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May 7, 2006

GOTHAM'S FIRST GOLF GYM

Two of New York's most obsessive cultures are about to collide in SoHo as a couple of young businessmen plan to open the city's first golf gym. The $3 million...

IT'S NOT JUST CHINA DEPRESSING BOND RATES

Dear John: I was a bit confused about something you wrote about long-term interest rates. For years I was baffled as to why it has taken so long for the...

WIRED UP FOR AD $$

At least one magazine is benefiting from - rather than being destroyed by - the Internet revolution. While many titles are seeking relevance in the face of declining ad revenue...

NATHAN'S PET SNACKS TO EM-BARK

They say dog owners and their pooches grow to look like one another - well now, man and his best friend can start eating alike, too. Nathan's Famous, the 90-year-old...

SOPHOMORE JINX HITTING TWO CHICK-LIT QUEENS

Is Plum Sykes, author of the wildly popular "Bergdorf Blondes," caught in the same downward spiral as her chick-lit counterpart Lauren Weisberger? While reviews of Sykes' second novel, "The Debutante...

DIVINE PLIGHT; FIRMS EMBOLDENED AS RELIGIOUS BOYCOTT POWER SLIPS

Sony Pictures is releasing controversial Catholic-themed film "The DaVinci Code" at precisely the right time - when the increasingly frequent attempts of conservative Christian groups to demonize anything outside their...

COLBERT SOARS

Controversy suits Stephen Colbert. The mock newsman's standup routine during the White House Correspondents dinner, which set off a bitter debate among blogging wags over its comedic merits, resulted in...

THE CANDY MAN; TW INTEREST IN E-NEWSLETTER SMELLS OF SWEET IRONY

IN a deal that would be rich with irony, Time Inc. has had preliminary discussions to buy the Web site Daily Candy - the female-focused e-mail newsletter owned by Bob...

HELL FOR PITS; FILM REVEALS UGLY BRUTALITY OF ILLEGAL DOGFIGHTS

It's rare for a movie to portray pit bulls as good dogs, but that's what writer-director Matt Williams does in "Walker Payne." Without preaching, he's made a wise, entertaining film...

TO B OR NOT TO B

THE killer Bs are here - an amazing colle tion of 70 low-budget films noir from the 1940s and '50s un spooling at Film Forum. The fest includes the usual...

TURNING TABLES VERY COMFORTING

TOURNAMENT players like to gauge their improvement by rating. If they gain points, they're getting better. But a more traditional - and perhaps a more valid - way of measuring...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

D O C U M E N T A R Y Wayne and his mentor THE PROFESSIONAL and personal relationship between John Ford and John Wayne is the story of...

'COPS': THE MONKEY ON MY TV BACK

JOHN Langley says there are a lot of us, so it's okay. We can come out now, with our hands up. Langley and I were supposed to talk about his...

'SOPRANOS' GOES 'BROKEBACK'

ADMIT IT: the last place you thought you'd see a gay romance is "The Sopranos." But the anointed HBO mafia drama, has enlivened up what has been an otherwise lackluster...

OUT WITH A BANG - 'VERONICA' AND 'GILMORE' MAY BE ON THE SAME NETWORK

FOLLOWING their season finales on Tuesday, cult teen dramas "Veronica Mars" and "Gilmore Girls" will lose their networks. Come fall, UPN and the WB will cease to exist after merging...

'VIEW' HAS A ROSIE FORECAST POST VIEIRA

I never saw it coming. And neither did anyone else. The Rosie O'Donnell story took everybody by surprise - even those of us who cynically believe we've seen everything and,...

REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES

KLUTE (1971) Sunday,12 moon,Oxygen When his friend goes missing, a small-time detective (Donald Sutherland) moves to the Big Apple. His only lead is a letter his pal wrote to a...

HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

9. Last blasts While waiting to see if TV's sassiest sleuth series, "Veronica Mars" (starring Kristen Bell, right) is returning this fall, we're desperate to see how the yearlong bus...

SUNDANCE EAST - ROBERT REDFORD BRINGS TOP FILMS TO BAM

IT'S Sundance on the Hudson - without the snow, the gift emporiums or Paris Hilton. To mark its 25th anniversary, the Sundance Institute is opening its first film, theater and...

LINDSAY, RELOADED

THERE'S something familiar about "Just My Luck." Lindsay Lohan in a movie where she supernaturally switches roles with someone? Where have we heard this before? Oh yeah - in "Freaky...

HIS BREAKUP OUR LOSS

NICK LACHEY "What's Left of Me" (two stars) Jive WHEN you listen to songs on "What's Left of Me" as stand-alone singles, they come off as insipid mush. But as...

PEPPERS STILL HOT

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Stadium Arcadium" (three stars) Warner Bros. BAND bliss was maintained while making "Stadium Arcadium," the hotly anticipated ninth Red Hot Chili Peppers record, by giving each...

SQUARING OFF

The city's redesign of Washington Square Park is on hold until a May 18 court hearing to decide whether the Parks Department withheld information and misled the public when presenting...

'BUS FIRE' FIRM BACK ON BOARD

Overruling its own Department of Transportation, the city has restored contracts to a Staten Island school-bus company involved in a near-tragedy last year, when one of its buses carrying disabled...

JOEY TELLS AMY TO BURN IN HELL; BUT 'L.I. LOLITA' AND MARY JO SHARE TV HUG

LOS ANGELES - Joey Buttafuoco told one-time lover Amy Fisher to "burn in hell" during an explosive TV interview that reunited all three tragic players of the "Long Island Lolita"...

WALKER'S NEXT STOP: FAT CITY; BID TO LEAVE HIS WEIGHTY PAST BEHIND

The fat man cometh. After 12 states, two kidney stones and getting beaned by a Big Gulp, the fattest man to walk across the country arrives tomorrow at his final...

UN-SUITE CHARITY: STATE SAYS HOUSING PANEL BLEW $6M

A charitable group badly bungled a Bushwick homeless housing project, tossing away $6 million since 1992 on a building still not finished, The Post has learned. A probe by the...

MAILMAN 'FAILED' STUDENT; MISSING SATS

A teen victim of Brooklyn's malingering mailman missed out on receiving her SAT score results and college-acceptance letters while the postal worker allegedly went on his stash-and-burn bender. Racquel Quarless,...

FICKLE WIND SAVED B'KLYN ; INSIDE FDNY'S INFERNO DRAMA

The whole neighborhood could have gone up in flames. Had it not been for a rare easterly wind and decrepit buildings that gradually collapsed on themselves, the 10-alarm inferno at...

CIA NO. 3 ALSO DUE TO GET THE HOOK

WASHINGTON - The CIA's scandal-marred No. 3 man - who has been tied to a probe of alleged hooker poker parties - is due to follow his boss out the...

CELEBS' PICKS A CLICK AWAY

You used to have to read the gossip columns to find out where celebs like to go. Now you can get it straight from the horse's mouth. That Alex Rodriguez...

TYCOON ROSS UNDERMINED

A group of West Virginia activists paid a visit to mine owner Wilbur Ross at his swanky Fifth Avenue building Friday, armed with pamphlets and a jar of brown drinking...

CAB RIDER SHOT DEAD

A gunman drove up alongside a livery cab in Harlem and riddled it with bullets yesterday, killing its passenger before speeding off, cops said. The unidentified shooter drove a Honda...

TRUCKER KILLED IN LIE CRASH

A fiery smash-up with a tractor-trailer on the Long Island Expressway left a dump-truck driver dead and snarled traffic for hours yesterday on the oil-slicked eastbound lanes in Melville. The...

GETTING HIS FILL; DRIVER PUMP$ UP WITH 'BILLBOARD' CAR

Michael Amico shows off the magnetic advertisement that gives him gas-station credits to fill up his fuel-thirsty Hummer. Michael Amico has a secret weapon in the war on sky-high gas...

CRUISE'S 'MISSION' FIZZLING

Tom Cruise has found an impossible mission: topping the openings of the first two "Mission: Impossible" movies. "Mission: Impossible III" raked in a disappointing $17 million Friday, the first day...

TERROR SCARE ON NEWARK FLIGHT

Five foreign nationals caused an air scare on an American Airlines flight to Newark Airport yesterday, after they started discussing their training at a flight school and spooked the flight...

WARREN BOO$TS ISRAEL; BILLIONS IN DEAL

JERUSALEM - Financier Warren Buffett is about to make his first foreign purchase, ponying up $4 billion for an 80 percent stake in Iscar Metalworking, the Israeli aircraft-engine blade manufacturing...

MARSHALS' ROUGH GO AT SITE OF BLAZE

Fire marshals have still not been able to enter the warehouse where they believe last week's massive Brooklyn blaze started, saying yesterday that unstable walls and an excess of rubble...

JUDGE EYED IN COURT-TRANSCRIPT PROBE

The state court watchdog is investigating charges that Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Marilyn Diamond changed official transcripts, allegedly to help cover up favorable rulings she made for pals, The Post...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN *** Police and family members are seeking the public's help in locating this 21-year-old mentally handicapped man who disappeared Thursday afternoon in Sheepshead Bay. Duron Leeboo (above), who requires...

COP KILLED IN FIERY BELT PKWY. SMASH

An off-duty rookie cop was killed yesterday morning in a five-car pileup on the Belt Parkway that caused his car to explode into a catastrophic fireball, police said. Dimitrio Theodorou,...

INTRIGUE SWIRLS ON PUBLIC-TOILET VOTE

HOLD that flush. The hard-fought, $1 billion deal that would finally put public toilets on city streets comes up for approval Thursday - but insiders say last-minute maneuvers could stall...

WELL-POSTED BLAINE'S DERBY MAGIC

David Blaine's got the magic touch - and with the help of The Post, he used it to go from headline-making Houdini to hot horse handicapper yesterday. The stunt artist,...

'DAZED' KENNEDY'S EARLIER R.I. CRASH

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. - Two weeks before he crashed his Mustang into a security barrier, a glossy-eyed Patrick Kennedy drove against traffic and collided with another car in a Rhode Island...

LAWYERS 'CLEAN UP' ON WTC INSURER

The insurance company created with federal funds to cover the city and its contractors for claims from the World Trade Center cleanup has spent $30 million on overhead - including...

LOWER E. SIDE STABBER NABBED

Cops arrested a knife-wielding thug on the Lower East Side last night just minutes after he stabbed a man, police sources said. An argument erupted between the two at Delancey...

SCHOOL GUARD FLASHED TEENS: COPS

An NYPD school safety agent has been arrested after allegedly exposing himself to a pair of 13- year-old girls while driving around in Laurelton, authorities said yesterday. William Clay, 36,...

MAN KILLED BY 'TOILET' TRAIN

A man was struck dead by a train as he was using a Greenpoint subway tunnel as a toilet yesterday, police sources said. The unidentified man was in the tube...

GA$OLINE AD-ITIVE; DRIVER GETS HIS FILL WITH 'BILLBOARD' CAR

Michael Amico has a secret weapon in the war on sky-high gas prices: his 10-mpg Hummer. The Brooklyn demolition contractor has turned his gas guzzler into a billboard in return...

3 LIRR WORKERS WIN $16.4M IN TOXIC SUIT

Three machinists suffering a potentially killer disease caused by asbestos exposure have won $16.4 million in a lawsuit against the Long Island Rail Road for flagrant worker-safety violations. The former...

SOHO WAR RAMPS UP; NEIGHBORS RATTLED OVER SKATEBOARD ROOF ROLLERS

The city is hitting the roof over a skateboard ramp it says was built illegally atop a SoHo store. The Landmarks Preservation Commission sent a warning letter to action-sports company...

MIKE TELLS CLINTON SHE'S DOING HILL OF A JOB

Mayor Bloomberg made a surprise appearance on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's behalf in a parody video at an annual political roast last night - where the Republican mayor all but...

TOUGH ENOUGH; HILL'S THE RIGHT KIND OF WOMAN TO BE FIRST FEMALE PREZ

IT'S perhaps the least politically correct question imaginable: Can a woman win the presidency of the United States? While the offensive quality of the question will prevent it from being...

GOING UP: $2M CITY HALL ELEVATOR

Moving up at City Hall doesn't come cheaply, either in politics or in elevators. The city is going to spend a staggering $2 million - more than the price of...

FIREFIGHTER NEEDLED; COMRADES POKE FUN AT INJECT GOOF

Ouch. A firefighter instructor who fumbled with a needle device meant to treat victims of chemical warfare agents like sarin gas accidentally injected himself in front of his class. But...

ALBINO DYNAMO A DE-'CODER'

Albino actor Dennis Hurley is firing back at the big-screen version of "The Da Vinci Code" with a parody called "The Albino Code." The nine-minute, $10,000 flick will be unveiled...

WALKER'S NEXT STOP: FAT CITY - BID TO LEAVE HIS WEIGHTY PAST BEHIND

W The fat man cometh. After 12 states, two kidney stones and getting beaned by a Big Gulp, the fattest man to walk across the country arrives tomorrow at his...

DIAMOND IN ROUGH ON 'COVER-UP'

The state court watchdog is investigating charges that Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Marilyn Diamond changed official transcripts, allegedly to help cover up favorable rulings she made for pals and associates,...

HOMELESS CHARITY'S $6M WASTE

Cop killed in fiery Belt Pkwy. smash New York Post, Sunday, May 7, 2006 nypost.com A charitable group badly bungled a homeless housing project in Bushwick, blowing $6 million since...

'DAZED' KENNEDY'S R.I. CRASH

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. - Three weeks before Patrick Kennedy smashed his Mustang into a security barrier, the congressman had "glazed eyes" as he swerved, drove against traffic and collided with a...

CRUISE'S NEW 'MISSION' MORE BUST THAN BLOCKBUSTER

Tom Cruise has found an impossible mission: topping the openings of the first two "Mission: Impossible" movies. "Mission: Impossible III" raked in a disappointing $17 million Friday, the first day...

A CUT ABOVE - BARBARO DECIMATES FIELD

LOUISVILLE - Blowing the doors off what was supposed to be the most competitive Kentucky Derby in history, unbeaten Barbaro took the lead under Edgar Prado around the far turn...

CARTER HAS HEAT STOKE

Nobody's been hotter against the Heat than Vince Carter. The Nets know that, and more importantly, the Heat can quite vividly recall the four games he played against them this...

MATSUI MAKING MOST OF CHANCE AT SECOND

Willie Randolph made it clear that even when Anderson Hernandez comes off the disabled list, Kaz Matsui is the Mets' starting second baseman. Beleaguered Matsui is doing his best to...

IT'S A GOOD, CLOSE SAVE FOR JORGE

MET NOTES With Billy Wagner and a few other relievers unavailable yesterday, Jorge Julio was given the ball for the ninth inning. Not surprisingly, Julio struggled - but he eventually...

HELLO LIBERTY HITS BIG

Hello Liberty chased pacesetting Win McCool and caught the pacesetter nearing the wire to win the Grade 2 $205,600 Nassau Country Breeders' Cup. The Larry Jones trainee was the longest...

JUST 'CANE UNABLE ; BRODEUR, DEVILS DRUBBED IN SERIES OPENER

GAME 1Hurricanes 6Devils 0 RALEIGH - Hurricanes build in thin air, where that aura of Devils invincibility vanished. So much was lost by the Devils yesterday - their record-tying 15-game...

PEDRO: VICTOR MADE PAINFUL CHOICE

THIS was not on the mound, but rather in the clubhouse. Yet it made no difference. For the delivery from Pedro Martinez was, as always, accompanied by a purpose. The...

ZAMBRANO MAKES A PAINFUL CHOICE; PEDRO: ELBOW BENT UNDER PRESSURE

THIS was not on the mound, but rather in the clubhouse. Yet it made no difference. The delivery from Pedro Martinez was, as always, accompanied by a purpose. The scene...

DE LA OH YEAH! ; OSCAR TKOS MAYORGA IN 6TH

LAS VEGAS - The Golden Boy is still Golden. Despite a 20-month layoff, Oscar De La Hoya showed little ring rust in disposing of Ricardo Mayorga last night at the...

TEAMMATES KNEW HE WAS HURTING

METS 6 BRAVES 5 Darren Oliver knew a few days ago, as did Pedro Martinez. But Rick Peterson, Willie Randolph and Omar Minaya were completely unaware, and only they had...

FURYK (66) BACK IN SADDLE

CHARLOTTE - A year ago, Jim Furyk walked off the Quail Hollow Club course with wildly mixed emotions. He conceded to being "bitter" and "heartbroken" about losing the Wachovia Championship...

'SLEW' OF REASONS TO LOVE THIS HORSE

LOUISVILLE - At last, a superhorse in the making, the new Seattle Slew, unbeaten and maybe, just maybe, unbeatable. Barbaro, the colt that everyone secretly feared, engraved his name in...

HE'S SIMPLY A CUT ABOVE; BARBARO DECIMATES FIELD, CAPTURES DERBY

LOUISVILLE - Sensational! Blowing the doors off what was supposed to be the most competitive Kentucky Derby in history, unbeaten Barbaro took the lead around the far turn and galloped...

SHEFF: I MAY LAND ON DL

YANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - The pain in Gary Sheffield's left hand is so severe, the Yankee right fielder believes he'll likely land on the disabled list. "We will see, but...

STRUGGLING BONDS STILL 2 BEHIND BABE

Phillies 4 Giants 1 PHILADELPHIA - Barry Bonds' limping chase of Babe Ruth threatens to get almost as old the Giants' entire outfield, or as the left fielder looked last...

A-ROD CLEANS UP - MOVES TO 4 HOLE, BLASTS 3-RUN HR FOR CHACON

Yankees 6Rangers 1 ARLINGTON - As Alex Rodriguez rounded first base and prepared to finish a home-run trot, he raised his right arm and punched the Texas night. Was A-Rod...

STERN'S NBA TAKES LOW ROAD TO VEGAS

WE RECENTLY received a press release from the NBA entitled, "Viva NBA!" a sly reference to "Viva Las Vegas." The release was designed to promote the fact that Las Vegas...

TURIN INTO PUTRID EXCUSE ; FOOLHARDY TO HANG RANGERS' FLAMEOUT ON OLYMPIC TORCH

WELL, of course the Rangers collapsed because of the Olympics. Because we know that no other team in NHL history has ever played its best hockey in February. It was...

SETTIN' 'EM UP, KNOCKIN' 'EM DOWN

USUALLY around this time, a bevy of set-up men are a hair away from shedding anonymity and becoming closers. For some reason, that's not the case this year. Closers who...

CAJUN KENT PLOTTING 'SWEET' - COMEBACK DESORMEAUX SEES CAREER REVIVAL IN N.Y.

LOUISVILLE - Kent Desormeaux, the whoop-de-do Cajun jockey who came out of the Louisiana bayous to inscribe his name in racing's history books with a bust-out, take-no-prisoners riding style, was...

'CHANNEL' SURFER - PLETCHER'S PONY KICKS GRASS IN 400G WOODFORD

LOUISVILLE - After a quiet start to the day, the nation's reigning training king, Todd Pletcher, burst into the winner's circle with a big bang when his big winning grass...

PLEASE, BARRY, LET'S JUST GET IT BEHIND US

PHILADELPHIA - Imagine this place being a last bastion of sporting decency. The fences have been moved back at Citizens Bank Park to put more value into the home run,...

LEAKY YANK PEN GREENBERG NEEDS TIGHTENING

ARLINGTON - Considering four of the previous five games the Yankee bullpen performed very well and had been a strength the first six weeks, it was a surprise to see...

ZAMBRANO HURT, BUT 'PEN PICKS UP

METS 6 BRAVES 5 After whiffing the Braves' Andruw Jones on a 74 mph changeup, Mets starter Victor Zambrano hopped off the mound and sprinted into the dugout. It was...

COMING CLEAN - TORRE EXPLAINS A-ROD'S MOVE

ARLINGTON - Necessity isn't the only mother of invention. When Alex Rodriguez was dropped from fourth to fifth in the Yankees' lineup Friday night against the Rangers, it wasn't planned...

FREE-AGENT ORANGE BY - AWFUL CLASS OF '04-05 WAS HAZARDOUS TO TEAMS' HEALTH

CARL Pavano is nearing a feat that would awe David Blaine. If he can just hold out a few more weeks, the righty will have missed an entire year without...

'QUAIL' MAY BE ON MAJOR MENU

CHARLOTTE - Keep a close eye on the Quail Hollow Golf Club. You might be watching a major championship played here soon. It's that good and that testing. This venue,...

STOLEN GRACE - WE WUZ ROBBED OF MAYS IN HIS PRIME

WE WERE cheated. You can't often say that about baseball fans in New York City. No matter your stripe, no matter your league preference, no matter your favorite team or...

STEWARD'S SHIP - NEW TRAINER IN TAYLOR'S CORNER

LAS VEGAS - Emanuel Steward was here last night working as an announcer for the HBO Pay-Per-View broadcast of the WBC 154-pound championship fight between Ricardo Mayorga and Oscar De...

CHAMPION-CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK - SONS OF NETTLES, BURT MAKING CLIMB TOGETHER

THEY are their father's sons - athletic, competitive and fearless. They just aren't on the same New York stage as their dads. Don't expect that to stop Jim Burt Jr....

GIFT OF GAB - LEBRON HAS WORD WITH ARENAS WHILE OFFICIALS LOOK OTHER WAY

DID MY lying eyes deceive me with 15 seconds left in OT of Game 6, or did LeBron James really sashay over to Gilbert Arenas on the foul line in...

FISHY LEGISLATION - REGISTRIES OK - BUT WITHOUT FEES

MORE than 14 million saltwater anglers who cast into the oceans each year are looking to see if Congress passes the MagnusonStevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act this session. With...