April 11, 2006
EYE OF THE IGER - DISNEY CHIEF LURING TW EXEC BACK
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amDisney boss Bob Iger is trying to lure Patricia Fili-Krushel, the former president of ABC who is now a top executive at Time Warner, back to Disney, The Post has...
'I WANTED TO DIE' - SKILLING'S FEAR AS ENRON COLLAPSED
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amHOUSTON - "I wanted to die." It was nice to hear Jeffrey Skilling mutter those words when his lawyer asked how he felt when it became obvious that Enron Corp.,...
INTER-TEL FOUNDER ANTES UP FOR FIRM
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe disgruntled founder of software maker Inter-Tel Inc. is poised to make an all-cash takeover bid for the company he founded - a move analysts said will force the company...
WHAT ME WORRY? - SILVERSTEIN WILL FIND 7 WTC TENANTS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amANYONE who's sweating over the scarcity of tenants at Larry Silverstein's new 7 World Trade Center, opening next month, can learn from the example of another Silverstein project that faced...
BOFFO MIDTOWN BUYS REFLECT HOT MARKET
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amTwo large investment-sale transactions powerfully display the strength of the Midtown market, where quality properties for sale are in short supply. On Friday, Dubai investment company Istithmar - the same...
NOW IT'S BITTY CITI - J.P. MORGAN-BONY DEAL LEAVES IT IN THE DUST
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA huge weekend deal gave J.P. Morgan Chase a big advantage over rival Citigroup as the two financial titans battle in their own backyards for the loans and wallets of...
SEC AIMS FOR $TARS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amHollywood is raising a stink over a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would lift the curtain on the secret megabuck paychecks of big stars and studio moguls. Such...
ONLINE ADS GRAB SHARE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amSpending on Internet ads will overtake billboards and other outdoor advertising next year, and close the gap on radio in 2008, a new report said. The Internet will account for...
SUNSHINE CLOUDED
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amCorcoran Sunshine Marketing Group has appointed two new senior officers, in a move that further distances founder Louise Sunshine from the firm's operations. Kelly Kennedy Mack was named division president,...
DESPITE SOME FINE SINGING, CITY OPERA 'CARMEN' NOT ELECTRIFYING
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amSOME operas sing themselves, if you have the right singers. One of these foolproof - if not quite singer-proof - operas is Bizet's "Carmen," which returned to New York City...
YOU HEARD IT, HERE'S WHERE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00am* "Tears and Rain" and "You're Beautiful,"James BluntWhat it's used for: Quiet, self-tortured emotional outpourings. Where you've heard it: "ER," "Smallville," "Conviction," "Elizabethtown" * "Hallelujah," Jeff BuckleyWhat it's used for:...
TUNE IN, CHOKE UP - TV & FILMS USE SAME SONG LISTS FOR MOOD
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amIF you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times - especially if it's song about heartbreak. These days, it's not uncommon to hear a particular song on three...
DENVER SNAGS 'REAL WORLD'
April 11, 2006 | 4:00am'THE Real World" is joining the mile-high club - touching down in Denver for its 18th season. The long-running reality show, which follows the antics of a group of young...
'FAMILY GUY' IN ITS 'WONDER YEARS'
April 11, 2006 | 4:00am'FAMILY Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is putting the finishing touches on "The Winner," a new comedy that could become his first non-animated network show. "When I first read the script,...
OLD SCHOOL - 10 ADVENTURES ON THE CLASSIC SIDE OF CHICAGO; STICK TO THE CLASSICS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amYOU can't open a travel publication these days without hearing raves about Chicago. New hotels. Chic restaurants. Vibrant neighborhoods. Fantastic culture. We're not here to argue. It's all true. But...
CALISTA ADMITS EATING WOES
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amHERE'S the skinny on Calista Flockhart: She had a problem with food during the making of "Ally McBeal." The wafer-thin, 5'5 1/2" actress, now 41, was long suspected of suffering...
TOUGH 'LOVE' - HBO'S MORMONS BEAT 'SOPRANOS' MOBSTERS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amHOW is it possible that a family of lapsed Mormons - and not the Soprano crime family - are the ones delivering Sunday nights full of explicit sex, extortion, investigations...
'24' HITS JACK POT - KIEFER INKS $30 MIL 3-YEAR DEAL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amSUPER agent Jack Bauer has at least another three "days" to live on "24." Then again, maybe not. The actor who plays him, Kiefer Sutherland, has landed a $30 million...
NORTHERN STYLE - TORONTO, BORING? NOT IN THESE COOL 'HOODS.
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE are two Torontos. The one promoted most heavily to outsiders, and the one where people who actually live in town would be caught dead in off-hours. Don't check into...
NUCLEAR PROM - TERRIFYING TALES OF SCHOOL DANCES GONE HORRIBLY WRONG; YOU DROPPED A PROM ON ME
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amALL happy proms are alike, Tolstoy wrote; every unhappy prom is unhappy in its own way. (At least we think it was Tolstoy.) This is true whether the evening involves...
WHEN THE SHOE FITS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00am'YOU can tell everything about a person from their shoes." At least that's what "Kinky Boots" screenwriter Tim Firth thinks. It's the recurring theme in the British indie, which opens...
EX-FINEST 'GUNS DOWN' FORMER COP
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amAn ex-NYPD detective went berserk following a fit of road rage on Staten Island last night, unleashing a hail of bullets that killed a retired hero cop and wounded his...
SPLASH IN HARLEM OVER WATER PARK
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amCommunity leaders turned up yesterday at a hearing to defend a proposed $168 million water park for Randalls Island parks, while waterfront advocates spoke out against the project. The hearing...
DROPOUT DANIELS EYES OPEN PRIMARY
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - In formally bowing out of the gubernatorial race yesterday, Republican Randy Daniels said his exit should ensure a primary that keeps party leaders from simply anointing a candidate....
UNBELTED CRASH KIDS' MA BUSTED
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island mother of two girls seriously injured in a car wreck was charged with assault because her children weren't wearing seat belts, police said yesterday. Kimberly Johnson-Buschor, 27,...
OLMERT PLANS EARLY PULLOUT
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amNew Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will carry out a withdrawal of some Jewish settlements in the West Bank before the 2008 U.S. presidential election, a senior aide said yesterday....
L.I. CRASH KILLS TEEN PASSENGER
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island teen riding in an SUV was killed late Sunday when the driver lost control and plowed into trees, authorities said yesterday. Shanee Brown, 18, of Baldwin, was...
N.Y. VS. L.A. IN MARILYN LAWSUITS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe famed picture of her skirt billowing was taken atop a Lexington Avenue subway grate. She married both a Broadway playwright and a Yankees baseball star and owned an apartment...
SUOZZI: KO '$ICK' LAW
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amGubernatorial candidate Tom Suozzi vowed yesterday to eliminate a loophole that enables millionaires to duck paying nursing-care costs for their sick spouses. "We have Medicaid millionaires who are abusing the...
THUG GUILTY IN COP ATTACK
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx parolee was found guilty of trying to throw a female police officer into the path of an oncoming subway train and trying to wrestle away her gun just...
WTC MEMORIAL BIGS BLA$T CHIEF
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amWorld Trade Center Memorial Foundation President Gretchen Dykstra is coming under fire from several of the group's board members who say she's done far too little to raise $500 million...
DAD RELIVES 9/11 HORROR AT ZAC TRIAL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Connecticut man told a stunned courtroom yesterday of his tragic final phone conversation with his son - and how he watched moments later as live TV...
NARCS NAB DOZENS IN 2 PROJECTS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amPolice busted more than three dozen street-level drug dealers at two Queens housing projects, breaking up operations that had netted more than $2 million in profits, officials said yesterday. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A supermarket manager was arrested yesterday for allegedly beating and starving to death her Chihuahua after she brought the dead dog to a veterinarian and asked someone...
MIKE RIPS $QUEEZE ON METS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amSome City Council members are trying to "extort" community benefits from the Mets before approving tax-exempt bond financing tied to the team's future stadium, Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday. "We can't...
IT'S BABY MOSES FOR GWYN AT SINAI
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amGwyneth Paltrow delivered an Oscar-winning performance at Mount Sinai Hospital over the weekend - giving birth to a bouncing baby boy named Moses. It's the second child for the award-winning...
ROGER STRIKES OUT WITH 10 DAYS IN JAIL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amStand clear of the closing jail doors. A Brooklyn judge stunned transit-union chief Roger Toussaint yesterday, by ordering him jailed for 10 days for launching last December's crippling - and...
IMMIGRATION POLITICS: MARCHING MADNESS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amMANY conservatives are convinced that getting tough on immigration is a populist issue as potent in our day as getting tough on crime was in the late 1960s. They have...
PATAKI VETOES KILLER-DEFENSE SPENDING HIKE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday vetoed a spending increase for the state office that defends capital killers, an appropriation passed despite the fact that there is no operational death penalty...
ALIEN 'INVASION' - THOUSANDS MARCH ON CITY HALL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amTens of thousands of immigrants, waving the flags of the United States and their native countries, massed outside City Hall - and filled the streets of cities across the nation...
SCHOOL REBEL PROBE - CHARTER FOE TARGET
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amFed up with resistance to its plan to place a charter school in a building that houses gifted public school students in Manhattan, the city Education Department moved yesterday to...
WE NEED HUDDLED MASSES
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amBY LATE afternoon, the teeming masses gathered around City Hall, their bodies stretching nearly all the way up to Canal Street, with more coming all the time. Clutching homemade placards...
YANK BASEBALL DIAMOND IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amIf Derek Jeter slams an Opening Day blast into the stands at Yankee Stadium today the baseball mitt that snags it may very well be pink - with a little...
A SUPER WOMAN - STARS & KIN HAIL TRAGIC DANA REEVE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amDana Reeve, the tragic and brave widow of paralyzed movie star Christopher Reeve, was fondly remembered yesterday during an emotional, star-studded tribute in Times Square. "She was an exemplary, wonderful...
BOMBERS GO TO BAT FOR CUNY
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe City University of New York and the New York Yankees teamed up yesterday to name an all-star lineup of students in a move to burnish CUNY's soaring reputation as...
RANGER GAL'S HARASS SUIT SCORES GOAL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA federal judge has allowed the former head of the New York Rangers' cheerleading squad to go forward with a sexual-harassment lawsuit against Madison Square Garden officials. Manhattan federal Judge...
'MOB' G-MAN WANTS FED CASE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amLawyers for alleged FBI mob mole Lindley DeVecchio are asking a federal judge to yank the high-profile case from state Supreme Court in Brooklyn and have it heard in federal...
COP 'SHOOTS' HER CASANOVA HUBBY - RETIRED OFFICER HIT 4 TIMES IN AMBUSH
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA retired NYPD officer with a reputation for philandering was stalked and then ambushed yesterday by his estranged cop wife, who pulled alongside his car on a Brooklyn street and...
TOUSSAINT'S PRISON FOOD FOR THOUGHT
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA month from now Roger Toussaint will trade partying at chi-chi Manhattan restaurants and Brooklyn night clubs for prison grub at a lockup like Rikers Island. Toussaint, noted for his...
HARLEM THUGS YUPPIE HUNTING - FATAL WOLF-PACK ATTACK ON NYU STUDENT FOLLOWS TREND IN GENTRIFIED COMMUNITY
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amIt's yuppie-hunting season on 125th Street in Harlem. Teen wolf packs have been systematically preying on people in the gentrifying neighborhood, police sources said yesterday, as four young punks were...
FAB FOUR-EVER - NEW BEATLES ALBUM COMING
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe Beatles are getting back to where they once belonged: on a brand-new record. An album featuring "completely new music" by the Fab Four is to be released this summer,...
CITY SLICK GRADS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amCollege grads are flocking to big cities in increasing numbers, chasing after jobs and fighting for the limited housing. An Associated Press study showed that Seattle and San Francisco have...
HOT NABE IN HEATED CLASH OF CLASSES
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amHarlem is the hot new neighborhood for middle- and upper-middle class hipsters looking for affordable digs - but the slaying of an NYU student during a robbery attempt by a...
THIS FIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe feathers really flew when two bird-brained Brooklyn women got into a punching and kicking brawl as they argued over a baby pigeon, police sources said yesterday. Alice Krasucka, 71,...
CASANOVA COP SHOT BY WIFE - OFFICER SPOUSE HITS HIM 4 TIMES IN AMBUSH: POLICE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA retired NYPD officer with a reputation for philandering was stalked and then ambushed yesterday by his estranged cop wife, who pulled alongside his car on a Brooklyn street and...
CASANOVA COP SHOT BY WIFE - OFFICER SPOUSE HITS HIM IN AMBUSH: POLICE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amA retired NYPD officer with a reputation for philandering was stalked and then ambushed yesterday by his estranged cop wife, who pulled alongside his car on a Brooklyn street and...
CITY-SLICKER COLLEGE GRADS - EDUCATED ADULTS HEAD IN DROVES TO URBAN AREAS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amCollege grads are flocking to big cities in increasing numbers, chasing after jobs and fighting for the limited housing. An Associated Press study showed Seattle and San Francisco have the...
BOOM AND BUS - QUEENS DEPOT UP IN FLAMES
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amColossal flames hurtled into the air over a Queens bus depot rocked by explosions yesterday as workers offloaded a storage tank of compressed natural gas, officials said. "We heard a...
COME TOGETHER AGAIN - ALL NEW BEATLES DISC DUE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amYeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles are getting back to where they once belonged: on a brand-new record. An album featuring "completely new music" by the Fab Four is to be...
PARK PLAN OFF THE STARTING 'LINE' - W. SIDE TRACK WORK BEGINS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amConstruction workers officially began lifting the old railroad ties off the West Side's High Line yesterday - marking a new life for the abandoned tracks that will be turned into...
STAGING A RUSE - 'PRODUCERS' TIX LURED DRIVER IN KO'D CRASH SUIT
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amGet into a car accident and win a free pair of tickets to see "The Producers." At least that's what happened to a New Jersey man who was duped into...
HARLEM'S TEEN TERRORS - WOLF PACK'S FATAL ROBBERY OF NYU STUDENT PART OF A GROWING PATTERN OF CRIME: POLICE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amIt's yuppie-hunting season on 125th Street in Harlem. Teen wolf packs have been systematically preying on people in the gentrifying neighborhood, police sources said yesterday, as four young fiends were...
MONROE'S HOME HAS 'AWAY' TO GO
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amMike Turo has heard that his Monroe team was going to get a new baseball field at the Bronx school for years. Now he's getting it, but not at the...
GIANTS STILL LOOKING FOR LINEBACKER
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amVeteran linebacker Chad Brown will take a trip to see a second team after meeting last Friday with the Giants, according to Brown's agent, Peter Schaffer. The Giants have interest...
GREEN WITH ENVY - JEALOUSY ONLY REASON TO CRITICIZE PHIL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Phil Mickelson had been a lightning rod for criticism for years - until his recent renaissance as a major championship winner, that is. There were complaints he was...
RANDOLPH: ROADWORK IS CRUCIAL
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES WASHINGTON - The toughest obstacle the Mets may face in Washington this week is not being in New York. Last year the Mets were tremendous at Shea (48-33),...
MORE 'LARRY FOLLIES' - HERE'S TO 'NEXT TOWN' BROWN'S RETURN!
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Knicks' extinct three-game win streak just about clinches my prediction regarding how long Larry Brown would stay as their coach. I said he was going to last four seasons,...
OLD BRAWL GAME - METS, NATIONALS READY FOR ROUND 2
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amMETS at NATIONALS Today - 1:05 SNY; WFAN (660 AM) WASHINGTON - Nobody used to get this amped up when the Mets played the Expos. Or when they played the...
KUDOS FOR CRAWFORD
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The awards keep piling up for Jamal Crawford. After winning the team's MVP award, voted by the media, the scorching Knicks guard was named the NBA's...
HUNGRY NETS STILL CHASING MILESTONES
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amNETS at BULLS - Tonight - 8:30 YES; WABC (770 AM) Numerous tangible goals remain in sight, if the Nets want to think in those terms. But really, only one...
DEVILS AIM FOR 5 SPOT IN PLAYOFFS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amSunday's intense battle with the Rangers had the look and feel of a potential first-round playoff game, but if the Devils have their way, the cross-Hudson battle may be put...
LOUGHLIN GIVES EBANKS THE BOOT
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe Post yesterday reported that Devin Ebanks, perhaps the top junior in the city, was prepared to transfer out of Bishop Loughlin. However, an alleged incident with a teacher prompted...
CURRY: YANKS FOR NOTHIN'
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Eddy Curry spoke out yesterday on his lack of playing time, sending a strong message to Larry Brown to play him through foul trouble. The normally...
STEVIE'S BLUNDER - FRANCIS BLAMES POOR PLAY ON REDUCED MINUTES
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amPacers 101 - Knicks 82 INDIANAPOLIS - After Steve Francis committed another six turnovers last night and as his play continues to slide into the abyss, the Knicks guard's frustration...
WELCOME BACK TO THE BRONX
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE was no finality the last time everyone gathered here, which in some ways is better and in some ways is worse. In 2004, on the last day baseball visited...
FIRST DEFENSE - GIAMBI'S GLOVE-WORK SHOULD EARN PHILLIPS PLAYING TIME FOR YANKS
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amWELCOME to the Tuesday Morning Shortstop or TMS, as the cool kids certainly will be calling it soon. With Monday such a frequent off-day in Major League Baseball, Tuesday's paper...
ROYAL RETURN FOR BOMBERS - THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE THE PAGEANTRY AND PASSION OF OPENING DAY
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Bob Sheppard introduces the Yankees today in their home opener against the Royals, which team will jog to the first base line? The one that spanked Barry Zito and...
ISLANDERS WON'T JUST LAY DOWN
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amIslanders at Rangers - MSG, FSNY2, ESPN-AM (1050), WBBR-AM (1130) Having already established ironclad bragging rights in the once-great rivalry with the Islanders, the Rangers will continue playing for playoff...
TAKING A STAND - CURRY: DON'T SIT ME THROUGH FOUL TROUBLE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Knick center Eddy Curry spoke out yesterday on his lack of playing time - sending a strong message to coach Larry Brown to let Curry play through foul...
A BRONX CHEER - BOMBERS' BRASS UNFAZED BY SLOW START
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amDespite a 2-4 record, everything is OK in Yankeeland according to three of the most powerful men in the organization. At Yankee Stadium yesterday, Joe Torre, Brian Cashman and even...
STARTERS MAKING THEIR PITCH
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Overshadowed by losing four of the first six and drowned out by all the talk of the lineup scoring 1,000 runs is how the Yankee starters have opened...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 11, 2006 | 4:00amThink you're bored? William Schramm, a 31-year-old retirement planner, is being forced to sit on a Detroit courtroom bench three days a week and stare at the wall for an...