January 27, 2007

Showgirls of Sundance?

This hasn't been a great week for Deborah Kampmeier, whose much-disliked "Hounddog'' became a lightning rod because of a scene where a character played by 12-year-old Dakota Fanning is raped....

Crawford should stay

By MARC BERMANYou can read all about Jamal Crawford's record-setting 52-point Garden explosion elsewhere on this website. This post is about the overshadowed element of last night - that Isiah...

FULL MOON, EMPTY HEAD

'BLOOD and Chocolate" is a werewolf movie that's a little mixed-up on the legend. The wolf-people clamber over rooftops (isn't that a cat thing?), get all lip-licky at the sight...

LEARN TO MOCK BEFORE YOU PUN

THE makers of "Epic Movie" have just discovered the existence of urine, vomit and pimples, and declared them hilarious. This spoof of "The Da Vinci Code," "Pirates of the Caribbean,"...

MIKE: POLS FIRED BLANKS AT KELLY

Mayor Bloomberg launched into a vigorous defense of the Police Department yesterday, charging that legislators who attacked Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at a City Hall hearing were just trying to...

4-WAY ‘TRIANGLE’

The sexy Mexican model at the center of a love triangle and extortion lawsuit involving a top fashion photographer and a jeans designer has been married to yet another man...

FISHKILL CLAN-SLAY ARRESTS

A week after the horrific beating, stabbing and shooting of a Dutchess County family, authorities announced two arrests in the murder case yesterday. Police said Mark Serrano, 29, and Charles...

TEACH STOLE FROM KID: DA

A Long Island Catholic-school teacher was busted for using a student's credit card for a $450 Christmas shopping spree, police said yesterday. Nassau County cops said Miriam Crujeiras, 24, was...

BOSSES OK’D SEX $CORE: DA

Managers at Scores were busted telling an undercover cop that it was OK to pay to have sex with strippers in the back rooms of the jiggle joint - because...

HELL-HOUSE WIFE SLAY

In the days before he stabbed mom to death, it was dad, typically, who cooked dinner. But behind the gated door of the doomed Odierno family's East 84th Street townhouse,...

ELIOT’S HEALTH-CARE RX

What a week for Gov. Spitzer. On Thursday he put Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver in his place over who'll be the next state comptroller. Then, yesterday, he read the riot...

MORTGAGE TERMS

Bank of America, the nation's second-largest bank, and California mortgage lender Countrywide Financial are in very early talks about a potential merger worth $30 billion, according to sources. Shares of...

BURNS: I’D COACH AGAIN

TAMPA - He isn't sure how he'll answer, but former Devils coach Pat Burns says he's ready to consider any offer of an NHL coaching job. "I'd have to make...

OMAR’S GHANA TAKE TRIP

Yankees officials aren't the only ones heading overseas to promote baseball. Mets GM Omar Minaya will be among a delegation going to Ghana next week to hold a clinic and...

WOE IS THREE

DENVER - It has been deja vu all over again. And again. So can't you just feel the excitement for the Nets against the Nuggets here tonight? We are on...

B’WAY BABIES

THE moppets take Manhattan again, when the 11th annual Kids' Night on Broadway unfurls Tuesday and Wednesday. And while it's probably more convenient for the producers who sponsor it than...

CHINA’S FINAL ANSWER

IF China's Cultural Revolu tion wasn't dead already, it is now. In the last two days, Chinese TV has bought the rights to make their own versions of two reality...

LIKE A CLASSIC ROCK

EVEN though it's been 11 years since Bob Seger prowled an arena stage, by the time he played "Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets," the last song in his Madison Square...

GOV PICKS FIGHT

ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday ratcheted up the pressure on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver over the selection of the next state comptroller, saying the choice must be one of the...

B’KLYN ‘IDIOTS’ DOGGING IT

Ladies and gentlemen, start your shopping carts! It's time for Brooklyn's annual Idiotarod, modeled after the grueling Alaskan race minus the sled dogs. Instead, each team has four costumed, often...

JAILED KOZ TAKES A DIVORCE $LAP

Disgraced ex-Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski was yesterday slapped with divorce papers in prison, giving him 45 days to tell his wife exactly how much he's worth. The truth behind what...

SCARLETT TURNS INTO CINDERELLA

The girl with the pearl earring has lost her glass slipper. This new Disney ad has Scarlett Johansson as the gorgeous Cinderella rushing down the stairs before midnight with the...

RUDY ‘REAGAN’ HITS N.H.

BRETTON WOODS, N.H. - Rudy Giuliani painted himself as a Ronald Reagan-model man of "conviction" in his first 2008 trip to presidential proving ground New Hampshire last night. Giuliani told...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Cops in Covington, La., chasing a 16-year-old robbery suspect snagged their quarry when his baggy trousers fell to the ground. "We literally caught him with his pants down," said Lt....

NYRA RESCHEDULES FOUR FALL STAKES RACES

Reacting to the recent announcement that the Breeders' Cup has added several races to its year-end championship showdown, which expands to two days (Friday-Saturday), beginning this Oct. 26-27 at Monmouth...

STAGS TOP ST. PETER’S

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Herbie Allen scored 19 points last night to lead Fairfield to a 66-58 win over St. Peter's last night. The Stags (7-15, 5-5 MAAC) won their...

SPORTS SHORTS

MLB: Ryan hospitalized Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was hospitalized yesterday and in good condition with an undisclosed ailment, his son said. The 59-year-old strikeout king checked into Round...

FORMER GIANTS SCOUT DIES AT 90

When authors write or commentators speak about "The Greatest Generation," their words resonate in the extraordinary life of Ken Kavanaugh, a war hero, football star and for 45 years a...

CRAWFORD PLAYS GAME OF 52 PICKUP

There was a standing ovation when Jamal Crawford departed with 6:51 left. There was the first-ever "Let's go Crawford!" chant early in the fourth. There was a Knicks bench standing...

EDDY SAYS HE’S A STAR

NBA Eastern Conference coaches were e-mailed All-Star reserve ballots Thursday and have until Monday to vote. Eddy Curry said yesterday he deserves to be on their ballots. The soft-spoken Knicks...

POITIER BOOK SURPRISE

OPRAH, who had shut down her famous book club after the James Frey scandal a year ago, yesterday selected an old friend, Sidney Poitier, for her next Book Club selection....

FROM OTHER WORLDS

THE indie sci-fi comedy "From Other Worlds" might be funny in an alternate universe, but there's no way it's going to get any laughs in this one. Cara Buono plays...

WORKERS’ ‘ENGLISH ONLY’ IRE

Por favor - English only! A posh Manhattan building has ordered all its employees to only "speak English" when at work - drawing the ire of workers who in some...

MAN KILLS CO-WORKER – HIS DAD

A Brooklyn man at a Long Island recycling center accidentally crushed a co-worker - his father - to death yesterday under the wheels of a hulking payloader, police said. Luis...

‘ABSURD’ JUDGE OUSTS 2

An irreverent Brooklyn federal judge had to dismiss two jurors from a capital murder case yesterday after his mocking statements about the defendant's possible death sentence wound up splashed across...

5 DRUG-STORE ROBBERS HUNTED

Five men are being sought by cops after they robbed an Upper West Side pharmacy, authorities said yesterday. The bandits broke into a Duane Reade store at 700 Columbus Ave....

HOW ELIOT GAVE SHEL A ‘KICK IN THE GROIN’

ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose vaunted negotiating and strategic skills often upended the best laid plans of Republican former Gov. George Pataki, may finally have met his match...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Numbers Fri.: 304 Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3398 Evening Numbers Fri.: 208 Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5320 Pick-10 Fri.: 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 34,...

MEDIA ABORTS MARCH’S MISSION

THE ISSUE: The media's limited coverage of the annual March for Life, held in Washington, D.C. Why is it that the media, including The Post, had virtually no coverage on...

TIME TO LEAVE SAYS COO MCANIFF

In the latest change to roil the waters at Time Inc., Nora McAniff, the co-chief operating officer, said she is leaving the company after 25 years. Her departure comes as...

LIGHTNING BOTTLED

TAMPA, Fla. - The Devils didn't miss a beat, and Martin Brodeur didn't miss a thing. The Atlantic Division runaways dispatched notions that they might have cooled off during the...

ROUT HAS SHAQ, HEAT STEAMIN’

If the Miami Heat thought Wednesday's return of Shaquille O'Neal was going to be an instant panacea, that was dispelled last night with every one of Jamal Crawford's seemingly-effortless 52...

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP

IF you build it, they will come. And if you pave it, they will drive. Once upon a time, there was no gridlock in New York City. No blocking the...

WHAT’S UP

TodayRECYCLED ROCK: Don't kick those empty water bottles to the curb. Bring all your recyclables to the Roulette Children's Concert, where kids will learn to make tin-drum sets with chopstick...

KELLY NIXED AS PLAYMATE

REALITY TV star Kelly Os bourne's dream of posing for Playboy has come to an abrupt end. Hugh Hefner is saying he doesn't think it's a good idea. Kelly, 22,...

DOES THIS MAKE ME LOOK FAT?

IF you just can't seem to shed that last, pesky, 350 pounds no matter how hard you try, have I got a job for you! Yes, you too can earn...

MIKE HEARS ICY TENANTS

Frigid temperatures drew a flood of complaints to the city's heat hot line yesterday, as Mayor Bloomberg said most landlords are being quick to repair boiler breakdowns. "The truth of...

PIRRO USED DA POWER TO PROBE DONORS

A lawyer for former Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro admitted yesterday she used the District Attorney's Office to probe contributors to her Senate campaign - a possible misuse of taxpayer resources...

SCHOOL-BUS ROUTE ROCKER

Less than 72 hours before changes to hundreds of school bus routes serving tens of thousands of city students were to take place, the Department of Education scrambled yesterday to...

$1M ‘CLEANUP’ ON AISLE #7!

A Queens granny working a grocery-store checkout counter won a huge pile of green when she scratched off a $1 million lottery ticket yesterday. But "million-dollar baby" Peggie Wilkins went...

YOKO CUCKOO’S ‘KILLER’ DEFENSE

When Yoko Ono's creepy chauffeur said he had a "team" ready to "kill" her, he just meant a team of lawyers ready to tear her to shreds in civil court,...

NETS’ KIDD GETS UNLUCKY BOUNCE FROM NEW N.J. DIVORCE LAW

If Jason Kidd had waited a couple of weeks to file for divorce, he wouldn't have had to admit his pint-sized wife beats him up. It turns out the star...

TRAGIC HIDE-SEEK MA CRIES: ‘LET ME HOLD MY BOY’

The death of a 2-year- old Bronx boy in a plastic storage bin while playing hide-and-seek was ruled a tragic accident yesterday as his anguished mother went to the morgue...

WHAT A GUY-ANA!

Bernard Kerik, who lost his chance to join President Bush's Cabinet, will finally get to be a presidential security adviser after all - in Guyana. The disgraced former NYPD commissioner...

TEA LEAVES TELL SECRET OF EX-SPY’S SLAY SWIG

British police have solved the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko - including finding the poisoned teapot that killed him, it was reported yesterday. But red-faced investigators admit the...

HILLARY CYBER NATION

WASHINGTON - When it comes to communicating over the Internet, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is quickly becoming as popular as Oprah. New statistics released by Clinton's campaign committee yesterday revealed...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

The Bronx* Cops are searching for a man they say shot four people on New Year's Day in Melrose, authorities said yesterday. Joey Bell (pictured), 30, allegedly shot three unidentified...

ATROCITY IN KARBALA

Those who insist so loudly on following Geneva Conventions rules regarding captured terrorists need to take a long, hard look at the latest atrocity in Iraq, news of which broke...

LEBANON’S FATEFUL SHOWDOWN

WHERE do we go from here? The leaders of the two rival camps in Lebanon should be pondering the question in the wake of the showdown that brought Beirut to...

TENUOUS TENURE TALK: DON’T TARGET TEACHERS

THE ISSUE: Mayor Bloomberg's plans for education reform, including a stricter tenure policy. Ryan Sager does not seem to realize that tenure is what allows teachers to maintain their professionalism...

TRIB BOARD BATTLE SEEN

Tribune's largest shareholder, the Chandler family, is sounding out possible candidates to try to overthrow two directors up for reelection at the struggling media giant, a source familiar with the...

BATTLING FOR NEW JERSEY

Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez and his counterpart at Rutgers, Fred Hill, are as different as Brittany Spears and Meryl Streep - but they share a common vision. They see...

OUT OF THE PITT

It has been almost three years since the storied St. John's basketball program hit its low point. On Feb. 4, 2004, after a 20-point loss at Pittsburgh, six players went...

CALL TO ARMS

Thursday night, Jaromir Jagr showed why he is the Rangers' captain, personally shouldering responsibility for the 34 games that remain on the Blueshirts' schedule. "When your top guy and captain...

Capcom Vs. The AIAS

Gamespot has an interesting news story up about some of Capcom's games being left out of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Annual Interactive Achievement Awards official nominations."This year,...