October 30, 2005

LOOKS LIKE NO END TO FUEL-COST SURCHARGES

New York companies are falling in love with their fuel surcharges - even as gas prices fall below the level they were when the surcharges were tacked on. The surcharges,...

REVOLVING DOOR; PRIMEDIA OUSTS YET ANOTHER CHIEF EXEC

There's something about Primedia that brings out billionaire investor Henry Kravis' inner grump. Maybe it's the hundreds of millions of dollars he's lost on the enthusiast magazine publisher. "I've never...

PANIC TIME OVER MY FORD AND GM BONDS?

Dear John: I'm quite sure you are aware of Ford and General Mo tors' vast prob lems. I have $285,000 in Ford and GM bonds. I'm being advised by my...

DAMAGE CONTROL AT WPP; AD GIANT TRIES SMOOTHING THINGS OVER

FIRST there was the scandal. Now there is the tape. Neil French, the former creative director of WPP Group, resigned last week after making his now infamous comments about women...

PASSION OF A DVD PIRATE

They may have been surfing the Web for a devilishly good bargain, but that doesn't mean they didn't have heavenly interests. Shoppers at blueblood DVD pirate Randolph Hobson Guthrie's Internet...

FEELIN' THE PINCH; MANY WOES BUT FEW FOES FOR SULZBERGER

Besieged by scandal and some key management missteps, New York Times scion Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. may have exposed his control of the newspaper dynasty to a potential coup. Last...

OLD-SCHOOL BARTER SYSTEM GOES HIGH-STYLE

How'd you like to stay in a 13th century Scottish castle, play golf and go fly-fishing with the guy who makes fly-fishing rods for Prince Charles - and not pay...

OLD TOPICS COVERED IN NEW VOLUMES

NEW book are always being promoted as offering the latest opening analysis, the finest recent analysis or the most up-to-date teaching methods. But the books in the spotlight this fall...

FINALLY, WE FEEL A 'PULSE'

BETTER late than never. After gathering dust at Miramax for four years, the J- horror flick "Pulse," directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is about to see the dark of theaters in...

SPOOKED PETS; KEEP ANIMALS SAFE, COMFORTABLE ON HALLOWEEN

'Halloween can be a real howl for pets, but it doesn't have to be scary," says training expert Victoria Wells of Behave Yourself! (behave-yourself.com). She offers simple precautions to prevent...

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

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) Sunday, 6 p.m., AMC Griffin Dunne and David Naughton rock as two unfortunate friends who have a problem on their hands: one of them...

CBS' MITCHELL A PLEASURE ON SATURDAY

UNDER the Radar: A most underrated morning show host/co-anchor is Russ Mitchell, from CBS's "Saturday Early Show." Check him out. Smooth and personable, Mitchell excels in one important and widely...

GERALDO RIVERA RETURNS WITH 'AT LARGE'

HE'S baaack. As if Geraldo Rivera ever went away. The mustachioed maverick reporter kicks off his new daily syndicated show "Geraldo at Large" tomorrow on WNYW/Fox 5 at 4 p.m....

MIGHTY MARISKA - 'SVU' STAR SHEPHERDS 'LAW & ORDER' BRAND INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM

IF real-life SVU detectives last only two years on the job on average, according to Mariska Hargitay, then how has she coped with playing one for seven seasons on TV?...

WHY IS THAT STALE '70'S SHOW' STILL ON TV?

AFTER this season, "That '70s Show" has nowhere to go, except into the '80s. And that's not likely to happen. As the series starts its eighth season this week on...

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

BUFF BARRISTER SKS BOOK-LOVING BEAU MEET Janice,a cute lawyer with a penchant for kicking butt.Literally.When she 's not fighting for justice,she enjoys "checking out bands,reading,dancing and lifting weights." This buff...

THE HOT SEAT - TRIUMPH

WHEN it comes to celebrity trash talk, Joan Rivers and David Spade have nothing on Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. With his Hungarian accent and jumbo cigar, the canine puppet...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

1 TV de los muertes Like "Lost," the super-addictive, 13-episode "Epitafios" - a noirish Latin American murder mystery, now on HBO on Demand with subtitles - has developed such a...

CREEP SHOW - SOME OF THE SCARIEST MOVIES AREN'T EVEN BLOODY

IN search of a last-minute cinematic scare? Don't bother trying to track down "A Nightmare on Elm Street" - Blockbuster will be all out by now. Besides, despite their reputation,...

SCREAMING FOR A CAUSE - THRICE BENEFITS FROM BENEFITS

BESIDES the Ouija board-like cover art by Dave Eggers, the most mysterious thing about Thrice's new album is the title. Taken from Thomas Pynchon's novel "V," "Vheissu" is a cipher....

A STILL VITAL VOICE

PUBLIC ENEMY "New Whirl Odor" 3 STARS SLAMjamz/Redeye After shooting blanks at the charts with "Revolverlution" three years ago, hip-hop legend Public Enemy has reloaded and returned with "New Whirl...

KING-SIZED CRIME - HORROR SCRIBE TACKLES NOIR, FINDS INNER GUMSHOE

THE COLORADO KID By Stephen King 1 ½ STARS Hard Case Crime $5.99 A lesson learned from reading King's self-indulgent foray into pulp fiction: Never judge a book by its...

KEEP IT UNDER YOUR HATS - FALL HEADGEAR IS FABULOUS

1. Velvet cloche with silk-beaded rose, $48, at Anthropologie, 375 West Broadway 2. Wool cap with flower applique by Makins Hats, $225, at the Hat Shop, 120 Thompson St. 3....

'SWEENEY' ODD - IN A BOLD NEW SPIN ON SONDHEIM, THE PLAYERS BLOODY WELL DO IT ALL

THEY act, sing, dance, play all their own instruments - they even move the scenery. If you thought James Brown was the hardest-working man in show business, you haven't seen...

FERRER BLASTS 'BLOOMBUCK$'

Freddy Ferrer is begging Mayor Bloomberg to stop crushing him with campaign cash, estimating that the billionaire mayor will have spent $125 million by Election Day. "Why are you spending...

BULLETS FLY IN BROOKLYN; 1 DEAD, 1 HURT IN SHOOTOUT

A wild shootout left one man dead, another injured and a Brooklyn neighborhood riddled with bulletholes early yesterday. The gunfire followed an argument between Damian Menard, 23, and a group...

3 TEENS KNIFED IN HAMPTONS

Three teens were stabbed early yesterday when a brawl broke out at an exclusive Hamptons club, police said. The three teenage males were partying on Friday night at Resort, the...

HOMEMADE GRAVE; CELLAR HELD GRISLY SECRET

Here's an exclusive look at the dank cellar crypt in Harlem where a Brooklyn woman's battered corpse was entombed after she and a boyfriend battled over another woman. The building's...

'RIGHT' ROBBER BUSTED; OLD 'SUSPECT' A COP

A bank robber - originally mistaken for another man who turned out to be a narcotics cop - has finally been busted, and this time, cops said they have the...

W'BURG RAPIST ON THE LOOSE

A Williamsburg woman was viciously raped and beaten by a man who snatched her off the street while she walked to work early yesterday, police said. The 26-year-old victim was...

CHARGES STUN RUSSERT

WASHINGTON - NBC honcho Tim Russert says it was "eye-popping" to read the indictment in which ex-White House aide "Scooter" Libby claimed Russert told him that Iraq war critic Joe...

'KILLER' DAD'S A NO-SHOW; KID OFF LIFE SUPPORT

He told police he would turn himself in, but the hit-and-run driver who caused the death of a 15-year-old Queens boy just kept on running yesterday, cops said. Now cops...

THE RAP ON 'LIAR PRIEST'; 'PERV TRICKED US'

A defrocked priest pulled the wool over a tony Manhattan school's eyes, disguising past allegations of sexual abuse, and now faces a fresh set of charges from a 13-year-old student....

SHIROCCO MOTORS TO TRIUMPH

Surprise, surprise! Every year, the American breeders put up $2 million for a grass race over a mile and a half - and every year, the Europeans cross the Atlantic...

L.I. KID'S TRAGIC SILENCE ON HER MOM'S SLAY

AUDREY MALONE stood on the doorstep of her Long Island home one late summer night and pleaded with a neighbor to come next door to "play" with her. As the...

JOHN PAUL'S JALOPY ON A ROLL TO TEXAS

A Protestant attorney from Houston is the proud owner of Pope John Paul II's personal vehicle - a rundown light blue 1975 Ford Escort GL (right) - after making the...

LOST AND FOUND ON F TRAIN: MYSELF

TWO years ago, Doug Bruce woke up alone on an F train stopped at Coney Island and couldn't remember who he was, what he did for a living, where he...

FERRER BLASTS 'BLOOMBUCKS'

By Election Day, Mayor Bloomberg will have spent $125 million in his re-election bid, Fernando Ferrer estimates. "This . . . obnoxious, repulsive spending is bad for New York," Ferrer...

STONE DOUSES 'INFERNO' ; FAMILIES OK WITH 9/11 FLICK

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone's new movie on the last two cops rescued at Ground Zero won't be an exploitative "Towering Inferno," with filmmakers promising 9/11 families the flick won't depict...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

QUEENS *** A teen driver was killed yesterday when his van slammed into a concrete wall beneath a Long Island Expressway overpass in Bayside. The 18-year-old driver may have been...

'SAINT' SUPER ; LIKELY HORSE OF YEAR PUTS IN CLASSIC OUTING

On a Breeders' Cup Day at Belmont Park when one Horse of the Year candidate after another went down in flames, Saint Liam came through when it counted most. Before...

A HUNT FOR ANSWERS AT SUICIDE-SLAY VIGIL

A family of four killed last week in Morningside Heights was recalled at an evening vigil yesterday by neighbors trying to come to terms with the shocking murder-suicide. About 70...

CITY IS SINGING BIRD-FLU RX BLUES

The city is not stockpiling its own medicine for a possible avian-flu epidemic, but will rely, for now, on Uncle Sam to come through in a hurry, officials said. Dr....

CYCLIST KILLED IN QUEENS DWI

A driver was arrested for DWI last night after he struck and killed a cyclist who was crossing a Queens street, cops said. The driver, whose identity was not released,...

WE NAB 3 TEEN RAPISTS: COPS

A gang of teen rapists was arrested yesterday, two weeks after they broke into a Brooklyn home and savagely attacked a woman, locking her boyfriend in another room, cops said....

PALS LEAVE WIPED-OUT BIKER TO DIE

A dirt-bike rider died after he tumbled off his motorcycle in a parking lot near Yankee Stadium yesterday - his friends leaving him lying unconscious on the ground to be...

PRESIDENT'S COURT PICKS DOWN TO 2

WASHINGTON - President Bush appears to be choosing between two top conservative appeals court judges for his next Supreme Court nominee to replace the failed pick of Harriet Miers, sources...

EGG PRANK LEADS TO SHOOTING IN BRONX

A Halloween prank turned into a bloody shooting in The Bronx last night when a man was gunned down after he chased a group of kids who had thrown eggs...

BLAZE BYTES; $2M SOFTWARE TOAID FIRE RESPONSE

The FDNY is spending $2 million on new computer software that it believes would allow it to better manage emergencies - and get firefighters and medics to where they are...

THE ALBANY CON

DEMOCRATS and Republicans, pols and pundits, upstate and down, New Yorkers are furious with state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno and Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver. At issue: Ballot Proposal 1,...

'ARMIES' ON MARCH FOR MAYOR, FREDDY

Mayor Bloomberg and Fernando Ferrer are amassing huge get-out-the-vote efforts for Election Day, with the Bloomberg campaign claiming a volunteer army of 50,000 - the largest in recent city history....

I'D BACK A DEM FOR MAYOR IN '09: MIKE

IF he gets re-elected, Mayor Bloomberg is prepared to support a Democrat as his successor four years from now. "I have said that the quality of the person is much...

PROTESTERS ALL FIRED UP OVER FDNY 'CLOSINGS'

Rumors are swirling around the city that Mayor Bloomberg could close a dozen fire companies if he wins re-election - but officials called the talk "nonsense." About 50 people rallied...

INSIDE THE SHADOWY LIFE OF CIA SPY WIFE

HER dinner parties may be pot luck, but Valerie Plame's husband calls her Jane Bond. Recruited by the CIA at 22, fresh out of Penn State, platinum blond Valerie Plame...

PLAZA'S NOT MITZVAH; PARENTS SUING OVER BASH NIX

A Plaza-hotel-loving couple from New Jersey says the romantic landmark broke their hearts when it canceled their daughter's bas mitzvah, never telling them about a massive renovation that began in...

LIBBY'S ON LOOKOUT FOR TOP LAWYER

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was shopping for a top-flight criminal-defense lawyer yesterday, even as experts were scratching their heads over how exactly he landed in a...

BLOOMY POLLS SHOW TIGHTER RACE

The public polls that show Freddy Ferrer getting trampled by more than 30 points in the mayoral race are way out of line with Mayor Bloomberg's own internal polls. "It's...

KELLY'S HEROES AN APPLE 'ARMY' - HIGH-TECH HOMETOWN PROTECTION

It's no longer just a police department. It's an army. The NYPD has remade itself since 9/11, under Commissioner Ray Kelly, into one of the most formidable counterterrorism forces in...

APPLE'S BIRD-FLU RX BLUES

The city is not stockpiling its own medicine for a possible avian-flu epidemic, but will rely, for now, on Uncle Sam to come through in a hurry, officials said. Dr....

BLOOMY AND FERRER RALLYING THEIR TROOPS

Mayor Bloomberg and Fernando Ferrer are amassing huge get-out-the-vote efforts for Election Day, with the Bloomberg campaign claiming a volunteer army of 50,000 - the largest in recent city history....

BOBBY V TO DODGERS?

Bobby Valentine has emerged as one of the most intriguing figures of the baseball offseason, with the potential to be the front-runner for managerial jobs on two coasts or to...

IS SASKIN A SAVIOR?

MONTREAL - The critical question for the players to confront in mulling the fate of NHL Players Association executive director Ted Saskin is simply this: Is the union better served...

KRSTIC REFUSES TO BUDGE

Some people around the league still look at Nets center Nenad Krstic and see a virtual "E" on his forehead. No, not "Easy." Try "European." So they attempt the old...

FOLKLORE RUNS WILD FOR LUKAS

Leave it to the old pro, trainer Wayne Lukas, to launch yesterday's 22nd Breeders' Cup in spectacular fashion with his speedball Folklore, who blitzed the field to win the Juvenile...

STRETCH RUN A 'WONDER' TO BEHOLD

Turning for home in the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile, the two archrivals were running 1-2. Henny Hughes was in front after dueling for the early lead, and First Samurai,...

NYRA FAILING IN STRETCH

WHEN the New York Racing Association announced that it planned to sell the paintings off its walls to remain solvent, it was a signal the most prestigious racing enterprise in...

LARRY LIKES LYNCH

Larry Brown, who is concerned that the Knicks have an incomplete grasp of his system, could reach into his past for someone who is well-versed in his ways. George Lynch,...

'SILVER' STRIKES GOLD

There's an old saying in horseracing, "They all get beat," and that proved true again yesterday in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Sprint. That's where 3-5 favorite Lost in the...

JOCKEY COMES UP ROSES IN THIS RACE

This race might be remembered for showcasing the birth of a star - a young jockey named Rafael Bejarano, who has made a sensational start to his riding career in...

'ARTIE' DOES IT FOR JERKENS

One of the most illustrious families in New York racing for more than half a century finally broke their Breeders' Cup jinx when Artie Schiller steamed through the stretch to...

BOWLING 'EM OVER ; RUTGERS HUNGRY TO EARN ITS FIRST BID SINCE 1978

Tiffany Klebez saw the hurt on her fiancée's face and knew she had do something. A third straight football season had come to an end and Ryan Neill, a star...

YOUNG MARA PROVES TOUGH

Iona Prep 13Farrell 6 Sean Mara never thought of missing yesterday's game against Msgr. Farrell. The Iona Prep junior felt a responsibility to his teammates, so even though his grandfather,...

'PLEASANT' SURPRISE

Ten years ago in the Breeders' Cup at Belmont, trainer Shug McGaughey saddled 4-5 favorite Inside Information and won the Distaff by 13½ lengths, to this day the biggest winning...

'SAINT' SUPER ; CLASSIC OUTING FOR LIKELY HORSE OF YEAR

On a Breeders' Cup Day at Belmont Park when one Horse of the Year candidate after another went down, Saint Liam came through when it counted most - coming from...

YANKEES DUMP ALLEN; BRAVES TAP MCDOWELL

A year ago, Neil Allen was tabbed by George Steinbrenner as Mel Stottlemyre's eventual replacement as Yankee pitching coach, and installed as the bullpen coach to familiarize him with the...

KNIGHTS GOTTA HAVE HART

With what was once a 14-point lead whittled down to three and bowl eligibility hanging in the balance, it was fitting Ryan Hart was under center. The embattled senior quarterback...

TWO-LEGGED STARS, TOO

EIGHT splendid thorough breds, fast, genuine and true, put on a fabulous pageant at Belmont Park yesterday in the 22nd running of the Breeders' Cup, but at the end of...

BOWLING 'EM OVER ; RUTGERS ELIGIBLE; 1ST TIME SINCE '92

Rutgers 31Navy 21 "The only bowl they're going to is the one I just got off." - Former Boston College QB Glenn Foley, 1993 Those are perhaps the most painful...

HAYES GRIDDER RUSHES FOR 382 YARDS, RECORD

CHSFLHayes 42St. John-Bapt. 21 Cardinal Hayes football coach C.J. O'Neil has been waiting for the college-scholarship offers to come in for senior fullback Michael Allen. O'Neil should get his wish...

HUNTERS WILL HAVE A QUAIL OF A TIME

LONG Island has always enjoyed an abundance of wildlife, both on land and in the water, with the East End's extensive bays and tidal wetlands providing excellent hunting opportunities. Like...

STIRLING'S MESSAGE IGNORED

Sabres 6Isles 4 Steve Stirling was making a statement to his team when he sat Brad Lukowich Thursday against the Rangers after the defenseman was whistled for a pair of...

BLUESHIRTS ARE BUZZIN'

Rangers 5 Canadiens 2 MONTREAL - Another night, another learning experience, another building block for these precocious Rangers. One on top of another the building blocks are being set in...

CLEMMENSEN SAVES DEVS' SHOOTOUT WIN

SHOOTOUT / SUMMARY: P. 65Devils 6Bruins 5 BOSTON - These Devils hang so long by a thread that they can weave webs. And now, they have backup goalie Scott Clemmensen...

MARA SET HIGH STANDARDS

IF you caught all or some of those tributes to Wellington Mara that last week were issued by Paul Tagliabue, NFL team owners and executives, and even the ruling class...

WITH HEAVY HEARTS - GIANTS FACE REDSKINS MOURNING MARA

Two words passed through the lips of almost everyone associated with the Giants as they endured a most difficult week: Carry on. It is what we must do, they said....

BRUNELL LEARNED LOTS FROM COUGHLIN

GIANT NOTES Redskins QB Mark Brunell knows exactly what Eli Manning is going through. Brunell knows how demanding Tom Coughlin can be on a young quarterback. For eight full seasons,...

HAIL TO THE RIVALRY - GIANTS AND 'SKINS BEST OF ENEMIES FOR 74 YEARS

It started on Oct. 9, 1932 on Braves Field not in Washington or New York, but in Boston. That day, the Boston Braves beat Steve Owen's Giants 14-6 and a...

NO WASTE OF PACE - PEERLESS PROGNOSTICATION FROM POST'S PERENNIAL PROPHET

THE 2005-06 NBA season begins the day after Halloween, so while you're going door-to-door festooned in your best "business casual," the minds of the mindless, column castigator Frank Drucker and...

NEW ORDER ON THE COURT - BROWN WILL BRING PLAYOFFS BACK TO GARDEN

In breaking down last season's 33-49 Knick disgrace, the one pattern was failure to win games that went down to the wire. In 18 games determined in the final two...

NEW ORDER ON THE COURT - HEALTHY BIG 3 MAKE NETS ELITE AGAIN

The last time Jason Kidd made a victory forecast for the Nets, most thought him insane. In 2001-02, he predicted the Nets would be .500 or better. Yeah, right. They...

MIDDIE-KNIGHT MADNESS

Paul Johnson is tired of talking about last season. He means no disrespect to anyone. After all, Navy's head coach had a breakthrough year, and he's proud of that. He's...

BOWLING 'EM OVER - RUTGERS HUNGRY TO EARN ITS FIRST BID SINCE 1978

Tiffany Klebez saw the hurt on her fiancée's face and knew she had do something. A third straight football season had come to an end and Ryan Neill, a star...

BEYOND ALL SEASON - ALL IT TAKES IS ONE YEAR TO MAKE ROOTING WORTH IT

SHE put her foot down. As it turns out, she was serious. "If you pick the baseball game over an afternoon with me," she said, "then don't bother calling me...

THIRD TIME A CHARM FOR RUCINSKY

MONTREAL - In his third tour of duty as a Ranger, Martin Rucinsky has never looked better on Broadway. "I think the changes in the way the game is being...

MARTY: I'M NOT RUSHING BACK

BOSTON - Even as Martin Brodeur plans on practicing today or tomorrow, he says he won't rush back. "I'm going to make sure I'm right. It's not like this is...