November 6, 2005
PCM SUCCEEDS WITH KNIGHT-RIDDER SLAM
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amPrivate Capital Management's ire at Knight-Ridder is less about financial performance than it is about using the newspaper publisher as a way to goose the stocks of the entire sector....
CARL ICAHN RAIDS STAGE TO RIFF ON LIFE OF REILLY
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amWho knew that a billionaire corporate raider could be so funny? Carl Icahn stole the show at Caroline's on Broadway last week when he performed a sold-out stand-up comedy routine...
AWKWARD ENCOUNTERS; SPLIT VIACOM, CBS TO BUMP INTO EACH OTHER'S BUSINESS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amBoth sides on the Viacom split are gearing up to expand into each other's businesses once the breakup is complete. According to several sources close to the company, CBS boss...
TO HYBRID OR NOT HYBRID - THAT'S THE QUESTION
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amDear John: Recently I went to buy a new SUV. My wife was gung-ho to get a hy brid. But the salespeo ple said that since our purpose is to...
ENGLANDER SHOCKED, ROCKED BY LATEST FRAUD FINDINGS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThe future of Millennium Partners L.P., a $5 billion hedge fund at the center of the mutual fund timing scandals, will largely be determined by what role its founder and...
THE LAD TEST - TWO FLICKS HUNT THE ELUSIVE YOUNG MALE
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amWith the upcoming 50 Cent and Johnny Cash biopics, Hollywood is hoping to capture that most elusive of moviegoers: the 18- to 34-year-old male. The commercial success of 50 Cent's...
BET BUS IS COMING TO A CAMPUS NEAR YOU
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThousands of college students from coast to coast are being blitzed this NCAA football season by an online sport-betting site scrambling to turn them into gamblers. The site, BetonSports.com, is...
NOVEMBER BRINGS OUT THE STARS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHE networks have lined up a conga line of celebrities to attract even more viewers to established hits such as "Desperate Housewives " and "Law &Order:Special Victims Unit " as...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amDRAMA LOOK WHO'S BACK ON THE BLOCK LAST time we saw Paul Young (Mark Moses)on "Desperate Housewives," Mike Delfino (James Denton)was holding a gun to his head,trying to get him...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amCLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND(1977) Sunday, 8 p.m., AMC A regular Joe (Richard Dreyfuss) Becomes obsessed with a mysterious shape after seeing a bright light in the sky.A truly...
SWEPT AWAY BY HURRICANE COVERAGE
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amALLRIGHT,that 's enough. Everyone back inside now, now that virtually every network and their affiliated stations have proven that there 's no idea so ridiculous that it should not be...
JAIL BIRD - AUSSIE ACTOR DOMINIC PURCELL ITCHING TO BREAK OUT OF 'PRISON
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amDOMINIC PURCELL has only one regret about taking on his "Prison Break " character,,Lincoln Burrows.He decided to shave his head. "The guys at Fox wanted me to keep my hair...
CBS MOVIES BENT ON DESTROYING THE WORLD
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amWHAT does CBS have against the planet Earth? For the second consecutive November,CBS is giving its viewers the opportunity to witness the destruction of some of the world 's most...
HER LIFE TO LIV
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amIN 1959, a beautiful 20-year-old named Liv Ullmann appeared in "The Wayward Girl," playing a single mom's illegitimate daughter, who gets involved in a torrid affair with a young man...
SPRAY SAFELY; EFFECTIVE NONTOXIC INSECTICIDE IS PET-SAFE
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amAccording the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center ([888] 426-4435, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year), thousands of dogs and cats needlessly suffer and many die each year by...
WORLD TITLE BACK TO SQUARE ONE
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHREE years ago, the leading figures in chess agreed to try to clean up the world championship mess. Since then nothing has gone right. Under what became known as the...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
November 6, 2005 | 5:00am1 Worrying for the future Riveting for all the wrong reasons, this season's "Real World" cast somehow fashions an entire season from drunkenness, sloth and stupidity (one cast member received...
MORE AUSTEN POWERS - 'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE' RETURNS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThere seems to be no limit to the number of adaptations Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" will inspire. In 1938, the BBC aired the first made-for-TV version of the much...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amWILD GIRL SEEKS A BAD BOY NEXT DOOR MEET Vivian,a vivacious accounts manager who says she 's a cross between the kind of girl who will help an old lady...
COLD JEN - JEN'S AFFLICTIONS - CAN SHE BEAT BRAD, ANGELINA AND GOSSIP TO BE A FILM STAR?
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amIt's Jennifer Aniston, version 2.0. But has the "Good Girl" gone bad? Is she a privacy-obsessed Garbo in the making? The anti-Angelina? Nobody seems to know quite who the former...
CITY CAN ONLY AD-MONISH 'HARRY' EYESORE
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens condo that dodged fines for two illegal billboards last month has erected a massive Harry Potter ad - and city officials are powerless to stop it. The city...
JERSEY 'TRASH' MATCH; CORZINE RAGES AT MUD
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNew Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jon Corzine adamantly denied having a love affair with a former staffer and that the alleged paramour had an abortion. "Trash," Corzine said on a Friday...
'EGG SLAY' TEARS; 'BIG SHOT' FUNERAL
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThe rough-and-tumble South Bronx showed love to one of its favorite sons yesterday, as hundreds turned out for the funeral of Joseph Padro and a service worthy of a true...
SPACE INVADERS; BUSTED IN SPREE AT POSH L.I. HOMES
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTwo Brooklyn men are in custody for an infamous home-invasion spree that terrorized towns across Long Island - including the swank suburb where the "Growing Up Gotti" boys live. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A 21-year-old man has been charged with bashing another man in the skull with a baseball bat in a Morris Heights robbery, sources said. Edward Melendez of...
MET IMPOSTOR A SCAM-ERON: COPS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA pseudo slugger has been partying for free and scoring prescription drugs, posing as injured Mets star Mike Cameron. Michael Davis, 35, of Freeport, L.I., was arrested Oct. 26 for...
TEEN BUSTED IN SHOOTING
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx teen has been arrested in connection with a September shooting that wounded three innocent bystanders, police said yesterday. Luis "Lueboy" Torres, 18, was charged with firing several gunshots...
HEARTBROKEN DAD BEGS WRITER: JUST GIVE UP
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThe anguished dad of the suspect in the "phony fireman" sex attack yesterday pleaded with his estranged son yesterday to give up his life on the lam and surrender to...
'SURVIVOR: NYC'; RUSSIANS STARVE FOR TV FAME
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amIf you thought Russians had it bad under the Soviet Union, there are some who have it rougher here in the Big Apple. Instead of facing bread lines, 13 Russian-speaking...
MIKE & FREDDY HIT THE TOWN - TEAM MIKE'S BITTER SLAP AT FULANI'S PARTY
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHE breaking point might finally have come in the relationship between Mayor Bloomberg and the city's Independence Party. The party's unofficial leader claims Bloomberg was told where to go in...
KING ONCE WAS 'QUIET HOWIE'
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amHOWARD STERN wouldn't recognize the little shingled house where he grew up even if he were standing right in front of it. That's how far the King of All Media,...
HS BOMB THREAT; S.I. POLICE NOT TOLD FOR 3 DAYS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA student at a Staten Island high school threatened to "blow up the school to stop the spread of capitalism," but wasn't arrested until three days later when cops learned...
PIRATES ATTACK LINER; FIRE GRENADE AT U.S. LUXURY SHIP
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amPirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns yesterday at an American luxury cruise liner off the East African coast, but the quick-thinking crew outran the modern-day buccaneers in a...
'PHONY FIREMAN' PERV ; CALLING EX-PALS AND FLAMES WITH CHILLINGMESSAGES WHILE HE'S ON THE LAM: COPS ; SUSPECT'S EVIL ; PHONE THREATS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amI'll hurt you. That's the chilling message being sent out to friends and family by the man police are hunting in the "phony fireman" sex attack, according to police. Writer...
CITY CAN ONLY AD-MONISH QNS. BILLBOARD CONDO
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA Queens condo that dodged fines for two illegal billboards last month has erected a massive Harry Potter ad - and city officials are powerless to stop it. The city...
GARBAGEMAN BUSTED WITH GUNS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amCops exercising a search warrant as part of an investigation busted a city Department of Sanitation worker and his brother in their Brooklyn home yesterday after finding illegal weapons there....
N.J. TEEN KILLED BY CHASED CAR
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amAn East Orange, N.J., teenager died yesterday when he was struck by a car following what appeared to be a police chase, witnesses and family told The Post last night....
'FANTASY' ISLAND; 4 PLANS FOR 'GOV' IN HARBOR
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amCity planners have come up with four visions for a new Governors Island, including a Disney-like amusement park. The 172-acre former Coast Guard base a half-mile off lower Manhattan in...
TIMES' CHEAP CHOP; HITS VET'S GAL HARD
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThe girlfriend of a Marine killed in Iraq said she was devastated when she saw how The New York Times cherry-picked a letter her "first love" intended her to read...
JON SHELLS OUT FOR PAD; STEWART'S $6M VILLAGE LOFT WAS A TURTLE FARM
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThere's a wild tale behind Jon Stewart's recent $5.8 million real-estate venture. The monster pad the "Daily Show" host bought recently used to be a home for 1,200 turtles. It...
$3B BOND ACT WOULD BOOST CITY'S SUBWAYS (AND STATE'S DEBT)
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThe mayor's race is getting all the attention, but a bond issue on Tuesday's ballot would spruce up subways - and push the state debt nearly $3 billion higher. If...
KEYED UP FOR 26 MILES - PIANO STAR SET TO RUN MARATHON
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amPop pianist Vanessa Carlton hit No. 1 with the single "A Thousand Miles," but today it's all about a 26.2-mile run for charity in the ING New York Marathon. "Musicians...
BOMB MORON BUSTED - HS-ARREST DELAY
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA student at a Staten Island high school threatened to "blow up the school to stop the spread of capitalism," but wasn't arrested until three days later when the NYPD...
SPACE INVADERS - BUSTED IN SPREE AT POSH L.I. HOMES
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTwo Brooklyn men are in custody in an infamous home-invasion spree that terrorized towns across Long Island - including the swank suburb where the "Growing Up Gotti" boys live. The...
EGG-SLAY FAREWELL - BIKERS ROAR TRIBUTE AT BX. FUNERAL
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThe rough-and-tumble South Bronx showed love for one of its favorite sons yesterday as hundreds turned out for the funeral of Joseph Padro and a service worthy of a true...
TEEN BUSTED IN BYSTANDER SHOOT
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx teen has been arrested in connection with a September shooting that wounded three innocent bystanders, police said yesterday. Luis "Lueboy" Torres, 18, was charged with firing several gunshots...
DAD TO 'FIRE PERV': GIVE UP -'HEARTBROKEN' PA MAKES APPEAL AS COPS REVEAL CHILLING DETAILS OF CRUEL CREEP'S 'HUMILIATION' MENTAL GAMES
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHE anguished dad of the suspect in the "phony fireman" sex attack pleaded with his estranged son to give up his life on the lam and surrender to cops. "I...
HELP FOR THE GULF
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHE Gulf Coast states are still reeling from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and while homes and businesses are on the mend, the sportfish habitat and facilities have been devastated. In...
NHL HAS RIPPED HEART OUT OF GAME
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amIT'S THE conversation that Gary Bettman simply doesn't acknowledge, the one that takes place dozens of times a day between people long steeped in the culture and tradition of hockey...
SEASON CAN'T BE OVER YET; FAILING TEAMS CRAVE COMEBACK
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHEIR methods may differ, but the objective is the same: To somehow find a way to salvage the second half of a season that is spiraling horribly out of control....
BIG BLUE LEFT HEARTBREAK IN SAN FRANCISCO
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - This afternoon is the first time the Giants will play at Monster Park, the stadium formerly known as Candlestick, since that fateful Jan. 5, 2003,...
GARDEN MESS MUST MESH
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amIT HAS become painfully obvious Home Town Brown had a more cohesive unit going for him in the summer on the east side of Long Island than Isiah Thomas has...
KNICKS FIGHTIN' MAD
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNate Robinson wanted a piece of Jerome James yesterday. The 5-foot-9, 180-pound Robinson didn't look as if he cared that he gave 100 pounds to the 7-foot James. The smallest...
JEFFERSON MAKES UP FOR 'FOUL' SHOOTING IN PAST
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Richard Jefferson was heading to the line with :01.5 on the clock. Make a free throw, give the Nets the lead. Miss, and add another bad memory to...
MOGILNY IS DEEP SEATED
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amThey're paying this guy $3.5 million to score, not to be a "cheerleader on the bench," as Alexander Mogilny himself described his third-period role. Mogilny denied that he's hurting, at...
'ALEX' WON'T RUN UNTIL '06
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amAfleet Alex won't run in Nov. 26 Cigar Mile at the Big A or any other race this year, trainer Tim Ritchey announced yesterday, as recent X-rays revealed hairline fracture...
CROWN TO KNIGHTS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amCHSAA SOCCER FINALHoly Cross 1Molloy 0 James DiGiacomo felt responsible for the season-ending losses the last two years for Holy Cross. "Both times, I blew it," the senior goalkeeper said....
PETR PERFECT; PRUCHA THRIVING UNDER JAGR'S WING
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSHOOTOUTRangers 3Devils 2 Jaromir Jagr remembers the way it was for him as an 18-year-old rookie in Pittsburgh, when he was all but lost until the Penguins traded for veteran...
FORMER KNICK HAS NO TIM-PATHY FOR OLD TEAM
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES Tim Thomas couldn't help himself. Completely unsolicited, the former Knick who helped bring Eddy Curry to the Knicks took an unveiled slap at his former team while praising...
IRISH LAND 1-2 PUNCH - DUO'S LATE HEROICS KO VOLS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNotre Dame 41Tennessee 21 SOUTH BEND - Tom Zbikowski and Jeff Samardzija have more in common than last names that could be featured in a spelling bee. The two Notre...
LIONS ROAR; ROUT WISCONSIN FOR BIG TEN LEAD
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amPenn St. 35Wisconsin 14 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez, preparing for his final game in Happy Valley last week, took some time to reflect on the many...
FINISH LINE ; RJ'S 3-POINT PLAY LIFTS NETS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNets 100Bulls 99 The Nets all night built one lead after another. And watched one after another crumble and vanish. Finally, the Big Three of Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and...
ANOTHER OTTAWA HORROR FOR ISLES
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSenators 6Islanders 0 OTTAWA - The Islanders viewed last night's game here against the class of the conference as a challenge, to see how they stack up. If last night's...
VITALI HURT; RAHMAN BOUT KO'D
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amVitali Klitschko has endured yet another injury that will prevent him from defending his WBC heavyweight championship against Hasim Rahman. Their title fight set for Saturday at the Thomas &...
FINISH LINE; RJ'S 3-POINT PLAY LIFTS NETS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNETS 100 BULLS 99 There have been worse situations - like finding yourself in the shower holding a hair dryer. So the Nets evaluated the predicament: The Bulls were trying...
BARKING UP THE WRONG 3
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amFOR the moment, think of NBA games in terms of baseball. If a team's manager consistently employed a strategy that could only benefit the opposition - say, calling for a...
FOCUS ON FRISCO - GIANTS ON GUARD AGAINST LETDOWN VS. 2-5 NINERS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Want a hint as to what the Giants won't be thinking about in the moments before today's game against the 49ers? "We're not really sitting here saying...
POINT OF NO RETURN - JETS MUST BEAT CHARGERS TO AVOID 2-6 DEATH KNELL
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSince the 1970 NFL merger, no team has started its season 2-6 and survived to reach the playoffs. That makes today's game for the 2-5 Jets against the Chargers at...
SNAP, CRACKLE, POP - FORTUNES OF GIANTS AND JETS CAN CHANGE QUICKLY
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amOPEN MIKE THE Giants will walk on a field haunted by the ghost of Trey Junkin. Three thousand miles away, three hours earlier, the Jets will walk onto another field...
ANOTHER TRIP TO ...PEYTON PLACE - MANNING AND COLTS WOULD LOVE TO BURY THEIR DEMONS AND FINALLY BEAT PATRIOTS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Doing his best to downplay tomorrow night's matchup with the Patriots, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning turned to another gunslinger to summarize his feelings. "I just know, like Ebby...
STRIKING IT RICH - JEFFERSON THRIVES AS THIRD OF BIG 3
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNets coach Lawrence Frank was asked before the game in Toronto Friday if Richard Jefferson gets enough credit and attention, especially with all the glare focused on Jason Kidd and...
VINCE FINDS NEW WAYS TO PICK APART RAPTORS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES For Vince Carter, the result was just as satisfying as the first time he returned to Toronto for the regular season: His Nets team got a win. And...
IRISH REALLY BRADY BUNCH
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSOUTH BEND - When Charlie Weis took the reins of the Notre Dame football program last December, no one questioned the coach's offensive acumen. The pundits did wonder, however, whether...
BADGER BACK - CALHOUN BOOSTS WISCONSIN
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Give credit to Wisconsin running back Brian Calhoun for staying hungry. Perhaps it's his desire to win the Heisman Trophy; to lead his 14th-ranked team to...
LET FREEDOM RING! APPLE COULD BE NEW HOME FOR TWO ELITE CLOSERS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amTHE stars of the hot stove to date have been managers and, especially, general managers. Who knew Theo Epstein, not Johnny Damon, was more valuable and beloved to the Red...
RACE FOR THE AGES - 'STACKED' FIELD SHOULD GUARANTEE UNPREDICTABLE, EXCITING MARATHON
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amSince 1970, the New York City Marathon has grown from a 127-runner field competing to win cheap watches into a 37,000-runner gala that will attract 2½ million spectators and a...
YASHIN: NO HAPPY RETURNS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amOTTAWA - Yesterday was Alexei Yashin's birthday, and there had to be a long list of places he would have rather played last night than here against his former team....
MEB BREAKS WITH KNICKS
November 6, 2005 | 5:00amGardenvision displayed a bevy of celebrities and athletes Friday night, including Jaromir Jagr and Mariano Rivera,who turned out to watch the Knicks get run off the court by the Wizards.Not...