January 30, 2005
JURIES GO EASIER ON CEOS . . . BUT VICTIMS OF CORPORATE SCANDAL NEVER FORGET
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amCindy Evans was flat on her back in the summer of 2002, recovering from a bilateral mastectomy and facing a year of chemotherapy followed by 12 months of radiation treatment....
'TAXICAB CONFESSIONS' - LONELY HEARTS IN THE BACK SEAT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amTHE only thing in HBO's latest "Taxicab Confessions" that raises the question of authenticity is the show's main prop - a yellow cab rigged with six cameras as it cruises...
MOVIE PIX - OUR MOVIE CRITIC MEGAN LEHMANN'S BEST FILMS OF THE WEEK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amINVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Monday, 8 p.m., TCM Paranoia stalks Kevin McCarthy's shrink as the pod people take over a small American town in this classic 1956 sci-fi allegory....
PEGGY FLEMING REFUSES TO SHILL FOR ABC
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amONE night, Martin Sheen, in the midst of a "West Wing" episode, is going to turn to the camera, draw a breath and say, "Don't forget to watch 'The Apprentice,'...
'LOST.'COM - CREATOR OF ABC HIT SPONSORS FAN WEB SITE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amTHE creator of "Lost" sponsors a gem of a Web site that is so cool he doesn't want word to get out about it. J.J. Abrams, the brains behind "Lost"...
CARSON'S SUCCESSORS DON'T DELIVER
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amIN the wake of Johnny Carson's death, this is as good a time as any to assess the state of latenight TV. It is not a pretty picture. Latenight TV...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amDOCUMENTARY A hot time in the old town PEOPLE are still talking, wondering about, dramatizing and awed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. As the volcanic lava...
IT'S A DOGGONE SHAME; BADLY ABUSED BROOKLYNN NEEDS A HOME
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amLast week, Animal Care & Control (AC&C) picked up a dog that had been tied to a fence on a Brooklyn street corner. Sadly, people abandon dogs anonymously all the...
INTUITION WORTH THINKING ABOUT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amINTUITION is in. Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller "Blink," quick decisions based on gut feelings are a hot topic. But in master chess, intuitive moves have been the rule rather...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00am1 'Gilmore Girls' re-runs The wildly underrated show has cultivated a whole new audience, ranging from pre-teens to music-snob scenesters to middle-aged suburban parents. Now in re-runs on ABCFamily, there...
DIRTY 'DANCING - NOTHING WAS TABOO - FROM GROSS-OUT JOKES TO STEAMY SEX - AT SUNDANCE THIS YEAR. WELCOME TO SIN-DANCE - FILMS PUT ON A GOOD OFFENSIVE AT THIS YEAR'S SUNDANCE FESTIVAL
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - There was plenty of shock and awe at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Audiences here have come to expect taboo-busting behavior from the indie movies making...
NEED A USED CHEVY?
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - He looks like any other suburban dad visiting a ski resort with his teenage daughter. But make no mistake about it: A humble Chevy Chase -...
MISS & HITS - BEAUTY QUEEN VANESSA WILLIAMS BOUNCES BACK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amVanessa Williams is a fighter who knows how to win and lose gracefully. She made history in 1984, when she became the first woman of color to win the Miss...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amJoe Cocker "Heart & Soul" (four stars) New Door Records With Brother Ray dead and gone, Joe Cocker, the blue-eyed soul singer from England, inherits his throne with this gritty...
HEAR THIS
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amIN CONCERT * Punk-flavored rock bands Lola Ray, I Am the Avalanche and On My Signal at the Knitting Factory tomorrow. * Brit-poppers Keane at Hammerstein Ballroom on Wednesday. *...
FLOYD'S NO VOID - 'PINK' LASER SHOWS STILL ROCK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amMention the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular to a classic rock fan, and they'll practically smell the pot smoke wafting through the air. That's because the 40-year-old Brit band is almost...
DARK SIDE - KNOW-IT-ALL PROTAGONIST TAKES THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amThe Society of Others William Nicholson (Three and a half stars) Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $23.95 What if Holden Caulfield suddenly found himself in the midst of a totalitarian state, mistakenly...
THUMBS UP! THE CINEPLEX ISN'T TOO COMPLEX FOR MR. EBERT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amROGER Ebert may just be the most misunderstood figure in Hollywood. Still known as "the fat one" opposite Gene Siskel (who died in 1999), and now opposite co-host Eric Roeper,...
REQUIRED READING
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amGot a jones for the blues? Crank up some Howlin' Wolf and crack open "The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues" by University of Memphis music professor David Evans. The...
INSIDE THE TOP AUDITIONS - OSCAR NOMINEES BEGGED, PLEADED AND EVEN STRIPPED TO WIN THEIR ROLES
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amFor the Oscar nominees, all the red carpets lead to the same place - the Kodak Theatre on Feb. 27. But their journeys couldn't have started any differently. While established...
'RORY O'SHEA' MAKES NO SYMPATHY PLAY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amThis is the story of two wheelchair-bound men with debilitating diseases - but please, spare them the violins. "It's actually just a buddy movie," says non-disabled Scottish actor James McAvoy,...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amTHE WEDDING DATE In her first starring role, TV's Debra Messing plays a single gal who hires a male escort to be her "boyfriend" for her sister's wedding because the...
A COOK-OFF AT KICK-OFF - CITY CHEFS ARE SQUARING OFF FOR THE BIG GAME
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amFootball players won't be the only ones engaged in rowdy competition when the Super Bowl gets in gear next Sunday. When the referee blows the whistle to signal the kick-off,...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amHoping for Movie Magic Last week we paired up Adrienne, a 27-year-old product development manager, and Ethan, a 28-year-old music executive, and sent them off for dinner and a movie....
MEET MARKET: THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amGroovy 24yo SWF sks Kissable SM MEET Abby, a 24-year-old fundraiser who is cute, energetic and always has a smile on her face. When she's not working, you're likely to...
JEAN QUEEN - DENIM IN SIZES THAT WILL FLATTER AND FIT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amTHESE days,it seems like a new designer denim line hits the market every five minutes.Unfortunately,it also seems that none of the hottest styles is available in jeans sizes over 32...
SHANNEN'S COMEBACK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amPARK CITY,UTAH - She 's back! Shannen Doherty was in Sundance for more than just free gifts and photo ops with on-again boyfriend Rick Salomon . The diminutive TV diva,who...
READY, SET, SHOW! COMING SOON AT FASHION WEEK: J.LO'S DEBUT, EXPECTANT MOMS AND (SIGH) MORE TWEED
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amFashion Week doesn't kick off until Friday - but Seventh Avenue types are already wound tighter than a Baby Phat sweater. Across the city, stressed-out designers are making last minute...
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: MIKE RIVAL CASHING IN ON COUNCIL CLOUT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amIT'LL pay for members of the City Council to support Speaker Gifford Miller for mayor. "My suspicion is that those who are helpful should expect to be treated better [at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amOwning a $60 million gem isn't such a good thing, says Victor Barbish. Since he became majority owner of the 14-pound, football-sized Pearl of Allah, it has caused nothing but...
SLAIN POL'S 'SON' WINS DNA TEST
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge is ordering the city medical examiner to turn over DNA from slain Councilman James Davis to help a college student prove he is the politician's love child...
B'KLYN MOURNS PLOW GIRL
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amHundreds of mourners gathered in a Red Hook church yesterday to remember the little girl killed by a city snowplow. Children and elderly neighbors, police officers, family and friends filled...
3RD DAY OF TEARS; BRAVEST LAY TO REST ANOTHER COMRADE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amAS the coffin was lowered from the firetruck at 11:29 a.m., Jeanette Meyran looked to the sky as if heaven could change it all. Eight pallbearers laid Lt. Curtis Meyran's...
FIREBUG HITS SUBWAY BOOTH
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amA pregnant subway-booth clerk narrowly escaped with her life yesterday when an arsonist set fire to the outside of the booth in Brooklyn, cops and colleagues said. As the gasoline-fueled...
THUMB TIPS OFF COPS - ROBBERY SUSPECT FINGERED BY LOST DIGIT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amA bungling burglar gave cops the finger - literally - and the NYPD is happy he did. Franco Beaumont, 20, left a part of his severed thumb at the scene...
RUDY PAL BUSTED OVER 'THREAT' NOTE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amA former MTA board member and politically connected pal of former Mayor Giuliani was arrested for threatening a neighbor in a misspelled missive. Alan Friedberg allegedly penned a note to...
SCHOOL-KILL DAD IS BAD NEWS: EX
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amThe brokenhearted mom of a 7-year-old girl allegedly butchered by her father in an upstate parochial school described him yesterday as a violent and manipulative thug who tried for years...
MUSH ADO IN WACKY N.Y. RACE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amAlaska's famed Iditarod dog-sled race took a wacky urban twist yesterday in the Big Apple's second annual "Idiotarod" competition. Instead of mushers driving sled dogs through the wilderness from Anchorage...
KID SOLDIERS; A GLOBAL SCANDAL
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amCHILDREN AT WARBY P. W. SINGER PANTHEON BOOKS, 269 PAGES, $25 MILLIONS of children have been corrupted by war. With the advent of lighter, deadlier weapons amid globe-spanning disorder, the...
MIKE'S SWINGIN' SIDE IS RETIRED
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amHe's no longer playing the field. Caught that? As Mets superstar Mike Piazza embarked on a new future as a married man yesterday, he closed the door on a colorful...
BRONX-LEAP FIREMAN: LATE BROTHER'S SPIRIT SAVED ME
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amBrendan Cawley got a hero's reception as he walked out of St. Barnabas Hospital yesterday, and credits his miraculous survival of a four-story leap in last Sunday's Bronx inferno to...
311 HOT LINE'S HUGE 'VOLUME' OF GRIPES
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amNew Yorkers just can't keep it to a dull roar. For the second consecutive year, noise complaints topped the list of calls to the city's 311 non-emergency hot line, phone...
BEAUTY'S FAREWELL; SLAIN ACTRESS'FINAL VISIT HOME
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amAs police searched yesterday for the gutless gunman who murdered Nicole DuFresne, the aspiring actress' loved ones reflected on how she spent her last months catching up with family members...
MOM RIPS 'SLAY' DAD
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amThe brokenhearted mother of a 7-year-old girl butchered allegedly by her father in an upstate parochial school described him yesterday as a violent and manipulative thug who tried for years...
HERE COMES THE BLITZ ; ALL-STAR SUPER BOWL ADS ON THE WAY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amWhat do the Easter Bunny and a buck-naked Dennis Rodman have in common? They're both stars in this year's Super Bowl ads. Advertisers are also lining up a reference to...
NOW THAT'S A DOG CALLER; SAY HI TO YOUR POOCH VIA CELLPHONE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amOwner, phone home. If you've ever missed your beloved pooch while at work, you can now say hello. Get ready for a cellphone for your pet. Invented by Cameron Robb...
A 'CAT' HOUSE CHARITY; SEX $$ WENT TO PETS
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amThe woman accused of running $3 million-a-year sex ring that included underage hookers told The Post yesterday that her carnal cartel was all about raw animal passion - literally. Accused...
MIKE'S HOLY 'MET'RIMONY; PLAYBOY HOTTIE BECOMES SLUGGER'S WIFE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amMets hero Mike Piazza made the catch of his life yesterday - tying the knot in a candlelit ceremony with his Playboy Playmate bride, Alicia Rickter, before yachting to a...
PERFECT COP-IES; THE POST GOES UNDERCOVER TO DISCOVER IT'S ALARMINGLY EASY BEING N.Y.'S PHONIEST
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amWITH a week and $500, you can pass yourself off as a police officer. In the wake of a recent murder and other crimes by fake cops, The Post cobbled...
OUTRAGE AT 'GIFF & TAKE'; CITY-BIZ STAFFS PAY UP
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller's campaign coffers include $160,000 from people who work at companies with city contracts, a Post investigation revealed. The discovery comes on the eve of the...
KIDS' E-VIL DEEDS: 'CYBERBULLIES' TAKE SCHOOLYARD TORMENT ONLINE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amFIFTEEN-year-old Molly was blackmailed by a rival who'd taken topless cellphone photos of her - and threatened to e-mail them to a boy she hated. Thirteen-year-old Robin was called a...
SQUEEZE ON FOR PIAZZA ; SLUGGER MARRIES PLAYBOY SWEETIE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amMets hero Mike Piazza made the catch of his life yesterday - tying the knot in a candlelit ceremony with his Playboy Playmate, Alicia Rickter, before yachting to a lavish...
MUSH ADO ABOUT SLED-LETTER DAY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amAlaska's famed Iditarod dog sled race took a wacky urban twist yesterday in the Big Apple's second annual "Idiotarod" competition. Instead of mushers driving sled dogs through the wilderness from...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** A man shot in Harlem last month during a robbery has died of his injuries, police said. Michael Berryman, 32, of Odell Avenue, The Bronx, died Friday at...
VOTER BRAVERY AMID CARNAGE - HIGH-TURNOUT VOW AS DEADLY STRIKE HITS U.S. EMBASSY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amAs the polls geared up to open for today's historic election, Iraq was rocked by widespread violence yesterday - including a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy that two Americans....
SHIITES SENSING VICTORY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A political party of Shiite Muslim leaders - many of whom have close ties to Iran - is poised to dominate today's elections in Iraq and sweep the...
FLOOR'S YOURS, DEER HUNTERS
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE will be a number of statewide meetings held next month to give sportsmen a chance to voice their opinions about several proposed changes to deer-hunting seasons in New York...
PLAN FOR STADIUM ACROSS STREET RIGHT AROUND CORNER
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amWhat do you get the team that has everything? A new stadium, of course. A memo of understanding is circulating among the Yankees, New York City and New York State...
HERE'S A SOLUTION: ADD A YEAR
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amIT HAS been long apparent that the NHL entered this lockout with three specific agendas that sometimes overlapped or bumped into one another. The governors began the fray intending to:...
GIANTS, JETS FANS OUT IN COLD
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - One of these years - or decades - a bus filled with Jets will empty out in front of LaGuardia Airport on the Sunday before Super Sunday for...
STAPLES STINGER - NEW HEIGHTS FOR CARTER
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Lakers already had a run of 10 straight points and the Nets' attempt to pull ahead got them about as far as you get on...
PATRIOTS WRS CATCHING ON
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - The Patriots throw so much underneath their receivers are underrated. Or were until the Steelers secondary lost its underwear last Sunday, getting burned for 60 yards and 45...
ROMAN'S EMPIRE; EX-JET PHIFER A WINNER NOW
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Roman Phifer figured he'd never get to the playoffs at all. After 10 NFL seasons of conducting himself like a consummate professional, making play after play after play...
'SIX' BREEZES IN PAUMONOK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amBefore yesterday's $75,000 Paumonok Handicap at the Big A, trainer Scott Lake, whose Don Six was coming off a gate-to-wire score in the Gravesend six weeks ago, said the 5-year-old...
MIG CLOSING IN ON 4,000
January 30, 2005 | 5:00am1ST RACE - Fighting Roy Kelly gunned to front under Stewart Elliott, was soon joined to his outside by For Love and Honor. Those two dueled to top of stretch,...
JUST D-LIGHTFUL - KNICKSAVOID3-PEAT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amDETROIT - When Knicks president Isiah Thomas left for his scouting trip to Spain and Italy yesterday, he could go overseas with the knowledge interim coach Herb Williams plugged an...
LADY PATS STILL CHASIN' BERGTRAUM
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amDawn Coleman is in her fourth year at Francis Lewis, three on the varsity level, so she is well aware of Bergtraum's power in the PSAL. The Lady Blazers have...
IN L.A., NETS FIND EIGHT IS ENOUGH
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES SALT LAKE CITY - Another day, another game. Another short-handed roster. While team president Rod Thorn attempted a phone hookup with the 7-footer grabbed off waivers, Elden Campbell,...
BELOW THE NORM; ST. JOHN'S COACH RIPS SLOPPY STORM AFTER LOSS TO HALL
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amSeton Hall 62St. John's 55 For 16 games, St. John's coach Norm Roberts has pushed and prodded and cajoled and encouraged his undersized, undermanned team to reach down for a...
MILES AIN'T SMILIN'
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amMAURICE Cheeks isn't the only one disappointed Darius Miles merely got a two-game suspension for "going off" on him at a team video session Thursday afternoon. Considering the Blazers' losing...
GATTI CATCHES JESSE JAMES
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - A sellout crowd of 12,599 packed Boardwalk Hall last night hoping to the see the explosive power of Arturo Gatti. But those in attendance had to wait...
NETS HOPE CAMPBELL WILL DECIDE TO REPORT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES SALT LAKE CITY - Elden Campbell might not become the happiest Net. But the feeling in his preferred stomping grounds of Detroit is that he will be a...
IT'S A VIN STREAK - CARTER POWERS NETS AGAIN
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amNets 99 Jazz 82 SALT LAKE CITY - The Vince Carter Show continued for the Nets last night. With Jason Kidd giving another dominating co-starring performance. And the supporting cast...
ST. MIKE'S KIA PRETTY DRIVEN TO DOMINATE
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amKia Vaughn didn't start playing basketball until she was in eighth grade - and then, she only did so to appease her mother. "She kept saying I had to play...
'O' NO! KNICKS DO FLOP IN MOTOWN
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amPistons 91Knicks 61 AUBURN HILLS - Is Larry Brown really going to want this mess? A day after the Piston coach called the Knicks his "dream" job, Brown was the...
SUPER MAN - MCNABB CARRIES EAGLES ON BACK
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Before Eagles coach Andy Reid spoke with anyone else about what lay ahead, he first made sure to caution Donovan McNabb about what he could expect, starting today,...
A MASTER KRAFTSMAN - HOW FOOTBALL'S TOP OWNER BUILT PATS INTO DYNASTY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amYOU don't ask for much out of your Ideal Owner, right? It's a simple cocktail, really. You just need to start with the proper ingredients. A tablespoon of George Steinbrenner's...
TWO DECADES OF PHUTILITY - PHRUSTRATED PHILLY PRAYING EAGLES END TOWN'S TITLE DROUGHT
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - On a street corner here last week, a man who identified himself simply as "Ike" was washing a windshield for some spare change when his customer asked how...
103M DOLLARS & A DREAM - LOTTERY BECKONS ISIAH AFTER THIS KNICK DISASTER
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amIsiah Thomas should have a warm seat on the Secaucus dais for May's draft lottery. Thomas recently called the Knicks "probably a .500 team, maybe a little better." Turns out,...
GUTTING IT OUT - KIDD, VINCE KEEP NETS GOING AFTER RJ INJURY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - It could be worse for the Nets. For starters, they are in the Atlantic Division, where back-to-back victories can make a team elite. And consider how...
BLASTS FROM THE POST - A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS JAN. 30 - FEB. 5
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amKING OF THE ROAD - Knick sharpshooter hits 50-50 in Texas FEB. 1 1984 DALLAS - Bernard King was Superman again last night. In a breathless, 41-minute encore performance, King...
GREAT VS. GRATE - ASK FORMER CADDIE IF VIJAY'S GOOD GUY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amIT started two years ago, then last season shifted into overdrive. Of course it did. As Vijay Singh proved a relentless force and frequent champion - so good, in fact,...
LOADED FOR BEARS - BILLY BOB LIVIN' DREAM AS BUTTERMAKER
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amGOOD news for "Bad News Bears" fans - the remake is rounding third. Much like the beer-guzzling, martini-sipping Walter Matthau in the original, this new Coach Morris Buttermaker is going...
HEAD TO HEAD
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amPost baseball writer Michael Morrissey and columnist Kevin Kernan slug it out over whether Doug Mientkiewicz should keep the ball that broke the Red Sox' curse Michael Morrissey: Kevin, Doug...
BASEBALL'S NEW MATH - DIFFERENT LOOK AT HOW TEAMS SPENT (AND WASTED) MONEY
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amTHE Yankees have a $200 million payroll, not $200 million in talent. Players such as Kevin Brown, Jason Giambi and Steve Karsay, for example, would have a hard time getting...
GRAPEFRUIT GREMLINS - 5 KEY ISSUES FACING METS AND YANKEES - PIG 'PEN THREATENS TO SABOTAGE STAR-GAZING RANDOLPH
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amOmar Minaya was a perpetual-motion machine for the past three months, somehow dovetailing his force of personality and flush financial backing into the feel-good hit of the offseason. Next month,...
GRAPEFRUIT GREMLINS - 5 KEY ISSUES FACING METS AND YANKEES - HEAT'S ON TORRE TO WIN IT ALL WITH AGING TEAM, REBUILT ROTATION
January 30, 2005 | 5:00amJOE Torre's transformation into an institution as Yankee manager has obscured an astonishing sports accomplishment - that he is about to begin his 10th spring training in his job. Torre...