March 28, 2004
WHAT TO WATCH, NOW ; CHANNEL-GRAZING YIELDS SURE-FIRE ENTERTAINMENT
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amWHAT'S on TV? Plenty. Here's what I've been watching lately. Few kids' shows from the '60s can match the kitsch of "Thunderbirds," the futuristic adventure series featuring animated marionettes. Tech...
MY NEXT DANCE STEP: STRIPPING
March 28, 2004 | 5:00am"Cellulite - we've all got it!" DeAngela said. "So never strip under bright lights." Though I doubt any of us had intended to make that mistake. DeAngela had large fake...
KHADAFY BECKONS GMS TO SHORES OF TRIPOLI
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amMoammar Khadafy, of all people, loves chess. That's the message from the world chess federation (FIDE), which announced this month that the Libyan dictator will host FIDE's world championship this...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amNow that the opening crowds have moved on, you can survey the 2004 Whitney Biennial exhibition in relative peace. The ever-controversial collection of works from contemporary artists offers plenty to...
A FRENCH PROVOCATEUR
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amBRUNO Dumont's films keep getting edgier. His first, "The Life of Jesus" (1997), was a well-received portrait of bored street youth in northern France. His sophomore effort, "L'Humantie" (1999) -...
LITTLE BLACK BOOK ... YOUR GUIDE TO THE GOODS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPassover fashion: Sure, we've all seen the Jewcy shirt - the Juicy Couture parody that was all the rage last year. This season's hot new Jewish fashion statement is the...
POT SHOTS; MARIJUANA MONOLOGUESLIGHT UP STAGE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amIt started with a group of three women on stage, discussing their most intimate anatomical areas. Eve Ensler's 1996 play "The Vagina Monologues," a runaway hit, focused on women's desire...
SXSW'S BEST - MARY HUHN'S BOOT-STOMPING REPORT FROM THE SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST MUSIC FESTIVAL
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amSXSW brings in more than 1,000 bands to the Texas oasis of Austin. Even if you're chugging coffee instead of Lone Star beers (Austin's equivalent of Pabst Blue Ribbon), it's...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amFreeze Frame: The hardest working man in showbiz, Allen Hill of the Allen Oldies band, took a tip from ex-New Kid Jordan Knight, who signed Polaroids of himself with fans...
SHOPAHOLIC - I DARE YOU: CAN ACTRESS ELISABETH ROHM PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amGOLDEN RULE: "It should transcend a specific decade so you can wear it anytime and it looks appropriate and fresh." Actress Elisabeth Rohm loves to shop, but playing Assistant District...
PRIME TIME PHIL MUSHNICK: 'DATELINE NBC': OLD NEWS IS OUR NEWS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amON Nov. 17, 1992, NBC News' "Dateline" aired an investigative, report about dangerous GMC trucks. Soon after, a different scandal was revealed: "Dateline" had rigged a GMC truck to explode....
IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SON ; PROUD DAD DOTES ON MATSUI
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amNEAGARI, Japan - What does pride look like when a man's skin can't contain it any longer? It's the face of Masao Matsui, the father of Hideki Matsui. Ask him...
SHOT AND BUSTED
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amA man shot yesterday morning in the Cambria Heights section of Queens was arrested on assault charges in a bizarre domestic incident that also led to the arrest of his...
OD ACTOR EYED IN GAL PAL SLAY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00am"Murphy Brown" star Robert Pastorelli, who was found dead in his Hollywood home earlier this month, was a prime suspect in a year-old investigation into his girlfriend's death five years...
BATTY BLUEBLOOD; HOLDOUT TYCO JUROR A 'PARANOID' SOCIALITE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThe holdout granny juror in the Tyco case has a gilded background and a listing in the 2004 Social Register - a who's who of America's most prominent families -...
KERRY SET FOR SHOULDER OP
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amFresh from a weeklong skiing vacation in Idaho, presidential hopeful John Kerry is taking a break from campaigning to get some medical attention for a shoulder injury. The operation on...
2 SURVIVE L.I. CHOPPER WRECK
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTwo lucky people escaped unscathed yesterday when their private helicopter went down in East Farmingdale, L.I., police and said. The chopper came down near Republic Airport at about 4:09 p.m....
SAD PLEA FOR LUNG DONOR
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mother of five is clinging to life in a Pittsburgh hospital in dire need of a double-lung transplant. The family of 42-year-old Naava Katlowitz is "anxiously and desperately...
SADDAM HIRES LAWYER: DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - FILTHY FRENCHMAN REPS NAZIS, TERRORISTS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amA cigar-chomping French attorney who has represented a rogue's gallery of Nazis, serial killers and genocidal dictators said yesterday he's taking on a new client for "the trial of the...
A 16G BRUSH WITH HISTORY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amBuzz Aldrin will be happy to know that his toothbrush from the Apollo 11 mission wound up in the hands of a someone who knows a thing or two about...
Correction Date: 03/30/2004
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amCorrection: A story in Sunday's Post incorrectly reported that city overtime king Pablo Martinez works for the Board of Education. He works for the Board of Elections. Chris Riley, a...
SING SING'S KILLER EDITOR
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThe Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism by James McGrath Morris, Fordham University Press, 438 pages, $30...
B'KLYN MAN NABBED IN HARLEM RAPE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amA 22-year-old man allegedly went on a 15-minute rampage of rape and robbery on the Upper East Side yesterday - before being nabbed by cops near the scene of the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** A rooftop gunman fired into a rowdy crowd in Flatbush early yesterday - and a police officer on the ground responded by firing back up at the roof,...
ONLY BIG THIEVES GET AWAY WITH IT
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amLET me get this straight: Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark Swartz are accused of stealing $600 million from the firm, and the jury's been deliberating since...
WRITE ON! HUGHES TO INFUSE BUSH PUSH
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's alter ego is about to get back into the fray and lots of Republicans - above all Bush - are thrilled that confidante Karen Hughes is...
POL PROFITS FROM UFT RUN-IN
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amEVA Moskowitz is counting on raising $500,000 tomorrow in one of the biggest fund-raisers ever mounted by a City Council member. The sum indicates the East Side legislator's blistering run-in...
READING, WRITING, 8-YEAR-OLD ANGST; TEST-TAKING CULTURE SENDS PLENTY HOME SICK
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThird-grader Cora Wally is literally sick with worry that she'll fail the high-stakes standardized tests and be left back. "She's been having trouble sleeping," her dad, Manuel Wally, said the...
9/11 KIN: GIVE US ARTIFACTS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amAbout a third of 9/11 families are still hoping to claim loved ones' missing belongings, but the NYPD won't let them see the thousands of yet-unidentified pieces of jewelry, watches...
SALVAGED OKLAHOMA OBJECTS VIEWED
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amFamilies of victims in the Oklahoma City bombing were allowed to view salvaged objects to their hearts' content to find anything that belonged to their loved ones. Mountains of items...
TRAGIC AMMON KIDS MIRED IN SORROW
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTHEY'VE already experienced a lifetime of heartbreak, but the adopted 14-year-old twins of slain millionaire financier Ted Ammon are now facing a new challenge: Reconnecting with an aunt in Alabama...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThis psychic was just plane wrong. A flight from Fort Myers, Fla., to Dallas was canceled after officials got a tip from a psychic that a bomb might be on...
OLDER, WISER WIZARD - HARRY COMES OF AGE ON 'AZKABAN'
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amHarry Potter is finally a teenager. In the third Hogwarts flick, due June 4, the 13-year-old magician (played once again by Daniel Radcliffe) has grown up. Early viewers of "Harry...
NYERS: CLARKE'S GAIN, OUR PAIN ; 9/11 FAMILIES RIP INTO BOOK
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amA group of New York families of 9/11 victims came out swinging against Richard Clarke yesterday, accusing the former White House anti-terror chief of cashing in on the tragedy with...
CAR HITS 2 B'KLYN COPS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTwo plainclothes cops were hospitalized in stable condition yesterday, and a driver accused of running them down on a Brooklyn street was under arrest on a vehicular-assault charge. One cop...
FAN-FAVE BOMBERS; HAVING A BLAST IN TOKYO
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amKonnichiwa! The Yankees gave a Japanese "Hello" to screaming throngs of fans yesterday as players soaked up the sights and sounds during their first day in the Land of the...
BASEBALL FIELDS AN UNFAIR SHARE OF 'ROID OUTRAGE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amDOWN THE LINE TOKYO - This is no apology for steroid problems in the majors, though I think the commissioner essentially owning both the Brewers and Expos at the same...
D-DAY LOOMS FOR MISTRIAL
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThe judge in the tumultuous Tyco case could be forced to declare a mistrial as soon as Tuesday, legal experts said yesterday, if Juror No. 4 keeps digging in her...
MOLLOY GIRLS GET AN A - LADY STANNERS WIN TITLE,BUT STILL AREN'T SATISFIED
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amGIRLS A Molloy 63 LourdesBD+>45 GLENS FALLS - As the clock wound down in yesterday's girls state Federation A championship game, Rosalyn Gold-Onwude merely clapped her hands and then strolled...
NICKERSON DEAD AT 75
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amFormer trainer Victor "Lefty" Nickerson, best known for helping develop former claimer John Henry into one of racing's all-time greats, died Friday at his home in Smithtown. He was 75....
RANDAROO TAKES DISTAFF
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThe 4-year-old filly Randaroo continued her remarkable roll yesterday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Distaff Breeders' Cup Handicap at the Big A, leading all the way to score by 3½...
YELLOW JACKETS PRETTY GOOD AT WINNING UGLY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Paul Hewitt could fit every one of his Yellow Jackets into one Beetle. They like it in tight spaces. After blowing a 17-point lead to Northern Iowa...
VAZQUEZ KEEPS A LOW PROFILE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - A year ago, the locker in the middle of the room on the left side of the Legends Field Yankee clubhouse was a Must Stop station for the...
TORRE: LINEUP'S BEST I'VE HAD
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TOKYO - How good is the Yankees' lineup? Joe Torre isn't ready to anoint his nine hitters the best ever but he is clearly not backing away from...
X-MEN AN ELITE CREW ; MUSKETEERS REFUSE TO BE AWED BY DUKE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amATLANTA - Today's 5:05 p.m. Regional Final is the ultimate clash of college basketball's bluebloods versus its nouveau riche, a top-seeded Duke powerhouse aiming for its 13th Final Four against...
LADY BLAZERS MAKE IT THREE IN A ROW
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amGIRLS AABergtraum 63Greece-Arcadia 43 GLENS FALLS - Despite having just won their biggest game of the season on Friday, Epiphany Prince and her Bergtraum teammates simply headed back to their...
BENCH: MOVE WILL BE GOOD FOR PIAZZA
March 28, 2004 | 5:00am"Five games at first base felt like the equivalent of one behind the plate."JOHNNY BENCH Change can do a player good. For Mike Piazza, change may be great. The decision...
NETS TEETERING ON DEFENSE ; ABSENCE OF KIDD, KENYON HURTS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amCLEVELAND - From the moment Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin put their uniforms in the temporary closet and began watching games instead of playing them because of left knee problems,...
UCONN & PENN STATE WOMEN WIN
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amEAST REGIONALUConn 63UCSB 55 HARTFORD - Notre Dame and Cal-Santa Barbara took one last crack yesterday at spoiling the match-up the women's basketball world wants to see. But twice here...
NO WORD ON RETURN FOR KIDD
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES CLEVELAND - The wait continues. Kenyon Martin said he hopes to be back this week but there simply is no timetable for Jason Kidd's return to the Nets....
DERMARR UNLIKELY COG IN KNICKS' MACHINE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - While Allan Houston, Tim Thomas and Penny Hardaway were all doubtful last night before the Knicks faced the Pistons, there was a good chance DerMarr Johnson would...
RUNNING HOT IN MIAMI
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amWITH the playoff push down to a scant dozen or so games, Pat Riley has firmly established himself as one of Julio Iglesias' backup singers while his Stan Van Gundy-coached...
ERICKSON SHAKY AS RACE FOR FIFTH NEARS END
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES LAKE BUENA VISTA - Scott Erickson's velocity was up, but his location was down. And as a result, his outing yesterday was shaky. Erickson went five innings in...
INSULT AND INJURY ; WALLACE KIN MAY HOLD KNICKS' KEY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Rasheed Wallace, addressing the Knicks' pursuit of him for the first time, said he has not ruled out joining Isiah Thomas' gang come July. Despite all the...
TIMO DEALT TO CHISOX ; TRADE FOR INFIELD HELP LIKELY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amBraves 6Mets 4 LAKE BUENA VISTA - One trade is done, and another may be getting close. The Mets completed their first deal since spring training began, shipping Timo Perez...
CALHOUN MARCHES TOWARD TITLE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPHOENIX - The record is so impressive, so remarkable, it's almost unbelievable. Jim Calhoun was born in May but he owns March. After yesterday's 87-71 destruction of Alabama in the...
CONN-VINCING TRIP TO FINAL 4 ; HUSKIES ROLLING TO SAN ANTONIO
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPHOENIX REGION Connecticut 87 Alabama 71 PHOENIX - Awesome, unbelievable, unstoppable. What else can be said about these Connecticut Huskies? The Huskies are playing at such an elite level, shooting...
REJECTION REWARDING FOR OKAFOR
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPHOENIX - The doctors had already assured him he would be fine, that the tingling would disappear, and so would the pain, in a matter of minutes. A matter of...
OH, WHAT A KNIGHT! 'SPLITTERS, TELFAIR CAN'T TOP MOUNT
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amBOYS AA Mt. Vernon 66 Lincoln 52 GLENS FALLS - Much of Sebastian Telfair's basketball career played out as if penned for a movie - three PSAL titles, a state...
RASHEED'S FUTURE UP TO HIS FAMILY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Rasheed Wallace, addressing the Knicks' pursuit of him for the first time, said he has not ruled out joining Isiah Thomas' team come July. Despite the success...
NOW THEY DECIDE THEY SHOULD PLAY HARD?
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amRangers 3Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA - By virtue of a heretofore secret document issued by Vice President Cheney stating that any team losing to the post-trade deadline Rangers would immediately be...
LETTING ONE GET AWAY ; LOSS TO CANES CUTS ISLES' LEAD DOWN TO 5
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amHurricanes 3Islanders 2 It was like being in a time warp at the Coliseum last night, what with so many old faces crowding the house. There was Peter Laviolette behind...
UCONN, PENN ST. TO TANGLE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amWOMEN'S NCAA HARTFORD - Notre Dame and Cal-Santa Barbara took one last crack yesterday at spoiling the match-up the women's basketball world wants so much to see. But twice here...
COOL HAND LUKE SLAYS ST. JOE'S - 3-POINT DAGGER SENDS COWBOYS TO SAN ANTONIO
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amE. RUTHERFORD REGIONOkla. St. 64St. Joe's 62 One make, one miss. One dream lives, one dream dies. John Lucas, born to be a point guard, made the shot. Jameer Nelson,...
FROM 1ST-HALF BUST TO OSU LEGEND
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amAs soon as the buzzer sounded, John Lucas III headed straight for his father as if magnetically pulled. Lucas' dad rambled down the stands and jumped over the hockey boards,...
GOING ... GOING ... GONE! WHAT IF ALL BUILDINGS HAD LIFESPANS OF BALLPARKS?
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amOUT WITH the new, in with the new. This past Sunday, three days before New York told New Yorkers they will help build the Jets a stadium, Philadelphia's 65,000-seat Veterans...
OMAR FINDS HIS WAY BACK TO MSG
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amOmar Cook called Andre Barrett after Seton Hall lost to Duke in the NCAA tournament and Barrett finished a tremendous collegiate career. "He had a great season," said Cook of...
OMAR FINDS WAY BACK TO GARDEN
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amOmar Cook called Andre Barrett after Seton Hall lost to Duke in the NCAA tournament and Barrett finished a tremendous collegiate career. "He had a great season," said Cook of...
CHALLENGING CONDITIONS FOR TROUT OPENER
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTHAT annual rite of spring, the opener of the trout season, will take place in New York on Thursday and considering what the conditions will be like, the best part...
FOR UCONN COACH, FORWARD, MARCH! CALHOUN'S CLUB STAYING IN STEP
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPHOENIX - The record is so impressive, so remarkable, it's almost unbelievable. Jim Calhoun was born in May but he owns March. Going into yesterday's Phoenix Regional championship game against...
TORRE STILL HAS SOME DECISIONS TO MAKE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - Buried very deeply in the lovefest that is in full bloom between the Yankees and Japanese baseball fans are a few basic tenets of a team in the...
YANKS ARE A FLASH IN JAPAN - TORRE STILL HAS SOME DECISIONS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - Buried very deeply in the lovefest that is in full bloom between the Yankees and Japanese baseball fans are a few basic tenets of a team in the...
FAMILY MATTERS - WALLACE KIN MAY HOLD KNICKS' KEY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Rasheed Wallace, addressing the Knicks' pursuit of him for the first time, said he has not ruled out joining Isiah Thomas' gang come July. Despite all the...
UP AND ADAM - AUSSIE SCOTT GRABS SLIM THIRD-ROUND LEAD
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - If you like final-round shootouts involving some of the most compelling figures in golf at one of the most spectacular theaters in the sport, lean back...
NOW THEY PLAY HARD? WITH NOTHING LEFT TO GAIN, RANGERS OUTWORK PHILLY
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amRangers 3 Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA - By virtue of a heretofore secret document issued by Vice President Cheney stating that any team losing to the post-trade deadline Rangers would immediately...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amLITTLE LOVE LOST Ex-skipper bashes Red Sox in GQ Grady Little has had his full of bean-counting baseball, the fad at so many major league parks where numbers are more...
BOGEYING DOWN - TIGER'S CHARGE CUT SHORT ON FINAL TWO HOLES
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - It was all happening for Tiger Woods yesterday. You could tell by the return of his fist-pumping gesticulations and by the thunderous roars from the galleries....
TELL MESS GOODBYE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - If Mark Messier wants to keep his options open for next season, that's up to him. No one has the right to tell him to retire. But someone...
WEBB'S EAGER TO MAKE HIS PRESENCE FELT
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amIt was a reunion of sorts at the Coliseum last night as the Islanders hosted Peter Laviolette and the out-of-it Hurricanes in the coach's first return to the building since...
CUBS WIN . . . IT ALL! HARDBALL'S INTREPID PREDICTIONS FOR '04
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - HIS is the year down is up. This is the year dog bites man. This is the year the Royals end the longest playoff drought among current AL...
GOOD STILL GIVE DEVS PROBLEMS
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amThey still beat only the beaten, but there are these small, intangible signs that the Devils may be about to take that one step more that defending champions make when...
BOMBERS REMEMBER WHY THEY ARE HERE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO - Even for the been- there, bought-that Yankees, the sounds and sights were quite unique. There were 34,500 mostly children yesterday for "Kids Day" at the Tokyo Dome, serving...
'BAMA BASKETBALL TRIES TO TURN TIDE
March 28, 2004 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Nobody had to give Mark Gottfried a primer about what life in the Alabama basketball office was like. Nobody had to tell him that basketball was something people...
ST. JOE'S GETTING WEST'S BEST ; SHOOTING GUARD PERFECT PARTNER FOR STAR NELSON
March 28, 2004 | 5:00am"Right now, no one has individual goals, just team goals. All we are about is winning."DELONTE WEST On most nights, the Saint Joseph's basketball team knows it won't be the...