March 6, 2005

ON THE PILL: FOR BEAUTY AND HEALTH

Popping pills for beauty's sake may soon become as common as vitamins - if the $60 billion dollar global cosmetics industry has its way. Beauty pills - which promise the...

PSYCHODOLAN SOAP OPERA INTENSIFIES

From Oedipus to Hamlet, the father-son dynamic has fascinated playwrights and psychoanalysts. Now, New York has its own paterfamilias drama - the Dolans. Cablevision Chairman Chuck Dolan and his son,...

LAST STAND FOR MARTHA'S MAGS

Everything about Martha Stewart has rebounded, including her stock price and her TV presence. Everything except one thing: the magazine that made her famous. Martha Stewart Living, which weathered the...

FAT CHANCE - BULGING, BODICE-WEARING KIRSTIE ALLEY TRIES TO SQUEEZE OUT A THIRD ACT ON SHOWTIME

FAT guys are hired all the time in Hollywood.As Kirstie Alley testily points out in her new career-saving show,"Fat Actress," plus-size waistlines and big butts haven 't stopped John Goodman...

MADHOUSE - PIERRE BOUVIER HOSTS SHOW WHERE PARENTS TRICK THEIR TEENS

AS a teenager,being left home alone for the weekend is usually your license to chill without your parents finding out. Not anymore. Thanks to MTV 's new hidden camera show...

'INTERVENTION ' SENDS AN S..O.S.

THINK you 've got problems?Meet Alyson,a former White House intern who cannot function without drugs. Living at home,she fights with her family, smokes crack in her bedroom and steals morphine...

MYSTERIES SCORE ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

THE case of the missing mysteries has been solved. They 're on Hallmark Channel (located in New York on Ch. 107 on Time Warner Digital). And since plenty of ink...

'DEADWOOD' - IT'S 'KILL OR BE KILLED' IN THE OLD WEST

THE murderers,pimps,thieves and drug dealers who populate HBO 's hit drama,"Deadwood," aren 't really bad guys - just survivors. At least that 's the way Powers Boothe sees it.The veteran...

REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES

SUPER SIZE ME (2004) M Mo on nd da ay y,,8 8::1 15 5 p p..m m..,,S Sh ho ow wt ti im me e This is a great documentary...

PLAYERS THINKING? - HOW ORIGINAL!

SOMETHING extraordinary happened after six moves in today's game. Both players, elite grandmasters, had to think. This is highly unusual in perhaps the year's strongest tournament because today's GMs rely...

UNDERGROUND UPPERS

CINE File has yet to have the pleasure of seeing "What Is It?" the first feature directed by Crispin Glover. So he quotes from a story in the Salt Lake...

HARVEY FIERSTEIN

YOU can take away his pearls and drape him in a prayer shawl, but Harvey Fierstein can't help playing mama. So when the "Hairspray" star joined "Fiddler on the Roof"...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

1) Against the Law One theory proposes that the overrated "Sideways" was so beloved by critics because critics are largely socially maladjusted, middle-aged men (like Giamatti's character). This logic applies...

KID STUFF - DIRECTOR BOYLE TRADES ZOMBIES FOR FAMILY FARE

THE man who plunged Ewan McGregor headfirst into a filthy toilet and unleashed plagues of killer zombies on London is set to shock again - by making a sweet kids'...

IT'S BRUCE ALMIGHTY - IN 'HOSTAGE,' WILLIS PLAYS BY HIS OWN RULES (DUH)

WHEN a star embarks on a vanity project, funding a movie himself, it's usually a tear-jerker or period drama, a tour de force of Acting! (with a capital A) that's...

CLONE-ING AROUND - MUTATIONS RUN AMOK IN FAST-PACED THRILLER

MAYBE it's just all the clone-gone-wrong science fiction we've seen over the years, but the genetic duplication of humans generally seems to turn out badly - with the possible exception...

IT'S ALL HEART - FRIENDS ARE HELPING GIRAFFES FRONTMAN SING A MUCH HAPPIER TUNE

ON Jan. 3, Aaron Lazer, the 28-year-old lead singer of the Giraffes, blacked out at a stoplight in Chinatown and had two heart attacks. "I started getting woozy. I blacked...

GIRL, INTERRUPTED - FANS ARE BEGGING FOR FIONA'S LOST ALBUM

LOCKED away in the Sony master vault, or maybe Fiona Apple's sock drawer, is an album that's gathering dust - and the kind of momentum that might push the mystery...

WRESTLING DEALS - TRISH STRATUS WINS BIG IN THE BARGAIN HUNTING RING

TRISH Stratus has a serious shiner - but it's not a problem. No, for this World Wrestling Entertainment diva, getting elbowed in the eye is a badge of honor -...

OSCAR KNOWS WHAT'S HOT - BEST BETS FOR STEALING THE STARS' LOOKS

TREND-SETTING Hollywood Alisters - including Gwyneth, Charlize, Natalie and Beyonce - more than wowed us on Oscar's red carpet. Sporting breezy, do-it-yourself coifs, dewy makeup, retro cuff bracelets and delicate...

WALK THIS WAY - 'TOP MODEL' AND 'GASTINEAU' RUNWAY PROS STRUT THEIR STUFF

THE two breakout stars of this television season's hottest reality shows are J. Alexander and Willi Ninja - two African-American divas with an unusual specialty: They teach women how to...

WINES AND OTHER GLASS ACTS

Quick bites POUR EXCUSE Wine Rave NYC is not for stodgy ol' oenophiles. The newlook wine event turning the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th St. between Sixth & Seventh avenues)...

LEGAL SM A PRO ATLAWS OF ATTRACTION

THIS week's swinging young single is Matt, a 25-year-old law student that describeshimself as a "work-hard, play-hard kind of guy - even though I know that's a cliché." When he's...

THIS WEEK'S MOVIES

DON'T MOVE As a doctor watches his accident-victim daughter in surgery, he relives a past romance with a destitute young woman. In Italian; starring Penelope Cruz. SHERIFF Cinema verite look...

AFTER ALEXIS - FORGET HER CHARACTER ON 'DYNASTY'; JOAN COLLINS JUST WANTS TO WRITE

SHE'S still best known as the cartoonishly evil Alexis Carrington on the long-defunct nighttime soap "Dynasty," but Joan Collins, now 71, would prefer to be recognized as the best-selling writer...

REQUIRED READING

ASRA Q. Nomani is a Muslim born in India and raised in West Virginia. The former Wall Street Journal correspondent's "Standing Alone in Mecca" tells of her pilgrimage to Mecca...

HEAR THIS

IN CONCERT * Punk band Black Maria at the Continental NYC tonight. * At CBGB's: Hard-core band Comeback Kid today. Metal act Trivium on Wednesday. * At Bowery Ballroom: Indie...

THIS WEEK'S CDS

THE KILLS "No Wow" [....] (Four stars) Rough Trade DESPITE the album's no-hype rep and the Kills' streamlined style, this rock duo is the biggest wow of the year so...

SALES - THE BEST BUYS

CLOTHES Marc Jacobs, Adrienne Landau, Moschino Park Lane Hotel, 58th st., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, Suite 503; (732) 539-8750 Sale: March 8-10. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A collection of designer...

IT'S A REAL GRUBBY BIZ

LIZZIE Grubman's new MTV show, "PoweR Girls," looks like it will be a hit - except, probably, with her staff. Grubman, who exec-produced the show, gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look...

MOM & SON PLOTTED HUBBY'S OD SLAY: COPS

A New Jersey mother and son cooked up a lethal cocaine-and-heroin cocktail to kill the woman's husband - then kept the murder under wraps for two years, officials said yesterday....

SEAL A BIG DEAL IN CONEY I.

Forget the other amusements at Coney Island - a cuddly young harp seal yesterday put on a free show, snoozing happily on the Brooklyn beach. The creature came with a...

DISHEVELED DIVA IS SUFFERING A BAD COIF

Former jailbird Martha Stewart's famous blond bob is now a frizzy mess. But the domestic diva won't be able to do anything about it until Frederic Fekkai, her good friend...

MUSLIM GI BURIAL 'BOTCHED'

The grief-stricken family of a Queens soldier slain in Iraq said the U.S. government didn't provide a proper Muslim burial for their fallen hero - and that they were being...

OUTRAGE AT HALFWAY-HOME 'KILLER'

New Jersey prosecutors are wondering how a man living in a Newark halfway house was allowed out unsupervised for hours to take part in the gruesome slaying of a family...

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE - JUST MISSED LIE CRASH

A shaken St. John's University student recounted yesterday how he cheated death when he got out of a car carrying his three pals, who were killed moments later in a...

MEL PLANS 'MIRACLE' FILM

First Mel Gibson made "The Passion of the Christ" - now he's planning to make a movie about the miracle of Fatima. The "Braveheart" actor will bring to life the...

STABBER MANHUNT IN HARLEM

A man stabbed his girlfriend inside their East Harlem apartment and fled over a balcony, setting off a massive manhunt, police said. The woman, identified by neighbors as Tawanda Martin,...

CRYPTIC CLUES IN THE HUNT FOR MIA ISRAELI

The parents of a Brooklyn-born Israeli soldier who vanished on a Lebanese battlefield more than two decades ago have unearthed new evidence they say proves their son is still alive...

HOLIDAY BEFORE THE HELL

It looks like any other happy family vacation - a father and his stepson lounging together in a swimming pool. But six months later, an unimaginable horror would strike. Retired...

CANDLE STARTS FATAL B'KLYN FIRE

A pre-dawn blaze in Brooklyn claimed the life of an 85-year-old woman yesterday after she left a burning candle unattended, fire officials said. Carmen Barreau was alone inside her basement...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

MANHATTAN * A woman was killed in East Harlem yesterday morning when a car backed into her on First Avenue, police said. The victim, 61, who was not immediately identified,...

D.J. IN HOT 97 BAT-TLE - EXPOSES RAP SHOCKER

An on-air personality at one of Hot 97's sister stations says he was booted off the air after complaining about a song that features the lyric "Beat that bitch with...

'GAME' SAYS 50 CENT IS 2-BIT THUG

A growing hip-hop war escalated as rap renegade The Game took a verbal shot at his ex-mentor, 50 Cent, during at a California concert, calling "Fitty" names and saying "I...

SUICIDE BID AT ANIMAL SHELTER

A Queens woman was found unconscious in the East 92nd Street offices of the ASPCA after a failed suicide attempt, sources said. Kasey Miller, 26, of College Point, a technician...

SUBWAY CLERK ROBBED IN BX.

A subway booth clerk was robbed at knifepoint in The Bronx as she locking up the station, police said. The woman, whose name was withheld by police, was ending her...

BRIBE 'SPY' SLICK AS OIL - SHADOWY SAGA OF A LEXINGTON AVE. BANKER'S BIG-$$ DEALS IN ASIAN DESPOT'S EXOTIC REALM

When federal agents swooped in and handcuffed New York banker James Giffen at JFK as he was about to board a flight to Kazakhstan on March 30, 2003, they thought...

BLOOMY POSTS 10G BOUNTY FOR 'SANTA HAT' SLAY GANG

Mayor Bloomberg is putting up a $10,000 reward to crack a Christmas murder in Queens that has cops stumped. This will be the 76th time that Bloomberg has offered the...

TRAGIC BLAZE MOM AWAKENS FROM COMA - I CLOSED MY EYES AND THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED

A Bronx woman who awoke from a coma to learn that her two children had died in a raging house fire says she is struggling to cope with the unimaginable...

MAYORAL RACE MADNE$$

NEW YORK'S mayoral race is only just getting under way, but a chief bone of contention is already coming into focus: Who can bloat Gotham's government faster? We're talking promises...

CITY 2010 BID LOOKING SUPER

In less than three weeks, NFL owners could vote to award the Big Game to the Big Apple. "A resolution to award the 2010 Super Bowl to New York City...

JAIL DEATH SPLITS FAMILY - MOM CASHING IN ON HANGED INMATE: SIS

The mom of a troubled Staten Island man who hanged himself in a Brooklyn jail cell has sued the city for negligence, but in a shocking twist, the dead inmate's...

OPTION PLAY FOR THE JETS - N.J. STADIUM IDEA

Plan B for the Jets - a new domed stadium at the Meadowlands that the team would co-own with the Giants - would cost the franchise a comparatively paltry $450...

HOLY SMOKE: E. SIDE CHURCH FIRE

Firefighters took on a small blast of fire and brimstone yesterday at the Episcopal Church Center's East Side chapel. The blaze erupted in the basement of the East 43rd Street...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Want a little twinkle in your eye? Not a chance, if some Illinois lawmakers have their way. In a bizarre practice begun in Holland, some people have pieces of metal...

BROOKLYN PARENTS' HAIL MARY - LAST-DITCH BID TO SAVE ST. FINBAR'S

The parents at St. Finbar's School are praying for a miracle when they deliver a last-ditch plea to save the cash-strapped school to the Brooklyn Diocese tomorrow. The Bath Beach...

PEACE MAKERS - DIOCESE & TEACHERS REACH PACT AT LAST

Catholic school teachers can give up their sick-outs now that they've landed a 12 percent pay hike over three years, archdiocese and union officials announced yesterday. The deal, struck Friday...

STUDENT JUST MISSED LIE DEATH CRASH

A St. John's University student cheated death because his three college friends dropped him off first in Queens just before they were killed in a fiery hit-and-run collision on the...

COPS HURT IN EAST SIDE SMASH

Two women cops were hospitalized yesterday after an early morning fender-bender on the Upper East Side when a motorist went through a red light and slammed into their patrol car,...

FREE TO ROB & KILL - COPT-SLAY CURFEW TWIST

New Jersey prosecutors are wondering how a man living in a Newark halfway house was allowed out unsupervised for hours to take part in the gruesome slaying of a family...

SYRIA VOWS TO QUIT LEB - NOT FAST ENOUGH: U.S.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bowed to international pressure yesterday, saying he would gradually pull his troops from Lebanon. But the United States said that was not enough - and called...

GOP BIGS '06 SENSE: MIKE KEY TO VICTORY

REPUBLICAN leaders are worried that the defeat of Mayor Bloomberg in 2005 could hurt their statewide candidates in 2006. At least that's one of the messages Republican City Council members...

HEY, MARTHA: NICE DEVICE - POST SCRIBE TESTS ANKLET 'ACCESSORY' TO A CRIME

You can forget the fishnets, Martha. West Virginia's most famous jailbird may have flown her cell, but there's one thing still cramping her style - a not-so-little black box attached...

SYRIA VOWS TO QUIT LEB - NOT ENOUGH FOR U.S.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bowed to international pressure yesterday, saying he would gradually pull his troops from Lebanon. But the United States said that was not enough - and called...

PUMPED-UP PROMISES - SELIG: BIG LEAGUES WILL BE 'ROID-FREE THIS YEAR

Citing a dramatic drop in the number of players who flunked steroid tests in 2004 and knowing that baseball's new testing program has more teeth, Commissioner Bud Selig yesterday said...

REGGIE WAS THROWN FOR LOOP - BUT NOW HE'S OK

YANKEE NOTES Reggie Jackson escaped serious injury after his sport utility vehicle flipped over in an accident Friday night. The incident closed a road near Legends Field for five hours,...

ORANGE CRUSHED - UCONN, CALHOUN ROLL WITH 2ND-HALF SURGE

UConn 88 - Syracuse 70 STORRS - Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim and Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun have played a nearly three-decade game of "Anything you can do, I can do...

GAELS FORCE WIN - SURGING IONA STORMS INTO MAAC SEMIS

Iona 97 - St. Peter's 73 BUFFALO - Iona has turned dysfunction into dominance, turned the chaos of the early season into championship-caliber defense so far this postseason. The Gaels...

RUTGERS IMPRESSED BY BOSTON COLLEGE

B.C. 78 - Rutgers 66 Gary Waters calls this season "a learning experience." What else can a coach say when his team, which reached the finals of the NIT at...

R.J.: I'LL RETURN FOR PLAYOFFS

Hang in there, Nets. Richard Jefferson promises he's coming back for the playoffs. That is, if there is a playoffs appearance - which seems hard to fathom after last night's...

DISAPPEARING ACT - NETS FAIL TO SHOW UP IN CRUSHING DEFEAT TO MAGIC

Magic 105 - Nets 81 This was a game for the Nets to improve their playoff outlook considerably, a game to put them in a solid frame of mind for...

INJURED THOMAS CLAIMS HE'LL PLAY

KNICK NOTES Tim Thomas says he'll play tonight despite suffering a hyper-extended left knee Friday in Orlando. Thomas, who just a week ago seemed like an unstoppable force, was limited...

CRUSHED JASPERS CUT DOWN

Fairfield 62 - Manhattan 60 BUFALO - The last time Bobby Gonzalez and his Manhattan Jaspers had this feeling - trudging off the floor in defeat at the MAAC Tournament...

TIGERS ON COLLISION COURSE

LAKELAND - John Flaherty and the Tigers' Dmitri Young were involved in a second-inning collision at the plate yesterday that left Young with five stitches in his left ear. Young...

PEDRO'S PACE INSPIRES AWE

PORT ST. LUCIE - Rick Peterson tries to get a listener to grasp the concept. Think about it, the Mets pitching coach keeps saying. He comes back to the numbers...

BATTING PRACTICE RIGHT STUFF FOR CAMERON

MET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Batting practice is critical for Mike Cameron right now. But not for his hitting. For his fielding. Because his surgically repaired left wrist won't...

BELT BLASTS OFF - CARLOS' CLOUT KEY FOR METS

Mets 6 - Dodgers 4 PORT ST. LUCIE - During batting practice, he blasted one homer after another. Shot after shot over the right-field fence. Told by an onlooker that...

HOLLYWOOD CAN WAIT - STORM FALL JUST SHORT OF SURPRISE ENDING

Villanova 70 - St. John's 68 A St. John's win would have made for a nice Hollywood-ending story. The underdogs with no postseason to look forward to and not enough...

ONE MAN'S PLAN FOR PEACE IN THE NHL

PROPOSED: A clean slate under which negotiations for a CBA would be conducted exclusively between Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow when bargaining resumes (or perhaps more accurately, begins) within the...

GET WARMED UP FOR FLOUNDER SEASON

IT MAY not feel like it outside, but the winter flounder season is less than two weeks away, and unless the weather starts to turn, the usual opening flounder spots...

WATERS BIG FAN OF BC'S SUCCESS

Gary Waters calls this season "a learning experience." What else can a coach say when his team, which reached the finals of the NIT at the Garden a year ago...

TOUGH COUGHLIN ISN'T SCARING FREE AGENTS

Those who believed Tom Coughlin would be viewed as the bogeyman when NFL free agency rolled around must be puzzled to see the influx of talent arriving on the Giants'...

FLATLINING AGAIN - EMBARRASSING LOSS SENDS KNICKS REELING

The Knicks got an extra day in the Florida sunshine last week and may have been in Orlando Friday night, but they certainly didn't show up for the game. In...

COLES COMES HOME - JETS-SKINS DEAL COMPLETE

Laveranues Coles could hear the sweet sound of Jets fans ringing in his ears again yesterday. "J-E-T-S, JETS, JETS, JETS!" an excited Coles told The Post exclusively on the day...

TOUGH TIM EXPECTS HE'LL PLAY

KNICK NOTES Tim Thomas says he'll play tonight despite suffering a hyper-extended left knee Friday in Orlando. Thomas, who just a week ago seemed like an unstoppable force, was limited...

CUCKOO FOR KEEKEE - PEACOCKS TAKE FLIGHT WITH CLARK

BUFFALO - Sitting at HSBC Arena yesterday, the greatest scorer in college basketball admitted he never dreamt it would turn out this way. Undersized and overlooked coming out of Rice...

RJ: I'LL BE BACK FOR THE PLAYOFFS

NET NOTES Hang in there, Nets. Richard Jefferson promises he's coming back for the playoffs. And Jefferson, self-described as "insanely optimistic," believes the Nets will be there for the post-season...

HYDROGEN RISES TO TAKE STYMIE

Despite getting hit in the face by the whip of Song of the Sword, Hydrogen muscled his way between horses in the stretch and just got up to edge favored...

ROAD SMOOTH FOR JASON

Tigers 9 - Yankees 8 LAKELAND - Jason Giambi could soon be dealing with a subpoena, but he hasn't confronted any hecklers yet. Yesterday was Giambi's first road game in...

CHEEKS AND BALANCES - MAURICE WOULDN'T CHANGE FOR BLAZERS

JOHNNY DAVIS is committing the same boo-boo as Magic coach that greatly greased Maurice Cheeks' Blazers exit; he's making his boss look bad. If you want to play that way,...

DAVIS NOT MISTAKEN ANYMORE

H.S. NOTES When Mike Davis was a sophomore at All Hallows, an assistant coach from Pittsburgh approached him and said, "You're Mike Davis? We're recruiting you." This was news to...

CHANEY OF FOOLS - TEMPLE COACH ISN'T ONLY ONE WHO'S OUT OF CONTROL

EVENTUALLY they are going to have to learn. Eventually, they are going to have to see that the tired old image of the coach as a raving lunatic, blessed with...

TRYING ON THESE GLASS SLEEPERS - CINDERELLA TEAMS WILL FIT YOUR NCAA BRACKET

BARRING the bizarre, you're not going to win your office pool without picking the winner of the NCAA tournament. But if you want to finish in the money, find this...

'PERSONAL' FOUL AT WFAN - ROSENBERG'S ISSUES EXPOSE DOUBLE STANDARD

AMAZING HOW, overnight, Sid Rosenberg's "personal issues," which previously included gambling and substance abuse, went from lap dance-joint hilarious - the stuff that made him a valued foil for Don...

ON THE DEFENSIVE - PULLING PIAZZA, WILLIAMS TOUGH CALL FOR MANAGERS

THE TRANSITION began last year. Mike Piazza was removed from nearly half his starts at catcher, mainly so the Mets could employ a superior thrower late in close games. Bernie...

DOWN THE LINE

Alex Rodriguez has abolished his early-morning third-base boot camp this spring. A year after joining the Yankees and switching to the hot corner, A-Rod said he feels comfortable without pre-workout...

HEAD TO HEAD

Post NBA writers Marc Berman and Fred Kerber slug it out which team, the Knicks or the Nets, has a better chance of reaching the playoffs. (Prior to play yesterday,...

TIP OF THE CAPTAIN - JETER'S PERFECT FOR IMPORTANT ROLE

TAMPA - If Derek Jeter were a different kind of baseball player, he might scoff at the idea that this will be one of the most challenging seasons any Yankee...

GRANT & RAVE - MAGIC STAR GOES FROM INJURY MOUNTAIN TO THE OLD HILL

It is one of the feel good stories - if not the feel good story - in the NBA this season. Grant Hill, nice-guy personified, is playing like Grant Hill...

HALLE IN HEAVEN - ALL 'EYES' ARE ON BERRY WHO'S REBOUNDING WITH TWO SEXY NEW ROLES

IN 2002, Halle Berry was the belle of the "Monster's Ball," standing on the stage at L.A.'s Kodak Theater, crying her eyes out and holding her Best Actress Oscar. What...

THREE-PEAT PER-FOUR-MANCE - 20 YEARS LATER, TEAMS TRY TO MATCH BIG EAST TRIFECTA

P.J. Carlesimo sat in an airport in Denver staring at the TV screen. It was March 1989 and Carlesimo's Seton Hall squad had qualified for the Final Four the night...