September 12, 2007
Careful dealing with Week 1 duds
Steven Jackson, Reggie Bush, Drew Brees, Maurice Jones-Drew, Britney Spears. They all had pretty bad weeks.Now the challenge is to leave last week's abysmal performance behind and steady themselves for...
REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES: TOMMY HILFIGER FINALE
Stam, Snejana and Agyness, oh my!
AGYNESS ALERT: TOMMY HILFIGER
I'm just crushing on her hair.
A SEAT WITH A VIEW: TOMMY HILFIGER
From left to right: Venus Williams, Emmy Rossum, Diane Kruger, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Rodriguez.French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld.
Model behavior, Part IV
Off the runway, model Julia Stegner wears amazing hippie-ish high-waisted wide leg jeans by Grey Ant, an a grey patent leather Prada bag. "My look is seventies. And now it's...
Belichick's Apology
"At this point, we have not been notified of the league's ruling," Belichick said in a statement. "Although it remains a league matter, I want to apologize to everyone who...
Trump's New Omarosa
Cordila is taking on The Donald. Charisma Carpenter, who appeared on both "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" as Cordelia, the cheerleader turned goul-getter, is expected to be a contestant...
IF YOU DON'T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW
Further proof Tom Ford is a perfume pervert.
Publicist to designer: Who are you?
After waiting on a block long line outside the Just Sweet by Jennifer Lopez show, the designers Three as Four were sent to the back of the standing room only...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: NEW YORK HOT CORNERS STILL HOT
Just a reminder, if you are interested, I will be doing the color of the Yankee-Blue Jay game on WCBS-AM (880) tonight. Now onto Week 23 of Awards Wednesday:AL MVP1....
Deal of the Day
If you buy into the hype, wide leg is in, and skinny is out.But what about an old school pair of slouchy Carpenter Jeans in a dark wash? Perfect for...
IMMIGRATION - THE STORY OF AMERICA'S PEOPLE
America is like a tapestry - beautiful, colorful threads woven into a work of art. The people who have come to America throughout its history have blended together to form...
ROAST IN PEACE
HAPPY birthday, you syphilitic loser! Next time you're looking to honor a friend or colleague, forget boring drinks at a bar or a tedious group dinner. Karaoke? Played. The birthday...
RULES OF THE ROAST
SHOULD you be invited to speak at a roast - and at this point, it's only a matter of time - here are some pointers to appropriately pay tribute to...
ZAC'S NOT JUST POSENT
Zac Posen's theme was early American settlers, Shakers, wheat fields and big country sky. As scary and Little House as that sounds, it was actually the moment that he moved...
MARY KATE PUTS UP THE KS
Mary Kate Olsen wasn't so much hitting the shows as she was hitting on guys during Fashion Week. The tiny twin was spotted at Bungalow 8 late night after a...
PLAYS MAKING WAVES MAY SWIM ACROSS POND
LONDON - Would it, could it, should it? Or, as New York theater buffs wonder while they're here: Will this or that West End production ever make it to Broadway?...
STAGE FRIGHTENED
A state-of-the-art off-Broadway theater owned and operated by two of Broadway's top producers is riddled with debt and faces possible foreclosure and bankruptcy, The Post has learned. The theater -...
TOASTING TONY
LOGICALLY, in this age of disposable stars, Tony Bennett should have left not just his heart but his career in San Francisco. What was left? His biggest hit peaked and...
SOAP STAR DUI
DISNEY channel and soap star Kirsten Storms has been arrested for drunken driving. Storms, 23, plays Maxi Jones on "General Hospital," but is better known for "Days of Our Lives,"...
CENSOR KATHY GRIFFIN
THE TV Academy will edit out controversial remarks that comedian Kathy Griffin made about Jesus during her creative Emmy Award acceptance speech for a taped telecast that airs Saturday on...
SCARBOROUGH AT 7 STARTS SLOW
CH. 4's new 7 p.m. newscast with Chuck Scarborough got off to a stumbling start. "New York Nightly News" was last in its timeslot Monday, despite heavy promotion for the...
'BACHELOR' CAD
FOR at least one bache lorette, this officer is not a gentleman. Lt. Andrew Baldwin starred in the most recent edition of "The Bachelor" and proposed to San Francisco social...
KATHIE GLEE REUNION
KATHIE Lee Gifford returned to "Live" yesterday - almost like she'd never left. A confident Gifford strode onto the stage and wasted no time bantering with former co-host Regis Philbin,...
DUDES GET NUDE ON FILM
THE most talked-about scene in David Cronenberg's riveting thriller "Eastern Promises," opening Friday, will no doubt swell the membership, pardon the pun, of Viggo Mortensen's fan club. Playing a member...
SIMON COWELL: BRITNEY SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE BOOT
Sharp-tongued Simon Cowell says Britney Spears almost sunk her career Sunday night with her VMA performance, where she waddled around stage in a seemingly drug-induced state, and if she were...
YOUTUBE OUTS ABC ANCHORS
A collection of clips featuring ABC's super-late night anchor team Ryan Owens and Taina Hernandez laughing while delivering sober news about terrorism, floods wildfires, breast cancer and the Iraq war...
BRAND-NEW ROW
THE Theater District has a new front row for dining: 44th Street between Fifth and Seventh avenues. It doesn't have the sheer number of places of "Restaurant Row" on 46th...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Sun-Pluto aspect on your birthday means you will be somewhat pushy over the coming 12 months but that may be no bad thing. If you are a typical Virgo...
BIG DADDY 'CANE'
A killer heat wave grips the City of Angels in early September, but Jimmy Smits' Studio City office, on the lot where his new drama "Cane" is being filmed, is...
IN CRUZ CONTROL
I'm Black, I'm Cuban, I'm a singer - that's it," says Xiomara Laugart when asked to compare herself to Celia Cruz. "But she's an icon, and I'm doing my best...
TWIN SPEAKS
Shalim Ortiz says that landing a role on the hit show "Heroes" was the result of series of serendipitous moments and magic, the sort of mysterious brew that had fans...
'SPIN' DOCTOR
Summer is officially on its way out - but in Polito Vega's world, it's hot all year round. A quick listen to his eight-hour marathon show on La Mega, "Salsa...
THE RAW DEAL
Ceviche may have originated in Peru as raw seafood marinated in citrus juices, but it's traveled a long way since its humble beginnings, inspiring different interpretations throughout Latin America and,...
MEX APPEAL
FOR some people, a love of style develops with age. For others, the fashion passion hits you the minute you learn to walk. The latter was certainly the case for...
P.R. LIKE A ROCKSTAR
Circo "Cursi" Sony/BMG Puerto Ricans can boast about having the best salsa bands and reggaetón rappers in the world, sure. But now, islanders can brag about having an exceptional rock...
GLORIA'S RETURN
Gloria Estefan "90 Millas" Burgundy Records Gloria Estefan fans expecting disco and club jams - the classic crossover sounds that made the Miami raised singer a gay icon - may...
MUSICAL PICKS OF THE MONTH
Paquito D'Rivera & Chano DomÃnguez Quartier Latin Opus Arte It's rare to have two musical masters collaborate for a full concert. Rarer still is that performance captured by cameras. Lucky...
LA LISTA
PICTURE THIS Latinbeat scans Latin America's cinematic panorama to showcase 23 films by well-known directors and up-and-comers like Felipe MartÃnez, whose wickedly funny "Bluff" will make its U.S. debut. But...
AD INDUSTRY'S NO.1 FEAR: RECESSION
Madison Avenue, bracing for a slowdown, is officially now in a slump. U.S. ad spending fell 0.3 percent to $72.6 billion in the first half of the year, compared with...
INTEREST-ING
It may be a week away, but just the prospect of an interest-rate cut made stock market investors gleeful enough to propel major indexes sharply higher. In the biggest rally...
GREENSPAN IN TROUBLE FOR DOUBLE BUBBLES
Wall Street can thank Alan Greenspan for the latest turmoil in the credit markets. That's the conclusion of Portfolio magazine Contributing Editor John Cassidy, the latest critic to blast the...
CHOPPERS DOWN
FORBES Inc., already flying low, is out of the flying business - at least for the moment. The family controlled publishing company that last year sold a big minority stake...
LEWIS RAISES CAYNE
The secretive British billionaire who bought a nearly 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns isn't likely to use his newfound position to stir the pot at the troubled investment bank,...
ARREST THAT STANZA! LYRIC SITES A TARGET
Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding that Google and Yahoo!...
GOING SOLOW ON 57TH ST.
A high-stakes development chess game is under way on West 57th Street, with savvy Sheldon Solow right in the middle. Solow, the owner of the city's premier office tower at...
AD HAS PERFECT PITCH
Most mutual and money-market funds tout their performance in their marketing pitches, but one stands out for using a rather simple slogan: "No subprime." Payden & Rygel, a Los Angeles-based...
$7.25M 'SCORE'
Former Jet superstar Curtis Martin is considering buying Brooklyn's most expensive apartment - a $7.25 million waterfront penthouse with staggering views of Manhattan. The retired NFL running back is reviewing...
ISIAH'S A 'BITCH' TO WORK FOR: EXEC
Knick President and coach Isiah Thomas can be a charmer with a crowd, but a former team executive suing him for alleged sexual harassment told jurors yesterday he's a Dr....
ASTOR'S SON HITS BACK AT 'GREEDY' KIN
Anthony Marshall claims son Philip hurled elder-abuse charges at him not with Brooke Astor's well-being in mind, but to see that more of her massive estate would go to himself...
THROUGH THEIR MUTUAL LOSS, A COUPLE FINDS LOVE FOR EACH OTHER
Through their grief, they found comfort - and eventually, something more. After the attacks on the World Trade Center claimed their spouses, Nick Chiarchiaro and Cheri Sparacio struck up a...
HEAVEN'S TEARS FLOW
Time may march on, but the grief remains just as deep. Thousands of anguished relatives solemnly commemorated the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack yesterday in a rain-swept ceremony...
TENANTS FLEE WOBBLY BUILDING IN HARLEM
Dozens of people were evacuated last night from an unstable Harlem building with a history of violations, authorities said. The Fire Department was called to the seven-story building at 305...
MONSTER WHO BEAT GRANNY
Police say this is the cowardly thug who brutally beat a 95-year-old woman and stole $20 from her at her Lower East Side home. The mugger grabbed Dora Lowin's purse,...
WALL STREET 'THRAX SCARE
An eerily timed anthrax scare hit lower Manhattan yesterday, rekindling fears of terrorism on 9/11. Eight people were evacuated from the basement of 55 Water St. when a mailroom worker...
PENSION PROBE HEATS UP
ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday dramatically widened his probe of the state pension fund pay-to-play scandal by invoking extraordinary special powers. Cuomo revealed he has decided to use...
BLOOD THUG INDICTED IN 2003 SLAY
It took almost four years and a multiagency investigation that cut deep into one of the city's most violent Bloods subsets. But yesterday, a Manhattan grand jury indicted a 23-year-old...
AG GRABS HOLD OF GOV'S FAVORITE WEAPON
ALBANY - The statute invoked by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in his investigation into the state pension fund is so powerful that it's been dubbed by some critics as a...
IMETTE-CASE DEATH THREAT
Queens prosecutors have received a handwritten note in which an unidentified person threatens to kill Darryl Littlejohn, the bar bouncer awaiting trial for the rape and murder of Imette St....
FIRM MALLED
A 90-year-old, family-run construction firm may be history after it was stiffed by a company - co-owned by a city planning commissioner - working on developer Bruce Ratner's megamall project...
500G INVEST SCAMMERS: WE DID IT
Two phony brokers will be doing some very real jail time after pleading guilty yesterday to ripping off a half-dozen unsuspecting investors - including the godmother of one of their...
GAL TEACHER IN PERV BUST
A Manhattan teacher has been charged with fondling a 9-year-old boy in an elementary school - after she asked him if he wanted to know "where babies came from," The...
$LICK OIL MAN SKIDS
His wife is a jet-setting socialite who likes to bend elbows with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John. His playboy son, Steve, caused a furor in Britain in 1992 when...
'BROTHEL' GAL: NO SEX THERE
A Bronx woman busted for working at an alleged brothel in a tony Westchester County neighborhood is a Monroe College grad and a military veteran and has ambitions of being...
PALS GATHER FOR FALLEN FIREMAN
Fallen firefighter Joseph Graffagnino was remembered at a Brooklyn fund-raiser yesterday as a hero. Graffagnino and fellow firefighter Robert Beddia died Aug. 18 in the former Deutsche Bank building, which...
GUESTS IN OWN HOMES
Home ownership in New York City is barely half the rate of the rest of the country, new figures show. More than two-thirds, or 67.3 percent, of single-family homes, co-ops...
IMUS SUIT DROPPED
A Rutgers basketball player who sued radio host Don Imus for calling her team "nappy-headed hos" has dropped the defamation case less than a month after filing it, The Post...
NEW LIFE FOR 'BORN-AGAIN' MOB RAT
A beefy mob turncoat who flipped for the feds before it was fashionable blubbered at his sentencing yesterday that he had become "a human being this court could be proud...
MOM STOPS RAPIST SON, POLICE SAY
A Manhattan man who met a 33-year-old woman at a bar lured her to his home for a brutal gang rape - which was broken up when the thug's own...
MOVING DAY FOR SHOT COP
As dozens of fellow cops looked on and applauded, shot Police Officer Ann Marie Marchiondo was transferred to a new hospital yesterday. The 40-year-old transit cop looked cool and collected...
HAIR-RAISING
Portuguese officials yesterday handed the results of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann to a judge, who will now consider whether her parents should be charged, The Times...
TEAM FRED RIPS WEB-MOCKING MITT
WASHINGTON - Fred Thompson's presidential campaign lashed out at rival Mitt Romney yesterday over a rogue Web site titled "Phony Fred" that ridiculed the actor-politician as a lazy, moronic, flip-flopping...
HILL SHILL CLAIMED HSU WAS A 'LEGIT' FIT
A campaign staffer for Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed in an e-mail that moneyman Norman Hsu was "completely legit" weeks before it was revealed he was a fugitive. "I can tell...
FAT SIGNS DON'T CUT MUSTARD
Ignorance is bliss - and has the blessing of a federal judge - when it comes to calorie-counting at the city's fast-food joints. Manhattan U.S. District Court Judge Richard Holwell...
30,000 GIS TO HEAD HOME
President Bush will tell the nation tomorrow night in a live televised address that he intends to withdraw 30,000 troops from Iraq by next summer, officials said. In a 15-minute...
DEMS ON HOT SEAT NOW
Democrats in Congress came under withering fire yesterday for refusing to denounce an attack by the left-wing group MoveOn.org on the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)...
PHIL FOREMAN
The jury in Phil Spector's trial completed its second day of deliberations yesterday without rendering a verdict. The panel of nine men and three women tabbed juror No. 10, a...
RAP RIVAL KANYE BESTS 50 CENT IN CD SALES
Kanye West is making chump change out of rival 50 Cent. The preppy singer's CD was handily beating his Queens-born rapper foe's in online sales on several sites as both...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A dispute over a fare led to the arrest of an illegal-cab driver who fondled a woman in a Flatbush store early yesterday, authorities said. Kenneth Copeland, 32, who...
THIS GUY REALLY CROSSES FOUL LINE
THE moment came somewhere between the time Isiah Thomas was said to call a woman a "bitch" and a "ho." Or maybe it was "f- - -ing bitch mother f-...
FIREFIGHTERS KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THIS
IF YOU want politicians to vanish into thin air, tell them they can't talk. So, yesterday on 100th Street and Riverside Drive the simple, but solemn, ceremony was a no-fly...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 855; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 7379; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 086; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
SMEARING A HERO
It's hard to decide which was the more disgusting: Monday's New York Times ad slandering Gen. David Pe traeus, or the newspaper's decision to publish it in the first place....
CUOMO ON THE JOB
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has invoked the power of the 86-year-old Martin Act to ratchet up his investigation of the state's $154 billion pension fund - a potentially seismic...
NEXT: IRAQI SHIITES
COULD the surprising change in the worldview of Sunni Iraqis formerly hostile to the United States - the decision of tribes in a province we all but wrote off a...
IRAN'S WAR ON THE KURDS
FOR the last year at least, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the back bone of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has been engaged in a bloody war against Kurdish rebels...
DEMS' GREAT SENATE HOPES
DEMOCRATS may hold up to 57 U.S. Senate seats after the 2008 election - almost enough to block a Republican filibuster and likely enough to assure passage of most of...
THE 9/12 PEOPLE
'IF only." Those are the verbal crutches Amer ica must discard in a post-9/11 world. If only the State Department hadn't been so sloppy in issuing visas to the 9/11...
STOMPING OUT TERROR'S FOOTPRINT AFTER 9/11
Adam Brodsky's article, "A Weird Way to Wage War," (PostOpinion, Sept. 7) is dead on and should be a must- read for those who are unsure about the War on...
MARBURY ADMITS TO CO-ED FLING DURING ISIAH TRIAL
New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury was grilled about seedy sex with a team intern in a truck as he took the witness stand at his boss Isiah Thomas' sexual...
2ND CHANCE AT RANKINGS
IN the words of an Amer ican icon, Gordon Gekko (no, not the insurance lizard), greed is good. And there's no money in not having a preseason college football poll....
AND THE WINNER IS . . .
Upon further review, the stewards have declared a new "Showdown at Saratoga" champion - The Post's Vic Cangialosi. Due to a miscalculation innocently made by OTB's Sean Clancy on his...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Chisox extend Ozzie's pactOzzie Guillen and the White Sox agreed yesterday to a contract extension through the 2012 season. Guillen managed Chicago to a World Series title in 2005...
HONDO: V IS FOR VOLQUEZ
Hondo, who breezed with the A's Monday night, stormed right back with another 'W' yesterday after noon when the Rangers rocked Motown in the opener to increase the wad to...
FAT CHANCE
T HE level of uncertainty swirling around the Giants is remarkable, considering only one game has come off the schedule and the early returns (offense good, defense lousy) were not...
ELI EXPECTED BACK BY 'SKINS
The misinformation and conflicting reports circulating about the Giants' injury situation, specifically the seriousness of the problem with Eli Manning's right shoulder and the timetable for his return, have led...
ISLES DEAL FOR BRUIN PROSPECT
An Islander first-rounder left town yesterday. Forward Petteri Nokelainen, chosen 16th overall by the Isles in 2004, was shipped to the Bruins for center Ben Walter, the son of former...
BELICHEAT
Roger Goodell apparently has caught Bill Belichick's hand in the cookie jar. The rookie NFL commissioner, according to an ESPN report, is poised to penalize the Patriots severely for blatantly...
ROBBED JETS DESERVE RE-DO
We knew Bill Belichick was desperate to win that elusive fourth Super Bowl championship when he took a flier on Randy Moss. Apparently so desperate his Hall of Fame bust...
KELLEN'S READY IF CALLED
FOR the Jets' quarter back of the future, the future is now. "Whether I'm playing in the National Football League, in college, or at the Turkey Bowl back home with...
DUQUE SUFFERS NIGHT FROM EL
Orlando Hernandez insisted his foot didn't bother him last night. But his performance was atrocious, and the issue is whether he still may be hurting or is simply in a...
BRAVES BLEW CHANCE TO BRING GLAVINE BACK
FORGET about if Tom Glavine is going to pitch next year. It was his decision for this current season that altered the NL East balance of power. He all but...
TWO FOR ONE
The auditions for the Mets' fourth playoff starter continue tonight at Shea Stadium. Oliver Perez made his case Monday by shutting down the Braves, now John Maine gets his chance....
GLAVINE PONDERS FUTURE
As they were last year, the Mets are interested in having Tom Glavine return next season. Omar Minaya admitted that yesterday, saying of the veteran lefty, "He's had a very...
CANADIAN BAKIN'
TORONTO - How bad did Jason Giambi need the grand slam he hit last night? "I would have been the guy from "An Officer and a Gentleman" in the shower...
MOMENTUM LANDS ON MOOSE
TORONTO - The baseball adage that predates even Roger Clemens states, "Momentum is tomorrow's starting pitcher." There's never been greater proof of its wisdom than the fate that befell the...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
JETER BOUNCES BACK INTO TORRE'S LINEUP
TORONTO - Derek Jeter could have two limbs sliced off and insist his body was OK. So with his return to the Yankee lineup hours away yesterday afternoon, Jeter offered...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Alex - an African gray parrot who could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration over the repetitive trials through which researchers put him - has died after...
Warner Indie's Got Ball's
Warner Independent reportedly has made a deal to distribute, in conjunction with Netflix's Red Envelope, Alan Ball's controversial "Nothing is Private,'' which I enthused about yesterday. They'd better brace themselves...
Clash of the Titans
It was common knowledge heading into the season that the only thing the Jaguars' offense did well was run the ball. It was obvious the Jags' defense was sturdy and...