July 6, 2006
LAY WAS A VICTIM OF HIS OWN SUCCESS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amYOU are born. Then you die. It's that simple - except for the messy stuff in between. Ken Lay was born 64 years ago in Tyrone, Mo. He died yesterday...
PLAYING CUPID - INVESTOR: LET BRONFMAN RUN WARNER/EMI COMBO
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amHugh Hendry, an investor with a major stake in music giant EMI, is violating one of the cardinal rules of the secretive hedge fund world: He's speaking out as a...
TELEVISA, UNIVISION IN MEXICAN STANDOFF
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amAfter losing a dramatic bidding war for Univision, Grupo Televisa is threatening to sell shows to the Latin broadcast giant's U.S. competition in a bid to grab more control of...
GOOD VIBE FOR MAG AS BUYER SIGNS ON
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amVibe magazine, which has been on and off the block for years, was finally sold to a new investment team that is backed by Wicks Media. Quincy Jones, the founder...
GIMME SHELTER
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amBIG MACK ATTACK THE PENTHOUSE at One Beacon Court that saw a price drop from $31.25 million to $25 million has been sold to David Mack and his wife, Sondra....
ECO CHAMBERS: SEO SHOWS HOW IT'S DONE - INTERIOR DESIGNER OFFERS TIPS ON GOING GREEN
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amECO-FRIENDLY interior designer Danny Seo has written five books (with another on the way) and appeared on Oprah three times. He has his own radio and TV shows, and styles...
HOLY COWIE! IT'S PARTY CENTRAL: COLIN COWIE TAKES US INSIDE HIS HUGE LOFT
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amCELEBRITY party planner Colin Cowie is known for creating splashy, colorful events for high-wattage clients such as Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld. But for his home, Cowie shuns...
TIMELESS 'SYLVIA' LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTO the age-old question "Who is Sylvia?" American Ballet Theatre is this season offering four ballerina answers - Gillian Murphy, Michele Wiles, Paloma Herrera and Julie Kent - but on...
INDY STAR AN INDIE - 'RAIDERS' ACTRESS EYES A RETURN
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amKAREN Allen is perfectly fine with the fact that most people remember her for a movie scene she did 25 years ago. "From the moment I read that scene in...
E-MAIL STAR'S TORMENTORS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE battle between Star Jones and Barbara Walters just got dicier - and now it's spread to cyberspace. Jones is advising her fans via her Web site, starjones.com, on how...
STARR REPORT
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amShannen Doherty will be among the co-hosts filling the chair vacated by Star Jones on "The View" until the show goes on hiatus August 4. Doherty is scheduled to cohost...
REALITY WINNER SHOOTS PUPPY
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amAN early-morning puppy hunt landed the winner of "Survivor: Thailand" in a Georgia jail. Part-time actor and used-car salesman Brian Heidik, 38-who won the fifth edition of the CBS reality...
BOTTOMS UP! TIE ONE ON TO CELEBRATE BIKINI'S 60TH
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE itsy, bitsy bikini is one sexy sexagenarian - the hot little number just turned 60. The bikini was the brainchild of Louis Reard, a French automotive engineer, and couturier...
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY - SUSAN LUCCI OF TV SPORTS BREAKS EMMY CURSE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMARY Carillo finally found out that winning an Emmy isn't quite like winning a tennis tournament. In tennis, they give you the trophy right there after you win. With the...
SCURVY DOG - FUN BUT AVAST-LY OVERLONG SEQUEL IS ARRRDUOUS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amPIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (two and a half stars) Creaky, but it floats. Running time: 149 minutes. Rated PG-13 (action violence, scary images). At the Kips Bay,...
FLAVOR CONTEST IS ICE OBSCENE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amIT takes a lot to gross out Ben & Jerry's. "We eat anything," says flavor guru Arnold Carbone. "So if somebody puts something in front of my face and says,...
WAIT OF THE WORLD - 'LOST' CHAPPELLE WORTH EVERY $
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amNo matter what you're doing this Sunday night, make sure that you're home by 9, that your TV is tuned to Comedy Central, and that you have strapped yourself safely...
W. BREWS A PITCH FOR LEGALIZING
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush ducked into a Dunkin' Donuts yesterday for a cup of joe, and bought one for a reporter while touting the shop's international staff as proof that...
COURT BREAK IN STUY TOWN BLAST
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The state's highest court yesterday reduced the conviction of a former city administrative-law judge who blew up his apartment and several others in Stuyvesant Town in a botched...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Cops say this man beat and tore the clothes off a young woman in her Bedford Stuyvesant apartment building. Derrick Chirse (above), 45, left his 18-year-old victim unconscious...
$LAP AT N. KOREA - JAPAN'S U.N. BID FOR TOUGH SANCTIONS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amJapan has America's backing to seek sanctions against North Korea in retaliation for the outlaw nation's defiant missile tests, as it was revealed yesterday that the United States activated its...
TRUMP: YOU BET I'M SAD
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amCasino mogul Donald Trump yesterday called it "a sad day indeed" and said "Las Vegas is laughing" at New Jersey after Atlantic City's 12 casinos closed shop because of the...
WONDER GOES WITH THE GRAIN
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe world's most famous white bread is going brown. Wonder Bread has succumbed to the health-food revolution, announcing new "whole grain" loaves will hit supermarket shelves in a few weeks....
JUDGE PUTS GAG ON GOTTI
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA federal judge has hit John "Junior" Gotti with a gag order barring him and others linked to his case from speaking to the press until after his upcoming racketeering...
'MIRACLE' KID SURVIVES GANG STAB
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA run-in with a vicious Bronx gang left a teenage boy clinging to life yesterday with stab wounds to the stomach and chest, his family and officials said. "It's a...
'I KNOW HE'S MY HERO' - S.I. SOLDIER MOURNED
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amAlthough he'd warned her exactly what would happen if he was killed, the dreaded knock on the door was more than Pfc. Collin Mason's wife could bear. The Staten Island...
2 KILLED IN BQE CRASH
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA livery cab driver and one of his passengers were killed in a fiery crash early yesterday when the cabby accidentally slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer as it...
FEDS WILL TRY TO DIG UP BURIED TREASURE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amIf Ken Lay managed to take any of his ill-gotten $220 million fortune to the grave, FBI agents will be the first in line to dig it up. Just five...
MIKE'S 'GREEN CARD' ALARM - WARNS OF FAKES AFTER POST EXPOSÉ
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Fake green cards are a "dime a dozen" on the streets, Mayor Bloomberg testified yesterday before a Senate Committee - after a Post investigation revealed how easy it...
82 DOUBLE-DIPPER$ EXPOSED
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amEighty-two retired city workers are double-dipping - illegally collecting nearly $1 million in pensions while receiving a second paycheck from the government, according to a probe by city Comptroller Bill...
STAR WAR SHIELD IS FINALLY DEPLOYED
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The missile-defense shield activated by the Pentagon in response to North Korea's missile test uses a network of satellites, sea-based radar and ground-based rockets to blast approaching enemy...
RADICAL MUSIC MAN GETS JAIL
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe man who stirred the political pot during the 1970s with his song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" will be singing the blues after a judge ordered him to...
'SOPRANO' PUT$ HIT ON CASINO - ACTOR SIRICO SUING OVER BILLBOARD PHOTO
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amAn Atlantic City casino is learning the meaning of the old Mafia adage: "Never go against the family." "The Sopranos" co-star Tony Sirico, who plays cantankerous capo Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri,...
JERSEY FOLDS ITS HAND - CASINOS KO'D AMID SHUTDOWN RAGE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amNew Jersey's state government shutdown was completed yesterday, with casinos, parks, motor-vehicle offices and "non-essential" services shuttered as Democrats dithered in Trenton over raising the state sales tax. Atlantic City...
DEATH LAKE TWIST - PLAYLAND VANDALS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA day after a Queens sushi chef drowned at a Rye Playland lake where there were no warnings against swimming, Westchester officials yesterday announced they'll install "more difficult to vandalize"...
VULTURES IN FORGERY RING SWIPED N.J. WIDOW'S ID
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMIDLOTHIAN, Va. - Lifelong New Jersey resident Pauline Gostyla died three months ago in a nursing home - but a Post investigation found that her Social Security number was being...
LAY HIM LOW: ENRON'S CHIEF CROOK DUCKS BIG HOUSE BY DROPPING DEAD
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amEnron founder Ken Lay, the slippery schemer convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the energy giant's monumental collapse, dodged jail after all. Lay, who faced up to 45 years in...
'SODA JERKS' - $1.5M PLOT FIZZLES AS 'COKE' RING TRIO TRIES SELLING SECRETS TO PEPSI: FEDS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTalk about Cola Wars! Federal prosecutors have charged three people with stealing closely guarded trade secrets from the Coca-Cola Co. and trying to sell the information to rival PepsiCo. Coca-Cola...
SOHO CLUBGOER STABBED IN THE BACK
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was stabbed in the back outside a trendy SoHo nightclub early yesterday after getting into a dust-up with a gang of thugs, police said. Jason Greene, 20,...
N.Y.-BOUND PLANE DOWN
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA private plane registered to a Westchester County surgeon crashed on takeoff yesterday on Block Island, R.I., killing two women and a man aboard, authorities said. The plane, a Piper...
HS KIDS GET SLIM CHANCE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA new fat-busting program is being launched in the city's high schools to teach teens how to eat well and exercise. Tucked away in the city budget is $160,000 to...
MET FELL FOR CON ARTIST: EXPERT
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA painting the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought for more than $45 million and hailed as a 14th century masterpiece is a fake, according to a leading New York authority....
POLS' PET PROJECT TARGETS BEASTLY ABUSERS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Judges may soon be asked to keep pets safe from domestic violence. A bill on its way to Gov. Pataki seeks to keep pets from becoming pawns in...
SAVIOR FROM ON HIGH - HELI-COPS IN DARING RESCUE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA hero NYPD chopper cop hung from the side of his helicopter yesterday to pluck a suicidal woman from the choppy waters of the Harlem River yesterday in a derring-do...
KOOK KIM'S PALS - RUSSIA & CHINA BID TO $AVE N. KOREA
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amRussia and China are threatening to block U.N. sanctions against North Korea that punish the outlaw nation for its defiant missile tests. The veiled warnings of a Security Council veto...
3 DIE AS N.Y.-BOUND PLANE CRASHES
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amA private plane registered to a Westchester surgeon crashed on takeoff yesterday on Block Island, R.I., killing two women and a man on board. The four-seater Piper Cherokee was owned...
MEXICO: WATCH THE LOSER - KEY TEST FOR YOUNG DEMOCRACY
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTORTILLA strips instead of hanging chads? The outcome of Mexico's presidential election remains too close to call. But no matter who's declared the winner, democracy won. It's frustratingly hard to...
BOOTED 'AIR RAGE' MODEL GETS VISA
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amDanish supermodel May Andersen, deported in April after her milehigh clubbing of a flight attendant, has gotten a visa to return to the United States - and this time, she's...
HILLARY SUDDENLY HAS '08 JITTERS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amSUDDENLY, it looks as if Hillary Clinton is running scared over 2008. A batch of Hillaryland moves over the past few weeks suggests a nervousNellie president wannabe rather than a...
S.I. GI'S WIDOW: 'I KNOW HE'S A HERO' - WERE MARRIED ONLY 8 MONTHS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amAlthough he'd warned her exactly what would happen if he was killed, the dreaded knock on the door was more than Pfc. Collin Mason's wife could bear. The 20-year-old Staten...
BID TO PUT BITE ON PET ABUSERS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Judges may soon be asked to keep pets safe from domestic violence. A bill on its way to Gov. Pataki seeks to keep pets from becoming pawns in...
KNEE WON'T BENCH BALKMAN
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES LAS VEGAS - Renaldo Balkman's right hand was in working order as he signed his two-year, $2.48 million rookie contract at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center following yesterday's...
WIE LOOKS TO LIGHT MATCH
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amGLADSTONE, N.J. The last time she invaded New Jersey, 16-year old wunderkind Michelle Wie was gunning for a spot at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. She clogged Canoe Brook...
ALL FALL BROWN - YOUNG KNICKS RIPPING LARRY
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - The Knicks' summer-league practice here yesterday turned into one big Larry Brown Bash. Channing Frye, Nate Robinson and David Lee, last season's three rookies who regressed under...
ABCD CAMP: NO MORE OLD-SCHOOL PLAYERS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amDuring breaks in the day at the Reebok ABCD Camp at Fairleigh Dickinson University, top college players who work as counselors take the floor and scrimmage each other. In years...
LIBERTY ON THE REBOUND
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMONARCHS at LIBERTY Tonight 7:30; MSG With just four wins in their first 15 games, the Liberty will take the floor against the Sacramento Monarchs (9-8) tonight hoping to gain...
WRIGHT GETS THE NIGHT OFF
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Last night the Mets' third baseman was hitting eighth. But David Wright hadn't been demoted. Wright didn't play in last night's 5-0 win over the Pirates, getting a...
REYES' TRIPLE SPARKS METS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amWillie Randolph often talks about the spark Jose Reyes gives the Mets at the top of the lineup and how he often drives their offense. Last night was no different....
T.J. STILL A BEAM OF HOPE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - As Joe Torre walked slowly to the mound, T.J. Beam knew he was being removed from Tuesday night's slaughter at Jacobs Field. Recalling what it felt like to...
TORRE CALLS MID-YEAR MEETING
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - Joe Torre held a brief meeting before last night's game and the immediate belief was he talked about Tuesday evening's 19-1 embarrassment. Yet, that wasn't the...
METS NEED TO MAKE CALL OF THE CHILD
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE METS' double-digits division lead has bought Willie Randolph the twin luxuries of early summer time and patience, which is why the manager could afford without a second thought (or...
JOHNNY JOINS THE INJURED - YANKS BOUNCE BACK, BUT DAMON DAMAGES ABS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 11 - Indians 3 CLEVELAND - Even when the Yankees win they lose. After punishing the Indians, 11-3, last night at Jacobs Field and ending a two-game slide in...
JOHNNY JOINS THE INJURED - HURTS ABS - BUT MELKY SLAM FUELS YANK REBOUND
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 11 - Indians 3 CLEVELAND - Even when the Yankees win they lose. After punishing the Indians 11-3 last night behind Melky Cabrera's grand slam and career-high five RBIs...
CALL OF THE CHILD - AMAZIN' YOUNGSTER SHOULD GET A SHOT
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amTHE METS' 10 1/2-game division lead has bought Willie Randolph the twin luxuries of early summer time and patience, which is why the manager could afford to give David Wright...
BOSS PUTS IT ALL ON BRIAN - GEORGE, JOE LOOK TO CASHMAN IN TIME OF NEED
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - According to George Steinbrenner, it's up to Brian Cashman to make the Yankees better before the July 31 trading deadline. "Brian Cashman is working hard to improve the...
AMAZIN'S TAKE BUCS TO BLANK - EL DUQUE SHUTOUT SINKS PIRATES
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMets 5 - Pirates 0 Lately, Orlando Hernandez hasn't been who he was right after the Mets acquired him in late May. His recent outings mostly have been magnificent. Hernandez...
LIFE IS GOOD - LIGHTER LOAD IN SAN DIEGO SUITS PIAZZA
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The hair is longer, the goatee is California cool, and the attitude is relaxed. Halfway through his first season as a Padre, Mike Piazza is not afraid to...
SHELF SERVICE - PEDRO DOESN'T THROW, COULD BE HEADED TO DL
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amPedro Martinez's return to the rotation stalled again yesterday, when the right-hander decided he wasn't physically ready to throw before the game. "He just didn't feel right," Willie Randolph. "He...
WILLIE: WRIGHT TIME FOR REST
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Last night, the Mets' third baseman was hitting in the eighthole. But David Wright hasn't been demoted. Wright didn't start last night's game, getting a night off. Chris...
TORRE STARTS 2ND HALF OFF RIGHT
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - Joe Torre held a brief meeting before last night's game and the immediate belief was he talked about Tuesday evening's 19-1 embarrassment. Yet, that wasn't the...
BOSS: IT'S UP TO CASH
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - According to George Steinbrenner, it's up to general manager Brian Cashman to make the Yankees better before the July 31 trading deadline. "Brian Cashman is working hard to...
PEDRO MAY GET SHELF SERVICE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amPedro Martinez's return to the rotation stalled again yesterday, when the right-hander decided he wasn't physically ready to throw before the game. "He just didn't feel right," Willie Randolph. "He...
OLD PLAYERS COMEBACK KIDS
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amMagnifique! After starting this World Cup so poorly it appeared France might not even reach the knockout phase, instead it reached the final with yesterday's 1-0 victory over Portugal. Now...
BOUCHARD D-LIGHTED TO REMAIN ON ISLAND
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amThe Islanders continued to bolster their blue line yesterday when they signed free agent Joel Bouchard to a one-year contract. Bouchard finished last season with the Isles and opened many...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 6, 2006 | 4:00amThis Utah bear cub could pass for a teenager - if it weren't for all that fur. Lake Tahoe residents watched in disbelief as the young bruin lumbered into a...