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Cops: MTAboss stabs co-workerAn MTA mainte-nance supervisorwas charged withassault Saturdayafter he allegedlystabbed a co-worker while onduty in theBronx. AlexDavis, 41, was ar-rested after hegashed anotherMTA employee inthe stomach fol-lowing a dispute,police said.

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Tenants run risksin renting rooms

Many New Yorkers rent out their digs for some extra dough CityCouncil wants to strengthen law that makes it illegal to charge ‘guests’

One Park Slope couple has made $10,000 renting out this spare room on Airbnb.

This month, thousands ofNew Yorkers will handover their apartment keysto strangers, making a fewextra bucks by renting outtheir homes when theyhead out of town.

But they might not knowthey’re actually breaking acity law. A law that went in-to effect this past May bansrenting out apartments forfewer than 30 days.

The law was created totarget residential buildingsillegally converted intomakeshift hotels, but stillapplies to those who rentout their room for a nightor two on popular siteslike Airbnb.com.

Enforcement is based oncomplaints, so the city canissue violations and fines— but only after a neigh-bor calls 311 and com-plains, said city spokesmanMarc LaVorgna.

And New Yorkers whorent out their rooms onAirbnb have indeed beenfined, said LaVorgna. OneClinton Hill youth hostel,Loftstel, which advertisedon Airbnb, was slappedwith a full vacate order inMay, he said.

Fines for illegally rent-ing out rooms can rangefrom $800 to $2,500, butit's not the renter whopays, it's the landlord.

Tomorrow, the CityCouncil will mull increas-ing the penalties to illegalhotels, said City Council-woman Gale Brewer, up-ping the fines to as high as$25,000.

Airbnb.com encourageshosts to investigate locallaws and make sure theyare in compliance.

“Given the growingnumber of people whorent their extra space,there's obviously a demandin New York that’s notbeen met,” said Airbnbspokeswoman Kim Rubey.

High riskinvolved in openingyour home

NEW YORK. This summer, aSan Francisco Airbnb usersaid her apartment wastrashed and burgled —someone smashed a holein a locked closet door andstole her passport and

grandmother’s jewelry. Real estate lawyer Ron

Gitter said that rentersshould consider the risks,including being held liablefor anything guests do.

“You’re consenting to

someone’s occupancy,” hesaid. “You could be held li-able for their actions ortheir failure to act — start-ing a fire, or a violent actor damaging yourapartment.” METRO/AB

$50,000After the San Franciscoincident, Airbnb saidthey would cover theftor vandalism losses upto $50,000 for hosts.

Which onewould youchoose?NEW YORK. A Midtownhotel room will setyou back $300 a night,but a Bed-Stuy studiowas advertised lastweek on Airbnb for$69 a night. One ParkSlope couple, whoasked to remainanonymous, toldMetro they plan torent out a spare roomin their apartment forabout $100 a night lat-er this month whileaway visiting family.They have used Airbnbsince May, usuallycharging $150 a nightfor the entireapartment, or $85 forjust the spare room.They’ve made $10,000since May. METRO/AB

9K+A recent Airbnb search for“New York” listed 9,204people opening up theirapartments for rent.

702The city 311 hot line has re-ceived 702 complaints

about illegal hotels sinceMay, according to the may-or’s office, resulting in 1,173violations issued.

44The city shut down Loftstel, ahostel in Brooklyn, in May.The owners illegally turnedthe three-family home into arooming house for 44 guests,according to the mayor’s of-fice. The owners were alsoissued safety violations, in-cluding for havinginadequate smoke alarms.

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Local politicians want theTransportation SecurityAdministration to take ac-tion following complaintsfrom three elderly womenthat they were strip-searched at JFK airport lastmonth.

U.S. Senator CharlesSchumer and New YorkState Senator Michael Gia-naris want the TSA to des-ignate “passenger advo-cates,” so passengers whofeel violated can speakout immediately.

The passenger advocatewould be on call in everyairport, ready to be sum-moned to the site of a cus-tomer’s complaint, said aspokesman from Schumer’soffice.

“Right now, passengerswho feel that their rightsare about to be violatedhave nowhere to turn,”said Schumer.

The three women —Lenore Zimmerman, 85,

Ruth Sherman, 88, and 66-year-old Linda Kallish — allclaim they were violatedby TSA agents in separate

incidents at JFK airport.In each instance, the

women opted not to bescanned because of med-ical reasons: a heart defib-rillator, a colostomy bagand an insulin pump, re-spectively. After optingout, they claim they wereforced to remove theirclothing to be inspected byTSA agents.

“There is no good rea-son why an individualshould be violated in suchan outrageous manner,”Gianaris said. “Passengersshould not be humiliatedand degraded during theirtravels.”

The TSA refuted thewomen’s claims, sayingthat strip-searches are notpart of their protocol. Gia-naris and Schumer are call-ing for full investigationsof the incidents.

After three women claim they were strip-searched atJFK, senator wants to see on-call customer service reps

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The ASPCA’s Cruelty In-tervention Advocacy pro-gram rescued me, alongwith a whole bunch of myfriends, from a hoardingsituation, so I’m still get-ting used to the big world.

I’m trying to move onfrom my past, but being afamily dog is a new thingfor me — so I’m scared ofnew things (which is prettymuch everything). If youcome play with me at theAdoption Center, I’m goingto be pretty shy. But Ipromise I will try and openup if you stick with me!

I loved to play with myprevious roommates, buthaven’t had much interac-tion with other dogs. Ihaven’t quite learned howto play with toys yet, but Icould become more playfulonce I find a good home. Ifyou’re an experienced and

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The U.S. Copyright Office is“re-evaluating” its stanceon yoga copyrights, addingfuel to a feud between anEast Village-based yogi andhis guru.

Last month, internation-al guru Bikram Choudhurysued New York's Yoga tothe People for infringingon what Choudhury says ishis copyrighted sequenceof sweltering yoga moves.Choudhury demanded a $1million payout.

On Dec. 9, Greg Gumu-cio, owner of Yoga to thePeople, filed his responseclaiming Choudhury doesnot have the copyright.

Included in Gumucio'sresponse is an e-mail fromLaura Lee Fischer, actingchief of the PerformingArts Division of the U.S.Copyright Office: “We de-termined that exercises, in-cluding yoga exercises, donot constitute the subjectmatter that Congress in-tended to protect as chore-ography," wrote Fischer.

Previously, the U.S.Copyright Office consid-

ered yoga sequences a typeof choreography, which issubject to copyright.

Gumucio heralded the e-mail as evidence thatChoudhury lacks a validcopyright, but RobertGilchrest, Choudhury’s at-torney, called it “inconse-quential fodder to the liti-gation.”

Architectsapologize

NETHERLANDS. The Dutchdesign firm that recentlycame under fire for its 9/11look-alike building “TheCloud” has apologized to allthey have offended. In astatement they released ontheir website, MVRDVclaims that any likenesstheir South Koreanconstruction bears to theWorld Trade Center’sdestruction wasunintentional. METRO/EAE

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Thousands of revelers clad in red and white madetheir way throughout Manhattan on Saturday after-noon as part of the annual SantaCon. METRO/EAE

Christmas. Pub crawl

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SubwayrobberarrestedGRAND CENTRAL. He robbedfrom the wrong subway rid-er. A Bronx man wasnabbed by police yesterdayafternoon, after he lifted anApple iPhone from thebackpack of a plainclothesdecoy police officer while

aboard the No. 4 train atGrand Central Station. Ray-mond Rodriguez, 47, wascharged with grand larceny.The NYPD recently doubledthe number of decoy copsin the subway. METRO/CB

27 Rodriguez had27 unsealed pri-

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This Saturday, Metropacked up 200 of the toysreaders had already sent toour office and droppedthem off at a holiday din-ner held by The Partner-ship for the Homeless.

There, nearly 500 chil-dren who are homeless orat-risk of becoming home-less got a chance to havetheir face painted and siton Santa’s lap. Every childleft the dinner, held at theBrooklyn Children’s Muse-um in Crown Heights, withat least one toy, as well assocks, a hat and gloves tokeep them warm all winterlong.

Every night, more than16,500 kids sleep in home-less shelters throughoutthe city, a number that’s atan all-time high, accordingto Arnold Cohen, CEO ofthe Partnership.

A family a few monthsbehind on their rent, or liv-ing in substandard hous-

ing, is considered at-risk ofbecoming homeless, ex-plained Carla Brown-Ndi-aye, director of the FamilyResource Center in EastNew York.

Princess Yannah, 23,and her boyfriend, AbisaiPerez, 29, are one suchfamily. They both work

seasonal jobs for the city— she’s a park patrol offi-cer and he’s a lifeguard —and make a combined$25,000 a year. It’s barelyenough to live on, muchless raise their two youngchildren, ages 5 and 2, saidYannah.

In addition, the Brook-

lyn building where theylive has no heat and is un-der foreclosure.

“We could be evicted to-morrow,” said Perez. “Theycould keep us or throw usout. We don’t know.”

Thank you formaking theirseason bright

Metro donated 200 toys from our Metro Magic campaign to holidaydinner for homeless families Nearly 500 children in attendance Forsome kids, this will be the only gift they get this season, organizers say

Dominick Perez, left, and his older sister, LaMira, open toys at the holiday dinner.

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“Things are tight.$25,000 is notenough to live onin New York City.We can barelymake it.” ABISAI PEREZ

2: One click on the logo willtake you to a “Wish List” wehave set up via a secure link

on ToysRUs.com. Once there,you can see all the toyswe’ve already requested,with more added daily.

Buying only the toys on ourWish List ensures that all thegifts purchased will be sentdirectly to Metro’s offices inLower Manhattan.

Any reader who buys a toythrough Metro is eligible towin a free 42-inch LCD TVfrom Kiss Electronics, locatedat 230 W. 125th St. Or call212-932-1117.

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1: Log on towww.metro.us and look for thisMetro Magic logo:

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toy drive

Thank you to those who have already given.

CARLY [email protected]

Homelessgettingyounger?NEW YORK. More than 70percent of the peoplestaying in the city’shomeless shelters are

families with children,and the majority of thosechildren are school-aged,said Cohen.

“We always think ofhomelessness as that fel-low on the street corner,but the face of homeless-ness these days in NewYork City is most often achild.” METRO/CB

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Republican presidential candidates participate in a GOP presidential debate at Drake University on Saturday.

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It’s timeto castyour voteWhen Metro launched theMan and Woman of the Yearevent in November, we knewthat this year, groups ofpeople, such as the NavySEAL Team 6 who killedOsama bin Laden, would benominated.

For that reason, instead ofthe usual Man of the Yearshortlist, and a separateWoman of the Year shortlist,we are producing just asingle shortlist of threenominees for the title ofPerson of the Year 2012.

The list is headed by the co-founder of Apple, Steve

Jobs, who died in October.

Also making the shortlist arethe Occupy protestors — orthe 99 percent as they werealternatively labeled by thehundreds of readers whonominated them. The thirdnominee on the list isCongress woman Gabrielle

Giffords, who was shot inJanuary by a lone gunman,and whose subsequentrecovery proved aninspiration to millions.

How to vote:Vote for your favorite byemailing [email protected] will update readers onvoting each day. Voting closesat 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 21, and we’ll beannouncing our winner inMetro’s special end-of-yearedition on Dec. 27.

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Gingrich fights offrivals in GOP debate

Current frontrunner keeps his cool against attacks from Romney, Perry Mitt offers $10,000 bet that rival doesn’t know what he’s talking about

Surging frontrunner NewtGingrich fought off heavyattacks in a presidentialdebate in Iowa on Saturdayfrom Republican rivalswho portrayed him as aWashington insider andquestioned his judgment.

Gingrich, described bysome critics as rash andpetulant, kept his cool ashis Republican rivals criti-cized him for making up to$1.6 million from housinggiant Freddie Mac, for say-ing Palestinians were an“invented” people and forhis troubled marital past.

Mitt Romney, the for-mer frontrunner and oncethe presumed nominee,contrasted his business ex-perience with Gingrich’sbackground in Washing-ton.

“We don’t need folkswho are lifetime Washing-ton people,” Romney said,adding his time as head ofa private equity firmhelped him understandhow to turn around theeconomy and made himmore electable than aWashington politician likeGingrich.

It was the first debatesince Gingrich roared pastRomney to take a big leadin polls in the Republicanbattle to pick a 2012 chal-lenger to President BarackObama, and the other can-didates were quick to at-tack.

U.S. Reps. Michele Bach-mann and Ron Paul criti-cized Gingrich as a hyp-ocrite who profited fromhis contacts and wound uptaking taxpayer moneywhen Freddie Mac wasbailed out by the federalgovernment. REUTERS

Romney’s$10K betfalls flatRepublican presiden-tial candidate MittRomney put his mon-ey where his mouthwas on Saturday in aquip at a presidentialdebate that may havebackfired.

Romney, a multi-millionaire, offered a$10,000 bet toopponent Texas Gov.Rick Perry over whatRomney wrote abouthealth care in his book“No Apologies.” Rom-ney’s wealth has longbeen a point of attackby those who say he isout of touch withAmericans. REUTERS

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While Demi Lovato whizzedby the press line at Z100’sJingle Ball Friday night —an annual New York Cityconcert featuring a numberof Top 40 acts — we werehappy to chat with RedFoo

of LMFAO, who’s partnerSkyBlu was noticeably ab-sent for the big show.

“SkyBlu hurt his back,”Foo told Metro before theconcert started. “He hassome herniated discs. He’sbeen performing for a whileinjured, because he’s a truechampion, but the doctor

said, ‘You gotta take abreak.’ That shuffle movewe do, when he does it, I al-ways tell him you need tobend [at the knee]. And thenwith the wiggle, you can’twiggle too hard, even ifthere’s sexy ladies in the au-

dience screaming at you —you gotta keep it confined.So we don’t know exactlywhat has happened, but wethink it’s [a combination of]the shuffle, the wiggle andthe ladies.”

But SkyBlu’s injury isn’tholding the group back forthe new year. On their to-dolist for 2012? “Films,” Foosays. “Taking the whole LM-FAO party rock lifestyle andputting it on the bigscreen.”

— With additional reporting by Meredith Engel

Aniston winsfor ‘Sexiest’ of all timeMen’s Health has dubbed Jen-

nifer Aniston the SexiestWoman of All Time, but whileshe’s flattered by their decision,Aniston insists the titlewould’ve gone to someoneelse if she had any say in it. “It’sa tie between Brigitte Bardot

and Gloria Steinem,” she tellsthe magazine. “But if I had tochoose one, I’d say Gloriabecause, well, she’s the fullpackage. That’s sexy.” Raquel

Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Brit-

ney Spears and Madonna

rounded out the top five.

A not so ‘Glee’-ful setTensions are reportedlyrunning high on the set of“Glee” as the cast of the hit mu-sical series is said to be at oddswith boss Ryan Murphy,

according to Us Weekly.“Things are really bad on set,” ashow source says. “The casttalks about how much theylove Ryan, but they have grownto hate him.” The maincomplaints have reportedlybeen about long workinghours and low pay, butMurphy’s behavior is a factor aswell. “He has bad mood swingsand can be really mean,” asource says. “The cast bas beenspeaking about bandingtogether against him, and Lea

[Michele] is leading thecharge.” Michele’s rep deniesthere’s any tension.

Checking in withsome of Hollywood’sbiggest names to seewhat they’ve beenup to — in their ownwords, in 140 characters or fewer.

Today, Kelly Osbourneis not having a greatday, Justin Bieber ishitting the ice, Eliza-beth Banks ispleasantly surprisedand Conan O’Brien isgetting into the holi-day spirit.

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RedFoo of LMFAO performed at Z100’s Jingle Ball on Friday night.

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Are there problems at William McKinley High School?

Abigail’s lipsare sealedAlso on the carpet beforeJingle Ball was “New Year’sEve” star Abigail Breslin,who looked all grown upin a Rag & Bone dress andsmoky eye makeup. Butthe 15-year-old movie starand budding songstress

(Jingle Ball was her firstappearance as a singer inthe band C.A.B.B.) tells usthat going through puber-ty in the public eye hasn’tbeen weird for her.

“When I come home, Ido the same things all myfriends do — clean myroom, feed the dog. Thereare definitely pressures,

but I think that keepingperspective is reallyimportant,” Breslin tellsMetro.

But that doesn’t meanshe doesn’t have hercringe-worthy moments.

“2008 was just a reallybig fashion mistake,” shesays, “with the armwarmers, the neon

and zebra-print Converse.”And since Abigail’s

character in “New Year’sEve” is hoping to get herfirst kiss on the big night,we wanted to know whather first kiss was like —but she wouldn’t spill.

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Tori Amosgets spiritualand otherpics from theweekend1. Tori Amos performed atMassey Hall at Massey Hall onThursday in Toronto.

2. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pittattended the premiere of Jolie’snew film “In the Land of Bloodand Honey” held at ArcLightHollywood on Thursday inHollywood.

3. Actor Robert Downey, Jr. anddirector Guy Ritchie attended“Sherlock Holmes: Games OfShadows” at Hassler Hotel onSunday in Rome, Italy.

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Graynor goesBroadwayGraynor is currently star-ring in the Broadway play“Relatively Speaking,”which features three one-act plays. Alongside worksby Ethan Coen and ElaineMay is Woody Allen’s play,

“Honeymoon Motel,” inwhich Graynor stars.

“Woody Allen would bedoing Woody Allen to meand then I’d be doing itback to him and then I’drun on onstage,” she saysof her workingrelationship with the leg-endary director. “We’d

have notes after everyshow in the theater. Thatin and of itself is worth itsweight in gold. And, if Ihappen to find myself inone of his movies, theneven better.”

If there’s one girl whoknows her way around therole of brash party girl, it’s28-year-old Bostonian AriGraynor. As a severely ine-briated best pal in “Nickand Norah’s InfinitePlaylist” and more recentlyas a “friend with benefits”to Jonah Hill’s character in“The Sitter,” Graynor’s gotthe formula for chemicallyenhanced flake down to ascience. But this timearound, with “Pineapple Ex-press” director David Gor-don Green at the helm andHill carrying the film,Graynor got to improviseher way through what wasalready a solid script.

“When you’re workingwith someone like Jonah,who is so talented and sosmart and knows how toguide improvisations thatwork for a character and forthe story, it’s much easier toloosen up and play around,”she says. “That’s the luxuryof working with such tal-ented people — that youhave a guide ... that youknow it’s going to be guideddown the right path.There’s an ease to it.”

One thing that was per-haps not so easy was theopening scene of the film,in which Hill’s character is,ahem, servicing Graynor ina very personal way.

“So, that’s always an in-teresting day at work —when you find yourselfwith a new friend’s head be-tween your legs and 100people standing around.Like, really?” Graynorlaughs. “This is what I’m do-ing? I have some friendsthat are becoming doctorsor social workers. They’reteaching kids in the Bronxand here I am with my legsspread, fake-orgasming, justtrying to get through itwithout ruining the take.It’s one way to make a liv-ing.”

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‘Fear Factor’REALITY. What’s old is grossagain as “Fear Factor” andhost Joe Rogan returnfrom a six-year hiatus withbigger stunts and more dis-gusting bugs on the menu.Season premiere, 8 p.m., NBC

‘Enlightened’COMEDY. Amy convincesLevi to seek treatment, butif there’s one thing we’ve

learned this season, it’sthat this woman is still awork in progress herself —as seen when she defiesDougie at work and makesa presentation to Damon’sgroup. Season finale, 9:30p.m., HBO

‘Battle of theNutcrackers’REALITY. No, this isn’t afastest walnut squashercompetition. (Hey, if “FearFactor” exists, why can’tour idea?) This is an inter-national ballet faceoffhosted by Nigel Lythgoe

and Debbie Allen, withviewers’ favorite renditionon the holiday classicrevealed on Christmas Eve.8 p.m., Ovation

‘Rollin’ withZach’REALITY. Zach Anner, co-winner of Oprah’s “YourOWN Show,” hosts thisnew travel series, in whichthe 27-year-old with cere-bral palsy travels thenation ticking Top 5moments off his must-seelist. Series premiere, 8 p.m.,OWN AMBER RAY

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‘The Sitter’ What the most awkward day at work entails“That’s always aninteresting day atwork — when youfind yourself with anew friend’s headbetween your legsand 100 peoplestanding around.” GRAYNOR

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These two have been close — incredibly close. “The Sitter” is in theaters now.

“Both Ways OpenJaws,” the recently re-

leased album by The Dø,enters through a rare win-

dow in time where it willprobably make a lot of mu-sic publications’ “best of2011” lists. Then when writ-ers who don’t put it on thatlist see that some of theirpeers have chosen it, theFrench duo’s album will in-evitably make their “ones towatch in 2012” lists.

“Both Ways” is worthy ofboth. It instantly feels clas-sic and contemporary. Andlike the most exciting mu-sic, the album is rife withunexpected combinationsthat sometimes seem at op-posite ends of the spectrum— it is celebratory and it isagitated; it is majestic and itis raw; it is artsy and it is

poppy. Basically, it soundsthe way you’d expect LadyGaga to sound if you had on-ly ever seen photos of her.

There are free jazz freak-outs, stomping feet, woozyhorns, marimbas and softblankets of harmonies.What is most apparent isthat Olivia Merilahti andDan Levy are in love withsounds as well as songs.

“Usually, guitar is thefirst instrument I use forthe songwriting,” says Meri-lahti. “We think it’s reallyimportant to have a songthat also works with justguitar and vocals. ... But itusually gets eliminated bymore interesting soundsand there’s just no roomanymore for that guitar.”

This album is the secondfor The Dø. With their de-

but, “A Mouthful,” they be-came the first English-speak-ing French act to top thecharts in their homeland.

“I spoke Finnish andFrench when I started spea-king,” says Merilahti. “ThenI just listened to so manydifferent [English-speaking]singers and I really wantedto know what the songswere about, so I always readthe booklets very carefullyand wanted to learn thewords I didn’t know. That’show I built my vocabulary.”

She says the first songshe learned this way wasHole’s “Violet,” with itsopening line of, “And thesky was made of amethyst.”Merilahti makes similar po-etic leaps with her words.

“I really have a certaindistance with the lyrics and

they’re all so very intimate,”she says. “It’s very difficultfor me to describe.”

Upon further discussion,and being asked about the“Both Ways Open Jaws” ti-tle, Merilahti reveals more.

“It’s about feeling indanger from all parts, andit’s also like when you’rein danger, you start to pro-tect yourself, so it’s alsothe beginning of aggres-siveness,” she says. “I’mscared of a lot of things,and I think I’m starting tostruggle against that. …Dan is a very brave guy.When you’re exploringemotions and takingchances in the studio, it re-quires a lot of courage.”


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led the weekend box officecharts as movie audiencesturned to the holidayromance over new comedy“The Sitter.”

“New Year’s Eve,” a ro-mantic comedy with astar-packed ensemble cast,rung up $13.7 million in

ticket sales at U.S. andCanadian theaters duringthe weekend, according tostudio estimates compiledby Reuters yesterday.

Adult comedy “The Sit-ter,” starring Jonah Hill asa reluctant babysitter,brought in $10 million and

landed in second place.Third place belonged tovampire romance movie“The Twilight Saga: Break-ing Dawn: Part 1” with$7.9 million.

“New Year’s Eve” wasproduced by New LineCinema, a unit of Time

Warner Inc.’s WarnerBros., the studio that dis-tributed the film. NewsCorp’s 20th Century Foxstudio released “TheSitter.” Privately held Sum-mit Entertainmentreleased “Breaking Dawn.”REUTERS

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This French duo’s sophomore album, ‘Both Ways Open Jaws,’ is destined for late entry year-end ‘best of’ lists, as well as

early entry ‘ones to watch’ lists

Sounds kinda likeThere are hints of influencesall over “Both Ways OpenJaws,” but instead of rattlingthem off as reference points,we gave Merilahti a chanceto confirm or deny them.

Did you listen to Stereolab

growing up?

No, not at all, and someonetold me about them a cou-ple of days ago. They said,“You should tour with Stere-olab if they still played to-gether,” or something. May-be Dan has, but I’m not sure.Joanna Newsom?

Yeah, I love her so much.How about Radiohead?

It’s kind of a late referencefor both of us. ... Dan didn’tlisten to many songs whenhe was younger. He wasmore into instrumental and20th century classical musicor jazz, and I was always like,“Oh everyone’s listening toRadiohead,” so I wouldn’t.... But it’s kind of impossibleto ignore.What was the first band

you two connected with?

Wu-Tang Clan. There was alot of hip-hop. Eminem wasalso one of them. And EllaFitzgerald!

Why dø they call

themselves that?

The Dø pronounce theirname like “dough” as in thefirst note of the solfègescale, as in do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do. But what is that littleslash through the o?

“We just wanted it to looklike a note, like when youwrite music in music theory,”says Merilahti. “It reallylooks like a musical symbol.”

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“How f—ing amazing wasshe in this movie?” PattonOswalt asks breathlesslywhen one of CharlizeTheron’s particularly har-rowing scenes in “YoungAdult” is mentioned.Theron is, indeed, amazing.But really, this film — writ-ten by Diablo Cody, directedby Jason Reitman and co-starring Oswalt — is over-

loaded with talent. Playingthe impromptu sidekick toa woman on a mission to se-duce her former highschool boyfriend, who’snow married, Oswalt went

to great lengths to get hischaracter right. He evenhired an acting coach totackle the role, which issomething quite differentfrom what he’s used to inhis stand-up career or previ-ous film and TV appear-ances. The multi-hyphenatespoke to Metro in an exclu-sive interview about Gener-ation X and the dangers of

nostalgia. You used an acting coach for

the first time with this role.

Why did you think this

character merited that kind of

preparation?

Because the script was sogood, but there was somuch nuance and so muchof a delicate tightrope backand forth between despairand humor. The humor nev-er came out of “let’s stick ajoke here.” [It] came out ofreal human behavior. I hadthis mix of exhilaration forbeing offered the script andthen terror. I didn’t want todo wrong by it, because itwas so well-written.Both you and Cody fit so many

pop culture references into

your work. How do your

viewpoints relate?

“Juno” was, whether youlike it or not, a pretty accu-rate depiction of how youngpeople talk to each other. …[“Young Adult”] is moreabout Gen X getting olderand what do they have tojettison and what do theystill hold on to? I think theyremember being so self-con-

scious about people thatwere baby boomers andhow stupid they soundedusing their old slang. Nowthey’re almost overthink-ing, “Do I say the stuff Iused to say?” Like it or not,it is a very accurate portraitof “this is how Gen X getsolder.” If you thought thebaby boomers grew old in areally clumsy way, wait tillyou see how we do it. You’ve released comedy

albums and a book (“Zombie

Spaceship Wasteland”), and

there’s awards buzz for this

performance. Do you aspire

to achieve an EGOT (Emmy,

Grammy, Oscar, Tony)?

[Laughs] I just want to keepdoing creative work. Obvi-ously, I want to write, Iwant to do comedy. I wantto do films and TV. I mean,of course I’d love an Oscarnomination. Obviously, get-ting a nomination wouldhelp me get more work.That is true. And also, I’dlove to go to the Oscars.

Oswalt: ‘Goodtimes can keephappening, justnot the same ones’

Comedian, author and actor Patton Oswalt warns ofthe dangers of nostalgia Why the ‘Young Adult’ starhired an acting coach, but isn’t quite hoping for an EGOT

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Much of the film has to dowith sentimentality andtrying to bring the pastinto the present. Are youever tempted to do that?

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There’s something to besaid for glamour. Andthere’s precious little of it tobe found in “Bonnie &Clyde” at the GeraldSchoenfeld Theatre. Thebland musical with a scoreby Frank Wildhorn, book byIvan Menchell and lyrics byDon Black attempts to bringthe infamous couple downfrom their lofty perch in theiconic Arthur Penn movie— but they seem even fur-ther away. In this attempt athistorical accuracy, they’remore simplistic than acces-sible. Bonnie (Laura Osnes)wants to be Clara Bow andClyde (Jeremy Jordan) idol-izes Al Capone.

“Bonnie and Clyde” be-gins with a tease of their fi-nal shootout, then flashesback to them years earlier,alongside their childhoodselves (Kelsey Fowler asYoung Bonnie and TalonAckerman as Young Clyde)in Texas singing about theiraspirations. They meet afterClyde breaks out of jail andare immediately smitten.Their romance grows asClyde goes back inside, only

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Finally, examine yournegativity. Is it really allnonsense, or is there some-thing positive you can gleanfrom the season? By makingsmall changes to how youthink, you’ll be able tomake big changes in howyou feel.

Tackling your holiday stressIt’s the most wonderful time of the year — but not for everyone If

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I’m finding myself really stressed out thisholiday season. Due to work issues, I hardly have any money this year to buy gifts and attendparties. I feelembarrassed about it. I just want to close myeyes and wake up onJan. 2. What can I do to feel better?

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Half ofworkers willshop onlineat work Fifty percent of U.S.workers will doholiday shoppingwhile on the clock, ac-cording to a survey byCareerBuilder. And it’snot just for quick pur-chases: 34 percentplan to spend an houror more, while 16 per-cent admit that two ormore hours was likely.

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