April 9, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amVANITY Fair gets the decision in its monthly slugfest with Talk, due to a clever cover twist, while Time edges out Newsweek in a news feast for the newsweeklies.Vanity Fair...
WHO'S NUMBER ONE? - TRUMP, ROSS FIGHT FOR PRIME CENTRAL PARK ADDRESS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amA battle royale is shaping up over the naming of the residences at the AOL Time Warner Center. And Donald Trump is getting his lawyers ready. The nearby Trump International...
SALAD DAYS ARE OVER AT TIME INC.
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amTIME Inc. CEO Don Logan and Editor-in-Chief Norman Pearlstine continue to tighten the screws at Time Inc., hunting for enough savings and profits in the magazine wing to satisfy their...
MCGUIRK IS GAME FOR TURNER SPORTS JOB
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amTerry McGuirk, the former chairman of Turner Broadcasting who left the top job after the AOL Time Warner merger, is in talks to head up Turner Sports, The Post has...
THE MUSIC'S GETTING LOUDER - AOL TIME WARNER TO THREATEN MTV POWER?
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amLET the cable music wars begin. The folks who created MTV are at it again. But this time they're building a new music channel backed by AOL Time Warner that...
READY SET ... GET 'LOST'!
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amNBC's latest entry in the reality TV craze is a "Lost" cause. The network has ordered six episodes of "Lost," a new show that will dump contestants in the middle...
'CUCKOO' IS CAPTIVATING - SINISE & CO. BEST PART OF KESEY'S B'WAY 'NEST'
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST ( 1/2)At the Royale Theatre, 242 W. 45th St., (212) 239-6200. ------------- RAW and thrilling theatricality is erupting at the Royale Theatre - and...
THE STARR REPORT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amNBC, digging Spade, 'Just' adds moreDavid Spade has two reasons to smile: Not only is his new movie, "Joe Dirt," opening, but NBC has renewed his sitcom, "Just Shoot Me,"...
THE 4 QUESTIONS, PLUS A FEW MORE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amLAST night was the second Seder, and during this religious feast, Jews ask what are known as "The Four Questions," such as "Why on this night do we eat matzo,"...
MOMENT OF 'TRUTH' - EASTON RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amTIM Easton rambled around Europe busking as a singer/songwriter, but he retained American folk-rock sound - and learned to flatpick along the way. A native of the Buckeye State, Easton...
NOW HAIR THIS - OFT-RIDICULED 'DO KNOWN AS THE MULLET IS MAKING WAVES
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amDAVID Bowie had one, so did Billy Ray Cyrus, Mel Gibson and President James Polk. And now David Spade enters the fray with a mullet, the two-step haircut that receives...
STATE PROBES CULT IN CHILD-LABOR SCANDAL - ACTING ON HEELS OF POST REPORT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amA bizarre upstate cult that uses unpaid kid laborers to churn out products - some in Robert Redford's catalog - is under scrutiny by state labor officials following a Post...
ORIGINAL CULTURE PANEL DEEMS RUDY INDECENT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amFOR a guy who just appointed a decency commission, Mayor Giuliani doesn't always do the decent thing. Take last week, for example. Finding himself under fire for appointing a committee...
MCCALL BACKERS FEAR THEY PICKED THE WRONG HORSE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amSOME powerful state Democrats, worried by bad news and poor polls, are reconsidering their commitment to Carl McCall's gubernatorial campaign, insiders say. "There is a big shift taking place within...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 9, 1928
April 9, 2001 | 4:00am"The restaurant in the American Museum of Natural History is changing floors and civilizations. It is moving today out of a reproduction of an antique Mexican temple, down in the...
CLOSINGS ARE IN STORE FOR THE GAP
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe Gap is going from clothes to close - with at least eight of its 35 Manhattan locations shutting down over the next year, a new report says. The first...
DOLLARS AND 'SENSE' WILL PREVAIL
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amUNTIL happiness is restored to 24 American kids and their families, let's keep our sabers safely and silently sheathed. Careless rhetoric can prove disastrous to freedom, as President Jimmy Carter...
WORLD MARKS PALM SUNDAY
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amProtestants and Catholics from around the world kicked off the holiest week of the Christian calendar yesterday, celebrating Palm Sunday in churches and cathedrals filled with palm fronds and olive...
BUSH WRITES TO WIDOW OF CHINESE PILOT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush is sending a regretful letter to the widow of a Chinese fighter pilot - but administration officials are not backing off their no-apology stance. Aides said...
CONGRESS TO RIP UP CLINTON'S RULEBOOK - TARGETS 11TH-HOUR ORDERS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congress can't undo former President Clinton's controversial pardons, but plans are afoot to tear apart a long list of last-minute regulations he imposed. The rewriting of Clinton's handiwork...
FERRER: USE SCHOOLS FOR OFF-HOURS ACTIVITIES
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer unveiled a $100 million proposal yesterday to turn the city's junior high schools into after-school and weekend activity centers for 200,000 kids. Ferrer's plan would open...
TOURIST PUSHES WOMAN ONTO TRACKS: COPS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amA college student visiting from Las Vegas was in jail yesterday, charged with pushing a Bronx woman onto subway tracks after a dispute. Erik Chin, 21, was charged with assault...
BLACK TROOPER TO TESTIFY IN N.J. RACE-PROFILE PROBE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amA New Jersey Senate panel investigating racial profiling will shift focus today from the state's embattled former attorney general to hear from black and Latin witnesses to the scandalous police...
B'WAY GIANT CANTOR DIES AT 81
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amLegendary Broadway producer Arthur Cantor - whose long-running hits included "A Thousand Clowns" and "All the Way Home" - died yesterday afternoon at age 81. Cantor, a resident of the...
HEVESI: THE EARLY YEARS - CITY'S $$ MAN AN EX-ASSEMBLY BIG
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amLong before the audits, his on-again off-again relationship with City Hall and his own mayoral ambitions, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi almost held the state Assembly in the palm of his...
BRANDO MIGHT PLAY THE 'GOOD POPE'
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amActing legend Marlon Brando has been approached to play the part of Pope John XXIII in a new movie. Italian State TV wants the Hollywood great to take the role...
CAPITOL HILL TO RECEIVE DETAILS OF BUSH BUDGET
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush will fill in the blanks of his nearly $2 trillion budget today, detailing a controversial spending plan that has already taken aim at police funding and would make...
2 POLS: PUSH SOUTH KOREA TO FREE JAILED N.Y. AUTHOR
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amTwo New York lawmakers asked Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday to lobby for release of a Queens man jailed in South Korea - over a book about North Korea....
HILL: I WILL RAISE $$ WHILE IT'S STILL LEGAL
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she'll keep raising soft money for Democrats as long as Republicans are doing the same - until the ban that she voted for last week...
ROYAL 'SEX TOUR' SCANDAL - PRINCE EDWARD'S WIFE QUITS JOB AS TAPES BARE BIZ PAL'S SHOCKING PLAN
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe red-faced wife of Prince Edward quit her own public-relations firm last night after it was revealed her partner hinted they could set up sex tours and gay parties for...
TIGER IS THE MASTER - WOODS MAKES HISTORY WITH WIN AT AUGUSTA
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amTiger Woods whacked his way to golfing greatness yesterday, winning the Masters tournament by two strokes to become the first golfer ever to hold all four of the sport's current...
TWO PATAKIS = ONE LOSER?
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY GOV. Pataki's increasingly bifurcated, upstate/downstate, reelection strategy is being called into question by a string of new polls, especially the latest from Marist College. All the polls taken since...
'SOPRANO' MUSCLES IN FOR RUTGERS GRID
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt was an offer Rutgers University couldn't refuse. "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini agreed to make a TV commercial to help out his alma mater's struggling football team. The spot, which...
16 BODIES PULLED FROM VIET COPTER CRASH SITE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amRescue workers yesterday recovered the bodies of seven Americans and nine Vietnamese killed Saturday in a helicopter crash while searching for the remains of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam. The Americans...
PERU'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HEADS FOR RUNOFF
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amA Stanford-trained economist finished first in Peru's presidential election yesterday, but fell short of the majority needed for victory - forcing a runoff, polls showed. Alejandro Toledo, 55, will likely...
VICTORIES FINALLY SINK IN FOR YOUNG LEGEND
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA. CALL it what you want: a Grand Slam, the Roar to Four or the Fabulous Four. Or you can simply call it Incredible. The best that golf has to...
W. TO TAP GAY MAN TO LEAD AIDS OFFICE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush is set to name the first gay director of the Office of National AIDS policy today. The appointee, Scott Evertz, 38, of Milwaukee, told The Washington Post that...
HOPE AT LAST FOR VICTIMS OF MS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amONE morning four years ago, Phyllis Motta woke up to discover that her feet were completely numb. "I asked my sister to step on my feet and I couldn't feel...
RUNOFF LIKELY AS PERUVIANS VOTE FOR NEW PRESIDENT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amVoters in Peru flocked to the polls yesterday to cast ballots in the nation's first presidential election since iron-fisted ruler Alberto Fujimori fled the country after more than a decade...
16 BODIES RECOVERED IN VIET CRASH
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe bodies of seven Americans and nine Vietnamese killed Saturday in a helicopter crash while searching for the remains of American servicemen in Vietnam were recovered yesterday. The Americans were...
SEEING BRAVES SHOULD RAISE METS' SPIRITS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - The Mets raise a pennant flag at Shea today. If they want to get another one any time soon, they will need to raise their level of play...
SIGNS POINT TO TRIPLE CROWN
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAs the chestnut behemoth Point Given charged past the wire all alone at the end of Saturday's Santa Anita Derby, then galloped out around the clubhouse turn like a runaway...
'MAD MIKE' WILL DEAL
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amEmphasizing the Islanders' need to make significant progress next season, GM Mike Milbury said that he's willing to trade the team's top overall pick in June's Entry Draft. With the...
SPREE, HOUSTON MAY SIT TONIGHT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell are no guarantees for the Knicks' game against the Hornets tonight. Houston sat out the final six minutes of yesterday's 81-76...
HEART OF YANKS PUMPING AGAIN
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAS they dressed and readied to head to the indoor batting cage late yesterday morning, Derek Jeter and David Justice were a couple of D.J.s spinning their philosophies on hitting....
TECHNICALLY, IT'S A DEFEAT - KNICKS ARE T'D OFF BY REF'S LATE CALLS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amHeat 81 - Knicks 76 MIAMI - Latrell Sprewell was back in the Miami hotel with a stomach virus. Allan Houston was a shell of himself because of a thigh...
LACK OF TOUCHES DOWN LOW IRKS RICE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amMIAMI - Glen Rice looked at it as a chance wasted. Getting a rare start at small forward yesterday with Latrell Sprewell out with a stomach virus, Rice figured he...
WILD TURK TEARS INTO 'CHICKEN' GUERRERO
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - After telling The Post Vladimir Guerrero is a "freakin' baby" on Saturday, Turk Wendell hit the 6-foot-3, 210-pound Guerrero with a 3-2 fastball on the back of his...
POSADA'S SLAM MAKES IT EASY
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 16 - Blue Jays 5 The Yankees had lost to this team six straight times, couldn't buy a big hit when it mattered the past two days, and came...
LARRY WARY OF 'CANE GAMES
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amThese Carolina Hurricanes, Larry Robinson says, look more like Diving Ducks. Starting the playoffs four days early, the Devils coach began looking for edges last night when he suggested that...
ROOKIE SEABOL HEARS IT FROM YANKEE FANS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankee third baseman Scott Seabol had an afternoon he'll remember for the rest of his life. The 25-year-old rookie made his major-league debut as a pinch-hitter for David...
ROCKET STOPS THE BLEEDING
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt was hardly Roger Clemens' finest outing, but The Rocket wasn't going to complain or throw the win back. Not after earning a victory against his former club. And certainly...
RANGER BLUEPRINT'S TOP SECRET - SATHER MUM ON CLUB'S FUTURE PLANS
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amGLEN SATHER didn't provide many specific answers in a post-mortem at Rye yesterday, rather the GM chose to make it a contentious, adversarial proceeding. If only his players had been...
WELL, AT LEAST THAT'S OVER - MONTREAL SWEEP HAS METS EAGER TO GREET BRAVES
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amExpos 5 - Mets 2 MONTREAL - When the Mets last saw the Braves in Atlanta, they were leaving Turner Field with elation, having taken a series there for the...
TIGER SLAMS HIS WAY INTO HISTORY - EDGES DUVAL AND MICKELSON TO SEAL FOURTH STRAIGHT MAJOR
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - When it was over - when the historic moment the sports world had been waiting for had finally been consummated yesterday - Tiger Woods could no longer hold...
METS TAKE 'OUT' FIELD LITERALLY
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - The Met outfield is being taken out one-by-one. In yesterday's 5-2 loss to the Expos, Benny Agbayani had to leave due to a bruised left wrist,...
ROOKIE MAKES GRADE - DIMARCO WOWS CROWD WITH TOP-10 FINISH
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - Chris DiMarco, who led the tournament after the first two rounds this week, rolled in a 15-foot par putt on 18 to close out his first...
DUVAL PULLS UP A LITTLE SHORT
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - David Duval made a near-heroic run at his first Green Jacket, first major championship and the halting of history yesterday. Duval shot a game 5-under 67 in the...
FOR PHIL, NO SWEET MEMORIES OF NO. 16
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Phil Mickelson wasn't expecting to play a perfect 18 holes yesterday in the final round of the 65th Masters. What he had hoped to avoid was the kind...
WOODS 'SLAM' DANCES PAST GRAND ISSUE
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - One of the first questions to Tiger Woods in the wake of his historic Masters victory, which gives him an unprecedented four consecutive major championship wins, was whether...
HAD WOODS LOST, GOLF WOULD HAVE WON
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - With the most sincere respect, admiration and appreciation directed to Tiger Woods, the best thing for golf did not transpire yesterday at Augusta National. Phil Mickelson or David...
ANY WAY YOU CUT IT, WIN IS GRAND
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Call it what you want: a Grand Slam, the Roar to Four, or the Fabulous Four. Or you can simply call it incredible. The best that golf has...
MISSED BIRDIE HALTS DUVAL'S RUN AT JACKET
April 9, 2001 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - David Duval made a near-heroic run at his first Green Jacket, first major championship and the halting of history yesterday. Duval shot a game 5-under 67 in the...