June 27, 2005
EMI WINS LIVE 8 DVD RIGHT$
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amU.K. music giant EMI beat out rival record companies for the rights to sell DVDs of the upcoming Live 8 concerts. EMI agreed to make a contribution of several million...
UPSTART AD FIRM LEAPS TO MAD AVE.
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the advertising business' hottest creative shops is heading to Madison Avenue, years after the industry largely abandoned the famed street as its power base. Strawberry Frog - one...
QVC'S CHI-CHI TV - NETWORK NABS BIG DESIGNERS IN LUXURY PUSH
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amHome shopping channel QVC is trying to shake an image that is more Suzanne Somers than Stella McCartney by attracting a slew of upscale designer brands. Alice Roi and John...
HURLEY'S 'RUNWAY' REALITY
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amELIZABETH Hurley, the knock-out movie actress, is making her TV debut as the host of a British version of "Project Runway." Hurley, who is also a cosmetics model and was...
SIMULTANEOUS SINK OR SWIM
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amSYNCHRONIZED swimming in a public fountain? Well, inasmuch as one can "swim" in knee-deep water. Check it out for yourself in the Bowling Green Public Park, at lunchtime all week...
ANCHORS AWAIT - NBC GROOMS KATIE SUCCESSOR
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amNBC's "Today" show is grooming potential new anchors for its battle against ABC's "Good Morning America" - just in case flighty fixture Katie Couric doesn't rejoin the team. "What you're...
STARR REPORT
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amMackie's back Consuelo Mack launches her new show, "Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack," this Friday on Ch. 21 (7:30 p.m.). The former CNBCer's show is described as offering a "holistic" approach to...
'GOTTA BE A MILE WIDE AND AN INCH DEEP'
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTRY and figure out anchormen. I've been around them for 20 years, and I can't. So I asked Ernie Anastos to shed some light on the world of news anchors....
GET OVER YOURSELF - TOM & OPRAH LIVE IN 'WORLD' APART
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTOM Cruise and Oprah Winfrey should really find better uses for their TV bully pulpits than as venues to whine - about themselves. What the heck planet are they on...
BUTT SERIOUSLY; ROLL WITH THE PAUNCHES
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amPEEK-A-BOO g-strings - divine! Runaway bra-straps - sexy! Lumps of puckered lard cascading over the chafing waistbands of skin-tight skirts - absolutely fabulous! Whether it's thunder thighs bursting out of...
RAPPER IN JAIL HELL - DIDDY PAL IN SOLITARY
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amImprisoned rap star Shyne is getting plenty of time to think about his next album - he's in solitary confinement, The Post has learned. The former Sean "P. Diddy" Combs...
EVICTION NIGHTMARE - SAMARITAN FACES BOOT FOR HOUSING DISABLED TEEN
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe city Housing Authority wants to give the boot to a Chelsea woman for opening up her home to a severely handicapped teen. "They're really ruthless," Carmen Nazario's lawyer, Charles...
'BATMAN' $PELLS TROUBLE FOR WITCH
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amKa-pow! The Caped Crusader winged nose-twitching witch Samantha Stephens at the box office, as "Batman Begins" easily beat "Bewitched" over the weekend. "Batman," starring Christian Bale and Katie Holmes, took...
TROOPS AND SETTLERS IN GAZA CLASH
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amIsraeli bulldozers flattened a row of abandoned homes in a seaside Gaza town yesterday, clashing with Jewish settlers who oppose the government's plans to withdraw from the area. The soldiers...
MAYOR BLOOMBERG IS DEFENDING SPENDING A COOL MILLION A WEEK ON TV AND RADIO ADS ...
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amBillionaire Mayor Bloomberg is defending spending a cool million a week on TV and radio ads - and says he intends to keep the money flowing. "I can't think of...
BICYCLIST GUNS DOWN HARLEM TEENS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTwo young men who had just attended a christening were shot - killing one and paralyzing the other - by a bicyclist who opened fire on a busy East Harlem...
BRAKING NEWS: CAR INSURERS UNVEIL NEW RATE REDUCTIONS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThree more insurance companies are cutting their rates in New York state. State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills told a press conference at City Hall yesterday that American Insurance Group, Chubb...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A Bushwick man was shot and killed yesterday as he sat on a stoop in front of his home, police said. Trevor Francis, 26, was shot several times...
KIDS T OFF AT WHITE HOUSE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The back yard of the White House was converted into a field of dreams for a group of 5- and 6-year olds from Newark, who battled a South...
SUM OF A PREACHER MAN - BILLY'S QUEENS FINALE DRAWS 100,000
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amNearly 100,000 people flocked to Flushing Meadows yesterday for the finale of the Rev. Billy Graham's three days of preaching and music - many of them bemoaning that there would...
EX-MET WIVES CRY FOUL OVER GREENWICH BEACH BAN
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe wives of two retired Met sluggers say they were the victims of racial discrimination at a Greenwich, Conn., beach - and the tony town says it's probing the bombshell...
SCHOOLS ALTER COURSE ON PROBLEM STUDENTS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe city Department of Education will slash in half the number of special learning centers for disruptive teens this fall - and replace them with a program that allows the...
ROLL THE CREDITS: BELOVED BEEKMAN AT 'THE END'
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Beekman Theater has played its last picture show. The beloved Upper East Side movie house closed for good last night because its landlord, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has grabbed...
OLYMPICS AT 'EBBETS' - METS/2012 GAMES STADIUM DESIGN A BLAST FROM PAST
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amHere's a first look at the city's proposed Olympic Stadium - a sprawling, 80,000-seat facility built from a new ballpark for the Mets, with a brick and limestone facade inspired...
GRIEF FOR SHARK GIRL - LA. COMMUNITY MOURNS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amA teenager killed by a shark in the waters off the Florida panhandle was remembered yesterday as a bright and lively girl who was blossoming into a beautiful young lady....
6 NATIONS HAVE HALF WORLD'S POP.
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Earth has almost 6.5 billion people, and more than half of them live in just six countries, a new study says. China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil and...
PIZZA PERV SHOCK - EYED IN 'SPIDEY' RAPES
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amA pervy pizza deliveryman who admitted he broke into an Upper East Side woman's apartment to spy on her last year is still hawking pies - although he's being probed...
CAMDEN DAD RAGES - BLAMES STATE FOR CAR-TRUNK TRAGEDY
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe grieving dad of the l1-year-old mentally troubled New Jersey boy who suffocated in the trunk of a car along with two younger pals blamed the state's social-services agency for...
WOMEN MAKE THE CUT - BRAIN SURGERY PIONEERS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amWhen you're chipping through skull to operate on someone's brain, it's best to use a tool you feel comfortable with. That's why the ground-breaking female neurosurgeons at Weill Cornell Medical...
MAYOR AND HOPEFULS BATTLE FOR ASIAN VOTE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe growing number of Asian-Americans in the city has made them a highly sought-after voting bloc, both for Mayor Bloomberg and those out to unseat him. There are approximately 174,425...
BRONX'S BEST ARE HONORED
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amA dozen of the borough's "best and the brightest" were given the best kind of Bronx cheer yesterday when plaques bearing their names were placed on the Grand Concourse's "Walk...
'IRAQIS WILL WIN WAR' - BUT RUMSFELD SAYS IT COULD TAKE 12 YEARS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday said the task of finishing off the violent insurgency in Iraq will fall to Iraqi security forces - and could last up to...
LINDSAY'S DIRT ON HER 'FLIRT' EX
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amLindsay Lohan has finally revealed why she showed her first serious boyfriend the door - saying he had a wandering eye. While Wilmer Valderrama, star of "That '70s Show," didn't...
DI AND JFK JR. HAD TRYST IN NEW YORK HOTEL: BOOK
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTragic icons Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr. once had a passionate one- night stand in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel, according to a new book and a British newspaper report....
CENTER TEACHES TOLERANCE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amNew Yorkers may be rude, but they're about to get a little more tolerant. Introducing the New York Tolerance Center, a state-of-the art facility that will train cops, prosecutors and...
LESSON FOR FREDDY - WIFE HEADS BX. SCHOOL SOARING UNDER MIKE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amIf Democratic City Hall hopeful Fernando Ferrer wants to find out why student test scores surged this year under Mayor Bloomberg's watch, all he has to do is talk to...
DRUGS PLAGUE HAMPTONS 'HIGH' SCHOOL
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Southampton community - one of America's ritziest - is reeling from illegal drug and alcohol abuse. During the first meeting of Southampton's Community Against Substance Abuse (CASA), a group...
WINNERS AND LOSERS - HOW THE POLITICAL PLAYERS STACKED UP
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE dust has hardly settled on the just- ended session of the Legislature - which produced an on-time budget for the first time in 21 years, killed the West Side...
ANCHORS AWAIT - NBC IS GROOMING TALENT TO SUCCEED KATIE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amNBC's "Today" show is grooming potential new anchors for its battle against ABC's "Good Morning America" - just in case flighty fixture Katie Couric doesn't rejoin the team. "What you're...
SPITZER PROBES FULANI KID-ABUSE CHARGES
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amSTATE Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is looking into charges from a "credible" witness that Independence Party leader Lenora Fulani and co-workers abused children participating in the group's All Stars Project,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amA mysterious benefactor is sending packages stuffed with $1,000 in cash to people in Wisconsin. A note inside instructs the recipients to "use this on something extravagant." Cops have no...
TERRORIST'S SICK SECRETS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amFuture suicide bombers ask Allah to provide a "high rate" of American casualties before they head out to kill, according to one such trainee interviewed by Time magazine. In a...
READY FOR TAKEOFF - RATTLED CHOPPER-CRASH CO-PILOT WANTS TO GIVE IT ANOTHER WHIRL
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTOWNSEND, Del. - The co-pilot in the crash of an MBNA Corp. helicopter into the East River said he was traumatized by the accident, but is "ready to go back...
SLASHER CRIPPLES 11 CARS IN B'KLYN
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amVandals slashed tires of at least 11 cars on Hancock Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant yesterday. Curtis Wright, a 32-year-old security officer, had wanted to drive his pregnant wife to church, but...
BRIGHT STARS OF BRONX HONORED
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amA dozen of the borough's "best and the brightest" were given the best kind of Bronx cheer yesterday when plaques bearing their names were hung on the Grand Concourse's "Walk...
OLYMPICS AT 'EBBETS' - METS/GAMES STADIUM DESIGN A BLAST FROM PAST
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe first look at New York's proposed Olympic stadium - a sprawling 80,000-seat Queens facility built out of a new ballpark for the Mets - reveals a brick-and-limestone facade inspired...
DON'T GET EXCITED - ONE STIRRING YANK WIN ISN'T ENOUGH TO SAVE SORRY SEASON
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Yankees won in a stirring fashion last night. Big deal. If we have learned nothing else in 2005, we have learned to avoid attaching meaning to stirring Yankee victories....
SHEFF BOILS OVER
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe moment Gary Sheffield was ruled out by CB Bucknor, the Yankee dugout immediately reacted in disbelief. Sheffield's reaction was even more vociferous, and it earned him a seventh-inning ejection...
IT'S A 'WEIRD' SCIENCE
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amNets general manager Ed Stefanski summed up tomorrow night's NBA draft in one word. "Weird." The Nets have tried to assess what they will do at No. 15, but there...
CITY MAY END UP IN FOUR-FRONT
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amJulius Hodge grew up in a small apartment in Harlem, where his mother, Mary, still lives. One room in particular is cramped, filled with trophies nearly as tall as the...
IMAGE IS EVERYTHING
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - There are two ways for a boxer to capture the attention of the general public: be a super talent or a super villain. With his thorough destruction...
NAUGHTY NEW YORKER WINS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amNaughty New Yorker swept by the field in midstretch to win the $108,000 Mike Lee Handicap, the first leg of the OTB Big Apple Triple. Sort It Out got up...
UP-AND-DOWN ROCKER NOT READY TO GIVE UP
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amIt has been a little less than two months since John Rocker came to Long Island in an attempt to resuscitate his baseball career. The left-handed reliever admits it is...
TOM'S NOT SO TERRIFIC
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amMEMO to the hearing impaired who watch Ch. 11's Met telecasts with closed captioning: Those are not transcription mistakes; Tom Seaver is really saying those things. Saturday, during Mets-Yanks, Seaver...
PROSPECT PROMOTED
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTwo of the best days of Kevin Reese's life came back-to-back. On Friday night, Reese proposed to his fiancee. On Saturday night, the 27-year-old was told he was getting promoted...
CYCLONES LIKE LEADER LANDING
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amCan you really enjoy the best hot dogs in the world watching a freak show? For 47 years, that was the cruel reality on Coney Island: arguably the best hot...
CHARGING 'TRAN - BELTRAN TURNS THE CORNER VS. BOMBERS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amIn the fifth inning on Saturday with Jose Reyes on third, Carlos Beltran poked a liner down the leftfield line and pulled into second base with a double. It was...
OFF BASE - GAUDY STATS DON'T MAKE A-ROD A LEADER
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amON the list of current Yankee problems, Alex Rodriguez might not even make the first page of the list. We all understand that. The problem, however, is that Rodriguez is...
DEAL-BREAKER - KNICKS NEED INSURANCE ASSURANCE FOR Q
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThe Knicks need a good insurance agent now as much as they need a good coach. After a Friday review of the insurance documents connected to Quentin Richardson's $48 million...
WELLS: CASHMAN WILL FACE THE FURY
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amSUBWAY SERIES CONFIDENTIAL Red Sox lefty David Wells is predicting GM Brian Cashman will take the fall for the Yankees' problems. "I don't think George (Steinbrenner) is too happy," Wells...
IF THE HORNETS ARE INTERESTED IN DUMPING THEIR YOUNG STUD CENTER ....
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amIf the Hornets are interested in dumping their young stud center, Jamaal Magloire, for two first-round picks, the Knicks would be one of the few NBA teams in position to...
MOORE THE MERRIER AFTER 1ST PAYCHECK
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amWESTCHESTER NOTES Despite finishing 6-over at 290 in his pro debut, U.S. Amateur champ Ryan Moore is looking forward to looking at his bank balance. He can tell the interested...
JASON ADORATION
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE is a love-hate relationship between New York and Jason Giambi. He is derided by third-parties for obvious reasons too numerous to cite, and loved - is that stretching it;...
ANNIKA'S NO THREAT - SORENSTAM BURIED IN PACK AS BIRDIE GIVES KIM OPEN
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amCHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. - Considering the massive buildup to this U.S. Women's Open with Annika Sorenstam charging toward an historic Grand Slam, her pedestrian performance at Cherry Hills Country...
MIRACLE 65-FOOTER PROPELS PADRAIG
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amHe kept coming back, from last year, all week and all day. Drama and determination were Padraig Harrington's trademark in his incredible triumph that will warm the heart of his...
DON'T BLAME MEL
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amA CASE can be made to dismiss Mel Stottlemyre as Yankees pitching coach. Pitchers such as Jeff Weaver, Randy Johnson and Carl Pavano have come here and pitched worse than...
STUNNED FURYK LICKS WOUNDS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amJim Furyk had a three-stroke lead as he approached the 14th hole, seemingly on the verge of winning his first tournament since 2003 after undergoing wrist surgery. "I had the...
SUDDENLY RICH 'BIRDIE' MAKES NAME FOR HERSELF
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. - At the start of the U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills Country Club, there were seven women in the field with the last...
MEETING CALLED BY BOSS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner believes it's Joe Torre's job to clean up the Yankee mess. But The Boss has called a major organizational meeting tomorrow in Tampa while Torre will be in...
SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amIF THEY were all like this, there would never be another debate about the worthiness of the Subway Series. If they all ended in the bottom of the ninth, after...
LOOPER: I STINK - INCONSISTENT CLOSER ACCEPTS BLAME FOR AMAZIN' DEFEAT
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amEven though the Mets won Friday night's game in The Bronx, Braden Looper put the victory in danger when he gave up two runs in the ninth. But that night,...
GIAMBI GIVES YANKS A LIFT - JASON JOLTS METS IN 9TH
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 5 - Mets 4 They did everything but put the broom in the Mets' hands, and yet the Yankees danced out of Yankee Stadium last night talking about how...
AS THE CYCLE SPINS
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Yankees sat where the Mets sit, once upon a time. The Mets sat where the Yankees sit. If we really want to trace the arc of which team "owns"...
BRONX JEERS FOR YANKEES - BOMBERS CLOSE TO ROCK BOTTOM
June 27, 2005 | 4:00amThey shared the same record and Yankee Stadium last night when the third and final Subway Series game of the season was played. But the difference between the Mets and...