October 1, 2007
More Sex Styles
Last week we sussed out some of the styles from the Sex and the City set.And today we've got more!Over the weekend we spotted Kim Catrall in sexy Stuart Weitzman...
Media Day, it starts again
This and that and all sorts of assorted stuff By FRED KERBEROkay, we're going to try this Blog thing again. Almost got to New Year's last season and then took...
Pennington
BY JAY GREENBERGFairly or unfairly, the Jets' lack of a quarterback who can stretch a defense is going to stretch their fans patience. The same people who failed to acknowledge...
A pall already cast on season
By MARC BERMANSome quick observations from Media Day that did not include Isiah Thomas, who was in federal court STILL awaiting a verdict, already casting a pall on the 2007-2008...
Sherman on the Mets
Check out Joel Sherman's piece on the Mets' demise in his blog, Hardball.
LIVEBLOG: Carrot food in Bangkok
CHALK THIS WAY: Vegetarianism at Anotai is fun, even for meat-eaters It is not often I eat at a vegetarian restaurant, though it has been my savior in many a...
REVIEW: Halo 3 (the non-ink-stained-fingers version)
SAY HALO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND: The final chapter of Spartan-117 is a week old -- is the hype still deserved? By CHRIS BUNTING IN not-so-shocking âmad hype = mad...
'Kingdom' Come
Your comment, âHOLLYWOOD provides the Islamic world another reason to hate Americaâ is shameful and moronic. How about the innumerable acts the Islamic world has done to make America hate...
THE MET DEMISE
Willie Randolph has to live with being the link between the two worst choke jobs by New York baseball teams in the past half-century.He was Joe Torreâs bench coach in...
Starr Report
PBS claimed 18.7 million viewers tuned to the first night of the series - but the commonly accepted rating put the number at 7.3 mil lion, said ombudsman Mi chael...
Deal of the Day
This Celia top is like a modern version of Jane Fonda's wardrobe in Nine to Five, but it's a more streamlined and chic.And hopefully it won't inspire anyone to drop...
Work Ethic and Accountability
Larry Brooks wrote today about the Rangers likely keeping Marcel Hossa up while sending Nigel Dawes, who earned a spot on the NHL-level club, back down to Hartford. He decries...
Weighing In On Steve Downie Suspension
Am I the only one who thinks the 20-game suspension given to Flyers forward Steve Downie is a bit excessive? The image of Ottawa forward Dean McAmmond lying face down...
Follow the Leder
Mimi Leder, who was the most financially successful female director in Hollywood history until she strayed from action tentpoles like "Deep Impact'' and "The Peacemaker'' to turn out the legendary...
Friend of Dorothy
Eightysomething Mickey Rooney, long a DVD holdout, offers intros for all four films in the newly-released "Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Ultimate Collectors Edition,'' one of the nicest sets in...
REACHING OUT
The woman was a high-performer at Liz Claiborne; she was dedicated and talented, and had recently been rewarded with a promotion. Something shifted, though. Her job performance started to slide....
TART REFORM
RACHEL Thebault loves Las Vegas, but she never bets more than her preset limit at the blackjack table. Reasoned risk-taking likewise informed her approach to starting a business. Before opening...
HAMMER TIME
MIKE Connor comes from a family of carpenters. For three generations, a Connor has been swinging a hammer, and there aren't many buildings in Manhattan that one of the tribe...
MYSPACE RACE
BEN Hordell, founder of DXStreet, an online viral marketing firm, won't hire anyone who isn't savvy at navigating social-networking sites. And it's not because he needs more friends on Facebook....
GO TO GREG
Q. My employer is making a big push for employees to enroll in the 401(k) plan. I feel like I live paycheck to paycheck and retirement is far off. Is...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - A LIFE OF INVENTION
The predecessor of that cute little cellphone in your pocket was a communication device created by Alexander Graham Bell. Today's page takes a look at his life of invention. Alexander...
HAT'S AMORE
THE key accessory this fall? One word: Hats. And before you say "I'm just not a hat person," know this: "Anyone who's anyone will have a hat," says hip milliner...
PULSE SALES
ALESSANDRO DELL'AQUA 540 Park Ave., penthouse suite, at 61st Street; (917) 940-9934 Sale: Oct. 3-5. Wed. 6 to 9 p.m./Thu. and Fri. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. The designer's ready-towear pieces, furs,...
BOSS & CO. PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
EVEN the Boss gets tired. Bruce Springsteen was the first to admit that Friday was a long, hard day cracking rock. He and his E Street Band had been up...
IN OPERA IT'S OFTEN BEST TO AVOID WORLD WAR II
THIS weekend New York saw two very different ap proaches to the art of operatic renewal - conceptual and traditional. First up was New York City Opera on Friday night...
ALLAH IN THE FAMILY
'ALIENS In America," the new comedy about a Pakistani exchange student in a house of extremely white people in Wisconsin, is tasteless, cringe-inducing, politically insensitive and so funny you will...
BOOT CAMP
'DANCING with the Stars" judge Bruno Tonioli made like the Rockettes and kicked - but he kicked Carrie Ann Inaba by accident. Over the weekend, the two "Dancing" stars held...
LAUGH AT THE MODELS
VH1 struck gold poking fun at dating shows with "Flavor of Love." Now the channel is taking on "America's Next Top Model" with - and this is no misprint-"America's Most...
KAT'S IN THE BAG
'IDOL" queen Katharine McPhee is getting married to her 42-year-old boyfriend, according to reports. The 23-year-old singer and her longtime bf, actor Nick Cokas, are "definitely engaged," sources tell OK!...
STARR REPORT
'War' Crimes PBS "hyped" the ratings for Ken Burns' opening night of "The War," the network's own ombudsman concluded over the weekend. PBS claimed 18.7 million viewers tuned to the...
THE DOCTOR IS IN(SANE)
SITTING contemplatively in a char coal gray double-breasted suit, Ste phen Glover (a k a Steve-O) adjusts his tortoiseshell glasses and speaks: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer...
SUBWAY CELL SYSTEM CAN TRACK YOU DOWN
Once cellphone service is installed in the subways, authorities will be able to pinpoint a 911 caller's location in the station, in many cases far more accurately than if the...
DOMINO DEVELOPERS $WEET ON LOBBYISTS
The developers planning to convert the old Domino Sugar refinery on the Brooklyn waterfront into condos have forked over at least $577,000 to lobby city officials for a zoning change...
RIP THY NEIGHBOR
For most New Yorkers, a high-heeled upstairs neighbor, a crying baby next door and a noisy bar downstairs have become a part of city living that simply has to be...
CALL 'EM OFF
New Yorkers could again be deluged by telemarketers now that the initial protection offered by the Do Not Call Registry will lapse next June. At least 4 million telephone numbers...
HARASS FLAP
A Bronx woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit against her employer, saying she was promoted to asset manager by a boss who liked her assets - then was fired...
L.I. PROBERS HIT DEAD END IN COP'S SLAY
Cops yesterday put the heat on the NYPD fiancé of a beloved officer found murdered in the Long Island home she shared with him, saying he is still a prime...
NOW IT'S ALL METS OFF
Ignore that page, Dr. Heimlich. The Mets are dead, victims of a historic, self-inflicted asphyxiation most commonly seen in baseball cities like Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. The last-place Florida Marlins...
CUT-RATE CHAVEZ'S OILY HAND
He snubs the United Nation, coddles our enemies and says President Bush is the devil. Yet some of America's most prominent politicians - including several in New York - are...
ELIOT 'ALIEN'-ATES TOP DEMS
ALBANY - Even as Gov. Spitzer has been widely criticized for his plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers' licenses, many of his fellow top Democrats have refused to...
LOST JOB 'OVER MY PERFUME'
She wore too much Red Door, so they showed her the door. That's the claim of a Brooklyn woman who says she was fired as a customer-service rep because she...
DRUNK KILLS WOMAN IN E. VILLAGE HIT-RUN: COPS
A woman was killed yesterday in the East Village by a drunken hit-and-run driver - whose Mercedes was later found spattered with blood, police said. Julia Thomson, 24, was struck...
200G IN WHEEZY MONEY FOR 6-HR. ELEVATOR ORDEAL
An asthmatic man who spent six terrifying hours stuck in an elevator four years ago has been awarded $200,000. Deshan Lewis, working as a Chinatown security guard in August 2003,...
BOYS OF FALL WOOD-N'T FAVOR CHANGING BATS
There are no home runs in Mudville. Nearly three weeks into the city's ban on metal baseball bats, many coaches and players involved in the Catholic High Schools Athletic Association's...
TROUBLE IS BUILDING FOR BROOKLYN ARCHITECT
Controversial architect Robert Scarano is under fire again after the city's Department of Buildings shut down two of his north Brooklyn projects late last week - including one where a...
SONS SUE OVER MA'S BUS DEATH
The family of a Bronx woman who was killed by a city bus last year is suing NYC Transit. Peter and Kevin McHugh charge negligence in the death of their...
BROOKLYN SCHOOL IN SLAP FLAP
A Brooklyn couple who wanted Catholic-school discipline for their son got a little too much of it when a teacher at the boy's Crown Heights parochial school slapped him across...
SUBWAY CLIPS WHEELCHAIR
A woman lost control of her wheelchair on a Penn Station subway platform and slammed into a moving train last night, suffering serious head injuries, cops said. The unidentified woman,...
S&M FAIR TO 'HIT' VILLAGE
A public flogging will bring some to their knees on the West Side next week - and they'd better love it. The city's first-ever, kinky-sex street fair will feature open-air...
FRIENDS IN 'DWI' HORROR
A drunken Staten Island teen ran away after smashing his speeding car into a telephone pole - leaving his bleeding pal to die in the back seat, cops said yesterday....
CITY COPS TO SURRENDER IN YONKERS BRAWL
Two Bronx cops plan to turn themselves in to the Westchester district attorney today in the off-duty beating of a man during a bar brawl in Yonkers, The Post has...
IN A HERO'S FOOTSTEPS
Simulating the burden carried by fallen fire hero Stephen Siller of Squad 1 in Park Slope, a firefighter yester day sets off on the annual Tunnel To Towers run. The...
'UNHAPPY ENDING' PLEA DEAL
Big-time Manhattan investment manager Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to plead guilty to soliciting underage prostitutes at his Florida mansion in a deal that will send him to prison for about...
THE PARROTS HILTON
It's a long way from South America, but this family of wild parrots is part of a flock that has taken up residence in the entrance-gate towers of Brooklyn's Green-Wood...
BLOOD VESSEL
A globetrotting dad from a tony Connecticut town killed himself on a boat in the East River after cops responded to a distress call, police said yesterday. John Sommers, 46,...
HERO BRAVED APT. INFERNO
When Upper West Side building manager José Quinones burst into an elderly woman's blazing apartment, the smoke was so thick, it rendered his fire extinguisher useless. "I couldn't see," the...
OWE NO, MIKE RIPS GOPERS
BLACKPOOL, England - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday lambasted American conservatives - including President Bush - for racking up huge budget deficits and leaving them for others to deal with once they...
CRASH JET HAD AIR OF MYSTERY
A corporate jet owned by a principal in a trendy Meatpacking District hotel reportedly made several mysterious flights over the years to the U.S. military installation in Guantanamo Bay where...
SIZZLING EVA 'SEDUCTION'
Sultry screen star Eva Mendes strikes her sexiest come-hither pose as the fishnet-wrapped siren poses for the new issue of Gotham magazine. The Cuban-American cutie, 33, tells the mag she...
ROCK'S GOT 'GAME' AT THE BOX OFFICE
Disney has a winning "Game Plan" - its family film starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson blitzed "The Kingdom" over the weekend to run off with the box-office title, according to...
ANDY VS. (P)AL IN LAX-TAX PROBE
The finances of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network have come under the scrutiny of one his political allies, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, The Post has learned. For years,...
HILLARY'S $30,000 FANS ARE HER 'CULT' FOLLOWING
A purported pyramid-scheme operator who was run out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor has reinvented himself as the head of an upstate group accused of being a "cult"...
FEDS TO CLIP POLS' WING$
New federal rules will bar presidential candidates from getting sweetheart discounts on private jets provided by supporters for campaign trips. The Federal Elections Commission said it would draft the rules...
EX-AIDE DESERTS GIULIANI
Former Rudy Giuliani aide Jerry Hauer is kicking cash into Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for the White House - saying she would make a great president and offering her policy...
NXIVM'S VEXING EFFECT ON BELIEVERS
His followers bow in his presence and call him "Vanguard." His detractors square off with him in court and call him a manipulative "brainwasher" who wrecks lives with his "extremely...
BUBBA: IT'S NO DOUBLE BILL
WASHINGTON - America would not be getting two for the price of one if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins her White House bid next year, hubby Bill said in an...
YOU RUN, GIRL!
Long hair in high school football is nothing unusual. Neither are small running backs. But petite running backs with long hair who have their own locker room - the girls'...
BETSY'S IN-LAW PUZZLE
Veteran cops say they have never seen anything like the death of Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's daughter-in-law, who apparently strangled herself while struggling to get free from cuffs in a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A teenager was shot to death early yesterday on a Brownsville street. The 17-year-old youth, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was shot once in the back at...
DEATH WAS QUICK
IF THERE was any consolation at all plucked out of an other wise inconsolable day, it was this: The Mets died quickly at Shea Stadium yesterday. They didn't bleed any...
GOPERS PREP FOR GOV WAR
STATE Senate Republicans are readying detailed subpoenas to respond to what they say is Gov. Spitzer's all-but-certain rejection of their "demand" last week for all documents, including personal e-mails, relating...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 767; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 8073; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 769; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
THE LIMITS OF 'SELF-DEFENSE'
Japan thinks it deserves more respect from the international community - and, judging by his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last Tuesday, President Bush agrees. His proposal: Give Japan...
DEATH & ACCOUNTABILITY
Six weeks after the Deutsche Bank fire - and bureaucratic bungling - led to the seemingly needless deaths of two city firefighters, the blame game is at full throttle. An...
PULLING A 'FAST' ONE
JONATHAN Kozol has a new book out, which means that he hasn't been eating lately. Let me explain: According to his publisher, every Kozol book is a "courageous expose" of...
INDIAN POINT'S GIFT TO GREENS
RISING worries over global warming have brought renewed attention to nuclear en ergy, whose plants don't emit the green house gases linked to global warming. But here in New York,...
HELPING HILLARY
EYEBROWS at the Treasury were raised last Tuesday when Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. named a major Democratic fundraiser to an important advisory role. On the next day, eyebrows were...
BOOZE & BREAST CANCER
THE news Friday suggesting that even a glass or two of wine a day will leave women at risk of breast cancer is, well, sobering. Does this mean that women,...
BLOOMBERG'S IRAQ OBSCENITY
I'm amazed at the mayor's comments (Sept. 26, "Mike: Iraq is like 1776 - Only This Time, 'We're the British' "). His comparison of Iraq to 1776 is so off...
SPITZER'S WRONG TURN: CHOOSING ALIENS FIRST
It's a testament to our times that Post columnist Abby Wisse Schachter makes such good sense regarding the issuance of drivers' licenses to illegal aliens and that Gov. Spitzer does...
TURMOIL AT NO. 2
The appointment of Dave Davis as ABC News' new No. 2 has roiled staffers who believe the shuffling of the news division's executive suite was mandated by corporate parent Disney...
SIGNS OF TROUBLE IN THE LAP OF LUXURY
The red-hot luxury retail sector is showing its first signs of a slowdown. Upscale brands - Giorgio Armani, Hugo Boss, Gucci and Versace - are seeing orders or parts of...
CELEBRITY SUCKUPS
The thing about the celebrity magazines is that they run the same pictures lots of times, so it doesn't matter which one you pick up if you're interested in mondo-pregnant...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Beautiful Girls, Sean Kingston 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 4. Make Me Better, Fabolous 5. Shawty, PLIES 6. Big Things Poppin', T.I....
IN MY LIBRARY
For "The New Kings of Nonfiction" (Riverhead), edited by Ira Glass, the "This American Life" host chose recent stories that will appeal to almost everyone. Malcolm Gladwell probing the secrets...
RISE OF THE OFFICE ROMANCERS
Microtrends: The Small Forces behind Tomorrow's Big Changes by Mark Penn, with E. Kinney Zalesne Twelve Fred Rodell is said to have responded to a reporter's question about whether the...
BRITNEY SPEARS LOSES CUSTODY OF KIDS: REPORTS
Britney Spears' already train-wrecked life just got a little worse. A judge ordered today that the pop tard relinquish physical custody of her kids, OK Magazine reports. According to TMZ.com,...
NO HEADLINE
NO HEADLINEKnicks coach Isiah Thomas isn't getting any love from the jury in his sensational sexual harassment case, a bombshell note from the panel revealed yesterday. As a second full...
DANCIN' FOOLS WAKE UP FISH
LEAVE it to these Mets to win 13-0, throw a one-hitter and still look bad in the process. Saturday, the Mets, one-game back with two left, still played minimalist baseball,...
FUL-PHIL-MENT
PHILADELPHIA - The fateful prediction came at a luncheon with reporters at Citizens Bank Park in January. Someone asked Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins if his team was the team to...
CURLIN PROVES A 'BREED' APART
Preakness winner Curlin, facing older horses for the first time, stamped himself the one to beat in the Oct. 27 Breeders' Cup Classic with a dramatic win over 3-5 favorite...
GLOBALIZATION LOOKS LIKE A WORLD BEATER
SECOND RACE: Another 2-year-old with promise: Globalization, Rick Violette colt well-bet in all three prior starts, was back on dirt going mile after failed attempt to stretch out on turf...
HONDO'S PAT HAND
Hondo wrapped up the regular season in splendid fashion yesterday at Shea by the bay, breezing with the Marlins to put 425 grogans in the account. Tonight, he's relying on...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: U.S. captures Presidents Cup In Montreal, the United States won the Presidents Cup. Mike Weir gave Canada quite a consolation prize. The Americans won enough of the singles matches...
SACKS MANIACS
During the week, members of the Giants defense decided they were all hungry, and the only way to satiate their appetite was to eat up the opposition. "I was in...
DONOVAN MCNABBED
THE Giants did not come to praise Donovan McNabb, they came to bury him, and at the end of the night, McNabb wasn't just the controversial black quarterback of the...
EAGLES 'O' LINE IS FOR THE BIRDS
Donovan McNabb is no stranger to pain on a football field, from tearing his ACL last November to suffering a hernia the season before. But never before had the Eagles...
GIANTS' OFFENSE SLUGGISH IN WIN
What cannot be swept under the rug amid the Giants devastating defensive performance in last night's 16-3 victory over the Eagles is the sluggish showing of the offensive unit. The...
PENN RUNS DRY
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - That stench assaulting your sense of smell emanating from the east of Manhattan isn't just coming from the Mets and their improbable collapse from grace. There...
DEFENSE RESTS
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - One-and-three isn't the end of the world. But the Jets can see it from the cliff where dinking-and-dunking Buffalo backed them yesterday. Chad Pennington threw one...
REVIS' ROUGH DAY
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Darrelle Revis, welcome to the National Football League. Through the season's first three weeks, opposing offenses have mostly avoided the Jets first-round draft pick. But that...
NUGENT DOESN'T GET HIS SECOND CHANCE
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Mike Nugent kept looking at the scoreboard and yearning for another chance yesterday. No one wanted to be on the field at the end of the...
NO ISIAH FOR CAMP OPENER
The Knicks did some minor roster tinkering yesterday, closing in on a buyout agreement with guard Dan Dickau and obtaining the draft rights to former Marist point guard Jared Jordan...
COLLAPSE COMPLETE
The fall turned out to be extraordinary, the collapse astonishing. The Mets' season is over, an ultimately dreadful meltdown that finished mercifully yesterday at Shea. It's never been more appropriate...
WORST TOM FOR HIS WORST START
TOM Glavine came here during a previous administration, before Omar Minaya and Willie Randolph, before Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran, and before Jose Reyes or David Wright had even played...
WILLIE GO?
THREE of the most critical questions facing the men who run the Mets, beginning today, are these: Do you want Willie Randolph to manage this team? Do you think he's...
REYES FIZZLES, SHRUGS OFF THE BOOS AT SHEA
Look no further than Jose Reyes as the player who most personified the Mets' collapse. Strong for five months, Reyes pulled a vanishing act when it counted most. The chant...
DELGADO: 'WE WERE TOO GOOD TO FINISH LIKE THIS'
Carlos Delgado stood in front of his locker, his hand bandaged, having fractured his left wrist when he was hit by a Dontrelle Willis pitch in the first inning of...
METS FACE OFFSEASON QUESTIONS
Luis Castillo said yesterday he'd like to return to the Mets. But the free agent-to-be also said he has no idea what's going to happen, and that's going to be...
MARLINS NOT FEELING SYMPATHY FOR FOES
A day after saying, "[Bleep] everybody on the Mets. I'm going to kick their butts," a much more mild-mannered Hanley Ramirez said that his statement wasn't such a big deal....
WAGNER SORRY FOR CRITICISM
Billy Wagner apologized to Willie Randolph and Rick Peterson before yesterday's game for a comment that will appear in New York magazine today, and later told reporters his words were...
TORRE KNOWS HOW RANDOLPH FEELS
BALTIMORE - Joe Torre will never forget the agony he felt in 2004 when the Yankees flushed a 3-0 lead in the ALCS to the Red Sox. So he knows...
MOISES WANTS TO RETURN
Moises Alou, who ended his first season as a Met with yesterday's 8-1 loss to the Marlins, likely will return to the club next season, assuming they exercise his $7.5...
RANGERS LIKELY TO KEEP HOSSA
Nigel Dawes has earned a spot on the Rangers coming out of camp for the second straight season. The question confronting personnel deciders Glen Sather, Tom Renney and Jim Schoenfeld...
THE BUOY WONDER
BALTIMORE - Randy Johnson's cranky back was deleted. Jaret Wright's shoulder full of gravel will no longer be asked to pitch Game 4. Alex Rodriguez isn't going to bat eighth....
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
MENTAL LAPSES FOR MELKY
BALTIMORE - Melky Cabrera's mind stopped working one day short of the finish line. Fortunately for Cabrera, Alex Rodriguez didn't get hurt scoring from first base in the third inning...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Jews in India are having a hard time warming up to a new line of bedspreads called "NAZI," and yesterday demanded that the manufacturer drop the offensive name. "We will...