August 28, 2005
NAMATH'S A DRAW WITH THE LADIES
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amJoe Namath is still a hit with the women. The NFL Hall of Famer, whose active nightlife played a large role in establishing the Broadway Joe legend, is finding female...
TENNIS SERVING UP A COLOR SCHEME
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amIs blue cool? The U.S. Open is hoping the green it spent resurfacing its courts in blue will be hip enough to attract tens of thousands of new viewers, resulting...
PLUM'S TV RECIPE - TOP-SHELF SHOWS FOR RICH PEOPLE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amCall it TV for the rich and famous. One-year-old Plum TV - a network of stations that dot the wealthy playgrounds of Nantucket, the Hamptons, Aspen and Vail - is...
ANALYST HITS DENIM BLUES
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amYou have to feel for retailers this summer. Some are now getting whacked if they mark down their denim inventory to spur sales - or even if they don't. Wedbush...
KEY COMCAST CLAUSE - TW HOLDS LEVERAGE OVER OLN'S ESPN CHALLENGE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTIME Warner is shaping up as a key player in Comcast's move to turn its Outdoor Life Network into a national competitor to ESPN, sources tell On the Money. The...
PLATINUM WIVES - HOLLYWOOD MAKES SWEET MUSIC WITH ABC DRAMEDY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amA New York independent record label last week became the latest company to try and get fat off the white-hot "Desperate Housewives" brand. Artemis Records is close to a deal...
VIRTUAL TOP GUN; VID GAMERS GO PRO FOR REAL MONEY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amOne New York man is turning his "1337" - cyberspeak for "elite" - status into big $$$$. Sal Garozzo - known as "Volcano" to his fans - is one of...
RAINMAKER SHOOTS OFF A VENGEFUL E-MAIL
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTalk about chutzpah. The lawyer for the Manhattan investment group accused of defrauding clients to the tune of $3.75 million lashed out at the man who fingered the alleged fraud,...
BROTHEL-LY LOVE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amPROSTITUTES shouldn't give it away. At least that's the message in two films by flamboyant Japanese director Seijun Suzuki that have just arrived on DVD, courtesy of the Criterion Collection....
FALLING FOR FOREIGNERS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amLOOKING for alternatives to Hollywood blockbusters? Here are five foreign-language films worth seeing this fall: * "The Weeping Meadow" (Sept. 14): Greek master Theo Angelopoulos tracks a woman's struggle to...
ARGENTINE YOUTH STAKES OUT FUTURE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Western Hemi sphere has been home to the world's most famous prodigies, from Paul Morphy and Jose Capablanca to Bobby Fischer to Henrique Mecking, and the latest edition is...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amPAIR MAKES SWEET MUSIC LAST week,professional musician Boris chose Michelle,a 29-year-old graphic designer for his date with The New York Post 's Meet Market column.We sent them off to Saigon...
NEXT IN LINE - THE FORECAST FOR FALL IS DECIDEDLY LADYLIKE AND LUXE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amFashion Flower belt, $45, at Banana Republic and velvet bow-belt, $28, at amiciaccessories.com Jacket, $374, at Tibi, 56 Crosby St., over Choice by Calvin Klein lace cami, $45, at Macy's...
THE HOT SEAT WITH CAMERON CROWE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amI gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen." "Show me the money!" "All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine." When it...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
August 28, 2005 | 4:00am1) Drinking stories Abandoned by his father, raised by a single mom on Long Island, a childhood spent in local pubs searching for guidance and community: J.R. Moehringer's astounding, artful...
APE FOR THE APE - 'KONG' WILL BE KING OF THE MOVIE WORLD
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY MIGHT BE GIANT - THEY'RE HUGE! THEY'RE HAIRY! FALL'S 10 BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTERS THE 800-pound gorilla on this fall's movie schedule actually stars one. Experts almost unanimously believe Peter Jackson's...
GREASY GODS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amDeliciously campy teen-angst fare, Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" finally gets its due this week with simultaneous DVD and limited cinematic release. Coppola's tossed in...
ODDS ON OSCARS - WE PICK THE SEASON'S SURE-FIRE CONTENDERS FOR ACADEMY GOLD
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTWO-THIRDS of the way through the year, only two serious candidates for the Best Picture Oscar have yet emerged: "Crash" and "Cinderella Man." But the next four months are Hollywood's...
FROM PAGE TO THE 'PLEX
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amHollywood has long mined best-sellers for plot points, but this fall the trend is at fever pitch with 15 adapted books. From classics to modern fiction, upcoming titles would make...
'G'-WHIZ
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amAnyone who suffered through "Pokemon 2" can tell you there are two kinds of kids flicks: the Unbearable and the Surprisingly Good. Lately, there have been several of the latter,...
GETTIN' FRESH! FIVE NEW FACES UPWARD BOUND
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amMOST of the time, Eugene Hutz is happy being the wild, mustachioed frontman of local band Gogol Bordello - who released their new album, "Gypsy Punks," this month - and...
MAXED OUT - LAST GASP OF THE WEINSTEIN'S MIRAMAX
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amCONSIDER it a double bill: "The Last of the Weinsteins" and "The Return of the Weinsteins." Before their divorce from Disney, Bob and Harvey Weinstein are unleashing a blitz of...
MIAMI BEATS - SUPERSTARS HEAD SOUTH FOR MTV'S BIG NIGHT
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTONIGHT the world can rest assured that Madonna, stuck at home healing her horse-broken bones, won't be writhing in a wedding gown or kissing a preggers Britney Spears at MTV's...
'IDIOT' RULES VMAS - GREEN DAY'S MULTI-PLATINUM HIT GIVES 15-YEAR-OLD BAND A BIG BOUNCE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amNOMINATED eight times at tonight's MTV Video Music Awards, Green Day ought to get a Moon Man for comeback of the year. After the band's 2000 album, "Warning," tanked, the...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amRIHANNA "Music of the Sun" (2 ½ Stars) Def Jam After a summer getting lots of mileage (and ink) out of her lite-reggae dance track "Pon De Replay," Rihanna steps...
HEAR THIS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT * Prog meets pop with the Steve Perry-less Journey at Jones Beach tonight. * At PNC Bank Arts Center: Surrender to Cheap Trick and Alice Cooper on Monday....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** A man with a criminal past was shot early yesterday in the South Bronx, police said. Cops responding to a report of shots fired at 4:16 a.m....
PRISCILLA'S POTHEAD SON JOINS SCIENTOLOGY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe Church of Scientology may be feeling a little less shook up these days, now that Priscilla Presley's teenage son has formally joined the out-of-this-world religion. Navarone Garibaldi, who'd been...
FERRER ENDS BAD 'BLOOD'; UNITES WITH BX. 'SLUR' POL
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer and José Rivera made nice and broke bread at a Bronx barbecue yesterday, just days after the mayoral candidate blasted his ally for anti-Jewish remarks. Ferrer and Rivera...
MISSING DOC 'SLAIN BY SON' ; UGANDAN'S BODY FOUND IN WESTCHESTER WOODLAND AFTER HIS 'ROYAL' OFFSPRING CONFESSES
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe bludgeoned body of a missing Long Island doctor - an African prince who ruled his family with an iron fist - was discovered yesterday near a Westchester reservoir after...
HELP NAB BULLY WHO BEAT BUBBA
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amHe's a pup badly in need of love - and justice! Animal-welfare officials are offering a $1,000 reward to help find the cruel culprit who beat a puppy to a...
'HUNT A PERVERT' ON WEB; BLOCK-BY-BLOCK MAP
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amPresident Bush might want to keep his kin in Texas after visiting a new Web site that shows nearly two dozen sexual predators live within walking distance of the White...
PALESTINIANS FOUL OUT ; SNUB NBA COACH'S ISRAEL HOOPS CAMP
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amEven a basketball camp designed to teach teamwork and spread harmony couldn't bring Palestinians and Israeli Jews together last week, as the older brother of Knicks coach Larry Brown learned....
SCUBA DIVER DIES OFF OF B'KLYN
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amA man who went on a scuba diving expedition off the Brooklyn coast, mysteriously died while underwater yesterday afternoon, police said. Dmitrey Satyukov,33, failed to return to the surface an...
WELCOME, MATT. . . AND BYE TO BERNIE IN CENTER
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amNO MATTER how many lyrical paeans are sung in his praises, no matter how many big blows he strikes, no matter how many games the Yankees win with Bernie Williams...
GAL FLEES KILLER AS BEAU IS SLAIN
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amAs his girlfriend cowered inside a locked bathroom, a man was shot dead in Bedford-Stuyvesant early yesterday in a feud over money, police sources said. The victim, Luc Saintine, 39,...
GABBY DRIVER CRASHES BX. BUS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amWhat began as a fun trip to an amusement park turned into a horror ride for a busload of teens yesterday afternoon when the bus ran into a Bronx sand-barrel...
FLURRY OF FANS FOR BLOOMY'S BX. BUDDY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amMAYOR BLOOMBERG may be officially neutral in a fiercely fought City Council race, but three of his allies have turned up as supporters of a Democratic candidate who happens to...
RAGING BULLIES; DE NIRO WIFE TURNED HOME INTO HELL HOUSE: EX-STAFF
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTwo ex-maids and a former driver to Robert De Niro say the actor's wife, Grace Hightower, and a supervisor she hired ran the actor's household like raging bullies, abusing the...
SHOTS AT MTV PARTY - MAYHEM AT RAP BASH
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Wild West-style shoot-out erupted at a star-studded party thrown by rapper Kanye West on the eve of MTV's Video Music Awards in Miami early this morning, wounding gangster rap...
MARTHA 'APPRENTICE' IN 'RIG' SCANDAL ; CONTESTANT DATED TV JUDGE'S SON
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amA contestant on "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" has known one of the show's judges for years and had a steamy relationship with the judge's son. Bethenny Frankel, owner of a...
GROW UP, FAST! SHOW TUNES & SUSHI FOR TOTS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amYour 3-year-old can't cook dinner yet? What are you waiting for? Day care is so over - and de-boning fish classes are so in - for the under-5 set. Manhattan...
GAL'S RING-TOSS LOSS; BEGGAR RECEIVES ENGAGEMENT JEWEL
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amIn an act of charity that went horribly wrong, a New Jersey woman last week tossed her cherished diamond engagement ring - instead of spare change - into a subway...
LATEST WHITNEY EXHIBIT IS SHIPSHAPE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amLike to trash art? Have we got a show for you. In three weeks, the Whitney Museum will launch a floating barge filled with soil and shrubbery and tow it...
AUCTION BLOCKHEADS ; DEVIOUS NYPD BUSTING ITS OWN CAR-LOT CUSTOMERS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD is auctioning off cars to people, and then arresting them for owning them, The Post has learned. Car dealers say that after they buy cars at police auctions,...
A FUEL AND HIS MONEY; CASH GAS DISCOUNT
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amSoaring gas prices have driven so many motorists to use plastic at the pump that gas station owners are offering discounts to customers bearing cold, hard cash. Retailers have to...
VANISHED DOC 'SLAIN BY SON' - UGANDAN'S BODY FOUND IN W'CHESTER WOODLAND AFTER SUSPECT CONFESSES IN 'UNBELIEVABLE' CASE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe bludgeoned body of a missing Long Island doctor - who ruled his family with an iron fist - was discovered yesterday near a Westchester reservoir after his son told...
B'KLYN GAL FLEES KILLER AS BEAU IS SHOT DEAD
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amAs his girlfriend cowered inside a locked bathroom, a man was shot dead in Bedford-Stuyvesant early yesterday in a feud over money, police sources said. The victim, Luc Saintine, 39,...
ANDRE THE NY GIANT - 20TH OPEN MAY BE LAST IN APPLE FOR AGASSI
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amPETE Sampras had the record-setting Grand Slam titles.Andre Agassi had the record-setting affection from the folks of Flushing Meadows. Agassi always got New York and New York got him from...
HANGIN' WITH CHAD
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES One day after Chad Pennington's worst performance in a Jets uniform, the consensus was that his two-interception, one-fumble mess was an aberration. Herman Edwards, though concerned about the...
LAW IN ORDER ; TY STARTS OFF ON RIGHT FOOT
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTy Law has accomplished a lot in his decorated NFL career, winning Super Bowls, going to Pro Bowls and being generally regarded as one of the best shut-down cornerbacks in...
WATCH OUT FOR WATCHMON
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHIRD RACE: Watchmon, cutting back to seven furlongs making first start for Pat Reynolds since shoot-for-moon run in Belmont Stakes when he was beaten 22 lengths at 20-1, tucked inside...
ISHII MAY GET LEFT IN 'PEN
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Kaz Ishii made an appearance out of the Norfolk bullpen on Friday, and according to GM Omar Minaya, that could be a precursor to Ishii's...
'LEROY' SETS MARK AT SPA
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The guaranteed $1 million pick 4 on yesterday's four stakes races at the Old Spa was expected to be a chalky affair, and it certainly started out...
GORDON BEATS BACTERIA; NOW BATTLIN' DEAD ARM
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Tom Gordon has recovered from a recent intestinal illness, but he's still fighting to overcome a dead arm. Gordon warmed up twice during the Yankees' 5-1 victory over...
BOYS IN BLUE ; YOUNG JINTS MAKIN' NOISE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amNever before have the Giants owned a mere four selections in any NFL Draft, but that's what they were left with this year after the mega-trade that landed them Eli...
LAWTON DELIVERS IN DEBUT
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amFor Matt Lawton, being traded from Pittsburgh to the wild card-contending Cubs was almost like being pardoned out of hell. But coming to the Yankees in the middle of a...
MANNING TARGETS OPENER
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Tom Coughlin yesterday said all the medical information he has received on Eli Manning is that the Giants starting quarterback is "on schedule" with his rehabilitation from a...
RALLY BIG SHOW ; YANKEES SCORE FIVE IN NINTH TO WIN
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8Royals 7 Joe Torre is proud his team hasn't let many games slip away these past seven weeks, proud the Yankees have fought until the 27th out even in...
WELCOME, MATT . . . AND BYE TO BERNIE IN CENTER
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amNO MATTER how many lyrical paeans are sung in his praises, no matter how many home runs he hits, no matter how many games the Yankees win with Bernie Williams...
RALLY REVERSES JARET'S DESTINY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amAfter a fifth-inning meltdown, Jaret Wright seemed destined for his first loss since coming off the DL back on Aug. 15. Then a dramatic five-run ninth inning reversed destiny -...
FRISCO SKID - SCHMIDT BESTS GLAVINE, SNAPS METS' STREAK AT 5
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amGiants 2Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO - It won't be a perfect road trip. One day after winning a pitching duel, the Mets lost one. The Mets' five-game winning streak is...
'FLOWER' BLOOMS IN TRAVERS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Spoiling what was shaping up as a perfect afternoon for George Steinbrenner, Flower Alley powered up turning for home under Johnny Velazquez, collared the Boss' front-running Bellamy...
PIAZZA RECOVERY GOING SLOWLY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Mike Piazza's comeback from the broken bone in his left hand is not going too well. Piazza, who's on the DL and who has not...
ROAD TRIPPED ; SCHMIDT BESTS GLAVINE, SNAPS METS' STREAK AT 5
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amGiants 2Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO - It won't be a perfect road trip. One day after winning a pitching duel, the Mets lost one, and their five-game winning streak is...
CHRONIC CHATS NOT A WASTE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amMEETINGS have been scheduled throughout New York to bring hunters up to snuff about chronic wasting disease, a topic of increasing interest as the season approaches.The meetings will review the...
STERLING HAS HOLLOW WAY
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amWHO says traditional double headers are dead? The Yanks took two from the Blue Jays on Thursday, both by the score of 6-2. Heck, the Yanks play two games every...
RANGERS CAN BE CAP-THRASHERS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amJOE Thornton won't be available next summer, and neither will Vincent Lecavalier. Martin St. Louis and Marian Hossa are locked up, too. In other words, all that cap space the...
EIGHT IS ENOUGH - YANKEES SCORE FIVE IN NINTH TO WIN
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8 Royals 7 Joe Torre is proud his team hasn't let many games slip away these past seven weeks, proud the Yankees have fought until the 27th out even...
IT AIN'T OVER ... TWISTS AND TURNS AHEAD IN FINAL FIVE WEEKS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHROUGH the games of May 8, the Astros were a last-place team (11-19); the Yankees (13-19) and the A's (14-17) were next-to-last; the Orioles (20-10) were dominating the AL East;...
SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR - PITCHER'S ALMOST A MET AFTER DECADE IN MINORS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amIN WHAT has been a wild week for the Mets, especially slugging first baseman Mike Jacobs, who came up from the minors to bash a record four home runs his...
MARC BERMAN'S OPEN ANALYSIS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTODAY: U.S. OPEN COLOR INSERT (In sports center spread) MEN ROGER FEDERER: Ton of pressure on Swiss maestro to repeat. Unless he gets caught up in one of those windswept...
HOUSES OF THE HOLY - THERE'S PLENTY TO LOVE ABOUT APPLE'S ARENAS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amFOR years, all we've heard about is how outdated our sporting palaces are, how they're crumbling, how we're being embarrassed by cities like Nashville and Knoxville, Louisville and all these...
HAWKEYES ON THE PRIZE - FERENTZ WILL LEAD IOWA TO NATIONAL TITLE
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amBill Belichick said not to expect much in the way of comic relief from his former colleague, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz. "He enjoys a good laugh but Kirk has a...
2005 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW
August 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE POST'S All America team WR - Steve Breaston, Michigan WR - Calvin Johnson, Georgia Tech TE - Marcedes Lewis, UCLA OT - Marcus McNeil, Auburn OG - Max Jean-Giles,...
LENN ROBBINS' TOP 25 TEAMS
August 28, 2005 | 4:00am1. IOWA 10-2, beat LSU, 30-25 in the Capital One Bowl Coach: Kirk Ferentz. Key game: Sept. 24 at Ohio State. Star: LB Chad Greenway. Outlook: Ferentz worked with Bill...