Freeze Frame

Whitney Jefferson · 11/16/09 09:00AM

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Two Pads Listed on Park; A Sale at 110 CPS

cityfile · 11/16/09 08:56AM

• Todd Morley, founding partner of the asset management firm Guggenheim Capital and the Duchess of York's former business adviser, has put his two apartments on the 10th and 11th floors of 563 Park Avenue on the market. A longtime resident of the building, Morley bought the 11th floor co-op from Spamalot producer Arielle Tepper for $3.45 million in 2006 but never combined the apartments. He now has both places on the market together for $7.999 million. [Cityfile, Rutenberg Realty]
• Iris Cantor, the philanthropist and widow of Cantor Fitzgerald founder Bernie Cantor, has sold off her penthouse at 110 Central Park South. The four-bedroom apartment, which Cantor bought for $15 million in 2006, was listed for $11.9 million when it went into contract in August. It sold for just $10.5 million to wine importer Leonardo LoCascio. [Cityfile]
• Former Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy has paid $7.4 million for a three-bedroom condo in the Superior Ink building on West 12th Street. Mulcahy and her husband also own a home in Fairfield, Conn. [NYT]

Happy Birthday

cityfile · 11/16/09 07:53AM

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns 32 today. CSI star Marg Helgenberger is turning 51. Singer Diana Krall is 45. Actress Martha Plimpton is 39. Retired pitcher Dwight Gooden turns 45. Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul is turning 32. Actress Lisa Bonet is 42. Dean McDermott, the husband of Tori Spelling and co-star of the couple's reality TV show, is 43. Nobel prize-winning novelist José Saramago is 87. And the New York Post is celebrating its 208th birthday today, apparently.

Letterman Gets the Boot; Paris Goes to War

cityfile · 11/16/09 07:38AM

• Did David Letterman's wife boot him out of the house because he "balked at telling her the complete truth about the female staffers he bedded"? That's what the National Enquirer has been claiming, although his spokesman says it isn't true. So maybe he's just still sleeping on the couch. [NYDN]
• Amy Winehouse is back in the hospital for the 143rd time. It was due to an "adverse reaction" she had to cold medicine. Naturally. [Mirror]
• A brawl at a club in Queens over the weekend led cops to shoot a man who once worked as a bodyguard for Jay-Z, Mariah Carey and Diddy. [NYP]
• Paris Hilton is "declaring war" on the Kardashian sisters because they're more famous than she is these days and they're earning more money, too. Paris has "hatched a plan" to return to her former perch as tabloid queen, however. It entails launching a new hair and beauty line and playing up her "more stable relationship with Doug Reinhardt." [P6]

Leave It to Beaver

Ravi Somaiya · 11/16/09 05:30AM

Years of conservative, abstinence-only sex education, and thus teenagers using bread bags because they can't get condoms, mean that America is now rife with nasty sexually transmitted infections.

Family Held Captive by Obese Housecat

Maureen O'Connor · 11/16/09 05:08AM

A mother and son called 911 when their "raging Russian blue," Carmen, held them captive in their Midtown apartment. The victims show signs of Stockholm Syndrome: "I just don't want people to think she's a bad cat," said one. [NYP]

AK Governor Declares War on Polar Bears

Adrian Chen · 11/16/09 01:24AM

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell wants the polar bears hanging out on top of his state's oil reserves to stop being so endangered. He's suing the feds to remove their "threatened" classification and help speed up development of oil fields. [AP]

Is It Racist?: The British Couples Retreat Poster

Adrian Chen · 11/15/09 11:32PM

Welcome to the super fun game show that's sweeping the Internet: "Is It Racist?"! Tonight, our contestants must judge whether the British poster for the film Couples Retreat — in which black characters are conspicuously missing—is racist!

Las Vegas Stripper-Mobile Ends Its Reign of Sexy Terror

Adrian Chen · 11/15/09 09:26PM

In the Unabridged Oxford Big Book of Terrible Ideas, the "stripper-mobile"—a truck carrying a Plexiglass box in which scantily clad women pole-danced—ranked just below eugenics. Obviously, it was a runaway success. So how was it stopped so quickly?