November 1, 2004
CASTING ITS 'NET - WEB AD BIG DOUBLECLICK FISHING FOR A BUYER
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amDoubleClick, the one-time darling of dot-com advertising, is on the block, The Post has learned. DoubleClick, which has seen its fortunes steadily decline since the Internet bubble burst in early...
AD STAFFERS EXIT DAILY NEWS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMort Zuckerman is swinging the ax in a new cost-cutting move at the embattled Daily News. The News publisher's latest chop: four more senior managers at the paper. A spokeswoman...
STILL MOVIN' - THARP, JOEL'S SHOW HASN'T LOST A STEP
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMOVIN' OUT[ 1/2] (Three and one-half stras)The Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 W. 46th St. (212) 221-1211. JACK-KNIFE sharp and ice hot, the great Twyla Tharp/Billy Joel musical "Movin' Out" has...
STARR REPORT
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amAndy Richter, who returns Wednesday as harried dad Bob Chase in "Quintuplets" (8:30 p.m./Ch. 5), says he's happy for former "Late Night" boss Conan O'Brien, who'll take over the "Tonight...
'BOSS' VICTIMS - ABSURD TASKS FOR FAKE JOB
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMEET the 12 "brainy" suckers who fell for Fox's latest reality show gag, "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss." The contestants - many of whom Fox officials claim are Ivy League...
LET'S BE FRANKEN - SUNDANCE'S BRIGHTEST SPOT-WHICH ISN'T SAYING MUCH
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amI never figured Al Franken to be a Deadhead. But there it is - Grateful Dead music at the beginning and end of every break on the televised version of...
MALZBERG MOVES TO WWRL
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amSTEVE Malzberg, the late-night conservative radio host dropped by WABC last week, has landed at a new station, WWRL-AM. Malzberg will start on the hard-to-find WWRL (1600) today hosting the...
ONE TO WATCH
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTARNATION [****] (Four stars) A groundbreaking autobiography by newcomer Jonathan Caouette, who brilliantly assembles home movies, photos, answering-machine tapes, pop songs and snippets of old movies and TV shows into...
ON WITH THE SHOE! - TIME IS NOW FOR DEALS ON HEELS; HEEL-Y GOOD STEALS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S a shame Carrie Bradshaw isn't around to see this: Shoe shopping in the city just got a whole lot sexier, thanks to a flood of designer footwear at deeply...
BUSH VICTORY HELPS HILLARY
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTHE careers of virtually all of New York's top politicians may well be riding on the outcome of tomorrow's presidential contest, GOP and Democratic insiders agree. A win by President...
MTA BIAS SUIT - JEW 'DENIED JOB'
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThe MTA allegedly yanked a job offer from an Orthodox Jewish man who wouldn't work on the Sabbath - a move he claims is discriminatory, The Post has learned. Brooklynite...
NETWORKS 'MAP' NEW STRATEGIES FOR ELECTION COVERAGE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amHOW do you prevent a repeat of the election-night debacle of 2000? If you're a TV network, you proceed with caution. That's the approach the TV news organizations promise to...
MIKE LEADING CHARGE FOR APPLE CREDIT CARD
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThere are some things New Yorkers can't buy. For everything else, the city will soon offer its own credit card. Last month, Mayor Bloomberg's office sent out a "request for...
THE WIDER WAR
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTHE polls show that the American people think President Bush will do a better job in the War on Terror than John Kerry. Kerry counters that if Bush had done...
WORKPLACE $ICK DAZE - EMPLOYERS FACE $40B TAB
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThe massive shortage of flu vaccine could cost American businesses $40 billion in employee sick days - twice the amount of a normal year when supplies are sufficient, a prominent...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThe spirit of Lady Godiva is alive and well in Montana, where a 34-year-old woman got on a horse, rode down the street and began flashing passers-by. Dawnalee Ellis was...
OSAMA THROWS KERRY A CURVE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amOSAMA BIN LADEN reared his head at the worst possible time for John Kerry. On Friday afternoon, Kerry was feeling good when he took the stage to headline his second...
CARRIE ON & ON & ON - PEEK AT 'SEX' FINALE'S 3 ALTERNATE ENDINGS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThat feel-good ending on the "Sex and the City" finale last year, where columnist Carrie Bradshaw lives happily ever after with her Mr. Big, almost wasn't. In fact, it was...
DRESSED TO KILL - ROOMIE-SLAY SUSPECT'S WACKY TRANSVESTITE PIX
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amHere are never-before-published photographs of a bizarre Brooklyn cross-dresser - the modern-day "Jekyll and Heidi" charged with bludgeoning his 75-year-old roommate to death. A female friend looking through her album...
RUDY IS NO MERE POSER
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThe City Council unveiled its official portrait of former Speaker Peter Vallone last week, leaving many wondering when Rudy Giuliani's will finally be displayed at City Hall. "He's got to...
MONSTER'S DEADLY WARNING TO 'RED' STATES
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden warned in his October Surprise video that he will be closely monitoring the state-by-state election returns in tomorrow's presidential race - and will spare any...
EX-'BUFFY' IS BOX-OFFICE SLAYER
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMovie fans in the mood for some Halloween frights over the weekend continued to hold their "Grudge" at the box office. "The Grudge," with Sarah Michelle Gellar of TV's "Buffy...
SUNY SEX-HARASS SUIT - CUSTODIANS ACCUSE BOSS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTwo female custodians at the State University of New York in Purchase have filed sexual-harassment complaints against their boss, spurring a criminal investigation by the Westchester County district attorney's office,...
ARAFAT IMPROVING, BUT ILLNESS STILL A MYSTERY
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amAides to ailing Yasser Arafat yesterday said the Palestinian chief was feeling "much better," as French doctors continued to try to identify precisely what is causing his health crisis. Foreign...
PM POISED FOR ATTACK ON FALLUJAH
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amIraq's interim prime minister yesterday warned his patience was wearing thin over the standoff in Fallujah, and plans for a military attack on the Sunni Triangle stronghold are in their...
N.J. SHOWDOWN - PATAKI, HILL TRY TO SWAY CLOSE RACE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amGov. Pataki and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned on behalf of their White House candidates in New Jersey yesterday, as the presidential race remained surprisingly tight there. "A few months...
HORROR SMASH-UP - MIDTOWN PEDESTRIAN HIT, DRAGGED IN SUV-TAXI CRASH
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amAn SUV struck a taxi at a Midtown intersection yesterday morning and careened into a pedestrian who was left clinging to life last night, police said. The pedestrian, whose name...
EARLY VOTES GIVE STATES A 'GRAVE' PROBLEM
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThere's a new electoral group that could affect the outcome of the presidential race tomorrow - dead voters. With an unprecedented millions of voters taking advantage of early voting in...
HOSTAGES ON AFGHAN VIDEO
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amAfghan militants yesterday released a video showing the three frightened foreign U.N. workers who were kidnapped last week and who have been threatened with death unless the United Nations and...
'DWI' KILLER TO FACE TRAGIC MOMS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amAn alleged drunken driver who killed one child and put another in a coma after he mowed them down on a Queens street will face the children's mothers during his...
GRID OMEN SAYS DEMS WIN
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amWho would think the outcome of a football game could mean so much to the race for the White House? But that's what John Kerry was saying yesterday after the...
R. KELLY TO JAY-Z: LET SHOW GO ON
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amR. Kelly is ready to bury the hatchet and perform again with Jay-Z - despite the fact that Jay-Z's entourage blasted him with pepper spray. "If Jay turned around and...
STAND WITH ME: BUSH - PREZ REACHES OUT TO VOTERS 'LEFT' BEHIND
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday crisscrossed battleground Florida urging voters to "come stand with me" and painting rival John Kerry as a flip-flopper, while the Democratic nominee turned to a mostly positive...
NANTUCKET 'SLAY' SUV WAS BLOODY
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amBlood was found in the SUV disgraced Wall Street exec Tom Toolan rented shortly before he killed his ex-lover Beth Lochtefeld in her Nantucket island home, The Post has learned....
CAMPUS CRIME A DORM SHAME
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amLocal college students may get their formal schooling from professors, but their education in illegal drugs, alcohol and violence is right outside their dorm-room doors, according to crime data obtained...
CITY HONCHO BUSTED IN BX. BRAWL
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amA high-ranking city official was arrested yesterday after he was involved in a fight outside a Bronx bar, and was then caught with a fake NYPD parking permit displayed in...
L.I. MAN SHOT IN FAMILY FEUD: COPS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amA Long Island man was shot in the leg by his brother-in-law during a domestic dispute, police said. The violence erupted in a private home in East Moriches at 10:30...
GAMBLE-DEN MOM SLAIN OVER A DRINK
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amA 40-year-old Brooklyn mom, enjoying a night on the town at an illegal gambling haunt, was shot in the back of the head and killed yesterday trying to break up...
BROOKLYN 'SLASHER' ATTACKS TWO COPS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amPolice had to use pepper spray to subdue an emotionally disturbed man - wielding two knives - who attacked two cops in Brooklyn, authorities said yesterday. The violent confrontation took...
EX-GIANT HITS END OF THE LINE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amFor ex-New York Giant Mark Ingram, NFL linebackers were nothing compared to what he's facing now - 435 years in prison. That's how much time the 1991 Super Bowl hero...
VOTERS ELECT TO IGNORE OSAMA
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTerror thug Osama bin Laden's deranged bid to meddle in America's presidential race has fallen flat on its face, according to new polls last night. The Pew Research Center said...
BALLPARK FIGURES - BABE BAT EXPECTED TO FETCH $1M
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amNow that baseball season is over, it's time to go batty. The first of two major baseball-memorabilia auctions is this week - leading up to the December Holy Grail of...
GAMBLE-DEN MOTHER SLAIN OVER A DRINK
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amA 40-year-old Brooklyn mom, spending a night on the town at an illegal gambling haunt, was shot in the back of the head and killed yesterday trying to break up...
SISTERS KILLED BY PICKUP
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTwo teenage sisters on their way to do a favor for their uncle were killed by a pickup truck as they crossed a busy New Jersey street yesterday. Maressa Farias,...
SLEEPLESS IN THE APPLE: STUDY SAYS WE'RE SNOOZER LOSERS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amNew York truly is the city that never sleeps. A new study called "Sleep in the City" ranked the New York metropolitan area - the five boroughs and parts of...
DAD SEES GIRLS DIE - SISTERS HIT BY PICKUP
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTwo teenage sisters hit by a pickup truck in Newark last night died in the street - as their father held his hand over the still-beating heart of his younger...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amQUEENS * One man was fatally stabbed and two others were wounded yesterday during a barroom fight in Corona, police said. Patricio Guaman, 21, and two other victims, ages 22...
BAGHDAD'S DEPUTY GOV SHOT DEAD
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amGunmen assassinated the deputy governor of Baghdad and wounded four of his bodyguards early today. Hatem Karim was gunned down in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital, police...
BOY SEES DAD MURDER MOM IN BROOKLYN
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman was murdered last night in front of her 4-year-old son by the boy's father, who then dropped off the stunned tot at a relative's house before fleeing,...
AMERICA NEEDS UNITY
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amI SUPPORT George W. Bush in this election. I dislike his domestic policies, but I believe he's the right man to continue the War on Terror. No combination of other...
DADDY GETS A BOO$T - PALS' FRANCE-KIDNAP FUND
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amHelp is on the way for the New York man who's gone broke trying to get his kidnapped daughter out of France. Friends and co-workers of David Washington's company, Verizon,...
SARAH MICHELLE, BOX-OFFICE SLAYER
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMovie fans in the mood for some Halloween frights over the weekend continued to hold their "Grudge" at the box office. "The Grudge," with Sarah Michelle Gellar as an American...
DOLAN DOESN'T NEED EXCUSES
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amI'M the guy in the little picture box and I approved this message: Jim Dolan wanted to dump Marv Albert. He did it, so be done with it. Stop with...
THIS STOREY HAS A HAPPY ENDING
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amOnly two players remained in the Nets' locker room. One, Alonzo Mourning, sat surrounded by reporters, talking about beating incredible odds. The other, Awvee Storey, was alone in front of...
BC STEWARDS SET A BAD PRECEDENT
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - The Breeders' Cup panel of three stewards sent an alarming message to jockeys and future Cups Saturday when it declined to penalize Better Talk Now or...
RECOVERY TIME FOR GANG GREEN - JETS CAN'T AFFORD LOSS TO DOLPHINS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThe Jets are well aware of what everyone in the house will be thinking tonight when they trot onto the Giants Stadium field to play the Dolphins. Have they recovered...
LADIES SAVE THE DAY AS BC 'STARS' FIZZLE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amGRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - Ghostzapper was electrifying in the Classic, Speightstown brilliant in the Sprint, Singletary spotless in the Mile and Better Talk Now surprisingly solid in the Turf. But...
CHAD CAN'T LEAVE 'EM HANGING
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amLET'S face it. We've been spoiled by Chad Pennington, the easy-to-fall-in-love-with Jets quarterback, who arrived just when this franchise was desperate for a star. He spoiled us, coming off the...
JINTS STAKE THEIR CLAIM AMONG ELITE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The Giants offi cially stamped them selves as Super Bowl contenders yesterday. Big Blue Bullies. If you find that hard to fathom, do yourself a favor and check...
JAMAL JUICED FOR CHALLENGE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amNew Knick Jamal Crawford says the annual preseason pressure feels different this fall. Crawford no longer has to carry his team's playoff hopes on his lanky frame, the way the...
JINTS GORGE ON DOME COOKING - FATTEN UP ON VIKES, EXPAND MARK TO 5-2
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amGiants 34 - Vikings 13 MINNEAPOLIS - The charter flight carrying the Giants had to circle the airport here for nearly 30 minutes on Saturday before landing because President Bush...
DAYNE'S FUTURE GROWS CLOUD-Y
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - You remember Ron Dayne, right? Good. The memory might be all you have left of him after yesterday's stunning turn of events inside the Metrodome. Dayne...
SHOCKEY STIRRING, WANTS TO BREAK OUT
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Jeremy Shockey is the furthest thing from Clark Kent, but he can't wait to get back into that phone booth and change into his Superman cape. "I'm not...
GIANTS CAUSE PURPLE DAZE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Even in defeat, even after getting humbled, Daunte Culpepper had enough confidence in himself to proclaim this would not happen again. Culpepper and the Vikings, riding high, were...
TOUCHDOWN TERRELL - OWENS ROASTS RAVENS, LEWIS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amEagles 15 - Ravens 10 PHILADELPHIA - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Ray Lewis wasn't feelin' it yesterday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field. With steam coming out...
CURTAINS FOR STREAK - STEELERS SLAM PATS BACK INTO LOSS COLUMN
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amSteelers 34 - Patriots 20 PITTSBURGH - The parade's over, Boston, and the statute of limitations of New England's uncanny karma apparently has expired. What goes round comes round and...
BOSS PREPARES PEDRO PACKAGE
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amThe first step in the Pedro Martinez Chase between the World Champion Red Sox and Yankees could be taken as early as today. Agent Fernando Cuza didn't file Martinez for...
FACES CHANGING PLACES?
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTHE bookends to the 2004 season - Alex Rodriguez in pinstripes and the Red Sox in champagne, after disgracing the Yankees no less - jolted us yet again that not...
ROCKIE WINTER IN THE BRONX?
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amTHE bookends to the 2004 season - Alex Rodriguez in pinstripes and the Red Sox in champagne, after disgracing the Yankees no less - jolted us yet again that not...
PSAL HONCHOS PROBE GRID BRAWL ON STATEN ISLAND
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amPSAL officials will meet today to determine what action will be taken after a brawl during the final minutes of Port Richmond's 38-14 win at Curtis on Saturday. The game...
THE POST'S TOP 25
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amRank (prev) TEAM RESULT NEXT 1 USC (7-0) won 42-12 at Wash. St. at Oregon St. (1) It's the Trojans on one level and everyone else on another. 2 Oklahoma...
DECISION CLOSE ON MET BOSS
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amIt's been 29 days since the Mets have had a manager. That should change by the end of this week. By Friday, it's a strong bet the Mets will have...
RANDOLPH REMAINS TOP PICK
November 1, 2004 | 5:00amIt's been 29 days since the Mets have had a manager. That should change by the end of this week. By Friday, it's a strong bet the Mets will have...