October 30, 2007
TORRE TO MANAGE DODGERS
By GEORGE KINGJoe Torre has agreed in principle to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers, The Post has learned.Torre will accept a three-year deal worth $14.5 million to take over the...
GRADY LITTLE RESIGNS
Grady Little resigned as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday, paving the way for Joe Torre to take the job.The 57-year-old Little leaves with one year remaining on...
Mattingly a Yankee at Heart
By Mike PumaDon Mattingly still considers himself a Yankee, even as he's unsure when he'll wear the pinstripes again.Speaking to reporters a day after he was spurned by the organization...
Opening Night...Almost
By FRED KERBERSome fun facts that you should be shot for if you knew them as Wednesday's opener approaches. The Nets are 14-17 all-time in the NBA opening nights. That...
RIVERA MEETS WITH YANKEES
Free agent closer Mariano Rivera met with Yankees' brass for 90 minutes today in Tampa. The Yankees wish to re-sign the Yankee great, but after the departure of Joe Torre,...
Oscar Watch: New 'Juno' Poster
Fox Searchlight has released a new poster for "Juno,'' which is fairly pregnant with Oscar possibilities at this point. It won the top prize at the Rome Film Festival over...
Oscar Watch: One Sheet of 'War'
Universal has finally coughed up a one-sheet for its big Christmas Day release, "Charlie Wilson's War.'' It's very similar to the single still image that's been circulating for months showing...
Scene
Samantha Friedmann, 18 year old NYU student, in a cool black-and-white graphic print coat by Tibi over an American Apparel dress and Miu Miu boots with a Kate Spade bag."My...
STRANGE BREW
The 2008 season will mark the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn and playing in Los Angeles. It will also mark Joe Torre managing somewhere other than the Bronx...
Deal of the Day
Leather gloves are super-chic, but sometimes they leave something to be desired in the warmth department.And rather than pick up some unsightly mitts and ruin that sleek uptown look, check...
Another Adrienne Shelly Flick Due
Filmmaker/actress Adrienne Shelly, who scored the biggest success of her career with "Waitress,'' grossing $19 million this summer after her brutal murder last year, left behind another script. "Serious Moonight''...
Starr Report
* Roger Daltrey (left) visits "Morning Joe" (hosted by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough) today to discuss the new Who documentary, "Amazing Journey."* Let's air two: A Bruce Nash doubleheader tonight on...
Knicks will see Demetris Friday in Cleve
By MARC BERMANDemetris Nichols was good enough for the Eastern Conference champs, Cleveland, but not for the 33-49 Knicks. Go figure.The Knicks could have waived Jerome James and should have....
Rangers Pot Three for Win
Can you believe it? The Rangers scored last night. Not once. Not twice ... but thrice. A goal each from Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan to put the Lightning away...
Kate Hepburn, Aunt Rose and Me
I'm been rummaging through the attic of Katharine's Hepburn Turtle Bay townhouse -- which will be available to fans and scholars beginning in February at the New York Public Library's...
HALLOWEEN - OUR FAVORITE SPOOKY CELEBRATION
Halloween is a unique celebration, a patchwork of the occult, religion, paganism and tradition. Here's how it got started. Halloween began as an ancient festival practiced by Celtic tribes to...
HERO WORSHIP
SHE had one guitar. But unlike the Foreigner song, it wasn't slung way down low. It was, in fact, strapped securely to her shoulder as, head tilted up to the...
WE'RE WITH THE 'BAND'
IF you ever wanted to start a garage band but never quite got around to it - you didn't have a garage, say, or lacked actual musical talent - a...
DURAN STILL HUNGRY
WHEN Duran Duran was small - at the start of the '80s - they got big by brilliantly melding sight and sound for the fledgling mass-market music machine called MTV....
NO POWER SHORTAGE
The Germans have a word for it - Britkrieg. That's when pop disaster Britney Spears actually flashes musical goodness rather than the fact that she's not wearing any undies. That's...
STAND UP FOR THE HEARTLAND
JUDGING by the 10 songs on Avenged Sevenfold's latest record, few bands on the modern rock scene are so willing to aggravate their fans. After achieving mainstream success with their...
MPFREE
Download these free songs through Friday at nypost.comDuran Duran, "Falling Down" The British band influenced Justin Timberlake when he was but a wee lad in the '80s. Now the singer's...
PERIL OF CREATIVE DROUGHT
TWO world premieres by American Ballet Theatre over the weekend - one better than the other - pointed up the difficulty of finding new choreographers, or, to put it bluntly,...
STAGING OF BARD ISN'T VERDI GOOD
VERDI is the one com poser who can match up to Shakespeare. Of his three Bard-based operas, "Macbeth" is perhaps the least perfect, but in some ways, his most Shakespearean....
STARR REPORT
Wild at heartAnyone home? The CW's "Life is Wild," a family-ori ented wildlife series filmed in South Africa, averaged 1.1 million viewers Sunday night. Speaking of which . . ....
BACK IN THE 'HOUSE'
THE doctor is back in. Hugh Laurie returned to work yesterday after taking an unexpected trip home to England that disrupted production on "House." His sudden departure last Thursday was...
HULU FIRST LOOK
WATCHING TV on the In ternet took a huge leap yesterday when NBC and Fox launched their much-ballyhooed video Web site, Hulu. The site is still in the testing stages...
SOX-ROCKS SHOCKS FOX
FOX can exhale now - viewer ship for the Red Sox-Rockies World Series wasn't as bad as predicted. Boston's four-game sweep of Colorado averaged around 17.1 million viewers, when factoring...
STARTS IN STRIPES
HELLO, kitty! Mason, this gorgeous Bengal tiger cub, is just 13 weeks old - but already he's got a job. He's working to promote the beginning of Animal Planet's Tiger...
CARRY A BIG SHTICK
IT'S a big week for Brian Williams. First, he'll moderate tonight's Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia. Then, on Saturday, he'll put on a funny hat and tell Lindsay Lohan jokes....
GAYLE KING JOINS OPRAH'S SCHOOL INVESTIGATION
Oprah Winfrey's gal pal Gayle King has joined the daytime talk show host's school scandal investigation. "It's just heart wrenching that the situation even happened. It really is," King told...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Jupiter-Neptune aspect on your birthday will inspire you to dream big, while an equally strong Sun-Saturn aspect will create the circumstances that can make your dream come true. You...
THE ABSOLUTION
WHERE'S the beef? For now, it's at Studio 54, where the Roundabout Theatre Company has revived Terrence McNally's 1975 comedy, "The Ritz." Set in a gay bathhouse, it boasts an...
SHRINKING TO FIT
RIGHT now, I'm doing something I never thought I would - wearing size 36 jeans. It's not a miracle on par with loaves and fishes, or even the continued popularity...
THE SOAP DISH
'ALL employees must wash hands." There's a sign like this - usually tattered and water-stained - in nearly every restaurant restroom in the country. It's anyone's guess, though, whether your...
FDNY BIKER BURN
A Fire Department honcho has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine for asking subordinates to fix his personal Harley-Davidson motorcycle, officials said yesterday. Assistant Commissioner James Basile admitted that he...
SHERIFFS GUN DOWN GOV'S LICENSE PLAN
SYRACUSE - In the latest blow to Gov. Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, New York state's sheriffs yesterday came out strongly against the program and asked...
TRANSIT DIRECTIONS BY CELLPHONE
The MTA is testing a new service that allows straphangers to get bus and subway directions, as well as service alerts, on their cellphones. Dubbed "Trip Planner On the Go,"...
BLOOMBERG: TRAGIC WTC COP NO HERO
Mayor Bloomberg jumped mouth-first into the heated debate over the cause of death of a retired detective who worked tirelessly at Ground Zero - saying science showed "this was not...
STAPH DASHED MY FOOTBALL DREAM: STUDENT
The superbug that took the life of a Brooklyn boy has also ruined the career of an aspiring football star at Iona College, according to a suit filed yesterday. The...
ST. JOHN'S GUNMAN COMMITTED
The St. John's University student who donned a mask and wandered the campus with a loaded rifle has agreed to enter a psychiatric hospital in exchange for having all the...
NO PAWS IN JFK CAT HUNT
The Port Authority won't stray from its controversial plan to boot hundreds of feral cats from the grounds of Kennedy Airport - even after meeting with animal advocates yesterday. "We...
FATAL SUPERBUG BUNGLES
Days before his death, Omar Rivera's classmates all knew that lesions covering his body were bad news - and now it appears that doctors at two separate health-care centers failed...
MOLL HEARD WHACK-Y TALK
The star witness against alleged rogue FBI Agent Lindley DeVecchio said yesterday she heard him instruct her mobster boyfriend to kill on four separate occasions, then witnessed the two men...
'PREPPY' RAID WAS RUSH JOB BY BRASS
Top NYPD brass ordered the rushed arrest of "Preppy Killer" Robert Chambers last week, catching officers and prosecutors off-guard, sources told The Post. An arrest team, including narcotics cops and...
CHEEKY LOLITA BARES ALL
Amy Fisher's contrite hubby said yesterday he regrets lashing out at his then-estranged wife by hawking their private sex tape to a notorious smut peddler. Lou Bellera sold the rights...
JUDGE BEGS MCGREEVEYS
After hours of trying to talk sense into the warring McGreeveys, a visibly frustrated New Jersey divorce judge yesterday threw up her hands and begged them to consider their 5-year-old...
SHAKE BABY DIES
A 2-month-old Queens baby has died of injuries suffered when she was violently shaken, police said, and cops were questioning her parents last night. Annie Li, who lived at 43-18...
A GIFT FOR GIFTED KIDS
The Education Department will increase the number of grade-school kids tested for accelerated programs - while raising the bar for acceptance to the special curriculum, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said...
COPS PROBE CALLS OF SLAIN DOC'S EX-WIFE
Police yesterday were pulling the phone records of a murdered orthodontist's ex-wife and her relatives after he was gunned down in broad daylight - in front of his traumatized 5-year-old...
BROADWAY REVIVAL FOR LABOR TALKS
Theater producers and stagehands have agreed to resume negotiations, starting Nov. 7, in an effort to head off a strike that could dim the bright lights of Broadway. The two...
FIREHOUSE 'TORCH' DUO GETS HOSED
Where there's smoke, there's fire . . . and a surveillance video and a credit-card receipt. Investigators said they had no trouble tracking down the foolish FDNY firebugs who lit...
FIRE MOM DIES
A woman injured in a Harlem gas explosion that left four of her kids in critical condition earlier this month died yesterday. Alouf Hassan, 29, was declared dead at 7:30...
ARABIC LOST IN TRANSLATION
Jurors in a Manhattan terrorism-hoax case got an education in Arabic yesterday when a defense lawyer raised this question: Is "Allah akbar" always a call to arms, or can it...
'SLAVE' WAGES
Two Indonesian women brought to Long Island to work as servants were starved, beaten and stabbed by their millionaire employers during "years and years of servitude and abuse," a federal...
'9/11 AVENGERS' MISTAKEN-IDENTITY THIEVES: DA
Two geography-challenged Queens men accused of identity theft allegedly claim they had good reason to single out people with Bangladeshi names: revenge for 9/11. Marconian Sockwell allegedly admitted to cops...
BB DEFENSE BY MOBSTER
When reputed Colombo capo Michael Uvino threatened to whack two enemies, his only weapons were a BB gun and some strong language, his lawyer claimed yesterday. "They [Uvino and two...
EVEN WITH HIKE, FARES A 'BARGAIN'
Nobody wants a fare hike, but even with the increase proposed by the MTA, city bus and subway riders will still pay much less than their counterparts across the globe,...
CANDLE STICK 'TAKER'
You can't call this guy the artful dodger. A thief, who snatched two ornate candlesticks worth $52,000 at a world-renowned Upper East Side art show, was nabbed before he could...
PI EYES EXEC LOVE'S OD
The family of a 24-year-old woman who overdosed on drugs in her hotel honcho boyfriend's apartment has hired a private eye to convince authorities to launch a probe into her...
PARTY'S OVER FOR CHURCH
Park Avenue residents' prayers were answered yesterday when the city moved to pull the plug on a landmark church's bid to use its sanctuary as a high-end catering hall. For...
LATE GREAT KATE TAKES A BOW
Iconic actress Katharine Hepburn, who would have been 100 this year, is best known for her work in Hollywood, where she won a record four Best Actress Oscars and nine...
BRITS GET A TASTE OF BROOKLYN
Down with crumpets and tea, up with Junior's cheesecake. That will be the battle cry when the 2,000-calorie-a-slice pride of Brooklyn goes on sale in England next spring under a...
LOCKERBIE JUNK PILE
Here's the haunting twisted wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 - not in the awful hours after the terrorist atrocity 19 years ago, but where's it been reportedly abandoned in...
V.P.'S HUNTING GEAR
Dick Cheney went a- hunting for pheasant in Dutchess County yester day, trailed by an ambu lance embedded in a 15-SUV entourage in case the vice president's ticker - or...
MAFIA MEETS 'MISS. BURNING'
As she told a rapt courtroom of the relationship between her Mafia boyfriend, Gregory "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa, and former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio, mob moll Linda Schiro confirmed the...
HILL TOPS - IN BAD PRESS
WASHINGTON - If there's no such thing as bad publicity, Hillary Rodham Clinton is walloping Barack Obama - earning twice as many negative stories, according to a new media survey....
RUDY'S CANCER AD
Rudy Giuliani, in an extremely rare move for a presidential candidate, unveiled a radio ad yesterday that candidly reveals how he survived prostate cancer. "I had prostate cancer five, six...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX Investigators have leads on the identities of four thugs suspected of killing a bouncer at a Unionport Bar over the weekend, Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. The suspects...
GUTLESS WISEGUY WAS NO GUY'S GUY
IF THE souls of a legion of wiseguys ever got to the great godfather in the sky, then their remains on Earth must be somersaulting in their graves in judgment...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 854; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 2877; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 258; Lucky Sum: 15; Evening Win-4 Mon.: 8883; Lucky...
ELIOT DIGS DEEPER . . .
Gov. Spitzer remains a bewilderment. Certainly if he thought the three- tiered "compromise" he offered over the weekend would dampen the driver's-license furor that has enveloped his administration, he was...
. . .AND STONEWALLS SOME MORE
Gov. Spitzer continues to amaze in other ways, as well. Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker reported yesterday that Spitzer will assert "executive privilege" to stymie the state Public Integrity...
A-REVOIR
Alex Rodriguez's announcement Sunday night that he'll be leaving the Yankees brings to mind Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager Branch Rickey's response to Ralph Kiner's request for raise in the early...
BUDGET-HOLE BLUES
MERRILL Lynch and other investment banks aren't the only New York insti tutions having to rethink their projections in light of the financial-market turmoil. Last Friday, Mayor Bloomberg's budget wonks...
OBAMA: NAVEL-GAZER-IN-CHIEF
WHEN it comes to self- reflection, Barack Obama is an overa chiever. At 46, he's already written two memoirs when most people in public life (sometime at the end of...
HYPOCRITICAL CRITIC
THE Bloomberg administra tion and the United Federa tion of Teachers reached a historic agreement two weeks ago: For the first time, the union agreed to a compensation system that...
MIKE MAKES THE GRADE
UNDER Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, a historic transformation of New York City's schools has been under way for nearly four years. This year, they're adding an important...
FILMS FLACK FOR LIFE
BURBLING beneath a noisy culture of sexual excess and self-love, there's a quiet undercurrent in our movies carrying subtle, and even obvious, pro-life themes. Last Christmas, there was "Children of...
WRANGLING IN REVENUE: RANGEL'S WAYS & MEANS
THE ISSUE: The $3.5 trillion tax-reform bill proposed by Rep. Charles Rangel [D-Harlem] House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel's new tax bill is nothing more than a redistribution-of-wealth...
ASPCA'S AID
The ASPCA is disappointed to learn of the Port Authority's decision to hire a trapper to evict the feral-cat communities located around JFK ("Fur Flies at JFK," Oct. 26). Most...
MERRILL WATCH
As Wall Street awaits word of who will replace soon-to-be ousted Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal in the wake of record losses at the investment bank, one name can already...
CRUDE OIL IS BARRELING TOWARD $100
Oil marched to another trading high near $94 a barrel, raising alarms that drivers could pay a surprise jump of 30 cents a gallon to fill their tanks in coming...
HOW A FED INTEREST-RATE CUT MAY BACKFIRE
THE last time the Federal Re serve cut borrowing costs, the interest rate on home mortgages went up. Huh! I'll say it again. When the Fed attempted to rescue the...
MTV, AOL ARE MAKING SWEET MUSIC TOGETHER
AOL and MTV Networks are unveiling new services that will allow consumers to search for and view the lyrics to popular songs. The initiatives are the latest examples of music...
700 ARE LAID OFF AT BOFA & BEAR
For Wall Street, Halloween is tilting heavily toward trick and away from treat as the bond departments of two brokerages announced layoffs yesterday. Jimmy Cayne's Bear Stearns told employees that...
CNN IS GOING VIRTUAL
CNN has news bureaus around the world, but there is one place it has yet to venture: Cyberspace. That will change in November, when the news organization plans to open...
UBS' SWISS MISS
Swiss banking giant UBS is expected to drop its mortgage loss bombshell today, but in a more toned-down manner than other Wall Street banks. Maintaining its reserved tradition, Europe's biggest...
BULL STUCK IN NEUTRAL
THE impending exit of Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal might have thrown a big monkey wrench into the investment bank's almost-completed deal to move uptown to Vornado's Pennsylvania Hotel site....
2 DEAD IN 3-ALARM FIRE IN QUEENS
NEW YORK -- Two people, including a boy, were killed this morning in a 3-alarm fire at a 2-family home in Rosedale, Queens. The second floor collapsed onto the first...
BOY'S STAPH DEATH PROMPTS NOTICE OF $25 MILLION SUIT
NEW YORK -- The mother of a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy who died earlier this month from antibiotic resistant staph infection put the city on notice Tuesday that she planned a...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Renteria traded The Tigers acquired All-Star shortstop Edgar Renteria yesterday from the Braves for two prospects. Detroit, which gave up right-hander Jair Jurrjens and outfielder Gorkys Hernandez, went into...
BULLISH ON BRYANT
SINCE the NBA last played games that counted, we've had a rogue referee plead guilty, an oafish organization found guilty and the league's principal point producer/insubordinate is within a hair...
LATE SHOW JOE: NO L.A. TORRE YET
Joe Torre said last night he is not the new manager of the Dodgers - yet. Appearing on the "Late Show with David Letterman," the former Yankees skipper responded to...
ELI SHRUGS OFF 44.9 QB RATING
LONDON - Eli Manning could not have envisioned returning from his first European business trip having passed for a paltry 59 yards - lousy even with the exchange rate -...
6-2 STARTNOTSUPER
LONDON - OK, so this whole London adventure was a success for the Giants because they accomplished what they set out to do, which was to return 6-2 instead of...
SLOPPY SUCCESS
QUARTERBACKS D Conditions were lousy, but Eli Manning (8 of 22, 59 yards) made it look impossible. Rare run ning success (career-high 25 yards) and even more rare TD sprint...
BYE & THE'BOYS
LONDON - The hope for the Giants is that this unique experience can be filed away and later reclaimed, that the lessons, failures and ultimately the victory gained on this...
CHAD'S 'MATES SHARE BLAME
The Jets locker room, a day after their seventh loss in eight games, was more sparse than usual yesterday. The few players who were in the room had similar reactions...
LOST ON OFFENSE
QUARTERBACKS F Chad Pennington (13-20, 106 yards, 78.3 rating) never got the offense rolling consis tently, though he was pressured a bit. New starter Kellen Clemens (5-12, 67, two INTs,...
KELLEN TIME
When Eric Mangini summoned Chad Pennington to his office on the second floor at Weeb Ewbank Hall yesterday, it was much like a student being called to the principal's office...
CRAWFORD SHOOTS DOWN 'O' WORRIES
Jamal Crawford has been around long enough that it takes a lot worse than shooting a dreadful 28 percent in the preseason to concern the eighth-year guard or the Knicks....
A-ROD ON MENU AT MET MEETING
Exactly one month after their season stunningly collapsed, the Mets will hold organizational meetings today, and Alex Rodriguez surely will be one of the topics of discussion. In addition to...
NO BIG DEAL: NETS SWAP WITH HORNETS
The Nets really aren't planning to do anything with their roster right now. But if they were, at least they'd be able to do it. In essence, that was part...
JAGR SHOWS HIS TEETH
Until last night, the "C" on the left shoulder of Jaromir Jagr's jersey could just as well have represented his grade for the season's first 10 games as the symbol...
BORAS OPTS TO COMPLAIN AGENT: WHY WON'T YANKS NEGOTIATE?
Alex Rodriguez is a free agent now after opting out of his contract and the Yankees have reasserted they will not negotiate further with the slugger. Jorge Posada and Mariano...
GIRARDI READY TO TAKE REINS
After a late dalliance with the Dodgers that led to nothing, Joe Girardi will succeed Joe Torre as Yankees manager with an announcement scheduled for today. It was not clear...
MO, JORGE, A-ROD FILE FOR FREE AGENCY
On the first day players were eligible to file for free agency, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Alex Rodriguez turned in their papers. Rivera and Posada had until 15 days...
HE HAS NEVER BEEN AN ORDINARY JOE
IF there is one thing we know for sure about the man who will likely soon be the new manager of the Yankees, it is this: He will never be...
ALEX IS READY TO HIT THE ROD
Hank Steinbrenner is banking on arms to make up for the crater in the Yankees' lineup Alex Rodriguez's departure created when the All-World third baseman opted out of the final...
POWER OF PINSTRIPES FADING, FALLING FAST
JOE Torre did not take the money and Alex Rodriguez refused to even discuss it with the Yankees. The items that made the Yankees the Yankees - swelling payroll and...
JOE GIRARDI TAKES YANKEES' 3-YEAR, $7.5M DEAL: SOURCES
Joe Girardi has accepted a 3-year, $7.5 million deal become the Yankees manager, sources told The Post this morning. After a late dalliance Monday with the Dodgers that led to...
JOE TORRE TO MANAGE DODGERS
Agrees to three-year, $14 million deal Joe Torre has agreed to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers, The Post has learned. Torre will accept a three-year deal worth $13-14 million to...
JOE TORRE AGREES TO MANAGE LOS ANGELES DODGERS
With Grady Little out of the way in , Joe Torre is the Dodgers' first choice to take over the club. According to sources, Torre has agreed in principle to...
GIVE & TAKE
IN general, I consider myself to be a nice person. After all, I work as a nursery school teacher. This is, inherently, a nice-people job. I call my mother on...
JUST LEAF IT
FACE IT - with why-won't-it-die humidity diving straight to thirty degree temps over the space of one week, it's time to admit that autumn in New York City has been...
ANY VOLUNTEERS?
ENKOSINI ECO EXPERIENCES What it is: Projects in South Africa and Namibia. Volunteers work in conservation, rehabilitation and research projects with animals ranging from penguins to lions. Length of Stay/Cost:...
ROCK SOLID
WHEN my husband suggested his native western North Carolina as a reasonably adventurous vacation destination, I tried to keep my mind from going directly to that scene from "Deliverance." I...
NEWS + NOTES
* GET ON THE BUS U.K.-based Megabus has been testing the waters in the American Midwest with its cheap intercity service; they are now up and running out west, offering...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Paging Tarzan. Officials in West Virginia are using raw chicken as bait, and a video camera to learn whether a grown lion is prowling the woods of that state. Hunter...