December 5, 2004
WALKMAN STUMBLES ; SONY KEEPS FUMBLING ITS CHANCES
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amIn a meeting with executives from four Hollywood studios this year, Sony Electronics brass laid it on the line: They were going ahead with technology for the next generation of...
HER PET CAUSE; YOUNG HALLIE SPEAKS OUT FOR ANIMALS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amMost 12-year-olds don't make time for pets. That's not true of actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg, who's starred opposite stars like Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, and Robin Williams. Besides taking care...
DON'T SKIRT THE GENDER ISSUES IN SALES
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amErasmus said desperate times call for desperate measures, but it's doubtful the learned scholar dropped his skirt at the first sign of trouble. Not so Ivana, the latest victim of...
BRAND WAGON ; CAFEPRESS MAKES EVERYONE A MERCHANDISER
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amThe Internet has a way of opening markets to anyone. Blogs made office workers into journalists. EBay turned grandmas into retailers. And now CafePress.com wants to let anybody do what...
MAGAZINE ALREADY ON LIFE SUPPORT
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amLife magazine, one of the publishing's most venerable titles, may be on life support once again. The magazine was reintroduced Oct. 1, but by its second issue it was skimping...
WONDER WOMAN - THAT'S RIGHT, GIRLFRIEND, WE WATCH 'OPRAH'!; DAYTIME QUEEN
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amIF she really wanted to, Oprah Winfrey could just sit back and do nothing. With a personal fortune estimated at $1.3 billion, she doesn't have to work. And she's so...
A WALK THROUGH QUEENS TOUR SHOWCASES SATCHMO, STEINWAYS AND ROCKAWAYS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amDAVID Hartman admits he knew next to nothing about Queens before he toured the borough with his friend, historian Barry Lewis. "My knowledge of Queens was how to get to...
MOVIE PIX - OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN'S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amEASY RIDER Sunday, 1:30 p.m., AMC This free-wheeling 1969 road movie stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as born-to-be-wild hippie motorcyclists and a startlingly young Jack Nicholson in a small...
WILL BRIAN WILLIAMS BECOME AN NBC SHILL?
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amBRIAN Williams and NBC News are in a unique and heady position. They have a chance to return unfettered, Cronkite-like journalism to a commercial network's nightly news. It can be...
YO, CHECK IT-BEN AIN'T NO PLAYER
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHE next thing you know, Benjamin Franklin will be appearing on TV wearing his cap sideways and rapping with 50 Cent. Wassup wit dat? That's what I'd like to know....
THE DON'T MISS LIST
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amKIDS Charlie Brown's tree CELEBRATING the holidays would not be complete without the annual broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas." This year, the special that shows the "Peanuts" comic strip...
INDIES ON THE GINZA
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTOKYO'S vibrant Ginza district is like a hybrid of the neon lights of Times Square and the classy shops of Fifth Avenue. It also is home to Tokyo Filmex, which...
RULES ARE MADE TO BE REWRITTEN
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amCAN you capture your opponent's king? That's actually a hot issue for the people who make up the official rules of the game. Every two years, the world chess federation...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
December 5, 2004 | 5:00am1. `Project Runway' Heidi Klum's new Bravo reality show - a sort of 'Survivor' for fashionistas - has our vote; any show that gleefully induces panic in a dozen aspiring...
ON THE ROAD - MEMOIRS TAKE BAND FROM MUSIC TO MULTIPLE DRINKS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amAs reported in Motley Crue's seminal memoir, Ozzy Osbourne once snorted ants - an admirable feat of asinine proportions. But that sort of double-dog-dare dumb is usurped by the early...
REQUIRED READING
December 5, 2004 | 5:00am"The Memory of Running" by Ron McLarty is the book Stephen King extolled in print before it was published ... Funny how the author suddenly got himself a publishing deal....
OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amWE'RE not in Kansas anymore, Toto. This line - as well as the magical world of tin men, flying monkeys and vengeful witches in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" -...
'LIFE' IS IN THE DETAILS - WES ANDERSON CREATES A BIZARRE UNDERSEA FANTASY
December 5, 2004 | 5:00am"We're still finishing the movie," director Wes Anderson says offhandedly, on the phone from his hotel room. "Just some last-minute stuff. Titles and things. Simple stuff." Simple? Don't bet on...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amSTRAIGHT-JACKET A 1950s leading man hides his homosexuality by marrying the studio secretary - but she doesn't know the marriage is a sham. The comedy stars Matt Letscher as Hollywood...
SHOW TO-GO - PIXIES BURN LIVE CDS SAME NIGHT AS GIG
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amThe Pixies reunion-tour stops in New York sold out within minutes, but that doesn't mean you've missed your chance to enjoy the show. The legendary alt-rock band has joined forces...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amVarious Artists Ocean's Twelve Soundtrack (three stars) Warner Sunset Recordings This soundtrack to the George Clooney "Ocean" franchise is a study in suspense-building Euro beats. The film's main composer, David...
JERSEY BOY - PUNK ROCKER LEO IS BIG TIME
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amYou would never guess it, but New Jersey's Ted Leo - of Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - claims his high-school band, the hardcore punk act Citizen's Arrest that he...
HEAR THIS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amIN CONCERT * Barenaked Ladies at the Beacon Theatre on Monday. Rockers Tsunami Bomb and Motion City Soundtrack at the Knitting Factory on Wednesday. Cher is back (again!) with the...
HOW NOT TO LOOK FAT: HIDE YOUR PLUMP CALVES IN THESE HOT BOOTS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amI've suffered my whole life from a pervasive fear of fall footwear. Since my calves, which measure 15.5 inches around, are bigger than my neck (no joke), I've always thought...
QUICK BITES - THE TASTIEST EVENTS THIS WEEK
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amANIMAL HOUSE: A Canary Cathedral, a reindeer Christmas Igloo and a Palace of Harmony for frogs are some of the Gingerbread Homes for Animals, a free exhibit and fair today...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amEVENT PLANNER HAS SOMETHING GOING ON MEET Margot, a 26-year-old event planner we're aiming to set up with the man of her dreams. When she's not working, this sassy lady...
LOHAN HANGS WITH PAL OF EX
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amLindsay Lohan is seeing a friend of her ex-boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama. The teen star, who is visiting New York this week, is no longer pining for the "That '70s Show"...
KIDNAP KID HOME; GIRL AND DAD FLY IN FROM FRANCE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amDavid Washington's 18-month fight for his daughter ended on a New Jersey tarmac last night, as the New York man and his child, Charlotte, finally touched down, safe and sound,...
SLAY KID'S SAD ROAD TO PORN ; AT 10 HER FAMILY WAS MURDERED, AT 19 SHE'S AN XXX STAR & 'KIDNAPPER' - DID SHE EVER HAVE A CHANCE?
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amNINE years ago, Marissa Pomarico was roused from her Sunday morning dose of the Three Stooges by a shotgun blast that ripped through her mother's chest. Within minutes, four members...
SANTA 'KIDNAPPER' ; AUTHOR PATTERSON STOLE MY 'CLAUS DAUGHTER' IDEA: SINGER
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amBest-selling author James Patterson is the Grinch who stole Christmas. At least that's how it looks to singer-songwriter Patsy Maharam, who sued Patterson in Manhattan federal court, alleging he pilfered...
BUSH PUSHES POLS ON INTEL MESS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amUpon their return to Washington tomorrow, lawmakers must immediately get to work figuring out a way to break the impasse on intelligence reform, President Bush demanded yesterday. Bush has recently...
'TURKEY-TOSSERS' GAVE ME BLACK EYE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTwo Long Island teens charged in last month's near-murderous turkey-tossing incident were no strangers to inflicting terror - allegedly beating up a fellow teenager just 10 days earlier. Rachel MacDonald,...
POST READERS TO GIAMBI: TAKE A WALK!
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amDump the bum! Seventy-two percent of Post readers said Jason Giambi should be sent packing for his admitted use of steroids, while only 14 percent recommended suspension and another 14...
COPS FIND PIZZA MAN'S ARSENAL
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amA pizza deliveryman racing to deliver food to his boss ended up getting taken out by the cops for having an armory's worth of weapons. Stephen Maloney, 45, was driving...
STEINBECK HEIRS 'IN DUBIOU$ BATTLE': LAWSUIT
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amThe late Nobel laureate John Steinbeck wrote the Great American novel "The Grapes of Wrath." But his offspring and publisher are writing about sour grapes in Manhattan federal court. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** A teenager has been charged with the murder of a hardworking Dominican immigrant three months ago in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. Jerome Forde, 19, has been charged with the...
SCAM GOODIES; ID THIEF CHARGED 250G ON BOGUS CARDS: COPS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amA Nigerian importer was nabbed by cops in an undercover sting after he fraudulently bought nearly a quarter-million dollars worth of big-ticket items from Lowes and Home Depot stores in...
B'WAY BIGOT DRAMA ; RACIST THREATS HIT ACTING COUPLE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amA disgruntled fanatic sent a racist rant threatening Broadway star Idina Menzel and her husband actor, Taye Diggs, for their interracial marriage, The Post has learned. Menzel, who won a...
B'WAY BIGOT DRAMA; RACIST THREATS HIT ACTING COUPLE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amCops are investigating racist threats aimed at Broadway star Idina Menzel and death threats against her actor husband, Taye Diggs, for their interracial marriage, The Post has learned. Menzel, who...
BOMBERS' BLUNDER IS LEGENDARY
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amHe was supposed to be the next Mickey Mantle and lead the Yankees to a new era of domination. But shamed slugger Jason Giambi now faces the threat of being...
'PILL PUSHERS' IN HS SUICIDE-SCREENING PROGRAM
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amA Columbia University psychiatrist who has advised drug companies and calls himself a "big proponent" of antidepressants wants to expand his suicide-screening program to thousands of kids in public and...
TUG-O-TABBY OVER A KITTY THAT FOUND A NEW HOME
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amHere's a real catfight. A Lower East Side woman who lost her beloved cat, only to discover it had been turned over to a shelter and adopted, has begged its...
WHAT A DRAG! COPS NAIL RACERS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amLong Island cops yesterday busted a tristate area drag-racing ring, issuing 57 summonses to 27 drivers. Cops hid themselves throughout the Hauppauge Industrial Park and swooped in on the race...
GIRLS' NIGHT OUT BECOMES GIRLS GONE WILD
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amWhat began as a bachelorette party enjoying a male revue turned into a mini melee at a Chelsea nightclub last night when security guards tussled with the hyped-up female patrons,...
CORREX OFFICER SLAIN BY MYSTERY GUNMAN
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amA New York City Corrections Officer was murdered in a Queens airport hotel early yesterday morning after a mysterious gunman came to the door, pulled out a gun and blasted...
'TEMPORARY' TAX HIKES MAY STICK
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amHE says he's against raising taxes, but Mayor Bloomberg is suddenly clamming up on his commitment to phase out the "temporary" income- and sales-tax hikes his administration imposed last year....
AG FACING STIFF COMPETITION IN GOV RACE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's claim to the Democratic nomination for governor in 2006 is his for the taking, but his path to the governor's mansion is no...
IN THE LINE OF 'FIRED'
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amAs "The Apprentice" draws to its second-season finale, it's the girls against the guys, and it seems that Jen M., the 30-year-old blond attorney from San Francisco, has the inside...
$4M XMAS GIFT - MEGAWATT BRONX FAMILY GIVES TO ALL A GOOD LIGHT
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amWith 37,000 volts and 50,000 miniature light bulbs, the city's most festive home this holiday season would put Rudolph's nose to shame. "The Christmas House," or the Garabedian family's two-story...
BUSH LEANING ON CONGRESS TO FIX INTEL MESS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amUpon their return to Washington tomorrow, lawmakers must immediately get to work figuring out a way to break the impasse on intelligence reform, President Bush demanded yesterday. Bush has recently...
BOOK CHRONICLES REBIRTH OF DEER IN U.S.
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amIN THE late 19th and early 20th centuries, deer herds across America were threatened to the brink of extinction, and one of the great wildlife management achievements is the recovery...
FRESH FACES KEEP JASPERS ROLLING
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHE bonding began this summer in a courtesy car making the short drive from Lambert International Airport to a downtown St. Louis hotel. Manhattan College recruits Arturo Dubois and C.J....
REDSKIN 'O' JUST DOZEN GET IT DONE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER - Eli Manning has managed to produce just 16 points in his first two career starts, which actually is better than the 13 points manufactured by Patrick...
IT'S TIME FOR CHAD TO EARN HI$ KEEP
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHERE is a Super Bowl to chase, and now is the time to chase it, so Chad Pennington comes back today to chase it. He has been gone for three...
DON'T KID YOURSELF ; NHL TALKS PURELY FOR SHOW
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHE meetings this week in Toronto between the NHL and the NHLPA will mark the beginning of the end, either the beginning of the end of the lockout or the...
NO KIDD-ING BACKUPS - BEST & CO.KNEW ROLESFROM START
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTravis Best knows exactly where he stands. He knew all along. The Nets' veteran point guard knew that he came to New Jersey to be a backup. But with the...
'ROIDS COULD RUIN THE GAME; EXPERT: BONDS' GROWTH SUSPECT
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHINK of Major League Baseball as the Titanic after it rammed into the tip of the iceberg. The drug scandal that blasted MLB this week and engulfed the game's greatest...
GIANTS' TRIP HEADING FOR FALL
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHE tightrope on which the Giants walk into FedEx field today is really a fuse ready to turn a season of promise into an inferno of failed expectations. Beat the...
J-KIDD: TEAMMATES MUST ADJUST TO ME
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES And on the day after. . . Jason Kidd claimed he felt fine. No lingering pain, no swelling, no danger signs after his first practice with the Nets...
'ENDEAVOR' RULES QUEENS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amClassic Endeavor is racing's version of the Energizer Bunny: He keeps winning, and winning, and winning. Yesterday at the Big A, the 6-year-old son of Silver Buck notched his fifth...
KNICKS ON TRACK FOR NO. 3 SEED
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - If the season ended yesterday, the Knicks would be Atlantic Division champions. And the title would be rendered as empty as a tube of ointment in Jason Giambi's...
SHARKS TAKE SOUTH SHORE, TITLE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amPSAL CHAMPIONSHIPSheepshead 13South Shore 6 Some were crying tears of joy; some raised their orange helmets to the sky, while other members of the Sheepshead Bay football team wore cards...
SHEFFIELD BOTHERED BY LEAKS FROM GRAND JURY
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amSOMERSET, N.J. - Gary Sheffield has questions as to why the federal grand jury's promise of privacy wasn't carried out. Sheffield's testimony, along with the testimonies of Barry Bonds and...
MARAGH DRAWS 15-DAY BAN
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amApprentice rider Rajiv Maragh has been suspended 15 days for "gross careless riding" in Friday's first race, when Maragh's mount, Greatlengths USA, drifted in down the stretch in front of...
IN THE DOGHOUSE ; EVEN HORRID HORNETS DISS SIXERS' ROBINSON
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHE Hornets are so decimated by injuries - Jamal Mashburn, Baron Davis and Jamaal Magloire - you can't even blame Bye-Ron Scott for their 1-13 record. I hate when that...
'HORNS HOOK HALL
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTexas 70Seton Hall 62 Seven times in the second half, Seton Hall inched within a point of Texas. Seven times, they nearly erased a 16-point, first-half deficit that could've (and...
ANGELS PUT THEIR EFFORTS INTO BELTRAN
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amCARLOS BELTRAN would look perfect in center field at Yankee Stadium, say, for the next 10 years, but he looks great to the Angels, too. That's the problem the Yankees...
LONG-DISTANCE CARL ; WELL-TRAVELED PAVANO VISITS YANKEES
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amCarl Pavano got the true Yankees experience yesterday. It started with a reminder of what kind of organization he has the chance to be a part of. Pavano, who ranks...
SMOOTH SAILING ; EMOTIONAL MIDDIES TRIUMPH
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amNavy 42Army 13 PHILADELPHIA - More than a few tears had flowed in Annapolis this season, as Navy grieved for a pair of former players killed in Iraq. But yesterday,...
DELGADO ON METS' WISH LIST
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amThe Mets need a big hitter and a first baseman. Which is why it's no surprise that they're expressing strong interest in Carlos Delgado - someone who could kill both...
HAMMY WHAMMY
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - Now Allan Houston has no choice but to make his season debut Tuesday in Memphis. Knick backup swingman Penny Hardaway has shut it down indefinitely, his lingering right...
NETS YUK IT UP; WITH KIDD CLOSE, WIN IN LAUGHER
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amNets 109Hawks 88 The Nets provided a message of hope and inspiration for the downtrodden everywhere last night. You can labor with the world's worst offense, but if you work...
MEETING LEAK HAS 'ZO MIFFED
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES Alonzo Mourning clearly was angry that reports surfaced of his meeting with principal owner Bruce Ratner and team president Rod Thorn Friday. Sources called the meeting a "clear...
HAMMY WHAMMY FOR PENNY
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CHARLOTTE - Now Allan Houston has no choice but to make his season debut Tuesday in Memphis. Backup swingman Penny Hardaway has shut it down indefinitely because of...
KRSTIC GETTING BETTER
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amIt is not about if Nenad Krstic is talented enough for the NBA. There is no doubt he owns the skills. The questions are: When he will be comfortable in...
CAT-ASTROPHE! KNICKS HIT BOTTOM, FALL TO WRETCHED CHARLOTTE
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amBobcats 107 Knicks 101 CHARLOTTE - Jamal Crawford was on his way to a career night and membership into the Knicks' 50-point club. But somewhere that storyline got fried up...
SANTANA PLAYIN' IT SAFE ON PUNTS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES What has happened to Santana Moss as a punt return weapon? After becoming a force in 2002 with a 16.5-yard average and two returns for TDs, Moss fell...
DRUG THROUGH THE MUD ... BUT BASEBALL WILL BOUNCE BACK LIKE IT ALWAYS DOES
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTHE sky isn't falling. It isn't raining syringes and pills, and cream and clear, and baseball players who look like they were blown up by the people who make sure...
DRIVE TO SURVIVE - PENNY, JETS NEED THREE MORE WINS TO GO WILD
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amBeginning today, the challenges become more and more difficult for the Jets. Today's game against the potentially explosive Texans at Giants Stadium is the true start of the Jets' drive...
ON LIFE SUPPORT - GIANTS TRULY JOKERS IF THEY CAN'T SNAP SKID VS. SKINS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. - It didn't take long for Ike Hilliard to select the precise word to describe the situation the Giants at present, but perhaps not for long, find themselves...
FANTASY NIGHTMARE - MAKE-BELIEVE LEAGUES HOOK GAMBLERS EARLY
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amTERRELL Owens, who sprints to the middle of the field to stomp on the home team's logo and is given to publicly questioning the sexuality of ex-teammates, is, nevertheless, a...
FIELD GENERALS - ARMY-NAVY GAME TEACHES SOLDIERS HOW TO BE LEADERS
December 5, 2004 | 5:00am"I want an officer for a secret and dangerous mission. I want a West Point football player." - GEN. GEORGE MARSHALL, Army Chief of Staff in World War II. Afghanistan....
DECONSTRUCTING PEYTON - STAR QBS, COACHES EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES MANNING TICK
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amThink you had a bad week at work? Try being Jim Schwartz, the Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator. Schwartz has spent the past week formulating a plan to slow down Peyton...
'ROIDS COULD RUIN THE GAME - HEADS ABOVE THE REST
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amThere has been a lot of talk about heads growing larger in Major League Baseball. Increase your hat size and you may increase your home run power. There have been...
HEAD TO HEAD
December 5, 2004 | 5:00amPost columnist Mike Vaccaro and college football reporter Lenn Robbins slug it out over whether Notre Dame should lower its academic standards to become a national power again Mike Vaccaro:...