June 4, 2006
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT REVLON
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: What does Wall Street think of Revlon's stock? W.M. Dear W.M.: It's hard to find a stock Wall Street doesn't love. Revlon comes about as close as you...
NEW FAVE AMONG POSH CROWD CROWNED
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe nation's wealthiest tastemakers have sniffed out a new favorite luxury brand: Bottega Veneta. The little-known Italian brand, owned by the Gucci Group, which also has the Yves Saint Laurent,...
BLACK SEEKS $965K
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amEmbattled Canadian newspaper mogul Conrad Black has asked a federal judge for help in getting $965,203.50 back from Uncle Sam. Black, 62, claims the money was seized improperly by federal...
MUSICAL COUP; TOP TALENT BEHIND SONYBMG FIRINGS
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amSOME of SonyBMG's big-name artists apparently played a role in last week's firing of long-time executive Donnie Ienner, On The Money has learned. While executives under Ienner had long complained...
PANASONIC TAKING AIM AT ENERGIZER'S BUNNY
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe pink Energizer Bunny better watch its back. Electronics giant Panasonic, looking to crack the $4 billion disposable-battery market here, is taking aim at the fluffy-tailed advertising icon. In an...
SIRIUS SHIFTS GEARS - ACCENTS XM CONTRAST
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amAfter years of trading in near lock-step, the country's two giant satellite radio companies appear ready to put some space between them. Sirius Satellite Radio, lifted in large part by...
THE RIGHT STUFF; WHY GOLDMAN EXECS ARE TOP PICK FOR D.C.
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs brass continues to be the top choice when Washington power brokers look for government leaders because the firm's business model makes risk-management experts of its executives, insiders tell...
HAVING SURVIVED BUBBLE, MOMENT ARRIVES FOR 'NET VID FIRM
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amSoccer fans that can't watch the World Cup on television, beginning this Friday, will no doubt be flocking to the Internet to catch up on the action via streaming and...
CDS FIGHT BACK WITH PACKAGING
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amWho says old dogs can't learn old tricks? Albums released in the past month by seasoned rockers, including Tool, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, and Bruce Springsteen, have...
WORDS OF MOUTH - STOP APING 'CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM' ALREADY
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amMAYBE it's time for sitcoms to go back to scripts. Unscripted comedies have been in vogue for a while now, ever since Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" burst onto HBO...
'BIG' GIRL NOW - DOWNTOWN CHLOE SEVIGNY LIGHT UP 'BIG LOVE' - DAYS OF OUR WIVES - 'IT' GIRL TALKS ABOUT GOING FROM SINGULAR SENSATION TO PLURAL MARRIAGE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00am'THIS is where they must have kept the creepy kid in the attic," says Chloe Sevigny gesturing toward a short stairwell that ends abruptly at a wall. She is showing...
POKER DEALING KIDS LOSING HAND
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S 10 p.m. Is your child trying to fill an inside straight? The Mets' new TV network, SportsNet New York, launched on March 16 with - what else? - a...
FIRST PARIS HILTON/WORLD CUP QUIZ
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amIS it mere coincidence that Paris Hilton's "The Simple Life" starts the same week as the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament begins? We didn't think so either. Try your luck...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
June 4, 2006 | 4:00am"BE COOL" (2005) Sun.8pm (SHO) John Travolta is back as gangster Chili Palmer hanging out in Hollywood, where all the mobsters have SAG cards and all actors want to be...
DOG DAYS HERE; THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR A PET DOG IN YOUR LIFE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amHAVEN'T got time for a dog? You wouldn't think Jimi Celeste would, either. The busy photographer is a fixture at the most fashionable events, snapping away on his high-powered Canon...
FRANK'S GAMBIT MARSHALLS ON
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTHE ghost of Frank Mar shall haunts today's grandest grandmasters. What frightens them is Marshall's gambit in the Ruy Lopez. If Black meets 1 e4 with 1. . . e5,...
THE BIG PICTURE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTHE classic scene: handsome David Hemmings, as a swinging London fashion photog, enlarging photos taken in a park, switching them around, studying the close-ups with a magnifying glass. And there,...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amApocalypse now? Tuesday is the day of the Beast - 06/06/06. Freak out by watching the remake of "The Omen," with Mia Farrow taking a creepy turn as the Antichrist's...
JOHNNY TAKES - THE DUKE AND HIS DIRECTOR, ON DVD
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTHE most famous actor-director combo in Hollywood history is celebrated in the splendid box set "The John Wayne-John Ford Film Collection" (Warner, $80), due out Tuesday on DVD. The two...
BIG APPLE PIE - ON THE SLY, N.Y.C. HIPSTERS CAN'T RESIST THE BUCOLIC CHARMS OF 'A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION'
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amGARRISON Keillor doesn't have a page on myspace.com and neither does "A Prairie Home Companion," his 31-years-running radio show. However, a cat named Garrison Keillor, from Nebraska, has his own...
NO CLUES - WHAT'S AFI TALKING ABOUT? DON'T ASK
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amWHILE a host of mainstream, punkinfluenced bands are happily divulging the deep, dark secrets behind every tune they sing - cheating ex-girlfriends, drug addiction, beloved grandmothers, daddy problems - AFI...
CLINK PINK - CAFFEINATED VODKA IS NO BULL
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amAPPARENTLY, working for the Federal Aviation Administration will drive a man to drink. While knocking back Red Bull and vodka with a friend at LAX's Sky Bar, David Mandell got...
UNDER THE HOOD - HOW PIXAR TURBO-CHARGES ITS ANIMATED STARS
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amBUILDING A BETTER 'CAR'-TOON - HOW PIXAR'S CYBER-MECHANICS MAKE ENGINES PURR AND HEARTS RACE When the head creative team at Pixar Animation Studios heard about their new project, back in...
RADIO CITY MUSIC 'GALL'
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amRadio City Music Hall has raised the curtain on plans to remove a landmarked lighting console from its auditorium - and not everyone's applauding. The large, antiquated console, located between...
BX. WOMAN SNATCHES BOY FROM TATTOO SHOP
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA 3-year-old boy was kidnapped from behind his father's back at a Bronx tattoo parlor yesterday afternoon, cops said. Brandon Aponte was with his father, Louis, at Zeus Tattoo Inc.,...
RACING 'STRIPES'; PATRIOT-CAR AUCTION BOOSTS FDNY
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA California accountant will put his beloved "stars and stripes" sports car under the hammer today - and the money will help honor New York firefighters. The 1971 Porsche 911...
CATFIGHT TURNS TO MURDER
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amShot on Bronx street. A raucous fistfight between two Bronx girls ended in gunfire, with the boyfriend of one of the girls shot dead - allegedly by the boyfriend of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** An emotionally disturbed man assaulted his girlfriend in East Harlem before slashing himself, police said yesterday. Cops were called to 115 E. 115th St. at 9:20 p.m. Friday...
PENN MIGHT WRITE OFF PARK
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amPlans for a new and improved Penn Station include the removal of one of Midtown's few public plazas - and some residents are unhappy. As part of the state's plan...
COMMUNE SEX SHOCKER; SECRETS OF THE S.I. 'GUNSHOT' HIPPIE HAVEN
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA hippie-style, hilltop commune on Staten Island has turned the '60s peace-and-love philosophy on its head, pressuring members into sex, green-card marriages, pill-popping and wacky sex sessions with a shrink,...
PRIVATE HOSPS SOAK UP CHARITY-CARE $$
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amPublic hospitals take care of most of the city's poor, but private hospitals - those with the celebrity clientele and virtually no uninsured patients - rake in more of the...
IMETTE'S 'KILLER' WHINES OF HIS BAD 'KARMA'
June 4, 2006 | 4:00am"I look at it like karma," said Darryl Littlejohn. "For all the s--- I've done." The 5-foot-7, 200-pound bouncer, who's been in and out of jail his entire adult life,...
BIRDBRAINED $ECURITY CUTS ; CHERTOFF'S FLU FEAR & 'HOT ITEMS' MANIA STIFFED N.Y.
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amWhat's bird flu got to do with homeland security? Everything, it seems. The Department of Homeland Security cut federal anti-terrorism grants to the Big Apple by 40 percent because the...
GAY-WED MARCHERS BASH BUSH
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amWith President Bush renewing calls for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, hundreds of people marched in protest across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday in support of rights for same-sex couples....
HARLEM HIT-RUN HORROR; KILLED HELPING PAL
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA "chivalrous" act led to death for a law student yesterday, when he was fatally mowed down by a hit-and-run speed demon while trying to escort a female friend on...
END OF 2 MOB COPS; JUDGMENT DAY HERE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amMob cops Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito are to be sentenced tomorrow, and their victims' still grieving family members hope the court delivers what they asked for: the maximum punishment....
'FIX' IS IN ON THOMPSON WEB SITE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA PHOTO showing Comptroller Bill Thompson standing next to labor leader Brian McLaughlin vanished from the comptroller's official Web site soon after McLaughlin was implicated in an FBI investigation of...
FEDS FLUNK NYPD'S MATH TEST
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe numbers just don't add up. The NYPD probes up to 20 terrorism leads a week, vets thousands of hot-line tips annually and deploys hundreds of cops every day to...
GRANOLA GOOFBALLS MAKE $$, NOT WAR
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amGanas' roots might be Haight-Ashbury, but its operation is strictly Wall Street. New York City's only commune not only controls millions of dollars in Staten Island real estate, but a...
TRAGIC MANNY'S MOM SUES
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe mother of Manny Lanza (left), an uninsured man who died after his brain operation was delayed, is seeking punitive damages against a Man hattan hospital and the doc tors...
WHAT'S YER POISON? LIFE IS TOXIC: BOOK
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amEven your mattress can kill you. The most mundane, everyday products contain a toxic brew that floods the human body with some 700 synthetic chemicals - and could wreak havoc,...
HARLEM HIT-RUN HORROR - KILLED AIDING PAL
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA chivalrous law student was mowed down and killed by a hit-and-run speed demon in Harlem early yesterday morning while trying to safely escort his friend, who uses crutches, across...
H2O CASH FLOW - DAPPER DADDY SELLS WATER FOR SON'S COLLEGE $$$
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amHe's not your ordinary water boy - this 64-yearold retiree risks life and limb darting in and out of traffic, duded-up "Saturday Night Fever" style, to hawk Poland Spring and...
GAY-NUPS RALLY RIPS BUSH
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amWith President Bush renewing calls for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, hundreds of people marched in protest across the rain-splattered Brooklyn Bridge yesterday in support of rights for same-sex...
KILLER HUGGIN' BONDS' BAT TOSS AT PEDRO ONLY A JOKE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amAt 11:32 yesterday morning, the most controversial player in baseball emerged from the visitors' clubhouse and slowly walked through the bowels of Shea Stadium. Barry Bonds, wearing a black warmup...
SUPER-SOAKED SPLIT AT SHEA ; WOODY SAC FLY WINS NIGHTCAP
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 1 GIANTS 6 METS 4 GAME 2 / 11 Innings METS 3 GIANTS 2 There was a "Got Juice?" sign here and a "Who's on steroids?" chant there, but...
LIBERTY'S STARTING TO SAG AT 10
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThey grow up so fast, don't they? The Liberty celebrated their 10th anniversary yesterday during the home opener against Los Angeles, but in looking back over a decade of Liberty...
BOMBERS' LINEUP DOES BELLY FLOP ; A-ROD OUT AGAIN, GIAMBI SITS AS WELL
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Another day, another late lineup alteration. One night after Alex Rodriguez was scratched due to a wicked stomach virus, Jason Giambi went the same route yesterday less than...
LASTINGS IMAGE VS. MELKY WAY
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amIT WAS less than a month ago, at Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, that Lastings Milledge and Melky Cabrera faced one another. They seemed, even then, far away from the...
GLAVINE'S IN POSITION TO START ON SHORT REST
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tom Glavine pitched very well last night, but not well enough to pick up his 284th win. However, the major positive of Glavine's performance was that he threw...
MIYA, OH MY, ANNIKA CLOSE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amGALLOWAY TWP., N.J. - Battling her longest drought since 2001, Annika Sorenstam says this is her chance. One shot behind 19-year-old Japanese pop idol Ai Miyazato, a winless LPGA rookie,...
BIG STARS AREN'T ONLY ONES FALLING
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Yankees injuries are no longer the domain of superstars. Darrell Rasner, who arrived this week from Columbus (Triple-A) and pitched 12/3 innings of relief Thursday night,...
BECLOUDED BELMONT ; TRAGEDIES, DEPLETED FIELD COOL RACE'S HEAT
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThese are dark days for thoroughbred racing. Two weeks after Kentucky Derby champ Barbaro suffered life-threatening injuries in the Preakness, Irish colt Horatio Nelson, one of Europe's top 3-year-olds, broke...
GOMEZ DOES IT AGAIN
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTrack started out muddy, sealed; no turf racing. Torrential downpour hit before and during third race, turning track sloppy; rain fell intermittently throughout rest of card. In a yawner, Todd...
FLUKE LIMITS COULD CHANGE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA NEW research study going on in New York and New Jersey may help to ease summer flounder size and bag limits that continue to become more restrictive and costly...
FACE FAX: PAT'S BACK ; RILEY GOES OLD SCHOOL, MINUS THE SPLIT SCREEN
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS just in: Pat Riley faxed his Finals confirmation letter into the NBA. Eighteen years removed from his last championship drive as the Lakers' coach, and a dozen since his...
HAPPY CAMPERS GREET MANGINI ; JETS, POST WRITER HELP OUT COACH
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amHARTFORD - The first hint this was going to be a different kind of day came when a teenager politely called me "Coach." I hadn't felt that kind of genuine...
BATTY BONDS - THROWS STICK AT PEDRO - IN FUN
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amAt 11:32 yesterday morning, the most controversial player in baseball emerged from the visitor's clubhouse and slowly walked through the bowels of Shea Stadium. Barry Bonds, wearing a black warm-up...
BOMBERS ANSWER CALL-UP OF DUTY ; HOME-GROWN PRODUCTS GUIDE YANKS
June 4, 2006 | 4:00am10 INNINGSYankees 6Orioles 5 BALTIMORE - Grow your own. And roll it in a pinstriped paper. It's something the Yankees haven't done since the late '60s, when everyone was doing...
LIBERTY'S FIRST WIN OT THRILLER
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amOVERTIME Liberty 89 Sparks 79 Even on their worst days, the Liberty usually have been at least as competitive, exciting and tough as the Knicks, the other basketball tenant of...
BONDS, GIANTS GIVE DUQUE 'L' ; SAN FRAN SPLATTERS ALL-WET METS IN OPENER
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amIt rained yesterday. From the skies, Mother Nature postponed the first pitch of the Mets-Giants doubleheader by more than two-and-a-half hours. From the stands, the boos spitted down on Barry...
DAMON ANSWERS CAMDEN HECKLERS
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Standing in the on-deck circle before his seventh-inning at-bat, Johnny Damon was hearing it from front-row Orioles fans. "They were telling me I [stink]," Damon said....
BIG GUNS RETURNING SOON
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Slowly, the Yankees are getting healthier. Alex Rodriguez said he "probably" will return to the lineup today after missing the previous two games with a viral stomach infection....
JONES HELPS FANS FORGET SCANDAL WITH WIN IN 100
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amAs much as it pains Marion Jones, not even one of the fastest women in history can outrun investigations and allegations. The best she can do is run to victory,...
WAGNER PREVAILS IN BARRY BATTLE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThe few thousand diehard, rain-drenched fans who stayed at Shea last night got to see one of the showdown of showdowns. With the Mets and Giants tied 2-2 in the...
OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN FROM PAIN
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA TRUCKLOAD of injury news - both good and bad - sent ripples through the waiver wire this week. Maybe you'll get lucky and beat your fellow GMs to the...
BIFFLE'S BACK ON TRACK
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThere's a reason you never count out Greg Biffle. He's smart and talented, a lethal combination on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit. Viewed by many reporters as the most thoughtful...
NO. 1 CHOICE UP IN THE AIR
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amWhen you consider the enormity of the game - its history, financial resources and worldwide appeal - it becomes almost unimaginable that baseball's amateur draft is such a non-event on...
NBA UNCLEAR ON NEW CLOCKS
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amALL Lloyd Stone wanted was a "Thank you." That's all. It was early in 2003, and Stone, a lifelong friend who lives in Manalapan, N.J., was feeling ripped off, having...
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ; RANGERS COULD PASS ON BIG-TICKET CHARA
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amCONTRARY to reports out of Ottawa likely placed to increase Zdeno Chara's bargaining power, the Rangers have no intention whatsoever of offering the mammoth defenseman a number even close to...
THESE WALLS CAN TALK - VISIT THE TRAVELING MUSEUM, OR JUST CHAT WITH BUCK O'NEIL
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTHE story of the Negro Leagues is told through amazing artifacts and exhibits on display this weekend at Shea Stadium in the Times of Greatness Mobile Museum, presented by Roadway...
AMAZIN'S KNEED BELTRAN HEALTHY
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES As the rain fell yesterday morning, Carlos Beltran spent most of his time in the Mets' training room, receiving treatment on his bruised right knee. The injury kept...
IT'S A 'HOLE' NEW ANIMAL - YANKS LIKELY WON'T SELL FARM TO PLUG INJURY VOIDS
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Yankees knew that, in many ways, Roger Clemens was everything wrong with their roster. He was old, expensive, likely to break down and unlikely to perform to his career...
M.I.P. CLUB - MOST INDISPENSABLE PEOPLE IN NEW YORK SPORTS HISTORY
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEES fans can be forgiven if they're still blue in the face. Watching Kyle Farnsworth pitch can do that to a person anyway; watching Farnsworth pitch the ninth inning in...
JONES, GATLIN LEGACIES RUN IN OPPOSING LANES
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amThey were an odd couple of superstar headliners for last night's Reebok Grand Prix on Randall's Island: Marion Jones, implicated in the steroid scandal that sunk their sport's name into...
SHAMROCK & ROLL! CELTICS WIN 16TH TITLE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The invitations were mailed weeks ago. There was no need to RSVP. A Sweet 16 championship had been guaranteed. It was just a matter of time. Yesterday at...
IT'LL BE HARD TO PRY AWAY WILLIS, ZITO
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amA significant gap exists between Dontrelle Willis and Barry Zitobeing available before the July 31 trade deadline and the starpitchersbeingobtainable. Many executives expectbothleftiestobeon the market, but because neither Florida nor...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 4, 2006 | 4:00amLending new meaning to the 1977 comedy title "High Anxiety," a pilot discovered a 41/2-foot snake peering out at him from the instrument panel of his Piper Cherokee - at...