September 15, 2007
The First Casualty of War?
"In the Valley of Elah,'' the first of a bunch of Iraq-themed Hollywood flicks to hit theaters this fall, will post "solid but unspectacular'' numbers this weekend, predicts Steve Mason...
Don't Miss 'Toots'
The glut of new movies this weekend means some of them risk getting lost in the shuffle. I hope this isn't the fate of Kristi Jacobson's "Toots,'' a terrific portrait...
Yanks' Rally Beats Sox
Yanks Win 8-7By GEORGE KINGHold off on those toe tags. Keep the body bags in the ambulance. Maybe the music hasn't been muted forever in the AL East dance.Anybody who...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY THIS LITTLE LIGHT: Tour Manhattan's only remaining lighthouse - the star of Hildegarde Swift's book "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge" - at The Little Red...
CURTAINS UP!
OK, so it doesn't have quite the cachet of Broadway - but it doesn't have those $450 VIP tickets, either. Welcome to the kinder, gentler world of children's theater, which...
CELEBRATION OF THE HIP-HOP NATION
FOUR years ago, AllHipHop.com co-founders Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur and "Grouchy" Greg Watkins decided to throw a barbecue so visitors to their steadily growing Web site could meet in person, instead...
NOT FITTY FOR A KING
QUEENS rapper 50 Cent has always given his fans more bang for their concert buck, but at the Hammerstein Ballroom, his performance wasn't worth two bits. The concert - the...
ROLL MODEL
QUICK question: What do upcoming musicals inspired by such disparate sources as Jane Austen, Hanukkah, the Latin poems of Catullus, roller derby, Sherlock Holmes, the murder spree of Charlie Starkweather,...
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
IN 1994 in the upscale suburb of Bellevue, Washington, two brilliant young scholars - Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns - returned to the Rafay home after a night out carousing....
A BRINE OLD TIME
HEY there, sourpuss. Or is that half-sourpuss? Tomorrow is International Pickle Day, and this year's celebration promises to be a dilly. The seventh annual tribute to the briny best starts...
DEATH PLUNGE
A construction worker helping move massive concrete barriers on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was killed yesterday when two of them tipped onto a catwalk, sending him plunging more than 100 feet,...
TRAINING CAMP FOR ISIAH
A former Knick executive's sexual-harassment complaints against Isiah Thomas were so serious that Garden officials slated the coach for special "sensitivity training" - and then scrapped the plan when they...
SEX-HARASS SUPERVISOR AN ANIMAL: EX-WORKER
A former employee at a Bronx substance-abuse-treatment center said her boss was a real dog who would brag about having sex in front of his cat. In a lawsuit filed...
HOME-INVADE THUGS HIT L.I. DUO
A Long Island businessman and his female friend were robbed in their tony Garden City home by a gang of invaders who tied up the woman and stole cash, jewelry...
FIEND ON ATTACK IN SUBWAYS
A bandit has been targeting women at Manhattan subway stations, knocking them down and snatching their purses, police said. The thug struck on Sept. 5 at 4:30 p.m. when he...
HIT-RUN SLAY BUST
A Queens man behind the wheel of a pickup truck was arrested yesterday after he struck and killed a homeless man in SoHo and sped off, cops said. Jairo Fajardo,...
SUBWAY SERIOUS: EXITS AT YANK STOP BLOCKED
Safety got thrown out at the gate. At the busy Yankee Stadium No. 4 subway stop, three out of the five emergency exits have been routinely blocked with metal barricades....
FALLING DEBRIS NAILS CONSTRUCTION WORKER
A worker on an Upper West Side construction project was hospitalized yesterday after one of his colleagues dropped scaffolding parts from several stories above, witnesses said. Daryl Allen, 23, was...
CARRIAGE-HORSE TRAGEDY
A carriage horse died yesterday after it got spooked by a man playing the drums and ran headfirst into a tree, cops said. Smoothie, a 12-year-old mare, was standing by...
SACK EXCHANGE
Jean Strahan's twin 2-year-old daughters didn't even have a bed to sleep on last night thanks to an auction ordered by the court at the insistence of their NFL-star father....
U.S. KEEPS EYE ON SYRIA NUKE LINKS
Syria is on a U.S. atomic weapons watch list and has had contacts with "secret suppliers" - possibly including a ring that has given nuclear technology to rogue nations from...
PROBERS: HERE KITTY!
Police reportedly want to seize Madeline McCann's favorite stuffed animal toy - Cuddle Cat - and test it for DNA evidence. The little, bow-wearing kitty was in Maddie's arms when...
MADELEINE MAY HAVE BEEN DUMPED AT SEA
Portuguese cops think that the body of missing British tot Madeleine McCann may have been thrown off a yacht and left in the sea in a sack weighted down with...
RUDY RIPS HILL'S PETRAEUS DISS
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani escalated his attack on Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday in a new Web ad that charges she flip-flopped on the Iraq war and takes her to task...
PAYING A PRICE FOR SAFE TOYS
Come next year, consumers will share the burden for getting the lead out of toys. Barbie dolls, Disney figurines and SpongeBob Stationary are among the millions of items recalled after...
O.J. PROBED AS A STEALER IN 'STICKUP' AT LAS VEGAS HOTEL ROOM
Disgraced ex-football great O.J. Simpson is in legal limbo again, this time as a suspect in a bizarre Las Vegas hotel burglary in which he's accused of breaking into a...
MOVEON IN 'BULLY' AGENDA
MoveOn.org is the $28 million left-wing smash-mouth bully of politics. That's how much its political action committee spent last year to help Democrats win control of Congress - with nearly...
GIULIANI: THERE'S ONE CLINTON WHO LIKES ME
Republican Rudy Giuliani revealed yesterday he has a secret weapon in his campaign for the presidency: Bill Clinton. Giuliani told a law-enforcement group in Louisiana he has a letter from...
BOOK DOES KILLER SALES
O.J. Simpson killed Harry Potter. The disgraced gridiron's true-crime confession slashed its way to No. 1 both on Amazon's and Barnes & Noble's online best-seller list. "You couldn't have invented...
LANCE IS GROWLING AT COLLARS
The Lance Armstrong Foundation has launched a lawsuit against an Oklahoma company, claiming its "PurrStrong" and "BarkStrong" pet collars are copycats of the cyclist's trademark "LiveStrong" yellow bracelet. The "LiveStrong"...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who has robbed two banks in the Upper West Side and Chelsea. The suspect most recently hit the...
BLAME GAME ALL HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY
HOLD onto your stomachs and bar the door. The shameless and murderous O.J. Simpson has authored a new book about his life of crime: "If I Robbed Them: It Was...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 804; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 6907; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 797; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 4132;...
A MIRACLE FOR MR. MET
It may have been a wild-card victory, but Mr. Met is grinning nevertheless. The iconic Mets mascot finished a close second in this year's Internet balloting for a spot in...
RAUNCHY RUTGERS
It's homecoming-football weekend at Rutgers University. Here's hoping that visiting Norfolk State gets more respect than did the Midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy last weekend. Actually, it would be...
ONCE A CLINTON . . .
For Hillary Clinton, it must seem like déjà vu all over again (as Yogi Berra might put it). But for voters, Camp Clinton's panicky move to refund $850,000 (temporarily, anyway)...
IRAQ & U.S. POLITICS: DEMS' BIG MISTAKE
SEN. Hillary Clinton incon testably spoke the truth about the Iraq War this past February at the annual meeting of the Democratic National Committee when she said, "I understand the...
FUNNY-MONEY MESS IS HILL'S OWN FAULT
DEMOCRATIC insiders blame Sen. Hillary Clinton's microma naging for her presidential campaign's acceptance of nearly $900,000 in contributions donated or raised by Norman Hsu, convicted for fraud and a former...
COMO SE DICE 'PANDER'?
It is nothing short of bizarre that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson complained that the presidential debate requirement, that the answers be given in English, was somehow unfairly promoting English...
MOVEON OR MOVE OUT: AN UGLY, UNPATRIOTIC AD
MoveOn.org planted the journalistic equivalent of a roadside bomb with its placement of an ad in The New York Times demeaning Gen. David Petraeus ("MoveOn's Smear," Ralph Peters, PostOpinion, Sept....
CLICK TO WATCH
By the time many of this fall's new TV shows premiere later this month, a number of Web-savvy viewers will have already given their thumbs-up or thumbs-down. That's because networks...
$3.4B WINDFALL A WYNN WIN
Casino mogul Steve Wynn just hit his industry's biggest jackpot - doubling his personal gaming fortune in just one year to $3.4 billion. Shares of Wynn Resorts reached a new...
MERRILL SET FOR A PUNCH
Merrill Lynch yesterday provided Wall Street with the biggest clue yet that the subprime credit crunch could hurt the bulge-bracket firm's bottom line. The investment bank in a regulatory filing...
BIOVAIL REINSTATES LAW FIRM
Troubled Canadian drug maker Biovail Pharmaceuticals brought back its recently fired law firm to help it fend off charges that it improperly used documents in a legal battle it's waging...
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...
SOMEONE'LL WIN . . . GUARANTEED
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - When the announcement was made on July 30 that Notre Dame and Michigan had agreed to extend their series for 20 years, all the key players...
PAPER *PATS
THE hoodie now fits better than it ever has for Bill Belichick, who ought to tug that hood over his head in an effort to hide his face in shame,...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: U.S. advances in ChinaAbby Wambach scored both goals as the U.S. women's team defeated Sweden 2-0 yesterday in a women's World Cup Group B game in Chengdu, China. The...
RAGS TO RICHES SET FOR BELMONT TODAY
The handful of hardcore railbirds at Belmont Park the past few days have imagined themselves in the opening scene of "GoodFellas" as Tony Bennett's rendition of "Rags to Riches" has...
LIGHT'S BAD BREAK
Electric Light, 5-year-old gelding making 23rd start, was attempting to rally up rail turning for home when he snapped left front leg. Garrett Gomez did good job keeping horse from...
HONDO GOES TO COLLEGE
The Yankees rallied heroically for Hondo last night, which, along with the Phillies' triumph out at Flushing's Lame-Duck Dump, increased the bulbous bankroll to 365 hermanskis. Today, he'll vacate the...
ROCKET ON TARGET FOR TOMORROW
BOSTON - One day after throwing what he described as a "more violent" bullpen session to test his barking right elbow, Roger Clemens was anointed the Yankees' starter tomorrow night...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
NOTRE DAME at MICHIGANLine: Michigan by 7 1/2. Angle: It's a shocking matchup of the nation's two winningest programs that are winless this season. Look for Charlie Weis to take...
LANGENBRUNNER MIGHT NEED SURGERY
While new coach Brent Sutter opened nominations for the Devils' captaincy, winger Jamie Langenbrunner resumed a regimen of rest in an unlikely second bid to avoid surgery that could sideline...
COMEBACK KID
Eli Manning took a giant step toward playing this week when he practiced yesterday and took half of the first-team snaps. The Giants quarterback is listed as questionable for tomorrow's...
STRAHAN AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY OFFENDER
Michael Strahan reminded the media he's just as quick to rip into a male reporter as a female, yesterday, when he took umbrage over being asked whether he'd find it...
A CHANCE OF CHAD
Don't rule Chad Pennington out of tomorrow's game against the Ravens. That message was delivered rather dramatically by how much more mobile and sure on his feet Pennington looked during...
JETS NOT SURPRISED BY PENALTY
In the minutes following Sunday's loss to the Patriots, Jets safety Kerry Rhodes said in the locker room it seemed like New England knew what the Jets were doing on...
SAME OL' STORY
The defense truly rested for the Mets last night at Shea. The Mets played deplorable defense in the 10th inning, committing two terrible plays - one an error, one a...
LO DUCA EJECTED IN NINTH
Paul Lo Duca took a called third strike to end the ninth inning last night and wasn't happy about it. Lo Duca argued the strikeout and was ejected by umpire...
GOMEZ ADJUSTS TO NEW UNIFORM
The switch from Devil to Ranger started to sink in for Scott Gomez in August when he was working out with former teammate Jay Pandolfo in Boston. Pandolfo was skating...
START BELIEVING
BOSTON - The Yankees won, and that just seems impossible if you had seen the first seven innings of last night's game. The Yankees were not bad. They were rancid....
BARRAGE MAKES IT AN INNING TO REMEMBER
BOSTON - The inning was a microcosm for the season. It was six months shrink-wrapped into one remarkable frame that tells you all about where the Yankees - and the...
YANKS' RALLY IS EIGHTH WONDER
BOSTON - Hold off on those toe tags. Keep the body bags in the ambulance. Maybe the music hasn't been muted forever in the AL East dance. Anybody who watched...
SAWX STILL SMARTING OVER JOBA'S PITCHES
BOSTON - Duck was on the menu for the Yankees as they arrived at Fenway Park yesterday. It was only a matter of whom would be ducking and when. Red...
BULLPEN MELTDOWN
BOSTON - The silence inside Fenway Park was deafening. Hideki Okajima's implosion was one thing, but Jonathan Papelbon, too? The so-called best bullpen in baseball was turned to mush last...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Geneva, N.Y., man told police he stole a car so he could drive himself to the local sheriff's office to turn himself in on another charge. Vincent Estrada, 29,...