April 19, 2005
BIG OIL COMPANIES ARE STEALING YOUR HARD-EARNED CASH
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amBLOODSUCKERS! That's the only way to describe American oil companies, which are seeing their profits rise by unconscionable amounts even as the entire U.S. economy suffers. I hate getting cranky...
MARTHA GETS SATELLITE CHANNEL DEAL, SIRIUS-LY
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is joining Howard Stern and the Maxim Magazine babes as talent on Sirius satellite radio. The domestic diva has signed a four-year deal to launch a 24-hour radio...
UNIVERSAL STRIKES DEAL TO BILL FOR MUSIC VIDEOS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amTired of seeing other companies building business with free content from the music industry, Universal Music reached a deal yesterday to begin charging America Online for streaming music videos over...
JAY-Z WINDS UP LIMITED EDITION WATCH DEAL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amJay-Z's move to the executive suite at Island Def Jam isn't keeping the rap mogul from tending to his other businesses. The rapper-turned-executive will unveil a line of limited edition...
GOLDMAN IN HUNT FOR SITE
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amGOLDMAN Sachs is wasting no time in its search for alternatives to Battery Park City's Site 26, where it had been expected to build a new, 1.9 million-square-foot headquarters tower....
EBBERS: TOSS MY VERDICT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amBernard Ebbers wants a do-over. The former CEO of WorldCom, found guilty last month of running the largest corporate fraud ever, wants his verdict tossed and to be given a...
VARVATOS ZIPS UP NEW DEAL WITH WRANGLER PARENT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amFashion designer John Varvatos and the VF Corp. have formed a new company, John Varvatos Enterprises, ending two years of uncertainty over the future of the designer's brand, executives involved...
RENSHAW SETS FIRM DEPARTURE FOR STARTUP
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMusic manager Simon Renshaw, who represents artists such as the Dixie Chicks and Clay Aiken, resigned from talent management company The Firm and will start his own company, The Post...
HANK: SHOW ME THE FRAUD
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amHank Greenberg is still looking for perks. The recently-ousted CEO of embattled insurer AIG wants to take a peek at the internal investigation report before it is handed over to...
$12.6B KICKOFF - ABC HANDS OFF MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL TO ESPN
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe National Football League nabbed a cool $12.6 billion from ESPN and NBC yesterday to air games on Monday and Sunday nights. Beginning in 2006, ABC's Monday Night Football is...
GEMSTAR TO LAUNCH TV FANZINE
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amInside TV, a new magazine aimed at young women, hits newsstands Thursday with a cover interview with hot "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria. The question is: Will all the publicity...
ABBOUD OUT OVER FEUD
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amDesigner Joseph Abboud plans to leave the company he founded when his contract expires in July over creative differences with Marty Staff, the new chief executive, people familiar with the...
MERRILL POACHES CITI BANKERS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amDespite rumors of a bubble, real estate is still moving ... at least on Wall Street. In a move to regain its reputation as a premier player in real estate,...
NEW FAN MAGAZINE BY TV GUIDE PARENT TO HIT NEWSSTANDS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amInside TV, a new magazine aimed at young women, hits newsstands Thursday with a cover interview with hot "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria. It was also slated to get a...
CUT IT OUT ALREADY - WHY ARE SO MANY DVD BONUSES BOGUS?
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amHOW much "Meet the Fockers" do we really need? Even its director admits that the new, extended cut of the Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller hit comedy, out today...
MOVIES YOU CAN SEE AT TRIBECA
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amUNLESS you're good pals with Robert DeNiro, fuggeddaboud scoring a ticket to tonight's invitation-only opener at the Tribeca Film Festival, the U.S. premiere of the political thriller "The Interpreter" with...
SWINGIN' RAT PACK MUSICAL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Rat Pack rides again. Sort of. PBS has picked up a British special, called "The Rat Pack - Live from Las Vegas" based on a popular stage show in...
BULLIED WITHOUT MERCY - CLAY: 'I DIDN'T WANT TO SING'
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amCLAY Aiken opens up on today's "Dr. Phil" about the merciless bullying he endured in junior high school - and how it made the future "American Idol" star a better...
FINALE DOESN'T HELP 'ARRESTED'
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHE future of "Arrested Development" - the highly acclaimed but low-rated comedy that is sweating out renewal - was still very much in doubt yesterday after Sunday night's season finale...
ROB & AMBER PULL A TRISTA & RYAN
April 19, 2005 | 4:00am'SURVIVOR" sweethearts Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich - currently competing on "The Amazing Race 7" - were married Saturday night under skin-tight security in the Bahamas at the Atlantis resort....
'PIAZZA' DOESN'T CATCH TRUE MUSIC OF ITALIAN TOUR TALE
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amAMERICANS in Italy, in the summer of 1953: A mother and daughter, guidebook in hand, are in the Piazza Signoria in Florence. The wind catches the girl's hat, and a...
STARR REPORT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMoore help is near Julianne Moore, who joined Teri Hatcher and Calista Flockhart early this month to raise over $300,000 for the fight against Tuberous Sclerosis, is moving her fundraising...
KERMIT OF OZ - MUPPETS HIT THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Muppets are invading the Land of Oz. The famous story of a Kansas girl who finds out the hard way that there's no place like home has been adapted...
BURN, BABY, BURN - WORKING HARD ON A BEACH-BUFF BOD; SWEATING OVER SPRING WORKOUTS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00am'DROP and give me five!" This is my warm welcome at Pure Power Boot Camp, where I hope to whip my body into bikini-worthy shape. Yes, it's that time of...
DIFFERENT STROKES - TRAVELERS WHO HIT THE ROAD IN THE OFF-SEASON CAN EXPECT AFFORDABLE LUXURY, NO CROWDS AND DOUBLE THEIR RELAXATION. DAVID LANDSEL PICKS FOUR TOP DESTINATIONS WHERE PRICES PLUMMET WHEN THE WEATHER TURNS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amVANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. When to go: Winter How's the weather: Wet and wild. Life on this temperate rainforest island, just 85 miles from Seattle, continues apace throughout the darker months,...
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amFOLLOW THAT STAR LAST spring, actor Stanley Tucci was the subject of much discussion, thanks to an alleged entanglement with actress Edie Falco - while still being married. Laurie Heifetz...
THE 911 PHONE YOU DON'T WANT TO CALL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amIf you have an Internet-based service provider, your life-and-death 911 calls will probably be routed to this ordinary NYPD phone - and not to emergency operators trained to help in...
FALL OF E. SIDE EMPIRE - $30M CONDO SUIT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe glitzy new Empire Condominium Tower on the Upper East Side is more like the faulty tower, an explosive new lawsuit charges. Apartment owners slapped the building's developers with a...
KERREY GETS COLD FEET IN RACE FOR CITY HALL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amNew School University President Bob Kerrey said yesterday it is "unlikely" he will run for mayor - and suggested he might back a Democrat, even though he recently agreed to...
STAY TUNED FOR CELLULAR TV PHONES
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amForget Dick Tracy and his silly TV-screen watch. In the very near future, you'll be able to watch prime-time television on a cellphone. "It's a technology that's here," said Neil...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amYou've heard of road rage. Now comes computer rage. An online survey by the University of Maryland's Laboratory of Automation Psychology and Decision Processes found that 20 percent of the...
STRAHAN: SACK WIFE'S DIVORCE BID
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amGiants star Michael Strahan has demanded that a New Jersey court drop his wife's divorce claim, and "vehemently" denies he cheated on and bullied her during their marriage. In new...
HOWARD'S END - FAMED TIMES SQUARE HOJO'S CLOSING
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amTimes Square's Howard Johnson's, a neon-lit, fast-food landmark in the Crossroads of the World for 50 years, will soon be razed to make way for a glamorous new retail development,...
FLAMING INFORMANT SPARED
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA key informant who helped the feds nab a major terror-financier has dodged prison on bank-fraud charges - despite his setting himself on fire outside the White House last fall....
COUNCIL RIPS CABLE EXECS OVER METS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amExecutives of Cablevision and Time Warner - locked in a dispute that has blacked out Met games on Time Warner Cable - got an earful yesterday from lawmakers, who warned...
DEMS' SUICIDE PLOT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amDEMOCRATS in Washington may be on the verge of making a calamitous political error. What's more, they have every reason to know it - because they saw Washington's Republicans make...
50 NEW WEST BANK HOMES
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel announced yesterday that it was planning to build 50 homes in a West Bank settlement - and was immediately slapped by the Bush administration. President Bush "made...
FOUR MORE CHARTERS TO OPEN
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's effort to expand academic choice got a boost yesterday when the state Board of Regents gave the nod to four charter schools to open here in the fall....
CONEY AI-EEE LAND - FREE-FALL RIDE COMING
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMove over, Cyclone, there's a new thrill in town. The "Super Shot," a 100-foot-tall free-fall ride is coming to Coney Island this summer and could give the old roller coaster...
JENNINGS' BEHAVIOR INCENSES CITY POLS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMembers of the City Council were fuming yesterday over shocking transcripts revealing how Councilman Allan Jennings harassed two female employees. Jennings is set to be sanctioned by the council tomorrow,...
CENTRAL PK. PLAN TO LIMIT RALLIES
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amIt's going to be tougher than ever to secure a permit for massive demonstrations in Central Park. Under new rules proposed yesterday by the Parks Department, only six gatherings of...
'GUNPLAY' COP GUILTY - FACES 3 YEARS IN DELI SLAY
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA retired NYPD detective, accused of fatally shooting a Queens deli clerk during "horseplay" last fall, will spend one to three years behind bars after copping a plea yesterday -...
8 LAWBREAKING COPS GET AN F ON INTEGRITY TEST
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amNearly one out of every 100 police officers committed a crime when the opportunity was presented by undercover Internal Affairs cops, a top NYPD official said yesterday. The department conducted...
MAN STABBED TO DEATH AT QNS. CLUB
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA brawl at a Queens nightspot early yesterday spilled out onto the street, where one man was fatally stabbed and two friends who tried to save him were slashed, police...
KERREY BACKS OFF RACE FOR CITY HALL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amNew School University President Bob Kerrey said yesterday it is "unlikely" he will run for mayor - and suggested he might back a Democrat, even though he recently had agreed...
MAN SHOT IN HOME INVASION A PEACENIK
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe grad student shot in a home-invasion horror on the Upper West Side is a peace activist who hails from a small Pennsylvania town and moved to the Big Apple...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police say this is the livery driver (above) who raped an 18-year-old woman in his cab last week. The attack began at about 4:45 a.m. on April 11,...
SCHOOL OOO-LA HOOPLA - PARENTS SUE FOR $5M
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn couple is seeking $5 million from the city, claiming school officials tried to have them arrested and fired their 9-year-old daughter as a hall monitor after they questioned...
JUDGE ORDERS 2 OIL-FOOD SUSPECTS TO ZIP THEIR LIPS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday barred two Texas oilmen, charged in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program, from discussing the...
MIDGET-CASE JURY HEARS SHORT STORY
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amHe should have picked on someone his own size. The midget mother and daughter who were allegedly terrorized by their neighbor stood tall yesterday as they faced the grand jury...
CUNY COLLEGES GIVE BEST BANG FOR YOUR BOOK$
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA top-notch education at a bargain-basement price is in the city's back yard, according to The Princeton Review. The company ranked City University's Brooklyn College and Queens College seventh and...
HILL RAKING IN MILLIONS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton raised nearly $4 million in the first three months of this year as she revs up for her 2006 re-election campaign - and perhaps...
I WAS JUST A NOBODY MOM - JACKO ACCUSER'S MELTDOWN
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - The allegedly fame-starved mom of Michael Jackson's sex accuser yesterday conceded that she had suffered from mental illness because she was "sad about being a nobody."...
ROBBERY SUSPECT NABBED
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teenager was arrested for sticking up a Coney Island grocery store - after cops found him sitting in front of the store he allegedly robbed. Francisco Alicea was...
FALLEN STAR - ARREST ORDERED IN THREAT VS. POOCH
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amAn angry Manhattan judge yesterday issued an arrest warrant for troubled movie star Natasha Lyonne after she skipped court amid charges she went berserk on a fellow Gramercy Park tenant...
AX SEX TEACHERS: JOEL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein today will call for legislation mandating the immediate firing of any educator who engages in sexual acts with a public school student. Aides to the schools...
FREDDY IS BULLISH ON WALL STREET SCHOOL TAX
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amAdmitting that "some who hear this will howl," Fernando Ferrer yesterday proposed a new stock-transfer tax to generate $3.5 billion over four years for schools. Ferrer, who is running for...
KOFI'S MAN TIED TO OILY KOREAN'S RAFT OF GRAFT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amAn aide to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday acknowledged ties with a shady South Korean man indicted Thursday for bribery in the oil-for-food scandal. Maurice Strong, a Canadian businessman who...
SHOT GIRL SCARED OF GOING OUT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx girl who was shot in front of her apartment building over the weekend said yesterday she's afraid to leave home. "I'm nervous," said Jaimin Montilla, 9, who was...
'COMEBACK' KID BUSTED
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teenager was arrested for sticking up a Coney Island grocery store - after cops found him sitting in front of the store he robbed seven months earlier, police...
POSH CONDO IN STATE OF RUIN: SUIT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe glitzy new Empire Condominium Tower on the Upper East Side is more like the faulty tower, an explosive lawsuit charges. Apartment owners slapped the building's developers with a $30...
KEY INFORMANT SPARED
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe informant who set himself on fire last year after helping the feds nab a major terror financier has dodged prison on bank-fraud charges. Mohamed Alanssi, 53, had two strikes...
CAR SLAMS INTO BOY, 5, ON SIDEWALK
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA 5-year-old Brooklyn boy was seriously injured last night when a car ran a red light and rammed another automobile, sending it flying onto the sidewalk and into the youngster,...
FLESH-EATING BACTERIA KILLS 10-YEAR-OLD BRONX GIRL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Bronx girl who loved jumping rope and studying science has been killed by a rare "flesh-eating bacteria," city health officials and relatives said last night. Nathera Massoud, a...
THE BLOOMING OF SPRING
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amNothing says spring like the blooming cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C. Here's how the famous flower fest got started. What would evolve into the two-week celebration known as the Cherry...
ISIAH'S WILD FOR WALLY
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amExpect Knicks president Isiah Thomas to make another run at disgruntled Timberwolves star Wally Szczerbiak this summer. After the Wolves were eliminated from the playoffs Sunday, the Long Island sharpshooter...
JEFFERSON STILL EYES RETURN FOR PLAYOFFS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES Although Richard Jefferson isn't scheduled to visit the doctor until tomorrow, he said it was nearly a "foregone conclusion" that he would be able to return to the...
DEVILS' GOMEZ INJURED
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amNo-names taking runs at stars. This is the sort of reprehensible incident we can expect to see regularly in a Replacement NHL. While Devil GM Lou Lamoriello insists that Scott...
RANDOLPH PREACHING PATIENCE
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It's a good thing for Kaz Matsui that George Steinbrenner doesn't own the Mets. Ditto tonight's starter, Victor (Waiting For) Zambrano. Even struggling young third baseman David Wright...
BELTRAN: DON'T REST ME
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - This year, Carlos Beltran hopes to do something he hasn't done since 2002. Play in every game. Beltran is one of three Mets to have played...
GIANTS LOVE ROUND 2
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amAmong the many aspects of the process Tim Carter did not understand was that teams lie. If not lie, at least lead-on to the point of, well, not being entirely...
TANYON DL'D; GROOM UP
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Early yesterday, Tanyon Sturtze thought he might be able to pitch by today. A few hours later, Sturtze found out he was going on the disabled list. Before...
NO SLAM DUNK - CARTER: NETS HAVE TO EARN POSTSEASON
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amWith their win on Sunday over the Sixers, the Nets managed to push past Cleveland and into the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Despite the Nets' recent success...
THE ENVELOPES, PLEASE ...
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amFOR those scoring in the league office, this is how I voted for ... MVP - Would the real Stevie Franchise please stand up? Everyone says the key to beating...
AMAZIN' LACK OF PITCHING
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Mets won't have seen everyone in the NL East until the weekend when the Nationals come to Shea, but the first go-round shows just how difficult this...
YEESH-II - KAZ CAN'T FIND PLATE AS METS FALL
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amPhillies 5 - Mets 4 PHILADELPHIA - Thirteen pitches into Kaz Ishii's start last night, the Mets had to know they were in trouble. That's because 12 of those pitches...
WILD NIGHT FOR HEREDIA
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - It was a pretty eventful two-thirds of an inning for Felix Heredia. Appearing for the first time since April 9, the lefty reliever suffered from a...
THE DEVIL RAYS MADE 'EM DO IT - BOMBERS BREAK OUT, HAMMER TAMPA BAY
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 19 - Devil Rays 8 Last night, America Online posed a referendum question that read: "Steinbrenner Blasts His Team. Does He Help Or Hurt Yankees?" The more compelling question...
DESPITE WIN, ALL NOT WRIGHT
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS should have made everyone involved with the Yankees feel better, starting with old Knute Rockne himself. George Steinbrenner scathed his players, manager and coaches within a press release following...
JARET SHAKY IN VICTORY
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe Yankees were up 13-0 after a second-inning explosion, but with Jaret Wright on the hill, it just didn't feel like a very safe lead. Not the way he was...
BOMBERS HIT THE RESTART BUTTON - NOT SURPRISED BY GEORGE'S MISSIVE, YANKS RETURN HOME
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThere were no "When the goin' gets tough..." signs around Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon. This time, Billy Ocean wasn't blaring from the speakers during BP. Nevertheless, George Steinbrenner put his...
SWEET LOU IS SINGING BLUES TOO
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amIn one clubhouse, the Yankees were on alert after George Steinbrenner issued a statement that his team is not playing up to snuff. Down the hall, Tampa Bay manager Lou...
THE DEVIL RAYS MADE HIM DO IT: BOSS PICKS A FINE TIME TO ISSUE SEASON'S 1ST WARNING
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amYOU go to bed one day a dynasty and awake the Knicks. Are the Yankees there yet? Have they taken the turn from overwhelming to overpaid? From historic to pathetic?...
YANKEES DL TANYON, GIVE CALL-UP TO GROOM
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Early yesterday, Tanyon Sturtze thought he might be able to pitch by today. A few hours later, Sturtze found out he was going on the disabled list. The...
SILENT MIKE - QUIET BATS PLAGUE PIAZZA, METS
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It's always tough to splash a pitcher of cold water on a streak where the Mets have won six games out of seven. But despite their sudden burst,...
JETS EYEING BIG POOL OF TALENT AT DB
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jets are not short on needs as the 2005 NFL Draft creeps closer. It's been widely speculated that they're going to go after a cornerback with the 26th overall...
SUPER FREAK - JETS SHOULD ROLL OUT WELCOME MATT FOR ARKANSAS' DO-IT-ALL STAR JONES
April 19, 2005 | 4:00amHe would be a luxury for the Jets more than a necessity, but fantasize about the possibilities: Chad Pennington drops back, scans the field, and looks for Laveranues Coles, and...