December 25, 2005
MEYER LATE AGAIN
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amSTILL smarting from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the auction for DreamWorks SKG, Universal Pictures, led by President and COO Ron Meyer, has reached out to Steve...
BLUE SKIES FOR GREEN DAY
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amAmid a dismal retail music environment and a lackluster concert business, California pop-punk trio Green Day is shining bright. The rediscovered band sold 5 million copies of their latest release,...
IN '05, SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISTS AGITATED FOR CHANGE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amThis year, deep-pocketed investors have used their muscle like never before to force changes at some of America's biggest and best-known companies. Behemoths such as Time Warner, McDonald's and General...
MSNBC WHITE FLAG IS GATES' LATEST MEDIA MISS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amAnd now for some breaking news from MSNBC: Microsoft doesn't know jack about media. Unlike the nascent move towards content creation by competitors Yahoo! and Google, Microsoft raised the last...
DEAR JOHN ... THE ANSWER MAN - JOHN, WHY THE PUSS?
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amDear John: Don't you ever quit whining? Unemployment is low, the Dow is well over 10,000, the housing market remains on fire, interest rates are exceptionally low, inflation is under...
SEASON'S SCREENINGS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amBEING it's Christmas, Cine File is taking a break from Japanese slasher flicks and presenting his favor ite holiday movies: * "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946): Cine File still cries...
TIME FOR GIVING; ANIMAL FOSTER CARE'S A WONDERFUL PRESENT
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amANIMAL lovers who find themselves petless at holiday time wonder what they can do to help pets in need. With too many shelter pets and too few adopters, the answer...
BOBBY CACHE GOING, GOING . . . NOT GONE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amBOBBY Fischer hasn't been heard of since he was freed from a Japanese cell, where he was being held on a visa violation, and took refuge in Iceland last March....
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amMARIAH CAREY will take over Times Square on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." The ultradramatic singer, who's poised to sweep the Grammy Awards in February, will shake the rafters...
9 WAYS TO STAY WARM IN JANUARY - HERE'S ALL THE NEW SHOWS NEXT MONTH
December 25, 2005 | 5:00am1 EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT Monday, Jan. 9, 9 p.m., ABC Not realizing that "Sex and the City" is no longer in vogue, television producers are still trying to create...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amProud Tina AWARDS TINA TURNER, the mighty and indestructible red-hot mama from Nutbush, Ten-nessee, is just one of the recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors. With songs like "Proud...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amHONEYMOON IN VEGAS (1992) Tuesday, 10 p.m., AMC Elvis impersonators abound in this offbeat movie starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker as a couple who go to Vegas to...
GOOD RIDDANCE TO INSULTING 'GOTTI'
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amREST In Pieces: The A & E Network has, after three installments, pulled the plug on "Growing Up Gotti." What we'll never understand is how this "reality show," broadcast more...
BEST IN SHOW: 'SIX FEET UNDER' DELIVERED
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amWHAT were the year's TV highlights and lowlights? Beats me - I'm much too focused on myself to care about that. What really matters is, what happened to me in...
RECONSTRUCTING WOODY
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amIs Woody Allen still Woody Allen if you take him out of New York? To hear early "Match Point" audiences tell it, most certainly yes. In fact - blasphemy! -...
'GRADUATE'-LEVEL DISCOURSE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amFew films are as ingrained in the public consciousness as "The Graduate." Mike Nichols' 1967 film broke new ground with its satirical take on suburban America, its innovative cinematography and...
REINER'S 'RUMOR' - DIRECTOR CHASES CLASSIC FILM TALE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00am'I'll have what she's having." "These go to 11." "You can't handle the truth!" "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Between 1984 and...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amNutritionist is a sweet, tasty treat Meet Jennifer, a radiant nutritionist who recently moved to the city from Georgia. This 28-year-old Southern belle describes herself as "feisty but charming, confident...
COOL DEALS - 12 FANTASTIC WINTER COATS ON SALE IN STORES TOMORROW
December 25, 2005 | 5:00am1. Melton wool coat with fur collar by Edward An, $412 (reg. $589), at Blush, 333 Bleecker St. 2. Ruffled tweed coat, $100 (reg. $395), at Calypso, 401 Broome St....
WEDDINGS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amKay, 29,and Abramowitz, 31 NOV.5 - Harlan Abramowitz put his friends to work when he planned to propose to Danielle Kay.As the lovebirds dined at one of their favorite restaurants,Abramowitz...
O PIONEER - PATTI SMITH'S 30-YEAR PUNK HOWL
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amPATTI Smith hates parties. So instead of attending New Year's Eve bashes, she works. Kind of. The so-called punk priestess, who baby-sat every Dec. 31 as a teen, will christen...
YE AULD ROCK! - NEW YEAR'S EVE SHOWS TOAST 2006
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amIF a house party or crowded bar isn't your ideal way to spend New Year's Eve, don't fret. You won't be stuck sitting on the couch watching Dick Clark's "New...
HOMELESS MAN'S GRUESOME FIND IN BX. TRASH
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amA homeless man rummaging through trash made a grisly discovery yesterday morning, when he found a human torso and leg stuffed in a suitcase on a quiet street in the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** A man was in critical condition after being stabbed during a robbery early yesterday in a Harlem park, police sources said. The victim, in his 50s but otherwise...
JEWS JOIN IN AS HOLIDAYS CONVERGE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amThousands of Jewish New Yorkers will gather at sundown tonight to light the first candle of Hanukkah, the eight-day festival of lights that begins on Christmas for the first time...
AIRPORT RUSH A BREEZE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amGetting out of town for the holidays can be a nightmare, but compared to this week's transit strike, yesterday turned out to be a breeze. On one of the busier...
GOV CLEMENCY ENDS NYER'S 'ROCKY' ORDEAL
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amGov. Pataki gave the gift of freedom yesterday to a man whose controversial conviction on a 2001 drug charge made him a symbol of the harshness of the Rockefeller drug...
ST. 'ICK' TO BEAR FINAL GIFT; ON BLOCK FOR CHARITY
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amNew York's Bad Santa is being good. Owners of the shocking Christmas display featuring a bloody Santa holding a severed head have put the despicable decoration up for auction today...
XMAS MILESTONE; TRAGIC GIRLS FIND NEW JOY
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amA devastating fire ripped through their Queens home, killing the selfless mom who tried to save them and the father who adored them. But now, the three little girls orphaned...
VERY MERRY TERRIERS; HOMES FOR TWO LUCKY DOGS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amTwo bundles of puppy love that The Post found abandoned on a frigid morning early this month are home for the holidays. And what homes they have! One went to...
'HOLY' TERROR; PERVY PETER DREW PAY FROM CATHOLIC HS BEFORE FLEEING
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amFake-fireman suspect Peter Braunstein helped fund his life on the lam with money he earned working for an elite Catholic high school in Chelsea - cashing his last school paycheck...
MIRACLE OF HOPE; 4-MONTHS'PREMATURE TOT DEFIED THE ODDS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amHope came into the world weighing little more than a pound, with gossamer skin and bones like twigs -but a fighter. "She was a little peanut, waving her arms and...
CARDINAL DELIVERS MESSAGE OF HOPE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amEdward Cardinal Egan delivered the Midnight Mass to a packed St. Patrick's Cathedral early this morning, focusing on the history of the story of Jesus, and the self-sacrifice required of...
QUINN PROVING MIGHTY IN RACE FOR COUNCIL SPEAKER
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN'S Christine Quinn is leading the race to become the next City Council speaker. "If the vote was held today, she'd get it," said one insider. The insider cautioned that...
$ALE-ING INTO THE SUNSET; LAST-DAY SHOP SPREE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLast-minute shoppers - homebound for part of the week due to the transit strike - hit city stores with laser-like intensity yesterday, burning for that perfect gift, or something close....
JUDGE SLAPPED IN ART 'SCAM'
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amA federal judge - citing 24 alleged illegal acts - has ordered embattled Manhattan jurist Marylin Diamond and two associates to enter settlement talks with a family that claims the...
FAR FROM THE FEAST; SERVICEMEMBERS' CHRISTMAS GIFT TO THE REST OF US
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amDEAR Pfc. Smith, Most of your fellow Americans won't think of you today. Some may see a news clip of your Christmas dinner in Iraq, filmed against a backdrop of...
LONG 'LIVE' REGIS! INKS DEAL TO STAY ON AIR
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amRegis Philbin will remain a morning TV fixture for at least two more years. Philbin, 74, has inked a four-year deal to remain as co-host of "Live with Regis &...
COPS PROBE CELEB-FAVE DEATH BAR
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amA Lower East Side bar that has hosted celebs like Diddy and Kelly Osbourne is under police review - and facing possible closure - after a spate of crimes, including...
'SANTA' COPS AID TRAGIC KIN
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amThey are Brooklyn cops who've learned to toughen themselves to deal with life's harshest realities. But the death of 9-month-old Dayna Andrea Cuapio last week touched them anyway. So the...
SWEDE SURIVIVAL; HOW MIRACLE FAMILY RODE OUT MEGA-WAVE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amIt was the shot seen 'round the world - by billions who gasped at the thought of three young boys being crushed by a tidal wave as their mom made...
DOC'S KILLER CLAIM ; HOSPITAL 'COVERUP'
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amA former New York Methodist Hospital doctor says he witnessed horrific mal practice that caused the death of a new mother and another woman's baby - and a hospital "coverup"...
KIDNAP WIFE SAYS HUBBY DEATH A SICK 'GIFT'
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amThe woman kidnapped last year by her unhinged husband believes his mysterious death in a Rikers Island jail cell was a twisted final act of revenge - a selfish suicide...
SHE IS LADY OURLADY OF THE WAVE: PARISH
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amFather Charles Hewawasam was serving Mass last Dec. 26 at St. Mary's, his waterfront mission in the Sri Lankan village of Matara, when he looked up and saw a car...
H2O-MAIN BURST HITS FLOOD-IRON DISTRICT
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amA water main burst at a busy Flatiron District intersection early yesterday, shutting down subway service to 11 city stations and flooding the streets. The 6 a.m. blowout at 23rd...
THE 'POD'S PROUD PAPA - WALKMAN RANKS #1 IN GADGETS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLong before the iPod, young hipsters danced along city streets grooving to tunes on their Sony Walkmans. The Walkman TPS-L2, first marketed in 1979, edges out its modern-day descendent, Apple's...
$ALE-ING INTO THE SUNSET - LAST-DAY SHOP SPREE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLast-minute shoppers - homebound for part of the week due to the transit strike - hit city stores with laser-like intensity yesterday, looking to show their loved ones how much...
WHAT, NO LEETCH? USA SNUB SMACKS OF CONSPIRACY
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amTHE folks at USA Hockey must believe in the Biblical teaching of it better to give than receive, because boy oh boy, let me tell you, did they ever conspire...
NETS LOOKING IN-VINCE-IBLE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amVince Carter calls it being aggressive. The rest of the planet calls it being amazing. Carter is on a current roll that is simply astounding by all standards short of...
THIS SHOW WILL ALWAYS FLOAT YOUR BOAT
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amYOU'LL find lots of different things going on at the New York Boat Show, but you're there for one reason - the boats - and as always there will be...
BROOKLYN'S OWN RAISING SOME 'CANE
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amWhen he left Canarsie High School for the University of Miami in 2000, it seemed Leon Williams had it all. He was a Parade All-American, a USA Today All-American and...
62-SKIDOO TRULY SPECIAL
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amNOBODY I know who's been around the pro or college game since the Twelfth of Never can remember a player ever outscoring a team by the end of the third...
WRONG GAME GETS TOP BILLING
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amAM I the only one who thinks NBA, ABC, TWU and MTA have given a diss-service to the Spurs and Pistons by making them the Christmas Day undercard? I mean,...
IT WAS IN THEIR GRASP ; GIANTS LET CHANCE TO WRAP DIVISION BOUNCE OFF HANDS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - The statement was going to be early, and it was going to be loud, loud enough to throw a gag into the mouths of 90,477 Redskins fans who...
THIS ONE'S NOT ON ELI
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - The numbers aren't awful. Eli Manning attempted 41 passes yesterday. He completed 23 of them. He threw one touchdown pass and should have had a second - only...
STRUGGLING ALLEN LEFT ON DESERTED ISLAND
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - Players often refer to playing cornerback as being out on an island. With the game Will Allen had yesterday, likely one of the worst of his life, it...
BLACKBURN HURTS NECK ; ROOKIE LB CARRIED OFF ON STRETCHER
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - The Giants' lost more than a game yesterday. They lost another player, when rookie linebacker Chase Blackburn was immobilized and stretchered off the field with a sprained neck....
OSI NOW SAFELY IN THE SACK
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER - Even before Osi Umenyiora's recent sack surge, the Giants were sure he was a rising star, and so back in September they opened up negotiations on...
OSI IS NOW SAFELY IN THE GIANTS' SACK
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER - Even before Osi Umenyiora's recent sack surge, the Giants were sure he was a rising star, and so in September they opened negotiations on a new...
KERRY COULD PLAY SPOILER NEXT WEEK
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - The Giants awakened today to a Kerry Christmas. "I don't think he'll have revenge on his mind," Tiki Barber said. "I think Kerry'll just be focused on winning....
'SANTANA CLAUS' DELIVERS SKIN WIN
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - As Santana Moss was busy dominating the Giants and Will Allen yesterday, one fan held up a sign that read "Merry Christ-Moss." After Moss, the Redskins' the diminutive...
ALLEN GETS TORCHED IN DEFEAT
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - Players often refer to playing cornerback as being out on an island. With the game the Giants' Will Allen had yesterday - likely one of the worst of...
FRYE BURNED OUT ; DAVIS REPLACES TIRING ROOKIE IN KNICKS' LINEUP
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amUntouchable rookie Channing Frye now will have his butt touching the bench at tip-off. Seeking an on-court leader, more toughness, and hustle, Larry Brown has jostled the Knicks' starting lineup...
BLAYLOCK EXCITED TO GET BACK ON RIGHT FOOT
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amGo ahead and try to wipe the smile off of Derrick Blaylock's face. You'll tire trying. The broken right foot he suffered in the Jets' win over the Buccaneers on...
DEVILS NEED TO RETOOL
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amThis is the GM's best chance to do some managing, and he'll do it best if he keeps coaching a while longer. Sure, the Devils are on their best behavior...
CHAD-ICAL NOTIONS ; PENNINGTON WILL RESURRECT OR RUIN JETS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amALTHOUGH the Jets will have a high draft choice to console themselves after this disaster of a season ends next week, the healthy return of Chad Pennington - not gaining...
GIANTS RAVAGED BY REDSKINS TO PUT PLAYOFF PARTY ON HOLD
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - The frustrating spilled over into anger and into something far more dangerous for the Giants: They felt doubt. Doubt about their ability to rise above yesterday's bad-to-the-bone 35-20...
WALL-TO-WALL BASEBALL - NOTHING ELSE REALLY MATTERS IN NEW YORK
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amLANDOVER - There are a lot of interesting questions you get asked when you cover sports for a living. In the last month alone, these are a few of the...
THE LION IN WINTER - PATERNO ROARS BACK WITH ONE OF HIS BEST PENN STATE TEAMS
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The Penn State football offices are quiet on this December day. Staff members sit at their desks making final preparations for the Orange Bowl, players have...
TEARS AND HOPE IN GARDEN - CELEBRATION FOR A SLAIN E. HARLEM TEEN AS HIS BROTHER TAKES THE FLOOR
December 25, 2005 | 5:00amWHENEVER Dante Milligan came home from his basketball travels, his younger brother Alonzo was there for him. "Always," says Ruby Milligan, the mother of the two boys, who grew up...