March 26, 2005
BLOCKBUST-ED; VIDEO GIANT DROPS $1B OFFER FOR H'WOOD ENT.
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amBlockbuster bowed out of the battle for control of Hollywood Entertainment because of regulatory concerns, paving the way for smaller rival Movie Gallery to press ahead with its bid. Blockbuster...
AIG BOARD TO HANK: TALK TO ELIOT, OR ELSE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amFor Hank Greenberg, after 40 years of running AIG, it's come down to this: talk or walk. The embattled AIG chairman is going to have to answer all questions from...
NEUTRON JACK GETS ALL MUSHY
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amFormer General Electric CEO Jack Welch says he has no regrets about leaving his wife for a former magazine editor, 24 years his junior, nor does he feel badly about...
GIMME SHELTER
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amGOLDIE GETS NEW LOCKS? GOLDIE HAWN must have saved a few bucks since her bikini-dancing days on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. "Sources say the eternally perky actress (who will turn...
EMPIRE STATS - WANT TO INVEST IN NEW YORK STATE? HERE ARE THE TOP COUNTIES, BY THE NUMBERS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amYOU may not believe in momentum in poker or sports, but when real estate's your game, it's good to be in a hot market. As real-estate guru Dolf de Roos...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - TAKE A SEAT
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amABH Designs 401 E. 76th St., at First Avenue (212) 249-2276 Sale: through April 20 Open: Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Table accessories are discounted 10 percent to 50 percent. Astier...
MY NEW HOME
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amFREELANCERS SEEK MORE SPACE WHAT THEY BOUGHT: Jackson Heights Two-Bedroom, $375K SEARCH TIME: 1 year WHEN it came to purchasing a coop, Ari Kreith and Ben Morss had a big...
THE MILD WEST - INGALLS FAMILY'S OLD-FASHIONED VALUES TIMELESS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00am"LITTLE HOUSE on the Prairie" Tonight at 8 on Ch. 7 (four stars) 'THE Wonderful World of Disney" finally is again! Wonderful that is. And the wonder is in the...
'IDOL' TIME TRUMPS 'APPRENTICE' ; SPECIAL EPISODE ON FOX EATS INTO NBC'S PRIME-TIME MENU
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amFOX's "American Idol" eliminated a chunk of "The Apprentice" audience Thursday night - siphoning off about 4 million viewers from NBC's reality show. Thursday's special live "Idol" episode, which was...
WHAT'S UP? YOUR BEST BETS THIS WEEKEND
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amMAD HATTER'S PARTY: If you have an Easter bonnet of your own, go ahead and show it after the parade - you just may win a prize! The annual Mad...
A HAIR-RAISING ACT
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amMaybe the elephants would disagree, but the hardest-working performer at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has got to be Bello Nock. The 36-year-old, high-haired comic daredevil not only...
INSIDE THE BIG TOP - TAKE A TUMBLE WITH THE GUYS FROM THE WINDY CITY
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amElephants, acrobats and clowns - oh my! Just when you think life in these five boroughs couldn't get more exciting, a three-ring circus comes to town. The Ringling Bros. and...
A SUNDANCE FAVORITE COMES TO TOWN
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe Museum of Modern Art is braced for a "Junebug" invasion. No, not those pesky beetles - rather, Phil Morrison's film, which unreels at MoMA at 1 p.m. tomorrow, as...
I SURVIVED SHARK ATTACK - FOTOG'S MIRACLE ESCAPE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThis Great White (above) almost had Mark Currie's number. The British tourist (right) barely escaped a shark's pearly whites off the South African coast and walked off with all his...
STATE BIG GETS IN GEAR
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - The well-paid civil servant who spent the last three years reading books and twiddling her thumbs on the state's dime has landed a new post - as part...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amAmazed undersea scientists spotted a couple of crafty octopuses "tiptoeing" along the ocean floor on two tentacles - and pretending to be algae by wrapping their remaining six arms around...
SICKO CHOKED PUP: COPS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx drugstore worker is under arrest on a charge of strangling his 4-month-old pit bull because the puppy had made "a mess" on the kitchen floor, authorities said. Cross,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** A one-time heavyweight boxer and actor who now suffers from Alzheimer's diseaase disappeared from outside his Harlem apartment, cops said yesterday. Claude Chapman (above) was last seen in...
NEW HACK AT DJ 'CABBIE'
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe feds' case against deejay "Crazy Cabbie" took a U-turn yesterday as a judge delayed sentencing for tax charges - and revealed he could stiffen the radio personality's prison term...
OIL-FOR-FOOD PROBE WILL POINT AT KOFI
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amU.N. chief Kofi Annan will be blamed for failing to pay enough attention to the conflict of interest caused by his son's work with a contractor involved in the Iraq...
KIDS: OUR TEACH IS NO PERV
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amA popular teacher at a prestigious Brooklyn high school - accused of inappropriately touching a teenage pupil - was almost in tears yesterday as several of his students showed up...
CONDI SLAPS ISRAEL; IRE OVER W. BANK
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has blasted Israel's plans to expand a West Bank settlement and said it was "at odds with American policy," in her loudest slap...
THE BATTLE IS OVER - LET HER REST IN PEACE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amIT is time to let go of Terri Schiavo. Please, let this poor woman die in peace. The national shouting match that has erupted over the inevitably grim fate of...
STATE 'GOP GATE'; SENATE OFFICE BREAK-IN
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Police are investigating the mysterious overnight break-in and theft of $7,000 in cash from a Republican Senate office complex yesterday, The Post learned last night. The money was...
SWEET DAY FOR FAITH; GOOD FRIDAY FINDS FLOCK IN REFLECTION AND ON EGG HUNTS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amChristians thronged to the city's churches yesterday to contemplate the Good Friday sacrifice Jesus Christ made on the cross. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, an overflow crowd stood in the aisles...
BX. 'STRIP' PARENTS STILL FUME
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe boys who claim they were illegally strip-searched at their Bronx elementary school are scarred for life - and the $150,000 the city has offered three of them doesn't right...
EMOTIONS RUN HIGH OUTSIDE HOSPICE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amPINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Resignation was mixed with anger yesterday among the protesters standing vigil outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is nearing death. The solemnity of the day was...
IT'S 'RALLY' BAD NEWS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe Daily News Scratch n' Stiff scandal took a new twist yesterday, as City Councilman Charles Barron vowed to keep pressure on the paper. A fuming Barron said that, next...
FEDEX PHONIES IN $7M JEWEL HEIST; ARMED DUO CLEANS OUT DIAMOND DISTRICT STORE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amTwo gunmen posing as FedEx deliverymen took advantage of lax security on a quiet Good Friday, snatching $7 million worth of diamonds and other jewels from a Diamond District wholesaler,...
OUT OF TOWN BOMB; SOUR 'CHARITY' CLOSING
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe producers of the troubled revival of "Sweet Charity," which was scheduled to opened in New York next month, are closing the show in Boston, as I predicted yesterday. The...
PRINTS ON JACKO PORNO; ACCUSEROGLED HIS SMUT: COP
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's young accuser was found with his fingers all over the King of Pop's private porn stash, according to fingerprint evidence presented to jurors at...
JOGGING GRAMPS KILLED IN HIT-RUN
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amAn 85-year-old retired Russian-born astrophysicist on his usual early-morning jog along Bay Parkway in Brooklyn was killed by a hit-and-run driver, officials said yesterday. Ilya Aptekar, 85, was jogging near...
KARATE PERV SUSPECT MAKES BAIL
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amA Staten Island karate master who was accused of molesting two teenage girls was freed on bail yesterday. Robert Kim, 37, who co-owns the Dragon Kim's Karate USA chain with...
LENNY'S LAST PLAY CALL A SCORE FOR WILLIAMS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SEATTLE - Turns out Lenny Wilkens' final act as Knicks coach Jan. 21 was one of his best. According to a source close to Wilkens, he recommended to...
WEAKENED JOHN PAUL SHOWS ONLY ON VIDEO
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amPope John Paul II, weakened by illness, skipped Good Friday observances for the first time since becoming pontiff and opted to appear before the faithful in a video shot in...
HER EYES SAY 'PLEASE HELP' ; 'DOWN TO LAST HOURS' AS FEDS REFUSE TO STEP IN
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amA federal appeals court yesterday refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube - hours after the severely brain-damaged woman's father said she was weakening and down "to...
SEXY SARAH'S 40 IN THE CITY
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSarah Jessica Parker makes her grand party entrance last night, accompanied by spiffy hubby Matthew Broderick. Sex never looked so good at 40. "Sex and the City" siren Sarah Jessica...
AILING POPE APPEARS ON VIDEO
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amPope John Paul II, weakened by illness, skipped Good Friday observances for the first time since becoming pontiff and opted to appear before the faithful in a video shot in...
MAYOR CALLS COUNCIL'S 'PLAZA' BILL A BIG LOSER
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amA controversial City Council proposal to prevent The Plaza hotel from converting more than 20 percent of its space to condos would be tossed by the courts in "two seconds,"...
MIKE DUMBFOUNDED BY ED. TEST-PREP BUNGLE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amA flabbergasted Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said he could hardly believe it when he learned that city educrats produced math test-prep manuals that were rife with errors. "Every day you wake...
FOES PAN GARDEN'S 'ROCKY' W. $IDE BID
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSupporters of the West Side stadium charged yesterday that Cablevision's claim it submitted a $760 million plan was fuzzy math. Jim Whelan, executive director of the Hudson Yards Coalition, turned...
SURPRISING NEW HACK AT DJ CABBIE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amThe feds' case against deejay "Crazy Cabbie" took a U-turn yesterday as a judge delayed sentencing for tax charges - and revealed he could stiffen the radio personality's prison term...
ANGUISH AS N.J. FAMILY CHOOSES LIFE FOR THEIR KID
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amTWO years ago, Rena Lynne del Rosario was a straight- A student enjoying the life of a typical 15-year-old: playing piano, reading Harry Potter books and heading to the shore....
TRAVELING HOME: LATE CALL THWARTS 'NOVA UPSET BID
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE REGIONNo. Carolina 67Villanova 66 SYRACUSE - Twenty years later it was almost a second Perfect Upset. Except for one Imperfect Call. Trailing 66-63 with 11.6 seconds left, Villanova had...
RAIN MAY PUSH TPC TO TUESDAY
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -The showdown between the "Big Four" on the big stage will have to wait another day because yesterday's Players Championship second round at Sawgrass was washed...
PRADO ENJOYS HOMECOMING
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amEdgar Prado rode three winners in his first full day back after spending winter at Gulfstream Park. Short prices dominated card, with four winning favorites and only one winner paying...
EW DA MAN! ALL DUKE'S EWING HAS DONE IS WON
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amAUSTIN - When Duke took the court last night to face Michigan State in an NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game, Daniel Ewing took his accustomed place in the starting lineup....
NOBODY TOO BIG FOR BOGUT
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amAUSTIN NOTES AUSTIN - As the first-year head coach at Utah, Ray Giacoletti knew how tall and talented 7-foot center Andrew Bogut, was but he didn't know much about his...
TAKING OFFENSE ; N.C. STATE, WISCONSIN DEFEND THEIR STYLES
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - College coaches, assistant coaches, high school coaches and AAU coaches had their VCRs on last night. Smack dab in the middle of the NCAA tournament, right there in...
DAYDREAMING TAKES NEXT MOVE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amTalk about going from the ridiculous to the sublime. Over the winter in Florida, trainer Shug McGaughey couldn't buy a winner. But after returning from Gulfstream Park, McGaughey has won...
BRACKET BUSTERS ; LOUISVILLE, ; WEST VIRGINIA SURPRISE ELITE EIGHT FOES
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE - They talked about getting here all season, of course, because that is always the dream. Every team comes out of October believing it can make it to this...
CENTER OF ATTENTION ; PITTSNOGLE PLAYS INSIDE-OUT
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE - Sometimes, the old timers look with wonder at what has become of their game. They see things on a basketball floor that nobody ever could have dreamed of:...
IS NY FAMILY FEUD NOW FLAMING OUT? MARBURY: TELFAIRDIDN'T KNOW BETTER
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Stephon Marbury and Sebastian Telfair meet again tonight in Portland, the two point-guard cousins from Coney Island. This time, there's more intrigue than ever. Telfair, who faced Marbury...
SWEET 16 LOSS LAST YEAR PROPELS ILLINI THIS SEASON
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Before the eyes were even dry in their Georgia Dome locker room, before Illinois had even digested their Sweet 16 loss to Duke a year ago today, coach...
NETS JUST TRYING TO KEEP THEIR COOL
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amWhen they vaulted themselves right back into the playoff race with five straight victories, the Nets didn't rush to the mountain tops to shout their praises to the world. It...
BOMBERS RELEASE GLANVILLE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEARWATER - Before camp opened, Doug Glanville could've been considered an odds-on favorite to be Bernie Williams' backup this season. But going just 10-for-47 this spring, the Yankees...
TORRE STILL MULLING STARTING ROTATION
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amPhillies 6Yankees 5 CLEARWATER - Unless you're enthralled by the battle between Bubba Crosby and Damian Rolls for the Yankees' 25th roster spot, there's really only one question left in...
STIFF N' SCRATCHED ; BAD BACK KEEPS MARTINEZ OUT OF SCHEDULED START
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amMarlins 7Mets 4 PORT ST. LUCIE - All through spring, Pedro Martinez had been exactly what the Mets dreamed - dominant and durable. Until last night. Martinez was scratched from...
DEVIL DOGS ; TOP-SEEDED DUKE TRASHED BY MICHIGAN STATE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amAUSTIN REGION Michigan St. 78 Duke 68 AUSTIN - For all that's been achieved under Tom Izzo, the one thing Michigan State had never done was slay the dragon called...
WILDCATS TAME RUNNIN' UTES ; UTAH, BOGUT NO MATCH FOR UK
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amAUSTIN REGION Kentucky 62 Utah 52 AUSTIN - It is one of those strange quirks of happenstance that shouldn't work this way but almost always does. For some reason, come...
MARBURY: TELFAIR DIDN'T KNOW BETTER
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SEATTLE - Stephon Marbury and Sebastian Telfair meet again tonight in Portland, Coney Island's point-guard cousins. This time, there's more intrigue than ever. Telfair, who faced Marbury at...
EXTRA PAINFUL - ALLEN'S OT HEROICS SPOIL LATE KNICK MAGIC
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amOT: BOXSCORE / P. 60Sonics 109Knicks 101 SEATTLE - The Knicks had the magic at the end of the fourth quarter but the Sonics had Ray Allen all night long....
IT'S ON, WISCONSIN ; N.C. STATE LOSS END FOR HODGE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE REGIONWisconsin 65N.C. State 56 SYRACUSE - The two players from St. Raymond, one who put N.C. State back on the basketball map and the other who intends to keep...
MAY DAY FOR 'NOVA - CAROLINA FORWARD BIG PROBLEM FOR 'CATS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - If North Carolina's Sean May were an NBA free agent instead of a college junior, we would call this a salary drive. If May were a free agent,...
IT'S ON, WISCONSIN - N.C. STATE LOSS END FOR HODGE
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE REGION Wisconsin 65 N.C. State 56 SYRACUSE - The two players from St. Raymond, one who put N.C. State back on the basketball map and the other who intends...
ILLINI AIM TO FINISH JOB
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Before the eyes were even dry in their Georgia Dome locker room, before Illinois had even digested their Sweet 16 loss to Duke a year ago today, coach...
MAY DAY FOR 'NOVA - CAROLINA STAR FORWARD BIG PROBLEM FOR 'CATS
March 26, 2005 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - If North Carolina's Sean May were an NBA free agent instead of a college junior, we would call this a salary drive. If May were a free agent,...