April 6, 2009
YANKEES LOSE OPENER TO O'S
BALTIMORE -- CC Sabathia and the new-look Yankees absorbed an old-fashioned beating on Opening Day. Sabathia allowed six runs and failed to get through the fifth inning in his first...
Mets talk up Opening Day win
CINCINNATI -- Here is video I shot this afternoon of Frankie Rodriguez, J.J. Putz, Johan Santana and Jerry Manuel discussing the Mets' 2-1 Opening Day win over the Reds. Be...
CHRIS BROWN PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Chris Brown has pleaded not guilty to threatening and assaulting his girlfriend, fellow music superstar Rihanna. The 19-year-old R&B singer appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday alongside his attorney....
A-Rod in Tampa on Monday
By GEORGE A. KING IIIAlex Rodriguez is less than a week away from taking the biggest rehab step yet when he reports to the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa."I...
BINGHAMTON KILLER SENT LETTER TO SYRACUSE TV STATION
"I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people." Those chilling words begin a disturbing, unhinged letter mailed to a Binghamton TV station - along with Wong's driver's license, gun permit and...
WEEKDAY AT BERNIE'S
Ruth Madoff today paid her first visit to her imprisoned hubby, Bernie. The mega-swindler's wife arrived at 4:40 p.m. for a scheduled 5 p.m. visit at the Metropolitan Correction Center...
Mara calls Plax decision "illogical''
By PAUL SCHWARTZHere is co-owner John Mara's reaction to hearing that the Giants have to pay more than $1 million to released receiver Plaxico Burress, who today won his grievance...
S.I. PRIEST USED CHURCH MONEY FOR PLASTIC SURGERIES
A Staten Island pastor was busted for breaking the Eighth Commandment -- thou shalt not steal -- after using church money to finance his plastic surgery and botox injections. Authorities...
Raiders Sign Jeff Garcia
It must be more than just lip service when the Jets say there are happy with the quarterbacks they have in camp.SI's Peter King reported today that the Jets did...
GATES: WE CAN'T AFFORD NEW PRESIDENTIAL CHOPPER
President Obama's fleet of new choppers have been grounded - at least for now - and there's no one to blame but the economic recession. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recommended...
Report: Jets weren't in on Cutler
Maybe Rex Ryan really does prefer Kellen Clemens or Brett Ratliff.SI.com's Peter King reports that the Jets never made a serious offer to the Broncos in an attempt to trade...
DVD SET REVEALS SUPERMAN'S ANIMATED ORIGINS
SUPERMAN began his long screen career in 1941 -- just three years after he soared aloft for his comic-book debut -- with a series of elaborate and still-impressive animated shorts....
MARCIA GAY HARDEN
One of the biggest thrills on Broadway these days is seeing Marcia Gay Harden beat up on Tony Soprano. Or, at least, watching her character pummel James Gandolfini's in "God...
Play Courtney
By MARC BERMANCHICAGO - Now that the Knicks have officially the best player from the D-League on their roster, how about Mike D'Antoni plays him tomorrow in Chicago.Center Courtney Sims,...
Casting: Wanted For a Road Trip
NBC is casting a domestic version of the "Amazing Race" and is looking for families with kids from the New York area.The show will be called "The Great American Road...
EPL: The Drop
Relegation time is drawing nearer and this year, like every year, three teams will be demoted into the Coca-Cola Championship from the heady heights of the Premier League ... where...
MAN KILLED 5 KIDS IN FIT OF JEALOUSY: OFFICIALS
GRAHAM, Wash. -- Authorities and relatives portrayed a father believed to have killed his five children and then himself as a strict parent who had been reprimanded by the state...
Giants owe Plax more than $1M
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants last week rid themselves of Plaxico Burress but they aren't finished with him. Burress today won his grievance against the team filed by the NFL Players...
THE POST'S 2009 BASEBALL PREVIEW
AL PREVIEW Joel Sherman says the Red Sox and Rays will keep the Yankees out of the playoffs again. *2009 YANKEES PREVIEW George A. King III says the Yankees' spending...
POLL: GOV. PATERSON SHOULDN'T RUN AGAIN
A majority of New Yorkers think Gov. Paterson is doing such a terrible job that he shouldn't run next year, according to a poll released today. Fifty-three percent said the...
FAWCETT TREATED FOR CANCER'S SPREAD TO LIVER
Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer who worked with...
First Video: 'Real Housewives of New Jersey'
When "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" sub in for "The Real Housewives of New York City" May 12, we're hoping for the same cat fights, claws and class-less antics,...
Police brutality incites soccer riot
Just stumbled across this video of a soccer riot. This one wasn't from a bad call or a tough loss or even supporters going at it; no, this one was...
CLINTON SAYS BLOOMBERG 'GREAT MAYOR'
Former President Bill Clinton undermined Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson today by describing Mayor Bloomberg as a "great mayor" and ducking a question about whether he deserved a third term....
Rangers Stumble, Bumble to Season's End
Three games left and the Rangers are in a two-way tie for 8th place. The only reason the last playoff spot belongs to the Blueshirts is that they have the...
BAD HATTER
The Long Island "bad hatter" bank robber will spend the next eight years in a federal prison. Thomas Kenney, 53, who worked as a purchasing agent at a Brentwood dental...
Students: Oprah School 'Hell'
Last week, Oprah Winfrey's boarding school for girls in South Africa was hit with it's second sex scandal in two years when seven students were suspended for allegedly sexually harassing...
Game 1: Mets at Reds
CINCINNATI -- I know this is a bit of a repost from yesterday, but the lineups are officially in for the Mets' Opening Day matchup here with the Reds that...
REPORT: BURRESS WINS GRIEVANCE AGAINST GIANTS
Days after being cut by the Giants, Plaxico Burress won his grievance against the team, who must now pay him $1 million plus an undisclosed amount from a 2008 roster...
CUOMO: MERKIN FUNNELED MONEY INTO MADOFF'S FUND
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged J. Ezra Merkin today with civil fraud, alleging that he "betrayed" hundreds of investors by funneling a staggering $2.4 billion of clients' money into...
Light drizzle in Cincy
CINCINNATI -- It is very cold and drizzling slightly here at Great American Ball Park as of 11:30 a.m. Several Mets players are on the outfield warming up, and fans...
AMERICAN AL QAEDA MEMBERS HOLD 'PRESS CONFERENCE'
Two young Americans who left their homes to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia held a rare "press conference" in southern Somalia on Sunday, saying they want to...
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING
A Southwest Airlines flight carrying 132 passengers and crew was forced to make an emergency return to Long Island's MacArthur Airport 34 minutes after takeoff this morning with just one...
ANGRY GOLDEN DECRIES 'DRUG DEALERS PROTECTION ACT'
Changes to the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws are shaking up more people than rock n' roll ever did. While hailed by both the Assembly and the State Senate, the new...
BLOOMBERG OPENS NEW CAMPAIGN OFFICES HERE
No one draws a crowd like Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Teems of friends and supporters clogged a small storefront on Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth avenues Sunday as the three-peat...
FOUR-STAR SALUTE TO OUTSTANDING CLASS OF BROOKLYN WOMENSTATE SENATOR MARTY GOLDEN RECOGNIZES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF GRASSROOTS LEADERS
Five local women were hailed for their "outstanding" service to Brooklyn during an awards ceremony presented by State Senator Marty Golden. The group was delivered the tall salute during a...
GIFTED AND ANGRY-PARENTS DECRY NEW SCHOOL
School District 20 will welcome a new middle school after all – but it's not the one a local parents' group wants. This September, the Brooklyn School of Inquiry will...
NELSON HOLDS SWAY OVER CB13; BRIGHTON PLAN REJECTED
City Councilmember Mike Nelson convinced Community Board 13 to reject the Brighton Beach rezoning plan it once lobbied for – pushing instead for a plan that could turn the bungalow...
Formerly Family-Friendly Sandler Now Porn Again
Four months after toplining the under-performing "Bedtime Stories'' for Disney, Adam Sandler is getting ready to make a more adult kind of bedtime story for his longtime enablers at Sony....
ITALY MUZZLED SCIENTIST WHO FORESAW QUAKE
ROME -- An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading...
SPITZER: 'NO EXCUSE' FOR HOOKER SCANDAL
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said this morning that the high-price hooker habit that drove him out of office was not frequent and "an egregious violation of my behavior." In...
MORE THAN 150 DEAD IN ITALY EARTHQUAKE
L'AQUILA, Italy -- Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this...
The Daily Whacks, Monday Edition
Izzo also pulled one of the coolest moves I've ever seen during the UConn game. With 2:22 left, his team up nine but struggling to get into its offense, he...
OBAMA: US NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAM
ANKARA, Turkey -- Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam."...
GUNMAN'S SISTER: 'SHOCK' OVER SHOOTING RAMPAGE
JOHNSON CITY, NY - The sister of the man who killed 13 people inside a Binghamton immigrant center said today that her family was "shocked" to learn that he was...
Tribeca's Sloppy Seconds: Woody's 'Whatever Works' Wows in Vegas
The Tribeca Film Festival may have scored the "world premiere'' of "Whatever Works'' -- Woody Allen's first New York-set film in five years -- as the fest's opener April 24,...
Sheffield's glove and bat
From JOEL SHERMANAfter the Mets signed Gary Sheffield, I asked David Wright about playing third base against a righty hitter long considered to have, perhaps, the fastest bat in the...
3 UP: A-ROD'S SPEEDY RETURN, AND WHAT IT MEANS
1. George King and I wrote that there is growing belief in the organization that Alex Rodriguez is progressing so well from his hip surgery that he could be back...
3 UP: A-ROD'S RETURN, YANKEE PYSCHE AND SHEFFIELD
1. George King and I wrote that there is growing belief in the organization that Alex Rodriguez is progressing so well from his hip surgery that he could be back...
COUNCIL IS OFF TO THE RAISES
Despite the city's dire fiscal situation, the City Council doled out 90 staff raises this year, with one aide getting a $20,000 increase even though his title did not change,...
KILLER QUAKE ROCKS ITALY
L'AQUILA, Italy -- A powerful earthquake rocked a large area of central Italy today, killing as many as 16 people. Many of the deaths were in L'Aquila, a city founded...
LOUISVILLE ESCAPES
ST. LOUIS -- Nyeshia Stevenson's 3-point attempt was almost halfway down -- and then, suddenly, so was Oklahoma. The junior forward's attempted 3-pointer beat the buzzer, but not Louisville, which,...
GENO'S HUSKIES DOGGONE GOOD!
ST. LOUIS -- If quick, relentless and explosive Connecticut has a match, it can only be one of the school's five previous NCAA women's champions. Patient and diligent Stanford, the...
A-ROD RETURN MAY NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL MAY
BALTIMORE -- Forget mid-May. Alex Rodriguez is showing signs he is going to return to the Yankees well before that. COMPLETE YANKEES COVERAGEYANKEES BLOGA LOOK AT YANKEE STADIUM Hitting coach...
RANGERS LACK IDENTITY, SOUL
ELDRIDGE Cleaver's Soul on Ice couldn't have been about the Rangers. They don't have one. Maybe they sold it for pieces of gold. Maybe they lost it by rolling over...
BULLS BURNED BY FIRE
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- Marco Pappa's goal helped the Chicago Fire overcome an early red card as it maintained its dominance of the Red Bulls with a 1-0 win yesterday. Soccer...
NEW METS FIELD CLOBBERS YANKS FROM TV STANDPOINT
NOTHING But Netting: From a TV debut standpoint the Mets' new park, over the weekend, was the clear (view) winner. Telecasts from Yankee Stadium thus far exude three need-fixin' problems....
COUGH MED FORCED 'GATO' TO SCRATCH
Not everything came up roses on Saturday at Aqueduct for trainer Jeff Mullins, whose colt I Want Revenge emerged as a favorite for the Kentucky Derby with a spectacular score...
AMAZIN'S HOPE '09 MEANS END OF LATE-SEASON SWOONS
CINCINNATI -- Sure, the gleaming new ballpark back in Queens is terrific. And yes, GM Omar Minaya brought in two All-Star closers over the winter to fix a bullpen that...
CC GETS CALL FOR START OF BIG YEAR
BALTIMORE -- The Steinbrenner family gave Brian Cashman an ocean of money to make sure 2009 doesn't end like 2008 -- with the Yankees out of the playoffs. COMPLETE YANKEES...
SIX SCRAMBLE AT THE TOP
With the first Saturday in May less than four weeks away, the May 2 Kentucky Derby offers bettors a half-dozen strong contenders, any one of which could be a deserving...
SKY'S THE LIMIT WITH THIS LOADED ROTATION
THE Yankees have reloaded like never before and you can sense the optimism around the team. Baseball is all about pitching, and because of the way the rotation stacks up,...
CASEY DENIES HOLMES TRIP TO MASTERS
Paul Casey won the Shell Houston Open yesterday for his first PGA Tour victory, beating J.B. Holmes with a bogey on the first playoff hole. The 31-year-old Englishman has nine...
HEALTHY JOHAN RARING TO GO
The Mets may not be sure what to expect from most of their starting rotation, but they'll send their sure thing to the mound today in Cincinnati. Johan Santana hopes...
ALEX'S ABSENCE DOESN'T DAMPEN TEAM SPIRIT
BALTIMORE -- He's not here. Yet, you feel compelled to recognize Alex Rodriguez at the dawn of this season. He is too big to ignore. He has the largest contract,...
AMAZIN'S READY FOR THE COLD
CINCINNATI -- The Mets are bracing themselves for a frigid start to their season here this afternoon. Forecasts for their 1:10 p.m. Opening Day matchup with the Reds at Great...
MANUEL'S CLUB IN THE HOT SEAT
CINCINNATI -- It always is dangerous to deal in absolutes, to render history into a simple declarative sentence. Things are rarely that black-and-white, certainly in life, especially in baseball. COMPLETE...
ELIAS' STATUS IN DOUBT
Their losing streaks halted, the Devils still have a major concern as the playoffs arrive next week. It's the groin injury that is hobbling Patrik Elias, their all-time leading playoff...
D'ANTONI THREATENS TO CLEAN HOUSE
TORONTO -- Unless you have a bad back and were born in Milan, nobody on the Knicks' roster should feel comfortable about returning next season. KNICKS BLOG That was the...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Kidd passes Magic in career assists With his 14th assist in Dallas yesterday, Jason Kidd hit 10,142 for his career, passing Magic Johnson for No. 3 on the NBA's...
HOT HONDO UNDEFEATED
Hondo opened the season on a high note as Lowe and Los Bravos shut down the champs last night in Philly to put the earnings at a crisp 55 crandalls....
EMPTY SEATS CONCERN FOR BASEBALL
Ken Griffey Jr. swinging again for Seattle, K-Rod now closing for the Mets. A championship rematch at Fenway Park, a new start for CC Sabathia. A year after the Rays...
JERSEY'S SEASON NET QUITE OVER
Their playoff hopes dangled by the slimmest thread when the Nets took the court for the second half against Philadelphia. Detroit had won at home so the Nets' tragic number...
BRAVES LAY PHILS 'LOWE' IN OPENER
PHILADELPHIA -- If Derek Lowe had been this dominant last October, the Phillies might not be World Series champions. Lowe pitched eight superb innings, three Braves homered off Brett Myers,...
IZZO EMBRACES UNDERDOG ROLE VERSUS CAROLINA
DETROIT -- The way Michigan State coach Tom Izzo sees it, even if he had all his players perfectly healthy for that Dec. 3 game against North Carolina that ended...
TITLE, COVER NOT TAR-FETCHED
Each day during the NCAA Tournament, The Post's Tim Sullivan offers his plays of the day: IT'S TOO easy a target not to bring up, right? Far too straight a...
HOPING FOR 'STATE' OF JOY
DETROIT -- These kinds of sports stories are all too rare, but when we are lucky enough to witness them, they captivate us, they stretch the limits of our imagination,...
$4 BILLION RX FOR HOSPITAL COSTS
WASHINGTON -- US hospitals can help patients and save $4 billion simply by being more efficient, according to an analysis by Reuters' parent company. Thomson Reuters says its study can...
MICHELLE'S PRAGUE LOVEFEST
PRAGUE -- Michelle Obama's whirlwind tour of Prague turned into a love affair with a city and its people. "I'll be back," she said. Crowds of young Czechs and tourists...
INTRODUCING HE-MAN BAM
Barack Obama is about to become the president of Kickassistan. He's trading in his suit and tie for a loincloth and sword in a comic book titled "Barack the Barbarian."...
DENTAL PATIENTS' STUDENT DISCOUNT
New Yorkers getting drilled by the economy are having their cavities filled on the cheap at dental-school teaching clinics. Middle-class patients are flocking to the NYU Dental School's clinic, where...
BUDGET BASHING
ATTORNEY General Andrew Cuomo, a likely candidate for governor, is joining the criticism of Gov. Paterson's secretly prepared, newly adopted, record-high, tax-and-spend budget. "The attorney general believes the state must...
PARENT TRAP FOR BLOOMY
The biggest complaint about mayoral control of the schools is that parents have been shut out of key decision-making and their participation in educational affairs has been generally discouraged. But...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A bartender was arrested for groping a young woman in his Upper East Side pub, police sources said yesterday. Efren Arenas, 27, was drinking with the 19-year-old victim in...
LOSING THE FAITH
While a majority of Americans still believe the United States to be "a Christian nation," their number has fallen significantly, says a poll in the new Newsweek. Christian Americans have...
KIDS: YES, WII CAN!
These schoolkids are allowed to watch TV in gym class and call it exercise. That's because the students at five city middle schools are piloting a video-game fitness program that...
HARD MATH: 39,000 FOR 8,500 CHARTER SPOTS
Applications to the city's charter schools have surged to new heights -- more than doubling from 18,672 last year to 39,200. The interest has led at least one school, Democracy...
KLEIN FIRES BACK AT THOMPSON
Next time, do your homework. That's what schools chief Joel Klein yesterday sniped to Bill Thompson in response to the comptroller's report last week that claimed contractual overruns were rampant...
FAST OPENING FOR 'FURIOUS'
"Fast & Furious" left the competition in the dust with a $72.5 million opening weekend, the best so far this year. That topped last weekend's $59.3 million debut for DreamWorks...
EGAN'S HEART SCARE
New York Archdiocese leader Edward Cardinal Egan missed his final Palm Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and remained hospitalized yesterday as doctors said he needs to have a pacemaker...
LET'S DUMP NUKES: BAM
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Obama yesterday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms -- a day after...
NYPD PUTS A FREEZE ON PROMOTIONS
In an apparent cost-cutting move, the NYPD has quietly put its "in-grade" promotions on hold. In the first three months of the year, just one cop has gotten a discretionary...
FARRAH'S SON IN LA DRUG BUST
As his cancer-stricken mother, Farrah Fawcett, fought for her life in a Los Angeles hospital, wild child Redmond O'Neal was busted yesterday for drug possession in the parking lot of...
3RD PARTY FOR MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg was endorsed by the city Independence Party yesterday, and promised its members he would take another stab at establishing nonpartisan elections in New York. During a closed-door meeting,...
IRAQI FAMILY MOURNS MOM SLAIN IN BINGHAMTON
A Binghamton teen who lost his mother just months before she would have watched him finish high school yesterday promised he would "make her proud." "She wanted to come to...
GISELE AND TOM'S GOONS FIRE AT PHOTOGRAPHERS
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's armed bodyguards opened fire on paparazzi at the couple's nuptials in Costa Rica, blasting out the windows of a pho tographer's SUV, and just missing...
TEACHER AIDE SUES STUDENT, 11, OVER DESSERT STORM
A mad dash for ice cream at a Queens grammar school earned an 11-year-old boy more than a trip to the principal's office. Rosanna Tomack, a former teacher's aide at...
CRASH KILLS OFF-DUTY COP
An off-duty cop was killed when his motorcycle collided with a car in Brooklyn last night, police said. The 29-year-old officer, whose identity was withheld, was thrown about 100 feet...
PILOT DIES IN LI VINTAGE-PLANE CRASH
A pilot practicing aerial maneuvers was killed yesterday when his vintage World War II fighter plane nose-dived into the Atlantic off Long Island before more than 100 horrified spectators --...
PARENTS $NIP CIRCUMCISION
Parents are cutting back on a lot -- even circumcision. The $300 average cost for a newborn is too high for many. "The $300 is a luxury," Dr. Andrew Freedman,...
MAKE TIX RESELLERS WAIT: BILL
On the eve of Ticketmaster's sale of ducats to local U2 concerts, Sen. Chuck Schumer last night unveiled legislation to limit ticket reselling for concerts and sports events by giving...
OH, WATT A PLAY!
New York's new baseball stadiums are more juiced up than a slugger on steroids. Yankee Stadium and Citi Field combined use enough electricity to power 20,000 homes, twice as much...
THE TOOTH WILL OUT: HUNGARY'S A BARGAIN
It started with a toothache and ended with a trip to Hungary. My lower back molar throbbed. I popped some Advil and figured it would go away. Since I had...
MASSACRE COPS FEEL HEAT IN BINGHAMTON
Embattled authorities yesterday said they were right to wait 40 minutes outside a Binghamton immigration center before entering and finding 13 people massacred inside. Cops first arrived at the American...
SWAN SONG FOR FAMED MANNY'S
The day the music died is drawing near for West 48th Street's famed "Music Row." The street's anchor, Manny's Music, is shutting down next month after 74 years of serving...
'GRAPHIC' NOVEL BY GLORIA
GLORIA VANDERBILT, iconic New Yorker, has gone from poor little rich girl to dirty old lady. Gloria has been famous since the word was invented. She's slept with everyone, married...
DAVID DEFIED BASIL AS HE CLIMBED TO THE TOP
For years, Basil Paterson was one of the most powerful men in Harlem. He served as a state senator, deputy mayor for Ed Koch, and secretary of state under Gov....
'LIENNY' DYKSTRA
"Nails" has been hammered flat broke. Lenny Dykstra, the once high-flying former Met turned entrepreneur and self-described Wall Street whiz, is at risk of losing his $18 million California mansion...
PATER-SON BURNED BY DEAR OLD PATER-DAD
The law firm where Harlem political legend Basil Paterson is a senior partner has become so powerful, it managed to kill a tax proposal backed by his son, the governor,...
MTA TWEET-TALKS COMMUTERS ON TWITTER
Attention subway and bus riders: The MTA is now tweeting. The agency has opened four accounts with the texting forum Twitter for employees to tout its promotional events, officials said....
GAUL RECALL OF UN DIPLO
France's top UN military diplomat has been quietly booted from New York after his wife and her previous husband were convicted in a $3.3 million fraud scheme, The Post has...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Detroit cops ruffled some feathers by shutting down an organized pillow fight at a downtown park. Police confiscated pillows -- but returned their cases -- to organizers. Pillow combatant Scott...
HEAD OF THE CLASS
HATS tend to get relegated to the winter months as a function of necessity. But with fashion girls such as Sienna Miller, Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan rocking the odd...
GO TO GREG
Q I was offered outplacement services as part of a severance package. I'm not worried about finding a new job, even in this economy, and knowing how expensive those services...
THE GIVING SEASON
ANU Karwa, a brand manager for a cosmetics company, was looking to do something meaningful outside of work. A longtime supporter of women's causes, she jumped at the opportunity to...
POWER POINTS
web wonders Next time your boss busts you for trolling the Internet during work hours, tell her you're doing the company a favor. According to a new study, Web surfing...
THIS LADY ISN'T CLOSE TO FAIR
IN "Being Audrey," a mid dle-age woman takes emotional refuge in fantasies of starring in Audrey Hepburn movies after her husband suffers a near-fatal heart attack. Unfortunately, this new musical...
SAFE BET
IT'S official: Adam Lambert is the odds-on favorite to be the next "American Idol." Oddsmakers from Latin America to London for the first time this week have made the show-stopping...
NCAA SLAM DUNK
THE NCAA basketball tournament is becoming a gold mine for CBS. Ratings for the Final Four games Saturday night were bigger than the other three big networks combined. And, had...
WANTED FOR A ROAD TRIP
NBC is casting a domestic version of the "Amazing Race" and is looking for families with kids from the New York area. The show will be called "The Great American...
'DANCE' SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGE
A dancer and choreographer who has worked on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" was arrested in LA over the weekend on suspicion of sexually assaulting four...
CODE OF MISCONDUCT
BEFORE the censors cracked down in mid-1934, Hollywood unleashed a flood of sexy, taboo-busting movies to lure audiences during the Great Depression. Six elusive titles -- most have never been...
STARR REPORT
Oscar winner Bobby Moresco's ("Crash") new movie, "The Kings of Apple town," stars identical-twin Disney scamps Dylan and Cole Sprouse ("The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" and "The Suite...
TRUMP OUT OF NYC?
WHAT would the Trump Tower be without the Trump? Or New York without The Donald, for that matter? More flat -- for one thing. But if New York's governor doesn't...
BURNED BY THE GUNFIRE
IT would be nice to re port that Charles Ful ler's 1980 play "Zooman and the Sign" feels like a quaint anachronism. But this powerful drama may become all too...
BOB SAGET: BACK FROM THE DEAD
BOB Saget says he still can't believe his new sitcom, "Surviving Suburbia," premieres tonight on ABC -- just two months after it was dropped by The CW. "It's a miracle....
DON'T LET UNIONS STEAL OUR SCHOOLS
I'M a lifelong Harlem resident, a reverend and a mother of six. When I was growing up in Harlem in the 1970s, the zone schools were terrible. Without choices, and...
JAILING REPORTERS
ON April 20, Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter may win his second Pulitzer Prize. The next day, he may head to jail. Ashenfelter, 60, is the latest reporter to...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
On notice The government may require new faces in ex ecutive suites at banks requiring "exceptional assistance" in the future, Treasury Secretary Tim othy Geithner said yes terday. "We'll make...
UBS GROUNDS 1,000 CLIENT ADVISERS
Switzerland's UBS, the world's largest wealth-management company in terms of assets, has issued a global travel ban for wealth-management client advisers, a spokeswoman said. "Last week, we issued a general...
A BOGUS 'ANTI-CIGARETTE' BILL
A LAW ordering the Food and Drug Ad ministration to regu late cigarettes is moving through Congress -- but is it truly good for public health? Hint: Cigarette maker Altria...
KEYSTONE CONGRESS
THE economy is in crisis, the federal deficit is balloon ing out of control, North Korea is launching missiles and US troops are still fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But...
HISTORY FOR SALE
Fallen auto giant General Motors has resorted to unloading its prized collection of classic cars as its newly installed CEO said yesterday the company will go into bankruptcy if that's...
MAYORAL MERITS: SEC'S SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
THE ISSUE: Whether mayoral control in the NYC schools system should become a national model. *** I couldn't agree more with Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recommendation to other major cities...
OBAMA-NATION IN EUROPE
THE ISSUE: The gathering of world leaders for the G-20 economic summit in Europe. *** Tens of thousands are protesting the G-20 economic summit because of financial suffering. People make...
QUINN'S CAUTIOUS 'CUTS'
The City Council last week trimmed its outlays by $1.7 million -- about 3.3 percent -- bringing its operating budget to $50,535,741. That averages out to about $991,000 per council...
CHEERING THE BUTCHER OF SUDAN
President Obama took office de termined to reach out to the Arab world. He might begin by educating those states on the continuing humanitarian crisis in Darfur. That's because Arab...
UFT WINS, KIDS LOSE
Chalk up a big win for the city's teach Ers' union. And a major setback for kids in Harlem and Brownsville. Faced with a lawsuit by the union, the Department...
PLAN YOUR ESCAPE
Believe it or not, there are other places to live. And what with millionaires being taxed to the hilt and the ordinary Joe facing a subway ride that's twice the...
PETER BART TO QUIT TOP POST AT VARIETY
Peter Bart, Variety's legendary and longtime editor-in-chief, is stepping down as head of the entertainment-industry bible he's run for 20 years, according to well-placed Hollywood sources. An announcement could come...
Blog trivia: Win a Mets DVD set
CINCINNATI -- In honor of Opening Day, I'm holding a Mets trivia contest that will earn the winners a brand spankin' new copy of the DVD set pictured here. The...
Times gropes at hope with talk of a job 'surge'
Was The New York Times overcome by a sudden surge in Obama boosterism this past Saturday when it decided that the March employment report released the day before was much...
Solow drops lawsuit
Billionaire New York real estate developer Sheldon Solow has dropped his lawsuit accusing insurer Conseco of fraud over the $1.4 billion auction in 2003 of the General Motors Building in...
Business briefs
No approval US District Judge Jed Rakoff refused to ap prove an agreement by Schottenfeld Group, which is tied to the Gal leon hedge fund insider trading case, to pay...
Bentley's listing raises roof
Rooftop restaurants and lounges are all the rage in Manhattan -- think of the tower-top venues at 230 Fifth Ave., the Gansevoort and Empire hotels, and the Danny Meyer-run place...
Apple sells 300K iPads
Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on the tablet computer's first day in stores, a strong showing that roughly matched Wall Street forecasts and mirrored the iPhone's debut in 2007....
Microsoft goes 'pink'
Microsoft Corp is set to announce the launch of its long-awaited "Project Pink" phones early next week, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday. The mobile phones, to be sold...
Aleynikov defense headache
A sudden financial windfall could jeopardize fallen computer whiz Sergey Aleynikov's ability to defend himself against allegations he stole Goldman Sachs' precious computer code to give to his new, higher-paying...
Ex-raider Farley to pay back pension fund $7.8M
A corporate raider who ran with Michael Milken in the 1980s has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle claims he reneged on a 1992 commitment to support the pension...
Bonds unleashed
Get ready to dump some credit cards and lock up your loans -- cheap credit is leaving the station. A benchmark rate that determines the interest rate people pay on...
Morgan Stanley's Phillips 'board' with his post
A Morgan Stanley director is no longer on billboards -- but he's also no longer on the bank's board. Millionaire techie Charles E. Phillips is leaving the firm's board of...
Deutsche Bank loses two execs
The head of a Deutsche Bank group that sells loans, bonds and distressed debt to hedge funds is planning to jump ship to rival Bank of America, The Post has...
Federico Macheda saves Man United
Did Manchester United just win the Premier League today?OK, not officially, And there's plenty of season left. But if they do go on to defend their title, they can look...
Red Bull lose at 10-man Chicago
A man up and a goal down, Juan Carlos Osorio's Red Bulls suffered yet another gut-wrenching loss at the hands of his former employer. An ill-advised play by GK Danny...
FARRAH'S SON IN 'DRUG BUST'
As his cancer-stricken mother, Farrah Fawcett, fought for her life in a Los Angeles hospital, wild child Redmond O'Neal was busted today for alleged drug possession in the parking lot...
Serie A: Inter Extend Lead to Nine Points
An own goal from Mauricio Isla handed Inter Milan a 1-0 victory at Udinese on Sunday and a nine-point lead atop the Serie A standings. At the same time, Juventus's...