March 26, 2006
TANGLED ESTATE WEB WHEN A GRANDPA PASSES
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: Recently, I've been contacted by the lawyer of my grandfather's estate. He and his wife of 40 years were estranged.She passed away in 2003 but didn't leave anything...
HEDGE FIEND HAD LAVISH LIFESTYLE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amFugitive hedge fund manager Kirk Wright apparently has a materialistic streak that would make Madonna blush. The investment huckster who allegedly bilked roughly 500 investors, NFL players among them, out...
RATTLE BATTLE - SESAME STREET TAKES ON BABY EINSTEIN IN DVD WAR
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe $500 million baby video market is about to get all shook up. Sesame Street, the country's No. 1 pre-school education and entertainment brand, is set to launch on April...
CELLING THE DRAMA ; PORN TWIST ADDS TO AMP'D MOBILE DEBACLE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amWHO knew that a start-up mobile company could be such a hotbed of intrigue and sexual peccadilloes? Last week came the latest plot twist at Amp'd Mobile, the broadband entertainment...
UNION DUES-Y: NFLPA COULD FACE LAWSUITS OVER FRAUDSTER
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe NFL Players Association could be on the hook for millions in damages because it served up alleged hedge fund charlatan Kirk Wright to its members as an approved investment...
GUIDE NAMES TOP EATS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amBrooklyn's Stone Park restaurant copped the top spot in an AOL CityGuide survey of the city's best places to eat. The survey of 350 establishments, which is expected to be...
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER CHAMP
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE used to be a time when an outstanding player - a Fischer or a Reshevsky - won the U.S. Championship year in, year out. But earlier this month Alexander...
FAST-TRACK PAST; NEW BOOK DESCRIBES RETIRED GREYHOUNDS' TALE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amSheryl Longin remembers the moment she first fell for greyhounds: "It was at an adoption fair, and there was a pile of pillows, with these gorgeous dogs lounging on top...
TIME TO ENJOY 'JOY'
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amCINE File first met Kelly Reichardt when her feature-directing debut, "River of Grass" (1993), unreeled at Italy's Torino Film Festival. He almost met her again in January, when her second...
BAUER POWER - WHY WOMEN LOVE '24'
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amI've heard it alleged that "24" - with its testosterone-pumped terrorists and exploding cell phones - is a "guy show." Well, as a person of the female persuasion, I beg...
TV'S NEW CRIMINALS ARE HAVING A BLAST
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amSUDDENLY, TV is awash with jaunty criminals. Their MO: They work in groups. They trade wisecracks. The men are handsome, swaggering, fearless. The women - generally one in a team...
'LIZA WITH A Z' - 1972 NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amIN 1972, the whole world loved Liza Minnelli. The embodiment of divine decadence in a jet-black. Louise Brooks haircut and spiky false eyelashes, Minnelli, then 26, vaulted from famous daughter...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amC O M E D Y Strange bedfellows WHAT would you do if you woke up in bed next to Regis Philbin? Kelly Ripa, Philbin's co-host on morning TV, faces...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amMOMMIE DEAREST (1981) Wednesday,6:30 p.m., Oxygen No, it simply doesn't get better than Faye Dunaway playing crazy Joan Crawford. From a book by Crawford's adopted daughter, Christina (Diana Scarwid), the...
PRIME TIME - STERN CRUSADES ONLY FOR HIMSELF
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTO borrow from the erstwhile mariner, Popeye The Sailor, that's all I can takes, I can'ts [cq] takes no more! Last week, while reading the latest about Howard Stern -...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amRude awakenings In preparation for losing an hour of sleep next Sunday at the start of daylight savings time, we're ordering a Puzzle Clock. It scatters four interlocking pieces around...
BLOOD FROM A STONE - 'BASIC INSTINCT' SEQUEL IS SERIOUSLY STEAMY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amWILL Sharon Stone show you everything? You bet your nighttime replenishing body creme she will. Keep in mind: The 48-year-old showgirl didn't just want to do nude scenes. She wanted...
THEATER'S STARRY SPRING
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amSPRING has sprung. Maybe that explains the flock of film and TV stars suddenly winging their way to Broadway. Julia Roberts, Ralph Fiennes and David Schwimmer are just a few...
BOYS GONE WILD - 50 CAMERAS, 20,000 BEASTIE FANS, 1 'AWESOME' MOVIE - THAT'S A RAP - THE BEASTIE BOYS DROP A FAN-TASTIC CONCERT FILM WORTH CH-CHECKING OUT
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amEVERY music fan knows that a real rock show doesn't look anything like a concert movie. They never seem to include the guy sitting next to you who won't shut...
FROM STAGE TO SCREEN - 10 BEST CONCERT MOVIES
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amEVER since concerts began, there's been movies. Hey, even the first "talkie," "The Jazz Singer," was pretty much a concert movie, giving audiences the chance to see Al Jolsen in...
SALES - BEST BUYS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amLuca Luca 23 E. 62nd St., 4th floor, at Madison Avenue: (917) 776-8186 Sale: March 28, 29. 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Coveted evening wear, dresses, suits, coats, shoes handbags,...
DAD'S LAST KISS FOR CRASH BOY ; QNS. SWIM-TEAM FAMILY LAID TO REST
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA doting mom and two devoted sons who died in a Thruway crash were laid to rest yesterday after a heart-wrenching funeral steeped in tradition and the tears of mourners...
FDNY'S SLASH & BURN; OVERLOADED MARSHALS BLAST STAFF CUTS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amHampered by dwindling manpower, old cars and a dearth of computers, the city's fire marshals are struggling to keep up with caseloads and detect arson patterns like the one in...
CHUCK IN CHECK OF CHINA FIRM
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe Chinese company given a controversial no-bid contract to detect radiation in cargo headed for the United States got a visit from Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday. Hutchinson Whampoa, the world's...
MODEL KILLED IN CROSSFIRE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA part-time model was shot dead in a Brooklyn apartment building yesterday, after getting caught in the crossfire of a gunfight. Serge Morrisset, 28, was smoking a cigarette in the...
KOOKY KT HAS POLITICAL HEADS SHAKING
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amNeighbors said nuts yesterday to GOP Senate candidate Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland's claim of being harassed by photographers and spies in helicopters sent by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I think...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Detectives were looking for the driver responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 54-year-old man who was killed while crossing a Harlem intersection yesterday morning. The victim, whose...
QUEENS DRIVE-BY TRAGEDY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA 21-year-old Queens man was clinging to life yesterday after he was shot in the head while riding home with his cousin following a rare night out, cops and his...
NAIL HIM! KIN CRY - INDICT VS. 'MOB SPY' FED THRILLS FAMILY OF SLAIN MOLL
March 26, 2006 | 5:00am"Nail him to a wall!" A relative of a mob moll slain by gangsters more than 20 years ago railed yesterday against a former G-man who sources say has been...
SHAMED 'MOGUL' STIFFS HIS AILING EX
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe ex-wife of a disgraced Wall Street broker says she's facing homelessness after he stiffed her for more than $45,000 in support - all while living in a $2 million...
DUELING DEMS; ANDY & MARK SET FOR BITTER AG BRAWL
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe Democratic primary for state attorney general is shaping up as a political duel of epic proportions between Mark Green and Andrew Cuomo - with insiders primed for the mud...
WE'D BE SUNK IN A 'CANE; EVAC PLAN OUTDATED
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amEmergency planners faced with the daunting prospect of a monster hurricane hitting New York this summer - and scrambling to fix their evacuation blueprints - are forced to rely on...
ALZHEIMER'S GRANDMA WANDERS OFF
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA beloved Harlem grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's went missing after walking out of her apartment in the middle of the afternoon. Family and cops are searching for Delila Ana Forzani,...
HOOPS COACH IN HO BUST
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe head basketball coach at a Catholic boys school on the Upper West Side was busted yesterday, after cops caught him in the middle of a sex act with a...
FEW SIGNS OF CHANGE IN FREE-PARK SUNDAY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amDrivers no longer need to feed parking meters on Sunday but wouldn't know it by looking at the city's street signs. Since the ban on Sunday parking meters became official...
DEMON-SEED SICKO; DJ'S 'VIAL' FANATIC BUSTED
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amAy, caramba! A lovesick fan of a Spanish-language radio DJ dropped off a special package at her job which was anything but romantic - a vial of his own sperm....
QUEENS DRIVE-BY MURDER
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens man died yesterday after he was shot in the head while riding home with his cousin following a rare night out, cops and his family said. Chris Anthony...
FAST-DRAW COP SHOOTS MAN
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens cop was as quick on the draw as a movie cowboy last night - stopping a crazed ex-con who tried to shoot him and his two partners, officials...
GUNSHOT TERRIFIES 5TH AVE. DENIZENS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA gunshot fired on one of the most exclusive blocks of Fifth Avenue sent well-heeled passersby scrambling for cover last night after a fight between workers at Abercrombie & Fitch's...
POL TRASHES MTA SECURITY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTrash cans on city subway platforms are a virtual bull's-eye for terrorists, but officials of the nation's largest mass- transit system aren't dealing with the problem despite a federal directive,...
'BUTCHER' GYNO NEGLECTED MY TUMOR
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman claims a gynecologist named in 10 mal practice suits removed her healthy ovaries and fallopian tubes - but left behind the tumor that was supposed to be...
MORE BIG NAMES GO GUNNING FOR SAFETY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amBillionaires are going ballistic. Ronald Lauder has joined trigger-happy tycoons Donald Trump and Seagrams scion Edgar Bronfman Sr. as the richest men in the city packing heat, according to the...
BIG TIP O' THE CAPS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThere will be more than just blue skies overhead this week. Giant 16-foot-wide Met and Yankee caps will sit atop four building-top water tanks in Manhattan and The Bronx as...
HUNK FOOD: TRUFFLE TIPS SCALES AT 20 LBS.
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTalk about a truffle not to be trifled with. Italy has laid claim to a humongous fungus that tips the scale at 20 pounds, and is estimated to be worth...
PATTERSON STOLE MY HEART & WORDS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amHe's accused of acting like a villain from one of his best sellers. James Patterson's ex-lover claims the scribe was a callous cad who stole her ideas, character names and...
9/11 'ILL WORKER' OUTRAGE; REPAIR CREWS $TIFFED
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amConstruction, electrical, telephone and cleanup workers who spent months toiling in the toxic dust and smoke at Ground Zero are now suffering from cancer and lung disease like cops and...
BLAKE'S BAD $$ TACTIC
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Robert Blake turned down a $2 million offer to settle the wrongful-death suit filed against him by his late wife's estate, gambling that he would win the...
TEEN'S DREAM $10,000 PROM
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amJenna Cossuto spent $2,400 on her custom-made dress. She'll rent a 22-seat stretch Hummer to transport her closest friends to privately booked Gotham Hall. And then it's off to the...
RANGERS SMART, NOT LUCKY, ON JAGR
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - Jaromir Jagr's numbers are staggering, all right, and then there are all those goals and assists, too. Which is to say that not only is No. 68 the...
KNICKER-BOTCHERS; SHOW TITANIC TALENT FOR LOSING THE BALL
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe Knicks have made so many mistakes this year, you'd think former FEMA head Michael Brown was running the point. They are last in the league in turnovers, averaging 17.55...
PAVANO COULD PITCH THURSDAY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Finally, the only thing standing between Carl Pavano and an appearance in an exhibition game is today's bullpen session. When Pavano reported to camp last...
BANNISTER BATTLES FOR JOB
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES KISSIMMEE - Brian Bannister had more walks than strikeouts against the Astros yesterday and ended up taking the loss. Yet somehow the Met right-hander and fifth starter candidate...
'SMOKEY' RETURN A SUCCESS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amSmokey Glacken made a successful return to Aqueduct with a hard-fought neck victory yesterday over Magnolia Jackson to win the Grade 2 $154,500 Distaff Breeders' Cup Handicap. Javier Castellano came...
TESTING COACH K'S MEDAL
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amNOW that Mike Krzyzewski is freed up following his team's inability to escape an unranked matchup, he can concentrate on bringing home the bronze. The No. 1 ranked Blue Devils...
BILLY'S NOT KIDDING; DONOVAN PUTS FLORIDA ON BRINK OF FINAL FOUR
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The nicknames, flattering and insulting, have followed Billy Donovan from Rockville Center to Providence to the Knicks, to Kentucky to Huntington, W.Va., and finally to Florida. "Billy the...
ROBINSON STABILIZES NETS' SHAKY BENCH
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amThe Nets' bench has been beleaguered and maligned all season, ripped for not scoring enough, for not giving the Big Three enough rest, for everything short of global warming. But...
RAY SHINES BRIGHT FOR AQUINAS' TITLE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amGIRLS B CHAMPIONSHIPAquinas 62So. Jefferson 53STATE FEDERATION ROUNDUP GLENS FALLS - Judith Brittany Ray got a call from her brother Allan on Friday afternoon and she was told to "Win...
PITT AIDE ON HALL'S RADAR
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amContact has been made between Pitt and Seton Hall regarding Panther assistant Barry Rohrssen's availability for the Pirates' head-coaching job, The Post has learned. Rohrssen, a Brooklyn native regarded as...
COLLEGIATE STAR'S HEAVY LOAD
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amGLENS FALLS - Kevin Voelkel would have liked nothing more than to have closed out his high school career with a title this weekend in the State Federation tournament, but...
THAT CHAMPIONSHIP FEELING; CHARLES IN CHARGE FOR CTK'S TRIUMPH
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amGIRLS AA CHAMPIONSHIPCTK 79Bergtraum 66 GLENS FALLS - Tina Charles raced to a loose ball, picked it up and headed toward the basket. "Usually I take the layup," the Christ...
IT'S A GOOD KNIGHT FOR MOUNT VERNON
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amBOYS AA CHAMPIONSHIPMt. Vernon 64Lincoln 62 GLENS FALLS - Tiny Morton didn't want the ball in Kevin Menner's hands in the final seconds last night. "He's not a ball-handler," Morton,...
ISLANDERS & SATAN ENJOY ONE HELL OF A NIGHT
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amIslanders 5Thrashers 1 They just won't die. The plucky Islanders leapt from their freshly dug graves again last night, keeping themselves within six points of the playoffs with an impressive...
LIGHTNING BUG; RANGERS ARE BITTEN BY SHOOTOUT AGAIN
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amSHOOTOUTLightning 4Rangers 3 TAMPA - There they were last night, in 65 minutes plus the shootout, there were the Rangers, all of the good and all of the bad they've...
MONSTER BASS A MYSTERY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amONE of the fishing records they thought would never be broken just may have this past week, but well never really know. On Monday morning, a California angler caught a...
FANTASTIC TO BE BACK
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amANOTHER fantasy baseball season is upon us, and with the season set to start a week from tonight, most drafts will commence shortly. Here are some tips for those itching...
IGOR'S GIFT STICKS WITH HOT SCOTT
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amAnother man's trash has become Scott Gomez's magic wand. Gomez has become finisher as well as feeder this season, and he credits now-retired Igor Larionov for giving him sticks that...
OWN CONN-CLUSIONS - RESILIENT HUSKIES WILL TRY TO SLIP PAST CINDERELLA
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rashad Anderson didn't get to sleep until 5:30 a.m., so it's understandable that when the sun broke through he wasn't quite sure what was real and what was...
LIVES OF TEXAS - BARNES LANDS IN RIGHT PLACE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA - This is the season for the young hotshots to shine, for college basketball coaches on the make trying to scramble their way up the rungs of fame and...
TIGERS GIVE TEXAS RUDE AWAKENING
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA REGIONAL / OT LSU 70 Texas 60 ATLANTA - Everyone falls in love with the Cinderella teams this time of the year, the low seeds from no-name conferences that...
NO CRYIN' SHAME - A LITTLE COMPASSION FOR THE KLEENEX KIDS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA - Watching the NCAA Tournament the other night, it was hard not to hearken back to one of the most unforgettable exchanges in sports-movie history, the little back-and-forth between...
A BETTER WORLD - MAKE WBC PART OF SUMMER BASEBALL FESTIVAL
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amFORGIVE me for not drinking the World Baseball Classic Kool-Aid. Boy, it only took a few competitive games and a minimum of injuries to turn the WBC into the CBW...
CENTER STAGE - DAMON RECLAIMS HIS PRIZED REAL ESTATE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - With Johnny Damon in center, the Yankees were almost complete yesterday at Progress Energy Park. Only Jorge Posada's fractured nose kept Joe Torre from putting his regular...
BILLY'S BACK - METS CLOSER THROWS 1ST TIME IN WEEK
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amKISSIMMEE - There was some uncertainty about how significant it was while it was happening since it was just playing catch for Billy Wagner. But until doing that yesterday, the...
MAJOR DIFFICULTY - TPC MAKING WORLD'S GREATEST GOLFERS LOOK WEAK
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRE BEACH, Fla. - The images you see on television are often very deceiving. Take the pristine green grounds at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass, where the Players...
'IT CAN HAPPEN' - AMES TAKES THE SAFE WAY, TOPS [[KA-2]]RATTLED TPC FIELD BY ONE STROKE
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Some of the world's best players wore dazed looks after their hopes had been dashed everywhere around the Stadium Course at the TPC at Sawgrass...
TIGER COULD FACE DILEMMA FOR MASTERS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTPC NOTEBOOK PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Once the Players Championship ends with today's final round, the focus of the golf world will be squarely on the Masters. And, with...
DOUBLE DRIVEL - MIKE AND DOG COMMIT MORE FLAGRANT FOUL-UPS
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amFOR monitors of the "Mike and the Mad Dog" show - it gets in the blood - this is our favorite time of year. This is harvest time, when the...
ISLES' NILSSON HAD MINOR REVELATION
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amRobert Nilsson admits he didn't know how to play the game. Nilsson bounced between the Islanders' top line and the little-used fourth unit in the season's first 25 games. His...
THE 'WOLF' MAN - BLUESHIRTS CALL UP HARTFORD'S TOP GUN
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - It was a move created by necessity, but if the Rangers aren't able to regain their pre-Olympic identity and form pretty soon, more promotions from the AHL Wolf...
ANOTHER SPARKLING RAY
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amGIRLS 'B' Aquinas 62 S. Jefferson 53 GLENS FALLS - Judith Brittany Ray got a call from her brother Allan on Friday afternoon and was told to "Win the whole...
IMETTE BARMAN SPEAKS - DON'T BLAME US
March 26, 2006 | 5:00amWith his family's name popping up in connection to the murder of a young woman once again, Falls owner Michael Dorrian is insisting he and his family are not to...