March 5, 2006
BLUEBLOOD'S DEADBEAT WAYS SULLY FAMILY NAME
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA scion of one of New York's most prominent and wealthiest families is doing his best to sully his family name - getting arrested for assaulting his live-in girlfriend, running...
PIXAR PAYOFF; CATMULL SCORES IN $7B DISNEY BUY
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amJUST weeks after Steve Jobs' Pixar agreed to be purchased by Disney for a cool $7.4 billion, the board of the 20-year-old Pixar has decided to give president and co-founder...
BUBBLE-GUM BEATS RULE THE CHARTS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMusic for the bubble-gum-and-braces crowd made chart history last week, with kid-friendly albums grabbing the top three positions on Billboard's Top 200 list for the first time since it began...
WHAT TO DO WITH THAT 401(K) WHEN LEAVING A JOB
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amDear John: What's the best thing to do with your 401(k) when you leave a job? Should you roll it over into an IRA or leave it with your former...
QUICK $ TAX LOANS TARGETED
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA state lawmaker is promising to push through legislation that would rein in the amount of interest tax-preparation firms could charge customers for rapid-refund loans. The move by state Assemblyman...
BACK-BREAKING - RECENT MISSES JEOPARDIZE UNIVERSAL'S FUTURE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThe year's best drama belongs to Universal Pictures - and it has nothing to do with "Brokeback Mountain." While the General Electric-owned studio's alternative Western is expected to win tonight's...
MAD AVE. EXPRESS; AD MAKERS FAST-TRACK TO H'WOOD
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amLong before Bennett Miller was nominated for Best Director for "Capote," he directed commercials for MasterCard and Ace Hardware. The same is true for Phil Morrison, who directed spots for...
ACTING CATTY; SHELTER CATS TAKE THEIR STAR TURNS IN 'SQUID'
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amDuring tonight's telecast of the 78th Academy Awards, cat lovers will be rooting for "The Squid and The Whale." Nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Noah Baumbach's film features a feline...
VAMPIRES OF B'KLYN
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amFROM Bela Lugosi to Michael Jackson, BAM Rose Cinemas' horror fest has it all. The two will be found on BAM's big screen in Brooklyn during "Some Kind of Horror...
OLYMPIAD HOPEFULS SPRING INTO ACTION
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amNOW that the Turin winter games are history, next up is Turin's spring games. That means the biennial chess olympiad, set for the Italian city in May. This year, the...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
March 5, 2006 | 5:00am1 Deja vu Anna Nicole Smith's back in court, still desperately seeking a slice of her dead husband's fortune. Eight years after his public-bathroom arrest, George Michael gets nabbed in...
RUN, TRUMAN, RUN! BY KEEPING HIS EYES ON THE PRIZE, HOFFMAN PULLS AHEAD IN TWO-MAN BEST ACTOR RACE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amWhen the directors yelled, "That's a wrap" on the sets of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Capote," the work was just beginning for Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman in their quests...
PARTY POSSE - OSCAR SCENES YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amOscar scenes you can't afford to miss ASPIRING to graduate from young starlet to A-list power player? If you know what's good for you this Oscar weekend, you won't just...
LYING LEROY - ASIA ARGENTO MAKES BIOPIC ABOUT MAN WHO NEVER LIVED
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAsia Argento makes biopic about man who never lived What do you do when you make a movie that's based on a true story that turns out to be a...
NEW STYLE FOR KYLE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA low-budget film about Bobby Vinton, a human ear and a guy who likes to have sex while high on nitrous might seem like an unlikely way to save a...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amManly man loves foreign films, U2 MEET Arnold, a 28-year-old construction manager who says that, when he's not working, he likes to "swim, cook, design furniture and go to see...
SUITE DREAMS - OSCAR WORTHY LOOKS FIT FOR N.Y.C. PARTY PRINCESSES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00am1. Tadashi silk taffeta gown, $408, at Bloomingdales 2. Shawn Ray Fons chiffon gown, $2200, at Saks Fifth Ave. 3. Badgley Mischka chemise gown, $1595, at Saks Fifth Ave. 4....
TRAGIC INFERNO; BRAVE GRANNY KILLED
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAn infirm great-grandmother perished in a ferocious Brooklyn blaze after telling frantic relatives trying to rescue her to save themselves as the flames rapidly consumed her apartment yesterday morning. Fueled...
ELIOT TROUNCES TOM TURKEY IN STRAW POLL
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amITHACA - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer crushed Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi 95-5 percent yesterday in their first head-to-head battle for the Democratic nomination for governor, and picked up surprise...
HE'D BE BARE 'N' BOLD BOND
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThe new James Bond may not like guns or speedboats, but he's got the guts to appear naked on screen. Daniel Craig, 37, who replaces Pierce Brosnan as 007, told...
MAN 'WHACKS' WIFE, GOES FREE - AND ; FIGHTS TO GET HER $$
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA jury found him guilty of hiring a hit man to brutally murder his wife in Queens - and he was supposed to be locked up until at least 2022....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Two Asian men were stabbed with a boxcutter in front of a Gramercy Park diner during a racial fracas, police sources said. The victims were ending a night...
ANGUISHED FAREWELL TO IMETTE AS SEARCH FOR EVIL KILLER CONTINUES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amTearful friends and family members gathered to bid a sad farewell to Imette St. Guillen yesterday in Boston - at once recalling the grad-school beauty's boundless enthusiasm and grappling with...
LAWYER'S PREY; UNDERAGE SEX VICTIMS TURNED IN SICKO
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThese are the two young Upper West Side sisters who turned the tables on the tawdry "sugar daddy" tax lawyer now accused of rape in an underage-sex scandal. The siblings...
LITTLE AGENCY THAT COULD
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amSOMETIMES, a little thing can do much good, even if most folks don't appreciate it. Such is the case with one tiny city agency that's become nearly indispensable (even if...
GI GRID-STAR 'SLAY' PROBE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThe Army will launch a criminal probe into the death of Pat Tillman (left), the NFL star turned Army Ranger whowas killed by fellow soldiers inAfghanistan in 2004, Pentagon officials...
SECRETS OF PRINCESS PAIR & THE GODFATHER GRANDDAD
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amShe swooped in to court, in her Easter-egg pink fur jacket, skin-tight Juicy Couture jeans and sparkling silver eye shadow, to tell the world that Dapper Don John Gotti, who...
BLAKE 'TOYS' WITH REPO MAN
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Bankrupt actor Robert Blake hopes to save his toy soldiers, guns and guitars from being repossessed, according to court documents. Blake filed for Chapter 11 protection last...
MYSTERY VAN MAY BE KEY TO RAPE-SLAY
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amCops are investigating if a van abandoned near where graduate student Imette St. Guillen was found slain last week is the key to unlocking the mystery surrounding the tragic beauty's...
CLERK STOLE OLD-TIMER'S 55G: COPS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAn office clerk at a Queens nursing home was arrested after getting caught cashing checks she stole from one of the residents, police sources said yesterday. Andrea Morris, 37, who...
MIKE STILL KEEPING GOP TIE$
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amHE'S turning up the heat on the White House for housing aid, but that doesn't mean Mayor Bloomberg and his allies are abandoning national Republicans. Campaign-finance records show one of...
HOOKER SAYS ATTORNEY WAS WEEKEND HO BEAU
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThe alleged sicko lawyer charged with paying a mom to let him have sex with her two underage daughters also trawled the streets of his suburban hometown for prostitutes on...
OLD PALS ROAST THE OSCAR HOST; RAZZING THEIR DEAR JON ON HIS BIG NIGHT
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amJon Stewart - the diminutive kid from New Jersey who changed his name from Jon Leibowitz because it sounded "too Hollywood" - will in fact be Mr. Hollywood tonight as...
CIVIL-RIGHTS WAR; KING & HIS ENEMIES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAT CANAAN'S EDGE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1965-68BY TAYLOR BRANCH SIMON & SCHUSTER 1,039 PAGES, $35 WITH this mammoth volume, Taylor Branch brings to a close his magnificent and...
COPS MAY SEEK HELP IN SOLVING RAPE-SLAY
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly is considering making an unusual public briefing on the investigation into the death of graduate student Imette St. Guillen, with the hopes it might prompt anyone...
FIRE KILLS BOY, 5, LEFT HOME ALONE AS DAD WORKED
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA 5-year-old New Jersey boy tragically perished in a fire yesterday after being left home alone as his single dad worked at a nearby warehouse - after allegedly being threatened...
ANTI-COWELL MUSICAL IS ALL-ZINGING
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA scorned singer has written a bitter ballad called "I Hate You Simon Cowell" that will be featured in a satirical stage show opening off-Broadway in June. "Instant Celebrity" follows...
DUDE, WHERE'S MY CIVIL WAR? THE U.S. MEDIA'S MESSAGE VS. THE TRUTH ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amBAGHDADI'M trying. I've been trying all week. The other day, I drove another 30 miles or so on the streets and alleys of Baghdad. I'm looking for the civil war...
UNION-BOSS POL PLAYING HOME GAME
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amEmbattled Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin is required by law to live in his district, but neighbors say they rarely see him at his official Queens residence. The powerful labor leader is...
BRO DISHED DIRT ON JACKO; JERMAINE SHOPPED BOOK ON MICHAEL
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMichael Jackson's big brother Jermaine tried to use the King of Pop's kid-sex trial to shop a tell-all book that dished ugly dirt about his brother - and said Jermaine...
WEALTHY SHOPPERS ARE WELL 'HEELED'
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThink your girlfriend has too many shoes? You're probably right. A Time magazine poll of affluent Americans reports that 11 percent of women own more than 50 pairs, and 51...
GOTTI GALS' EXPLOSIVE MISTRESS DISTRESS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThey may publicly deny them, but Gotti women do not take their husband's mistresses lying down. And their mob husbands' goumadas know it. So furious was Victoria Gotti when she...
HIDDEN CLAWS IN GALS' LIVES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAngelina Jolie slithered coyly, denying designs on Jennifer's husband while grabbing Brad. Maureen Dowd wrote "I've always liked Judy" and proceeded to trash rival star reporter Judy Miller. Tonya Harding...
IT'S EVERY WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CATFIGHT
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAngelina Jolie slithered coyly, denying designs on Jennifer's husband while grabbing Brad. Maureen Dowd wrote "I've always liked Judy" and proceeded to trash rival star reporter Judy Miller. Tonya Harding...
YOU STINK, SIMON! SINGER GETS HER REVENGE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA scorned singer has written a bitter ballad called "I Hate You Simon Cowell" that will be featured in a satirical stage show opening off-Broadway in June. "Instant Celebrity" follows...
HOME 'GAME' - CITY RESIDENCY IN DOUBT
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amEmbattled Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin is required by law to live in his district, but neighbors say they rarely see him at his official Queens residence. The powerful labor leader is...
BLAKE STILL 'TOYING' WITH REPO MAN
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Bankrupt actor Robert Blake hopes to save his toy soldiers, guns and guitars from being repossessed, according to court documents. Blake filed for Chapter 11 protection last...
'I WANT TO EASE ANY PAIN YOU HAVE EVER FELT'
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amTearful friends and family gathered yesterday to bid a sad farewell to slain grad-school beauty Imette St. Guillen at her funeral, remembering her boundless enthusiasm and grappling with the senselessness...
COPS: HELP US FIND IMETTE'S MURDERER
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amCops searching for the psycho killer who savagely raped and strangled Imette St. Guillen had a major lead fall through, prompting Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday to plan a public...
'SOPRANO' KID'S A HIT AT 21
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - "Sopranos" star Robert Iler rocked in his 21st birthday in decadent style early yesterday, partying hard in a hot Sin City nightspot as hundreds of revelers looked...
L.I. INFANT'S GRUESOME FATE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amAn infant was dumped on a quiet Long Island street and run over by at least one car,cops said yesterday. A pedestrian spotted the tiny corpse lying across the asphalt...
USA HAS NO ANSWER
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amBY many accounts, no United States Olympic player was more disturbed by its losses in Greece than Allen Iverson. "He was distraught afterward," says a friend who spent those nights...
UNION BOARD COULD COST PLAYERS BUNDLE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amA SINGLE sentence from the NHLPA constitution written in 1990 by Alan Eagleson is being used by Ted Saskin to empower the 34-member Executive Board to vote on changing the...
MANCHURIAN RULES STYMIE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amManchurian, 6-year-old son of Deputy Minister making belated stakes debut for Todd Pletcher in $65,000 Stymie Handicap at mile-and-eighth, pressed tepid pace (:24.1, :491.) set by Chilly Rooster, took lead...
DEFENSIVE STAND; NETS CLAMP DOWN IN CRUNCH
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amOVERTIMENets 105Raptors 101 The numbers jump out and scream off the stat sheet - two 30-point scorers in Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson; yet another triple-double for Jason Kidd; Nenad...
UCONN ROOKIE HELPING RAPTORS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThink about it? How much of a favorite in the NCAA Tournament would Connecticut be if it still had Queens' Charlie Villanueva? Villanueva, who would have been a junior this...
TOURNAMENT TEST ; STORM, KNIGHTS VIE FOR BIG EAST BERTH
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amIt's time to dig out that St. John's sweatshirt that has found its way to the bottom of the drawer. Time to leave a few minutes early for today's game...
R.J. CLARIFIES REMARKS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Richard Jefferson said it one more time. He was talking about quality, not quantity. Jefferson, in an obviously frustrated state after the Nets' 100-90 loss Wednesday in Minnesota,...
KIDD GETS EXTRA 'ASSIST'
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amStats lie. The boxscore in this paper and everywhere else is incorrect. As part of Jason Kidd's 72nd career triple-double, he really had 16 assists, not 15, in the Nets'...
HALLOWS, CTK SET FOR CLASH
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amDarryl Crawford might not be as emotional a leader as some stellar All Hallows seniors have been in the past. Whether it was Ronald Ramon, now at Pitt, or Iona's...
3RD TIME IS CHARM FOR PEDRO
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Pedro Martinez hurled another bullpen session yesterday, throwing off the rubber for the third time in five days. Martinez, who's bothered by an ailing...
PAVANO: COULD BE BACK SOONER
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - In the big picture, Carl Pavano took nothing more than a baby step yesterday when he threw off a Legends Field bullpen mound. After all, the Yankees are...
NFL TALKS BREAK OFF
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amThe clock looks like it will run out on two deadlines tonight that will directly and adversely affect the way the NFL conducts its business now and in the immediate...
MARBURY: WE STILL DON'T KNOW SYSTEM
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MILWAUKEE - The last time the Knicks were in Milwaukee - on Dec. 30 - Stephon Marbury and Larry Brown were not on speaking terms. They are speaking...
DORAL DRAMA DIMS ; MICKELSON FAILS TO FOLLOW TIGER'S LEAD
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMIAMI - For one day, the Ford Championship at Doral and NBC had everything they could possibly have dreamed for: Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson in a final-pairing duel, compelling...
JASPERS DON'T PLAN TO WAVE GOOD-BYE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Unlike the Luis Flores-led juggernauts of yesteryear, Manhattan wasn't favored to win the MAAC. The Jaspers became even less so after point guard Kenny Minor broke his hand...
WINNING SPIRIT; 1980 CUP CHAMPS INSPIRE ISLES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amIslanders 4Flyers 2 It wasn't until Denis Potvin stood at the microphone, arms raised like an evangelic hockey minister, and spoke to his loyal Coliseum congregation that the old barn...
LIKE OLD TIMES ; DEVS PUT CLAMP ON BLUESHIRTS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 2Rangers 1 Old-time Devils hockey derailed the Rangers' nouveau version. Massive body slams, unexpected punches, downright goadings and even the age-old tactic of shadowing a star helped snap as...
RANGERS REAL DEAL - NO BIG DEAL NEEDED
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amYOU know me. I'm always a high-risk, high-reward guy, always advocating the big signing, always endorsing the big trade for the big difference-maker. But always is over. It was over...
GAELS SHOW UPSIDE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - All season, Iona coach Jeff Ruland has insisted he had no idea what to expect from his maddeningly inconsistent team. The Gaels have alternated between sorry and sublime...
WINNING SPIRIT ; 1980 CUP CHAMPS INSPIRE ISLES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amIslanders 4Flyers 2 It wasn't until Denis Potvin stood at the microphone, arms raised like an evangelic hockey minister, and spoke to his loyal Coliseum congregation, that the old barn...
FRANCESA TOUGHER TO TAKE WHEN HE'S RIGHT
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amIN THE back of our minds, we always knew he could do it. After all, if anyone could do it, it would be him. Mike Francesa last week pulled off...
TREKKING THROUGH HAVEN ON EARTH - SECOND OF TWO PARTS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amNGORONGORO CRATER, Tanzania - We arrive on the edge of one of the world's true natural wonders, the Ngorongoro crater. The crater is an ancient collapsed caldera some three million...
FANS AREN'T JUST DOUBTING THOMAS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amJohn Crimmins has owned Knicks tickets for around 20 years, and he and his friends agree on one course of action the terrible team should take. "Bye, Isiah," Crimmins said...
TEAM TITANIC FINALLY BUCKS TERRIBLE TREND
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - The tragic part to last night was why, oh why, did it take four months for the Knicks to play with this precision, this passion, this productivity and...
STIFFS LIE IN WOES GARDEN - STEVE-STEPH SHOW FAILS TO SAVE KNICKS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - The day the Knicks obtained Steve Francis, one league executive who has been on his side said, "He's a high turnover guy. Late in the game, the first...
AARON'S ON TRACK - HEILMAN IMPRESSIVE IN SPRING FLING
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - In the first inning yesterday, Aaron Heilman struck out the first batter and the last batter. In the second inning, he worked out of a tough...
BIG MYSTERY - REDS YOUNGSTER TAKES JOHNSON DEEP
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - A year ago it was Chipper Jones spanking Randy Johnson in the lefty's initial exhibition start. That wasn't unexpected because switch-hitting Jones, who homered, owns Johnson. However, the...
YANKEES MISSING MUSCLE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The Yankees didn't miss Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon on Friday when they reached double digits in runs. Yesterday, however, the missing muscle had...
MEET THE MINAYAS - '06 METS TRULY OMAR'S TEAM
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amOMAR Minaya should examine New York's sports landscape. He would notice Terry Bradway no longer is employed as a general manager, and Isiah Thomas just may be the most despised...
RING OF HONOR - JETER, CLEMENS REUNITED FOR CLASSIC ON TEAM USA
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amPHOENIX _ The ring. It always comes back to the ring. Roger Clemens was wearing his 2000 championship ring Friday night when he went to dinner with Derek Jeter and...
JEFF PUTS BURTT AT TOP OF CLASS
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Manhattan's Bobby Gonzalez is the MAAC Coach of the Year, while St. Peter's Keydren Clark - the league's all-time leading scorer, No. 7 in NCAA history - is...
TROTS: LET ME COACH ISLES
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amBryan Trottier yesterday said he would very much welcome an opportunity to rejoin the Islanders as a coach, provided owner Charles Wang ever made such an offer. "I'd give it...
WILDCATS' LOWRY REFUSES TO BE CAGED
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amVILLANOVA - Where do you draw the line with Kyle Lowry? Do you allow him to continue to eat only pancakes, as was the case when he arrived at Villanova?...
DEVIL HEAD GAMES - REPORT: MOGILNY CLAIMS HE SUFFERED CONCUSSION
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amIt just wouldn't be a Devils season without a concussion controversy. A report is surfacing that another dispute over a head injury immediately preceded Lou Lamoriello's waiver and demotion of...
TO THE WIRE - JETS TO DECIDE ON CHAD TODAY
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amMIAMI - There will be no more reprieves or delayed deadlines or anything else other than a final decision made on Chad Pennington by the Jets today. Today is the...
A-ROD, CHIPPER TO SHARE
March 5, 2006 | 5:00amWBC NOTES PHOENIX - The first time Team USA takes the field, Alex Rodriguez will not be starting at third base. Chipper Jones will get the start today in a...