February 18, 2001
WEAK FASHION WEEK MEANS A BIG JOB FOR IMG NEXT YEAR
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe tents are empty. The fashionistas have packed for their next port of call. Retailers have evacuated to designers' showrooms to place orders. New York's fashion week is over -...
WOOLWORTH HEIR'S TOWNHOUSE GOING FOR COOL $18.5M
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amA large portion of dime store heiress Barbara Hutton's childhood home is on the market - for a big chunk of change. Five of six floors at 2 East 80th...
THEIR SEARCH IS OVER - GOOGLERS BRIN & PAGE HAVE MADE THEIR ENGINE THE HOTTEST ON THE WEB
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIF you "google" the Google creators, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, you can learn a lot. Like all good techies, the makers of the hottest search engine on the Web...
RICHARD BORN IS LOOKING FOR A NEW TRBECA SPOT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amHOT developer Richard Born is on the prowl for a new location in TriBeCa, report our spies. With much buzz around his projects at 173-176 Perry St. and the Chambers...
NEW WARS AT RANDOM HOUSE CARTER BOOK RIGHTS PIT EDITOR VS. EDITOR
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWHO says intramural sports are not vicious and bloody? The bidding for a two-novel package by Yale Law professor Stephen L. Carter is pitting two of the most high-profile editors...
WHAT I WATCH
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amRON HOWARDDIRECTORI'M A "WEST WING" FAN. IT'S REAL. IT'S INSIGHTFUL. IT HAS AN INCREDIBLE CAST. THE WRITING IS GREAT. IT'S VERY WELL DIRECTED. THE SHOW IS A COMPLETE EXPERIENCE.MICHAEL YORKACTORI...
4 QUESTIONS FOR JILL HENNESSY ; MY FAST (PUKE!) RUN ON B'WAY
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWho are your heroes? I would have to say Rosa Parks. She wasn't political, she was a regular person and she changed the world.Is there a book or movie that...
WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL MUSICAL?
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWhich is more important to a musical, the book or the score? Two recent musicals at City Center - one new, one very old, both with a lot in common...
WIM WENDERS' ODYSSEY
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWhen Wim Wenders finished work on "Until the End of the World" in 1991, what he called "the ultimate road movie" clocked in at an epic four hours and 40...
GEARING UP FOR AN ADONIS IN ADIDAS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amI've finally found the man of my dreams! No, not on Valentine's day - but on the F train. He's tall, scruffy and sexy, with sandy hair and freckles on...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: DYAN CANNON
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amDyan Cannon has always had a cutting-edge sense of style, and she shows it off in her new show on NBC, "Three Sisters" - she plays a vivacious yoga junkie...
A ROMANTIC RETREAT FOR LOCALS AND VISITORS ALIKE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amChez Michallet 90 Bedford St. (at Grove Street) (212) 242-8309 Chez Michallet is something of a mystery. Not many Gothamites know about the charming bistro on a quiet Greenwich Village...
HERE'S HOW SOME OF THE KEY BATTLES FOR THE GRAMMY AWARDS STACK UP:
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amAlbum of the Year: Nominees: "Midnight Vultures," Beck "The Marshall Mathers LP," Eminem "Kid A," Radiohead "You're the One," Paul Simon "Two Against Nature," Steely Dan DAN Should win: Love...
BATTLE OF THE BABES REVISITED IN POP VOCAL RACE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amAs far as Grammy races go, this is the war -- the fight for a year's worth of bragging rights among the most glamorous and beautiful stars in music. No,...
GRAMMY WHAMMY: IS EMINEM FEEDING FROM THE HAND HE BIT?
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amBut, Slim, what if you win? Eminem, the Motor City bad boy who embodies the hard-core life he raps about so successfully, is at the top of his game --...
YOU CAN STILL COPY -- RIGHT? FREE DOWNLOADABLE TUNES LIVE ON IN A POST-NAPSTER WORLD
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIf you think that just because Napster is close to pushing up daisies, all free music is dead, think again. There are plenty of sites out there to sate music...
NEW MEDIA
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amAT YOUR DISPOSAL Ever get so frustrated with your cell phone that you just feel like tossing it out the window? Well, now you can. Randi Altschul, founder and president...
UNDERCOVER STARS: HOLLYWOOD HEAVIES GET DOWN TO 'REAL ACTING' BY DONNNING DISGUISES FOR FILMS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThink of it as Hollywood's version of Halloween. More and more high-profile stars are hiding their multimillion-dollar lights under a bushel, donning heavy makeup and prosthetics in roles that make...
TO KILL THE MONSTER, CUT OFF THE HEAD
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amRETIRED Col. David Hackworth, one of the most decorated soldiers in American military history, has ordered many men into harm's way and doesn't take death lightly. But when it comes...
IMELDA'S MUSEUM ONE HEEL OF A SHOW
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amLooks like the queen of sole has gotten her very own shoe shrine. Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, the world's most notorious shoe collector, has opened a museum for...
DRUG COMPANIES' TESTS ON KIDS HARD TO SWALLOW
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIF the state of New York was a parent, its kids would be yanked by a child-protection agency on charges of neglect. Two long years ago, the state Department of...
KID CYBERSLAMS TEACHERS . . . AND THEY WANT HIM TO PAY
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIn a scene reminiscent of the TV hit "Boston Public," a Queens honors student has scandalized his school with a wild Web site that lampoons his teachers as perverts, crackheads...
SURGEONS GIVE MAN A HAND AFTER FIREWORKS ACCIDENT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amA Michigan man whose left hand was blown off by defective fireworks has become the nation's second hand-transplant recipient. Jerry Fisher, 36, of Jackson was in stable condition yesterday after...
MEANWHILE, W.'S BACK AT THE RANCH
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A day after bombing Iraq, President George Bush settled yesterday in the seclusion of his Texas ranch - but took an opportunity to promote his budget and tax...
ART WOULDN'T IRK JESUS, REV. AL SAYS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday slammed Mayor Giuliani's plan to form a special panel to monitor publicly funded art - as visitors packed the Brooklyn Museum for a glimpse of...
N.H. COPS NAME 2ND SUSPECT IN IVY MURDERS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amA second suspect was named yesterday in the brutal double murder of two professors that shocked tranquil Dartmouth University. James Parker, 16, was thought to be on the lam with...
COPS QUESTION TEEN IN NEWBORN'S DEATH
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amA 15-year-old girl is being investigated in connection with the death of her newborn baby girl, whose body was found in a sewer near her Jamaica home, police said. The...
CROWE CATTLE CALLING: I LEFT MEG FOR FARM
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amHunky "Gladiator" star Russell Crowe yesterday revealed he split with sexy actress Meg Ryan after six months because he wanted to spend more time tending to his beloved bovines on...
A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS TO VATICAN LEAVING AS ARCHBISHOP TO RETURN AS CARDINAL
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amAS he lay weeping in his childhood bed, wrapped in hot, woolen garments to treat agonizing polio, a Roman Catholic boy named Ed Egan could scarcely have conceived where his...
IRAQ VOWS REVENGE FOR U.S. AIRSTRIKES CITY COPS GO ON TERRORISM ALERT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00am"We shall fight [our enemies] on ground, sea and in the air."IRAQI NEWSPAPERIraqi strongman Saddam Hussein yesterday vowed revenge for the U.S. military airstrikes - while foreign leaders said they...
KERIK VOWS OUR FINEST WON'T BE CAUGHT OFF GUARD
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Big Apple was on heightened alert yesterday to ward off any potential threats at home in the wake of the American airstrikes on Iraq, officials said. Police Commissioner Bernard...
STUDENTS PUSH FOR NEW NYU RAPE POLICY
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amNew York University students are fighting for a new sexual-misconduct policy and a rape crisis center for assault victims who say navigating campus bureaucracy can be worse than the attacks....
PANTHER PAL CONFIRMS: YES, KHALID'S DEAD
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amKhalid Muhammad, a firebrand black activist known for his virulent attacks on whites, Jews and gays, died in a suburban Atlanta hospital yesterday morning, an associate said. "Minister and Doctor...
BATTERED BODY OF WOMAN FOUND NEAR B'KLYN CHURCH
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe bludgeoned body of a nude woman was found next to a Brooklyn church yesterday afternoon beneath bags of garbage, police said. The woman, Maryann Ruhan, 51, recently had stayed...
CANNES-DO ATTITUDE NETS HIM PIC DEAL
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amKenya Cagle is the reel deal - when he's not working full-time as a caseworker supervisor for the city welfare department. The 43-year-old Brooklyn native has sold two screenplays to...
SUB-TRAGEDY PROBERS FOCUS ON 3 OFFICERS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Navy is eyeing three officers from the American submarine that fatally collided with a Japanese trawler as it launches its most serious form of investigation. The USS Greeneville's captain,...
CLINTON: I DIDN'T SELL RICH PARDON
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amBill Clinton says it is "utterly false" he pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich because of donations by Rich's ex-wife. Clinton, in a lengthy Op-Ed piece called "My Reasons for the...
2 N.J. BOYS BRING BOMB TO SCHOOL: COPS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amNew Jersey cops yesterday busted two eighth-graders allegedly breaking into their middle school armed with a bomb. Cops said they also discovered bomb-making instructions and additional explosive materials in the...
SEX RESEARCHER MASTERS DIES OF PARKINSON'S
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWilliam Masters, who teamed with Virginia Johnson in the famed Masters and Johnson sex research, died Friday in a Tucson, Ariz., hospital at age 85 of complications from Parkinson's disease....
U.S. ATT'Y SETTING HER SIGHTS ON BILL
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amManhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White stepped into a political no-man's land last week by deciding to investigate her old boss, Bill Clinton, while working on borrowed time for the...
BRAIN-DEVOURING DISEASE IN BLOOD SUPPLY
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amNancy Kaner feels like a walking time bomb. It's been nearly five years since she learned the blood injected into her body to treat an immune-system deficiency was tainted with...
A MAGIC FORMULA WORKING BARS AND EATERIES A TRICK OF THE TRADE FOR RISING ILLUSIONISTS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTheir names would not draw much of a crowd in Vegas, but illusionists Frank Everhart, Heba Haba Al and Eddie Fechter are proof that you don't have to be David...
VANITY, THY NAME IS NEW YORK MOTORISTS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The Subway Series may not play well on the road, but the Yankees by far are the kings of the highway. New York motorists also love the environment...
SAINT RUDY, CHURCH PROTECTOR
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amYO Rudy! Not since the 1950s or the 16th century (whichever comes to mind first) has anyone so vigorously defended the Roman Catholic Church against dirty images as the mayor...
SIDEWALK SHOCKS PUT POOCHES AT RISK
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amFrightened dog owners all over the city say their pets have been shocked by electric currents flowing through the sidewalk from frayed wires this winter. In the worst case reported...
CANDLE BLAZES SPARKING RISE IN FIRE DEATHS, FDNY WARNS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amFire fatalities among civilians in the city have plummeted 33 percent since 1991, but have been inching up over the past few years because more people are using candles, Fire...
'SCAR' MAY LEAVE HIS MARK ON PUFFY TRIAL
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThis reporter's notebook from the Sean "Puffy" Combs guns-and-bribery trial looks at some happenings from Week 3 of testimony in Manhattan Supreme Court. PROSECUTOR Matthew Bogdanos has hinted he might...
POLITICS' STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIN their worst nightmares, Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres never dreamed that there would come a day when they would serve under their political archrival, Ariel Sharon. But once the...
THREE START VYING FOR TOP COUNCIL SPOT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWhile all eyes are on the race for mayor - and governor in 2002 - campaigning has quietly begun in earnest for the No. 2 position in city government, City...
SHIP-SECRETS LEAKER IN WAVE OF PARDONS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - One of Bill Clinton's 140 last-day pardons went to the only government official ever convicted of leaking national secrets to the media - over the strong objection of...
SUB PROBERS FOCUS ON 3 OFFICERS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Navy is eyeing three officers from the American submarine that fatally collided with a Japanese trawler, as it launches its most serious form of investigation. The USS Greeneville's captain,...
THE HOTTEST LOOKS FROM THE RUNWAYS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amFrom bare shoulders to riding boots, The Post's style guru looks at the trends of Fashion Week 2001 BLAZERS THAT WRAP: Cooler than a double-breasted jacket, blazers with over-sized lapels...
FISH CONSERVATION PLAN NOT WORKING
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE number of fish stocks in need of stronger conservation in U.S. coastal waters has increased for the fourth year running, despite laws requiring federal fisheries managers to stop overfishing...
WHAT AMAZIN' GALL! BRIDESMAID METS DID NOTHING TO WARRANT TICKET PRICE INCREASE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIT HAPPENS every spring. I am not referring to that overly romanticized day when pitchers and catchers report to training camps marking the symbolic end of the winter sports doldrums...
DROP THE CHALUPA! TOLD YA SO! POST GUY FIRST TO FORECAST FAST-FOOD FRACAS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amI ADMIT it. Sometimes the ego can't suppress, "I told you so." Especially where it concerns the likes of brats who need a good spanking. The Mark Cubans of the...
AL WEARS POKER FACE WHEN PLAYING ACE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Al Leiter is the man. He is the undisputed leader of the rotation. Mike Hampton is gone. If the Mets make the playoffs, there is no...
BOMBERS TO RETIRE WINNY'S '31'
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Add one more to the collection of numbers that will never be worn by a Yankee. With Dave Winfield entering the Hall of Fame this summer, likely wearing...
YANKEES PUT SORIANO ON CENTER STAGE COULD BACK UP BERNIE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Two questions the Yankees enter spring training wondering - who is Bernie Williams' back-up in center, and what is Alfonso Soriano's future? - just may merge into a...
WANG'S NO BETTER THAN PREDECESSORS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amGENTLEMAN though Charles Wang seems to be, the more the Islanders' new governor speaks, the more visible he is, the more we fear that this ownership regime is destined to...
HITMEN QB ON SHORT LEASH
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amIt's now or never for the Charles Puleri era. Puleri, who has been horrendous in quarterbacking an impotent Hitmen offense to two straight losses, may be yanked as early as...
ST. JOHN'S NEEDS TO DUKE IT OUT STORM'S GOTTA STEP UP FOR MIGHTY BLUE DEVILS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWhen a player makes a statement that essentially is a guarantee, he's usually talking about claiming a victory or a championship. But that's not where St. John's finds itself today....
KNICK THOUGHTS TURN TO PLAYOFFS JEFF STRESSES POSTSEASON PUSH
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe playoff push has begun; yes, the party is over. The Knicks have reached that point in the season where they've become serious about basketball. The first half of the...
COOK-WILLIAMS DUEL SHOULD BE A DOOZY
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amLet the debate begin. Duke's Jason Williams, in our opinion, is the best point guard in the country. Omar Cook of St. John's is the best freshman point guard in...
GEORGE RIPS A-ROD CONTRACT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - George Steinbrenner drove a hard right to the stomach of Tom Hicks yesterday when he claimed the Rangers' owner played a part in the Yankees paying Derek Jeter...
GEORGE LETS JOE KNOW BOSS REMINDS TORRE HE WAS NO GENIUS BEFORE HE CAME HERE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Joe Torre is the best at what he does. Run through the intoxicating success the Yankees have experienced in the last five years and the common thread is...
MENDOZA'S LOOKING FOR FRESH START
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Ramiro Mendoza's personality won't push him into Joe Torre's office to demand he be Torre's fifth starter. However, Mendoza made it very clear yesterday he would...
TORRE'S TRUE GENIUS IS IN NOT REACTING TO TAUNTS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - When George Steinbrenner talks, what he says is not important. The game is trying to figure out what he means. Yesterday, while calling Joe Torre "a genius" and...
NETS DEFENSE STILL ON ITS BREAK
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe defense rests. At least in the Nets' case these days. "We're not making teams do something else. We're letting them do what they want to do. We're not forcing...
DAMON COULD'VE BEEN A MET BUT PHILLIPS WASN'T SOLD ON PARTING WITH ESCOBAR
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - How good do the Mets think Alex Escobar is going to be? Well, this offseason the Mets could've had Johnny Damon from the Royals for the...
QUESTIONS OF REY'S FUTURE SWIRL IN FLORIDA
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - When Rey Ordonez arrived for the Mets' first team workout yesterday morning, GM Steve Phillips wanted to talk to him in his office. Ordonez...
DANCING FOR DIKEMBE AS DEADLINE NEARS, TEAMS SCRAMBLING TO LAND BIG HAWK
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amBY all accounts, January was one of the NBA's quietest months ever in terms of trade talk. Nobody even wanted to engage in idle chatter, much less go so far...
PRECIOUS VICTORY FOR XTRA HEAT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amXtra Heat continued her undefeated record sprinting as she led every step of the way to win the $79,875 Dearly Precious Stakes at Aqueduct yesterday. Schatzeli was moving well in...
RAVENS ROLL OVER RICE
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPSSt. Ray's77Rice58 Nine losses. That's a lot of losses for St. Raymond's. But the Ravens don't care. "Right now, we're where we need to be," said Chris McRae after...
LEFTY'S TEAM LOOKS ALL RIGHT
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amFORMER Martin Luther King High School star Kevin Morris could have taken his game to any college in the country. He chose Georgia Tech and then went to Georgia State....
FROM THE BAY TO SHEA? BONDS-TO-METS RUMOR SEEMS ALL WET - UNLESS ...
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - A rumor whistled its way into a quiet Met camp yesterday, blown here by a longtime friend of Barry Bonds. Bonds, the rumor-starting friend said, believes...
LOSSES, INJURIES KEEP MOUNTING - SYKORA, GOMEZ GO DOWN AS WINLESS SKID HITS 6
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Devils disappear daily. The little injury streak has become full-fledged disaster. They grow more crippled with every game, with worse and worse injuries. Their exodus from the lineup...
DEVILS LOSING PAIN GAME - INJURED STARS BEING REPLACED BY RATS
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - The winless streak had reached five games, and the Devils were reaching down to the farm again. They stood 0-1-3-1 in five as they opened a two-game road...
THE 5TH ANNUAL NEW YORK POST BEST & WORST ATHLETES IN NEW YORK
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amWho are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Which of the persons who play on and run the professional teams in the area get too much or not...
FEELING THE HEAT: A HOST OF GUYS UNDER THE GUN IN 2001
February 18, 2001 | 5:00amPort St. Lucie - TWENTY baseball players who currently reside firmly on the Hot Seat: RICK ANKIEL -- Young Cards left-hander was hit with a nasty case of Steve Blass...