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Oprah's windy city blow-off

Who knew that the winds in the Windy City were so strong they could blow Oprah out of town? The beloved daytime talk-show host -- who is ending "The Oprah Winfrey Show" after 25 years -- has become too fragile for the brutal winters in Chicago and ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chicago Sun-Times,  Discovery Communications,  Discovery Health

Nabokov on block

Only literary dilettantes will be lining up to get a copy of Vladimir Nabokov's just-published unfinished novel -- the real fans will be bidding on the handwritten manuscript. The text of Nabokov's "Original of Laura" -- written on a stack of 138 note ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vladimir Nabokov

Weird but true

Neither rain, nor snow, nor an endless supply of flowing booze was going to keep this postal worker from his appointed rounds. An Iowa woman was surprised to find her postal carrier sitting drunk on the floor of her kitchen munching away at a bowl of ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009

Kiddie-pic 'extort' bid vs. Cindy

Cindy Crawford and her husband were targeted by a twisted extortionist who demanded that they fork over $100,000 in exchange for a photo of the couple's then-7-year-old daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said yesterday. Edis Kayalar, a 26 ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cindy Crawford

'No adopt' dog tragedy

Some happy endings are just not meant to be. Oreo, the miracle dog who survived a six-story plunge after a heartless teen tossed her off a Brooklyn roof last summer, will have to be put to sleep because she's too vicious to be adopted, officials said. " ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Kareem's brave fight vs. rare blood cancer

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been diagnosed with a rare from of leukemia, but says doctors tell him his chances of survival are good. "You have a very good chance to live your life out and not have to make any drastic changes to your lifestyle," ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Basketball Association,  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,  Magic Johnson,  Novartis,  University of California, Los Angeles

You da manatee!

The saga of the wayward sea cow has a happy ending. Ilya, a gentle Florida manatee who delayed his annual fall migration back down to Florida and got trapped in a warm New Jersey creek as ocean temperatures plummeted, was captured by rescuers and flown ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: ConocoPhillips,  Fish and Wildlife Service

Gal saw affair with ESPN's Steve Phillips as ticket to the top

She was ready to do whatever it took to get into television. Brooke Hundley — the 22-year-old production assistant who had a hot-and-steamy affair with ESPN analyst Steve Phillips and then allegedly stalked his wife with threatening letters and phone ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Steve Phillips,  ESPN,  HBO,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Donald J Trump

Lodge deaths eyed as homicides

Love, peace -- and homicide? The deaths of two New Age hippies in a sweat lodge at an Arizona retreat run by a self-help guru who has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" are being looked at as homicides, cops said yesterday. Yavapai County Sheriff ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Oprah Winfrey,  Steve Waugh,  James Arthur Ray

Moon gets struck in bomb bid for water

Uranus better watch its back. The man in the moon got his first prostate exam yesterday when NASA nerds fired a probe deep into his South Pole in a hunt for water. The space agency fired two craft into the lunar surface -- with the first, an empty ...

From LUKAS I. ALPERT, New York Post,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NASA,  Bruce Willis

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