July 19, 2006
SORRELL WINS VENUE BATTLE WITH BENATTI
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amScore one for WPP boss Martin Sorrell in his escalating legal battle with former Italy unit head Marco Benatti. A U.K. judge dismissed a motion yesterday by Benatti to move...
TELEVISA IS MULLING BID
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amStill fuming over losing the bidding war for Univision, Mexican giant Grupo Televisa said it is studying a rival offer for the Spanish-language network. In a conference call yesterday, Televisa's...
HOTEL DUO TAKE LAW SCHOOL SITE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amIZAK Senbahar and Simon Elias have bought New York Law School's development site at 240 Church St., where the duo will construct a 306,155-foot luxury residential building. Among their Alexico...
FUNNY BIZ: VIACOM EYES ONION
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amBig media is expected to continue its buying spree on the Internet, as both CollegeHumor.com and The Onion are on the verge of being bought out. The satirical newspaper and...
EVERYONE HATES MARTHA: SHORT SELLERS CIRCLE DIVA
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amTrue, Martha Stewart's selling ads like gangbusters and always knows the best way to peel a mango, but Wall Street doesn't seem to care anymore. Most analysts are panning her...
THE HEARST IS OVER FOR HER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amSURE, there's a fabulous new gym, dizzying views of Central Park and a snazzy new cafeteria, but that doesn't mean everyone is going to stay at Hearst Magazines for life....
FOR CASH GIVEAWAY, BANK HIRES ROBOT, LEGGY BLONDE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWhen a bank decides to give away free money, the task is so tough it takes a robot without any feelings to hand over the cash. Metbank has hired Mr....
CALVIN WALKS AWAY; DE-KLEINS PVH PACT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe designer Calvin Klein has chosen not to renew a consulting agreement with Phillips Van Heusen, the apparel maker that bought Klein's fashion house three years ago, The Post has...
STUY TOWN MAY BE SOLD
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amManhattan's largest apartment complex - the legendary Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village - was put on the block last night by owner MetLife to cash in on the real...
TEST DRIVE - PORSCHE BOXSTER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amYOU know you are driving a special machine when other people hold up the traffic to ask "who makes your car?" While driving around town, complete strangers stopped to make...
N.Y. FILM FEST HOSTS ROYALS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00am'THE Queen," a controversial new movie about the royal family's reaction to the death of Princess Diana, will open the New York Film Festival Sept. 29. Many in Britain have...
'DAYS' BOOTS OSAMA'S 'SLAVE'
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amKOLA Boof, a novelist who claims she was kept as a sex-slave by Osama bin Laden, has been fired from her job as a writer for NBC's "Days of Our...
COPYCAT-WALK - 'RUNWAY' DESIGNS LOOK AWFULLY FAMILIAR: REPORT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amCALL it "Project Scandal." After just one episode, charges are flying over a contestant/designer who may have pulled the wool over the judges from Bravo's "Project Runway." Wannabe-superstar designer Keith...
BELLES RING TRUE; FILM FEATURES HARLEM SHOWGIRLS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHEY'VE danced through the Depression, segregation and World War II; decades later, they kicked up their heels through broken bones and a pacemaker. Now the Silver Belles - the showgirls...
ONCE USHERED, 'CHICAGO' SEATS SELLING BRISKLY
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amTHE news that R&B star Usher is joining the cast of "Chicago" in August has given the 10-year-old show a nice lift at the box office. We're not talking Julia...
FOX TAKES ON REGIS AND KELLY
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amFOX will launch a new national morning show next January to compete with "Today" and "Live with Regis & Kelly." "I don't think there's any question we're entering that fray,"...
HOT, SANDY & SINGLE - FIRE ISLAND SUMMER-HOUSE SAGA
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN a show - especially a reality show - promises intrigue, love, sex, hot bods in small swimwear and excruciatingly self-absorbed types, you can bet that what's coming your way...
STARR REPORT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe bonus babies Don't count on "Lost" stars Matthew Fox and Josh Holloway exchanging holiday cards anytime soon. According to In Touch magazine, fellow cast members of the hit ABC...
THERE'S A LOT AT STEAK
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amMAD COWGIRL ** (two stars) 'MAD Cowgirl," a low-budget indie by Gregory Hatanaka, is a mixedup mix of steak and sex. More specifically, it is the story of Therese (Sarah...
WHY THIS $5.75 BOWL OF PASTA COSTS $32.00
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWHERE does less than $6 worth of food cost $32? In too many Manhattan restaurants these days, especially when you order pasta, salads and dishes with precious imported ingredients -...
ON THE SIDE: PHILLIPE HEADS EAST AND WEST
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amBUSY restaurateur Stratis Morfogen is taking his Phillipe restaurant concept well beyond New York. He tells us that he's planning to open branches of his East 60th Street Asian restaurant...
A BLUSHING DEFENSE OF ROSÉ
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amIN New York, that precocious verbal game known as the snob-off might as well be declared an official sport, with participants competing in such categories as indie film, the Gansevoort,...
DEADLY INFERNO IN QNS.
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA four-alarm fire destroyed five wood-frame homes in Queens last night - killing one person and critically injuring another, who was burned "from head to toe," the FDNY said. Seven...
HEZBOLLAH IS TARGETING U.S. - 'WE WELCOME WORLD WAR 3': TERROR FIENDS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hezbollah yesterday warned the United States: You're next on our hit list. The threat against U.S. interests came as the FBI revealed it is searching for Hezbollah terrorist...
LIBERTY TORCH SONG; KEEPER'S LOVE FOR LADY
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amCharlie DeLeo always brought her roses on her birthday and now he's carrying a torch for his lady love - the Statue of Liberty. "I miss her quite a bit,"...
'INSPECTORS' TO GRADE EACH SCHOOL
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amTop-to-bottom independent inspections of the city's 1,300 public schools will be conducted by an outside firm under a new program launched by the Bloomberg administration, The Post has learned. The...
TERM-LIMIT FOES FAILING
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amIt looks as if the City Council will have a fight on its hands if it tries to tinker with the term-limits law. Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday that he'd oppose...
PATAKI'S PAC GOING $TRONG
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's interest in running for president became clearer yesterday as newly filed federal records showed that his Virginia-based political-action committee raised $630,418 over the past three months....
NO-SHOW MOB GUY COPS PLEA
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Luchese wiseguy copped a plea to holding a no-show job at a Brooklyn urologist's office in a scheme to skirt tax laws and collect health benefits for his family....
YANKS GET STADIUM OK
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees' bid to build a new stadium on a city park has been approved by federal officials who say the project will create enough new open space to more...
ROYAL PAIN RACKS UP MORE JAIL
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amShe'll be home for Christmas shopping. New York's notorious fake Saudi princess - a Buffalo divorcée who pretended to be royalty so she could scam insurers into paying for her...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** Cops are searching for a gunman who fatally shot a man in the chest on the third floor of 113 W. 128th Street in Harlem at 10:48 p.m....
SEX HOUND TURNED HIS WORKPLACE TO PLAY DEN
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amCHRISTIE BRINKLEY'S husband could not wait for a bedroom to get his hands all over pretty Diana Bianchi. Peter Cook, the sometime architect and full-time sleaze, consummated his affair with...
JURY TOSSES LEGAL SISSY FIT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday shot down a gay former city employee's claim that his boss at the NYPD's truck enforcement unit discriminated against him for not being manly enough. It...
WHITE POL GETS KEY BLACK SUPPORT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe lone white candidate in a racially tinged Brooklyn congressional contest yesterday showcased endorsements from relatives of slain City Councilman James Davis, one of the district's best-known black officials. The...
TRASH TALKERS TO CONSIDER MIKE'S PLAN
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe reopening of a controversial East Side marine transfer station was on track yesterday as details of the Mayor Bloomberg's garbage plan were fine-tuned in anticipation of today's City Council...
BIG 3 KEY TO JAVITS EXPANSION
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA $1.7 billion plan to double the size of the Javits Convention Center will go before an obscure but powerful panel in Albany for final approval today - with early...
EMOTIONAL WIPEOUT AS GAL BETRAYS SURF DUDE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA hunky Hamptons surfer boy yesterday broke his silence and told how his ex-girlfriend cheated on him with Christie Brinkley's hubby - whom the teen once blasted as a "a...
D.C. 'CELL' DIVISION - BUSH VS. SENATE IN FUND FEUD
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday narrowly approved spending federal funds to expand human embryonic stem-cell research - setting up a showdown with President Bush, who has vowed his first veto....
CONDI IS FLYING TO HOT SPOTS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to the Middle East on Friday to formally open U.S. diplomatic efforts on the Israel Lebanon crisis - but the United...
'FLOWER CHILDREN' MAKEOVER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's taxis will soon be cruising on flower power. New York's most artistic kids will be recruited to paint colorful floral motifs that will be affixed to the hoods,...
CANCER CLAIMS HERO DETECTIVE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Staten Island cop who became the face of a well known NYPD publicity campaign in the early 1990s died of cancer yesterday morning. Detective Richard DeGaetano, 47, died at...
DIPLOMAT ACCUSED OF GROPE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Dominican diplomat has been arrested after taking foreign affairs into his own hands and allegedly groping a female government worker, The Post has learned. Frank Cortorreal is the president...
NYPD GETS WHEEL TOUGH ON BIKERS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amRebuffed in court from blocking massive bicycle gatherings at Union Square Park, the Police Department is moving to amend its rules so cops could arrest bikers in groups as small...
STRIPPER RIPPER'S 35 YEARS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man whose wild sex romp with two Brazilian strippers ended with one woman knifed to death was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison yesterday. Aaron Gutierrez,...
STRAHAN GOES WILD ON OFFENSE; SACK MASTER $KEWERS WIFE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amEmotions boiled over at the Michael Strahan divorce trial yesterday, as the Giants' sack king and his wife spent their seventh anniversary locked in a court battle that brought her...
TERROR $$ FOR BEERS; FEDS' BOOZEDOGGLE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In proof positive that the feds are spending homeland-security funds like a drunken sailor, a Coast Guard official blew $1,000 from his government charge card to brew his...
RATNER'S GOT HIGH 'HOOPS'; NETS DEAL 'DONE'
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amBruce Ratner's bid to build 16 skyscrapers and an NBA arena in Downtown Brooklyn became all but a slam dunk yesterday when the Empire State Development Corp. signed off on...
VEGANS WHO 'STARVED' BABY ARE SET FREE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA vegan couple jailed in 2003 for feeding their severely malnourished baby daughter a diet of nuts and fruits was freed by a Queens judge yesterday following an appeals court...
THUG EXECUTES QUEENS MAN
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA coldblooded murderer shot a man in the back of the head execution-style just after midnight in Queens yesterday, police said. The killer pumped two shots into Steven Brown's skull...
COLLECTOR TAKEN FOR 600G IN ART OF THE STEAL
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amIn a six-story Manhattan townhouse crammed with masterpieces by Picasso, Rodin and Modigliani, the little bronze by Degas had been a favorite. It showed an engagingly paunchy dancer, nude, standing...
I WAS CHRISTIE CAD'S LOLITA #1 - SINGER'S AFFAIR WITH HAMPTONS HORNDOG
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amIt's deja vu all over again for Christie Brinkley's philandering husband. Amorous architect Peter Cook has a bad habit of bedding aspiring teenage singers from Southampton who work for him,...
TWU IN VIAGRA PLOY; SEX-BIAS LAWSUIT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe TWU has carried its contract battle into the bedroom - hitting the MTA with a federal sexual-discrimination suit for allegedly depriving female workers of their right to affordable contraception....
IT'S SWEAT AND WILD; HEAT HAVOC HAMMERS POWER-HUNGRY APPLE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amNew Yorkers sweated out the last day of the heat wave yesterday as the soaring mercury brought subways to a halt and grounded dozens of flights at La Guardia Airport,...
CONDI MAY TRAVEL TO HOT SPOTS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may soon travel to the Middle East to formally open U.S. diplomatic efforts on the Israel Lebanon crisis, but the United States is...
'ROYAL' PAIN RACKS UP MORE JAIL TIME
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amShe'll be home for Christmas shopping. New York's notorious fake Saudi princess - a Buffalo divorcée who pretended to be royalty so she could scam insurers into paying for her...
TOT-STARVE VEGANS FREE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA vegan couple jailed in 2003 for feeding their severely malnourished baby only nuts and fruits was freed by a Queens judge yesterday after an appeals-court ruling reduced the original...
SUMMER SCHOOL'S NOT A 'HOT' TICKET
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amNearly one-third of city kids are playing hooky during summer school - about the same absentee rate as last year, figures released yesterday show. The city Education Department reported that...
TITANIC ORDEAL - N.Y.-BOUND CRUISERS HIT THE DECK AS SHIP TIPS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA child and an adult were critically injured yesterday when a steering problem caused a new cruise ship to tip dangerously to its side as it sailed toward its homeport...
JURY NIXES GAY NYPD WORKER'S $80M SUIT
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday shot down a gay former city employee's claim that his boss at the NYPD's truck enforcement unit discriminated against him for not being manly enough. It...
GANG WAR KILLED HYDRANT KID - TEARS FOR GENESIS, 11
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe stray-bullet shooting death of an 11-year-old girl as she splashed around an open Queens hydrant was the result of a simmering neighborhood turf war between two gangs that came...
WELL-'TRAINED' SUBWAY K-9S - DOGS TO SNIFF OUT TERROR
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD is grooming a new class of recruits in its war on terror - a brigade of specially trained, explosive-sniffing dogs to patrol the subway, The Post has learned....
ART OF THE STEAL - COLLECTOR CONNED OUT OF 600G DEGAS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amIn a six-story Manhattan townhouse crammed with masterpieces by Picasso, Rodin and Modigliani, the little bronze by Degas had been a favorite. It showed an engagingly paunchy dancer, nude, standing...
TITANTIC ORDEAL OFF FLA. - CRUISERS SENT SPRAWLING
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amA child and an adult were critically injured yesterday when a steering problem caused a new cruise ship to tip dangerously to its side as it sailed toward its homeport...
HAIL A TULIP TAXI - 'FLOWER CHILDREN' MAKEOVER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's taxis will soon be cruising on flower power. New York's most artistic kids will be recruited to paint colorful floral motifs that will be affixed to the hoods,...
LIBERTY MEDALS AWARDS - A MOMENT IN THE SUN
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amNew York, New York, its a wonderful town - and all because of the true grit of Big Apple citizens who make our city such a great place to live....
DOTEL HAS SIGHTS SET ON BRONX
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amTRENTON - In his mind, Octavio Dotel is ready right now to start forming the bridge to Mariano Rivera in the Yankee bullpen. He has waited this long, so one...
REYES STARTS ANEW
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - The dugout had essentially been Jose Reyes' home for the last 10 days. But according to Pedro Martinez, he hasn't quite mastered his new location. "He...
CUBS MIGHT PROVIDE BULLPEN HELP
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While there are very few stones making ripples in the trading pool, that hasn't stopped teams from doing their due diligence. With the Yankees interested in upgrading their...
PONSON REGRETS ONE PITCH
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amOne pitch, a hanging slider to Richie Sexson, ruined what would have been a sparkling Yankee debut. Sidney Ponson worked into the seventh inning last night and earned a nice...
A HEALTHY ALEX RETURNS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez didn't start last night's game, but it wasn't because of sunstroke. X-rays were negative on Rodriguez, who fouled a ball off his left big toe Monday against Seattle...
RODRIGUEZ MAINTAINS HIS SUNNY DISPOSITION
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amBRILLIANT is how Alex Rodriguez self-described his Sunday, when he started a difficult double play to get Jaret Wright out of a first-inning jam, made another throw that trapped a...
YANKS OUTLAST RAIN, M'S ON CABRERA HR
July 19, 2006 | 4:00am11 INNINGS Yankees 5 Mariners 4 Now the ump wears pinstriped boxers. Maybe all that carping by George Steinbrenner to MLB offices about calls against the Yankees finally paid a...
IT'S EASY BEING GREEN
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Alex Rodriguez couldn't talk his way into last night's starting lineup, Nick Green had a rare opportunity to impress. He took advantage of it the way A-Rod takes advantage...
SCOUTS KEEP FLOCKING TO STADIUM
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While there are very few stones making ripples in the trading pool, that hasn't stopped teams from doing their due diligence. With the Yankees interested in upgrading their...
SCOUTS FLOCKING TO BRONX
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While there are very few stones making ripples in the trading pool, that hasn't stopped teams from doing their due diligence. With the Yankees interested in upgrading their...
FUL-PHIL-ING - HUGHES A THUNDEROUS HIT IN TRENTON
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amOn the immediate Yankee horizon, there's Octavio Dotel, the rehabbing righty recovering from elbow surgery who last night sought his next one-inning step toward helping form the bridge to Mariano...
ALEX CATCHIN' - TOE INJURY SIDELINES BATHING BEAUTY
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez didn't start last night's game, but it wasn't because of sunstroke. X-rays were negative on Rodriguez, who fouled a ball off his left big toe on Monday night...
PEL TOLLS AGAIN - MIKE NOW 2-0 AS BELTRAN SLAM POWERS METS
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amMETS 8 REDS 3 CINCINNATI - He cleared one hurdle by handling a better lineup. He met another challenge by surviving his first road game. The second start for Mike...
TIGER DOESN'T EXPECT MUCH CHAT WITH FALDO
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK HOYLAKE, England - Credit the Royal & Ancient governing body for having a sinister sense of humor with regard to at least one marquee pairing in tomorrow's Open Championship...
ITCHY ON BENCH - REYES, STITCHES AND ALL, RETURNS TO MET LINEUP
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - The dugout has essentially been Jose Reyes' home for the last 10 days. But according to Pedro Martinez, Reyes hasn't quite mastered his new location. "He doesn't know...
JAZIL WILL MISS TRAVERS STAKES
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amBelmont Stakes winner Jazil, who was going to try to duplicate Birdstone's feat two years ago by winning the Travers without a race in between, now will not make the...
PHIL-OSOPHY 101 - DEFENSIVE MICKELSON MAJORING IN CONFIDENCE DESPITE U.S. OPEN FLOP
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amHOYLAKE, England - The question wiped the smile off Phil Mickelson's face yesterday. "Is there any part of you that feels you have something to prove this week?'' Mickelson, who'd...
ISLE SEE YA, NEIL - SMITH AXED, SNOW GM IN SHOCKER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amGarth Snow turned in his goalie pads yesterday and was named the new general manager of the Islanders. In one of the strangest turns of events in a team history...
FISH BILLS HOOK POLS IN ALBANY
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amYOU may or may not know that striped bass and winter flounder have made news of late, but not in the usual way. Recently, the striper became the subject of...
ARENA TAKES RED BULLS JOB
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amFour days after being let go as U.S. soccer coach, Brooklynborn Bruce Arena was named coach and sporting director of the Red Bulls. Now it remains to be seen if...
BIG TEST FOR PEDRO
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Another bullpen session for Pedro Martinez is scheduled for today. Martinez, who is on the DL with an inflamed right hip and has been dealing with...
WILD ABOUT HARRY - EX-MATES, COACHES PAY TRIBUTE TO CARSON
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amMuch of the old gang reunited yesterday at Gallagher's Steak House, assembled to honor Harry Carson's overdue selection into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He'll be enshrined in Canton...
ELI ANSWERS AIKMAN
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amEli Manning spent about a half hour throwing passes to kids in Bryant Park yesterday, which is almost 30 minutes more than he spent during the offseason chucking balls at...
SIMMS: ELI WILL BE BETTER
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amSometimes, Phil Simms said, a quarterback needs "to hit rock-bottom" before he digs himself out and everything starts to click. That's what Simms sees for Eli Manning after the Giants...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 19, 2006 | 4:00amL.A. cops, sitting in an unmarked vehicle and staking out the home of a robbery suspect, received an unexpected gift - the perp himself, who turned himself in and sang...