Ending weeks of wild speculation, filmmaker Abel Ferrara has finally confirmed that he's going to bring former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s big silver head to the big silver screen. Le Monde reports that Ferrara—the man responsible for the films Bad Lieutenant, The Funeral, and, the seminal classic, 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy—has cast French actor Gérard Depardieu as the titular character and Isabelle Adjani as his wife Anne Sinclair. more ›

Nine years after Science Applications International Corporation bled the city's coffers of $600 million for Mayor Bloomberg's timekeeping fiasco that no one seems to care about, the company has fired three executives linked to the project. In a letter obtained by the Daily News, SAIC's CEO wrote to employees yesterday, "The kind of behavior we have seen in CityTime is criminal and is an affront to everything SAIC stands for as a company." It's unclear whether he scribbled in the margins, "But we're still keeping the cash." more ›

Brace yourselves: sex ed arrives at the city's middle and high schools next year, and it. Will. Be. SEXY. According to the Post, high school students will note the cost of condoms and "research a route from a school to a clinic that provides birth control and STD tests." Middle schoolers will use "risk cards" to sort activities likes mutual masturbation and oral sex. "I didn't know how much detail they would get," one SoHo mother says, quaintly assuming that students don't already think and talk about sex all the time. more ›

In the wake of News Corp's phone-hacking scandal that has forced the closure of a British tabloid and the resignations of two of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted deputies, lawmakers in the US have called on authorities to investigate the American wing of the company that owns The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and FOX Broadcasting Company. Now, according to CNN, US Attorney General Eric Holder says he will look into allegations that the shuttered British paper, News of the World, attempted to hack into 9/11 victim's phones. "There have been members of Congress in the United State who have asked us to investigate those same allegations," Holder told reporters, "And we are progressing in the right regard using the appropriate federal agencies in the United States." more ›

It's getting so you can't make a sleazy living in this town anymore: Scandals strip club in Long Island City (conveniently located at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge, no cover before 8 p.m.!) is taking the city to court to fight zoning changes forcing the establishment out of the neighborhood. According to court papers obtained by the tabloids, the lawsuit accuses the city of relentlessly shrinking the 21 districts where strip clubs can legally operate. more ›

Is this a weekday? Then there must be a new Paterson scandal to report! This time, Gov. Paterson allegedly used a State airplane for non-State activities last month, including campaigning in Hempstead and Rochester, the Voice reports. Paterson took the trip north on Feb. 20 to attend an outdoors hockey game in Syracuse. Paterson left the game quickly (after being booed during his introductory speech), and spent the rest of the time upstate campaigning, days before testifying about obtaining World Series tickets. more ›

As if signing Mo Vaughn wasn't terrible enough, the Post is reporting today that ESPN baseball analyst and former NY Mets General Manager Steve Phillips was ensnared in a messy affair with a 22-year-old production assistant at ESPN, that ended with some not-too-pleasant hijinks. For instance, the assistant crashed her car into a stone column outside the Phillips's Wilton, Conn. home, after leaving a letter there describing intimacies of the affair (including squirmy details about birth marks in nether-regions). more ›