December 15, 2007
Early Box Office: 'Legend'-ary Opening for Smith, 'Juno' Clobbers 'Atonement''; Francis Flop-pola
"I Am Legend'' looks like the best opening of Will Smith's storied career, with Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls projecting a whopping $73.3 million for its first three days, which...
PETTITTE ADMITS TO HGH USE
Two days after he was named in the Mitchell Report, Andy Pettitte admitted that he did indeed use human growth hormone.The pitcher, who just signed a new contract with the...
SITE CHECK: I hate Hilton.com
Here's a new one - a front desk clerk at Homewood Suites by Hilton chiding me for relying on on their website for reservations.I'd booked two rooms - only one...
UPDATE: The Savoy checks out
London's venerable Savoy hotel shuts up shop today -- at least until 2009.One of England's most famous hotels, everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Winston Churchill have lived there. The dry...
ALL ABOUT EVE
Hey, what are you doing for New Year's? We know, we know. It's not even Christmas, and you haven't yet had your office holiday party. But the mother of all...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAYSOCK IT TO YA: Don't let the name fool you - the Dirty Sock Funtime Band doesn't stink at all. Catch the stars of Noggin's "Jack's Big Music Show" live...
PLAY BABIES
NOT everyone gets to relax during the holidays - and we're not referring to Hanukkah Harry, Santa and the reindeer. Some of the biggest stars of the season's spectactulars happen...
CHRISTMAS 'LITE'
LIGHT and fluffy as fresh powder on an Aspen mountain is ABC Family's "Snowglobe," an original TV movie about Angela, an Italian-Cuban-American young woman (Christina Milian) (ever notice how women...
KIEFER HAILS JAIL MAIL
KIEFER Sutherland has plenty to read while serving his two months in prison - the "24" star has been swamped with "a ton of fan mail," his jailers say. Sutherland...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
You will be acutely aware of the needs and the feelings of those around you over the coming 12 months, and will do what you can to ease their pain....
QNS. DENTISTS' ROOT OF $$ EVIL
A shady Queens dental service whose ads are a staple of the cable news channel New York 1 has given new meaning to cut and run, according to a local...
AL'S DIZZY BIZ
For the past four years, the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network has operated with million-dollar deficits - with about half the group's annual donations going to pay private consultant...
'MERE' 16% PAY HIKE FOR SPITZ CRONY'S WIFE
ALBANY - Officials yesterday slashed by more than $13,000 a proposed $46,000 salary increase for a top state housing official who's also the wife of a close Gov. Spitzer aide....
NASTY NOR'EASTER BREWIN'
Brace yourself for a slippery, sleeting, blustery mess tonight as a quick-moving nor'easter blows through the city. The storm is expected to dump up to an inch of snow here...
BACK COURT 'FOUL'
A plus-size fashion model has slapped a lawsuit against New Jersey Net star Jason Kidd for allegedly palming her bottom at a trendy Manhattan nightclub. Kidd repeatedly grabbed and groped...
RODRIGUEZ SWEARS NO WAY, JOSÉ!
Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez yesterday shot back at loudmouth juicer José Canseco over his howling that the Mitchell Report should have included the All-Star third baseman. "Canseco wrote a book...
FIRING HEAT AT DODGY ROGER
Angry Yankee fans have a clear message for disgraced pitcher Roger Clemens now that he's been outed as a steroid user: Tell the truth! "I think he should come out...
'I DIDN'T MEAN TO SHOOT HIM'
A black Long Island dad charged with fatally shooting a white teen during a confrontation broke into sobs yesterday as he demonstrated how the victim allegedly tried to grab the...
CAR-HIDE COP IN PLEA DEAL
The disgraced cop accused of helping to hide her no-goodnik husband's bullet-riddled car following his shootout with police pleaded guilty yesterday in exchange for a no-jail deal. Jacqueline Melendez-Rivera, 38,...
CAT LOVERS CLAWING AT FELINE KILLER
Poor little alleged cat bludgeoner - the furious feline fanciers are ganging up on him. Letters have been pouring into the judge's chambers and the Manhattan DA's Office, all caterwauling...
RUDY THE 'IMPERFECT'
Rudy Giuliani admits his personal faults in remarks prepared for a major speech today but urges Americans to elect him president because he's the leader most "tested in times of...
MIKE TWEAKS PREZ HOPEFULS
The presidential candidates are getting off way too easy, Mayor Bloomberg complained yesterday in Bali. Speaking at a press conference following his address before a UN environmental conference, the mayor...
BIAS CASE VS. 'HATE HANUKKAH' PUNKS
Hate-crime charges against the 10 young thugs accused of beating a Jewish man on a Q train last week will be presented to a grand jury, prosecutors said in court...
TROOPER'S ATTORNEY: WHAT RAPE?
A New Jersey college student whose accusations of a brutal gang rape led to the suspension of seven state troopers had consensual sex with five of the men over a...
JUDGE NAILS MAFIOSO IN SLAYING
A Brooklyn courtroom erupted into chaos yesterday after a reputed Genovese associate and co-owner of a respected Brooklyn bakery was convicted of orchestrating the 1994 rubout of a card-game partner....
KINKY SUIT'S ROMP & CIRCUMSTANCES
An Upper East Side billionaire investor has come out swinging against his young transgender rival in a bizarre Manhattan lawsuit. Jeffrey Epstein - a high-powered financial adviser more famous of...
HS $CAM BUST
The chief financial officer of a Bronx Catholic high school was arrested for stealing $120,000 he spent on jewelry, vacations and other personal expenses, authorities said yesterday. Keith Martin, 51,...
CRANE RAINS DOWN
Seven tons of aluminum wall studs fell 13 stories from a high-rise construction site in Battery Park City yesterday, seriously injuring a man inside a trailer that took the brunt...
HOMELESS SHOCK
More than 3,800 New Yorkers 24 or younger are homeless on any given night, according to a survey released yesterday. Margo Hirsch, executive director of the Empire State Coalition of...
7 SCHOOLKIDS HURT IN QUEENS BUS CRASH
Seven schoolkids were injured yesterday - including a 9-year-old in critical condition and a 5-year-old tossed out on the street - when their school van collided with an MTA bus...
LITTLEJOHN COPS SEEK MOM DNA
Detectives working the case against accused murderous bar bouncer Darryl Littlejohn have obtained a court order to swab the alleged killer's elderly mother and aunt for DNA, The Post has...
'DARLING DODI, HEARTFELT THANKS FOR BRINGING SUCH JOY INTO THIS CHICK'S LIFE'
It really was true love, judging by newly revealed letters from Princess Diana to Dodi Fayed. "Darling Dodi," the princess began in a handwritten, mushy note to her heartthrob weeks...
THE JOKER'S WILD
Holy sneak peeks, Batman! It's the Joker! Hee-Hee-Heath Ledger dons the clown makeup and maniacal grin of Gotham City's most twisted villain in this shot from "The Dark Knight," a...
CLEAN YANK RIPS CH.4
About three hours before the Mitchell Report came out on Thursday, WNBC/Channel 4 posted on its Web site an "exclusive" list of 75 players expected to be in it. That...
GIULIANI WOE IN FLA.
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani's plan for a big win in Florida appears in dire trouble, according to a poll out yesterday showing him trailing both Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee....
HILLARY'S LADY LUCK
DES MOINES, Iowa - Taking heat for her campaign's sharp-elbowed tactics, Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday rolled out a warm and fuzzy new TV ad featuring hugs, kisses, her mom and...
PUNCHY GEORGE
Most people probably wouldn't try to get a product plug into a letter begging a judge to be lenient with their friend. George Foreman is not most people. The TV...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A man was shot dead on a Brownsville street early yesterday, police said. The victim, whose name and age were not released, was shot in the head on Ralph...
A CON GAME: THEY PLAYED US FOR DOPES
WHAT suckers we are. How can I tell my daughter, a Met fanatic, that the games she begs me to attend are a sham? That the players she follows with...
MEAT THE SOPRANOS
TRENTON, NJ - Welcome to "Sopranos" country - a k a Elizabeth, NJ. Like Tony Soprano driving past pork stores and pizzerias in the famed opening-title sequence of the hit...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 250; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 7268; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 643; Lucky Sum: 13; Evening Win-4 Fri.: 3506; Lucky...
MIKE'S NEXT TAX HIKE
New York City residents are sched uled to get a major tax break next summer - except that it's going to vanish in the blink of an eye. Thank Mayor...
A STEP BACK ON CRIME
In a pair of decisions Monday, the Su preme Court took a big step back to the days when criminals ran rampant. The high court expanded on its growing unwillingness...
WHAT'S IN IT FOR SILVER?
Once again, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is odd man out - this time, single-handedly holding up judicial pay hikes that even he says are critical. It's déjà vu all over...
LIBERALS & TERROR
ON Wednesday, I was in vited to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to defend the War on Terror. The school is such a hotbed of liberalism, arguably the most...
ACTION HERO HELPS HUCK
REPUBLICAN insiders, puzzled by the sud den rise of Mike Huckabee as a serious presidential candidate, are overlooking the role played by actor Chuck Norris. Called "Huckabee's Oprah" in Hollywood,...
HILLARY GETS UGLY
JUST weeks before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire pri mary, the Hillary Clinton campaign has suddenly lost its air of invincibility. And, with Barack Obama surging in the polls,...
CIA = (C)ONCEAL (I)T (A)LL
Now that I think about it, the Democratic Party's demand for a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA videotape destruction is a good idea ("Terrorist Turned to Water," Dec. 11)....
STRAPHANGERS: BEWARE OF PICK-POCKETING MTA
Why does the MTA want to raise bus and subway fares? Because it claims that it doesn't have any money, which is ludicrous and outright ridiculous. ("Higher Fare - Same...
COMCAST SUIT: NFL NETWORK IN BREACH
It's Brian Roberts vs. Jerry Jones in the latest round of legal wrangling between cable operators and the NFL Network. Roberts-led Comcast late Thursday night filed a lawsuit against the...
BONUS CHECK? NOPE
Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain offered his firm's battered bond division the clearest sign yet that the credit-market woes will continue to inflict pain both on the bank and many...
ONLINE HOLIDAY SALES SLOW
Growth in holiday shopping online has slowed sharply this year, stoking worries that Internet retailers like Amazon.com and eBay may be in for a lackluster season. Internet sales rose 19...
CITI RESCUE IS A WINNER
Citigroup's new head Vikram Pandit is winning plaudits for helping crack a nearly hopeless logjam clogging world credit flows - while also giving Citi a needed facelift. Analysts took turns...
BRUTAL BILL CLINTON BASHES BARACK OBAMA
Wild Bill Clinton drew his wifes battle-scarred campaign even further off track when he told interviewer Charlie Rose that Americans would be taking a risk by voting for close rival...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Tiger in lead In Thousand Oaks, Calif., Tiger Woods is a gracious tournament host, at least until the tournament gets started. Woods continued to show midseason form at the...
ST. JOHN'S HOPES TO STORM PAST NIAGARA
When St. John's takes the Carnesecca Arena floor today against Niagara (4 p.m, SNY), the Red Storm won't have played for nearly two weeks. But they're hoping that time -...
SF FLUNKS REPORT CARD
Roger Clemens stole the headlines, but there was much more in the 409-page Mitchell Report issued Thursday that is interesting. Here is a look at some of the items in...
SELIG'S NEXT STEP DEPENDS ON UNION
As the firestorm from the Mitchell Report smolders, Major League Baseball is now left with the question: What now? Baseball has two major issues to deal with immediately. First, George...
NASTY NINER
SAN FRANCISCO - After watching tape on dozens of opponents over seven NFL seasons, not much shows up on film that really impresses Chad Johnson. This week, one defensive player...
DEVIL-ISH SPARK
The Devils themselves might be surprised, but Brent (Shuffler) Sutter says he'd prefer to keep his lines intact, rather than constantly revising his forward threesomes as he's done most of...
WILSON COULD KNEED MORE TIME TO HEAL
Free safety Gibril Wilson completed another week without any time on the practice field and is highly unlikely to play tomorrow night against the Redskins, but he swears he's making...
IT'S PLAXI-GO!
There was a time when Plaxico Burress was keeping up, hauling in passes and finding his way into the end zone as often as any receiver in the NFL and...
PERFECT!
A major topic of conversation around the Jets locker room this week has centered around what about tomorrow's rematch with the Patriots in Foxborough motivates the players most. * Breaking...
AGUIRRE: EDDY'S PROBLEM IS ZACH
CHICAGO - Knick assistant Mark Aguirre said slumping Eddy Curry may be freaked out by the presence of Zach Randolph. Aguirre, Curry's mentor, told The Post, "The biggest thing with...
KNICK DIVE HITS 5
CHICAGO - One season ago, Eddy Curry emerged as a potential All-Star, with Isiah Thomas labeling him a franchise center to build around. Last night, Curry's career hit rock bottom...
FED-UP ISIAH MAY EYE DEAL
Isiah Thomas sounds like a man desperate to make changes to his roster - and you can take Eddy Curry off the untouchable list. Today is a key day in...
KID (NOT KIDD) SHOW BOONE & WILLIAMS RESCUE NETS
The crowd was remarkably patient. Those in attendance at the Meadowlands waited a whole 85 seconds, granted an excruciating 85 seconds, before emitting their disgusted boos. Net coach Lawrence Frank...
RANGERS FACE SOME 'GREAT' PROBLEMS
The Rangers, who host coach Wayne Gretzky and the Coyotes tomorrow night at the Garden, have lost four of five and saw their spot on the top of the Atlantic...
MUTE FOR THE HOME TEAM
With Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte at the forefront of Thursday's Mitchell Report - which implicated 22 current or former Yanks in all - a mute button smothered the Yankees...
. . . BUT MO SAYS TITLES NOT TAINTED
A day after the Mitchell Report shook baseball - and especially the Yankees - one of the chief members of the Yanks' championship teams doesn't believe the run was tainted...
A LESSON FROM 1951 CCNY SCANDAL: THESE MLB PLAYERS WEREN'T ALONE
THIS was a couple of years ago, sitting in the den belonging to a guy who, once upon a lifetime earlier, had been in on the fix at CCNY. The...
HAREN GOES TO D'BACKS
If the Yankees are going to add a stud starter via a trade it has to be Johan Santana from the Twins because Dan Haren was dealt from the Athletics...
STATEMENT OF ANY PETTITTE
Statement of Andy Pettitte issued through Randy Hendricks First, I would like to say that contrary to media reports, I have never used steroids. I have no idea why the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
In America, it's your God-given right to curse at your overflowing toilet. That's what a judge ruled after a Scranton, Pa., woman was cited for loudly uttering dirty words at...