October 18, 2004
MARKETING RESEARCHER J.D. POWER UP FOR SALE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amJ.D. Power and Associates, a firm that built its reputation on providing market research on cars and other consumer products, is now about to market a deal of its own....
GET OUT THE KNIFE - KRAFT MAY DIVEST OSCAR MAYER, POST CEREAL LINES
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAs it looks to slim down its business lines, Kraft Foods Inc. may be cutting bologna and cereal out of its diet. Kraft, the global food giant, is weighing strategic...
AMERICAN MEDIA PRETTIES UP AHEAD OF POSSIBLE '05 IPO
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAmerican Media CEO David Pecker has turned to advisors ranging from Victoria Gotti to the white-shoe consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. as he tries to get his debt-heavy company...
BARNEYS IN TALKS FOR NEW FLAGSHIP IN BOSTON
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBarneys New York has its eye on Boston, the latest in an expansion strategy designed to make the company more appealing to potential buyers, The Post has learned. The trendy...
'OFFICE' BOY - THE BOSS FROM HELL'S NEXT ACT AS AN 'EXTRA'
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amRICKY Gervais - the unforgettable star of "The Office" - is coming back to TV as a bad actor. Playing a bad actor, that is, in a new series called...
SCREAM 'AMERICA' - NEW YORKERS FIND LOTS TO SHOUT ABOUT IN CONTROVERSIAL PUPPET FLICK; FILMGOERS DUKE IT OUT ON 'TEAM'
October 18, 2004 | 4:00am'THEY'RE equal opportunity offenders," said one woman, coming out of the Loews 34th Street theater on Saturday. That's for sure. In their new puppets-with-guns movie "Team America: World Police," Hollywood's...
PLAYTIME AT TRIBECA FEST
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amTHE play's the thing - but Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal aren't taking any chances. For their first annual Tribeca Theater Festival, which kicks off tomorrow and runs through Oct....
BROOKE'S A WONDER - 'TOWN' IS STILL THE PLACE TO BE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amWONDERFUL TOWN[ 1/2] (Three and one-half stars) Brooke Shields joins the cast. At the Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 W. 45th St. (212) 239-6200. LEONARD Bernstein's "Wonderful Town," soon to enter...
STARR REPORT
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amShe's Hart-stopping You'll see Mary Hart in her usual "ET" perch tonight at 7:30 on Ch. 2 - and immediately afterward when she does a cameo turn opposite Jamie Gertz...
KUTCHER UNLEASHES 'PUNK'D' PAL
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amTHE pranksters behind "Punk'd" have a new trick up their sleeve, a reality show in which they try and ruin people's lives. "We find out everything there is to know...
SCHOOLED BY STEVE MARTIN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amSTEVE Martin and the producers of "The Real World" and "That '70s Show" are teaming up on a reality show to unearth a brainiac. On ABC's "The Scholar," 15 high...
RING TALE - LOUIS-SCHMELING FOUGHT HISTORY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00am"American Experience: 'The Fight' " [ 1/2] (Three and one-half stars) Tonight at 10 on WNET/Ch. 13 FOR sheer savagery, you would be hard-pressed to come up with a confrontation...
TWEED FATIGUE - WHERE THERE'S A TWILL, THERE'S A NAY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amFORGET about getting a flu shot. We're angsty about finding a vaccine for the disease inflicting style-savvy New Yorkers: Tweed Fatigue. Even though winter hasn't kicked in yet, tweed -...
SUITE-HEART DEAL - BRUNO BRO SECRETLY GETS LUSH OFFICE ON TAXPAYERS' DIME
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - State officials have secretly rented a posh office suite for the brother of powerful Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, dramatically cutting the sibling's commute to his...
SUPERSTAR'S LAST DAYS IN THE BX. - DEMONS DOOMED EX-MVP CAMINITI
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amDays before he died in The Bronx, former baseball slugger Ken Caminiti was upbeat, ready to leave a Houston lockup with plans for a brighter future. The recovering addict hoped...
PATAKI RAPPED BY STATE GOP
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI is being criticized by state Republicans for crisscrossing the country on behalf of President Bush - and his own presidential ambitions - while doing little to help the...
CRIMINAL PROBE EYES KOFI'S SON
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been targeted by a federal criminal probe into corruption of the scandal-scarred Iraq oil-for-food program, sources said. Top U.N. officials...
SNAPPLE CASE PUTS CITY SODA DEALS ON ICE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe city has quietly clinched a number of big-name sponsorship deals - including one for soft drinks - but has put them on hold so as not to undermine a...
EATERY CAUSES ZA-GAP - 'PER SE' TOO HOT TO RATE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe best restaurant in New York is not at the top of the new Zagat's list, but it doesn't matter - because it's virtually impossible to get a reservation there....
ASHANTI IN $4M TANGLE - EX-PRODUCERS SUE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amSultry pop singer Ashanti has been hauled into Manhattan federal court by music producers in Georgia who claim they represented her before she skyrocketed to stardom - and now they...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amMichael Aux Tinee has a lot of balls - and he may become very rich because of it. The 67-year-old entrepreneur collects 1,000 to 3,000 stray golf balls a day...
AGONY OF SLAIN-COP WIDOW
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amGOD knows how many wrenching emotions are suffered in agony by a cop's widow. On this day it was another one of those terrible moments for widow Eileen Rafferty. It...
BEAST SPEAKS IN RARE HITLER TAPE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA secret tape made of Adolf Hitler talking with a top Scandinavian military official has been found in Finland - and it's considered the only surviving example of what Hitler...
N.Y. CRISIS GUIDE IN TODAY'S POST
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAs part of an ongoing campaign to prepare New Yorkers for emergencies, the New York Post is teaming with the city's Office of Emergency Management to distribute copies of "Ready...
JERRY SAVORS HIGH LIFE AT HOME - BASKING IN HIS FUNNY MONEY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amJerry Seinfeld says that despite his humble roots, he now enjoys wearing his wealth on his sleeve. "Why deny myself the best because of the image it has?" the fabulously...
COAST GUARD PULLS MAN FROM BOAT BASIN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA Coast Guard unit rescued a man who fell from his dinghy into the choppy waters of the Hudson River yesterday. The man slipped as he was getting out of...
OSAMA IS MY LEADER: ZARQAWI
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe terrorists behind the diabolical beheadings of hostages in Iraq pledged their allegiance to Osama bin Laden yesterday, saying they agreed with al Qaeda about the need for unity "to...
SETTLER FURY AS SHARON NIXES VOTE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAngry Jewish settlers yesterday said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's rejection of a proposed national referendum on his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip could sow the seeds...
THRICE IS NICE FOR '$HARK TALE'
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amRobert De Niro's motley crew of gangster fish chewed up the cursing marionettes and spit them out over the weekend - as "Shark Tale" hooked and gutted "Team America: World...
REBEL STRONGHOLD POUNDED
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amU.S. planes and tanks pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah yesterday as the Iraqi government again appealed to residents to avoid an all-out attack by helping expel terrorists hiding there....
YOUNG IN RUSH FOR VACCINE - FEDS TRY TO CONTROL DEMAND
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amHealthy young people who never got a flu shot before are standing in long lines and rolling up their sleeves, fearful of missing out on something that's in short supply....
AUTO RAMPAGE IN TARGET STORE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA Target department store became a target when a man in a stolen car crashed through the entrance, drove through the aisles and then zoomed off, cops say. Miraculously, there...
BRAVEST HURT IN BX. BLAZE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amSix firefighters were injured yesterday in an early-morning blaze that swept through a vacant Bronx storefront, officials said. The Bravest spent nearly three hours battling the four-alarm blaze in the...
JOHN'S BIG POLL FAULT - PLAYS ON SS FEARS AS HIS NUMBERS SINK
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As new polls show President Bush soaring past rival John Kerry, the Democrat tried to blunt his rival's rise by raising new fears about a second-term Social Security...
REEVE GALA ON NEXT MONTH
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe annual celebration for the paralysis group which bears Christopher Reeve's name will go ahead next month in Manhattan with a tribute to the late actor, an organization official said...
B'KLYN WOMEN FEEL SAFER AFTER RAPE BUSTS
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amShaken residents of a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood breathed a huge sigh of relief yesterday after cops nabbed two men suspected in the brutal apartment rape of a woman there last...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS * An alleged gang member was shot and killed outside a catering hall during a party in Corona, cops said yesterday. Leonicio Aguilar, 23, believed to be a member...
FOOD FIGHT AT PHILLY HS TURNS UGLY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAn emergency call that had cops racing to a Philadelphia school wasn't a murder or a shooting - it was a food fight. Police say about 450 students at Abraham...
DONALD'S A STAND-UP GUY AT EXPO
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amReal-estate mogul Donald Trump may have been wasting his precious time building all those luxury towers and sparkling gambling casinos over all these years. Yesterday, during a Real Estate Wealth...
EAR-AID SUBWAY HORROR - FATAL BID TO FETCH DEVICE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA desperately poor Bangladeshi immigrant died trying to retrieve a hearing aid from subway tracks - his most cherished possession and his crucial link to the world, friends said yesterday....
MAN HELD IN GAL PAL'S KNIFE-SLAY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA man who spent $9,000 to bring his 26-year-old girlfriend to the U.S. illegally from Guyana three weeks ago, killed her yesterday when she tried to ditch him for another...
LANE WILL ANCHOR BRIT 'PRODUCERS'
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amNathan Lane is riding to the rescue of the London production of "The Producers" - taking over the role of Max Bialystock after Richard Dreyfuss dropped out at the last...
GOING FOR 'BROKE' - DAD TAPPED OUT IN QUEST FOR DAUGHTER
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA New York man who was forced to take a four-month leave of absence from his job in a bid to get his kidnapped daughter out of France and back...
DEBATE SOUND-BITE BATTLE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It'll be debate déjà vu over the closing 15 days of the presidential election. The best lines from the lips of President Bush and rival John Kerry -...
BAGHDAD CAR BOMB KILLS 7
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA car bomb killed seven people and wounded about 20 late yesterday in Baghdad, hours after U.S. forces pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. The blast, in front of a...
UNDERAGE GIRLS EASILY SLIP THROUGH THE SYSTEM
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAdvocacy groups are desperately fighting the problem of underage girls trapped in the tawdry sex industry. "This is a growing problem but it is hard to quantify. In the clubs,...
SUBWAY 'PERP' HURTS BX. OFFICER
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx cop was seriously injured yesterday when he was thrown down a flight of stairs by a man he had been chasing in a subway station, police said. The...
REEVE GALA STAYS ON SCHEDULE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe annual celebration for the paralysis group that bears Christopher Reeve's name will go ahead next month in Manhattan with a tribute to the late actor, an organization official said...
B'KLYN SCHOOL-ATTACK FIASCO
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amFrancisco Cornejo says the system failed him. Cornejo, 19, a senior at Lincoln HS in Coney Island, was leaving school Oct. 1 when he was allegedly attacked by two other...
TRENDY NEW HOT 'SHOTS' - YUPPIES IN VACCINE RUSH
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amMeet the hot new status symbol for yuppie New Yorkers: the flu shot. Healthy young people who just hate the idea of missing out on something - even if they...
JILTED RAGE SLAY - GAL PAL KILLED IN B'KLYN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA man who spent $9,000 to bring his girlfriend to the United States illegally from Guyana three weeks ago killed her yesterday when she tried to ditch him for another...
HIT-RUN VAN KILLS QUEENS BICYCLIST
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens cyclist was killed last night when a van slammed into him - and the driver fled, police said. Manuel Torres, 53, was struck by the white 1996 GMC...
HEAR-AID HORROR ON TRAIN TRACKS
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe hearing aid that a desperately poor Bangladeshi immigrant received two months ago changed his life. It also caused his death. Syed Fazle Mowla was waiting for a northbound No....
NEW SETTLER FURY AT ARIEL
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAngry Jewish settlers yesterday said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's rejection of a proposed national referendum on his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip could sow the seeds...
GAME PLAYERS IN LEWD MOOD
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amAt least Ms. Pac Man wore a bow. A slew of new video-game releases are putting the X in Xbox by forsaking violence for nudity. "The video-game business is growing...
SUNY'S CLASS ACT A CITY HIT
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amA record number of SUNY students studying to become teachers are earning their stripes in Big Apple schools, according to university records. Fall enrollment at the State University of New...
'TERROR' LAWYER SET TO TESTIFY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amRadical lawyer Lynne Stewart will testify today to rebut charges that she helped an imprisoned terror sheik smuggle incendiary messages from his cell to terrorists overseas. Stewart is the lawyer...
SCHOOL ATTACK FIASCO - PUNK HAD RECORD
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amFrancisco Cornejo doesn't believe in the system - because it failed him. Cornejo, 19, a senior at Lincoln High School in Coney Island, was attacked Oct. 1 as he was...
TOP 25
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amRank // (prev) // TEAM // RESULT // NEXT 1 Oklahoma (6-0) won 31-21 at Kansas State vs. Kansas (1) The last time we saw a freshman RB like Adrian...
BY THE WAY, THE SERIES IS ON FOX
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amIT may not seem possible, but there was - there had to be - one person watching Game 3 of the Yanks-Red Sox on Fox Saturday who didn't know that...
'BANNED' AMY BACK IN SADDLE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amJockey Jose Amy, banned from riding nearly a quarter-century ago by the N.Y. State Racing and Wagering Board for his role in the infamous Con Errico race-fix scandal of the...
VILMA'S GROWING IN MATES' EYES
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amHe wowed his peers and the press throughout his first training camp, and three games into his pro career, he started at middle linebacker for the Jets. Yesterday, Jonathan Vilma,...
FRUSTRATION EATS AT NATION
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - True story. Walking into a local Walgreens yesterday on the morning after the Saturday Night Massacre, this announcement came over the loudspeaker. "Attention shoppers: Everything in the store...
NETS MAY HAVE NEW HOT-ROD
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amNights like he had against the Celtics Saturday in Albany are going to force the Nets to find a place for Rodney Buford - not only on the roster, but...
NOT VERY PRETTY, BUT NO APOLOGIES NEEDED
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amON THE day the Jets overcame themselves, the 49ers and history's cruel stranglehold, Herm Edwards stood at the podium outside a happy locker room and advised reporters to not ask...
BOMBERS ALWAYS GET LAST LAUGH
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - They wrestled right at the edge of the abyss yesterday, threatening to end this two-year passion play with a whimper rather than a bang, and that would be...
DEREK'S THE LEADING-OFF MAN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Never has a .182 batting average been so misleading. But that's what makes Derek Jeter so special. Through three games of the ALCS, Jeter has gone just 2-for-11,...
LUCIOUS: NETS DEPLETED
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amLucious Harris admits it. He was disappointed the Nets didn't ask him back. He wanted to finish his career in New Jersey. But that was before the accountants' knives sliced...
RED SOX' EPSTEIN: NEVER SAY DIE!
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Confident nearly to the point of delusion, Boston general manager Theo Epstein expressed total belief last night that the Red Sox still could win the World Series. During...
TERRY'S MASTER PLAN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - This city, stunned, betrayed, and needing every shovelful from its 12-year-long Big Dig tunnel project to bury its stinking, choking Red Sox, came to Game 4 last night...
SMILES TO GO FOR RED SOX
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - On Boston's clubhouse door, someone punctuated an optimistic message with a smiley face during the early morning hours yesterday. It was the only smile in the entire place....
HOUSTON HEARING THE BOOS
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amYesterday when the Knicks opened up their Garden practice to fans, it was a public relations coup, a feel-good afternoon. Well, it was for the most part - until the...
TIRADE WORKS PERFECTLY - SPEECH INSPIRES JETS TO FIFTH WIN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amLong before they rallied for a 22-14 victory over the 49ers yesterday, the Jets' lethargy was palpable from every corner of Giants Stadium. Here they were playing a home game...
OLERUD INJURY DOESN'T OPEN DOOR FOR GIAMBI
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amYankee Notes BOSTON - One of the best things that could have come from the Yankees sweeping the Red Sox out of the ALCS last night at Fenway Park was...
RANDOLPH SET TO MEET METS
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Two years ago, Willie Randolph interviewed for the Mets' managerial job and didn't get it. Take number two could go a little differently. The Mets are still relatively...
THEY'RE READY TO GO - A MOOSE IN POSTSEASON
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Mike Mussina has made 430 major league starts in the regular season and playoffs. But it was during a relief appearance on Oct. 16, 2003, that he fully...
SCHILLING TESTS ANKLE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox weren't willing to announce a Game 5 starter unless they were sure there'd be a game. Although signs pointed to Pedro Martinez making the start...
SHOWDOWN HYPE CAN'T BE IGNORED
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards' message to his players after yesterday's win was to enjoy the win and not worry about next week's showdown against the 5-0 Patriots in Foxboro. "You...
BELTRAN BOPS CARDS AGAIN
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 4: Astros 6 - Cards 5 HOUSTON - Carlos Beltran is having a post-season rivaled by only one other player: Barry Bonds. It may be time he received the...
YANKS TOOLING ON EASY STREET - DIDN'T THINK THEY COULD SWEEP SOX
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Anybody who tells you they predicted the Yankees would be in position to sweep the Red Sox out of the ALCS in Game 4 last night is lying....
'KEEP' GAME GETS GANG GREEN GOING
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amFor the first half of yesterday's game, the 49ers had the Jets as off-balance as a high-wire walker with vertigo. The Jets expected a soft zone and instead got a...
JORDAN PROVIDES CRUCIAL ENERGY
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amThe woebegone 49ers had been taking it to the Jets in their own house, showing all the fire, passion and emotion Gang Green had been sadly lacking. That is, until...
REDBIRDS' STARTER FEELS RIGHT AT HOME
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - Woody Williams, who'll start Game 5 for St. Louis tonight, might be the only Cardinal who feels at home in Minute Maid Park. Williams is a...
FUTURE A MYSTERY FOR ECHOLS, WHITE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amDerick Echols and Kevin White Jr. played well yesterday in their team's loss in the playoffs at the IS 8 AAU tournament in Queens. No one seems to know for...
TAVAREZ TANTRUM TICKS OFF CARDINAL
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES HOUSTON - Cardinal reliever Julian Tavarez went nuts after giving up the eventual game-winning home run to Carlos Beltran in the seventh inning. After getting Morgan Ensberg to...
LOWE PUT EGO ASIDE FOR TEAM
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - In his final days with the Red Sox, Derek Lowe has played the role of disgruntled teammate to a T. He has moped, groused and otherwise acted like...
EPSTEIN: NEVER SAY DIE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Confident nearly to the point of delusion, Boston general manager Theo Epstein expressed total belief that the Red Sox could still win the World Series. During a pregame...
MATSUI TRANSLATES TO SUCCESS
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The numbers and the performance needed no translation. Not last night. Not in this series. Not for Hideki Matsui. In the Yankees' four-game dominance of the Red Sox,...
IT'S THE EL DUQUE OF OLD
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - With his knee-high socks and shoulder-high leg kick, Orlando Hernandez strikes a unique pose out on the mound. Last night, Hernandez' form was back in action for the...
TERRY TAKES SHOTS FOR LOWE MOVE
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Red Sox managers make convenient punching bags. And when Terry Francona removed Derek Lowe after 88 pitches last night, the pummeling officially began. In Fenway Park's working press...
BATTERED QUANTRILL: 'I DIDN'T DO MY JOB'
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The fact that the Yankees are still very much in control of this series was of little consolation to Paul Quantrill. Especially after his final pitch last night....
REVERSING THE TREND - BOSOX SAVE FACE, MAYBE THE SERIES
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Maybe the ghosts were sleeping. Or maybe there was another mystical force at work, one that insisted a Red Sox-Yankees series simply couldn't end in the one-sided way...
HEROIC ORTIZ: WE NEVER GIVE UP
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - This time, David Ortiz didn't end a series - he saved one. Ortiz, who smashed a walk-off, ALDS-clinching 10th inning homer against Anaheim, capped the longest game in...
SOX LIVE FOR ANOTHER DAY - ORTIZ HR FORCES GAME 5
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 4 / 12 INN.: Red Sox 6 - Yankees 4 BOSTON - The Red Sox have a pulse today because they got to Mariano Rivera again. It's not much...
YANKS LOST THEIR MO-JO
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - When Mariano Rivera began to warm up in the seventh inning last night, there was a sense of general calm at Fenway Park. Nothing like the party that...
DEREK SAVES SAWX
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - Stunned, betrayed, and needing every shovelful from its 12-year-long Big Dig tunnel project to bury its stinking, choking Sox, a let-down Boston last night turned to its absolute...
CALM YANKS MOVE ON
October 18, 2004 | 4:00amBOSTON - The lasting image late last night (or early this morning) was of the Sox celebrating at home plate, reveling in the fact they're still alive. So how worried...