March 14, 2008
Beltran highlight of big day
JUPITER, Fla. -- A quick wrap-up (non-John Maine division) after the Metsâ 8-2 Grapefruit League win over the Marlins here today:1. In a very positive sign for the Mets, Carlos...
Avenged Sevenfold rocks out
"Guitar Hero III" fans: new songs for you!The Modern Metal pack let's you "jam" to master recordings of Deftonesâ âHole in the Earth,â Avenged Sevenfoldâs âAlmost Easyâ and Thriceâs âThe...
IndieCade, taking submissions now
Are you an independent game designer? Have you got some awesome interactive media you want to share with the world? If you answered yes to those two questions, the IndieCade...
Crosby out another week
APThe Pittsburgh Penguins will have to wait to know if Marian Hossa is the ideal linemate for Sidney Crosby.Crosby said after practice today he will miss another week to recover...
RB Ward returns
By PAUL SCHWARTZNot really wanting to leave and not finding much interest elsewhere, running back Derrick Ward today re-signed with the Giants, getting a one-year, $1.1 million contract that includes...
Maine throws five more scoreless
JUPITER, Fla. -â To say John Maine is in a groove right now would be an understatement.The Metsâ young right-hander was masterful again this afternoon, scattering three hits and striking...
Deal of the Day-Victoria's Secret
Nothing shows off sexy toned shoulders like a Racerback. And this gorgeous blue racerback dress from Victoriaâs Secret has a built-in shelf bra for support so you donât ruin the...
3 DOWN: Girardi, Suspensions and the NCAA Tourney
1. Joe Girardi said he would not comment until after seeing film of Shelley Duncanâs slide on Wednesday against the Rays that precipitated an on-field skirmish. If you notice in...
POSTCARD: A Vegas-phile tries The A.C.
"The ride should take about three hours," said a friend of mine about the bus trip from New York to Atlantic City. "But you should consider yourself lucky if it...
Curry out for season
By JAY GREENBERGThe Knicks confirmed this morning that center Eddy Curryâs right knee needs arthroscopic surgery to mend a cartilage tear, putting him out for the remaining 19 games of...
Special caps for Va. Tech game
The Yankees will wear these special baseball caps when they face Virginia Tech on March 18 to benefit the school as it overcomes the shooting tragedy of last April.During batting...
Big Apple Suffers 'Collateral Damage' in 'The Incredible Hulk'
Hollywood again lays waste to the Big Apple -- continuing in the proud post-9/11 tradition of "I Am Legend'' and "Cloverfield'' -- with "The Incredible Hulk.'' In his exclusive shot-by-shot...
3 UP: Mussina, Pettitte and Pelfrey
1. In 2006, especially in the first half of the season, Mike Mussina unleashed a changeup as a regular weapon for the first time. He came to him rather magically...
Duncan, Cabrera suspended 3 games
By MARK HALEMarch 14, 2008 -- Yankees Shelley Duncan and Melky Cabrera each will be suspended for three regular-season games for their role in the benches-clearing incident with the Rays...
SUSPENSIONS
Yankees first baseman Shelley Duncan likely will be suspended for three regular-season games for his role in the benches-clearing incident with the Rays on Wednesday, The Post has learned. Duncan's...
Dakota's 'Rape Movie' Gets Sold
Get those picket signs ready! Empire Pictures has bravely acquired Deborah Kampmeier's "Hounddog'' and plans to open the hugely controversial Southern gothic melodrama at "more than 500'' theaters on July...
Box Office Preview: Dr. Seuss' Weekend
Not much competition at the box-office this weekend. "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who,'' an animated adaptation from the studio behind the "Ice Age'' movies and featuring the voices of...
YANKEES TO WEAR SPECIAL CAPS FOR V. TECH GAME
The Yankees will wear special baseball caps when they face Virginia Tech on March 18 to benefit the school as it overcomes the shooting tragedy of last April. During batting...
Starr Report: One-room 'Tudor'
Jonathan Rhys Meyers They're going all-out with the "Tudors" theme, replicating the interior of one of King Henry's castles - with Showtime chairman/CEO Matt Blank and Conde Nast Traveler VP/publisher...
OMG! I JUST DID THE GOVERNOR!
The high-priced hooker at the center of Gov. Spitzer's sex scandal trysted with him several times before he was caught on a wiretap - but it was only during their...
GOV'S HOOKER CAN BARE ALL
The $1,000-per-hour hooker whose tryst with Gov. Spitzer destroyed his career will be a key witness before a federal grand jury that is now focusing on the disgraced politician, The...
HOW'S DIRTY TRICKS? NOT OVER YET: PANEL
Gov. Spitzer is on his way out, but an investigation into his Dirty Tricks Scandal - the political one, that is - will be sticking around for a while. The...
TROOPERS PROBED IN SPITZ TRYST
The security detail assigned to protect Gov. Spitzer during out-of-town trips that included his hotel trysts with prostitutes is now being probed by the State Police's Internal Affairs Bureau, The...
PATERSON: EASY ON ELIOT
ALBANY - Governor-to-be David Paterson yesterday said that disgraced Gov. Spitzer has suffered enough and shouldn't face criminal prosecution or prison time. But Paterson - facing the media for the...
SHE'S JUST A 'BABE'
Silda Wall Spitzer was deeply shaken that her disgraced hubby repeatedly slept with a hooker only a few years older than their eldest daughter, a family friend told The Post....
$UDDENLY FAMOUS
Making love to the camera pays a lot more than making love to the governor. The entertainment industry is beckoning Ashley Alexandra Dupre - from skin mags to record companies...
TEACHERS: GRADE ED. DEPT.
If schools can be graded, so can the Department of Education. Teachers union president Randi Weingarten yesterday unveiled a counterplan to the Department of Education's system for rating schools from...
BLOOMY SMACKS 'MILLION-ERR' TAX
Raising taxes on the city's wealthiest residents will simply send them packing, Mayor Bloomberg warned yesterday as he denounced a plan to impose a higher income tax on those earning...
NYERS WANT MAYOR KELLY
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is the top choice of New Yorkers to succeed Mayor Bloomberg, a poll found yesterday. Kelly was picked by 22 percent of voters, with Brooklyn-Queens Rep....
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 No trains between 34th Street and South Ferry. 2 3 Trains run local between 96th and Chambers streets, skipping 28th, 23rd and 18th Street. 4 Manhattan-bound trains run express...
VERY FUELISH FIREFIGHTERS: WE SET BLAZE
The blaze was set last October as a harmless prank, on an essentially fireproof building - a firehouse full of smoke- eaters on Manhattan's West Side. That prank now means...
'CONGE$T' BID TAKES US FOR RIDE: POLL
More than half of the city's residents have serious doubts that if they're charged $8 to drive into Manhattan's busiest districts, politicians would keep their promise to use the money...
BX. TRUCK NIGHTMARE
A 91-year-old woman's legs were severed yesterday when she was struck by a tractor-trailer in The Bronx. Anna Rogivan, a retired chemist, was crossing East Gun Hill Road at DeKalb...
'ROT,' BASTARD!
They will never forgive him. The husband of murdered actress Adrienne Shelly yesterday told his wife's killer to "rot" in jail - a sentiment echoed by the judge, who threw...
TOO LOADED TO SEE REMY
The case against Remy Ma lost momentum yesterday as the third prosecution witness to the rapper's alleged near-fatal shooting of a girlfriend last summer testified that she was drunk that...
EMT PIPERS BAG A SPOT IN PARADE
The FDNY Emergency Medical Service bagpipers have won an official spot in Monday's St. Patrick's Day Parade after days of behind-the-scenes wrangling, The Post has learned. Being included was no...
METS GOING GREEN AT NEW HOME
Baseball is a game of stats like no other, but Mets officials and Mayor Bloomberg yesterday reeled off numbers not usually associated with the sport - 270 waterless urinals, 65,000...
DRY BLOOD ON BELL-SLAY GUN
One of the guns used by an undercover detective in the 50-bullet barrage on Sean Bell and his two friends had blood on it, prosecutors said yesterday. Detective Chris Florio,...
CABBIES BRAKE IN GPS BATTLE
Cabbies yesterday dropped a lawsuit that tried to overturn a city regulation requiring taxis to be equipped with global-positioning systems and credit-card readers. "Just as taxi riders have embraced the...
LI 'DROWN' MA'S DAZE IN COURT
A Long Island woman accused of drowning her three young children looked dazed and weary yesterday at her arraignment, her first public appearance since the shocking Feb. 24 murders. Leatrice...
WIRETAP FOILS CRASH SCAM
Three con artists who staged a car wreck for insurance money might have gotten away with it - had the feds not been eavesdropping on one of their cellphones. Victoria...
GOPER WANTS BACK SEAT FROM SEX POL
A June special election is shaping up to replace City Councilman Dennis Gallagher - who is expected to plead guilty to a sex-assault charge - with a group of candidates...
JUDGE QUITS MOB CASE
The judge assigned to oversee a sweeping case against the Gambino crime family said yesterday he's giving it up because his calendar is too mobbed, er, crowded. Brooklyn federal court...
'GUN-FUN' KID HORROR
A Brooklyn teen fooling around with a weapon in a room full of kids accidentally shot a 13-year-old friend in the head yesterday - then fled screaming, "I didn't know...
JELL-O & G'BYE TO HEIR
There's no room in a Jell-O family trust fund for a descendant who was given up for adoption, the state's highest court ruled yesterday. In a unanimous decision, the Court...
FLA. REVOTE A LIKELY NO-GO: DEM BOSS
The head of Florida's Democratic Party said yesterday that the state's presidential primary probably won't be redone, even as officials proposed a revote plan as a resolution to the stalemate....
STARK RACIAL AND GENDER SPLIT AMONG DEM VOTERS
WASHINGTON - The endless primary season has cleaved Democratic voters along racial and gender lines like no other contest in decades. Black Democrats - one of the party's most crucial...
9/11 SLUR BY OBAMA REV.
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's pastor has blamed the United States for bringing the 9/11 attacks upon itself and has said Hillary Rodham Clinton "ain't never been called a n-----," a...
TRIAL'S COMIC RELIEF
Comic Garry Shandling had jurors in stitches yesterday before he turned stone-faced and testified that "creepy" gumshoe Anthony Pellicano snooped through his private files. The veteran funnyman was the prosecution's...
GISELE GOES 1-ON-1 WITH LEBRON
It's King James and his queen of fitness! Cleveland Cavaliers hoops phenom LeBron James and supermodel Gisele Bundchen strike a sexy pose for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and the cover...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens Police are searching for a couple that left a fetus with a priest in the rectory of a Corona church. The middle-aged couple went to Our Lady of Sorrows...
BOO-HO! DON'T SHED ANY TEARS FOR THIS BUSTY BRAT
ASHLEY Alexandra Dupre is a good girl. And to prove it, she once left her overpriced Manhattan rental apartment for an expensive recording studio, before grabbing a bite at an...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 481; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 4971; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 816; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 3615;...
OBAMA'S MINISTER OF HATE
Which of these outrageous positions of his pastor and longtime spiritual advisor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, does Barack Obama endorse? That African-Americans should not say "God Bless America," but rather "God...
GOOD LUCK, DAVID
New York's next governor, David Paterson, went before the cameras yesterday and introduced himself to the public - which could be forgiven for not having much of a clue as...
HOW NOT TO DEAL WITH IRAN
WEDNESDAY'S retirement of Adm. William Fallon may mean we're finally moving toward the right policy for dealing with Iran and its nuclear program before it's too late. Fallon leaves as...
BONFIRE OF THE DEMS
WHEN an unimpeachably liberal former Democratic vice-presidential candidate is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the political apocalypse - or at least a grievance-politics cataclysm - is...
A NEW 'DAY ONE': GET SET TO HIT HARD
UNLIKE the Mets and the Yankees, David Paterson won't have the benefit of spring training as he starts his season as New York governor on Monday. And the action will...
PLEASE DON'T 'GET ALONG'
Eliot Spitzer is gone - but Albany's corruption and cynicism remain. David Paterson must fight it. No, most state officials don't patronize prostitution rings (as far as we know, anyway)....
LET US WORK TOGETHER
THIS week New York faced a crisis unlike any other in our state's history. The Capitol was turned upside down by scandal, with state government reportedly at standstill as a...
IT'S ALL DOWN-'HILL': RACE & SCANDALS PAST
THE ISSUE: Clinton's use of race against Obama and the candidate's past scandals. The Clinton campaign has developed a new and reprehensible approach to politics ("Fresh Racial Slap at Obama,"...
AOL BUYS BEBO SOCIAL NETWORK SITE FOR $850M
Time Warner's AOL is coughing up $850 million in cash for Bebo to tap into the social media phenomenon and shore up its own online advertising strategy. Although Bebo doesn't...
DILLER DUST-UP
WILMINGTON, Del. - Barry Diller could only hold his tongue for so long. After sitting silently through withering attacks from the witness stand by friend-turned-foe John Malone, chairman of Liberty...
SHARING O' THE GREEN
SIR Anthony O'Reilly, one of the wealthiest men in Ireland, is planning a return business venture in the United States - testing a locally produced version of his Dublin-based Irish...
MOONVES WANTS 'AMERICAN IDOL' DEAD
CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves is tired of competing with "American Idol"-he wants the hit Fox reality series dead. "If someone would kill that show I'd really appreciate it. ....
MICROSOFT LOSES TOP EXEC TO A START-UP
The head of Microsoft's MSN group is jumping to a small advertising start-up, adding to the constant turnover in the company's online ad division. Joanne Bradford, vice president and chief...
FEDS NAIL 3 AS INSIDERS
The vice chairman of International Securities Exchange Holdings Inc. and two financial consultants have been charged with insider trading prior to ISE's merger with Eurex last year, officials said yesterday....
JITTERY DAY ON THE STREET ENDS WITH RELIEF
The mood of stock market investors swung from despair to elation in another volatile day on Wall Street as major indexes eked out small gains. Emotions ruled - with the...
CARLYLE TANKS
Although Carlyle Group Chief David Rubenstein is used to making loads of money for his investors, yesterday the global credit crisis took its toll on the highly respected private investment...
EA'S NOT PLAYING GAMES ANYMORE
Electronic Arts is going hostile with its $2 billion pursuit of rival Take-Two Interactive. After weeks of failing to get Take-Two's board to respond to its unsolicited bid of $26...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
What happens if they hold an election and no one bothers to vote? Election officials in Florida are wrestling with the issue after not one of the 68 registered voters...
THE POWERFUL PEN OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
The Post is known for its colorful pages. Here's a brief look at one of its most brilliant editors. William Cullen Bryant had a few careers before he found himself...
CHANCE TO DANCE
For some teams, March Madness ends before they can even take the court. It's over when their name is left out of the field of 65 on Sunday evening. For...
ALESI: NO REGRETS
When Lincoln plays Boys & Girls for the PSAL title at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, there will be five, count 'em, five former Xaverian players involved in the game....
TITANS READY TO ROCK ON
After playing seven of their first nine games on the road, the New York Titans of the National Lacrosse League embraced last week's bye. Tonight, they resume their season at...
TUNER UP WISELY WINS FOR FUN
Nick Zito's undefeated champion War Pass drew post 3 in field of seven for tomorrow's Grade 3, $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby, which will be televised by TVG. Two of his...
MARQUEZ-PACQUIAO FRENZY
WHEN you get right down to it, it doesn't really matter that Juan Manuel Marquez is from Mexico and Manny Pacquiao is from the Philippines and their respective countries view...
MONTAUK: ALMIGHTY COD RULES
COD fishermen would love to see a repeat performance of last weekend's outstanding fishing out of Montauk. Reports filtered back this week that last Friday's catch was some of the...
FREDDIE: DALY'S GOTTA SHAPE UP
ORLANDO - Fred Couples, a friend of John Daly's, yesterday said he hopes Daly listens to the criticism coming his way stemming from his most recent incidents, which include disqualification...
SCRAMBLIN' TIGER 5 BACK
ORLANDO - This was supposed to be where Tiger Woods was going to turn up after a two-week hiatus, flex his muscles and get back to his dominance en route...
LOCALS LEFT OUT OF BIG DANCE
PERHAPS Wagner coach Mike Deane put it best last month, when asked about the state of local college basketball. Busy coaching one of the best teams in the area -...
HE'S THE ADELMAN
LONG before Rick Adel man's Yao Ming-less Rockets amassed the second longest winning streak in NBA history (The Bobcats are bound to become 21st straight victim tonight if the home...
GARDEN A DELIGHT AGAIN FOR PANTHERS
Coming to the big city is like coming home for the Pittsburgh Panthers. Their Garden mastery is something to behold. They arrived here prior to Christmas and edged Duke. They...
DISMISSED
Joe Alexander was born in Taiwan, spent his middle school years in Beijing before settling 45 minutes west of Baltimore in a place called Fort Airy, Md. Yesterday, much to...
LIKE HIM OR NOT, HUGGINS CAN COACH
For a moment, after it was over, after his basketball team had sent all the Connecticut fans scurrying out of the Garden and sprinting for the Merritt Parkway, Bob Huggins...
HOYAS SAPP-ERB
Jessie Sapp was just about to put the finish on another vintage multitask performance when the basketball rolled out of bounds right in front of The Post's courtside seat in...
ACKER ON MARQ IN UPSET OF IRISH
When Marquette's Maurice Acker hit three straight jumpers to break open what had been a nail-bitter, rattling home a right corner 3 and letting out a roar that belied his...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Schilling on 60-day DL The Red Sox placed Curt Schilling on the 60-day disabled list yesterday as he continues to rehabilitate his right shoulder. They also released Doug Mirabelli,...
CLARK THRILLED TO BE JINT HIT MAN
When you win the Super Bowl and do it with a punishing force, outsiders take notice. "I just want to be a part of this defense that is just tearing...
BROWNE SANDERS RIPS 'INCOMPETENT' KNICKS
Anucha Browne Sanders teed off on Knicks owner James Dolan and Garden president Steve Mills yesterday for not firing Isiah Thomas during this catastrophic season. Sanders also said she believes...
CARLOS PLAYS CENTER
JUPITER, Fla. - Carlos Beltran moved another step closer to full speed here yesterday. Shaking off continued soreness in his surgically repaired knees, the Mets' All-Star slugger occupied his regular...
METS TO HOST ALL-STAR GAME
JUPITER, Fla. - The Mets expect to find out soon what year Citi Field will play host to the All-Star Game. A club spokesman said the Mets have been promised...
PAGAN GOES FROM LEFT OUT TO LEFT FIELD
JUPITER, Fla. - Angel Pagan was gone just two years, but the Mets hardly recognized him when he showed up again this spring. Pagan was leaner, stronger, locked in at...
FAMILY HAS SHELLEY'S BACK
JUPITER, Fla. - Shelley Duncan's father and brother rushed to his defense yesterday, one day after a controversial slide by the Yankees first baseman touched off a melee in St....
NETS AIM HIGH
Even the Nets are realistic enough to know that just squeaking into the playoffs won't cut it. Not when the gap between the top two teams in the East and...
BLUE STREAK HAS RANGERS CONFIDENT
It wasn't a "first place or bust" rallying cry emanating from the locker room yesterday, but it's clear the Rangers consider themselves more than just a playoff team. That's the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... KEN SINGLETON
OPENING Day is just 2 ½ weeks away, and there are a lot more questions coming out of spring training than usual for the Yankees. YES Network analyst Ken Singleton...
ANDY'S ARM FEELS 'FINE'
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte began moving past his elbow troubles yesterday, playing catch and declaring that he felt OK. "It was fine," said Pettitte, who was scratched from his start...
DOC AND SON TAKING RAP
TAMPA - The eyes are clear and the voice is steady. No promises are made about tomorrow. Dwight Gooden is trying his best to live for today. "It ain't about...
VETS PITCH CONTROL TO GUNG-HO SLUGGER
TAMPA - Shelley Duncan is a likeable lug, made even more so by his Crash Davis-esque scratch-and-claw excursion through the minors. He is, Reggie Jackson said admiringly, "like someone who...
DUNCAN WON'T CHANGE STYLE
TAMPA - Shelley Duncan, whose divisive and aggressive slide Wednesday sparked an on-field melee between the Yankees and Rays, said yesterday he won't adopt a new style or different approach...
Boxing/MMA notes...
Gary Shaw testifies, Pavlik fight to A.C., DiBella honored, Hatton turns Golden, and Gracie goes to the movies... GARY SHAW TESTIFIES AT JAMES TRIALBoxing promoter Gary Shaw was on the...
MAINSTREAMED GRAPHIC NOVEL NOVEL NO MORE
BESIDES all the usual dreams young people move to New York to chase - singing, acting, sleeping with the governor - you can now add authoring graphic novels to the...
JEWISH FOR 15 MINUTES
ANDY Warhol called them his "Jewish geniuses." Which sounds a lot nicer, frankly, than "Warhol's Jews," the offputting title of the Jewish Museum's new exhibit, opening Sunday. Then again, it's...
GETTIN' JIGGY WITH IT
When Brenda Wilson was a girl growing up in Dublin, step dancing was more of a chore than a passion. "It was part of our curriculum," says Wilson, who now...
EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY
AT these lively City Irish hot spots, food is plenty and the party goes on all night long. Langan's, 150 W. 47th St., (212) 869-5482, is legendary not only for...
GRAND MARSHAL TOMMY M. SMYTH
Tommy M. Smyth felt as if had just found a four-leaf shamrock when he got the news he has been named the 247th Grand Marshal of New York's St. Patrick's...
GREEN BY DESIGN
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, green is having a golden moment. From Banana Republic to Intermix, stores are teeming with tops, shirts and skirts in shades ranging from...
PASSION PLACE
IF anyone knows about getting lucky, it's the Irish. You need only scope out Ireland's measurements to understand why: 33,000 square miles of lush, green pastures, rocky mountains, lively rivers,...
PARADE ESSENTIALS
Parade route: Starts at 44th Street, goes north up Fifth Avenue past St. Patrick's Cathedral, the American Irish Historical Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Finishes at 86th Street....
NO NEED TO MULL SEEING DULL 'GULL'
THERE'S something amiss in a production of "The Seagull" when the most interesting character is . . . the doctor. This is the case with the Classic Stage Company's disappointing...
WOO WHO!
THE third time's the charm for Dr. Seuss after the grotesque live-action feature adaptations of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "The Cat in the Hat." The computer-animated feature based...
TORTURE, PURE & SIMPLE
THE joke is on arthouse audiences who show up for "Funny Games," which is basically torture porn every bit as manipulative and reprehensible as "Hostel," even if it's tricked out...
FUNNY, HE DOES OPERA, TOO
MICHAEL Haneke, the acclaimed Austrian filmmaker whose "Funny Games" opens today, will be directing an opera by another native of his homeland, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Haneke's version of "Cosi von...
CURSE, SHOOT, KICK, REPEAT
THE lowbrow Hong Kong cop thriller "Flash Point" comes loaded with cliches and immediately starts blasting them in every direction. Two gung-ho undercover cops infiltrate a Hong Kong gang but...
SPUTNIK MANIA
FOR those too young to remember, "Sputnik Mania" documents the fear and anxiety that gripped the United States half a century ago when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite...
WAR MADE EASY
WITH Sean Penn narrat ing, you know which side the documentary "War Made Easy" is going to take. And it does, claiming that from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq, the...
NEVER BACK DOWN
TWO pretty high school guys who look like they'd be more at home in Sephora than in a boxing ring take up brawling in "Never Back Down," a formula flick...
WAY DOWN IN THE DUMPS
BEWARE any movie that ends with a cliché as dire as "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." What comes before that in "Sleepwalking" is relentlessly...
STARR REPORT
One-room 'Tudor' The bold-faced names, in cluding stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Peter O'Toole, will be out in droves Wednesday night for "The Tudors" when Showtime holds a world- premiere...
GUILT-MORE GIRLS
ONE of the grimmer sit-no-coms to come along in a dog's age is Fox's mostly painful "The Return of Jezebel James" from the over-hyped couple Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino,...
'UGLY' NAME
A show by any other name . . . ABC's "Ugly Betty" is heading to China, where it will be renamed "Invincible Ugly Woman" and will air on the country's...
'90210' TOO
TEEN angst is getting the 2.0 treatment with a new spinoff of the classic youth soap "Beverly Hills 90210." The CW is developing an updated version of the show, set...
LAMAS DAUGHTER WILL WOO 'BACHELOR'
THE daughter of Hollywood heartbeaker Lorenzo Lamas will be among the 25 women hoping to land the star of the latest edition of "The Bachelor." Shayne Lamas, 22, who has...
JURY GETS RITTER CASE
THE John Ritter wrongful death case is in the jury's hands now after a dramatic, month-long trial in Glendale, Calif. Ritter's widow, actress Amy Yasbeck, and his four children are...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC
EGG-CITING STUFF: St. John the Divine provides the eggs and area kids are invited to bring their Easter egg-painting skills to tomorrow's annual workshop - where tissue paper, glitter and...
BROADWAY
(Reviews by Clive Barnes) "AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' family drama with horrific family values...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE:-Through April 12: Barbara Cook. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. -FEINSTEIN'S:-Tonight and tomorrow: Tovah Feldshuh at 8 p.m. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095. -OAK ROOM:-Through March 29: Euan...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL:-Fresh from North Korea, the New York Philharmonic, led by Alan Gilbert, gives an "Inside the Music" performance featuring commentary from music aficionado Gerard McBurney. -BARGEMUSIC:-"Masterpieces of Russian...
DANCE
JOYCE THEATER:-The Kansas City Ballet celebrates 50 years of dance with its first ever visit to the Joyce, which ends Sunday. (See joyce.org for complete schedule.) 175 Eighth Ave.; (212)...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES:- African-American director Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates" (1920) was met with fanfare and outrage for its sympathetic tale of an educated black woman living in a racially...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
CANADA SPRY Canada supplies New York with more than just cold air. Movies, for instance. Through Thursday, eight of them are making their New York debuts in the Museum of...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND:-Tonight and tomorrow: Steve Kuhn, Ron Carter and Al Foster return to where they recorded 2007's "Live at Birdland." 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. -DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA:- Through Sunday:...
OFF-BROADWAY
(Starred reviews by Frank Scheck) -"ADDING MACHINE":-***½ A powerful chamber-music theater adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 Expressionist classic. Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane; (212) 307-4100. -"ALTAR BOYZ":-*** Musical spoof...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
BLACK 47:-New York's political Celtic rockers play a St. Patrick's Day show promoting their brand-new album, "United for Opportunity," Monday at 7 p.m. B.B. King's, 237 W. 42nd St.; (212)...
PREVIEWS
"CRY-BABY": John Waters' flick about a '50s rebel, now a musical. Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway; (212) 307- 1400. Previews begin tomorrow; opens April 24. "DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE...