August 14, 2005

SECRET COUNSELOR; SHADOWY FIGURE ADVISES ICAHN ON TW BREAKUP BID

AN old pal of the late Steve Ross is advising Carl Icahn on his bid to break up Time Warner. Oded Aboodi, the shadowy financier who was the legendary Time...

ALTAR-ED STATES; M*A*S*H ACTOR EXPLAINS KLEINFELD'S BIG MOVE

Of all the M*A*S*H characters to invest in a bridal shop, Jamie Farr's cross-dressing Corporal Klinger would be the most likely. But it was Wayne Rogers - a.k.a. the skirt-chasing,...

GOING OUT GREEN BOOSTED BY HBO

The nascent field of "green funerals" scored a publicity coup with last week's episode of HBO's "Six Feet Under." On the show, the main character Nate Fisher, is buried in...

BEWARE THE FALL - AND MARK MY WORDS

DANGER, stock market investors. I wanted to be the first one to write that the stock market could be in for a dangerous Fall. Fall, as in the season. But...

MEET ME FOR TEA, NOT JAVA

New York City taste buds are warming up to tea. Tea shops are popping up in trendy neighborhoods, existing shops are looking to open up new locations and freshly brewed...

BYRNE FLAMES OUT; OVERSTOCK CEO STUNS WITH WILD, WILY RANT

Patrick Byrne blew a gasket last week. Byrne, the chief executive officer and founder of Web retailer Overstock.com, took to the airwaves and Internet on Friday and very memorably discussed...

NEW BOOK SOUNDS THE ECONOMIC ALARM BELL

As the price of oil remains over $65 a barrel, the gas pump has become an economics classroom. Like the lesson: Can we still afford the Friday nights at Olive...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

COMEDY A CUT, A SHAVE AND A CAST OF CHARACTERS A new series based on the popular movie, "Barbershop " tells the story of a man who inherites a hair...

BEACH BRATS - EVERYBODY LOVES THE TWO-FACED RICH KIDS ON 'LAGUNA BEACH'

MTV's glossy reality show "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" is shaping up to be television's most entertaining guilty pleasure. Centered on the exploits of eight high school students that...

'LAZYTOWN' OPEN AT NIGHT - COMIC ACTION SERIES AIRS PRIME TIME SPECIAL

CAN an eight-year-old girl become a superhero? In "LazyTown 's New Superhero," the hit Nick Jr..series branches out to preach the gospel of aerobics from a comic action pulpit.The girl,Stephanie...

'16' CANDLES - TEEN DIVAS GO BERSERK OVER PARTY CELEBRATIONS

MTV has uncovered a whole new season 's worth of spoiled rotten brats to showcase in its runaway hit reality show,"My Super Sweet 16." "Don 't say that the world...

REALLY BIG SHOW - WEEDS - KEVIN NEALON LIGHTS UP THE SCREEN AS DOPE-FIEND ACCOUNTANT

FORTUNATELY,Kevin Nealon and the character he plays on Showtime 's "Weeds " are total opposites. The character,Doug Wilson,is an accountant who 's also a pot fiend. Nealon,however,claims he has never...

IT TAKES A SPECIAL ANCHOR TO CLICK WITH VIEWERS

WHAT do Ron Burgundy and Peter Jennings have in common?Nothing much, except that they were both anchormen - the former an over--the-top fictional character played by Will Ferrell in the...

REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES

THE GODFATHER,PART II (1974) Sunday, 8 p.m., Spike This sequel juxtaposes Vito Corleone 's exploits as a young man in Italy with Michael 's expansion of the family biz into...

HALL OF FAMERS SHILL ON QVC

TO think that people thought that the Justin Timberlake /Janet Jackson Super Bowl half- time show,two winters ago, was obscene. Years before the 2004 Super Bowl,the NFL was already enabling...

HER EXHIBITION IS ONE FOR THE RECORDS

SUSAN Polgar set four world's records earlier this month in a marathon simultaneous exhibition in Florida. The Hungarian-born Polgar earned her place in the Guinness Book of World Records by...

VISIT ASIA FOR $5

HERE'S a chance to catch up on Asian films you might have missed - or want to see again - and for only five bucks apiece. To mark its first...

THE HOT SEAT WITH TOMMY LEE

AMERICA'S most lovable hard-rock bad boy, Tommy Lee, is about to take us back to school. Learning never seemed so loony. This semester, we get to be classmates with the...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

1) Ricky fix "Office" junkies itchy for Ricky Gervais' new show ("Extras," debuting this fall on HBO) can sate themselves with radio bits he and collaborator Stephen Merchant contribute to...

#1 WITH A BORE - FAITH HILL TOPS THE CHARTS, BUT HAS NO TATTOOS

CITY slickers think Faith Hill's country, and country folk know she's pop. But that hasn't stopped either from buying her records. On Thursday, her new release, "Fireflies," debuted at No....

HEAR THIS

IN CONCERT * MOTLEY Crue will have you screaming "Girls, Girls, Girls" at PNC Bank Arts Center today - and then coming back for more at Jones Beach on Tuesday....

THIS WEEK'S CDS

THE CLICK FIVE "Greetings From Imrie House" 3 ½ Stars Lava WHAT'S more dangerous than a quintet of good-looking, foppish boys in matching suits who graduated from Boston's Berklee College...

MASH BASH - AMSTER JAM GETS HEADLINERS MIXED UP

FOR those who think a mash-up involves black eyes and kidney punches, consider the latest version - a riotous rumble in which two totally unrelated songs collide. You may have...

DOLLY DOES DYLAN - TRAVELING CROONER BLOWS IN THE WIND

ONE of music's most recognizable figures, Dolly Parton likes to vacation out of the limelight. But instead of celeb hideaways like St. Barts or the Seychelles, she cruises around her...

MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT

Writing man sksa sexy subject MEET Steve, a handsome freelance writer and Web designer whodescribes himself as "extroverted and introspective." "I work full time and spend my off hours writing...

SLASH ATTACK -'FOUR BROTHERS' CAST JUST CAN'T STOP MULTI-TASKING

THE model-slash-actor and musican-slash-actor archetypes are about as cliché as Hollywood gets. So much so that "Zoolander" awarded the fictitious VH1 "Slashie" to model-actor Fabio. While the results of using...

WEDDINGS

Nidam, 29, and Ginsburg, 31 JULY 4 - TV reporter Jordena Ginsburg had an inkling that something was up on her 30th birthday. She was living in Westchester at the...

SALES - THE BEST BUYS

Barneys 255 W. 17th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues; (212) 450-8400 Sale: Aug. 18-Sept. 5. Sun., Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m. The anticipated warehouse clearance offers up...

THE BADDIE GETS BOXED - CILLIAN MURPHY'S A PUNCHING BAG IN 'RED EYE'

FIRST he was the Scarecrow - now he's a straw man. In "Red Eye," the Wes Craven airplane thriller out Friday, Irish actor Cillian Murphy plays a scary stranger who...

THIS WEEK'S MOVIES

THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL The brutal killing of black teen Emmett Till in 1950s Mississippi - allegedly because he whistled at a white woman - and the...

REQUIRED READING

As we breath a sigh of relief that the Discovery shuttle astronauts returned home safely, it might help to look back at the earlier days of the space program and...

'CHECKING' IN WITH A 3RD PARTY

MAYOR Bloomberg's reluctance to be seen in public with Lenora Fulani isn't stopping him from filling the coffers of the Independence Party. Records show Bloomberg wrote two checks totaling $11,000...

PRELATE A KEY PLAYER IN CHURCH AFFAIRS

Monsignor Eugene Clark has wielded enormous power as a high-profile prelate in the New York Archdiocese - a conservative cleric who has railed at the country's obsession with sex. He's...

TRAPPED IN FLAME; BEDRIDDEN MAN BURNED IN BLAZE AT 'ILLEGAL' HOME

A disabled Brooklyn man is in critical condition after a fire in a building that neighbors say was being used as an illegal boardinghouse. Three families were believed to have...

FIRE KILLS W. VILLAGE TENANT, 94

An elderly man died in a fire in his West Village apartment early yesterday morning. The blaze, which sources said may have been started by a candle, broke out in...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

MANHATTAN *** A homeless man crossing a Central Park roadway was critically injured yesterday morning when he was struck by a bicyclist, police said. The mishap occurred at 7 a.m....

2 VOLUNTEER FIREMEN IN FIREBUG BUST

Two former volunteer firefighters were arraigned yesterday for allegedly torching million-dollar homes on Long Island's ritzy Gold Coast - a crime cops had initially blamed on eco-terrorists. Arthur Gladd, 20,...

HUMAN TOUCH; SELFLESS TEACHER'S LESSON

Like thousands of teachers across the city, Sarah Heard took a second job this summer. What set the 37-year-old history teacher apart from her peers is she didn't get paid,...

WITH 63, A LEGEND IS BJORN

"The fairways looked tiny and the greens looked like the size of a hole. There was nothing but fear standing on that first tee. I just thought, 'I can't be...

2 IN BIAS SLAP AT REUTERS; ASIAN, BLACK 'SLURS'

Two workers at the Reuters news and financial service allege they were victims of racial discrimination, monitored with surveillance cameras, cheated out of accounts and cruelly subjected to ethnic slurs....

UNHOLY QUEENS SHOOT ; TEMPLE-GOER HURT

A Queens dad taking his young son to temple services was shot yesterday after he told a gun-wielding mugger he didn't carry money on the Sabbath. Eliahu Frishman, 33, was...

ZAP RAP AFTER STREET SCRAP

An on-duty city transit worker shocked a man with a stun gun in a Midtown road-rage dispute yesterday, police said. New York City Transit communications supervisor Rudy Bissoonsingh, 30, was...

CROWE'S GET-OUT-OF-JAIL CARD COSTS $11M: TAB

A British newspaper reports today that bad-boy actor Russell Crowe is set to pay $11 million to the SoHo hotel clerk he hit with a telephone. The astronomical payout is...

ITALIAN GAL: IRON MIKE ATTACKED

Mike Tyson is wanted for questioning on the Italian island of Sardinia in connection with a woman's claim the ex-heavyweight champ attacked her after she refused to have sex with...

BOOK JURORS THINK JACKO IS A FREAK

LOS ANGELES - Two jurors pitching book proposals not only believe Michael Jackson is a child molester, but also think he's a freak - a "mummy with nostril holes" dressed...

JUNKIE ODS IN PORT-A-POTTY

A man was found dead from a drug overdose in a portable toilet in Hudson River Park, police said yesterday. Cops found the unidentified man late yesterday in a Portosan...

BEACH BLANKET BIGOT; BX. CLAN: SHORE COP BOOTED US FOR BEING LATINO

A bigot with a badge ruined a day at the beach for a Puerto Rican family from The Bronx, according to a $32 million suit notice filed against Belmar, N.J....

HE WAS HIS CHILDREN'S ; ANCHOR

In his final days, legendary news anchor Peter Jennings was concerned primarily with his kids. By the time he died last Sunday at age 67, it had been two months...

TRIO HOLDS GROUND ; N.Y. GALS VOW TO FIGHT SETTLEMENT EVACUATION

JERUSALEM - As evacuation looms tomorrow for thousands of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip, three women with New York ties vow to stay where they are - on land...

HUSBAND'S NO SAINT, EITHER ; RANDY-REV. ACCUSER'S SHOPLIFT BUST, JOB LIES AND GUN-PERMIT WOES

The man accusing his wife of having a torrid affair with St. Patrick's Cathedral rector Eugene Clark has fibbed about his work history, quit a job as a cop after...

MAJOR DIVORCE LAWYER ON DECK

The leggy brunette accused of cheating on her husband with St. Patrick's Cathedral's head priest wants to hire a high-powered divorce lawyer who once put the hurt on Woody Allen...

ONO: NO, I DIDN'T! B'WAY BLAMES YOKO FOR BEATLES' BREAKUP

A new musical about John Lennon's life implies that Yoko Ono was directly linked to the Beatles' breakup - but she says the legendary band's split was actually a "surprise"...

DOGGONE SHAME AS AILING POOCH DISAPPEARS IN CARJACK

Somewhere on the boiling-hot streets of Queens, there may be a scared, sick dog who was stolen by accident and desperately needs to get back home. Max, a 16-year-old white...

WHEN WILKIE SAVED THE DAY

FIVE DAYS IN PHILADELPHIA: The Amazing 'We Want Willkie' Convention of 1940 and How it Freed FDR to Save the Western World by Charles Peters. PublicAffairs, 249 pages, $26 Did...

APARTMENT FIRE KILLS W. VILLAGE TENANT, 94

An elderly man died in a fire in his West Village apartment early yesterday morning. The blaze, which sources said may have been started by a candle, broke out in...

DOG DAZE OF SUMMER - APPLE CRISP FROM BRUTAL HEAT WAVE

Forget baked - this Apple is fried. The city sweated and suffered for the third day in a row yesterday, with a record breaking 99 degrees in Central Park just...

NUGENT GETS KICK IN DEBUT

JET NOTES Jets rookie Mike Nugent wasn't about to offer excuses for kicking off out of bounds at the end of Friday night's preseason opener, a 10-3 win over the...

LIBERTY WANT A BETTER START

The Liberty hope to get off to a better start today when they face the Sting at the Garden in the second game of a home-and-home WNBA series (4 p.m.,...

KELLY TOUGH ENOUGH

LET'S be honest: when you start compiling a list of the toughest guys in sports, you don't usually find many golfers making that kind of cut. Football players? Sure. Hockey...

IT'S AN 'OUTRIGHT' VICTORY

SARATOGA SPRINGS - 1ST RACE - Potent handicapping angle, horses cutting back from mile-and-eighth to seven furlongs, clicked here. Epic, cutting back to seven panels after just missing going nine...

BASEBALL, IT SEEMS, ANSWERS TO HIGHER AUTHORITY

JUST two more examples that Major League Baseball is held to a much higher standard than the other two major sports in this country: 1) This is not to downplay...

ISLANDERS COME TO TERMS WITH FREE AGENTS HUNTER, YORK

The Islanders came to terms with Trent Hunter and Mike York yesterday, signing the pair of restricted free agents to one-year contracts, thereby avoiding arbitration with two of their four...

3-PUTT KEEPS TIGER IN HOLE ; THIRD-ROUND 66 FAILS TO CHEER UP WOODS

A day ago, Tiger Woods walked off the 18th green a relieved man, with smiles all the way around. Woods had just birdied his final hole of the day on...

HEALING POWERS ; CAMERON SURGERY GOES WELL; CARLOS OUT OF CLINIC

LOS ANGELES - Mike Cameron wasn't out of the hospital yesterday and Carlos Beltran wasn't back with the team. But the Mets at least got encouraging news on both players....

BULLPEN STINT RELIEF ; FOR CHACON

YANKEE NOTES Shawn Chacon treated his relief appearance Friday night like his normal side day, with one major difference. "I probably threw less than I do on a regular bullpen...

ANOTHER WIN MAKES BOSS BACK OFF JOE

There was a calm in the stormy relationship between George Steinbrenner and Joe Torre yesterday, although the Boss issued an open-ended threat of things to come if his team fails...

MOOSE OUT FAST AFTER LONG DAY

Mike Mussina threw 104 pitches on a day the temperature on the field at Yankee Stadium felt about that high and he appeared out of gas in the eighth inning...

KING'S DRAMA TAKES 500G SWORD DANCER

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Yesterday's Grade 1, $500,000 Sword Dancer Handicap at the Old Spa didn't quite shape up exactly the way trainer Bobby Frankel though it would, but the result...

MIENTKY NOT READY, THANKS TO BAD BACK

MET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Doug Mientkiewicz is not coming along too well in his recovery from a bruised lower back. In fact, the injured first baseman, who has been...

GET OUT THE ASTERISK ; A-ROD'S HR MARK NOT QUITE JOE D'S

THE baseball police who are obsessed with asterisking every achievement of every suspected steroids user in order to protect the integrity of the record book might want to check out...

BERNIE'S HOT; WILLIAMS HR SAVES RIVERA, YANKS

11 INNINGSYankees 7Rangers 5 The Yankee bullpen has become threadbare during the dog days of summer, and nobody has worked more recently than Mariano Rivera. Luckily for the Bombers, this...

BERNIE'S HOT ; HR IN 11TH SAVES RIVERA, YANKS

11 INNINGSYankees 7Rangers 5 The Yankee bullpen has become threadbare during the dog days of summer, and nobody has worked more recently than Mariano Rivera. Luckily for the Bombers, this...

SMALL THE 'WILD CARD' IN JOE'S DECK

YANKEE NOTES Aaron Small didn't throw his normal side session yesterday, following the path Shawn Chacon blazed on Friday night. Small, who will start on Tuesday if Randy Johnson is...

VINCENT MAY NIX FREEDOM

WITH Joe Thornton having decided to forego 2006 free agency to remain in Boston for at least the next three seasons, Vincent Lecavalier is now considering his options in response...

COLLISION NEWS GOOD AS CAN BE EXPECTED

LOS ANGELES - Mike Cameron wasn't out of the hospital yesterday and Carlos Beltran wasn't back with the team. But the Mets at least got encouraging news on both players....

KELLY'S UNFAZED BY MAJOR SETBACK

Jerry Kelly said Friday he was a changed man. Regardless of what happened in yesterday's third round of the PGA Championship, he wasn't going to shred his insides with a...

3-PUTT PEEVES TIGER

When Tiger Woods stalked off the Baltusrol 18th green at the end of his PGA Championship third round yesterday, he had no idea how much better his day was going...

LOVE CHASES RAINBOW

TRUTH is, Davis Love III's career was complete that magical day at Winged Foot in 1997 when he won his first and, so far, only major, at the 79th PGA...

COURSE COULD DECIDE WINNER

PGA NOTES Even with heat and humidity that might irk a camel, the Baltusrol Golf Club's lower course, which was lengthened to 7,392 yards, hasn't obliterated the PGA Championship field....

NOW'S WRIGHT TIME

LOS ANGELES - The Education of David Wright reached another level yesterday, when Wright, batting third for only the second straight day in his major league career, was pulled aside...

TOUCH OF JAE; SEO DOMINATES L.A., DODGES DEMOTION

Mets 5Dodgers 1 LOS ANGELES - On Friday night, Steve Trachsel made his final rehab start. Which meant that yesterday when he took the mound at Dodger Stadium, Jae Seo...

MIENTKIEWICZ EYES RX ON BALKY BACK

MET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Tomorrow, Doug Mientkiewicz plans to see a specialist for his bruised lower back. "I just want to know why I don't have any feeling in...

MICK'S STILL PHIL OF FIGHT ; TIED WITH LOVE FOR LEAD AT 6-UNDER

If you crave drama for your major championship golf, lock in on today's PGA Championship final round and don't move until it's over. After all the jockeying for position in...

YOU DON'T NEED TO TURN UP HEAT

THE official soundtrack of this 87th PGA Championship has gone something like this for three full days: "Awwaaahhhaww!" When you hear that audible groan, as you did all over the...

STORMING BACK - ELI SHARP AFTER LIGHTNING DELAY, BUT JINTS FALL

PRESEASONBrowns 17Giants 14 CLEVELAND - Not everything can be programmed or planned, and when the unexpected crops up, how does a youngster such as Eli Manning respond? Quite well, judging...

JACOBS MAKES SPLASH

GIANT NOTES CLEVELAND - The Giants couldn't wait to see Brandon Jacobs in action. They got their first look last night, and now can't wait to see more. Jacobs, the...

TIME TO BUY YOUR LICENSES

A sure sign summer is winding down occurs tomorrow when New York State puts hunting, fishing and trapping licenses and permits on sale. The new system put in place a...

METROSTARS DEALING WITH DISTRACTION

Wednesday night, the MetroStars started the most important part of their season, possibly the deciding stretch of coach Bob Bradley's tenure. It sure was an odd and inconvenient time for...

NETS WILL LOOK AT FREE MCKIE

The next guy on the Nets' radar is swingman Aaron McKie. The Nets intend to speak this week with McKie, waived Friday by the 76ers under the NBA's amnesty clause...

3-PUTT KEEPS TIGER IN HOLE - THIRD-ROUND 66 FAILS TO CHEER UP WOODS

A day ago, Tiger Woods walked off the 18th green a relieved man, with smiles all the way around. Woods had just birdied his final hole of the day on...

COLLISION WITH HISTORY - METS HAVE LONG LINE OF OUTFIELD CRASHES

GEORGE THEODORE left the living room for only a few moments, off to another part of the house, when he heard his wife's voice bleeding through the walls. "Honey!" she...

PARCELLS STUDENTS CLASH IN EXHIBITION

GIANT NOTES CLEVELAND - Tom Coughlin worked on the same staff as Romeo Crennel when the two were assistants with the Giants under Bill Parcells. Crennel, after years of waiting...

IT'S PROS VS. WADE - FLETCHER ATTEMPTING GIANT LEAP

CLEVELAND - Want to know one of the main differences Wade Fletcher notices when he contrasts his days playing tight end for Columbia to his new job with the Giants?...

NO ONE'S EVEN CLOSE TO RIVERA - YANKEES RELIEVER GREATEST OF ALL-TIME

"God just doesn't make that many like this." - Blue Jays GM J.P. Riccardi TO fully appreciate why Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is not fully appreciated, you need to know...

HOWELL CAN'T COME UP ACES

PGA NOTES A major can be lost on one hole on a Saturday but can't be won. Charles Howell III learned that first-hand yesterday. He secured himself a delicious memory,...

CARDS CHOOSE BAD DEAL - LEAVING KMOX HURTS TEAM, FANS

BEFORE there was cable TV and satellite radio and superstations and Web casts and the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, there was KMOX, 1120 AM, in St....

BLASTS FROM THE POST - A LOOK BACK AT GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS: AUG. 14 - AUG. 20

NOT MUSIC TO HIS EARS MANAGER YOGI FREAKS OUT ON HARMONICA-PLAYING LINZ AUG. 20, 1964 BOSTON - Yankee tempers, strained from a losing streak that dumped them 4½ games off...