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BOXER'S ROCKY TALE
April 13, 2005 | 4:00amJOHAR Abu Lashin was living the American Dream. An Israeli Arab who had emigrated to the United States, he became the world welterweight boxing champion, married an American and bought...
5 HOT NEW STARS - SUMMER MOVIES MAY PROPEL THESE ACTORS TO STARDOM
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amTerrence Dashon Howard found out what being a movie star is really like by watching Halle Berry, his co-star in the recently aired TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God."...
THE HUSTLER - DAMON DASH LOST HIS LABEL AND HIS PARTNER, BUT NOT HIS AMBITION
April 3, 2005 | 5:00amA DASH OF TROUBLES - After Splitting with Jay-Z, rap mogul Damon Dash is down, but not over Damon Dash only had his ass whupped once, but he's still talking...
DAY AT 'ODESSA' A BLIGHT FROM THE UKRAINE
March 30, 2005 | 5:00am'ODESSA . . . Odessa!," a French-Israeli documentary about the nearly 200,000 Jews who left that city in the 1970s, is sometimes beautiful to look at but ultimately too poetic...
WOMEN OF SIN - 7 DEADLY SINS - HOT ACTRESSES PLAY IT FIERCE AND EROTIC IN 'SIN CITY'
March 27, 2005 | 5:00amJessica Alba really wanted to be in the new movie "Sin City," but she hesitated when she first looked at the cult-classic Frank Miller comic books it's based on. Her...
'SEA' ONLY PART OF THE STORY
March 23, 2005 | 5:00amIN May, it will have been a quarter-century since the Mariel Boatlift, when Fidel Castro's government allowed nearly 130,000 Cubans to make a difficult journey in leaky boats across 100...
THE HOT SEAT WITH OZZY OSBOURNE
March 20, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S been four years since the mumble-mouthed and perpetually befuddled Ozzy Osbourne and his family of anti-Waltons first let MTV cameras into their Beverly Hills mansion and "The Osbournes" became...
COLOR CHANGE - PARTS GET SWITCHED FOR A HIP RACE MIX
March 20, 2005 | 5:00amBernie Mac is the new Spencer Tracy. James Earl Jones is the new Henry Fonda. Ving Rhames is the new Telly Savalas. And Denzel Washington is the new Laurence Olivier....
SCREEN OUT 'VENETIAN' GRIND
March 16, 2005 | 5:00amTHE VENETIAN DILEMMA ½ (one a half stars) Death (by boredom) in Venice.Running time: 73 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. THERE'S...
KONG'S COMING - AFTER RING TWO, NAOMI WATTS GETS INTO MONKEY BUSINESS
March 13, 2005 | 5:00amNaomi Watts couldn't get back to Hollywood this month to promote her new horror film, "The Ring Two," but she has a good excuse. For the past 113 days, she's...
ON THE LETTER OF THE LAW
March 9, 2005 | 5:00amSHERIFF ½ (two and a half stars) Real-life "Cops," doughnuts and all.Running time: 76 minutes. Not rated (some violence and disturbing images). At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Third Street...
HALLE IN HEAVEN - ALL 'EYES' ARE ON BERRY WHO'S REBOUNDING WITH TWO SEXY NEW ROLES
March 6, 2005 | 5:00amIN 2002, Halle Berry was the belle of the "Monster's Ball," standing on the stage at L.A.'s Kodak Theater, crying her eyes out and holding her Best Actress Oscar. What...
THE 'BLACK WOMAN' WHO ATE HOLLYWOOD
March 5, 2005 | 5:00amThe old phrase, "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand," is about as hackneyed as it is politically incorrect. But it may be the only way to explain the surprise...
IT AIN'T BILLY CRYSTAL'S OSCARS ANYMORE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amDude! The Oscars are going to totally rock this year. At least, that's the idea. In response to several years of declining TV ratings, Hollywood's biggest party is getting a...
'STREET' WISE
February 25, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE have been plenty of old-lady detectives, including Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and An gela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher on "Murder, She Wrote." You'll find out why they're so good at...
MEET THE 'COOL' CROWD - HOW 'GET SHORTY' SEQUEL ASSEMBLED HOLLYWOOD'S ULTIMATE DREAM TEAM
February 20, 2005 | 5:00amGROWING up in the 1970s, future movie producers Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg loved those goofy all-star-cast comedies - "like 'Smokey and the Bandit,'" Shamberg says. But the "Smokey" all-stars...
ONO! YOKO DOES HER OWN THING TO SAVE CLUB
February 19, 2005 | 5:00am"We'll be pushing the envelope a little bit," Yoko Ono says of her performance tonight at the Lower East Side's Tonic, with her son, Sean Ono Lennon. "There's some multimedia,...
OVERLONG DOCUMENTARY TRIO IS HARD TO BEAR
February 16, 2005 | 5:00amWATCHING one highly personal French documentary is just fine. But sitting through three totally unrelated ones in a row - with all that puzzling (subtitled) dialogue and those long (enigmatic)...
SHE'S SMOKING
February 13, 2005 | 5:00am"I was never a very accomplished pot smoker," Sigourney Weaver tells The Post. So the 55-year-old actress didn't have much personal experience to draw on for her newest movie, "Imaginary...
BIRDMAN OUTSIDE ALCATRAZ
February 11, 2005 | 5:00amTHE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL (three stars) Sweet documentary about tweety birds.Running time: 85 minutes. Rated G. At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. WHO knew birds led such...