November 3, 2004

PARAMOUNT'S LANSING WRAPS TRAILBLAZING CAREER

Sherry Lansing - the brainy ex-model who made Hollywood's studios a bastion for female executives - is throwing in the towel on the movie business. At 60, Lansing is said...

SHEFFIELD TOWER ON BLOCK; SHEFFIELD GETS $400M TAG

THE Rose family is tak ing its biggest chip off the table by placing a $400 million price tag on the 50-story Sheffield apartment tower on W. 57th Street, just...

MARSH TO USE FUNNY $ FOR SUIT

The insurance industry buzzed yesterday after learning that its poster child for bad behavior, Marsh & McLennan Cos., is planning to use about $230 million in now-barred contingent commissions to...

PAPER PROBE GROWS - FEDS SUBPOENA NEWS & POST ON CIRCULATION

Federal prosecutors probing Newsday's circulation practices have expanded their investigation into the New York market. Both the Daily News and The Post have received subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's Office...

STOCKS DIVE ON DATA FAVORING KERRY

The country's major stock indexes, up for most of the day, took a sudden and precipitous dive at about 2:45 p.m. - around the same time polling data purporting to...

CONDÉ FAST TRACKS DOMINO - 'SMALL' STAFF WILL LAUNCH SHOPPING MAGAZINE IN APRIL

CONDÉ Nast is moving up the launch date of Domino, a shopping magazine for the home, to April from its original fall debut plan. The new magazine will have a...

EISNER PUSHED OVITZ THROUGH, DISNEY DIRECTOR TELLS COURT

Secret talks had been under way at Walt Disney with major shareholder Sid Bass and two directors over the hiring of Michael Ovitz - only five months before Ovitz landed...

PHOTOGRAPHER TO BE NEW EDITOR AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

For the first time in 10 years, there is a new editor-in-chief of National Geographic, the magazine where subscribers are counted as members of the National Georgraphic Society. Chris Johns,...

NEW PLAY FOR TOYS - CEREBRUS, BAIN, PERMIRA TO BID FOR BANKRUPT CHAIN

Cerberus Capital Management, Bain Capital and U.K.-based Permira are among a handful of buyout firms expected to enter the first round of bidding for the Toys 'R' Us toy store...

ANCIENT PEOPLE, MODERN TIMES

STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE [] (Three stars)THE Garos people of northeast India live much the way their ancestors did 6,000 years ago, isolated from the fast-paced modern world. They...

'NOEL' AT OUR DISPOSAL

WILL audiences want to pay $10.25 for a theater ticket to see a movie that will be available in five days on a disposable DVD for $5 - and, the...

RETURN OF THE SOAP QUEEN

LINDA Dano will make one of her first public appearances today since the Sept. 15 death of her husband, Frank Attardi. It's been a tough year for Dano, the veteran...

BREAKING WHOOPI - B'WAY-BOUND GOLDBERG NOT THE HOT TICKET SHE ONCE WAS; THE WHOOPIES ARE NOT SO LOUD ANYMORE

CAN Whoopi Gold berg still light up Broadway? With just three days to go before she begins previewing her one-woman show at the Lyceum, the world-famous comedian appears to be...

STARR REPORT

Rob Lowe's "dr. vegas" has joined NBC's "Father of the Pride" as another high-profile fall series now officially "on hiatus" - or at least gone from the schedule during the...

GRIEVING KELLERMAN RETURNS TO AIR TODAY

THERE really aren't any words appropriate enough to de scribe the loss. So Fox Sports Net's Max Kellerman - who is set to return to his Fox Sports Net show,...

A SHORE THING - 'O.C.' SHOWS ITS AGE BUT STILL THE BEST

LAST year's runaway hit, "The O.C.," comes back to morrow night after a summer hiatus during which Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) ran off to take care of his ex-girlfriend who was...

TV CAMERAMAN KILLED IN IRAQ

THE news agency Reuters is demanding a full investiga tion into the death of one of its cameraman who was killed in Iraq Monday. The U.S. Military has said that...

DYNO-MIGHT

'NAPOLEON Dynamite" star Jon Heder, above, is slipping back into his nerd boots to guest star on "Mad TV" Saturday night. In a rare TV appearance, Heder joins singer Alanis...

BEYOND FUNNY - AISHA GETS SERIOUS IN '24'

AISHA Tyler wants to be more than just a pretty face who can tell a good joke. Even as the quick-witted actress prepares to board a star vehicle of her...

MARTHA'S NEW COMPETITION

NOW that Martha Stew art is safely peeling potatoes behind bars at a women's correctional facility, a new player is emerging as the next possible icon of entertaining. Donatella Arpaia,...

WHIP IT UP LIKE THE PROS - BE YOUR OWN CELEBRITY CHEF WITH INSIDER HINTS

THEY'RE called "trucs," which is French for "tricks." These professional culinary tips are the subject of "Chef's Secrets: Insider Techniques from Today's Culinary Masters" (Quirk Books, $16.95). "Telling someone to...

WHERE MARATHONERS RUN FOR DINNER

UNLESS you've been living under a rock for many years, you know about the annual carbo-loading pasta party for 14,000 the night before the New York City Marathon at Tavern...

'MOMMA' MIA! WHAT CROOKS

A pair of smart aleck crooks on Long Island used a stolen credit card to buy an armload of cigarettes and other items from a drug store - and then...

IRAQI GUERRILLAS STRUCK ONE OF THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC BLOWS OF THEIR TERROR CAMPAIGN ...

Iraqi guerrillas struck one of the biggest economic blows of their terror campaign when they blew up four oil pipelines with bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, officials said yesterday. The attacks...

L.I. DELI MAN PULLS GUN: COPS

A counterman at a Long Island deli was busted after he pulled an unlicensed gun on some irate customers during an argument, police said. Cheron Edwards, 29, was behind the...

TERROR ISSUE BOOSTS BUSH - EXIT POLLS SHOW 55% THINK U.S. IS SAFER

President Bush's biggest strength for re-election was the war on terrorism, according to national exit polls last night. Fifty-five percent of voters said they believe the country is safer from...

SCAM DIDN'T 'WORK OUT'

An accused gym rat could end up forking over big bucks to jilted customers in Brooklyn. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer started the process yesterday to seize the assets of the...

SAVE ME - THEN CARE GAL FAINTS - TAPE 'TOO GRAPHIC' EVEN FOR AL-JAZEERA

An Irish relief worker held captive in Iraq pleaded for her life before suddenly fainting during a new videotaped appeal, only to be revived by terrorists dousing her with water....

WEIRD BUT TRUE

There's something missing in Houston - a severed human penis. Cops say a 45-year-old woman cut off her 33-year-old boyfriend's penis with a kitchen knife as he slept, discarded the...

FIEND'S FAMILIAR HAUNT - THE 'DEAD END' RAPIST

Cops believe a man who snatched and raped a Manhattan woman who had been walking home from a Halloween party in Chelsea may have been familiar with the desolate area...

VOTE SALUTES A LOST SON OF 9/11

STANDING quietly before the voting booth, Eileen Butler gazed at a photograph of her brother, Tom, dead three years and 52 days. "This one's for you," Eileen whispered. Four years...

HARLEM 'STAB' GAL HAD KNIFED EX-BEAU BEFORE: KIN

The East Harlem teen accused of viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend in a dispute over $10 had once before attacked him with a knife, the victim's family said yesterday. Relatives of...

AT OTB, THEY HAVE A BETTOR IDEA OF WHO'LL WIN

ANTHONY GIORDANO of Manhattan had a smile on his face that looked like a horizontal banana. "Look at that, Monsieur in the third race at Finger Lakes at 19-1, came...

FANTASY ISLAND - NUT SWIMS TO GOVERNORS I. TO START 'NATION'

No man is an island - and no man can suddenly show up on Governors Island. But a wacko protester did just that yesterday when he swam to Governors Island...

BX. TOT VANISHES - POLICE HUNT HER AND 'CRAZY' BABY SITTER

Police combed the South Bronx yesterday for a 1-year-old toddler and a teen entrusted with her care - both of whom disappeared Monday after the older girl said she was...

CHUCK WAGON KEEPS ROLLING - SCHUMER VICTORY MAY SET SENATE-RACE RECORD

ALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer, who never faced a serious challenge from his two main opponents, swept to a potentially record-high victory last night, winning across all parts of the...

YULE BY THE POOL - HOLIDAY TRAVEL BOOKINGS AT 4-YEAR HIGH

Travelers are booking flights and hotel rooms for the Christmas holiday season in huge numbers, with reservations at their highest levels in four years, according to the latest AAA figures....

SCHOOL EXECS WIN BACK BONUSES

Former administrators at 10 failing middle schools - including nine that were so bad they've been closed - are due tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses, an independent arbitrator...

BOOKS 'N' BONDAGE ON AMAZON

The company that revolutionized book selling is going into the sex-toy business. Online giant Amazon.com said yesterday it is hawking "adult pleasure" gadgets such as Kama Sutra Jack Rabbit Vibrators...

CITY'S INFO WEB SITE CRACKS UNDER LOAD

Thousands of frustrated voters were turned away from the Board of Elections' help line yesterday because it's set up to handle only 18,000 calls a day - about half the...

SCAM JUST DIDN'T 'WORK OUT'

An accused gym rat could end up forking over big bucks to jilted customers in Brooklyn. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer started the process yesterday to seize the assets of the...

WAIT HOBBLES BLOGGERS

The blogosphere was on edge yesterday as hack-attack fears and confusion over early exit-poll numbers left legions of grass-roots Internet political commentators struggling to find their voice. Several popular sites...

JERSEY ENDS UP SWINGING TO KERRY

New Jersey's new status as a crucial swing state prompted everyone from party diehards to new voters to flock to the polls yesterday, with John Kerry ultimately prevailing in the...

BALLOT SNAFUS ROCK THE VOTE - BALKY MACHINES, LAWSUITS STIR UP SCATTERED STORMS

Voting machines malfunctioned, tempers flared and there were acts of vandalism. But despite these local snafus, there were no widespread allegations of voting problems. "So far, it's no big, but...

DASCHLE GETS JUDGE'S BOOST IN CRUCIAL S.D. SENATE RACE

Tom Daschle, the Senate's top Democrat, won a federal court ruling yesterday when a judge ordered Republicans not to follow Native Americans out of polling places after they vote or...

NATION GETS OUT THE VOTE WITH HIGHEST COUNT SINCE JFK VS. NIXON

Voters across the country stormed out to the polls in record numbers yesterday to help decide one of the closest presidential races in recent history. "I have never seen anything...

ROTTEN APPLE - CHAOS IS THE BIG WINNER AMID MELTDOWN AT MANY POLLING SITES

The city's unprecedented voter turnout, together with machine breakdowns and election-worker snafus, led to long lines and mass confusion at scores of polling places in the five boroughs yesterday. And...

MISSING BABY OK AFTER BEING TAKEN BY BX. SITTER

A year-old South Bronx toddler was back in the loving arms of her frantic family last night after her teenage baby sitter disappeared with her for 30 hours, police said....

NATION SPLITS DOWN MIDDLE - ENORMOUS TURNOUT MAKES BUSH VS. KERRY SUPER-TIGHT AS POLLS CLOSE

The nation was more divided than ever as voters surged to the polls in astounding numbers yesterday after a stunningly bitter wartime election over whether to keep President Bush as...

BLOGGERS IN A BUNGLE

The blogosphere took center stage in yesterday's election as grass-roots political pundits sent information about exit polls, trends and rumors over the Internet ahead of TV networks and mainstream media...

L.I. FRAT BOY BUSTED IN TEEN RAPE

A 19-year-old University of Colorado student from Long Island has been arrested after cops said he got boozed up at an off-campus frat party and then raped an 18-year-old woman...

ELECTION: WEIRD BUT TRUE

Talk about an absentee ballot! With a quick computer keystroke, astronaut Leroy Chiao became the first American to vote for president from space, casting an encrypted ballot via e-mail from...

PLUMBER DIGS UP OLD SKELETON

A plumber working on a Brooklyn home yesterday turned up human bones believed to be more than 100 years old. Pietro Costa, who was renovating the plumbing at 149 Bergen...

MILITARY COMRADES DIVIDED

WRIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - Even the armed forces seemed split down the middle when it comes to this year's election. "I'm sticking with my president," said an Air Force sergeant shopping...

CITY POINTS TO WILLETS REHAB

The city has asked for proposals to develop Willets Point, a 42-acre Queens eyesore of junkyards and auto-body shops bordered by Shea Stadium, Flushing Meadows Park and bustling downtown Flushing....

CITY SCHOOLS ARE 1 BIG HOOKY HIGH

The holiday season is just around the corner, but thousands of high-school teens are already taking their vacation, new attendance figures obtained by The Post show. During the first six...

STATES DEAL A RESOUNDING DEFEAT TO GAY MARRIAGE

Voters were set last night to approve constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriages in nearly every state where the issue was on the ballot. Early returns showed strong support for the...

NETWORKS AIR ON SIDE OF CAUTION THIS TIME AROUND

THE networks apparently weren't kidding when they promised to proceed with caution on election night. With the botched Florida projections of the 2000 presidential election much on the minds of...

KERRY CARRIES NEW YORK IN A BLOWOUT

New York was Kerry Country last night, as the senator from Massachusetts easily took the state and its 31 electoral votes. With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, Kerry was...

CALIFORNIA VOTES FOR STEM CELL PROPOSAL

Supporters of stem-cell research scored a major victory last night as Californians voted to devote $3 billion to the largest state-sponsored scientific research program in the country. Fox News projected...

CHUCK WAGON KEEPS ROLLING - SCHUMER'S 71% SETS SENATE-RACE RECORD

ALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer, who never faced a serious challenge from his two main opponents, swept to a record-breaking victory last night, winning across all parts of the state....

DEMOCRATS PICKED UP TWO SEATS IN THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED NEW YORK STATE SENATE AND TWO SEATS IN THE ASSEMBLY ...

Democrats - backed by a cash infusion from billionaire George Soros - picked up two seats in the Republican-controlled New York state Senate and two seats in the Assembly, which...

H'WEEN RAPIST STRUCK BEFORE

Cops believe a man who kidnapped and raped a Manhattan woman after a Halloween party at a posh Chelsea nightclub may be linked to two other sex attacks, police sources...

THE IRAQ FACTOR

IN the end, George W. Bush survived the Jimmy Carter factor. There's no doubt that Iraq brought voters - and Kerry voters, in particular - out to the polls in...

HIS VICTORY, OUR LUCK

HE said he would do things - and he did them. He said he would protect the American people by fighting a War on Terror - and he has. He...

TOP DEM DASCHLE IS DASHED IN DAKOTA

Tom Daschle, the Senate's top Democrat and an 18-year veteran of Congress, was headed for defeat last night at the hands of former Rep. John Thune, while Republicans kept their...

VOTERS CHOOSE DOUBLE DUBYA - BUSH ELECTED TO SECOND TERM, BUT STUBBORN KERRY REFUSES TO CONCEDE

President Bush is headed back to the White House after a stunning re-election victory over John Kerry that confounded the pundits and the exit polls, according to vote tallies and...

BOMB SCARE SHUTS 6TH AVE.

A stretch of Sixth Avenue in Midtown was closed yesterday as cops investigated a "suspicious package" - that turned out to be a harmless briefcase. The drama unfolded near Radio...

KILLER'S DEMENTED LOVE NOTE

The psycho who blew away his ex-girlfriend in front of their 4-year-old son in Brooklyn penned a chilling letter to the victim in which he vowed she would always be...

PSYCHO'S DEMENTED LOVE NOTE

The psycho who blew away his ex-girlfriend in front of their 4-year-old son in Brooklyn penned a chilling letter to the victim in which he vowed she would always be...

GAMBLER MA'S 'KILLER' BUSTED

The man who killed a Brooklyn mom at an illegal gambling den was busted yesterday, police said. James Bonafede, 26, was nabbed at his brother's Bensonhurst house on West 11th...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN * Two men were arrested for beating two others in a dispute on a Mill Basin street, authorities said yesterday. Police sources said Joseph Favuzza, 20, and Raimando Baid,...

'STAB' GAL HAD CUT BEAU BEFORE: KIN

The East Harlem teen accused of viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend in a dispute over $10 had once before attacked him with a knife, the victim's family said yesterday. Relatives of...

PROSPECT PK. 'THUG' BUSTED

A convicted armed robber, sentenced to lifetime parole, was nabbed yesterday for a spree of stickups in and around Prospect Park, cops said. Police said that Kevin Huger, 36, who...

MISSING BABY OK - TEENAGE SITTER STOLE TOT AWAY: COPS

A 1-year-old South Bronx toddler was back in the loving arms of her frantic family last night after her teenage baby sitter disappeared with her for 30 hours, police said....

LIFESAVING BOO$T FOR TOT - B'KLYN GIRL HAS RARE DISEASE

Amelia-Grace Harpham is like any 3-year-old on her Brooklyn block - vivacious, energetic and sometimes cranky - except this child has a mystery blood disease and needs a lifesaving bonemarrow...

TOY GUN ROBBER IS SHOT - PULLS WOOD PISTOL: COPS

Cops last night shot and critically wounded a man suspected of robbing a Bronx gas station after he drew what turned out to be a toy gun and spun around...

THE UNDECIDEDS DECIDED

Over the last month The Post tracked several undecided New Yorkers as they tried to make up their minds by watching President Bush and Sen. John Kerry duke it out...

DEAN'S-LIST EFFORT

Jets Report CardQUARTERBACKS A Chad Pennington (11-of-19, 189 yards, 131.4 rating) completed eight of his last 10 passes for 141 yards and 2 TDs after a shaky start. Terrific comeback...

BIG STEPH FORWARD - KNICKS OPEN UP WITH HIGH HOPES

MINNEAPOLIS - Brooklyn products Lenny Wilkens and Stephon Marbury have experienced their first training camp as Knicks. Club president Isiah Thomas celebrates his first Knicks anniversary next month. Owner James...

TIME FOR MARBURY TO DELIVER

MINNEAPOLIS - The beginning arrives as a gift, for both of them. For the point guard, it is an opportunity to etch his name, for real, alongside the platinum legacies...

O'HARA OUT OF HOSPITAL

GIANT NOTES After spending five days laid up at the Hospital for Special Surgery with an infection in his leg, Giants center Shaun O'Hara was released from the hospital yesterday....

ALONZO MOURNS WHAT KIDD, TEAM LOST

After a life-saving kidney transplant, Alonzo Mourning is grateful to play basketball again. But he has regrets about doing it with the Nets. Mourning yesterday again said he regrets signing...

GIANT STATS DON'T ADD UP

Imagine if you didn't know anything about how the Giants were faring seven games into the season except for these two statistics: Michael Strahan, three sacks. Kurt Warner, four touchdown...

THIS GUM FRESHENS BREATH . . . AND ALSO FOOLS BAMBI

BAD breath is not only a no-no on dates - it's a problem for deer hunters, too. Any deer hunter will tell you that human smells, good or bad, can...

STEPH EXPECTS BOOS

KNICK NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Rehashing his departure from Minnesota is one of Stephon Marbury's least favorite subjects. For a few years after his messy divorce from Kevin Garnett, Marbury was...

OPENING NET JITTERS - NO LONGER FAVORED, NEW FACES CHASING OTHER TEAMS IN EAST

Well, at least the Nets won't have to wait too long to start finding out what they have. For the past three years, the Nets have been an Eastern Conference...

UNION STANDS FIRM IN NHL LABOR WAR

With about $25 million remaining on his contract, the Rangers' Bobby Holik has about as much to lose as any NHL player if Commissioner Gary Bettman cancels this season. Yesterday,...

JETER BAGS GOLD GLOVE

It's not the fifth World Series ring Derek Jeter craves but he was very grateful to win his first Gold Glove yesterday. "It's a great honor," Jeter said. "I take...

STOTTLEMYRE AT POINT OF NO RETURN

In what would be a crippling blow to the Yankees, Mel Stottlemyre is leaning toward retirement and could inform the club of his decision today. Stottlemyre, 62, is the only...

MET SEARCH DOWN TO 3 - LEYLAND OUT OF MIX

The courtship of Jim Leyland has ended before it even began. Things with Leyland and the Mets are officially done, as the former Pirates, Marlins and Rockies skipper won't be...

YANKS' OLD MENTAL GURU TURNS BENEDICT ARNOLD

Fran Pirozzolo is officially a Yankee killer. Pirozzolo, a mental skills coach for the Yankees from 1996 to 2002, helped the Marlins' Josh Beckett and Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez prepare for...

SHAQ'S NOT SATISFIED

NET NOTES Seventy percent of Shaquille O'Neal is still better than 100 percent of many NBA centers. Just ask Shaq. "I still look good at 70 or 80, but I...

ISIAH EYES EX-BULL ROBINSON

The Knicks have called to express interest in Eddie Robinson, who was bought out by the Bulls yesterday. The underachieving swingman was nearly included in the Jamal Crawford package last...

CAMERON: SIGN BELTRAN & I'LL MOVE TO RF

If the Mets want to make a run at Carlos Beltran, Mike Cameron won't stand in the way. Cameron revealed yesterday that he has told Met brass he would be...

ELLIOTT WINS BIG A STAKES

Jockey Stewart Elliott made a successful visit to Aqueduct as he swept both stakes on the Election Day card. Elliott, who was the regular jockey of 2004 Kentucky Derby/Preakness winner...

MAKING BELIEVERS - GANG GREEN FLEXES ON PRIME TIME

The average margin of victory in the Jets' five wins prior to Monday night's blowout of the Dolphins was a mere six points, leaving the door wide open for critics...

FLYING FIRST CLASS - WITH THE JETS AMONG THE AFC ELITE, HERM FOCUSES ON ANOTHER STRONG NOVEMBER MOVE

THESE Herman Edwards Jets have talked about making their own history, and this is the time for them to walk the walk. "If you think you're a good team," Edwards...

BOOS IN MINNESOTA DON'T FAZE MARBURY

KNICK NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Rehashing his departure from Minnesota is one of Stephon Marbury's least favorite subjects. For a few years after his messy divorce from Kevin Garnett, Marbury was...

ELLIOTT BAGS BOTH STAKES AT THE BIG A

Jockey Stewart Elliott made a successful visit to Aqueduct as he swept both stakes on the Election Day card. Elliott, who came to prominence as the regular jockey of 2004...