June 12, 2005
TEST-PREP BIZ SCORES BIG BUCKS FOR TUTORS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amAs students sweat their SAT scores, tutors are tallying their take. The drive for good results is pumping up demand for tutors, and top-flight ones make upwards of $500 an...
A RUSH TO CONVERT; CONDO FEVER IS HIGH AND SO ARE THE STAKES
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amAs real estate values soar, some of New York's legendary landlords are betting a peak is near. To hedge against a bust, they're selling holdings to developers that turn rental...
DRAMA FIENDS - STARS PULLING NO PUNCHES FOR ATTENTION
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amOnce upon a time, Hollywood just marketed the movie. Now it markets the behind-the-scenes story as well. The studios have become savvier about their promotions, moving beyond the red carpet,...
LIE DETECTOR - CRIMINALS TELL ALL TO KYRA SEDGWICK
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amNOW here's a character an actress can really sink her teeth into: A brilliant police detective with food issues. Meet Det. Brenda Johnson, a 40-something, workaholic, divorced southern belle whose...
I 'VE COME TO ADMIRE SHOWS THAT SHOCKED ME
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIF TV teaches us anything,it 's this:What was shocking yesterday is no longer shocking today. That must be why I 've begun to enjoy some TV shows that I rejected...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amREALITY KIDS ARE TEARING UP THE JOINT THE Baileys of Long Island have two children,Billy and Jadyn,whose behavior requires some strong medicine on the ABC series "Supernanny." Billy is given...
LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amREBECCA (1940) Sunday, 3:30 p.m., TCM Joan Fontaine is a shy,young woman who meets Laurence Olivier,a widower whose wife,Rebecca,has recently drowned.They marry and move to his big mansion where she...
'SELL' A BETTER BUY THAN 'ROADSHOW'
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMetro Channel 's "Antique Show & Sell " provides a pleasant and logical alternative to PBS 's faux highbrow "Antiques Roadshow ," the program that regularly suggests that your Aunt...
ASIAN PERSUASION
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amTHE New York Asian Film Festival - always one of the high points of the movie year - has grown so big it needs two theaters. "I don't think we...
THE TOURNAMENT THAT NEVER WAS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMASTERS have been known to pre-arrange games - to agree in advance to play moves leading to a draw or loss. But there's never been a case of an entirely...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
June 12, 2005 | 4:00am1) Brad & Angie playing house "W" magazine shares photos from its July issue of Jolie, mounting a half-dressed Pitt, while engaging in gunplay, in bed - while Pitt's rep...
BAT OUT OF HELL - 'BATMAN BEGINS' STARS A DARKER, EDGIER VERSION OF THE POPULAR COMIC HERO - BAT'S ENTERTAINMENT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIF Batman had been an actor, he would have won an Oscar years ago. In the last 66 years, the caped and cowled superhero has turned up as a brooding...
STILL WATERS RUNS DEEP - MAINSTREAM FINALLY FINDS BAD-BOY DIRECTOR
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amDIRECTOR John Waters has been making outrageous movies so long - 40 years - that the mainstream finally caught up to him. With the musical version of his rock 'n'...
METAL OF 'HONOR' - TWO SIDES OF THE FOO FIGHTERS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amFOO FIGHTERS - "In Your Honor" 3 ½ Stars RCA Records AFTER spending a decade quietly becoming one of the most important bands in American rock, the Foo Fighters are...
BACK IN THE SADDLE - RHINESTONE COWBOY SOBER, HAPPY AGAIN
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amAs Glen Campbell, 69, happily chirps on his cell phone, the veteran country-pop superstar zooms down the Southern California freeway, looking for an exit sign to the Los Angeles Country...
REQUIRED READING
June 12, 2005 | 4:00am"Spenser" writer Robert B. Parker visits the Old West in "Appaloosa." It vividly tells the story of lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy, Everet Hitch, as they take on bad-guy...
A HARD SHELL - JERRY "TURTLE" FERRARA KNOWS WHAT HE LIKES
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amFOR New York guys, watching the HBO's comedy series "Entourage" (which airs tonight at 9) is a surefire Sunday night laugh. It's a show that was made for them. And...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amGIRL ON THE GO SKS INTUITIVE ROMANCER Megan,a beautiful commercial advertising sales assistant who describes herself as outgoing,ambitious,thoughtful and adventurous.When she 's not working,she enjoys taking walks in the Village,traveling,dining...
BACK IN THE GAME AGAIN
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amLAST week,Dena,a 26-year-old law student, picked Dan,a graduate student,also 26,for her date.We sent them out to a brand-new hot spot,Ludo,in the East Village.How did our pair get along?Read on to...
NO DEAL FOR TOUCHY PERV SUSPECT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA suspected pervert caught naked and touching himself near a group of children is shocked to learn he hadn't gotten off scot-free. Richard Robles had been offered a dismissal of...
KINGS OF OT 'SPAN' DAY & NIGHT ON JOB
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amBRIDGE repairers are collecting mountainous amounts of overtime by working around the clock - sometimes getting paid for 23½ hours in a 24-hour day, The Post has learned. And officials...
FE'LAUGH'EL COMIC FEST FOR ARABS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00am"Right after 9/11, hate crimes against Arabs rose over 1,000 percent - fourth place behind blacks, gays and Jews - so what the f--- do we have to do? We...
PARADE 'BOARD' GAME; 5TH AVE. SUPERS SEETHE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amFurious Fifth Avenue building workers say city officials have been threatening to levy fines against anyone who puts up barriers against the surging crowds in today's Puerto Rican Day Parade....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Police seeking to identify of a man whose corpse was torched near Yankee Stadium yesterday released a sketch of a tattoo found on his left arm. The...
TIKRIT 'SLAY' SHOCK
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIt should have been a relatively safe place - a riverfront palace Saddam Hussein built on the edge of Tikrit, occupied by the U.S. Army since soon after the Iraq...
MOM OF 3 SLAIN IN RAMPAGE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA jealous ex-boyfriend flew into a rage and shot and killed his ex's cousin and wounded a male friend during a violent argument yesterday, police said. The unidentified slain woman,...
HORROR CRASH PUZZLE; HEROES' TRUCK CLUE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amTwo hero motorists who helped save lives during Friday's fiery pileup on the Sunrise Highway told The Post the deadly inferno was actually caused by a gravel truck that went...
BACK ON PLANET NY...
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amONE woman blasts City Hall's fiscal "roller-coaster" and ruinous debt. A man fumes that Gotham's taxes are "job-killers." Another bemoans the failure to confront big-ticket municipal spending. No-accounts mouthing off...
KATIE LOVES HER CRUISE CONTROL; DOCILE STAR IS TOM'S PERFECT, GUSHY GAL PAL
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWith the release of "Batman Begins" coming this Wednesday, Tom Cruise's apple-cheeked new girlfriend has been given her own shot at putting the "crazy" in crazy-in-love. Katie Holmes -at a...
HERO IN NICK OF CLIMB; SCALES BLDG.TO SAVE 3
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA hardhat turned into Spider-Man to save a dad and two kids trapped in a burning Brooklyn building yesterday. Construction worker Carlos Toste, 20, scaled the side of the two-story...
MTV'S REALITY PUNK IN SAME 'OLD' JOKES ; ELDERLY RESENT BOOR NEXT DOOR
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amSome people just can't take a joke. A group of Lower East Side seniors are fuming over the filming of a new MTV show in their neighborhood, saying the show's...
LOVING BRIDE & BLOOM; NUPTIALSARE TWICEAS NICE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg performed his most private public duty Friday night when he married daughter Emma to her sweetheart in a stealth ceremony at Gracie Mansion. But the real party was...
SHOT SHOPPING; MIDTOWN TOURIST CAUGHTIN BUNGLED-HEIST CROSSFIRE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA tourist from Baltimore was shot outside a Manhattan jewelry store while shopping yesterday morning when she got caught up in a bungled robbery, police and witnesses said. Sheri Guster,...
BX. TEEN BUSTED IN FATAL STABBING
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx man was stabbed to death yesterday as an argument with the teenage dad of his stepgrandchild exploded into violence, cops said. Cops said Jerome Jones, 39, was stabbed...
TIKRIT 'SLAY' SHOCK ; GIS' KIN BAFFLED
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIt should have been a relatively safe place - a riverfront palace Saddam Hussein built on the edge of Tikrit, occupied by the U.S. Army since soon after the Iraq...
QNS. BICYCLIST, 12, RUN DOWN
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA 12-year-old boy on a bike was hit by a car last night after darting into a Queens street, police said. The boy, who was not identified, rode off a...
KATIE LOVES HER CRUISE CONTROL - I FLUNKED SCIENTOLOGY STRESS TEST - AND IT'LL COST BIG FOR THEIR 'CURE'
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amI hate people and I'm below average in every single area of my life. That's what the Church of Scientology told me after I ventured to take a 200-question personality...
JURY EYES RX BIGS IN OXYCONTIN 'COVERUP'; ALLEGEDLY HID PAINKILLER PERIL
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amProsecutors in Virginia have convened a federal grand jury seeking to jail the Connecticut makers of the powerful painkiller OxyContin for concealing the drug's addictiveness, The Post has learned. It's...
IT'S LABOR PAIN FOR WORKERS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA quarter of Manhattan employees can't stand their jobs, and some cope by slacking off - or even having sex at work. "I hate my job," said a 24-year-old medical...
MOVIE'S INSPIRATIONAL OLD SALT BAITS 'THANKLESS' BENCHLEY
June 12, 2005 | 4:00am"Monster Man" Frank Mundus - who's back fishing the shark-friendly waters of Montauk, L.I., for the first time in 14 years - has a simple explanation for why a surfer...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amTeach your children well - and wait till they're old enough to drive. A woman allowed her 11-year-old son to drive the family's minivan to his elementary school on the...
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR TRAGIC TODDLER
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn toddler who died after tumbling into a mop bucket was laid to rest yesterday - his casket, funeral service, headstone and burial plot all provided by New Yorkers...
JACKO JURY JAWING; 10 RAPS STIR VOTE & DEBATE: EXPERTS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's jurors are still days away from the "hang zone," but are being slowed by mountains of conflicting evidence that point to the accusers' sketchy...
MIRACLE REUNION; SHOOTING VICTIMMEETS HIS SAVIORS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amHe poured his heart out to the men who saved his life. John Turco, shot five times when his fiancée was killed by her jealous ex-husband on Madison Avenue Feb....
IT'S BIGGER & STAR-BRIGHTER
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIt's the biggest Puerto Rican Day Parade ever. Corporate sponsorship is up, P. Diddy will be "dancing and hopping" up Fifth Avenue, and there are more floats, marchers and spectators...
MORE MOVIE MAGIC; ASTORIA'S 'HOLLYWOOD' STUDIO TO EXPAND
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amKaufman Astoria Studios in Queens is expanding, and the street it has called home for 85 years could become a closed set as early as this fall. The historic studio...
WEDDING TWICE AS NICE FOR MIKE'S GIRL
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg performed his most personal public duty Friday night when he married daughter Emma to her sweetheart in a stealth ceremony at Gracie Mansion. But the real party was...
BURNING UP 9/11 MONEY - WIDOW'S $5 MIL SPEND SPREE BUYS HER NEW MISERY
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amSept. 11 widow Kathy Trant has turned her Long Island home into a $2 million showcase, traveled from the Vatican to Las Vegas, blown $500,000 on shoes, and bought breast...
COTTO'S ON A MISSION - AIMING TO KEEP THE WINS COMING
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amThe official name is Miguel Angel Cotto, but by all rights, call him Cocky Cotto. No sooner had he signed to fight the last man who beat him, Muhammad Abdullaev,...
CAN'T BAER TO SEE MAX AS 'CINDERELLA' VILLAIN
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S inevitable that movies that depict history become many viewers' perception of history. It's an inevitability that infuriates. Ron Howard's new movie, "Cinderella Man," about the boxing comeback of James...
GOODY FOR MCBRIDE - FAMED TRAINER CALLING SHOTS IN KEVIN'S CORNER
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Goody Petronelli was in the ring again last night, working the corner of a big fight, something he has done often in a brilliant career that has spanned...
JOHNSON TRAVELS HIGH ROAD
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amNASCAR Nextel Cup points leader Jimmie Johnson will look up and down today for a green sign with white letters that boldly reads "Jimmie Johnson Road." At least he said...
BUZZ ISN'T THERE - BELMONTRARITY:NO CROWNAT STAKE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amFor just the third time in the last nine years, there was no Triple Crown electricity in the air for yesterday's 137th Belmont Stakes. The fans had to settle for...
SPORTSMEN ARE BARKING MAD
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amA NATIONWIDE group of hunting dog sportsmen is calling for a boycott of the American Kennel Club since its collaboration with an animal rights group. At issue is the AKC's...
CHIEF OF STAFF - PEDRO'S BEENGREAT BUT METS NEEDMORE THAN JUST A . . .
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amPEDRO Martinez will air out Shea today, just like he was brought here to do for a franchise that has been wheezing in its own smoke with a hazy plan....
METROS READY TO ANTE UP
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWith a sublimely-skilled midfield and a surprisingly stout defense, the MetroStars have exceeded expectations so far this season. Now they're hoping the midweek acquisition of two-time all-star Ante Razov -...
STEWARDS AWARD 'MADONNA' VICTORY
June 12, 2005 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Like mother, like daughter? Contrast, 3-year-old filly out of 1989 champion sprinter Safely Kept, was 2-5 off four-length romp in debut. She set pressured pace under Edgar...
STEINBRENNER 'IS NOT HAPPY' WITH HIS TEAM
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - George Steinbrenner always has maintained it was up to Joe Torre to pull the Yankees out of whatever ails them. So when The Boss heard about Torre's...
NEEDING RASHEED ; PISTONS LACKING WALLACE OFFENSE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - In a moment produced solely by fate, the two men boarded the elevator Thursday night and stared straight ahead, with only the sounds of silence around them....
ISIAH HAS HIS EYE ON NEW T-MAC
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIsiah Thomas plucked Tracy McGrady out of high school eight years ago with the ninth pick in the NBA Draft. Thomas could get a chance to tab the second-coming of...
LORNAH RUNS WITH CONVICTION
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amLornah Kiplagat isn't sure if she will return to New York in November to run in the New York City Marathon, but she looked very comfortable running through Central Park...
THE BOSS BLEW IT; YANKS MISSED ON TRIO OF SUPERSTARS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMEMO to the Yankees' baseball people: It would be good for job security if you kept The Boss from tuning into the Mets game this afternoon at about 1:15. That's...
EX-COACH FITCH BATTLES BLOOD CLOT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Bill Fitch, I'm informed, is severely struggling with a blood clot at his home on Lake Con roe, north of Houston. Stan Albeck, who suffered a stroke...
WRIGHT SPOT; STATS SUGGEST MET 3B BATTING OUT OF ORDER
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWillie Randolph won't put David Wright higher than fifth in the batting order, so he probably won't like the following comparison to Ted Williams, Mel Ott, Eddie Mathews and Jimmie...
MISFIRING PISTONS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - There are no mysteries without any clues concerning the Spurs' 84-69 dusting of Detroit: Tim Duncan, defense, depth and an expletive-deleted delay-of-game warning by Gregg Popovich to...
CAMPBELL: DIDN'T BELONG WITH NETS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amNBA NOTEBOOK SAN ANTONIO - Elden Campbell swears he tried, really tried, to fit in with the Nets. But he was as good a fit as bowling shoes with a...
'FOG' HOLDS ON IN RIVA
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amLost In the Fog stamped himself as possibly the best sprinter in the country with a hard-fought victory in the Grade 2, $200,000 Riva Ridge Breeders' Cup at Belmont yesterday....
MARTINEZ GETS NOD AT FIRST
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. LOUIS - At first blush, seeing Tino Martinez in the lineup at first base yesterday, it seemed Joe Torre had seen enough of Jason Giambi at first...
GRAND PRIX PROVES NYC CAN BE RACY
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWith NYC2012's bid to bring the Olympics to New York on its deathbed, at least local fans got a taste of their first world-class international meet in more than a...
RANDY TO RESCUE ; UNIT PITCHES YANKS TO BIG WIN OVER CARDS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 5Cardinals 0 ST. LOUIS - Ears still red from the blistering Joe Torre dropped on them the night before, the Yankees turned their sad eyes toward Randy Johnson yesterday...
LOTTO COTTO; BOXER AVENGES OLYMPIC DEFEAT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amThe official name is Miguel Angel Cotto but by all rights, call him Cocky Cotto. No sooner had he signed to fight the last man who beat him, Muhammad Abdullaev,...
STILL HAZY AT SHEA
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amKRIS BENSON'S diary is not to be confused with any of wife Anna's X-rated chronicles. In the righty's eight entries since coming off the DL with a torn pectoral muscle,...
BOSS WENT 0-FOR-3
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMEMO to the Yankees' baseball people: It would be good for job security if you kept The Boss from tuning into the Mets game this afternoon at about 1:15. That's...
JUST CALL HIM ALEX THE GREAT - THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRIPLE CROWNING
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE'S only one name for him: Alex the Great. Not since the original Alexander conquered the world has anyone with a similar name come into New York and conquered the...
RANDY TO RESCUE ; UNIT PITCHES YANKS TO BIG VICTORY OVER CARDS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 5Cardinals 0 ST. LOUIS - Their ears still crimson from the blistering Joe Torre dropped on them the night before, the Yankees turned their cheerless eyes toward Randy Johnson...
MARLON'S MAD DASH AMAZIN'
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amThey didn't get any free hot dogs, sodas or passes to come see the Mets at a later date last night after an 84-minute rain delay postponed the first pitch...
STEINBRENNER 'IS NOT HAPPY WITH HIS TEAM
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - George Steinbrenner always has maintained it was up to Joe Torre to pull the Yankees out of the funks they go into. So when The Boss heard...
ONE WIN WON'T DO IT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Big Owner Is Watching, George Steinbrenner's spokesman Howard Rubenstein made it perfectly clear when talking to Post colleague George King yesterday morning. But don't kid yourself. Big...
SOJO BLUNDER NO BIG DEAL
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. LOUIS - Although the Yankees beat the Cardinals 5-0 yesterday, third-base coach Luis Sojo's mistake during the third inning looked at the time like it would come...
A BATTLE ROY-ALE
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWITH Clint Barmes on the disabled list, possibly for the entire season with a broken collarbone, we got to wondering who will lift this year's NL Rookie of the Year....
GRAVES GETS OK TO PLAY
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTS Danny Graves hasn't watched every Met game since he's been in New York - because his hotel doesn't get all the right channels. But as of last night,...
TYSON QUITS: SAYS LOSS TO UNKNOWN IS LAST FIGHT
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The latest comeback by Mike Tyson is over before it Began, much like Tyson's career. Tyson lost to yet another unheralded opponent last night, quitting on his stool...
EXTRA SPECIAL - FLOYD'S WALKOFF HR GIVES METS DRAMATIC VICTORY IN 10TH INNING
June 12, 2005 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Mets 5 Angels 3 Cliff Floyd knew he wasn't supposed to get a second chance last night. But when he did, Floyd's mulligan carried 404 feet and made...
SO, MR. COMMISH, WHAT'S GOIN' ON?
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIT IS time for Gary Bettman to take a pause from his duties as CEO of the owners and act for a moment as NHL commissioner. Even as the league...
CALL HIM GIACOMO INCOGNITO
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amNOT since Gato Del Sol somehow managed to scramble home at the head of the field nearly a quarter of a century ago has a Kentucky Derby winner made so...
IF SWOON PERSISTS, CASHMAN SHOULD PICK UP HIS ... SELL PHONE - YANKS COULD GET LOT FOR FLASH, SHEFF & OTHERS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amPERHAPS what is best for the Yankees is that they play worse. Maybe the only way to save them in the near future is by performing so horribly over the...
THE NEXT BIG THING? ISIAH MUST DECIDE IF HERB'S A FUTURE LEGEND
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S good that Isiah Thomas should take his time with this coaching decision of his, despite the fact that Knicks fans - the ones who still show their faces in...
SUPER-NAT-URAL! CAPITAL'S LIKE HEAVEN TO REINCARNATED EXPOS
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The team has no owner. It plays in a stadium better suited for 1962 football than 2005 baseball. It makes its home in one of the toughest divisions...
ALL EYES ON THE TIGER - FROM TEE TO SEA - AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT GOLFING LEGEND
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amHe'll be going after his 10th professional major championship this week at Pinehurst's venerable No. 2 Course, where the U.S. Open holds forth for the first time since 1999, the...
'ALEX' THE GREAT - DRAWS OFF TO TAKE 2 OF 3 IN CROWN
June 12, 2005 | 4:00amAfleet Alex was in front, the rest were nowhere at the finish of yesterday's 137th Belmont Stakes, as the plucky Preakness hero took the lead turning for home under young...