November 23, 2007
Krstic Searching; It's A Small World
By FRED KERBERYou will see less and less of Nenad Krstic.And therefore more and more of the small lineup. The Nets have decided that Krstic needs more conditioning and cardio...
Early Box Office: Some 'Enchanted' Weekend
Today is the biggest moviegoing day of the year, but I somehow resisted the temptation to catch up with "Hitman'' at the Kaufman Astoria. Steve Mason of Fantasy Moguls has...
Scene
Miranda Levitt wears amazing Marni platform shoes, a vintage rock T-shirt as a dress, avintage Rochas coat, and an Alexander Wang jacket, with a Bottega Veneta bag."I wear black and...
Starr Report
Tuesday's premiere of "Frank TV" (comedian/ impressionist Frank Caliendo, right) scored big for TBS, averaging 2.9 million viewers at 11 p.m. - and perhaps benefiting from "Late Show" and "The...
UPDATE: Ducasse at the Eiffel
Not just a place to get jostled by insane tourists with no sense of personal space anymore! A good friend dragged me up the Eiffel for the first time last...
Mulling Mullin
By MARC BERMANChris Mullin was in town this week for the holidays and to see his Warriors thump the Knicks by 27. Mullin was at the Garden for all of...
Oscar Watch: Frank Langella Knocks It Out of the Park
It doesn't get much better than Frank Langella's subtle, layered performance as a once famous novelist in "Starting Out in the Evening,'' which I award three stars today. This veteran...
The Man on the Statue of Liberty
Today in The Post, I interview 93-year-old actor/director/producer Norman Lloyd, who will be appearing Monday night at Film Forum. The downtown movie destination will also be showing the excellent documentary...
PRESENT TENSIONS
THE idea that men are incapable of buying great gifts for the women in their lives is a tired stereotype. Unfortunately, it's also completely true. On the list of men's...
PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN GIRLS' DAD
I'M a crime-beat reporter, but I'm also a clueless dad. And I would sooner walk up to a yellow-taped NYPD crime scene than into the American Girl Store on Fifth...
KISS $62K GOODBYE
IMAGINE having a lipstick so expensive that every single after-dinner touch-up costs you hundreds of dollars - per lip. This week, French cosmetics house Guerlain - lipstick innovators since the...
'JERSEY' PLOYS
THIS column is on strike today - against strike news. So here are some theatrical tidbits to serve with your Thanksgiving Day leftovers: Bob Gaudio, who wrote most of the...
WINTER SEASON WONDERLAND
I'M not a betting man, but I'd wager the stage at New York State Theater was never as crammed as it was Tuesday night, at New York City Ballet's gala...
LEAN MARIE
THERE'S a little less of Marie Osmond to love these days. Osmond, who's been tearing it up on "Dancing With the Stars," says she owes her trim new figure to...
PUNCH LINES
BOXER Floyd May weather got a chance on "Dancing with the Stars." Maybe Ricky Hatton can get a shot on "Last Comic Standing." "Ricky's a comedian," says his trainer, Billy...
MIND GAMES
QUICK! Guess which talent show I'm reviewing without looking at the headline! If you guessed "Dancing with the Stars," you are about as good at predicting the future as Dick...
STARR REPORT
Frank talk at TBS Tuesday's premiere of "Frank TV" (comedian/ im pressionist Frank Caliendo) scored big for TBS, averaging 2.9 million viewers at 11 p.m. - and perhaps benefiting from...
'GOSSIP' GIRL-GIRL KISS ON THE WAY
'GOSSIP Girl," the struggling CW teen drama, may be resorting to a tried-and-true ratings booster - hot girls kissing. Each other. On the show, prissy Upper East Side party girl...
STRIKE TAKES OUT 'LOST'
THE ongoing Hollywood writers' strike is now threatening to halt "Lost." The popular ABC drama, which is slated to return for its latest season in February, will run out of...
ASK THE OLD PRO
MOST people recog nize Norman Lloyd these days as Dr. Aus chlander, the crusty but lovable hospital administrator he played on the 1980s TV series "St. Elsewhere." But the 93-year-old...
HE WAS A QUIET MAN
WHATEVER happened to Christian Slater? "He Was a Quiet Man" shows he's still a capable actor, but seems to be having as much trouble finding good scripts as his "Heathers"...
GLOBAL-WARMING TALE ISN'T COOL
'EVERYTHING'S Cool," yet another alarmist talking- heads documentary about global warming, hits all the familiar notes as its crew travels the country interviewing various journalists and activists about the problem....
'STARTING OUT' HAS A STANDOUT
IT really doesn't get much better than Frank Langella's career-capping per formance as a once-famous novelist in Andrew Wagner's chamber drama "Starting Out in the Evening." Langella's Leonard Schiller has...
MIDNIGHT EAGLE
HERE'S something not to be thankful for this holiday weekend: "Midnight Eagle," an alleged thriller from Japan. A top-secret American bomber known as the "Midnight Eagle" crashes atop a snowbound...
HOT PICKS
LIVE FROM NEW YORK! "SNL" veteran and "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan yuks it up today and tomorrow at Carolines Comedy Club, where performances from the man also known as...
BROADWAY
"MARY POPPINS": **** New Amsterdam Theatre, 214 W. 42nd St.; (212) 307-4747. "MAURITIUS": ** ½ Biltmore Theatre, 261 W. 47th St.; (212) 239-6200. Closes Sunday. "PYGMALION": ** American Airlines Theatre,...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ALTAR BOYZ": *** New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St.; (877) 226-9941. "THE AWESOME '80s PROM": Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St.; (212) 352-3101. "THE BROTHERS SIZE": ** ½ Public...
LONG-RUNNING
"BLUE MAN GROUP": *** Astor Place Theatre, 434 Lafayette St.; (212) 254-4370. "I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE": ** ½ Westside Theatre, 407 W. 43rd St.; (212) 239-6200. "MURDERED...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD: To see this hard-rocking group with a light sense of humor, follow the bodies to the band's 8 p.m. show...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: Tonight: Melvin Sparks at 12:30 a.m., 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. CAFÉ CARLYLE: Monday: Woody Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band. Carlyle Hotel, 35...
CLASSICAL
TODAY and MONDAY: The Metropolitan Opera performs Bellini's bel canto opera "Norma" at 8 tonight and Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House; (212) 362-6000. TOMORROW and...
CABARET
CAFÉ CARLYLE: Through Dec. 31: Steve Tyrell. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. CARNEGIE CLUB: Tomorrow: Steve Maglio. 156 W. 56th St.; (212) 957-9676. FEINSTEIN'S: Tuesday through Dec. 29: Michael...
DANCE
CITY CENTER: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Sunday through Dec. 31, with an opening-night gala Wednesday. 131 W. 55th St.; (212) 581-1212. For performance times, go to nycitycenter.org JOYCE...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: The films of English documentarian Humphrey Jennings are the focus through Sunday at 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC: "A Muppet Thanksgiving" celebration comes...
COMEDY
COMIC STRIP LIVE: Tomorrow: Pete Dominick, Lisa Landry and Paul Mecurio. 1569 Second Ave.; (212) 861-9386. COMIX: Monday: Joe DeRosa, Dan Siegel and Laurie Kilmartin. 123 W. 43rd St.; (212)...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
BIG APPLE CIRCUS: At Damrosch Park's big tent at 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, through Jan. 13. For a full schedule, go to bigapplecircus.org HOLIDAY SHOPS AT BRYANT...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * Catch JAY LENO on the early shift when he performs tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10:30 in Caesars' Circus Maximus. Tickets: $75-$125; caesars.com, (800) 677-SHOW. * "America's...
PREVIEWS
"CYMBELINE": This late Shakespeare romance stars John Cullum, Phylicia Rashad, Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris and Martha Plimpton. Vivian Beaumont, 150 W. 65th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens Dec. 2.
SEPT. 11 SHRINE'S YULE GIFT
Holiday shoppers who have run out of ideas for gifts this season can buy their friends or relatives a piece of the World Trade Center's 9/11 memorial. While you don't...
TRIAL IN $TYLE
The Queens courtroom where three detectives will stand trial for the shooting death of Sean Bell is undergoing an expensive, high-tech renovation - an extreme makeover that could be a...
TOT FALLS FROM 3RD FLOOR - & SURVIVES
A baby boy fell from a third-floor Bronx window last night - but incredibly, was not injured. "I thought my baby was dead," said a relieved Anna Priebe, 25, who...
NEWS STAR'S SPORE HOUSE
Kaity Tong won't be home for Christmas, or any time soon, she fears. The Channel 11 news anchor has already missed several holidays at her Chelsea apartment, thanks to a...
GROOM & DOOM IN DREAM HOME
A Long Island desperate housewife who hated the 'burbs and longed for Brooklyn strangled her husband in the million-dollar dream home that he'd just bought and renovated for her, cops...
CHARGES IN MAD. AVE. CABBY KILL
The Manhattan man accused of mowing down a beloved cabby on the Upper East Side was charged with second-degree manslaughter yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court. Luis Flores, 24, was also...
SETTING UP 'SHOP'
Ka-ching! That's the sound heard around the city and the nation today as millions of Americans arise early from their turkey-induced stupor to shop, shop, shop. "There's so much talk...
GRAY THURSDAY CREATES AN 'OPEN' MARKET
Stores open for Thanksgiving did a brisk business yesterday from folks looking to shrink their wallets instead of expanding their waistlines. Thanksgiving Day is fast becoming known as Gray Thursday...
'HOT AIR' BALLOONS
Crowds were anything but "poultry" yesterday at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where balmy weather, a trio of new balloons and plenty of old favorites created a perfect recipe for...
A YANK AT BOX-FORD
Put 'em up, Cambridge, put 'em up. Bronx battler Adam Levine loves to box in the ring, but as a newly awarded Rhodes scholar, he'll also be hitting the books...
GRANDMA IN QNS. BLAST LOSES LIFE
The Queens grandmother injured in a gas explosion that rocked her Sunnyside neighborhood Wednesday died yesterday surrounded by relatives who spent Thanksgiving keeping a bedside vigil. As Kunta Oza, 67,...
BUSH THANKS B'KLYN SAILOR
A sailor who grew up in Brooklyn and played hoops with Stephon Marbury in high school got a very special Thanksgiving surprise - President Bush called him on his ship...
GIULIANI'S T'DAY WITH 9/11 KIN
Rudy Giuliani spent some of his Thanksgiving yesterday meeting with hundreds of relatives of cops and firefighters who died in the World Trade Center attacks. Giuliani, who came under fire...
THANKS-TAKING
It was more like Christmas for criminals yesterday as a cavalcade of thugs descended on Midtown, fleecing families in town for the Thanksgiving Day Parade, witnesses said. As the crowds...
CITY ON PACE FOR STEEP MURDER DECLINE
As the year draws to a close, the city is on course to have the fewest homicides in four decades - less than 500. That means that in 2007, around...
OIL-SPILL PUZZLE ON LI SHORE
An oil spill began polluting Long Island beaches with gobs of gelatinous goo yesterday, and the source of the mess remains a mystery, officials said. Surfers catching late-season waves on...
GAME OVER: ROCK GROUP
As one classic rock band discovered, imitation can be more than just flattery. The Detroit-based group The Romantics is suing to take one of the hottest games off the market...
RAPE JITTERS
Preppie rapist Alex Kelly is set to walk free from a Connecticut prison today, a decade after being convicted of attacking two teen girls when he was a high-school wrestling...
PALMETTO BUGS
COLUMBIA, SC - The anonymous e-mails and letters began dropping into inboxes and through front doors this summer. One claimed that Hillary Rodham Clinton was having a lesbian affair with...
DDS-SLAY SUSPECT'S 'RIP-OFFS'
ATLANTA - A Georgia contractor said yesterday he faces the loss of his home next month because he got involved in an abortive real-estate deal with the man now accused...
TIME RUNNING OUT FOR NATALEE COPS
Authorities are racing the clock to build a case against the three men police believe are responsible for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, before the Aruban statute of limitations forces...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops say this man robbed a Gramercy Park bank last week. He walked into the Sovereign Bank branch on Park Avenue South near East 20th Street and slipped a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 919; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 9450; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 592; Lucky Sum: 16; Evening Win-4 Thu.: 1492; Lucky...
CAMBODIA'S DELAYED JUSTICE
"It's beyond a dream. I used to live under the Khmer Rouge regime, and I could never dream that those leaders would ever be brought to trial."- Chea Vannath, a...
EMISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
Gov. Spitzer's boast last week that power plants will soon have to pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide is just the latest sign of his unseemly obeisance to...
NYPD'S CLEAN PROFILE
The latest data are in, and they confirm what's already known: The NYPD does not do racial profiling. The evidence? A painstaking 59-page analysis by the RAND Corp. of 508,540...
A SCANDALOUS LAW
CONGRESS is less divided by partisanship than it is united by devotion to protecting incumbents. Doing this, for example, with the bipartisan embrace of spending "earmarks" is unseemly. But occasionally,...
AFGHANISTAN: SLOW GAINS
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN ON the road from the airport to the Af ghan capital of Kabul, you pass a stone wall adorned with iron rings. The Taliban used these to chain...
CALLING HILL A 'BITCH' STRIKES THE WRONG PITCH
THE ISSUE:Hillary Clinton's personality and the role it is playing in her candidacy for president. I suspect that Sherry Argov, like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, doesn't understand the difference between...
STAGING AN UNWANTED STRIKE
THE ISSUE: The stagehands' strike that has shut down Broadway shows since early November. I am starting to think that The Post is anti-union ("Killing Broadway," Editorial, Nov. 20). When...
SHOP OR STOP
Wall Street is betting on a nice bounce today from Europe's stock rally to help chase away any holiday shopping blues. Shares rallied in Europe and South America yesterday while...
OVERSTOCK LOBBIES TO FIGHT SHORT-SELLING
Overstock.com is taking its bitter war to reform short-selling practices to Washington, launching a lobbying group whose goal is to raise investor awareness about so-called "phantom trading." The group, Coalition...
TOUCH-Y SUBJECT
THE Bauer Publishing celebrity titles In Touch and Life & Style are suffering as a result of their 50 percent price hike three weeks ago to $2.99 from $1.99. Insiders...
THIS GRINCH A BIG TURKEY
It seems that Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical which was finally allowed to open this morning at 11 despite the stagehands strike is trying to become...
POLICE: DEADLY STABBING AT MANHATTAN NIGHTCLUB
NEW YORK -- Police are investigating a deadly stabbing early Friday in the downtown Manhattan nightclub, Duvet. They say a wounded, 25-year-old man staggered out of the club on West...
WHAT A BUNCH OF TURKEYS!
EVERY day, in every way, we're reminded you can't make this stuff up. Yesterday, Fox's Thanksgiving NFL pregame show began with host Curt Menefee waving a DVD at us with...
UFC'S ENERGY WOULD ADD PUNCH TO BOXING
SINCE the UFC was stag ing a show at the Prudential Center in Newark last Saturday, I figured it would be a good opportunity to see what all the fuss...
NO DENYIN' WHO IS LEADING LION
JOHN Baumann can't walk through the halls at Columbia's Levien Gymnasium without getting stopped. First of all, at 6-foot-7, 220 pounds, he's hard to miss. And as quite possibly the...
IT'S THE SEASON OF SHARING
THIS hunting season's harvest should be plentiful and no doubt there were will be lots of hunters who will share that harvest with those in need. Hunters can donate some...
'BOYS: BRING ON THE PACK!
IRVING, Texas - The Jets were just a Thanksgiving Day appetizer for the Cowboys. The real main course for Dallas comes next Thursday against the surging Packers in a sexy...
KU-MISSOURI RIVALRY RENEWED
There are some great rivalries in college football such as Ohio State-Michigan and Texas-Oklahoma. And then there's Kansas-Missouri, which isn't as well known as some of the others because the...
LEGENDS WILL 'ROCK' HOUSE
Madison Square Garden always will be the desired establishment when it comes to hosting college basketball holiday tournaments. The Preseason NIT, the ECAC Holiday Festival, the Jimmy V. Classic are...
MOUNT GOBBLES UP TURKEY BOWL
Jayson Holt ended his Mount St. Michael career by throwing three touchdown passes in the Mountaineers' 36-0 Turkey Bowl victory over Cardinal Hayes yesterday. With the home victory, the Mount...
CLOUD OF DUST
The title game of the NIT Season Tip-Off sounds more like a Cotton Bowl matchup than an early season college basketball tournament. Ohio State against Texas A&M?! This should appeal...
AIR FARCE
The Packers and the Cowboys, two storied NFL franchises, are once again on a collision course to determine NFC supremacy. The two front-runners meet Thursday in Texas Stadium with an...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...JEF VAN GUNDY
THE Post's Justin Terranova caught up with former Knicks coach and current ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy to discuss the Knicks, the Nets - and Van Gundy's future. Q: Can...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOCKEY: Caps fire Hanlon The Capitals, who own the NHL's worst record and are off to the franchise's slowest start in 26 years, fired coach Glen Hanlon yesterday and replaced...
DEVILS SHOOT AGAIN FOR HAT TRICK
ATLANTA - For the third time this season, the Devils will seek their first three-game winning streak of the season. This time, they think they have reason to believe. Veteran...
DEFYING THE ODDS
The moment will never escape Pat Flaherty's memory. He already had been diagnosed with colon cancer, but the grim reality of the situation had yet to sink in. This was...
BRADSHAW RELISHES HIS SECOND CHANCE
THE Giants have never been a Home For Wayward Boys, the way the George Steinbrenner's Yankees were when they gave second [and beyond] chances to players like Steve Howe, Doc...
EX-GIANT SHIANCOE DELIVERS FOR VIKINGS
The Giants were not particularly interested in re-signing tight end Visanthe Shiancoe to a lucrative contract after he did not develop as expected in his four years with the team....
'BOYS HAND JETS A BIG 'L' IN BIG D
IRVING, Texas - The Jets were in Texas for Thanksgiving yesterday determined to show the nation they're a better team than their embarrassing record might indicate. With a nationally-televised game...
QUARTERBACK PLAY IS KELLEN OFFENSE
IRVING, Texas - The Jets, like all of the unfortunate turkeys who provided dinner for millions yesterday, could not hide on this Thanksgiving Day. On the short side of a...
CLEMENS STRUGGLES UNDER PRESSURE
IRVING, Texas - This was why the Jets waited so long to bench Chad Pennington. All of the pitfalls of starting an inexperienced quarterback in the NFL - the slow...
REVIS BLANKETS TO
IRVING, Texas - Terrell Owens knows who Darrelle Revis is now. The Cowboys' diva receiver earlier this week on a conference call with New York reporters dismissed the Jets' No....
TIME RUNNING OUT FOR ISIAH
Golden State GM Chris Mullin is expected to emerge as a top candidate for the Knicks GM job if Isiah Thomas eventually is fired from his dual role as coach...
AFTER 2-9 START, DOLAN NEEDS PLAN TO BAIL OUT SINKIN' SHIP
WELCOME to James Dolan's version of "Survivor," where no matter how many major mistakes Isiah Thomas commits, it seems he'll never get voted off Camp Cablevision's island. However, Thanksgiving is...
CONVINCING RETURN
SEATTLE - It sounds like a Robert Ludlum novel: "The Bourne Identity." "The Holcroft Covenant." "The Carter Factor." Only it's not nearly as complex. Instead of intrigue and covert operations,...
RANGERS SHOULDN'T OPEN IN PRAGUE
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The Rangers are making a considerable error in judgment if in fact they do commit to opening next season in Prague. There are 68 reasons why...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
You've heard of dogs going after cars, but in Ohio, it was a cat that was doing the chasing - a very large cat. Sheriff's deputies responded to a 911...
Quick Jabs: Boxing-MMA Notes
Update on Jermain Taylor's new trainer...Don King talks turkey with troops...Will Klitschko-Irbagimov create a Garden party and the IFL partners with YouTube. By GEORGE WILLISJermain Taylor’s decision to fire Emanuel...
'Bachelor' Finds Ratings, Not Love
"The Bachelor" finally figured out how to juice its ratings — choose no one to win.The aging ABC dating show, which has been drawing dreary ratings for years, snagged some...