December 22, 2006
This is how they look
The most poignant moment in Signe Chanel, the televison documentary that follows Karl Lagerfeld and the house of Chanel concept through execution over the course of one couture season, is...
COMING UP: Time to eat in New Orleans
Don't you just feel all warm and fuzzy right about now? Speaking of which, this Monday, The Blog, (decked out in its favorite Santa hat and reindeer sweater) will be...
BEST OF 2006 - Day 4 - Mark Ellwood
MARK ELLWOOD / CONTRIBUTING WRITER2) Creeped out in Madrid The closest thing to living through a horror movie: a wet, foggy fall afternoon strolling round the monument of Valle de...
GUCCI BAGS AN ACRE IN TRUMP TOWER
Gucci Group has inked a lease to move its city flagship to an acre-size space in Donald J. Trump's Trump Tower, the firm said yesterday. Sources said the Italian luxury...
WAL-MART MUCKS UP HOLIDAY MESSAGE
Wal-Mart's holiday slogan is "Be Bright," but management turnover and muddled marketing are making for a dim sales season. The latest sign of trouble came Tuesday, when Wal-Mart announced that...
THE UNDRESSING ; SHORT SELLERS LOSE THEIR SHIRT ON J. CREW TRADES
It never pays to bet against Santa Claus, especially around Christmas. The same could be said, for that matter, for retail legend Mickey Drexler, too. Hordes of investors lost their...
SHOCK TALK: AWFUL & OUT; MAG LASTS ONLY 8 ISSUES
SHOCKING news - Shock is dead. Hachette Filipacchi Media CEO Jack Kliger pulled the plug on the controversial picture magazine Shock yesterday after only eight issues. Eight people including Editor-in-Chief...
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS EYEING CALYPSO SALE
Potential investors are circling around Calypso, the Caribbean-accented boutique that has quickly expanded from St. Barth's to include locations around the country, The Post has learned. The Sage Group, a...
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS SET SIGHTS ON CALYPSO
Potential investors are circling around Calypso, the Caribbeanaccented boutique that has quickly expanded from St. Barth's to include locations around the country, The Post has learned. The Sage Group, a...
SEVENTH HEAVEN - ABN AMRO IS NEXT TENANT FOR 7 WTC
Larry Silverstein and the cause of ground zeroarea reconstruction got a holiday present yesterday: another signed lease at 7 World Trade Center that brings one more Midtown company to Lower...
FROM HERE TO NO MATERNITY
CHILDREN OF MEN (two and a half stars) Apocalypse soon.Running time: 114 minutes. Rated R (strong violence, profanity, brief nudity, drug use). Opens Monday at the Empire, the Lincoln Square,...
SEE YA LATER, 'STUDIO 60'
PEOPLE are watching the low-rated drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" - it's just not happening when its on the air. The show, about the goings-on behind the scenes...
A REAL DINOSNORE
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (two stars) Ben there, done that.Running time: 108 minutes. Rated PG (mild action and swearing, brief rude humor). At the Empire, the Orpheum, the Lincoln Square...
TAKE THE FUNNY AND RUN
WOODY Allen has spent decades fruitlessly denying his films are about himself. "The sensibility of the filmmaker infuses the project so people see a picture like 'Annie Hall' and everyone...
DEAD END ZONE
WE ARE MARSHALL (two stars) Well-thumbed playbook.Running time: 124 minutes. Rated PG (profanity, crash scene). At the E-Walk, the 84th Street, the Kips Bay, others. PENALTIES will beat you in...
RESTRAINING FOR ANSWERS
MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT (two stars) ARTIST Matthew Barney's oddball "Drawing Restraint 9," featuring his songbird wife, Bjork, was magical, full of celestial music and scrumptious visuals. It also was,...
GETTINGUGLIER; 'THAT ANIMAL': TRUMP
DONALD Trump ramped up his attacks on Rosie O'Donnell yesterday - calling her an "animal" as their showbiz feud entered its third day. "Barbara Walters, in my opinion, rues the...
SONGWRITER'S BIG BREAK; EFFIE'S DREAM HIT STARTED IFFY
'AND I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" - the showstopper from "Dreamgirls" that will probably win Jennifer Hudson an Oscar - was written in about 45 minutes. The year...
AMAZING VOYAGE CONTINUES WITH 'SHIPWRECK'
THE COAST OF UTOPIA - PART TWO: SHIPWRECK (four stars)Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 239-6200. THE plot thickens! Not that it was thin to start with: Lessons in history...
TALL HANDS ON DECK
YOU could bet on its being a decent night of music tonight based on band names alone, and fortunately the bands live up to their innovative handles. Tall Hands, a...
DANCING CAMP NEEDS COUNSELOR
THE TROCKSJoyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Through Jan.19. THE funny thing about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, which returned to the Joyce Theater Tuesday,...
THE SPY WHO BORED ME - MISCAST ANGIE THE LATEST OF CIA THRILLER PROBLEMS
THE GOOD SHEPHERD (two stars) Inoperative. Running time: 167 minutes. Rated R (violence, sexuality, profanity). At the EWalk, the Beekman, the Battery Park, others. SAD to say, but Robert De...
OVERRATED! SPREADING CHRISTMAS JEER, ADAM AND THE MADAM WONDER WHAT ALL THE FUSS WAS ABOUT - 'THE SOPRANOS' & MUSICAL ANCHOR CHAIRS
The hysteria that surrounded Katie Couric's departure from "Today" and arrival at "CBS Evening News" gave a whole new meaning to "Shut up already!" It was the long goodbye followed...
OVERRATED! SPREADING CHRISTMAS JEER, ADAM AND THE MADAM WONDER WHAT ALL THE FUSS WAS ABOUT - STEPHEN COLBERT & YOUTUBE
Here's a bit of truthiness that's not going to sit well with Stephen Colbert's fans: Anchorman spoofs like his are a dime a dozen. So what's so special about his?...
RANT OR SHINE - SUDDENLY, E! 'SEINFELD' PROFILE IS ABOUT SOMETHING
"The E! True Hollywood Story: Seinfeld" Tomorrow night at 6 on E! (two stars) IT'S nothing you haven't heard before - the TV show that shouldn't have been made but...
STARR REPORT
Time-shifters CBS has shifted its primetime schedule around a bit. New sitcom "Rules of Engagement" (David Spade, Patrick Warburton) will premiere Feb. 5 at 9:30 p.m. - the former timeslot...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * Hear the melodic sounds of the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Boardwalk Hall Arena. Tickets: $39.50-$59.50; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. CONNECTICUT * American tenor MICHAEL...
FILM PICK
In "Walkabout," a teenage girl (Jenny Agutter) and her younger brother (Lucien John) are abandoned in the Australian outback when their well-to-do father commits suicide. They hook up with an...
MARY'S HOT PICK
INSTEAD of ending its show with "When the Saints Go Marching In," the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been leaving audiences with "Do You Know What It Means to Miss...
DYING ACT OF LOVE - CLIMBER MADE SURE RING WAS EXPOSED
The missing climber whose body was found in a snow cave on Oregon's Mount Hood had removed a glove to expose the ring on his finger so that rescuers and...
WIFE NABBED IN 'HIT PLOT' ON HUBBY'S EX
A Bronx woman was busted yesterday for trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband's former girlfriend, police said. Bonnie Davido, 42, of Westchester Square, was arrested when...
MAKEUP CAUSED TRAGEDY: COPS
A Yonkers woman died on a Bronx highway early yesterday when she lost control of her car as she was possibly doing her makeup, police sources said. Lusaed Perez, 34,...
U.N. BRIBE BIZMAN COPS PLEA
A contractor who landed more than $50 million in business from an unscrupulous U.N. official in exchange for cash payments and choice Manhattan real estate pleaded guilty to bribery charges...
HOLIDAY QAEDA ALERT
WASHINGTON - Britain and France yesterday braced for possible al Qaeda-sponsored terror attacks, as intelligence reports indicated that several major plots may be in the works and timed for the...
'EXCHANGE' OF WORDS AS 50-SHOT RALLY HITS WALL ST.
More than 1,000 angry marchers gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange yesterday to protest the fatal police shooting of Queens groom Sean Bell. Calling for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's...
CON'S CATCH-22; 'WRONG MAN' ADMITS SLAY TO LEAVE PRISON
Christmas came early for a convict who yesterday pleaded guilty to a murder he claims he didn't commit just to get out of prison and be with his family for...
RX DRUGS THE NEW HIGH FOR TEENS
Fewer teens got high on illegal drugs or alcohol in the last year, but many turned to prescription narcotics to get a buzz, a new study found. University of Michigan...
CLIMBER'S DYING ACT OF LOVE
The missing climber whose body was found in a snow cave on Oregon's Mount Hood had removed a glove to expose the ring on his finger so that rescuers and...
ANTI-CIG MIKE SAVED MY BUTT; AMONG 800 WHO'LL CHEAT DEATH
Reformed smoker Angel Cruz thinks he'll live a little longer - and he thanks Mayor Bloomberg for it. The day after the release of city Health Department figures showing smoking-related...
'HIT-PLOT' WIFE IS IN DENIAL: PAL
The target of a murder-for-hire plot on Long Island is in deep denial and refuses to believe her husband wanted her whacked so he could collect $1 million in insurance,...
MIKE'S TEARFUL GIFT FOR HOMELESS VETS
An unusually emotional Mayor Bloomberg promised yesterday to find permanent housing for 100 homeless veterans within the next 100 days. Speaking at the Borden Avenue shelter in Long Island City,...
THOMPSON SLAMS HOSP CUTS
The state's plan to shut five city hospitals could overwhelm emergency rooms at neighboring facilities and drive up ambulance-response times, according to a report released yesterday by city Comptroller William...
BLAZING TRAIL OF SUCCESS; FIRE DEATHS NEAR LOW
New York is on pace this year to record the lowest number of civilian fire deaths in almost a century, the FDNY announced yesterday. As crime rates also enjoy historic...
HEVESI DUCKS JAIL; WILL PLEAD TO FELONY MISUSE OF $$
ALBANY - Sealing his political doom, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi reached an agreement yesterday under which he'll plead guilty to one felony charge of misappropriating state resources, a conviction that...
GI PI-ATA CO.TAKES BEATING
A Web retailer has pulled the plug on a tasteless piñata in the shape of an Army Humvee filled with soldiers. The paper and plastic "Army Vehicle Piñata," sold by...
BX. SCAM SENTENCE DELAY
Two men who pleaded guilty to ripping off a Bronx Boys & Girls Club will have to wait another month before learning whether their deal to avoid prison will be...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
THE BRONX *** Two men found themselves in the soup yesterday after cops arrested them for stealing seven boxes of oxtails out of a parked truck in Mott Haven, police...
BLOOMY BACKS BADILLO
Herman Badillo, under a firestorm of criticism for writing that Hispanic parents don't value education, got a vote of support yesterday from fellow Democrat-turned-Republican Mayor Bloomberg. Bloomberg, while admitting that...
COURT SLAUGHTERS ANTI-PORK SUIT
A state appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit by two lawmakers who had challenged the state government's "three men in a room" pork-barrel payouts. State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan)...
'NET PORN HOLDS UP ONO CASE
Investigators are having a hard time getting to possible evidence on computers seized from the home of Yoko Ono's allegedly blackmailing chauffeur because the machines are clogged with porn, new...
PRINCIPAL HELPED 11 KIDS 'CHEAT'
A Brooklyn high-school principal and several of her staff members are in hot water for allegedly helping students cheat on course work required for them to take a Regents exam....
GOPER IN REBELLION VS. BRUNO
ALBANY - Embattled Joseph Bruno came under fire for the first time yesterday from a fellow Republican, who called on him to step aside as state Senate majority leader during...
HILL TEAMS WITH KOBE TO FIGHT HUNGER
Fresh from an appearance on "The View," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday headed for Harlem to join Kobe Bryant and other big basketball names to promote a food drive. Clinton...
S.I. 'HATE' BOMBERS JUST WISEGUYS: COPS
A Staten Island deli bombing initially suspected of being a post-9/11 anti-Muslim hate crime was actually plotted by a Gambino family associate angry that the business was competing with his...
A WINNING $HOT; BROOKLYN EATERY TO BE COURTSIDE
Two Brooklyn business owners are making a buzzer-beating bid to score off the $4 billion Atlantic Yards project. The mom-and-son-run "High Stakes Cheesesteaks" opens today on the corner of Flatbush...
DOCS' DESIGNER DEFECT BABY ; DISABLED BY CHOICE
If you have the right doctor and the right lab, you can have a baby with the right "designer disability." That's right - you can create a baby with a...
PRENATAL FISH OILS AID KIDS
Pregnant women who take high doses of fish oils could dramatically increase their children's motor and comprehension skills, a study showed. The survey of 98 women in Australia found a...
HOBO'S SWEET DEAL; $104 APT. HE WON'T USE
Vagrant Michael Tsitsires might not be home for Christmas - but at least he'll have one. An appeals court yesterday denied a landlord's bid to boot the homeless-by-choice man from...
AX-RATED MISS NEV. ; TRUMP TO TRAMP: FIRED!
Red-faced beauty pageant bosses yesterday stripped Miss Nevada Katie Rees of her tiara after naughty photos surfaced on the Internet showing the toothsome 22-year-old stripping off something else altogether. "I...
NEW YEAR, NO BEER; CRACKDOWN ON SUPER-LATE CLUBS
The State Liquor Authority is cracking down on all-night New Year's parties - denying a slew of clubs a special permit that would allow them to stay open extra late,...
ATT'Y IN PARTY SMASH; 'HURLS BRICK' AT DA BASH
Just three months after being honored by the city bar, a promising prosecutor with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has been busted for hurling a brick through the window of...
TARA SENTENCED TO SOBRIETY FOR NOEL
Miss USA Tara Conner (left) is going to be drying out - not boozing it up - over Christmas after pageant officials nixed her bid to go home for the...
DEATH-JAB SIDESTEP; COPS' KILLER LIKELY TO GET LIFE: EXPERTS
A coldblooded killer who blew away two cops will probably be spared the death penalty when the same jurors who convicted him reconvene next month to decide his fate, experts...
NEW YORK POPULATION GOES SOUTH
New York was one of four states to lose population this year - and may soon be overtaken by fast-growing Florida, U.S. Census Bureau figures show. The Empire State's 19.3...
IPSWICH 'KILLER' CHARGED
British police yesterday charged a cross-dressing former QE2 steward known as the "silverback gorilla" with being the Ipswich Strangler, who has murdered five prostitutes in the past month. Steve Wright,...
STATEN IS. 'COP FIGHT' TRAGEDY
An argument among friends outside a Staten Island home erupted into deadly violence when one man who tried to break up the fight was knocked to the ground and later...
TEEN 'ANGEL' WINS $10,000
An 18-year-old Bronx "angel" won $10,000 for helping other teens stave off drugs and stay out of the maternity ward. Geneva Johnson, a freshman at Binghamton University, was chosen for...
RAPS VS. IPSWICH 'KILLER' - FIRST SUSPECT FREED
British police yesterday charged a cross-dressing former QE2 steward known as the "Silver Back Gorilla" with being the Ipswich Strangler, who has murdered five prostitutes in the past month. Steve...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - WE LOVE TIMES SQUARE
Times Square has been a New York hot spot for more than 100 years. Read how one of the city's worst neighborhoods became the Crossroads of the World. CROSSROADS of...
EMPIRE STATE SHRINKS - MAY SLIP BEHIND FLA.
New York is one of only four states to lose population this year - and it may soon be overtaken by fast-growing Florida, new U.S. Census Bureau figures show. The...
DUKE'S DEFENSE DEVOURS 'ZAGS
Duke 61Gonzaga 54 This was a showdown between the college basketball program people love and program people love to hate. "I've had a couple of people tell me that were...
RUTGERS LOOKS TO ROLL AN '11'
There is a new legion of Rutgers football fans who lack perspective. They jumped on the bandwagon last season when the Scarlet Knights became bowl eligible for the second time...
SPITTING ISN'T BLACK OR WHITE
IT'S all so confusing. Spitting in another man's face, for example. Apparently, in a football game there's a wrong time to do it and a less-wrong time to do it....
NETS GIRD FOR ATTACK FROM KOBE
LeBron has come and gone. Exhale. But not for too long, Nets. Because here comes Kobe. The Lakers' superstar is the most formidable obstacle as the Nets try for a...
MARIST IS MAAC DADDY
MATT Brady and Jared Jordan laughed at the thought of it. Marist's third-year coach and his prized pupil point guard simply can't let themselves get caught up in the notion....
FLICKS OF THE WEEK
The Great White Hype (1996) Boxing promoter Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) brings in "Irish Terry" Conklin (Peter Berg) in an attempt to boost ticket sales and dethrone heavyweight champ...
ROCKET PLAN; CLEMENS LIKELY TO PITCH, PERHAPS FOR YANKS
Install the Yankees as the favorite to land Roger Clemens when the Hall of Fame hurler decides to resume pitching. With golf partner and close friend Andy Pettitte officially returning...
GARDEN GLOWS ; BUT MINUTES WILL SLOW UNDERMANNED KNICKS
Eight men. Two miracle overtime wins. Countless sore muscles. Meet the post-brawl Knicks. They are a battered, sore crew right now, and may pay the price this weekend for Saturday's...
COLES CATCHES ON AS THE GO-TO GUY
THE Dolphins' expected breakthrough season is in ruins while the Jets have risen from the ashes, in part because of their earlier 20-17 victory over Miami. Yet, despite the bitter...
HILLENBRAND MAY SIGN ON FOR ONE YEAR
YANKEE NOTES If the Yankees make the right one-year offer, Shea Hillenbrand is willing to listen. Until now the Yankees and other teams believed Hillenbrand was only interested in a...
T 'N' T: DYNAMITE! JETS BRACE FOR DOLPHIN DUO OF TAYLOR, THOMAS
Defensive players rarely draw proper consideration in the NFL's Most Valuable Player conversation, but anyone who pays attention to the Dolphins knows where the team would be without defensive end...
STRAHAN'S RETURN STIRS PIERCE
GIANT NOTES All signs continue to point to Michael Strahan's return for Sunday's game against the Saints. He made it through a second day of full work in practice with...
NO METS' OFFER TO ZITO YET
There's a good chance Barry Zito won't get signed before the ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve. As more details of the Mets' meeting with Zito come...
COLES HAS PRE-HOLLIDAY BASH
JET NOTES After the Jets beat the Dolphins in October, Miami defensive tackle Vonnie Holliday angrily insisted the Dolphins were better than the Jets and should never have lost to...
NOT A GOLDEN NUGGET
THE Allen Iverson trade is all about buying and selling. The 76ers are buying time in hopes of fulfilling empty promises; Nuggets owner E. Stanley Kroenke, with visions of playoff...
SETON HALL HUMBLED
Va. Tech 80S. Hall 61 After Seth Greenberg's Virginia Tech team slapped Bobby Gonzalez with his worst loss at Seton Hall, Greenberg leaned over and told the Big East rookie...
STORM SURGE AVOIDS A LOSS
St. John's 68NJIT 50 St. John's led NJIT 24-20 at halftime last night and Red Storm coach Norm Roberts lit into his team during the intermission. His players were ready...
RANGERS WOBBLE WITH ANOTHER LOSS
Panthers 3Rangers 2 SUNRISE, Fla. - A year ago the Rangers went into a freefall through the final weeks of the season and never were able to extricate themselves from...
SWAN SONG FOR TIKI
Barring a last-minute change of Tiki Barber's mind or a miraculous turn of the Giants' playoff fortunes, Sunday's game vs. New Orleans will be the final home tilt of the...
GIANTS READY FOR REGGIE - BIG BLUE PLUGGED INTO BUSH'S ELECTRICITY
Already, Giants defensive players are wary. No one wants to be the object of national sympathy for being the one showing up on TV looking sick as Reggie Bush merrily...
HAIL TO HERM
THOUGH Herm Edwards' Chiefs have lost three in a row to essentially fall out of the AFC wild-card race, all the top playmakers (amazingly, Randy Moss no longer is one...
STORM'S SPEARS SAYS HE'S SORRY
Suspended St. John's center Aaron Spears apologized yesterday, and sources within and outside the program said a multitude of transgressions led to his indefinite penalty. Spears could return to the...
RANGERS RECALL EX-ISLE ISBISTER
SUNRISE, Fla. - Twentyone year-old Ryan Callahan, who leads the AHL Wolf Pack with 18 goals, got shifts for 7:22 of ice time against the Islanders on Tuesday night befoe...
GONZAGA AMONG FEW AT THE TOP
It was a showdown between the college basketball program people love and the program people love to hate. "I've had a couple of people tell me that we're everybody's second-favorite...
BILL BIG PLUS FOR FISHING INDUSTRY
THE reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Sustainable Fisheries Act was a plus for the fisheries management system in this country as well as a big plus in advances for sportfishing. The...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JIMMY JOHNSON
This week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Fox Sports' Jimmy Johnson. Johnson, 63, is in his seventh season with Fox NFL Sunday. Q: If the Giants don't make...
DEWAYNE'S WORLD - NOSE TACKLE'S REBIRTH HAS JETS SNIFFING PLAYOFFS
When ESPN's Merril Hoge watches videos from around the league, he focuses on uniform numbers, not names. Early in the season, when Hoge studied the Jets defense, time after time...
B-LISTERS, BE GONE! MNF PARING DOWN ITS CELEBRITY PARADE
WHILE the lead producer of ESPN's Monday Night Football expects to continue having celebrities on during games next year, he plans to eliminate B-Listers such as Christian Slater. "I think...
TRENDSETTERS - THE TOP PLAYS
RAVENS (+3) AT STEELERS, 1 P.M. Pittsburgh has dropped six of seven to winning teams and is just 2-6-1 in its last nine against the AFC. Baltimore has covered four...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Members of the Bountiful and Woods Cross HS swim teams in Utah have been forced to train outdoors this month, since the indoor pool they use is under construction. The...
Trent Tucker Lives
By MARC BERMANThe Jamal Crawford-to-David Lee tip play with .1 seconds left will go in Knick lore, always couched in the framework of the brawl's aftermath. "The Miracle on 33rd...