May 22, 2005

JIBJAB JOKERS CREATE WEB FEAT FOR BUDWEISER

Budweiser has hired the masterminds behind the most widely watched political spoof of the last presidential election to launch a comedic assault on its competitors. JibJab, founded by brothers Gregg...

IPOD VIDEO? REASONS TO BELIEVE IT

Is Apple readying an iPod video player that could hit store shelves by next holiday season? Tech Web sites are buzzing with reasons to believe it's so. The addition of...

PIMP MY WRIST: LUX WATCHES ALL THE RAGE

Watch out Switzerland - there's new competition on the luxury timepiece turf. The $2 billion luxury watch category had an uptick of 10 to 15 percent in both sales and...

BULL'S EYE

Nearly two years ago, a trusted advisor to NBC executive Randy Falco advised his friend to temper his resentment towards his colleague and rising star Jeff Zucker's positioning of himself...

FROM DAN TO MARTHA, A SEASON OF INFAMY

AND now - a few misty, water-colored memories of the way we were. Sorry - but I can't help feeling nostalgic every time the end of a TV season draws...

'EMPIRE FALLS' - PAUL NEWMAN ASSEMBLES AN ALL-STAR CAST FOR TALE OF DYING MILL TOWN

A STORY about a New England mill town on its last legs that's populated by a bunch of characters who eke out a living running empty bars and diners might...

MEET GARY COLEMAN, JACKO TRIAL REPORTER

THE Dignity In Newscasting Promo of the Week is presented to MSNBC for its May 11th come-on to watch Scarborough Country." Graphic: "Whatchoo talkin' bout, Joe?" Video: Shots of Gary...

WINNERS & LOSERS ARE BOTH COVERED

YOU can't tell a good chess book by its cover, but there are some telltale signs of a dubious one. Here are some tipoffs: 1. Misleading title: Every new book...

'BAD' IS GOOD

CINE File first saw"Bad Boy Bubby" at the Rotterdam Film Festival way back in 1994. He sang the film's praises, then waited for it to get a run in New...

THE HOT SEAT - MARY LYNN RAJSKUB

AS the socially maladjusted, perpetually seething IT geek Chloe on "24," Mary Lynn Rajskub has managed to do what few of her fellow cast members have: create a personality almost...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

REALLY TRASHY REALITY FURTHER proof that US Weekly gets just about everything right, this week's premiere of the greatest reality show ever, "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic," documents an unholy romance...

MONKEY BIZ - GORILLAZ DELIVER ANIMATED HIP-POP

ANIMATED pop act Gorillaz exist in a two-dimensional world, coming to life on the stereo and on the Internet, but its four manufactured members insist on being taken seriously in...

HEAR THIS

IN CONCERT * Through Wednesday, Bright Eyes and dark-wave group the Faint at Webster Hall * Power-pop Fountains of Wayne kick off Central Park's SummerStage series today. * At Irving...

THIS WEEK'S CDS

STEPHEN MALKMUS "Face The Truth" (two stars) Matador Records On his third post-Pavement endeavor, the revered indie-rocker Stephen Malkmus turns in a low-tech album that sounds like it was proudly...

ONE 'MAD' ALI G

"Madagascar" is full of comedians, from Chris Rock and Ben Stiller to Cedric the Entertainer and Andy Richter. But the breakout star, test audiences agree, is Sasha Baron Cohen -...

THIS WEEK'S MOVIES

SECOND BEST "Big Chill"-ish comedy about a group of college-pal guys nearing 50. Only one is particularly "successful" - a movie producer - and he comes back east to hang...

THEY'RE JUST PLAIN FOLKSY - CHEEKY COUPLE TAKE STAGE WITH CRAZY SONGS

Their cabaret show's titled "No Standards" - which tells you what you won't hear Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole sing. "There are 100 clubs where you can go and hear...

REQUIRED READING

"Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock," by Robert Milliken chronicles the life of celebrity journalist Roxon, who became widely known as the "Queen of Max's Kansas City." The Aussie tabloid reporter...

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

SOCIAL BUTTERFLY SKS GUY TO FLY WITH Meet Kat,a beautiful,23-year-old publishing assistant who describes herself as "perky,sweet,artsy - even though I hate that word!! and intellectual,but not snooty." She admits...

'MACHETE MANIAC' STILL AT LARGE

A Brooklyn man who allegedly attacked his estranged wife with a machete was a jealous maniac who regularly stalked the woman and beat her, friends of the family said. Cops...

'MADONNA' MINISTER PULLS DIPLO

JERUSALEM - In his first official reaction to the "Madonna Scandal," Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said the country's ambassador to Washington will complete his job this summer - a...

'IT LOOKED LIKE A BROKEN BIRD'

Meg Scala, of Brooklyn, and her 15-year-old daughter, Paige, intended to spend an ordinary day at the beach at Coney Island. Instead, they were among the many stunned sunbathers who...

'STAR WARS' GROSSES AT LIGHT $PEED

Stars Wars' last chapter is continuing to set a record-breaking pace that will likely make "Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" a box-office force that could top $155 million...

CRASH HORROR ON THE BEACH; * 4 DIE AS PLANE DIVES IN CONEY * FLIER TRIED TO IMPRESS GAL PAL

A small plane trailing black smoke crashed onto the beach in Coney Island yesterday, killing four and horrifying beachgoers who saw the victims' terror-stricken faces during the fatal plunge. An...

'CLARK KENT' A SUPERPIMP

A chiseled, glasses-wearing banker nicknamed "Clark Kent" for his hunky good looks was the secret partner in an alleged downtown brothel, setting up its credit-card accounts and later taking the...

AXED HOSP HONCHO: NO APOLOGY

Despite his hospital's failure to report hundreds of abnormal Pap-test results - and his having been fired Friday - Jacobi Medical Center's former executive director was in good spirits yesterday....

GIFF: SIC COMPSAT ON PARK CRIMES

City Council Speaker Gifford Miller vowed yesterday to pass legislation that would extend the NYPD's Compstat crime-tracking system into the city's parks. Cops currently track crimes by precinct, covering all...

WEINER: MAYOR 'COPPED' OUT

Democratic mayoral candidate Rep. Anthony Weiner accused Mayor Bloomberg of ordering police to stay away from a forum Weiner held yesterday on hate crimes against Sikhs. Weiner said the NYPD...

Now it's boy and wife: Inside as Mary Kay & Vili tie knot

She was 21 when he was born - and their romance survived her 7 1/2-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting him, his puberty, the birth of their two kids, her...

BAPTISM BY FIRE; DAD SHOT ON TRIP FOR BABY'S RITE

A devoted dad in his mid-20s was shot and left seriously wounded in the lobby of a Bronx apartment building early yesterday - while delivering the tiny shoes in which...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN *** Police yesterday were trying to determine how a man found dead on a Flatbush roof died. The victim, 59, was discovered at about 11:30 a.m. Friday on the...

WAITER IN SUIT; SLAMS 'BIAS' HOTEL

A room-service waiter who made more than $90,000 per year at a Midtown Sheraton serving the likes of Rudy Giuliani, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton says he was fired...

NYU 'BANK SCAMMER' IN TANGLED WEB OF DECEPTION

Years before NYU history major Hakan Yalincak was jailed for allegedly masterminding a $43 million bank-fraud scheme, he touted himself as a "loan shark" who believed in "the cunning use...

JARRING SOUND LEADS TO HEARTBREAKING DISCOVERY

A boom outside the apartment of the girlfriend of the pilot in yesterday's fatal Coney Island crash started a horrifying chain of events that led the woman to discover her...

KILLING ME, SOFTEE! ICE-CREAM TRUCKS STILL JINGLIN' ALONG

Mister Softee isn't keeping his promise. As The Post found in Brooklyn last week, the ice-cream maker's iconic trucks are still playing their familiar jingle while parked, despite a company...

'REIGN OF TERROR' AT BRONX SCIENCE; 'TYRANT' PRINCIPAL FACES REVOLT

Teachers and students at Bronx HS of Science are mad as hell at principal Valerie Reidy for turning the prestigious public institution into what they call a tyrannical dictatorship. New...

ALL 'TIME' GREATEST FLICKS - MAG PICKS 100 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE

Time has named its 100 Best Movies of All Time - and incredibly, several of them were ripped to shreds by the mag when they were first released. Hollywood is...

THE MAFIA PRINCESS WHO BECAME A NYC JUDGE

DEBORAH Kaplan enjoyed a pampered youth as the "princess" daughter of a mob-connected crook and drug trafficker, and loyally defended him even as she rose to become a Manhattan Criminal...

PREY TO A PERVY PEEPER - MY VOYEUR ORDEAL

A quick lunch with a co-worker on a bench in Bryant Park turned me into fodder for perverts. Without my knowledge, a sicko lurking in a crowd of picnickers used...

TRAGIC 'UNKNOWN TOT' LAID TO REST

The mystery toddler whose battered body was swept ashore on Rockaway Beach five months ago was buried yesterday, his true identity taken to the grave - but to scores of...

GIRLS GET OWN CHARTER SCHOOL

The city's first all-girl charter school will open its doors this fall. Girls' Preparatory Charter School will open in the East Village Sept. 7, with almost 90 students enrolled in...

ORLANDO FEELS GOOD

Despite his hospital's failure to report hundreds of abnormal Pap-test results and his own firing on Friday, Jacobi Medical Center's former honcho was in good spirits yesterday. "I feel good,"...

TRUMP TO ABC: I'LL SUE! CRITICAL EYE ON TV BIO

A TV movie set to air Tuesday about billionaire real-estate mogul Donald Trump better be accurate - or The Donald is going to sue ABC. "I hope the overall tenor...

POLS PUSH FOR MINT BAN

Political momentum is building for safer candy. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told The Post she is raising the issue with the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety...

STORES FULL OF DEATH CANDY - POST FINDS 16 SCARY SWEETS ON CITY SHELVES THAT ARE PUTTING KIDS IN CHOKE PERIL

The city's delis and bodegas are a minefield of killer candy. A Post survey of 110 stores found that 61 of them - or 55 percent - still carried the...

L.I. WONDER TWINS - MIRACLE BIRTH AFTER MOM'S OVARIAN CANCER

A Long Island woman who suffered ovarian cancer has given birth to "miracle" twins. In a rare medical event, Julie Atteritano, 28, of Rockville Centre, delivered a boy and girl...

DIDDY'S EX-FRIEND COPS PLEA

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' former business partner Kirk Burrowes is going to jail after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice. Burrowes, 42, confessed to removing evidence from his Harlem home...

CANDIDATES WITH CITY CARS NOT YET PAYING AS THEY GO

WHO says there's no free ride in politics? Mayoral candidates Virginia Fields and Gifford Miller - who both get around town in government vehicles - have yet to reimburse the...

COPS KILL ELDERLY GUNMAN

A 75-year-old man - who friends say was hard of hearing and had poor eyesight - was shot dead by police after he allegedly pointed a loaded 12-gauge shotgun at...

CITY HOT-LINE CALLERS ASK THE DARNDEST THINGS

Most New Yorkers dial 311 to complain about noise or a pothole - but some call the city's popular non-emergency hot line for just about anything. One caller wanted to...

'HOPE' & CHARITY - FAR ROCKAWAY FUNERAL FOR UNKNOWN TOT

A crowd of strangers gathered at a church yesterday for a teary-eyed last goodbye to a mystery toddler whose battered body was swept ashore on Rockaway Beach in Queens five...

GIFF'S PUSH ON TRACKING PARK CRIME

City Council Speaker Gifford Miller vowed yesterday to pass legislation that would bring the NYPD's innovative Compstat crime-tracking system to city parks. Police track crimes by precinct, which cover all...

CRASH HORROR ON THE BEACH - 4 DIE AS PLANE DIVES IN CONEY; FLIER TRIED TO IMPRESS GAL PAL

A small plane trailing black smoke crashed onto the beach in Coney Island yesterday, killing all four aboard - and horrifying beachgoers who could see the victims' faces as the...

A JARRING SOUND- & THEN HEARTBREAK

A boom outside the apartment of the girlfriend of the pilot in yesterday's fatal Coney Island crash started the horrifying series of events that led the woman to realize her...

NOW PAGING PEDRO; YANKEESKNOW DRILL

Pedro Martinez comes dressed in a Mets uniform today instead of wearing the Red Sox colors. But to the Yankees, he is still the same pitcher no matter if he...

NOW PAGING PEDRO ; YANKEES KNOW DRILL

Pedro Martinez comes dressed in a Mets uniform today instead of wearing the Red Sox colors. But to the Yankees, he is still the same pitcher no matter if he...

YANKEE DOODLE BLANDY

THE promise was tabled for yet another start. Randy Johnson still lacked a devastating fastball, never approached dominance with what used to be one of the elite sliders ever. A...

HA-KOO-NA MET-ATA

HE HAD already done the job he's paid to do, striking out Tino Martinez and Jorge Posada in the top of the seventh inning. He had already provided a "Holy...

BELMONT HIT BY CLERK NO-SHOWS

A busy day at Belmont Park became even more chaotic yesterday thanks to an apparent job action by mutuel clerks. Roughly one quarter of the 350 clerks normally on duty...

WINNING 'SELECTION' IN SHUVEE

Society Selection came from last to win the 30th running of the Grade 2 Shuvee Handicap by 23/4 lengths. Favored Daydreaming was second and Bohemian Lady was a neck back...

LEADING MAN ; REYES LEADSMETS WITH D+]]BIG BAT

YOU cannot overtake the Evil Empire with words. You have to have a leader on the field, and it sure helps when your 21-year-old shortstop lights the way. In a...

YOU GOTTA BEL-EVEN; METS EVICT UNIT, BLAST BOMBERS TO KNOT SERIES

METS 7 YANKEES 1 The word you'd have to use to describe it was surreal. How else could you characterize a Mets-Yankees game in which the Mets knocked 12 hits...

SURVIVAL OF FITTEST FOR CONFERENCE FINALS ; THE SEEDS ARE SOWN

THROUGHOUT Dallas' late-game implosion Friday night, I had to keep reminding myself that Don Nelson was no longer at the helm. This "players needing to hear a different coach" thing...

HALF OF CLOSING ARGUMENT SOLD

BALTIMORE - The owners of Closing Argument, who had a "for sale" sign up on the colt since he won the Holy Bull Stakes in February, finally found a buyer...

CHRISTINA LEADS SYBASE BY ONE

She may have gotten this far by using her head, but Christina Kim hopes to capture the $1.25 million Sybase Classic today by swinging from the shoelaces. "I'm going to...

YANKS LATE AT PLATE

Joe Torre said home plate was Tino Martinez' responsibility,and Martinez agreed. Jorge Posada, who appeared to tag Dae-Sung Koo out at the plate, said the dish belonged to Randy Johnson....

METROSTARS RUN OUT OF STEAM

Metros 2Revolution 2 The MetroStars played their best home game this season yesterday, earning a 2-2 draw against New England despite being a man down against the best team in...

'CONDUCTOR' WHISTLES IN DIXIE - FAVORED ARTIE SCHILLER FAILS AGAIN

STAKES ROUNDUP BALTIMORE - Artie Schiller, one of New York's favorite grass horses, killed the out-of-town horseplayers again yesterday when he was outgunned by a longshot in the Grade 2...

KOO-RAZY! HURLER MOTORS METS PAST YANKS TO KNOT SERIES

METS 7 YANKEES 1 On the mound was Randy Johnson and at the plate was Dae-Sung Koo, which probably presented about as lopsided a matchup as there can be. Hey,...

BELTRAN FEELING STRAIN

SUBWAY SERIES CONFIDENTIAL You knew something was up when the top of the sixth inning was set to begin and Carlos Beltran wasn't on the field. Soon, it became clear...

SO FAR, BIG UNIT A BIG DUD

THE stage grew larger and Randy Johnson came up smaller. The incredible shrinking 6-foot-10 man was not good all day nor good vs. Dae. Johnson hardly aced his first Subway...

TO YANKS, HE REMAINS TOUGH FOE

He's dressed in a Met un iform instead of Red Sox col ors. But to the Yankees, Pedro Martinez is still the same pitcher, no matter which rival pays his...

CAIRO STILL HAS RANDY'S NUMBER

The Yankees let Miguel Cairo walk last winter and gladly gave his old number, 41, to Randy Johnson. But Cairo still has Johnson's number. Subbing for left-hand-hitting Doug Mientkiewicz at...

HE'S BEEN AMAZIN'

Yes, Pedro Martinez meets his old nemesis again this afternoon. And yes, the Mets have been promoting the Subway Series with players holding Star Wars light sabers instead of bats....

BROWN LIVIN' FOR NOW

Perhaps Phil Jackson is enjoying the ego trip of having his name surface as a coaching candidate in Los Angeles and New York. Larry Brown isn't. Not when the Pistons...

PIMLICO MAY LOSE CROWN ; PREAKNESS OUT, TRAVERS IN?

BALTIMORE - The Triple Crown of the future will look like this: the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes - and the Travers at Saratoga. Impossible? Crazy? Not a bit. It's...

KRIS & DAE-KOO KO YANKS

Kris Benson shut out the Yankees over six-plus innings yesterday, scattering three hits against a potent lineup. Yet the buzz at Shea Stadium after the Mets' 7-1 victory was over...

'ALEX' THE GREAT CAN'T BE CAUGHT - SURVIVES SCARY NEAR-FALL TO CAPTURE PREAKNESS

BALTIMORE - Overcoming a terrifying near-spill at the top of the stretch, Afleet Alex, the little horse who could, climbed the heights of thoroughbred racing yesterday with a dramatic, 43/4-length...

DINGED DEREK: I'LL PLAY

After leaving yesterday's 7-1 loss to the Mets at Shea Stadium with a bruised left elbow, Derek Jeter vowed to play today. "That's the plan," Jeter said when asked if...

TRUE CHAMPS - AFLEET ALEX, ROSE GUT OUT MIRACLE WIN

BALTIMORE - In the most dramatic stretch run of an American racing classic since Alysheba stumbled and nearly fell but recovered to win the 1987 Kentucky Derby, little Afleet Alex...

LIBS TURN UP VOLUME

Different, but the same. That's how the Liberty will appear this afternoon when they open the 2005 season at the Garden against Detroit, now a year removed from the disappointment...

BENSON BAFFLES BOMBERS

Kris Benson shut out the Yankees over six-plus innings yesterday, scattering three hits against a potent lineup. Yet the buzz at Shea Stadium after the Mets' 7-1 victory was over...

SHEFF DOESN'T TAKE FIELD

YANKEE NOTES Bothered by broken blood vessels in his left hand and according to Joe Torre slowed by the sluggish feeling that is going around, Gary Sheffield was a late...

QUAD COMPLAINT SENDS CARLOS TO THE SIDELINES

MET NOTES You knew something was up when the top of the sixth inning was set to begin and Carlos Beltran wasn't on the field. Soon, it became clear why....

SURVIVES SCARY NEAR-FALL TO CAPTURE PREAKNESS

BALTIMORE - Overcoming a terrifying near-spill at the top of the stretch,Afleet Alex,the little horse who could, climbed to the pinnacle of thoroughbred racing with a dramatic victory in the...

PIM-LOCO: LUKAS SEES DERBY, BELMONT AND TRAVERS BECOMING TRIPLE CROWN

BALTIMORE - The Triple Crown of the future will look like this: the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes - and the Travers at Saratoga. Impossible? Crazy? Not a bit. It's...

'CLOSING' THE DEAL ON DERBY RUNNERUP

NOTEBOOK BALTIMORE - The owners of Closing Argument, who had a "for sale" sign up on the colt since he won the Holy Bull Stakes in February, finally found a...

THE SEEDS ARE SOWN - CONFERENCE FINALS TREAT US TO SURVIVAL OF FITTEST

THROUGHOUT Dallas' late-game implosion Friday night, I had to keep reminding myself that Don Nelson was no longer at the helm. This "players needing to hear a different coach" thing...

THE RANDOLPH WAY - WILLIE'S SON ANDRE TURNING KIDS INTO MVPS

THE true joy of baseball is passing the game on to the next generation. In Willie Randolph, the Mets finally have the manager who can teach Generation iPod how the...

LONG-TERM LEMONS - MEGA-DEALS LEAVE BITTER TASTE WHEN SUPERSTARS START TO SOUR

This isn't the Subway Series. This is the Limo Series - and we are talking gas-guzzling, stretch-limos. Kevin Brown, Jason Giambi, Bernie Williams and Mike Piazza still have jobs in...

J.D.'S KID BROTHER COULD SOME DAY WEAR PINSTRIPES

The Yankees only added fuel to what one AL executive called the "hot rumor" of the draft - that they are focusing on Stephen Drew - by sending in two...

READERS HELPING US SLIDE INTO SUMMER

WHILE I'M FAR from the best sportswriter, I've got what no other sportswriter has: The best readers. Thinking men and women. Bensonhurst's Howard Rheingold, for example. Rheingold - now there's...

PRODIGIOUS DIGITS - BEST N.Y. ATHLETES TO WEAR EVERY NUMBER

WELL, it was exactly one year ago that we first began the campaign to bring justice to our city's rafters and outfield fences, and so far this is what we...

FUN 'HOUSE - MET LOCKER ROOM LIVELY HOME TO AN UPSTART TEAM

There is nothing majestic about the Mets' clubhouse. Legends don't walk around the room, ghosts don't lurk around every corner. The room is purely functional. It is where the players...

UNSUITABLE REQUEST - WHY NFL WON'T LET NOLAN DRE$$ TO THE NINERS

THE idea hit home as he studied sideline pictures of his father, Dick Nolan, the former head coach of the 49ers. But long before that, wandering up and down and...

DYNASTY IN THE DARK - NO CHEERS FOR ISLANDERS 25 YEARS AFTER FIRST CUP

MAYBE it's simply poetic injustice. For just as they and their dynasty have been largely overlooked, the Islanders were denied a 25th anniversary celebration of the first of their four...

BLASTS FROM THE POST - A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS MAY 22-28

MAYS FIGURES IT OUT - After 0-for-12, homers off Spahn for first career hit MAY 28 1951 WILLIE Mays didn't begin to ask questions immediately after he joined the Giants...

ARCHERY AIRLIFT TO TROOPS HITS GRATEFUL TARGETS

SOLDIERS in a combat zone look for many ways to escape the day-to-day life that goes with being in the military - and for some, one outlet has been archery....