August 6, 2006
IF YOUR BANK SKIMPS ON INTEREST, JUMP SHIP
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: Can you explain why my commercial bank, which paid 0.05 percent interest before the Federal Reserve raised interest rates 17 times during the last three years, still pays...
RECORDS AREN'T KIDDING AROUND
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe kids are not just all right - they are flush with cash and gobbling up CDs like Pez. The music spending spree by kids has put Disney's "High School...
GOOD OBSERVATION - KUSHNER: I WILL INVEST, ADD STAFF
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amOvernight, Jared Kushner has been transformed from a wealthy and decidedly private individual into the city's latest media celebrity. Buying the New York Observer will do that. Politicians who hadn't...
HORROR SHOW - SCARY FLIX MULTIPLY, AUDIENCE DWINDLES
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCall it scary film fatigue. Box office receipts so far this year clearly show that an overabundance of horror film releases has dampened audience enthusiasm for the genre. For every...
FREE-FOR-ALL; TIME WARNER, AOL FEUDING LIKE OLD TIMES
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S too bad for Jon Miller that Don Logan is off fishing and running a minor league baseball team. Miller, the boss at America Online, would be forgiven for wishing...
WINE & DINE - INSIDE WORLD OF WALL ST. INTERNS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA Wall Street intern's life is good. Perhaps embarassingly so. To protect the future employment of the interns interviewed, The Post has changed their names. It was a day like...
PRODUCERS LEAN ON POP SINGERS TO SELL FALL SHOWS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amKT TUNSTALL and U2 are this fall's music champs. The Scottish singersongwriter and the Irish super group each have two songs incorporated into the pilot episodes of some of the...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amREALITY Seductress in the sand MATTRESS hopper Lauren finds herself eclipsed by a new bombshell straight out of Playboy on "One Ocean View." Lauren seethes with jealousy as her ex,...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCOCOON (1985) Sunday,8 p.m.,AMC Ron Howard's fantastic movie is about a group of retirees who can barely make it to the early bird special, until they discover the fountain of...
FIVE WAYS TO FIX STALLED 'ENTOURAGE'
August 6, 2006 | 4:00am"Entourage" - Born: 2004. Died: 2006. May it rest in peace. HBO's "Entourage" - the quirky comedy about four nobodies who hit it big in Hollywood - died a tragic...
HEY, WOODY!
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSHAUNA Macdonald, a star of the all-female horror movie "The Descent," has a message for Woody Allen: I want to work with you. It's not that she hasn't already tried....
CHEATING CHARGES ROCK BIG-$$ EVENTS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCHEATING scandals have been increasing ever since computers became good enough and cheap enough to enable almost anyone to win a prize if they could conceal their cyber-help. But the...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amJared Kushner Observe this - there's a reason we call it the HOT list. Bloggers with book deals Ex-husbands, matchmakers and a ton of Mr. Wrongs - Stephanie Klein's hilarious...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTODD SNIDER "The Devil you Know" (three and a half stars) New Door THE Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde split in Todd Snider's songwriting hits you right from the start with the...
RIGHTEOUS MOMMY - ANI DIFRANCO GETS ON THE STROLLER TRACK
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE queen of feminist rock is dropping a new album, and she recently found out she'll be doing a different kind of rocking - the kind involving a cradle. The...
PATRIOT GAMES - WHY OLIVER STONE, HOLLYWOOD'S BIGGEST CONSPIRACY THEORIST, PUT POLITICS ASIDE FOR 'WTC'
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCHANGE OF HEART - In 'World Trade Center,' Oliver Stone addresses America - without his usual muckraking In October 2001, Oliver Stone was abducted by shadowy government agents. The conspiracy-loving...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amInside Man (four stars) Universal, $29.98 SPIKE Lee returns to form with this taught, imaginative heist thriller. With Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster as his stars, the director...
OLD DOG NEW FLICK - 'BOYNTON' PLAYS UP THE VALUE OF SENIOR PETS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00am'BOYNTON Beach Club," a movie that opened Friday, shows how elders still have so much to offer. And we're not just talking about the influential, over-60 AARP demographic. The movie...
LAZY GUARDS OF CLUBLAND; 20-YR.-OLD SLIPS IN AND OUT OF BARS USING A PHONY ID AS LICENSE TO SWILL
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThree of four nightclubs on West 27th Street accepted a fake ID from a Post reporter last week. He was admitted to the clubs and served alcohol - without the...
HERO'S WELCOME; 'WTC' MARINE REVEALS HIMSELF
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSemper found! An unknown Marine who rescued two Port Authority cops at Ground Zero - the characters at the center of Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie - and then shunned public...
DEFYING TERROR; ISRAEL'S TOUGH-MINDED FREEDOM
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTEL AVIVTHEY sunned themselves on the beach where Richard the Lionheart fought. Rockets fell 30 miles up the coast. But these Israelis played volleyball. They weren't callous.They simply refused to...
BOOZE, BRAWLS, BUSTS ON WILD W. 27TH
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amChelsea's clubland is still teeming with the drunk, the deserted and the dangerous. Ignoring nearly two dozen cops who patrolled wild West 27th Street this weekend, young club-hoppers continued to...
ROCK'S OLDIES BUT GOODIE$
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA slice of the world's most sought-after collection of rock memorabilia is being rolled onto the auction block. WolfgangsVault.com, featuring 30,000 vintage items - from 39-year-old Chuck Berry concert tickets...
CITY'S HEAT-WAVE DEATH TOLL HITS 20
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTen more New York City residents died in the region's blistering three-day heat wave, the city medical examiner said yesterday - bringing to 20 the tally of people killed by...
POW WIFE KEEPS FAITH
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe wife of one of the Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah sparked the latest Mideast fighting said in The Bronx yesterday she knows her husband is holding himself together...
'SAM': JUST LET ME ROT
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe Son of Sam says his lawyer got it all wrong - he doesn't want to get out of jail. Two weeks after lawyer Mark Jay Heller vowed to mount...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSTATEN ISLAND *** A city sanitation worker was busted and charged with DWI after a car accident on a Eltingville street corner, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Charles Benway, 41, was...
HEZ & ISRAEL FIGHT DESPITE U.N.TRUCE; DARING RAID ON LEB ROCKET LAUNCHERS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe United States and France agreed yesterday on a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, even as both sides traded fire and...
UNIT MAY SLIDE IN PLAYOFF ROTATION
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Joe Torre never borrows trouble from tomorrow. Nor does he rank his starters from one to five, a practice Mel Stottlemyre strictly adhered to. And the manager certainly...
SORRY, BUT I DIDN'T KILL GIRL: PIMP
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe alleged small-time pimp accused of the brutal rape and murder of a helpless New Jersey teenager yesterday apologized to the victim's family - but denied he had anything to...
SCHOOL TIES THAT BIND MEL
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amMel Gibson could do a year in a California jail for his drunken-driving rap - but he'll keep a clean record with Australia's most prestigious drama school. The Sydney-based National...
EX CRYING FOUL ON HOOPSTER; DEADBEAT $TIFFS HIS CHILDREN, SHE SAYS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amFormer NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson is a deadbeat dad - stiffing at least five of his seven children since exiting from the league last year, three women with whom he...
COPS VOW STINGS IN TEENAGE WASTELAND
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amAs chaos continued to reign in clubland, cops and club owners crossed swords over how to tame wild West 27th Street. Police put Chelsea nightclubs on notice during an unusual...
ALREADY A LITTLE BAD BLOOD BETWEEN BLOOMBERG AND SPITZER
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE relationship between the Bloomberg administration and Eliot Spitzer, the heavy favorite to become the next governor, is off to a rocky start. Three sources said state Attorney General Spitzer...
GIRL, 4, STRUCK BY SUV; TOURIST KID DOWNTOWN
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA tiny tourist from England was hit by a car yesterday when she ran into a downtown street after posing for a picture in front a firetruck. Caelo Dineen Vanstone,...
NO STROKE OF GENIUS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amAn apparently disturbed swimmer wearing only his boxers and a life jacket plunged from the 79th Street Boat Basin into the Hudson River and tried to swim to New Jersey...
CHRISTIE PLAYS IT COOL; SPLASH WITH DAUGHTER AFTER HEEL HUBBY VISITS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amChristie Brinkley still has a bit of swimsuit model in her. Here's the uptown girl spending a little down time in the pool with her aptly named daughter, Sailor, 8....
PANEL SLAM RILES RUDY
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudolph Giuliani angrily pushed back yesterday at accusations levied on him by the Sept. 11 commission chairman who said the panel threw the mayor a softball. "It really...
BITTER REAL-LIFE RESCUER: I WAS CAST ASIDE
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amOne of the heroes at the heart of director Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" is blasting the two PA cops whose lives he saved - and the studio that produced...
ASTOR'S IN 'GREAT SHAPE'
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amAt ailing 104-year-old Brooke Astor's home in Briarcliff Manor yesterday visitors included her tight-lipped son and daughter-in-law, and a physical therapist who said she's "doing great." In the morning, her...
RACHEL'S SORRY SLIDE; SEN. BRUNO'S GRANDKID LED PRIVILEGED BUT TROUBLED LIFE
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTROY, N.Y. - She was supposed to be there, his pretty, shy girlfriend of three years, hunched over the computer keyboard trolling MySpace as she had been for the past...
FIGHT ENDS IN BLOODY STABBING
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA verbal fracas boiled over into bloodshed yesterday when a 21-year-old Queens woman stabbed another woman in the shoulder, police said. Katima Minton pulled a knife and lunged at the...
LITTLE LEAGUE SHOCK; VAN KILLS BOY, 10
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA popular 10-year-old Little Leaguer was struck and killed by a van in Brooklyn last night - just hours after he had helped his team advance to his league's championship...
MTV 'SNOOP' POOP; STINK OVER 'ANTI-WOMAN' 'TOON
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amMedia watchdogs are barking over an MTV cartoon that portrays a Snoop Dogg-like character leading two women around on leashes - before scooping up their poop. The new MTV2 animated...
JOE LAMENTS LAMONT'S ANTI-WAR 'AMBUSH'
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amHe swears he doesn't regret his votes for the Iraq war, but Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman admits he's stunned by how many people seem to be upset with him for...
WTC FUND BLOWS $40M AS ILL GET NIL
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe $1 billion insurance fund created for the World Trade Center cleanup has now spent more than $40 million on overhead and lawyers - while still refusing to pay a...
O.J. SLAYS 'EM IN WILD WEB TAPES; CREEPY 'CANDID' CLIPS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA never-before-seen trove of O.J. Simpson tapes shows the disgraced gridiron great bumping and grinding with a bevy of babes, giving a friend foul-mouthed advice and calling Oprah Winfrey untruthful....
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - A CHANCE TO SAY THANKS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThey toil not for financial reward, but to make our city a better place to live and work every day. We are seeking candidates for the fifth annual New York...
SON OF SAM NIXES PAROLE CAMPAIGN 0 SHOOTS DOWN OWN LAWYER
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe Son of Sam says his lawyer got it all wrong - he doesn't want to get out of jail. Two weeks after lawyer Mark Jay Heller vowed to mount...
GIRL, 3, STRUCK BY CAR - TOURIST KID DOWNTOWN
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA toddler tourist from England was hit by a car yesterday when she ran into a downtown street after posing for a picture in front a firetruck. The 3-year-old girl...
BAD BOY MEL KEEPS OLD SCHOOL TIES
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amMel Gibson could do a year in a California jail for his drunken-driving rap - but he'll keep a clean record with Australia's most prestigious drama school. The Sydney-based National...
COPS PICK NUT FROM THE DRINK
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amHe must have really wanted to escape from New York. An emotionally disturbed swimmer in only his boxers and a life jacket made a mad splash at around 5 a.m....
BAY 'TOXIN' TEST EYED
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amA lawmaker is demanding that the state and the feds immediately test the bottom of Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay for toxins. A city plan to build a wastetransfer station in the...
WELCOME TO BROOKLYN - HOT CELEBS PUT DOWN ROOTS IN HIPPEST BOROUGH
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThere's a certain breed of New York celebrity who's too cool for uptown, but craves a brownstone block. They seek leafy streets with the scale of the West Village, but...
LEETCH, RANGERS NEED EACH OTHER
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amBRIAN Leetch isn't pounding the pavement of the NHL carrying a sandwich board over his shoulders with the message, "Will Quarterback Power Play for Food." It isn't anything like that....
SEWAGE, CHLORINE MENACE CATSKILLS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHECatskills rivers and streams have taken a beating this summer, and the recent heat wave has only added to the problems. First, there were the rain and floods that devastated...
PROSPECTS TRADE PLACES
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE secret password to any trade seemed to be this: prospects. That got you entry to what turned out to be an exclusive trade-deadline club. If you had them and,...
STEWART FLASHES INDY-PENDENCE
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTony Stewart, the defending NASCAR Nextel Cup champion, has been bumped, wrecked and threatened during this topsy-turvy season. He's engaged in a war of words - and almost much more...
NETS HAVE SPOT FOR ILIC
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCenter Mile Ilic figures to be with the Nets after all. The Nets' hope to bring the 7-2 Ilic, last year's second-round pick, over from Europe received a jolt when...
GLIDEMASTER CRUISES IN HAMBO
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amGlidemaster scored the knockout in the $1.5 million Hambletonian yesterday, giving driver John Campbell his record sixth victory in harness racing's most prestigious event in a stakes and track record...
WILLIE: WHY BOO BIG STARS?
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Willie Randolph became the latest high-profile defender of Alex Rodriguez yesterday, discussing his amazement over the continued booing A-Rod has received this season from Yankees fans. Randolph said...
IRISH ACE PLAYS CARDS RIGHT
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Track was fast, turf firm. SECOND RACE - In field of eight promising 2-year-old maidens going 6½ furlongs, crowd couldn't figure out which to bet, finally settling...
INVASOR HOLDS ON TO WIN WHITNEY
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It's official. Invasor, the Arabian-owned Argentine flash, certified his status as an international superstar yesterday at the Old Spa, digging in with grim determination down the stretch...
QUARTEY ROBBED ; DECISION FOR FORREST SHOCKS GARDEN CROWD
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amIke Quartey thought he had victory. He was sure of it. So was his promoter Lou DiBella. Even when the scoring was announced with two judges seeing it 95-94 and...
A LOEW POINT FOR BOMBERS; YANKS ONE-HIT; JETER OK AFTER COLLISION
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amORIOLES 5 YANKEES 0 BALTIMORE - Never have the Yankees been so happy to see Derek Jeter ground out in the fourth and strike out in the sixth and ninth...
HAMMY HAVOC REACHES CAIRO
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Add another balky hamstring to the Yankees' injury list. Second baseman Miguel Cairo, who filled in for Robinson Cano when he was felled by a left hamstring problem,...
PAVANO ON PACE TO PITCH THIS YEAR
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - While it's highly unlikely the Yankees will ever trust Carl Pavano with a key start in a pennant race this year, the oft-injured right-hander provided a...
BIG NIGHT FOR LIBS,'SPOON
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amLiberty 80Sky 69 It was fitting that on Teresa Weatherspoon Night, the Liberty turned in an old-school effort reminiscent of the gritty Garden teams on which she played. "She was...
PAVANO: I'LL PITCH BEFORE SEASON ENDS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - While it's highly unlikely the Yankees will ever trust Carl Pavano with a key start in a pennant race this year, the oft-injured right-hander provided a...
TIRED TOM TOUGHS IT OUT
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amTIRED? Sure, Tom Glavine is tired of explaining that he's not tired. It just comes with the territory - tombstone territory. When your left foot isn't hitting the dirt at...
ACHILLES' FORCES FLOYD OUT EARLY
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCliff Floyd said he made "a mistake" trying to play yesterday, and he didn't last long. Floyd left the 4-3 victory over Philly after the top of the first with...
GAME 3 SCENARIO COULD SEE UNIT ON HILL
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE -Joe Torre never borrows trouble from tomorrow. Nor does he rank his starters from one to five, a practice Mel Stottlemyre strictly adhered to. And the manager certainly isn't...
UNDER LOCK AND KEY - AFTER KAZMIR DEBACLE, TEAMS REFUSE TO DEAL TOP PROSPECTS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amBLAME the Mets. The Scott Kazmir deal haunts the Mets still. But it also has been a factor in stagnating the whole trade market, especially at the July 31 deadline....
JETER'S A STAR, LEADER, WINNER, AND THE LITERAL DEFINITION OF ... MVP!
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amPHIL Rizzuto was the one and only Yankee shortstop to win the Most Valuable Player award. That was 56 years ago. That could change this year with Derek Jeter. Jeter...
SHIRTING WITH DISASTER - AIR-GUNNED FREE T'S BOUND TO CAUSE INJURY
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amCALL me a party pooper, but I'll go with foresight over hindsight. If ever there was an invitation to a serious injury and a companion lawsuit, it's the firing of...
THIS AIN'T POKER! ESPN AND HOLD 'EM RUINED THE GAME I LOVE
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amI NEVER wanted to be one of Those Guys. You know Those Guys. They are the ones who insist there hasn't been a good sit-com on TV since Klugman and...
DRIVING '55' - ARRINGTON'S 'SWAGGER BACK' THANKS TO HIS WIFE'S SUPPORT
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Day after day, practice after practice, Tricia Arrington peers out on the field, watching her famous husband in action. Around her are fans and scouts and hangerson, a...
RAY OF LIGHT - MICKENS PROVIDES EXPERIENCE, LEADERSHIP
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amQuietly during the offseason, the Jets made a minor transaction that could turn out to pay major dividends. When they signed veteran cornerback Ray Mickens, it went mostly under the...
MANGINI LETS JETS PLAY ON HOME TURF
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Everything Eric Mangini has planned for his first NFL training camp has been geared toward getting ready for the regular season. His recent practices have included a significant...
JETS' RAY OF LIGHT - MICKENS PROVIDES EXPERIENCE, LEADERSHIP
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amQuietly during the offseason, the Jets made a minor transaction that could turn out to pay major dividends. When they signed veteran cornerback Ray Mickens, it went mostly under the...
MANGINI SIMULATES IN-SEASON SITUATIONS
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amEverything Eric Mangini has planned for his first NFL training camp has been geared toward getting ready for the regular season. His recent practices have included a large amount of...
OUM-M-M GOOD, BY UNANIMOUS DECISION
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn's Sechew Powell had hoped this would be his comingout party, his chance to prove he belonged among the top junior middleweights in boxing. Instead, he was a stepping stone...
COMMISH STEVENS PUTS ON A GOOD SHOW
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amRon Scott Stevens has worn many hats during his lifetime: taxi driver, waiter, bartender, boxing promoter, match maker. He currently serves as the chairman of the New York State Athletic...
LIBS SERVE UP 'SPOON TRIBUTE
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe Garden finally got it right last night when at halftime of the Liberty game against Chicago, franchise legend Teresa Weatherspoon was honored. Her number was not going to the...
IVASOR HOLDS ON TO WIN WHITNEY
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It's official. Invasor, the Arabian-owned Argentine flash, is an international superstar after digging in with grim determination down the stretch under young Fernando Jara to win yesterday's...
YANKS MULL SIGN-AND-TRADE WITH SHEFFIELD
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amOnce the Yanks obtained Bobby Abreu, the natural inclination was to assume they would not pick up Gary Sheffield's $13-million option for 2007. But they are seriously contemplating doing just...
DAVID'S GLOVE MAGIC SAVES METS IN NINTH
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amMETS 4 PHILLIES 3 David Wright made a game-saving play in the top of the ninth inning of the Mets' 4-3 win over the Phillies yesterday, but afterward, all the...
SHEA LA VIE - EMOTIONAL PIAZZA READY FOR RETURN
August 6, 2006 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Mike Piazza has tried to put it out of his mind. He doesn't want to think about it. He knows this Tuesday will be an emotional one...