April 9, 2006

NO RUSH, NO MUSH - HOW THE OTHER HALF FLIES

Imagine arriving at the airport and flying around the country - or world - with no long lines, no jostling, no stripping and no stress. While just a dream for...

TAKE IT FROM A MOBSTER: GREED SETS THE TRAP

Dear John: Why isn't more being done to protect the American public from fraudulent penny stocks? Some of these actively traded stocks do not even exist. T.G.Dear T.G.: If you...

VIACOM SPLIT FAILS TO 'UNLOCK' SHAREHOLDER VALUE

So where's the shareholder value that was supposed to be "unlocked" by giving CBS and Viacom their own shares? It's only been three months since the two Viacom units were...

MAGAZINE PROBLEMS GO WAY BENEATH THE SURFACE

The flurry of magazine closings announced last week were more a function of company specifics and market corrections than a pandemic problem, according to industry watchers. While there's no denying...

MUD SLINGERS' BALL; DWORIN HOLLAS BACK AT DEUTSCH IN AD-LAND LAWSUIT

CALL it the battle of advertising's biggest egos. Steve Dworin, who was once referred to in the press as the "industry's most wanted man" but who has fallen off the...

THINK FIRST CLASS IS PRICEY? TRY THESE RATES

Joining the jet set isn't cheap. Despite more user-friendly terms, it'll still set you back at least $45,000 to charter a six-passenger jet for 10 hours of travel. For that,...

HOW TO HANDLE A $600M STADIUM MORTGAGE

Do you think your jumbo home mortgage is a handful? Well, Mets owner Fred Wilpon is about to take out a loan for $600 million for his new stadium -a...

PUBLISHERS TRUDGE ON

Not all the news coming out of the magazine world involves shutting down titles. Believe it or not, some publishers are actually launching ink-and-paper publications. In fact, 101 new-title launches...

MOONVES' MOVES; KEEPING HIM IN SPOTLIGHT AS FRESTON TOILS

Les Moonves is looking for redemption in the big announcement. So marginalized was Moonves during the months leading up to the bifurcation of Sumner Redstone's empire that, since CBS has...

LITTER, BOXED; KATTBANK CONCEALS YOUR CAT'S LITTER IN STYLE

Often, the most ingenious solutions to the challenge of sharing living space with pets are not found at Petco. Case in point: Kattbank, the first truly stylish solution for concealing...

A REEL FAMILY AFFAIR

WHEN Justine Clarke travels, she takes the whole family with her. In town earlier this year to appear in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" at BAM - and to promote her new...

'60S SOVIET GREAT DEAD AT AGE 80

THE death of a great player often gets a lot deal of attention in the chess world - and barely a mention outside of it. But the death of 80-year-old...

OVAL OFFICER - ANJELICA HUSTON PLAYS THE PRESIDENT IN CBS THRILLER, "THE HADES FACTOR"

IT'S like an Anjelica attack," says Anjelica Huston. The versatile, Oscar-winning actress continues her 20-year love affair with television with two diverse projects this month. First up is a high-octane...

HOLY MOSES! IT'S 'COMMANDMENTS'WEEK

Thou shalt watch ABC this week. Call that the 11th commandment and consider it an invitation to tune in for nearly nine hours of Exodus on ABC, which has scheduled...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

PROFILE Playboy of the world Did you ever think you'd see the day there'd be a show about the softer side of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner? Well, here it...

'SIMPSONS' PASSES SINGLE-VIEWER TEST

In the course of networks' promotion of comedies, either by their own written words or with those supplied by critics, two common descriptions always give us pause: 1) Hilarious, as...

HOT-BUTTON ISSUES DRAW READERS' INSULTS

In the past month, I have been called stupid, pathetic, arrogant, an idiot and a moron. I have been accused of residing on another planet, sleeping on the job and...

'AMERICAN IDOL' - WHO'S GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP?

It's time to separate the losers from the winners on "American Idol." The viewers have spoken, voting off some of the more obvious lightweight contenders. The judges have spoken, too,...

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

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) Wednesday,2 a.m.,Ch.13 Back in the day when government cover-ups were more important news than Britney Spears' pregnancies, the Watergate scandal captured the nation. And this...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

1 Handy reading material "Use This Book!" might be the best publication on the planet - its 208 pages contain things like disposable cups, pre-written thank you cards and picture...

TRIUMPH OF THE SPILL - HIATUS OVER FOR INDIE STARS

Doug Martsch, the leader of Built to Spill, is a visionary with vision problems. Just as he was preparing to hit the road to support "You in Reverse," the group's...

THIS WEEK'S CDS

LL COOL J "Todd Smith" (4 STARS) Def Jam While most rap acts seem to lose their flavor faster than a stick of Juicy Fruit, LL Cool J has been...

LADY IS A VAMP - HOW BETTIE PAGE SPARKED AMERICA'S CULT OF THE SEX KITTEN

QUEEN OF KINK - Pin-up provocateur Bettie Page was a scandal in 1955. Now she's become an American icon. Even when she's lashed to a chair, chains around her ankles...

ASBESTOS SHIRT IS A TOXIC NEW WRINKLE IN WTC WOE

Sky-high toxic levels of potentially deadly asbestos still cling to the fibers of this ordinary white dress shirt - worn by a 9/11 volunteer for two days at Ground Zero,...

LONGSHOT QUITS GOV BID

Longshot Republican gubernatorial hopeful Randy Daniels, a former state secretary of state, revealed yesterday he was quitting the race and throwing his support behind onetime rival John Faso. Daniels, in...

LOCAL POLS RIP MTA OVER 9/11 BIZ BLOWOFF

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler are demanding a federal probe into purported negligence by state transit officials in connection with a $750 million overhaul of the...

COOL CLOONEY IS STALK OF THE TOWN

Blog this! That's what Oscar winner George Clooney must be saying after one of his brilliant ideas went a little bad. Gorgeous George, who's been in town filming "Michael Clayton,"...

TV SET KILLS TOT; FALLS ON BOY, 3, AT HOME IN B'KLYN

A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed in a freak accident when a big-screen TV fell off a stand and crashed on top of him, authorities said yesterday. The medical examiner...

REV. AL MAKES NICE WITH FORMER-FOE NEWARK CANDIDATE

Cory Booker, the squeaky-clean young reformer running for mayor of Newark, got a warm reception from an old foe yesterday - Al Sharpton, who had supported his opponent in one...

COPS' HIGH DRAMA; EAST SIDE 'JUMPER' SAVED

Cops yesterday morning pulled off this nail-biting rescue of an emotionally disturbed woman who had to be talked off her Upper East Side ledge. Elizabeth Hanau, 33, crawled out of...

COPS HUNT GAL'S EX IN SHOOTING

Police are looking for the ex-boyfriend of a woman whose new flame was shot in the head in Brooklyn yesterday, sources said. Wayne Gordon, 33, was wounded in his girlfriend's...

NBA ROOKIE FROM N.Y. GETS SHOT

Julius Hodge, a hoops star at St. Raymond's HS in The Bronx who now plays for the Denver Nuggets, was shot in the lower body early yesterday morning while driving...

SUIT IN TEST SNAFU; SAT SCORES TOO LOW

A Long Island high-school senior is spearheading a lawsuit against a Minnesota-based SAT scoring company that incorrectly tabulated the results of his critical college entrance exam taken last October. The...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN *** Police are looking for help in locating this 66-year-old man who disappeared from his Canarsie home Friday. Jose Vega (above), who is 5-feet-5 and 250 pounds, walked away...

SCHOOLGIRL RAPE BUST

A man identified by police as the fiend who raped a schoolgirl was busted yesterday and charged with first-degree criminal sex act, robbery and weapons possession. Cops also charged Jamaal...

L.I. 'PERV' PRIEST SUSPENDED

A Long Island priest has been suspended by his diocese after two women accused him of giving them weekly, hourlong "hugging" sessions and made them sit on his lap when...

BITTER SIS IN NEW SLAP AT MOB COPS

The sister of a man killed with the help of convicted mob cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa has pledged to go to war in an effort to strip them...

PARTISAN RAGS; WHAT NEWSPAPERS WERE

INFAMOUS SCRIBBLERS: THE FOUNDING FATHERS AND THE ROWDY BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN JOURNALISMBY ERIC BURNS PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 480 PAGES, $27.50 Thanks to decades of antiseptic history teaching, most Americans think of...

A WHEEL SWEET RIDE; FUTURISTIC CARS GLIDE INTO TOWN

Parking headaches a thing of the past? This Toyota Fine-T concept car - to be unveiled this week at the New York International Auto Show - can slide sideways to...

BX. SERIAL-RAPE SUSPECT BUSTED IN TEEN ATTACK

Cops yesterday nabbed an alleged serial rapist suspected of assaulting a 16-year-old girl in her home Friday morning as he held her younger brother at knifepoint. Jamaal Holton, 26, of...

6 COPS GOT BRAIN CANCER

An alarming number of 9/11 responders have been stricken with brain cancer - including six NYPD cops, The Post has learned. At least 11 of the Ground Zero rescue and...

DOES IRAN WANT WAR? THE MULLAHS' REGIME WON'T GET THE CONFLICT IT EXPECTS

THE most dangerous error we could make in our sharpening confrontation with Iran is to convince ourselves that its leaders will act rationally. Few wars are rooted in dispassionate analysis....

N.Y. PORTS' NEW STORM

ALBANY - In the wake of the Dubai ports controversy, two state lawmakers will today unveil a bill requiring a security review of sales of "critical" state assets to foreign...

BIGAMIST'S NEW HITCH; LIVING IN N.J. SHELTERAFTER PRISON RELEASE

Bigamist scam artist William Barber - who left a trail of wives heartbroken and financially ruined - is down and out in a Paterson, N.J., homeless shelter. The Casanova con...

'PALM' READINGS WILL SKIP LATEST CHAPTER

City church officials had no plans to discuss today the controversial Gospel of Judas during the reading at Mass of the Passion - the story of Christ's betrayal, crucifixion and...

GRAVE SNOOPS DIG ON; EYE 'ALISTAIR' HACKER

Brooklyn prosecutors are focusing their ongo ing investigation on the owner of the Manhat tan funeral home that handled the remains of TV legend Alistair Cooke, law-enforce ment sources told...

PRIEST AN UNWITTING BETRAYER:DEACON

A well-respected priest who helped shop the Gospel of Judas to New York document buyers wouldn't have done so had he known its heretical content, the deacon of the late...

IMETTE: I BLAME SOCIETY & NOT KILLERS

Just 15 days before she was brutally slain, Imette St. Guillen wrote of her compassion and understanding for juvenile killers - blaming poor education and rising unemployment for a troubling...

PATCH MAKER PAYOUT; MULTIMILLION-$ SUITS

Women who suffered life-threatening blood clots and strokes on the Ortho-Evra birth-control patch are receiving cash settlements from the manufacturer, which allegedly failed to warn customers about the known risks,...

CANON FODDER: JUDGING JUDAS' GOSPEL

IN the wake of the discovery of an ancient book that says Jesus Christ's traitor disciple was following Christ's instructions by turning him in to the Romans to be crucified,...

FALLING TV KILLS TODDLER - STAND COLLAPSES IN BROOKLYN APT.

A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed in a freak accident when a big-screen TV fell off a stand and crashed on top of him, authorities said yesterday. The medical examiner...

COPS' HIGH DRAMA - SAVE EAST SIDE 'JUMPER'

Cops yesterday morning pulled off this nail-biting rescue of an emotionally disturbed woman who had to be talked off her Upper East Side ledge. Elizabeth Hanau,33,crawled out of her fourth-floor...

LONGSHOT GOV HOPEFUL QUITS

Longshot Republican gubernatorial hopeful Randy Daniels,a former New York secretary of state,revealed yesterday that he was quitting the race and throwing his support behind onetime rival John Faso. Daniels,in phone...

POLS RIP MTA'S 9/11 BIZ BLOWOFF

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Congressman Jerrold Nadler are demanding a federal probe into purported negligence by state transit officials in connection with a $750 million overhaul of the...

SHIRT COATED IN ASBESTOS IS TOXIC NEW WRINKLE FOR 'WTC DUST' CONTROVERSY

Sky-high toxic levels of potentially deadly asbestos still cling to the fibers of this ordinary white dress shirt - worn by a 9/11 volunteer for two days at Ground Zero,...

OTB ON TRACK TO RUIN; EARNINGS FALL SHORT

THE Off-Track Betting Corp. is running out of money - literally. After repeated warn ings by fiscal monitors that OTB's financial sit uation was becoming in creasingly precarious, the city's...

SPITZER SLAMS GOV ON BUDGET 'WASTE'

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer yesterday called Mayor Bloomberg a better fiscal manager than Gov. Pataki, who Spitzer showed "no leadership" in pressing for a soundly balanced new state budget....

THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE ON ROUSH TEAM

Race fans complain about tracks such as Texas Motor Speedway, calling it boring and cookie-cutter. There's some credence to their words, but look closer and Texas is not the same...

THE FISHIN'S FINE IN CITY WATERS

YOU DO not usually think of New York City as a major source for freshwater fishing, but it does control more than 57,000 acres of water in Westchester and the...

JAMAL: LET ME STAY

KNICK NOTES Perhaps Orlando assistant GM Otis Smith is wondering if he should've taken on Mr. Clutch, Jamal Crawford, in the Steve Francis trade. Smith decided he wanted more cap...

IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR NATE

The 360-degree spin dunk Qyntel Woods blew Friday night at the Garden was a microcosm of the Knicks' season - embarrassing, sloppy, stupid and in defiance of Larry Brown. And...

STUCK IN NEUTRAL - YANKEE ENGINE SPUTTERS AGAIN AS ANGELS WIN

Angels 3Yankees 2 ANAHEIM - At this rate, the Yankees are going to need 1,000 games to score those much talked-about 1,000 runs. Derek Jeter is right: Forget the noise...

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE REUNION

IS ANYONE keeping score of how many of Larry Brown's ex- players he has found appealing since joining the Knicks? Jalen Rose, whom he once challenged to a fight during...

HEALTHY REYES OFF AND RUNNING

THIS was on the back fields at the Mets' St. Lucie complex early in spring training. It was late in an other practice, all the position players lined up to...

RAIN MUDDLES ROTATION

MET NOTES Yesterday's game between the Mets and Marlins was called due to rain only a few minutes after the scheduled start time of 1:10 p.m., which Tom Glavine appreciated....

THEY WON'T MUDDLE YOUR MIDDLE

SPEAKING with a fellow owner the other day, the topic of lack of quality middle infielders came up. In this particular league, along with the customary positions, there is also...

STREAK SPRINGS LEAK ; VINCE FAILS IN CLUTCH AS NETS FALL

CAVALIERS 108 NETS 102 For three quarters, LeBron James was made human by a superlative defensive effort, mainly from Richard Jefferson. After 36 minutes, James was 6-of-17 with an acceptable...

LEBRON RULES KINGDOM WITH SOFT TOUCH

JASON Kidd had his hand on the ball that LeBron James was taking upcourt with 53 seconds left. Probably, too, with the Nets up three points, a 15th straight victory....

WASHED OUT; SUSPENDED ROUND WILL FINISH TODAY

NOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - The Masters' third round was suspended for four hours and 20 minutes yesterday afternoon, forcing the leaders to complete their suspended rounds today before beginning the final...

CARTER: LOSS IS ON ME

NET NOTES Vince Carter looked at the Nets' first defeat since March 7 - more than a month ago - and placed the blame squarely on his own shoulders. "I...

PASS THE GRAVY ; JAGR'S 53RD SETS MARK IN VICTORY

OVERTIMERangers 4Bruins 3 BOSTON - The Rangers will ride the league's best player as far as he can take them. Yesterday, they rode Jaromir Jagr to a 4-3 overtime victory...

BOB AND JOHN'S BIG DAY ; RALLIES IN STRETCH TO CAPTURE WOOD

DERBY PREPS Trainer Bob Baffert, who dominated the Triple Crown series from 1997-2002 but hasn't gotten a sniff since, could be back on top again soon. He's headed to the...

SMITH BREAKS COLD SPELL

Track was sloppy, sealed, and rain fell on and off all day on cold, miserable Wood Memorial afternoon. SECOND RACE - After pitching shutout aboard first 25 mounts since moving...

HERNANDEZ MAY STICK WHEN MATSUI RETURNS

Kaz Matsui is making progress coming back from a knee injury, but Anderson Hernandez, his replacement at second base for the Mets, is making a name for himself defensively. That's...

THIRD ROUND IN THE SOUP; LATEST RAIN DELAY MAKES FOR WILD FINISH

AUGUSTA - As a viewer watching from at home on TV or as a patron fortunate enough to be on the grounds at Augusta National today, you're going to get...

CLARK HAS GOOD SHOT

NOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Chad Campbell owned the overnight lead, but Tim Clark might as well be tied with him . . . with an asterisk. Campbell is 6-under through four...

EXTRA BP FOR A-ROD

YANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - The sting of a hard-to-look-at, 4-1 loss to the Angels Friday night hadn't come close to wearing off when Alex Rodriguez headed to the indoor batting...

DIPIETRO FIRES BLANKS IN GAME - THEN A BARB AFTER IT

Isles 5Caps 0 Rick DiPietro was perfect for 60 minutes, spotless in a 5-0 win against the Capitals for his first shutout of the season. He saved his only mistake...

7 ON JASPERS' LIST TO SUCCEED GONZO

Manhattan College is focusing on seven candidates - all with local ties - to succeed Bobby Gonzalez as men's basketball coach, The Post has learned. Gonzalez, who led the Jaspers...

THERE'S NO NEED TO PANIC

ANAHEIM - OK. Breathe. In. Out. In. Out. Breathe again. Close your eyes (but not for too long; you need to keep reading). Time for a few deep-knee bends. Open...

WHO'DA THUNK IT? '06 SPORTS AN UNREALITY SHOW

LET'S play a little pretend, a little, "What if I told you . . ." So it's 1989 and you just picked up a newspaper to read that Pete Rose...

IT'S PROVING TIME FOR CAMPBELL

AUGUSTA - We'll find out today if Chad Campbell can become the star his peers projected he would be. We'll find out today if he learned from his last major...

COUPLES: FOREVER YOUNG

AUGUSTA - Somehow you don 't think of Fred Couples as being one of golf 's elder statesmen. Can he really be 46 years old,a few months older than Jack...

WOODS IN FAMILIAR POSITION

AUGUSTA - Tiger Woods has been here before and thrived.Last year,he had completed nine holes of a rain-delayed third round when darkness halted play.He stood four shots off the lead....

NO NEED TO PANIC

ANAHEIM - Every so often,it 's useful to remember that not every team can be like the 1984 Detroit Tigers,who won their first nine games of the season, who won...

LEFTY'S DRIVING DOUBLE

AUGUSTA - Perhaps it won't be long before the weekend hacker starts adding a second driver to his or her golf bag, emulating something Phil Mickelson is doing at the...

TAKING OFFENSE - JETER WANTS TALK TO STOP

ANAHEIM - Four games into the season, Derek Jeter has had enough of hearing how good the Yankees' offense is supposed to be. "People say this is the greatest offense...

BUCK ROGER'S... MONEY-GRUBBING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

STUPID me. Here I was thinking the most distasteful matter to open this year was going to be the on-again, off-again romance of those crazy kids Anna and Kris, but...

MEAN BALL - DEFIANT PEDRO BRUSHES BACK GUILLEN'S WARNING

Pedro Martinez said he had "no reaction" to the warning by Nationals outfielder Jose Guillen that "it's going to get real ugly" if he is hit by another Martinez pitch....

THE ISLAND GAME - HOTBED OF HOOPS LONG BEFORE BILLY THE KID'S TITLE

ANAHEIM - You would have to get there awfully early to make sure you got a seat in those days, or a spartan slab of bleacher, and sometimes that meant...

DEFENSIVE FLAIR MAKES HERNANDEZ 1ST AT 2ND

Kaz Matsui is making progress coming back from a knee injury, but Anderson Hernandez, his replacement at second base for the Mets, is making a name for himself defensively. That's...

LOST - AUGUSTA MAY HAVE SEEN LAST OF DUVAL

AUGUSTA - His name was not on the tee sheet yesterday at Augusta National for the third-round Masters competition, and he won't be on it today, either. When exactly -...

RED BULLS STILL SEEK FIRST WIN - HOME OPENER ENDS IN TIE

Red Bulll 0 Revolution 0 When Red Bull bought the former MetroStars for $100 million, the energy-drink giant promised entertaining sport and winning soccer. Shakira and Wyclef Jean provided the...

CUP STARTS WITH 'C' - RANGERS NEED TO NAME JAGR CAPTAIN

BOSTON - No one will ever be able to diminish the accomplishments of this particular Ranger team, the most significant of which was its ability to accomplish the primary mission...

BULLS HAVE ALLY IN PELE

Thirty-one years after Pele arrived in New York - turning the Cosmos into a phenomenon and turning the country on to soccer - the greatest footballer in history was back...

YOUNG ISLANDERS HAVE EYE OF THE SOUND TIGERS

It's gotten so bad on Long Island that the only thing to be excited about is the play of the Islanders' primary minor-league affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the...

SHE WILL CARRY ON - DIXON LEAVES LEGACY OF HONOR, LEADERSHIP AT ARMY

WEST POINT - They know how to deal with death here. Because they know how to live. The U.S. Military Academy is a place of sacrifice - for your country,...

BOB AND JOHN'S BIG DAY

DERBY PREPS Trainer Bob Baffert,who dominated the Triple Crown series from 1997-2002 but hasn 't gotten a sniff since,could be back on top again soon. He 's headed to the...