October 29, 2006
GOLDMAN P.R. DUDE SETS NEW $TANDARD
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amLucas van Praag, the global head of communications at Goldman Sachs, caused a stir in the public relations world last week after the investment firm anointed him a partner -...
T'IGER SHARK; AFTER ONE YEAR, DISNEY CEO OK
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amDisney CEO Bob Iger doesn't have a MySpace page, but he does have a lot of friends. Increasing your company's stock price by about 37 percent in one year tends...
REFINANCING CAN BE AS GOOD AS RATE MOD
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: I hope you can assist me. A long while back you wrote about how a person can get a rate modification on a mortgage loan. I have a...
IT'S SHOWTIME - EMI INVESTING IN BROADWAY MUSICALS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe world's No. 1 music publisher is putting its money where its music is. EMI Music Publishing, with over 1 million songs in its catalog, has quietly begun amassing equity...
THE BEAUTY BEHIND 'BETTY' - PRODUCER SALMA HAYEK JOINS THE CAMPY CAST OF THE HIT COMEDY
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amSALMA HAYEK, who's been content to keep a low profile as an executive producer on her new hit series "Ugly Betty," steps into the limelight this week when she appears...
ROSEANNE'S COMEBACK IN FULL SWING THIS WEEK
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amNOW that Roseanne is back, what do we do with her? Before we decide, it might be helpful to know how long she plans on staying. It might be a...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amCOMEDY INDIAN GIVERS MICHAEL (Steve Carell) encourages the entire Scranton branch to support Kelly (Mindy Kaling) and attend a local celebration of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, on "The...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amTHE SANTA CLAUSE (1994) Wednesday,8 p.m.,Disney Another first in the seemingly endless but delightfully good Tim Allen St. Nick fantasies. In this one, a divorced executive at a toy company...
VIDEO GAME PROTESTS PROVE FUTILE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amEVERY week, it seems, we get e-mails asking my response to the latest wave of TV commercials pitching the latest wave of violent video games, games that promise more violence...
CALIGARI'S NEW CABINET
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amCALIGARI talks! If I told you that Robert Wiene's 1919 German Expressionist classic "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" had been remade, you'd probably dismiss it sight unseen. Why fool around...
BOBBY, TOLYA MAYBE GAME FOR GOTHIC
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amWOULD you believe in a 12-game match of a chess variant between Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov in the Philippines? Avid amateur Ed Trice does, and he says he put...
HOT SEAT -GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S not for nothing that Gael Garcia Bernal was twice cast as revolutionary Che Guavara. The Mexican actor is as charismatic as he is outspoken - especially when it comes...
SWAMI SLUGGER - GANDHI DIDN'T PLAY CRICKET, BUT HE DID PLAY BALL
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amEVERY Yankee fan is familiar with the pantheon of greats: the Babe, the Iron Horse, the Mick, Joltin' Joe, Scooter and Mr. October. But what about the Mahatma? Yeah, as...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amTHE WHO "Endless Wire" (four stars) (Universal/Republic) WHO'S on first? No, better: The band actually hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth with its first record of...
JONESING FOR GEORGE - HE'S BACK AT CARNEGIE HALL, WITHOUT DUCKS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amCOUNTRY-MUSIC legend George Jones hasn't performed in New York recently because of a problem everyone can relate to - parking. "We don't get there too often because it's a hard...
PENNY & PEDRO - CRUZ AND ALMODOVAR MAKE THEIR GRAND RETURN IN 'VOLVER'
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amLET it never be said that Penelope Cruz is a diva who lurks in her trailer. On the contrary - the night the actress wrapped her new movie, "Volver," they...
LUCKY KITTENS - HARDLY EVIL, BLACK FELINES ARE REAL PUSSYCATS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amHALLOWEEN has officially gone to the dogs, with canine costume contests and parades happening all over the city (get details at urbanhound.com). And yet, try as they might, no pack...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSSED WITH THIS WEEK
October 29, 2006 | 4:00am1 Strange bedfellows MTV's newest reality show, "Rob and Big," rooms pro street skater Rob Dyrdek with bodyguard Big Black ("400 pounds of straight meat and cheese"). Watch the truly...
WINDS BRING (DIS)GUSTING WEATHER TODAY
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amBetter keep an eye on which way the wind blows this weekend. While the heavy rain tapered off yesterday afternoon, winds as high as 50 miles per hour are forecast...
HAPPY 120TH TO LADY LIBERTY
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amShe doesn't look a day over 119. The Statue of Liberty celebrated her 120th birthday yesterday with the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which held a party...
PRINCI'PALS' STICK UP FOR EMBATTLED EDUCATOR
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amUnder fire from activist parents who say her leadership is tarnishing a Lower East Side school for gifted kids, embattled Principal Olga Livanis got a boost yesterday from another faction...
BUBBA'S SWEET 60; 'BIRTHDAY' BASH RAKES IN $20 MILLION
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amRevelers at Bill Clinton's three-day weekend birthday bash sure gave it up for Bubba yesterday - their cash, that is. "I talked to a lot of people about projects for...
EVERYONE'S IN FDNY'S HIRING POOL
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe FDNY's million-dollar diversity drive is starting to pay off as the department heads into its final week of recruiting. Forced to extend its deadline due to lagging numbers, the...
TATTOO TABOO IN NEW NYPD RULE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amIt's a police cover-up. NYPD brass is commanding new recruits to keep tattoos concealed in a departmentwide directive that likens rookies' skin art to smut at the workplace. "Members of...
ANDY 'AD'MONISHES FOE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo is calling on Jeanine Pirro to pull a new TV ad claiming he would not prosecute Alan Hevesi if elected state attorney general, saying it contains...
PROP-TAX PERK PAYS BIG FOR CITY'S $TARS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amBig shots are getting big breaks on their property taxes thanks to a city program originally launched to spark a slow housing market - and now used to help million-dollar...
PERV PETE STILL SITS IN LIMBO A YEAR LATER
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amA year after he al legedly launched a perverted attack against an ex-col league in her Chelsea apart ment on Hal loween night, accused fake- fireman fiend Peter Braunstein is...
9/11 BODY-PARTS 'COVER-UP'
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amGround Zero workers are coming forward with disturbing reports of human remains pushed away or covered up in the weeks after 9/11 - including an ironworker who says he picked...
SPECIAL-ED 'CUTS' IGNITING A FUROR; KID-REFERRAL FLAP
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amSpecial-education students are slipping through the cracks at the city's public schools, where an effort to lower the number of kids referred to special ed is keeping services from those...
S.I. COP HIT BY 'DRUNK' TEEN DRIVER
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amA Staten Island cop was injured in the line of duty when he was run over by a teenager allegedly driving drunk, police said. Officers from the 123rd Precinct spotted...
POL GAVE MY JOB TO HIS PAL
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amA former aide to indicted Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin said the pol canned him - and then replaced him in his state job with a union pal who allegedly didn't even...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** Two cops investigating a car accident in lower Manhattan helped deliver a baby yesterday, police said. Officers Kendra Herrera and Pedro Rivera, assigned to the 5th Precinct in...
DOCS RIP NEW AUTOPSY RULES
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amTwo star forensic pathologists have ripped the proposed guidelines on how to autopsy Ground Zero workers - saying the rules could hinder families from learning if the toxic aftermath of...
DEM POLS AVOIDING SPITZER'S BOLD BREAK
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amDemocrats are creeping away from scandal-scarred Alan Hevesi - but they also aren't taking up Eliot Spitzer's public withdrawal of support for the state comptroller. State Sen. David Paterson, Spitzer's...
AFTER THE FALLS; IMETTE-SLAY BAR NOW A DINER
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe notorious nightspot where slain grad student Imette St. Guillen was last seen alive has been transformed from The Falls into a diner dubbed the Midnight Cafe II. Authorities shut...
ALAN OVERDRIVE; ROAD HOG OUTSPENDS ELIOT ON ESCORTS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amScandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi - already under fire for using taxpayer money to chauffeur his wife - spends twice as much on his drivers and security as Eliot Spitzer,...
STABBED DEAD OVER A FALAFEL; 'LINE CUTTER' FIGHT GETS OUT OF HAND
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amAn early-morning argument over cutting into line at a popular Midtown falafel cart turned deadly yesterday when a man stabbed a teenager in the chest, cops said. Tyrone Gibbons, 19,...
FASO'S FAITH; AFTER THE TRAINWRECK, A NEW GOP
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amJOHN Faso won't admit it publicly, but he knows all too well: A week from Tuesday, he's toast. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is going to obliterate Faso in the...
THE BUZZ ABOUT SUDS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amAMBITIOUS BREW: THE STORY OF AMERICAN BEER BY MAUREEN OGLE HARCOURT, 398 PAGES, $25 THIS "first-ever history of American beer" by historian Maureen Ogle is as much a painstakingly researched...
BRAND EX: GAL BUSTED FOR LEAVING A MARK ON OLD FLAME
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amA scorned woman launched a twisted attack against an old lover, when she allegedly lured him to a seedy Chelsea hotel where she had two thugs brand him with an...
FREDDY IS READY FOR STATE POST
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amFREDDY FERRER might be getting ready for his comeback. The former Bronx borough president and unsuccessful mayoral candidate has been talking to Eliot Spitzer, the front-runner for governor, about accepting...
FREDDY'S READY TO TAKE A STATE JOB
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amFREDDY FERRER might be getting ready for his comeback. The former Bronx borough president and unsuccessful mayoral candidate has been talking to Eliot Spitzer, the front-runner for governor, about accepting...
DEMS SIDESTEP SPITZER'S BOLD BREAK WITH HEVESI
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amDemocrats are creeping away from scandal-scarred Alan Hevesi - but they also aren't taking up Eliot Spitzer's public withdrawal of support for the state comptroller. State Sen. David Paterson, Spitzer's...
KILLED OVER A FALAFEL; MIDTOWN KNIFING
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amAn early-morning argument over cutting into line at a popular Midtown falafel cart turned deadly yesterday when a man stabbed a teenager in the chest, cops said. Tyrone Gibbons, 19,...
WEB SITE N-WORD OUTRAGE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amA new Web site owned by an 18-year-old New Jersey native is causing controversy because of its use of the n-word. It's called NiggaSpace.com - and it mimics the popular...
HILL'S $50 MIL FILL; ELEX FUND TOPS IN AMERICA
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The most expensive Senate race in what experts are already calling the costliest midterm elections in U.S. history is in New York, where Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton has...
TAXI CADS: APPLE'S 10 WORST CABBIES - MORONS DRIVEN TO TELL LIES
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's worst cabbies are horrible hacks, but two of those found by The Post should never have been allowed behind the wheel of a cab in the first place,...
ROAD HOG SPENDS TWICE AS MUCH ON DRIVERS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amScandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi - already under fire for using taxpayer money to chauffeur his wife - spends twice as much on his drivers and security as Eliot Spitzer,...
GHOUL SHOOTS 13-YR.-OLD AT H'WEEN BASH
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amMarauding party crashers sprayed a kids' Halloween bash with gunfire, hitting a studious 13-yearold girl and leaving her in critical condition. The bullets started flying a little after midnight Friday...
H'WEEN PARTY SHOOT - GIRL, 13, WOUNDED
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amMarauding party crashers sprayed a kids' Halloween bash with gunfire, hitting a studious 13-year-old girl and leaving her in critical condition. The bullets started flying a little after midnight Friday...
RED BULLS' LAST CALL
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe Red Bulls need to win outright at archrival D.C. tonight (6 p.m., ESPN2) to extend their postseason, and World Cup winner Youri Djorkaeff's career. And considering they've never won...
FOX'S COUNT A BUCK SHORT
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S probably a good thing by now that TV doesn't allow you to pay attention, and a good thing, too - you now hear so much nonsense, you hardly hear...
MARCH OF PENGUINS WILL BE CUT SHORT BY CAP
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amGLENDALE, Ariz. - It's almost comical that the Penguins, of all teams, find themselves boxed in by the collective bargaining agreement that was allegedly crafted for the benefit of small-market,...
RIDE SHOTGUN WITH REMINGTON CLASSIC
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amUPLAND bird hunters and collectors have a rare opportunity to purchase what may become a highly-sought-after shotgun and, at the same time, help restore critical grouse and woodcock habitat. In...
CADILLAC NEEDS TO BE STALLED
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Asked how the Giants could ensure against a letdown today against the Buccaneers, defensive end Michael Strahan said, "If anybody has not seen Cadillac Williams on film, I...
FIREFIGHTER SALUTING TROOPS, 9/11 HEROES
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amRUNNING the New York City Marathon is never easy. Running it with 25 pounds of firefighting gear on your back, wearing a desert camouflage outfit, a fire department helmet, all...
JETS IN A CHADDY MOOD
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - There is one reason to be optimistic about the Jets this season. One reason why you won't be considered insane for thinking they could make the playoffs. That...
NOW, HARVICK'S NICKNAME FITS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amAnyone with a passing knowledge of NASCAR knows Kevin Harvick's nickname. For those who don't, here it is: Happy. But much like any chubby man with the handle "Slim," Harvick's...
MANGINI HAS GOOD MEMORIES
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES CLEVELAND - There surely will be a time today at Cleveland Browns Stadium when Eric Mangini reminisces about what used to be for him here. Mangini began his...
CANARSIE HANGS UP FOURTH WIN IN ROW
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amH.S. FOOTBALL Mike Camardese didn't like what he saw from several members of his team even before a brawl erupted against Tottenville in the third week of the season. So...
ROSE MAY BE ON THE WAY OUT
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amJalen Rose didn't play on Friday and missed practice yesterday. His Ferris Bueller-like absences may mean the Knicks are trying to buy out his contract. Or it could be as...
PERFECT DRIFT ON COURSE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amIf at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Or, in the case of the gallant 7-year-old gelding Perfect Drift, try again, and again, and again. Trained by gregarious Australian...
MIGHTY QUINN; IRISH QB MAKES CASE FOR HEISMAN
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amNotre Dame 38Navy 14 BALTIMORE - Brady Quinn has re-emerged as a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate - and he showed it from the start of Notre Dame's 38-14 victory over...
ISLES A PERFECT 10; YASHIN DOMINATES IN SHOOTOUT VICTORY
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amSHOOTOUTIslanders 4Panthers 3 It's Year 6 of a long 10-year deal that now represents only the second-dumbest contract Charles Wang has ever signed, and it has begun with yet another...
MARTY PARTY; BACK-TO-BACK BRODEUR SHUTOUTS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amDevils 1Blue Jackets 0 The Devilish smiles were borne of back-to-back shutouts, the stuff they hope is turning their team around. There's more, though. "It's the confidence," Martin Brodeur said...
RANGERS IN 7TH HEAVEN ; BLUESHIRT SCORING SPURT SINKS COYOTES
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amRangers 7Coyotes 3 GLENDALE, Ariz. - Wayne Gretzky was talking about the Coyotes, but his observation might also have well applied to the Rangers. "After the way we played last...
TWIN-KLE,TWIN-KLE - LIKELY LAST GO-'ROUND FOR TIKI VS. RONDE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amIN ORGANIZED games, they were teammates, always. Rarely, they were on different sides in pickup games out in the street or down at the park. And when they were, look...
BROWNIE SUNDAY - JETS SAY WIN IN CLEVELAND WON'T BE A PIECE OF CAKE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - When the Jets arrive in hostile territory today with a chance to get themselves to an eye-opening 5-3 at the midway point of the season, they hope Cleveland...
ST. LUCKY - METS AND YANKEES SHOULD ACCEPT THE CARDINAL RULE: OCTOBER'S A CRAPSHOOT
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Omar Minaya and his Mets addicted themselves to the nasty Yankees habit this October of calling a season a failure for falling short of a championship. Derek...
BOMBERS FIELDING SHEFF CALLS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees are getting calls about Gary Sheffield. With the Yanks expected to pick up the slugger's option by Nov. 6, teams anticipate the Bombers will trade Sheffield, who has...
THE END ZONE - AN ATHLETE'S RETIREMENT IS NOBODY ELSE'S BUSINESS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The old man, he hated his job. He hated the hours. He hated the commute. He hated the fact that mopes with sheepskins would leapfrog over him...
'BEST THAT EVER WAS' - AUERBACH TURNED CELTS INTO YANKEES OF THE NBA
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS was going to be the great coach's greatest achievement, a grand homecoming that would have capped pro basketball's most magnificent career in the best way possible. Red Auerbach was...
WAYNE'S WHIRL - COACHING A 'PASSION' FOR GRETZKY
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amGLENDALE, Ariz. - Wayne Gretzky was talking about the Coyotes, but his observation might apply to the Rangers as well. "After the way we played last year when there were...
MINUTE RICE - RUTGERS RB AHEAD OF HIS TIME IN HEISMAN RACE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amIf its possible to know your child before he comes into the world, then Janet Rice had a handle on her firstborn when her water broke on Jan. 22, 1987....
DEALING WITH CUBAN WHISTLE CRISIS - NEW CODE OF CONDUCT MANUAL FOR OWNERS WILL BE IN FULL FORCE ONCE SEASON BEGINS
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amBEHIND closed doors at last week's NBA Board of Governors meeting, a special session was convened to chastise Mark Cuban for behavior unbecoming a young disciple of John Brisker that...
TRANSFORMERS - KNICKS, ISIAH BEGIN LIFE AFTER LARRY
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amYou can find it on Page 165 of the new Knicks media guide - the list of 22 head coaches the franchise had entering the 2006-07 season. The 22 coaches...
DEEP THOUGHTS - NETS ADD YOUTH TO BENCH IN HOPES OF POSTSEASON PUSH
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amOne year ago, the Nets embarked on the season with a remade bench consisting of guys who had NBA pedigree. Though hardly All-NBA types, they were NBA proven. Didn't work....
FAHEY FITS IN ON DEVILS' 'D'
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThat magic hat of Lou Lamoriello's keeps producing rabbits. When he traded suspended Vladimir Malakhov's $3.6 million NHL salarycap assessment to the Sharks with a first-round pick, Lamoriello accomplished one...
ISLES' GLASS IS HALF-FULL
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe Islanders faced the NHL's hottest and probably best team Thursday night and didn't get their doors blown off, either by the Sabres or a walk-up crowd failing to storm...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 29, 2006 | 4:00amAnimals use it for courtship, to mark territory and as camouflage. Humans flush it as fast as they can. A new exhibit at the Miami Metrozoo is set to open...
October Cannot Be Bought
October 29, 2006 | 1:39amBy Joel ShermanIn Sundayâs Post, I write that my opinion has evolved over the years to believe there is no such thing as building a team specifically designed to win...