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Andrew Berman with the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation is one the community members fi ghting the destruction of the church. / AARON ADLER
City of ghosts. Community groups fi ghting the destruction of the Mary Help of Christians Church in the East Village recently discovered that the historic church was built on an old cemetery. PAGE 02
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Community groups protested recently to save the historic Mary Help of Christians Church. / GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Preservationists fighting to protect a historic East Village church happened upon a surprising discov-ery: the 100-year-old Mary Help of Christians Church was built on an older Cath-
olic cemetery.The discovery was made
the day before community groups were organizing a rally in the hopes of getting developer David Steiner to agree to develop only on the vacant lot next to the church, and to re-use the church structure rather than tear it down.
Steiner has apparently acquired permits to demol-ish the church, its 150-year-old rectory and a 90-year-old school connected to it, according to Andrew Ber-man with the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
It is unclear whether there are still bodies there. Berman said an exhuma-tion was conducted in 1909 when bodies were sup-posed to be moved to Cal-vary Cemetery in Queens, but “there is reasonable doubt” as to whether all of the bodies were relocated.
The church was made famous by Allen Ginsberg, who referenced the build-ing in the poem “Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters.”
Dead may haunt city development
Bodies still there?
“Typically, with cemeteries like this, when they are closed down and quote-unquote moved, oftentimes the movement is far from complete, and it’s common to fi nd human remains were left behind.” Berman
Real estate. The Mary Help of Christians Church is built on what used to be the largest Catholic cemetery in the city.
Superstorm. Cuomo: Be wary of Hurricane Sandy ‘fl ood car’ sales Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned consumers on Tuesday to look out for used car sales that could land them with storm-damaged cars.
Buyers can access a database from the Na-tional Insurance Crime Bureau to check whether a used car is a “flood car” from superstorm Sandy.
Cuomo warned that around 400,000 cars were flooded after Sandy.
The database runs vehicle identification numbers to check if the car has been declared as salvage by an insurance company participating in the NICB VINCheck program. DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN Many vehicles were water-damaged during Sandy. / GETTY IMAGES
Quoted
“If these two mopes were living in New York this attack would not have happened.”
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, on the Boston Marathon bombings
After Boston
Bombings wouldn’t happen in NY: Ex-CIA chief If Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been cooking up terror plots in New York City instead of Boston, things might have ended differently — at least according to one man.
Former CIA Direc-tor Michael Hayden, speaking in Washing-ton, D.C., on Tuesday at a panel organized by the Institute for Education, pointed to the NYPD’s record of spying on Muslim communities, The Hill blog reports.
“The New York po-lice department is far more aggressive, far more invasive, going what’s been termed ‘mosque crawling’ and a whole bunch of other things to perme-ate the Islamic-Amer-ican community,” he said. “Boston doesn’t do that. ”EMILY JOHNSON
T ragedy
Man jumps to death from GW Bridge
An unidentified man committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge yesterday morning, the New York Post reports.
Leaving behind a suitcase, he fell into the Hudson River from the New Jersey side of the bridge. EMILY JOHNSON
George Washington Bridge GETTY IMAGES
Online
What’s trending online at Metro.us 1 Photos: President
Barack Obama visits the Jersey Shore.
2 Video: ‘Joe Lhota is New York’
3 JCPenny is under fi re for kettle that
looks like Hitler
DANIELLE [email protected]
Bernard Kerik / GETTY IMAGES
Former NYPD commis-sioner Bernard Kerik was released from federal prison on Tuesday.
Kerik had served three years in prison after being convicted of corruption.
He left the Maryland jail yesterday morning.
According to the New York Post, he was on his way to his Bergen County, N.J., home. ALISON BOWEN
Corruption. Former NYPD commissioner Kerik leaves jail
Superstorm
Red Cross announces grant for Sandy victims The Red Cross will give $1.25 million to Brooklyn communi-ties still recovering from Sandy.
The grant will go toward the Brooklyn Community Founda-tion.
The cash will help storm-damaged neigh-borhoods throughout the borough. ALISON BOWEN
School children and the NYPL mascot rallied on Tuesday in the Bronx to protest library cuts. / BESS ADLER
Children fi ght to stop library budget cuts
Children in the Bronx ral-lied at the Kingsbridge Library to protest against looming budget cuts to the New York Public Library. The NYPL, which servic-es the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, is in for a fiscal battering, facing a
possible budget cut of $47 million.
This would amount to their total operating bud-get of $133.6 million being slashed by a third.
The budget cut would threaten 14 of the city’s 91 locations.
Bronx library network manager Michael Alvarez is most concerned about this loss of access. This would be the first year that full days would be lost from cuts, he said. It’s a loss that he says would be hardest on the city’s most vulner-able populations and the people most in need of the libraries’ resources.
Shelters for vulnerable
“These are sites where seniors and the unemployed go to access technology, whether to update their résumé or communicate with their families.” Michael Alvarez
Reading. Kids gathered at the Kingsbridge Library on Tuesday to help save the New York Public Library from budget cuts.
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It would appear that any-one counting Anthony Weiner out of the mayoral race was mistaken.
In the first poll since the former congressman an-nounced his candidacy last week, Weiner placed sec-ond among the registered Democrats surveyed, with-in striking distance of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Quinn would re-ceive 24 percent of the vote if the primary were held to-day, the Marist poll found — just five points higher than the man whose politi-cal career was seemingly derailed just two years ago by a lewd photos scandal.
Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist Col-lege Institute for Public Opinion, said the race would likely come down to a runoff between the top two candidates. Quinn currently has an edge over Weiner in a head-to-head matchup, commanding 48 percent of support to his 33 percent, but Miringoff
stressed that it was too soon to tell.
“The Democratic prima-ry for mayor remains wide open,” he said.
Trailing Weiner with 14 percent of Democratic sup-port was Bill de Blasio, then Bill Thompson (13 percent), John Liu (8 percent), Sal Albanese (1 percent) and Erick Salgado (less than 1 percent). More than 20 percent of Democrats sur-veyed reported that they were still undecided.
With the race heating up, Weiner headed to his first mayoral forum on Tuesday night.
He joked on Twitter ear-lier that he had planned to try out the city’s new bike share program, but that the weather was forc-ing him to seek alternative transportation.
Weiner takes second place in mayoral poll
Anthony Weiner is second only to Christine Quinn in the new poll. / GETTY IMAGES
Election 2013. The formerly disgraced congressman is coming on strong in a new Marist poll.
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City Council members an-nounced a new tax break for New York City veter-ans on Monday, May 27.
Right now, veterans who own homes lose property tax breaks when they move within the city, Council members said.
For benefits to begin July 1, people have to submit an application by March 15 of that year.
But if the resident moves or fills out the ap-plication after that dead-line, they don’t get the exemption until the next year.
The new legislation will provide an exemp-
tion for veterans.“I think we can all
agree that we shouldn’t be punishing anyone sim-ply because they move,” Council Speaker Chris-tine Quinn said. “Provid-ing our veterans with a little financial relief is the least we can do to thank the men and women who have done — and do — so much for our country.”
Added Councilman Vincent Ignizio, “Our veterans have served our country with honor and distinction and deserve our thanks — not unnec-essary financial burdens.”
Last week, the Council also voted to require ev-
ery city agency to desig-nate one person to be in charge of how their agen-cy might assist veterans.
Under the legislation, each agency must desig-nate one person to work with the Mayor’s Office of Veteran’s Affairs.
“We hope this legisla-tion will help to allevi-ate any burdens veterans have faced in the past when navigating city gov-ernment and allow them to seamlessly access the services they need and de-serve,” Quinn said.
Honoring vets
The tax break will give vet-
erans an exemption if they
own a home and decide to
move within the city.
• The legislation was pro-
posed by the city council to give some fi nancial relief to those who have served in the military. The person also assist veterans in the city.
Armed forces. New York City’s vets will now get an exemption when they move within the city.
Council gives tax breaks to city veterans
New York veterans attend a job fair in the city. / GETTY IMAGES
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Life is going swimmingly for Karl-Johan Persson, H&M’s young, handsome CEO: despite the global recession the cheap-chic chain is doing well. But the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has put H&M in the spotlight, even though the retailer didn’t use the factory. In an exclusive interview with Metro at H&M’s headquar-ters in Stockholm, Persson proposes a new solution: a tag added to every piece of clothing that informs the customer if it was made in a safe factory.
Last month a clothing fac-tory collapsed and killed more than 1,000 workers. Now H&M, the biggest manufacturer of clothes in Bangladesh, has signed an agreement where you agree to help your Ban-gladeshi suppliers pay for safety measures. Are the factories safe now?
The factory collapse was horrific, but our code of conduct bans use of factories in residential areas, so this was not an H&M supplier. But we’ve been working to improve conditions in Bangladesh for a long time. You can never be 100 percent sure. Accidents happen in Sweden, too. We already have 100 full-time inspec-tors who travel around to our suppliers to make sure they adhere to our code of conduct when it comes to building safety, fire safety, wages, overtime pay and so on. The major change with the agreement is that we join up with other buy-ers, with trade unions and with the government.
But isn’t the problem that people want cheap clothes? It never makes fi nancial sense for a company to use better factories.Yes, but it’s a common
misperception that cheap brands use certain manu-facturers and expensive brands use others. We’re one of 30 to 40 companies buying from many of our suppliers. There are appar-el companies that charge their customers low prices, medium prices and high prices. The workers’ pay is the same regardless of which company is buying.
Couldn’t consumers play a role here? If clothes that are made in safe factories with decent wages had a special tag. I would know exactly what to buy.That would be the very best. Then you’d remove many of these mispercep-tions that low store prices mean bad conditions for the factory workers or poor sustainability work.
KARL-JOHAN PERSSON The CEO of fashion retailer H&M speaks to Metro about skinny models,
aff ordable clothing and Bangladeshi factory workers.
“OUR MODELS WERE TOO SKINNY. THAT’S NOT OK”
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• Age and family. 38.
Married, two children.
• In the news. President
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2009.
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Stefan Persson [father]
is chairman & main
shareholder of H&M.
Erling Persson [grand-
father] founded H&M
in 1947.
Quoted
“Customers care about these issues, and that puts pressure on us as companies. It’s not just about maximizing profi t; you have to do it in a fair way, too. I want to feel proud today and when I leave H&M and look back at what we’ve done, I want to feel that we were the just company regarding our social responsibilities: caring about the environment, choice of models, social issues.” Persson
In response to the comment, “The change in public attitude toward skinny models is similar to the growing interest in sustainability.”
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Video has emerged of the moment firefighters in eastern China rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly be-neath a toilet, in a case that has sparked anger on social media sites.
There are frequent reports in Chinese me-dia of babies being aban-doned, often shortly after birth, a problem attributed variously to young mothers unaware they were pregnant, the birth of an unwanted girl in a society that puts greater value on boys or China’s strict family planning rules.
In the latest case, the infant was found in the sewage pipe in a residen-tial building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang on Saturday afternoon, af-ter residents reported the sound of a baby cry-ing, state television said late on Monday.
Firefighters had to re-move the pipe and take it to a nearby hospital, where doctors carefully
cut around it to rescue the baby boy inside, the report said.
The child was in stable condition yester-day, and the police were looking for his parents,
state television added.The case has been
widely discussed on China’s Twitter-like ser-vice Sina Weibo due to the graphic nature of the footage, with calls
for the parents to be se-verely punished.
“The parents who did this have hearts even filthier than that sewage pipe,” wrote one user. REUTERS
Found. The residents of an apartment building in eastern China reported the sound of a baby crying.
Video screen grabs show a newborn rescued from a toilet sewage pipe in China. / YOUTUBE
Firefi ghters in China rescue baby lodged in a toilet pipe
New requirement
Singapore to regulate Yahoo, other online news sites Websites that regularly report on Singapore, including Yahoo News, will have to get a license from June 1. This puts them on par with newspapers and television news outlets, in a move seen by some as a bid to rein in freewheeling Internet news.
“Online news sites that report regularly on issues relating to Singapore and have sig-nificant reach among readers here will require an individual license,” Singapore’s Media Development Authority said in a statement.
”This will place them on a more consis-tent regulatory frame-work with traditional news platforms, which are already individually licensed,” the media regulator said. REUTERS
H7N9 virus
Drug resistance in new China bird fl u raises concern The new bird flu strain that has killed 36 people in China has proved resistant to Tamiflu for the first time, a development that scientists said was “concerning.”
The H7N9 virus was found to be resistant to Roche’s widely used flu drug in three out of 14 patients who were studied in detail by doctors from Shang-hai and Hong Kong.
Tamiflu, which is given as a pill, belongs to a group of medicines known as neuraminidase inhib-itors that currently offer the only known treatment option for bird flu. GlaxoS-mithKline’s inhaled medicine Relenza has the same mode of action. REUTERS
Quoted
“The parents who did this have hearts even fi lthier than that sewage pipe.”A user on China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo
Yahoo / GETTY IMAGES
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Chinese hackers have gained access to designs of more than two dozen ma-jor U.S. weapons systems, a U.S. report said, as Aus-tralian media said Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints for Australia’s new spy headquarters.
Citing a report prepared for the Defense Department by the De-fense Science Board, the Washington Post said the
compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, as well as missile defenses.
Among the weapons listed in the report were the advanced Patriot mis-sile system, the Navy’s Ae-gis ballistic missile defense systems, the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22 Osprey, the Black Hawk helicopter and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. REUTERS
Breach. Chinese hackers access major weapons systems
President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie walk along the boardwalk in Point Pleasant, N. J., as they view rebuilding eff ortsfollowing last year’s Hurricane Sandy. / GETTY IMAGES
Obama, Christie reunite to promote NJ Shore recovery
President Barack Obama and Chris Christie, New Jersey’s Republican gov-ernor, strolled along the Jersey Shore boardwalk like old friends yes-terday, a political odd couple just hanging out together.
The two men had a common purpose: pro-mote the recovery of the Jersey Shore from the af-tereffects of Sandy, a su-perstorm that hit in the final days of last year’s presidential election campaign. Obama’s well-received show of concern may have helped him win re-election.
So when it came
time to throw a football through a hanging tire at the Touchdown Fever ar-cade game on the board-walk in Point Pleasant, N.J., it was Christie who had a successful toss, an ungainly spiral that went through the tire, after Obama had tried and missed five times with his left-handed throw.
The two leaders, Obama tall and lanky and Christie mid-height and round, gave each other a celebratory high-five, and then Obama referenced Christie’s re-election campaign.
“That’s because he’s running for office,” Obama declared to throngs of tourists, who recorded it all on their smartphones as a light rain fell. Obama received the prize for Chris-tie’s performance — a stuffed bear. Then they worked the rope line. REUTERS
Best buds . The political odd couple joked and played games on the boardwalk during a tour of the area.
White House
Obama to talk cybersecurity with Chinese president President Barack Obama will discuss cyberse-curity with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the two leaders meet in California next
week, White House spokesman Jay Carney said yesterday.
Carney declined to comment on a Wash-ington Post report that Chinese hackers had gained access to designs of more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems. REUTERS
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8www.metro.usWednesday, May 29, 2013 NEWS
Shoppers walking into a clothing store in New York City’s SoHo neigh-borhood should not be surprised if a smartphone app, rather than a sales-person, greets them at the door.
Some retailers in the United States are start-ing to communicate with shoppers via a smartphone app called Swirl. It uses in-store sensors to track their location in the shop to send them personalized offers and recommenda-tions.
It’s just one of the ways that brick-and-mortar shops are using apps to ap-
peal to younger, more tech-savvy consumers.
“Retailers want to giveconsumers somethingthat’s value-added anddoes what an expert sales-person might do — forexample, tell them, ‘Here’ssome great new products,’or, ‘Here’s a special offerbecause we know you’vebeen looking at hand-bags,’” said Hilmi Ozguc,CEO of Boston-based SwirlNetworks, creator of theSwirl iPhone app.
Retailers in New YorkCity and Boston are amongthe first to adopt the tech-nology, which uses Blue-tooth sensors placed onstore walls and shelves tocommunicate with theSwirl app.
Although Swirl’s use ofsensors to detect shoppersin stores is among the firstof its kind, several otherapps provide deals or tipswhen entering a store.REUTERS
Imagine an automated voice menu. Now imagine it up-selling.EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN, METRO
Too few salespeople? There’s an app for thatDigital world. Shops are using apps, rather than people, to provide a retail experience.
Cyber crime
US shuts shady fund transfer system
U.S. authorities said yesterday that they have shut down a Costa Rica-based money transfer company that alleg-edly provided a digital currency widely used around the world by cybercriminals.
In a statement, of-ficials said authorities in Spain, Costa Rica and New York arrested five people on Friday. They also seized bank accounts and Internet domains associated with the company, Liberty Reserve.
The digital currency is a transferable unit that can be exchanged for cash.
Along with the five arrests, prosecutors filed charges against two more company em-ployees who were still at large in Costa Rica.
According to an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, “Liberty Reserve has emerged as one of the princi-pal means by which cybercriminals around the world distribute, store and launder the proceeds of their illegal activity.”
The indictment said the company had more than 1 million users, in-cluding at least 200,000 in the United States. It also said that virtually all of its business was related to suspected criminal activity. REUTERS
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A former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad who was once a personal guard of Osama bin Laden has denied that the head of al-Qaida was shot dead by U.S. Navy SEALs, claiming he blew himself up instead.
Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah said bin Laden blew himself up using an ex-plosive belt when SEALs raided his villa in Pakistan in May 2011.
In an interview with the Dubai-based Gulf News, Fattah said: “Bin Laden and his men defended them-selves. They fired shots at the helicopter that has car-ried the U.S. Special Forces
unit. As the SEALs killed two of his guards and shot him in his thigh, he trig-gered his explosive belt.”
Fattah claimed that the Americans later chopped up bin Laden’s body before disposing of it to destroy
forensic proof that he had blown himself up rather than being shot.
“Bin Laden’s burial at sea story was fishy ... Barack Obama lied when he claimed that bin Laden was buried at sea.” METRO
A former bodyguard is questioning the circumstances of Osama bin Laden’s demise. / GETTY IMAGES
Ex-guard: Bin Laden ‘blew himself up’ to defy the Navy SEALsNo capture for old men. He claims his boss did it to protect his secrets.
Abortion fi ght
Court won’t hear Planned Parenthood funding caseIn a victory for Planned Parenthood, the U.S. Supreme Court yester-day declined to con-sider whether the state of Indiana can prevent the nonprofit, which is the country’s largest provider of abortions, from receiving federal Medicaid funding for any medical services it offers to low-income people.
Supporters of the law, which was blocked by an appeals court, had wanted to prohibit any govern-ment funding of Planned Parenthood’s medical programs, such as cancer and HIV screenings, because the group also provides abortion services.
Medicaid is a federal health program for low-income people that is administered by the states. REUTERS
A Florida judge yesterday ruled out any further de-lay in next month’s trial of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch captain charged with second-degree murder for last year’s killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson, who ruled against a string of defense motions during a two-hour hearing in Seminole County Crimi-nal Court, rejected a defense request to delay the scheduled June 10 start of the trial.
The killing of Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, ig-nited protests across the country.
Much of the public
outcry centered on race issues because police initially declined to ar-rest Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, on grounds that he killed the 17-year-old Martin in self-defense.
“The whole world is watching to see if ev-erybody in America gets equal justice,” Benjamin Crump, a lawyer repre-senting Martin’s parents, said after yesterday’s hearing.
“Most Americans be-lieve that if the shoe had been on the other foot, Trayvon Martin would have been arrested that night,” Crump added, speaking in an interview on CNN’s Headline News. REUTERS
Trayvon Martin. No delay for murder trial in Zimmerman case
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GOSSIP
Twitter feed
We check in with some of
Hollywood’s biggest names
to see what they’ve been
up to — in their own
words, in 140 characters
or fewer.
Today, Mindy Kaling is quite full, Marlon Wayans is exhausted, Jonah Hill is reexamining a childhood favorite and Courtney Love fi nally has someone to feel superior to.
@mindykaling: I think I was the only person who ate food at the bbq I was at today - and I’m fi ne with that - I just want everyone to know that I know.
@MARLONWAYANS: Haven’t slept in weeks.. . Wtf???
@JonahHill: Willy Wonka’s a dark movie.One kid drowns,one blows up and pops,one gets sucked into machinery and one gets turned into tiny particles!
@Courtney: @Amand-aBynes pull it together dude.
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Kanye West’s bid to project his video for “New Slaves” on the Alamo in Texas turned out to be a losing battle when it turned out he had no permit for the spontaneous event, accord-ing to Mysanantonio.com.
West announced his inten-tions to use the landmark on his website, prompting around 500 people — both fans and protesters — to turn up. But police got there first. A similar event in Houston was also shut down. “It’s sad that people have such little respect for the Alamo,” said a spokes-man for the Texas General Land Office.
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1 It looks like Katy Perry might have been behind Robert Pattinson’s decision to call it quits with Kristen Stewart, according to Life & Style. Perry, a pal of Pattinson’s, reportedly told the “Twilight” star that he deserved better than Stew-art after her affair with director Rupert Sanders came to light last summer. “Katy never really sup-ported Rob’s decision to get back with Kristen. She always said they wouldn’t last,” a source says. “Katy told Rob she didn’t think their relationship could
withstand the cheating scandal. And he deserved better than someone who would destroy a family [like Rupert’s].” Since his breakup, Pattinson has been spotted out and about with Perry in New York and in Santa Barbara, where the pair hung out at a hotel and spied on a wedding rehearsal, accord-ing to People magazine. “They just sat together and watched,” a source says. “They were not affiliated with the wedding party and were not seen min-gling with guests.”
Katy Perry and Robert Pattinson: BFFs
Slow down, Biebs Justin Bieber is getting on his neighbors’ nerves again, this time because he won’t slow down near his home. The pop star was vis-ited by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department in response to complaints about his reckless driving near his home, according to E! News. Police reportedly received numerous calls about the singer’s driv-ing on Monday alone, with many saying that his speeding endangers the lives of neighbor-hood children playing outside.
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Kris Humphries’ mom did not take that blender, okay?
Just when the world thought that the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to Kris Humphries was his quickie sham of a marriage to and public spectacle of a divorce from Kim Kardashian, he went and started arguing with an ex-assistant about a blender. Said assistant, one Tracy Paradise, is suing Humphries (dude can’t catch a break) for withholding money he owes her. Also, she says his mom went and jacked a Magic Bullet blender from her. Kris says his mom wouldn’t do that and is making sort of a fuss about it.
Kris, kindly buy your mom her own kitchen stuff, k?
Kim’s ex in a blender bender
Grant Holmquist is now almost old enough for a hangover of his ownYup, this is the baby in shades strapped to Zach Galifi anakis’ chest from the fi rst “Hangover.” Kids grow up so fast.GETTY IMAGES
The “Fast & Furious” movies may be dominated by men like Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. But it makes room for badass women, too. The latest, “Fast & Furious 6,” finds room for Michelle Rodriguez, Gina Carano, Gal Gadot and Jordana Brewster to throw down some punches. The latter plays the sister of Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and the wife of Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner. Brewster also does time on the reboot of “Dallas.”
The girls do as much fi ghting as the guys here. Are you a little envious that you didn’t get a few more fi ght scenes?A little bit. That was a sacrifice. … I love what
the baby brings into the mix. I love that it shows [Diesel’s character] Dom’s very sweet, vulnerable side. The fact that he has a new nephew shows the new dynamic in Mia and Brian’s relationship, but I didn’t get to kick ass like Gal [Gadot], Michelle [Ro-driguez] and Gina [Carano]. Have you ever been in a proper fi ght?A girl slapped me once. I went to an all-girl’s school in New York, and a girl slapped me in the dark room — I was developing pictures — she slapped me, and I slapped her back. It was a bitch-slap-ping. The girls in the movie are quite adept at manipulat-
ing the male characters. When have you used your feminine charms to get your own way?I only pull it out for special occasions. [Laughs] Um, I would say if I’m trying to get out of a ticket, or if I’m trying to get on a plane at very short notice. I flirt, and, you know, compli-ments help a lot. I find that disarms people.
You couldn’t drive prior to the “Fast & Furious” mov-ies. I take it that you’re not into cars — what kind of car do you drive?Well, I don’t know much about cars. I love the car I drive, a Range Rover Sport … and I love speeding. Clearly, there’s going to be a “Fast & Furious 7.” What can you tell us about it?Well, nothing is settled at the moment. I’d like it to be stripped down a bit more, and I’d like to go back to our roots and go back to L.A. I think that would be really fun, [to] ex-plore what the characters are like on their own turf.
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In “Now You See Me,” a big-budget, all-star caper, he gets to play a mostly nice guy, albeit a sleight-of-hand artist first seen steal-
ing from a tourist. The production style in-
troduced new aspects that he needed to get used to. “Louis Leterrier is a very visual director, and a lot of the scenes have multiple cameras flying about, cir-cling around you,” Franco says. “Most of the time you have no idea whether or not the camera is catching you.”
He also had to learn card tricks. “I can now cut a banana with a playing card,” he reveals. “I wanted it to look realistic.”
Though the film’s cast
is filled with names, it’s hard to be starstruck when you’re brother is James Franco. He claims his brother didn’t get him into the business. “His manager is the one who dragged me into this whole mess,” he says. “My brother has been very supportive. But we don’t talk about acting all that much. That said, he did tell me to be patient, to wait for projects I’m genu-inely passionate about.”
Longevity
On playing younger
Franco is 27 years old but looks like a kid. That’s why he often gets roles playing younger characters. “I don’t love it,” he says, “but it’s more about the role
than the age. Everyone always says, especially in the business, it’s great to look a lot younger than you are, for longevity’s sake. But sometimes I just want to look my damn age and play a character my age. I don’t want to play high school again.”
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“When those brass horns come in, there’s drama tied to that. When the flutes come in, there’s some type of majestic feel-ing that comes over you,” he says of the classical compositions he’s often listening to. “You’re just listening. There’s no judg-ment. It’s not ‘Yeah, well he sucks, so I’m not listen-ing to whatever his record is or whether he did a mag-ical thing or not or wheth-er that song makes sense.’”The-Dream says American culture pays more atten-tion to fashion choices and rumors than the most im-portant factor concerning an artist — the music.
“All those genius [com-posers] were probably kind of crazy themselves, but what we took from them most was that their music was outstanding and they were great at it,” he says. “Period.”
The-Dream has always been a sex-obsessed R&B genius, but now he’s turned things up a notch. On his new al-bum, “IV Play,” which drops this week, the singer, song-writer and producer isn’t afraid to express his desires. He says the extra dose of risque talk and bawdy calls for sex are a reflection of where he’s at in his life, and where we’re at as a society. For the uninitiated, this is ratchet-infused R&B.
“I’d like to think it’s a very vibe-y, adult album,” says the man born Terius Nash. “I’ve been out, I’ve been in clubs so I know we’re in the ratchet era of things. I’m sure there’s been a lot of ratchetness on my album because of what’s been going through our culture, which is a good thing, by the way. The ‘ratchet’ word sounds like it’s negative, but it’s ac-tually more free than most R&B songs could be, than pop could be. ‘I don’t give a f—’ — that’s basically what it’s saying.”
If “IV Play” embraces more explicit come-ons — and a few more drug references — than we’re used to, it still boasts the same sound we’d expect from the musical master-mind behind some of the most memorable songs in modern R&B. The-Dream has crafted megahits for the likes of Beyonce (“Sin-gle Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”), Rihanna (“Umbrella”) and Justin Bieber (“Baby”), and racked up multiple Grammy Awards, so it’s no surprise that industry heavyweights like Jay-Z, Beyonce, Pusha T and 2 Chainz appear on “IV Play,” which rounds out a hand-
ful of edgier tracks with sweet serenades and dark, introspective numbers.
The wave of ratchet hip-hop may not be the most surprising influence on “IV Play,” though. You might also hear some classical mu-sic making its way into the
R&B. Hip-hop’s premier songwriter goes from racy to ratchet with his brand new album.
‘IV Play’ a rude awakening of a diff erent variety for The-Dream
The-Dream’s new album, “IV Play” dropped yesterday. He’s currently on tour with Kelly Rowland. / MIKE
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Love vs. money
In addition to fi nishing up
his fi fth album (with the title,
you’d think “IV Play” was his
fourth) and preparing for the
Lights Out tour with Kelly
Rowland, The-Dream is col-
laborating with Kanye West,
Beyonce and Jay-Z. He remains
tight-lipped about what those
forthcoming collaborations
entail.
• “I’ve probably done the least on Kanye’s, because he’s like a machine like I am and just timing-wise,
but I can say I’ve defi nitely done a lot of work with Bey and Jay,” he says. “It’s defi nitely multiple songs.”
If you go
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“It’s like, ‘Yo, this is where I am in my life.’ I can’t make a video or an album for a child that’s 16.” The-Dream, on his new, naughtier approach
The score
The-Dream says he is also
making his foray into fi lm
by scoring two movies and
producing what he says is
“a ‘Boyz n the Hood’-type”
fl ick.”
• “My point is not just to do fi lm scoring — it’s to make fi lms, period,” he says. “So I’m on my Ice Cube s— right now.”
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“As a class of drugs, oral contraceptives have an enormous effect on nu-trients,” said Pelton. “They deplete all B-vitamins, magnesium, selenium, zinc, tyrosine and coen-zyme Q10. The only other medication that comes close to its effect on nutri-ents is steroids.”
According to Pelton’s book, without these nutri-ents, ailments such as de-pression, sexual malaise, lack of energy and insom-nia can develop. To avoid
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“Even with a healthy diet, you can’t get the ther-apeutic levels needed,” he said. “I’m concerned with optimal health and the prevention of illness. Women who take oral contraceptives should take a high-potency multi-vitamin and multimineral supplement to provide adequate levels to prevent problems.”
Health. A drop in nutrients is at the heart of “The Pill Problem,” Ross Pelton says.
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Look twice, shoot onceThe recent collapse of a bridge in Washington is just another sign of more such disasters to come. Most of the blame falls on the lap of Congress members because they didn’t put their differ-ences aside and sign off on the president’s infrastructure bill. Lesson to Congress: When you decide to shoot down a bill, make sure your foot isn’t underneath.JONATHAN PERRY, VIA EMAIL
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The Yankees are close to getting their first wave of injured players
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Youkilis will both play in Double-A Trenton to-day. Teixeira is working his way back from a preseason wrist injury, while Youkilis has been out since April 27 with a back injury. The two could be back as soon as this weekend.
Also, reliever Joba Chamberlain was activated from the DL. Lefty David Huff, who was just claimed Sunday, was desig-nated for assignment in the corresponding roster move. He only appeared in one game and surrendered a run. METRO Jeff Wilpon more or less admitted the obvious yesterday before
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Wilpon counting out Mets from postseason
Count Jeff Wilpon among those who do not believe there will be a third in-stallment of the Subway Series this year.
During a pregame cer-emony honoring Mariano Rivera, the Mets’ chief op-erating officer told the fu-ture Hall of Famer, “I wish we could see you in the World Series, but I don’t think it will happen.”
Rivera responded, “You
never know.”The Mets entered the
second of four Subway Series games this week in fourth place in the NL East with a 19-29 record. The Yankees are 30-20 and in second place in the AL East.
Wilpon and FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano presented Rivera with a mounted nozzle from a fire hose and a mounted fire call box. Wilpon also asked Rivera to throw out the ceremo-nial first pitch.
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“I wish we could see you in the World Series, but I don’t think it will happen.” Jeff Wilpon, Mets COO and son of owner Fred WilponOn whether the Mets will meet the Yankees in the postseason
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Goodson on practice fi eld with Jets Embattled Jets running back Mike Goodson was reportedly in at-tendance as organized team activities got un-derway again yesterday.
Goodson was in Florham Park, N.J., last week for the first round of OTAs, but only to speak with team personnel after his May 17 arrest for possession of marijuana and an illegal hand gun.
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Goodson was signed as a free agent this off-season to help replace departed starter Shonn Greene in the backfield. He played for the Raid-ers last season. MARK OSBORNE
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New Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann found herself in even more trouble yesterday when The New York Times reported that she was the subject of a sexu-al discrimination lawsuit filed in 2008. The lawsuit is still pending.
Hermann was a senior athletics administrator with Louisville — her em-ployer before joining Rut-gers — at the time.
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She was also the sub-ject of a lawsuit by a Tennessee assistant who claimed Hermann fired her for getting preg-nant. The assistant won $150,000 from the school in the suit.
Hermann was hired in April. Previously, the school relieved Tim Per-netti for his mishandling of the firing of men’s basket-ball head coach Mike Rice for abusing players.
Rutgers. The saga continues as newly hired athletic director Julie Hermann is facing another lawsuit.
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Rangers(32-17)Texas dropped two of three to the Athletics at home last week, including a Yu Darvish start, thus the reason for their drop. They still have the best pitching the AL has to off er, posting a 3.44 ERA, tops in the AL as of Sun-day. Texas is in a stretch of 12 of 16 road games.
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Braves(31-20)Winning eight of nine going into Monday will allow you to move into the Top 3. The Braves beat up on lowly com-petition in the Dodgers, Twins and Mets, but did so in convincing fashion, outscoring teams 49-25 in that stretch. Now they face the Blue Jays.
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Yankees(30-20)The big news coming out of the Bronx last week involved yet another big-name injury as Curtis Granderson fractured his pinkie and is expected to miss at least four weeks. The team is now embroiled in the Subway Series with the Mets this week.
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Reds(32-19)After winning fi ve in a row, one would have thought the Reds would have taken over fi rst place, but they are in the same division as the Cards, so second place will have to do. The Reds have an intriguing matchup with Cleveland this week.
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Pirates(31-20)The surprise Pirates are hanging tough in the loaded NL Central. Going into yesterday, Pitts-burgh had won fi ve of its last seven games with pitching and defense the key. They held oppo-nents to two runs or less in all but one game in that stretch.
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Red Sox(32-20)After a fi ve-game win streak, the White Sox took two-of-three from the Red Sox, dropping them out of our Top 5. They did, however, bounce back by taking three of four from the In-dians and they kicked off their set with the Phillies with a win Monday.
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