February 11, 2008
REPORT: ANDY PETTITTE DOESN'T WANT TO TESTIFY AGAINST ROGER CLEMENS
ANDY PETTITTE DOESN'T WANT TO TESTIFY AGAINST ROGER CLEMENS: REPORT
Post Gives Pats* New Tune
We all know Bill Belichick, coach of the 18-1 New England Patriots*, is a cheater. He admitted his team taped the New York Jets as they practiced and paid a...
Deal of the Day
If the blustery weather holds, a Mischa Lampert Rap Loop Grey and White chunky hat is just what Al Roker ordered.The massively warm bomber knit wooly is going for half...
Trade-deadline talk
By MARC BERMANA lot of trade-deadline talk at practice today, with Isiah Thomas still saying he doesnât expect to do anything that major. Do wonder if rookie Wilson Chandler is...
The Walk Of 'Love'
This week brings the drama and a hilarious twist at Rancho Carne. There are only ten girls left and Kristy Joe really thinks sheâs got a chance to be Bretâs...
Starr Report: 'Lipstick' collared
NBC's "Jungle" (Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price) averaged 7.6 million viewers, finishing third at 10 p.m. and losing about 1 million viewers from its "Celebrity Apprentice" lead-in. It did,...
HERE IN FLORIDA LIFE IS WARM
As you slug your way to work today in the freezing Northeast, let me tell you, itâs going up to 76 degrees today in Tampa.Right now the sky is Dodger...
Hopkins' Racial Rant Makes No Sense
If Bernard Hopkins keeps opening his mouth he's going to set race relations back 50 years.BY GEORGE WILLISIf Bernard Hopkins keeps opening his mouth he's going to set race relations...
Bill Clinton, Hollywood's Comic Relief
As if Hillary Clinton didn't have enough problems at the moment, a romantic comedy opening in wide release plays her hubby Bill's sexual pecadillos for laughs. "Defintely, Maybe'' stars Ryan...
DVD Extra: Kramer on Kramer
Today in The Post, I interviewKaren Kramer, who produced a splendid, feature-filled new box set of five movies produced and/or directed by her late husband, the celebrated Stanley Kramer. Back...
'GOLD' RUSH AT MOVIE BOX OFFICE
Fans of Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson ignored the critics - propelling the romantic comedy "Fool's Gold" to the top of the weekend box-office charts, with $22 million in its...
TV SCRIBES WILL AD-LIB STRIKE END
Striking TV and movie writers will vote today and tomorrow to end their walkout, even before their tentative deal is ratified. To speed up a lengthy approval process, the Writers...
UNLIKELY 'SISTERS' SIZZLE
If Natalie Portmanlooks a little nervous with Scarlett Johansson's arm around her, it's probably because she is. The actresses, who star as rival sisters in the upcoming "The Other Boleyn...
NIGHT OF RHYTHM & 'SNOOZE'
WHAT do you get an awards ceremony for its 50th birthday? How about a little excitement, because last night's Grammys sure could have used a shot of adrenaline. Right up...
'REHAB' IT OF WINNING BIG
A newly rehabbed Amy Winehouse, the brassy British singer with the beehive bouffant and crack-cocaine problem, won song and record of the year and three other Grammys last night at...
REELING CLINTON REPLACES CAMPAIGN BOSS
WASHINGTON - After more than a month of disappointing primaries and caucuses - and an especially bad weekend - Hillary Rodham Clinton replaced her campaign manager yesterday. In an e-mail...
MSNBC 'PIMPED' GEN., TOO
WASHINGTON - MSNBC's "pimp" flap got nastier yesterday as bloggers dug up a clip of one of the cable network's top talking heads using the prostitution analogy on-air last year....
DELEGATE DISPUTE
The latest battle royale among Democrats is over whether or not two big states that went for Hillary Rodham Clinton have a say at the convention. With Clinton running neck...
BUSH: MAC IS ALL 'RIGHT'
President Bush yesterday dubbed leading Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain a "true conservative," adding that the Arizona senator is "very strong on national defense." The president made the comments...
SLAY EXCUSE BLOWN
A autopsy has concluded there was no marijuana in the body of slain Fifth Avenue millionaire Linda Stein, The Post has learned. The revelation further undermines the confession of her...
HEY, NYERS - HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH
Bellying up to the bar may take on a whole new meaning next month, when dozens of popular chain restaurants start posting the calorie contents of their sugar-laden signature cocktails...
SECRETS ON MENU
Joseph Chirico was Brooklyn's version of the American dream - a poor, Italian, teenage immigrant whose hard work paid off in a series of restaurants that made him rich and...
GOON EYED IN DON REVENGE
Bearded reputed mob assassin Charles Carneglia was busted in five murders last week, but the feds believe he got away with his most infamous crime: the rubout of the man...
RAT GOES FOR 'SEE' FOOD
Forget sleeping with the fishes - he's eating them. Joseph Vollaro - the mob rat whose underworld revelations are rocking the Gambino crime family - brashly strolled into a Staten...
KEEPING AN 'EYE' ON PARK CRIMES
Big Brother may soon be watching - at your local playground. NYPD and Parks Department officials say it's only a matter of time before parks throughout the city are equipped...
SCAM BLAZING 'BAIL' OF VICTIMS
In courthouses around the city, con artists are using a simple but heartbreaking scam. As the relatives of an arrested person try to figure out how to put up bail,...
UNHEALTHY CUTS LOOM IN GOV RE-BUDGET
ALBANY - With the economy in turmoil, the Spitzer administration yesterday announced a steep decline in revenue projections for the next fiscal year - saying it wants to deal with...
QNS. POL RIPS CONDO 'CON JOBS'
A Queens councilman yesterday called for a change in zoning laws to prevent the construction of hotels in residential areas as "a back-door way" to build condos. Democrat Eric Gioia...
'HOOKER' COP GOT OFF HOOK
Police brass were tipped off years ago that accused pimp cop Wayne Taylor had a thing for young hookers - but let him off with a wrist slap after investigating...
CITY HIRING PLUMBERS FOR DEP'S DRY RUN VS. DEADBEATS
The city's Department of Environmental Protection anticipates it will have to shut off water to so many deadbeat homeowners next month that it's hiring private contractors to supplement its own...
NY QUIZ-WHIZ TEEN 'JEOPARDY'
The clue: She's the only New York City public-school student participating in this season's "Teen Jeopardy" tournament. The answer: Who is Janelle Lambert? The Brooklyn Tech student will appear on...
IN TUNE WITH OSCAR
Bronx special-education teacher by day - Oscar winner by night. That's the scenario Tevin Thomas, 51, a music teacher at PS 811 in The Bronx is hoping for on Feb....
PRINCIPAL PROBE
The "super principal" recently trotted out by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to pioneer a prestigious school leadership program was under investigation by the Department of Education when she was tapped...
BROKEDOWN 'PALACE'
It's a $1 billion fixer-upper. The Jacob Javits Convention Center, completed just 21 years ago as New York's modern-day "crystal palace," has deteriorated into a leaking mess that more aptly...
FIRED MAN REALLY PO'D
A city transit worker was fired for allegedly urinating in a co-worker's cubicle - but the booted employee complains that he was never given a fair shake. Sam Shapirstein said...
BOY TELLS OF SUBWAY COLLAPSE
A teen described yesterday how he fell onto the tracks and feared he would die when part of the platform crumbled at a Brooklyn subway station. "I saw the train...
YOU LUCKY DOGS!
Boone and Molly's excellent adventure began with a lavender-oil massage, room-service delivery of meatballs, and even a psychic predicting "ribbons" - all part of the primping preparations for their debut...
'JAWS' STAR SCHEIDER DIES AT 75
Actor Roy Scheider, whose 1975 gamble with then-no-name director Steven Spielberg and a mechanical shark helped make "Jaws" one of the biggest movie moneymakers of all time, died last night...
SUICIDE AT NYU BLDG.
A 74-year-old woman plunged to her death from an NYU-owned building last night in an apparent suicide, police sources said. The woman, whose identity wasn't immediately released, fell from one...
'WRONG MAN' SUES FOR $22M
A Brooklyn man who spent 22½ years in prison for a murder he did not commit wants $22.5 million from the cops and DA he says set him up, according...
LET'S PAY BALL!
Yankee and Met ticket prices for 2008 are as bulked up as a ballplayer on HGH, hitting their highest level in history. But steroids aren't causing the price bulge. It's...
LOTS OF LOOT, LOOT, LOOT FROM THE HOME TEAMS
Need to make some extra money to afford those expensive baseball tickets? Invest in stadium memorabilia. In the long run, cashing in on pieces of the soon-to-be-extinct Yankee and Shea...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A driver was busted for repeatedly striking a woman with his SUV during a road-rage incident in Red Hook, authorities said yesterday. Jeffrey Klempner, 63, was waiting at a...
PAPER-TRAIL SHOCK
Gov. Spitzer'S of fice has turned over "damaging" documents to the Albany County District Attorney's Office revealing that the Dirty Tricks plot against his chief GOP opponent began much earlier...
CON-WHEN?-TION CENTER A WEST SIDE SORRY
IN RECENT years, there hasn't been a single eco nomic-development project in this city that enjoyed as much support as the drive to expand the Jacob Javits Convention Center from...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 985; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 3858; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 264; Lucky Sum: 12; Evening Win-4 Sun.: 1504; Lucky...
GANG THAT CAN'T DEMOLISH STRAIGHT
Anyone who thinks that the doomed and dangerous Deutsche Bank build ing, situated across from Ground Zero, is ever coming down should probably take a reality pill. It's not. Not...
EXXON'S FAIR REWARD
EXXON Mobil may have just stumbled upon the greatest source of untapped energy since scientists split the atom. That would be the hot air given off without fail each year...
STEALING THE NOMINATION
No changing the rules in the middle of the game. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean must be prepared to deliver that message to Sen. Hillary Clinton and her allies....
DEM DEADLOCK: RX FOR DISASTER
WHICH Democrat really won Super Tuesday? Thanks to the party's pro portional representation, it isn't easy to say a week later. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama ran a...
THE VOTERS SHOULD DECIDE
ABOUT half a million Demo crats went to the polls on Sat urday, in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington state, handing decisive victories to Barack Obama. Some 14.6 million Democrats went...
BRITISH BISHOP'S ISLAMIC IDIOCY
NOTHING can have prepared Dr. Geoffrey Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, for the row that has broken out in Britain over his comments last week that the British adoption...
ELIOT'S ENFORCER
Gov. Spitzer says he wants to make nice to financial firms - bro kers, insurers, investment banks. The very companies he targeted with a vengeance as attorney general. Does he...
LET LEDGER REST IN PEACE
Andrea Peyser's column on Heath Ledger is below board ("His Pals Are Guilty - And So Was He," Feb. 7). It lacks courage to attack someone who can't defend himself....
BLOOMY & BUTTHEADS: KICKING ASH WORLDWIDE
Mayor Bloomberg thinks that a billion people will die from smoking in the next century ("Mike Goes Global in Bid To Stub Out Cigs," Feb. 8). Don't worry. According to...
SEC IS SICCED ON 'SKIM' SCAMSTERS
The final chapter begins today in the biggest prosecution ever of deep-rooted fraud at the New York Stock Exchange, which knocked the Big Board to its knees and forever changed...
M'SOFT GIANT RISING
Don't expect Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer to be deterred by Yahoo!'s rejection of his unsolicited takeover offer as he continues to press his case that the software giant can do...
BRIT BREAKDOWN
After a week that saw Britney Spears enter, then exit a psychiatric hospital amid allegations that her manager had drugged her, we'd be crazy ourselves not to take a look...
FINANCE SITE PUTS UP MAIN ST. SHINGLE
TheStreet.com is rolling out mainstreet.com today in a bid to expand beyond its pure-play financial focus and add celebrity news with a personal finance angle. "We're merging current events and...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. No One, Alicia Keys 2. Cyclone, Baby Bash 3. Sweetest Girl, Wyclef Jean 4. Apologize, OneRepublic 5. Falsetto, The-Dream 6. I Know, Jay-Z 7. The Pretender,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Philadelphia museum this week is featuring hair samples from the first 12 US presidents. The Academy of Natural Sciences acquired a lock-filled scrapbook that was assembled by Peter Arvell...
CAPITOL SHILLS
HOW would you like to be heading for court, the defendant in, say, an alimony dispute, when, as you pass the judge's chamber, you see your ex-wife and the judge...
FRIENDLY FIRE
One after another, the witnesses will walk into room 2154 of the Rayburn Building on Wednesday morning to their places behind the microphones as photographers snap the images of them...
MCNAMEE ATTORNEY: ROG COULD FACE JUSTICE PROBE
One of Brian McNamee's lawyers said yesterday he believed the Justice Department will open a criminal investigation into Roger Clemens' denials of doping. Clemens gave a five-hour deposition last week...
HOT JOBS
THERE'S solid ground on shaky street. Whether the market's up or down, there's plenty of work to be found - if you know where to look. If you've got your...
DREAM JOB: KEVIN DALEY
AS a young kid with a basketball, Kevin Daley loved the playground pastime Around the World. How appropriate, since he's now a Harlem Globetrotter. The 31-year-old Daley, or "Special K,"...
POWER POINTS
* Hard at work LARRY Flynt, meet your Employee of the Year. That would be the Washington, DC, city government worker who was fired last month for racking up a...
60 SECONDS WITH NINA DISESA
To thrive in a man's world, you say women have to use a little gender jujitsu and capitalize on their femininity. You're big on "S & M" seduction and manipulation....
HARLEM'S STREET PARTY FALLS SILENT
After 61 years in business, a Harlem landmark is gone. Webster's Dictionary describes the word "gentrify" as follows: "to convert (an aging area in a city) into a more affluent...
UPPING THE PANTY
Shot on location at the Elizabeth Taylor Suite in the Hotel Plaza Athenee (plaza-athenee.com, [212] 734-9100). Accommodations for Valentine's Day include a deluxe room or suite, in-room continental breakfast, a...
PULSE SALES
BIG DROP 425 W. Broadway, between Prince and Spring Streets; (212) 226-9292 Sale: until all clearance items are sold. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-8 p.m./ Sun., noon-8 p.m. Enjoy 40-60 percent off...
'REHAB' IT OF WINNING BIG
A newly rehabbed Amy Winehouse, the brassy British singer with the beehive bouffant and crack-cocaine problem, won song and record of the year and three other Grammys last night at...
NIGHT OF RHYTHM & 'SNOOZE'
WHAT do you get an awards ceremony for its 50th birthday? How about a little excitement, because last night's Grammys sure could have used a shot of adrenaline. Right up...
ACTORS WADE ASHORE BUT MEMOIR IS HELL
ATTENTION, those of you hiding your copy of Star Jones' memoir underneath "The Kite Runner": Celebrity autobiographies are a secret guilty pleasure no longer. Indeed, at the Triad Theater, where...
JERICH-UH-OH
TOMORROW'S second sea son debut of "Jericho" is an atomic love letter to the fans who helped bring the show back from the dead. In the first few minutes of...
WHAT DID THEY DO TO 'DEXTER'?
FOR a series whose title character is a compul sive serial killer and whose murders are ritualistic and bloody, the editing of Showtime's "Dexter" for airing on CBS is easier...
CRAIG: JON FOR DAVE'S SPOT
DAVID Letterman hasn't said what he'll do when his current deal with CBS ends in 2010. But if Letterman decides to step down, Jon Stewart should get the show, says...
STARR REPORT
'Lipstick' collared Last Thursday's premiere of "Lipstick Jungle" didn't exactly set the world on fire, though it fared much better than ABC rival "Cashmere Mafia" in total viewers. NBC's "Jungle"...
DVD LAURELS FOR STANLEY
'THE Stanley Kramer Collection" was a labor of love for his widow, Karen, who personally put together the six- DVD tribute to the socially conscious producer-director. Many of the titles...
CAPITOL SHILLS
HOW would you like to be heading for court, the defendant in, say, an alimony dispute, when, as you pass the judge's chamber, you see your ex-wife and the judge...
FRIENDLY FIRE
One after another, the witnesses will walk into room 2154 of the Rayburn Building on Wednesday morning to their places behind the microphones as photographers snap the images of them...
MCNAMEE ATTORNEY: ROG COULD FACE JUSTICE PROBE
One of Brian McNamee's lawyers said yesterday he believed the Justice Department will open a criminal investigation into Roger Clemens' denials of doping. Clemens gave a five-hour deposition last week...
'TOUGH' LOSS FOR FORDHAM
The 2007-08 Fordham men's basketball team has been defined by its many disappointing moments. In a season where the Rams were picked to finish fourth in the Atlantic 10 by...
KEEP YOUR EYE ON PYRO
Triple Crown watchers looking for inspiration from a somewhat uninspiring crop of 3-year-olds found it Saturday at the Fair Grounds, when 4-5 favorite Pyro, far back in the field of...
NYRA TALKS AT STANDSTILL
No changes over weekend in negotiations regarding the NYRA franchise, according to State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's office late yesterday afternoon. Unless there are changes soon, shutdown of Big...
SPORTS SHORTS
NASCAR: Johnson wins poleJimmie Johnson captured pole position yesterday for next week's 50th running of the Daytona 500. Driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Johnson, 32, had the fastest lap with...
DYNAMIC DUDS
EDDY Curry and Zach Randolph sat next to each other on the bench in the fourth quarter Saturday night in Milwaukee. The only time they left the bench was to...
NO KIDD-ING: NETS WIN BIG
Of all the positives Jason Kidd can bring to a game, beyond points and passes and rebounds is the undeniable ability to make everyone around him better. So with Kidd's...
MAV OR MAV-NOT?
For a half-hour before last night's game, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban sat on the baseline openly chatting with Nets special assistant Kiki Vandeweghe. The blue-jeaned billionaire wasn't consummating a...
WILLIAMS ROLLS IN BENCH ROLE
Lawrence Frank said his decision to get Nenad Krstic back in the starting lineup, a move that put Sean Williams back on the bench, was not a demotion. "The move...
SHIFTING GEARS
WASHINGTON - They're off today, but when the Rangers return to the practice rink tomorrow to open what in essence will be a four-day mini-camp preceding their next match on...
GAMBINO HUNTER
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...
Zednik's Neck Slashed by Skate
Associated PressBUFFALO, N.Y. â Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik underwent surgery to close a deep gash on the right side of his neck and was in stable condition Sunday night...