February 17, 2008
Pedro takes the mound on Day 2
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie on the second day of pitcher-catcher workouts:1. After a one-day delay, Pedro Martinez made his debut off the mound today. He threw off...
Superman, Cupcakes, and Playboy parties
By MARC BERMANNEW ORLEANS - Watching Dwight Howard fly to the ceiling last night in the Slam Dunk contest in a red Superman cape reminded me of how crazy the...
THREE DOWN, FEB. 17, 2008
1. The question posed in this morning's Three Up was to name the 11 pitchers besides Andy Pettitte to work at least 650 innings over the past three years. Well,...
EAST SIDE BUTCHER AT COURT
Bug-eyed and rambling, the alleged "butcher" charged with brutally slashing two Upper East Side shrinks, killing one of them, today was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he accused...
Miss at your own risk
Highlights for the week of Feb. 17Donât worry, thereâs no nudityâDexterâ makes the jump from Showtime to network TV tonight, but donât worry, the kids wonât hear any bad language...
Simplest Explanation Hardly Adequate
People crave simplicity. Think of the microwave, think of any other appliance or service that has been designed to deliver its intended result with the least amount of effort put...
PLUNGE IN COP-TEST HOPEFULS
The number of prospective NYPD cops continues to nose-dive. Twenty percent fewer would-be officers have signed up to take the upcoming Police Officer Exam than did for the test given...
NY'S ENVIRO-PORK
Pork has a new hue this year: green. New York's congressional delegation packed $28 million worth of environmentally friendly funding, including alternative-energy projects and even "green collar" job-training programs into...
CLEARED PAL MOURNS FOR SHRINK
William Kunsman attended the funeral of his friend Kathryn Faughey yesterday, two days after being ruled out as a suspect in the Manhattan psychologist's brutal murder. Faughey had expressed concern...
COPS BUST 'MAD KILLER'
An "emotionally disturbed" man believed to be the "East Side Butcher" - wanted in a brutal slashing rampage that left one therapist dead and another severely injured - was nabbed...
'A SLOVENLY LONER'
There was something "a little off" about suspected East Side butcher David Tarloff. The troubled Queens man, who told police he had been in and out of mental institutions and...
DON'T BANK ON NYC'S BAD SEED
Conditions at New York City sperm banks are inconceivably bad - with some offices not testing samples for some diseases, and others using sperm from donors who engaged in high-risk...
BELL'S KIN READY FOR COPS' TRIAL
For Sean Bell's surviving children and fiancée the nightmarish journey to justice has been a long and arduous one, but when the trial of three New York City detectives begins...
THUG SHOOTS FATHER & SON
A Bronx man and his 12-year-old son were followed home, ambushed, bound and shot in what cops were calling a robbery attempt last night. The 41-year-old and his son were...
STADIUM'S A BX. BOON
Bronx businesses are getting a big boost from the construction of a new Yankee Stadium. Of the 96 construction contracts issued for the billion-dollar project, 31 totaling $121 million have...
GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT: WHY I S&M
AFTER a long day at the office, a high-powered Upper West Side tech consultant likes nothing better than to light some candles, turn down the lights - and get whipped....
TATTLER'S TALE
He wanted to be Michael, but he was a little more Fredo. Joseph Vollaro, 42, the key witness at the center of the feds' 62-person indictment against the Gambino crime...
POLS KEEP 'MAFIA' $$
None of the politicians who got donations from a Brooklyn restaurateur allegedly leading a double life as Gambino wiseguy has given back the cash dished out, even after he was...
A GRAVE RACCOON PROBLEM
There are more than just ghosts haunting historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn these days. The cemetery has been overrun by hungry raccoons that eat flowers left on graves and dig...
'MISSED CANCER' PROBE AT L.I. HOSP
The state Health Department is investigating another case of alleged misdiagnosis at Mercy Medical Center - a woman whose breast cancer was missed by the embattled Long Island hospital, The...
'FALL' GUY SUES FOR HEFTY SUM
Morbidly obese at 515 pounds, diabetic and unable to walk, James Maietta said he kept telling firefighters carrying him from his West 43rd Street apartment to the hospital that he...
COPS: DAD KILLED GIRL FOR TEXTING
A Bronx father of three with a history of mental illness strangled his 14-year- old daughter after catching her text-messaging a boy, then dumped her body in their apartment building's...
PAUL WAS CHEATING MILLS' FOOL
Heather Mills reportedly cheated on Paul McCartney for six months with a secret lover. Britain's News of the World reported Mills, who is expected to pocket more than $100 million...
FUMING AT $20 'PUFFER' PERMIT
Smokers in Britain may need a license to puff, if a health advisory body gets its way. A UK advisory body has proposed a $20 permit to buy tobacco -...
CURSE OF THE CURMUDGEONS
Crabby folks are not like fine wine - they simply don't age well, a study suggests. A survey of nearly 700 elderly participants revealed that people who spent the vast...
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!
How's this for junk science - even with three Gold Gloves, Yankees captain Derek Jeter has been labeled the worst fielding shortstop in baseball. But the numbers prove it, researchers...
SUNDAY POST FUN IN THE SUN SWEEPSTAKES
Get ready to trade in your winter boots for bathing suits. Every Sunday for the next six weeks, the Sunday Post is giving away a new vacation for two. All...
ICKES IN ICKY DELEGATE FLIP
Hillary Clinton adviser Harold Ickes wants Florida and Michigan primary results counted - though he previously supported stripping the two states' delegate votes. They shouldn't be "disenfranchised" for defying Democratic...
OBAMA GOT ROBBED OF NY VOTES
Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds,...
A BARACK-AND-FORTH VOTER
Before he was against riverside gambling, Barack Obama was for it. When a controversial bill allowing riverboat casinos to operate at dockside came before him in 1997, it passed the...
TEXAS-SIZED HURT ON HILL
The hard knocks keep on coming for Hillary Clinton, as her core support shows signs of erosion in the key state of Texas. A new poll has Barack Obama almost...
CLINTON'S $77 MIL SPREE
Hillary Rodham Clinton blew through an estimated $77 million on the campaign trail last year, just about doubling her campaign expenses every three months, federal records show. The senator ended...
SEX CAN BE A HEADACHE
Not tonight, dear. I'll get a headache. A new survey of known headache sufferers found that nearly half suffered some type of noggin pain after sex. And about 40 percent...
REV. AL IN 'ROID RAGE
The Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday took a swing at the racial double standard applied to Roger Clemens and equally sullied slugger Barry Bonds. At the weekly rally at Sharpton's National...
CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED
Frank Sinatra Jr. bounds on stage, pauses for the inevitable applause and grins, as if to say "Is this for me?" - an age-old lounge singer trick he learned from...
TRIO WANTS 'PART' OF HEATH
Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law have more in common than Hollywood-heartthrob status - all three leading men are reportedly slated to take over Heath Ledger's last role. The...
SUSPECT BEEF DUE IN STORES
Two million pounds of frozen beef warehoused by a New Jersey company bankrupted by a rash of e-coli poisonings last summer might be headed back to the food chain, The...
FINDING THEIR BURIED ROOTS
It's rare to catch Chris Rock without a punch line. But when he learns that his great-great-grandfather Julius Caesar Tingman fought in the Civil War for the Union and then...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A man was shot dead on a Brownsville street early yesterday, police said. The 27-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was shot in the head on East 98th...
QUINN'S JEWISH SUPPORT
THE largest fund-raiser for Christine Quinn's mayoral campaign is an Orthodox Jewish singer who helped collect $53,850 from fellow observant Jews who supposedly don't support gay politicians. Campaign filings show...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 158; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 0870; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 280; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
STEPHENSON FOLLOWS TELFAIR MODEL TO TITLE
Lance Stephenson had a tough act to follow. Sebastian Telfair won three PSAL championships, had a documentary made about his senior year and a book chronicling his leap from Lincoln...
NOTHING BUT A THOROUGHBRED SHAME
* The New York Racing Association has had the franchise to operate thoroughbred racing in New York since 1955. During those 53 years, there has been corruption and mismanagement at...
BACK ONE OUTDOORS BILL, HELP KILL ANOTHER
LEGISLATION that could help save the summer flounder sea son along the Atlantic Coast has been introduced in Congress. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) introduced legislation this past week that will...
HOWARD DUNKS LIKE SUPERMAN
NEW ORLEANS - Orlando center Dwight Howard outpolled Minnesota forward Gerald Green in national voting after the two locked horns in a spectacular dunking battle last night, executing legendary slams...
FULL SPEED AHEAD
Mark Martin refuses to dwell on his near miss a year ago at Daytona. "I don't look back," Martin said. "That's the way I have always been. I am a...
IT'S TODAY FOR CAR OF TOMORROW
The unknown takes center stage today at Daytona International Speedway. The Car of Tomorrow (COT) will be run for the first time with a full 43-car field on NASCAR's most...
THE RUMBLE
Jocelyn's double-team Marrying a Giant, broadcasting Mets SNY has found a Super replacement for its popular "Mets Weekly" show - Jocelyn Maldonado, fiancee of Giants MLB Antonio Pierce. She replaces...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Kings trade Bibby to Hawks The Hawks have agreed to acquire veteran point guard Mike Bibby from the Kings. Hawks owner Michael Gearon Jr. says the Hawks are to...
IT'S PAVLIK AGAIN
LAS VEGAS - Jermain Taylor regained a measure of respect against Kelly Pavlik, but not enough to impress the most important people at the MGM Grand Garden Arena last night:...
GIVE-BACK GUILT TRIPS ARE GROSS MISCONDUCT
AND so it's well underway, the demonizing of players who either refuse to waive their no-trade clauses or are uncertain whether to so. Wade Redden was called selfish when he...
MISSED CHANCE
St. John's had a golden opportunity last night against Villanova, a chance to climb over the struggling Wildcats and take control of own Big East destiny. But in arguably their...
A FAIR FOUL
MONDAY night, veteran college basketball official Bob Donato had become the worst ref in the free world, a bum. Overnight, bloggers, message-boarders and water-boarders were calling for Donato's execution, at...
DUDES & DUDS OF NY SPORTS
IN New York, we love 'em and hate 'em. And here at The Post, we rate 'em. Here is our annual review of the best and worst from our nine...
STAR-CROSSED
NEW ORLEANS - Shaquille O'Neal is not part of the All-Star game for the first time in 14 years. Injured Kevin Garnett will miss the game, too. Kobe Bryant would...
'TEK SUPPORT
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Yankees fans need to know this: Josh Beckett is the horse but as long as Jason Varitek is around, he remains the brains of this Red...
GETTIN' FIRED UP
KANATA, Ontario - It's bumpy and wobbly, but it's still a roll. These Devils have ridden it within two points of the Eastern Conference lead. Only 24 hours after blowing...
NO SWEAT FOR ISLES, DIPIETRO
Rick DiPietro could have taken a 2 1/2-hour siesta in the Islander goal last night, and it's possible nobody would have noticed. Workdays don't come easier than this for a...
CAUTION USED WITH CASTILLO
PORT ST. LUCIE - Already cautious with Carlos Beltran, the Mets aren't going to rush Luis Castillo, either. Castillo says he has recovered from arthroscopic surgery on his balky right...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Mets' 25-year-old All-Star third baseman, who last season hit 30 homers, stole 34 bases and won his first Gold Glove. Q: What were...
CARLOS CALLS IT
PORT ST. LUCIE - All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran didn't exactly make a soft landing at Mets camp yesterday. Beltran not only revealed that surgery on both knees last October...
ACE IN WHOLE
PORT ST. LUCIE - It's different for an ace. "I'm looking forward to seeing him pitch," Pedro Martinez said the other day at the Mets' minor league complex, when the...
OMAR: JOHAN'S '07 WOES JUST BAD LUCK
PORT ST. LUCIE - Johan Santana showed up at Met spring training yesterday vowing to be the Cy Young-level pitcher he was in 2004 and '06 - not the wreck...
DILLY DALLAS-ING
NEW ORLEANS - Things me and my shadows (column contributors) marvel and moan about while the Mavericks and Nets decide whether to re-work the Jason Kidd deal by replacing Devean...
THORN NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT JASON DEAL
NEW ORLEANS - Nets president Rod Thorn said he's not very optimistic the Jason Kidd deal to Dallas will happen and said he's working "on other things." Thorn said there...
1 DOWN, 1 TO GO
Pleasant as it was, yesterday is gone for the Rangers, who stormed the Buffalo Bastille to record four goals in the opening 12:25 before cruising to a 5-1 Garden victory...
WHAT A WASTE!
* What was Congress hoping to accomplish with its televised hearing featuring Roger Clemens? Were they expecting Clemens to sit there and say, "I lied?" Fat chance of that happening....
ROCKET FALLOUT
The dust has settled from Wednesday's congressional hearing on whether Roger Clemens used steroids and still we have very few answers. Public opinion appears to be heavily in the direction...
COULDN'T BE VERSE
With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer:"Rocket Under Oath" The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Waxman Gang that day: Old Roger had his story, and was never led astray. And Rusty...
ON THE GRIDDLE
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte arrives here tonight and will participate in his first spring training workout tomorrow at Legends Field. The man who has avoided the spotlight forever is going...
URINE THE RIGHT PLACE!
TAMPA - Major League Baseball has increased the number of players from each team to be drug tested this spring. In other years, MLB would test a handful of players...
ROTATION EQUATION
TAMPA - The Yankees have a math puzzle to solve. Like every club, the Yanks face approximately 1,450 innings of defense. As a rule, the higher percentage of those 1,450...
IGAWA INQUISITION ENDS ON POSITIVE NOTE
TAMPA - Kei Igawa met with Joe Girardi, Brian Cashman and first-year pitching coach Dave Eiland yesterday for 36 minutes in the manager's office. When the door closed shortly before...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
When a hospitalized Florida cop heard the shocking news that he had a third kidney, he resolved to put his medical mutation to good use and donate it. After getting...
Jack Thompson Being ... Jack Thompson
As one commenter from Game Revolution put it:"Totally predictable, and totally disgusting."If you want a better look at this insanity, head over to Kotaku and the always-excellent Brian Crecente.
MY NEW YORK: REBECCA TAYLOR
" When I saw ['Moonstruck'] I knew I wanted to move to New York City." IT was just 15 years ago that designer Rebecca Taylor picked up and moved from...
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET...
Chock full O' chocolate Dessert Studio at Chocolat Michel Cluizel, 888 Broadway; (914) 548-8683 Anyone with a sweet tooth will want to check out 4Foodies' tasting event Tuesday, complete with...
MAKING A RACKET
Razer Mako 2.1 Advanced Desktop Audio System $399; razerzone.com Razer is best known for its arsenal of high-quality gaming mice and keyboards, but the latest audio solution is making even...
WEB SLINGER
Cookin' With Coolio mydamnchannel.com Who knew it would take an Internet cooking show to return Coolio to relevance? In the first episode of his MyDamnChannel series, the Grammy-winning rapper swaggers...
FENG SHUI PLAY
FENG shui is the Eastern science of balancing energy in one's surroundings for optimal quality of life. Experts agree that pets help balance this energy (or chi), keeping humans invigorated...
THE CAT LADY
MY last column, about cats who prefer drinking from their paws, prompted so many of you to write in about you own cats and their behaviors with and reactions to...
ADOPT ME
Russell is a 4-month-old Jack Russell terrier who's happy, peppy and bursting with love to share. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of New...
RESIGNING ALWAYS LOSING PROPOSITION
CHESS WHEN Bill Belechick ran off the Super Bowl field with a second left on the clock, some sports fans were critical. But to chessplayers it was routine: The New...
THE GROHL STORY
The other day on a MySpace group dedicated to the Foo Fighters, a fan posted a complaint about the band's Grammy defeat to Amy Winehouse for Album of the Year....
'ABOUT A SON'
The morning after Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters play Monday's sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, yet another document of Grohl's past with Nirvana will emerge. The documentary "About a...
FILM BYTES
"I felt there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell," creator George Lucas says. And he wasn't kidding. Warner Bros. announced Wednesday that an all-new animated feature...
BLOCKBUSTER, TAKE 2
CLASSIC movie scene: a buff Linda Hamilton has a nightmarish vision of a playground full of children - and behind them, a city skyline - being annihilated by a nuclear...
SWEDING: REDEFINING THE REMAKE
The Web site Filmmaking Frenzy (beta.filmmakingfrenzy.com) is a treasure trove of sweded films, thanks to its "Rewind Kindly" competition tied to the film. There are too many to choose from...
Q&A: WILL FERRELL
HE'S got an afro so big you could park an AMC Pacer in it, and a jump shot so sweet it'll give you cavities. He's Jackie Moon, owner-player-coach of the...
DRUG DEALING FOR DUMMIES
WANNA know if you have what it takes to be a pioneering drug kingpin? Or how to test your heroin for purity? If so, the DVD release of "American Gangster"...
STARRING DON RICKLES AS 'MR. WARMTH'
TURNS out that insult-joke master Don Rickles is an honest-to-goodness nice guy. A really, really good guy - Bob Newhart's his best friend, OK? - who worshipped his mother and...
NEW RELEASES
In the Valley of Elah Movie: 4 STARS Extras: 3 STARS (Warner, $27.98) With "Elah" and "No Country for Old Men," Tommy Lee Jones had a career-defining year, delivering two...
GANG'S ALL HERE
GORO stabs arival Tokyo mobster and is sent away to prison for three years. When he gets out, he and Sugiyama - the man Goro had stabbed - vow to...
HOME ON THE RANGE
Madaleine Mae 461 Columbus Avenue; (212) 496-3000, madelinemae.com Low-country cuisine has never really gotten its day in the Big Apple. That is, until now. Jonathan Waxman, the Chez Panisse-trained greenmarket-chef...
PROOF POSITIVE: BUSHMILLS 1608
Bushmills, the first whiskey distillery licensed by the British crown, is celebrating its 400th year with 1608, a special blend of "crystal malt" that melds centuries-old tradition with a special...
MAKING THE SCENE...
Mansion 530 W. 28th St.; (212) 763-9131 After a year of quaint little club openings from the likes of Rose Bar and Socialista, is it possible that mega-clubs are on...
MARINO, 30, AND MCHUGH, 28
Dec. 31 - Barbara McHugh and Kenneth Marino attended elementary school together, but they didn't fall in love during recess. "I was a little timid sixth-grader and Ken was the...
HOJNOWSKI, 29, AND COSCHERA, 27
Jan. 5 - Winter babies Catherine Coschera and Daniel Hojnowski were warm to the idea of a January wedding, but the groom, a senior underwriter for Transatlantic Reinsurance, made the...
MATHIEU, 33, AND CHO, 32
Jan. 25 - Nuy Cho and Michael Mathieu feel like they've been married for years. "There wasn't really a formal proposal," says Cho, a reporter for InStyle Magazine. "We began...
SCHROEDER, 38, AND HENLEY, 39
Jan. 25 - Proposing to Sabrina Henley was a family matter for Robert Schroeder. "I was feeding our 17-month-old son, Luca, when Robert got down on one knee and asked...
STOP HIDING, HILLARY
Desperate to get Sen. Barack Obama into what she believes to be her strongest arena - another one-on-one debate - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at week's end accused her opponent...
THE SURGE -- AND A PAUSE
Defense Secretary Robert Gates this week brought some welcome clarity to America's oft-politicized understanding of what, precisely, the troop surge in Iraq has accomplished. His answer, in effect: We don't...
HUNTING HIGH AND LOW
This week, those afflicted with the creative urge will face the question: Should I suffer for my art? Or should I make everybody else suffer? To put it another way,...
BABY ON BORED
In the hit movie "Juno," cheeky teenager Juno MacGuff wants nothing to do with her baby once it's born. "Can't we just, like, kick this old school?" she asks the...
SO HARD TO SAY WE'RE SORRY
This week, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology to Australia's Indigenous people for the government's atrocious record of laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and...
SAVE YOUR PRAYERS
It's been a particularly grim and bloody month on one of the world's great killing fields - the United States of America. On Friday, Los Angeles paused for the largest...
FOREIGN TO THEM
Foreign policy has slipped to the periphery of presidential politics, displaced by a nonexistent recession as the voters' preoccupation. Come autumn, however, Iraq and Iran might be central subjects, Iraq...
LIPSTICK JUNGLE
Of all the explanations offered - it's Bill; her campaign manager; the tapped-out big-donor base; her deputy campaign manager; the plodding nature of substantive oratory; the media, enthralled with charisma...
WHY I SUPPORT HILLARY
Hillary Clinton is the candidate of change in this election. For 35 years, she has changed people's lives. Hillary Clinton has made a difference for those who needed an advocate...
WHY I SUPPORT OBAMA
My generation has come of age during a time of war, uncertainty, harsh partisanship and scandal. We have little faith in government because government seems to have so little faith...
BLOG WATCH
Transterrestrial Musings (transterrestrial.com) on intelligence agencies thinking that Osama bin Laden might be dead: "Haven't these people ever wondered, or speculated why bin Laden, who was second only to Senator...
BIG TROUBLE
I am a 40-year-old female who just got married last year, and I don't have a weight problem ("Baby Got Back," Marina Vataj, Feb. 12). I work out when I...
YOU ARE CORRECT!
I fully agree with your editorial, "Tom Lantos, 1928-2008," (Feb. 12). Tom Lantos was a true American hero. I do believe, however, that diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was Swedish, not Swiss.Bill...
WHALE TALE
Who protects us from marine attacks, the Navy or dolphins and whales ("Saving the Sailors," Peter Brookes, PostOpinion, Feb. 13)? Anyone who stops the Navy's operations needs to take a...
UN ABE-L
"The Lincoln-Legacy Scuffle" (Richard Brookhiser, PostOpinion, Feb. 12) is a great article. Another quality of Abe Lincoln was that he was a man of honor. Let's see a presidential candidate...
ECO-LOCO
Mayor Bloomberg seriously believes that alleged man-made global warming is more lethal than Islamist radicalism ("Threat Level is 'Green'," Feb. 12)? How would a President Bloomberg stomp out terrorism? With...
HIGH FIDELITY
I am an avid reader of The Post, and I was turned off by Dan Aquilante's review of the Grammy Award show ("Night of Rhythm 'Snooze'," Feb. 11). This year's...
NICE SHOT
Anyone confused about the steroid mess, especially inept Congressional questioners, should read Phil Mushnick's brilliant article "Let's Inject Some Common Sense" (Feb. 14).Joe La Zizza, New Milford, NJ
WHITEWASH HOUSE
Who knew the Clinton White House was such a sexist place? It had a female secretary of state, a female attorney general and may produce the first woman president -...
BEST WESTERN
Wallace Stegner saw his life simply as material for his fiction. On hearing that his father had died as the instigator of a murder/suicide, Stegner's first thought was of his...
KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM
"If you don't have anything . . . get out." That's sage poker advice, especially if you're addicted to online poker and staying in means you lose everything you care...
REQUIRED READING
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Doubleday) Known for writing on the modern Indian immigrant experience in novels such as "Queen of Dreams," Divakaruni goes back in time,...
BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR
I thought I would hate "Living Like Ed," a new book on eco-friendly living by "St. Elsewhere" actor Ed Begley Jr. I expected a painful slog through hair-shirt-recommendations on how...
IN MY LIBRARY: HARVEY FIERSTEIN
Harvey Fierstein's a busy man. Not only has he written the book for "A Catered Affair" - the new musical, previewing next month, based on Paddy Chayevsky's play about a...
NABOKOV'S LOST 'LAURA'
Somewhere in Switzerland there's a safety-deposit box that contains one of the most divisive literary manuscripts on earth. It's been more than 30 years since it was deposited there, and...
MUSICAL ESCAPES
Liz Spocott is a slave on the run, full of big dreams. Shot twice in the head by two different villains then captured alive by slave hunters, Liz is locked...
OMAHA MUTUAL
Warren Buffett's move to become the biggest winner in the subprime mortgage meltdown got short-circuited last week after Gov. Spitzer gave bond insurers until mid-week to get their financial house...
MACKEY'S ORGANIC GROWTH
Redemption for Whole Foods CEO John Mackey may be just around the corner. After a bruising year in which he apologized for anonymously blogging about Whole Foods and a rival,...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSPATRIC VERRONE Writers Guild West president helps end 102-day strike giving couch potatoes their right to stay in and vegetate.UNO The perky beagle takes Best Of Show at the Westminster...
YOU'RE FIRED - UP
WHO needs a post-Grammy sales bump when you have "The Celebrity Apprentice"? Country singer Trace Adkins wasn't nominated and didn't appear on the Grammy awards but his latest record, "American...
MAGAZINES' CIRCULATION HELPER
While magazine circulation inched up an average of just 1.1 percent in the second half of 2007, a few magazines with innovative approaches and partnerships managed to beat the odds....
NEW WALL STREET STATUS SYMBOL: STEADY JOB
Forget the big bonus, access to the corporate jet and oceans of pricey champagne at dinner, for many bond and equity traders the new status symbol on Wall Street is...
EAGLES SOAR
Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks? Irving Azoff, the long-time manager of The Eagles and a music industry heavyweight, last year convinced the band to self-release its...
DESPERATE AIG PONDERS FUTURE
With investors in the world's largest insurer AIG seeing billions slip through their fingers almost any week of late, they're agitating for change - even wanting to bring back its...
GOOD TOBACCO
Have your investment returns gone up in smoke? Then you may want to consider tobacco companies. Despite growing smoking bans - here and abroad -and increasing taxation, tobacco companies keep...
LOOKS LIKE THE PARTY IS OVER FOR MR. SCHWARZMAN
HAPPY 61st, Steve Schwarz man. Yes, it's been one year since the CEO of the Blackstone Group - the baron of buyouts - marked his three-score years on the planet...
HEALTH BENEFITS IN A SMALL CORP.
Dear John: I have a one-member Limited Liability Company and have been successful enough to have my spouse work for me. She will be employed full-time and will be compensated...
MEET MARKET
Ben, a 28-year-old California transplant, has a bit of silly energy and creative edge. A self-proclaimed "good-times" guy with a heart of gold, he's looking for a low- maintenance lady,...
TOP 5 BEST THINGS ABOUT BEING SINGLE
"Being at a bar on a Wednesday night." - George "Shouting out the wrong name in bed guilt-free." - Shannon "The girl at the end of the bar is easily...
THE LOVE BOAT
KIM, the 25-year-old host of Elasticwaist.com's daily Web show, says one of her best assets is her ability to just "roll with the punches." Indeed, she proved to be the...
THE SECRET DIALOGUE OF THE INNER CHICK
WE'RE in paradise. And I'm puking my guts out. "Was it something you ate?" Super Preppy asks from the main room of the gorgeous resort where we're staying in Arraial...
CHICAGO 'CHEF'
Culinary expert Ted Allen hates Chicago pizza. "It's way too thick, there's way too much cheese, it's all gloppy and the crust is like cake." But Allen didn't let his...
IT'S ABOUT THE CAR
Even cars have to audition in Hollywood.For NBC's two-hour movie remake of the NBC series "Knight Rider" (1982-86) executive producers Doug Liman ( "The Bourne Supremacy") and David Bartis ("Heist,...
TERMINATED
Garret Dillahunt has made a name for himself playing killers. First, he played Wild Bill Hickok's assassin on HBO's "Deadwood." Now, he's playing another a murderous cyborg on the trail...
PRIMETIME
Remember, you're not supposed to be bright enough to make the distinction between clever and creative and low and desperate. The Starz cable network's original comedy series, "Head Case," seems...
'PROJECT RUNWAY'
There's the crazy-haired boy wonder with a fondness for "fierce." The soft-spoken seamstress from Ralph Lauren. The Cirque du Soleil costume designer. And the maverick red carpet raping expert from...
DEATH BECOMES HIM
Blood, guts and forensics may be CBS' bread and butter these days, but the network has never seen anything quite like "Dexter." Lacking new episodes of their own series due...
PEANUT GALLERY DIDN'T REALLY HELP JERICHO'
The producers of 'Jericho' must have used all those peanuts to pay for the production of the show's new episodes. The end-of-the-world drama starring Skeet Ulrich returned last week after...
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA Wake-up call Eli Stone's (Jonny Lee Miller) latest aneurysm-induced vision is of a man who appears in his TV set asking for help. Turns out that the man has...
REEL GOOD
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) Monday, 1 a.m., TCM James Ellroy's complex mystery comes to bloody life in this story of a brutal shootout in an L.A. diner in the 1950's that...
FATHER KILLED DAUGHTER AFTER TEXT
A Bronx father of three with a history of mental illness strangled his 14-year- old daughter after catching her text-messaging a boy, then dumped her body in their apartment building's...
STUDY CLAIMS JETER IS WORST FIELDING SHORTSTOP IN BASEBALL
How's this for junk science - even with three Gold Gloves, Yankees captain Derek Jeter has been labeled the worst fielding shortstop in baseball. But the numbers prove it, researchers...
Loew, Steward Make Peace and other notes
Steward Apologizes to Loew for snub...Planet Hollywood Makes Boxing Debut...Oscar Photos and a Baby Doll. By GEORGE WILLISLAS VEGAS--Jack Loew and Emanuel Steward made peace late Friday night after Steward...
Pitchers and catchers underway
A quick wrap-up (non-Carlos Beltran division) from Port St. Lucie on the first official day of pitcher-catcher workouts:1. Johan Santana had a well-attended pitching session off the mound this morning,...