May 8, 2005

CANDY GIRL IS BACK IN BEAUTY BIZ

After some sour dealings in the cosmetic industry, the creator of Hard Candy is again filling store shelves with unconventional beauty products. At age 21, pre-med student Dineh Mohajer created...

BATH & BODY WORKS GETS A MAKEOVER

Bath & Body Works is shedding its gingham country image - and taking on higher-end retail rivals - to snare a bigger share of the $40 billion beauty market. "We're...

FAT CHANCE TV - DIET CHANNEL PLANS TO LURE LOSERS EVERYWHERE

Couch potatoes, beware - a team of heavy hitters is banking on weight loss as the next TV frontier. Bluefly founder Ken Seiff, advertising honcho Jonathan Bond and hotshot producer...

PASTA MAMA - EVERYONE'S WELCOME AT 'LIDIA'S TABLE'

WHILE it's true that there may be no free lunch, there are lunches worth working for, and even some worth working all the way through to dessert for. Last week,...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

ANIMALS Barking mad FOUR dogs receive the healing touch of Cesar Millan, the Dr. Phil of canine behavorists, on "The Dog Whisperer. Lucy is a Dalmatian with a terrible mood...

'OPRAH' GOES LOWBROW DURING SWEEPS

BY now, most of us don't need to be told when a TV sweeps period is on. That's when, based on local TV news reports, "sweeps food" is sold at...

NATION OF NUTS COMES FROM 'SPRINGER TRIANGLE'

BOOKERS on "The Jerry Springer Show" call it "the Springer triangle." As explained last week on the VH-1 documentary "When Jerry Springer Ruled the World," the Springer triangle is that...

SOLID GOLD - AN IRISHMAN DANCES IN ELVIS PRESLEY'S BLUE SUEDE SHOES; FIT FOR THE KING

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS was 20 days old when Elvis Presley died in 1977. Now he's playing the King in a CBS miniseries that begins tonight. To American audiences, Rhys Meyers,...

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

REDS (1981) Monday, 12 midnight, TCM Warren Beatty is Commie journo John Reed, caught up in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Diane Keaton is indy journo Louise Bryant who romances Reed...

GANGSTA WRAP

IN 1972, Sergio Leone - the Italian filmmaker noted for cooking up spaghetti westerns - turned down an offer to direct "The Godfather" because he had his own idea for...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

Gen Y malaise The effortlessly realistic "Funny Ha Ha" depicts post-college angst - hangovers, hookups, too much free (unemployed) time - with a light enough touch to make Gen Xers...

HIGH SEA - THE BAND'S TOURS CAN DO SERIOUS DAMAGE

Being a member of British Sea Power can be a dangerous experience. The Brit-pop, Bowie-esque art-punks are an accident-prone, drunken fivesome, constantly pushing the limits of safety on- and off-stage....

QUICK BITES - THE TASTIEST EVENTS THIS WEEK

HAY DAY: Mario Batali calls her "the new Zen mistress of simplicity in both technique and presentation." Meet Australian kitchen sensation and New York Post columnist Donna Hay at the...

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE - A TOUR OF SKYWALKER RANCH BIRTHPLACE OF 'STAR WARS'

Like many of a certain age, I can remember - perfectly and with joy - the first time I saw "Star Wars." I was 8 years old when the movie...

SITH HAPPENS - DESPITE SOME GROANS, THIS IS THE 'STAR WARS' FANS HAVE WAITED FOR

"HOLD me, Anakin! "Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo!" Oh boy. Yes, Natalie Portman really says that to Hayden Christensen in the new "Star Wars" movie,...

THE HOT SEAT: ROGER WATERS

PINK Floyd's "The Wall," released in 1979, combined a symphonic blast of classic rock with a storyline about alienation, war and the life of an English schoolboy. It spent 15...

REQUIRED READING

Happy Mother's Day from Salon columnists Camille Peri and Kate Moses, who earlier offered "Mothers Who Think" and are now out with the thought-provoking, laugh-inducing "Because I Said So: 33...

FOND-DUE - IT'S ABOUT TIME JANE RETURNED TO THE SCREEN

WELCOME back, Jane Fonda. No matter what you think of her politics - or her remarkable lifetime of personal or professional re-invention - it's great to have her back onscreen...

THIS WEEK'S CDS

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND "Stand Up" ½ (three and a half stars) RCA You can't help but miss the extended jams that used to fuel the Dave Matthews Band's records, but...

DIVAS' DUET - MOTHER'S DAY SHOPPING WITH GASTINEAU GIRLS

THE Gastineau Girls are already an hour late. Brittny and Lisa, the mother/daughter drama duo on E!'s reality TV show "The Gastineau Girls," were supposed to be downtown at Century...

CLONE AROUND - ISHIGURO NOVEL PACKS GENETIC CHILLS, THRILLS

NEVER LET ME GO Kazuo Ishiguro (four stars) Knopf, $24 "'THE Boys from Brazil' set in a prep school" is how a screenwriter might pitch Booker Prize winner Ishiguro's chilling...

MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT

TRADER LOOKING TO BUY, SELL ROMANCE THE man in the hot seat at Meet Market this week is Vikas, a handsome Age TK currency sales trader who modestly describes himself...

HERE COMES THE HUMWEE; LITTLE GIANT FITS CITY ROADS

Hubba-Hummer! Celebrities and soccer moms alike are lining up to be the first to own the smaller, more affordable version in GM's Hummer series, due to hit Manhattan next month....

ROLLICKIN' ROBIN CHEERS TRAGIC GIRL

A "regular guy."A 10-year-old girl who lost her brother in a bike crash got some attention from superstar Robin Williams, chatting and joking with the man she dubbed "a regular...

SUBWAY HEROES SAVE FALLEN MAN

One wobbly straphanger is the luckiest man in the New York underground. The rail rider faced certain doom when he apparently became overcome by the side effects of an evening...

ROAD RUNS OUT FOR BOSS' BELLAMY

LOUISVILLE - Going into yesterday's Kentucky Derby, George Steinbrenner's strapping colt Bellamy Road looked unbeatable as the 5-2 favorite, coming off two straight victories by a combined 331/4 lengths including...

TEARS FOR TERON; LAID TO REST AMID PUSH FOR HOSP LAW

On the same day heartbroken family and friends buried Bronx boy Teron Francis, a state lawmaker and a judge said they're penning legislation to avoid gut-wrenching feuds like the one...

COLLEGE GAL KILLED IN SMASH-UP

A young woman was killed yesterday on a Long Island highway when her car struck another vehicle and then slammed into a tree. Diana Hee Joo Kim, 21, was driving...

WORD TO MOMS:ENJOY THE CHAOS

WHY ANIMALS SLEEP SO CLOSE TO THE ROAD (AND OTHER LIES I TELL MY CHILDREN) BY SUSAN KONIG ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 224 PAGES, $24.95 LIKE many journalists who become full-time...

GOP: PARTY OF BLOAT

THE Republican promise of smaller, less-intrusive government is getting harder and harder to believe. Especially when a more plausible plot line is unfolding every day: that the GOP has put...

FDNY ROOKIE RACKS UP 1ST RESCUE

A rookie firefighter reacted like a veteran yesterday when he helped an elderly woman from a blazing Inwood apartment building in his very first rescue. Tom Zambrano, 25, and two...

CONTRA-DECEPTION; DOC FAKED 'SEX PATCH' DATA IN '90S

New questions about the safety of a trendy contraceptive patch have been raised with revelations that the maker's chief researcher faked data in previous scientific studies. In the mid-1990s, Dr....

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Attention, anybody reading this paper in the future: Save yesterday's date. MIT student Amal Dorai hosted a Time Traveler Convention on campus yesterday and was hoping that any travelers from...

JEN'S A 2-TIME MATRI-PHONEY; JILTED FIANCÉ IN PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks cruelly ditched another fiancé over the phone eight years ago - after the pair had already picked out an engagement ring and went...

'LIVE'LY PAULA RIBS HERSELF IN SEX FLAP

Embattled "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul made a cameo appearance on "Saturday Night Live" last night, mocking recent bombshell charges she had a secret affair with a show contestant as...

METROCARD BOOST FOR RESCUE UNITS

The FDNY has distributed over 1,200 MetroCards to all fire and EMS units so workers can enter subway stations quickly during emergencies. The cards were issued by the Metropolitan Transportation...

GIFF: GRAB WTC SITE FOR CITY

Mayor Bloomberg should take over the Ground Zero rebuilding effort from the state and the Port Authority, mayoral hopeful Gifford Miller said yesterday. "There are too many cooks in the...

NYU STUDENTS CHEER AND JEER 'CON' COLLEAGUE

Disgraced NYU math student Hakan Yalincak, accused of depositing millions of dollars in bogus checks and bilking investors of $2.8 million in phony hedge funds, had at least one supporter...

FROM RUSSIA WITH BRAINS ; TEEN SIBS 'MASTER' NYU GRAD SCHOOL

These teen sisters are a class act. Anjela and Diana Knyazeva are about to earn their sixth college degree in seven years. At an age when most teenage girls are...

MARY KAY'S PLACE; SEX TEACH HITS BEACH IN LOVE SHACK WITH BOY BEAU

Mary Kay Letourneau and her boy-toy husband-to-be Vili Fualaau have finally found their home sweet home. Their simple, two-story beachfront love nest sits on the edge of the Puget Sound...

HIDDEN HOLOCAUST; SULZBERGER'S SHAME

BURIED BY THE TIMES: THE HOLOCAUST AND AMERICA'S MOST IMPORTANT NEWSPAPER BY LAUREL LEFF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 426 PAGES, $29 ON this 60th anniversary of the allied triumph over Nazism,...

E. VILLAGE UP IN ARMS OVER DORM HEIGHT

A Buildings Department foul-up let an East Village building go up six stories higher than it should have, say angry neighbors who have gone to court in hope of cutting...

OUTPOURING OF LOVE FOR SLAIN CO-ED

Family members and friends of slain Lindsey Bonistall gathered to bid farewell to the promising University of Delaware student who was strangled in her college apartment. The pews at St...

ARTSY A LA CARTE-SY ; $108M IN MODERN WORKS UP FOR BID

A coveted contemporary artwork - Maurizio Cattelan's "Ostrich" - is going on the auction block at Christie's next week, and if you want to buy it, get your head out...

VICTIM: OBJECTION! QUEENS DRAG-RACE KIN RIPCELEB LAWYER'S 'STALL' TACTIC

Celebrity lawyer Benedict Morelli - dumped by a 15-year-old client after he allegedly ignored the low-profile case for over a year - is now stopping the hit-and-run victim from seeking...

BROOKLYNITES BARE TEETH IN DOG-RUN FIGHT

Park Slope dog owners are growling about the closing of three small parks in their area used for decades as unofficial dog runs. The three fenced-in parks, near 18th Street...

GREEN DERBY FOR 2 IN N.J.: 864G APIECE

Giacomo's long-shot victory in yesterday's Kentucky Derby made some bettors some big money. Two New Jersey pony pickers won $864,000 each for hitting the $1 superfecta - picking the top...

GOP 'JOINT' RESOLUTION; ALBANY EYES MARIJUANA RX

ALBANY - The push to legalize marijuana in New York for medicinal use has for the first time generated a majority-sponsored bill in the Republican-controlled state Senate - a big...

FORGING AHEAD; CITY OK'D BOGUS PLUMBER PAPERS

AT THE same time that a crooked plumber was serving time at an upstate prison, two city agencies were processing dozens of fraudulent construction permit applications that supposedly bore his...

NIP & TUCK FOR YOUR HOT MAMA

Nothing says, "I love you, mom," like a shot of Botox. Loving sons and daughters are dropping thousands to help mom raise her eyebrows, plump her lips and boost her...

A 'HAIL' OF AN IDEA; METROCARDS EYED FOR APPLE TAXI FARES

They're already good on subways and buses - and the next frontier for MetroCards might be yellow taxis. Cubic Corp., the California-based transportation company that designed New York's MetroCard system,...

COASTER KING IS A TOTAL BLASTOFF!

Thrill seekers, rejoice! The biggest, fastest roller coaster of all time could open as soon as next Thursday at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J. - and roller coaster...

JUDGE KIMBA HIT BY ETHICS ATTACK

Manhattan federal judge Kimba Wood has refused to step aside in a plagiarism suit she's hearing against best-selling author James Patterson - even though they've been neighbors in the same...

L.I. MOM'S SIX PACK ; QUADS AND TWINS IN FOR A TREAT ON HER BIG DAY

It's babies' day out today for Vanessa Geoghegan of Long Island and her half-dozen kids - all born in multiple births. Vanessa, 29, has six kids from just two pregnancies...

SCAM RABBI'S PRAYER; PALS IN PLEA TO JUDGE

A prominent Orthodox Jewish leader is begging a federal judge for mercy in the hope of avoiding prison time for a multimillion-dollar business scam - and he has a slew...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

STATEN ISLAND *** An 82-year-old woman has disappeared and the NYPD is asking for the public's help in locating her. Eleanor West was last seen at 3 p.m. Wednesday near...

SCAM RABBI'S PRAYER - PALS IN PLEA TO JUDGE

A prominent Orthodox Jewish leader is begging a federal judge for mercy in the hope of avoiding prison time for a multimillion-dollar business scam - and he has a slew...

SECRET TAPE REVEALS HILL FUND-RAISER'S FLUB

A tape secretly recorded for the FBI by Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law has Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fund-raiser admitting that a Hollywood gala may have cost way more than her...

JEN A '2-TIMING' MATRI-PHONEY - JILTED FIANCÉ IN 'PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT'

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks cruelly ditched another fiancé over the phone eight years ago - after the pair had already picked out an engagement ring and went...

BRIDGE JUMPER TRACED TO SHELTER

A 20-year-old woman who miraculously survived a suicide attempt off the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday had been struggling to adjust to life in a city homeless shelter, her roommates said...

'CAMIE' BEST IN BOLD RULER

Uncle Camie was able to take advantage of extremely fast fractions set by Don Six to take over the lead in the stretch and draw off to win the Grade...

NO EXPLAINING THIS

LOUISVILLE - What a bust! The most eagerly anticipated Kentucky Derby in ages, run on a glorious day over a perfect track before a huge sellout crowd, exploded yesterday into...

STRONG BREW - METS TAKE SECOND STRAIGHT IN MILWAUKEE

Mets 7 Brewers 5 MILWAUKEE - One night it's Cliff Floyd. Another night it's Mike Piazza. And last night it was Doug Mientkiewicz, Carlos Beltran and Roberto Hernandez. Everyone is...

P.J. FEELS ISIAH TALK WENT WELL

Spurs assistant P.J. Carlesimo told The Post yesterday he was "very encouraged" with his first interview with Isiah Thomas and expects to meet again, perhaps this week. "It was a...

CORRALES IN A CLASSIC ; WINS BY TKO OVER CASTILLO

LAS VEGAS - The Boxing Writers gave out the award for their 2004 Fight of the Year at their annual dinner at Mandalay Bay Friday Night. Last night, they got...

ALONE ON THE MOUND

THERE are days - Mother's Day, for instance - when the walls and the fortresses Anthony Sullivan has constructed inside his heart become a little more vulnerable than usual, a...

TINO TURNS INTO A HERO

Tino Martinez morphed from goat to hero with one swing of the bat yesterday in The Bronx. Martinez erased from memory his bungling boo-boos from a night earlier with a...

OFF TO SEE THE WIZ

TWENTY-THREE years ago, I sat next to Buck Williams on the way home from the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., after the Bullets swept Larry Brown's Nets in a best-of-three...

MOOSE ANSWERS YANKEES' CALL ; SHUTOUT STOPS 4-GAME SLIDE

Yankees 5 A's 0 When Mike Mussina was asked Friday afternoon to react to George Steinbrenner's latest rant, the Yankees righty looked like he was handed a tablespoon of castor...

'BRING IT ON, COACH' ; TOM'S TEMPER SHOULDN'T RATTLE THESE 2 ROOKS

'I don't have any problems with coaches yelling in my face and telling me this and telling me that.'Brandon Jacobs Sure, it can be annoying, but that's the way Tom...

ALEX MAKES SHORT WORK OF OAKLAND

Alex Rodriguez used his short game yesterday to kill the A's at the Stadium. Not quite the display of power he showed in the April 26 game against the Angels...

NO BETTER TIME TO START

Yankees 5 A's 0 THE Yankees need Randy Johnson and Carl Pavano to pitch at least half as well as a brilliant Mike Mussina did yesterday almost every time they...

JOHNSON WILL MAKE NEXT START

YANKEE NOTES For a Yankees team that desperately needs all the good news it can get, Mel Stottlemyre gave a thumb's up on Randy Johnson yesterday. Stottlemyre reported that Johnson...

AMERICA-N LONGSHOT; 17-1 PICK WINS TURF CLASSIC

LOUISVILLE - One of the oldest racing dynasties of the past century vaulted into the spotlight yesterday when the Brady clan's Mill House stable uncorked a smashing longshot winner, America...

NO 'WASTING' TIME VERSUS DEER DISEASE

THE news keeps getting worse for New York's Department of Environmental Conservation with chronic wasting disease showing up in wild whitetail deer in Oneida County. The DEC said it received...

PUNCHLESS METROS FALL TO 'QUAKE

Earthquakes 1MetroStars 0 There are plenty of things the MetroStars can do, but there are three they've proven they can't. They can't score, can't respond to adversity, and can't buy...

POWER SERGIO; GARCIA UP SIX, RUNNING AWAY AT WACHOVIA

CHARLOTTE - All that remains for Sergio Garcia at this week's Wachovia Championship is the coronation. Barring a significant collapse by the 25-year-old Spaniard, by dinnertime tonight he'll be handed...

PIAZZA BEHIND PLATE FOR PEDRO

MET NOTES MILWAUKEE - So much for the personal-catcher theory. Manager Willie Randolph had Mike Piazza in the lineup last night, catching Pedro Martinez for the first time since April...

IT'S WAY TOO EARLY FOR MAYDAY

IS THE beginning of May too early to worry? Or, conversely, is it too early to boast and rest on your laurels? The answer is "yes" to both questions. Too...

NHL'S NEWEST OFFER SAME OLD, SAME OLD

AFTER spending more than a year in sisting that the NHL would never ever agree to a compensation system based primarily on payroll taxes, Gary Bettman proposed just that in...

ALL FOR ONE, WON FOR N.Y. : KNICKS' 1970 CHAMPS THE 'TEAM' THAT TIME WON'T FORGET

IT'S 35 years today since Knicks captain Willis Reed limped out of the tunnel and the Garden combusted in a roar that leaves photographer George Kalinsky still tingling. "It's been...

INJURED JAX WAS ON OUTSIDE CLICKING IN

There is a myth Phil Jackson learned a lot of his coaching trade by sitting next to Red Holzman during the 1969-70 championship season, soaking up the Hall of Fame...

THE GHOSTS OF 1965 - LESSONS FROM THE COLLAPSE OF A YANKEE DYNASTY

HISTORY repeats itself. Even George Steinbrenner has to realize that. Forty years after the Yankees' world came crumbling down with a sixth-place finish, today's Yankees are facing similar woes. Key...

50-1 GIACOMO GRABS ROSES - LONGSHOT TOPS 133G TRIFECTA

LOUISVILLE - In the most shocking 1-2 finish in Kentucky Derby history, 50-1 Giacomo, ridden by Hall-of-Fame jockey Mike Smith, came rumbling down the stretch to post a monumental upset...

HOLD THE MILKSHAKE

LOUISVILLE - The 131st running of the Kentucky Derby yesterday was probably the cleanest, squarest, most honest Run for the Roses ever, with all horses competing on a level playing...

CHURCHILL'S RETIREMENT FOUNDATION REWARDED - HELP FOR RACE VETS

DERBY NOTES LOUISVILLE - Churchill Downs Inc. has been awarded the "Champion Award" by the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation for its work on behalf of the humane retirement of racehorses. Last...

CHARGED BATTERY - PIAZZA CATCHES FOR PEDRO

MILWAUKEE - In the visitors' clubhouse in Miller Park, the lineup card is posted directly on your right when you open the door. Yesterday afternoon, Mike Piazza's name was in...

PEN PRODUCES MIXED RESULTS

MET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Two Met relievers were thrust into pretty critical spots in Friday night's game against the Brewers. One responded well, and one didn't. In the sixth inning...

A. NOTHER KNOW-IT-ALL: ESPN'S SMITH AS SMUG AS FRANCESA

WHEN WILL sports-talk radio hosts cease doing all their shopping at the Emperor's New Clothes factory outlet? Stephen A. Smith, ESPN Radio-NY's latest bad idea, seems to have a lot...

THE WHOLE 7,438 YARDS! WACHOVIA USES ALL THE TRAPPINGS TO LURE GOLF BIGS

CHARLOTTE - It's difficult to accurately pinpoint the exact reason why the best players in the world have been flocking to the Wachovia Championship, a newborn PGA Tour event in...

HITTING THE SOURCE - JOURNO'S JOB NOT SO EASY AFTER ALL, IS IT, JEFF?

LET'S get one thing out of the way at the top, OK? There's never been a sportswriter born who didn't want to trade places with the people they cover, at...

ROTTING FROM INSIDE OUT: HOW A PERFECT STORM OF MISMANAGEMENT HAS IMPERILED YANKEE DYNASTY

BRIAN Cashman left a phone call with agent Alan Nero to join yet another George Steinbrenner-ordered conference call. Some days, especially during the offseason, there could be five or more...

DOWN THE LINE - SEO AND BEHOLD: METS MAY ENJOY MOUND SURPLUS

Jae Seo allowed one hit over seven innings and was demoted to Triple-A, leaving a more positive impression about his abilities this time around. Aaron Heilman was moved to the...

BERNARD MUST MOVE ON - IT'S TIME TO FORGET LOSING LIBEL LAWSUIT

LAS VEGAS - Bernard Hopkins accepted the Manager of the Year Award at the Boxing Writers Dinner held at Mandalay Bay Friday night, a rare occurrence when a fighter is...

AMADO & YOURI FINE FIT FOR METROS

Can two stars coexist in the same proximity without their team getting burned? Can two players who have magical skills with the ball learn to live without it? It's a...

STRONG BREW - METS NOT MILLING AROUND IN MILWAUKEE

METS 7 BREWERS 5 MILWAUKEE - One night it's Aaron Heilman. Another night it's Mike Piazza. And last night it was Doug Mientkiewicz, Carlos Beltran and Roberto Hernandez. Everyone is...