February 24, 2008
Liveblogging the Oscars: Clooney Speaks
George finally talks to E! and why do they ask? Q. "What drives you to be so active?"is plugging this summer's "Get Smart.'' And then Seacrest asks Steve Carell about...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Clooney Arrives Early
Elegant George Clooney is doing a bit of talking on the red carpet, but not so far to E! or to TVG, which is talking with Amy Ryan.
3 DOWN: Hawkins, Albaladejo, Alou
1. One item you recognize quickly about LaTroy Hawkins, even in a batting practice session against teammates, is just how early he takes the ball from his glove during his...
3 CHILDREN DEAD IN LONG ISLAND HOME
Three young children were found dead in a Long Island home early this morning and cops are grilling their mother about her role in their deaths, police and neighbors said....
Miss at your own risk
Highlights for the week of Feb. 24Puff ânâ stuffWatch Sean Combs (right) re-create his diddy as a Broadway star when he reprises his role from âA Raisin in the Sunâ...
Box Office: 'Vantage' Exceeds Expectations
This week's business was a tad more robust than expected, with the critically reviled presidential assassination thriller "Vantage Point'' exceeding expectations an estimated $24 million, Exhibitor Relations reports. "Jumper'' slid...
3 UP: Jeter's Defense
1. There are certain third-rail issues when you do this job, certain column subjects that you know will just fill up your e-mail box. For example, nothing does that like...
NEW SORE 'POINT' FOR HOTEL PATRONS
There's a "creep" lurking in the halls of your favorite Sheraton or Westin hotel. Its name is "category adjustment" and it's going to walk off with 40 percent of your...
CHUMLEY'S FIX ON TAP
Work is rumored to begin tomorrow to repair the landmark West Village pub Chumley's a year after it was closed for restorations. Owner Steve Shlopak has said the one-time speakeasy...
150G ROB VICTIM HOME FROM HOSP
The music executive pistol-whipped and robbed of $150,000 in front of a Starbucks returned home from the hospital yesterday, his face still swollen and bruised from the bloody assault -...
GREAT PANES TO 'SEINFELD' CULT
Some of the stained-glass panels coming down from the demolition of the façade of American Airlines' famous old JFK Airport terminal will wind up with strange new owners, a wacky...
'CLASS' ACTION LAWSUIT
The head of an Upper West Side school walked away with more than $100,000 after getting canned last month - but now the school is suing to get the money...
HAVEN FOR HACK-SLAY SURVIVOR
The slashed colleague of slain shrink Kathryn Faughey fled to a country hideout, fearing for his life as a meat-cleaver madman was on the loose. Dr. Kent Shinbach, who police...
TIMES 'CAINS ITSELF ON STORY
The New York Times ombudsman in today's edition criticizes his newspaper for running a story hinting that John McCain had an affair with a female lobbyist, slamming its reliance on...
COLD BLOOD IN HUBBY 'SLAY' CASE
A speck of blood found under the fingernail of the wife of an FDNY fire marshal suspected of shooting her husband as he slept fizzled out as bombshell evidence when...
90 'HEP A HOTSPOT' SHOTS
More than 90 people have taken the city Department of Health's offer for free hepatitis A vaccines after coming into contact with an infected bartender at the trendy club Socialista...
BAIRD STILL A MYSTERY
Investigators are still trying to figure out what killed quirky Webster Hall curator and publicist Baird Jones. An autopsy yesterday on Jones, 53, a prolific source for Page Six and...
COLUMBIA COLLEAGUE: FIRE PROF
A colleague of embattled Columbia University professor Madonna Constantine is criticizing the school's administration for not firing her after investigators found evidence of plagiarism. Celia Oyler, an associate professor at...
MAN FIGHTS FOR LIFE AFTER 5-FLOOR FALL
A Manhattan man who was locked out of his apartment died last night after he scaled the back wall to try to get in, authorities said. Paul Reilly, 30, realized...
TRAGIC TOLL OF QNS. ROADWAY
A defective, dangerous roadway that New York state has failed to fix, despite two decades of repeated accidents at the site, has cost taxpayers $8.4 million - and cost an...
EMT DEATH PROBE
Two paramedics have been placed on restricted duty after a fellow EMS worker went into cardiac arrest and died under their care, The Post has learned. Initial reports suggest that...
50-SHOT DRAMA
With the curtain set to rise on the blockbuster Sean Bell police-shooting trial, some observers wonder whether hope for the three accused officers may come from the very grand jury...
STYLISH HELL ON HEELS
If you can tiptoe around the elevated price - $3,600 - these are some shoes you can step up to. But make no mistake, the 5 1/2-inch heel-less shoes are...
$270M TO TRAILER PARK GUY
A Georgia iron worker who lives in a trailer with his wife and two daughters rode off with Friday's Mega Millions jackpot - worth $270 million. The winner, identified by...
MASS. GOV IS A SUPER SORE LOSER
Looks like New Englanders aren't just cheaters - they're chiselers, too. Following Patriots coach Bill Belichick's sneaky playbook, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has failed to pay up on his Super...
'SNL' MARKS STRIKE END WITH FEY DAY
The scribes on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" finally got back to work this week after 100 days of picketing and the show gave one of the writers' strike's biggest supporters,...
'SHAME ON YOU, BARACK'
Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a challenge to Barack Obama yesterday after blowing up over a pair of mailings his campaign sent to voters that she said were false and misleading....
MICHELLE'S COLORFUL IVY THESIS
In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michelle Obama wrote that her experiences at the Ivy League university made her "far more aware" of race and determined to work for the...
HIGH PROFILE, HIGH RISK FOR MCSONS
If he wins the White House, John McCain will be getting a promotion to commander in chief - but his two military sons could find their careers stalled. Jimmy McCain,...
'O' POWER PLAY
Aides to Barack Obama are putting the squeeze on Democratic officials, urging them to get aboard the campaign "sooner rather than later," The Post has learned. Obama supporters have also...
RULE #1 - DON'T GET FAT
There's a new prenuptial agreement in town - and it's beyond anything even Ron Perelman's lawyers could cook up. Young brides are drawing up bridesmaids contracts that are sure to...
DOGS OF WAR SPRUNG FROM IRAQ
This pair of combat canines just got a new leash on life. Cuddly mutts Liberty and K-Pot were rescued from the mean streets of Baghdad by US soldiers last year...
HAMBIGGER SETS RECORD
A Detroit-area burger baron believes he has smashed the world record for the "largest hamburger commercially available," striking fear into hearts of bovines everywhere, with a 134-pound all-beef behemoth. The...
THIS IS, LIKE, ENGLISH, 'JUNO?'
Thundercats are go! "Juno," the hit teen-pregnancy indie, is poised to snag some serious Oscars tonight, homeskillet: The movie's up for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. Oh, and...
THE (NEW) BAT-COASTER
Take a look at the newest thrill ride swinging into Gotham. Here's a rendering of the highly anticipated Dark Knight Coaster, a $7.5 million Batman-themed scream machine set to open...
BRITNEY'S REUNITED WITH BOYS
Britney Spears was allowed to see her two boys yesterday for the first time since she was forcibly carted off to a psychiatric ward nearly two months ago. Her shrink,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX A man was fatally shot in the hallway of his Castle Hill apartment building yesterday, police said. Russell Allen, 24, was found with several gunshot wounds to his...
PARK EAST 'PARKING ABUSE'
NEWS of Mayor Bloomberg's crackdown on privileged parkers hasn't reached his own community board, which has authorized a synagogue a dozen blocks from the mayor's home to use homemade parking...
CONFESSIONS OF A MOB KID
SOME children are silenced. The pretense is protection against people and events more powerful than them. As the daughter of Allen Smiley, associate and friend to Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, I...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 589; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 3326; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 617; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 9056;...
SUFFERN SHOW - FIRST SIGN OF SPRING
MOST of you know it simply as the Suffern Show and consider it the gateway to spring and the outdoor season. The Toyota World Fishing and Outdoor Exposition, one of...
THE RUMBLE
Nets' Ecko chamber Designer gives 5,000 tix to kids Famed fashion designer Marc Ecko made headlines last year when he acquired the Barry Bonds record-setting home-run baseball in an auction...
RICE SOARS TO CROWN
Rice defeated St. Raymond's 78-59 to capture the New York Archdiocesan Championship yesterday at Mount St. Michael Academy in The Bronx. Rice was led by Durand Scott (18 points) and...
ESPN, SCHOOLS INVITE TROUBLE
YET again, what once would have been out of the question as a matter of common sense and common decency, has arrived, delivered by TV, and headed in the direction...
HORNISH LEADS OPEN-WHEELERS
Sam Hornish Jr. has won at Auto Club Speedway and he has won championships, but he will not be considered a favorite for today's Sprint Cup Auto Club 500 in...
KLITSCH & GRAB
You would think a heavyweight unification match between two champions would produce terrific action from two of the best boxers in their division. Think again. There were more boos heard...
BLOODY DUDDY SCORES UNIMPRESSIVE VICTORY
John Duddy is not ready to challenge middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. That was made clear last night when the popular Irishman escaped his10-round bout against journeyman Walid Smichet with a...
BODY BLOWS
PORT ST. LUCIE - The early theme at Mets camp has been an easy one to detect, and to interpret. The fans who have swarmed Tradition Field all come bringing...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Thomas signing with Cowboys LB Zach Thomas has reached an agreement on a one-year deal to play for the Cowboys, heading back to the state where he was a...
ICED CUBAN
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - For those who get off on me being slapped silly, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban branded my disclosure that Avery Johnson broached trading Dirk Nowitzki a "ridiculous assertion."...
BLOC-BUSTERS
Wladimir Klitschko and Sultan Ibragimov have a lot to prove if they are going to be remembered as all-time great heavyweights. But they shared a place in history last night...
SWEET WIN FOR 'KID CHOCOLATE'
Peter Quillin won't be fighting on undercards for long. The undefeated super middleweight is destined to fight in front of more than an 80-percent-empty arena, as he did last night...
MEAN JOE GREENE PUMMELS MORA
It took all Francisco Mora's strength, internal and external, to get through Round 10 against Joe Greene. Literally. The Argentinian middleweight keeled over on the way to his corner following...
REVERSING THE CURSE
The Devils who must score, did. Now their New York, New York hex is half-foiled. The failing common to the Devils' 10 losses to the Islanders and Rangers this season...
REESE TRIES TO REPEAT GIANT SUCCESS
Jerry Reese is trying to play hard-to-get at the NFL Scouting Combine but is having little success. Everywhere he goes, someone is bearing down on him offering up a healthy...
FOR IMPRESSIVE ISLANDERS, A LITTLE TALENT'S GOING A LONG WAY
BUFFALO -They are the NHL's Stepchild Franchise, third and least visible in their three-team hockey market, ninth and least visible in their nine-team pro sports market. To suggest that the...
KNICKS' 3-RING CIRCUS A FRIGHT
* As a very pas sionate Knicks fan, like many others in the Tri-State Area, Wednesday's blowout loss at Philadelphia makes me sick to my stomach. I've been patient the...
SITTING TARGET
If the box scores don't tell the tale clearly enough, it can be read between the lines in Isiah Thomas' words. As the NBA goes smaller and smaller, as the...
NO LOVE LOST
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Jimmy Rollins was presented yesterday with a monster-size bat from Max Bat in honor of winning the MVP. The bat's 85 inches long and weighs 45 pounds....
GRIM KNEED
PORT ST. LUCIE - Jose Valentin literally needed someone to die last September to keep his baseball career alive. That morbid fact is never far from the veteran infielder's thoughts...
JUST THE 'FAX
PORT ST. LUCIE - Billy Wagner was the one who brought him here, so he is the man to thank. Wagner is toying with the idea of adding a curveball...
GIANT CHAMP DROPS BY CAMP
PORT ST. LUCIE - Sandy Koufax wasn't the only champion to make a surprise visit to the Mets' camp yesterday. Giants middle linebacker Antonio Pierce also dropped by Tradition Field,...
MET RELIEVER WEARS HEART ON HIS SLEEVE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Normally, his computer was an outlet for Nelson Figueroa to break his teammates' chops, to cut-and-paste heads and bodies, to generate the kind of laughter that...
MARCUS: MY FIRE FIZZLED UNTIL ...
Marcus Williams watched tape of Friday night's Net loss to the Pacers, talked to coaches, talked to teammates. His conclusion: He lacked the intensity he had in Wednesday's win over...
RAGS TO RICHARD
Almost all of the scoring punch during the run came from Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter. Still, maybe the key to the run wasn't the offensive explosion. "Everything tonight was...
RIGHT DEFLECTION
BUFFALO - He weaved out of his own end, beat a pair of forecheckers, navigated through the neutral zone, dangled across the line and then, when Jaromir Jagr ripped one...
BABY BOSS GOES ON DEFENSIVE
* Well, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. This week, Yankees vice president Hank Steinbrenner said he couldn't understand why baseball was being singled out for...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the great Yankees closer of the '70s and '80s, who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer: Q: Roger Clemens? A:...
GEEKS GOT IT RIGHT
IT IS so easy to turn this into geeks vs. the prom king, University of Penn statistic professors vs. Derek Jeter. Who do you think is going to win that...
PRINCE OF THE CITY
TAMPA - Joba Chamberlain learned what it feels like when a dream comes true last year. He felt the jolt of adrenaline in a new role as a reliever. He...
COME OPENING DAY, WANG IS BEST BET TO TAKE THE MOUND AT STADIUM
TAMPA - Chien-Ming Wang is getting the opportunity to do something he was scheduled to do last year until a hamstring muscle in the right leg popped during spring training:...
SO FAR, JOE GOOD
TAMPA - There is almost no way to praise the new manager without it coming across as a slam on his predecessor. So let's deal with that up front. Joe...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A deputy sheriff was caught with his pants down when he unintentionally fired his handgun in a courthouse bathroom during lunch hour. Dean Wawers, 57, of Fargo, ND, hung his...
OUR OSCAR WINNERS
THE OSCARS are about many things, but justice is not one of them. Prizes are handed out for all kinds of reason, from sentimental favorites to political payback. This year,...
80 YEARS OF OSCAR MEMORIES
1929: First Academy Awards held at Hollywood's Hotel Roosevelt. WWI drama "Wings" wins Best Picture. 1930: Best Actor George Arliss ("Disraeli") and Best Actress Norma Shearer ("The Divorcée") pose with...
YOUR 2008 OSCAR BALLOT
With predictions from Post film critics Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith
THERE WILL BE BOOZE
ALAS, Vanity Fair has canceled its legendary Oscar party, which means the well connected will have to wait until next year to watch Harvey Weinstein slurp bodyshots off of Graydon...
MY NEW YORK: FRED ARMISEN
'It's a realization of a childhood dream to walk into 30 Rock.' "Saturday Night Live" cast member and Long Island native Fred Armisen has had the most unusual journey to...
GET JAZZY WITH IT
This week: Boogie down at the Museum of Natural History; a jazz band gets Bjork-ified; Mos Def opens up; fine art exposed; and Will Ferrell and friends get their laugh...
80 YEARS OF OSCAR MEMORIES
1929: First Academy Awards held at Hollywood's Hotel Roosevelt. WWI drama "Wings" wins Best Picture. 1930: Best Actor George Arliss ("Disraeli") and Best Actress Norma Shearer ("The Divorcée") pose with...
OUR OSCAR WINNERS
THE OSCARS are about many things, but justice is not one of them. Prizes are handed out for all kinds of reason, from sentimental favorites to political payback. This year,...
YOUR 2008 OSCAR BALLOT
With predictions from Post film critics Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith
THERE WILL BE BOOZE
ALAS, Vanity Fair has canceled its legendary Oscar party, which means the well connected will have to wait until next year to watch Harvey Weinstein slurp bodyshots off of Graydon...
WEB SLINGER
Sleeveface sleeveface.com So, here's something you can do when simply admiring your vast vinyl collection no longer brings you joy - hold one of those record covers over your face...
IN-VEST TO IMPRESS
Samsung BD-P1400 Blu-ray player $356.25; amazon.com The bell has finally tolled for the HD DVD. Toshiba, the format's biggest proponent, announced it has thrown in the towel, making Sony's Blu-ray...
REEL HOUNDS
CYNOPHILE is a $10 word for dog lover, and cinephile means movie lover. Put them together and you get a new breed, cyn-ephile: someone who enjoys movies with dogs in...
ADOPT ME
Noemi is a cute, petite, affectionate and playful 14-month-old spayed Siamese mix. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of New York, 306 E. 59th...
COLORFUL TALE ABOUT BLUE'S WIN BARED
CHESS THE most intriguing chapter in Joel Benja min's very entertaining autobiography, "American Grandmaster," recounts his role on Deep Blue's team in beating Garry Kasparov. The conventional view of that...
Q&A: ERYKAH BADU
FOR HER 36th BIRTHDAY, Erykah Badu plans to go to war. She'll engage herself in a battle for the human soul this Tuesday, when she issues "New Amerykah: Part One...
FILM BYTES
A clip from the live-action film "Where the Wild Things Are" at thebadandugly.com, hints at just how surreal and not-for-kids the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers collaboration promises to be. But a...
IT'S AN INDIE WORLD
IFC Films, which specializes in multiplex-adverse fare, is receiving a salute at - no, not the IFC Center in the West Village - but at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn....
JINTS' SUPER SEASON
It's been just three weeks since the improbable event that did more for New Yorkers' mental health than a legion of psychotherapists. Yes, just 21 days since the Giants' unlikely...
'BEOWULF'
As fascinating as it is to watch the eye-popping, computer-generated proto-humans in "Beowulf," it's an even greater thrill to see how they're created. Motion-capture technology transformed paunchy Ray Winstone into...
PROOF POSITIVE: CASA LAPOSTOLLE CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Not only has Casa Lapostolle helped pioneer the burgeoning Chilean wine market, it's also raising the bar on organic winemaking with a new, multimillion-dollar facility in the Colchagua region that...
MAKING THE SCENE...
SUZIE WONG 547 W. 27th St.; (212) 268-5105 Getting its name from "The World of Suzie Wong" - a 1957 novel about an artist who moves into a Hong Kong...
GRANGE HALLMARK
Commerce 50 Commerce St.; (212) 524-2301 Commerce, owned by Montrachet chef Harold Moore and Tony Zazula, aims to revive one of the most cozy and beloved restaurants in West Village...
GAMBALE, 30, AND STAPEN, 29
Feb. 16 - Michael Gambale and Julie Stapen didn't travel far to find one another: The high school sweethearts grew up only seven minutes apart on Long Island. It only...
MELENDEZ, 22, AND MCINTOSH, 24
Jan. 25 - Finding love on the subway isn't just for craigslist post-ers: Stacyann McIntosh was on her way home from a lukewarm date last April when she met Calvin...
ALFRED, 28, AND BELL, 28
Feb. 16 - Central Park is a special spot for Amanda Bell and David Alfred. The Upper East Side couple first met there in 2003. It's also where Alfred, the...
YOUNGE, 27, AND HEROD, 32
Jan. 25 - Joseph Herod and Malvern Younge both hit the jackpot when they spent a weekend in Atlantic City last July. "We were just toying around with the idea...
RED (PLANET) ROVER
It's a far cry from John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, but America may well be witnessing its newest generation of space heroes. Take the SM-3 missile, for instance, which Wednesday...
PELOSI VS. AMERICA
An American Civil Liberties Union loss last week is, not surprisingly, a gain for American security. But will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi get the message? The Supreme Court on Tuesday...
THANK THE ACADEMY
Appearing as himself on "The Simpsons," Alec Baldwin once said, "Homer was a pretty good guy, and we just tossed him out like a Golden Globe Award." Here's a sentence...
SHOOTING OVER PAR
In one of the most memorable scenes in the movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" - a classic among salespeople on commission - the sales manager played by Alec Baldwin announces a...
OBAMA'S FIRST TEST
The corruption trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, due to start in federal court in Chicago tomorrow, comes at a bad time for Barack Obama. The senator from Illinois is surging...
A PRESIDENT IN REAL-TIME
As a real-time thriller in which America is under attack by a terrorist network that, season after season, is disabled by the indestructible federal agent Jack Bauer, "24" has aptly...
17,000 DEATHS
Before American voters embrace either Hillary Rodham Clinton's universal-health scheme or Barack Obama's single-payer proposal, they should consider the avoidable deaths that plague the mother of all state-run medical programs:...
WHY THE GOP LOST VOTERS LIKE ME
No political party can prevail nationally on Anglo votes alone, so the long-term danger to Republicans is that their party is sending a message to Latinos that it doesn't want...
BUT MCCAIN COULD WOO THEM BACK
John McCain is bowing to the far right now, but he'll deliver comprehensive immigration reform as president. He may even deliver a future for his party. As the only GOP...
BLOG WATCH
Stephen Schwartz at pajamasmedia.com has no sympathy for the Serbs: "America's embassy in Belgrade is burning. Our flag has been torn down and set afire by the fearless Serbs. Americans...
IT'S INSANITY
When will society wake up and realize that the psychiatric profession is 100 percent full of it ("Doc Shock," Feb. 19)? How can so-called experts analyze mental patients, who obviously...
BAILOUT BLUES
I agree with the premise of refinancing. However, I don't agree with giving people with foreclosures on their credit 1-percent interest rates. That's insane ("A Fresh Idea To Deal With...
BEHIND THE SCREENS
The virtual world Second Life might be a household name today, but back in 1999, when its founder first brought a small group of developers together in a sketchy San...
YEAR OF THE BRAT
Real life is never as neat or tidy as suggested by book titles, but Mark Harris's examination of the Best Picture nominees from 1967 gets it mostly right: it was...
REQUIRED READING
Dominican Haven The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945 by Marion A. Kaplan (Museum of Jewish Heritage) In World War II, Jews fleeing the Nazis had few places to go...
IN MY LIBRARY: MICHAEL TIMMINS OF THE COWBOY JUNKIES
It's lonely on the road, as countless rock musicians have complained - even if your brother and sister are in the band. So Michael Timmins, guitarist and chief songwriter for...
PEDAL TO THE METTLE
For a brief moment in America, the bicycle was king, and Major Taylor was king of the bicycle, one of the country's first black sporting heroes. As author Todd Balf...
THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE
With "The Age of American Unreason," Susan Jacoby has really written two different books on two occasionally overlapping subjects. The first book is a well-argued jeremiad against anti-intellectualism in America....
ATLAS HUGGED
David Boaz has come up with a kindergarten-level - yet wise - summation of the libertarian message: "Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises." As...
D'WORKS 4Q PROFITS MAY STING
With the disappointing theatrical holiday performance of "Bee Movie" and the poor retail showing at Christmastime of the latest Shrek DVD, Wall Street is expecting a solid albeit less-than-satisfying quarter...
MICROSOFT HOLDERS: YAHOO! $40B A JOKE
As the standoff with Yahoo! enters its fourth week, Microsoft analysts and investors are wondering whether the $40 billion the company is prepared to pay might be better spent in...
WEINSTEIN'S 'STAR WARS'
STAR Wars fans haven't been this upset since Jar Jar Binks. Weinstein Co. boss Harvey Weinstein is being skewered online by devotees of the sci-fi franchise, who are calling him...
BAD TIMES ARE GOOD FOR BANKRUPTCY LAWYERS
It's probably always been this way for bankruptcy lawyers. Consumer spending slows, credit gets tight, layoffs begin and everyone from Wall Street to Main Street starts feeling the pain -...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSEMERIL LAGASSE Chef and TV personality sells stewpot of assets to Martha Stewart for $50M - and gets to keep his 11 restaurants.ADAM MOSS Editor of New York magazine sees...
BAIL BONDSMEN
The billionaire boys of the buyout world are having their wings clipped this year. The new kings of Wall Street are not only suffering through a terribly slow period in...
STRAPPED AMERICANS TURN TO RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
EONOMIC security is a hot topic on the campaign trail this year. But while the candidates posture and promise, we're witnessing a quiet run on the nest eggs of millions...
FINANCE STANCE
The Presidential Election of 2008 is looking like it will all come down to money. With the November elections coinciding with growing unemployment, rising prices, a mortgage meltdown and a...
DITCHING YOUR HOME ISN'T A SMART MOVE
Dear John: Is there any reason not to walk away from a house that has negative equity? B.K. Dear B.K.: Yes, it'll screw up your credit for the rest of...
NEW ONLINE LENDING PLAN
With banks tightening lending requirement, more cash-strapped people going without the money they need for that new car or home improvement - or they are forced to pay a too-high...
MEET MARKET
Ajay, a 36-year-old clothing designer, is an easygoing guy with a stellar sense of style. He also claims to be quite the chef and hopes to cook up something tasty...
TOP 5 REASONS TO DATE SOMEONE OLDER
"They usually make more money, so they'll pay for dinner." - Lise "They're more experienced and well-trained, especially in bed." - Kathy "Sexual experience: They know how to tickle your...
BORAT MEETS BOOTY SHAKER
Love may be blind, but Cupid hit the mark on Ben's date at Koi. The 28-year-old cameraman wasn't coy about impressing Danielle, a 27-year-old analyst, with his Borat impersonation. She...
FAKIN' IT FOR SUPER PREPPY - ON DOC'S ORDERS
AND now for a word from my Voice of Reason. "We're neurologically wired to never be content," advises Dr. Rob Reiner, my favorite relationship psychologist. I'm updating him on my...
SADDLE UP FOR BUFFALO BILL'S WIULD WEST SHOW
If you're ever in Cody, Wyo., you must stop for breakfast at the Irma Hotel. The famed dining room of this historic, two-story hotel, built in 1902 by "Buffalo Bill"...
DON'T PLAY, JUST SING
Contestants on "American Idol" who also play musical instruments may be doing so at their own peril, says Michael Orland, the show's musical director. "This show is all about the...
TV ON THE INTERNET
The age of dot.com TV is upon us. "Quarterlife," developed for the Internet, will premiere Tuesday night on NBC. Created by TV veterans Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the series...
10 REASONS WHY 'LOST' IS FOUND
Lost" is the thrill ride the show was in season one - and not a moment too soon. A new sense of direction has given the show a clear focus...
DON'T MISS LIST
Oscar 'Country' Now that the writers' strike is really, truly over, Hollywood actors will be so excited to show up at the Oscars - there was no Golden Globes this...
PRIMETIME
Now that Jane Fonda has set the record for worst vulgarity ever casually spoken on daytime, over-the-air TV - as the most vulgar of vulgarities, it's a record than can...
'RAISIN' THE STAKES
No one is going to argue that "A Raisin in the Sun" isn't an American classic. It's that play you read in high school, when teachers enlightened students with Lorraine...
REEL DEAL
CHINATOWN (1974) Sunday, 2:30 p.m., MAX A Los Angeles detective, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by a beautiful, secretive woman (Faye Dunaway) to spy on her husband. Sounds like...
No Surprises at Indie Spirits as 'Juno,' Page, Hoffman, Schnabel Triumph
Still, it's nice to know that Ellen Page won't be going home empty-handed this weekend. SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) â The pregnancy comedy "Juno" was chosen as the year's best...
Lohan, Murphy Sweep Razzies
Poor Lindsay Lohan's "I Know Who Killed Me'' took eight awards, including a pair of awards for her dual performance as sisters, at the Razzies today -- more than any...
PHILLIES AND METS, BY GEORGE
Really enjoyed the time I spent with Hank and George Steinbrenner yesterday. Hereâs the story. EnjoyThe Boss is still sharp and is still involved. Today is my last day on...