January 11, 2006
EISNER: FROM MICKEY TO M.C.
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amGet ready for Michael Eisner, talk show host. Eisner, who vacated his CEO post at Disney last year after a shareholder revolt, has landed his first post-Mouse gig - he...
RECORD LABEL TO FOCUS ON GAYS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amSonyBMG and the founder of Logo, MTV's gay television network, have teamed to launch a new record label focused on gay and lesbian artists. The label, called "Music with a...
DENVER FIRM EYES 2 BUILDINGS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amDENVER-based Archstone-Smith is turning into a picky but prolific Manhattan apartment pack rat. Last week, the real estate investment trust completed its $342 million deal to purchase the 40-story, 550-unit...
TIMES BOMBS; PAPER'S SALES DROP 19% IN FIVE BOROUGHS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe New York Times lost almost 20 percent of its readers in the five boroughs between 2001 and 2004 as the paper pushed to reinvent itself as a national publication....
KIRK PUTS HUMMER DOWN
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amKirk Kerkorian is showing his first hand in his gamble with General Motors - selling it in pieces, starting first with the Hummer. The billionaire investor also wants to unload...
FEDS TARGET PERRY FUND - EYE MYLAN-KING TRADE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Perry Capital Management's controversial trading during the bitter 2004 Mylan Laboratories-King Pharmaceuti- cals takeover battle. The SEC sent Wells notices to the...
PREZ SEARCH AT TIME INC.
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amTHE traffic is not all one way out the door at Time Inc. Its hallowed hallways are lined with jittery staffers as the publishing giant tries to chop $100 million...
BAIN COULD BEST BURLINGTON BIDS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amBoston buyout firm Bain Capital has emerged as the frontrunner in the auction for bargain retailer Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp., sources said. Final bids for the New Jersey company,...
ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE 'OPERA' BREAKS A B'WAY RECORD
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amTHE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA**** (four stars)The Majestic Theater, 247 W. 44th St.; (212) 239-6200. IT was like an opening night where no one had to go to a party...
PERU STEW NO COUP
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amSTATE OF FEAR: THE TRUTH ABOUT TERRORISM *½ (one and a half stars) Another dictator docu.Running time: 94 minutes. Not Rated (violent images). At the Film Forum, 209 W. Houston...
HATCH FAME SLOWS TRIAL
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amTHOSE boffo ratings that CBS snared back in 2000 during the finale of the first edition of "Survivor" may come back to bite the show's champ, Richard Hatch, on the...
IS DAVE READY TO RETIRE? REMARK COULD BE FIRST SHOT IN CONTRACT WAR
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amDID David Letterman let something slip about his future on "The Late Show" Monday night? Letterman sparked speculation around the TV business with a casual remark he made during an...
BLOODIED, NOT BOWED; VAMPIRE TALE NAILED BUT VOWS TO LIVE ON
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to musicals about vampires, Broadway is like the sun: It shrivels them up and blows them away. Two of the biggest flops in recent...
STARR REPORT
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amHeather or not Reason Why Not #5: No one's watching. Heather Graham's new ABC sitcom, "Emily's Rea sons Why Not," got off to a shaky start Monday, pulling in only...
MIAMI VICES - FLESHY NEW FLORIDA FANTASY C/O J.LO
January 11, 2006 | 5:00am"South Beach" Tonight at 8 on UPN/Ch. 9 * * ½ (two and a half stars) WELCOME to "South Beach," UPN's new show about the hipsters inhabiting a stretch of...
ON THE SIDE - ARPAIA'S PRIMA DONA
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amDonatella Arpaia, the better-looking half of davidburke&donatella, will launch a new restaurant this spring on the site of Bellini, the Italian place she and her family have run for years...
WEST SIDE SORRY - TELEPAN IS LATEST TO TAKE ON A TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amHERE'S some unsolicited advice for the people at new Telepan (72 W. 69th St.), the latest place out to prove that the Upper West Side Is Now a Serious Dining...
HEY, JUDY - ACTRESS NAVIGATES HOLLYWOOD MINEFIELD OF LATINA STEREOTYPES
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amSOFT-SPOKEN and sweet, Judy Marte is the antithesis of the gritty character she plays in the upcoming indie film, "On the Outs." The moving drama tells the story of three...
BROOM WITH A VIEW - FORMER PORTER 'CLEANS UP' AS CEO OF HIS OWN COMPANY
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amBECOMING CEO of the company where you used to work scrubbing toilets may seem like an impossible feat to most people - but not to 36-year-old Brooklynite Michael Rodriguez, who,...
ANCHOR MANAGEMENT - ELIZABETH VARGAS SEIZES THE HELM OF 'WORLD NEWS TONIGHT'
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA REPLACEMENT for Peter Jennings? Many would say Mission: Impossible. But if anybody's up to the task it's Elizabeth Vargas, who made history last week as she took over ABC's...
STABBER JUMPS FROM VERRAZANO
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA man stabbed his wife as she visited her aunt in Brooklyn last night - then drove to the Verrazano Bridge, where he apparently leaped to his death, police said....
L.I. WIFE MURDERER GETS MAX
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amAt his sentencing yesterday, a crazed Long Island man who stabbed his wife to death in front of their three girls ranted that he was framed by the Suffolk County...
SURPRISING PRAYERS FOR SHARON
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is making slow daily progress from the effects of the massive cerebral hemorrhage he suffered last week. But it remains far too early for doctors...
DOCS SCOFF AT COUGH MEDICINE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amClinical evidence shows over-the-counter cough medicines are largely useless, doctors say. The American College of Chest Physicians said Monday adults should instead use nonprescription antihistamines and decongestants to stop the...
DE NIRO MUSCLES LAWYER OUT
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amRobert De Niro got his way in court yesterday, when his complaints about a defense lawyer in the case of his wife's stolen diamond earrings succeeded in getting the attorney...
THE SKINNY ON BREAST-FEEDING
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe longer infants are breast-fed, the less chance they'll be overweight as adolescents, a Harvard University study reveals. The reason is not entirely clear, but one theory is that breast...
ALITO & THE CLOWNS; SENATE DEMS BUNGLE ATTACKS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amPERHAPS Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee could rally to defeat Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. But to do so, they'd have to conduct themselves like intelligent...
UNHOLY MESS; MUSLIMS PROTEST AS SCHOOL TESTS FALL ON HOLIDAY
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amReligion and education collided yesterday, as Muslims complained that critical state reading exams should have been postponed because of a religious holiday. Many Muslim families kept their children out of...
$80M FOR 9/11 CENTER: GOV
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amConstruction of a visitors' center overlooking the Ground Zero memorial would be built with $80 million from state taxpayers - the first state investment in the project, Gov. Pataki proposed...
MIKE NAMES 7TH DEPUTY
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amDramatically reshuffling his inner circle, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday named another deputy mayor - the seventh in his administration. The promotion of Homeless Services Commissioner Linda Gibbs (left) to the post...
PELOSI PAL GUILTY OF COVER-UP
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amIn the end, his biggest crime was being pals with Danny Pelosi. Under a plea deal, Christopher Parrino, 38, yesterday admitted to helping Pelosi cover up evidence of Ted Ammon's...
ARIEL'S ON THE 'LAMB'; PERKS UP AT TALK OF DISH
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon battles for his life, the prospects of Mideast peace hanging in the balance, he has something other than his nation's future to...
REGENTS REACH LEGAL CAP WITH 4 NEW CHARTER SCHOOLS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe state Board of Regents maxed out its credit on charter schools yesterday, approving the last four it can authorize under a state law capping the number at 100 across...
GOV PUSHES NEW PRISON FOR PERVS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The state will build a "pervert prison" - a special maximum-security facility for the most dangerous sex offenders, it was announced yesterday. Gov. Pataki yesterday said the facility...
SPITZER 'WHISPER' DEFENSE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday stepped up his defense against charges that he has sought to intimidate his political foes, contending, "You will not change the world by...
CENTRAL PK. MUGGERS STRUCK IN OPEN VIEW
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amAn Upper East Side man who was brutally beaten and mugged inside Central Park said yesterday the scariest part of the ordeal was that he wasn't in a deserted area...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** A storeowner was arrested yesterday for beating a customer with an aluminum bat in his Coney Island bodega, authorities said. Sources said Ali Abdullah, 28, became angry over...
FLU FLIES INTO 4 BOROUGHS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe flu season has kicked in - with influenza cases reported in four of the city's five boroughs, health officials said yesterday. The state Health Department said "sporadic" flu cases...
QNS. SUFFERS PAIN IN GLASS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA vandal has been targeting motorists in the Rosedale section of Queens, smashing windows on cars parked on residential streets during the past few days, sources said. Police said they've...
NO-DEFENSE RAPIST GUILTY
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens man who refused to put up any legal defense was convicted yesterday of ambushing a woman before raping and sodomizing her in a dingy basement storage room 13...
LABOR'S DAY; CITY UNION BIGS TEAMING UP WITH NEW COUNCIL SPEAKER IN PAY-RAISE EFFORTS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amPowerful health-care union leader Dennis Rivera showed yesterday he still has considerable clout in City Hall - despite having backed the wrong horse in the mayoral race. Rivera got newly...
GUILT; 'HAD I COME FORWARD, THAT GIRL MIGHT BE ALIVE'
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman feels "terrific guilt" for not reporting her rape - believing she could have prevented her terrorizer from later murdering his estranged stripper girlfriend, sources told The Post....
BUSH FIRES A BLAST AT 'DEFEATISTS'
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday warned Iraq war critics to make sure they don't give "comfort to our adversaries," as the debate heats up in the run-up to the November...
BUS-TED THUG 'MUGGED' DRIVER
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amNext stop: jail. A Brooklyn man mugged a city bus driver, then threatened to "blow up his head" , police said. Larry Brown, 61, boarded the B14 bus at 4:13...
'DRUNK DRIVER' KILLS TEEN; WRONG-WAY SUV SLAMS HER CAR ON S.I.
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA Staten Island college freshman with a zest for life died early yesterday after a boozed-up SUV driver swerved into oncoming traffic and plowed into the car she was riding,...
'SEX-FIEND FIRE RAT' SQUEAKS OVER LEAKS ; LAWYERS FUMING AT POST'S SCOOPS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amLawyers for accused fire fiend Peter Braunstein are demanding a Manhattan DA investigation, a judicial gag order and possible "sanctions" over recent Post exclusives exposing his diary and insider details...
WIDOW CRIES AS JURY HEARS OF COP SLAYS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe first police officer who rushed to help two cops gunned down in East Flatbush took the stand yesterday and recounted the dramatic struggle to save the dying men. "I...
PENSION 'ID THIEF' WAS ON PROBATION FOR COKE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA former New York City Teachers' Retirement System clerk accused of exposing 5,800 pensioners to an identity-theft ring was arrested on drug charges while working at the fund, The Post...
9/11 ORPHAN'S SAD 'BYE' TO HERO ; TRAGIC RESCUE OFFICER A 'STAR IN HEAVEN' TO TOT, 4 SO SAD:
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amTylerann Zadroga believes her mommy took her daddy to live with her in heaven because he was so sick. That's how the 4-year-old explains the tragic death of her father,...
DOUBLE HEART ATTACK KILLS B'KLYN COP ON GUN CALL
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA veteran Brooklyn police officer died yesterday after suffering a heart attack while responding to an unfounded report of an armed man - and then having another heart attack at...
'KILLER': I HAD COP OUTGUNNED; BRAGS OF SUPERIOR FIREPOWER
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amAn actor's accused cop-killing cohort brazenly bragged to police how he outgunned the gutsy officer - comparing his powerful .357 Magnum to the cop's measly department-issued Glock, his written statement...
LEBRON WON'T TALK ABOUT N.Y.
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - LeBron James' poker face gave way to a quick smile when asked last night before facing the Knicks if he could envision playing for them after...
OODLES OF POODLES MAKE THEM MANHATTAN'S TOP DOG
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amPoodles fetched the top spot as the most popular dog in Manhattan, according to a survey by the American Kennel Club. All three sizes of the pampered poodle - standard,...
HILL'S IRAQ 'BODY' SLAM
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday billed herself as one of President Bush's "leading critics" on Iraq as she accused him of "incompetence" in protecting troops in combat with...
MOVIN' ON UP: HOW AN IMMIGRANT EX-CABBY GOT $40M TOWNHOUSE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amHe grew up in a cramped apartment in war-torn Russia, lived in a tiny Queens pad that rumbled from the nearby LIE - and last week inked a record $40...
ACTOR'S EX ADMITS GRAND-JURY LIE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The former wife of actor Keith Carradine pleaded guilty to perjury, and admitted she lied about illegal phone taps on her estranged husband, according to federal documents...
ANGELIC MOM HORRIBLY SLAIN IN HARLEM
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amA 54-year-old Harlem woman known for taking in the homeless for a warm meal and shower was found murdered last night, naked and tied up in her bedroom, police said....
JURORS HEAR DYING COP UTTER LAST WORD
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amMortally wounded Detective Robert Parker made a chilling 911 call after he was shot, telling the operator that he had "a picture" of the gunman, according to an played by...
TOP DOG:OODLES OF POODLES
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amPoodles fetched the top spot as the most popular dog in Manhattan, according to a survey by the American Kennel Club. All three sizes of the pampered poodle - standard,...
SCAMPS ON STAMPS: NEW POSTAGE A KIDS' DELIGHT
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe world's most beloved children's book characters are about to take a licking - as the stars of a new set of stamps available today. The "Favorite Children's Book Animals"...
CARRADINE'S EX ADMITS BIG LIE - MISLED GRAND JURY IN PROBE OF BOYFRIEND
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The former wife of actor Keith Carradine pleaded guilty to perjury, and admitted she lied about illegal phone taps on her estranged husband, according to federal documents...
BUSH BLASTS 'DEFEATISTS'
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday warned Iraq war critics to make sure they don't give "comfort to our adversaries," as the debate heats up in the run-up to the November...
HILL GIVES PREZ AN IRAQ 'BODY' SLAM
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday billed herself as one of President Bush's "leading critics" on Iraq as she accused him of "incompetence" in protecting troops in combat with...
CARRADINE'S EX ADMITS GRAND-JURY LIE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The former wife of actor Keith Carradine pleaded guilty to perjury, and admitted she lied about illegal phone taps on her estranged husband, according to federal documents...
BRAVEST'S LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe firefighter hit by a bus while biking to work during last month's transit strike is still in critical condition, but friends and family say he's hanging tough. Matthew Long,...
FINAL GIANTS REPORT CARD
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amQUARTERBACKS The Good: 24 TD passes. The Bad: 17 INTs. The ugly: 52.8 com pletion percentage. Everyone has an opinion on Eli Manning, who showed a knack early but really...
DEFENDING HONOR ; CARTER ENCOUNTERS BOWEN AGAIN
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amSpurs 96 Nets91 SAN ANTONIO - Bruce Bowen is good against Vince Carter defensively, Carter admits. But Jeff Van Gundy and Larry Brown are better. "It's more team more than...
INJURED RJ: HURTS TO MISS THIS ONE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES SAN ANTONIO - For Richard Jefferson, there was no comparison. After all, you're talking minutes versus games. Jefferson was questionable for the Nets in their quest to beat...
PRETTY HEAVY WAIT ; BUT RAHMAN VS. TONEY COULD END DROUGHT
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amUNLIKE their encounter last month, when they exchanged words and fists in a Cancun hotel lobby, Hasim Rahman and James Toney were civil to each other yesterday. Perhaps it was...
TIME NOT ON HIS SIDE - TIKI OUTBURST FUELED BY FEAR
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amWHETHER you believe Tiki Barber courageously spoke the truth or cowardly pointed fingers with his "we were outcoached" bombshell, there can be no debate as to his mindset. It was...
RICE FINDS GROOVE, TOPS XAVERIAN
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amH.S. NOTES After the Rice H.S. basketball team fell to an uncharacteristic 2-4 when it lost at St. Raymond's on Friday night, head coach Mo Hicks seemed unconcerned. "It's been...
MR. COOL - PATS' BRADY NOT FAZED BY BRONCS
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amHe is Mr. Clutch. He is The Winner. He is Tom Brady, and no one has beaten him in the playoffs. Not Peyton Manning. Not Kurt Warner in his prime....
ONE BIG HUNCH ABOUT HUSKIES
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amNOW THAT Vince Young has left USC and Texas behind, it's time to focus on college basketball, which brings us to the first Post Poll since the preseason. Upon receiving...
GREAT ONE HEAPS PRAISE ON MESSIER
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amTo hear Wayne Gretzky tell it, if a Mount Rushmore for New York sports heroes is ever constructed, Mark Messier would be one of those four blocks of granite. "There's...
LARRY OK WITH BEING A CAV NOT
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - Isiah Thomas can rest easy. Larry Brown, who flirted with the Cavaliers about their presidency last spring, revealed yesterday he no longer holds any ambition of...
ISLES DEAL, LOSE... AND READY AX
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amPredators 2Islanders 1 With the Islanders locked in a midseason coma, GM Mike Milbury attempted a wake-up call last night - and what may be the first move of a...
RANGERS' RALLY DOUSES FLAMES
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 4Flames 2 If you were still looking for measuring sticks and litmus tests, then you should have been at the Garden last night. You should have seen the way...
SPURS SPURN SPURT - NETS STREAK ENDS AT 10
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amSPURS 96 NETS 91 SAN ANTONIO - The Nets' streak is dead. But not their sense of self-esteem. The Spurs' defense will end any team's streak - much like they...
FANTASTIC 4 - CONFIDENT KNICKS ADD TO SEASON-HIGH WIN STREAK
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amKNICKS 92 CAVS 84 CLEVELAND - This wasn't just the best victory of the four-game winning streak, this was the best Knicks victory of the Larry Brown Era. The Knicks...
RAMS' VITT GETS AUDITION TODAY; HENDERSON AND TICE ON DECK
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets' coaching search is moving along, with Rams interim coach Joe Vitt hitting town for dinner last night and an interview today. Everything that's happening now, however, appears to...
BELICHICK'S DISCIPLES TELL THE POST HE HAS WHAT IT TAKES
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amNothing has been made official yet, because the interview has not yet taken place. But if the proceedings toward the post-Herman Edwards era go the way the Jets would like,...
LARRY: CAV NOT - CLEVELAND WASN'T RIGHT FOR BROWN
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amCLEVELAND - Isiah Thomas can rest easy. Larry Brown, who flirted with the Cavaliers about their presidency last spring, revealed yesterday he no longer holds any ambition of becoming a...
GOOSE LETS LOOSE - GOSSAGE OUTRAGED WITH COOPERSTOWN SNUB
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amYOU would not want to get into the batter's box yesterday against Goose Gossage. The greatest closer of his era, the right-hander who did double and triple the work of...
THE POST'S TOP 25
January 11, 2006 | 5:00am1 Connecticut (13-1) Beat Cincinnati 70-59 vs. Georgetown Saturday (2) Rudy Gay must leave it in the "on" position all the time. 2 Duke (14-0) Beat Wake Forest 82-64 vs....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 11, 2006 | 5:00amThis will make your skin crawl. The libraries of universities like Harvard and Brown have collections of centuries-old books with bindings made of human skin. Experts say it was common...