January 8, 2007
Larry finally talks - praises Knicks
By MARC BERMANDoes anyone still care about Larry Brown? He held his press conference today at the Wachovia Center to officially announce his appointment as executive VP - a fancy...
Tip o' the cap
The weather may be mild, but it's still cool enough for that winter fashion staple: the hat. Check out The Post's advice on what style is best for you, from...
STAR TREK: They're everywhere
Britney went to Arizona, Brad and Angelina et tribe descended on St. John, Bill Gates and Paul Allen parked their yachts in Cozumel for a dive. These are just the...
SKI: Get your snow here
whistler.com We may be been experiencing symptoms of spring, but out west, winter is very much switched on, with reports streaming in of amazing dumps everywhere from Tahoe to Whistler....
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Jan. 8
Big Sur in winter, without the crowds! Except that Big Sur has few places to stay and little to do, so even in the busiest months, "crowds" is relative. But...
GET ME OUT OF HERE!
IT wasn't a startup, but it looked like one. My boss handed me some guy's old ID and said to use it until I had my own. The ID guy...
DREAM JOB: BENTLEY MEEKER
AT 14, Bentley Meeker dropped out of high school, moved to New York and took his first job, as a photographer's assistant. Fifteen years later, he started his own lighting...
A STEADY ROLLER
Bill Sanfilippo has a lengthy resume. He's been a cab driver, meat and seafood deliveryman, life-insurance salesman, Realtor, messenger, cement truck driver, Port-O-Potty installer and pallbearer. At 47, Sanfilippo says...
KING OF PANE
LIKE thousands of New York's struggling creative types, drummer Ivor Hanson supported his art with a day job for 11 years. But his source of income was nothing so ordinary...
GO TO GREG
Q. A year ago, I turned down a job offer from another company when my current employer offered more money. I now regret my decision. Do you have any suggestions...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - THE BOY GENIUS
This child prodigy became one of the most popular and prolific classical composers of all time, having written more than 600 pieces of music in his short lifetime. Wolfgang Amadeus...
HATS ALL, FOLKS
TIP your cap to the hat industry - it's having a moment. But in this teeming world of toppers, it's not always easy to find what suits you best -...
THE SPEEDING 'BEAUTY'
FAIRY-TALE romance is in the air at Lincoln Center. A drowsy beauty has woken up and is running as fast as she can - and even a bit faster. New...
YO, MAN! GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S GOOD FUN
MUCH like the recent balmy tempera tures, Albert Bergeret and his New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players have once again arrived to make the New York City winter a little...
WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE RADAR?
TOM Kenny draws the line. "I'm not famous - the drawing is famous, the cartoon is famous," says the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, perhaps the most-famous non-human of his generation....
WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
IF Lifetime's original movie, "To Be Fat Like Me," were an after-school special, it would be a four-star winner. The problem is that it's not. It's a movie for grown-ups...
'GREY'S' GETS NEEDED THERAPY
'GREY's Anatomy" is about to get some psychiatric help. According to a report in TVGuide.com, the hospital series is about to add a shrink to the staff of Seattle General....
THE BIG BOY
THE battle for biggest TV set took a giant leap yesterday when Sharp introduced the world's first 108-inch machine. The company says the new LCD set - which stands about...
STARR REPORT
Quarter, and some change Tim Russert's "Meet the Press" finished 2006 as the top-rated Sunday- morning public affairs show - sweeping all categories and av eraging nearly 4 million viewers....
'ABUSE' DEATHS SOAR DESPITE ACS REFORM
In the year since the brutal murder of Nixzmary Brown, the city's child-welfare agency has undergone a $600 million overhaul, but the number of deaths of children where abuse was...
WEB SITE A 'METH'OD TO WARN HOME OWNERS
If a methamphetamine lab has been busted in your neighborhood, federal drug agents want you to know about it. The Drug Enforcement Administration has launched an Internet database (www.dea.gov) that...
CHUCK 'TERROR' THREAT: MORE FUNDS - OR ELSE
Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday blasted the latest formula for allocating anti-terror funds to high-risk cities, and told the Department of Homeland Security that if it doesn't revise the process, the...
CITY'S WAR ON COLON CANCER
The Bloomberg administration is making an all-out push to prevent colon cancer, with a plan to double the number of screenings over the next five years, The Post has learned....
BUDGET BUST-ERS
Arrests have surged citywide in the past week - apparently because NYPD brass eliminated caps on cop overtime, The Post has learned. The dramatic increase in the number of busts...
'COVERUP': CITY'S OWN CONDOMS
"Fun City" is getting sexier - and safer. Mayor Bloomberg is about to unveil the city's own "NYC" brand of free condoms - in packets with a variety of colors...
BIG BONUS? YOU DA MANSION!
Ultra-wealthy Wall Streeters wondering what to do with their hefty holiday bonuses may be interested in netting this ultimate "ego trophy" - a 41,000-square-foot "couture-ready mansion" newly built in Greenwich,...
ID THEFT 101: BEAUTY CONS HER WAY ONTO IVYS' ROLLS AS AN ED. RINGER
A cunning co-ed con artist was able to dupe some of the nation's top universities - including Harvard and Columbia - into granting her admission by stealing other people's identities,...
BAD-NEIGHBOR POLICY
A Brooklyn couple have taken their battle with a neighboring condo complex into cyberspace, launching a Web site to blast the developers for everything from allegedly damaging their home during...
BABY-SHOWER BLOODSHED
Three people were wounded - one critically - at a Brooklyn baby shower that ended in gunfire and two stabbings, police said. A group of guests at the Martha Udell...
ROOKIE COP IS KILLED
A coldblooded killer yesterday pumped three bullets into an off-duty rookie police officer during a robbery in Paterson, N.J. - then fired two more shots into the dying man after...
SUBWAY 'BOMB' SENTENCE
A man convicted of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station could get more than 30 years behind bars at his sentencing today in Brooklyn federal court. Attorneys...
BLACK LEADERS MAKE SUMMIT A BUSH 'BASH'
Black political leaders yesterday bashed the Bush administration for focusing on the Iraq war instead of on the economic concerns of minorities as they kicked off the Rainbow PUSH Coalition...
SON VOWS TO SHINE
Vowing "to clean up Albany," Andrew Cuomo was sworn in as state attorney general yesterday by his father, Mario, the former New York governor. On hand for the ceremony at...
QUINN TAKING 1ST $TEP
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has taken the first concrete step to enter the 2009 mayoral race by hiring a hot shot fund-raiser who previously worked for Gov. Spitzer, The...
DOUBTS ON HEIST STORY
Authorities yesterday scoffed at the claim that a 16-year-old girl who robbed a Queens bank Friday had been coerced. Law-enforcement sources said that while her lawyer may have made the...
PRANKS A LOT FOR THIS NEW HOUSE
Mount Vernon cop and Iraq war veteran Matt Valdez thought he was ready for anything when he sped to the scene of a report of a screaming woman holding a...
A RARE SIGHTING: SNOW IN THE FORECAST
It looks as if our winter spring fling is finally coming to an end. After a record warm weekend that saw the temperature hit 72 degrees Saturday - and forecasters...
HOSPICE PROGRAM FOR CITY HOSPITALS
The Bloomberg administration is launching a "die with dignity," hospice-type program in all of the city's public hospitals for patients who are terminally ill - saying it's a more humane...
CHURCH ORGANIST'S TRIBUTE A PIPE-DREAM-COME-TRUE
Hail to the . . . Godfather of Soul! A Manhattan church organist has become an overnight Internet hit with his unique musical tribute to late President Gerald Ford and...
DUKE ACCUSED EYES LAW CAREER
A Duke University lacrosse player once charged in the alleged rape of a stripper is plotting his own measure of justice - he wants to be a criminal-defense lawyer. Reade...
E. SIDE NIGHTMARE
A woman was screaming inside 422 E. 84th St. The first cop dispatched to the three-story brownstone near York Avenue on April 24, 2005, peered through the mail slot. He...
'MONEY' MOTIVE IN DOC SLAY
A man charged with killing a Bronx pediatrician targeted the kindly doc for his money, investigators said yesterday. Samuel Saunders, 59, allegedly shot and killed Dr. Leandro Lozada, 46, on...
RIDE FOR FALLEN '06 BICYCLISTS
Bicycle-safety advocates yesterday solemnly rode to each of the 14 spots around the city where cyclists were killed by cars in 2006, leaving behind white "ghost bikes" to memorialize the...
GUNMAN ROBS PARK RAMBLER
A gun-wielding thief wounded a man during a mugging last night in Central Park, cops said. The thug accosted the 26-year-old victim at about 8 p.m. on West Drive near...
DEADLY STRUGGLE
An emotionally disturbed former public-school teacher went berserk yesterday - and died after cops, trying to subdue, him zapped him with a Taser gun, police and relatives said. Blondel Lassegue,...
ARCHDIOCESE PLANS ITS BIG BICENTENNIAL BASH
The Archdiocese of New York will kick off its bicentennial celebration with an inaugural Mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in April, Edward Cardinal Egan said yesterday. Festivities - including the...
WOMAN DIES IN QNS. SUV HIT
A woman was struck and killed as she crossed a busy intersection in the rain in Queens last night, police said. The woman, whose name and age weren't immediately released,...
OLDER-MOM BABY BOOM
The city had a record number of multiple births last year by women over 40. The Health Department reported that 8.7 percent, or one out of 11, had twins or...
WATER WIDOW WIN
A Bronx widow is flush with cash - thanks to a Post story that led the city to admit she'd been wrongly forced to overpay $17,300 in water charges. "I'm...
BACK OFF, IRAN WARNS ISRAEL
WASHINGTON - Iran warned Israel that it would "regret" any attack on its nuclear facilities - following a stunning report that Israel had drawn up plans and trained pilots to...
IRAN DOING A BRISK 'BUSINESS' IN TERROR
WASHINGTON - Iran is using an increasingly vast network of fake import-export companies to funnel weapons and money to terrorist groups in Iraq, The Post has learned. U.S. intelligence officials...
PELOSI EYES TAX HIKES TO WHACK THE WEALTHY
WASHINGTON - People making more than $500,000 a year could be paying more taxes down the road, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday. "We're not going to start repealing tax...
DONALD IS SUED FOR AGES OF SIN
Donald Trump may be 60 years old, but he doesn't want any fogies over age 40 as his "Apprentice," a new lawsuit charges. A New Hampshire man hit Trump with...
NANCY WARBUCKS
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed yesterday that the Democratic Congress would give "the harshest scrutiny" to President Bush's Iraq funding request - and refused to say that Democrats...
$TILL BRIGHT AT 'THE MUSEUM'
"Night at the Museum" keeps reeling them in, taking the No. 1 spot for the third straight weekend. The Ben Stiller comedy made $24 million, increasing its total to more...
PATENTLY FAMOUS
Everyone knows Jacko is wacko - but did you know he's also a mad scientist? The Gloved One is a member of an exclusive club of celebrity inventors, which includes...
NYPD BLOTTER
The BronxPolice are searching for an elderly woman who disappeared from a senior residence in Kingsbridge Heights. Eighty-year-old Ramona Torres stepped out of the home on Webb Avenue near West...
PATAKI'S LA$T IMAGE BLITZ
OPERATIVES for former Gov. George Pataki worked furiously in his final weeks in office to plaster his name and image on every new publication, public-service TV commercial, piece of stationery...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Numbers Sun.: 222 Midday Win-4 Sun.: 2901 Evening Numbers Sun.: 171 Evening Win-4 Sun.: 1633 Pick-10 Sun.: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17, 21,...
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
That Democrats would presume the worst of any action by President Bush is hardly surprising. That the media would get key details wrong is par for the course. But that...
TARGET THE TAKERS
It's hard not to be excited about Gov. Spitzer's nascent programs for clean ing up Albany. But in his commend able zeal, there is a risk of overreach: Spitzer must...
ZERO EXCUSES
GOV. Spitzer and his new Port Authority appointee, Executive Director Anthony Shorris, have the wind at their backs at Ground Zero, thanks to huge demand for new office space and...
ELIOT'S 'ONE NEW YORK' ERROR
HEY, how did Freddy Ferrer manage to give the State of the State Address last week? OK, it was Eliot Spitzer, our new governor, giving the speech. But he sure...
MEDIA MANGLES MEDICINE
MY office got several calls recently from patients afraid to take their stomach medicines for fear their bones would break. They'd heard media accounts of a new study in the...
HELP WANTED: RIGHTY FOR '08
IT'S getting to the point where the conservative - dominant - wing of the Republican Party needs to take out a want ad in the newspaper or post a listing...
WELL-FUNDED AND ON-TRACK
THE ISSUE: The call for Gov. Spitzer to fix city problems, including the MTA's finances. "How Spitzer Can Help N.Y.C.," (Nicole Gelinas, PostOpinion, Jan. 2) includes some very misdirected advice...
FIGHTING MEDICAID FRAUD FROM THE TOP DOWN
THE ISSUE: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's delay in appointing a deputy for Medicaid fraud. Medicaid fraud in New York is the largest criminal enterprise in our history ("Andrew, Eliot and...
BRAZILIAN WAXING CLIPS YOUTUBE
A steamy sex video starring a Brazilian supermodel has Internet upstart YouTube caught in a tug-of-war between a court order to remove the kinky clip and millions of its loyal...
BRITS GET BIT
London is paying a steep price for poaching a slew of new stock listings from Wall Street last year -financial fraud in the United Kingdom rose 40 percent. A report...
RESOLVE YOURSELF
Still looking for that ideal resolution? Look no further than this month's living mags. Martha Stewart Living is so full of advice for how to kick off the new year,...
APPLE FANS ABUZZ AT POSSIBLE IPHONE DEBUT
Investors and technogeeks will be closely watching Apple chief Steve Jobs on Tuesday, as he is expected to announce the launch of several new products, including its first cell phone....
SEC RAPS HEDGIE IN CANADIAN SHORT PLOY
The former head of a $200 million New York hedge fund is the latest money manager to get caught in the Securities and Exchange Commission's crackdown on illegal short-selling. Joseph...
SITTS ON IT WITH DEAL FOR 2 HERALD SQUARE
The Sitt family signed a contract to buy Two Herald Square for $500 million right before New Year's. The Post has learned that the brothers David, Eddie, Ralph and Jack...
ENERGY DUMPED
It might be a better idea to thank Goldman Sachs, not the weather, for the recent plunge in oil prices. While recent balmy temperatures have certainly played a role in...
EYEING IRAN
WORD that Adm. William Fallon will move laterally from our Pacific Command to take charge of Central Command - responsible for the Middle East - while two ground wars rage...
LET'S REVIEW: RULE STINKS!
TWENTY years ago, when the outrage over badly botched calls led to the NFL's "instant" replay rule, how many of us envisioned that it would mostly be used to stop...
NO FEAR
"We are not afraid of Troy Smith at all. That's not what this is. He is a great player. He has a great arm and he can run the ball....
HOW THEY MATCHUP
QUARTERBACK Troy Smith vs. Chris Leak/Tim Tebow: Smith, the Heisman Trophy winner, has been at his best in big games. He is flawless in the red zone (21 TD passes;...
RICE SLICES ST. RAYMOND'S
Rice got 29 points from Chris Fouch in a 90-60 win over St. Raymond's yesterday at the Gauchos Gym in The Bronx. This, after St. Raymond's surrendered a 17-point third-quarter...
PAIR OF 50-1 SHOTS ROLL HOME
On day when bettors poured another $467,054 into pick 6 chasing two-day carryover of $147,045, back-to-back $100+ bombers produced $400G carryover going into Wednesday's card. Amazingly, 26 people who cashed...
SPORTS SHORTS
FOOTBALL: Petrino to coach Falcons Louisville coach Bobby Petrino has accepted a five-year, $24 million offer from the Falcons to become their coach. Louisville AD Tom Jurich said Petrino told...
DEVS D-SERVE THIS VICTORY
MONTREAL - Rising to yet another challenge, the Devils conquered Canada despite their dearth of defensemen. Depth perception is a momentary illusion with these 3D Devils, but everything looks rosy...
MAGIC RUNS OUT THIS TOM
PHILADELPHIA - The Giants did not go quietly last night, but they did go, and now comes the moment of decision. Where does the franchise go from here? Does Tom...
COUGHLIN SHOULD BE THROUGH WITH LITTLE BLUE
PHILADELPHIA - Tiki Barber deserved a better ending than this, walking in the rain and out of the NFL with the mean-spirited taunts of a howling mob ringing in his...
IF ELI TALKS, THEY'LL LISTEN
PHILADELPHIA - Hopefully, the words retiring running back Tiki Barber left with Eli Manning will resonate with the Giants quarterback throughout what is an important off-season. It might be the...
JINTS FEEL BLUE AFTER TIKI FINALE
PHILADELPHIA - Seasons that end with a jarring playoff loss always are jolting, but as the Giants parted ways with a terrible season with last night's 23-20 loss to the...
TIKI'S OUT OF TIME
PHILADELPHIA - After another dismal day with the Giants, the TV studio must look pretty good to Tiki Barber. Barber's final game as a Giant went the same way many...
PLAX INVISIBLE MOST OF GAME
PHILADELPHIA - If you watched only the Giants' first and last drives yesterday, you probably thought Plaxico Burress had a monster game. On those two drives, he had five catches....
WASTED CHANCES COSTLY TO BIG BLUE
PHILADELPHIA - It was all going the way the Giants needed it to go. They scored on a crisp opening possession yesterday and took some of the steam out of...
POL POSITION: CAN COACH
Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-Queens), hanging his head in sorrow after watching yesterday's game at the Park Avenue Country Club, called for Big Blue to change coaches. "If I'm the owner...
JETS FLY FROM CHAD TO WORSE
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - When Eric Mangini emerged from the small head coach's dressing room located just off of the main visitors' locker room deep in the bowels of Gillette Stadium,...
TIME RUNNING OUT TO PENN WINNING STORY
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The afternoon was over, the season gone, the muffled roar of Gillette Stadium bleeding through the walls, into the quiet of the Jets clubhouse, crawling between Chad...
SQUEEZE PLAY
FOXBOROUGH - On a 50-degree January day in New England, when the Jets, it turned out, had a snowball's chance in hell of beating Bill Belichick twice in one season,...
MR. JANUARY
FOXBOROUGH - Tom Brady is football's Derek Jeter. January for Brady is October for Jeter. When the air becomes a little colder than in the regular season, Brady is cooler...
BACKWARD SCREEN PASS PROVES FATAL
FOXBOROUGH - Every game as tightly-wound as Jets-Patriots III was through nearly three quarters yesterday has a game-turning play. Yesterday's went the way of the Patriots, coming with 1:43 remaining...
GAFFNEY BURNS DAD'S FORMER TEAM
FOXBOROUGH - The last time the Jets and the Giants had playoff games on the same day, the Patriots' Jabar Gaffney had just celebrated his first birthday. While Gaffney was...
PATS' QUICK SNAPS BUST BLITZ
FOXBOROUGH - This time, the mentor won the chess game against his former apprentice. In November, when the Jets upset the Patriots at Gillette Stadium, they did it with a...
NO ROSE GARDEN
Now that the Knicks will get Quentin Richardson and Nate Robinson back Wednesday against the Sixers and their new executive VP, Larry Brown, Malik Rose's slight playing time is expected...
JEFFERSON ANKLE'S STILL NOT ALL RIGHT
For three games, Richard Jefferson was just about back for the Nets. There was lift and explosion. And there was confidence - not to mention production. The right ankle problem...
TIME TO SAVE JAGR
THE preliminary word is that Jaromir Jagr probably will be able to go in tomorrow night's Garden match against the Islanders after missing the third period of Saturday's 4-3 victory...
IN HIS COMFORT 'ZONA
The Yankees' future became much more interesting yesterday when, as expected, Randy Johnson agreed to a contract extension through 2008 with the Diamondbacks. That means Thursday's trade with Arizona is...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It's an alien idea to some, but not to scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The center today is set to announce plans to scan about a thousand stars...