September 18, 2005
NOT IN THE CARDS FOR HALLMARK CHANNEL
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amHallmark is a great name for greeting cards, but not for a cable network. That's the take at least from sources following the sale of Crown Media's Hallmark Channel. Early...
LABOR LAW DEFLATES UNION RAT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amOne of New York City's most recognizable streetscapes - the 20-foot tall inflatable rats used by labor unions to draw attention to non-union job sites - appears headed for the...
CONSPIRACY CASE; OVERSTOCK TO CHARGE COLLUSION
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Sith Lord won't be taking the stand. Wes Christian, Overstock.com's lead trial lawyer, said the Web retailer's suit against short-selling hedge fund Rocker Partners was going to "stick to...
THE EX-FACTORS - PRIMEDIA'S FORMER EXECS ARE SOARING
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA cadre of former Primedia executives who hooked up with private equity firms have replaced their old company as the driving force behind much of the trade magazine industry's recent...
WITH NOD TO KATRINA, LOCAL CHARITIES REMIND, 'WE'RE STILL HERE!'
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amLocal charities are in a tight spot. With donations down because charitable giving by New Yorkers has been diverted to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, charity executives are turning...
IF IT'S GOING ON SALE, GOOGLE'S GETTING A PITCH
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amIt's a good thing Google's founders are so fond of auctions - because bankers of all stripes are lining up in earnest to entice the company into sales they are...
CUBAN STILL SMOKIN' ; OUTSPOKEN MAVS' OWNER CALLS MUSIC INDUSTRY INSANE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amMark Cuban is nothing if not outspoken. The billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner wrote a scathing screed of the music industry that has been circulating on the Internet and...
NO WONDER EVERYBODY HATED CHRIS ROCK
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amIF they gave an Emmy for the most over-hyped new series of the fall season,Chris Rock would be the hands-down winner. His new comedy,"Everybody Hates Chris " - which premieres...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amCOMEDY DON'T TRUST YOUR BROTHER TO MIND THE KID ALAN (Jon Cryer)falls off the roof trying to fix the satellite dish in the third-season opener of "Two and a Half...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK 'S BEST MOVIES
September 18, 2005 | 4:00am12 ANGRY MEN (1957) Sunday, 4 p.m., TCM During deliberations,a single juror (Henry Fonda)convinces 11 other jurors to examine their opinions as well as their prejudices as they decide the...
DENVER'S LAST DAYS WERE SAD
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amBOB Denver,who,during the 1960s played Maynard G.Krebs on TV 's "Dobie Gillis " and then Gilligan on "Gilligan 's Island," died,,Sept.2.He was 70. I ran into Denver,accidentally and almost literally,...
DEAR THOMAS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHOMAS Vinterberg - tall, blond and blue-eyed - looks as if he should be in front of the movie camera, not behind it. The cute young waitress at French Roast...
FINALLY, A WORLD TITLE TOURNAMENT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amLATER this month in San Luis, Argentina, eight super-GMs meet in a double round-robin to choose the champion of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) - and try to end the...
THE HOT SEAT WITH DAN SAVAGE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amDAN Savage loves giving advice - the no-holds-barred, trample-on-your-feelings kind that lives up to his last name. His syndicated sex and relationship column, "Savage Love," appears in alt-weeklies around the...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
September 18, 2005 | 4:00am1 Made-for-TV Martha Cybill Shepherd reprises her best role - in which the otherwise limited actress eerily channeled Martha Stewart's omnipresent rage and monomania - in the sure-to-be trashtastic TV...
FEEL THE FORCE - LUCAS PROMISES MORE 'WARS'
September 18, 2005 | 4:00am'Star Wars" policy wonks, take note: If you couldn't get enough of those "Revenge of the Sith" Senate meetings, you're in luck. Director George Lucas says there'll be more of...
DARE YA! MARIA BELLO'S RISQUE RISKS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00am'I'd have stood on my head naked to do this movie," says Maria Bello. That's how much the actress loves director David Cronenberg, whose new film, "A History of Violence,"...
THIS WEEK'S MOVIES
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amMAGNIFICENT DESOLATION:WALKINGONTHEMOON 3D Neil Armstrong's moonwalk gets the IMAX treatment - and Tom Hanks' narration. OLIVER TWIST Roman Polanski directs this PG-13 version of the Dickens tale. Ben Kingsley is...
JENNY'S PRETTY SICK - MCCARTHY CROWNS HERSELF THE QUEEN OF QUEASY
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amJenny McCarthy's new movie "Dirty Love" is pretty much what it sounds like - a raunchy romantic comedy. The blond bombshell (of a thousand goofy faces) wrote and stars in...
HEAR THIS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amIN CONCERT Wednesday: Alt-metal Clutch at Irving Plaza. Omaha indie rockers Criteria at the Knitting Factory. Tiny dancers follow Elton John everywhere. They're at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, Friday...
C&C'S NEXT-GEN PROG FACTORY
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amCoheed and Cambria is to music what Dungeons & Dragons is to board games. Baffling to outsiders, compulsively addictive to fans. For the past four years, the band from Nyack,...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amSHAGGY "Clothes Drop" ½ (three and one half stars) (Geffen) Shaggy is the king of dancehall because he knows reggae fans are more interested in party anthems than brags of...
SHIN-DIG: INDIE ROCKERS FINALLY FIND FAME, FIANCEE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amJAMES Mercer,the frontman of the Shins,had a lot more than music on his mind recently - he surprised his girlfriend of several years with a marriage proposal "I did it...
PROPER 'EXPOSURE' - BRIT NOVEL EXPLORES AN ANXIOUS MIDDLE AGE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amExposure Talitha Stevenson 3 ½ Stars Harcourt, $24 Class consciousness, sexual obsession, and familial issues make for queasy yet engaging bedfellows in "Exposure" by Talitha Stevenson. Wealthy middle-age lawyer Alistair...
REQUIRED READING
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amHappy Birthday, B.B. King! The blues legend turned 80 on Friday. As part of the celebration, King, with Dick Waterman, has put out "The B.B. King Treasures," a handsome, historical...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amLOOKING FOR GAL W/ WIT AND WILL MEET Jake,a handsome 23-year-old writer and actor who,he says, "is a not-quite-starving artist who works the graveyard shift at a travel company to...
MOM'S TRAGIC DRIVE; HER TRUCK KILLS SON
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA happy-go-lucky teenage boy was killed when his mother accidentally ran him over with the family truck on Staten Island early yesterday morning, cops said. "Everybody's in a daze, everybody's...
UNSAFE RETURNS FEARED - ORLEANS RE-ENTRY TOO RISKY: RELIEF BIG
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe city of New Orleans began its plan for re-entry yesterday, allowing business owners to get their first glimpse of the devastation - even while the head of the federal...
GAL KILLS BRO-IN-LAW 'ABUSER'
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA protective woman saved her sister's life when she allegedly stabbed the sister's husband twice in the chest during a fatal fight early yesterday morning. Police sources said convicted felon...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amSTATEN ISLAND *** A porn bandit who brazenly stole some 10 DVDs from an adult video store barely had time to peruse his lascivious loot before cops arrested him just...
LATINO BACKERS; MYSTERY MINISTRY GETS BEHIND MIKE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg picked up the endorsement yesterday of a little-known group claiming to represent 300 Hispanic clergy members. "If it's not broken, don't fix it," said Julio Mercado, president of...
MAGNETIC STORM; CANCER SYMBOL DRAWS IRE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA group of Long Island breast-cancer survivors thinks retailer Linens 'N Things has some explaining to do about a pink "breast cancer" ribbon the women say does little or nothing...
TONGUE-LASHING; WORKERS FUME AT ENGLISH-ONLY EDICT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amWorkers at a Lower East Side co-op are weighing their legal options after being told by management their workplace is an English-only zone - which they say is discriminatory. Eric...
N.O. RELIEF BIG WARY OF RE-ENTRY
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe city of New Orleans began its plan for re-entry yesterday, allowing business owners to get their first glimpse of the devastation - even while the head of the federal...
GLOBAL COOLING ; PITT, JOLIE IGNORE EACH OTHER AT CONFAB
September 18, 2005 | 4:00am"Brangelina" continued to pretend they barely know each other while attending a panel discussion at former President Bill Clinton's Global Initiative in Midtown yesterday. Miss Pillowlips, a k a Angelina...
WASH. SQ. REHAB DEAL ; COLD WATER ON FOUNTAIN PLAN
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA new plan for the controversial redesign of Washington Square Park includes expanded playground space, an elevated performance stage, a refurbished chess area that will host national tournaments and the...
BX. HOOP DREAMS TURN NIGHTMARE; BULLET CRIPPLES TEEN PHENOM
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe promising basketball career of a teenage hoops star may have been shattered in the vicious Bronx shooting that also nearly killed a 10-year-old girl. Emanuel Owens, 18, was only...
WORKER'S NECK CRUSHED BY CRANE CABLE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA worker at a Brooklyn storage yard was killed yesterday as he tried to unload a massive concrete pipe off the back of a flatbed truck. Pedro Yaxon, 30, who...
WEINER 'COUNTERS' SELF BY BAILING ON BALLOT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amANTHONY WEINER took a far different view of the sanctity of the ballot box during the tight Bush-Gore election - when he argued that every vote must be counted -...
THIS APPLE'S RED, WHITE & BLUE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amAlbany is finally recognizing the Big Apple for its role in the American Revolution - 222 years after the war ended. Gov. Pataki's Heritage New York program last week announced...
SNATCH ARTIST NOT PORN FREE FOR LONG
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA porn bandit who brazenly plucked over a dozen DVDs, including one titled "Man Bunz," from a Staten Island adult-video store barely had time to peruse his lascivious loot when...
PREGNANT COP STABS BIG BEAU WITH STEAK KNIFE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA petite and pregnant, off-duty police officer stabbed her much larger live-in boyfriend during an argument yesterday, sending him to the emergency room and her to a hospital for observation,...
INNOCENT DAD KILLED IN CROSSFIRE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn father killed yesterday after being caught in the crossfire of a neighborhood feud, cops said. William Smith, 36, was coming out of his Gates Avenue building in Bedford-Stuyvesant...
THE MYTH OF SECURITY ; KATRINA & THE WAR ON TERROR
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amSome terror attacks can't be stopped. THE suggestion made here two weeks ago to keep U.S. troops in Iraq until the War on Terror is fully won drew heated response....
DAD'S BID TO SAVE LIFE OF HIS SHOT SON FAILS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA father desperately rushed his dying 23-year- old son to a hospital last night, after the young man was shot down in a hail of bullets at a Brooklyn laundry...
TONGUE LASHING; WORKERS FUME AT 'ENGLISH ONLY' EDICT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA group of blue-collar employees at a Lower East Side co-op are evaluating their legal options after the building's management company told them their workplace is an English-only zone -...
DRUG DEATH GIRL'S DAD SLAMS OD PAL
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe dad of a pretty NYU student killed in a heroin and cocaine overdose last month says his daughter's young high-school friend - who fatally OD'd with her in a...
GANG WAS ALL HERE AT BRAD'S L.I. ESTATE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amBrad Pitt's Hamptons rental is more scandalous than his relationship with Angelina Jolie. The gated private estate on Ox Pasture Road that the actor is reportedly taking while Jolie is...
POT-DEALER SLAYINGS SPARK B'KLYN DRUG-WAR FEAR
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe execution-style murders of two suspected marijuana dealers on consecutive days has Brooklyn cops investigating the possibility that a full-fledged war between rival drug gangs has been declared, The Post...
TYCO THIEF: I'LL GO OFF TO JAIL AS A JUST KOZ
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amFORMER Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski, who gets sentenced tomorrow, leaned heavily on Basic Philosophy 101. "I recognize in light of the jury's verdict I will be sentenced to a prison...
EVIL FELINE FIEND DOES ZERO FOR HURT CAT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amA heartless Bronx woman spent two weeks watching her cat - which had plunged from a fifth-floor window - painfully try to hobble around on a leg so badly fractured...
LIL' KIM PRIMP-SLAP ; BRAGS SHE'LL STAY GLAM IN JAIL
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amSoon-to-be-jailed rapper Lil' Kim expects makeup and hair gel to be provided during her stint in prison, she said in an interview in this week's People magazine. The glam star,...
HOT 'HOUSE' - 'WIVES' ARE NEW 'SEX'
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amIf this year's Emmy nominations are any indication, "Desperate Housewives" is the new "Sex and the City." In fact, with 15 Emmy nominations after only its first season, "Housewives" is...
GET ON BOARD FOR NORWALK BOAT SHOW
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Norwalk International In-Water Boat Show is always a great way to finish off the summer season and also to plan for next year's boating season. It's the 30th annual...
DEVILS MOURNING LOSS OF MCMULLEN
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Devils are in mourning for John J. McMullen, the man who brought the NHL and Stanley Cup to New Jersey. McMullen, who purchased the Colorado Rockies and moved them...
SHOOTOUT ROTTEN FROM START
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHE pulled groin suffered by Phoenix goaltender Brian Boucher Friday night on the first shot of the opening exhibition's post-game exhibition shootout is a vivid reminder of why the players...
BULLPEN PAYS FOR RANDY'S FOLLY
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Yankees lost just about every where Friday night but on the scoreboard. By inexcusably getting ejected in the second inning, Randy Johnson set in motion a series...
SORRY SITUATION ; UNIT APOLOGIZES FOR HIS EJECTION FROM KEY GAME ; UNIT APOLOGIZES FOR EJECTION
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - Randy Johnson has the apology act down pat, which only means he has experience saying he is sorry for boorish behavior that surfaced on Lexington Avenue in January...
A-ROD'S BRUISING 'EM IN BP
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Thirty minutes before putting on an impressive power display in batting practice yesterday, Alex Rodriguez didn't know what to expect from his bruised left forearm that...
CORDERO AN ANGEL OF MERCY
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amCall him "King for a Day." Hall-of-Fame legend Angel Cordero Jr., still strong and fit at age 62, will come out of retirement for a few minutes Oct. 1 at...
PRAIRIE VOW WINS THIRD STRAIGHT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTrack was good, harrowed, upgraded to fast for eighth race. No turf racing for third straight day. The Grade 2, $300,000 Futurity for 2-year-olds went topsy-turvy at break when Disco's...
SOAR WINNERS ; ACC OPENER FINDS EAGLES FLYING HIGH ; SOAR WINNERS ; ACC OPENER FINDS BC'S EAGLES FLYING HIGH
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The blueprint was simple. It was a green print, really. The Atlantic Coast Conference needed a 12th member for a league championship game. Boston College provided...
BLUNDER BOYS ; MISTAKES COSTLY TO METS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amBraves 7 Mets4 The Mets could not make a play defensively in the first inning, leading to three unearned runs. They got the wrong end of a tough call by...
COLD RECEPTION ; EAGLES GIVEN BITTER DOSE IN ACC DEBUT
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amFla. State 28B.C. 17 CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - There's no going back for Boston College, which two years ago jilted the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Florida State...
HE WAS FINAL PIECE OF AMAZIN' MIRACLE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amEVERY year, right around the last week of July, baseball general managers remove themselves from the harsh glare of the sun and retreat to a burrow where they play a...
UNIT OWES BIG DEBT TO SHAWN, FLASH
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 1 Blue Jays 0 TORONTO - Randy Johnson had a game saved for him yesterday and he did not even pitch. His teammates came to his rescue less than...
CATCHING A BREAK ; DEFENSE BACKS CHACON, YANKS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Yankees' calling card isn't made of leather. Thick muscles provide home runs. Randy Johnson, Mike Mussina and Mariano Rivera offer big arms. Yet the Yankees' winning streak...
GO SIGN BY SOJO A NO-NO
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Shawn Chacon and several outstanding defensive plays took third base coach Luis Sojo off the hook yesterday when the Yankees squeaked past the Blue Jays 1-0...
PIAZZA: TRIBUTES 'OVERKILL'
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES After Mike Piazza smacked one of his classic homers yesterday - a 420-footer into the left- field bullpen off Tim Hudson in the fourth - the announced Shea...
GUTTY METROSTARS KEEP HOPE ALIVE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amMetroStars 5Revolution 4 No matter how far they fell off the playoff pace, the MetroStars never gave up on their postseason hopes. No matter how stunned they were by giving...
HALFTIME SALUTE TO MARVIN AND MO
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Marvin Jones was doing battle on the field for the Jets for some 10 years, unfortunately too often in a losing cause, he never thought he'd see what'll be...
GRIN AND BARRETT IF DOLPHINS TARGET CB
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES David Barrett probably didn't sleep very soundly last night, because he knows what's coming at him today. Barrett, the Jets' starting cornerback, might as well have a bull's-eye...
FIGHT'S ALL RIGHT WITH ESPN CREW
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amIN ITS quest to blow up the world, ESPN has reached the point where it has become more obvious than cunning, more pathetic than insidious. For example, is there anyone...
ISLES PUT THEIR 'A' TEAM TOGETHER
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amYARMOUTH, Nova Scotia - Steve Stirling shuffled his practice lineup yesterday morning and for the first time during training camp had what appeared to be the regular season crew all...
RANGERS' PLAN EXCITES MOORE
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amDominic Moore, two years older and wiser, senses a dramatic difference between this Ranger training camp and his first as a pro in 2003. "There's a new fresh attitude around...
JETS START OVER - MUST TAKE IT TO DOLPHINS AFTER TOTAL CLUNKER IN KC
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amWill the real New York Jets please stand up? The question of the week, as the Jets play the Dolphins in their home opener today at Giants Stadium, is how...
JINTS' JOSEPH FINALLY TALKING WITH TACKLES
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amHe was nearly as quiet on the field as he was off it, making it natural to overlook William Joseph when evaluating the Giants and their defense. Invisible he was...
SAINTS ELSEWHERE - SEASON IN EXILE PROVING ANYTHING BUT EASY
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - T.J. Slaughter sat at his locker in the Saints' makeshift Alamodome clubhouse rummaging through two black plastic garbage bags filled with his personal belongings. The bags were...
DON'T EXPECT STRAHAN TO BACK DOWN
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Once a season or so, Michael Strahan will experience back spasms, miss a practice heading into a game and cause all sorts of nervous feelings, until kickoff comes...
A FITTING TRIBUTE - RETIRE '21' FOR CLEMENTE AND OTHER LATIN PIONEERS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTHE box arrived big and bulky and filled both with whole wheat breakfast flakes and whole grains of irony. It was a Wheaties box, and on the cover was a...
TRIBE ON WARPATH - GM SHAPIRO'S GUTTY PLAN PAYS OFF BIG FOR INDIANS
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amAFTER trading Roberto Alomar to the Mets during his first month on the job, Cleveland GM Mark Shapiro knew he wasn't going to win any popularity contests. He joked with...
AMAZIN'S BRING UP 2ND SACKER
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES In what probably ranks as the most anticipated minor-league call-up of the Mets' season, Anderson Hernandez was promoted yesterday. Hernandez, the 22-year-old switch-hitting second baseman, joined the Mets...
'05 LEAVING A LISTING IMPRESSION - HARDBALL'S TOP 10S THAT DEFINE AN EVENTFUL SEASON
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTOO much has happened this season to do a simple Top-10 list and feel it is comprehensive. So here at Hardball we give you nine Top-10 lists and hope that...
UNIT APOLOGIZES FOR HIS EJECTION
September 18, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - Randy Johnson has the apology act down pat, which only means he has experience saying he is sorry for boorish behavior that surfaced on Lexington Avenue in January...