September 11, 2007
Model behavior, Part I
We asked Fashion Week models what they wear when they're not on the runway. First up: Monique Olsen. She wears a Carlos Miele top over H&M shorts, Havanias, anda big...
Haynes Disappoints, Woody Bombs
Earlier this year, the Weinsteins unsuccessfully tried to resurrect the double feature with "Grindhouse.'' Today at the Toronto Film Festival, an electrical malfunction that delayed the start of Woody Allen's...
BACKSTAGE BEAUTY: JUSTSWEET
J. Lo's shows her new line of cheap and cheerful jeans and sweaters and things tonight at 9 p.m.Here's a sneak peek at the makeup, courtesy of Charlotte Tilbury for...
CELEB WATCH: GHITA
We came to see Kanye.We saw Kanye.We left happy.Kanye with Mama West
LIVEBLOG: Chili ain't all that hot
Pepper wins it at The Regent.When I told a good friend and former resident of Singapore that I was heading to the city-state for the first time, he only had...
REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES: GHITA
Is it me or does it look like the same dress coming down the runway over and over again at Kanye's fiancee's show earlier today?
BROADCASTING THE YANKEES
A funny thing happened to me on the way home from the doctor on Monday.An executive from WCBS called to ask me if I would be interested in joining John...
NHL Goes to London
The Ducks and Kings opened their camps early to accommodate a trip to London, where they'll play their first game of the league's 90th season.Training camps will open around the...
Starr Report
September 11, 2007 -- JOAN (BLEEPIN') GLAD! Joan Rivers has landed back on the red carpet - sort of.Rivers and daughter Melissa Rivers will cover Sun day's Emmy Awards online...
Deal of the Day
I've been eyeing this Vanesssa Barrantes Tulipa Dress since the girls debuted it at Lola y Maria this spring.Mod buttons, generous sleeves, and playful tiers lend this frock a great...
Celeb Watch: Tori Spelling
Watch for Tori Spelling at Betsey Johnson's Spring Summer 2008 fashion show today at Bryant Park, where Johnson debuts her new line of trademark colorful frocks and Spelling debuts her...
LONDON
Home to kings, queens, lawn tennis and fish and chips, today's page looks at Britain's famed city. The city of London began as a military outpost used by the Romans...
CALVIN KLEIN SHOW
A tall, cool glass of water. If you want to wear Calvin Klein for spring '08, that's what you need to be to even think about getting into these long,...
PHILOSOPHY DI ALBERTA FERRETTI SHOW
Alberta Ferretti's "philosophy" seems to be class and sass - and we're not just talking about her spring/summer 2008 collection. In an earthy loft space in the Garment District, fashionable...
NANETTE LEPORE SHOW
Colors, colors everywhere - but not exactly any we'd want to wear. Designer Nanette Lepore's concise little presentation was brightly colored and mainly inspired by Picasso, but the colors she...
MILLY BY MICHELLE SMITH SHOW
Pretty, pretty. Milly by designer Michelle Smith kept her collection clean and classic with a color palette of navy, Kelly green and white with accents of brown, black and canary...
THE LUXE STOPS HERE
CUE the world's smallest violin: The superrich are having a tough time finding stuff that's good enough to spend their money on. What about Rolex watches, Mercedes coupes, Cartier jewels?...
MODEL CAROL ALT SURE LIKES TO PUCK
After displacing Style.com's Meenal Mistry from front-row at Luca Luca, Jill Zarin, "star" of the Hamptons-based Bravo spinoff of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" shooting now, loudly trashed an...
WAY OFF THE MARC
What is wrong with Marc Jacobs? Last night - fresh off a round of positive press in which the rehabbed, newly buff designer claimed to have gotten his entire life...
NEW FITTY DISC SHOULD FLY TO THE TOP - LIKE A BULLET
EVERYBODY knows who wins a knife fight - the guy with a gun. And the guy with a cocked Glock and a fully loaded clip of raging raps that brilliantly...
COLE COMFORTS
PAULA Cole had a breakout year. Her album "This Fire" spawned the hits "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" and "I Don't Want To Wait." When that second tune was...
MPFREES
Download these free songs at nypost.com through Friday.Paula Cole, "El Greco" In her fourth album, "Courage," the confessional chanteuse looks for meaning in life and tries to find her true...
QUITE A TOUCH OF THE POET
FEW performers inhabit their characters with the intensity with which Angelica Torn plays Sylvia Plath in "Edge." Paul Alexander's one-woman show provides this superb actress with a galvanizing showcase as...
STARR REPORT
JOAN (BLEEPIN') GLAD!Joan Rivers has landed back on the red carpet - sort of. Rivers and daughter Me lissa Rivers will cover Sun day's Emmy Awards online for VH1, blogging...
WAS IT GOOD FOR YOU TOO?
IT'S hard to believe, I know, but somehow I forgot to in clude on my list of "things I'll never see in my lifetime" the one about watching a tight...
'SURVIVOR' LIAR AND 'TOP MODEL' HAVE BABY
TALK about reality. Jonny "Fairplay" Dal ton, the former "Survivor" contestant viewers loved to hate, is expecting a baby with his girlfriend, former "America's Next Top Model" contender Michelle Deighton....
ROSIE WHO?
JUST when Barbara Walters thought she was rid of Rosie O'Donnell, the out-of-control comic is about to plunge "The View" into another mess. In an upcoming book on her tumultuous...
JEWS BASH AMANPOUR
SEVERAL Jewish groups are crying foul over Christiane Amanpour's three-part CNN series, "God's Warriors." The groups, led by The Israel Project, claim the documentary about religious extremists contains factual errors...
CLOSE-KNIT SISTERS
IF Tim Burton were to go to Japan to make a movie about two elderly sisters living in a house filled from floor to ceiling with junk, and a girl...
MONIQUE LHUILLIER SHOW
Monique Lhuillier's inspiration, a box of Laduree macaroons, is appropriate, particularly since she presented an array of frilly confections. Lhuillier realized this summer that people come to her for special...
CARMEN MARC VALVO SHOW
Some themes that work and others leave us scratching our head. Kudos to Carmen Marc Valvo for having one and completely taking ownership of it: the shell. From the hues...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Good news concerning your cash flow situation will come your way over the next few weeks. Most likely you will get the chance to make some serious money by applying...
NOT ALL TRAINERS FIT TO BE TRIED
THE field of personal training is red-hot ... and almost completely unregulated. This means that the same people you're relying on to keep you fit - and, more importantly, safe...
LASER FACE-LIFT TITANS YOU UP
'HAVE you ever thought about lasers for your face?" asked my laser hair-removal technician, Alma. Uh, no. Especially not when I'm in a paper G-string getting my bikini line zapped...
SPITZER DENIES MYSTERY MEETS
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer insisted yesterday that he didn't know anything about late-night "black car" meetings held by senior aides to prevent the creation of records that could be subpoenaed...
COUNCIL KOS MIKE'S SCHOOL-PHONE VETO
The City Council overwhelmingly voted yesterday to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of a bill lifting the cellphone ban in public schools. "No rule trumps my child's safety," said Lew Fidler...
A-DOOR-ABLE SUBWAY
The extension of the No. 7 subway line will boast twice as many doors to stand clear of. Officials said that as part of the $2.1 billion project extending the...
DAVE LOVES OPRAH
And the No. 1 reason David Letterman made news by appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" yesterday is: He'd never done it before. The notoriously shy, late-night talk-show host teamed...
SHOOTING ON UPPER EAST SIDE
A man was gunned down in broad daylight on the Upper East Side yesterday as passers-by dived for cover and terrified children screamed, police and witnesses said. The chilling incident...
HAUTE DATE: ANNA, ROGER PLAY DOUBLES ON RUNWAY
You've gotta give the devil her due - Anna Wintour managed to net yet another "date" with favorite boy toy Roger Federer, and only one day after his U.S. Open...
ECLECTIC SITE FOR SORE EYES
All the major skyscrapers planned for the World Trade Center site and its surrounding blocks - set to be finished in late 2012 - will turn Ground Zero from a...
KIN HOPEFUL FOR REMAINS
Families of 9/11 victims are still hoping to bring the remains of their loved ones home, six years after the towers fell. Dr. Charles Hirsch, the city's chief medical examiner,...
DUST COULD HURT 300,000
As many as 300,000 people could become ill because of World Trade Center dust, says a published report. Discover magazine quotes Dr. Thomas Cahill, professor of physics and atmospheric science...
DOWNTOWN A VERVE CENTER
No one who witnessed the devastation of lower Manhattan after 9/11 could have imagined that six years later, the area south of Chambers Street would become a vibrant hub of...
'A' RIDE DOWN MEMORY LANE
A MetroCard was a ticket back in time yesterday for hundreds of straphangers who chanced upon a ride on the original A train. With Duke Ellington conducting in spirit, the...
INCEST MONSTER GUILTY
It took a jury only 45 minutes yesterday to convict a Manhattan man of a hideous crime - raping his pre-teen daughter, sometimes almost daily, over four years. The verdict...
ASTOR SON FACES LETTER OF THE LAW
A bombshell letter Brooke Astor's son wrote several years ago questioning her mental competence may be used against him in court. The letter from Anthony Marshall to one of his...
U.N.-OIL TRIAL OPENS
Ties to Saddam Hussein's regime and a thirst for money drove Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt to pay millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to Iraq in order to land lucrative...
'BURB BROTHEL
A pair of married mortgage brokers, deep in arrears, were busted for running a brothel out of a house in a tony section of Westchester County, authorities said yesterday. Friday's...
'DREAMGIRL' IN 'SEX & CITY'
Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson will appear in the movie version of "Sex and the City," according to a published report. The "Dreamgirls" star will play the assistant to lead Sarah Jessica...
'FRANKIE' SCARES UP BIG SALES
"It's aliiiiiive!" At least the box office was yesterday when tickets went on sale for Mel Brooks' new monster musical "Young Frankenstein" at the Hilton Theatre. Hundreds of hopeful ticket...
COP HAS THE WHIP HAND AT S&M GAL'S HEARING
A Westchester County dominatrix offered to sexually pleasure an undercover cop during a secretly recorded conversation, a Bedford Hills detective testified yesterday. Sandra Chemero, 46, said she would use sex...
BURLESQUE CLUB STIRS OUTRAGE
A proposed burlesque club along the border of Little Italy and SoHo - financed by Sting and David Bowie - is getting neighbors' panties in a bunch. Currently under construction,...
THUG SENDS WOMAN, 95, TO HOSP FOR $20
A heartless mugger broke a 95-year-old woman's collar bone in a $20 purse-snatching outside the door of her Lower East Side home, police said yesterday. The vicious attack took place...
GRAPHIC COP-SEX TESTIMONY
A Brooklyn woman broke down in tears yesterday as she told jurors that two cops pulled her over on a dark Bushwick street, followed her home and then molested her...
'MOB-ROB PAYBACK' ARRESTS
A trio of bumbling mobsters threatened to kill two men for robbing their Long Island social club, unaware that they had a rapt audience - federal agents who heard every...
GRUESOME DETAILS OF 'NYU' SLAY
First, he strangled her. Then, he punched at her limp body. Finally, he rolled her into a sheet - then partially unrolled her to place in her hands a pair...
BOITE & SOLD BROUHAHA
The war between a French artist and restaurateur Nello Balan over ownership of 11 pieces of art hanging in his tony Hamptons eatery escalated yesterday with new criminal charges and...
FRIENDLY FIRE
A cop shot during a gun battle on a Bronx subway platform last Friday was hit at least once by friendly fire, police said yesterday. "One of the firing officer's...
QNS. WOMAN SLAIN IN APT.
A Queens woman was found stabbed and beaten to death yesterday in her basement apartment, police said. Martha Vega, 48, a home attendant, was found on her bathroom floor on...
GIS READY FOR HOMECOMING
Calm and unflinching, the four-star U.S. commander in Iraq impressed even hard-core war critics in Congress yesterday, announcing that some troops can begin coming home this month, 30,000 can return...
MADDIE 'SMOKING GUN'
Portuguese cops yesterday said they've found the smoking gun in the case of tragic missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann - her blood in the trunk of a car her parents rented...
TEEN HEIL-RAISING SPREADS IN ISRAEL
Israel's top cop warned yesterday that neo-Nazis are running amok in Israel as Christian crosses and the words "Hitler is the messiah, love life Jesus" were spray-painted on the walls...
EMPTY H$U BOX
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign did an about-face last night, returning $850,000 in contributions raised by scandal-scarred Democratic donor Norman Hsu. "In light of recent events and allegations that...
MOVEON'S ATTACK AD SMEARS A HERO: GOP
A searing attack on Gen. David Petraeus by left-leaning group MoveOn.org yesterday was roundly denounced by Republicans and left Democratic presidential contenders squirming when the top military commander in Iraq...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX A Tremont family is searching for their 14-year-old daughter who has been missing for nearly a month, police said. Young Jasmine Mercado was last seen leaving her home...
LOST HERO IS STILL A COMFORT TO HIS KIN
THE bearded bums who kill for Osama bin Laden may have ended Ray Downey's life. But kill his spirit? You don't have to look any further than Downey's sons -...
HIS GAME FACE
WHEN do we lose the game? Isiah Thomas, with his Colgate smile and thousand-dollar suit, looked ready to take a bow, not go on trial. The Knicks coach and general...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 123; Lucky Sum: 6 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 7067; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 289; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
9/11 PLUS SIX
This morning, for the sixth time, Americans will gather - at Ground Zero, the Pentagon and in the Penn sylvania field where United 93 was forced down, short of its...
THE GENERAL REPORTS
'The military objectives of the surge are, in large measure, being met." That was yesterday's bottom-line assessment from the commander of multinational forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, in his...
DEFYING THE 'INEVITABLE'
THE New York City Police Department commemo rates 9/11 every day by working hard to make sure it doesn't happen again. Yes, our officers will be well represented in ceremonies...
DOWNTOWN'S BREATHTAKING BOOM
THIS time, on the sixth an niversary of 9/11, there's no need to whine over stalled rebuilding. This time is an occasion, at last and however cautiously, to celebrate. If...
MOVEON'S SMEAR: A VILE NEW LOW
MOVEON.ORG's exploitation of the Internet misleads the public into thinking it's a breakthrough phenomenon. It isn't: Technology aside, MoveOn belongs to the first half of the 20th century, not to...
A BITTER WAR OF CHOICE
BEFORE Gen. David Petraeus' report, and to give it a context of optimism, the president visited Iraq's Anbar province to underscore the success of the surge in making some hitherto...
PETRAEUS SPEAKS: UNWELCOME TRUTH
WELCOME to Wash ington, Gen. Pe traeus. You had better get used to being called a liar. Even before Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress, Democrats launched offensive operations against...
PAY HEED TO THIS WARRIOR STATESMAN
GEN. David H. Petraeus yes terday strode purpose fully into a Capitol Hill hearing room to the rattlesnake buzz of still-camera shutters and the muffled disapprobation of the ladies in...
HINT OF ACTUAL VICTORY IN IRAQ WILL STIR NO JOY IN THE MEDIA
WASHINGTON - It may be too early to say we're winning in Iraq, but heartening changes in the war plan suggest it wouldn't be crazy to think we're winning in...
TALE OF THE TAPE: OSAMA'S OBTUSE OFFER
No one has done more harm to the "religion" of peace than Osama bin Laden (" 'MoveOn' Osama," Sept. 8). It's bizarre to hear him bash the Democrats for funding...
THE BUZZ ON BRITNEY'S BELLY
"Lard & Clear, Loser at VMAs" (Sept. 10) seems exaggerated: The mean tummy comments are the kind that lead young and old alike to anorexia. Britney Spears looked great, and...
COUNTRYSLIDE
Countrywide Financial Corp. is putting together another multi-billion dollar bailout plan as the nation's largest home lender continues to struggle amid the global credit crunch and declines in the housing...
'PERFECT STORM' ON RADAR FOR ECONOMISTS
A rising chorus of banks, retailers and economists see the housing recession as a maelstrom that could hammer a stumbling economy until 2009. Washington Mutual's chief Kerry Killinger yesterday struck...
HOW THE JOBS NUMBERS PUT THE FED IN A BIND
HERE'S how bad the job market really was last month. If the Labor Department hadn't made unrealistically optimistic assumptions about the number of jobs being created by small businesses there...
MILLION SERVED
IPhone sales have passed the 1 million mark. Steve Jobs announced the important sales benchmark yesterday, meeting his previously stated goal of selling 1 million devices by the end of...
BEAR'S SHORT ANGEL
A reclusive British billionaire surprised the markets yesterday with the announcement that he had amassed a nearly 7 percent stake in troubled Bear Stearns via a series of funds he...
EXECS EYEING KANYE, 50 CENT RELEASES
Rap sales are in trouble and the music industry is hoping new releases from 50 Cent and Kanye West coming out today can help breathe new life into the sagging...
LAUDERS CASH IN
The Lauder family is cashing in part of its $3.6 billion cosmetics fortune while its Estee Lauder Cos. manages to keep a step ahead of Wall Street's woes. Family scion...
CHRISTIE'S ART SALES SOARING
To the relief of worried art collectors, New York's fall auctions got off to a booming start last night at Christie's with prices still on the rise. Wall Street's turmoil...
MERRILL BEING WOOED
WITH the future of downtown still at a crossroads, the high-stakes decision over where Merrill Lynch will ply its trades for the next 50 years is finally coming to a...
ISIAH THOMAS, HARASS ACCUSER FACE OFF IN COURT
Anucha Browne Sanders had scored her dream job as a top executive for the Knicks complete with hefty bonuses, trips with the team and time on the court only to...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: MLB wants Gibbons meeting Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons joined the list of players asked to meet with baseball officials after being linked to a Florida pharmacy that distributed prescription...
HONDO'S TEX. MESS
The A's followed Hondo's instructions to the letter last night, sinking the Mariners to inflate the bank roll to 275 wynns. Today, Mr. Aitch is figuring on the Rangers to...
PROBE TARGETS PSAL TRANSFERS
The Department of Education is investigating the transfers of three Xaverian basketball players who have enrolled in PSAL schools since the last school year ended. Over the summer, the CHSAA...
'CLONES STOP S.I.
Lasting through two fog delays, the Brooklyn Cyclones advanced to New York-Penn League championship series with a 3-1 win over the Staten Island Yankees last night at Keyspan Park. The...
JERSEY JIM SET TO TAKE A FLYER
Without even a tryout invitation to return to the youth-moving Devils, "Jersey" Jim Dowd told The Post yesterday he will seek instead to earn a spot with the Flyers. "It's...
BIG 'O,' BAD 'D'
QUARTERBACKS A Strong, accurate, decisive passing by Eli Manning (28 of 41, 312 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT), who compiled a rating of 113.1. Gamely went back in despite bruised...
END-AROUND
Is Mathias Kiwanuka on his way to switching back to defensive end? No one has confirmed that to be the case, but removing Kiwanuka from the strong side linebacker spot...
QUARTERBACK
Never, not in his still-young NFL career, not in college or high school or any junior level of football has Eli Manning ever missed a game because of an injury....
NO PAT ANSWER
QUARTERBACKS B Chad Pennington was an efficient dink-and-dunk machine before suffer ing his third-quarter ankle injury. Kellen Clemens (5-10, 35 yards) has a bigger arm, but brace yourself for growing...
THE SPY GAME
Add another chapter to the Jets-Patriots rivalry - this one titled "Espionage in East Rutherford." The Jets caught a Patriots employee filming the Jets' defensive coaches as they signaled to...
QUANDARY
WHEN Vinny Testaverde ruptured his Achilles on the opening Sunday of the 1999 season, Bill Parcells knew that his best-laid plans of a green-and-white Lombardi Trophy had been ruptured along...
MUM MANGINI ADDS TO CHAD SPECULATION
Eric Mangini was about as willing to give out information yesterday as his buddy Tony Soprano is when talking to the feds. Mangini ducked, dodged and avoided answering anything specific...
DELGADO TO MISS REST OF HOMESTAND
The Mets' plan for Carlos Delgado to miss a week to 10 days took a hit yesterday when Willie Randolph said the slugger won't play against the Braves or Phillies...
BRAVO, OLIVER
Carlos Beltran believes that last night Oliver Perez reached uncharted territory for his Mets tenure. "I told him during the game," Beltran said, "since he joined this club, this has...
GLAVINE:1 MORE YEAR
THE Mets' pitching picture is a lot brighter with Pedro Martinez's return from shoulder surgery, but there is more positive news. Tom Glavine wants to come back for a 22nd...
NETS RE-UP WITH WFAN
The Nets and WFAN have reached a long-term contract extension in which the station will continue as the club's flagship beyond the 2009-10 season, the Nets' first planned season in...
PLAYOFFPROBLEM
TORONTO - Of all the years for the Yankees not to finish with the best record in the AL, this is not the one. Because while the team has taken...
ROCKET READY TO TEST ARM
TORONTO - After going through a pair of easy throwing sessions in Texas this past weekend, Roger Clemens is set to test his balky right elbow with bullpen sessions at...
MAKINGA-MENDS
TORONTO - It's always something more than what you see looking at Alex Rodriguez. There is never just one issue when baseball's best player is in the picture. He has...
DAVID'S GOT WRIGHT STUFF FOR NL MVP
David Wright is everything, except the best third baseman in town. Considering his competition, Wright doesn't take that as an insult. But even as Alex Rodriguez storms toward his second...
KRSTIC: NO PAIN
Now he admits it. Nenad Krstic was worried earlier this summer. Real worried. While rehabbing from a torn ACL in his left knee, he suffered a sprain. There was pain...
FALL-ING PRICES
SCHOOL is back in session, hurricanes are doing their thing - the world is desperate for you to travel when no one else can. And desperation equals deals when you've...
4 HISTORIC RESORTS FOR THE ULTIMATE FALL RETREAT
MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE New Paltz, N.Y. Dirty rotten hedonists fly south for fall - but philosophers, naturalists, theologians and artists come here to this eccentric castle that sits among the...
THE GRAND GREENBRIER CHANGES WITH THE TIMES - BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
IT was late on Saturday night, and West Virginia was far away, but I'd heard there was a fantastic scene at a new nightclub that had opened up at the...
NEWS+NOTES
* $72,278 PER WEEK! What could possibly carry that kind of soul-sucking price tag? Ahhhh, the two new luxury villas - a k a Eden Rock Estates - coming soon...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
"Baby" on board! Two repo men were shocked when a little boy leaped out of an SUV they were towing away in Aurora, Ill. Fashawn Parker, 4, was treated for...
OSKAR with a K
When it comes to Brazilian fashion, Oskar Metsavaht is a rock star. With a rugged adventure filled life, the medical doctor cum designer is the edgy Jay Peterman with a...
Screw Lexapro. I'm on Chris Benz
You'd have to be pretty damn miserable for Chris Benz and his out of this world color palate not to bring you happiness.
KATE LOVES MARC
Outside the Marc Jacob's mob scene, we overheard a publicists say it would start at 11 instead of the slated 9pm slot. It's good to know that as colors and...
On the Ball
Today wasn't a complete washout thanks to Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "American Beauty'' and the Emmy-winning creator of "Six Feet Under.'' He delivers the goods and then some...
The Two Alfies, Nicole and DePalma
I spent 6 1/2 hours today in auditorium 8 of the Varsity Cinemas, the largest (580 seats) room at the main press screening venue for the Toronto Film Festival. That...