lower East Side yesterday as it ferried gamblers from Chinatown to Atlantic City. The 76-year-old victim had been walking with...

DOC'S 'GAY SEX' SHOCK

A medical assistant is suing a group of Long Island doctors after allegedly being fired for refusing to cover for a physician she says had sex with his gay lover...

CLASS 'CLOWN'

A mime with a law degree and an Egyptian expert on TS Elliot are among the teachers with mundane backgrounds at the city's controversial Arabic school. Critics of the Khalil...

UPPER E. SIDE BLAZE

A fire swept through a five-story Upper East Side building yesterday, forcing 25 tenants from their homes and injuring six firefighters, including one seriously, authorities said. The two-alarm blaze broke...

PENTAGON $ALT IN WOUNDS: CHUCK

The Pentagon's demand that soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan repay part of their enlistment bonuses is "a slap in the face for all US war veterans," Sen. Charles Schumer...

'ENCHANTED' CHARMS ITS WAY TO TOP OF THE BOX OFFICE

"Enchanted" placed a spell on moviegoers as the comic fantasy scored the second-best Thanksgiving weekend opening ever at the box office, according to studio estimates released yesterday. The Disney film...

RATS RUNNING WILD AND BITING BIG CHEESE

John "Junior" Gotti's past may finally be catching up with him. Crew members from his old days have begun singing to the feds about grisly murders and other crimes in...

EDWARDS BURNS OIL COMPANIES

President wannabe John Edwards wooed New Hampshire voters yesterday by going after rich oil companies and cold weather. "American families are facing skyrocketing home heating-oil and gasoline prices, while big...

RUDY & MITT IN NEW SLAMSHIRE

HAMPTON, NH - GOP presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney took their mudslinging to the streets of New Hampshire yesterday, accusing each other of being unqualified to be the...

LAP OF LUXURY

Call it puppy Love. Iris Love, a longtime friend of Brooke Astor, is now caring for the late socialite's beloved dachshunds, Boysie and Girlsie. After Astor's death, the dogs were...

'SUPER' BANNED

Even Superman can't defeat Yahoo! An Internet bulletin board devoted to George Reeves, the late actor who portrayed "Superman" on TV, has been shut down by Yahoo! without explanation, leaving...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Brooklyn A clerk at a Brownsville bodega was shot in the neck during a robbery last night - and his life was saved by three firefighters. The violence took place...

FBI TWIST IN SPITZ PROBE

Gov. Spitzer is being blamed for siccing the FBI on Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno - after earlier accusations that he unleashed the State Police, and tried to unleash the...

CRUELEST CLERK OF SUBWAY

GET used to it, New Yorkers - subway fares are going up. And then you hear how the subway treated Emmitt Peeples - a proud kid who works hard in...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 680; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 7567; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 571; Lucky Sum: 13; Evening Win-4 Sun.: 9037; Lucky...

IRAQI HOMECOMING

They're coming home. Iraqis who fled their country for Syria and Jordan in the wake of roadside bombs and terrorist attacks are coming back to Baghdad in dramatic numbers, reports...

RULE OR GET OFF THE BENCH

If state Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman won't even issue a ruling on years-old legal moves to end decades-old court oversight of city homeless shelters, maybe she should do something...

A SMALL MIDEAST STEP

THE Bush Administration's long-awaited Middle East conference to resuscitate the near-dead Israeli-Palestinian peace process is slated to converge this week on tiny Annapolis, Md. With the organizers themselves keeping their...

IRAQ: BEYOND THE DROP IN VIOLENCE

'A TORRENT of good news": So The New York Times described the reports of a significant fall in violence in Iraq. But reducing all Iraqi news to measures of violence...

THE MEDIA LOVE THE CLINTONS

HIDE your children! An other journalist is eng aging in PDCA - Pub lic Display of Clinton Affection. Not since 1998 - when women's magazine writer Nina Burleigh told The...

PRICKLY HUCK'S BIG-GOV CREDS

WHO would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market group the "Club for Greed"? That sounds like Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact,...

COPPING A PLEA: PAY FINEST THEIR WORTH

Pat Lynch is doing the job of PBA President that we elected him to do ("Deluding Cops," Editorial, Nov. 19). As usual, the city administration doesn't want to sit down...

DE-GRADED RACE PREFERENCES

Maybe this latest case of discrimination will finally show people that reverse discrimination is wrong and needs to be eliminated ("End the Race Games," Editorial). Now that a race, other...

BAAAD NEWS BONDS

The bond market's next shoe to drop is likely to be the painful decline in the value of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of triple-A rated issues backed by...

BIG HOPES BUILDING FOR 'CYBER MONDAY'

Retailers expect at least two more big chances to snag healthy holiday sales gains - starting with today's "Cyber Monday" hustle of online shopping. Experts say spending online will jump...

'PINK' FIRMS BUY AIR TIME

Two struggling so-called pink-sheet companies have recently begun running advertisements on CNBC as a high-profile way of moving their stocks higher. Pink-sheet companies ConnectAJet and Hear At Last have seen...

WRITING MUSIC

There are as many styles of music as there are fashions in clothing - and that goes for music reporting, too. This week's magazines run the gamut, with offerings of...

AD LOVERS: WATCH THIS SPOT

A lot of people complain when a commercial break interrupts their show. Now, there's a show for people who want to watch one long commercial break. Firebrand, a company and...

CHILL FACTOR

Top music downloads 1. Crank Dat, Soulja Boy 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Cyclone, Baby Bash 4. No One, Alicia Keys 5. Ayo Technology, 50 Cent 6. Bed, J. Holiday 7....

EXCLUSIVE: BRITNEY COULD GET 2 YEARS PROBATION

Just when Britney Spears thought things couldn't get any worse, a California city attorney wants the pop singer sentenced to two years' probation for driving without a valid California driver's...

IRAQI BRIDE ACTUALLY WANTED MILITANT: REPORT

A newlywed couple was ordered out of their car at a Baghdad checkpoint only for suspicious Iraqi guards to discover the blushing bride was really a man, News.com.au reported. The...

BROOK ASTOR'S SON INDICTED

Brooke Astor's son has been indicted on charges stemming from how he handled her financial affairs and will, the New York Times reported, citing people who were briefed on the...

FOXY TAKEN OUT OF THE HOLE

Jailed rap star Foxy Brown's "Broken Silence" has come more than a month early -- she's been taken out of a segregated cell at Rikers Island, sources said. The troubled...

MOB LAWYER FIGHT

A former mob wannabe testified today that he helped two buddies in a botched 1994 rubout, and his words ended up setting off more violence -- this time between the...

LESBIAN LOVE STABBING

A bonkers Brooklyn woman fatally slashed the throat of her lesbian lover's husband and then fled barefoot and covered in blood today, law enforcement sources said. The alleged killer, Anastasiya...

JACKSON NOT LIKELY TO LEAVE LAKERS

LOS ANGELES - Lakers coach Phil Jackson has been mentioned in some circles as a possible fix for the Knicks when or if there is a shakeup at the Garden....

ROAD WARRIORS

LOS ANGELES - You just hope the Nets were paying close attention last night because there were inalienable truths that were proven throughout the game. Never judge a team by...

SPORTS SHORTS

COLLEGE GRID: Tebow breaks hand If Florida quarterback Tim Tebow wins the Heisman Trophy, he might have to lift the heavy, bronze statue with one hand. Tebow broke his right,...

ICE COOL KITTY WINS MONTAUK

Final stakes race this year over Aqueduct's main track, $75,000 Montauk at mile-and-eighth for NY-bred fillies & mares, was virtual match race, as Rick Dutrow's Ice Cool Kitty, odds-on favorite...

NO CLOUDS 'ROUND UNBEATEN STORM

As Norm Roberts continues to build the men's basketball program at St. John's, there is one aspect he already has mastered. If it were a bright sunny day but Roberts...

IS THIS COLLEGE FOOTBALL OR A MARATHON?

THERE was a pile of compelling college football games to watch, over the weekend - provided you could devote at least four hours to watch each of them. Friday, Nebraska-Colorado...

DEVS GET HEALTHY

They already found out what they couldn't do. Now the Devils wonder what they can achieve with a full squad. "We don't know what we're capable of doing, and that's...

TOM DOESN'T PULL MANNING, BURRESS

If ever there was a time for Eli Manning to be pulled from a game, it was in the fourth quarter of yesterday's moribund 41-17 trouncing at the hands of...

JACKSON LOOKS LIKE BEST QB ON FIELD

The Vikings weren't supposed to do this to the Giants - not with Tarvaris Jackson under center and without Adrian Peterson to hand the ball to. But Jackson, the second-year...

PURPLE HAZE 'SHOCKS' JINT 'D'

Eli Manning wasn't the only one walking around with a red face after the Giants' 41-17 disaster against the Vikings yesterday. Manning's four interceptions were embarrassing, of course, but the...

NOT ALL ON ELI

THE final indignity, for the quarterback and for the football team, came with three minutes and 47 seconds remaining in one of the most desultory afternoons Giants Stadium has ever...

SHARPER PICK AN ELI MISREAD

How do a professional quarterback and tight end look so completely out of synch on a play that is supposedly practiced repeatedly during the week? When the quarterback messes up...

RECEIVERS DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS

The poor communication that added to Eli Manning's awful afternoon on the field continued into the Giants' locker room yesterday. Though Manning's primary receivers in a 41-17 loss to the...

'SHELL-SHOCKED'

It wasn't until after the third interception - the second of the afternoon by Minnesota's Dwight Smith - that Pat Williams noticed a difference in Eli Manning. "I think he...

THE PICKS OF THE WEAK

There was a moment in the second quarter yesterday when Osi Umenyiora ran off the field to get an intravenous injection and he casually glanced up at the scoreboard. He...

PLAIN AND SIMPLE, HE LEFT 'EM WITH NO CHANCE

ELI Manning was scrambling backwards now, wheeling and going backwards some more, at the end of an unconscionable day when his career had suddenly gone disturbingly backwards, a day infuriating...

RELIEVED ISIAH GETS IN SOME ONE-ON-ONE

At the end of yesterday's marathon two-hour practice, Isiah Thomas spent a half-hour playing 1-on-1 with Fred Jones, Jared Jeffries, Nate Robinson and Mardy Collins. There were yells, squeals, laughs....

GUARDED TRUCE

Stephon Marbury's slump is over. The wounds left from his feud with Isiah Thomas are not. Coming off the Knicks' gigantic, streak-snapping victory over the Bulls on Saturday, Thomas and...

NOT-SO-GREAT SCOTT

THE Rangers, who out shot Dallas 41 to 18 yesterday, were rope-a-doped into a 3-2 loss. And one of their biggest dopes was Scott Gomez. In the final minute of...

A GOALIE AGAINST

The Rangers hit their standard of two goals at Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon against the Stars, and that would have been good enough for a victory had Henrik Lundqvist...

JOHAN SWEEPSTAKES BEGINS

Rich teams getting richer makes Bud Selig grimace. Nevertheless, after watching the Yankees and Alex Rodriguez agree on the largest contract in baseball history that could swell past the $300...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

A butterfly species discovered in a Florida museum will be called "Minerva," after an anonymous bidder paid $40,800 for the naming rights. The butterfly's common name will be the Minerva...

The Captain's Words May Have Hit Home

By FRED KERBERGlass jaw? Not in L.A. Figure this is the Laker recap, wee hours edition. And the wake-up call is due in about 40 minutes. Anyway, the Nets are...

Mango NYC now open

Tokyo Story 5: To-ing the Line

From V.A. Musetto at Tokyo Filmex: Johnnie To rules! ``Exiled," the Hong Kong cult director`s bloody salute to spaghetti Westerns, took the audience prize at the festival`s closing-night festivities Sunday...

"Fire Layden...Fire Isiah''

By MARC BERMANThe Garden can belt out a sing-song chant Monday night vs. the Jazz. The fans can alternate – for nostalgic purposes – a “Fire Layden’’ chant alongside a...