July 14, 2004

WARNER LABEL INKS DEAL WITH JUVENILE

In perhaps its biggest signing to date under its new management group, Warner Music's Atlantic Records has nabbed hip-hop star Juvenile from Universal yesterday. Atlantic signed Juvenile - who had...

H AS IN HEADACHE - HIGH-PRICED HILFIGER LINE STALLING A TURNAROUND

When David Dyer left Lands' End to become chief executive of Tommy Hilfiger last September, he was hailed as a leader who would steer the troubled company in a new...

BARNEYS LANDLORD BUYS BOROUGH SHOPPING MALL

BARNEYS' real estate owner, Ben Ashkenazy, just bought a property he called the "Madison Avenue" of the boroughs: the $60 million Douglaston Plaza. By being quicker on the execution by...

LINCOLN TO PARK IN TW CENTER LOBBY

As it pulls out of its sponsorship of the U.S. Open, Lincoln hopes to get a bigger bang for its bucks by sponsoring the posh lobby of Time Warner Center....

JANN BOUNCES STAR FOR CAR - NEW MERCEDES ELBOWS HARTNETT OFF MEN'S JOURNAL COVER

JOSH Hartnett is the hot co-star of the soon-to-be-released MGM flick "Wicker Park" - but he's apparently not hot enough for the cover of Men's Journal. Sources said he had...

UNDER SEC EYE, RED HAT RESTATES

Red Hat got hammered yesterday after the company restated three years of financial results and overhauled how it books revenue from software contracts. The company also disclosed that the Securities...

SCHWAB FIRE SALE - BROKER BAILING OUT OF RESEARCH, BANKING BIZ

San Francisco-based Charles Schwab & Co. is shopping its Schwab Capital Markets business, backing away from an unsuccessful foray into institutional trading and research, The Post has learned. Boutique investment...

DOUGAN PUTS IN HIS TEAM - CSFB ROLLS OUT EXEC REORG

Less than three weeks after taking the helm at Credit Suisse First Boston, Brady Dougan is shaking up the firm's management, consolidating his power at the Swiss-owned investment bank following...

MORT'S LAND EMPIRE RIPPED

While Mort Zuckerman wrestles with low morale and anemic gains at his Daily News, his real estate empire faces a cash squeeze and is getting panned by Wall Street. Zuckerman's...

STARR REPORT

Ken-do: $1 million "Jeopardy!" champ Ken Jennings shattered the $1 million mark last night in his 30th consecutive appearance on the show (7 p.m./Ch. 7). Jennings' winnings last night brought...

'DAY' BREAK - BUSY FAMILY FILLS A SUMMER LULL

"The Days" [**] (Two stars) Sunday night at 10 on ABC/Ch. 7 EACH Day is a busy Day on "The Days," a drama series about what happens to a family...

BASTILLE MEALS & DEALS - IT'S PARIS ON THE HUDSON FOR WINE AND DINE EVENTS

GRAB your beret - it's Bastille Day! Fireworks might not light up the sky the way they do on our Independence Day, but every year, the celebration gets explosively bigger,...

BETTER BURGERS

New York Burger Co. ½ (two and one half stars) 303 Park Ave. S. (between 23rd & 24th streets) (212) 254-2727 IF you're going to eat a burger, better make...

A TRIPPY 'PLANET'

PLANET EARTH: DREAMS [ 1/2] (Two and one-half stars)'PLANET Earth: Dreams" makes about as much sense as most dreams. But that's to be expected, because the video feature is a...

FRANKLY, IT'S TEDIOUS

LET'S GET FRANK [ 1/2] (One and one-half stars)COMBATIVE and media-savvy Congressman Barney Frank took to the frenzied circus surrounding Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings like a duck to water. Having...

LOIS LANE LIVES - 'SMALLVILLE' ADDS SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL

LOIS meet Clark. Clark meet the new Lois. Sultry, hard-as-nails reporter-to-be Lois Lane will pay a visit to The WB's "Smallville" this fall as a college freshman who has no...

GOTTA HAVE HEARTH

HEARTH [ 1/2] (Two and one-half stars) 403 E. 12TH ST. (AT FIRST AVENUE) (646) 602-1300 HEARTH brings big-time cooking to hard-drinking First Avenue south of 14th Street. It took...

'FLOOR' BORED - KIM BASINGER SLEEPWALKS THROUGH JOHN IRVING'S 'DOOR'

THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR (two stars) Disappointing. Running time: 111 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Empire, the Angelika, the Cinema 1, ADAPTATIONS of John Irving's novels either...

PALM SPRINGS ETERNAL

COULD there be a Palm Too 2? The owners of the venerable Palm restaurant chain - which first opened in 1926 on Second Avenue - are aiming to open another...

SEAN: I DIDDY IT!

IT may be that the toughest critic Sean Combs faced during his four-month run in "A Raisin in the Sun" was . . . Sean Combs. "In the beginning, I...

KELLY GETS 'LIFE'

KELLY Osbourne says she was a real freak and geek in high school - making her the perfect fit for ABC's new fall teen drama "Life As We Know It."...

STATE OF GRACE - COLOMBIAN ACTRESS HAS DIVINE APPEAL IN SUMMER'S NEW BIG-BUZZ INDIE MOVIE

THE search for the next great movie actress is over - meet Colombia native Catalina Sandino. The 23-year-old debuts in the new, much-talked-about indie film, "Maria Full of Grace," a...

GOAL-DEN - IS THIS CUBAN-AMERICAN TEEN THE RANGERS' NEXT GREAT PLAYER?

THERE was a little extra pre-game buzz at Shea Stadium on the first night of the latest subway series between the Yan-kees and the Mets. Al Montoya, 19, a shy,...

TAN-GO FOR IT

TANGO fever has hit the Big Apple. From Central Park to South Street Seaport, from Queens to the Bronx, couples are stepping to the sexy Argentine export. And it's easy...

SCREENS AND BIG DREAMS

NEXT week, the New York International Latino Film Festival marks its fifth year bringing the city the finest films created by Latino filmmakers. On the eve of its July 27th...

JUDGE FLUSHES 'ROYAL' CON MAN

Once a fake millionaire neurosurgeon U.N. diplomat, always a fake millionaire neurosurgeon U.N. diplomat. An unemployed Astoria, Queens, man who snookered women by passing himself off as a neurosurgeon who...

PETER DUMPS DIVA - HE WINS OWN HEARING

Martha Stewart's co- defendant, Peter Bacanovic, is tired of being a "second-class citizen" to the domestic diva, so a judge has granted the former Merrill Lynch broker's request to announce...

N.J. GOV PAL IN HOOKER 'SETUP' - SENT STEAMY VID TO 'FRAUD' WITNESS' WIFE: FEDS

The top fund-raiser for New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey hired a New York City prostitute to seduce a key witness in a federal fraud case - and then sent a...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN * An East New York woman menaced her neighbor with a knife after ransacking her apartment in a dispute over the suspect's boyfriend, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Natasha Evans,...

RAPPER BUDDEN BUSTED IN QNS.

Rapper Joe Budden was busted in Queens yesterday for speeding and driving with a suspended license, police sources said. Budden was pulled over by highway cops as he drove 26...

MODEL IN COKE BUST - NABBED AT JFK

a Belgian model went from the catwalk to a perp walk after she was busted at Kennedy Airport trying to smuggle cocaine into the country, authorities said yesterday. Ingrid Parewijck,...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

The postman always barks twice. That's the case in North Dakota, where a golden retriever named Toby happily trots to the Carpio post office each day to pick up the...

OUR POOR KIDS - 1 IN 6 STUCK IN POVERTY: STUDY

A new study of child welfare paints a nasty picture of poverty in America, where one in six of children is underprivileged and one in eight has no access to...

KOSHER KERRY? - HE'S ALL OVER THE (ROAD) MAP

JOHN Kerry, after a slightly rocky start, has had an epiphany of sorts on the Middle East. New "talking points" being privately distributed to pro-Israel groups almost make it seem...

OSAMA PAL GIVES UP - SLIMY SAUDI IN VID GIGGLING OVER 9/11

WASHINGTON - The wheelchair-bound imam who appeared on an infamous videotape with Osama bin Laden, praising the 9/11 attacks, surrendered to Saudi authorities in Iran yesterday. Saudi officials said Khaled...

DEMS' FEST TO FOCUS ON KERRY'S VIET GLORY

The Democrats' four-day convention salute to Sen. John Kerry later this month will be aimed at touting the nominee's war-hero record, officials revealed yesterday. Prominent Democrats will share the spotlight...

FIX TEACHER CONTRACT, SCHOOLS STUDY URGES

ALBANY - The state can't expect to meet a court order to reform its school-aid procedure without major changes to the teachers' contract in New York City, a conservative think...

DEATH-PENALTY FIX CLOSE

ALBANY - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday he is hoping to vote on legislation next week to fix the death penalty, which was effectively abolished last month when...

COP DIES DAYS AFTER DWI TRAGEDY

A Long Island constable struck by a drunken driver while directing traffic has died of his injuries, police said. Patchogue Village Constable Felice Taldone, 44, was directing cars at 10:30...

KIDNAP MONSTERS KILL AGAIN

WASHINGTON - Terrorists said they murdered a captive Bulgarian truck driver and threatened to put another hostage to death in 24 hours, al-Jazeera television reported yesterday. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group...

FERRY-CRASH CHARGES LOOM

Indictments are likely to come in the next month in connection with last fall's Staten Island ferry disaster. The Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office was granted a 30-day extension yesterday to...

CO-OP FIGHTS MTA PLAN FOR NEW STATION

A posh Upper East Side building has hired architects to counter the MTA's plans to take over part of their property to house a Second Avenue subway entrance, The Post...

SCRIBE A LIAR: HYNES - DEFENDS FIRING ADA

The head of all criminal prosecutions in Brooklyn was relegated to the witness chair yesterday, where he defended firing one of his underlings by insisting the ADA worked in the...

FURY OVER FIREBOMB TEENS' WRIST-SLAP

Two of the three Long Island teens who were sentenced yesterday for firebombing a house were spared jail time in the vicious hate crime, infuriating their victims. "I don't see...

HOW A STAND-UP GUY FELL DOWN

HE started work at the age of 13, stole his first car when he was 16, and dedicated more than three decades of his life to the Massino crew. As...

RISE & FALL OF REALTY RA$CAL

It looked for a while as if the sky was the limit for Brooklyn-born New Jersey real-estate mogul Charles Kushner, one of the biggest landlords in the Northeast. Top financial...

CIGS-TO-KIDS STORES BURNED

The city has yanked tobacco licenses from more than 120 stores that sold cigarettes to kids, officials announced yesterday. "If you sell to kids, it'll cost you big fines and...

TEARS FOR TYISHA - FUNERAL SPARKS NEW FAMILY TENSION

The heartbreaking funeral for 13-year-old murder victim Tyisha McCoy was marred yesterday by the ongoing feud between her mother and the girl's distraught guardian - who skipped the burial. Tensions...

POWELL IV: I PASSED LIE TEST ON RAPE

Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV - who is accused of raping a Manhattan woman - passed two lie detector tests, the politician's lawyer said yesterday. Powell, who has called the...

HAMPTONS DIARY

EAST Hampton Village police feared the worst when a frantic moviegoer phoned 911 to say the roof was collapsing at the United Artists East Hampton movie theater on Main Street...

W. ROMPING IN EDWARDS' N.C.

MARQUETTE, Mich. - President Bush holds a commanding lead of 15 percent in North Carolina - home state of Democratic vice- president wannabe John Edwards, a new poll shows. Aides...

L.I. DEATH DRIVER WAS DWI: COPS

A Long Island youth who killed three of his friends and injured two others in a high-speed crash after a night of partying in Manhattan has been charged with DWI...

EVIL CAMP TELLS KIDS: KILL JEWS

JERUSALEM - Palestinian terror thugs are running a kiddie summer camp touting a chilling new feature - live performances of mock kidnap-slayings of Jews. As kids as young as 10...

D.A. PROBES '$INFUL' REV. - WINE-AND-DINE CLERIC IS EYED

For a man challenged by his faith to live simply, Monsignor John Woolsey seems to have champagne tastes - and the Manhattan DA's Office is curious about how he funds...

DUBYA FIRES WHOOPI WEAPON AT FOE

MARQUETTE, Mich. - President Bush yesterday tagged rival John Kerry as an "out-of-the-mainstream" Hollywood liberal by pointing to last week's New York fund-raiser in which Whoopi Goldberg reeled off an...

TYPHOID MARY LAB SUITED TO DETECT SARIN SADDAM

The same Health Department lab that uncovered Typhoid Mary a century ago is now a state-of-the-art public-health facility capable of detecting incidents of biological terrorism, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday. The...

DAD SLAIN OUTSIDE BX. BAR

A beloved Bronx father of three was shot dead outside a bar after a late-night argument with an elderly man, police said yesterday. Ironworker Jimmy Calhoun, 39, of East 224th...

STATE: CITY'S FACING AN OVERTIME BOMB

Soaring overtime costs could push the city's future multibillion-dollar budget deficits even higher, the state Financial Control Board said yesterday. Already facing deficits of $3.7 billion, $4.5 billion and $3.7...

BUSH GIRLS GET POLI-CHIC - JENNA & BARBARA DRESS FOR THEIR DAD'S SUCCESS

It's a new look for the fun-loving Bush girls. Jenna and Barbara, now 22 and college graduates, have shed their skinny jeans, skimpy tops, flip-flops and keg-party image for designer...

DISSEMBLING DISMEMBERER DENIES CANNIBAL THREATS

The Butcher of Tompkins Square tried to show his kinder, gentler side to the jury at his Manhattan sanity trial yesterday - averting his eyes from photos of his victim's...

LIBESKIND'S TOWERING SUIT VS. WTC DEVELOPER

Ground Zero architect Daniel Libeskind filed suit against developer Larry Silverstein yesterday, claiming he's owed nearly $1 million in what has been described as a "genius fee" for his work...

SIS: FIRED TRADER HAD GUTS TO WIN

A fired bond trader was able to win a $12 million sex-bias settlement from Morgan Stanley because she's as tough as any man, family members said yesterday. "Had they been...

BACANOVIC WINS COURT SPLIT FROM MARTHA

Martha Stewart's co-defendant, Peter Bacanovic, is tired of being a "second-class citizen" to the domestic diva, so a judge has granted the former Merrill Lynch broker's request to announce the...

'HEALER' PUT ME THROUGH LIVING HELL

A tearful, wheelchair- bound woman told jurors yesterday how her dream of leaving a church healing service without a walker turned into a nightmare when the Brooklyn pastor cut and...

CHEM-WEAPON RX HEADED HERE AND BOSTON

The federal government has rushed chemical-weapon antidotes to New York City and Boston ahead of this summer's national conventions, an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said...

BROOKLYN BOMB SCARE

A 48-year-old homeless man threw a Brooklyn neighborhood into chaos yesterday, kneeling on a cushion and displaying what looked like a bomb strapped to his body. But the device turned...

'GOLDIE' FINGER - UNLIKELY MOBSTER RATS ON MASSINO IN 'HIT' PARADE

The "blond sheep" of the Bonanno family - a gangster with the unlikely name Duane "Goldie" Leisenheimer - took his place in mob history yesterday as the eighth turncoat to...

BAD TEACHERS' SUMMER FLUNK

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday ordered principals to flunk teachers who perform poorly during this summer's session. Instructors who receive "satisfactory" job ratings for two consecutive summer terms get seniority...

BEAST GETS LIFE - JUDGE LOCKS UP BRUTAL MURDERER

At age 10, he set cats on fire and threw them off the roof in boxes. Yesterday, at age 23 - sporting a violence-pocked rap sheet, a tattoo that reads...

SUICIDE LEAPER LIVES - 12-STORY PLUNGE

A woman, apparently distraught after a domestic dispute, jumped yesterday from a 12th-floor window at an Upper East Side condo building - but miraculously survived when she hit a net....

ATM THIEVES' LATEST WITHDRAWAL

A band of Manhattan ATM thieves has ripped off, literally, its 28th cash machine, The Post has learned. The burglars cut open the locks of a bagel shop on Sixth...

POINT MAN FOR CHURCH ON HOT ISSUES

Monsignor John Woolsey is used to making headlines - but of a different kind. The now-embattled priest was once a pal of the late John Cardinal O'Connor, who tapped him...

CARNAGE AS BOMB ROCKS CHECKPOINT

A massive explosion rocked central Baghdad killing numerous people this morning, witnesses said. Initial reports said up to seven people were killed and many injured in the blast outside the...

TIMES HIT WITH ANTHRAX SUIT

The Maryland scientist, publicly identified a "a person of interest" in the anthrax investigation, is suing the New York Times and one of its columnists for defamation, it was reported...

PIAZZA, CLEMENS GET NEW 'STAR'T - ENEMIES PUT FEUD ASIDE IN HOUSTON

HOUSTON - There have been a beanball, a press conference and a bat shard. All that did was set up everything for last night. After years of rivalries, months of...

ELS: I'M NOT A QUITTER - ERNIE RIPS USGA BIG FOR SHINNECOCK REMARKS

"I've never given up on any golf round in my life. If I did give up, I would have shot a 100 [at the U.S. Open]. I mean, that's ridiculous."...

JETER STILL THRIVES ON STAR STAGE

HOUSTON - Derek Jeter still gets a kick out of walking into an All-Star clubhouse. He still gets chills walking onto an All-Star field. He still has to pinch himself...

RANDY MEETS METS - YANKEES WAITING TO MAKE THEIR PITCH

HOUSTON - Call it a cruel tease. Mike Piazza was standing in front of his locker in the NL clubhouse yesterday, chatting with reporters. A big hand suddenly stuck its...

THANKS, ROG ... THIS DUD'S FOR YOU

HOUSTON - Well, perhaps we jumped to the wrong conclusion when we questioned Roger Clemens' pinstriped loyalties last January. Because last night, he just may have earned himself a full...

NINE HOURS LATER, PAIR DEFEATS SHARK

THE RECENT torrential downpours ended a month of terrific weather and even better fishing, with the past few days seeing more activity offshore for both sharks and tuna. The story...

'TIMES' FAVORED IN BIG M PACE

Off a 1:48.4 record-setting performance in his Meadowlands Pace elimination, Timesareachanging yesterday was installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the $1 million Pace final on Saturday night at The...

TYSON FOE: THERE'S NO PRESSURE

Danny Williams is sacrificing plenty for his chance to fight Mike Tyson on July 30 in Louisville. He left his family, including a six-week-old daughter in England, to train in...

OUTFIELD SPARKS 'CLONES

There are several reasons for the early success of the 14-8 Brooklyn Cyclones, but none more important than their talented outfield. Dante Brinkley, Derran Watts and Corey Coles have been...

JETER: IT'S STILL A THRILL

HOUSTON - Derek Jeter still gets a kick out of walking into an All-Star clubhouse. He still gets chills walking onto an All-Star field. He still has to pinch himself...

AWESOME BONDS THE KING OF SWING

HOUSTON - Barry Bonds has reached that place where he is the boss of bosses, the star of stars, the king of all he touches. Bonds may not be the...

DOOMSDAY FOR JONES?

SACRAMENTO - Each long jump seemed to drain whatever reservoir of strength Marion Jones had left. She did not smile. She did not interact with the crowd at Hornet Stadium....

BAYSIDE BRAWLER AIMS HIGH

Vinny Maddalone grew up in the era that saw dominant and intriguing heavyweights like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and he knows that the division is far different today. "I...

BJORN AGAIN! TOUGH PAIRING AWAITS MONTY

TROON, Scotland - Thankfully, the honchos at the Royal & Ancient have a sense of humor and a zest for theater. Fortunately, so does Colin Montgomerie. Well, sort of, depending...

HOUSTON: MY KNEES STILL SORE

Sharing minutes with Jamal Crawford is the least of Allan Houston's worries. In his first public remarks since the season ended with him sidelined, the Knick forward admitted yesterday that,...

SERIES EDGE NOT BIG DEAL, YANKEES SAY

ALL-STAR NOTEBOOK HOUSTON - As you've probably heard, this year's All-Star Game, like last year's, "counts." What does that mean? Well, for the second straight year, the winning league gets...

TROON'S 8TH STAMPED OUT TIGER'S FINAL ROUND

BRITISH OPEN NOTEBOOK TROON, Scotland - One small hole at Royal Troon that could make a big difference this week is the eighth, a treacherous 123-yard par-3 with a small...

RANDY MEETS METS - YANKEES WAIT TO PITCH IN

HOUSTON - Call it a cruel tease. Mike Piazza was standing in front of his locker in the NL clubhouse yesterday, chatting with reporters. A big hand suddenly stuck its...

NETS AWAIT K-MART OFFER SHEET

A hefty signing bonus front-loading the deal. A 15 percent trade kicker. And, of course, maximum dollars. These were the elements the Nets anticipated in the expected offer to Kenyon...

HERE'S TO RUNYAN - SOMEBODY TO ROOT FOR

SACRAMENTO - Marla Runyan never saw Shayne Culpepper coming, never thought to use it as an excuse. "Absolutely not," she said yesterday. "Blame my eyes, when my legs buckled under...

'BALCO 4' BITES THE DUST

TRACK NOTES SACRRAMENTO - When Alvin Harrison finished a distant seventh in his semifinal heat of the 400 meters Monday night, you could hear officials of USA Track & Field...

THANKS, ROG . . . THIS DUD'S FOR YOU

HOUSTON - Perhaps we jumped to the wrong conclusion when we questioned Roger Clemens' pinstriped loyalties last January. Because Clemens just may have earned himself a full share last night,...

QUEENS FIGHTER AIMS HIGH

Vinny Maddalone grew up in the era that saw dominant and intriguing heavyweights like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and he knows that the division is far different today. "I...

AMERICAN IDOLS CLOBBER CLEMENS - ROCKET ROCKED IN FIRST INNING

American 9 - National 4 HOUSTON - They do everything a little bigger in Texas. Including spit the bit. There were 41,886 fans at Minute Maid Park last night expecting...

NIGHT BELONGS TO SORI

ALL-STAR NOTES HOUSTON - There were eight Yankees in the All-Star Game last night. But it was the former Yankee who stole the show. "I'm so happy right now that...

'IT WAS AMICABLE' - MIKE, ROG LEAVE BAGGAGE BEHIND

HOUSTON - They came, they saw, they talked. For Mike Piazza and Roger Clemens, All-Star 2004 most definitely did count. Yes, the most notorious batterymates in All-Star history met before...