January 11, 2007
Does This Woman Look LA Bound?
Like some freakish silicone compass, her bionic bosom has been urging her west for years.But now that her hubby, David Beckham has signed a contract with the LA Galaxy worth...
LIVEBLOG/BOMBAY: Get the door - it's Dominos
Originally uploaded by a_sorense. Apparently, there are some people out there that think that eating American fast food while in Bombay is somewhat perverted. Some people have obviously never tasted...
D&G on the Q.T.
Today on the Haute List: Dolce & Gabbana have quietly (so quietly they sometimes deny it) rolled out two lower-cost lines; one features a fairly perfect little black dress, the...
YOU'RE FIRED!
MEET the woman fired - and called "retarded" - by Woody Allen. It may just be the best thing that ever happened to Annabelle Gurwitch. The affable and very much...
HAUTE LIST
D&G's secret wonders THIS month, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have quietly rolled out two ultra-hot diffusion lines - an accessories collection called Animalier and a one-season-only line "Only Under...
TROUPE KICKS, DIGGS FOR MORE
DWIGHT Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, former stars of the Alvin Ailey company, founded Complexions Contemporary Ballet in 1994. The name tells it all: Not only would the style be a...
STARR REPORT
'Dirt' on Cox, JenCourteney Cox's new FX series, "Dirt," could reunite her with former "Friends" co hort Jennifer Aniston. "We talk about it all the time," Cox told "Extra." "She'll...
ORDERED OFF 'HOUSEWIVES'
DOCTORS have ordered pregnant "Desperate Houswives" star Marcia Cross to bed until her twins arrive - and sent producers scrambling for a way to keep her on the show. The...
BATTLE-SKIN 'GALACTICA'
TRISHA Helfer plays an evil machine on "Battlestar Galactica," but the sexy Cylon may cause her fans to short-circuit when they see the latest edition of Playboy. "I hope people...
BACK-TO-BACK JACK
DID you ever stop to think what would happen if even superman Jack Bauer couldn't save us from the terrorists? You'd get a situation something like the one that unfolds...
'INSIDER': STANDING PAT
PAT O'Brien will likely be on "The Insider" for a few more years to come - despite reports saying he was a goner. Paramount is "in discussions" with O'Brien to...
THE NEXT STEP
IT'S in music videos, on the Grammys, on stage and now the big screen - stepping, a tradition of African-American colleges, is stepping out everywhere. It's not exactly a hip-hop...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The world is full of people who say you can't do this or you can't do that and sometimes it's enough to make you want to scream. So why don't...
SPITZ JOB-SEEKER ERR-MAIL
ALBANY - Hundreds of would-be staffers in Gov. Spitzer's administration were nervously biting their nails yesterday after an e-mail address list of job seekers accidentally became public. One applicant, with...
SCHOOLS IN FLUNK FUNK
The number of needy city schools flunking state standards climbed for the second time in as many years, education officials said yesterday in adding 51 schools to its dreaded list...
A BOOST FOR N.J. 'IDIOTS'
Idiots from New Jersey may soon be allowed to vote. State Senate President Richard Codey has introduced a bill to remove a 150-year-old clause to the state Constitution stating "no...
HOOZ DUMM NOW?
The word is "pigheaded" - as in, a pigheaded Brooklyn middle-school principal is under fire for refusing to allow two special-education students to represent her school in a regional spelling...
'STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION,' A SOLDIER SAYS
Shawn Tabankin watched President Bush's speech closely because of what Bush had to say about Iraq - and about Army reservists like him. "Any plan that relies more on Iraqi...
NURSE-HOME MEDI-BLAST
Fearing that Gov. Spitzer will whack medical spending, the state group representing health-care facilities offered its own target: well-to-do nursing-home patients who milk the Medicaid program. "Individuals and families should...
GOTBAUM: CITY NEEDS NEW POLICY FOR THE OLD
The city is neglecting thousands of vulnerable elderly homebound residents, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum charged in a study released yesterday. The report slammed the Human Resource Administration's Adult Protective Services...
N.Y. THROWS AWAY HEAPS
New Yorkers generate nearly twice as much food waste as residents in the rest of the nation, according to a study released yesterday by the Sanitation Department. In an 800-page...
LOCKER SHOCKER
Firefighters have been forced to strip their lockers of American flags, stickers supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, and even cards commemorating fallen 9/11 colleagues, their union charged yesterday. "The people...
B'KLYN PIER PRE$$URE
Turning a working Brooklyn container port into a maritime tourist attraction could cost taxpayers $326 million - a hefty price tag some city officials say could kill the project. "This...
'CALL' OF THE WILD
A cellphone call sparked the fatal fight between two ex-cons and an off-duty correction officer in Queens, family members said yesterday. Chris Kenner, 36, was shot to death by state...
LIFE OF BAD BOUNCES FOR KIDD'S HOOP DREAM GIRL
Joumana Kidd once said she never wanted to become a sports star's cliché wife. But with her blockbuster divorce bursting into the press this week, her fears seem to have...
SUPER: I DIDN'T STOP RAPE - I JOINED IN
All he had to do was close the door and dial 911. But that's not what Brooklyn building super Raynold Voltaire did when he was awoken on a hot July...
VICTIM'S CHILLING 'DEATH' VID
Jurors in the trial of suspected Queens druglord Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff yesterday were shown a heartbreaking video of a murder victim minutes before he was gunned down on a peaceful...
WTC TOWERS & HUB 'TUB' STARTS TODAY
Construction workers at Ground Zero will begin pouring concrete today for the largest foundation built in the city since the excavation of the site of the Twin Towers four decades...
POLICE NOT AT FULL FORCE
The NYPD swore in 1,103 recruits yesterday, less than half the amount it was authorized to hire, and the police union said it's because the city doesn't pay enough. Starting...
ALL RISE! LAWYER 'PIMPED'
The lawyer for an infamous courthouse-district brothel was paid tens of thousands of dollars in cash - and all the $1,000-an-hour hookers he wanted - to launder its money, Manhattan...
BIG APPLE SEES FIRST SNOWFALL
It barely left a trace, but New Yorkers finally got their first taste of snow yesterday - a 15-minute flurry that was the latest-arriving first snowfall of any recorded winter....
'SHOOTER' WHO BLINDED BOY NABBED
Long Island cops arrested the suspected triggerman in a botched home invasion last year that left a 9-year-old boy partially blinded and paralyzed from a gunshot to the eye, officials...
REV. AL ASKS CUOMO TO MONITOR BELL PROBE
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday met the Rev. Al Sharpton and the fiancée of Sean Bell, the Queens man gunned down in a hail of bullets by city cops...
'50 SHOT' COP'S SLAY FEAR
The NYPD detective whose gunfire sparked the 50-bullet fusillade that killed Sean Bell told Queens prosecutors yesterday that he opened fire because he feared he was going to be killed,...
QNS. 'KILLER' DEFENDS SELF
A Queens man defending himself against charges he bludgeoned his would-be mother-in-law to death conducted his own opening arguments yesterday and told a jury he's being framed. Despite giving a...
NOREAGA FIGHTS PAL'S DEATH RAP
Hip-hop star Noreaga took the hot seat at a federal death-penalty trial yesterday to defend a pal charged in a gory triple murder - depicting the accused killer as an...
A HOT COURT FIGHT
Burning Man - the artsy, anarchic, nouveau-hippie, free-love, communal be-in - isn't exactly living up to its ideals. With the filing of a federal lawsuit Monday, all three founders of...
REMOTE CONTROL
More and more parents are becoming couch commanders - deciding what their kids can and can't watch on TV, according to a report from the Census Bureau released today. In...
CAR 54, WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
The Nassau County Police Department announced yesterday that it had installed GPS tracking systems in every patrol car over Christmas - enraging cops who claim they weren't given a heads-up...
HAMAS THUG: OK, ISRAEL DOES EXIST
The leader of Hamas yesterday acknowledged the existence of Israel, in a surprise softening of the Palestinian terror group's hard line. "There will remain a state called Israel," Khaled Meshaal...
QAEDA CLOBBERED
An al Qaeda mastermind with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head was among 50 people killed in a spectacular American airstrike on a terrorist camp in Somalia, officials...
'BERRY' GOOD CANCER NEWS
Strawberries are the most effective berry for slowing the growth of colon and oral cancers, a recent study shows. Extracts of six berries - raspberries, black raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries...
2ND CHANCE FOR VICTORY
WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a much-anticipated speech to the nation last night, put forth his new plan for winning the war in Iraq, telling the American people: "We can...
VOW VOTE TO REJECT IRAQ POLICY
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other leading Democrats said last night they are dead set against President Bush's pitch to send more American troops into Iraq. "Based on...
ROSIE FUTURE
Donald Trump's attacks on Rosie O'Donnell may have backfired - now she's talking about hosting her own talk show again. Sources say O'Donnell, 44, has been talking to Telepictures about...
YALE SONG BIRDS ARE PUMMELED
An all-male a cappella group from Yale University got a brutal beating from some San Francisco thugs after singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a house party, authorities said yesterday. One...
KEVIN FEDER-LIKE
Britney Spears, who filed for divorce from Kevin Federline late last year, has a new beau - and the pop tart is apparently not K-Fed up with her estranged hubby's...
NYPD BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police yesterday released this photo of a bandit wanted in three East Side bank robberies. Between Jan. 3 and Tuesday the suspect struck three times, at a Sovereign branch...
NOBLE EFFORT OUR ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO AWFUL DEFEAT
THE speech didn't matter. The plan matters. The speech was plain and direct and without adornment. The plan it outlined is detailed and specific and seeks nothing less than to...
WHAT IN BLAZES IS SCOPPETTA THINKING?
NICK SCOPPETTA is a lawyer, former deputy mayor, former commissioner for both children's services and investigations, and presently fire commissioner. Despite his illustrious résumé, I know that deep down he's...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Wed.: 518 Midday Win-4 Wed.: 6182 Evening Numbers Wed.: 072 Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3020 Pick-10 Wed.: 6, 9, 20, 24, 25, 28, 29, 41, 42, 45,...
W'S SHIFT & DEMS' DUTY
President Bush last night wagered his presidency on a dramatic shift of tactics in Iraq, even as he conceded for the first time that the present approach has "failed" and...
W'S LAST CHANCE
LAST night, President Bush gave us a candid overview of Iraq and outlined his plan to reverse the bitter course events have taken. The heart of the effort will be...
THE SHOWDOWN IN MOTOWN
Married life ain't hardwhen you got a union card,A union man has a happy lifewhen he's got a union wife. - "The Union Maid," Woody Guthrie (1940)DETROIT THOSE were the...
GOV MUST TACKLE NY'S PIT OF DOOM
SINCE taking office as New York's chief ex ecutive, Gov. Spitzer has repeatedly pledged "to rein in spending and exhibit fiscal restraint" and to make sure the state's finances are...
THE CANDIDATE WE NEED, OR PRESIDENT WE WANT?
Living in Mormon country, I believe that the acrimony toward Mormons is not very deep, but the negatives against John McCain and Rudy Guiliani are deep enough to keep just...
'TAKE A GAS MASK TO WORK' DAY
New Jersey doesn't sample the air for the second time after a gas-leak scare, and Mayor Bloomberg doesn't give them a verbal beating ("The Big Stink," Jan 9)? It should've...
ALL HAIL FOOTBALL
Congress decided to have a four-day work week so it could all enjoy the BCS National Championship game at home instead of in their posh D.C. digs. Next Monday night...
BERMAN WALKS
Paramount Pictures President Gail Berman stepped down yesterday, ending a nearly two-year reign marked by clashes with management and talent. The resignation comes just as the troubled studio was beginning...
HEDGE FUNDS IN BIDDING FOR AMERIQUEST
J.P. Morgan Securities is shopping Ameriquest, one of the largest sub-prime mortgage lenders in the U.S., to bond hedge funds, sources said. Ameriquest's bankers have approached several buyers recently, including...
FOREIGN FOES STRIKE FEAR ON WALL STREET
A pair of dangerous despots, Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, is starting to bedevil Wall Street. Uncertainty over the next moves of the loose-cannon leaders of Venezuela and Russia -...
UGANDA'S OIL PUTS OPEC OVER BARREL
Note to readers: Recently I was traveling in Uganda and interviewed that East African country's energy minister about an oil find in the northern region. THE head of Uganda's oil...
CISCO BITES APPLE
A day after Apple unveiled its highly anticipated music-and-video playing cellphone, the computer maker got sued for calling the new gadget an iPhone. Gear maker Cisco Systems, which has owned...
MARKETERS LINE UP FOR 'IDOL'
Just like the wannabe pop stars on the show, "American Idol" advertisers don't believe there's such a thing as too much exposure. The show is already thick with ads and...
CERBERUS BREAKS INTO EOP DEAL
Powerful investment firm Cerberus Capital Management is preparing to gate-crash the world's biggest-ever leveraged buyout as it plots an offer that would trump Blackstone's $36 billion deal for Equity Office...
EBAY IN $300M BIG TICKET DEAL
Online auction site eBay is putting the finishing touches on a deal to buy ticket-swapping Web site StubHub.com for more than $300 million, according to people involved in the talks....
GRASSO APPEALS TO KEEP $112.2M
Dick Grasso had what might be his final day in court yesterday, as his legal team argued that the deposed former New York Stock Exchange chief shouldn't have to pay...
HALLE-LUJAH, BABY!
Halle's berry, berry popular. "X-Men" star Berry flashes her million-dollar smile and passes out congratulatory low-fives on Tuesday night, as she sprints onstage to accept a "People's Choice Award" for...
$1.6M KASS ACT
MODEL Carmen Kass is looking for a new place to strut her lanky frame, now that she's sold her Greenwich Village loft. The Estonian stunner has unloaded her five-room co-op...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Chelsea$1.18 million Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,500 Maintenance: $2,659 This West 21st Street co-op proves that in real estate the whole can be greater than the sum of...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan MURRAY HILL $905,000 160 E. 38th St. Two-bedroom, 11/2-bath co-op, 1,050 square feet, with foyer, windowed eat-in kitchen with custom cabinets and granite counters, renovated windowed bath, dishwasher, central...
MODERN ART
BETWEEN the velvet ropes of the Meatpacking District and the landmark buildings in upper Chelsea, among the galleries and warehouses on the far West Side, something very big is happening...
BLANDI AMBITION
Oscar Blandi, the Naples-born hairstylist known for trimming the tresses of celebrities - like Salma Hayek and Jennifer Garner - is taking the day off to decompress, far from the...
DREAM HOMES
West Village$3.95 millionWhen you think of getting away to a luxurious resort, why not consider the West Village? Marketed as "boutique resort living," this wraparound 2,400-square-foot condo with direct riverfront...
ICE, ICE, BABY
If cold weather drives your energetic youngsters indoors to wreak havoc on your home and your nerves, here's a solution: Build your own ice rink. Yes, in this balmy winter,...
TRASH TALK
The apartment we want to buy is beautiful and well-priced. However, all I ever notice is the garbage piled up outside waiting for city pickup. Is that a silly concern?...
SETON STEAMROLL STILL HAUNTS SJU
After having its seven-game winning streak snapped Saturday in West Virginia, surprising St. John's (10-5, 1-1) will look to rebound against Seton Hall tonight (7:00, ESPN). The Red Storm can...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Mulder returns to CardinalsMark Mulder is staying with the Cardinals, agreeing yesterday to $13 million, two-year contract. The 29-year-old left-hander, recovering from rotator cuff surgery, is expected to miss...
92 SHARE PICK SIX JACKPOT
With Aqueduct having a $403,438 Pick Six carryover coming into the day, the public bet $1,414,261 into the difficult card. The highest price of the six-race sequence was a Richard...
CHILL MEANS IT'LL ALL BE DOWNHILL FROM HERE
NO MATTER if you blame it on El Nino or global warming, the weather has devastated the ski season in the Northeast. Despite this cruel joke Mother Nature has been...
AGENT: ROCKET RETURN LIKELY
According to one of Roger Clemens' agents, the chances of the Rocket returning to the mound this season are "more than 50-50," but it's likely to be a shortened season...
REPORT: BONDS USED 'SPEED'
Barry Bonds failed a test under Major League Baseball's amphetamine policy last season, and initially blamed it on a teammate, according to a published report. This is just the latest...
BARBARO SUFFERS SERIOUS SETBACK
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Seemingly on the road to a miraculous recovery after fracturing his right hind leg in the Preakness last May, then being struck by a catastrophic case...
HALL OF NICE GUYS
WHEREVER Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn go as they make their way to Cooperstown for their Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony this summer, smiles will follow. Yesterday was...
NO CAN BLUE
The weather isn't the only thing that has cooled off at the Meadowlands. So have the Devils. They led the league with an early 11-1-1 home record, but after falling...
WRONG ANSWER
THE men who run the Giants had every right to make the decision they made official yesterday. It was certainly their prerogative to make a very simple, very basic choice...
SURPRISE! PLAYERS OK WITH TOM RETURN
Players often want a coach to come back for a simple reason: The devil they know is less frightening than the devil they don't know. That is why the perception...
UNRELIABLE
On the day the Giants decided to keep Tom Coughlin, Hall of Famers Harry Carson and Lawrence Taylor had a conversation. "We both said we would love to be playing...
TOM GETS 1 MORE YEAR
They are either clueless and in denial or else visionaries who see beyond the obvious. Time will tell what the Giants co-owners wrought yesterday by standing by their man. "Tom...
THE POST'S FIVE-POINT PLAN
Ownership did not demand Tom Coughlin make specific changes in order to keep his job. That doesn't mean The Post cannot chime in. Here's what Coughlin needs to do to...
CLEARLY, THIS IS A GIANT MISTAKE
BRINGING Tom Coughlin back for One Last Stand at a time when the Giants need a new voice and a new leader is the boardroom equivalent of Joe Pisarcik turning...
TOM'S GREATEST MISSES
Tom Coughlin dodged the Big Blue ax yesterday, in large part because he led the Giants to their first back-to-back playoff appearances since the 1989 and 1990 seasons. However, the...
DOLPHINS COACHING SEARCH REACHES CITY
Wayne Huizenga's extensive whirlwind head coach search took him to both New York and New Jersey yesterday. According to someone familiar with his plans, the Dolphins' owner first flew his...
ISIAH SPINNING C-WEBB
The Knicks have already reached out to Chris Webber's representatives, placing a phone call yesterday to inquire about C-Webb. Webber's contract that had $43 million left on it was bought...
WEBBER NOT WORTH GAMBLE
ISIAH Thomas says it's his duty as the president and head coach of the Knicks to have an "interest" in Chris Webber, who was on the verge of becoming a...
WIN DRAWS HIGH Q-RATING
This is how Isiah Thomas envisioned it on the plane ride back from Seattle last weekend - Quentin Richardson returning and 3-pointers popping into the basket in the Knicks' Garden...
'SCHOE' HIM THE MONEY
The Mets and lefty Scott Schoeneweis are on the verge of a three-year deal worth a reported $10.8 million, sources confirmed. Schoeneweis earned $2.75 million last season working for Toronto...
PEDRO WON'T TAKE CHANCE
The Mets began their annual minicamp yesterday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Pedro Martinez came to work. The bad news is, Martinez won't pick up a ball until March...
NETS D-LIGHTED BY RECENT SURGE
Lawrence Frank responded to a question yesterday by pointing to the banners over his shoulder that commemorate the division and conference championship titles the Nets have won. "When you look...
RENNEY VENOM MORE OF SAME
So let's listen again closely to what an angry Tom Renney had to say. "Pick a topic. There's nothing good about this game in any shape, way or form. I'm...
MURCER FACING CANCER BATTLE
Bobby Murcer says he is facing the biggest challenge of his life. Murcer will undergo six weeks of chemotherapy and radiation after finding out the brain tumor he had removed...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It's been so warm on the East Coast that people have resorted to paying for snow. Chris Hanson, a firefighter in Milford, Conn., paid $200 on eBay for three snowballs...