October 20, 2008
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SARAH SILVERMAN SLAMMED ABROAD
Sarah Silverman's all wet across the pond. British critics resoundingly slammed Silverman's stand-up act - "She blew it," one critic wrote succinctly - in her performance at London's Hammersmith Apollo...
Deal of the Day-Banana Republic
Nothing says retro sophistication like these Jackson glenplaid trousers from Banana Republic.The classic Katherine Hepburn-esque high waisted pants will go from the boardroom to the barroom with ease.Pair the pants,...
JETER, CLEMENS TAKE IN TEXAS GAME
Not only did Derek Jeter take "Friday Night Lights" actress Minka Kelly to the Texas-Missouri college football game Saturday, and spend some time with the Longhorns cheerleaders, he also found...
Fallout 3 = Fun x 3
Another game embargoed for quite some time ('til Oct. 28), so no real thoughts about it yet. Except to say that from what I've played so far, it's pretty rad....
BEAUTY AND THE BUST
Here's a tip - pay your dinner tab. A Bayou beauty queen and her pals skipped out on a bill, but the reigning Miss Teen Louisiana USA left her purse...
PLAXICO: LET'S MOVE ON
It's over, done with, forgotten about and it's time to move on. That was the sentiment Plaxico Burress passed along to reporters today after the volatile receiver and coach Tom...
'Family Guy' Pins McCain/Palin to Nazi Uniform
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane used his diabolical and talking baby Stewie to air his political views on the presidential race by pinning a McCain/Palin campaign button on Stewie's Nazi...
Some A's want Giambi back
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Oakland A's Mark Ellis and Eric Chavez would be in favor of the team signing Jason Giambi, who is expected to be a free...
Boone Update
By FRED KERBERJosh Boone needs additional testing.The Nets, acknowledging that Boone experienced a "rapid heartbeat" on Friday when he left practice and went for tests at an area hospital, underwent...
When Will Don Go With the Flow?
Working on a new Popsicle campaign, Peggy remembers a childhood ritual. Salvatore justifies her insight by noting he did the same thing as a Kid.Rituals are leverage for marketers. If...
Mets re-up with WFAN
The Mets announced an extension to their radio contract with flagship station WFAN, a deal that will include FM broadcasts for the first time in team history. WFAN also will...
CHELSEA FIRE VICTIMS LAID TO REST
The five caskets told the story of tragic death. Funeral services were held today for a mother and her four children who perished in a horrific fire in their Chelsea...
THREE NJ MOMS UNLEASH THEIR "MIRACLE "
Debbie Moldovan and Keri Conkling, both mothers of Little League baseball players, spontaneously hugged each other in the kitchen of Moldovan's home in Basking Ridge, NJ recently. They were celebrating...
KC's Johnson may miss Sunday
Chiefs RB Larry Johnson may miss Sunday's game against the Jets if the NFL disciplines him for an altercation that occured during the team's bye week.Johnson was suspended by the...
'NO LENIENCY' FOR HATHAWAY'S EX
The feds aren't buying Raffaello Follieri's whining. The Italian-born con-artist "repeatedly duped investors" to live a lavish lifestyle - and "had the background, family values and education to know better,"...
'Simpsons' Halloween Hoot
"Mad Men" is about to be spoofed on "The Simpsons," the surest indication there is that the AMC series about 1960s admen is now an authentic pop-culture icon.The show gets...
Dirk and Mark...Madsen
By FRED KERBERMaybe the first - and last - time Dirk Nowitzki and Mark Madsen were mentioned in the same sentence (or even the same library) came today when Ryan...
JEFF PROBST'S NEW TV ADVENTURE
A potential new show from "Survivor" host Jeff Probst, might as well be called "Non-Survivor." The show, which is in play at CBS, would feature people with terminal illnesses going...
BODY OF THIRD CATSKILLS DROWNING VICTIM FOUND
The body of a 20-year-old Brooklyn man - who drowned in a Catskills boating accident along with his two cousins - was pulled from the frigid waters this morning. Divers...
Starr Report: 'Grey's' Goosed Again
So what's the deal with "Grey's Anatomy"? Last Thursday's episode averaged only 14.5 million viewers, a far cry from its average last season (roughly 18 million viewers), and was steam...
SNAPS: In Vegas, Post gets action
It's not every day something you do or say ends up on a marquee on the Las Vegas Strip! But, there you have it, plain as day, on the Flamingo...
I Am Born
Recent grad Tyler Flowers writes about his first year in the television business.I am a 6'7", sweet tea drinking, biscuits and gravy eating Southern gentleman. Not to mention your typical...
RED SOX WERE BEATABLE
When I left Boston after the Red Sox victory over the inept Angels, I wrote a column stating the Red Sox were extremely beatable this year in the post-season. This...
W: Lame Duck or Surprise Hit?
So is the $10.5 million weekend take for Oliver Stone's "W.'' a disappointment -- there were projections, based on Friday numbers, that it could equal the $12M opening of "Primary...
Oscar Watch: Up in the AIr
Paramount has decided to save a lot of money -- and perhaps punish the departing DreamWorks -- by pushing "The Soloist'' with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx out of...
THE 2008 LIBERTY MEDALS
Join us in singing their praises! The New York Post is pleased to announce the finalists for our seventh annual Liberty Medals, a program that hails the hometown heroes whose...
ACORN INSTILLED FEAR: WORKERS
Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once, and even paid off registrants to...
'F' FOR BARACK'S SCHOOL FIX
Chicago's former schools chief has flunked the education foundation headed by Barack Obama and founded by 1960s terrorist Bill Ayers - saying it failed to monitor projects and funded school...
GOTHAM-TO-OHIO VOTE SCAM EYED
Four well-heeled New York Democrats are under investigation by an Ohio prosecutor for setting up a temporary home in the swing state - where two have already cast their ballots...
POWELL GOES FOR O
Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president, saying Obama would do a better job than John McCain of handling America's economic woes and...
'CUDA WANTED TO BE BIG FISH
The Barracuda's sudden big splash is no accident. Sarah Palin took steps to raise her profile as Alaska governor, and her small-town, hockey-mom image belies her powerful ambition and confidence,...
POLL POSITION FAVORS OBAMA
Barack Obama yesterday held his lead in national tracking polls but was locked in a virtual tie with John McCain in Ohio, a key swing state. The Rasmussen Reports had...
ELEX BOARD'S BIG HURRY
The Board of Elections has just two weeks to process nearly 100,000 new voter registrations - but officials insist they'll have everyone in the system by Nov. 4, when a...
OBAMA'S FIGHT SONG: MADONNA HUMS ALONG
* Michelle Malkin, as always, is right on with her article regarding the liberals' hatred of Sarah Palin (" 'Rage' on the Left," PostOpinion, Oct. 15). For the past eight...
AMERICA THE WEAK
IF Sen. Barack Obama is elected president, our re public will survive, but our international strategy and some of our allies may not. His first year in office would conjure...
DEMS GET SET TO MUZZLE THE RIGHT
SHOULD Barack Obama win the presidency and Democrats take full control of Congress, next year will see a real legislative attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine - and to...
INCOME-TAX IDIOCY
WELL, that didn't take long. New York City government has barely begun to bring its spending into line with post-meltdown reality - and Council Speaker Christine Quinn is already saying...
MADGE GETS SON-BURNED
The biological father of Madonna's adopted son said his boy might be "better off" with him in Malawi now that the Material Mom is headed for Splitsville. PHOTOS: Madonna "I...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 257; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 4034; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 262; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 2747;...
'MR. BLACKWELL' DEAD AT 86
LOS ANGELES - "Mr. Blackwell," whose annual "worst dressed" list dinged movie stars, music icons and European royalty and helped turn him into a household name, died yesterday at 86....
GI GUN BUST AT LI AIRPORT
A Texas soldier was arrested yesterday after a loaded gun was found in her luggage at MacArthur Airport in Long Island. Screeners spotted the handgun in Vonda Collier's checked bag...
'W.' FILM A BOX-OFFICE LAME DUCK
Oliver Stone's much-anticipated political opus, "W.," wasn't the winning ticket at the box office, as action movies and chick flicks made it a White House wipeout. "W." managed $10.6 million...
HAPPY BLUE YEAR, CAT LOVERS
Break out the caviar and vodka - a Russian blue is the toast of feline America! Runner , a 11/2-year-old kitty from Greensboro, NC, became the first of his breed...
SCHUMER BOILS OVER OIL PRICES
Blaming oil companies, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday that the recent drop in crude-oil prices is not being reflected at the gas pump or in the cost of home heating...
GOOD CALL! CELLPHONES A FAMILY'S BEST FRIEND
A cellphone ringing in the middle of dinner may be annoying, but it might help keep families closer, according to a surprising new survey. Almost half of the respondents -...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * A thief swiped $3,650 worth of electronic equipment after breaking into a car in SoHo, police sources said yesterday. Andre Bethea, 43, allegedly smashed the rear passenger window...
NYPD EYES AD WHIZZES FOR $40M RECRUIT PUSH
The NYPD is looking for a marketing company to help launch a $40 million recruitment blitz, The Post has learned. Now that its entry-level pay has soared to more than...
IT'S ON THE HOUSE
The ringleaders of a massive mortgage scam got comped as high rollers in Atlantic City by gambling with more than $400,000 in cash that they swindled from slipshod subprime lenders...
JOBA'S 'ME A GULPA'
Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain apologized yesterday to fans for "an error in judgment" that resulted in his arrest in Nebraska on a drunk-driving charge. Chamberlain, 23, who was released from...
MORE DEPRESSING TAX NEWS FOR GOV'S AIDE
ALBANY - Top gubernatorial aide Charles O'Byrne may have violated state ethics law by failing to list his massive tax debt on his financial disclosure statements, The Post has learned....
$11M SUIT VS. COPS IN KID CUFF
The family of a 10-year-old special-education student is suing the city after a cop handcuffed the boy and hauled him into the station house for using a peashooter during a...
PATCH FOR POTHOLES IS 'POISON'
A material used to patch potholes leaks 240,000 gallons of environmentally toxic fuel oil every year onto New York City's streets, industry sources told The Post. The diesel or other...
DOMINO EFFECT! B'KLYN HOME BUYERS CHASE SWEET LIFE
The economy may be turning sour, but potential residents sure are sweet on the chance to move into Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory. Hundreds of visitors attended an open house at...
VID KING READY TO UNWIND
The owner of the East Village's famed Kim's Video store is putting his vast collection up for sale. Facing declining revenues, Yongman Kim is making all his 55,000 films available...
MIX-UP HID LIRR SCAM
The LIRR tried to get to the bottom of the "Gravy Train" retirement disability scam five years ago, but a mistake by the agency responsible for approving the questionable benefits...
MIKE & CHRIS MADE THREATS OVER TERM LIMITS: FOES
The term-limits battle heated up yesterday as opponents accused Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn of threatening undecided council members. "I've heard from some council people that they...
TOILET PAPER'S DOUBLE DUTY
A man used the Charmin on his main squeeze, jabbing his girlfriend in the eye with a roll of toilet paper, prosecutors said. Richard Bigonzi, 38, was charged with misdemeanor...
INMATE DIES AFTER ASSAULT
A Rikers Island inmate was found dead in his cell over the weekend, authorities said yesterday. Christopher Robinson, 18, of Brooklyn, was found just before noon on Saturday morning. Medical...
'DWI BRIBER' OFFERED TO MAKE COPS JET SETTERS
A boozed-up Georgia man who was pulled over in Manhattan offered two cops Jet season tickets and $2,000 apiece if they wouldn't arrest him for DWI, a police source said....
COURTROOM '3 FOR ALL'
Jury selection kicks off today in the case of three Brooklyn men accused of gunning down rookie cop Russel Timoshenko - but don't expect the actual trial to start any...
CARNEGIE 'HAUL'
What does it take to get an elderly lady out of one of the last apartments in Carnegie Hall? Millions, millions, millions. Editta Sherman is asking for a $10 million...
DROWN NIGHTMARE
Three young relatives from Brooklyn drowned yesterday when their small boat capsized as they fished on an upstate lake. The bodies of two - Domenico Coluccio, 19, and Anthony Dupont,...
COUNCIL-RACE LOSER SPENT TAXPAYERS' MONEY LIKE A WINNER
Mike Roth didn't get very far in his 2005 race for the City Council, collecting a pitiful 477 votes out of the 18,180 cast. But the airport security screener from...
GOP LOBBY TIED TO KILLING OVERHAUL BILL
Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million in a bid to kill legislation three years ago that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and...
TICKETS, PLEASE: RIVALS TAKE ACT TO WORLD STAGE
Touring giant Live Nation doesn't launch its new ticketing business until January, but its battle with soon-to-be rival Ticketmaster is already heating up. Shares in newly public Ticketmaster are off...
WHEN'S THE END TO BE?
While it's still too early to know how long the current stock slide will last, troubles now cracking the nation's nest eggs are starting to resemble those that hit them...
TRACK-ING OUR TIMES
Whether you love avant-garde rock or mainstream pop, there's a music magazine for you. But the best ones do more than simply chronicle who's hot and who's not in the...
MARTY MARKOWITZ'S MILLIONS
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is nothing if not creative. Just as money managers urge their clients to diversify their portfolios, Markowitz makes sure that his preferred non-profit groups have...
UNION-BOUGHT LAWMAKERS
Gov. Paterson may be calling legislators back to Albany next month to deal with New York's $2 billion budget gap, but one group already knows it won't be getting its...
WISHING CHENEY WELL
Vice President Cheney was briefly hospitalized last week for a few hours to "reset" an irregular heartbeat. This is the second time in a year that Cheney - survivor of...
RAGE AT GOV'S FORCE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
MEMBERS of Gov. Paterson's State Police security de tail are privately claiming to have been victims of racial discrimination by New York's first black chief executive, The Post has learned....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Michigan man was charged with "receiving sexual favors" - from a vacuum cleaner. When a resident complained there were unusual deeds being perpetrated behind a car wash near Detroit,...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
Forensic Firearms Examiner What does a forensic firearms examiner do all day? A forensic firearms examiner identifies and analyzes various types of firearms and ammunition, usually in a crime lab...
LABOR COUNSEL
Things may be slowing down in many an industry, but economic downturns mean a spike in business for career coaches. As the field has grown in recent years, the downsized...
SAME ROLE, NEW OPPORTUNITY
David Billig spent 10 years working in the press office of the New York City Fire Department, and doesn't have a bad word to say about the experience. "It was...
TAKING THE INITIATIVE
Betsy Kent moved to New York from Ohio to work in the fashion industry, and spent 10 years working on Seventh Avenue. But when the travel started getting to her,...
FROM NONPROFIT WORLD TO THE CORPORATE LIFE
By the time they've spent 15 years or so in the workforce, many people are looking for an escape from the corporate world. Judy Sandford had a different dilemma -...
GO TO GREG
My co-worker and I have become personal friends during the five years we've worked together - and now he's been promoted to a position as my boss. I'm happy for...
MEET SOUTH AMERICA'S SPECTACLED BEAR
Today's page looks at a bear that makes its home in the Andes mountains of South America. THE Andean, or spectacled, bear is a small black bear with cream-colored facial...
I KISSED A WOLF
WHEN we last saw the Wolf man, he was living in an English zoo with a pack of wolves, rolling in the dirt with them, nuzzling their forelegs and exchanging...
LIFETIME FIGHTS FOR 'RUNWAY'
LIFETIME has jumped in to the court battle over the future of "Project Runway," threatening to turn the reality show into a legal soap opera. The women's network - which...
BACKSTAGE AT 'DANCING'
LIKE the Wizard of Oz, "Dancing with the Stars" would prefer if you paid no attention to that man behind the curtain. But - especially on a show where amateurs...
FUMBLED
NOT a good weekend for live sports on TV. The day after a technical glitch forced TBS to miss the first 20 minutes of the Red Sox-Rays league championship game,...
STARR REPORT
'Grey's' goosed again So what's the deal with "Grey's Anatomy"? Last Thursday's episode averaged only 14.5 million viewers, a far cry from its average last season (roughly 18 million viewers),...
TUTU MUCH
FASHION is on pointe for fall. Ballet flats have become wardrobe staples, and now we want the full fairy regalia. Tutus? Check. Strapless? Check. Headpiece? Check. The toeshoes are optional....
HAVE FAITH IN ACTOR, NOT PLAY
'SEE, I knew from a young age that I was going to be fa mous," announces Augustine Early, the central character in "The Atheist." And over the next 100 minutes,...
FREE BERNSTEIN IN MIDTOWN
A bit of Bernstein, anyone - for free? As part of the Lenny B love-in sweeping the city, the China Philharmonic's recent performance in Beijing of Bernstein classics - the...
JUST WHAT DOC ORDERED
FAUSTIAN bargains have al ways fascinated opera com posers. And it is a whole nation's Faustian bargain - the creation of the atomic bomb - that provides the motif and...
'WATER' LACKING IN DEPTH
WHENEVER a play promises to provide an exploration of "the slippery nature of reality," I immediately get a headache. It came on fast and furiously while watching "A Body of...
JANIKOWSKI'S FG BOOTS JETS IN OT
OAKLAND - Countless dreams have died in the Black Hole. Where the Jets' season goes after yesterday's wild 16-13 overtime loss to the often-bumbling Raiders at rabid Oakland Coliseum will...
FEELY ALMOST THE HERO
OAKLAND - For a while, it looked like Jay Feely would be the hero for the Jets. It was, after all, his 52-yard field goal with three seconds remaining in...
INSIDERS OFFER INSIGHT INTO SANTA ANITA'S SYNTHETIC TRACK
ARCADIA, Calif. - From a distance the main track at Santa Anita, which plays host to the 25th Breeders' Cup this Friday and Saturday, looks just like the old dirt...
25 YEARS LATER, CUP A BONANZA
ARCADIA, Calif. - The biggest shake-up in the 25-year history of the Breeders' Cup is about to hit the American racing establishment when the bugler gets it rolling at Santa...
TWO COLTS WITHDRAW BEFORE DRAW
ARCADIA, Calif - With final entries due and post positions to be drawn tomorrow, the Breeders' Cup yesterday lost two of its 180 pre-entered horses. Red Giant, winner of the...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
The Post continues its profiles of each of the nine Breeders' Cup races to be run Saturday, Oct. 25 at Santa Anita. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price...
HOPKINS KO'D CRITICS WITH PAVLIK VICTORY
FAR be it for me to take credit for Bernard Hopkins' stunning upset over Kelly Pavlik Saturday night in Atlantic City. But since Hopkins insists it's the doubters in the...
YANKS WANT TO OFFER BOWA SECOND THIRD CHANCE
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Yankees will have a clearer idea of who their third base coach will be later this week. That's when Larry Bowa will meet with Dodgers...
CARNEY GETS START; DAY UP & DOWN
Both Tom Coughlin and John Carney insist the stand-in kicker getting another start yesterday had nothing to do with incumbent Lawrence Tynes' premature proclamation. Either way, if Big Blue's 29-17...
HOMEMADE VICTORY A BIG BLUE SPECIALTY
As the closing minutes of an often sloppy, sometimes dominant and rarely comfortable game wound down, a few of the Giants admitted they glanced up at the scoreboard. Others were...
PLAX, COUGHLIN EXCHANGE UNPLEASANTRIES
TOM Coughlin and Plaxico Burress are cut from different cloths, that is painfully obvious. Coughlin is old school and Burress is take-your-child-to-school-and-don't-call-the-team. Oil, meet water. Water, meet oil. So when...
GIANTS GET NEEDED TURNOVERS
THE Giants had two take aways in five games before yesterday, which is as hard to believe as the 454 yards they gave up in Cleveland. They got stomped last...
ELI REBOUNDS AFTER LOSS, BUT ROSS' WOES CONTINUE
Of all the Giants who struggled in last week's loss in Cleveland, Eli Manning and cornerback Aaron Ross had it worst of all. Manning threw three interceptions, but he came...
AVERY'S BACK: ALERT PAGE SIX!
Sean Avery returns to the Garden tonight as an anti-hero. Number 16 in the Stars' lineup understands that. What he does not understand, however, are implications from one-time teammates that...
WORLD SERIOUSLY! MADDON'S GUYS IN SERIES
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Maybe it was his Brooklyn street smarts. Perhaps it was one of his Wall Street hunches that helped make him wealthy. Whatever, Rays owner Stuart Sternberg...
TAMPA BAY'S RUN TO SERIES PRICE-LESS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - For the first time in their lives as baseball fans, for the first time in the inglorious history of Tropicana Field, there was a moment at...
HONDO GOES TO THE BRONCS
Hondo finished out of the money yesterday with the Colts, who packed it in early in Green Bay, but came back last night with the Rays in the ALCS to...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Brady confirms 2nd surgery Injured Patriots quarterback Tom Brady confirmed for the first time this weekend that he had not one, but two operations on his injured left knee....
DUHON READY TO BE 'NEW' CAPTAIN
With nine days left to their season opener vs. Miami, coach Mike D'Antoni still hasn't decided on his captain and probably won't until after the season starts. KNICKS BLOG Chris...
MISSING THE POINT OF NCAA FOOTBALL
IT must be me. Most TV and radio people see college sports a lot differently than I see it. Saturday on ABC/ESPN, for example, Ohio St. was beating Michigan State,...
BCS FAVORITES: USC, PENN. ST.
THE first BCS standings were released yesterday. The Post ranks the Top 10 teams' chances of getting to Miami, site of the title game on Jan. 8. BCS rank in...
3 UP: PARITY, RAYS AND RED SOX
1. I covered the NLCS, which meant I was home on Sunday, which meant I got to watch a couple of NFL games. Here is the disclaimer: I am as...
OBAMA OK WITH OHIO TACTICS
Barack Obama's presidential campaign last night insisted there's nothing illegal about its supporters temporarily moving to the battleground state of Ohio and registering to vote there - adding that, in...
'TRY HARDER'
Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once and even paid off registrants to...