May 7, 2007
Will Bart Dump Variety's Crix?
Are Variety's film critics afraid of losing their jobs? Back in March, the trade journal's blowhard editor, Peter Bart, published a screed suggesting that reviewers who didn't appreciate the artistry...
Isabella Blow 1958-2007
It's just been reported that Isabella Blow, former fashion director of Tatler magazine and fashion editor of London's Sunday Times, one of the most beloved fashion icons of our generation,...
GOSSIP: Toronto is the new Miami!
Okay, so I'm kidding. Sort of. It could happen. City fathers north of the border may not dare to hope so out loud, but the recent hiring of Miami Convention...
ROTO FILES - Are they heroes - or zeroes?
Spider-man's superhuman skills would make him a better suited to be a basketball prospect than a baseball superstar, but his adversaries are a different story. In honor of this weekend's...
Deal of the Day
Every gal needs a few party dresses to get them through the weddings and parties that fill up the summer calendar.Anthropologie always has you covered-in an ever adorable variety of...
A ROCKET BACK TO THE AMERICAN LEAGUE
Roger Clemens was a very good pitcher for the Yankees. He helped them win two championships and bagged another Cy Young award.And then he retired and Clemens went from good...
Happy 'Waitress'
Murdered filmmaker/actress Adrienne Shelly (center, with Kerri Russell and Cheryl Hines) would surely be delighted that her third and last film, "Waitress,'' managed the second-best per-screen average this weekend this...
F*** off! I'm with the band.
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ROGER AND ME
Standing there yesterday at Yankee Stadium and watching Roger Clemens speak to the Yankee crowd was one of those great Yankee moments.This all came together so quickly because Brian Cashman...
IN HER COURT
Dolores Lynch grew up in the South Brooklyn projects, and knew she wanted more out of life than the Farragut Houses could offer. She became the first member of her...
DOING LUNCH
For the office jockey, lunch is a special part of the workday. It's an island of personal time amid a sea of demands. It's a chance to regenerate, to refuel....
MANLY ARTS
Put a dozen construction workers in a room, fatten them with good food and strong drink, and if stereotypes hold true, the expected results might include catcalls at any women...
THE MOTHER LOAD
Women of the post-boomer generation came of age believing they could have it all - a rewarding career and a fulfilling family life. Encouraged from the start to get an...
GO TO GREG
Q. I have a tendency to ramble a bit, particularly when I get nervous, and sometimes colleagues seem to avoid me. Any tips? A. Here are some clues you may...
JAMES BROWN - THE GODFATHER OF SOUL
Much of what's on your iPod right now has probably been influenced by James Brown. Today's page looks at the career of this musical giant. Godfather of Soul. Hardest Working...
SHE'S WITH THE BAND
OZZFEST Monster band Lordi stepped into the limelight at last year's Eurovision Song Contest. As the musical ambassadors representing Finland, the hard-rockers won with the highest number of votes ever...
MET FASHION SHOW STILL STYLISH AFTER 100 YEARS
THE new exhibit at the Metro politan Museum of Art's Cos tume Institute - which will kick off tonight with the Costume Institute Gala - looks at a French couturier...
VOLLEY FOLLY
TWO legendary ac tresses (real) playing two legendary tennis players (fictional) - "Deuce" should have been a grand slam at the Music Box Theatre last night. Instead it was a...
JUDGMENT DAY
THE list lives. And so does "My Name is Earl." "The list will always be around. The list is not going anywhere," said the show's executive producer and creator, Greg...
'IDOL' EXECS BACK OUT OF EMMYS
THE promise of an Emmy Awards show produced by the "American Idol" people this year has died. Over the weekend, "Idol" exec producers Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick asked to...
FAMILY SECRET
SUPPOSE everything you ever thought about your parents - their marriage, the family life they created, their dedication to each other - was suddenly turned inside out? Would you want...
STARR REPORT
Doctor of 'Law' Dylan Walsh, who plays "Nip/Tuck's" Dr. Sean McNa mara, will be literally all over the place, entertainment- wise, the next few weeks. He guest-stars on tomorrow's ep...
'NCIS' LOSES PRODUCER
BAD blood between "NCIS" star Mark Harmon and the show's creator/producer Donald Bellisario, has led to trouble on the set of TV's highest-rated military series. Bellisario, who also created "Jag,"...
'GIRLS' STAR GLAD
YANKING "Gilmore Girls" was the best thing that could have happened to the beloved series, its star says. The cancellation by the CW network was "a conversation that was going...
MAKING YELLOW TAXIS 'GREEN'
The city's fleet of 13,000 yellow taxis spew 4 percent of all New York air pollution, but that figure could be substantially reduced if cabs were made even slightly more...
9TH AVE. FAIR GIVES CRUMBS TO CHARITY
Heaping helpings of cash are served up to vendors and organizers of the Ninth Avenue International Food Festival each year - but mere peanuts are left over for the charities...
PLAN TO STEM WATER HIKE
Two city councilmen said yesterday they have a plan that could avert at least part of a proposed 11.5 percent hike in residential and commercial water rates. The City Water...
9/11 WIDOW IN AIR RAGE
The widow of Port Authority Director Neil Levin - who was killed on 9/11 - demanded that she be allowed to cut in front of hundreds of passengers waiting at...
EATERIES RACK $27M IN FINES
The Health Department expects to collect a record $27 million in fines this year, about 25 percent more than it projected 10 months ago, The Post has learned. Officials insisted...
PROTEST MARS ISRAEL MARCH
Mayor Bloomberg joined his Jerusalem counterpart, Uri Lupolianski, to lead thousands of marchers along Fifth Avenue yesterday at the annual Salute to Israel parade. The mayor ignored 100 or so...
NO MERCY FOR SHOT GIRL
A 12-year-old girl was shot in the back after she tried to take refuge in a doorway - with bullets flying outside a rowdy Bronx party - and was turned...
PITCHER MOUND OF WOE
Seattle Mariner pitcher Julio Mateo viciously pummeled his wife and bit her lip after she told the hurler she was leaving him and taking the kids back to the Dominican...
CUNY GUN BUY AFTER VA. TECH
Two days after the Virginia Tech massacre, the City University of New York bought two dozen Glock 9mm pistols to beef up security at five of its campuses, The Post...
CITY GIVES MY SCOOT THE BOOT
It's not easy being green. Jonathan Gleich of Brooklyn says he learned that the hard way when his electric-powered, emission-free Segway scooter got slapped with a $90 ticket. "New York...
MIKE'S BIG TESTS
Mayor Bloomberg has shown over his first five years in office that he can pull off complicated city projects - even though he's hit stumbling blocks that have delayed some...
'KILLER' MADE SICK 9/11 JOKE
An insurance agent accused of killing people for their life-insurance policies joked about how rich he'd be if Osama bin Laden had only directed a plane toward the Richmond Hill...
MOB-HIT CASE IS IN PERIL
A 12-year-old prosecution file that suddenly surfaced late last month is threatening to sink the Brooklyn DA's case against alleged mob hit man John Sinagra, a co-defendant in the bombshell...
PROM$ CAN BE 'GRAND' NIGHTS
Parents, it's time to take out a second mortgage - it's prom season. The Big Apple's famously pampered, deep-pocketed teen set has taken preparations for prom night to a new...
BABY'S BODY IN QNS. CLOSET
Police questioned a 15-year-old mother last night about the death of her newborn son, whose body was found inside a closet in her Maspeth, Queens, apartment, sources said. The unidentified...
TWO INJURED IN BROOKLYN BLAZE
A fire broke out on the top floor of a two-story house in Brooklyn early today, seriously injuring a woman and a young child. The blaze erupted at 1:26 a.m....
BUS-BASH OUTRAGE
Less than a month after the MTA apologized for a driver failing to help a 15-year-old assaulted on a Brooklyn bus, two other people were attacked in separate incidents on...
YANKEE GRANNY IS 'BAT' GIRL
A 68-year-old woman who slugged a robber with a souvenir Yankee mini-bat was honored yesterday by her beloved Bombers - and received an autographed, life-size Derek Jeter bat to replace...
$1.3M FOR FAMILY OF TRAGIC TOT
The family of a Manhattan boy who suffered irreversible brain damage after his doctors failed to notice his head growing "off the charts" due to fluid in the skull has...
BOOK WORMS LURK
It's a pervert's dream come true. Hundreds of city elementary-school kids are sitting ducks at public libraries where they hang out alone, unsupervised and vulnerable, because their parents can't afford...
POLICE CARS EYED IN MURDER
In an unusual move, cops investigating the murder of an immigrant in the Westchester town of Bedford have impounded two police cars from the neighboring community of Mount Kisco, authorities...
SCHUMER: REFINERIES CAN'T COPE
Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday called for a federal investigation into why large oil companies have been unable to keep pace with consumer demand for gasoline. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was...
NOW POST TIME
Shortly before his death, decorated World War II veteran Armin Schaper told relatives that if The New York Times didn't write an obituary for him, they should cancel the subscription...
8 TROOPS & JOURNO KILLED IN IRAQ BLASTS
Eight U.S. soldiers and a European reporter were killed by roadside bombs in separate attacks yesterday - a bloody and terrible day when 95 Iraqis were either killed or found...
WRITING HER IN MOP-DUTY
Claw-baring catwalker Naomi Campbell says she picked up more than trash while working off a community-service sentence at a city Sanitation Department facility - she also landed a much-needed lesson...
SPIDEY SETS AMAZING RECORD WITH $148M
"Spider-Man 3" spun a web of gold at the box office over the weekend, scaling to the top spot with a record-breaking $148 million in ticket sales. The web-slinger beat...
PARIS HAS A JAIL WAIL
Looks as if she already has the jailhouse blues. Paris Hilton broke down in tears during a posh lunch with her mom at a Beverly Hills eatery, one day after...
'BRAVE' RUDY
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani tops former Vietnam POW Sen. John McCain in a contest of "political courage," according to a Newsweek poll released over the weekend. Giuliani, whose tough talk...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A $1,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Jacques Dorcinvil , who is wanted in the murder of his estranged Brooklyn girlfriend...
SELF-APPOINTED POSTER GIRL OF BAD BEHAVIOR
HOW soon they forget. With a wave of her ID card and a cry of "Do you know who I am?" Port Authority Commissioner Christy Ferer has transformed from 9/11...
GAY-WED BID SPLITS N.Y. DEMS
GOV. Spitzer's plan to legalize gay marriage is dividing Democrats, harming Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions, and handing Republicans their first strong campaign issue in some time, officials told The...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 809; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 3622; Lucky Sum: 13 Evening Nos. Sun.: 374; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 2999; Lucky...
THE CENSORIOUS SHELLY SILVER
Finally! A state assemblyman has committed an offense sufficiently substantial to warrant the censure of his colleagues. Mike Cole of Buffalo, a married father of two, spent a night at...
THE SCHOOL SCAM
When they hit the polls May 15 to decide the fate of school budgets in some 700 districts around the state, voters may be in for some nasty sticker shock....
IRAN V. THE SAUDIS
SUNNI insurgency, Sunni-Shia sectarian violence, al Qaeda terror - Iraq doesn't need more problems. But it has one that too often gets overlooked: It's quickly becoming the latest battlefield in...
FRED FIZZLES AS RON REDUX
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. 'Will he announce?" asked the Lincoln Club of Orange County's publication in preparation for Fred Thompson's ap pearance at the organization's 45th annual dinner here Friday night....
'HOSTILE' GEORGE WASHINGTON
WALTER Kehowski, a math professor at Glendale Community College in Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), wishes he'd never e-mailed his fellow employees Thanksgiving greetings last November. While reading...
ROE ROCKS RUDY'S RAZZLE-DAZZLE
THE ISSUE:Rudy Giuliani's explanation of his views on abortion during Thursday's GOP debate. Rudy Giuliani was obviously trying to disarm the abortion crowd ("Rudy: I'll Be Next Reagan," May 4)....
ISRAELI DEFENSE STRATEGY: IN NEED OF COMMAND
THE ISSUE: Israel's recent military performance and the leadership of P.M. Ehud Olmert. While it is unquestioned that civilian authority must control the military in any democracy, when that control...
BUFFETT TO HOLD CONTEST FOR REPLACEMENT(S)
OMAHA, Neb. - Warren Buffett told his company's shareholder gathering this weekend that he plans to test out as many as four people extensively before naming a successor. Speculation has...
LORD'S PRAYER
CHICAGO - Whether Conrad Black spends the next 20 years locked up in a prison cell - or jetting between his fancy homes in London, Toronto and Palm Beach -...
ALL THE CITY MAGS
City magazines aren't just for restaurant listings and Best Doctor issues anymore as New York - the surprise winner at last week's National Magazine Awards - made startlingly clear. Here's...
LEAVING THE DEPOT
Home Depot's executive ranks continue to get a makeover, following the ouster in January of its CEO over his pay package. The latest senior manager to leave is Sam Aquillano,...
VIBE TRIBE SUFFERS ANOTHER LOSS
It's been a brutal week for two of the nation's leading hip-hop magazines, which are now as bruised and battered as some of the subjects they cover. At Vibe Media,...
IT'S BY DESIGN
Lord & Taylor parent NRDC Equity Partners, in its bid to add more inventive merchandise to the department store chain, has signed a deal with budding design duo Costello Tagliapietra,...
NYSE'S PUTNAM UNLOADS STAKE
New York Stock Exchange President Gerry Putnam has spent much of his first year on the job doing two things: helping steer the Big Board into the 21st century and...
A FRENCH RUDY
IF Nicholas Sarkozy, the new president-elect of France, reminds you of Rudy Giuliani, there's a reason. Sarkozy really is a kind of French Giuliani. More, he's clearly learned some things...
RON'S BEEN A DARLING ADDITION
TWO seasons ago, when SNY signed Ron Darling to be a Mets' semi-regular, in-game analyst and a sometimes studio analyst, friends in the D.C. area warned that Darling, who'd worked...
RIVALS CAN ONLY RAIL ABOUT BAD STRATEGY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - If some trainers are forced back to the drawing board after Saturday's Kentucky Derby, most of the jockeys who rode in it could do with a refresher...
SPURS DRAW FIRST BLOOD ON SUNS
PHOENIX - With blood spewing from a cut on his nose, Steve Nash could only watch from the bench while the Spurs put away Game 1 of the Western Conference...
FLOYD WAS TOO SLICK, TOO QUICK
LAS VEGAS - It was long after the "fight of the year" had ended when a re-inspection of the scorecards had Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, standing on...
DERBY WINNER MADE 'SENSE' OFF WORKS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Street Sense snapped the 22-year "Breeders' Cup jinx" winning Saturday's 133rd Kentucky Derby, and was the first since 1983 (and second since 1947) to win off just...
PREAKNESS NEXT 'STREET' STOP
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Barring unforeseen circumstances, Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense will head for Baltimore as a strong favorite for the 132nd Preakness at Pimlico on Saturday, May 19. He'll...
'TREASURE' WINS BOUWERIE
Talking Treasure, part of the favored Ken and Sarah Ramsey owned entry, made a three wide move to the lead and drew off to a two length victory in the...
HONDO'S DOUBLE PLAY
Hondo, who kept his Derby futility streak alive Sat urday, saddled a winner yesterday as he cashed with the Padres to raise the earnings to 630 colberts. Today, Mr. Aitch...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Twins' Mauer on 15-day DL Twins catcher Joe Mauer went on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left quadriceps muscle. The AL batting champion had an MRI exam...
LISTEN UP, LOU: IT'S TIME TO GIVE DEVS A NEW GM
THE Devils' GM is finally taking a spanking from the usual genuflectors, and rightly so, for having the gall and ego to fire coach Claude Julien, then failing to take...
FIZZLE COMMAND
PHOENIX - Two thirds of the damage yesterday against Mike Pelfrey was essentially self-inflicted. Poor command was a major part of Pelfrey's shaky outing yesterday, as the Met rookie continued...
BELTRAN, ALOU ONSORE SIDE
PHOENIX - The Mets were without both Moises Alou and Carlos Beltran in yesterday's starting lineup, with both outfielders ailing. Alou has been battling a hurt left knee, and yesterday...
FRONT-END MISS
CLEVELAND - So many elements were aligned properly for the Nets to pull off another Game 1 upset on the road. With decidedly sub-par shooting and scoring, LeBron James battled...
BLOCK ON KIDD GIVES CAVS LIFT
CLEVELAND - The Nets trailed 77-73 when Jason Kidd swiped a Larry Hughes pass and zoomed in for an apparent score. But Sasha Pavlovic came from basically nowhere and blocked...
A LONG WAY TO GO
The Rangers did themselves proud yesterday, defining their team as a hard-working, difficult out in the second round of the playoffs. They gave the Sabres just about all they could...
LEADING MAN
WHATEVER consolation Tom Renney, coach of a team that had just turned the mighty Sabres into bare survivors, offered the Rangers in their locker room, Jaromir Jagr never heard it....
SHANAHAN NOT SURE HE'LL RETURN NEXT SEASON
Standing in front of his locker not long after the Rangers' season ended yesterday with another one-goal loss to the Sabres, Brendan Shanahan wouldn't commit to playing for the Blueshirts...
COMEBACK? ROGER THAT!
The drama is over. The wait is on. Roger Clemens, as many expected, decided to sign with the Yankees and made a grand re-entrance during their 5-0 victory over the...
DOLLARS AND SENSE: SPENDING BIG JUST YANKS BEING YANKS
THIS is who the Yankees are. This is who the Yankees are most comfortable being. They tried it cheaper and younger. That lasted fewer than 30 games, long enough for...
SETTLING SCORE
YOU don't always get the chance to redeem yourself this way, but that's the opportunity Roger Clemens has now. He can make things right in a place where he badly...
PINSTRIPED PROCEEDING WAS BOSS AT HIS BEST
THIS is why Yankee Stadium is hallowed baseball ground. At seventh-inning stretch time yesterday, Bob Sheppard got everyone's attention directed toward the owner's box, saying there would be "an important...
RASNER ROCKET-LIKE
Oh, by the way, the Yankees won a game yesterday. They shut out Seattle 5-0 behind Darrell Rasner - not that the 52,553 fans at the Stadium cared, preoccupied with...
PLAYERS PUMPED WITH ROCKET FUEL
The Yankees know Roger Clemens can't win by himself, and they can't just sit around waiting for his arrival. But they say The Rocket is the kind of commanding presence...
RASNER MAY STICK AROUND
Darrell Rasner was supposedly headed back to Triple-A Scranton regardless of how well he pitched yesterday. But a strong performance against the Mariners may have changed the Yankee organization's thinking....
ROCKET'S COMEBACK PUMPS UP FANS
When the video scoreboard in right-center field showed Roger Clemens standing in the owner's box, the 52,553 fans at the Stadium roared louder than it sounds at LaGuardia Airport. Amid...
RED SOX:'WE DON'T NEED HIM'
MINNEAPOLIS - What's good for the Yankees is not necessarily bad for the Red Sox. Such is the thinking of the Yanks' rivals, whose reaction to Roger Clemens signing with...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Brazilian brewery has been ordered to pay nearly $50,000 to one of its beer tasters - who said he became an alcoholic from his guzzling job. The Ambey company...
Senators Advance
The Ottawa Senators made short work of the New Jersey Devils, taking the series 4-1. Ray Emery was the stand-out goaltender of the series, while Martin Brodeur failed to produce...
Impossible to Avoid: Larry the Cable Guy
Feel like channeling your inner redneck? Somewhere beyond the walls of Manhattan, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is a hit. We’re sure Larry, who infiltrates the talk show circuit this...