January 24, 2005
VIRGIN HOT FOR DUPRI
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amVirgin Records, in a bold move aimed at boosting the label’s place on the charts, is close to a deal to hire white-hot producer Jermaine Dupri to a top executive...
TEMPTING TAHARI - LADIES' HOT LABEL FLIRTS WITH KELLWOOD GROUP
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amThe Kellwood Group has approached the partners behind Tahari A.S.L. about purchasing the well-known women’s suit label, The Post has learned. The discussions are at a delicate stage and could...
MAG CATALOGS BONEHEAD FLUBS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amThe dumbest business moments of the year are plentiful, depending on how many will admit to them. To prevent its readers from beating up themselves too much over their own...
WHEN OPRAH GOT SNUBBED
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amWHO tells Oprah “no”? Martha Stewart’s publisher, that’s who. The queen of daytime TV – who can land big-name guests with a phone call – says she was flabbergasted last...
'MNF' JOKE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amTHAT controversial “Monday Night Football” teaser starring receiver Terrell Owens and “Desperate Housewives” star Nicolette Sheridan was supposed to star John Madden – and probably would have brought more laughs...
NAILING DOWN KATIE AT NBC
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNBC is trying to shoot down any chance that “Today” show co-host Katie Couric might jump to “CBS Evening News.” Talks have begun to extend Couric’s record-setting $16-million-a-year contract beyond...
SISTERS SING WRONG SONG
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amTHE surprising thing is that Louisa May Alcott’s sweet, adolescent tear-jerker “Little Women” hasn’t been made into a Broadway musical before: It had, after all, given rise to no fewer...
SIMON SAYS... - N.J. 'IDOL' WINS OVER MR. NASTY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amJOHN Zisa is the son of a mayor – and now he hopes to be elected king of “American Idol.” Zisa, the 25-year-old son of Hackensack, N.J., mayor John “Jack”...
WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER WEAR THIS PROM DRESS?; PARENTS GIVE THIS PROM DRESS AN F
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPROM princess or porn queen? This prom dress is so skimpy, even the designer’s CEO wouldn’t let his teenage daughter wear it. But the dangerously revealing gown, prominently advertised in...
STARR REPORT
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amD.C. good for FNC Inauguration day was good to Fox News Channel, which averaged 2.6 million viewers last Thursday (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) – up 30 percent over their 2001 Inauguration...
FOUR STAR FRIGHT - FINALLY, A MOVIE THAT HAS WOMEN GETTING THEIR HANDS 'DIRTY'
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amTHE folks at the BBC very often verge on genius, and sometimes even get there. Take the BBC flick on HBO tonight, “Dirty War,” for example. They’ve actually done the...
GUYS CHANNEL TUBE FOR STYLE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amMove over on the couch, ladies. For the first time since “Miami Vice” hit the small screen 20 years ago, male viewers are getting style cues from TV actors like...
$1M LAWSUIT COULD FRY KFC
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA Long Island man is crying fowl over KFC, claiming in a $1 million lawsuit that he swallowed a 1 3/4-inch metal rod while eating “boneless” chicken strips. John Bacchi,...
MAN GETS $1 MIL FOR FALSE BUST
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx jury has awarded $1.1 million to a man who said he was falsely arrested and charged with DWI after his neighbor – a policewoman – called for backup...
COURTS $PANK FREQUENT FILER
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amIn the courts, he’s known as Mr. Litigious. Meet Peter Malley, a former math teacher who has filed 18 federal lawsuits against the city after he was fired by the...
MONEY CRISIS FOR STATE GOP
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNEW YORK’S crumbling Republican Party – lacking direction, short on candidates, and badly outnumbered by Democrats – faces a potential new crisis: It’s running out of cash. GOP insiders told...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA Tennessee preacher and his sisters got into a brawl after the women broke a church rule and wore pants to services. Reba Storey said that when she and her...
$50M ON OSAMA - U.S. SET TO DOUBLE BOUNTY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON – The White House is expected to double the bounty on Osama bin Laden’s head – dead or alive – to $50 million by the end of next month....
ICEMAN COMETH: CUBE SIZZLES AT BOX OFFICE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amIce heated up the box office over the weekend as the family comedy “Are We There Yet?” starring gangsta-rapper-turned-ac- tor Ice Cube, debuted as the nation’s No. 1 movie. Despite...
DIPLO CAN'T VOW SAFE IRAQ VOTE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON – The top U.S. official in Iraq said yesterday that security can’t be guaranteed for next Sunday’s elections there, but insisted that there are “elaborate” safety plans to give...
ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI YESTERDAY VOWED DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ...
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amIraq terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (left) yesterday vowed death and destruction in an effort to scare voters away in the upcoming election.. “We have declared a bitter war against...
SILLY BILLY'S 'DRUNKEN' SERENADE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA tipsy Billy Joel (left) grabbed the mike and serenaded Donald Trump at the billionaire’s lavish Palm Beach wedding, singing a special tribute song, “That’s Why The Donald is a...
MIKE TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL IN JUNE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday he would formally announce that he’s running for re-election sometime in June. “The charade of when you actually have an official kickoff is probably in June,”...
'TEEN SEX' COP HANGS HIMSELF
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amAn NYPD lieutenant who was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old girl was found hanged in his upstate home yesterday morning. The veteran cop, Thomas Carroll, assigned to...
A WIDOW'S HEART GOES OUT TO KIN
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amFIREFIGHTER Harry Ford made a telephone call to his family shortly before he died on that darkest of Father’s Days. “It was very odd, normally, he would just kiss us...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amQUEENS * A prostitute was arrested yesterday for fatally stabbing her customer – once clean through his body – after an argument in a Queens hotel room early, police sources...
DAVE AND JAY MOURN TV'S ORIGINAL KING OF LATE NIGHT
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES – Former “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson, the legendary late-night talker who made generations of Americans laugh at bedtime, died yesterday from emphysema. The 79-year-old Nebraska native passed...
HONEYMOON SWEET IN FLA. - * TRUMPS UNWIND AT MAR-A-LAGO * A-LISTER EXODUS IS PLANE CRAZY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amDonald Trump and his new bride, svelte Slovenian supermodel Melania Knauss, plan to spend their first week of marriage together cuddling at The Donald’s lavish Palm Beach country club. “I...
GRAB A SHOVEL & DIG IN - CITY BEGINS THE LONG CLEAN-UP AS BLIZZARD TURNS TRAGIC
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNew Yorkers yesterday began digging out from the Big Blizzard of ’05, which grounded more than a thousand flights at area airports and killed at least four people, but brightened...
TRANSPLANT COUNTDOWN TO SAVE BABY JORDAN
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amWith only days left to save their tiny son, the parents of Jordan Trimarchi begged any family that suffers the heartbreaking death of an infant to consider making the difficult...
RAPE VICTIMS' CRY: LET THIS 'PREPPY' PERV ROT IN JAIL
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amConnecticut’s “preppy rapist,” who spent eight years on the lam in Europe, skiing and partying while avoiding trial, is up for parole after serving less than half of his sentence...
TRAGIC BOND OF BROTHERS - HURT HERO JOINED BRAVEST AFTER FIRE SIB DIED AT WTC
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amOne of the Bravest fighting for his life after The Bronx blaze is a 31-year-old hero who joined the department after his brother died on 9/11. “When I was a...
FIREFIGHTER SUFFOCATES SEARCHING SMOKE-FILLED B'KLYN BASEMENT
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA firefighter was killed when flames tore through a two-story house in East New York yesterday afternoon. Richard Sclafani, 37, became separated from his colleagues while searching the basement of...
BLAZE SNARLS SUBWAY LINES
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA subway fire in Lower Manhattan knocked out service on the A, C and E lines yesterday afternoon, and it was feared full service would not be restored by this...
GRAB A SHOVEL & DIG IN - APPLE BEGINS THE LONG CLEANUP AMID BLIZZARD'S CHILLS & THRILLS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNew Yorkers are digging out from the Big Blizzard of ’05, which grounded more than a thousand flights at area airports and made traveling anywhere a nightmare, but brightened spirits...
GIRL SCOUT IS CRUSHED IN SNOW
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA 10-year-old Brooklyn Girl Scout died when she was crushed, apparently by a city plow, while playing in the snow in front of her building. Cops rushed to a Sanitation...
DYING DRIVER HITS 2 PEDESTRIANS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA 62-year-old driver, who had just shoveled his Cadillac out of a snowdrift on the East Side, suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel and plowed into two people...
FIREFIGHTER DIES SEARCHING BURNING B'KLYN BASEMENT
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA firefighter was killed when flames tore through a two-story house in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. Richard Sclafani, 37, became separated from his colleagues while searching the basement of the house...
TRAGIC BOND OF BROTHERS - HURT HERO'S SIB SIB DIED AT WTC
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amOne of the Bravest fighting for his life after yesterday’s Bronx blaze is a 31-year-old hero who joined the FDNY after his brother died on 9/11. “When I was a...
DIGITAL-THEATER PLANS FOR B'KLYN
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amOne of Brooklyn’s oldest movie theaters is about to join the world’s cutting-edge showcases for film. The Park Slope Pavilion’s owners said it will become the city’s first theater with...
INFERNOS KILL 3 FIREFIGHTERS - * 2 IN DEATH LEAP FROM BX. FLAMES * 3RD HERO DIES IN B'KLYN BLAZE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amThree hero firefighters perished in blazes in The Bronx and Brooklyn yesterday – including two who were forced to choose between jumping for their lives or burning to death after...
B'KLYN THEATER WILL BE CITY'S FIRST ALL-DIGITAL
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amBrooklyn is going high-tech Hollywood. One of the borough’s oldest movie theaters is about to become one of the world’s cutting-edge showcases for film. Just in time for a shiny...
FOUNTAIN OF 'YOUTH' FOR WASH. SQ.
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amThe centerpiece of Washington Square Park – its famed sunken fountain – is slated for a total face-lift that will raise it to be level with the rest of the...
B'KLYN WILL HAVE FEW PIER PEERS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amLuxury liners aren’t the only wave of the future for Brooklyn’s planned cruise-ship terminal. Planners are also studying the possibility of turning the Atlantic Basin in Red Hook – which...
CLASS CLOWNS - BAD-APPLE TEACHERS STAY AT FULL PAY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNearly half of all public-school teachers brought up on disciplinary charges over the past five years – with offenses ranging from drug use to corporal punishment – are still in...
FISHY FULTON DELAY - BX. MOVE STALLED
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amThe city’s plans to move the Fulton Fish Market from its historic lower-Manhattan location up to The Bronx have hit a snag that has delayed the opening. Some of Fulton...
SERIAL KILLER'S PREDICTIONS MIRROR PLANS FOR EXECUTION
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amSaying that “it’s time for me to die,” serial killer Michael Ross wrote a chilling account on his Web site about how his last days might play out. That was...
HIS LEGIONS OF FANS JUST LOST THEIR BABE RUTH
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amTHIS is the kind of celebrity death that hits us all the hardest. An older generation might have claimed Milton Berle as their king of television, but those of us...
JUST NETS' LUCK: SUNS GET HELP
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHOENIX – Isiah Thomas has enough to worry about these days, so it may be nitpicking to come down on one of his weekend statements. “In this league,” the Knicks’...
DILLON MAKING PATRIOT GAINS - COREY CARRIES LOAD
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – Before last night’s rematch showdown in the AFC Championship between the Patriots and Steelers at Heinz Field, Patriots veteran safety Rodney Harrison vowed this time around “would be...
BUS DOESN'T WANT TO STOP HERE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – A lot of tread is off the tires of The Bus, and he won’t kid you; increasingly, he has to check his engine, too. “It’s tough, in dog...
ROMEO COURTED BY BROWNS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amAFC CHAMPIONSHIP CONFIDENTIAL PITTSBURGH – Charlie Weis’ career as the Patriots’ offensive coordinator is winding down, as he has already taken over as Notre Dame’s head coach and will go...
WESTBROOK ONE VALUABLE EAGLE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – Last year, Brian Westbrook could do nothing. Stuck on the sidelines with a torn triceps, the young Eagles tailback watched as Philadelphia’s offense stalled in a 14-3 NFC...
PHIL WANTS TO FEEL THE POWER - ZEN MASTER, ISIAH A TOUGH MATCH
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amA confidant of Phil Jackson believes the Zen Master’s chances of joining the Knicks this summer is slim because he would need more control over personnel decisions than Knicks president...
MCNABB WAS BORN A SCRAMBLIN' MAN
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNFC CHAMPIONSHIP CONFIDENTIAL PHILADELPHIA – When asked earlier in the week how the inclement weather might affect a running quarterback, the Eagles’ Donovan McNabb said “I wouldn’t know” and then...
PATRIOTS' SECONDARY FIRST-RATE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – For half the season, New England’s patchwork secondary was overlooked and underrated, considered the Achilles’ heel in the Patriots’ armor. But it turns out that weak link was...
VRABEL EXCELS AT EVERYTHING
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – The irony is as blunt and blatant as a Mike Vrabel forearm to the head. The 29-year-old Patriot linebacker spent most of his life within two hours of...
THIS 'B' GAME GETS A-PLUS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – You can fill a stadium with blue-collar diehards who yearn for the Steel Curtain glory days of yesteryear, wave Terrible Towels and try to will their bully team...
EAGLES SCORE SUPER RETURN - OUTSOAR FALCONS TO NAB NFC TITLE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amEagles 27 – Falcons 10 PHILADELPHIA – In two weeks, the pressure will build again, down in Jacksonville at Super Bowl XXXIX, but that’s for another time, another place. For...
BUMPY WAY TO START TRIP
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES PHOENIX – There are worse ways to start a road trip. Like flying to the wrong city. Like having all of your luggage shipped to Siberia. But having...
SUNS BURN TIRED NETS - N.J. SLUGGISH AFTER ROUGH TRIP
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amSuns 113 – Nets 105 PHOENIX – The trip here included a blizzard-forced airport delay of 6 ½ hours waiting to get de-iced, one of life’s more thrilling episodes. That...
WHERE THEY LEFT OFF - HERB UNABLE TO SNAP KNICKS' LOSING STREAK
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amBucks 101 – Knicks 96 The Garden was so silent at times you can hear a ping-pong ball drop. Get used to ping-pong references because it looks as if the...
BIRDS' 'D' KEEPS VICK IN CHECK
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – Somehow, the Eagles needed to make Michael Vick miserable. After a week of studying and scheming, defensive coordinator Jim Johnson and his staff developed a most familiar concept:...
VICK'S BAD TRIP - FALCONS QB FAR FROM SUPER IN TITLE FLOP
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – At times Michael Vick can look like Superman. The Eagles yesterday proved he isn’t. At least not yet. There may come a time when Vick, the talented Falcons...
FOURTH TIME'S THE CHARM FOR PHILLY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – The realization came slowly, creeping into the frozen aisles of Lincoln Financial Field, seeping ever so deliberately into the minds and the hearts of the 67,717 people who’d...
OWNER MUM ON KNICKS 'FIRING'
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Knicks owner James Dolan had little to say about Lenny Wilkens’ “resignation” and his role in it, as it’s become steadily apparent this wasn’t solely the coach’s call....
PATRIOTS ARE KINGS OF D-NIAL
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – At the other end of the state, the wounds stayed as open as Deion Branch, one-on-one against Deshea Townsend. The only closure here, in a third AFC title...
PATRIOTS STIR UP SUPE AGAIN - EAGLES FINAL HURDLE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPatriots 41 – Steelers 27 PITTSBURGH – After the magical regular season they’d carefully constructed in going 15-1, the fairytale year their rookie quarterback was having and the resurrection of...
JASON WANTED JACKSON BACK IN JERSEY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES PHOENIX – Jim Jackson knew he had a chance to reunite with Jason Kidd in New Jersey. Kidd was not the problem. New Jersey was. Jackson, who refused...
REID HOPING T.O. WILL BE OK TO GO
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNFC Championship Confidential PHILADELPHIA – In the euphoria of the moment, minutes after his Eagles whipped up on the Falcons 27-10 in the NFC Championship Game, coach Andy Reid was...
EAGLES, CROWD CONTROL THE COLD
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – Early in the morning, Andy Reid figured yesterday’s NFC Championship game was going to feature a whole lot of running. The reason why? “When that wind was blowing...
JASON WANTED JACKSON
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amNET NOTES PHOENIX – Jim Jackson knew he had a chance to reunite with Jason Kidd in New Jersey. Kidd was not the problem. New Jersey was. Jackson, who refused...
PASSING AND FAILING
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – Quarterbacks, even great quarterbacks, can’t win championships by themselves. Donovan McNabb has learned that in the most painful fashion, losing three straight NFC Championship Games. Now Michael Vick...
STRATEGY VS. VICK CLICKS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA – Somehow, the Eagles needed to make Michael Vick miserable. So after a week of studying and scheming, defensive coordinator Jim Johnson and his staff grabbed their starting defensive...
DOLAN GIVES HERB A MORALE BOOST
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks owner James Dolan tried yesterday to remove Herb Williams’ lame-duck status. Dolan huddled with the new coach following yesterday’s 101-96 loss to the Bucks and Williams signed his new...
PAT RECEIVERS PUNCH HOLES IN STEEL CURTAIN
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – In their regular-season meeting, the Steelers had blitzed an injury-riddled New England offense into its worst game of the year. But this time around, the Patriots found the...
HUNGRY EAGLES SUPER AT LAST - OUTSOAR FALCONS FOR ELUSIVE TITLE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amEagles 27 Falcons 10 PHILADELPHIA – Freddie Mitchell wondered what was going on outside the confines of Lincoln Financial Field, where the Eagles last night had just staged a rather...
AS USUAL, GIVENS REACHES END ZONE
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amAFC CHAMPIONSHIP CONFIDENTIAL PITTSBURGH – When Patriots receiver David Givens caught a nine-yard scoring pass from Tom Brady in the second quarter last night, it marked the fourth consecutive postseason...
BIG BEN BREAKDOWN
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – One loss for Ben Roethlisberger in 16 games, probably the best rookie quarterback season ever. So, did he fail? “I think its unbelievable for a rookie quarterback to...
PATS: EARLY STOP SET TONE FOR US
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amAFC Championship Confidential PITTSBURGH – A number of Patriots pointed to their stuffing of the Steelers on a fourth-and-one play in the first quarter as a moment that set the...
STEELERS CAN'T HALT WIDEOUTS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – When the Steelers blitzed the injury-riddled Patriots into submission in their regular-season meeting, New England wide receiver Deion Branch was stuck at home, seething as he watched the...
DILLON'S HAPPY TO COREY LOAD
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – Corey Dillon has waited his whole football life for this. Dillon, who spent seven lost seasons in Cincinnati, was rescued over the offseason by Bill Belichick, and he...
CHAD NEEDS SURGERY FOR TORN ROTATOR CUFF
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH – It turns out the injury to Chad Pennington’s right shoulder was more serious than the team initially realized, according to NFL sources. It was expected all along since...
METS IN DENIAL - CLAIM THEY HAVEN'T PULLED OUT OF DELGADO DERBY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amLast night, the Rangers backed out of the Carlos Delgado derby because, a source said, “The Mets are creating a bidding war that is getting out of hand.” Yeah, you...
FRANCO JOINS ASTROS
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amRoger Clemens won’t be the oldest pitcher on the Astros next season. Houston followed up the Clemens signing by agreeing to terms with John Franco on a $700,000, one-year contract...
TEXAS TWO-STEP - RANGERS BAIL OUT, METS JUMP TO FRONT OF DELGADO DERBY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amLate last night, the Rangers backed out of the Carlos Delgado derby. The reversal came hours after a source said the club was no longer holding Delgado to its Sunday...
TEXAS TWO-STEP - RANGERS BACK OFF, METS JUMP TO FRONT OF DELGADO DERBY
January 24, 2005 | 5:00amTexas officially backed off its hard-and-fast deadline with Carlos Delgado yesterday, as Saturday’s frenetic bidding for the free-agent slugger extended the Delgado derby. Last night was originally deemed the take-it-or-leave-it...