April 10, 2005
CARE FOR A PIZZA OR A MASSAGE WITH YOUR TAX RETURN?
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAccountants aren't known as a wild and crazy bunch, but some are doing their best to make filing returns a little less taxing. CPA Kevin Marshall, who runs the Dutch...
WALL STREETER WANTS BACK IN
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amLaura Zubulake worked for a demeaning boss, was excluded from client outings and had co-workers who were strip club regulars. But she still can't wait to get back to Wall...
RIVAL HOTELS CHECK OUT PLAZA'S CHECK-INS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amWhen the Plaza Hotel closes at the end of the month, Eloise won't be the only one to find herself homeless. Brides, conference-goers, travelers, diners and charity-ball-gowned-do-gooders will all be...
BETWEEN THE COVERS: PAM ANDERSON TRADES BIKINIS FOR BOOKS ON 'STACKED'
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amPAMELA ANDERSON is known for many things: Kid Rock,Tommy Lee, "Baywatch," "V.I.P.," Playboy,,and that "accidental " X--rated videotape. Now,the 37-year-old blonde bombshell can add "sitcom star " to the list....
'MORNING' GLORY - DIANE SAWYER REIGNS AT ABC NEWS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amDIANE SAWYER is finally ready to admit it: After six years as co-host of "Good Morning America," she 's no longer a temp. The "temp " title stems from her...
IN PRAISE OF SHEEN'S FINEST SEASON
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amGIVE this guy an Emmy! What guy?Martin Sheen, that 's who. I was amazed to learn recently that Sheen,the Olivier of TV,has only won one Emmy in his whole life.And...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amTOP HAT (1935) Sunday, 10:00 a.m., TCM A Fred Astaire ,Ginger Rogers classic. He 's an American entertainer;she 's a model that he chases from London to Venice. Forget the...
O'BRIEN FALL WAS A LONG TIME COMING
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIT 'S one of those TV-constant questions:Why is it that the people who should be the first to know seem to be the last to know? This Pat O 'Brien...
ICELAND'S WELCOME CHILLS REST OF WORLD
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amNO one, it seems, is neutral on the subject of Bobby Fischer. The Washington Post denounced Iceland's granting of citizenship to the fugitive former world champion and "raging anti-Semite." Pravda,...
INDIAN CHIEF HITS TOWN
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMEET the biggest movie star in the world. No, not Nicole Kidman or Tom Cruise or Will Smith. According to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the honor belongs to...
THE HOT SEAT: XZIBIT
April 10, 2005 | 4:00am"Somebody call Stephen King, we've got Christine on the show," jokes Xzibit on tonight's episode of MTV's "Pimp My Ride," where they will revamp a beat-up 1950's Chevy Bel-Air. Xzibit...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
April 10, 2005 | 4:00am1) Murakami's art To a certain segment of New Yorkers, he is known only as the guy who designed that candy-colored Louis Vuitton handbag that every girl above 57th Street...
PARIAH CAREY - NEW ALBUM, NEW ATTITUDE - BUT MARIAH'S STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amEveryone knows Mariah Carey is crazy. She's the kind of diva who shows up late for her own birthday party - because she broke a nail; who expects the red-carpet...
5 HOT NEW STARS - SUMMER MOVIES MAY PROPEL THESE ACTORS TO STARDOM
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amTerrence Dashon Howard found out what being a movie star is really like by watching Halle Berry, his co-star in the recently aired TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God."...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amRAGING DOVE Documentary tells the tale of an Israeli-Arab boxer who goes to box in the tense West Bank. Outside the ring, he contends with his often-confusing identity. PERLASCA Heroic...
RECYCLED - NEW ALBUM NEARLY CAUSED GARBAGE TO GET THROWN OUT
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIn a strange cross between the reality of "Spinal Tap" and the fiction of "Behind the Music," Garbage was nearly dragged to the curb last year. While recording the new...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAmy Ray "Prom" 3 Stars Daemon Records Who said, "Everything you need to know to get through life you learn in high school"? Actually, that was me, but Amy Ray,...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMEET Eric, a 26-year-old attorney who lists his main interests as going to the gym, exploring the city, traveling and, last but not least, "buying things I can't afford and...
ALICIA IS MISMATCHED
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amJust how clueless is Alicia Silverstone? The longtime animal rights activist and vocal vegan wore a silk gown by furrier J. Mendel not just once but twice. This is the...
FULL SERVICE - DON'T KNOW WHAT TO GET FOR DINNER? ORDER IT ALL!
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amNEXT time you 're trying to decide what to order at a restaurant and you 're struck with a major case of indecision,do what Martha Stewart recently did at Chelsea...
HOW 'SLAY' FUGITIVE GOT NAILED
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAn on-the-lam Bronx man suspected of killing his girlfriend carried a faded newspaper clipping about the slaying in his wallet - a memento of his past life that proved his...
THE FIGHTER ROOSEVELT
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN TRUMPETS CALL: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AFTER THE WHITE HOUSEBY PATRICIA O'TOOLE SIMON & SCHUSTER, 494 PAGES, $30 ONE look at Mount Rushmore and it's obvious Theodore Roosevelt's presence looms large...
TIMES 'TELLTALE RAT' FIGHTS FIRING
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amSusan Sachs, the New York Times reporter sacked for allegedly e-mailing colleagues' wives about their husbands' purported philandering in Baghdad, is the victim of "circumstantial" evidence and deserves her job...
RIVERBOATS MAY AGAIN ROLL DICE HERE
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amRiverboat gambling, slammed as a colossal failure and quickly scrapped soon after it burst on the New York scene in the late 1990s, may soon return to the waterways around...
THE LAST DAYS OF JOHNNIE COCHRAN
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amEven as he was dying from a cancerous brain tumor that reduced him to a wheelchair and robbed him of his silky eloquence, Johnnie Cochran remained upbeat - hosting friends,...
FILM TRAGEDY; VIDEO CLUES IN HIT-AND-RUNDEATH OF FINANCIAL PLANNER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe shocking hit-and-run death of a financial planner on Madison Avenue last week was captured by surveillance cameras - and police were hunting the woman's killer, her devastated husband said...
CALLING GOV. CODEY
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amNew Jersey's Acting Gov.Richard Codey just sent me the strangest letter. Indeed, as a Jersey resident, I can say that I've never received official state correspondence so lacking in fact...
MAJOR $TATIC OVER CHILLING 9/11 SOUNDTRACK
April 10, 2005 | 4:00am"The tower just collapsed, and I got out! Please send somebody!" "Captain Hannon and four D.C. guys are inside . . . They're not out yet!" "United 93, we understand...
KIN-TROVERSY DOGS BIG APPLE PENSION FUND
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIt's all in the family at the city's largest pension system. Employees of the scandal-scarred New York City Employee Retirement System, or NYCERS, say a "surprising" number of co-workers have...
MAN IN B'KLYN ROOF PLUNGE
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amA man fell from the roof of a 3-story Brooklyn apartment building last night after allegedly violating a restraining order and bolting from cops, police sources said. The unidentified 28-year-old...
STADIUM DRIVE GAINING
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's drive for a West Side stadium is set to gain some serious yardage Tuesday as the Empire State Development Corp. meets to give final approval to the project,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** A 10-year-old boy disappeared from in front of his Morrisania home, police said yesterday. Kingston Jamison (above) was last seen outside 1278 Grand Concourse around 4 p.m....
CHARLES' ROYAL FIASCO; PRINCE AND CAMILLA WEDDING COULDN'T HAVE BEEN CHEESIER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amRoyalty went slumming yesterday, as the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles wound up looking more like a union of commoners than the wedding of a future king....
GAZA TEENS SLAIN; FRAGILE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN TRUCE CRUMBLING
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A fragile lull in Israeli-Palestinian fighting was shattered yesterday when Israeli troops killed at least two Palestinian teenagers in Gaza, triggering a barrage of mortar bombs on Jewish...
HILL SLAMS GOP 'RIGHT-WING ROBOTS'
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Sen. Hillary Clinton was introduced by a Senate colleague to the state Democratic Party here as "the next great president of the United States" - and did nothing...
RED FLAGS RAI$ED; BANNER-AD DEAL STIFFING THE CITY
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE city is allowing private companies to sell banners - and reap profits - on city-owned light poles in a little-known program administered by the Department of Transportation. But none...
POKER CRAZE SWEETENING THE POTS FOR CITY'S HIDDEN CARD HOUSES
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amALONG the streets of New York at almost any hour of any day - above nail salons, next to Starbucks and under corporate offices - there are hard-core gamblers dropping...
BOMBER $HELTER; YANKEE ACE JOHNSONRENTS 25G CASTLE IN SKY
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe Big Unit has rented a big unit. New Yankee star Randy Johnson and his family are renting a sky-high luxury condo on the Great White Way. The 41-year-old pitcher,...
TEEN DRIVER'S FATAL MANEUVER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amA risky traffic move by a Suffolk County teen caused a five-car accident that killed him and injured three others, cops said. Jesse Schuchman, 19, of Sound Beach, L.I., was...
BARING GALS' SEX SECRET; 3 IN 4 SAY THEY'RE 'SATISFIED' IN SACK
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amGood news from the sexual front lines: Three-quarters of American women say they're satisfied with their sex life. The authors of a new book, "Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman,"...
'FLORAL ARRANGEMENT' SPARKS SUIT
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amA downtown florist who struggled to keep his shop going after 9/11, sued the Marriott for breach of contract, only to have the hotel serve an eviction notice. Lenny Kaufman,...
'DIAMOND SLAYER' DRUG LINK
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe "cold-blooded killer" of a Midtown diamond dealer may have accepted the murder contract because he had "a raging drug problem," a senior police investigator revealed yesterday. The investigator also...
2 BOYS MISSING - KIDS, 10,DISAPPEARIN BRONX,, QUEENS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amA terrified Queens mom was praying yesterday for the safe return of her young son, one of two 10-year-old boys reported missing in the city. Police combed South Jamaica in...
ROOMIE SOUGHT IN MOM SLAY
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amPolice want to talk to the roommate of an East Harlem mother of six found fatally stabbed Friday in the third-floor stairwell of her East Harlem apartment building, The Post...
FREDDY BUILDING BAD WILL; $UPPORT FROM 'SLUMLORD'
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amA "slumlord" providing a generous deal on office space to mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer has racked up astonishing numbers of building violations throughout The Bronx, documents show - and tenants...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amSeattle cops were alerted to a counterfeiting ring and nabbed a prime suspect: a 12-year-old boy. The sixth-grader used a relative's computer to create 20 realistic-looking $1 bills and then...
PILGRIMS' FAR LEAP OF FAITH ; TREK FROM ALL CORNERS FOR GLIMPSE OF PONTIFF
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amON a fairly quiet evening at JFK Airport last Sunday, a stream of Italy-bound travelers slowly filed into a packed Alitalia jet, lugging carry-on bags, passports, cameras, Italian brochures -...
'ROTTWEILER' POSITIVELY REGAL IN HER GET-UP
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amCamilla Parker Bowles, whom Princess Diana liked to call "the Rottweiler," elicited no woofs yesterday as she finally walked down the aisle with her lover of 35 years. Instead, the...
NEW CUSTODY STRIFE IN 'CRACK KID' SAGA
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amPrince Isaiah Weems was a crack baby snatched from a life of tragedy by a loving foster mother who almost lost him to a bureaucratic foul-up 15 years ago -...
HIT-RUN DEATH CAUGHT ON FILM
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe shocking hit-and-run death of a financial planner on Madison Avenue last week was captured by surveillance cameras - and police were on the hunt for the woman's killer, her...
ED'S TIX BLITZ - FIREMAN'S 'TAG' WAR WITH NYPD
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amGang Green may love him - but the men in blue are no fans of Fireman Ed. Outraged cops flagged Edwin Anzalone - the helmet-clad chief cheerleader for the New...
GOTTA 'T-UP' RASHAD
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amDID you happen to catch Ahmad Rashad's taped TV powwow with Sam Cassell last Sunday? Apparently ABC's ace interviewer expended all the tough follow-up questions during his countless NBC inquisitions...
NICKLAUS BEARS HIS SOUL
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Jack Nicklaus, ever the steely- faced competitor who's always tried to squeeze the best out of every golf shot he ever hit, has always been as adept at...
YOU CAN'T BE MOORE RELAXED
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - There have been plenty of amateurs who have introduced themselves to the world at the Masters. Matt Kuchar finished 21st here as a sophomore at Georgia Tech in...
RIVERS LIKES ANGRY FLOW OF KNICKS-NETS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amJason Kidd finally put some spice into the rivalry between the Knicks and Nets and the coach of the Celtics couldn't be happier. "I thought it was great," Doc Rivers...
STAYING HOUSEBOUND ; BOMBERS MAY BLOW OFF BOSOX RING BASH
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Unless Joe Torre instructs his players otherwise, the Yankees probably won't see the Red Sox receive their rings or raise their banner tomorrow. The way the Red Sox...
LONG, WINDING ROAD - MINAYA INSISTS THE WINS WILL COME
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amATLANTA - Through the first four games of the Mets' season, manager Willie Randolph has maintained that he's not panicking, not worrying and not stressing over his team's winless start....
A HAND FROM A-ROD ; O'S 2B BLOODIED TRYING TO TURN TWO
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez became a public enemy in Boston last fall for swatting a ball out of Bronson Arroyo's mitt in the ALCS, a move the Red Sox would later call...
RANDOLPH: WE'LL FIND A GROOVE
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Although the Mets entered last night as baseball's only winless team, manager Willie Randolph isn't prepared to shake things up yet. The Mets have scored just...
GIAMBI CLEARS FENCE FOR 1ST TIME IN '05
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIt was the hit Jason Giambi had been waiting eight months to get, and finally, yesterday against the Orioles, Giambi took one for a ride over the Yankee Stadium fence....
YANKEES RALLY TO SAVE RANDY ; RIVERA GIVES SIGH OF RELIEF
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIT GETS LATE early around here, Yogi once said. Willie Randolph agrees. Five games into what would be an unacceptable fifth year without a World Championship, it even is already...
CON-VINCE-ING ; CARTER'S 45 KEEP NETS IN PLAYOFF CHASE
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amNets 99 Celtics 86 Vince Carter had the urge to speak up yesterday. So he told the Nets to get after it from the start. Don't waste time. "I told...
VIJAY, PHIL MUM ON SPAT
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMASTERSNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Talk of the Friday afternoon set-to in the Masters champion's locker room between Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, two of the game's heavyweights, was still buzzing around...
SIERRA'S HR CAPS 5-RUN UPRISING IN 7TH
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8Orioles 5 It is not often that a journeyman like Bruce Chen will out-pitch a future Hall of Famer like Randy Johnson, but that's what happened for six innings...
'PROSPECT' ROMPS IN OPENER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00am1ST RACE - This heat was over a blink after gates opened as Sarah's Prospect, 7-5 for Gill-Shuman with Aaron Gryder up, dashed to daylight lead while still in hand....
'ROAD' LOOKS UNBEATABLE ; STEINBRENNER'S COLT CAPTURES WOOD BY 17+
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner will be a short price to add a Kentucky Derby cup alongside his six World Series trophies May 7 at Churchill Downs, thanks to a budding superstar named...
YANKEES RALLY TO SAVE RANDY: RIVERA GIVES SIGH OF RELIEF
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIT gets late early around here. Yogi once said that, now Willie Randolph agrees. Five games into what would be an unacceptable fifth year without a World Championship, it already...
RANDOLPH: MATCH-UP A CLASSIC
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Willie Randolph put it best about today's pitching duel. "A classic match-up," the Mets manager said. "Two of the all-time great pitchers." Those would be Pedro...
TURNING POINT FOR DIMARCO
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Chris DiMarco could be known as golfer who had a nice pro career, earned some nice coin and won a few tournaments. Or he could be known as...
AIMING TO LOOK GOOD IN GREEN ; TIGER SURGING WHILE DIMARCO CLINGS TO LEAD
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Watch out Chris DiMarco. Look out Augusta National. Brace yourself, golf world. Order looks like it might be about to be restored. Tiger Woods, 0-for-his-last-10 in major championships,...
DECLINE TO FIVE ; METS CAN'T FIND WAY TO MAKE A LIVING
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amBraves 6Mets 3 ATLANTA - If these Mets really want to be ambitious, the 1962 club started 0-9. Here's to the dream. There is only one winless team in baseball,...
SPIKE SPAT STICKS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - Talk of the Friday afternoon set-to in the Masters champion's locker room between Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, two of the game's heavyweights, was still buzzing...
METS NEARING FUTILITY BENCHMARKS
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amBraves 6 Mets 3 ATLANTA - If these Mets really want to be ambitious, the 1962 club started 0-9. Here's to the dream. There is only one winless team in...
TOLBERT UNSUITABLE FOR NBA ON ABC
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT makes ESPN's Tom Tolbert excel as an NBA analyst is what probably will get him fired eventually. He's a little too honest and a little too goofy. In sports...
WALSH: ISIAH'S DOIN' RIGHT ; INDY PREZ: KNICKS JUST NEED A CENTER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Pacerspresident Donnie Walsh defended Isiah Thomas' work and believes the Knicks' situation is not as bad as Jason Kidd thinks. The Brooklyn-born Walsh, who fired Thomas as Indy...
SHOP TAMPA'S BARGAIN RACK
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amDON'T laugh, but the Devil Rays are awe some. Or will be awesome. OK, at the very least, they have a crop of awesome players that will help your rotisserie...
REASON FOR OPTIMISM, OR JUST A SETUP?
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amSO GARY Bettman and his executive mouth pieces believe that the CBA concept pres ented to the league by the PA last Monday might be workable - if the numbers...
DEER SEASON CHANGES LOOM
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amNEW York has submitted the proposed changes for the deer hunting season and it looks like the one major problem that existed was resolved. Off all the changes, the one...
HOMETOWN HERO - FRIENDS IN MACON SPEAK UP FOR ROCKER
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amMACON, Ga. - Walk into the Middlebrooks Athletic Center at First Presbyterian Day School and you immediately know where John Loy Rocker resides in the hearts and minds of those...
'ROID & WRONG IMPRESSIONS - LATINOS, PITCHERS PREVALENT IN FIRST SWEEP
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAs the controversy around steroids in baseball has swirled the past few years, there has been speculation about who is using steroids and who is not. Rumors circulated, accusations were...
AIMING TO LOOK GOOD IN GREEN - DIMARCO'S IN FRONT BY FOUR; TIGER LURKING
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Chris DiMarco has been so close to slipping on the Masters Green Jacket, he must know what the texture of the fabric feels like. Now the trick is...
SILENT SPRING - LITTLE GOOD TO SAY ABOUT HOOPS & PUCKS THIS YEAR
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S quiet around here. It's too quiet. It's springtime, and baseball has blossomed, and people are fretting about the Yankees and they're killing the Mets and all of that is...
MONSTER CONTRACT - GODZILLA SWINGING FOR $75M OR MORE IN FREE AGENCY
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amHIDEKI Matsui is going to be the best free agent available after this season, though nobody believes he really will be available. Matsui shunned Yankee overtures this spring. He told...
THE POST'S ALL-PSAL TEAM
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amPLAYER OF THE YEAR Jamel Jackson Lincoln, 6-2, Sr. G Jamel Jackson watched Sebastian Telfair make crucial plays for Lincoln for three years before the guard stepped into the spotlight...
HEAD TO HEAD - RUSHER ROULETTE
April 10, 2005 | 4:00amPost football prognosticator Dave Blezow and columnist Steve Serby slug it out over whether the Jets should trade enigmatic sackmaster John Abraham Dave Blezow: You can make quite a highlight...