February 10, 2008
Oscar Watch: 'Atonement,' Coens D-Day, Cotillard Victorious at BAFTAs
As expected, "Atonement'' won the top prize at the British academy awards, but director Joe Wright lost out best director honors to the ubiquitous Coen Brothers for "No Country for...
WISEGUY WISDOM TO PREVAIL FROM JAIL
The top mobsters busted in Thursday's Gambino takedown are savvy wiseguys who aren't about to give up their power - even if they go to jail. So says famed Gambino-buster...
HEY DJ, PLAY THAT SONG!
This may shape up to be the year of spin - and I'm not talking about politics. Emmis Communications announced this week that it was switching New York's 101.9 FM...
DVD Extra: Lubitsch Musicals
Decades ago, I took a film survey class at the City College of New York and it was a life-changing experience. The teacher, Herman G. Weinberg was a noted scholar...
WGA Awards: 'No Country,' 'Juno'
An awards season singularly lacking in surprises continued last night with "No Country for Old Men'' and "Juno,'' the Oscar fronrunners, taking the prizes for best adapted and best original...
CLASH OF 'TIE'-TANS
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are locked in a dead heat according to the latest polls, even as the Illinois senator picked up four more wins in yesterday's primary...
CLINTON IN 'PIMP' SLAP AT MSNBC
Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at MSNBC yesterday, railing at the network for correspondent David Shuster's on-air remark that her daughter Chelsea was "pimped out" on the campaign trail. "I...
EARLY BUZZ ON BOTH PARTIES' VEEPSTAKES
Let the vice-presidential name-dropping begin. The campaigns swear they aren't seriously discussing running mates yet, but speculation is beginning. To make history twice, Barack Obama could run with a woman...
O'S SURGE MAY SWING SUPERDELEGATES HIS WAY
Hillary Rodham Clinton faces losing previously committed superdelegates if Barack Obama's upward momentum carries him to victory in three looming primaries. A Texas lawmaker who'd pledged his superdelegate vote to...
PLACARD SHARKS HIT BRAVEST
Thieves desperate for highly coveted city parking permits have gone on a window-smashing spree in The Bronx and Washington Heights, breaking into at least 10 firefighters' cars and swiping their...
$MOKING MAD AT 'KILLER' LOGO
Even as New York taxpayers spend $87 million a year urging smokers to kick the habit, the state is selling lighters and ashtrays plastered with the "I ò NY" logo....
NY SHOWS NO FOR GUCCI ADS
Gucci ò NY - but the Empire State may not be feeling it. The famed Italian fashion house blanketed the city last week with a "Gucci Loves NY" campaign to...
ANTI-TERROR COPS TAKE LIBERTIES
The Statue of Liberty has been left vulnerable by a shoddy security system that includes broken surveillance cameras, vacant guard posts and officers who haven't had target practice at a...
'WISEGUY' DISHED OUT CAMPAIGN $$ TO POLS
One of the 62 reputed Gambino wiseguys busted by the feds last week dished up political campaign money along with the oysters and rigatoni at his popular Brooklyn eatery. Joseph...
TORMENT OF THE RAT'S WIFE
She won't run. But she wants to hide. Shaking, angry, terrified and pregnant with twins, the wife of a mob turncoat who blew the whistle in the latest takedown of...
WOMAN DIES AFTER BREAST-CANCER MIX-UP
A young woman died after surgery to remove both breasts - all because of a horrendous blunder by Mercy Medical Center. She didn't even have cancer. Her lab results were...
POST SPURS A DE-STRESS CALL
Programs in city schools that teach kids how to deal with stress could reduce their dependence on psychiatric drugs, a state senator said yesterday. "Social emotional learning" should be mandatory...
MD'S AIDE IS EYED IN 3 HOSP DEATHS
The state Health Department has launched a probe of three recent patient deaths at a Long Island hospital - and of a physician assistant accused of botching invasive procedures, The...
THIEF GOES PO$TAL ON QNS. GAL
First her mail was forwarded. Then her life was turned upside down. Susan Simons, 56, of Queens, was scammed out of thousands of dollars after a creep filed a change-of-address...
CARD'S OWNER HAS NO MANTLE PEACE
James Haas was holding onto a tiny gold mine - a rare, near-perfect 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card worth nearly $300,000. But for the last six months, he thought he...
NYERS IN 'SEARCH' FOR HEATH
New Yorkers are fascinated with Heath Ledger, vodka and Facebook. That's according to a list of the most "Googled" search terms by city Web surfers last month released by Google...
'CHOKE' GAL QUITS S&M GIG
The dominatrix who trussed up the mystery masochist who nearly choked to death at a Midtown bondage parlor says her days as whip-toting flog-meister are over. "I don't plan to...
STAB-SLAY AT BRONX APT.
A 25-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a Bronx apartment early yesterday, police said. The victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, began arguing with a homeless man in...
RAP ON G-MAN 'GROPER'
A special agent with the State Department made a decidedly undiplomatic gesture, groping the breast and genitals of a fellow agent when the two were in New York to protect...
CLEARER VISION FOR BATTERY PARK LANDMARK
A beloved New York City landmark may soon get a touch of glass. The Battery Maritime Building - a former ferry terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan - moved...
HOLDOUT TO $900M BUILDER WANTS 600G
The sound of drilling and hammering is constant, his heating works on and off, the building shakes and for three months, his phone and Internet were cut off. But the...
LIFESAVER KIDS OF FATAL FIRE
A pair of heroic boys scented a blaze in their East Side apartment building yesterday, then knocked on every door on their dash to safety, helping neighbors to escape. One...
PAUL-HEATHER $$ FACE-OFF DUE
Sir Paul McCartney is likely to face his estranged wife, Heather Mills, across a courtroom this week in the biggest celebrity divorce in years. Only an 11th-hour settlement will stop...
FAR ROCKAWAY SLAY MYSTERY
Passers-by made a grisly discovery yesterday morning in Queens - the partially decomposed body of a shooting victim, police said. The remains of the unidentified male were found beneath a...
BRUTAL E. SIDE BRAWL ON TAPE
The NYPD is investigating a videotape of hit-and-run in which a Bronx man's legs were crushed by an SUV after a melee on a busy Manhattan street. The chaos -...
BLOOD SPORT FOR THE BIRDS
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The bloody, roan-colored rooster ran in circles, narrowly avoiding strikes from its attacker's razor-sharp talons. Occasionally, the frenzied fowl would bang into the wall of...
LOVE WARMER AND LIVE LONGER
The key to wedded bliss may also open the door to a longer life. A study of Midwestern couples found those who felt free to express their feelings lived longer...
SLIP OF THE TONGUE FOR AMY
Here's a preview performance from troubled British songstress Amy Winehouse, scheduled to appear by satellite at tonight's Grammy Awards: looking happy and playful for a change. The troubled star looks...
ROCKETTE IN 'LONG PUMP UP'
If Roger Clemens' wife, Debbie, used human growth hormone as alleged, she would have taken it for "several months" before her 2003 Sports Illustrated bikini spread to look as buff...
HOW MOBSTER NICKNAMES GET 'MADE'
According to mob expert John Carillo, most gangsters don't know one another's last name. "It's a group of people that know each other basically by nicknames or first names." Among...
CLINTON IN 'PIMP' SLAP AT MSNBC
Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at MSNBC yesterday, railing at the network for correspondent David Shuster's on-air remark that her daughter Chelsea was "pimped out" on the campaign trail. "I...
EARLY BUZZ ON BOTH PARTIES' VEEPSTAKES
Let the vice-presidential name-dropping begin. The campaigns swear they aren't seriously discussing running mates yet, but speculation is beginning. To make history twice, Barack Obama could run with a woman...
CLASH OF 'TIE'-TANS
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are locked in a dead heat according to the latest polls, even as the Illinois senator picked up four more wins in yesterday's primary...
O'S SURGE MAY SWING SUPERDELEGATES HIS WAY
Hillary Rodham Clinton faces losing previously committed superdelegates if Barack Obama's upward momentum carries him to victory in three looming primaries. A Texas lawmaker who'd pledged his superdelegate vote to...
HEATH'S WAKE A SPLASH
Heath Ledger's funeral ended with an act of whimsy that the late star would have loved - an impromptu ocean swim. The "Brokeback Mountain" actor was mourned yesterday by some...
UNVEILED ANGER
A photo revealing Michael Jackson's children without their trademark veils has angered their biological mother, who claims in a stunningly candid interview that the kids' oddball getups were her idea...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding the elderly Canarsie man pictured above who vanished in East Flatbush six days ago. Franklin Saint-Louis, 72, was last seen...
UNCHARITABLE CHARITIES
A SPECIAL unit at the De partment of Investigation formed just a year ago to examine nonprofit agencies with city contracts has opened a startling 30 to 40 cases involving...
DOES HILL KNOW HOW TO LOSE WITH GRACE?
IF Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, "I con cede" and go on vacation at a...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 770; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 7851; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 102; Lucky Sum: 3; Evening Win-4 Sat.: 7923; Lucky...
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN!
* Dear Boston: "The Curse" is back! Love, New York.MONTE ABRAMSONManhattan * Since the 2004 ALCS it seemed the earth was knocked off its axis. Last Sunday night, the Giants...
'GENERAL' QUIT ON HIS TROOPS
* So Bobby Knight quit on his team in the middle of the season because he was "tired." What an incredible hypocrite! This is the same guy who would verbally...
THE RUMBLE
Shea Hey Kid Lugo wants another title in Queens Ruddy Lugo, claimed off waivers from the A's by the Mets on Jan. 30, is a Xaverian High School product who...
STORMING AHEAD
Eugene Lawrence, more through grit and determination than flat-out great talent, has bled every ounce of his will and heart in trying to restore St. John's to prominence. Finally, he...
NO LYIN': THABEET HAS UCONN ROARING
STORRS, Conn. - You taunt the lion, you lose a vital body part or two. Georgia Tech was just about reduced to a carcass by the time Connecticut center Hasheem...
REUNION FOR FORMER RICE STAR
TRENTON - When Lamont Jones bolted Rice in August, many people were left scratching their heads. Why, they asked, would someone leave one of the best basketball programs in the...
HAPPY TRAILS, PAL
IN the 35 years I've worked with Dick Klayman I've never seen or heard him get angry. So I'm going to give it one last shot. Today, Klayman, our Associate...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Schilling gets cortisone shot Curt Schilling received a cortisone shot in his right shoulder on Friday, beginning a treatment plan the Red Sox hope will bring the right-hander back...
LONG, WINDING ROAD
BIG BLUE HIGHWAY - You really can't appreciate Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty" until you drive across this country, hang out at SuperGate08 in Phoenix, catch the Giants Super Bowl...
GRIZZ-LED VETS
FOR a couple months now I've been saying on NBATV how much I prefer watching the baby-toothed, ego-less Timberwolves (Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Rashad McCants, Corey Brewer, Marko...
WARMING UP TO BASEBALL
THIS was an offseason about what you didn't see coming. Those best of enemies, Brian Cashman and Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, came together in harmony at separate functions on...
HURRICANE RELIEF
The Devils' Goal of the Year, Johnny Orr-duya's magnificent coast-to-coast scamper, was as huge as it was spectacular. Confidence was fragile and waning among the Devils, losers of two straight...
G-MEN ABOUT TOWN
THEY own the town again, and you would like to believe they will enjoy the ride every bit as much as their spiritual antecedents did. You would like to believe...
IT'S WHY THEY PLAY THE GAME
THE ball was in the air for what felt like a lifetime, and David Tyree was perfectly willing to wait it out that long if that's what it took. All...
ZEKE PAYS VISIT TO SICK MOM
MILWAUKEE - Isiah Thomas had to leave Milwaukee yesterday to attend to a medical matter regarding his mother in Chicago, and arrived an hour before tip-off of last night's win...
PASSING THE BUCKS
MILWAUKEE - The eight-game losing streak is over and the Knicks' hugs and raised arms were everywhere last night following a 99-98 squeaker at the Bradley Center. Knick players ran...
EYES ON PEDRO
This winter, Mets David Wright and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon had said the NL East's team to beat remains the Phillies. But as the Mets return to Port St....
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with Mets' new ace lefty, a two-time AL Cy Young award winner who will turn 29 next month. Q: If you were a fan,...
COMEBACK KIDD?
The Nets and Mavs are two of four NBA teams that have been playoff regulars since 2001-02. And they have been intertwined this season through the desire - and sometimes...
SWATTING FLYS
PHILADELPHIA - As the reward for recording his second shutout here against the Flyers in 10 days, Steve Valiquette will get to face 46-goal-scorer Alexander Ovechkin and the Caps in...
WACHOVIA CENTER SEVENTH HEAVEN TO RANGERS
PHILADELPHIA - The goalie must get hot, that's a given. It also never hurts to get a little hot under the collar. And certainly division rivals help with that. How...
IT'S TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT JAGR'S WORTH
PHILADELPHIA - Scott Gomez is 28, he's in the first season of a sev en-year, $51.5 million contract, and he's been the Rangers' best player in 2007-08. Jaromir Jagr will...
BRUSHBACK PITCH
Roger Clemens' legal team has given the congressional committee probing Clemens' alleged steroid used hard evidence that Brian McNamee lied to federal investigators and former Senator George Mitchell at least...
WHAT PROBERS NEED TO ASK
Roger Clemens has thrown thousands of pitches - but never one quite like this. On Wednesday, Clemens will sit, under oath, in front of a congressional committee and fight to...
RADOMSKI SIDES WITH MCNAMEE
Kirk Radomski, the former Met clubhouse attendant who supplied Brian McNamee with steroids, is taking McNamee's side in the former trainer's "he said-he said'' with Roger Clemens. "I'm defending Brian,...
YOUTH & NAIL
When Alex Rodriguez opted out of his Yankee contract during the World Series, the Bombers had a chance to rebuild around the young pitching that has prompted premature adulation. They...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An overeager supporter of Ron Paul's presidential campaign has been fined for his obtrusive decal. Cody Hauer, 18, has been stopped four times over the past week in Owatonna, Minn.,...
Victory in Brewtown
By MARC BERMANMILWAUKEE - The beat writers were situated tonight right next to the Knicks' bench, along the baseline. We were so close one player grabbed a packet of M...
MY NEW YORK: TONY ROBERTS
"I've never lived in California, not for one minute!" Tony Roberts sounds genuinely hurt. "The neighborhood between 96th and 75th streets - that's my stomping ground." No doubt his memorable...
PUNCH DRUNK LOVE
This week: Work out the love (or lack thereof) on Valentine's Day; Wayans father-son team take on the funny; the Kooks sell out; short films get some love; and sip...
LET 'N' = EXCELLENT
N1 Vision Wireless Router $179.99; belkin.com Using the newest, fastest Wi-Fi technology - that would be 802.11n, with "n" updating last-generation "g" technology - the latest Belkin wireless router offers...
WEB SLINGER
Londonpaper Hijack YouTube.com "The Decapitator" is the nom de guerre of a London-based graffiti artist known for removing the heads of people in public ads and replacing them with bloody...
MUST LOVE DOG
THE annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show takes over Madison Square Garden tomorrow and Tuesday (for info, visit westminsterkennelclub.org), and just in time for this parade of pedigreed pooches comes...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: I've read that you advocate drugs such as Valium and Xanax for pets. But isn't it cruel and unethical to use mind-altering drugs on animals? - D.K.,...
ADOPT ME
Victoria is a sweet, charming, happy-go-lucky kitten whose best home would be one where she's the "only child" or among other kitties who have feline leukemia. Either way, Victoria could...
FISCHER WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW
CHESS 'BOBBY Fischer Goes to War," the 2004 book about his world championship match, will be made into a movie directed by Kevin MacDonald, best known for "The Last King...
SHOCKINGTHE 'HOUSE
AS you and your friends gather around the TV for tonight's Grammy broadcast and try to suss out who's going to walk away a winner, you have to ask yourself...
Q&A: ALANIS MORISSETTE
The feisty Canadian singer has a new album, returns to movies as jagged little actress A dozen years after the breakthrough debut of "Jagged Little Pill," Alanis Morissette is writing...
NEW RELEASES
Gone Baby Gone Movie: 3 ½ STARS Extras: 2 ½ STARS (Miramax, $29.99) With breakthrough performances by Amy Ryan and Casey Affleck, as well as a riveting turn by Ed...
PAQUIN' A NEW PUNCH
THE old Hollywood cliché for actors used to be: "What I really wanna do is direct." Nowadays, however, more and more actors are realizing that the real power lies with...
CLASSIC 'LUBITSCH MUSICALS' SET
THOUGH they were made more than 75 years ago, in the early years of sound, the four titles collected in the "Lubitsch Musicals," out Tuesday from Criterion's Eclipse line, are...
FILM BYTES
* Ain't It Cool News has posted the teaser poster for the next James Bond movie, the clumsily titled "Quantum of Solace." It shows the shadow of Bond holding a...
MIGHT AS WELL 'JUMPER'
HAYDEN Christensen on a physics panel at MIT? In terms of unlikely occurrences, it's right up there with John McCain french-kissing Mike Huckabee, or Eli "Hostel" Roth directing a romantic...
DAVID STRATHAIRN
WHEN it comes to cinematic worlds of fairies and trolls, David Strathairn isn't exactly an obvious casting choice. The veteran character actor does complicated, dissolute and tortured like nobody's business...
A BLOODY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL
TOMORROW night promises to be a strange one at the Two Boots Pioneer, thanks to a program organized by underground writer-editor-filmmaker Shade Rupe and Rue Morgue magazine. The evening, dubbed...
FRENCH BLISS
Adour St. Regis Hotel, 2 E. 55th St.; (212) 710-2277, adour-stregis.com After the shuttering of his Alain Ducasse at the Essex House, revered French chef Alain Ducasse now takes over...
MAKING THE SCENE...HUCKLEBERRY BAR
588 Grand St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; (718) 218-8555 The gourmet cocktail trend has been all the rage in Manhattan bars for a couple years, and it's finally making its way across...
PROOF POSITIVE: AVIATION GIN
Another wonderful spirit from the Pacific Northwest's burgeoning batch-distillation scene, Aviation takes gin back to its Dutch roots - when it was called genever, or juniper - as a rich...
IRIZARRY, 35, AND WRIGHT, 34
Feb. 1- Joseph Irizarry never actually proposed to Kathryn Wright. "We were snowboarding around Lake Placid in January, and started talking about getting married," recalls Wright, a center director for...
JOYCE, 30, AND VAZINTARIS, 27
Jan. 25 - Harold Joyce wasn't particularly old-fashioned about proposing to Elena Vazintaris. "We started joking about getting married over dinner," recalls Vazintaris, a professional dancer and clothing designer. "We...
GAROFALO, 36, AND COVELLO, 29
Jan. 11 - Tricia Garofalo and Joe Covello, the vice president of United Hoisting and Scaffolding Corp., were destined for each other - and a wedding in Mexico. Along with...
SIERRA, 38, AND RIVERA, 33
Jan. 13 - For Eneida Rivera, the ring was the most important part of the ceremony. "When I was placing Edward's ring on his hand, I was so focused, I...
ELIOT'S PAROLE PROBLEM
State Senate Republicans last week came down hard on Gov. Spitzer's revolving-door Parole Board, which has been releasing the state's most violent felons at rates not seen since the Cuomo...
NY JUDGES GONE WILD
What do you do if you're a New York judge and you think you deserve a pay raise? Why, sue, of course - what else? And have a fellow judge...
FOOLS RUSH IN
On "30 Rock" last year, Tina Fey confessed that she is going to "tell all my friends I'm voting for Barack Obama" - then "secretly vote for John McCain." So...
MEMORY LAME
It will come as a surprise to no one, but Hollywood is mentally ill. Nostalgia-driven properties dominate almost every aspect of pop culture. Every moribund franchise, no matter how stale,...
HAIR OF THE DOG
The startling thing about Super Tuesday was not Mike Huckabee's triumphant march through the South, or Hillary Clinton surviving Hurricane Obama. It was that Bill Richardson reappeared from his post-campaign...
WHO WON THE STRIKE
If the writer's strike ends this weekend - as many hope and expect will happen - both sides will claim victory. But it is the studios that engineered the better...
SPOILED ROTTEN
Monetary policy, the management of global companies, and the workings of Wall Street are indisputably the realms of the mature: One searches the gallery of Federal Reserve chairman portraits in...
WINNING AFGHANISTAN
They stood out sharply against the worn concrete buildings and battered cars on the potholed road our convoy followed: two soaring solar-powered street lamps provided by the US Army. Kholbesat...
TOUGH PLUCK
So what if Pedro Martinez took part in a cockfight in his own country, the Dominican Republic ("Pedro's Fowl Ball," Feb. 7)? What he did was not only lawful but...
PLAYING GOD
Genetic science has great potential for either serving or degrading humanity ("Embryos Created With DNA From 3 People," Feb. 5). Its proper use requires moral reflection and the establishment of...
HYPOCRITICS
Extreme liberals just cannot help themselves ("Muzzling Marines," Dale McFeatters, PostOpinion, Feb. 4). They preach tolerance and demand free speech, yet they object to the presence of a military recruiting...
THAT'S CLASS
As a New England Patriot fan, I would like to congratulate the Giants on their amazing Super Bowl win. It is very hard and humbling to do so. As much...
$1B BUMBLING
The Port Authority representative is wrong, and Steve Cuozzo is right ("The Next PA Fiasco," PostOpinion, Jan. 30). Not only is the Calatrava sculpture pointless, but it will cost over...
WASSAMATTA?
As an Italian-American, I am not offended by the state lottery's "Ba Da Bling" TV ads, but I am offended that its officials feel the need to pull the ads...
BRIGA-LOONY
I'm more than a little stunned over Michael Riedel's report that some Broadway knuckleheads are attempting to change the musical classic "Brigadoon" ("To Hal and Back," Feb. 1). The original,...
BLOG WATCH
WWOD? Inspiration is nice. But some folks seem to be getting out of hand. Obama supporter Kathleen Geier writes that she's "getting increasingly weirded out by some of Obama's supporters....
IN FOR A PENNY ...
Mike Huckabee's success on Super Tuesday was a godsend for a new book by talk-show host Neil Boortz and Rep. John Linder of Georgia, "FairTax: The Truth." This sequel to...
HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES
As a former New Jersey state trooper, Bob Delaney was assigned to go undercover as part of a multi-agency task force investigating the activities of the Mob along the waterfront....
CHATTERING MASSES
From the editors of overheardinny.com, their Top 10 favorite quotes from their new book collection, which includes a new section called "New Yorkers vs. the Tourists." 1 Teen girl tourist:...
REQUIRED READING
Crossed A Tale of the Fourth Crusade by Nicole Galland (Harper) Before starting her third novel, Galland says, "In response to the current state of the world, I had the...
IN MY LIBRARY: MICHAEL MCKEAN
"I read constantly, chronically," confesses Michael McKean. "The idea of being trapped somewhere without something to read is a great, dark fear of mine." Hard to believe that McKean -...
STAIRWAY TO HELL
The problem with having dreams is that sometimes they come true -their cold, hard reality crushing your soul in the process. "Rock On: An Office Power Ballad," life-long rock fanatic...
WIN ONE FOR THE GIPPER
"We were and remain fascinated by the degree to which George W. Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush, modeled - or tried to model - his presidency...
ENGINEERING A BESTSELLER
For any debut novelist, the odds of getting noticed are ridiculously low. Which makes Charles Bock - whose first novel, "Beautiful Children," is set in a subculture of strippers, pornographers...
HOME ON THE CHANGE
COULD the US mortgage mess get any worse? Apparently so. Despite two mammoth interest rate cuts by the Bank of Ben Bernanke last month, more and more Americans aren't just...
YAHOO! SAYS NO!
An up-against-the-ropes Jerry Yang and Yahoo! have rejected Microsoft's unsolicited $31-a-share offer and are expected to break the news to the software behemoth tomorrow, according to a source close to...
STIMULUS SPENDING
The $150 billion economic stimulus package just passed by Congress is doomed to fail - if Mark Jahannessen can help it. Jahannessen, the president of the Denver-based Financial Planning Association...
$OUR NOTES
Hits don't pay like they used to. Soulja Boy, a rapper signed to Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, is looking to add the title of Grammy winner tonight to his...
CLOSED-END, OPENLY RISKY
Dear John: I am a senior citizen and a long-time reader of your column. In November, I decided to invest most of my money in vehicles which would give me...
SCHWARZMAN PLANS LOW-KEY BIRTHDAY
BILLIONAIRE Steve Schwarz man says he likes to live life intensely. But his birthday celebration this year, which is on Valentine's Day, will be anything but intense. The Blackstone chief...
RIPPED OFF
The retirement dreams of countless US workers are being crushed by hidden, high fees charged to their 401(k) accounts. The high fees - disclosed deep inside a mutual fund's prospectus,...
WORKERS FIRE BACK WITH SUITS
American workers are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. Angered by too-high fees attached to their 401(k) plans, employees are fighting back with lawsuits in...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS BOB IGER Disney shares run higher after CEO guides media giant to better-thanexpected first-quarter profit.LARRY SILVERSTEIN Developer tries to get the inside track to purchase trophy GM Building from...
MEET MARKET
Kim, a 25-year-old online talk-show host, confesses she loves anything cheesy: wax museums, karaoke and even Hooters. She's the kind of gal who rolls with the punches, and she's looking...
FLIGHT OF THE DRUNKARD
CHRIS, a 36-year-old flight attendant, warned us from the start: "If you put enough drinks in me, I'll get up and sing karaoke." Yet, he failed to mention that his...
TOP 5 WORST WAYS TO SPEND VALENTINE'S DAY
"On Facebook, looking at your ex-boyfriend's page trying to figure out what he and his new girlfriend are doing." - Natasha "Going to see 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'...
THE BEST V-DAY GIFT IS GROWING A REAL PAIR
MY answer is always the same. Women like confidence. "All the girls are gorgeous in the part of Brazil we're visiting," I tell Super Preppy as we prepare for vacation...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DRAMA The baby makers Mia (Lucy Liu) and Caitlin (Bonnie Somerville) search Jack's (Tom Everett Scott) apartment for a revealing sex tape Mia made with him, even as the...
PRIMETIME
By now, seven seasons in, it stood to reason that A&E's "The First 48" would be among the most talked about shows on cable. It's a blend, after all, of...
'MILLIONAIRE' GOES GAY
"Next season is going to be different," says "Millionaire Matchmaker" star Patti Stanger, "because we're going to do gay millionaires." Although Bravo's newest reality romp hasn't been officially re-upped, it's...
'LOST' STAR RESCUED BY BROADWAY
Actor Blake Bashoff found a lucrative way to battle the writers' strike. After finishing his 8 of the scheduled 16 episodes, the 26-year-old actor joined the cast of the hit...
REEL DEAL
SPELLBOUND (1945) Sunday, 11:30 a.m., TCM Producer David O. Selznick's own shrink, May Romm, served as technical advisor for this Alfred Hitchcock thriller written by Ben Hecht, with a dream...
A TOUCH OF BRASS
Lorraine Bracco turns up in a new kind of role this week on "Lipstick Jungle," but for many of us, she will always be HBO's First Lady of psychiatry. "I...
SHOW KILLERS
You could say they've had their share of bad luck. It just seems that the actors mentioned below have had more misses than hits in their careers. Some finally lucked...
TV SEASON MAY NEVER GET BACK ON TRACK
If there's one thing I hate, it's a TV season on the fritz. Thanks to the writers' strike, this season is so out of whack that even if the strike...
CANCELLED SHOWS FIND NEW LIFE MOVIES
Once TV shows are cancelled, die-hard TV fans are usually relegated to watching the repeats on DVD or, if they're lucky, on some cable network. But some shows are so...
'IDOL' GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
This week, "American Idol" winnows down the 160 contestants invited to Hollywood and picks 24 semifinalists. After that group is announced on Wednesday night's live show, the competition will really...
TECH WRECK
The tech stock bear is growling and investors are fleeing for their lives. The Nasdaq Composite Index has dropped 13 percent so far this year - its worst seven-week start...
ROCKET STRIKE
Team Clemens: We've got proof McNamee lied to MitchellBy BRIAN COSTELLORoger Clemensâ legal team has given the congressional committee probing Clemensâ alleged steroid used hard evidence that Brian McNamee lied...