January 29, 2006
THE LUMP SUM PENSION VS. MONTHLY PAYMENTS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: I am 57 years old and seriously getting my retirement plan in order. I work for a company with a defined pension plan. What's the conventional wisdom about...
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES; AOL MOVING TO BUILD UP FORCES IN TINSELTOWN
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amFresh from its recent partnership with Google, America Online is preparing a major expansion in Hollywood. AOL, which has had a staff in Culver City, Calif., for about 10 years,...
MAG WORLD INFLUENCE IS HARD TO SHAKE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amYou can take the man out of print media but you can't take print media out of the man. Michael Hirschorn, the Esquire, New York and Spin magazine alumnus, is...
DOSE OF REALITY - B-LIST STRATEGY ENERGIZES VH-1
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amFor Michael Hirschorn, VH-1's programming boss, the pop culture zeitgeist has an easy formula: use C-list wiseguys to comment on the real-life activities of B-list celebrities for grade A content....
COMMERCIAL APPEAL - IT'S THE ADS PEOPLE REMEMBER ABOUT THE SUPER BOWL
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amHARDLY anyone remembers who played in the 1984 Super Bowl. Football fans were too transfixed by Apple 's now famous "1984 " ad,,which introduced the Macintosh computer while thumbing its...
DON'T LET ISAAC MIZRAHI NEAR THE OSCARS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amE !SHOULD dump Isaac Mizrahi as soon as possible. This is one of those stories that should have sparked more outrage when it happened a few weeks ago,but it didn...
SOAP STARS TAKE STROLL DOWN MISERY LANE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amA LL the old soap stars are coming back to daytime TV.In the wake of the strange announcement that actor Tristan Rogers,now 59,would return to ABC 's "General Hospital "...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amReel good C O M E D Y Wild and crazy guy STEVE MARTIN has a remake of "The Pink Panther " to promote as he hosts "Saturday Night Live...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amCRUISE CONTROL Sunday, January 29, AMC With any luck it will rain (or snow)tonight and you can cozy up to three great Tom Cruise classics.Beginning at 8 p.m.,it 's 1989...
NEWSMEN AT CNN AND FOX SELL OUT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIT 'S fascinating how those so practiced at violating the public trust in front of national audiences are quick to point out the un-American behavior in others. This past Monday,Miles...
RAT'S ENTERTAINMENT; RODENT SHARES SPOTLIGHT IN B'WAY MUSICAL
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amNEW Yorker Rob Cox has kept pet rats since he was a kid. "I named my first rat Stan, short for Stands With a Stare, because that's all he did,"...
POLITICS-GAME LINK IS UP FOR DEBATE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amLEO Williams, a former champion of Montreal, traded the chessboard for the ballot box this week when he ran for parliament in the Canadian elections - and got crushed. Williams,...
SOUTHERN UNFRIED
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amCommon sense says that a diet of cheese grits and fried chicken will make you gain weight, fast. Not always so, says Lindsey Williams, grandson of Harlem's soul food queen...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amANDREA BOCELLI "Amore" (four stars) Sugar/Decca SINCE Andrea Bocelli became an international star on the power of the 50-million-selling "Romanza," there's been controversy about how he should use his formidable...
HEAR THIS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIN CONCERT * Rocker Constantine Maroulis (of "American Idol" fame) takes the stage at Nokia Theatre on Tuesday. * The Joni Mitchell Tribute show benefiting Music for Youth features performances...
LIPSTICK TRACES, LOWRIDER JEANS - TWIN CDS AREN'T RELATED
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amHalf-naked models stand in stark white rooms, striking menacing poses with violent words scrawled in blood-red lipstick on the walls. A new horror film? No. It's the eerily similar cover...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPerky publicist sks well-suited match MEET Lindsay, a pretty 23-year-old publicist. When she's not working, Lindsay says she likes to shoot hoops, read, shop and walk her dog, Cinderella. She...
HOT SEAT - TEDDY GEIGER
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTEDDY Geiger is the latest singer-songwriter to follow in the footsteps of John Mayer, but the shaggy heartthrob has a leg up on the other youngsters trying to break into...
WEST SHOOT MACY'S VIDEO
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amRECENTLY, a homeless man and his three children were invited into the Herald Square Macy's on a Friday night after closing time. They were allowed to roam the store freely,...
REQUIRED READING
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIF the assassination of President Lincoln happened in today's world, the subsequent search for his killer would have been reported with breathless detail, complete with its own logo and theme...
A STAR IN ZADIE'S ORBIT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amUTTERLY MONKEY Nick Laird ½ (three and one half stars) (Harper Perennial, $13.95) BY day British novelist Nick Laird was a rising corporate lawyer, by night an invisible man. At...
STRUNG-OUT SICKOS!
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIF you thought "Team America: World Police" was as violent and depraved as a movie starring puppets could possibly be, wait until you see "Live Freaky! Die Freaky!" - a...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amHeavenly guilt Even though the WB 's preachy "7th Heaven " ((with Beverly Mitchell,below) featured some of the most stilted TV acting ever,it 's guilty-pleasure factor carried it into its...
CRASH SPOOKS VOLUMES
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amShhhhh - no talking! And please, no cars smashing through the walls! An out-of-control car on Long Island smashed into the quiet room of the Commack Public Library yesterday, leaving...
HAMAS HYSTERIA IN THE STREETS; PALESTINIAN LOSERS IN GUN-&-ARSON SPREE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Anarchy swept over the West Bank and Gaza Strip yesterday as the Palestinians' fractured government plunged deeper into chaos, with Fatah gunmen storming parliament buildings and armed gangs...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amBRONX *** A melee erupted between two groups inside a Belmont pool hall early yesterday, leaving two victims with head wounds from pool-cue beatings and a third person shot and...
BRIT BOOKIE 'BOWL'ING FOR N.Y. $$
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amAn offshore gambling service is betting the state will look the other way while it rakes in millions of dollars in illegal Super Bowl wagers. London-based SportingBet Plc. recently unveiled...
THREE WORDS SHOULD HAVE FROZEN VICTIM
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amFrom the first day in the police academy, every cop on the force has the mantra "Police! Don't move," and the protocol for facing down the barrel of a gun...
EERIE ECHOES OF '94 FIASCO IN THE SUBWAY
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amThe city's last cop-on-cop shooting was more than a decade ago - and it raised the high racial tensions of the Rudy Giuliani era to a new level. It happened...
QNS. BAIL-JUMP PERV OUTRAGE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amAn accused Queens sex fiend is on the lam and a local lawmaker is saying "I told you so" to a judge he believes set "an amazingly low bail" for...
'ACS RAPIST' TWIST; FOSTERED KIDS: DA
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amA child-welfare supervisor raped his own daughters for years and even convinced authorities to let him foster sexually abused kids in his own home, a prosecutor charged yesterday. The Harlem...
SANDERS CONCERNED FOR SAFETY
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amThe former Knicks executive accusing team GM Isiah Thomas of sexual harassment is receiving threats and is "concerned for her children's safety," according to friends. Fred Thompson, former track coach...
COP IN TRAGIC BRONX MIX-UP; WOUNDED BY FELLOW OFFICER IN BX. MELEE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amA drunken off-duty cop, chasing a half-dozen thugs who beat him inside a White Castle in The Bronx, was gunned down by a fellow officer early yesterday morning in a...
5 KIN ESCAPE QNS. INFERNO
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amFirefighters rescued a family of five early yesterday from a fire that had quickly spread through their Flushing apartment, a department spokesperson said. Sixty firefighters rushed to the six-story building...
PERV VICTIM'S OUTRAGE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amA man who claims he and his brother were sexually abused by a Catholic priest three decades ago is outraged their alleged attacker will receive no jail time in another...
NEIGHBORS' BUILDING NIGHTMARE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amNine Brooklyn families have been homeless for months after faulty construction at buildings adjacent to theirs forced them to evacuate. Since June, two construction sites in Greenpoint and Williamsburg were...
ISIAH PAYS DEARLY FOR LOVE-CHILD BORN AFTER HIS NUPTIALS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amEx-NBA "bad-boy" Isiah Thomas was entangled in a bitter, heart-wrenching paternity case that blew up in his face just months after he was married - and dragged through the courts...
THOMAS' SECRET MISERY; SON TELLS OF TEARS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks President Isiah Thomas sat alone in the study of his home and quietly wept the night before a bombshell sex-harassment lawsuit became a public scandal, his son says. "He...
LIZZIE TO WED FORMER EMPLOYEE'S EX
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPR princess Lizzie Grubman agreed to marry her Prince Charming - after his romantic proposal in the socialite's living room yesterday, The Post has learned. Grubman, who stole fiancé Chris...
HOW BILL-SCAM SLEUTH MADE HIS HOSP PAY
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amBeth Israel Medical Center made a big mistake messing with Najuddin Pervez. And now they owe him $14.5 million. When the hospital stopped paying the 62-year-old's medical bills about 10...
IT'S JACKIE FAUX; SALACIOUS 'MEMOIR' A BIG TRICK
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amDon't tell Oprah! A steamy book titled "The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" is scheduled to hit bookshelves on Feb. 7 and among other things reveals: * Explicit scenes...
TWO STRIKES, WE'RE OUT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amNEW YORKERS must be at their wit's end with transit workers, who have raised the prospect of a second subway strike after voting down a proposed contract with the MTA....
BIZ-BOOSTER AGENCY TAKES CITY FOR A RIDE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTHE agency responsible for economic development in the city allows nearly 12 percent of its work force to live outside the city. What's worse, some employees of the Economic Development...
ELIOT'S DEM 'FOE' SUOZZI BANKING ON STYLE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTOM SUOZZI didn't want to be late. The Nassau County executive stole a glance at his watch. It was about 11 a.m. At 1 p.m., the 43-year-old had to be...
'IDOL 5' THRIVES; 2 STARS ARE A HIT AS SHOW GETS OFF TO WILD START
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTemper tantrums, unbridled ego, delicious scandal and sexual politics. And it's only Week 2 of "American Idol." Famously grumpy judge Simon Cowell pitched a fit and stormed out of the...
OPRAH'S BOOK DRUB; FANS LOVE HER 'FREY LIE' SMACKDOWN
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amThe people have spoken: Don't mess with Oprah! A whopping 77 percent of New Yorkers polled by The Post said they worship Oprah now more than they did before her...
SPECTOR: I WAS OFF MY MEDS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Troubled music man Phil Spector has been on a cocktail of psychotropic drugs for eight years - but might have been off his meds the day he...
ONE-A-DAY UNDIES; VITAMINS STITCHED INTO SKIVS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amMy underwear is teeming with an organic substance - and, boy, is it invigorating! Twelve hours ago, I had the honor of slipping into a pair of vitamin-infused skivvies. The...
COP STRUCK BY 'FRIENDLY FIRE' - SHOT DOWN BY OFFICER IN MIX-UP OVER BRAWL
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amAn off-duty cop, chasing a half-dozen thugs who beat him up inside a Bronx White Castle, was gunned down by a fellow officer early yesterday morning in a catastrophic case...
CHARGES DUE IN A TRAGIC CHASE-DOWN
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amCharges were still pending late yesterday against the two teens chased down by officer Kevin Lee before he died. Lee, 31, of The Bronx, collapsed after chasing and struggling with...
THREATS ON ISIAH'S FOE - 'HARASS' ACCUSER A TARGET
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amThe former Knicks exec accusing team GM Isiah Thomas of sexual harassment is receiving threats and is "concerned for her children's safety," according to friends. Fred Thompson, former track coach...
CONSTRUCTION NEIGHBORS' NIGHTMARE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amNine Brooklyn families have been homeless for months after faulty construction at adjacent buildings forced the residents to evacuate. Since June, two construction sites in Greenpoint and Williamsburg were shut...
LOU'S IMMEDIATE TASK: PICK OUT A COACH
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amNow that his bubble has burst in back-to-back blankings for the first time since 1983, Lou Lamoriello can get around to picking a coach. Then he can seriously hunt another...
WINGS READY TO TAKE FLIGHT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTOM CROTTY MEMORIAL Perhaps the best basketball team in the PSAL comes from a tiny school in The Bronx that has 450 students and that virtually no one outside the...
TIME FANS REALIZE STORM'S BREWIN'
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amI don't receive many Christmas cards from St. John's fans. Can't say I blame them after I wrote a couple of years ago they were punks. Not all of them,...
GATTI'S STILL GOT IT - REBOUNDS WITH 11TH-ROUND WIN
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - A crowd of 10,700 came to Boardwalk Hall last night hoping against hope Arturo Gatti had something left to show them, six months after he took a...
JOIN CLUB DREAD; LET'S WADE THROUGH THE NONSENSE TOGETHER
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amOK, SETTLE down, take your seats. Before we start this meeting of the Common Sense Club, a couple of brief announcements: CSC members who plan to bet the Super Bowl...
SANTOS CLOSES IN ON 4,000
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amJose Santos notched career victory 3,998, winning $65,000 Paumonok Handicap gate-to-wire aboard Bishop Court Hill at Aqueduct yesterday. Trained by Todd Pletcher, 6-year-old gelding had just one win in previous...
WHEN RICH IS POOR, SO ARE NETS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Richard Jefferson doesn't like to point fingers. But this time he is. And he's pointing at himself. The Nets, who for three games have either been without Vince...
OUT WEST, IT'S 22-SKIDOO
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES SEATTLE - For the Nets, in the first three games of the road trip that ended here last night against the Sonics, it was a case of "Ready...
DALY'S WIFE: ISIAH 'FLIRTY' ; BUT SUPPORTS TROUBLED KNICKS PREZ
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Some of the lovey-dovey lines appearing in the sexual harassment suit filed by Anucha Browne Sanders against Knicks president Isiah Thomas didn't surprise Terry Daly, the wife of...
DOUBY DOES IT ALL ; JUNIOR LEADS RUTGERS PAST LOUISVILLE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amRutgers 65Louisville 56 PISCATAWAY - Quincy Douby is the leading scorer for Rutgers, but until yesterday he hadn't always been a leader. With three minutes remaining in a tie game...
BIRD BASHERS; BLUESHIRTS HUMILIATE AWFUL PENS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 7Penguins 1 Tiki Barber, watching the Rangers' 7-1 humiliation of the Penguins from the Garden stands, said after it was over that he thought Pittsburgh's Michel Therrien had been...
STINGING INDICTMENT ; ANDERSEN STUNG BY NBA BAN
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amCONGRATULATIONS to Chris Andersen for becoming the first Developmental League player banned from the NBA for substance abuse. He's also the first since Stanley Roberts (Class of '99) to be...
GREAT WAY TO PICK UP CHICKS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTHE fact that New York State offers good pheasant hunting is not lost on all the people involved in rearing some of these birds that are released into the wild....
SOURCES DESCRIBE SANDERS AS 'BULLY'
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Anucha Browne Sanders, the former Knicks marketing director suing Isiah Thomas for sexual harassment, was portrayed as a "bully" who once chewed out ex-Knick Clarence Weatherspoon for being...
MIRACLE MILER; IONA STAR SAVED SISTER
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amLast Friday, Richard Kiplagat's 3:57.40 mile win at the Armory Gotham Cup was the fastest time in the world this winter. In this coming Friday's Millrose Games, the Iona star's...
HOW COME LOMBARDI CAN'T FIND SOME WORK?
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPERHAPS its only a manifestation of this conspiracy- theorist mind, but forgive me for wondering whether the Islanders are being steered away from Dean Lombardi - only the best candidate...
NETS' TRIP IS UTTERLY 4-GETTABLE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amSonics 113Nets 104 SEATTLE - Vince Carter was back on the court. Richard Jefferson was back, putting his recent struggles behind him for one magnificent night. Yes, a lot of...
SOME SIGNS OF LIFE ; RESILIENT ISLES RALLY FOR SECOND STRAIGHT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIsles 4Bruins 3 BOSTON - Baby steps have turned into giant leaps for the Islanders. The Isles won consecutive games for the first time in over a month with last...
SANDERS LABELED A 'BULLY'
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Anucha Browne Sanders, the former Knicks marketing director who is suing Madison Square Garden and team president Isiah Thomas for sexual harassment, was portrayed as a "bully" who...
STREAK IS 1 & DONE ; KNICKS HAVE NO ANSWER FOR IVERSON-LESS SIXERS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00am76ers 91Knicks 76 PHILADELPHIA - Sixers superstar Allen Iverson did not play because of an ankle sprain. Stephon Marbury did, but was a shell of himself because of a sore...
BAILEY ENJOYED THE RIDE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amWHO is "the Screamer" going to scream at now that Jerry Dale Bailey, the greatest jockey of his generation, who closed out his 32-year, Hall of Fame career yesterday finishing...
HERE COMES KOBE - CAN HE DROP 100 ON KNICKS IN GARDEN?
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amBrace yourself, Knicks fans, because here comes Kobe. Just when it looks as if things can't get worse at MSG, the hottest player in the NBA is preparing to bring...
ONE FOR THE THUMB - COWHER BURNING TO GIVE ROONEY A FIFTH TITLE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amBill Cowher was only minutes removed from winning the AFC Championship last Sunday in Denver and there he stood, behind a podium in the visitor's interview room with tears beginning...
SEAHAWKS ON MAP - GLORY AT LAST FOR NFL'S MOST IRRELEVANT FRANCHISE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIn their infancy, before they ever played a game, the Seahawks gathered together inside an amphitheater at Eastern Washington University, a collection of questionable talent and unfamiliar names all harboring...
CASH & TRASH - YANKEE GM WINS WINTER AS BOSOX BOSS BUMBLES
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amTHE Marlins were broken up and so - for 11 weeks - were Theo Epstein and the dysfunctional Red Sox. The only baseball person more indecisive than Epstein was a...
HEAD TO HEAD - N.Y. NIGHTMARES
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amPost Sunday Sports Editor Dave Blezow and columnist Steve Serby slug it out over which New York sports franchise is the worst: Dave Blezow: I know you live over there...
GATTI: THE WEIGHT'S OK
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - Buddy McGirt says no mas. Assuming Arturo Gatti, whom McGirt trains, beat Thomas Damgaard last night here to win the IBA welterweight championship, then Floyd Mayweather beats...
PRACTICE? WHY? SHAW LETS LOWLY ISLES SKIP SKATES
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - Brad Shaw has instilled somewhat of an improved work ethic since inheriting the Islanders' head coaching job from Steve Stirling and he's restored some accountability in the dressing...
ROOKIES: WE'RE NOT TIRED OUT
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Rookie David Lee rolled his eyes Friday when told coach Larry Brown had said the rookies have hit the wall. Lee disputes the notion, though he...
NO STEADY EDDY - CURRY, KNICKS FLOUNDER IN PHILLY
January 29, 2006 | 5:00am76ers 91 Knicks 76 PHILADELPHIA - Limited by a shoulder injury, Stephon Marbury needs support. And after last night's offensively challenged 91-76 loss to the Allen Iverson-less Sixers, both Marbury...
TWIST IN 'ACS RAPE' - KIDS NEARBY: COPS
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amA child-welfare supervisor accused of raping his own daughters didn't worry that young children were in the apartment when he violated his last victim, law-enforcement sources said. The 41-year-old Harlem...
RETURN TO LAND OF THE GIANTS - SCENES FROM A CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amIt is 15 years and two days since that historic night in Tampa Stadium, which began with Saddam Hussein and Whitney Houston and ended with "Wide Right" and a soaked...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 29, 2006 | 5:00amA western Pennsylvania city took Super Bowl fever to new heights and changed its name from Washington to Steeler. The name change will last through Super Bowl Sunday, when the...