May 22, 2006
TIVO TAKING TUNE FROM MAG EDITORS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTiVo is partnering with several magazines, including Sports Illustrated and Star, to offer viewers virtual TV channels with content hand-picked by magazine editors. The move is another step for TiVo...
GAP STEPPIN' UP - RETAIL GIANT MULLS LAUNCHING WEB SHOE STORE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe Gap Inc., which operates under the Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Forth & Towne brands, is considering launching a fifth division, The Post has learned. Unlike the other...
GAY VITO GETS IT IN THE END - AT HOME WITH BROKEBACK MOBSTER
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S not easy to eat canolis with a man while he's being gutted on the screen in front of you. That was the plight last night of 60 or so...
BOUNTY HUNTER'S REALITY TV WEDDING DOGGED BY DEATH
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amJUST as reality-TV star Dog the Bounty Hunter was about to marry his longtime companion, Beth Smith, this weekend - tragedy struck. Dog's daughter from an earlier relationship was killed...
AN OPERA BOFFO - MANAGER BOWS OUT AMID STARS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN you are going to go, at least go with a bang, not a whimper. Joseph Volpe, the retiring, though never that retiring, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, went...
'IDOL' OLDIE CHECK SCAMS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - An early "American Idol" wannabe is in L.A. County jail awaiting a sanity hearing. Delano Cagnolatti, a semi-finalist in the first season of the monster-hit talent show,...
STARR REPORT
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amFarewell for Tony Ellen DeGeneres pulls out all the stops on today's show in saying goodbye to DJ Tony Okungbowa, who's leaving after three seasons. DeGeneres is devoting the entire...
RACE & 'IDOL' - SAD TRUTH, COLOR SCAMS COUNTS IN FINAL WEEKS OF SHOW
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe week after Paris was voted off, "Idol" dropped from No. 1 to No. 6 on the Top-10 list of most popular shows in black households, according to Nielsen. AFRICAN...
THE END ZONE - 'YOU'RE ASSUMING I LIVE,' CAUTIONS FIRST LADY OF '24'
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amJEAN Smart, who plays First Lady Martha Logan on Fox's white-knuckled hit, "24", has a gift for understatement. "Obviously their marriage is in a terrible place right now - for...
LIPPY HIPPIES
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTHE hippies-now-millionaires who won "The Amazing Race" last week are being offered their own TV series by an unnamed cable channel. In interviews over the weekend, BJ Averell and Tyler...
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS - YOUNG STARLETS FLASH MORE DASH THAN TRASH; HO NO! GIRLS GONE MILD
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amWE'LL always have Paris - or maybe not. As Hollywood careens along at breakneck speed, devouring starlets' souls and relegating today's young stars to the D-list (and rehab centers) of...
EDWARDS: BUSH IS WORSE THAN NIXON
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amFailed 2004 vice-president candidate John Edwards yesterday claimed President Bush is a worse president than Richard Nixon, drawing a sharp retort from the Republican Party. "Absolutely, absolutely," Edwards told ABC's...
'DO-NATION FOR CANCER KIDS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amLong-haired ladies and gents lopped off their locks at a Manhattan salon yesterday, donating the tresses to kids who have gone bald due to illness. "There's someone out there who...
THROW MY BOOK AT HIM - 'SAM' - CITES 'OWN' LAW TO BAR LAWYER'S PROFITS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00am"Son of Sam" David Berkowitz is trying to use the same victim's-compensation law spawned by his infamous killing spree to nail his former lawyer - and he's gotten the blessing...
TIMES SCRIBES COULD BE PROSECUTED
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amNew York Times reporters may face prosecution for having revealed the existence of a top-secret terrorist-tracking program, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday. The feds may have the authority to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police grabbed a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest on a Harlem street, authorities said yesterday. The bust came after cops received a call of a man with a...
BX. BEEP: I'D BEAN BOSTON BIDDERS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amBronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión (left) isn't taking any chances when the bids from developers who want to rebuild Yankee Stadium come in later this month. Technically, the winning bid...
RE-ELECTED NAGIN THANKS BUSH
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amAn exuberant New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, in a victory speech yesterday after his re-election, tried to heal rifts by thanking President Bush for helping the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina....
COPS' 'ERR' RAID - SUIT OVER FAMILY BUST
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amA family barbecue turned into bedlam when armed men rampaged through a Queens Village home, destroying property and breaking bones. But the family couldn't call the police - because the...
SON EYED IN DAD'S FACE-MELT SLAY
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe son of a Bronx restaurateur who died an unthinkable death Saturday - his face melting off after being doused with lye - was grilled by cops yesterday but released....
DOPEY BRONX 'MUGGER' MAKES WRONG CHOICE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amA teenage would-be mugger who picked the wrong target - a cop - was charged yesterday with assaulting the police officer after getting shot in the hand in a struggle...
CROUPIER BUSTED IN NATALEE'S 'KIDNAP-MURDER'
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amDutch police have arrested another suspect in the disappearance and presumed death of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, his lawyer confirmed yesterday. Attorney Gerard Spong said his client, whose...
BLOODY BODY OUTSIDE BAR
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTwo homeless men made a grisly discovery outside a Long Island bar early yesterday - the savagely beaten body of a man. Suffolk County police said the unidentified body was...
BUSH'S LATINA PALS - 2 SHAPED HIS IMMIGRATION VIEW
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amPresident Bush's strong positive feeling about Latino immigrants is fueled by ties to two Latinas - one who works for him at the White House and another who was "a...
GAZA ASSASSINATION FOILED
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amGAZA CITY - Palestinian security forces foiled an attempt to kill one of President Mahmoud Abbas' top commanders yesterday, a day after another commander was wounded in an attack. The...
MCGREEVEY'S GAY ROAD THRILL - MEMOIR BARES HIGHWAY HOOKUPS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amJim McGreevey shockingly admits that before he became governor of New Jersey, he'd have anonymous gay sex at Garden State highway rest stops. "All I knew was that my behavior...
WTC KIN OUTRAGED OVER PENN & TELLER
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amFamilies of 9/11 survivors are blasting another relative's decision to let a film crew from Penn and Teller's irreverent cable show inside the World Trade Center's Family Room, The Post...
TOP IRAQI TALKS TOUGH ON TERROR
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amIraq's new prime minister yesterday vowed to use "maximum force" to crack down on terrorists and violence as President Bush hailed the formation of Iraq's new unity government as the...
DYNAMIC DUEL FOR 'HEROINE' - COMIC GAL BATTLES DC
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amShe dresses up as her own superheroine, Minx, and now aspiring comic-book writer Andrea Grant has a real-life archenemy - DC Comics. The publishing giant has sent Grant a "cease...
BX. INFERNO BURNS BABY
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amA terrifying Bronx blaze left a 3-month-old boy with second-degree burns and an elderly man and another victim in critical condition early yesterday. The electrical fire began in the kitchen...
N.Y. HEZBOLLAH HUNT - FEDS FEAR STRIKE AMID NUKE SHOWDOWN
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Hezbollah terror group - one of the most dangerous in the world - may be planning to activate sleeper cells in New York and other big cities...
PALS IN WEB BID TO AID 'MOB' FED
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amEven as the sensational case against alleged rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio remains mired in a tug of war over venue, the embattled fed's friends have taken to the Internet...
DYNAMIC DUEL - COMIC GAL IN TITLE BOUT WITH GIANT DC
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amShe dresses up as her own superheroine, Minx, and now aspiring comic-book writer Andrea Grant has a real-life archenemy: DC Comics. The publishing giant has sent Grant a "cease and...
POL AMONG TIRE-SLASH VICTIMS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amA state lawmaker was one of dozens of victims of tire-slashing vandals in upper Manhattan over the weekend. Tires were punctured on about 30 vehicles lining the street from Park...
SON GRILLED IN HORROR LYE SLAYING
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe son of a Bronx restaurateur who died an unthinkable death Saturday - his face melting off after he was doused with lye - was questioned by cops yesterday but...
'DO-NATIONS AID CANCER KIDS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amLong-haired ladies and gents and children lopped off their locks for charity at a Manhattan salon yesterday, donating the tresses to kids who have gone bald due to illness. "There's...
NYERS SET FOR KICKS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amNew York, the great melting pot, will be exploding with nationalist fervor next month when the World Cup gets under way, with 32 countries competing for the soccer championship. And...
BODY PUZZLE IN CHELSEA
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amPolice are investigating the mysterious death of a young New Jersey man, who was found unconscious early yesterday morning on a Chelsea street. Thomas Whitney, 24, was lying on the...
SON GRILLED IN DEADLY LYE ATTACK
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amCops yesterday questioned and released the son of a Bronx restaurant owner who died an horrific death after being doused with lye - which melted his face. The son, Humayun...
GRISLY FIND OUTSIDE L.I. BAR
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTwo homeless men found the savagely beaten body of a man outside a Long Island bar early yesterday. Suffolk County police said the unidentified body was discovered at 8:45 a.m....
HILLARY IPODHAM CLINTON - POLITICAL PLAYER OFFERS PEEK AT HER SONG LIST
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't need "Respect" - she's already got it at the top of her iPod playlist. The surprisingly tech-savvy Clinton mixes Aretha Franklin's 1967 landmark...
EMT FAMILY TRAUMA - MEDICS' KIDS MOST SHAKEN AFTER 9/11
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amChildren in emergency medical technicians' families were the most shell-shocked following the Sept. 11 attacks, a new study has found. Nearly one in five showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder,...
THEIR WORLD CRUMBLED
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amElizabeth and Mark Reeve know about trauma: Both their parents were FDNY paramedics - until recently. Their mom, Deborah Reeve, died on March 15 after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a...
CAREERS ON AMERICAN 'IDLE' - RUNNERS-UP WIN A 2ND-CLASS TICKET TO OBSCURITY
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amWhat's the difference between an "American Idol" winner and a runner-up? In the case of Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, the difference is 7.5 million CDs. That's how many more...
TRAGIC VIDEO - CAPTURES VALIANT BID TO SAVE 'BLACK SUNDAY' FIRE HEROES
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThis never-seen video captures the heartbreak of "Black Sunday," as the city's Bravest try to save their brothers who were forced to jump from a burning Bronx building. The footage...
GOP IS FIT TO BE TIED - BID TO DIVVY UP VOTE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTOP state Republicans may avoid a bitter fight at next week's nominating convention by giving the same number of votes to the two candidates running for governor, The Post has...
AMY HUBBY CALLS COPS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe husband of Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher has reported another domestic dispute to police, sources said. The dispute occurred at the new Holtsville home Fisher shares with hubby Lou...
CONEY HOSP PROBE - OT, INSURE 'FRAUD'
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amInvestigators have swooped down on Coney Island Hospital after receiving complaints of overtime abuses in one unit and allegations that a car accident with a hospital vehicle might have been...
NYU SCAM KID EYEING PLEA DEAL
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYU student accused of a massive check-kiting and a hedge-fund scam is looking to plead guilty in those cases in Connecticut federal court, records show. Hakan Yalincak, 22, who...
HOW E-MAIL E-RAILED AGAINST TWU STRIKE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTraffic piled up during the transit strike - nowhere more so than in the MTA's inbox. The agency was besieged with e-mails from people around the city and across the...
WORLD CUP FEVER GRIPS THE APPLE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amNew York, the great melting pot, will be exploding with nationalist fervor next month when the World Cup gets under way, with 32 nations competing for the soccer championship. And...
HAMPTON HOMES ARE UNDER ATTAX
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe dream homes of many Hamptons property owners have turned into nightmares. Results from this year's round of Southampton Town housing assessments have some residents panicked, wondering how they'll pay...
LARRY'S DOGGIN' IT - COACH ON EASY STREET
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amAlthough his future with the Knicks is up in the air, embattled coach Larry Brown takes things in stride yesterday, enjoying a leisurely stroll in The Hamptons with his one...
MCQUEEN COOL UP FOR BID
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amSteve McQueen's prized personal possessions could go faster than a speeding "Bullitt" when a host of items formerly owned by Hollywood's King of Cool heads for the auction block. Fans...
OCHOA RI$ES TO TOP AT SYBASE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe changing of the guard has resumed. The last was Laura Davies in 1994. Lorena Ochoa wants to be the next, the first top LPGA money winner other than Annika...
BRINGIN' THEIR TRIPLE-A GAME
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amONE OF the most incongruous moments in sports occurs late in home games when the Yankees are losing. The theme from "Rocky" perks up with an accompanying clip from the...
YANKS BRING TRIPLE-A GAME
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amONE OF the most incongruous moments in sports occurs late in Yankees home games when they are losing. The theme from "Rocky" perks up with an accompanying clip from the...
BUCK TAKES WALK ON WILD SIDE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amIT seems as if every time we turn on a baseball game, someone's trying to re-invent it. Saturday against the Yanks, Billy Wagner started the top of the ninth with...
PRADO HEARS SOME BOOS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTake D'Tour took control at the start and led every step of the way for the upset victory in the Grade 2 Shuvee Handicap. The David Fawkes trainee won by...
'GOING BACK TO WORK' - BROWN PLANS TO ATTEND WORKOUTS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amKnicks coach Larry Brown, in his first public statements since reports owner James Dolan wants him out, vowed to be at the Knicks' Westchester campus this morning for the start...
HIDALGO MAY GET CALL FROM YANKS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amSubway Series Confidential Today or tomorrow, the Yankees will decide if Richard Hidalgo showed enough in Tampa workouts to join Triple-A Columbus and develop into an option to help a...
SHEA-BOUND PHILS FINALLY WIN ONE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amPhillies 10 - Red Sox 5 PHILADELPHIA - The last time the Mets played the Phillies, on May 11, they won their 11th game out of 12 when the skies...
VETERAN INFLUENCE - WRIGHT CREDITS NEW OLD GUYS FOR METS' SURGE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets are walking with a swagger this season, and David Wright credits an influx of veterans. Wright, one of the team's young cornerstones, is blossoming right before the eyes...
BARBARO FIGHTS FOR LIFE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amKENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Kentucky Derby champion Barbaro, who suffered severe fractures of his right hind leg early in the running of Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico, underwent surgery yesterday afternoon...
THEY BREED HORSES, DON'T THEY?
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Was Barbaro's tragic breakdown in the Preakness Stakes a sad random incident on the racetrack or new proof of the sharp physical deterioration of the modern American thoroughbred?...
DOZEN IN BELMONT HUNT
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amNot that anyone cares right now in the wake of the Barbaro tragedy, but they still will run the 138th Belmont Stakes this year on June 10. Led by Bernardini,...
SHEFFIELD IMPROVES AFTER CORTISONE SHOT
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amA cortisone shot Gary Sheffield vowed not to take is working wonders. Two days after cutting short a hitting session off a tee because his left hand and wrist didn't...
FOLLOW THE LEADER - DELGADO TEACHES WRIGHT AND METS WINNING LESSONS
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Wright likes to follow the lead of Met veterans like Carlos Delgado. Last night was no different. After watching Delgado's fourth-inning, three-run home run off Aaron Small from the...
KLUTZES IN CLUTCH - YANKS 2-17 WITH RUNNERS IN SCORING POSITION
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amHow do you get the Yankees out? Put runners in scoring position. Seventeen times the Yankees batted with at least a runner on second last night against the Mets at...
CHACON DL-BOUND WITH BRUISED SHIN
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amSubway Series Confidential Another day. Another Yankee on the disabled list. Following last night's Subway Series loss to the Mets at Shea Stadium, the Yankees put right-hander Shawn Chacon on...
SHEFF GETTIN' CLOSE - COULD BE ACTIVATED TO FACE SOX TONIGHT
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amA cortisone shot Gary Sheffield vowed not to take is working wonders. Two days after cutting short a hitting session off a tee because his left hand and wrist weren't...
'AMPED' GLAVINE GUTS OUT NO. 282
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amLet other people downplay the importance of the Subway Series. Tom Glavine isn't having it. "It's hard not to get amped up for the Yankees," Glavine said after earning the...
ROAD TO RECOVERY - BARBARO STANDS UP AFTER 6-HOUR SURGERY
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amKENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Barbaro was "up and standing" in his stall last night in the intensive-care unit after undergoing a complicated six-hour surgery procedure yesterday afternoon in an attempt...
RED BULLS, SIMPSON CLOSE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amWith an eye toward the Aug. 15 transfer window - and perhaps toward the possible departure of disgruntled all-star midfielder Amado Guevara - the Red Bulls are on the verge...
ROAD TO RECOVERY - BARBARO'S ODDS ARE '50-50' AFTER SIX-HOUR SURGERY
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amKENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Barbaro was "up and standing" in his stall last night in the intensive-care unit after undergoing a complicated six-hour surgery procedure yesterday afternoon in an attempt...
BRINGING IN BILLY SETS OFF MOOD SWING
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amTHE ERA of Good Feeling wasn't going to last forever at Shea Stadium, everyone understood that. Even Mets fans who harbor the gravest pessimism for their favorite team had difficulty...
BILLY GETS REDEMPTION - WAGNER NOTCHES SAVE AS DELGADO, WRIGHT HOMER
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amMets 4 - Yankees 3 The margin was one run last night, and that's a chance for a save. Willie Randolph summoned Billy Wagner again. Wagner entered the ninth to...
CLOSER HAD FANS WAITING TO EXHALE
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amFOR A couple of terribly uncomfortable seconds, there was a nervous buzz filling the night sky, Mets fans warming up their angst at a couple of minutes past 11 o'clock,...
CALL OF WILD A CLOSED ISSUE - WAGNER: WILLIE DECISION WAS 'RIGHT THING'
May 22, 2006 | 4:00am'He did what he thought was right. That was the right thing to do.' - Billy Wagner, on Willie Randolph's decision to use him Saturday Billy Wagner said yesterday that...
SANCHEZ: GIANTS-DODGERS WACKIER
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amCount Duaner Sanchez among those who doesn't think the Subway Series is the most intense rivalry in the game. Sanchez, who was initiated into the Mets-Yankees feud with a scoreless...
ACHE, BATTLE & ROLL - HURTING YANKS HIT BOSTON
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees plane that landed in Boston early this morning wasn't painted white with a large red cross on it. Nor did they go from the plane to hotel four...
YANKS GO FISHIN' - COULD REEL IN MARLINS' WILLIS, CABRERA
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amIt might be a case of window shopping because they don't have what it will take to buy, but that didn't stop the Yankees from sending scout Jim Benedict to...
NO TIME TO CHAT, ORTIZ FOCUSED ON BEATING YANKEES
May 22, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It's not that David Ortiz, relentless insult-giver, is being unsociable when he keeps it to "how's the family" with Jorge Posada. Very seldom does Ortiz have occasion to...