July 10, 2005
BULL'S EYE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amBloomberg LP, the media giant founded by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, isn't the only new tenant to take up residence in the sleek skyscraper at 731 Lexington Ave. Apparently, the rodents...
DIGITAL AGE TAKES STAGE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amDEALMAKING was far from the minds of the elite cadre of media moguls who descended on this mountain resort last week, as talk about how to protect content in the...
STATE EYEING INVESTMENT BIG FOR POSING AS LAWYER
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amState officials are investigating the head of a Manhattan investment firm for holding himself out as a lawyer, The Post has learned. Sidney F. Levine, the top dog at Rainmaker...
HARRY'$ MAGIC - J.K. ROWLING SPINS GOLD
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThat geeky mop-topped kid with the wire-rim glasses is back to work his magic on bookstore cash registers everywhere. At 12:01 a.m. this Saturday, July 16, the sixth book in...
BIG NO SHOW - FEWER AMERICANS HIT CONCERTS, MOVIES
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amForget "Home is where the heart is" - in the first half of 2005 home was where the entertainment was for many Americans. In addition to the movie industry's longest...
POTTER WILL PUFF UP SCHOLASTIC, BRIEFLY
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amExpect shares of children's book publisher Scholastic to pop in the days leading up to the release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth book in J.K. Rowling's...
MAGGIE'S 'CLEAN' SLATE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE 28th Asian American International Film Festival gets off to a classy start Friday with a personal appearance by Maggie Cheung. The elegant Hong Kong superstar will introduce"Clean," directed by...
GAMES BLOC PUTS ITS CARDS ON TABLE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amEVER hear of "mind sports"? How about "intellympiad"? I didn't think so. But these terms may be entering the language, thanks to an unprecedented alliance between the governing bodies of...
MAGNIFICENT 7 - HBO HAS DEFINITIVE MICKEY MANTLE BIO; MANTLE REVEALED
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWHITEY Ford, who's almost as much a part of the Mickey Mantle fable as No. 7 himself, says of the stories about their legendary late nights, "They've all been told...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amOut of this world SCIENCE FICTION SCI-FI geeks will experience an intergalactical high as the genre's triple TV crown returns Friday night. The heroes are out in full force in...
BUSTED: KATHY HILTON DOESN'T LIVE HERE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amATTENTION out-of-towners: Kathy Hilton and her family do not live in the turn-of-the-century Manhattan mansion featured on her NBC show. The 1898 Fletcher Mansion (named for its first owner, financier...
DEADLY TRIANGLE - HAMPTONS MURDER GETS THE HOLLYWOOD TREATMENT
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amA BITTER, multimillion-dollar divorce battle, murder in a Hamptons beach house, infidelity, betrayal, fatal illness. With enough juicy elements to fill a dozen blockbusting sagas, it's no surprise that the...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE PIANO (1993) Sunday, midnight, Showtime Jane Campion's haunting tale about a mute (Holly Hunter) who's trapped in an arranged marriage in 19th century New Zealand. All her love is...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
July 10, 2005 | 4:00am1) Self-immolation He once said the worst thing about his drunken-driving crash were reports that he was actually driving a cheap import: Andy Dick, new host of "The Surreal Life"...
THE HOT SEAT WITH LISA KUDROW
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amHowever many seasons Lisa Kudrow's new HBO series, "The Comeback," lasts - "I'm happy if this [season] is all we're gonna do," she says - she will be forever remembered...
SAVORING THE SWEET LIFE - MEET THE CHILDREN WHO VISIT JOHNNY DEPP'S WACKY WORLD
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWhen the cast of Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" walks into the chocolate room for the first time, those shocked and amazed faces you see aren't just the...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amON THE OUTS Jersey City-set drama follows the lives of three teenage girls who meet in juvenile detention. Suzette is 15 and pregnant, Marisol is a single mother on crack...
CLEF NOTES - MULTITALENTED FORMER FUGEE HEADLINES THE LINCOLN CENTER FEST
July 10, 2005 | 4:00am"THERE'S only one Wyclef Jean. My show is like a carnival ... Once you're inside Lincoln Center, you're caught up in the Wyclef realm. I advise you to wear shoes...
HEAR THIS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT At B.B. Kings: Metal acts Bleeding Through and Zao headline tonight. R&B singer Faith Evans on Saturday. Wednesday: Check out Sam Endicott's awesome hair when the Bravery plays...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE KNITTERS - "The Modern Sounds of the Knitters" 3 Stars Zoe/Rounder Records COUNTRY/psychobilly band The Knitters took their time making the follow-up to their 1985 debut "Poor Little Critter...
THE DREADHEADED STRANGER
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY'RE going to have to start inventing new things to do, because Willie Nelson is getting tired of saying "Been there, done that." The 72-year-old legend can now list movie...
SON OF SON VOLT - FIVE YEARS ON, SAME NAME, NEW BAND
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN Son Volt's Jay Farrar decided to record with his alt-country band after a four-year breather, there was just one problem - his former bandmates weren't there to be reunited....
REQUIRED READING
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMajor League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig can say all he wants that he was "shocked, shocked" to discover that players were using steroids to jack up their home run totals...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amNY NEWCOMER SKS HOTTIE TOUR GUIDE Meet Kelli,a 23-year-old fashion forecaster who has recently moved to our fair city after graduating from college.And really, what better way to get into...
BLOOMY RIVAL CUTTING IT CLOSE IN PRIMARY BID
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTOM Ognibene, the only Republican candidate with a chance of embarrassing Mayor Bloomberg in September's primary, may not even get on the ballot. Ognibene told The Post he'd satisfy the...
HISTORY BUFF IN MAP RAP: 700G IN THEFTS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amA once-respected New York City map expert was directed to jail after cops busted him for stealing rare maps from Yale University - including one worth $500,000 from 1614. E....
GOTTI MOM: MINUCCI NO PAL
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amVictoria Gotti says that her sons are being unfairly associated with "Fat Nick" Minucci and that, despite his appearance on her reality show and in a video with the brothers,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** A naked man jumped from his fourth-floor bathroom window and plunged to his death yesterday in Harlem, cops said. Chris Basso, 25, who had lived at 277 E....
MUGGERS SLAY QNS. STUDENT
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amPolice are hunting for two masked men who jumped out of bushes and gunned down an engineering student in Queens yesterday. Richard Charles, 23, was walking along a St. Albans...
HAMPTONS BUS IN DEATH CRASH
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amA 53-year-old Manhattan man was killed yesterday after a Hampton Jitney bus packed with passengers broadsided his vehicle along the Montauk Highway in East Hampton, cops said. The accident occurred...
'COWBOY' ROUNDS UP CELL DEAL
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amFor years he's gone pant- less, now the city's Naked Cowboy is going wireless. The zany Times Square mainstay - who plays guitar in a hat, boots and a pair...
MTA SAFETY GAP; NIXED $250M SECURITY PLAN
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amA former MTA security official says the agency missed the bus two years ago by snubbing a plan for the Army to oversee a top-secret $250 million project to safeguard...
PICTURE THIS: FIELDS GETS CAMERA SHY
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWith her campaign scrambling to regain its footing yesterday, Democratic mayoral candidate C. Virginia Fields canceled a press conference scheduled for this morning in favor of an appearance on the...
MAP BUFF LANDS IN HOT WATER
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amA once-respected New York City map expert was released Friday on $175,000 bail after being busted for allegedly stealing rare maps from Yale University - including one from 1614 worth...
3 SAVED FROM BURNING BOAT ON HUDSON
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThree boaters were plucked from the Hudson River by the Coast Guard yesterday after their 34-foot craft caught on fire and sank. Owner Ronald Carrino, 66, had taken his boat,...
CAR BACKS OVER WOMAN AT GAS PUMP
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amA car killed a Bronx woman yesterday as it backed up at a gas pump and hit her, cops said. Evelyn Cokin, 64, was struck by the vehicle at about...
DEFENDING 'DRUNK'; GIRLFRIEND: HE'S A MAN OF FAITH
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe man charged in the DWI deaths of a wedding-limo driver and a 7-year-old flower girl is "very religious" and would never hurt anyone intentionally, his girlfriend contends. But a...
'SMALL-SCALE' MASS MURDER NOW QAEDA'S KEY TACTIC
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Qaeda no longer has the ability to launch such large-scale attacks as 9/11 - but the terror network can still carry out scores of smaller missions like...
TINIEST PAD A BIG SQUEEZE FOR 215G
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThis is the puniest pad for sale in Manhattan - it measures 180 square feet, has no oven, a view of a concrete courtyard and brick walls, and a bathroom...
'FIX' IS IN ON TEST AT COP ACADEMY
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD changed the scoring on nine of 100 questions from a recent Police Academy exam, giving 103 recruits passing grades and saving them from possible expulsion, The Post has...
THE NYPD'S ANSWERS; KELLY'S ANTI-TERROR HEROES
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWhen New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was asked Thursday, after the London attacks, whether cops could always prevent terrorism in Gotham's sprawling transit system, he told the sad truth:...
BRITISH LINK IN N.Y. SUBWAY PLOT
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amOne of two Brooklyn men charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station last year is a Pakistani national who once lived in England, but investigators haven't...
FAT NICK A LIL' RASCAL; KIN INSIST 'BAT BASH' TEEN IS NO RACIST 'CUZ HE'S IN A RAP VIDEO
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amYEARS before Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci allegedly picked up a baseball bat in Howard Beach and, according to cops, attacked a black man who was there to steal a car,...
GLIMMER OF JOY FOR FAMILY THAT LOST ITS 'SUNSHINE'
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTO lean on that overused cliché "bittersweet" would miss the point by a country mile. There on Friday night was Eamon Flynn celebrating his third birthday and one of his...
IPOD KID IS BURIED
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe teenager slain in an iPod robbery was laid to rest yesterday in Brooklyn's Cypress Hill Cemetery, with the music device that led to his slaying next to him. Christopher...
JUST PITT-IFUL ; PITTSBURGH SLAMS SHAKY MET BULLPEN
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amPirates 11Mets 4 PITTSBURGH - In four games against the Nationals this past week, the Met bullpen couldn't have performed better. The relievers threw 12 scoreless innings, permitting only one...
BRING BACK GOOD OLD DAYS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amBEFORE the organization became so Yankees-centric, they actually used to have Old Timers Days in The Bronx when players in uniforms other than Pinstripes were permitted on the field. They'd...
GREEN WITH ENVY - CELTIC ROOKIE ON RISE TO STARDOM
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES LAS VEGAS - Celtics rookie Gerald Green owns the play of the Las Vegas summer league. Thursday night, he started flight from left of the lane, managed to...
TEEL FINDS FAME AT SUMMER CAMP
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amFor many players at the Reebok ABCD Camp, as well as the other sneaker summer camps that are held simultaneously, their performances won't make or break their college hopes. They...
SHAREEF HAS ROD CAUTIOUS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amRod Thorn remembers Ricky Sobers. So, when by all indications Shareef Abdur-Rahim was utterly impressed with New Jersey and the Nets, when the 6-9 free-agent power forward says money will...
HAIL TO VICTOR - ZAMBRANO'S TURNAROUND UST AMAZIN'
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - On Friday night, Victor Zambrano came into PNC Park with only a 4-7 record this season, thanks mainly to little run support. This time, he was denied a...
LOOPER, METS: WE'LL MOVE ON
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Once again, the Mets went into a game waiting to see if they could come back from a crushing loss. On Friday night, they blew a...
CASH NOT EXPECTING DEAL SOON
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankees GM Brian Cashman said yesterday it's unlikely he'll make a deal before the Bombers travel to Boston following the All-Star break to begin the second half of...
OLD TIMERS NOT WILD ABOUT CURRENT CHEMISTRY
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe first half of the season has been an epic struggle for the Yankees - or at least it's been reported that way. The starting pitching has been suspect, with...
ISIAH OFF THE MARK
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Has Bill Laimbeer indeed moved ahead of Herb Williams in Isiah Thomas' myopic mind as the Knicks' No. 1 coaching candidate? I don't know and I don't...
NELSON NOTCHES FIRST GRADE 1 WIN
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThere are six Grade 1 stakes run in U.S. this year at six furlongs; five, including Breeders' Cup Sprint, are for 3-year-olds and up. Other one (please explain why?) was...
OLD TIMERS WARY OF YANK CHEMISTRY
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe first half of the season has been an epic struggle for the Yankees - or at least it's been reported that way. The starting pitching has been suspect, with...
JERK LEAVES FLOYD WITH SPITTING IMAGE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - After Jack Wilson's grand slam in the seventh inning last night, a fan sitting in the left-field stands at PNC Park spat on Cliff Floyd. The...
IT'S A FIELD OF SCREAMS FOR MELKY
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amLike a student cramming for an exam he knows won't go well, Melky Cabrera spent every afternoon in the Stadium since being called up from Columbus on Thursday taking fly...
ROTATION STILL OPEN QUESTION
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees yesterday were still mulling what their starting rotation will look like after the All-Star break, unsure is either Carl Pavano (shoulder) or Kevin Brown (back) would...
INDIAN BUMMER ; MAY, CABRERA LET DOWN YANKS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amIndians 8Yankees 7 On the day the Yankees pay tribute to some of the oldest and most storied names in the history of their franchise, the two newest, freshest and...
A-ROD CHOKES IN THE CLUTCH
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amOn Monday in the eighth inning, the Orioles walked Gary Sheffield intentionally to load the bases for Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod walked to force in the tying run before Bernie Williams...
HAWKS TARGET JOHNSON
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Follow ing closely on the market-set ting heels of Ray Allen (reclaimed by the Sonics for $80M over five years), Michael Redd (re-enlisted by the Bucks at...
GUEVARA HELPS METROS END SLUMP
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMetros 2Galaxy 1 Whatever was ailing the MetroStars during their two-game road mini-slump proved easy enough to fix last night. Turns out, all they needed was one part L.A. Galaxy...
HIRE POWER ; HERB INTERVIEWING ASSISTANT CANDIDATE IS A STRONG SIGN HE'S ISIAH'S CHOICE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - In the strongest sign yet Herb Williams will be back next season, the Knicks' interim coach spent the last two days here interviewing Paul Westphal for the...
PLAYERS HAVE NO REASON TO APOLOGIZE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amLET'S get this straight. The players owe no one an apology for fighting the good fight they did last season against submitting to a salary cap system that, in both...
HURRI UP - MAKE PLANS FOR THE BOAT
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amAS Dennis the Menace bears down on Florida you have to be wondering, is this the year that the Northeast gets hit with a major hurricane? We are overdue. Florida...
D-DAY APPROACHES ; IF YOUR SHIP'S SINKING, BAIL OUT AND STOCK UP
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amCALL this time of year "Choice Time." Or "Make or Break Time." Or, for some, "Swallow Your Pride Time." Many decisions must be made during the next three days, with...
LITTLE ROCK 'N ROLL - TAYLOR READY TO RIFF WITH 'EXECUTIONER'
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amSometime before Michael Buffer's "Let's get ready to rumble," there will be a chant seldom heard during a boxing event inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It...
HE JUST CAN'T GET IT WRIGHT
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - David Wright is experiencing a power drought. After belting 10 homers in his first 58 games this year, Wright had hit just one in his last...
CAUGHT IN MIDDLE - YANKEES RELIEVERS FIND ROLES
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amThe $100 million starting pitching rotation will remain a concern, and the Yankees aren't quite yet comfortable with their consistency. But the largest question mark looming over the team as...
YANKEES MIDSEASON REPORT CARD
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amWhile a few of the Yankees' top talents have performed very well in the first half, overall it's been a mediocre season at best. And the individual grades reflect it....
METS MIDSEASON REPORT CARD
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amAfter starting the year 0-5, the Mets won six straight, then lost three of their next four. It's continued that way during an up-and-down first half. Here are the grades:...
RIGHT ON, PEDRO! ACE'S PLACE IS ON METS' MOUND, NOT NL BENCH
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE All-Star Game is a nice slice of summer Americana. It is a splendid spectacle, allowing all of the game's greats to share one ballfield for one evening. It's been...
THE BRILLIANT & THE BONEHEADED - HARDBALL'S LOOK AT BEST AND WORST DECISIONS OF FIRST HALF
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Braves were insightful for moving John Smoltz back to the rotation, not so much on thinking Dan Kolb could replace him. The Mets were wise to let Al Leiter...
LEGEND'S LAST WALK - TEARS WILL FLOW WHEN NICKLAUS SAYS GOODBYE AT ST. ANDREWS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amMore tears borne from raw emotion will flow than Scottish ale or bitters from the taps of the local pubs this week when Jack Nicklaus makes his way over the...
BLASTS FROM THE POST - A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS: JULY 10-16
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amTOWER OF POWER - REGGIE'S MAMMOTH HOMER AN INSTANT AMERICAN LEGEND JULY 13, 1971 DETROIT - Now maybe the smartalecky,super-rich National League will listen to reason on interleague play. The...
HIRE POWER - HERB INTERVIEWING ASSISTANT CANDIDATE IS A STRONG SIGN HE'S ISIAH'S CHOICE
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - In the strongest sign yet Herb Williams will be back next season, the Knicks' interim coach spent the last two days here interviewing Paul Westphal for the...
'COOLED-DOWN' LISI SET TO GO FOR METROS
July 10, 2005 | 4:00amHe isn't sure what happened Monday. MetroStar midfielder Mark Lisi hopes it won't return to hospitalize him again. It wasn't until after the Metros' 2-2 tie in Salt Lake City...