December 8, 2007
Box Office: 'Golden Compass' Headed South Fast
Early Friday estimates for "The Golden Compass'' are running between $8.6 and $8.8 million, suggesting the megabucks fantasy may have a hard time matching the $27.5 million opening weekend of...
Marbury should sleep tonight
By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury has been asked thousands and thousands of questions by reporters during his life. But after last night's loss to the Sixers at Wachovia Center, he faced...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYA DAY IN THE LIFE: If the average 5-year-old counted talking clocks or dancing owls among his friends, you'd guess these pals were imaginary. But they're the real deal for...
HAUTE FOR TOTS
ONE of the best reasons to have children? Having an excuse to buy cool toys - the ones you wished you'd gotten - and adorable little clothes. OK, maybe there...
THE GREAT '68
WHAT happens in 1968 should stay in 1968. That's a guideline I wish Tom Brokaw had followed in producing this two-hour chronology of the events of 1968. The year was...
BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
THE daylight-deprived days of December are upon us, and though we've only had a slight snow, the wind and rain are enough to make any sane New Yorker crave cozy,...
SO IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Your birthday chart promises success above and beyond your wildest dreams. Well, okay, maybe it won't be quite that good but you will certainly receive something worth having. You will...
AUARIUS
A new moon in the friendship area of your chart means you will be rewarded for all the efforts you have made, especially the effort to understand other people. Your...
CONEY ISLAND PART & PARCEL
The No. 2 property owner in Coney Island's amusement area is talking to the Bloomberg administration about selling the city some of the land it needs to create a 15-acre...
ELIOT EYES WATERFRONT WATCHDOG
Gov. Spitzer has ordered an investigation of the Waterfront Commission, the agency charged with weeding out organized crime and corruption from the region's ports, officials confirmed yesterday. "There have recently...
JETS IN BRUSH WITH DISASTER AT NEWARK
Another near-disaster stunned an area airport when an arriving Boeing 737 narrowly avoided smashing into a commuter jet preparing to take off at Newark Airport, officials said yesterday. The Boeing...
WHY BRONX MP3 'LIAR' COP TOOK NO-FRISK RISK
A veteran Bronx detective has got to be wondering today if he should have frisked the criminal suspect who surreptitiously recorded his interrogation session in an attempted-murder case. But police...
WASHER BROS IN HORROR PLUNGE
Two brothers who work as window washers plunged 47 stories from the top of an Upper East Side apartment building yesterday. One brother was killed immediately, the other miraculously survived....
SPITZ: I CAN'T BARE MY DIRTY TRICKS TESTIMONY
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer contended yesterday that the testimony he's expected to give to a state commission probing the Dirty Tricks Scandal can't be made public - even though nothing...
JURY GOES 2 FOR 3 VS. SPREE KILLER
Steven Sakai was convicted yesterday of killing an old friend and a fellow bouncer but acquitted of murdering a second bouncer - a split decision that could land the 32-year-old...
ASTOR'S SON GETS 'PASS'
Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was back in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday, successfully fending off claims he pulled a fast one when he turned over his passport last month. Prosecutors...
A-TRAINER: I CAN'T HIT 'FARE' SEX
The victim of the videotaped subway slugging that enraged the city and stunned straphangers is a handsome 27-year-old from Brooklyn who didn't fight back because he didn't want to hit...
'SUSPECT' RESPECTS
Slain Staten Island fire marshal Douglas Mercereau's full-figured wife - who some believe was driven to murder by humiliating fat jokes he made at her expense - was the elephant...
SCHOOL-PADLOCK COUNT AT 13
The number of schools being shuttered by the Department of Education rose to an unlucky 13 yesterday, with three more closures announced to parents and students yesterday. The Bronx Coalition...
DEAD MAN TALKING
Apparently cured of his amnesia, a British man accused of faking his death and staging his disappearance began explaining to police where he'd been the last five years. "John Darwin...
SHOE KIDDIN'?
Unless his client roster includes a modern-day Fred Flintstone or an ultra-camp incarnation of Elvis Presley, we can hardly imagine what luxe shoe designer Manolo Blahnik is doing making animal-print...
A BAILED BONDS PLEADS INNOCENT
SAN FRANCISCO - This is one record Barry Bonds doesn't want. Facing more than two years in prison, the home-run king pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he lied...
'IT IS MY ONLY OPTION'
Before heading to an Omaha mall to wipe out eight innocent lives, the coldblooded teen gunman penned a chilling suicide note that derided the people he would kill and said...
HUCK'S HOT ON HEELS OF GIULIANI
Mike Huckabee's surge among Republican voters has turned him into Rudy Giuliani's chief rival for the presidential nomination, according to two national polls released yesterday. A new AP/Ipsos survey showed...
BILL: PLEASE DON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT, MIKE
Former President Bill Clinton lauded Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as an "extraordinarily able mayor" and said he hoped that the mayor doesn't run for president against his wife "because I like...
'FAITHFUL' MITT A HIT IN IOWA
DES MOINES, Iowa - Mitt Romney's major speech about his Mormonism gave renewed faith to Iowans, who came to see the candidate yesterday as he battles Mike Huckabee for first...
BUBBA'S PRE-EMPT VS. OPRAH
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife today in South Carolina - a move that could keep Hillary in the headlines in the midst of Oprah Winfrey's mega-visit...
CITY FINDS $$ RIPOFF IN 'PARADISE'
There was no utopia for workers at the Paradise Construction Co., who were underpaid by $236,544 during the renovation of two city parks, officials said yesterday. The Department of Investigation...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Cops are asking for the public's assistance in finding an elderly Upper West Side man who vanished last month. Henry Shoats , 71, of West 108th Street, was last...
JUSTICE? STRIP HIS RECORDS
THERE he stood, impeccably tailored, walking from the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, the all-time home-run king walking without his crown. There was Barry Bonds, pleading not guilty...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 749; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 6320; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 268; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 0073;...
TRANSFORMING THE MTA
The Transit Authority's plan to revamp subway operations - so that such minor problems as a broken stair might no longer take months to fix - could be a benchmark...
DAMMING THE WATER-BILL DELUGE
New Yorkers got an early Christmas present this week as Mayor Bloom berg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn struck a deal to prevent the water-rate hike expected in January....
INSPECTOR GENERAL CLOUSEAU
State Inspector General Kristine Ham ann lives! She reminded folks of her profes sional existence this week when she reported on some shoddy practices at an NYPD crime lab way...
THE GRAY LADY'S GARMENT GOOF
WAS The New York Times trying to deceive its read ers, or did the Gray Lady herself get taken in? I'm talking about the lead article in the Times' City...
ALL ABOARD MOYNIHAN STATION
IN 1964, the original Penn sylvania Station, an im posing edifice embodying the grand vision and fortitude of our great city, was demolished in an unfortunate concession to the economic...
CONGRESS' SLAP AT THE POPE
PRESIDENT Bush's nomination of Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon as US ambassador to the Vatican is being held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raising the possibility...
ROUGH ESTIMATE
WHATEVER its merits in terms of reliable information on Iran's nuclear ambitions, the new US National Intelligence Estimate has something for everyone. President Bush can cite it in support of...
GROUND ZERO MYTHS & REALITIES
After 9/11, these brave people were showered with accolades for their selflessness in the face of danger. But now, in Adam Brodsky's opinion, they're nothing but whiny babies and a...
A SUBPRIME IDEA: BUSH MORTGAGE BAILOUT
I totally agree with Michelle Malkin's "Mortgage Madness" (PostOpinion, Dec. 5.) Why should I, a renter, have to pay to save people from having their homes taken away? These are...
PERELMAN PLANS IPO FOR BLIND INVESTMENT
Billionaire investor Ronald Perelman filed yesterday to raise $500 million from public investors to finance the takeover of a business he has yet to identify. The new capital will be...
SHARES OFF ON TV DEAL
Investors didn't take too kindly to Macrovision's $2.8 billion deal to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide International, sending shares of both companies swooning yesterday on the news. The stock of piracy-protection maker...
INVESTMENT BOOSTS BEAR
One of Bear Stearns' biggest stockowners continues to expand his stake in the company despite the brutal market conditions for its mortgage franchise. British currency investor Joseph Lewis disclosed in...
EX-NEW JERSEY GOV. JIM MCGREEVEY AND DINA MATOS MCGREEVEY ARE SQUABBLING OVER 6-YEAR-OLD KID JACQUELINE.
Little Jacqueline McGreevey is caught between a battling mom and dad who bicker over everything from her drop-off location and therapy fees to the church where she receives communion and...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGES: Olson files for divorce Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson has filed for divorce, though his wife says she remains committed to the marriage. The 73-year-old Hall of Fame coach...
ENGLISH BULLDOG
LAS VEGAS - The line to get into yesterday's weigh-in for tonight's WBC welterweight championship fight began forming at 5 a.m. local time. By 11 a.m., the doors to the...
SCHIANO: I'M STAYING PUT
First Miami. Now Michigan. Who's next, USC? Rutgers football coach Greg Schiano, who last year turned down an offer to become head coach at Miami, yesterday turned down Michigan, the...
PUTTING MY HEISMAN VOTE ON THE RECORD
THE player I voted for isn't going to win the Heisman Trophy. He didn't even get an invite to the Big Apple for tonight's ceremony, which is fitting because he...
NINE AND COUNTING FOR SURGING DEVILS
The Devils think it might be a little different this time when they visit Madison Square Garden tomorrow to face the Rangers. Nine straight victories prompt such optimism. "We're not...
MADISON'S AVENUE
Madison Hedgecock proudly insists, "I'm not from the boonies." He explains in a voice that gives himself away that he grew up in a town named Wallburg, just outside of...
GIANTS CHASE TO FILL PIERCE PLACE
David Tyree was shouting across the locker room in the direction of Chase Blackburn. "C'mon Chase, don't do it!" Tyree yelled. "Special teams for life." That's where those two normally...
SPECIAL FORCES
With the 3-9 Jets well out of playoff contention, what happens on special teams looks like the most compelling angle to their Sunday home matchup with the Browns. Just don't...
MOURNING AFTER
PHILADELPHIA - Stephon Marbury said his father would've wanted him to play last night. He tried but couldn't. One day after his father's funeral, Marbury realized after one half he...
SIXERS BATTER HAPLESS KNICKS
PHILADELPHIA - At least Stephon Marbury had an excuse. Marbury hadn't slept in days. The rest of the Knicks, though, sleepwalked too last night in half-empty Wachovia Center as the...
CHRONIC HEADACHE
Jason Kidd was back in the Nets lineup after missing Wednesday's loss to the Knicks with what he said was a migraine. But the way the Nets spit the bit...
YANKED OUT!
On the day after the Winter Meetings ended in Nashville, the Yankees yesterday continued to work on what their roster will look like at the start of spring training. Johan...
TEBOW TAKES HEISMAN
The good people at the Downtown Athletic Club might find this blasphemous, but winning the Heisman Trophy wasn't Florida quarterback Tom Tebow's most impressive accomplishment this season. Nor will the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Call it the Scarlet sandwich board - or pink in this case. A Bridgeport, Ohio, man was ordered to walk around carrying a hot pink sandwich board reading "Cigarette Butts...