January 13, 2008
No Madison, yes T.O.
BY PAUL SCHWARTZIs it Eli weather?We'll see soon enough, but there's no doubt this afternoon in Dallas (actually Irving, Texas) couldn't be more pleasant or hospitable for the Giants or...
Miss at your own risk
Go WestSince the untimely demise of âDeadwood,â those looking for a Western fix had to head to the movies. But Western writer Larry McMurtry scratches that itch tonight with âComanche...
NEW TANKLEFF PROBE
The Martin Tankleff case is not closed. Less than two weeks after the Suffolk County district attorney announced all murder charges against Tankleff would be dropped, Gov. Spitzer appointed a...
FDNY SLACKS OFF ON BLDG. INSPECTIONS
The Fire Department is encouraging its members to violate city rules in an effort to keep up with mandated building inspections. In a Nov. 5 memo outlining the department's "guidelines"...
REVELERS SEEKING A 2ND KISS
Are you the one I kissed New Year's Eve? That's the question haunting dozens of New Yorkers desperately trying to track down the virtual stranger they hooked up with -...
REGULATORS 'LIPO'-ACTIVE
Liposuctions, nose jobs, colonoscopies and other procedures done in a doctor's office will be regulated for the first time starting tomorrow. Doctors in New York will be required to report...
JUICE GOTTA BE KIDDING!
A fed-up Yankees fan is suing the team he spent his life rooting for because they fielded juiced-up players and broke the promise of an honest game. Matthew Mitchell wants...
'HAUL' OF AN IDEA: PROFS PUSH FOR SANIT MUSEUM
What a rotten idea. Two trash-talking NYU professors want to create a Department of Sanitation museum to showcase the contribution New York's Strongest have made to the city and give...
'SICK'ENED FDNY EYES CUTS
The number of firefighters calling in sick each day is soaring - prompting FDNY brass to threaten manpower cuts at 49 of the city's busiest firehouses as soon as next...
SNOWSTORM TO SOCK CITY
Winter is back - and six inches of proof is on the way. While today will be sunny and in the mid-40s, the outlook for the rest of the week...
HERO KIN'S ANGUISH
The family of a good Samaritan stabbed to death in a Harlem melee said yesterday they were willing to forgive the muscle-bound MTA worker who apparently killed him. Flonarza Byas,...
MTA IS 'DISSING' DISABLED
The MTA needs to rein in rude workers who disrespect the disabled, and stop bus drivers from rolling past people waiting in wheelchairs, according to a City Council report set...
GEM OF A BUST AT JFK
In a scene straight out of the gangster film "Goodfellas," two longtime American Airlines employees were busted for allegedly swiping more than $200,000 worth of diamonds from a Kennedy Airport...
EAST SIDE BAR HOSTS URBAN COWBOYS FANS
Unless Giants fans want to rumble, they should stay away from the Stone Creek Bar and Lounge in Murray Hill today. Sure, the 27th Street bar will be full of...
THE $18,000 BELT
Consider it belt-tightening for those who never need to. Manhattan men's accessories company Kale Miles is marketing a leather belt that retails for an astounding $18,000, New York magazine reports....
FALL GUY: LET ME WALK
The window washer who defied death in a 47-story fall from a scaffold keeps telling his family he wants to walk again - now. "Send me to rehab. Why don't...
WEINER HOT IN MAYOR $TAKES
With nearly two years to go before the 2009 mayoral election, Rep. Anthony Weiner led the field of likely candidates by raising $1.6 million in the past six months, campaign...
FIRE GUTS NJ FUGITIVE'S HIDEOUT
The New Jersey house in which an escaped jailbird was recaptured last week was ravaged early yesterday by a fire that authorities say is under investigation. Firefighters in Elizabeth, having...
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S POT
Blaze it up! A small electrical fire outside a home in Queens led firemen and cops to find a marijuana farm of more than 200 plants in the basement. The...
BABY BOOM AMONG CITY TEENAGERS
Pregnant tween idol Jamie Lynn Spears has plenty of company in New York City. The number of babies born to teens here increased in 2006 after more than a decade...
ANNA NICOLE TOT FACES EYE OP
Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, suffers from an eye disorder and may undergo surgery, revealed the baby's father, Larry Birkhead. The 16-month-old was born with strabismus - causing one eye...
4 CELEB BUNDLES OF JOY
Hollywood is a baby boomtown. Four stars celebrated newborn birthdays all within 48 hours in the same maternity ward at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Pop star Christina Aguilera...
JOHN'S KID IS A HOT MCBABE
She's young, she's hot and her dad's running for president. Meghan McCain, the 23-year-old daughter of Republican Sen. John McCain, has taken to the stage of her father's campaign with...
HILL PAL'S DWI BUST
Despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's big win in New Hampshire, longtime Clintons pal Sidney Blumenthal wasn't having much fun in the Granite State - after getting busted there for DWI. Blumenthal,...
CLINTONS FACE SC BACKLASH
Just two weeks before South Carolina's primary, the Clintons may have alienated the state's black community by referring to Barack Obama's run as "a fairy tale." African-American elected officials in...
RUDY'S HOPE AS MR. SUNSHINE
TAMPA, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani, who rests heavily on his 9/11 laurels, will be facing a bunch of angry retired New York City firefighters when he tries to ride into...
BEAU OF POP WRECK A SNEAKY WOMANIZER
The lusty lensman squiring Britney Spears around California and Mexico is a motormouth ladies' man who's been after her for months, sources said. Adnan Ghalib, the son of a devout...
SPEARS' WITCH'S BREW HER 'DRUGS' OF CHOICE
The concoction Britney Spears reportedly sipped the night of her breakdown - a mix of vodka, Red Bull and NyQuil called a Purple Monster - may be a variation on...
WILD BRIT'S CONFESSION
The young woman was adamant. "They're not sending me to the nut house!" she shouted into her cellphone. "No one can make me go if I don't want to go...
OJ'S 'TAP' TRAP
The bail bondsman who received an expletive laced voicemail from OJ Simpson thinks the mysterious stranger who threatened to tell authorities about the phone rant worked for Ron Goldman's family....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND A Clifton man was nabbed for molesting one of his child's playmates, authorities said yesterday. Michael Marcus, 44, allegedly rubbed an 11-year-old girl's abdomen and inner thigh and...
BLOOMY'S 'RUNNING' TAB
IF his track record is any indicator, Mayor Bloomberg will spend more money exploring whether to run for president than any candidate in history. But the figures may never be...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 027; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 8520; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 604; Lucky Sum: 10; Evening Win-4 Sat.: 4119; Lucky...
SCREEN SAVIORS
WE ARE forever obsessing about coaches and managers, about when to fire them, about when to hire them, about when to put them on the griddle, about when to extend...
'WALK' TO REMEMBER
Last in three-part series. WHENEVER Jimmy Walker was asked where he was from, he loved saying, "I'm twice, Virginia. I was born in (Amherst) Virginia and I come from a...
BRIAN'$ $ONG
EVER been served some thing so sweet you wanna puke? MSG Network, soulfully promoting Jan. 24's "Brian Leetch Night," has been running inserts in which Al Trautwig introduces game footage...
OH, BROTHERS!
TODAY COWBOYS (-71/2) over Giants (Under 461/2): Given the cities involved, the NFC East is among the sexiest divisions in the NFL, and this may be the sexiest matchup to...
TOO MUCH, TOO SOON
SO WHAT will the Caps do this sum mer when a team - and there will be a team, Alex Ovechkin can take that to the bank, too - extends...
SMALLER STRIPERS & FEWER OF 'EM
STRIPED bass fishing along the East Coast took a downward turn last season in the number of fish caught per hour and in the average size of those fish, according...
GIANTS' JOYRIDE COMING TO END
Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over more than 50 foes in the 2006-07 edition of Playbook's long-running Wise Guys Contest with an overall record...
TRUE PATRIOTS
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Perfection lives on for yet another week. The Patriots preserved their perfect season in their drama-laced chase of history with a 31-20 victory over the game Jaguars...
HAWKS SENT PACKIN'
GREEN BAY - Three Ryan Grant touches turned into two fumbles and a 14-0 Seattle lead after four minutes. And the Seahawks had no idea just how much trouble they...
OLD TRICKS STILL WORK
GREEN BAY - Seventeen seasons in, one game away from a Super Bowl he had every reason to believe he would never be in again, Brett Favre wasn't too old...
COLTS NO PATSIES
INDIANAPOLIS - Perhaps no other Super Bowl Champion in NFL history has been as underappreciated as the Colts. Where is the reverence? Where is the homage? Where is the talk...
RED-FACED
St. John's coach Norm Roberts has maintained adamantly he will not give up on his team. And for the first third of the season, the Red Storm fans stuck with...
RICE CLIPS ST. RAY'S
After running through the CHSAA basketball schedule undefeated last year, Rice opened its league season with a loss to Christ the King. "That wasn't Rice basketball," senior guard Kemba Walker...
ROGER DODGER
WACO, Texas - Roger Clemens never acknowledged the elephant in the Hilton Waco ballroom yesterday. Speaking to a crowd so friendly it bordered on fawning, Clemens didn't mention steroids, Brian...
CLEMENS UNDER OATH? NOT SO FAST!
Roger Clemens' attorney - who has maintained his client would answer any question Congress wants to ask about steroid allegations - now is hedging over the House Oversight and Government...
VAC'S WHACKS
Saw "No Country For Old Men," and let's just say that if the Giants' secondary can pursue TO and Witten as relentlessly as Javier Bardem chased Josh Brolin, Big Blue...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Choi still rolling in Sony K.J. Choi got up-and-down from the bunker on the par-5 18th to cap off a 4-under 66 and double the size of his margin...
A REAL 'TAPE' WORM
* I really want to believe Roger Clemens. But after hearing his latest press conference I would have to bet against him being honest if I were a betting man....
DEVS RALLY PAST SLIDING SABRES IN SHOOTOUT
BUFFALO - They know how to win their division, these back-to-back reigning and seven-time Atlantic champs. Last night, the Devils showed again how they've done it, raising their hopes of...
GLORY ROAD OR DEAD END
IRVING, Texas - The plan in place all week for the Giants was to listen, nod and wait, wait, wait. Listen as their two regular-season losses to the Cowboys were...
ELI MUST BE TOUGH 'OTHER'
IRVING, Texas - Phil Simms was the Other Quarterback in Super Bowl XXI. He beat John Elway. Jeff Hostetler was the Other Quarterback in Super Bowl XXV. He beat Jim...
'BOYS TO MEN
IRVING, Texas - This one is for that lost generation of Giants fans who helped feed the frenzy that became America's Team. Those who were raised on a steady diet...
COWBOYS' BEEF IS PRIME DIFFERENCE
They know us. We know them. That about sums up Giants-Cowboys. These are the rare playoff games players on both sides relish, an old-fashioned NFC East neighborhood brawl pitting teams...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH...JUSTIN TUCK
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the third-year defensive end from Notre Dame who was second on the Giants with 10 sacks during the regular season. Q: (Tonight) around 7:30,...
WADE TO GO!
IRVING, Texas - After four years of Bill Parcells' Machiavellian ways, Wade Phillips has been a breath of fresh air for the Cowboys this season. It isn't so much in...
THROWS TO GO!
Former Steelers fullback Merril Hoge - expert analyst for ESPN2's "NFL Live" and "NFL Match-Up," and on several other programs across the network - breaks down for The Post one...
ELI'S IMPROVED PLAY IMPRESSES NEWMAN
IRVING, Texas - Terence Newman wants to see the old Eli today. Newman, the Cowboys' newly minted Pro Bowl cornerback, admits he didn't think much of Eli Manning, even as...
GROUND BEEF
IRVING, Texas - Few players do not start for their own team and get voted into the Pro Bowl but then, Marion Barber is not your typical player. Barber did...
STAY THE COARSE
The Knicks attempted to douse a fiery new "Isiah Watch" by stomping on two reports yesterday depicting Isiah Thomas' job as in jeopardy. A day after he verbally fought on...
NETS GETTING A BOONE IN PRODUCTION
Josh Boone's first season as a Net began without training camp and with his shoulder recovering from surgery. There were bit roles and cameos. Basically, his role was similar to...
IT'S ABOUT TIME!
This was one for the team's psyche and this was one for Henrik Lundqvist's psyche, which, come to think of it, are pretty much one and the same for the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Canadian man just earned the title of world's biggest skinflint. Thomas Wood successfully beat a DWI rap by arguing he was too cheap to have bought enough drinks to...
MY NEW YORK: MOBY
WITH a new album hitting stores on April 1 that he describes as his attempt to "conceptually condense a long, 8-hour night out in New York into a 65-minute album,"...
GET DOWN AND FLIRTY
Wiggle it Arlene's Grocery, 95 Stanton St.; (212) 995-1652 Tonight at 8, Arlene's Grocery will be filling the kiddie pool with Jell-O and turning loose amateur grapplers who will headlock,...
Q&A: RACHAEL RAY
Rachael Ray may be the perkiest juggernaut the world has ever known. An unstoppable marketing force, Ray has used her perpetual smile and folksy way around the kitchen to create...
NEW RELEASES
Extras: The Complete Series Feature: 4 STARS Extras: 2 ½ STARS (HBO, $49.98) It's hard to imagine a character more desperate than David Brent at the end of the BBC...
ATTACK OF THE CLOWNS
There is little in current pop culture that could warrant more of a nerd alert than an hour-long "Star Wars" parody episode of "Family Guy," except (maybe) the fact that...
'STATE' OF THE ART SMACKDOWN
THE biblically inspired parody "The Ten" and the romantic comedy "Wedding Daze" have a few things in common. Both arrive on DVD Tuesday, and both were written and directed by...
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Monster Cable Beats By Dr. Dre $399; monstercable.com/beats Monster, known for producing high-quality products at excessive prices, announced a partnership with rapper Dr.Dre and the chairman of Interscope records, Jimmy...
WEB SLINGER
"The Wire" in 4 Minutes spike.com/video/2932757 Okay, so in Baltimore there's a big drug gang run by Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell.... So begins this breakneck summary of TV most...
MOVES BELIEVED IN BALM OF HER HAND
CHESS A 20-YEAR-OLD Hungar ian woman is the latest victim of a bizarre cheating charge: Her opponents claimed she played moves that were somehow transmitted from a computer - to...
PUP ART
In the past, dogs that appeared in an important museum or auction-quality painting were pedigreed canine aristocrats. But contemporary artists are reversing centuries of art-historical prejudice by finding beauty in...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: I have a 3-month-old German shepherd with dry-skin issues. The vet told me to give her two tablespoons of cottage cheese, but it hasn't cleared up yet....
ADOPT ME
Mitch is a cool, young bachelor cat with a beautiful charcoal-and-white coat. His pink nose looks like he dipped just the tip of it in gray paint! Mitch is a...
GHOSTS OF THE MARS VOLTA
The Mars Volta calls its latest album "The Bedlam in Goliath." Considering the horrific story surrounding its creation, "Bedlam" couldn't have been more appropriate. Volta's songwriter-mastermind Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who brings...
REEL FOLK BLUES
WHEN former Moldy Peaches member Kimya Dawson was asked to read the screenplay and subsequently contribute music to the film "Juno," it couldn't have been more resonant to her own...
SEVEN DEADLY SIGNS
MANHATTAN can't catch a break. It's been washed out by a tidal wave in "The Day After Tomorrow," stomped by "Godzilla" and overrun by vampire mutants in "I Am Legend."...
J.J'S VIRAL 'CLOVERFIELD' DIARY
July 3: The first, titleless trailer premieres before "Transformers." It shows a group of New Yorkers at a party who witness a sudden explosion outside, then watch in horror as...
'27 DRESSES'
HYPOCRISY, thy name is Katherine Heigl. The "Grey's Anatomy" actress is back on the big screen Friday in a new romantic comedy, "27 Dresses," which reinforces just about every chick-flick...
HORROR FILM WITH REAL BITE
AND you thought you were unpopular in high school. Meet Dawn, a perky Christian student who's active in the local chastity movement. She's like a lot of girls her age...
BANNED IN BEIJING
CHINA has become known for three things: Pollution, shoddy exports and movie censorship. The latest victim of the country's notorious censors is "Lost in Beijing," which will open uncensored and...
FELICE NAVIDAD!
Felice Wine Bar 1166 First Ave.; (212) 593-2223 THIS NEW WINE BAR from Sant Ambroeus' partner Gherardo Guarducci and wine buyer Jacopo Giustiniani has chef Simone Parisotto (of Sant Ambroeus...
PROOF POSITIVE
For once, a new vodka isn't boasting about its umpteen distillations, filtrations and ultra-purity. Instead, it's bragging about its potatoes - and you can actually taste them. Crafted by Borje...
MAKING THE SCENE...
21 Seventh Ave. South; (212) 463-0700 It's only fitting that 2008's Great Nightlife Hope would occupy the former space of Luke & Leroy, which actually made nightlife interesting for a...
WILGUS, 26, AND PRICE, 29
Nov. 10 - Alison Wilgus and Scott Price share much in common, especially their love for comics and video games. The Brooklyn duo, who refer to themselves as "geeks in...
LOPEZ, 18, AND PEñA, 19
Dec. 7 - Gabrielle Lopez and Vincent PeÑa are living proof that one's first love can be their only love. "We met in a high school computer class," recalls Lopez,...
KELLY, 39, AND DORFMAN, 43
Nov. 18 - Sometimes love is a gamble: "John's mom invited him to Atlantic City, but he had to bring a girlfriend," says Leah Dorfman, a toy store owner in...
GARBER, 33, AND KLEIN, 34
Oct. 20 - Seeing as how Allison Garber, a graphic designer, and Noah Klein, a magazine production associate, met at a mutual friend's wedding, it was only fitting that they...
A TERROR-ABLE RULING
A panel of New York appellate judges will soon have a chance to toss out a preposterous 2005 jury finding - namely, that terrorists don't bear the bulk of the...
RELIEF, AT LAST
The first of what eventually will be 20 public restrooms - roughly one for every year New Yorkers have been waiting for them - opened Thursday in Madison Square Park....
IF LOOKS COULD KILL
Will stylish women soon be literally as well as figuratively stunning? If the folks at Taser have their way, fashionistas will soon be stopping muggers in their tracks and watching...
WINNING BY LOSING
Call Mike Huckabee a lightweight - in this election, it's a winning platform. Through his surprising Iowa victory, most of the media has focused on how Huckabee found God. But...
MOURNING IN AMERICA
The first year of the 2008 campaign - think about that - has clearly established that the Republican Party's prospects are cloudy. In the first two major contests, Mike Huckabee...
HOW HILLARY WINS
Can hope pay the bills? Can it get people health insurance? Can it boost the minimum wage? Can it run the White House? By the time they voted on Tuesday,...
TALK OF THE WEB
Iraq & McCain Wasn't it just last month that we heard how Iraq has faded as an issue, even among Republicans? Weren't New Hampshire's voters instead deeply concerned about taxes,...
TAKING A TOLL
What a surprise! NJ Gov. Jon Corzine wants to raise, by 50 percent every four years, the tolls on the Garden State Parkway, the Atlantic City Expressway and the Turnpike,...
OPPOSITE OF E.J.
The true barometer of whether a financial proposal is fiscally sound for New York state is E.J. McMahon ("Spitz Banks on Lottery 'Jackpot'," Jan. 9). If he blasts an idea,...
ILLEGAL ALIEN
The Page Six cartoon (Jan. 8) depicting Tom Cruise, "alien" Suri and Katie is appalling. Did no one think of how parents Tom and Katie would feel with their beloved...
STOLE PIGEON
On behalf of the Humane Society of the United States, I would like to commend The Post for highlighting the cruel practice of pigeon netting ("Fresh Pigeon Snit," Jan. 6)....
GOOD FOR GOOSE
Kudos to the Hall of Fame voters, who finally got it right after nine years ("Call of Fame," Jan 9). The election of Goose Gossage has been long overdue. He...
CROSS EYED
It's sad to see old churches in New York City and elsewhere closing down ("Historic Churches Doomed," Jan. 6). If the Catholic hierarchy would let priests marry, a lot of...
PLASTIC OH-NO
I would like to thank the City Council for its support of reducing the use of plastic-shopping bags ("Plastic-bag crackdown," Jan. 10). The bags are not good for our health,...
BRIDGE TOO FAR
Gov. Spitzer, please do not change the name of the Triborough Bridge to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge ("Spitzer Goes From Rumble to Humble," Jan. 10). Kennedy used New...
SECRETARY GENERAL
In 1946, George Kennan, a second-tier diplomatic official in Moscow, penned "the long telegram." In a few thousand words, he outlined for his superiors in Washington the blueprint for fighting...
THE BORN IDENTITY
There have been plenty of arguments against stem cell research and abortion from a religious or ethical ground. The authors of "Embryo" try another tack: philosophical. Borrowing from Immanuel Kant,...
FUHRER KNOWS BEST
"The more someone uses the word 'fascist' in everyday conversation, the less likely it is that he knows what he's talking about." So writes Jonah Goldberg on the cottage industry...
REQUIRED READING
Queens Noir edited by Robert Knightly (Akashic) New York City's biggest borough (in size - Brooklyn beats it in population) gets the "Noir" treatment with the latest in the mystery...
IN MY LIBRARY: NATHAN LANE
Nathan Lane - performer, raconteur, meerkat - loves to read, when he has the time. Right now, though, the former "Producers" star is in previews with a new show, "November,"...
THREE RING CIRCUS
Richard Wagner is admired for his prodigious musical talent and despised for his virulent anti-Semitism. In "The Wagner Clan," journalist Jonathan Carr argues that such prejudices run in the family....
CRACKONOMICS 101
During the height of the crack epidemic, sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh went into one of the nation's most notorious housing projects, Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, and learned how the drug economy...
SOUL SURVIVORS
The survival of the Sarajevo Haggadah is one of the marvels of modern Jewish history. In "People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks uses fiction to re-imagine the amazing history of...
PLASTIC IS OUR NEXT BIG ISSUE
NOW that Countrywide Financial has been "rescued" from its death spiral by Bank of America, what's the next big shoe to drop on the sickly stock market of 2008? In...
CREDIT SWAMPS
Kenneth Chenault's aggressive expansion plans for American Express may be catching up with the credit card giant. The company, which traditionally issued cards to the wealthiest consumers and forced them...
HEADING FOR THE GATES
Microsoft founder Bill Gates as a running mate for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? Not going to happen in the real world - but in a side-splitting retirement video presented...
RECESSION OR NOT, HERE ARE FIVE BEST OF BREED STOCKS
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 7 percent so far this year and the S&P 500 is off to its worst five-day yearly start since 1991. Fueling the turmoil...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSSTEVEN TYLER Aerosmith front man forms strategic partnership to sell a stake in catalog for as much as $50M.STEVE SCHWARZMAN Blackstone CEO finally juices his stock price by acquiring hedge...
CHARTING NASTIES' HOLIDAY MUSICAL CHAIRS
MAGAZINE executives dread being seated in Siberia (dotted line at right) when they are invited to the Condé Nast annual holiday lunch. And with good reason. As our Keith J....
WHO NEEDS BEN?
NO Ben Silverman, no problem for Reveille. For those who were wondering how the production studio would perform without its founder - who left to become co-chairman of NBC Entertainment...
PEROT-TEN
Perot Systems, founded by Texas billionaire and one-time presidential candidate Ross Perot, is leaving some of its contract employees holding the bag after the collapse of payroll firm Axium International....
EMPLOYMENT SEARCH SHOULD BE A FULL-TIME JOB
Dear John: My husband was "downsized" from an executive position that paid more than $150,000. He had worked his way "up the ladder," and he is a dedicated, loyal guy...
NFL'S HOT SEATS
When the Giants take the field in Dallas today against the Cowboys, many of the hometown fans will have more than a rooting interest in the team. And we're not...
FREE TAX ADVICE
There's no such thing as a free lunch, right? Well, maybe there is such a thing as a free snack. TurboTax, a software tax preparation service, will make one of...
MEET MARKET
According to his mom, Gall's a nice Jewish boy. But while he wants a woman with a warm heart, she's gotta have a sexy smile and a taste for sushi,...
MANDY'S SECRET - FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF
MY complexion's breaking out right now. My roots are showing big time. My eyes look like I could hide loose change in the puffy bags underneath them. The good news:...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
Being too touchy-feely and overly boozy rarely makes a great first impression (or any, for that matter). While Emily, a 25-year-old graphic designer from the Midwest, was willing to grin...
EASY RIDERS
It's not often an actor gets a major television role that's already been brought to life by Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and Jon Voight. But when Karl Urban got...
MOM HATED ROBOTS
Way back in 1984, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator promised that he'd be back. But didn't mean in a new Fox series "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." No surprise there. "With him...
WHO KILLED THE ATHEIST LADY?
It's one of those stories that prove the adage: "Truth is stranger than fiction." In the fall of 1995, 76-year-old Madalyn Murray O'Hair - a prickly character who fought passionately...
PRIMETIME
First, to be clear, I eat meat and wear leather belts. But if you asked Monty, our 11-year-old former rescue pooch, I'm confident that he'd concede that outside of not...
KILLER IDEA: TAKING THE BLADE TO BLOODY 'DEXTER'
No one should be shocked by CBS's decision to air "Dexter," the Showtime series about a serial killer who kills only other serial killers. In case you hadn't noticed, CBS's...
IDOL'S BACK
DESPITE a small ratings dip last year, this season's "American Idol" is expected to be the most watched version ever - thanks to the writer's strike. A measly 26 million...
REEL DEAL
"Cat People" (1942) Mon. 9:30 p.m. (TCM) Originally thought of as a "B" movie, critics who see this intriguing flick again often change their minds. Gorgeous Simone Simon is a...
DON'T MISS LIST
It's not about designer dresses and weepy acceptance speeches now. The Golden Globes this year have been reduced to a rusty press conference and an hour of interviews. No dinner,...
ANGUISH OF BRAWL HERO'S KIN
The family of a good Samaritan stabbed to death in a Harlem melee said yesterday they were willing to forgive the muscle-bound MTA worker who apparently killed him. Flonarza Byas,...
OJ'S 'TAP' TRAP
The bail bondsman who received an expletive laced voicemail from OJ Simpson thinks the mysterious stranger who threatened to tell authorities about the phone rant worked for Ron Goldman's family....
ROGER DODGER
WACO, Texas - Roger Clemens never acknowledged the elephant in the Hilton Waco ballroom yesterday. Speaking to a crowd so friendly it bordered on fawning, Clemens didn't mention steroids, Brian...