October 16, 2004
STAR'S KIN BID TO SAVE BRAND-O
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amMarlon Brando in a Gap commercial? The late screen legend could be a pitchman for any number of companies or products based on the application his estate filed with the...
SHOP TILL WE DROP ; GAS PRICES DRAIN WALLETS, BUT STORES STILL ROAR
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amConsumers are sweating more about the economy than a year ago, but it hasn't stopped them from snapping up auto showroom bargains or buying electronics. New government data on factory...
KISSINGER BIO PULLED IN DENMARK
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Danish publisher has decided to yank a new Henry Kissinger biography from the shelves after it was revealed that major excerpts in the book were plagiarized translations from Walter...
ROGERS TAKES NEW TIVO ROLE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amFormer Primedia CEO Tom Rogers was named vice chairman of TiVo, a move designed to help the company expand in the media world. The appointment was disclosed yesterday in a...
LEVI'S DEAL TO SELL DOCKERS COLLAPSES OVER PRICE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amLevi Strauss & Co.'s deal to sell Dockers has unraveled, The Post has learned. Levi, the San Francisco-based jeanswear giant, has abandoned talks to sell Dockers to Vestar Capital Partners...
MY NEW HOME
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amGRADUATE STARTING OUT SEEKS COOPERATIVE BOARD WHAT SHE BOUGHT: West Side Jr. 1-BRm $350,000 SEARCH TIME: 3 months HAVING played the stock market for ten years - since she was...
FLYING CARPETS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amStupell 29 E. 22nd St., (212) 260-3100 Sale: Oct. 18 through Dec. 31 Open: Mon.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. A 75th anniversary sale offers up to 70 percent off tableware and...
HIGH AND MIGHTY
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amSINCE The Post broke the news of Martin Zweig's colossal, $70 million apartment hitting the market, the Wall Street guru has been unavailable to discuss the matter. And, as we...
FIX IT... OR NIX IT - WHEN TO RUN AWAY FROM FIXER-UPPERS; REPAIRER'S RED FLAGS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amNEW York City's new lead paint law -adopted in August -has all sorts of hurdles: when you test for lead, for example, you need to use an EPA-certified firm, and...
PUNK ROCK OF AGED
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amSOCIAL DISTORTION MIKE Ness, Social Distortion's front man, looks more like somebody who's going to fix your car than rock your world, but don't let his too-old-to-rock, too-young-to-die appearance fool...
LIFE OF THE PARTIES ; SO ENTERTAINING, DEBATES OUGHTA BE WEEKLY SERIES
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amTHE real tragedy of American television is that nobody can figure out how to turn the Bush/Kerry debates into a regular weekly TV series. If they could, they'd have a...
RACK 'EM UP - SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE NEW YORK YARD SALE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amIF you're planning on going to the Central Park Tag Sale today, get there early. The massive Get Organized New York garage sale opened its doors yesterday to hundreds of...
SCREENS FOR TEENS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amIf you're a high-school kid who loves the movies - political ones, especially - the Museum of Modern Art has just the ticket. And it's free. Its new "Friday Night...
ELECTION SELECTIONS - HERE'S OUR VOTE FOR THE BEST BOOKS OF THE CAMPAIGN SEASON
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amSure, you have to be at least 18 years old to vote, but it's never too early to take an interest in elections - especially the one deciding who gets...
NAVY OFFICER IN 'NET 'KID' SEX BUST
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Maryland naval officer was busted yesterday in Queens after he arranged to meet a 13-year-old girl he met over the Internet - who turned out to be an undercover...
CLASH OVER DRAFT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Kerry said yesterday there is a "great potential" that President Bush will bring back the military draft if he is re-elected - a charge the Bush campaign has dismissed...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amTexas Lottery officials are still trying to figure out what happened on Wednesday. The date was Oct. 13, it was 13 years after the Texas legislature had approved a state...
BRONX ROOKIE BUSTED IN LATEST FIREFIGHTER DWI
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn off-duty rookie firefighter was busted on a Bronx highway early yesterday for speeding and drunken driving, police said. It was the 36th firefighter DWI arrest this year, sources said....
TAXMAN CUT OWN $LICE: DA
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA New York state taxman has been busted for stealing dough from a Long Island pizzeria and a diner, authorities said. Charles Belgrave, 43, of Hempstead, was a tax-compliance agent...
BAGHDAD BUTCHER'S OIL-BIZ SLAP AT ISRAEL
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein forced companies taking part in the humanitarian U.N. oil-for-food program to boycott Israel, The Post has learned. Congressional investigators have recently obtained copies of contracts from...
HILL EXPECTS RUN FROM RUDY OR GOV
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA new fund-raising letter from Sen. Hillary Clinton fingers Rudolph Giuliani and George Pataki as rivals in 2006. "Republican operatives are determined to defeat me, and I expect to face...
EMINEM RAPS UP SKY-HIGH SATELLITE RADIO-STATION DEAL
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amOuter space got a little raunchier yesterday, as Howard Stern's new satellite radio sponsors, Sirius, announced they'll soon be handing another channel over to rapper Eminem. The channel, called "Shade...
SCARED EX:DASH IS A STALKER-FELLA
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amDamon Dash's terrified ex-girlfriend got an extended order of protection against the rap impresario yesterday, claiming the chrome-domed mogul and his posse had been stalking her ever since they allegedly...
SHAME THAT 'TOON ; MTA PULLS RAUNCHY SUBWAY AD
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA raunchy ad for a new Comedy Central cartoon show was yanked from subway trains this week after the MTA heard complaints about its overt sexual content, an agency spokesman...
DEM LIEBERMAN BOOSTS PREZ ON ISRAEL - AND HAS 'DOUBT' FOR KERRY
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amDemocratic Sen. Joe Lieberman has raised eyebrows by telling Florida voters that President Bush has a strong pro-Israel record and John Kerry needs to do more to eliminate "doubts" about...
MARTHA'S LAWYERS LAND IN HOT WATER
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe judge who presided over the Martha Stewart trial slammed the domestic diva's legal team for misrepresenting statements she made in court - and yesterday ordered the lawyers to correct...
ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE TO FERRY VICTIMS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg marked the first anniversary of the Staten lsland Ferry disaster yesterday at a simple memorial service for the families of the crash victims. "We've been through a year...
FLU SHOT $CANDAL
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Heartless flu-vaccine middlemen have been approaching New York hospitals with offers to sell the desperately needed drug for as much as 15 times the regular price, officials said...
MOB-SLAY 'LIFERS' SPRUNG
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amTwo accused killers serving life behind bars for a mob murder were sprung free yesterday in the wake of an appeals-court decision that over-turned their convictions on a legal technicality....
B'KLYN DEM BOSS CALLS RAP TAINTED
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Democratic boss would have been spared a humiliating indictment if a fellow lawmaker got a guarantee of immunity to give vital testimony on his behalf, his lawyers said...
STARVING KIDS: CITY SCHOOLS' FOOD CRISIS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA severe food delivery crisis has forced some city schools to borrow meals from each other and reduce portions for kids - in one case feeding youngsters a hard-boiled egg...
'COKE' COP'S FLASH; BUSTED IN LUXURY CAR
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA young city cop was behind the wheel of his gold Mercedes SUV when federal agents and NYPD internal affairs officers busted him in Rhode Island for conspiring to buy...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS *** This man (above) is one of two thieving thugs who raped and robbed a 50-year-old woman inside an Astoria park two weeks ago, police say. The vicious attack...
PSYCHO PEN PAL; QNS. 'KIDNAPPER' WROTE WIFE: I'LL COME GET YOU
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amIn a chilling love note sent to his estranged wife a week before he allegedly kidnapped her and took her on a terror-filled 500-mile bus trip, a deranged Queens man...
GOTTI WHACK SMACK ; 10 GREATEST HITS AT TRIAL
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors want to tell jurors about the brutal mob rubouts carried out by the Gambino crime family to nail Peter Gotti and his co-defendants in their upcoming Nov. 1...
JOHN BACKS OFF AIDE'S CHENEY-KID JAB
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Kerry yesterday rapped his own campaign manager for saying that Vice President Cheney's gay daughter is "fair game" for politics. Kerry was struggling to get past the negative fallout...
TRAGIC TODDLER DROWNS IN TUB
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amAn 18-month-old boy drowned in the tub yesterday when his mother left him alone to check on his siblings in a Brownsville halfway house, authorities said. Zire Anderson was pronounced...
MIKE PULLS $$ PLUG ON PROJECT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday abruptly pulled the plug on the development of a Queens import and wholesale center at the site of the old Flushing Airport, enraging a local group of...
FEDS NAIL 18 IN ID THEFT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe feds indicted 18 people in a massive immigration scam involving bank and credit-card fraud and identity theft, Manhattan U.S. Attorney David Kelley said yesterday. The charges stem from an...
SCOURING TERESA'S TAXES ; ONLY 12% OF $5M EARNINGS WENT TO UNCLE SAM
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Kerry's near-billionaire wife, Teresa, reported more than $5 million in total income last year but paid only 12.5 percent in federal taxes - less than the average middle-class family...
BAG-BOY BARRON; CROOKED JUDGE'S DRESS-SHOP JOB
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amDisgraced former Judge Victor Barron has fallen from the courtroom to the stock room - in his new job at a woman's clothing store in Brooklyn. Barron, who earned $113,000...
DA PROBES 'CRIME' IN VELELLA RELEASE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amManhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, who prosecuted disgraced state Sen. Guy Velella, disclosed yesterday he's investigating "whether any criminal offenses were committed" when the former legislator was sprung from Rikers Island....
SCHOOLKID-TRANSFER SUIT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amThe city is shortchanging 330,000 public-school students by limiting their ability to transfer out of failing schools, a lawsuit filed yesterday charged. The complaint claims the city is violating the...
MARTHA: MY 'CAMPUS' LIFE IS FINE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amDomestic diva Martha Stewart said yesterday she has "adjusted" to prison life, comparing the federal lock-up to "an old-fashioned college campus - without the freedom, of course." "The camp is...
TEARS FOR B'KLYN JUMP-ROPE GIRL
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amDozens of mourners gathered yesterday to say good-bye to an 8-year-old girl who mysteriously died last week while jumping rope outside her Brooklyn school. As family and friends attending the...
3RD BUST FOR CREDIT-$CAM SUSPECT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man was arrested yesterday for using stolen credit-card numbers to purchase thousands of dollars worth of merchandise - the same crime he committed twice previously, cops said. Shiva...
DASH SLAPPED AS STALKER-FELLA - RAP MOGUL, EX IN TENSE COURT CLASH
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amDamon Dash's terrified ex-girlfriend got an extended order of protection against the rap impresario yesterday, claiming the chrome-domed mogul and his posse had been stalking her ever since they allegedly...
LUCKY 7 FOR CURT?
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - On a dark and stormy night in Boston, with the Red Sox down 2-0 in games to the hated Yankees, the cloud over Curt Schilling brightened. He threw...
COTCH-ING ON WITH JETS; ROOKIE WR WILL GO IF MOSS CAN'T PLAY
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amWide receiver Jerricho Cotchery opened eyes all through training camp, impressing Jets coach Herm Edwards with every touchdown catch and big play. It got to the point where Edwards would...
WAKEFIELD DOESN'T PLAN TO GOPHER IT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The last time Tim Wakefield was the last line of defense between the Yankees and the World Series, we know what happened. Although Wakefield acknowledged that Boston is...
ROYAL ASSAULT'S BRED TO SHOW CLASS ON GRASS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amWhen is a Grade 3 stakes not a Grade 3 stakes? When it's today's $100,000 Lawrence Realization at a mile-and-a-half over the Mellon turf course, which drew a field of...
EL DUQUE FINDS THRILL ON THE HILL
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Even just sitting up there at the podium yesterday, Orlando Hernandez wasn't going to mask his excitement. Maybe it was the fact that he'd be pitching in the...
SHOCKED WAGNER OUT FOR REDEMPTION
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amAL PATURZO was unsure what to expect this season with a young, inexperienced team, but when Wagner won its first three PSAL games, he was confident the Falcons were a...
NAVY LOOKS TO TORPEDO IRISH STREAK
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amNavy coach Paul Johnson had the defining quote of the Middies' one-sided rivalry with Notre Dame when he said the Irish had players that were Parade All-Americans, while he had...
BERNIE'S RIGHT BACK IN STRIDE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - When it comes to Bernie Williams, you can throw out the 162 games from April to September. Great, good, bad, terrible - how he did in what's essentially...
MEL, ESPN TALKIN' AGAIN
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amMel Kiper Jr. wants his NFL draft job back, and it appears the people at ESPN are open to the idea. "Mel expressed interest in renewing talks on our last...
MEET NEW IRON HORSE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - He has gone from "rock star" recognition in Japan to become the rock of the Yankees' lineup this postseason. The most underrated Yankee plays left field and bats...
COOKSEY IS VENEZIA WINNER
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amJockey P.J. Cooksey will be at Belmont Park tomorrow to receive the Mike Venezia Award. The ceremony takes place in the paddock before the first race. Jockeys Aaron Gryder, Mike...
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT TO FOLLOW ROGER
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - If the pattern holds, Roger Clemens will have success against the Cardinals in Game 3 today, but he likely will pitch no more than seven innings...
'STRO PLACE LIKE HOME; HOUSTON PLANS TO DECK CARDS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The Astros have the Cardinals right where they want them - or at least it sounds that way - as the two teams resume their best-of-seven NLCS series...
'ZO WON'T INSULATE HIMSELF FROM PERILS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amAlonzo Mourning has been taking a risk. A huge risk. And he knows it. But Mourning will look you in the eye and tell you with all sincerity that he...
RUBEN GETS TASTE AT DH FOR GAME 3
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Before rain washed out last night's ALCS Game 3 between the Yankees and Red Sox at Fenway Park, Joe Torre made a switch at designated hitter,...
NO QUIT IN HURT CURT
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Reports of Curt Schilling's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Boston's hobbled ace tossed a 20-minute side session in the Fenway Park bullpen in be tween lousy weather...
TOP JOB OR BUST FOR RUDY
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - If the Mets don't offer Rudy Jaramillo their managing job, they probably won't land the touted Rangers hitting coach in any other capacity. Jaramillo had a strong interview...
RAIN, NO GAIN FOR YANKEES - WASHOUT MAY WORKTO SOX' ADVANTAGE
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Advantage Red Sox. That's the upshot of last night's ALCS Game 3 being rained out. While it didn't erase or reduce the Yankees' commanding 2-0 lead over the...
SOX ATTEMPT TO PUT HOUSE IN ORDER
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox season is on the lineup. Searching for a way to stem a two-games-to-none avalanche, manager Terry Francona shook up the bottom of the batting order...
TANYON NOW WITH 'ENEMY'
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Growing up in Worcester, Mass.,Tanyon Sturtze used to pay to come to Fenway all the time. "I came here a lot," he said. "We used to sneak in."...
IMPERTURBABLE KURT REFUSES TO BE RATTLED
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amIt shouldn't be a surprise that Kurt Thomas is unaffected by rumors that he could be traded. He's heard those rumblings for years. "I can't worry about things like that,"...
HEAT'S ON ARROYO
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - It would be enough to curl Bronson Arroyo's hair, if the guy wasn't made of iron and his hair wasn't already curled with one. Tough row to hoe...
EL DUQUE GETS BALL IN GAME 4
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Don't expect last night's rainout to cause the Yankees to skip over El Duque. With last night's Game 3 postponement, the Yankees are now in a situation where...
PLUCKY PESKY PIQUED BY RIVALRY
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - At 85 years old, Johnny Pesky still gets goose bumps over the Yankees. That tells you everything about the greatest rivalry in sports. Pesky, a former Red Sox...
SOX TRY TO PUT HOUSE IN ORDER
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox season is on the lineup. Searching for a way to stem a two-games-to-none avalanche, manager Terry Francona shook up the bottom of the batting order...
RAIN, NO GAIN FOR YANKEES: FROM THE RAINDROPS, HOPE GROWS IN BOSTON
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - They look for ce lestial guidance at all times in this town, under all circumstances, hints from the clouds that better days are ahead or that bitter times...
PERILOUS ROAD FOR 'ZO
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amAlonzo Mourning has been taking a risk. A huge risk. And he knows it. But Mourning will look you in the eye and tell you with all sincerity that he...
RAIN, NO GAIN FOR YANKEES: WASHOUT MEANS PEDRO MIGHT START A GAME 5
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Did last night's ALCS rainout help the Red Sox more than the Yankees? Only if manager Terry Francona starts Pedro Martinez in Game 5, if it's necessary, on...
FRIDAY'S TIX GOOD MONDAY
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - If you're a Yankees fan and you had tickets for last night's postponed Game 3 of the ALCS at Fenway Park, you may want to do the unthinkable...
RUBEN GETS TASTE AT DH FOR GAME
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Before last night's ALCS Game 3 between the Yankees and Red Sox was postponed at Fenway Park, Joe Torre made a switch at designated hitter, from...
'STRO PLACE LIKE HOME - HOUSTON PLANS TO DECK CARDS
October 16, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The Astros have the Cardinals right where they want them - or at least it sounds that way - as the two teams resume their best-of-seven NLCS series...