September 19, 2007
The Reign in Spain
Hermanas, Penelope and Monica Cruz are hot for Mango, and Mango is loving them back. Included in my ES Magazine (the women's mag in London's Evening Standard) was a Mango...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: WRIGHT HURT BY MET SLIDE?
By Joel ShermanWeek 24 of Awards Wednesday:AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2. Magglio Ordonez, Tigers. 3. Jorge Posada, Yankees. A_Rod has hit .179 with no homers in 29 at-bats since...
Fantasy lives of famous
We here at Fantasy Tracker are easily starstruck. Show us a celebrity and we get giddy. So to satisfy our lust for fame, we went to the Fantasy Tracker phone...
Starr Report
Two DVD releases mark edly different in tone: The new "Holly Hobbie: Best Friends Forever" DVD, out this week, will also air as a Nickelodeon special on Fri day, Oct....
'Darjeeling' Limited Indeed
The last two films to open the New York Film Festival, "The Queen'' last year and "Good Night, and Good Luck'' in 2005, went on to Best Picture nominations. There...
Deal of the Day
The timeline for the shorts hemline is dwindling, but these In God We Trust Button-Up Shorts in Plaid are worth an extension.Get a pair of textured cream tights (for you,...
WHY THEY CAME PUSHES & PULLS
You are a 19-year-old Jewish boy in Russia in 1904. Your country has discriminated against you and treated you badly, but now you hear that the army of that same...
ALL-STAR LINEUPS AT BRONX AND SHEA
BOTH Shea and Yankee stadiums have seen their fair share of celebrity traffic this season, and as each team makes a run for the playoffs, the notable names are bound...
FOOD CUTIE HIDES BOOTY
COOKING kitten Rachael Ray is not feeling Sir Mix-A-Lot. She doesn't mind showing off her itty-bitty waist - but when it comes to the bum, she likes to keep that...
COMMITS SIN OF MELODRAMA
NOT much sainthood is on display in Kate Fodor's "100 Saints You Should Know," which opened last night at Playwrights Horizons. What with a priest struggling with his sexuality, a...
PUB CRAWLS TO THE PARK FOR CONCERTS
IF Joe's Pub feels drafty during the next couple of weeks, that's be cause it's moved uptown - temporarily - to Central Park's Delacorte Theatre. This gorgeous open-air venue, which...
QUAID'S CRUSADE
'LONE Star Love," the Broadway-bound musical starring Randy Quaid and the Red Clay Ram blers, is a jolly retelling of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" set in the Wild West....
'BACK' IN THE SADDLE
IF the makers of "Back to You" could get their heads out of their underpants for two minutes, then maybe they'd find the time to write some dialogue for their...
STARR REPORT
Two DVD releases mark edly different in tone: The new "Holly Hobbie: Best Friends Forever" DVD, out this week, will also air as a Nickelodeon special on Fri day, Oct....
BRUCE CUTLER GETS READY FOR ACT TWO
BRUCE Cutler says he wasn't dismissed from Phil Spector's murder trial for leaving last summer to tape his new syndicated court show, "Jury Duty." "Phillip [Spector] made some comments that...
TROPHY'S CHOICE
AND then there were only two - the good girl with pink hair and the topless dancer with her eye on the prize. VH1's wildly popular dating show, "Bret Michaels:...
TINA: JERRY JOINS 'ROCK'
JERRY Seinfeld is headed back to NBC this fall, but don't expect him to be happy about it. Jerry's coming to shake things up around the station's studios, and it...
OFFERS COLD COMFORT
IT'S not nice to fool Mother Nature, because eventually she's going to get even - good and even. That's the message in "The Last Winter," an environmental horror film by...
WELCOME TO...NEW DELI
HAPPY New Year! Jews worldwide just celebrated the arrival of 5768, and wouldn't you know it, turns out it's the Year of the Deli. Although we use the term "deli"...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Everyone was born with a talent and according to your birthday chart you will get the chance to make something of your special ability over the coming 12 months. What...
LEHMAN PROFIT DROP BEATS ESTIMATES
Dick Fuld's Lehman Brothers was able to use some deft hedging and a lower tax rate to report better than expected earnings yesterday. Seen as the proxy for all of...
HALF AND HALF
Ben Bernanke yesterday buckled to Wall Street's demands for more cheap money to cover its bets and losses - but the price of the cut could be steep. The Fed...
DOWN MEMORY LANE
WE hear that some folks at McGraw-Hill are getting a little nervous about a new tome about former GE chief Jack Welch that's being written by former Welch speech writer...
MURDOCH MULLING A FREE WSJ.COM
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that The Wall Street Journal's long-standing paid Web site will be remade into a free site under his ownership,...
EISNER GETS TOPPS NOD
Money manager Mario Gabelli said yesterday that he supports former Disney boss Michael Eisner's $385 million takeover of iconic baseball card maker Topps, which faces a close shareholder vote today....
SEC EYES ALL IN THE FAMILY FUND TIES
In a bid to sniff out illegal insider trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission is demanding hedge funds cough up new information, including relationships between their managers, family members and...
PROJECT PUZZLES
The Macklowes' debt crisis belies the sound health of their Manhattan office buildings. Their total 12 million square feet are almost fully leased to tenants paying up to $150 a...
FLIP FLOPPED
New York mega-developer Harry Macklowe is feverishly trying to find buyers for at least $1 billion worth of office assets as the global credit crunch wreaks havoc on his ability...
UNIVERSAL'S BIG BOYS GIVE MUSIC INDUSTRY A BOOST
Kanye West is about to have bragging rights over 50 Cent in the first-week sales clash of the two hip-hop titans. But the big winner is Universal Music Group, which...
FOR MERRILL, SIZE COUNTS
MERRILL Lynch executives say the three possible locations in the city for a new headquarters remain candidates, though none of them is ideal. That's because with the city popping at...
A CHINESE CHECK-OUT
A once high-flying Hong Kong-based tech company that tantalized investors with promises of millions in revenue has yet to disclose that its auditors resigned more than a month ago. China...
OK, SPITZ, SPILL YOUR GUTS: POLL
ALBANY - The dirty-tricks scandal has dropped Gov. Spitzer's popularity to its lowest level since early 2005 - and 70 percent of New Yorkers want him to publicly testify under...
COLUMBIA PULLS U-EY: SCRAPS 'MINUTEMAN'
Columbia University students have scrapped plans to hear from the founder of the Minuteman Project - a year after their classmates violently interrupted a speech by the anti-illegal-immigration activist. The...
INTERNET IDIOT MAKES FUN OF 9/11 NIGHTMARE
A crude and tasteless Web site that claims 9/11 was "funny" and the victims "deserved what they got" has provoked a storm of criticism. The site features a series of...
HOT WHEELS AT ROCK PLAZA
Choking black smoke spews high into the sky near Rockefeller Plaza yesterday as a taxi bursts into flames. Cabby Samuel Dockery, 59, had just pulled over on 50th Street between...
QNS. COW CORRALLED
It was a case of NYPD Moo last night as cops roped a cow that ran through the streets of Queens. The animal was first spotted on Parsons Boulevard near...
ISIAH'S GETTING 'BITCH' SLAPPED
Knick honcho Isiah Thomas took it on the chin from the city's black community yesterday for saying it's OK for black men to call black women "bitch" and for allegedly...
DOLAN JUST FIRED AWAY
Jurors yesterday heard Garden Chairman James Dolan nonchalantly admit to firing a top Knick executive while her sexual-harassment claims were still under investigation and brush off charges that she was...
BRACE FOR BIG JOB LOSSES ON WALL STREET AND CITY
The looming national credit crisis has the Big Apple in the crosshairs. Predictions of massive layoffs on Wall Street that may total 10,000 could also result in a sea of...
FORECLOSING IN
In a matter of months, Nancy Danielle may join the nearly 15,000 New Yorkers who have lost their homes in the last year because of the subprime-mortgage crisis. Danielle, a...
PA REOPENS 41ST ST.
The Port Authority today will reopen the stretch of West 41st Street that runs though the bus terminal, which had been closed to traffic since Sept. 11, officials said. The...
SURVIVAL INSTINCT DOOMED SHOT COP
An instinctive defensive move - raising the arm to protect the head - helped cost Police Officer Dillon Stewart his life, his partner testified yesterday. The partner, Paul Lipka, said...
H2WOE FOR L.I. WATER BIGS
An official audit of two Long Island water districts showed commissioners showered themselves with free perks, like junkets to Florida and California, and bought memberships in discount shopping clubs so...
BOOT CAMP IS HOT COURSE FOR RESTAURATEURS
At this boot camp nobody complains about KP duty. The basic trainees are New Yorkers planning to open their own restaurants and who need guidance through the minefields of dealing...
'FAKE GUITAR' GUY PLUCKED
A Long Island music-store owner was arrested for allegedly selling counterfeit high-end Gibson guitars at his Oakdale shop. Police said Bernard Musumeci, 44, of Centereach, knowingly passed off fake versions...
LEGAL AID IN DEUTSCHE FIRE
The city is offering free legal help to any of its workers who might face criminal charges in the deadly Deutsche Bank blaze, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "We will help...
PSC FEELING STEAM HEAT
New Yorkers live atop a minefield of decrepit Con Edison steam pipes overseen so loosely that state regulators have no records of the utility's worst explosions, say lawyers working for...
SIS TELLS OF LETHAL COCKTAIL
The sister of a murder-for-hire victim testified yesterday how her brother fell from his chair, then began moaning, sweating and frothing at the mouth after he sipped a cyanide-laced rum...
ISLAM LEAFLET SCHOOL BUST
A Queens teen was arrested yesterday after placing fliers in his teachers' mailboxes asking them to convert to Islam - then made threats once he was caught, authorities said. Yaseen...
SAY IT 'SAINT' SO, JOE
Parents of Catholic school kids forced out when their Green wich Village Catholic school was shuttered reacted with righ teous indignation - and outright laughter - after learning that 140...
BORO PARK BLAZE KILLS RABBI
=A beloved Brooklyn rabbi and Talmudic scholar was killed yesterday in a fire at his Borough Park home. "He was a great person. It's a shame he had to go...
TUSKEGEE HERO IS PLANE GREAT
Roscoe Brown is not going gentle into that good night. Having fought the Nazis in World War II as a pilot with the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, Brown is still soaring...
SUMMER-CAMP BRIBE BUST
The manager of an upstate summer camp was arrested yesterday and charged with offering a $10,000 bribe to a city environmental-protection employee to overlook wastewater-treatment violations. The Department of Investigation...
JOGGER FIGHTS OFF 'SEX FIEND'
A young woman jogging along a street on the West Side escaped from a crazed pervert who molested her and then tried to rape her, officials said yesterday. The violence...
MSG RETIRES HALLOWED RING
The storied boxing ring in "the World's Most Famous Arena" will hear its final 10-count today after 82 years and hundreds of prize-fights. Madison Square Garden's ring - host to...
EX-BEAU IN ARSON BUST
A 52-year-old jilted lover was arrested yesterday after he torched his ex-girlfriend's Brooklyn brownstone, seriously injuring her in a blaze that took nearly two hours to control, fire marshals said....
SHOOT-ME SOLDIER JAILED
A Bronx soldier who hired a hit man to shoot him so he could avoid going back to Iraq pleaded guilty yesterday to a misdemeanor in exchange for a year...
GI DIED A HERO
A Queens soldier died a hero for his country, risking his life on front-line duty he didn't have to do. Army Spc. Jonathan Rivadeneira's commanding officer, Sgt. Joshua Lawton-Belous, said...
LETHAL WMD BLAST
Dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian soldiers were killed in an explosion while conducting a top-secret experiment - providing new evidence that the two countries are working together to...
RUDY HAS GUN FOES ON EDGE
Gun-control advocates yesterday urged Rudy Giuliani not to abandon his years of support for federal firearms restrictions to satisfy the National Rifle Association. "I'd be very disappointed. I don't know...
BRIT KEEPS BABIES
Washed-up warbler Britney Spears is a "habitual" drug user and boozer - but that doesn't mean she should spend any less time with her kids, a Los Angeles judge has...
BULLY FOR THE FED
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke shocked Wall Street yesterday, slashing interest rates by half a percentage point and sparking a huge rally in stocks. The Fed's surprise move cut the...
CITY SCHOOLS AT HEAD OF THE CLASS
WASHINGTON - The New York City school system won the nation's top prize in public education yesterday for greatest improvement in urban teaching. The award - which U.S. Education Secretary...
O.J. HIT WITH KIDNAP RAP
Las Vegas prosecutors yesterday blitzed O.J. Simpson with a slew of new felony charges - including kidnapping - that could land the disgraced grid great in prison for life. The...
THE ISSUES THAT COUNT
When it comes to social issues, from separation of church and state to death for heinous lawbreakers, Americans are all for it - but they draw the line at same-sex...
POL: MAKE FEDERAL CASE OF TIMES' MOVEON DISCOUNT
WASHINGTON - A Virginia Republican congressman yesterday called for hearings into the massive discount The New York Times gave to the left-wing group MoveOn.org for an ad that called the...
HILL CARE-RIED AWAY
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton wants the nation's employers to help enforce her call for universal health insurance. Clinton, who unveiled a sweeping $110 billion-a-year plan Monday to provide coverage...
TAX THE WEALTHY: OBAMA
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich and give tax breaks to lower-income workers, seniors and homeowners. "We believe that there is a place in...
ALLERGIES WIPE OUT MANNERS
Here are two words that go together: "Achoo!" and "Yuck!" Allergies have forced seven in 10 people to cough up mucus or phlegm in front of others, and two-thirds have...
JONBENET NUT WEAVES SICK WEB
Self-professed JonBenet Ramsey killer John Mark Karr has launched a Web site memorializing the child beauty queen. On the site, Karr, 42, opens with a gushing letter about the murdered...
PHIL DEADLOCK
Phil Spector's sensational slay trial was thrown into chaos yesterday after bickering jurors announced they were deadlocked - and the judge said he may now try to introduce a lesser,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX Police are asking for help in finding a Morris Heights boy who disappeared last month. Nelson Harvey , 13, was last seen at his West 175th Street home...
PLEASE END THIS GAME OF UGLY BALL
THE question hovers over every inch of the downtown court house - like an intern waiting outside a professional athlete's truck: Why don't Isiah Thomas, Jim Dolan and all the...
LAWYER ONCE SHOWED GRID GREAT FOR THE COWARD HE IS
NEW YORK lawyer John Q. Kelly is one of the few men on earth who's wiped the sneer off O.J. Simpson's face. "He can beat women, he can threaten anyone...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 968; Lucky Sum: 23 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2670; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 544; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
ELIOT'S TRUST DEFICIT
Gov. Spitzer's stonewalling of multiple probes of his office's dirty-tricks campaign doesn't seem to be doing him much good with voters: Almost 60 percent still think he hasn't been fully...
THE SCHOOLS SCORE
Congratulations are in order to Chan cellor Joel Klein after Gotham's schools claimed the Broad Foundation's Prize for Urban Education yesterday. The prize is awarded each year to a large...
SALLY THE SHEEP
LIKE actress Sally Field, I am a mom. Unlike Sally Field, I don't live in La-La Land. We breathe a different brand of oxygen. We hold diametrically opposed worldviews. We...
DON'T SELL OUT LEBANON'S HOPES
EVER since it was driven out of southern Lebanon in last year's mini-war, Hezbollah has pursued a strategy aimed at replacing the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora with one...
COLUMBIA'S ASTROTURF
COLUMBIA University is making great efforts to pre vent community objections from derailing its plan for a massive expansion in West Harlem. But its methods seem to rely more on...
EVICTIONS MADE (TOO) EASY
TO realize its planned expansion in Man hattanville, Columbia University will need the power of eminent domain - that is, the ability to force property owners to sell at a...
IF SIMPSON DID IT: ANOTHER STAB AT JUSTICE
O.J. Simpson has done it again and has been arrested for armed robbery in Las Vegas ("O.J. in a Can," Sept. 17). This time he caught a break and went...
SHAMEFUL DAY FOR SCARLET KNIGHTS
I am still in disbelief about the disgraceful behavior of the Rutgers students ("Raunchy Rutgers," Editorial, Sept. 15). Having attended Navy football games for over 30 years, I have never...
NYC DENIES AHMADINEJAD REQUEST TO TOUR GROUND ZERO
No way in hell. That was the response today -- and weeks ago -- when the Iranian mission to the U.N. asked the NYPD and Secret Service if Iranian president...
OFF TARGET
DONOVAN McNabb is dead McWrong on this one. McNabb was on HBO last night telling us how black quarterbacks are criticized more than white quarterbacks, and sounded too much like...
FIELD GENERAL
ARMY senior fullback Mike Viti knows he has a full plate. In fact, he was so concerned about taking on too much responsibility, he sought out the counsel of a...
FANTASY LIVES OF FAMOUS
WE HERE at Fantasy Tracker are easily starstruck. Show us a celebrity and we get giddy. So to satisfy our lust for fame, we went to the Fantasy Tracker phone...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: U.S. advances past Nigeria Sliding feet first, Lori Chalupny scored 57 seconds into the game - the second-fastest goal in the history of the Women's World Cup - as...
PICKS 'R' HONDO
The Tigers took some cash out of Hondo's kitty last night as they failed their assignment in Cleve land to reduce the earnings to 190 otises. Tonight, he needs some...
A CASE FOR GIANTS DEFENSE
THERE is no clear-cut evidence that Steve Spagnuolo as a novice coordinator is a major factor in the pathetically inept performance of the Giants defense. The real culprits are the...
9TH GIANT ON IR
Another one bites the dust for the Giants. Yesterday they placed another player on season-ending injured reserve when backup defensive end Adrian Awasom was removed from the active roster. Awasom,...
JETS KEEP AIR OF CONFIDENCE
DURING the sullen moments inside the Jets' locker room immediately following their 20-13 loss to the Ravens on Sunday, Eric Mangini delivered an unexpected message to his players. "I was...
MILLER PUT ON IR
The Jets have lost their only 2006 Pro Bowl player for the season. Cornerback Justin Miller, who averaged 28.3 yards per kickoff return last season and brought two back for...
ANOTHER MET NAT-ASTROPHE
WASHINGTON - It's a total free fall. Terrible play, horrible pitching, flushed leads and what's become utter humiliation. The bewildering catastrophe continues for the Mets, as their season-ending collapse goes...
COLLAPSE SHIFTS INTO 'OVER' DRIVE
WASHINGTON - The sky isn't falling; the sky has fallen. It lies in pieces on the floor of the Mets' clubhouse, on the steps of their dugout, the shards mingling...
EL DUQUE UNHAPPY WITH BOOT
WASHINGTON - Orlando Hernandez said yesterday he was "not happy," and it's hard to find a reason why he should be. El Duque is suffering from a bunion on his...
HUGH'S ITCHY TO PLAY B'WAY
The Rangers may have an impressive group of prospects within the organization, but there's a good chance that not a single one of them will be on the roster for...
SURGING IN SEPTEMBER
The obituaries on Mike Mussina's career were written. Three weeks ago the Yankees removed him from the starting rotation and many assumed that would be the end of the 38-year-old....
FORGET THE SOX; YANKS NEED SOME R&R
Name: Derek Jeter. Rank: Captain. Serial number: Six-game hitting streak including 10 hits in his last 19 at bats, counting a three-run homer that bashed the Red Sox for his...
MATSUI BAT BACK IN GEAR
Whether it was the sore knee or the pull-happy swing, the results were the same. For the past month-and-a-half, Hideki Matsui had found himself mired in the second-worst power slump...
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...
JASON BOOTED BY SORE FOOT
Joe Torre's decision on who to start at first base was made easy last night. Jason Giambi's right foot was sore after getting hit by a pitch there Monday night....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Now that's just gross. The number of Americans who wash their hands after using a public restroom is in decline. Only 77 percent of the 6,000 men and women polled...