January 4, 2009

Parcells staying in Miami

Bill Parcells won't be going anywhere according to Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga.A report surfaced last week that Parcells, Miami's executive vice president of football operations, has the option to...

Report: Jets to interview Billick

Add Brian Billick's name to this list of candidates who could possibly be the Jets head coach next season.NFL.com is reporting that Billick will interview with the Jets this week...

JOHN TRAVOLTA 'HEARTBROKEN' BY LOSS

Actor John Travolta broke a two-day silence over the death of his 16-year-old son Jett on Sunday, saying he and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, were "heartbroken" by their sudden...

RICHARDSON WITHDRAWS BID TO BE COMMERCE SECRETARY

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of...

BLOOMBERG RUSHED TO BOMB SHELTER

Mayor Bloomberg today got a firsthand experience of what it's like for Israelis living under constant threat from Hamas rockets. On a trip from one southern Israeli town, Ashkelon, to...

BRAZIL POLICE DETAIN SUSPECT IN WOLFFER DEATH

A man suspected of piloting a motorboat that struck and killed a New York winery owner as he swam off Brazil's coast was detained on Sunday, police said. Christian Wolffer,...

WEEKDAY AT BERNIE'S

Welcome to Ponzi purgatory. Every day, dozens of employees of swindler Bernard Madoff's firm report to their Midtown offices. They're still paid - but they do no work. PHOTOS: Madoff...

ISRAELI TROOPS AND TANKS SLICE DEEPER INTO GAZA

Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first full day of an overwhelming ground offensive...

Miss at your own risk: Pretty people get ugly

Highlights for the week of Jan. 5Re-'Bachelor'"Bachelor," season 13, starts Monday on ABC. The title is a little misleading: The guy isn't a bachelor, he's a divorcee. But renaming the...

THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS

WINNERS CRAIG KALLMAN Atlantic Records chief sees his label become the top-seller in the US for last year. J.C. FLOWERS Part of an investor group tapped by the FDIC in...

GANG GREEN TAKES A GIANT STEP IN EFFORT TO LAND NEW HEAD COACH

Everything was quiet outside Jets headquarters yesterday, belying what was happening inside. There was no green carpet laid out or any "Welcome" sign, but the Jets wooing of Steve Spagnuolo...

A PEEK AT THIS YEAR'S HOTTEST NEW 'TOYS'

They're ba-a-ack. After slogging through a tough 2008 - with sales barely up over the previous year - the world's leading electronics manufacturers will convene in Las Vegas this week...

ISRAEL'S BOLD PUSH INTO GAZA

Israeli soldiers and tanks stormed into Gaza late yesterday, engaging Hamas militants in the first ground combat of an offensive that Israel's leaders warned would not be easy or brief....

TEAMS KNOW IF THEY'VE ROLLED A WINNER ONLY AFTER THEY ADD 'EM UP

HERE is the dirty little secret abut what awaits the Jets over the next few days, weeks, months and years: At some point, they are going to hire a coach,...

SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH... TOM RENNEY

The Post's Steve Serby chatted this past week with the Rangers coach about his hockey life, his 9-11 experience, the prospects of winning the Stanley Cup in New York, and...

NYER: HOW I LIVE AMID THE DAILY BARRAGE

Robin Zebrowitz, 26, moved to Israel from New York three months ago and settled in Beersheba, a city 25 miles from Gaza and, as she learned last week, well within...

THE RUMBLE

Dan's not done Reeves lobbies for coach or GM job Former Giants and Falcons coach Dan Reeves (right) wants back in, either on the sidelines or in the front office....

PEREZ TO YANKS, LOWE TO METS FINISHING TOUCHES FOR WINTER

THERE remains one final major move for the Yankees to make. Same goes for the Mets. The Yankees still have a hole in their rotation. This has been an incredibly...

PENNINGTON FOUND SUCCESS BY STAYING TRUE TO HIMSELF

MIAMI - The Super Bowl championship he chased so doggedly for eight seasons with the Jets is, against all odds, as always, within his sights, and the obstacle this time...

LOVE FOR KITTY

I can't think of a better way to start the New Year than by remembering what makes our cats so precious to us. Bob in Stuart, Fla., writes, "Let's face...

RUB-BER DONKEY

EVERYBODY enjoys a good massage, and pets are no exception. In fact, animals are ahead of us humans because they're never too busy for a relaxing rubdown with self-grooming and...

PROOF POSITIVE

AS THE $199 bottle of Signet - Glenmorangie's new single malt - emerges like a Highland dawn from its black monolith of a box, it's clear that something unique is...

A SLICE OF ITALIAN LIFE

Motorino 319 Graham Ave., Brooklyn; 718-599-8899 It's not every day that a classically trained chef decides to drop his saucepans and trade them for a pizza slab. But chef Mathieu...

MULLIGAN, 26, AND COTICELLI, 23,

Dec. 5 - James Mulligan gave a whole new meaning to puppy love when he proposed to Nicole Coticelli. In 2007, Coticelli, a claims administrator for K-Sea Transportation, came home...

EDWARDS, 39, AND RIBANDO, 39

Nov. 1 - Heather Edwards and Frank Ribando will go far for love - all the way across town! The duo hit it off so well during their first date...

FASCIANELLA, 29, AND SANCHEZ, 28

Nov. 15 - Athina Sanchez and Thomas Fascianella Jr. hit it out of the park on their wedding day by making a reception entrance that reflected their love of baseball....

YODICE, 31, AND MALEC, 33

Nov. 8 - Chrystie Yodice is a bride with some serious school pride. When she and Eric Malec wed at Bridgewaters at the South Street Seaport, the Manhattan couple paid...

MEET MARKET

Heather may be a 24-year-old nanny who hails from Atlanta, but she loves her new life in NYC. All she needs now is a Big Apple boy - preferably one...

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY

ANTONIO, a 36-year-old personal trainer, found time in his busy schedule to pencil-in a date with Sue, a 39-year-old yoga instructor. But when the duo met for Italian fare at...

EMBARRASSED, THEN BENCHED, MCNABB RIDING HIGH AGAIN

MINNEAPOLIS - He is a quarterback clad in green, a little long in the tooth, a little past the point where the fans who cheer for him believe he can...

WIRELESS WONDERS

Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds $3,600 and up, Lenovo.com There are plenty of laptops with big screens on the market, but Lenovo's Intel Core 2 Quad-powered machine is the first to sport...

LEGENDARY JOURNALIST SET THIS REBEL STRAIGHT

AS JUNIOR year of high school was about to com mence, my life was for ever shaped when Pop notified me the Daily News and the NFL needed summertime help....

MADDEN'S DOWNSIZING WILL BE COSTLY

This is very serious business for John Madden, and there's very little the Devils' alternate captain can do about it. The 2001 Selke Trophy winner has seen his job vanish...

FIND A JOB FOR MESSIER

WASHINGTON - You walk into the Garden and there's No. 11. You walk into the Rangers' practice rink and there's No. 11. There's No. 11, all right, on the banners...

BRETT OUTTA TOWN

* We all knew going in that with this 39-year-old "Brett Favre experiment," that the wheels could fall off the Jets' wagon at any time. And lo and behold, that's...

MORE YOUNG HUNTERS IN THE FOLD

EARLY results from New York's hunting season make it a suc cess especially for getting young hunters out in the field. New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) says that...

CURRY SET FOR SEASON DEBUT

Desperate for an infusion, the Knicks got a 300-plus pound addition yesterday. Eddy Curry made his return to practice and hopes to make his season debut during the Knicks' four-game...

RU'S BRITT IS NFL-BOUND

Rutgers junior wide receiver Kenny Britt announced yesterday he will forgo his senior season and declare himself eligible for the NFL Draft. The 20-year-old had 87 receptions for 1,371 yards...

D'AN STILL HOPING MARBURY ENDS UP WITH CELTICS

When The Post first reported Boston as a potential destination for Stephon Marbury during July's summer league in Las Vegas, Mike D'Antoni was at dinner with associates and said of...

ERIC THE BROWN? CLEVELAND DREAMING OF 'GINI

Eric Mangini may not have to wait long to get back on the sideline. ESPN reported yesterday that the fired Jets coach has become the leading candidate to become the...

WADE HELPS MIAMI SCORCH CARTER & CO. IN OT

MIAMI - The Nets played the entire game without Devin Harris, who sat out with a sore right hamstring that he injured Friday. For most of the game, it was...

HAMMY SIDELINES HARRIS

MIAMI - Devin Harris was a scratch for the Nets here during last night's 101-96 overtime loss to the Heat because of a sore right hamstring. Keyon Dooling missed a...

SPORTS SHORTS

WOMEN'S HOOPS: Vols rally past RU Shekinna Stricklen scored 16 points and No. 8 Tennessee rallied from the biggest deficit in school history to beat No. 15 Rutgers 55-51 yesterday...

RAVENS WILL PUT END TO DOLPHINS' FEEL-GOOD STORY

Ravens (-3 1/2) over DOLPHINS; Under 37 1/2: Playoff home 'dogs have been the league's version of a fan-friendly slot machine for years. Teams getting points with the added benefits...

EAGLES NO MATCH FOR PURPLE PEOPLE

The winner of multiple major handicapping championships against world-class competition, The Wildcat returns. Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year-record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against...

GIANTS MUST FIX THESE PROBLEM AREAS

HEAL thyself. That was the decree for the Giants this past week. They concluded their regular season with too many disturbing trends and lapses and breakdowns that, if not corrected,...

FOUTS CONFIRMS INTEGRITY - WITHOUT HESITATION

SOMEDAY, although I wouldn't bet on it, all sportscasters will learn there's no substitute for good faith, for honesty. To that end, Thursday, CBS analyst Dan Fouts could have pretended...

MILLEN TAKES LIONS SHARE OF BLAME

Fired Lions president Matt Millen, the architect of the NFL's first 0-16 team, says he's responsible for its historic encounter with failure. Appearing yesterday on NBC's "Football Night in America,"...

SPECIAL TEAM WOES PLAGUE BLUESHIRTS

WASHINGTON-You can look it up in the NHL dictionary. Right there, under the term "specialty teams," is the antonym - the 2008-09 Rangers. Another one went down the drain last...

CARDS NET FIRST HOME PLAYOFF WIN SINCE '47

GLENDALE, Ariz. - The Cardinals have consecutive home playoff victories - 61 years apart. Kurt Warner opened with a 42-yard touchdown pass to Larry Fitzgerald and connected with Anquan Boldin...

SPROLES SCAMPER JOLTS COLTS OVERTIME

SAN DIEGO - Peyton Manning has his MVP award and nothing more, outdone again in January by the Chargers. Speedy little Darren Sproles scooted 22 yards for the winning score...

NO SECONDARY CONCERN FOR GATORS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Florida cornerback Joe Haden arrived in Miami with a new haircut, a fitting style for the Bowl Championship Series title game. He had "BCS 1" shaved...

BROWN POWERS UCONN, THEN TURNS PRO

TORONTO - Donald Brown showed he has nothing left to prove at Connecticut. Brown ran for a career-best 261 yards in his final college game, helping the fumble-prone Huskies overcome...

AGGRESSIVE ST. JOHN'S STUNS NO. 7 NOTRE DAME

Coach Norm Roberts had a vision of what his St. John's team could be: a group of tough-minded athletic players who value a stop more than a slam. But after...

HUSKIES BOUNCE BACK FROM LOSS WITH ROUT OF RUTGERS

Hasheem Thabeet led a balanced Connecticut attack with 15 points and eight rebounds, and the second-ranked Huskies snapped back from their first loss of the season with a 80-49 win...

NO. 3 PITT POUNDS G'TOWN

DeJuan Blair had 20 points and 17 rebounds to win his duel with Georgetown standout freshman Greg Monroe, and No. 3 Pittsburgh (14-0, 2-0 Big East) never trailed in yesterday's...

SWAN SONG

It would be a wonderfully surreal night of entertainment: 18 jazz musicians playing absorbing Icelandic melodies, each of them wearing a feathery white dress with a swan's head emerging from...

SOUNDING OFF IN '09

This year's music mantra is: Gimme something fine in 2009 . . . an album, and not just a piddling ringtone riff or a catchy single featuring Akon. So far,...

Q&A WITH RICHARD BELZER

Richard Belzer is best known for playing detective John Munch on "Law and Order: SVU" (and on any other series that'll have him - he's played Munch on more shows...

WORLD WIDE CELEB

So, did you hear? Celebrity gossip is totally out for 2009. But celebs dishing about themselves - that's hotter than ever. We've selected the best star-penned blogs, from comedy to...

3 COUNCIL ELEX DUE

Three special elections for three vacant City Council seats are scheduled for Feb. 24, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The two Queens seats were held by council members Hiram Monserrate, of...

END OF A RAINBOW - FOR NOW

The restaurant at the legendary Rainbow Room will shut its doors a week from tomorrow - but the closure hopefully will be only temporary, eatery officials said yesterday. Prodded by...

O'S BIG DAY A FAMILY AFFAIR

President-elect Barack Obama's half-sister and niece are flying in from Kenya to see him sworn in as the 44th president Jan. 20, The Post has learned. Auma Obama, and her...

$QUEEZED BEEP HEDGES ON BLOOMY ELEX NOD

THE most prominent Democrat to cross party lines for Mayor Bloomberg in 2005 won't make the same commitment for the 2009 mayoral race. "It's too early," Brooklyn Borough President Marty...

9/11'S FIRED HEROES

John Schroeder lost everything on 9/11 - and now it's cost him his job as well. As a hose man for Engine Co. 10, Schroeder was one of the first...

RANGEL PROBE FACES SHAKEUP

The House ethics probe into embattled Rep. Charles Rangel will continue when Congress reconvenes Tuesday, but as many as four members of the ethics committee may be replaced when the...

CUOMO: ALAS, NEW YORICK, I DUNNO

To be a US senator, or not to be: that is the question for Andrew Cuomo. The 51-year-old prince of the Cuomo political dynasty started by his father, Mario, can't...

LOTTO TICKET WINS AFTER TICKER STOPS

On the day Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years, his three kids and his two grandkids. Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets...

'PALSY' DRIVER SHOCK

The bus driver grilled by police for leaving severely disabled Ed Wynn Rivera trapped in his seat overnight has a shocking rap sheet of 28 arrests, including an assault on...

FREAK ACCIDENT KILLS MAN

A man dodged out of the way of a truck on a Brooklyn street yesterday - only to be killed by a city bus, officials said. The 21-year-old victim, whose...

AGENDA

This week: Get over the post-holiday hump with camels, comedians and a night of Groucho and cocktails. Plus, get back to nature. That's a laugh COMEDY - Thurs,8 92Ytribeca, 200...

GAMBIT GAMBOLS

IF pieces sacrifices are your meat and potatoes, pawn gambits are the way to set the table. The trouble is that almost all of the familiar gambits have been analyzed...

BRIDGE

"WHAT chance have I got when they're on the same team?" Cy the Cynic asked me before a match. Ed, my club's best player, was teamed with Minnie Bottoms. Cy...

'YEAST' RISES TO OCCASION

FANS of Greta Gerwig are atwitter over the prospect of seeing the mumblecore It Girl on the big screen again. The film is "Yeast," directed by Mary Bronstein, which had...

OBAMA: THE REAL YES MAN

I used to think Barack Obama was reenacting "Liar Liar." Now he seems to be going for "Yes Man." Those are not the only Jim Carrey movies that come to...

THE BAD NEWS BEARS

If the FDA regulated the media, it would require all stories about the economy to carry this warning: "Dizziness and pangs of existential angst may result. Do not read if...

BLOG WATCH

Test Tube "On Dec. 29, 2008, the Israeli Defense Force launched its own YouTube Channel, and within one week it was driving all the news and politics on YouTube. This...

DIRE DEFICITS DAWNING

OK, maybe New York's looming $15 billion budget deficit isn't that bad: The federal government's now on pace for a trillion-dollar black hole. The Treasury Department revealed recently that the...

NY'S NEWEST NANNY

If you lecture New Yorkers on the importance of dieting, will it make them like paying more taxes? State Health Commissioner Richard Daines seems to think so. And if you...

LOTTO LOVE

On the day my mother, Mary Alice Fallon, purchased the winning lottery ticket, an initial spontaneous gift was given to the supermarket clerk, Chris Connelly ("Honesty Well-Rewarded?" Letters, Dec. 26)....

REV. RICK

I consider myself an American, right on some issues and left on others, but I am tired of being the one always expected to be tolerant ("The New Culture War,"...

TRUE LIES

Who cares if that Holocaust-related love story is true or not ("Holocuast Sham Slam," Dec. 28)? We are lied to all day long by our spouses, children, friends, big business...

BAM'S TEST

I read Arthur Herman's article, "Devil's Bargain" (Post Opinion, Dec. 30) with interest. I can't help but wonder if Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric is coming back to haunt him, even...

THE REAL CLASH

What made Samuel Huntington so "prescient" was simply his willingness to see things as they are - not to deny them out of fear ("Samuel P. Huntington, 1827-2008," Editorial, Dec....

REQUIRED READING

Songs from a Dutch Tour by Chip Taylor (Ambo/Anthos) For those unfamilar with Chip Taylor, he is Angelina Jolie's uncle (brother of her dad Jon Voight). But his pop culture...

THE INVENTION OF AIR

The next time you take a deep breath, think for a moment of Joseph Priestley, the 18th century British scientist widely credited with discovering oxygen. As Steven Johnson explains in...

THE BILLION DOLLAR GAME

Two weeks before Super Bowl XLI, in 2007, the grounds crew at Dolphins Stadium realized that that the roots of the turf on which the Bears would be playing the...

BESTSELLER: DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

Self-described wimp Greg Heffley has become an unlikely anti-hero to every elementary school kid ever given a wedgie. "Last Straw," the third book in this best-selling cartoon series, isn't due...

SALINGER'S STASH

Literary legend J.D. Salinger turned 90 on New Year's Day, and collectively, the publishing industry had a fleeting, morbid thought: Is this the year? No one wishes Salinger's death, of...

IN MY LIBRARY: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

When you travel in the circles Madeleine Albright has, you can be forgiven for dropping a heavy-duty name or two. "There's a new edition of 'War and Peace' I heard...

CUBA UNVEILS PAPA'S LOST PAPERS

Unpublished texts by Ernest Hemingway about the hunt for German U-boats off the Cuban coast during the Second World War are part of an important collection of the writer's works...

MAN CITY NAILED BY NOTTINGHAM

LONDON (AP) - Nottingham Forest won 3-0 at high-spending Manchester City for the biggest upset in the third round of the FA Cup yesterday. In another surprise, Southend played to...

GRIEVING DAD'S PAIN

The grieving father of an abused, obese 10-year-old Staten Island boy allegedly killed by his mother lashed out at the city yesterday as family gathered for the child's funeral. Jaquan...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Queens * A 40-year-old man was arrested for beating a 9-year-old boy with a wooden cane in the man's home in Corona, police said yesterday. Alberto Torres, 40, allegedly hit...

JOHN'S ODDITIES A PULP NONFICTION

He's played oddballs ranging from a strung-out hit man in "Pulp Fiction" to a campy alien in "Battlefield Earth." But celebrity Scientologist John Travolta shows off his battiest behavior in...

PARTY-POOP SHOOT BUST

A landlord used a sawed-off shotgun to put an end to a tenant's noisy New Year's bash when he burst into a Staten Island home and opened fire, cops said....

MADOFF MEMORABILIA SELL-OFF

They are victims of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, and all they have to show for it are these lousy T-shirts. And flashlights. And beach chairs. And tote bags....

DAFFY DUCK HUNTER SHOOTS 'BLIND' PAL

Duck, duck, d'oh! Two Long Island hunters were sitting in this bizarre floating duck blind early yesterday when one of the men accidentally shot his partner in the arm, state...

CALIFORNIA 'DEVIL' MAY BE NYC'S TOP SERIAL KILLER

Rodney Alcala was a popular figure in the West Village in the early 1970s, charming and handsome. A ladies' man with a genius IQ, he was a photographer, and studied...

'SCAM' SPA TRIP A LOAD OF BORSCHT

They were promised caviar, gourmet blintzes and a bottle of vodka on every table, but scores of Russian immigrants who paid a chef thousands to ring in the New Year...

'AVOIDABLE' DEATH

The health problems of tragic teen Jett Travolta would not have been properly treated unless his celebrity Scientologist parents had rejected their religion's theories on medicine, outraged experts said yesterday....

MAN OF LETTERS

HUNTINGTON BEACH,Calif. - He's one of the most prolific writers of our time, featured in Time magazine, GQ and Vanity Fair, in publications as divergent as Spin and The Hockey...

'SPEEDY' SHEPARD'S DUI BUST

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested early yesterday and charged with speeding and drunken driving in central Illinois, authorities said. Cops pulled Shepard, 65, over in Normal, Ill., for...

FALLEN FIRE HERO HAILED IN FLATBUSH

One of New York's fallen Bravest was honored yesterday with a memorial plaque at his firehouse a year after he died while battling a Brooklyn blaze. Hundreds of people, including...

AMEX ILLS OF THE VERY WELL HEELED

Even New York professionals raking in six-figure incomes have been sideswiped by the recent credit crunch, with some having their American Express cards unexpectedly canceled. One jewelry-company exec saw her...

401(K)MART

Sears Holdings, which has reported a drop in sales every quarter since chairman Eddie Lampert merged Kmart and Sears in 2005, will stop matching contributions to its workers' retirement plans,...

DEADBEAT GOES ON

New York could plug sizable holes in its budget if delinquent taxpayers - including investment banks, actors, luxury shops and moguls - paid up some of the $13 billion they...

BLOOMBERG HEADS TO ISRAEL TO SHOW SUPPORT

Big Apple officials, including Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Queens Rep. Gary Ackerman, are heading to Israel to "show their support" for the embattled country. They are slated...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

A 17-year-old girl called cops on herself on New Year's Eve, telling them she had been driving drunk around Bismarck, ND. "She told us her life was spiraling out of...

RE-FINANCE YOUR HOMES RIGHT NOW

Dear John: I'm a longtime reader and you don't get enough credit for your humor. I just visited my bank to see if I could re-finance my mortgage and what...

MADOFF VICTIMS' RE$CUE?

Angry victims of Bernie Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme want a bailout from Uncle Sam, too. On the heels of Washington's $700 billion rescue of the nation's ailing banks...

UNDER PRESSURE

Pressure continues to mount this weekend for Upper East Side investor Erza Merkin to step down as chairman of GMAC, the troubled auto- and mortgage-lender which received a $6 billion...

HITTING HOME

IT'S estimated that about 4,000 families lost money investing with Bernie Madoff - either directly through his company, or indirectly, through so-called feeder funds. But tens of thousands of other...

KEEPING IT 'REAL' IN BROOKLYN

Red Hook is probably best known as that rough-and-tumble nabe that, thanks to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, is severed from the rest of Brooklyn like an amputated limb. As of next...

CLOSE TO HOME

On the set of "Damages," Glenn Close's dog steals the show. So at home is the actress at Steiner Studios that she brings Jake, a terrier, down to the set...

INDIAN GIVERS

From the Taj Mahal to the teachings of Gandhi, India has left a unique imprint on world history. A new, six-part series, "The Story of India," recounts 10,000 years of...

IN AND OUT LIST

NEW SHOWSIn: "Lie to Me." Has the best time slot, after "Idol." Guaranteed hit. [Click Here for The Post's review]Out: "Dollhouse." The pilot's not so good. That's why it's on...

EARLY DEBUT FOR 'KYLE'

Fancast (www.fancast.com), a web site that offers access to full-length TV series and movies, will show episodes of the ABC Family drama "Kyle XY" on Wednesday, January 7 and running...

REEL GOOD

THE RED SHOES (1948) Sunday, 10:30 p.m., TCM A young ballerina poised for superstardom (Moira Shearer) finds herself torn between the demands of the ballet company impresario (Anton Walbrook) and...

'MONKEES' BUSINESS

If you think The Monkees were a fake band, then let the cute one, Davy Jones, tell you about a real fake band. "I appeared on the Ed Sullivan show...

PRIMETIME

WHY DO SOME big stories lead the nightly news, some big stories make half the noise and some barely make a peep? Is it just one those things, a matter...

DON'T MISS LIST

DRAMASECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER, Monday, 8 p.m., ABC Family Baby Mama Drama - THE No. 1 rated series on the teendriven network picks up with pregnant 15-year old...

MY NY: HELENA CHRISTENSEN

IRONICALLY for a model, 40-year-old Helena Christensen is more concerned with food than clothes. Sure, the former Victoria's Secret stunner loves her Marc Jacobs, Prada and Stella McCartney, but these...

MAKING THE SCENE...

Haven 244 E. 51st St., between Second and Third avenues; 212-906-9066, havennewyork.com.; Hours: 5 p.m.-2:30 a.m. or later Looking to go out without really leaving home? Head to Haven, where...

WE NEED JEALOUSY

"Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it." - Unknown It is one of the most elusive yet common human emotions, banal despite feeling unique to the afflicted:...

SAM SHEPARD ARRESTED FOR DUI

Police in Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested on preliminary charges of speeding and drunken driving. Police Lt. Mark Kotte says officers stopped Shepard early Saturday...