February 27, 2005
HACKED HILTON A BOON FOR TELCO
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA socialite's nightmare is a cell phone company's dream. T-Mobile stores in New York are selling out of Sidekicks (a handheld device that stores information online) despite - or more...
RICH POSTAL PLAYER HAS GOOD FORTUNE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amCHESS has been called the game of kings. But it's traditionally been more of a poor man's game - one that the wealthy and well-born have tried, and failed, to...
15 YEARS OF TERROR
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA middle-aged Seoul businessman is kidnapped and thrown into a room with nothing but a TV set for company and fried dumplings for food. Fifteen years later, he's inexplicably freed...
BEACH BABES - THERE'S TROUBLE IN PARADISE FOR JESSE MCCARTNEY AND LORI LOUGHLIN ON 'SUMMERLAND'; POWER STRUGGLE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amBEING a teenager sucks on WB's hit drama "Summerland." Slacker surfer dude Bradin Gregory (Jesse McCartney) lives to catch a wave, ride the swell and hang on the beach. But...
THE AWARDS DON'T NEED "FIXING"
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amHERE'S a way to "fix" the Oscar's Don't fix 'em. Every year, you hear the same refrain. "The Oscars are too long!" Or, "Why do they have to televise the...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amREALITY STRUTTIN' HER STUFF WE'VE just gotten over Heidi Klum and her Teutonic reign on "Project Runway" and now Tyra Banks is returning with another edition of her paean to...
LOONEY TUNES HAS GONE GANGSTA
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amWHENEVER you hear TV people tell other people to "lighten up," it's a good bet that the TV people have done something that they're not particularly proud of. And, by...
FAT CHANCE - BEAUTIFUL CASTAWAYS MOVE OVER FOR JORGE GARCIA ON 'LOST'
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amHURLEY, the lovable fat guy on "Lost" is finally going to get his day in the sun. The highly anticipated episode called "Numbers" that will feature Hurley's back story is...
NUMB3RS - TEEN COMEDY GRADUATE DAVID KRUMHOLTZ PLAYS A MATH GENIUS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amYEARS of tossing off one-liners in teen comedies such as "10 Things I Hate About You" and have finally paid off for native New York actor David Krumholtz. He has...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS A WEEK OF OSCAR WINNERS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTHE KILLING FIELDS (1984) Tuesday, 12:45 a.m., AMC Three Oscars: Best Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Editing From Sydney Schanberg's Pulitzer Prize winning reporting, the gripping story of the friendship between Schanberg...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
February 27, 2005 | 5:00am1 The book on Brad & Jen Someday, we'll look back on the hysterical coverage of the Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston split and laugh. Till then, we are sure this hilarious,...
THE HOT SEAT - NORBERT LEO BUTZ
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amYou might have seen him wedged between those witches in "Wicked" - or caught him in "Thou Shalt Not" or "The Last Five Years" before they folded. In "Dirty Rotten...
ODDS ON OSCAR - SPOILER ALERT: OUR UNSCIENTIFIC PREVIEW OF WHO'LL WALK AWAY WITH THAT GOLDEN GUY
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amAnd you thought Whoopi Goldberg was thrilled in 2002. There's a fairly good chance history will be made at tonight's Oscar ceremonies, with three of the four acting awards going...
IT AIN'T BILLY CRYSTAL'S OSCARS ANYMORE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amDude! The Oscars are going to totally rock this year. At least, that's the idea. In response to several years of declining TV ratings, Hollywood's biggest party is getting a...
HEAR THIS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amIN CONCERT Heavy metal Danzig at Spirit on Tuesday. Post-punk hipsters Interpol at Radio City on Tuesday and Wednesday. Dance rockers Beep Beep at the Knitting Factory on Thursday. At...
JAYS DAZE - ALT-COUNTRY TWOSOME REUNITE AS JAYHAWKS THREATEN TO CALL IT QUITS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amIt's tough to be a Jayhawks fan. We're not talking University of Kansas hoops, but the roots-rock band founded in Minneapolis by Mark Olson and Gary Louris, both vocalists and...
INTO INTERPOL - OH-SO-SUBDUED N.Y.C. ROCKERS OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR RISE TO RADIO CITY HEADLINERS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amWHETHER you dig Interpol's music or not, you have to respect the New York outfit for achieving international fame on its own terms. Without scandal, inter-band treachery, saccharine pop or...
IT'S THE FULL MONTY - AN A-TO-Z GUIDE TO PYTHON'S 'SPAMALOT'
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amIT begins with Lederhosen and people slapping each other with fish - and ends with a man decapitated by a rabbit. In between, "Spamalot," the Monty Python musical that aims...
CHIC LIT - SHOPPER EXTRAORDINAIRE BETHANY LENZ LIKES TO KEEP IT OLD-SCHOOL
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amBethany Joy Lenz knows how to dig for a good bargain. While in town promoting her teen angst TV show "One Tree Hill," the 22-year-old actress did her fair share...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTHE DOVES "Some Cities" ½ (two and one half stars) Capitol Records YOU have to work at liking the Doves' latest, a concept album where the band looks for the...
FISH DISH - STORY OF STURGEON AND CAVIAR IS WORTH ITS SALT
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTHE PHILOSOPHER FISH: STURGEON, CAVIAR, AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF DESIRE Richard Adams Carey (Counterpoint, $26) four stars HAVE you noticed that you don't see those heaping, conspicuously consumptive bowls of...
REQUIRED READING
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amFORGET, for a moment, the steroid-laced prose of Jose Canseco's "Juiced." The maligned memoir is also filled with classic tidbits such as this one about Hooters: "The food isn't bad,...
QUICK BITES - GET YOUR OWN TASTE OF OSCAR
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amBASKET CASES: Some winning food items are tucked inside the gift baskets for celebrity presenters and performers at tonight's 77th annual Academy Awards. Manni Olive Oil from the Tuscan estate...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amMEET Pamela, a beautiful, 33-year-old television producer and writer. This sophisticated woman describes herself as an extravert and a positive thinker, "living life to the fullest, working hard to realize...
'SEX AND ... BROOKLYN'
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amCynthia Nixon has moved in with her partner,Christine Marinoni . The "Sex and the City " star,,who officially split with live-in boyfriend Danny Mozes last November,has decamped for Park Slope...
HERE'S THE 'SPITZ' TAKE; GOV FAVE ELIOT WEIGHS IN
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amLantern-jawed crime fighter Eliot Spitzer is running so far ahead of Gov. Pataki in the polls that many political experts assume he's all but locked up the 2006 governor's race....
UGLY SIDE OF MODEL BIZ - WANNABESFALL PREY TOBOGUS PITCH
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amThousands of spotlight-starved dreamers get scammed every year in New York City, shelling out big bucks to phony modeling agencies in the hopes of finding fame and fortune. It's a...
'BRAVEST' IN BUST ON DWI AND DRUGS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amAn off-duty firefighter was charged yesterday with driving drunk and carrying marijuana and cocaine yesterday, authorities said. Ten-year veteran Andrew Benson, 38, of Broad Channel, Queens, was stopped at 3:05...
3 BUSTED IN KILLER BLAST ; ISRAEL POINTS FINGER AT SYRIA
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTEL AVIV - Palestinian officials collared three West Bank suspects after a bombing killed four Israelis at a popular folksingers' nightclub - and a ghoulish video left by the bomber...
CITY BIGS' FREE-RIDE OUTRAGE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amMore city workers are commuting in their government-owned cars, despite Mayor Bloomberg's boast that his administration is slashing spending while maintaining services. Records obtained by The Post show that 1,718...
119G HRA AIDE HAS BUSY 'PART-TIME' JOB
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA SENIOR aide to Human Resources Administration chief Verna Eggleston is a chiropractor who's being allowed to keep her practice while working for the city full-time. Lisa Bostroem, a $119,595-a-year...
POSHEST PAROLE; MARTHA HEADS TO $40M ESTATE AFTER JAIL
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amAn army of workers is scrambling to put the finishing touches on Martha Stewart's "prison away from prison" - a $40 million estate next to Ralph Lauren's upstate spread in...
PAIN IN THE PASS: COSTLIER 'UNLIMITED' METROCARDS DEBUT
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amStarting today, get ready to shell out more cash for subways and buses. Although pay-by-the- ride $2 MetroCards are staying the same, all unlimited weekly and monthly passes soar in...
ARNOLD: 'NO REGRETS' FOR 'ROIDING UP
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amArnold Schwarzenegger says he's not sorry for pumping up with steroids during his heyday as a champion bodybuilder. "I have no regrets about it, because at that time, it was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA blind Scottish man was arrested after he bit his guide dog and kicked her across a road. Stunned onlookers outside a shopping center in Edinburgh saw David Todd, 34,...
ARTFUL CHEAT ON LAM; BOGUS-FESTIVAL $CAM
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA slick con artist who lured hundreds of unsuspecting performers into a phony arts festival skipped town last week with thousands of dollars in registration fees - and his victims...
STUN-OF-A-GUN NABBED ON L.I.
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amOuch! A Manhattan man zapped himself with a stun gun Friday night after Long Island cops pulled over the car he was riding in, authorities said. Kasaun Lyons, 23, let...
TEARS FOR '93 WTC VICTIMS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amMournful friends and relatives of the six people killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing gathered at Ground Zero yesterday morning to mark the 12th anniversary of the attack...
ZONGO ACTIVISTS APPEAL FOR HELP
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amClosing arguments could begin tomorrow in the Ousmane Zongo shooting trial - and supporters of the slain African immigrant are urging activists to pack his side of the courtroom. Backers...
COLLAPSE HORROR; AILING GRANDMA FLEES FALLING WALL
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA handicapped Brooklyn great-grandma almost fell out of her house yesterday when the back wall collapsed, exposing two floors and the basement like a cutaway dollhouse. "I was sleeping and...
L.I. GIRL, 3, 'SIGNS' ON TO SAVE MA
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA brave 3-year-old Long Island girl used her knowledge of sign language to help save her ailing mom, whose breathing became short during an allergic reaction. Kristin Comeau, 33, told...
'KEYS' TO THE CITY ; BELTRAN GETS POINTERS FROM BERNIE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Bernie Williams does not fit a profile for surviving New York, much less Yankee life. He is the anti-Reggie. Shy. Foggy. Ego-restrained. Yet Williams is not...
3 BUSTED IN KILLER BLAST; ISRAEL POINTS FINGER AT SYRIA
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTEL AVIV - Palestinian officials collared three West Bank suspects after a suicide bombing killed four Israelis at a popular folksingers' nightclub - and a ghoulish video left by the...
WINTRY MIX MAKING FOR A MONDAY MESS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amLet us know, let us know, let us know. Forecasters weren't being precise, but the Big Apple was in Mother Nature's hands yesterday as a powerful coastal storm headed toward...
TANK-DEATH COPS GET WORKERS' DNA
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amProsecutors probing the death of a New Jersey chemist found dead in a water tank have gotten voluntary DNA samples from nearly half of the victim's roughly 80 co-workers, authorities...
GRAFFITI 'GATES' CRASHERS BUSTED
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amThree men were arrested yesterday and charged with scrawling their names on "The Gates," a day before the slow process of taking them down begins - and only hours after...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A man who shot and wounded a teenager eight months ago has been arrested, police said. Maurice Johnson, 18, is one of the two men who fired...
FORMER METS AVOID 'ROIDS; DARLING: CANSECO'S 'AN IDIOT'
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amDarryl Strawberry looked as if he could walk down the hall at Shea Stadium, put on his old No. 18 pinstriped Mets uniform and hit some moonshots that would excite...
WAKE FOR 'ECSTASY' CO-ED
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA somber wake was held in Connecticut yesterday for Veronica Hagman, the tragic college student who died of an overdose in Queens after a night of clubbing. Hagman, 22, was...
ORGY FIREMAN SPEAKS ; REGRETS 'ANIMAL HOUSE' SEX ANTICS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amA married firefighter accused of joining a sordid firehouse orgy with an FDNY groupie broke his public silence yesterday, saying he made a "bad mistake," in sleeping with the Staten...
HIKE! JETS $OAK FANS ON TICKETS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amDiehard Jets fans will again be forking over more money for tickets this season, creating millions in extra revenue for a team seeking to build a $1.4 billion West Side...
THE GOP 'VALUES' TRAP
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amSOCIAL conservatives, riding high on the wave of the 2004 elections, have convinced themselves that it was values - and values alone - that put President Bush over the top....
3 'GATES' CRASHERS IN VANDAL BUST
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amThree men were arrested yesterday and charged with scrawling their names on "The Gates," a day before the process of taking them down begins - and only hours after the...
LBJ & MLK: UNLIKELY ALLIES
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amJUDGMENT DAYS: LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE LAWS THAT CHANGED AMERICABY NICK KOTZ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO., 522 PAGES, $26 Forty years ago, the civil rights movement...
HOW B'KLYN'S CHRIS ROCK CURSED HIS WAY TO THE F!@#$%G OSCARS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amOne night in 1982, a nervous 17-year-old sat his parents down in the family's Bed-Stuy living room. "He said, 'Mommy, daddy, I need to talk to you,' " said Rose...
VERMIN ON MENU - 4-STAR EATERIES CRAWLING WITH RATS & ROACHES
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amMore than half of the city's 50 most popular restaurants were cited last year by health inspectors for stomach-churning violations that included evidence of mice, flies and roaches. At least...
BONDS FAR CLOSER TO CANSECO THAN HE LET ON
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amDOWN THE LINE At his contentious press conference, Barry Bonds called reporters liars, but Bonds had trouble with the truth himself on at least one issue. Jose Canseco has written...
PICKS MAY BE USED FOR BROWN
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Knicks president Isiah Thomas talked with great enthusiasm Thursday night after the trade deadline about using his four first-round picks across the next two drafts on four young...
TWO STRAIGHT! ROSE FUELS KNICKS' 1ST 'STREAK' SINCE DECEMBER
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks 90Pacers 79 Malik Rose made more hustle plays in his nine-minute stint of the second quarter last night than departed center Nazr Mohammed did the whole season. Rose's presence...
NEARLY LAST CALL ; FANS SAVOR MILLER'S PENULTIMATE ROUND
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amWith two minutes left in last night's 90-79 Knicks victory, the fans that have loved to hate him so much began chanting Reggie Miller's name. Miller, one of the all-time...
SUIT WON'T LOOK GOOD ON BURKE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amBRIAN Burke has made a career out of being a bully. We can't wait until he tries that act on the attorneys who will first depose, and then call the...
SOMETHING SWEET ; YOUNGSTER GROWS INTO NEW ROLE WITH KNICKS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amIsiah Thomas' trade deadline deals guaranteed two things. The first is the Knicks, barring any more wheeling and dealing, will have four first-round draft picks in the next two years....
FORWARD MARCH - ROSE, TAYLOR STEPPING UP
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amMalik Rose will add grit to a Knick team that lacks toughness. But what the 30-year-old veteran also adds is the knowledge of what makes a championship team, having played...
SUFFERN SHOW MEANS SPRING IS REEL CLOSE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE are always signs that winter is starting to lose its grip and for sportsmen in our area it has always been the World Fishing & Outdoor Expo, because at...
RAVENS PAY FOR CURTIS' ANGER ; REVVED-UP KELLY POWERS RICE ROMP
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amRice 79St. Ray's 55 Mo Hicks lit into his team at halftime against St. Raymond in the CHSAA New York Diocesan final yesterday, ripping his Raiders for lacking intensity. As...
STEINBRENNER RANT: TELLEM IT LIKE IT IS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - It was a day like any other day on the resplendent emerald chessboard, hitters hammering the ol' horsehide, pitchers hurling the ol' pill, the sun shining, the birds...
ARN & HAMMERED ; NO SECRET WHAT BOSS THINKS OF AGENT
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Dormant Mount Steinbrenner erupted yesterday for the first time this spring, spewing an expletive about Jason Giambi's agent. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who has evaded reporters and sidestepped...
BAD GETAWAY LEADS TO REFUNDS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amNearly $600,000 in win-place-show, exacta, trifecta and pick 3 bets was refunded yesterday when stewards declared 4-5 favorite Evening Edition a non-starter after a bungled getaway in the fifth race...
GIAMBI, MATSUI LEFT IN MIDDLE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Minutes after dropping an F-bomb about Jason Giambi's agent, George Steinbrenner gave Giambi a big hug at the end of yesterday's workout at Legends Field. Giambi, who is...
BELTRAN TAKES A SWING AT TENNIS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Twice a day, every day, Carlos Beltran takes up tennis. Kind of. Thanks to Beltran, the Mets now employ what's called a conditioned ocular...
'HOWZE' ABOUT THAT! LONGSHOT WINS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00am1ST RACE - First of two huge upsets in split divisions (first and fourth) of N.Y.-bred maiden race. General Howze, named for former commander of 82nd Airborne, was making first...
GOODEN-OUGH ; KNICKS BETTER KEEPING KURT
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amFAR be from me to question Isiah Thomas, but if the Knicks took on any more contracts, they'd have to start outsourcing some to organized crime. In all fairness to...
LEBRON SETTLING DEBATES
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amVince Carter and Nets coach Lawrence Frank both look at the NBA age-restriction controversy and come away with virtually opposing opinions. But each stamps his viewpoint with an asterisk. Carter...
GREAT ESCAPE ; DEPLETED DUKE FIGHTS OFF SCRAPPY STORM
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amDuke 58St. John's 47 Sean Dockery sat on the Duke bench at the Garden yesterday, his right leg extended straight out in front of him. Clearly, the Duke point guard...
'TWIN' SENTRY ALWAYS ON GUARD
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Basically, Jason Collins would rather be Ben Wallace than Allen Iverson. The Nets center/forward prides himself on his defense - so much so that he said he'd rather...
CATCH & RELEASE ; PIAZZA WORKS ON ARM FOR RETURN BEHIND PLATE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Once again, Mike Piazza is back behind the plate. And that means once again, his throwing will be a hot topic. Nelson Silverio, who served as...
RANDY'S UP & DOWN REHEARSAL
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - And to think: the day's biggest story was supposed to be Randy Johnson facing the heart of the Yankees' order. For those who prefer home-run bombs to F...
ORDER'S NOT IMPORTANT: JOE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Joe Torre announced his exhibition rotation, and there was no surprise about his five main guys. Their order, however, was a little interesting. After Randy Johnson...
KYLE NEEDED MOORE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFSLaSalle 68Moore 65 In the final minute of his high school career, Kyle McAlarney hit one 3-pointer from 28 feet, then another from 25 while getting clobbered by a...
THE JOE TORRE DECADE - BASEBALL'S CHANGED A LOT SINCE SKIPPER HIT BRONX
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amWHEN Joe Torre took over as Yankee manager, the Brewers were still in the AL, the Tigers were in the AL East and the California Angels - not the Anaheim...
RAKE-UP CALL: GROUNDS-CREW JOB PUT PULSIPHER BACK ON PATH TO MAJORS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amJUPITER - How do you rebuild a baseball life? Start with a rake, add wisdom from an old friend and sweat equity under the blazing Florida sun. If Bill Pulsipher...
DRIVING THIS DOOZY - KNICKS STILL HAVE NOTHING TO 'CHAUFFEUR' ALL OF ISIAH'S EFFORTS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - There is only one common-sense consequence of the astounding array of crimes and misdemeanors that Knicks president Isiah Thomas has compiled in just over 14 months on the...
TIME FOR NFL FREE-FOR-ALL: JETS DIGGING FOR TREASURE AT WR SALARY-CAP DUMP
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amThe Jets were active customers in last year's free-agency market, filling needs at linebacker, cornerback and safety (well, kind of). They, too, made a productive trade to land Justin McCareins...
TIME FOR NFL FREE-FOR-ALL: QUALITY'S KEY AS GIANTS ASSEMBLE ELI'S WEAPONS
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amWhen the NFL's free-agency signing period begins on Wednesday, the Giants plan to be active shoppers and they will direct their focus on one area to fortify: Locating more weapons...
STANDOUTS & SLACKERS OF THE N.Y. SPORTS SCENE
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amWhom do we love and whom do we love to hate? The Post concludes its ninth-annual Best and Worst of New York Sports: IMMATURE 1 Kevin Brown, Yankees After 16...
HYPOC-ROIDS: ESPN STILL SQUEEZING VALUABLE JUICE OUT OF MIXED MESSAGES
February 27, 2005 | 5:00amESPN reminds me of that garbage truck. You've seen it. As merrily it rolls along, garbage flies out of the back. It just redistributes some of the refuse, turns garbage...