June 8, 2004
ELVIS GOES TO THE DOGS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amYou ain't nothing but a hound dog, buying all the time. And now, you can buy your pooch Blue Suede Shoe squeaky toys, Love Me Tender dog collars and Jail...
BUSH SHOULD AVOID DEJA VU
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Bush Administration will be faced with a first-rate political dilemma this summer: Should it take a chance and start touting its economic accomplishments, or hold off until it's certain...
CHAPLIN TO HIT CELL PHONE SCREEN
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amCharlie Chaplin is about to be introduced to a new generation. The family-run business that holds the rights to the comedic icon is to announce today at a New York...
SANCTUARY IN CHELSEA DEAL
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Sanctuary Group, the fast-growing British music management company whose roster includes artists from Beyonce to Ozzy Osbourne, is moving up the charts in New York. Sanctuary has had its...
IMCLONE STILL NAGS MARTHA
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe timing of Martha Stewart's scandal-ridden sale of ImClone Systems stock continues to haunt her. While the domestic diva faces up to 16 months in prison for obstructing an investigation...
-SEC BACKS OFF TRADE WAR WITH BIG BOARD (M)-SEC TILTS BACK TO NYSE SIDE ON TRADES (S, LCF)
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA preliminary New York Stock Exchange plan to regulate stock trading is finding favor inside the Securities and Exchange Commission, in a dramatic comeback for the embattled Big Board, sources...
BILL'S BOOK BLITZ GETS SET TO MAKE RADIO WAVES
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amBill Clinton, who is giving his first interview about his memoir "My Life" to "60 Minutes," will chat with America in a one-hour town hall radio broadcast. "He'll take calls...
MANDALAY EXECS CASHED OUT THEIR STAKES TOO SOON
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amBillionaire Kirk Kerkorian will be crowned king of Las Vegas if he buys the Mandalay casinos - but Mandalay's two founders would be the big losers in the deal. Kerkorian...
STALKING THE LION - AS SONY TALKS DRAG ON, NBC JOINS MEDIA FRENZY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA week after Sony Corp.'s exclusivity agreement on talks with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer expired, other suitors are signaling that they may also be interested in taking a look at the Lion. On...
AIRLINES NIX PAPER TIX
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amPaper airline tickets will soon be a thing of the past. The world's major airlines plan to phase out paper tickets in favor of electronic ones by the end of...
7TH AVE. TAPS RISING STAR POSEN
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe fashion flock has elected a new idol. Zac Posen, 23, was presented with the Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Talent at last night's fashion Oscars, an annual event hosted...
717 FIFTH GOES ON THE BLOCK
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amWalton Street Capital is putting 717 Fifth Ave. on the block, two years after buying the trophy tower from Yale University. Walton is hoping to fetch more than the $266...
AIRLINES TO RIP UP PAPER TIX BY 2007
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amPaper airline tickets are soon to be a thing of the past. The world's major airlines plan to phase out aper tickets in favor of electronic ones by the end...
ARNOLD'S STILL GETTING 'AROUND'
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Gropinator may be regretting his latest film role. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a raunchy cameo appearance in the upcoming remake of "Around the World in 80 Days" as a...
MOTHER'S DAY - 'NO-KNIFE MAKEOVER' WINNER: DRAB TO FAB
June 8, 2004 | 4:00am'FOUR months ago, my 5-year-old son called me Mommy for the first time," says a teary Betty German. Her son, Michael, is autistic. For this single working mom, the winner...
HEAT ON 'FAHRENHEIT'
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amHE may have been the darling of Cannes, but Michael Moore isn't winning any praise from Ray Bradbury. The 84-year-old science-fiction author railed against the filmmaker in a recent interview...
CORDAY HEADED FOR 'ER' MORGUE
June 8, 2004 | 4:00am'ER" star Alex Kingston is being kicked off the show because she's too old, she said this week. Kingston, 41, said it was "a shock and upsetting" when producers decided...
PUPPETS AD UP - AMUSING SPOTS AIDED WIN OVER 'WICKED'
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amNO one's ever going to call "Avenue Q" "that naughty little puppet show" again. Any pocket-size musical that topples a $14 million spectacle about the Wicked Witch of the West...
STARR REPORT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amBelmont a 4 score Ch. 4 scored record ratings for Saturday's telecast of the Belmont Stakes - in which Smarty Jones failed in his bid for the Triple Crown, beaten...
LIVE AND LET DRY - BRAVO STYLES 'BLOW OUT' AS 'THE RESTAURANT'
June 8, 2004 | 4:00am"Blow Out" [** 1/2] (two and one-half stars) Tonight at 8 on Bravo ---- YOU can dress it up all you want with a lot of music and fancy camera...
'JURY' DUTY - COURT DRAMA TOO REAL
June 8, 2004 | 4:00am"The Jury" [**] (two stars) Tonight at 9 on Fox/Ch. 5 ---- I feel like a heel for knocking this series since the characters in the show obviously love The...
MTV'S MOON SHOT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amIT wasn't a smile that Eminem er, cracked, during Saturday's taping of MTV's Movie Awards ceremony. After performing during the awards show, the contentious rapper dropped trou in an apparent...
BUSTING STERN
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amHOWARD in cuffs? In your dreams. Or more precisely, in "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit" this fall. Seems the show is preparing an episode where a shock jock loosely...
HAPPILY NEVER AFTER - ODDS ARE, J. LO AND MARC ANTHONY WON'T LAST THE WINTER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amDECEMBER 31 - That's the expiration date oddsmakers are putting on Jennifer Lopez's surprise wedding to singer Marc Anthony. Lopez and Anthony stunned the world - and, reportedly, their closest...
M-16 THUG GUILTY OF BUDDY SLAY IN BROOKLYN
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was convicted of murder yesterday for killing his 25-year-old childhood pal with a rapid-fire M-16 rifle in a fight over $3,000. John Lennon - a 27-year-old suspected...
TRILOGY OF TRAGEDY - FALLEN GI SURVIVED BOTH WTC ATTACKS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amNational Guardsman Frank Carvill twice cheated death at the World Trade Center - but died in Iraq on the day he was scheduled to return to his native New Jersey...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAs if guys losing their hair don't have enough insecurity. Montana's applications for drivers' and fishing licenses ask people to state their hair color - and lists "bald" as a...
'BAD' KIDS TEACH - WILL TUTOR YOUNGSTERS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amHigh-school students who've been suspended for fighting and other disciplinary infractions will make up for their misdeeds by tutoring failing third-graders during the summer session, The Post has learned. Tutoring...
TOP COPS EYE VIDEO VILLAINS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amNYPD captains have been ordered to make regular checks on a trouble-plagued unit involved in the Internet distribution of a police video showing a teen's suicide, The Post has learned....
COURT BLOW TO 'MOLEST' ACCUSER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday refused to step into the bitter custody battle between a former Playboy model and the casino mogul ex-lover she wrongly tried to paint as a child...
XMAS MOM GUILTY OF BABY SLAY - COPS PLEA, GETS 18 YRS. IN AVOIDING L.I. RETRIAL
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Long Island mom who killed her newborn baby on Christmas Day entered a surprise guilty plea yesterday on the first day of her retrial for the 2001 murder. Kathleen...
POLICE & FIRE HEROES NEED NO HELP FROM RANDI'S ZEROES
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amIN THE words of the mythical private investigator Archy Mc Nally, the star of the blockbuster Lawrence Sanders books, "my flabber is gasted." Yes, I am flabbergasted about what is...
ARIEL HANGS ON
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government survived three parliamentary challenges yesterday and worked out the first Israeli-Egyptian security agreement in 25 years. Sharon's coalition was reduced to a...
ANGEL OF MERCY NEEDS SOME HERSELF
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amCleotilda Alvarez ran the bristles of a silver brush through the hair of her elderly patient. The older woman's daughter watched - grateful that Alvarez, their home-care attendant, chose to...
SON FACES DAD WHO KILLED MA
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amJust before a Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for killing his wife, the couple's 11-year-old son asked his father why he had to take his mom's...
JUDGE WHACKS MACHETE KILLER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA man who hacked his girlfriend to death with a machete in Brooklyn three years ago - striking her 75 times - was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life...
IRAQI PARTIES AGREE TO DISBAND MOST MILITIAS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Iraq's new prime minister announced an agreement yesterday by nine political parties to dissolve their militias and integrate some 100,000 fighters into the army and police. The plan,...
WALL COLLAPSE CRUSHES WORKER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amOne worker was crushed to death and two others injured yesterday when a 6-foot-tall foundation wall gave way at a construction site in Queens, fire officials said. Rescue workers used...
BUSH WILL GIVE EULOGY AT D.C. SERVICE
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush will deliver the eulogy at former President Ronald Reagan's Washington funeral Friday, a day he has already declared a national day of mourning. Bush, fresh from the Group...
MARTHA GETS SUMMER BREAK
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amDomestic doyenne Martha Stewart won't enjoy a full summer season in federal prison after her sentencing date was postponed to give her more time to request a new trial. On...
QNS. BLACKOUT SEX FIEND GETS 20 YEARS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA boiler mechanic who admitted to a spree of sex assaults and burglaries during last summer's blackout was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday by a Queens judge who...
UNION BIG STRIKES OUT - HEALTH WORKERS NIX BID TO RETURN EVEN AS OTHERS OK DEAL
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTwo-thirds of the 23,000 striking home health-care aides are returning to work today after reaching a tentative deal - but some 8,000 others still without a contract vowed to continue...
FUNERAL HORSE'S N.Y. ROOTS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe riderless horse that will follow the caisson carrying President Ronald Reagan's casket is a 13-year-old standardbred reared and raced at Freehold and Yonkers. The horse, Sergeant York, is part...
BUSH EYES U.N. NOD FOR GOV'T IN BAGHDAD
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush was hoping for a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution today that would put the world body on record in support of Iraq's new government. A positive U.N. vote...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amFOOD fight! Former kitchen staffers at Rocco's A La Playa in Sag Harbor, now known as 21 Water, are accusing the restaurant of making false claims to drum up business....
COUNCILMAN TO CITY PIT BULLS: DON'T COME, DON'T STAY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA day after a crazed pit bull nearly killed a Harlem woman, a city councilman said it's time to ban the breed from the city. It took four bullets to...
AL QAEDA THREATENS SUMMER ATTACKS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAl Qaeda warned yesterday that U.S. and European airliners and other "means of transportation" will be targets for terror attacks this summer. The grim warning was posted yesterday on the...
TEARFUL NANCY BIDS FAREWELL - WHISPERS PRIVATE GOODBYE OVER RONALD'S CASKET
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amSIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Nancy Reagan, steadied by her once-estranged daughter, said goodbye to her late husband yesterday at a tearful ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Mrs. Reagan's...
MAYOR'S NOISE PLAN FINES EAR POLLUTERS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed a giant "Shhhhhh!" for the city - slapping a legal limit on barking time for dogs and ordering Mister Softee ice-cream trucks to shut off their...
'SULTAN' SWATS VICTIMS - 'NO GAL THAT DUMB'
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAccused scam artist "Dr. Sultan" fought back in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday, implying through his lawyer that no sane, educated woman could have believed he was actually Kuwaiti royalty. If...
'BAYWATCH' HUNK IN DWI BUST
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amDavid Hasselhoff was thrown in jail over the weekend after cops in California nailed the aging "Baywatch" hunk on suspicion of drunken driving. The 51-year-old TV star was busted along...
CAR-RENT TAX LOOMS - PATAKI DRIVING LEVY HIDDEN IN JAVITS PLAN
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - A hidden provision in Gov. Pataki's newly unveiled plan for a Jacob K. Javits Convention Center expansion would impose a new tax on some car rentals to help...
'FAMILY' TIES PREVENTED RAT WHACK
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAccused mob chieftain Joseph Massino held off whacking his crime family's uppity underboss only because the man was his brother-in-law, a gangster turncoat testified yesterday. Massino's decision not to kill...
TODAY'S VENUS-WATCHERS SHOULD PLANET CAREFULLY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will awaken to a rare treat this morning if they're willing to get up early - the sight of Venus moving across the face of the sun. For...
HOUSING FIRM OPERATES VIOLENT FED BUILDINGS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Harlem tragedies - yesterday's fatal gambling club gunfight and Saturday's vicious pit-bull attack on a woman - took place in federally owned buildings managed by the same controversial firm....
POSH SCHOOL SEX RAP - TRUSTEES INDICTED
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAll 20 trustees of the Groton School have been indicted for failing to report a 16-year-old's claim he was sexually assaulted by other boys at the elite Massachusetts academy, authorities...
SUBWAY MODEL'S TERROR - SUDDEN POP CAN REDUCE HER TO TEARS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amMonica Meadows, the actress who was shot on the subway last week, lives in a state of fear. She broke down when her boyfriend snapped shut a plastic food container...
FUNERAL HORSE A N.Y. CHAMP
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe riderless horse that will follow the caisson carrying President Ronald Reagan's casket tomorrow is a 13-year-old Standardbred reared and raced at Freehold and Yonkers. The horse, Sergeant York, is...
E. END THUGS GET 'TAKEOUT' - BURGLARIES AT HAMPTON EATERIES
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amHamptons restaurant owners have become fed up over the recent spate of break-ins at their eateries after three more establishments were struck in the past week - bringing the total...
'FAMILY' TIES PREVENTED RAT'S WHACKING
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAccused mob chieftain Joseph Massino held off whacking his crime family's uppity underboss only because the man was his brother-in-law, a gangster turncoat testified yesterday. Massino's decision not to kill...
GIRLS BURNED IN ACID FIGHT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amEight girls suffered burns yesterday when they were doused with acid during a fight near Crotona Park in The Bronx, police said. The violence began at 5:30 p.m., when two...
HAILING 50 YEARS OF HOWARD'S WAY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amIf you're anybody who's anybody - or ever was anybody - in Gotham, chances are you've been repped by uber-public relations man Howard Rubenstein at one time or another. So...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A $2,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a gunman who tried to stick up a livery driver in Claremont. The would-be...
BOMB SCARE SHUTS TIMES SQUARE
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Great White Way was full of blue last night as cops closed down Broadway around Times Square for nearly an hour and a half to investigate a suspicious package....
BOTH BUSHES TO GIVE EULOGIES IN D.C.
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amBoth President Bush and his father will deliver eulogies at former President Reagan's Washington funeral Friday, it was announced yesterday. George W. Bush, fresh from the Group of Eight economic...
MYSTERY OVER B'KLYN SLAYING
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA 27-year-old man was shot and killed in Brooklyn yesterday when he was accosted by two assailants, cops said. The man was shot once in the head at East 19th...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: THE BIG BUG INVASION
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amWe've been invaded - not by aliens, but by cicadas. By the end of this month, they'll all be gone. Read how they spend 17 years building up to a...
ID FOR TRUNK CORPSE - COPS HUNT STRANGLER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amPolice last night were able to identify the body of a woman whose strangled corpse was found crammed in a small trunk abandoned on an East Village street The killer...
TATTOO CLUE TO CORPSE - VILLAGE TRUNK PUZZLE
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe woman whose strangled corpse was found crammed in a small trunk abandoned on an East Village street had a tattoo with the name "Nikia" on her body, sources said...
STAY THE HALLE AWAY, STALKER TOLD - STAR GETS ORDER OF RESTRAINT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe creepy wacko stalking Halle Berry has been ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from her at all times. A Santa Monica judge told Greg Broussard, 35, he'll...
BYSTANDERS BURNED IN BRONX ACID FIGHT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amSeven people suffered burns, one seriously, yesterday when they were splashed with an unknown chemical during a fight near Crotona Park in The Bronx, police said. The violence began at...
QNS. BLACKOUT SEX FIEND GETS 20 YRS.
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amA boiler mechanic who admitted to a spree of sex assaults and burglaries during last summer's blackout was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday by a Queens judge who...
SUBWAY MODEL'S ROUTE TO HEALING
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amMonica Meadows, the model/actress who was shot on the subway last week, hasn't walked down a city street without fear since the attack that shattered her life - and ironically...
CHIPS CASHED IN - 2 KILLED IN HARLEM GAMBLING SHOOTOUT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTwo men were killed in a wild shootout in a Harlem gambling club early yesterday in what police believe may have been a dispute over a $1,000 debt. The bloody...
BOLTS GO NUTS - LIGHTNING STRIKES, CAPTURES FIRST CUP
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 7: Lightning 2 - Flames 1 TAMPA - The Stanley Cup is going to the Early Bird special. In their 12th season of existence, the Lightning have brought the...
BAILEY DENIES HE 'SACRIFICED'
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAfter being blamed by trainer John Servis for costing his Smarty Jones the Belmont Stakes as well as the coveted Triple Crown and $5 million bonus that goes along with...
CAUGHT ON VIDEO - JAX STIRS UP LAZY LAKERS
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - It was overcast and foggy in the City of Angels yesterday, an appropriate mourning-after the Lakers' 87-75 Game 1 upset loss to the Pistons. Inside Staples Center,...
STARTING AT QB: JESSE PALMER
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Eli Manning is making progress. Kurt Warner is being indoctrinated to his new temporary home with the Giants. The one quarterback who attracted the most praise yesterday from...
COTTON'S BATTLING BIGGEST FOE - LUNG CANCER CAN'T DISHEARTEN FEISTY EX-SUNS COACH
June 8, 2004 | 4:00am(First of two parts) 'I don't care how I got this thing. I just know I'm going to do everything they ask me to do to beat it.' - Cotton...
TRANSITION NOT EASY FOR KURT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe first grumbles came a few days ago, when Kurt Warner shook his head and began beating himself up over a bad throw here, a poor read there. Last Thursday,...
GARCIA'S GLAD TO BE RUNNING
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - It had been a while between stolen bases for Karim Garcia. Like five years. But in Sunday's 5-2 win over Florida, the Mets right fielder swiped...
GLOVE'S SILENCE DEAFENING
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - It was just another bizarre scene in Lakerland - a crowd of 60 journalists standing around an empty podium on the Staples Center court for 25 minutes...
KIDD MULLS KNEE SURGERY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amNets' point guard Jason Kidd said yesterday any surgery on his injured left knee will be performed before the end of June to ensure he'll be ready for the start...
DREAMS COME TRUE - FOES LIVE GAME 7 FANTASY
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amTAMPA - They have played this game thousands of times, played it while growing up on the ponds, played it in their minds from the moment they strapped on the...
RASHEED BACKS BROWN FROM BENCH
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES LOS ANGELES - Rasheed Wallace may be hell on referees but not on his own coach. Sounding as cuddly as a pussycat, Wallace had no problems that Pistons...
GARY GETS GOING - REGGIE SAYS BEST ]]IS AHEAD FOR SHEFF
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAfter Gary Sheffield homered twice on Friday night, Reggie Jackson walked over to his locker and announced, "A little late, but you finally got here." Like many of the people...
YANKS' PICKS WELL-ARMED - GO PITCHING WILD IN DRAFT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amAs Mark Newman saw it, right-handed pitching was one of the major weaknesses in the Yankees' player development system. So the senior VP of baseball operations was overjoyed after the...
METS RAID RICE - TAB OWLS' HUMBER WITH 3RD OVERALL PICK
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets used the No. 3 pick in yesterday's baseball draft to select right handed pitcher Philip Humber out of Rice University. It was the highest pick the Mets have...
TIGERS TAKE MAHONEY IN FOURTH ROUND
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amCollin Mahoney is experienced at being disappointed on draft day. Three years ago, as a catcher at Mount St. Michael HS, he was projected to be a high pick. But...
GW BUDDIES GET GOOD NEWS IN DRAFT
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amRafael Gonzalez watched from the stands as George Washington and his friend Angel Salome beat Tottenville Sunday to advance to the PSAL title game. "That hurt me not to be...
OPEN CASTING CALL - 22 EARN THEIR WAY INTO SHINNECOCK
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Buick Classic, this week's PGA Tour event, doesn't begin play until Thursday's first round at the Westchester Country Club. However, a PGA Tour event broke out yesterday at Canoe...
OPEN CASTING CALL - 16 TOUR VETS EARN SPOTS AT SHINNECOCK
June 8, 2004 | 4:00amThe Buick Classic, this week's PGA Tour event, doesn't begin play until Thursday's first round at the Westchester Country Club. However, a PGA Tour event broke out yesterday at Canoe...