It appears that New York is going to be doing a new show called :New York Goes To Hollywood. And here’s how VH-1 describes the new series:

New York is ready to tackle her other life dream: superstardom. Don’t get it wrong - New York is already a star but she wants to be on the A-list – as a legit actress.

In order to focus on her new mission, She’s moving out west to see if she can climb the Hollywood ladder. Question is, will she reach for the stars or fall flat on her face?

West Babylon’s Harold Dieterle and Great Neck’s Ilan Hall won the first two editions of “Top Chef.” When the fourth premieres March 12 on Bravo, the local scene and cuisine will belong to Richard Blais, born and bred in Uniondale. His parents and sister still live on Long Island. “I like to refer to it as ‘Strong Island,’” he tells us, with a wit that says as a comedian, he’s a pretty good chef. The onetime “Iron Chef America” contestant, who says he’s a proponent of molecular gastronomy - the study of the chemical nuts-and-bolts of food behavior - got his start at Mickey D’s. He worked in various kitchens while studying comparative humanities and religion at SUNY Old Westbury, and in 1998 got a degree from the Culinary Institute of America.

A culinary trail-Blais-er - cheeseburger with foie gras milkshake, anyone? - he may have been too avant-garde for Atlanta, where he now lives; his restaurants Blais, Bazzaar and Element are no more. His latest venture, BlaisCuisine.com, is being revamped as TrailBlais, which has something to do with “taste2″ (taste squared). Seven of the show’s other chefs work in New York City.

Remember “Circus of the Stars”? Well, do your parents remember?

 What to expect when Giants have the ball: Management. The team is operating as if it were a business. The CEO: Eli Manning. His charge: to “manage” matters, meaning to take what is there and to eliminate mistakes. Through his past three games, the junior of the quarterbacking brothers has made the club’s offense resemble something that a Fortune 500 company could envy. No errors. Well, one. In this interim (including two playoff games), Manning has completed 70.1 percent of his passes, eight for TDs, with one INT. This, with WR Plaxico Burress handicapped by an ankle injury. Before Manning took a place in Tom Coughlin’s executive suite, he had turned over the football 26 times in 15 games. Some transformation. For Manning to continue his immaculate play today, however, is going to be difficult. He doesn’t have TE Jeremy Shockey, eliminated with an injury. On the outside, his receivers – Burress, Amani Toomer and former USC whiz Steve Smith – are going to be confronted by two of the NFL’s most physical corner defenders, Al Harris and Charles Woodson. They’ll be eye-to-eye with the New York receivers at the line of scrimmage. Manning can hand off to Brandon Jacobs, a heavyweight running back with the thrust to wear down a defense, and to Ahmad Bradshaw, a rookie find who is tough and quick enough to get outside.Somebody unsung to look for: FB Madison Hedgecock (No. 39). He is considered one of the best lead blockers in the game.

Key matchup: MLB Nick Barnett is the hub of the Green Bay defense. Negating him falls to which center the Giants utilize, Shaun O’Hara (who has been injured) or Grey Ruegamer.

What to expect when Packers have the ball:Anything. Brett Favre can improvise, as he did last week when, stumbling and about to go down, he underhanded a pass for a first down during his side’s conquest of Seattle. Favre may be in his 17th season, but his arm strength has not been impaired. “That’s going to be the last thing that leaves Favre,” Fox Sports analyst Troy Aikman said. Favre is without peer at drifting, keeping a play alive by moving laterally, then directing one of his fastballs downfield. His receivers, Donald Driver and Greg Jennings, are as good after the catch as any two in the league. TEs Donald Lee and Bubba Franks also are useful. At his age, however, Favre is going to be challenged by the New York rush. “As you get older, you don’t tend to move as well,” Aikman said. “It seems as if you’re in concrete.” The Giants attack a QB in many ways, operating from different fronts in an attempt to confuse the man with the football. DEs Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora represent an elite pair. At times, defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has another DE, Justin Tuck, join them. Anything to complicate matters. Favre must make full use of RB Ryan Grant. When the Pack pried Grant from the Giants for a sixth-round draft pick during the preseason, they obtained a rusher who hit the Seahawks for 201 yards and has the look of one of the NFL’s ranking backs. He has size, and he can take it to the casa.

Somebody unsung to look for: Atari Bigby (No. 20) is a second-year strong safety out of Central Florida. A 211-pounder, he made a series of concussive hits against Seattle.

Key matchup: Strahan shows up in the soup commercials, but the Giants’ most explosive pass rusher is Umenyiora. On him, the Pack will have 320-pound Chad Clifton, with Mark Tauscher part of a bookend pair of tackles.

Prediction: Giants 26, Packers 20.

– JERRY MAGEE 

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P. Diddy, will receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Diddy, who spilled the beans on Jamie Foxx’s XM radio station, says: “I’m from Harlem, New York, so to get a star in Hollywood is just mind-blowing.”

Of the event that will take place on January 11th, 2008, he continues, “You can get a lot of things but when you see those stars on the ground… that’s something I can’t even say I dreamed of and to be getting recognised for it is definitely something I’m gonna have my whole family out there for.”

Aside from music, he has dabbled in theater (A Raisin In the Sun) and in movies (Monster’s Ball). Plus, his clothing lines, deal with Ciroc vodka and restaurants.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The calendar says there’s still another seven weeks to play. But we don’t need that long to discover the pecking order in the NFC East.

It’s the Dallas Cowboys, followed by three teams that can only wish they were the Dallas Cowboys. I’ve seen enough to know that. How about you?

How much better are the Cowboys than the New York Giants, the next best team the division has to offer? Well, Dallas beat New York by 10 points in Week 1, and by 11 on Sunday in Giants Stadium. And if they happen to play again somehow, I’d like the Cowboys by 12. So give me Dallas by double-digits against the rest of the NFC East, and call me when you’re ready to concede the argument.

In back-to-back weeks, Dallas has gone on the road within the division to beat Philadelphia and the Giants by a combined 69-37. The Cowboys are 8-1 overall, 7-0 in the NFC, 3-0 in the division, 5-0 on the road, and haven’t lost away from Texas Stadium in the regular season in more than a year — since a Week 9 defeat at Washington on Nov. 5, 2006.

Whether or not Dallas is bound for supremacy over the entire NFC is a matter that probably won’t be resolved until the Cowboys play host to Green Bay (8-1) in Week 13. But Wade Phillips‘ team just took the best shot that a fellow NFC East team could deliver, and didn’t flinch. The Cowboys’ 31-20 mashing of the red-hot Giants wasn’t dominating from start to finish, but it was decisive when it mattered, with Dallas outscoring New York 14-3 to break a 17-17 halftime tie.

“Our team came out in second half just about like we have all year, and we played well,” Phillips said. “When the pressure’s on they seem to play better. We just told them [the score was] was nothing-nothing. We’ve done that all year. The second half is ours, so just go out and do it.”

The Cowboys went out and did it in the second half against a Giants team that was trying to pull into a tie for the division lead, and win its seventh in a row for the first time since 1990 — New York’s most recent Super Bowl season. During its six-game winning streak New York had allowed just 79 points, an average of 13.1 per game. But against the Cowboys, the Giants looked more like the team that had gotten hammered 45-35 at Texas Stadium on the first Sunday night of the season.

Yes, the regular season is only nine games old. But instead of being tied for the division lead, the Cowboys have what amounts to a three-game lead over the second-place Giants (6-3) with seven remaining. Dallas still has three games left with the Redskins (5-4) and Eagles (4-5), but this division race is over, and the Cowboys can start shifting their focus to bigger and better things.