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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 ...

  • Rxxx at Duane Reade

    A Lebanese fashion editor in Manhattan on business was sexually assaulted by a Duane Reade pharmacist claiming to give her a breast exam, according to a new $40 million lawsuit.Haya Ammouri, of Beirut, went to the branch of the drugstore chain at 575 Lexington Ave. on April 22 for medication, according to the Manhattan civil suit.Pharmacist Monesh Hanoman, 26, of Brooklyn, offered to give ...

  • Grieving for head of family

    Tributes to the late James Gandolfini poured in from his "Sopranos" castmates and Hollywood stars as they learned of his sudden death in Italy yesterday. "The guy was like a brother to me. He was a great actor, a great father and was a lot of laughs," Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Bacala on the hit series, told The Post. Schirripa was so shaken by the news that he left ...

  • You bet your Astor he’s guilty jurors say

    Toss the swindler in the clink!Anthony Marshall jurors who have been accused by a fellow panelist of using dubious reasoning and falling sway to their emotions in convicting Brooke Astor’s son of a multimillion-dollar swindle defended their 2009 guilty vote on the eve of his incarceration. "He was found guilty," juror Olga Zugar, an artist in her 70s, told The Post. "He ...


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Movie Review

Waking Ned Devine

Except for a brief dream sequence, we never see the titular character of the Irish comedy "Waking Ned Devine" alive. No, Ned is dead from the beginning of the film--sitting in his armchair in front of his television set, a winning lottery ticket worth 6.8 million pounds clutched in his fingers. Dead of shock we are left to assume, a smile plastered across his face, his joyful eyes indicating that ... ...

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  • Foes hit Quinn’s rush for ‘anti-profile’ vote

    Even as cops were launching an ad campaign (highlighted in yesterday’s Post) against the bill, Christine Quinn was putting it into overdrive. That means people can sue the city if they can show that a higher percentage of their protected class - based on race, gender, age or other factors - was stopped than their overall percentage of the city’s population."The only way to stop ...

  • High bye NYC ‘pot’ big busted

    Cops arrested an alleged drug dealer known for selling mind-blowing marijuana in the Garment District - leaving his young professional clientele high and dry for the summer.Westchester police busted Ron Bordin, 55, of Pleasantville with more than 10 pounds of weed and thousands of dollars in cash - slapping him with charges for possession and intent to sell, officials said. But his loyal ...

  • 30G Mandela portrait swiped

    This heist was a real work of art. A $30,000 portrait of Nelson Mandela disappeared from its creator’s Manhattan storage space, the artist said.Conor McCreedy sold the work last month, but it was "missing" when he went to retrieve it, he said. His sketchbook - which he says is worth about $250,000 - was also gone. McCreedy has private investigators, The Alpha Group tracking it ...

  • Lhota City should double down on charter schools

    In his boldest move yet on the campaign trail, GOP mayoral candidate Joe Lhota today will call for doubling the number of charter schools here, The Post has learned.In a speech this morning before the Association for a Better New York, Lhota will announce the dramatic proposal, setting himself apart from his Democratic counterparts who are loathe to offend the teachers union by pushing for more ...

  • Ex-probers US ignored ’96 TWA ‘missile hit’

    Six former investigators of the crash of TWA Flight 800 say they have new evidence that the jumbo jet was brought down by an "external explosion" off Long Island - and are demanding that the 17-year-old case be reopened. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI ignored hundreds of eyewitness reports, as well as radar data, indicating that a missile downed the JFK-to-Paris ...

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