May 9, 2008
Soccer on TV
Here is what we will be watching this weekend...Saturday, May 10FOX SOCCER CHANNELMLS: HOUSTON-COLORADO (live), 8:30 pm.GALAVISIONMexico: SAN LUIS-PACHUCA (live), 8 pm.GOL TVGermany: WERDER BREMEN-HANNOVER (live), 9:30 am.Germany: SCHALKE-EINTRACHT FRANKFURT...
Lineups ready for Reds opener
Despite day-long rain in New York, the Mets now appear likely to get underway tonight against the Reds in a matchup of two struggling right-handers in Mike Pelfrey and Cincinnati's...
Castro finally activated
Backup catcher Ramon Castro, sidelined since the last week of spring training by a strained hamstring, was brought of the DL today. Raul Casanova was designate for assignment to make...
STUPID FIST PUMP TRICKS
FROM JOEL SHERMANI feel like Al Pacino in Godfather III, every time I think I am out, I am pulled back in. I keep trying to ignore this ludicrous conversation...
3 DOWN: Fist Pumps, Mo/Wagner and Wells
1. I feel like Al Pacino in Godfather III, every time I think I am out, I am pulled back in. I keep trying to ignore this ludicrous conversation about...
ERIC BRUNNER DECLINES RED BULL OFFER
By BRIAN LEWISAfter consulting with agent Leo Cullen, Eric Brunner has decided to reject the Red Bullsâ offer of a developmental deal after the club had demoted him from a...
ERIC BRUNNER SAYS NO & OTHER RED BULL NOTES
By BRIAN LEWISAfter consulting with agent Leo Cullen, Eric Brunner has decided to reject the Red Bullsâ offer of a developmental deal after the club had demoted him from a...
Boxing Notes Full Of Chat
Star Boxing Lights "Friday Night Fights"..Witter Defends Title...Maciano Exhibit Coming In Sept. FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS IN A.C.Ballyâs Atlantic City will host a terrific twin bill promoted by Joe DeGuardia's Star...
Dossier Journal: New Bi-Annual Magazine, Lots of Familiar Faces
Editorial styled by Vogue Hommes International fashion editor Hannes Hetta: Fashion editorial themed on self-defence, styled by Gabriel Feliciano: (Goes really well with the upcoming London fashion and crime museum...
Strahan workout 'good sign'
By PAUL SCHWARTZAt a time when everyone interested in the Giants is waiting for a sign or the slightest hint as to whether Michael Strahan will return or retire, this...
Mets coverage in today's Post
It's been raining all day here in New York, making tonight's opener of a three-game series at Shea with the Reds look very dicey. That means David Wright might have...
Looking forward to 2010
BY JAY GREENBERGIt's all about 2010, Donnie Walsh has all but said, thankfully.So it's not about Mark Jackson's inexperience or Mike D'Antoni's supposed inability to coach defense, but more about...
Cashman on A-Rod, Kyle, Wells
By GEORGE A. KING IIIBrian Cashman checked in today on three issues surrounding the Yankees: On Alex Rodriguez and a second MRI exam:âWe plan to do one Monday," Cashman said....
Who Made Joba The Judge?
By JAY GREENBERGJoba Chamberlain says he's gotta be me, never mind who he offends, particularly since the Yankee pitcher insists he means no offense to his opponent and to the...
Report: Oates, Daneyko to cooperate
NJ.com reports today that after arrest warrants were issued for former Giant Bart Oates and former Devil Ken Daneyko, the pair "agreed yesterday to appear at an attorney's office next...
ON DECK: YANKEES AT TIGERS
There have been some good surprises and some bad ones from the Yankees rotation this year. Kei Igawa, with low expectations after struggling mightily in 2007, can only be a...
ON DECK: REDS AT METS
If the Reds hit seven home runs off Mets pitching tonight, like they did Wednesday against the Cubs, Mike Pelfrey will need an even thicker mouthpiece to bite on to...
Destiny Is A Fickle Bitch
A pretty 16-year-old girl named Emily dances around her room before a date. Judging by the record player, poodle skirt and house decor, it seems we have traveled back to...
Jagr: Considering the Alternative
By JAY GREENBERGNow that Jaromir Jagr says he would like to come back to the Rangers (well, sort of) it almost demands Glen Sather make his best offer before free...
Walsh talking with D'Antoni's agent
By MARC BERMANPreliminary negotiations have begun with the Knicks and Suns coach Mike D'Antoni, according to a league source.Knicks president Donnie Walsh has denied a formal offer has been made...
Deal of the Day-Banana Republic
If logos and "It" bags frighten you, pick up this Flatiron Leather Tote from Banana Republic in espresso.The classic bag with a subtle touch of hardware is awesome with a...
Box Office Preview: Will 'Iron Man' Crush 'Speed Racer'?
I've been reporting here for a while that tracking seems to indicate that "Speed Racer'' looks like it's in trouble, and Steve Mason'sprediction is that it will come in well...
THE DAVID WELLS SITUATION
FROM JOEL SHERMANMy colleague Mike Puma reached out to David Wells and in this story, the lefty makes his pitch for a return to the Yankees. Of course, he found...
3 UP: The David Wells Edition
1. My colleague Mike Puma reached out to David Wells and in this story, the lefty makes his pitch for a return to the Yankees. Of course, he found a...
'Scrubs' finale: worst ever
If you stuck with "Scrubs" for its seven seasons on NBC, you were treated to one of the worst series "finales" in the history of television.No love. Not that it...
SPORTS SHORTS
BOXING: Judah-Mosley canceled Golden Boy Promotions had good news and bad news to announce yesterday. First the bad news. Its May 31 pay-per-view bout between Brooklyn's Zab Judah and Shane...
MONMOUTH SET FOR NEW SEASON
OCEANPORT, N.J. - It's still bewitched, bothered and beleaguered, but a brand new Jersey racing season blasts off today when Monmouth Park opens its gates for an elongated 99-day meeting...
DUTROW: 'BROWN' READY
Trainer Rick Dutrow, Jr., remains confident that his Derby champion Big Brown can win next Saturday's Preakness despite the short two-week rest between the first two legs of the Triple...
LIBS FALL IN EXHIBITION
Considering that the Liberty was without its starting center and a combo guard, coach Patty Coyle wasn't too upset with yesterday's 58-52 exhibition loss to the Washington Mystics at the...
THERE'S HAIL TO PAY
The city is launching a major offensive against limos and livery cabs that illegally pick up fares. The Taxi and Limousine Commission is marshaling its forces for the pending crackdown...
NOT EASY BEING GREEN
The city's push to go green could take yellow cabs off the road, taxi-fleet owners fear. The mandatory minimum of 25 miles per gallon that the Taxi and Limousine Commission...
BOOZE BLUES AT CIPRIANI
Chic restaurant chain Cipriani could be in the soup come June, as the State Liquor Authority moving to revoke its booze license, The Post has learned. The paperwork, yet to...
BASEBALL-TIX FIX GUY GUILTY
A Bronx man who tried to fix a city summons with a bribe of free tickets to a Met-Yankee game pleaded guilty yesterday. Celestino Orta, 38, entered his plea to...
E. SIDE KIDS AT 'BUZZ' STOP
A few angry bees - part of the swarm that was shooed off a newspaper box on the Upper East Side - bumbled their way back yesterday, only to discover...
OFF-DUTY COP HURT IN DUST-UP
An off-duty cop walking his dog was injured early today during a confrontation in the Bronx, police said. The officer, who wasn't immediately identified, was taken to Jacobi Hospital with...
HIS MISTRESS HAS HISTORY AS FAY LAY
The mother of Vito Fossella's love child knows all about cheating hearts. Both of Laura Fay's failed marriages were plagued by adultery - with the first one ending after she...
WANNABES READY TO TAKE HIS SEAT
Vito Fossella said yesterday that politics are the last thing on his mind, but the rest of Staten Island is abuzz over the fate of his prized congressional seat. "They...
'POP' GOES THE WEASEL VITO
Embattled Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella finally came clean yesterday - admitting he's been living a double life and has a love child through a longtime extramarital romance. "I have...
GOTTI BEAT WIFE, TAPES SHOW
John Gotti may have held doors open for women, but a secret FBI recording revealed he used to beat up his wife and son. On the tape, Gotti's widow, Victoria,...
HAMPTONS' EDGY HOLY WAR
Residents of a wealthy East End enclave are up in arms and living in fear that their tony way of life will be destroyed - all because of a quarter-inch...
W. SIDE $$ DEAL DERAILS
The long-anticipated sale of the MTA's West Side rail yards for $1 billion fell through late yesterday when negotiations with developer Tishman Speyer broke off, threatening a project seen as...
FOXY GETS SLAM-BANG GOOD DEAL
Bad-girl rapper Foxy Brown took a plea deal yesterday to settle charges she hurled a BlackBerry at a neighbor on a Brooklyn street, even swallowing her pride enough to pen...
OLMERT: YES, I TOOK CASH
In a deepening scandal that could topple the Israeli government, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted last night to accepting cash payments from a Long Island businessman, but insisted they were...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 Uptown trains skip 79th and 86th streets. Trains skip 28th, 23rd and 18th streets in both directions. No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Shuttle bus replaces trains...
HOPING FOR LUCKY HAND IN NY JAILS
Decks of playing cards bearing the pictures and tragic stories of missing or slain New Yorkers are being distributed in jails throughout the state - with the hope that conscience-stricken...
NEW SCHOOL FOR CHELSEA
A new public school is coming to Chelsea. The lower six floors of the 14-story New York Foundling Corp. headquarters will be converted to a 563-seat school for kids from...
BRAVE B'DAY BOY'S GIFT OF A LIFETIME
His simple wish was their willing command. Responding to terminally ill Yuri Benefeld's modest hope - that a cop and firefighter stop by to say hello on his 12th birthday...
MCGS SETTLE KID CUSTODY
The battling McGreeveys yesterday reached a deal on custody of their 6-year-old daughter, clearing the way for their divorce trial to start. Details of the pact - expected to give...
'TUTOR' $LAP ON PRINCIPAL
A veteran Manhattan principal will have to fork over $3,000 after investigators determined she got teachers to provide free tutoring to her daughters. The city's Conflicts of Interest Board yesterday...
NYERS: RAP BELL COPS
There's a sharp racial divide in how New Yorkers view the Sean Bell verdict - but even white residents who endorsed the outcome say the three cops acquitted in the...
STORM OVER 'POWER' PLAY
ALBANY - Nervous state Power Authority officials have hired a $400-an-hour private lawyer to handle Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's probe of the destruction of e-mails and other records relating to...
HIT-RUN FIEND KILLS KID, 5
A 5-year-old boy was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver, authorities said. Jordan McLean was in a car with his mom and aunt just before 1 a.m. when they were...
'LOVE TRIANGLE' STAB TWIST
A Brooklyn food deliveryman stabbed in what cops initially thought was a robbery was actually attacked by a jealous husband, sources told The Post last night. Zheng Hai Qing, 21,...
SLAY BEAU SHOT WRONG KID: PAL
A Brooklyn man accused of killing a 3-year-old girl during a drunken shooting rampage told his girlfriend in a phone conversation from jail that he didn't intend to hit that...
BAIL ME OUT, JUDGE: LILLO
Former "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato wants out. Brancato's lawyer said yesterday he would appeal a Bronx judge's ruling denying bail to the accused cop killer. The actor has been sitting...
GOTBAUM DEATH SUIT VS. PHOENIX
The City of Phoenix and its police department are responsible for the death of Carol Anne Gotbaum, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the family of the woman, who...
IRAQIS NAB NO. 1 QAEDA MONSTER
Al Qaeda in Iraq suffered a major blow yesterday when Iraqi police arrested the terror organization's evil leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, hiding in a safe house in the northern city...
MAZEL TOV! ISRAELIS MARK 60
JERUSALEM - Israel staged its 60th-birthday bash with fireworks, air-force flyovers and a great sense of pride yesterday, but also with uncertainty about its future and doubts about prospects for...
KLEPTO LINDSAY TOOK MY CLOTHES
A Los Angeles model claims mink-swiper Lindsay Lohan has a sticky-fingered history - accusing the "Mean Girl" of raiding her closet and making off with thousands of dollars' worth of...
CLINTON PAL'SQUEEZE PLAY
Movie mogul and Hillary Rodham Clinton backer Harvey Weinstein told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi he would stop fund-raising for Democrats if she refused to support new primary elections in Florida...
MAC AGE RAGE AT BAM SLAM
Republican Sen. John McCain's campaign pounced on Sen. Barack Obama yesterday with a blistering memo accusing the Democratic front-runner of age-based attacks for saying his rival is "losing his bearings."...
OBAMA PLAYS TO A FULL HOUSE
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama made a surprise visit yesterday to the floor of the House of Representatives, where he was welcomed like a rock star and greeted with calls of...
HILL DROPS A RACIAL BOMB
Hillary Rodham Clinton played the race card yesterday as she dismissed Barack Obama as a candidate who will have a hard time winning support from "white Americans." It was the...
FRENCH BIZ STALKS UMA
Her stalker's been taken off the streets, but now Uma Thurman's being hounded by lawyers. The "Kill Bill" star is being sued in Manhattan Supreme Court by cosmetics giant Lancome,...
WHEEEE-LI MANNING
It's a Giant world after all! Super Bowl hero Eli Manning and new bride Abby take a ride on Disneyland's Astro Orbitor this week. Their visit to Anaheim finally fulfilled...
GRID GREAT'S 'EX AND OWE' SUIT
Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana says he was thrown for a loss by his first wife when she auctioned off personal and football memorabilia gathered during their three-year marriage....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A 31-year-old man plunged to his death from a Union Square building yesterday, police sources said. The man, whose name was withheld, apparently jumped from a 10th-floor terrace at...
DESPERATE HILLBILLIES THREATEN TO BREAK UP PARTY
WASHINGTON - First it was Bill Clinton dismissing Barack Obama as just another black candidate winning South Carolina. Now comes Hillary Rodham Clinton, splashing moonshine onto those smoldering embers by...
STATEN ISLAND TURNING ON ITS HOMETOWN ZERO
CUT off from the bulk of the city by geography, morality and the $12 blow dry, Staten Island is more small town than functioning borough. And so it was yesterday...
HILLARY'S CODE WORDS
Sen. Hillary Clinton laid out her claim to her party's nomination in pretty raw terms yesterday. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she told...
TIME TO GO, VITO
Staten Island's Rep. Vito Fossella finally 'fessed up yesterday - issuing a brief statement that admitted he'd secretly fathered a daughter, now 3, during a long-term extramarital affair. Fossella -...
SHAMELESS JOHN CONYERS
New Yorkers need this like they need, well, another Al Sharpton: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), looking once more to exploit the Sean Bell verdict, will be coming...
MY 'RACIAL HARASSMENT' NIGHTMARE
IN November, I was found guilty of "racial harassment" for reading a public-library book on a university campus. The book was Todd Tucker's "Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the...
FILLY'S PHONY FRIENDS
FOR nearly a week, the country has been profoundly distressed at the horrific destruction of the brilliant filly Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs last Saturday. The...
DEMAGOGUES & DOUBLE STANDARDS
DENUNCIATIONS of the religious right are common in liberal magazines and the liberal blogosphere. But so too are defenses of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Liberal bloggers call often themselves the...
BEYOND UNITY
WITH Barack Obama plainly set to become the Democratic nominee, much is being said about the need to bring the party together. As MSNBC's Chris Matthews recently fretted: "A lot...
IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO
THE ISSUE: The suicide of convicted "DC madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Because of shame, Deborah Jeane Palfrey took her own life ("DC Madam's Suicide Note," May 5). She was to...
CHUCKING AWAY VOTES: SCHUMER'S BAD ID-EA
THE ISSUE: Sen. Schumer's stance against the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold voter-ID laws. Sen. Chuck Schumer has the nerve to call the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold a voter-ID...
CITIGROUP SHAKEUP
Shareholders expecting a major restructuring to emerge from Citigroup's analyst and investor confab today might be sorely disappointed. Despite heightened speculation among investors that CEO Vikram Pandit will use the...
AX MAY FALL NEXT WEEK AT BEAR STEARNS
Investment bankers at Bear Stearns are expected to learn as early as next week whether they'll keep their jobs or be axed, according to sources who've spoken to Bear's co-head...
TIME'S TITANS JAZZ IT UP
THE hottest spot in town on the media scene was the Time 100 party last night at Jazz at Lincoln Center to honor the 100 people that the weekly magazine...
CHARMING FIGHT SETTLED WITH PLUS-SIZE SOLUTION
A dramatic proxy showdown at apparel company Charming Shoppes ended yesterday with an 11th-hour truce that will expand the company's board to 11 from 10. Hedge funds Crescendo Partners and...
DOLAN COMMITING TO WI-FI FOR NEW YORK
Cablevision CEO James Dolan faced intense investor scrutiny over his acquisition strategy on the cable operator's first-quarter conference call yesterday. Though the Bethpage, LI-based cable company again recorded strong revenue...
'SOPRANOS' MUSCLING PARAMOUNT
Move over J.J. Abrams, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg, "The Sopranos" creator David Chase is coming to the Paramount Pictures lot. The phenomenally successful television triple threat yesterday signed a...
DOWNBEAT ON DEBT
Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s rainy-day plan to suspend the company's quarterly dividend in a bid to save cash set off a wave off investor anxiety about the major...
TRUMP'S GAMBLING IN A SERIOUS SLUMP
Just days after Donald Trump's casino group paid its first stock award to his daughter Ivanka for serving on its board, shares plunged to an all-time low on a run...
DROPPIN' BOMBS
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman may have to wipe the egg noodle off his face after invoking post-atom bomb Japan when trying to describe one of his Blackstone Group's failed deals. At...
TEENS AND BUDGETERS HELP RETAIL SPRING UP
Bargains in the aisles and the vanity of youth gave retailers stronger spring sales than expected in the economy's deepening slump. Soaring gas and food prices sent more shoppers to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Ohio's State House speaker is trying to impeach Attorney General Marc Dann amid a sex scandal, but needs help from the most unlikely of sources: Dann's investigators. Speaker Jon Husted...
A LOOK AT UNION SQUARE PARK
The beautiful Union Square Park offers a storied history. UNION Square is located on the site of a former potter's field burial ground. It gets its name from its location...
HONDO WINS AGAIN!
Suddenly sizzling Hondo surged to his fourth straight triumph last night when Baltimore chopped the Royals down to size to push him back into the wonderful world of triple-figure profits....
THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE
LAS VEGAS - Eight miles from the bright lights of the Vegas strip there is an intersection where South Fort Apache Road crosses West Hacienda Avenue. At a glance there...
HEY FRANCESA: YOU'RE NOT OPRAH
NOT to be overly defensive, but I do not tune to WFAN predisposed to spend the afternoon trying to catch Mike Francesa in an act of overt arrogance. It never...
BELICHEAT TO WALK AWAY FROM DIEGATE A FREE MAN
THE sorry, sexy saga known as "Spygate" will turn into Diegate Tuesday when NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and former Patriots video mystery man Matt Walsh finally have their Yalta Summit...
STRAIGHT TO VIDEO
The infamous Patriots' "Spygate" tapes arrived at the NFL office yesterday. Where this overwrought saga goes from here is anyone's guess, but there appears to be a strong chance that...
BOBCATS FIRE BERNIE
Bobcats executive Bernie Bickerstaff, rendered extraneous by Larry Brown's hiring as coach, was terminated yesterday, The Post has learned. He has one guaranteed year at $1 million left on his...
MCNAMEE ATTORNEYS MAY PUT PRIVATE EYES ON ROCKET
Brian McNamee's lawyers are ready to send private investigators to Roger Clemens' hometown if the defamation suit against their client is not dropped, according to an Internet report last night....
JINTS GET FEELING OF SAFETY WITH ROOKIE
There's a strong belief among those in the Giants front office and coaching staff that first-round draft pick Kenny Phillips will challenge for playing time sooner rather than later. His...
WHAT'S THE HOLDUP?
IF the Knicks wanted to Bogart the pot (Mike D'Antoni) by raising the coaching ante to an unmatchable peak, as alleged by ESPN, what's taking 'em so long? It's not...
TWO-HORSE RACE
It's a two-horse race. Sources indicated yesterday Knicks president Donnie Walsh is torn on whether to offer the job to the star coach available, Mike D'Antoni, or take a slight...
PAGAN DAY-TO-DAY AFTER PAINFUL CATCH IN LA
Angel Pagan spent the off day getting an MRI exam and examination by team doctor Struan Coleman at the Hospital for Special Surgery. The testing revealed a left shoulder contusion,...
WRIGHT IS WRONG
The Mets' 12-1 romp over the Dodgers on Wednesday couldn't overshadow the fact that their best player remains in a perplexing funk. Since a three-game show of force against the...
KIKI NETS NEW POST WITH JERSEY
When the Nets brought Kiki Vandeweghe aboard as Rod Thorn's special assistant in December, they noted he was hired through the draft. Well, they didn't wait to promote Vandeweghe to...
BOOMER-ANG?
For his 45th birthday in 11 days, David Wells wants something pinstriped. The free-agent left-hander told The Post yesterday he has been working out near his home in San Diego...
JOBA GETS PUMPED UP AGAIN
Joba Chamberlain needed only 12 pitches yesterday to offer a reminder that he is nobody's punching bag. Only fitting, the right-hander's afternoon ended with a strikeout of David Dellucci, who...
A-ROD'S RETURN TIED TO TIMING OF NEXT MRI
Alex Rodriguez is eligible to come off the disabled list Thursday, but the timing of a second MRI exam on his strained right quad may make that date an impossibility....
JOHNNY PEP LIFTS YANKS OUT OF FUNK
Seventeen innings had gone by without the Yankees getting on the scoreboard. It spanned three games, making it a scoreless streak that needed to end. It's history now. And the...
BETTER DAYS COULD FOLLOW EARLY DAZE
EIGHTEEN wins. Eighteen losses. Thirty-six games in the books. One-hundred and twenty-six to go. So, how are you enjoying the new digs, Skip? "I think that our record could be...
IT'S A CAMELOT OF GREAT-SOUNDING SINGING
LONG ago in a far-off land - actually, it was Broadway in 1960 - Lerner and Loewe's "Camelot" opened with a smashing cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and the as-yet-unknown...
NOMINATION DROPPERS
IF you're a Tony Award nominator, this is what you're told over and over: Don't share your opinions with anybody. Not your fellow nominators. Not your friends. Not your spouse....
FORGETFUL JASON: 'I MESSED UP'
THERE'S no controversy - booted "American Idol" wannabe Jason Castro says he didn't purposely forget the words to "Mr. Tambourine Man" Tuesday night - in order to be eliminated from...
'GREY' SKIES AHEAD?
'GREY'S Anatomy" needs some medical attention - stat! The once mega-popular hospital drama starring Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey - which turned "McDreamy" into a household phrase - has been...
DIRT ON 'WEEDS' CHANGES
PUT this in your pipe and smoke it: Big changes are in the works for "Weeds." The Showtime series about a suburban widow (Mary Louise Parker) who sells marijuana to...
STARR REPORT
Someone please make the madness stop . . . Ever wonder what hap pened to the male teen idols of the 1980s and '90s? Me nei ther, but VH1 thinks...
FIRST LOOK AT SERIES ABOUT SWINGING '70S
WHERE were you in '76? If this new CBS drama about sex in the '70s is to be believed, then you were probably having sex with your neighbors, thinking about...
HE'S ALARMED AND DANGEROUS
YOU wouldn't think you could make an entire movie about being annoyed by New York City car alarms, and I'm not sure that "Noise" will change your mind. But it's...
PROVOCATIVE PAGE
IT was at a festival in 1991 that I saw Bruce McDonald's "Highway 61" - in which a small-town barber and a young woman strap a corpse to the top...
TEDIOUS 'TURN' OF EVENTS UNIMPRESSIVE
A pool hustler and card sharp (Famke Janssen) schemes to steal her son away from his abusive father, from whom she is divorced, in the plodding drama "Turn the River."...
PRETTY PICTURES, LITTLE ELSE, IN VANITY FLICK
TARSEM Singh, the di rector of music videos and commercials, takes vanity productions to a whole new level in "The Fall." It's basically a Middle Eastern version of "The Princess...
BET YOU'LL HATE IT
LET'S start with the good news: Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher actually have combustible chemis try in "What Happens in Vegas," something that occurs much less often than you'd expect...
NO SPEED RACER, NO!
MAYBE every generation gets its own "Tron." "Speed Racer" comes to us from the creators of "The Matrix," and as my cerebral cortex was reeling from the onslaught of its...
STIRRING 'ENGAGEMENT'
ON a day when there are 20 openings in New York City, it would be easy to overlook Joan Carr-Wiggin's de lightful "A Previous Engagement," a rare movie starring and...
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD
A landmark achievement in the field of cursed-chicken-franchise horror mu sicals, "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" carries gross-out humor to extremes and beyond. This no-budget release from the legendary...
BEFORE THE RAINS
MERCHANT-Ivory productions are usually visual delights, and "Before the Rains" is no exception. Pity that the direction and narrative lack passion. If there's anything a story of interracial adultery needs,...
THE BABYSITTERS
A high school student baby-sitting for a married exec (John Leguizamo) has an affair with him and accepts the guilt money he gives her after each sexual encounter. She gets...
OSS 117: CAIRO NEST OF SPIES
WHEN it comes to lowbrow comedy, nothing's lower than Hollywood. It is, thus, a mystery why somebody had to go to France for dumb humor when there's so much here...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
SHAPE UP, LADIES! May 10 - Fitness It isn't too late to get into two-piece swimsuit shape, and Self magazine is more than glad to help with a fund-raising celebration...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Music Box Theatre, 239...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": *** John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": **** Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "A CHORUS LINE": ** ½ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre....
OFF-BROADWAY
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. "ALMOST AN EVENING": ** A stellar cast...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE: At Madison Square Garden tonight at 7:30. Seventh Avenue at 32nd Street; (212) 307-7171. NENA DINOVA: Come see why roots-rock fans love this Omaha band tonight at...
JAZZ
JOE'S PUB: Tonight and tomorrow: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall. 425 Lafayette St.; (212) 538-8500. THE STONE: Sunday: John Zorn. 2 Ave. C; (212) 431-0066. TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: Through...
CLASSICAL
CARNEGIE HALL: Celebrated pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs a program including Bach and Schumann tonight at 8 p.m. Carnegie Hall, Seventh Avenue at 57th Street; (212) 247-7800. 92ND STREET Y: Up-and-coming...
DANCE
LINCOLN CENTER: New York City Ballet continues its tribute to choreographer Jerome Robbins Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. (See lincolncenter.org for complete lineup.) New York State Theater, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza;...
FILM
BAM: Actor/director John Turturro introduces Michael Curtiz's gangster classic "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938) Sunday at 5:30 p.m. 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn; (718) 636-4100. RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART: Oscar winner...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
CIVIC COMMUNITY FAIR: A street fair today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Murray Street between Broadway and Church Street. GRAMERCY PARK FESTIVAL: A street fair on Saturday on...
PREVIEW
"SAVED": A new musical comedy, based on the 2004 film, about a Christian girl whose boyfriend thinks he's gay. Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St.; (212) 279-4200. Opens June 3.
LIVEBLOG: Traffic in paradise
Over mai tais this evening, a local berated me for saying the traffic in Honolulu is terrible. It's nothing like the mainland, they said. Actually, it is -- it took...
Zab-Mosley Fight Canceled
The May 31 bout between Zab Judah and Shane Mosley has been canceled. By GEORGE WILLISBrooklyn's Zab Judah had his May 31 bout with Shane Mosley canceled yesterday and if...
Detroit Makes Dallas See Stars
Al the octopus looks down at the ice at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
Marquez slowly getting back on track
It's been a rough first month in Triple-A for Jeff Marquez, but it looks like Baseball America's No. 7 prospect in the Yankees farm system is starting to figure things...