July 14, 2006
TITANS OF OLD & NEW MEDIA MIX & MATCH
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amSUN VALLEY, IDAHO - Old and new media had a powwow yesterday. Exhibit A of the shift underway in the media industry was on display here when CBS chief Les...
SACRE BLEU! COWEN TANKS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe bull market for financial boutiques may have come to a screeching halt as venerable investment house Cowen & Co. saw its debut on the stock market flop. In their...
VIACOM LATEST TO JOIN BMG BID WAR
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe already intense bidding for BMG's music publishing arm got even more frenetic yesterday, with Viacom emerging as a serious and surprising contender in the auction, sources said. Viacom will...
SOUR NOTE HIT - FOUL CALL ON SONYBMG CLOUDS WARNER-EMI PLANS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWarner Music Group shares got rocked and roiled yesterday after a European court decision cast a long shadow over its long-anticipated plans to merge with rival EMI. Warner Music, run...
US AIR'S INSIDERS SCORE BIG BANKRUPTCY BONUSES
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amBankruptcy is bringing new riches to insiders at some of America's battered airlines. Just months after US Airways pulled out of bankruptcy, its directors and officers have cashed out $499.5...
FOX IN THE HENHOUSE - METRO EXEC, DEMOTED FOR RACISM, WILL MONITOR SENSITIVITY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amA top newspaper exec who drew heat last year at freebie chain Metro International for being racially insensitive has been tapped for a company advisory board set up to monitor...
'BAT MITZVAH' BROOKS NAILED
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Brooks - who made headlines last December for stiffing people who staged his lavish $10 million Rainbow Room bat mitzvah for his daughter, featuring Aerosmith and rapper 50-Cent -...
PONSON COMING ABOARD
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Believing he has been sober since August when he was charged with drunk driving for a third time, and a better option than anything available in-house, the Yankees...
DAN'S RATHER FAINT PRAISE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amDAN Rather has emerged as the king of the backhanded compliment. He earned the title in his interview Wednesday night with Larry King on CNN. King asked Rather what he...
STARR REPORT
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am'View'ership Debbie Matenopoulos will return to "The View" as a guest-host July 25 - her first time back since her 1999 departure. Matenopoulos was the first "View"er to leave the...
MOB'S WAIT ISSUES - 'SOPRANOS' POSTPONE FINAL SEASON
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am"The impression that people get is that the network says, 'We're HBO, we have our own rules and we do what we want' " -Marc Berman of Mediaweek HBO has...
'HOUSE' CAN JUST BUY AN EMMY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am'HOUSE" can go ahead and build himself a mansion now. Hugh Laurie, the star of the popular Fox medical drama, may have been snubbed for an Emmy nomination this year,...
THIN BLUE LIE - FBI AGENT'S 'EYES' CAN'T SEE OBVIOUS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amYOU'D have to be Helen Keller not to see right through "Angela's Eyes," one of the silliest shows to rear its dopey head this year. What you will see, if...
MARY'S HOT PICK
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amBLIND Malian pop stars Amadou & Mariam met at the Institute for Young Blind People in Bamako, the capital of Mali, where they were studying Braille and performing with the...
CASINO BEAT
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amNEW JERSEY * The reigning queen of pop, MADONNA (pictured), performs Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Boardwalk Hall Arena. Tickets: $50-$350; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. * If all you wanna...
PARTING WITH JULIETS SUCH SWEET SORROW
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amYOU needn't be a feminist to note that it was Juliet holding sway Monday and Wednesday nights when American Ballet Theatre returned to the repertory Kenneth MacMillan's turgid but spectacular...
TENDER TALE OF DEATH
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amANYONE familiar with Francois Ozon, the talented French filmmaker, knows that he loves shots of the beach ("Under the Sand," "See the Sea," etc.). It's no surprise then that his...
AN INFANT TERRIBLE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amSEXUAL and toilet humor plumb new depths in Keenen Ivory Wayans' "Little Man," which will stink up theaters like several gross of dirty diapers. More than a few soiled nappies...
GYM DANDY, FILM NOT
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am'PEACEFUL Warrior" tries to be "The Karate Kid" of gymnastics. It looks more like "The Karate Kid" as imagined by Details magazine. Dan (Scott Mechlowicz) is an arrogant young college...
WHO PLANS N.Y. SHOWS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amLEGENDARY rockers The Who, the band that spearheaded the British invasion with The Beatles and Rolling Stones in the early '60s, announced yesterday that they would mount their first major...
LOUD ATTIRE, WITH BAD GROOMING
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am'THE Groomsmen" - which comes about five films after writer-director-star Ed Burns should have found another career - takes us back to Irish Long Island (the setting is established by...
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amAS saucy as a belly piercing, "Mini's First Time" is a black comedy that puts the soul of "Heathers" in Lolita's bikini. As usual, Nikki Reed plays a Bratz doll...
NEVER MAMET A BAD MARRIAGE HE DIDN'T LIKE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am'BIRDS leave when there's gonna be an earthquake," remarks one wrecked soul in David Mamet's "Edmond." By birds, Mamet means white males, the desperate househusbands of this ink-black comedy. It...
KATIE'S SEX APPEAL ISN'T ENOUGH
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amSHE'S a stunning brunette - sexy, young and one of the most talented singers to come down the pike since Norah Jones swept up at the Grammys. So why is...
DUPRESSING - AS EMPTY AS OWEN WILSON'S PRETTY, STONED LITTLE HEAD; 'YOU, ME' NO PLACE FOR US
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTHINK of the uncompromisingly mediocre comedy "You, Me and Dupree" as a referendum on whether audiences are tiring of Owen Wilson's beatific stoner dude character as rapidly as I am....
KLINE FINDS 'COURAGE'
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amSORRY, Christopher Walken fans - but the deadpan actor won't be performing Shakespeare in the Park this summer after all, citing a scheduling conflict. You'll have to settle for Kevin...
DARK GIVE THEM SPARK
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWE knew you can't keep a good man down - even if he's dead - and Johnny Cash proved it with his posthumous release, "American V: A Hundred Highways," which...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - LET'S HONOR CITY'S BEST
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTheir reward is not fame or fortune, but simply the knowledge that they've made life better for countless other New Yorkers. We are seeking candidates for the fifth annual New...
ROCKETS GO DEEP INTO ISRAEL AS LEB REELS UNDER BLITZ
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Middle East erupted into war yesterday as the Hezbollah terror group fired missiles deep inside Israel, striking its third-largest city, and Israel responded with a furious air...
TWO WOMEN SHOT AT CROBAR
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTwo women were wounded last night inside the Chelsea nightclub Crobar after a man pulled out a gun and started shooting, police said. The hotspot club was shut down soon...
HILL TAKES SIDES - BACKING JOE - KIND OF, SORT OF
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amSEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to walk a very finely triangulated line as she backs, for now, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) in his hot Democratic primary against an anti-war...
FATSOS NEED HEALTHY DOSE OF REALITY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amHow's this for a whopper: Fat people think they're healthier than their slimmer neighbors. A Stony Brook State University poll found that 93 percent of obese people believe that the...
POLL: WHITE CANDIDATE HAS RIGHT TO RUN
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amMost voters don't think black politicians in a predominately black Brooklyn district should try to keep a white candidate out of the race, according to a poll released yesterday. The...
'JUNIOR' TAPE: I'D COP TO CURTIS PLEA
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti was secretly caught on tape planning to cop a plea to the near-fatal kidnapping of radio host Curtis Sliwa - explosive recordings the mob scion's lawyers are...
9/11-AID DISASTER - DOLLARS-TO-DONUTS OUTRAGE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A government investigator said yesterday he was "offended" that Dunkin' Donuts stores and a custard shop thousands of miles from Ground Zero got government-backed loans meant for 9/11...
HOUSING IN REHAB CRISIS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's public housing authority takes too long to renovate its apartments - sometimes as long as seven years, an audit released yesterday found. The apartments are left empty for...
POL'S KID GETS KIDNEY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe 14-year-old daughter of Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who dropped out of the race for state attorney general so he could give her a kidney, underwent a successful transplant yesterday morning....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS * Cops have identified one of two gunmen who robbed a Howard Beach bank. He is Anthony Digiosaffate (above), 51, cops said. Diogiosaffate and his accomplice brandished a handgun...
L.I. POL: CROOKS OUT TO 'SCREW THE SYSTEM'
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Federal investigators and local prosecutors have unearthed a litany of schemes that crooks devised to exploit a sympathetic public in the days after 9/11. Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.)...
PERSONAL FOUL: EX-GIANT 'SACKS' GAL PAL - B'KLYN ASSAULT RAP
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amA former New York Giants cornerback was arraigned in Brooklyn yesterday on charges he brutally tackled his petite girlfriend and left her sporting a black eye and a swollen lip....
B'WAY USHER TO TAKE STAGE - R&B STAR WILL JOIN 'CHICAGO'
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amHORDES of teen girls will be screaming "Yeah!" on Broadway next month - Usher's joining the cast of "Chicago." The chart-topping R&B singer-songwriter will star in the hit musical as...
STRAHAN'S NASTY DEED IN DIVORCE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amMichael Strahan and his wife Jean battled over their multimillion-dollar house yesterday - as a lawyer for the football Giants sack king revealed he still hasn't handed over the deed,...
PARENTS RING ALARM ON CELL-BAN 'PERIL'
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amPublic-school parents who filed a lawsuit against the city yesterday to overturn a ban on students' carrying cellphones in schools said safety was their motivation. Each of the eight parents...
'EVIL' KT: I'M BLESSED
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amDeflecting questions about her own brother's calling her "evil," Republican Senate candidate Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland yesterday just heaped praise on her husband and children. "I've been very blessed," McFarland...
RUSSIA HIRES TOP N.Y. FLACK
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amA near-stranglehold on his nation's media apparently isn't enough for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who's hired a top New York PR firm to polish his image in time for this...
BUSH: DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS BUT DON'T TOPPLE GOV'T
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday strongly defended Israel's attacks on Lebanon - but urged Israelis to be careful to avoid weakening Lebanon's fragile government. After Bush spoke in Germany, the...
N.J. DAD WANTS TO TEACH FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOLS A HARSH LE$$ON
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amPROUD papa Van-Ness Crawford remembers the moment he knew his sons have no business attending public school. It was when his boy Joshua told him the teacher cursed and called...
BOARD OUT TO LUNCH - IGNORE$ OWN PROBE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens middle-school principal under investigation for allegedly helping himself to the school-lunch fund was chosen yesterday to lead the school in the city's expanded Empowerment Zone - and to...
DC 37 IN NEW PACT
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amCity workers will get about a 10 percent raise over 32 months and be allowed to live outside the city under a new contract reached with the Bloomberg administration. The...
BOOT OUT MY HUBBY - WAR OVER $2M CO-OP
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amShe might be stuck being married to him, but an Upper West Side woman says she can't live with her husband anymore. Designer Marypaul Yates, who's been trying unsuccessfully to...
RAISING THE 'BAR' ON PMS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amIn a world of wonder bras and wonder derrieres, there's a product that women may find a lot more helpful - the Women's Wonder Bar. That's because the organic snack...
NUDE DUDE SUES - OVER FIRE I. DOG BAN
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amCall this tale "Nudie and the Beast." Former bodybuilder Mark DelCore, of Queens, is suing Fire Island officials for the right to have his dog escort him to the beach...
ANSWERING HER CRIES - TRUCKER DELIVERS IN MANSE BLAST
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTruck driver Juan Deida heard two sounds he will never, ever forget. The first was the devastating roar of a building explosion right next to him. The second was the...
BROUGHT TO JUSTICE 21 YRS. LATER
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amIn August 1985, the 21-year-old son of Korean deli owners revved his silver Corvette into a rival crowd of Chinese teenagers outside a party at Columbia University. After injuring four...
CON ED VOWS NO POWER CUT TO THE PEOPLE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTwo of Con Ed's upstate power lines to the city went down last month, raising the dual risk of electrical shortages - even blackouts - and higher bills this summer,...
STRIKING BEAUTY - THIRD AIDE SAYS NAOMI BEANED HER
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amAnother Naomi Campbell employee says the supermodel smashed her in the head with a cellphone - and smacked her, spat in her face, ripped the clothes off her back, stole...
APE-$NIT: 'TARZAN' MA IN RENT FLAP
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe mother of the child co-star of Broadway's "Tarzan" owes a whopping $60,000 in back rent, it was revealed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court. "I didn't know about that," testified...
FEDS WILL PROBE DEADLY VAN CRASH
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amFederal safety experts joined the investigation yesterday into the fiery van crash that killed five residents of a Brooklyn home for the mentally disabled. The National Transportation Safety Board dispatched...
LOWER E. SIDE SOLDIER SLAIN IN IRAQ AMBUSH
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amA soldier from the Lower East Side was shot and killed by terrorists in Iraq, officials said yesterday. Sgt. Irving Hernandez Jr., 28, of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment,...
WEST SIDE DUO IN ROB SPREE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amCops yesterday were on the hunt for a pair of brazen thieves who robbed four men at knifepoint in a quartet of West Side robberies. The stickup spree took place...
BOUNCER IN 3 NEW SLAY RAPS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn bouncer who faces life in prison for a May shooting spree at a Chelsea nightclub will be arraigned today in Brooklyn Supreme Court on new charges linking him...
B'KLYN RAPE FIEND HUNTED
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amCops are searching for a man (sketch above) who raped a Brooklyn hospital worker on her way home, authorities said yesterday. The man, described as 25 to 35 years old,...
BABY GIVES A WAIL TO THE CHIEF
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A whimsical President Bush plays mimic to this squalling baby's yowls yesterday as he arrived at a barbecue in his honor in Germany before heading to a weekend...
COLD ON WARMING - DEM VOTERS DON'T REALLY CARE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amEVERYBODY knows Republicans don't care about global warming. But here's some surprising news: Neither do Democrats. That's the finding of a poll out this week from the Pew Research Center...
FIGHTING PUPPETS - ISRAEL'S NEW DILEMMA
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amISRAEL is fighting marionettes. The monstrous fanatics who make up Hamas and Hezbollah doubtless imagine they are freedom fighters seeking martyrdom, but pathetic marionettes is all they really are, bobbing...
BRAVEST BROTHERS - FAMILY DAY FOR FDNY HONORS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTwo sets of firefighting brothers were among 60 Bravest elevated to the rank of lieutenant yesterday. "I believe it's a phenomenal day for both families," said Andrew Di Fusco, a...
VAN-CRASH RED FLAGS 'IGNORED'
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amStunned residents of the Brooklyn home for the mentally disabled from which five people were killed in a van crash said yesterday their frequent complaints about driver speeding and broken...
WATCH YOUR LEFT, HILLARY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing an all but certain Democratic primary from a poorly funded anti-war candidate who yesterday blamed her for the death of thousands...
OPEN QUESTION - CAN PHIL BOUNCE BACK AFTER WINGED FOOT FIASCO?
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amPhil Mickelson first held his head in despair, then called himself an "idiot'' - and then made an effort so neither of those things ever happen again. After his disastrous...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JOHN FLAHERTY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Mike Forde caught up with former Yankee catcher John Flaherty. The 38-year-old joined the YES Network this season to do pre- and post-game work, as...
FORDE'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTo: James Blake From: Mike Forde Re: Zidane Head Butt CC: All Media, Everywhere Dear James: Excellent call on the "5 Good Minutes'' portion of Wednesday's Pardon the Interruption. Co-host...
BEST 'WISHES' FROM ESPN - 'NET CONNECTS SICK KIDS TO DREAMS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amYou can rip ESPN for its over-the-top analysis, its boo-yahs, its selfpromotion, its needless graphics, its cell phones, its .... But sometimes ESPN gets it right. Running through the end...
LOTS OF THRILLS, THEN HEAD TO THE GRILLS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amIT should be another good weekend to put some fresh caught fish on the barbie. Depending on where you will be there should be something you can find that will...
CURRY IS KEY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amIsiah Thomas believes he'll ultimately be judged by the development of Knicks center Eddy Curry next season. When dishing out his one-year ultimatum, owner James Dolan didn't specify what qualified...
BARBARO FIGHTS FOR LIFE ; MIRACLE WILL BE NEEDED TO SAVE DERBY CHAMP
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amKENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Only a miracle can save Barbaro now that he's been hobbled by a "catastrophic" case of laminitis in his left hind foot. Laminitis, a painful swelling...
VARGAS EYES PAYBACK
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amFernando Vargas is seeking revenge. Shane Mosley is looking for an exclamation point. The two will meet tomorrow night in a rematch of their highly entertaining duel in February, which...
COA FINISHES WITH FOUR WINS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00am1ST RACE - The thunderstorms that hit the tri-state area Wednesday night caused all the turf races to be switched to the main track. Trainer Gary Contessa didn't mind that...
RED BULLS CLOSE TO TABBING ARENA
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amLast month, The Post reported that the Red Bulls wanted to hire Bruce Arena. Now, the Washington Post is claiming that desire may finally be mutual, with the beleaguered U.S....
TORRE THINKS MORE MOVES ARE LIKELY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amJoe Torre seemed content with the makeup of the Yankees yesterday morning, except for his desire for another starting pitcher, and the manager expected changes. "My sense is, by the...
BIG-LEAGUE EGO; COCKY MILLEDGE TAKES DEMOTION IN STRIDE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - As Lastings Milledge walked into a minor-league stadium yesterday he looked like a major-leaguer. Wearing a diamond-encrusted cross around his neck, a sparkling watch on his wrist and...
THERE WILL BE NO JOSE AGAIN TODAY
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES CHICAGO - Jose Reyes will not be playing shortstop today. Reyes' left pinky finger got cut last Friday against the Marlins. He didn't start the final three games...
BERGERON TO LEAVE WINGS
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amTony Bergeron, who helped build Wings Academy into one of the top programs in the city, is leaving the small Bronx school to take a job at American Christian H.S.,...
TRUTH DECAY - FUDGED FACTS PLAGUING SPORTS WORLD
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amr Game festivities. AP THERE'S something about sports that shortly turns fractional truths into complete truths - and then into history. In 1961, Roger Maris was not vilified by most-to-all...
BOMBERS MUST FOCUS SOLELY ON RED SOX
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amForget the schedule. Ignore the Yankees and Red Sox having just nine games remaining against each other. Starting tonight and lasting until Oct. 1, it's Yankees-Red Sox 24/7. Each will...
SHUN & GAMES - NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS IN AMAZIN' RACE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amIT IS appropriate that the Mets resume their season on Bastille Day, because for so much of this season the team and its fans have acted as if they were...
BUMP & BIND - PEDRO RETURN MAY BE PUSHED BACK
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The return of Pedro Martinez may be delayed. Which isn't the ideal way to begin the Mets' second half. Martinez, who is on the disabled list with an...
YANKS NEED A-GAME FROM A-ROD
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees have waited all year for Alex Rodriguez to regain the MVP form he displayed a year ago, and while it might be easy to suggest the third baseman...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 14, 2006 | 4:00amWeekend duffer Dave Vonderau has never hit a hole in one, but his 8-year-old son has. Not once, but twice. Little Harrison Vonderau used a pitching wedge for the first...