December 10, 2006
Berman to Vaccaro - You're Wrong!
December 10, 2006 | 1:26pmBy MARC BERMANThere is no more supportive friend in this world than Post columnist Mike Vaccaro, who was there this weekend to help me celebrate a very special occasion for...
YANKEES SWING FOR THE FENCE WITH NEW RADIO DEAL
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees are about to hit a home run with their new radio deal - an expected $14 million-a-year pact with WCBS-880, The Post has learned. The soon-to-be-inked-agreement, a $70...
NO EASY ANSWER ON WHEN TO SELL THAT HOME
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: Quick question on real estate. How bad does it get for the formerly in-demand New Jersey suburbs? M.N.Dear M.N.: I love that, "Quick question"! That's like when your...
THE BIG FLIP; KUSHNER LOOKS TO SELL RETAIL SPACE AT 666 FIFTH
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amKushner Companies is being "barraged" by potential buyers for the retail portion of 666 Fifth Ave., the building they contracted to purchase last week for $1.8 billion - the highest...
STOCK-ING STUFFERS; WE REVIEW SOME SELF-HELP INVESTING TITLES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amCrazed stock man Jim Cramer can't get enough of himself these days, and now he's penned a personal finance book small enough to fit in a stocking. Cramer's latest missive,...
WEINSTEIN DEAL WITH HALLMARK
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA unit of The Weinstein Co. has struck a deal with the former Hallmark Entertainment company to co-finance and co-produce TV series, miniseries and movies of the week, The Post...
THEY GOT 'GAME' - AWARDS SHOW FAVORS VIDEO'S 'ELDER SCROLLS'
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHE awards season is just getting rolling, but a relatively new addition to this seemingly bottomless entertainment genre is ramping up for its biggest year ever. The "2006 Video Game...
BARRIS DOCUMENTARY HARDLY A CONFESSION
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amCHUCK Barris bobs and weaves all over the place when he is asked if he really was a secret assassin for the CIA in the 1960s and '70s. "I think...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amDRAMA Wrong wavelength ON December 26, 2004, a devastating tsunami struck the coast of Thailand, wiping out countless lives. In attempt to dramatize the effects of the century's worst natural...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEW THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amSATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) Sunday,12:05 p.m.,MAX John Travolta is Tony Manero, Brooklyn guido who dreams of being a disco dance king. He gets that chance when he meets Stephanie (Karen...
WINTER ALERT: IT'S DOOMSDAY ON CH. 7
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amDON'T just sit there watching TV, panic!. . . while you continue to watch TV, of course. Two Friday nights ago, windy and rainy weather was expected here. And, based...
THE REIGN IN SPAIN
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amAS a child, Ariadna Gil dreamed of making a movie with Charlie Chaplin. Her wish never came true, but the Spanish actress has still done well for herself. The sexy...
SOME SPORTSMENROLLING IN RUBLES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHE Russian magazine Finans published a list this month of that country's 100 richest sportsmen. Headed by Maria Sharapova of tennis, Andrei Kirilenko of the Utah Jazz and Aleksei Yashin...
HOT SEAT - STEVE BUSCEMI
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S impeccable casting - in the new film version of E.B. White's classic book "Charlotte's Web," Steve Buscemi plays Templeton, the sarcastic rat. But is it a compliment or an...
HAUGHTY OR NICE? A FASHIONISTA ENCOUNTERS FATHER CHRISTMAS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amPost movie critic Kyle Smith's new novel, "A Christmas Caroline," (William Morrow, $14.95) puts Charles Dickens in Dior. The comic fantasy mixes the style elements and dating dilemmas of "Sex...
BERLIN 'WALL' - 33 YEARS LATE, LOU REED'S CONCEPT DISC GETS ITS DUE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amIN 1972, Lou Reed took a "Walk on the Wild Side" of the pop charts, scoring a hit with an upbeat though seamy tune from his second solo album, "Transformer."...
NEVER AN IDLE 'IDOL' - TAYLOR HICKS EMBRACES LIFE OF A 'MUSICAL GYPSY'
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTAYLOR Hicks, the gangly, gray-haired singer who seduced more than 30 million TV viewers this spring as the winner of "American Idol," is goofy like a fox. The 30-year-old Hicks,...
EDDIE'S MONEY - TAKING A BACK SEAT ROLE IN 'DREAMGIRLS,' MURPHY'S AT HIS CAREER BEST
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amBOOMERANG! MURPHY BACK IN CRITICAL FAVOR WITH 'DREAMGIRLS' WE never thought we'd see the day, but Eddie Murphy fans can once again hold their heads high. After a seemingly endless...
CINEMA PARADISO - THE POST'S MOVIE MAVENS DEBATE THE BEST FILMS OF A VERY GOOD YEAR
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHIS is the year that Martin Scorcese returned to doing what he does best ("The Departed"), and Brad Pitt went back to being serious ("Babel"). Clint Eastwood made a double-h...
PET SHOP TOYS - GIFT IDEAS FOR ANIMALS AND THEIR OWNERS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN making your holiday list and checking it twice, make sure to remember your pets and the owners who love them. Set up your holiday photo for next year by...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
December 10, 2006 | 5:00am1 Nomination nonsense Mary J saves the day. If it wasn't for her 8 Grammy nods, the whole show would continue to be one giant waste of time. 2 This...
DIRTY MONEY - 'GRINCH' CHARITIES SHUT OUT SCORES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe jiggle belles at Scores have been scrooged. Dozens of charities have rejected the strip club's offers to raise thousands of dollars in cash and gifts for needy women and...
PEEK AT PRIVATE MARILYN
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amIt's Marilyn Monroe as you've never seen her before. Previously unpublished snapshots capturing one of the most celebrated actresses in Hollywood history have been released in Britain and are for...
RUDOLPH'S REIN-DEAREST
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amRudolph reigns. The beloved reindeer noses out Charlie Brown as America's favorite animated TV holiday special, according to a Harris interactive poll. And in a mistletoe miracle, the baby-boomer-backed "Miracle...
BURLESQUE CLUB IS A NO-GO-GO
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA famous Las Vegas nightclub owner who has partnered with Sting and David Bowie to open a burlesque joint in the heart of Chelsea's clubland was dealt a tough hand...
MY, OH MAYA: MEL FLICK A HIT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amMel Gibson's "Apocalypto" hit the ground running on Friday - snatching the top spot at the box office and besting opening-night grosses of the troubled star's past mega-hit "Braveheart." The...
DOG SAVED AS OWNER IS BUSTED
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens woman was busted for animal cruelty yesterday, after horrified city officials found her emaciated dog tied to a doorknob - and suffering for the past month from a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amQUEENS *** A teen was arrested for mugging a man in Corona, authorities said yesterday. Henry Alphonso, 18, walked up to a 23-year-old man at the corner of Christie Avenue...
RABBI PERV-BUST 'JUSTICE'
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA victim of an alleged pedophile rabbi said yesterday that the religious teacher's arrest means "there is justice in the world" but that he's still furious over a Brooklyn yeshiva's...
IT'S THE COLI OF MONEY; $100M+ IN TACO SUITS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amDroves of Taco Bell customers sickened allegedly in the E. coli outbreak have rushed to sue, leading lawyers to predict green onions could cost the company hundreds of millions of...
TEARS FOR SLAIN CHAPPAQUA WIFE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe Westchester neighbor of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, killed in what her husband described as a carjacking, was remembered yesterday as a "good person" who was "loved by everyone...
WAREHOUSE UP IN FLAMES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amFire tore through a Brooklyn cardboard warehouse early yesterday morning, raging for almost four hours before the Big Apple's Bravest brought the blaze under control. Fire officials said 33 units...
LOWLIFE OF PEPSI ; SEXTORTED BIG'S REGRET
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe married Pepsi exec who was blackmailed by a sexy swindler he met online sent out a contrite mass e-mail bemoaning his indiscretion as "the low point of my life."...
FAMILY 'STRIPS' ASSETS; SEXY POSH-PAD BATTLE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan man is suing his parents, claiming the overprotective pair - out of their disdain for his Brazilian bombshell bride - are trying to squeeze him out of a...
QUINN COP CATCHING BIG WAIVE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amCITY Council Speaker Christine Quinn has granted a residency waiver to a former member of her NYPD detail so he could take a $125,000-a-year job she created as director of...
MARRIED PRIESTS 'RE-NUP'
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amMore than 100 married Roman Catholic priests reaffirmed their vows yesterday in a New Jersey ceremony led by excommunicated Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo. About 200 well-wishers were on hand at...
CONDO'S COUP A TRUMP SHAKER; DONALD JR. BOOTED OFF BOARD AT DAD'S BLDG.
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amYou're fired, Donald Trump Jr.! The 28-year-old heir ap parent to the Trump real- estate empire has been ousted from his own condo board in a coup d'état during which...
U.S. SPIED ON DIANA'S LAST NIGHT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA new official British report on Princess Diana's fatal car crash reveals that the U.S. Secret Service had bugged her phone on the night she died and that her chauffeur...
GIFT IDEA: ILLUSIVE HARRY
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHE SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI: THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S FIRST SUPERHEROBY WILLIAM KALUSH AND LARRY SLOMAN ATRIA BOOKS, 592 PAGES, $29.95 IT'S been 80 years since the death of Harry...
RABID RISE ON STATEN ISLAND
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amStaten Island leads the city pack in rabid animals. Twenty-nine have been identified in the borough since April, taking the lead from The Bronx, which in 2005 reported 26 rabid...
UNION BIG DODGES BULLET
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amA shot narrowly missed the vice president of the powerful elevator-maintenance union - an organization at the center of a federal investigation. The bullet lodged in Edward Krull's passenger seat...
FIERY EX'S $20 WORD; HOW HER CHEAP BRAND GOT ABBREVIATED: COPS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amKristina Caban, the jilted woman accused of searing an "R" into her ex-lover's torso, forged her makeshift branding irons with supplies she and her two cohorts picked up at a...
COMMISH FUMES AT CIG BIGS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amCity Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden believes tobacco executives are "mass murderers" who peddle cancer-causing cigarettes to the public. "I was once quoted, accurately, as saying that during the years I...
'DIRTY' SHAME; SUITS & FAMILY FEUD KO RAPPER'S LAST ALBUM
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe down-and-dirty fight over Ol' Dirty Bastard's estate is getting dirtier. The rapper's highly anticipated posthumous album might not be released because of an ugly dispute over money with record...
ZONE MOAN FOR KIDS; SCHOOL DISTRICTS' 'UNFAIR' BORDERS BECOME TRAP FOR 1,000S
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThousands of city elementary school children are victims of decades-old public school zoning maps that zigzag in illogical lines and inexplicably tap small pockets of neighborhoods to attend top schools...
35% INCREASE IN CITY ABUSE CASES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe number of reported child-abuse and -neglect cases skyrocketed to an all-time high this year after the tragic death of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, according to a city report to be...
LATEST QNS. COP 'RIGHT' TO SHOOT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe police shooting of an armed-robbery suspect in Queens "underscores the dangers police officers face every day," Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. The NYPD said Friday's police shooting, the third...
BRIGHTENED XMAS SPIRITS ON L.I.
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amFor the Spadaforas, it's not 12 days of Christmas, it's 21 weeks. With the help of three contractor co-workers, Andrew Spadafora begins to assemble his winter wonderland on Labor Day,...
'50 SHOT' SHOPPER BOYCOTT URGED
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amMarchers protesting the fatal NYPD shooting of Sean Bell urged holiday shoppers in Jamaica yesterday to drop their bags and boycott local stores. At a rally arranged by the state's...
HILL AND RUDY ON ROAD TO REMATCH; '00 SENATE-RACE RIVALS EYE BIGGEST PRIZE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe nation may get to see the heavyweight match that never was, now that the 2008 presidential cycle has kicked into gear and both Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham...
KELLY ON EVERYDAY COP DANGER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amFriday's police shooting of an alleged armed-robbery suspect in Queens "underscores the dangers police officers face every day," Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday. The NYPD said the third police shooting...
JAX MADE GREAT GAME BETTER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHURSDAY'S Suns- Nets double OT on YES provided a reminder of an indisputable and self-evident truth about televised sports (with an emphasis on ESPN's destruction of Monday Night Football): Try...
PIERC-ING BLOW ; NETS SQUANDER 18-0 LEAD, FALL ON BUZZER-BEATER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amCeltics 92Nets 90 There are games that can turn around a struggling team. The Nets pointed to that classic pitched battle with Phoenix as the possible impetus for them to...
NHL SELLING OUT FANS - NOT GAMES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amOTTAWA - And so, somehow, despite the increasing number of empty seats in arenas across the continent in the second season of the post-cancellation era, and the alarming number of...
MARTY HEARTY ; HISTORY NO BARRIER FOR BRODEUR
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - Sometimes the Devils are reminded that something great is happening behind them. Erik Rasmussen was sitting sideways in his stall the other night, leaning back against the partition,...
ROCKET FUEL; SIGNING PETTITTE MAY HELP LAND CLEMENS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amNobody from the Yankees or Roger Clemens' camp is predicting the Rocket will follow Andy Pettitte and land in The Bronx this summer. Yet, there isn't a voice that counts...
KIDD PRESENTS A TRIPLE THREAT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES In the history of the NBA, only one player, Oscar Robertson, averaged a triple-double for a season. Not Michael Jordan. Not Larry Bird. Not Magic Johnson. Not Wilt...
'MAGNA' MOTORS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amOver the years, many American horses who flew halfway around the world to race in Dubai were pretty much knocked out when they returned. That looked to be the case...
TAYLOR RETAINS TITLE BELT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amLITTLE ROCK - Jermain Taylor had hoped for a joyous homecoming as the middleweight champion. But Kassim Ouma tried to spoil the party. Looking to score a knockout from the...
SIXTY-MINUTE SPECIAL ; REGULATION-CHALLENGED RANGERS TRIUMPH
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 3Senators 1 OTTAWA - The Rangers may be in a playoff position, but the 14-10-4 record they carried into yesterday's match here was somewhat misleading, given the club had...
NO WINTER BALL FOR REYES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amBASEBALL ROUNDUP Omar Minaya said yesterday there would be no winter ball for Jose Reyes, a smart move by the Mets as they protect their golden shortstop, who is the...
SIXTY-MINUTE SPECIAL; RANGERS WIN 2ND STRAIGHT OF BUSY STRETCH
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 3Senators 1 OTTAWA - There were 56.6 seconds remaining in regulation, and the Rangers were protecting a 2-1 lead. Freshman Jarkko Immonen, playing in his second game after being...
A RUN TO DAYLIGHT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amEITHER Eric Mangini does it with a watch swinging from the end of a chain or by having game plans that have proven to his players to make sense. Here...
PIRATING A VICTORY ; HARVEY'S 27 POINTS CLIP PENN ST.
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amSeton Hall 69Penn State 59 Seton Hall's Eugene Harvey stood dribbling with his right hand, pointing to the scoreboard with his left, his head cocked back in unbridled laughter as...
GARDEN OF EDDY - CURRY NETS 36 TO IGNITE RARE HOME WIN
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks 115Bucks 107 What might excite Knick fans more about Eddy Curry than his career-high 36 points in the Knicks' 115-107 victory over the Bucks last night at the Garden...
DEVILS' HIGH FIVE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 5Bruins 1 BOSTON - The Devils have contracted mass amnesia. It's nothing but healthy for them. They say they have already forgotten going winless out west two scant weeks...
THE BUCKEYE HAS IT ; OSU'S SMITH AN 'EASY' HEISMAN WINNER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTroy Smith hasn't done things we've never seen before. We've seen quarterbacks scramble and crack a defense's spirit like an eggshell. We've seen quarterbacks find a rhythm and complete pass...
DIPIETRO GIVETH AND TAKEN AWAY
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amSHOOTOUT / SUM. P. 81 Islanders 5Panthers 4 How quickly things can change. Mere minutes after it looked as if Rick DiPietro had helped give last night's game away, the...
IVERSON NOT N.Y. ANSWER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The miniscule chance the Knicks had of obtaining Allen Iverson was squashed yesterday by Isiah Thomas. Thomas said he has no interest in trading for Iverson and hasn't...
SCHOOLS CAN HOOK GRANTS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE is money available for physical education teachers to help bring fishing and boating into the lives of their students. The Future Fisherman Foundation has $200,000 available in grant funding...
THE 'EYE HAS IT ; OSU'S SMITH AN 'EASY' HEISMAN WINNER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTroy Smith hasn't done things we've never seen before. We've seen quarterbacks scramble and crack a defense's spirit like an eggshell. We've seen quarterbacks find a rhythm and complete pass...
SHAUN THINKS HIGHLY OF FORMER MATES
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES CHARLOTTE - Safety Shaun Williams, the Giants' first-round draft pick in 1998, will start today for the Panthers against his former team knowing the Giants are coming in...
BIG BLUE FIGHTS TO SAVE SEASON - CAN STRAIGHTEN PLAYOFF ROAD BY CANNING 'CATS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - You can't fake it. The stakes are high and the situation is dire but no one can snap the Giants out of a reality that can't be shaken....
GANG GREEN WANTS THIS TO BE A ... DECEMBER TO REMEMBER
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amFLASH back to New Year's Day - and a game even the most ardent Jets fans have likely blacked out of their memories. It marked the final day of the...
CENTER OF GRAVITY - HARD-WORKING CURRY SHINING LIKE AN ALL-STAR
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amYesterday morning, about eight hours before the Knicks were scheduled to tip-off against the Bucks in the Garden, there was one player left on the shootaround floor in Westchester. In...
CAN THIS CLOWN! FIRE THE BUFFOON WHO THINKS KNICKS FANS ARE DOLTS - NOW
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S beyond laughable, and beyond pitiful, what's happening at Madison Square Garden on most nights when the Knicks take the floor in their clown shoes and their bright red noses...
ISIAH MUST GO! FIRE THE BUFFOON WHO THINKS KNICKS FANS ARE DOLTS - NOW
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S beyond laughable, and beyond pitiful, what's happening at Madison Square Garden now whenever the Knicks take the floor in their clown shoes and their bright red noses and become...
ZACH & FORTH - APPRECIATING ERRATIC RANDOLPH TAKES A PORT AUTHORITY
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amLAST time Zach Randolph checked in with me late in his rookie year was also the only time . . . until we spoke by phone a few weeks ago....
TRIPLE THREAT - KIDD HAS OUTSIDE SHOT TO NET AN HISTORIC FEAT
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amIn the history of the NBA, only one player, Oscar Robertson, averaged a triple-double in a season. Not Michael. Not Larry. Not Magic. Not Wilt. Oscar. But Jason Kidd, through...
GOOD WOOD - BAT MAN OF SOUTH BRONX IS HITTIN' IT BIG
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amTHE best ideas come from the heart. Jorge Medina grew tired of all the trash talking he witnessed on the baseball diamonds around his home in The Bronx and by...
HOT HALL PIRATES A VICTORY
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amSETON HALL 69 PENN STATE 59 Seton Hall's Eugene Harvey stood dribbling with his right hand, pointing to the scoreboard with his left, his head cocked back in unbridled laughter...
SHEFF DEAL DROVE UP SOX' PRICE FOR MANNY
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees' trade of Gary Sheffield to the Tigers actually influenced what the Red Sox were asking teams in return for Manny Ramirez. Boston officials were impressed with the Yankee...
HALL, NO! WHY MCGWIRE WON'T GET THIS VOTE FOR COOPERSTOWN
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amJAY Buhner does not belong in the Hall of Fame, so neither does Mark McGwire. For the first 990 games of his career, a period from 1986-94, McGwire was an...
THIRD'S A CHARM FOR ISLANDERS
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amApparently, first place doesn't suit the Islanders very well. Perhaps they need to be in third to have any success. They have reached the top of the mediocre Atlantic Division...
FRANK COACH IS FINE BY THORN
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES The boss heard Lawrence Frank's public self-flogging. And Nets team president Rod Thorn pretty much expected that would be how Frank would react. "He's a very, very competitive...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amChristmas came early for a man locked out of his house in the Denver suburb of Westminster. He tried to get in by sliding down his chimney - but got...
Tracking the Tracker
December 10, 2006 | 2:08amEvery franchise has a down year.After decades of dominance, the Cowboys had to dip to 3-13 and 1-15 seasons before turning it around and ascending back to their pedestal.The Pats...