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  • Madonna emulates screen legend Marlene Dietrich in black tux

    Madonna transformed herself into 1920's German-American star Marlene Dietrich by sporting a black tuxedo and top hat at Paris Theatre in New York for the screening of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour.' The 52-year-old singer's outfit consisting of black suit with a white shirt, tie and vest with a white rose buttonhole, and bright red lipstick bore a striking resemblance to a tailcoat that Dietrich wore ...

  • NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

    The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...

  • New York Times hides abortion editorial on the front page

    That was the title on the web version. A note says that a version of the article appeared on page A1 of the New York print edition with this ...

  • What a catch by Torre kid

    The Yankees should play her in left field!Joe Torre’s daughter made an amazing catch yesterday when she fielded a baby who fell from a storefront awning in Brooklyn, officials and witnesses said.Cristina Torre, 44, had just left her home when she spotted 1-year-old Dylan Miller atop a frozen-yogurt shop on Third Avenue at 92nd Street at about 9:20 a.m., police sources said.As she was ...

  • Shot cop I felt thug’s slug hit me

    Already hailed as a hero for his actions in the field, a Brooklyn cop bravely described during courtroom testimony yesterday the chilling surveillance video depicting a coldblooded gang-banger shooting him in the head. NYPD Sgt. Kevin Brennan took the stand to recount how Luis "Baby" Ortiz, 23, a Latin Kings gang member, allegedly fired at him at point-blank range after a wild chase ...


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Movie Review

Schizopolis [DVD]

Schizopolis [DVD]

Steven Soderberghs Schizopolis is as fragmented and confounding as its title implies. It was made as a low-budget personal bomb lobbed simultaneously into the worlds of independent art film (where Soderbergh started) and mainstream commercial filmmaking (where he was headed). Unlike his other experimental film, the tiresome Full Frontal (2002), Schizopolis works best when not ... ...

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  • Raped for ‘being gay’

    A woman told police she was raped at knifepoint in Brooklyn Sunday morning because she’s gay, law- enforcement sources said.The 26-year-old woman said the man followed and attacked her at Franklin Avenue Java Street in Greenpoint, cops said.According to sources, the victim told police the man forced her to the ground and told her, "I’m doing this to you because you’re ...

  • Last act for tony soprano

    James Gandolfini, the Hollywood heavyweight who won multiple Emmy Awards for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano in the smash HBO series "The Sopranos," died of a heart attack yesterday. He was 51.Gandolfini, who was stricken in Rome, was due to appear at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily this weekend."I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the ...

  • Ho’s pimps pumped by ‘acquittals’

    The ho’s got action. Cheered on by loyal hookers, father-and-son pimps Vincent George Sr. and Jr. were acquitted of the top sex-trafficking charges yesterday, with a Manhattan judge apparently swayed by testimony from the prostitutes, who claimed the men were swell bosses. Happy hookers Desiree Ellis and Danielle Geissler, who have attended the trial in support of the pimps and their ...

  • We won’t fuhgedd about this class act

    Tony was not an especially articulate character, and in Gandolfini’s hands, he didn’t need to be. This was an actor who could speak volumes - exasperation, amusement, puzzlement, murderous rage or sometimes all four - with a single glance. And for such a big guy, he moved with a dancer’s grace.Gandolfini lent Shakespearean grandeur to Tony’s tragedies and follies, ...

  • NYC heir 89 to hear whether hell go to prison

    An 89-year-old heir to a famous New York City fortune is set to find out Thursday whether he'll succeed in an 11th-hour attempt to avoid, or at least postpone, prison after being convicted of plundering his mother's ...

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