February 25, 2008
REPORT: CONGRESS TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARD ROGER CLEMENS PERJURY CHARGE
Apparently a congressional committee though the Rocket fizzled in front of it two weeks ago. According to a published report, the first steps toward asking the Department of Justice to...
Hank: 'No idea' on Cashman deal
By GEORGE A. KING IIITAMPA -- Hank Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman are gambling with pinstripe dice.Asked today about the GMâs future in The Bronx, Steinbrenner spoke glowingly of Cashman but...
Mara out two weeks
APDefenseman Paul Mara was scheduled for facial surgery today and will be sidelined for two weeks.The 28-year-old was leveled by Buffalo Sabres forward Patrick Kaleta with a check in the...
Forsberg to Colorado
According to TSN.ca, Peter Forsberg has signed a one-year deal with Colorado Avalanche to play out the rest of the season.Forsberg has spent the beginning of the 2007-08 season recovering...
Perjury process starts for Roger
By BRIAN COSTELLOApparently a congressional committee though the Rocket fizzled in front of them two weeks ago.According to a published report, the first steps toward asking the Department of Justice...
Sanchez looks like old self
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the Metsâ one and only intrasquad scrimmage this spring:1. Duaner Sanchez made his long-awaited debut in a game situation today when he...
3 DOWN: Mantei, A-Rod, Duque
1. I noticed a small item in the Detroit Free Press on how good Matt Mantei looks in his quest to return to the majors. Mantei is still just 34,...
PORT ST. LUCIE HIGHLIGHTS
The traveling man, that's me, spent his first day at Mets camp today, this was after going from Clearwater to Viera to check in with the Nationals and Lastings Milledge...
Who's hotter: Matt or Ben?
In response to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's video about her affair with hotshot Matt Damon, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel enlisted Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, Rebecca...
COPS: MAN STABBED BROTHERS IN DIAMOND DISTRICT INCIDENT
An enraged jewelry importer slashed and stabbed two brothers-in-law in their Diamond District office this afternoon in an argument over money, police said. The importer was eventually subdued by his...
ASSAULT CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST 'ANGRY' ANCHOR ALYCIA LANE
Feisty Philly anchorwoman Alycia Lane is off the hook for serious charges that she struck a female NYPD cop with her hand during a traffic dispute in Chelsea two months...
Selanne Surpasses Richard
Teemu Selanne won the first-ever Rocket Richard award. Now the Finnish Flash has passed the French-Canadian superstar on the all-time goals list.Selanne scored a hat trick in his Anaheim Ducks'...
Jack Thompson remixed
I am usually unamused by these types of videos, but this one (by PurePwnage) made me laugh. I think it's the whole "Video games, video games, games, games, games" refrain.Hen-joy!
SEAN BELL SHOOTING CASE GOES TO TRIAL
A prosecutor in the trial of three undercover detectives charged in the death of an unarmed man on his wedding day said today that the sting operation was "carelessness verging...
Oscar Night '08
In case you haven't heard, a former stripper won Best Original Screenplay, 'No Country' took home the awards for Best Picture and George Clooney has a new girlfriend.Click here for...
Oscar Watch: There's Always Next Year
Let's hope next year's Oscars are more exciting than last night's yawn-fest. Here's my short listof possible '08 contenders (which actually spans two pages, longer than the version that ran...
CLINTON CAMP DISTRIBUTES NEW PIC OF OBAMA
The Clinton campaign is circulating a photo of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama dressed in the clothing of a Somali elder, according to the Drudge Report. The photo was taken...
Bret's 'Love' Rodeo
This weekâs episode of Rock of Love begs the question: why watch the Oscars when you can watch Megan and her low-rise jeans wrestle a greased pig? Itâs morning in...
Camp Quiet
Yankee officials will scream about this topic but there is no denying their camp has been quiet. By GEORGE KINGWelcome to Camp Tranquility.While GM Brian Cashman cringes when that gets...
3 UP: Betances, Duaner, O'Neill
Back home for a week before heading to Met camp for about 10 days. Please keep stopping by Hardball. 3 Up, 3 Down will be here daily.1. In my column...
LIVEBLOG: The French. Just like us?
You can learn a great deal about a culture by looking at the advertisements in its subway stations. According to my informal survey of the Paris Metro, France is a...
DULL SHOW HAILS FLIX NO ONE SEES
AT THREE hours and 18 minutes, last night's Oscar telecast was far from the longest ever produced - it only seemed that way. You can probably blame the nominated films,...
H'WOOD: YOU GO-GO, GIRL!
And the shocker Oscar went to . . . a sharp-tongued, tattooed, former stripper who glorified a sassy, pregnant teen and her geeky boyfriend. Starring as the most unlikely Academy...
RED FOR THE AGES
Outside the Kodak Theatre it was "La Vie en Rose," last night - no wonder Marion Cotillard took home the Best Actress Oscar for her turn as Edith Piaf. The...
BOX-OFFICE 'PROPHET': THE AWARD FAVES FOR NEXT YEAR
Among 2008's expected highlights are (clockwise from above) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunited in "Revolutionary Road," Tom Cruise as a Nazi in "Valkyrie," Meryl Streep as a singing mom...
30-SEC. CHICK FLICKS
Advertisers showed their feminine side at the Oscars last night, trying to cash in by wooing women with art-, fashion- and romance-themed products. The decidedly female bent included a Diet...
GIOIA RUN IS GOING GREEN
He's not the Green candidate for Public Advocate - but a Queens councilman is running the city's first environmentally friendly political campaign. In his bid for re-election next year, Democrat...
TEXTERS, BEWARE
Cheating spouses and wayward teens, you are SO busted! A new device allows anyone to spy on the text messages on your cellphone - including deleted ones you thought were...
METS ARE CITI SLICKERS
Here's a fresh look at the Mets' new field of dreams in all its glory. The new Citi Field is patterned after Ebbets Field, the famed home of the Brooklyn...
OXY-TANK FUROR IN TRAVELER'S JET DEATH
A Brooklyn woman died on a Haiti-to-JFK flight after she experienced shortness of breath and the airplane's emergency oxygen tanks were empty, a relative says. After a meal on the...
NEW 'HEP'STERS
About 25 more people got free hepatitis A shots yesterday at PS 41 on West 11th Street, after coming into contact with an infected bartender at the Village club Socialista...
MOM DROWNS 3 KIDS: LI COPS
A deranged Long Island mom killed her three young children - apparently by drowning them - and laid their wet corpses side by side on her bed, police sources said...
HARLEM KIDS MAKE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
It was Harlem in Tinseltown last night at the Oscars. The 22 singers from the Harlem-based IMPACT Repertory Theatre took center stage as they belted out the hit song "Raise...
'JUSTICE, NOT REVENGE': REV. AL
The Rev. Al Sharpton held a somber gathering of Sean Bell's loved ones and spoke of seeking "justice, not revenge" against the three undercover cops who will go to trial...
DIALLO & BELL MOMS' BOND
They are two mothers from different parts of the world linked by a grim bond - both lost a son in a hail of police bullets on a dark street...
B'KLYN IS MAKING CHAIN-GE
Flapjacks are selling like, well, hotcakes in Brooklyn. An International House of Pancakes that opened in Downtown Brooklyn in December is already ranked top in sales among the breakfast-focused chain's...
SLAYER: 'I TOLD YOU I'D DO THIS!'
A man was shot dead on a Midtown street corner yesterday by a gunman who came up behind him and said, "I told you I'd do this!" police and witnesses...
DROOL-FOOL EMT HIT PATIENT: SUIT
An FDNY emergency medical technician turned the Hippocratic Oath on its ear, slugging a restrained patient in the face during a ride to Kings County Hospital, a $2 million suit...
UPPER E. SIDE DEATH PLUNGE
An Upper East Side man was drunk when he fell to his death while scaling an outside wall to get into his locked fifth-floor apartment, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Paul...
HARLEM PRIEST ABSOLU-SHUN
An East Harlem woman says a priest refused to grant her absolution from her sins during confession because she wouldn't promise to stop attending sidewalk services outside a parish shuttered...
ONE GIANT 'LEAP' FOR BABYKIND
She's been cheated out of 21 birthdays as a leap-year baby, but this Friday, Michelle Birnbaum is due for the best present of all - a newborn daughter. The New...
BIG SHOCK: CON ED MAY OWE YOU $100
Con Ed customers could get refunds averaging about $100 apiece if state regulators decide the company is wasting money on electric system upgrades. Whether customers get any money back would...
NADER RE-RE-RERUNNING FOR PREZ
WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader says many American voters are angry enough to vote for him for president. The 74-year-old consumer advocate announced his fourth run for president on NBC's "Meet...
HILLARY SNEERS, OBAMA JEERS
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama ratcheted up their bitter campaign fight yesterday, as she mocked his inspirational speeches and he attacked her "selective" ownership of her husband's...
COPYCAT: NOOSE PROF SHOULD QUITS
The last Columbia professor who left in a plagiarism controversy said yesterday he thinks Madonna Constantine should resign. Constantine, a Teachers College professor, last week was found guilty by a...
ODDS-ON FAVES FOR NEXT YEAR
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are reunited for the first time since "Titanic." Brad Pitt is a man who ages backward. Benicio Del Toro portrays Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in...
TV-ANCHOR 'SUICIDE' MYSTERY
Suzanne Wangler seemingly had it all: marriage to a local football hero and a news-anchor job for a top TV station in Michigan. But in November 2005, her life hit...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Manhattan A woman was charged with terrorizing her ex-boyfriend on the phone and trashing his East New York home after she unknowingly confessed to a cop, authorities said yesterday. Christin...
THESE COPS WON'T WALK
THE spirit of Amadou Diallo hovers over the Queens court house where three city police officers go on trial today for gunning down an unarmed black man late one night....
SPITZER READIES BRUNO OUSTER
Gov. Spitzer will attempt to oust Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno as soon as next week if the Democrats win tomorrow's all-important special state Senate election, The Post has learned....
NO ONE DARES TO TELL HER IT'S OVER
WASHINGTON - Even before Barack Obama won his ninth straight contest against Hillary Rodham Clinton in Wisconsin last Tuesday, wise old heads in the Democratic Party were asking this question:...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Sun.: 017; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 6017; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 506; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Michigan man's quest for his missing snowmobile led the cops to a specialty chop shop. "The tracks that [he and his buddies] followed led right up to a garage...
DULL SHOW HAILS FLIX NO ONE SEES
AT THREE hours and 18 minutes, last night's Oscar telecast was far from the longest ever produced - it only seemed that way. You can probably blame the nominated films,...
SAME OLD STORY
LOVE her or hate her, win or lose, successful working women are talking about Hillary Clinton. But it's not her politics that have them fired up. What getting under their...
DREAM JOB: NICK SCHULMAN
TALK about playing with house money. When Nick Schulman was 21, he pocketed a cool $2 million by winning the 2005 World Poker Tour finals at Foxwoods Casino. It was...
LUNCH IS ON ME
IT was the soup that did it. When a pint of beer I had chilling in our office refrigerator was stolen, I couldn't get too worked up about it. It...
60 SECONDS WITH ANNA ROWLEY
Based on your perspective as a workplace psychologist, who do you think screws up workers more, their moms or their dads? I think they can both screw us up. It's...
GO TO GREG
Q. I own a retail store in Manhattan. I have four part-time employees and two full-timers. I've never set any sort of policy as far as vacation and sick days,...
NOW HEAR THIS!
Today's page gives you a look at one your most important senses and how to protect it - your hearing. We live in a noisy world. There are traffic, sirens,...
LO AND BEHOLD
Red-carpet mainstay Jennifer Lopez may have been laid up in a Long Island maternity ward, but her fashion presence was definitely felt at last night's Academy Awards. One-shouldered dress? Check....
OH NO THEY DIDN'T
We loved "Juno," but what's with the Wednesday Addams wardrobing on Ellen Page? (At least she put on a necklace, though.) Renee Zellweger's cropped, messily shorn 'do made her look...
PARK IN REVERSE
LINKIN Park has always set itself apart from the pack of rap 'n' roll heavies with its take-no-prisoners, no-compromise concerts. At its Madison Square Garden debut Thursday - eight years...
EARLY CHICK LIT IS A GOOD FIT
IN 1994, actress Eileen Atkins devised "Vita & Vir ginia," based on the extensive correspondence be tween authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, as a stage vehicle for herself and...
DRUNK-LEMAN
BRIAN Dunkleman, the long- lost former co-host from the first season of "American Idol," is back on TV - dodging a drill sergeant's insults on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club" instead...
'RAISIN' REBORN FOR TUBE
IN 1959, "A Raisin In The Sun," a play about (among many other things) a black family in Illinois that wants to move into a house in a white neighborhood,...
FAKE OBAMA 'SNL' REGULAR
'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" - which returned over the weekened after nearly three months off the air - has found its "Fauxbama." After a week of rumors and speculation, the role...
OBIT FOR TV TOUGH GUY
HE never saw it coming, and neither did anyone watching "The Wire" last night on HBO. Omar Little, the scar-faced stick-up king who fearlessly stole money and drugs from Baltimore's...
SEWELL TRIES OUT SERIES
BRITISH movie actor Rufus Sewell is jumping to TV in a series from the "CSI" people next fall. The series is based on a British miniseries, "Eleventh Hour," which starred...
H'WOOD: YOU GO-GO, GIRL!
And the shocker Oscar went to . . . a sharp-tongued, tattooed, former stripper who glorified a sassy, pregnant teen and her geeky boyfriend. Starring as the most unlikely Academy...
RED FOR THE AGES
Outside the Kodak Theatre it was "La Vie en Rose," last night - no wonder Marion Cotillard took home the Best Actress Oscar for her turn as Edith Piaf. The...
BOX-OFFICE 'PROPHET': THE AWARD FAVES FOR NEXT YEAR
Among 2008's expected highlights are (clockwise from above) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunited in "Revolutionary Road," Tom Cruise as a Nazi in "Valkyrie," Meryl Streep as a singing mom...
30-SEC. CHICK FLICKS
Advertisers showed their feminine side at the Oscars last night, trying to cash in by wooing women with art-, fashion- and romance-themed products. The decidedly female bent included a Diet...
NEXT ON MSG TV: MORE CRAZY TALK!
WHAT has happened to MSG Network is why Jimmy Dolan can't have nice things. Under the Cablevision yoke, America's once most credible regional sports network has become incredible. Friday night,...
YAWN-IFICATION FIGHT
Saturday night's boxing card at the Garden was billed as "Heavyweight Unification." But when it was over a more suitable moniker was "Damage Control." It was supposed to be a...
EVER-LASTING 'LOVE'
VIERA, Fla. - Lastings Milledge stayed out on the field for extra work yesterday and then when he finally came into the clubhouse he was pulled aside by a Nationals...
'PASS' WINS LIKE CHAMP
Like a hit man doing his job with a minimum of fuss and effort, undefeated 2-year-old champion War Pass - in his first start since the Oct. 27 Breeders' Cup...
LITTLE BELLE ROLLS IN BUSHER
Congrats to jockey Rich Migliore, native New Yorker now transplanted to Left Coast, winner of Santa Anita's 2008 George Woolf Memorial Award, voted upon by fellow riders nationwide. Announcement was...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Vikes' McKinnie busted Vikings OT Bryant McKinnie was arrested for aggravated battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after a street brawl outside a Miami nightclub early yesterday....
JUDSON HANNIGAN DIES AT 83
Judson Hannigan, 83, of Kittery Point, Me., died peacefully at home Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. Born in Boston, on Nov. 17, 1924, he was the son of the late Judson...
1ST PRIORITY
WASHINGTON - Finally, Lou Lamoriello has the cap space to take on star rentals. The question is whether he can pay the rent itself. The other question is whether he...
EDDY BOILS AFTER LOSS
TORONTO - Eddy Curry's frustration level reached a boiling point yesterday as he claimed he's "not going to change who I am" - and questioning whether his style still "fits...
A REAL 'SIDE' SHOW
TORONTO - Watching the Knicks' bench implode is almost as entertaining as watching them self-destruct on the court. In the team's latest sideline snit, Quentin Richardson last night went on...
PLEADING THE 5TH
PORT ST. LUCIE - "El Duque" or "The Kid?" Who will occupy the fifth spot - veteran Orlando Hernandez or young right- hander Mike Pelfrey - ap pears to be...
MINAYA'S BRAND OF BASEBALL
PORT ST. LUCIE - He is the man whose finger sits on the power switch of the National League populace in New York City. With one flick, he can set...
FROM BELTRAN TO WELT-RAN
PORT ST. LUCIE - Carlos Beltran will think twice next time before asking to take batting practice against Johan Santana. Beltran's souvenir from his five-pitch session with the Mets' ace...
NETS NOW TEAM OF KIDS, NOT KIDD
There are soon going to be two Nets point guards 25 or younger. There probably is also going to be only one Net playing major minutes who isolder than 28....
CATS CLAWED
They owned the puck, they owned the Panthers, they owned the game from beginning to end. Now, after a couple of prior false starts, the Rangers should own enough positive...
STILL HOT FOR BOYLE
The Rangers are expected to know by early afternoon whether Dan Boyle, their primary target moving into tomorrow's trade deadline, will be available. The Post has learned that Tampa Bay...
A-ROD PLAYS BRAIN GAME
TAMPA - Alex Rodriguez is going to hang on to more of that $275 million this year than he did last season. Whenever Rodriguez said something to the media that...
MELANCON THE NEXT JOBA?
TAMPA - Attention shifted from the main diamond at Legends Field in mid-afternoon yesterday. Alex Rodriguez had begun signing autographs down the right-field line and the roughly 200 fans who...
CHIEN MUSIC MISSES JETER
TAMPA - According to Derek Jeter, the pitch that got away from Chien-Ming Wang during batting practice yesterday didn't come as close to Jeter's head as it looked. "It was...
BARCLAY FOR THE SENATE
A special state Senate election taking place tomorrow along the Canadian border may be the most critical local contest in the last several decades. At stake is the already tight...
HELIPORT HULLABALOO
Few places in New York are more treacherous than the space directly between Not-In-My-Backyard Manhattanites and their precious riverfront parkland - even when that space is occupied by a vital...
CONTEMPTIBLE COLUMBIA
Teachers College claims to be indepen dent of Columbia University - but when it comes to moral cowardice, it's hard to tell them apart. To wit, Teachers College revealed last...
MEDIA & 'NAM: LESSONS FOR IRAQ
CRITICS of the war in Iraq like to claim they "oppose the mission" but "support the troops." But the experience of Vietnam shows that turning our backs on the mission...
DEMS' DERELICTION
DEMOCRATS in charge of Congress have a clear choice before them when they reconvene the House today: Will they act immediately to close significant gaps in America's intelligence capability -...
RACHEL'S LAWNY'S 'LIBEL-TOURISM' FIX
A CRITICAL First Amendment bill, the "Libel Terrorism Reform Act" is pending in both houses of the state Legislature. It was written in direct response to the Court of Appeals'...
THE MORNING LINE ON MCCAIN'S VEEP
'DO you think he'd do it?" That was the first question Ronald Reagan asked when, 24 days before the 1976 Republican convention, his campaign man ager suggested that he immediately...
ALL SIZZLE, NO STEAK: TIMES' BEEF WITH MCCAIN
The New York Times' moniker is "All the News That's Fit To Print," but the reality is that the Times, especially with the McCain issue, is an agenda-motivated rag that...
TAKE-TWO REBUFFS ELECTRONIC ARTS' $2B BID
Game on. Video game publishing giant Electronic Arts' $2 billion bid to buy Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the maker of "Grand Theft Auto," was shot down by its smaller rival...
DOLANS' DESIGNS
Cablevision has been quietly working with Bear Stearns on ways to enhance shareholder value, including putting a value on its Rainbow Media unit ahead of a possible sale and drawing...
AD BIZ MAY LOSE ITS FIZZ
With earning season winding down, Wall Street is still anxiously watching for signs that the ad business is headed for a downturn. Although there is mounting evidence that marketers are...
SHED THOSE BOOTS
If there was ever a time to think of spring, now is it: only a few days after Friday's snowfall surprise. Elle's spring fashion issue spells out the trends (elaborate...
PICTURE PERFECT BANK DEAL
It's more seductive than luring customers with a free toaster offer. Russia's Expobank, the target of a $393.5 million takeover offer from UK bank Barclays, has released a 2008 calendar...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. No One, Alicia Keys 2. Cyclone, Baby Bash 3. With You, Chris Brown 4. Sweetest Girl, Wyclef Jean 5. Low, Flo Rida 6. Apologize, OneRepublic 7....
RED CASES
BANNED by major networks and basic cable from the red-carpet coverage she pioneered, the indefatigable Joan Rivers goes live this morning on AOL, with her own unexpurgated best- and worst-dressed...
Liveblogging the Oscars: What a Surprise, 'No Country for Old Men' Wins Best Picture
Many Americans probably tuned out of one of the dullest Oscar shows ever, safe in the knowledge that prohibitive favorite "No Country for Old Men'' won Best Picture at 11:45...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Coens Again
For directing "No Country For Old Men.'' Still unexcited are they.
Liveblogging the Oscars: D-Day Delivers
No upset for George Clooney as Daniel Day-Lewis continued a streak of wins similar to Helen Mirren's last year for his towering performance in "There Will Be Blood,'' which I...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Ex-Stripper Wins
The heavily favored Diablo Cody wins Best Screenplay for "Juno'' and emotionally thanks her family for "loving me exactly the way I am.'' An upset by "Michael Clayton'' here could...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Live From Baghdad, the Documentary Short Winner
U.S. troops in Baghdad got to announce the winner in the documentary short category, which went to "Freeheld,'' about lesbian rights in New Jersey. In an upset, the documentary feature...
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Atonement' Wins Another One
"Atonement'' cops the prize for score over my prediction, "Ratatouille'' I'm not even going to tell you what my score is at this point.
Liveblogging the Oscars: Ledger Comes Last
No surprisingly, Heath Ledger closes the "in memorium'' montage. But why on earth was director Bob Clark ("A Christmas Story'') identified as Robert Clark?
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Blood' Takes Cinematography
In another probable case of vote splitting, "There Will Be Blood'' wins the cinematography Oscar, likely because Roger Deakins was up for both "No Country for Old Men'' and "The...
Liveblogging the Oscars; One for 'Once'
As I predicted, the three nominated Best Songs from "Enchanted'' indeed cancelled each other out, leaving "Once'' to triumph over the absymal "August Rush.'' That lifts me to a .500...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Austria Wins Foreign Language
Austria snags it first-ever Oscar for "The Counterfeiters,'' which I picked because it had a Holocaust theme, always popular with academy voters. That boosts me to a not-great 7 out...
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Bourne' Again
"No Country for Old Men'' loses for a third time to "The Bourne Ultimatum'' in the film editing category. I'm doing lousy tonight, with 6 out of 14 predictions coming...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Another Montage
This year's show seems to be setting a record for montages; there was even one about the accountants who count the votes. Now we're running through clips from all 79...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Cotillard Takes Best Actress
"La Vie En Rose'' star Marion Cotillard becomes the first actress in a foreign-language film to win Best Actress since Sophia Loren in "Two Women'' (1960) and says, "You truly...
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'No Country' Loses 2
"No Country'' suffers its first two losses, with the awards for sound editing and sound mixing going to "The Bourne Ultimatum'' That puts me at 7 for 12.Click Here For...
Some Moxie Before Deadline
As Jaromir Jagr goes, so do the New York Rangers. When this team looked down and out, Jagr looked down and out. It seemed that everybody was pushing him around,...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Chenoweth Auditions
Performing "That's How You Know,'' Broadway powerhouse Kristen Chenoweth seemed to be trying for Disney's inevitable stage version, which hopefully will solve the movie's second-act problem. At least this number...
Liveblogging the Oscars; the Coens First Win
The siblings pick up what will no doubt be their first award of the evening for writing the Best Adapted Screenplay for "No Country for Old Men'' (its second award...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Harvey Weinstein On Suicide Watch
An exuberant Tilda Swinton wins for "Michael Clayton,'' which may well do better than I expected tonight. In the most competitive acting category, she beats Amy Ryan, Ruby Dee and...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Animated and Live-Action Short
"Peter and the Wolf,'' which I missed, and "The Mozzart of Pickepockets,'' which I got. 6 for 9.
Liveblogging the Oscars: Bardem, Obviously
The first acting award of the evening, for supporting actor, goes to the sublime Javier Bardem, who delivers much of his speech in Spanish. Which is at least different from...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Honoring Another Pair of Flops
"The Golden Compass'' takes the visual effects award. Guess the academy liked those flying bears. "Sweeney Todd'' wins for art direction. I picked the latter but not the former, which...
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Norbit' Loses
The academy spares itself the shame of giving the makeup award to "Norbit'' and instead honors "La Vie En Rose.'' That puts me at two for three.
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Ratatouille,' Of Course
This is traditionally one of the easiest categories to pick, so of course I did. It's Brad Bird's second Oscar after "The Incredibles.'' Let's hope presenters Steve Carell and Anne...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Turning 80
George Clooney introduces a mercifully brief montage of clips from Oscar's first eight decades of awards shows. Somehow they found it necessary to work in two clips of erstwhile co-host...
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Elizabeth' Wins Costume Design
We start with a surprise, with the flop "Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' taking the Best Costume Design Oscar. My pick was "Atonement.''Click Here For Red Carpet Photos
Liveblogging the Oscars: 'Makeup Sex'
As expected, host Jon Stewart opens with a riff on the writer's strike and calls the Oscars "makeup sex.'' He draws blood when he notes that Vanity Fair claims it...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Reege is Back
For its own pre-show, ABC brings in Regis Philbin to do red carpet duty for the first time in decades, and he effortlessly shows up Seacrest while interviewing George Clooney....
Liveblogging the Oscars: Thank God, The Red Carpet Is Over
Seacrest tells Hillary Swank he did "research'' before working the red carpet, but mostly his "questions'' are dumfounding the talent. Colin Farrell had no idea what Seacrest was talking about...
El Duque slow out of the gate
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the fifth and final day of full-squad workouts:1. The Mets continue to move slowly with Orlando Hernandez, who hasnât looked comfortable at...
Liveblogging the Oscars: Seacrest Unleashed
, who didn't recognize the one-time Oscar nominee was undoubtedly wishing Ben Affleck was at hand. Seacrest, meanwhile, actually asked the very pregnant and astonished Jessica Alba if she plans...