August 23, 2006
FELIX JILTS ALTMAN ON THE ROAD TO LEHMAN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amLegendary matchmaker Felix Rohatyn's move to become consigliere to Lehman Bros. Chief Dick Fuld may have rubbed one of his former compatriots the wrong way. Before joining Lehman, the 78-year-old...
CLOCK ON THE BLOCK - TOURNEAU SEEKS $$
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amLuxury watch retailer Tourneau has stepped up efforts to find a buyer by putting itself up for auction after talks with a private equity suitor fell through, The Post has...
GRASSO: I'VE DONE NO WRONG
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amFormer New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso just won't quit defending the enormous bag of dough he got for presiding over the nation's largest stock market. Last night, Grasso...
THIS GRAND SUITE IS VERY PUFFED UP
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTOMMY Hilfiger's former digs at the Engineering Society Building are up for grabs. The designer's own top 16th floor overlooking Bryant Park has a $500 a foot installation and includes...
RATHER BLACKOUT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amDAN Rather better hope next week's Jets game doesn't go long. A one-hour tribute to the former CBS anchorman is scheduled to air next Friday (buried on the cusp of...
FOO-STIC SHOW'S POWER IS IN MUSIC, NOT AMPS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWHETHER Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl really digs acoustic music, he understands the magic required to make an unplugged performance electric. At Monday's Beacon Theater set, the music was unplugged,...
SAMMY STORMS TO 'GMA'
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amLONGTIME Ch. 7 weatherman Sam Champion is leaving the station to join "Good Morning America." It ends an 18-year run in local TV, during which he became one of the...
A SHORT-TERM FIX - B'WAY STAR PLANS 1-MAN PUBLICITY BLITZ FOR 'FAME'
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMARTIN Short was the hardest-working man on Broadway even before the critics gave his eagerly awaited show, "Fame Becomes Me," mixed reviews. Now, with his box office looking iffy, the...
USHER'S GREAT 'CHICAGO' FIRE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amYEAH! The Ambassador Theatre turned into the House of Usher last night as the 27-year-old R&B superstar made a razzle-dazzle Broadway debut in the long running hit "Chicago." Usher -...
FOO-TURE SHOCK: MELLOW MUSIC
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWHETHER or not Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl really digs acoustic music, he understands the magic required to make an unplugged performance electric. At Monday's Beacon Theater set, the music...
'DEAD' END - TV'S ULTIMATE WESTERN RIDES OFF
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amSunday's episode was filmed before producer/creator David Milch got the news there would be no fourth season. AS HBO's "Deadwood" heads toward its final regular episode this weekend, fans are...
BILL CAUSE-BEE - GOLDEN BOY OF POLITICAL HUMOR IN HURRY TO RETURN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00am'When movie stars are getting pulled over and they start spouting anti-Semitic rants, it's a tough day to be on the sidelines.' BILL Maher faced many intimidating crowds as an...
STORY OF BIN LADEN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amCHRISTIANE Amanpour, arguably the most fearless female TV war correspondent working today, has put together a special on the life of Osama bin Laden that is as frightening as it...
PHILIPPE HITS THE HAMPTONS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE next stop for the growing restaurant empire of Philippe owner Stratis Morfogen will be in the Hamptons. Sources tell us that Morfogen will open a branch of Philippe in...
BAR NONE - MANY BARTENDERS DON'T KNOW BASICS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00am'MOLECULAR mixology" is the worst news for drinkers since Prohibition. What next, when we're already drowning in a sea of ill-begotten, badly mixed elixirs? Few bartenders today can even make...
CHOCOLATE: ANYTHING BUT VANILLA
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTAKE a sip, swirl it around - but for goodness sake, don't spit it out. Chocolate may be as sophisticated and complicated as wine, but you won't want to waste...
BUSH BIDS FOR 'DOC' MARKET
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Customers can easily run a cost comparison on car insurance, and now President Bush wants to make it just as easy to price-shop for a hip replacement. Bush...
BUS BOSS ALL ABOUT HELPING
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amJohn Provetto lost a leg being a good Samaritan - but not his determination to keep aiding others. "I always liked helping people," said Provetto, who volunteers as head of...
PLOT BOOSTS BUSH
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The British terror bust earlier this month bumped President Bush's job approval rating to 42 percent - the biggest thumbs-up he's received in a single poll since February....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN (lcf) * A 49-year-old man was found dead at 3 a.m. yesterday on his bed in his Lower East Side apartment, police sources said. Martin Barreto, of 23 E....
TRUTH SQUAD KEEPS AN EYE ON CON ED
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe city is no longer taking Con Edison's word - and now verifies every report of power outages independently. In the aftermath of last month's blackout in Queens - which...
BRONX MOM SUES LANDLORD OVER NIGHTMARE FIRE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA woman critically injured with her three kids in a fire last year but saved by a Good Samaritan has sued their Bronx landlord for allegedly failing to keep the...
$70M PILL SCAM - 8 BUSTED IN RX RING
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amState agents broke up a $70 million prescription drug-peddling ring, which provided ailing patients with drugs stolen from allegedly dirty pharmacies around the New York area, authorities announced yesterday The...
A TIE FOR JOE & FOE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe U.S. Senate race in Connecticut has suddenly tightened, with incumbent Joe Lieberman running neck and neck with Democratic anti-Iraq war upstart Ned Lamont, a poll revealed yesterday. Lieberman, who's...
WEINER'S BET ON YVETTE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amFormer - and probably future - mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner inserted himself into a racially tinged Brooklyn congressional race yesterday by backing City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke, the lone woman in...
SLIWA JOB MADE CANARY A WISEGUY
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA mob canary described in Manhattan federal court yesterday how John "Junior" Gotti inducted him into the crime family after he participated in a near-fatal 1992 attack on radio host...
DEM FURY ON G. ZERO
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA furious Rep. Jerrold Nadler yesterday charged federal environmental officials are involved in what "amounts to a conspiracy to murder thousands of New Yorkers" by refusing to expand the clean-up...
'JONBENET' PRISSY PERV WHINES: MY PRISON DUDS ARE TOO UGLY
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amHe's so vain. Confessed JonBenet Ramsey killer John Mark Karr yesterday made his first court appearance since authorities brought him back to the United States - and complained that he...
MOTHER 'KIDNAPS' OWN GIRL
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman kidnapped her daughter during a supervised visit with the child at a foster agency contracted by the Administration for Children's Services, authorities said yesterday. Deneen Peterkin, 41,...
DUMP BETSY'S JOB: CRITIC
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe lack of output from rarely seen Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum gives weight to the idea of restructuring - or abolishing - the elected post, government watchdogs said yesterday. "There's...
SLAY BUST ENDS 30-YEAR WEIGHT - 'PEACE' AT LAST FOR '76 VICTIM'S BROTHER
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amIn the 30 years since his sister was stabbed to death for her purse, Richard Paneck never gave up hope that her killer would be brought to justice. So as...
CLASS-KICKERS - 'DANGEROUS' SCHOOLS SOAR - AND N.Y. MAY BE LOWBALLING COUNT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe number of schools labeled "persistently dangerous" across New York state more than tripled, from five to 17, the Education Department said yesterday. An additional 10 schools were placed on...
'OBESE CHILD' SHOCK - UNDER-6 EPIDEMIC
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amKids, and especially infants, are more likely to be overweight today, an alarming Harvard medical study reveals. The rate of chubby children under 6 ballooned 59 percent and those at...
MSG BOSS SLAPS BACK AT EXEC IN SEX SUIT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMSG Chairman James Dolan is firing back at a former Knick exec who implicated him in a sex-harassment suit against team President Isiah Thomas. Calling the lawsuit "frivolous and groundless,"...
CRAZY MOM TRIED TO KILL BABY KARR BY BURNING
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amJohn Mark Karr's wacko mother tried to kill him when he was a little baby by setting him on fire, an explosive new report revealed yesterday. Patricia Elaine Adcock, the...
NYU'S GAY SWAY
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amIt's out - New York University is the most gay-friendly college in the city. So says a new college guide published by The Advocate magazine, which ranked the "gay point...
L.I. SERIAL 'CHOPPER' - 2 MORE SLAYINGS EYED
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA sicko who cops say chopped up a Glen Cove mom - then drove around with her head in his car trunk - is being eyed as a serial killer...
JUDGE ON THE GRILL - 'COACHED' DA: FOE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens Supreme Court judge was questioned like a common criminal yesterday when a lawyer grilled him about two "secret" conversations the jurist allegedly had with a prosecutor he's accused...
BAD GRADES FOR CHARTERS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amFourth-graders in charter schools across the country performed worse in math and reading than their peers in traditional public schools, according to a federal Education Department study released yesterday. Fourth-graders...
CRUISE AXED - STUDIO FIRES 'CRAZY' TOM; CRUISE CANNED
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMission: Terminated. Superstar Tom Cruise has gotten the boot from Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, who abruptly cut ties with the uberstar's production company because of his bizarro behavior off camera....
LIRR PROBERS 'MIND THE GAP'
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amPlatforms at all 246 Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North stations are being inspected in the wake of a horrifying accident in which a young woman was struck and killed...
JAIL GUARD IN BASH BUST
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA veteran Rikers Island correction officer was arrested after she gave a nasty beating to a woman and her son in an upper Manhattan housing complex, authorities said yesterday. Katrina...
'ROB' SIBS' AGONY - BANK 'BANDITS' ABUSED IN CULT: PALS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe brother and sister charged with a series of bank robberies in Manhattan have a strange and troubled history, The Post has learned. Joe Kirby, 23, and his sister, Shemini,...
'CUCKOO' CRUISE FIRED - 'UNACCEPTABLE CONDUCT' DRAWS MOGUL'S WRATH
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMission: Terminated. Kooky superstar Tom Cruise has gotten the boot from Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, who abruptly cut ties with the uber-star's production company because of his bizarro behavior off-camera....
NEW KT BLUNDER - TAKES 'THIEF' DAUGHTER TO BASH
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amHours after struggling GOP Senate candidate Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland announced she was halting her campaign because of her daughter's shoplifting bust, the plagued politico brought a bizarre guest to...
HUSBAND STABS WIFE AT WORK: COPS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens husband partially blinded his wife yesterday in a frenzied stabbing attack because he thought she was having an affair, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Indrapaul Rooplal, 42, allegedly attacked...
BLOW TO FEDS IN COP SLAYS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA key witness against accused cop killer Ronell Wilson is backing off statements he made to investigators that the alleged Staten Island gun runner knew the men he shot were...
WINE HAULER BUSTED FOR DWI
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man driving a truck loaded with bottles of wine flipped his vehicle on the Gowanus Expressway last night - and was promptly busted for DWI, police said. Eddie...
COPS CLASH WITH PERP'S PROTECTORS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA small riot broke out in a Brooklyn neighborhood last night when residents tried to prevent cops from arresting a drug suspect, authorities said. Police said officers patrolling the area...
MAYOR'S TALON SHOW - MIKE AN EAGLE SCOUT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe eagle has landed - but whoever thought Hizzoner would wind up as its handler? Mayor Bloomberg struggles to keep hold of the boisterous bird yesterday during a whirlwind 22-hour...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - HONOR THE BEST OF N.Y.
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amNew York is filled with unsung heroes - and The Post again is inviting readers to help us find and honor these selfless citizens. We are seeking candidates for the...
RIKERS GUARD IN E. HARLEM BEAT BUST
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA veteran Rikers Island correction officer was arrested after giving a nasty beating to a woman and her son in an upper Manhattan housing complex, authorities said yesterday. Katrina Bolden,...
'DEATH GAP' PROBE - LIRR TRAGEDY SPURS PLATFORM CHECKS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amPlatforms of all 246 Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North stations are being inspected in the wake of a horrifying accident in which a teenage girl was killed by an...
'HEIST' SIBS' AGONY - ABUSED IN CULT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe brother and sister who were just charged with a series of bank robberies in Manhattan have a strange and troubled history, The Post has learned. Joe Kirby, 23, and...
KT'S LASTEST BLUNDER - TAKES 'THIEF' DAUGHTER TO FUND-RAISER
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amHours after struggling GOP Senate candidate Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland announced that she was halting her campaign because of her daughter's shoplifting bust, the plagued politico brought a bizarre guest...
ATTENTION SHOPPERS: W. BOOSTS DOC 'RATINGS'
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Customers can easily run a cost comparison on car insurance, and now President Bush is aiming to make it just as easy to price-shop for a hip replacement....
COPS CLAM UP ON 2001 'CONFESSION'
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amAuthorities in California yesterday refused to say whether they ever passed on to Colorado police evidence that John Mark Karr had confessed five years ago to killing JonBenet Ramsey. The...
TALON SHOW - MIKE AN EAGLE SCOUT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe eagle has landed - but whoever thought Hizzoner would wind up as its handler? Mayor Bloomberg struggles to keep hold of the boisterous bird yesterday during a whirlwind 22-hour...
QUARTER-BACKUPS - JETS' COMPETITION A REAL FLIP OF COIN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amAll right. We know Chad Pennington is the Jets' starting quarterback. The competition for that job is over. Sure, Eric Mangini has not confirmed it yet, but Mangini won't confirm...
CURTIS HAS TAKEN PAY CUT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Curtis Martin, who remains on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list, was excused by the Jets yesterday to tend to some personal business, according to Eric Mangini....
BERNARDINI TAKES IT EASY IN TUNE-UP
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Superstar-in-the-making Bernardini, who figures to be odds-on versus five other 3-year-olds in Saturday's 137th running of the mile-and-a-quarter Travers Stakes, had an easy breeze yesterday morning, a...
BARBARO IS A 'HAPPY HORSE'
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Although chief of surgery Dr. Dean Richardson, Barbaro's lead veterinarian at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., remains cautious about the Derby champ's eventual recovery,...
GIONTA EXPECTS PACT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Brian Gionta did not declare he would play exhibition games without a contract, the Devils' record-setting goal-scorer insisted yesterday that "holding out" is neither his intent nor strategy. "We're...
ARENA, BULLS EYE OPEN CUP UPSET
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amBruce Arena likes the upset aspect of the U.S. Open Cup. He needs one tonight. Less than a month into his reign, Arena already has the chance to make some...
HURT MADISON BEING BABIED
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - When Giants veteran cornerback Sam Madison strained his hamstring last week, he anticipated he'd be nudged - gently or not-so-gently - to get back on the...
DIEHL HIM IN - GIANTS GUARD ALWAYS ON HAND
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - News flash: David Diehl practiced last night. He's expected to do so again today. At a time when every ache and pain is documented, when players take a...
LUCKY DAYS TURN OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amYOU can call the good news about Tom Glavine proof of the power of positive thinking, but really it was a matter of the Mets simply getting lucky when medical...
GLAV TO HEAR IT - JUST ENJOY THE AMAZIN' LUCK
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amYOU CAN call the good news about Tom Glavine proof of the power of positive thinking if that makes you feel better, but that implies that tragedy strikes only those...
LET'S HAIR IT FOR YANK SPIRIT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE symbol of the Yankees' tour-de-force, fivegame sweep at Fenway Park was not so much a stiff upper lip, but what was above it. Several Yankees have begun sporting mustaches...
GOOD TIMES - BELTRAN WALKOFF, DELGADO SLAM CAP AMAZIN' DAY
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMets 8 - Cardinals 7 All the good vibes the Mets had from getting good news about Tom Glavine and then learning they've acquired Shawn Green turned to full-blown euphoria...
YANK EXEC ON WAY OUT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - In another sign that GM Brian Cashman has control over every facet of the organization, long-time Tampa employee Lin Garrett will not be brought back next...
GREEN PASTURES - MET DEAL FOR D'BACKS OF ALL BUT DONE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amShawn Green is nearly the Mets' new right fielder. A baseball official told the Post last night that the team was close to acquiring Green from the Diamondbacks, a possible...
M-PTY FEELING - EXHAUSTED YANKS FALL ON WALKOFF HR
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMariners 6 - Yankees 5 SEATTLE - Nothing they did last night indicated the Yankees let down after winning five straight in Boston. Alex Rodriguez and Bobby Abreu homered and...
BOMBERS' NEXT FOE: LETDOWN - STILL LONG WAY BEFORE YANKS CAN POP CORKS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amSEATTLE - It's only a matter of time before rivers of champagne flow over their heads in celebration of the AL East, right? So whom will Joe Torre pick to...
MOUNDS OF JOY - TOM'S TEAMMATES FEEL RELIEF
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets left their clubhouse Sunday night fearing the possibility that Tom Glavine might be lost for the rest of the season to blood clots. They came back yesterday knowing...
DELGADO: GREEN GREAT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Delgado referred to Shawn Green last night as "a dear friend," and the Mets first baseman praised his pal and incoming teammate after last night's 8-7 Mets...
DELGADO HEAPS PRAISE ON NEWEST MET GREEN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Delgado referred to Shawn Green last night as "a dear friend," and the Mets first baseman praised his pal and incoming teammate after last night's 8-7 Mets...
GIONTA BANKING ON DEVILS PACT
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Brian Gionta did not declare he would play exhibition games without a contract, the Devils' recordsetting goal-scorer insisted yesterday that "holding out" is neither his intent nor strategy. "We're...
CURSES! S.I. IS OUT - PHOENIX BOUNCES STATEN ISLAND FROM THE LLWS
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amPhoenix 4 - S.I. 1 WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Staten Island's "Cardiac Kids" became the cursed kids at the Little League World Series, ending their run yesterday winless under a cloud...
IT'S TOURNEY TIME
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE will be a lot of anglers on the water this weekend competing in tournaments that will cover most of Long Island Sound and the waters around Montauk. The big...
GREEN PASTURES - METS DEAL FOR RIGHT FIELDER
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amOmar Minaya said last night that he continuously stresses finding pitchers. Shawn Green's arrival, though, can aid the Mets' arms. "I still believe that the more offense you have," Minaya...
TOM MAY RETURN NEXT WEEK
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTom Glavine wouldn't nail down a specific timetable for him to return. He still has to consult with the Mets' doctor. But Glavine is already talking about throwing bullpen sessions...
EXEC ON WAY OUT DOOR
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - In another sign that GM Brian Cashman has control over every facet of the organization, long-time Tampa employee Lin Garrett will not be brought back next...
MASSACRE LEAVES 'STACHE OF UNITY
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTHE symbol of the Yankees' tour-de-force, five-game sweep at Fenway Park was not so much a stiff upper lip, but what was above it. Several Yankees have begun sporting mustaches...
KNEE WOES ADD TO CASTRO'S TROUBLES
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Ramon Castro learned yesterday that he has a medial meniscus tear in his left knee as well as an MCL ligament strain that's classified as Grade 1, which...
GLAV TO HEAR IT - TOM MAY RETURN NEXT WEEK
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amTom Glavine wouldn't nail down a specific baseball timetable for himself. He still has to consult with the Mets' doctor. But Glavine spoke yesterday about throwing bullpen sessions and said...
IT'S OFFICIALLY DEION
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amNFL Network officially announced yesterday that Deion Sanders will be a studio host on its pregame shows. As The Post first reported last Friday, Sanders will be an analyst on...
MOTHER NOT UPSET OVER COACH'S SLAP
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - The mother of Matt Davis praised Staten Island manager Nick Doscher, whose whack of Davis in the dugout drew the ire of Little League officials. The Sundaynight...
S.I. PREZ ARGUES ON WFAN
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Staten Island LL prez Bob Johnson had a contentious 18-minute interview with WFAN's Chris Carlin yesterday to defend statements in Saturday's Post, in which he ripped the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 23, 2006 | 4:00amA tractor-trailer carrying 10 tons of cat litter flipped and dumped its load onto the Golden State Freeway in Sun Valley, Calif. Two lanes of the highway were closed for...