June 9, 2007
'Ocean's' Shallower Than Expected
"Ocean's Thirteen'' is turning out to be an unlucky number for George Clooney and company, as the season's fourth three-peat opened to a softer-than-anticipated $12.4 million on Friday. Steve Mason...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY BLOCK AND WHITE: More than your basic block party, the second annual Walk on White Street promises free performances, workshops and more from TriBeCa's top arts organizations. Highlights include...
MY DAD, MY HERO
Post readers just finished honoring their mothers - now it's time to make room for daddy! We're asking you - especially those readers age 18 and younger - to tell...
FANCY, NANCY!
COUNT on Nancy Drew to sleuth out the latest fashions - and there isn't a bared midriff or tank top in the mix. "Nancy Drew" - the movie - opens...
MASTERPIECE THEATRE
TOMORROW'S Tonys are less a coronation than a smorgasbord: a chance to sample the new kids on the block. A sprinkling of "Spring Awakening," a glimpse into "Grey Gardens" -...
REPEAT PERFORMANCE
LET'S put it this way: When George Andrews (pictured) started in "The Phantom of the Opera," his kids were 6 and 10. Now they're nearly 26 and 30 - and...
'JOKER' ROKER: 'SORRY'
AL Roker apologized yesterday for joking about epileptic seizures on Thursday's "Today" show. "Remember that controversial Olympic logo for the 2012 Olympics in London? Some folks have complained that the...
O'BRIEN TAKES TWO
PAT O'Brien has inked a new, two-year deal to continue co-hosting "The Insider." O'Brien will remain in L.A., with Lara Spencer holding down the fort in New York. It's expected...
ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
HOW'S the old song go? "A horse is a horse, of course, of course . . ." unless he or she possesses some special quality such as the ability to...
UNIONS LABEL 'SCAB' HOTEL
Close to 1,000 union workers gathered outside a construction site of a planned Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn and threatened to shut down the $48 million project, saying its developer...
GOV TRIES HORSE TRADING
ALBANY - Three would-be operators of a planned mega-slot-machine casino complex at Aqueduct and expanded gambling operations at Belmont were briefed yesterday by Gov. Spitzer aides as part of an...
POLS RIDE MIKE HARD ON CONGESTION 'TAX'
Mayor Bloomberg made his hardest sell of his congestion-pricing plan yesterday as he faced a testy grilling from skeptical state lawmakers who called the fee an unfair tax. Bloomberg pitched...
'JESUS' CRACKS COLD CASE
The devil may have made him do it, but it was Jesus who made him confess. An Arizona man shocked cops in the East Village this week by walking into...
KILLED BY MUSCLE CREAM
A Staten Island high-school track star who rubbed BenGay-like products on her aching legs died of a rare overdose after she applied too much of it, officials said. Arielle Newman,...
SECOND KID'S-PLAY INFERNO
For the second day in a row, children were badly injured playing with fire in Brooklyn, authorities said. Just hours after 10-month-old Melanie Webb died in a Brownsville inferno -...
ANGRY 'BANC' SHOTS
A Long Island woman says her Wall Street career was shorted when she complained about being sexually harassed by a colleague on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange....
MIKE'S 'IMMIG BILL' LAMENT
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday called the collapse of immigration reform in Congress "tragic" and predicted the nation's economy would stall without a continual flow of foreign workers. "We will not have...
HIT-RUN DRIVER HURTS 5 ON QUEENS BLVD.
Five people were injured on Queens Boulevard yesterday when a hit-and-run driver ran a red light and smashed another car into a group of pedestrians. The red Jeep, bearing Florida...
HEART-BRAKE
She was driving him crazy. The Long Island teen charged with joy riding inside a crowded East Massapequa shopping mall as panicked shoppers fled for cover was distraught over a...
COLLEGE CASH FOR CLASS ACTS
Going to college got a little easier for three Latino New York City students thanks to the Puerto Rican Day Parade, the New York Post and three generous corporate donors....
S.I. BEEP RAILS AS GRANDSON IS JAILED
A Brooklyn judge tossed the grandson of Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro behind bars yesterday, finding that that the 18-year-old had likely violated a previous probation agreement. "I just...
TERROR TYCOON JAILED
A notorious Syrian arms dealer who lived above the law for three decades while arming terrorists around the globe and building a vast fortune has been nabbed on federal charges...
EVIL RICH 'PRINCE' HID IN PLAIN SIGHT
Hollywood screenwriters couldn't create a more perfect villain than Syrian arms dealer Monzer al Kassar, known for proudly flaunting his criminal fortune and his friendships with some of the world's...
B'KLYN SOLDIER KILLED
An Army sergeant from Brooklyn who passed on a college scholarship to join the military died in Iraq when his truck was bombed, his family said. "He would tell me,...
ISRAEL PEACE OFFER
Israel has secretly told Syria it is willing to trade the Golan Heights, captured 40 years ago, for guarantees that Damascus will cut its ties to Iran and terrorist groups,...
W. KEEPS HIS SHIELD BID ALOFT
President Bush pursued his goal of a European anti-missile shield yesterday, hours after Russia tried to get him interested in shifting it to other sites - including Iraq. After the...
WAILBIRD PARIS BACK IN CLINK
LOS ANGELES - A kicking and screaming Paris Hilton wailed for her mommy yesterday after a furious judge ordered her back to jail rather than finish out her sentence confined...
FANS, FRIENDS AND FOES CHOOSE SIDES
People following the Paris Hilton case couldn't agree yesterday what was dumber - the law, or the hard-partying celebutard who can't follow it. On one side are those who agree...
MEDIA HAS CRAZY 'CRUSH' ON PARIS
Sobbing celebutard Paris Hilton yesterday churned up a media circus the likes of which had not been seen since the O.J. Simpson case. Paris' travails riveted Americans to their TV...
SHERIFF A CELEB KISS-UP
Paris Hilton isn't the first celebrity coddled by stargazing Sheriff Lee Baca. After Mel Gibson was busted for DUI last summer, Los Angeles County's Office of Independent Review probed the...
DISSED JUDGE TO LAWMAN & PARIS: WHAT I SAY GOES
LOS ANGELES - This time, Paris Hilton will do her time - or at least most of it. Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer made it clear yesterday that he wasn't...
PLANE CRAZY AS GLITCH ZAPS FLIGHTS
An FAA computer glitch in Salt Lake City caused havoc 2,000 miles away at La Guardia Airport yesterday. Dozens of flights at La Guardia and at Philadelphia International Airport were...
LUCKY 'HARMS'
A pioneering computer whiz has claimed that honchos at Harrah's booted him from entering its Las Vegas poker tournament or gambling in any of its properties because he was rolling...
LETTERMAN THIEF ESCAPES
A man who was once accused of trying to kidnap David Letterman's son escaped yesterday while working at a Montana prison ranch, officials said. Kelly Frank, 45, and fellow inmate...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens* Police say this note-passing thief (pictured) robbed a Jamaica bank last month. The bandit walked into a Washington Mutual branch on Jamaica Avenue near 163rd Street at 10:30 a.m....
BLUBBERING BRAT'S STAR POWER USELESS
SHE twitched. She shook. She wailed for her mommy. She appeared in public without her makeup! "It's not riiiiiggghhhhht!" the anemic heiress named Paris Hilton shrieked to the rafters of...
'RED LIGHT' SHELLY LIKELY TO KILL PLAN
ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is likely to reject Mayor Bloomberg's sweeping congestion pricing plan, legislative insiders are predicting. After all, while Bloomberg is the mayor of New York,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 977; Lucky Sum: 23 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 2308; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 105; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 3082;...
BOOT 'REFRIGERATOR' JEFFERSON
Disgraced Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) had a unique explanation yesterday for how he ended up on videotape taking an apparent $100,000 bribe. Following his innocent plea at his arraignment in...
ONE HUGGY BEAR TACKLES TERROR
John Edwards, the Democratic presidential wannabe, has an exquisite sense of timing. Edwards came to town Thursday to rip former Mayor Rudy Giulani's support for the War on Terror -...
JUSTICE 90210
Now this is the kind of turnstile justice we like. A stunned Paris Hilton yesterday found out that her special-privilege card has run out: Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael...
MCCAIN MOBS BUSH BUNDLERS
PRESIDENT Bush's 2004 campaign fund-raisers and contributors are being bombarded with appeals for money by Sen. John McCain's heavy-spending, money-short 2008 campaign. McCain is concentrating on the rich target of...
DEFEAT 'EM ALL
SOMETHING revolutionary occurred Thursday in Washington: A major piece of legislation with bipartisan backing and the strong support of the president failed to pass the Senate. The immigration bill, it...
WILL LIBBY SCOOT JAIL TIME ON BUSH'S WATCH?
THE ISSUE: Whether President Bush will pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby of his recent charges. The hand of President Bush will be forced. There is no doubt that he will now...
CNBC MARKET GAME SCAMSTERS SKIRTED LAW
With a $1 million prize up for grabs, contestants in CNBC's online stock-picking contest came up with an array of illicit schemes to scam the game, the financial news TV...
SUBPRIME TARGET
A real estate firm owned partly by powerful New York developer William Lie Zeckendorf is being drawn into a widening probe of who's to blame for the meltdown of the...
DILLARD'S SALE TALK SILENCED
Contrary to recent speculation, Dillard's Inc. does not appear to be considering strategic alternatives such as a sale and lease back of its real estate or going private through a...
EXEC STAGES GOOGLE LAPTOP SCAM
A British publishing executive roiled by Google's plan to make books digitally available and searchable staged a brief protest at a recent book fair here, absconding with two of the...
JUDAH'S TIME IS NOW
The glorified cheerleader stood behind "Super" Zab Judah yelling to no one in particular: "It's Judah time, baby . . . Judah time," as if saying it loudly enough would...
TOT STUFF IN PSAL
John McNeil did what just about no one else in the city could do this year: Shut down Monroe. "We all knew they were one of the best teams in...
NO-NO TROUBLE
Paul Karmas approached his St. Francis Prep teammate Danny Forman in the middle of the season and told the left-handed pitcher that although he was having a solid year, he...
MARCAVELLY - THE PRINCE
Gates open at 8:30 a.m. for today's 13-race card (first post: noon). Admission is $5 general, $10 clubhouse. Parking: $10 general, $25 preferred. Volunteers from NTRA will be at Belmont...
HONDO EYES 'SPUN' FUN
Hondo, who'd cashed three straight anti-Met bets, had to give some back last night with the blankety-blank Tigers, whose failure to solve Sosa slashed the earnings to 480 gernerts. Today,...
SHOCK BEAT UP LIBERTY
Sitting on the scorer's table next to the Detroit Shock bench is a small Tupperware storage bin stuffed with assorted candies and gums. One of assistant coach Rick Mahorn's jobs...
DESTINY AT HAND
THIS is it for Curlin, destiny day, the day he glosses his reputation as a potential wonder horse, or the day he becomes just another hyped horse in a long...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Scott grabs lead In Memphis, Tenn., Adam Scott's 4-under 66 gave him a one-stroke clubhouse lead when darkness suspended play last night in the Stanford St. Jude Championship. A...
TIPS FOR BELMONT CARD
BACKSTRETCH BUZZ The Belmont Stakes isn't the only big race today at the Big B. Five graded stakes precede the "Test of the Champion," which will be run as the...
HIGH STAKES RACE
They call the Belmont Stakes the "Test of the Champion," and although it's become unfashionable to run 3-year-old thoroughbreds a mile-and-a-half, today's 139th Belmont could be a coronation. Preakness winner...
SHOCK TREATMENT
Jeremy Shockey said he doesn't understand why anyone makes the slightest fuss about him working out in Miami instead of joining the vast majority of his teammates at Giants Stadium....
JETS' REVIS MAKES EARLY IMPACT
If Jets rookie first-round cornerback Darrelle Revis thinks he's under a green microscope during this week's voluntary practices at Hofstra, it's because he is. "Darrelle," shouted new secondary coach Mike...
SHEFF: YANKEES COULD USE ME THIS SEASON
DETROIT - Gary Sheffield praised Bobby Abreu, the man who replaced him in right field for the Yankees, but the Tigers' slugger believes the Bombers certainly could use what Sheffield...
SOSA IS SO GOOD
DETROIT - Jorge Sosa had pitched a terrific game so far for the Mets when Gary Sheffield stepped to the plate as the potential tying run last night with two...
TORRE STICKS WITH MIGUEL
Miguel Cairo was a ghost for the season's first two months, but he now seems to have a hold on the Yankees' starting first base job. With Doug Mientkiewicz on...
JASON IS MUM ON SELIG REQUEST
Jason Giambi was wearing camouflage pants last night, but he wouldn't say if he's ready for a fight. Two days after Bud Selig delivered him an ultimatum, Giambi was tight-lipped....
ROLLING ALONG
Johnny Damon predicts the Stadium will be "hopping" today when a certain pitcher makes his Yankees return. If that's the case, last night was maybe just a tasty appetizer for...
ROCKET READY TO BLAST OFF
Here comes yet another minor-league import who hopes to make an impact on the Yankees' starting rotation. You might have heard this guy's name before. He goes by Roger Clemens....
CLEMENS IS LEADER YANKS HAVE LACKED
WHEN Roger Clemens strides to the mound for the 692nd time in his major-league career in the regular season this afternoon at the Stadium, the Yankees will become whole again....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Officials in New Mexico have taken down a sculpture of more than 100 old refrigerators stacked to resemble Stonehenge. Heavy winds had knocked down much of the graffiti-covered structure and...