April 23, 2001
EMI DUO'S DISCORD - NICOLI, BERRY AT ODDS OVER BMG MERGER
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe top two execs at music giant EMI aren't just at odds with regulators over their merger plans; now they're at each others's throats, sources say. Eric Nicoli and Ken...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE luxury-life mags have it right: Who cares if the Dow is falling - there's wine to be tasted and cigars to be smoked, the pricier the better. Recent market...
BILL CLINTON, THE REAL STORY
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amAUTHOR Joe Klein of "Primary Colors" fame is trying to be the first out of the gate with a book on the historical impact of the Bill Clinton presidency. A...
ZOOM WITH A VIEW - WHEN THE POPE DIES, TV BY CLEMENTE LISI
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amGHOULISH as it may sound, TV is already making elaborate - and expensive - plans for covering the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the selection of his successor....
'HICK-HOP' HITS . . .
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amJIM White, who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family in Pensacola, Fla., pens serious songs such as "God Was Drunk When He Made Me." It's no wonder, given the...
QUIZ SHOWDOWN - 'WEAKEST LINK' MAY BE STRONGEST WEAPON IN WAR TO DEFEAT 'MILLIONAIRE'
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amLET'S get ready to rumble! The big broadcast networks are brewing up a battle of the behemoths - pitting NBC's latest wunderkind, "Weakest Link," head-to-head against ABC's aging megahit, "Who...
THAT'S THE WAY THE BALL BOUNCES
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amWHILE watching yesterday's NBA playoff games, I realized that basketball and dating have a lot in common - besides that whole scoring thing.In fact, in both basketball and dating, players...
STARR REPORT
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amUnique Mo'Nique: 'I'm sleek and sexy' It's one thing to measure a TV star's popularity through ratings, and another to measure it through sheer human emotion - kind of like...
CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? - SHRINKS EXPLAIN WHY TONY SOPRANO IS CHEATING WITH THIS BABE...
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amIF Tony Soprano isn't careful, his new extramarital affair could torpedo his marriage. That's why his behavior begs the question: Why does he cheat? Since many New York psychologists are...
OH, JACKIE! ON EVE OF MET SHOW, CITY SALUTES ICON
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amA fifth season has been added to the calendar this year -- Jackie season -- and it kicks off tonight. The Metropolitan Museum's annual Costume Institute Benefit to celebrate the...
THE MUSEUM, THE BOOK AND NOW . . . THE MAKEUP
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe "Scorpios" look Barbara is made up to resemble the tanned Jackie of those yachting, island-hopping days. The "Editor-in-Chief" look Sara shows off Jackie's professional look with the help of...
MEBQ: MAYORAL EFFORT BEGETS QUERIES
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amWHO are the ad wizards who came up with this one? I'm talking, of course, about mayoral candidate Alan Hevesi's TV ads. Like most early-season campaign spots, they're filled with...
LATIN DEMS: ANDY SNUBBED US
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amGUBERNATORIAL hopeful Andrew Cuomo was blasted by Hispanic Democrats yesterday for skipping the heavily attended Somos El Futuro weekend gathering in Albany. "I think it was a fundamental mistake and...
COMPLAINTS VS. BALLY ARE PILING UP
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe Federal Trade Commission has quietly collected more than 700 angry complaints against Bally Total Fitness in the past five years - despite ordering the gym giant to stop abusing...
SEX-OBSESSED JANET IS THE 'ACTION' JACKSON
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amJanet Jackson has confessed she thinks about sex morning, noon and night. "I have sex in my head all the time," the sultry pop star tells the German magazine Der...
POLICE SWEEP 1,400 PUSHERS FROM HARLEM - COMPLAINTS PROMPTED CRACKDOWN
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 1,400 drug peddlers have been arrested in a massive NYPD initiative launched after outraged Harlem residents ripped Mayor Giuliani for not being tough enough on local narcotics traffickers....
SUBWAY ENCOUNTER KEY
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe snow was falling hard. Traffic was at a crawl. So William Taylor, the Manhattan chief of detectives, decided to take the subway to Harlem for Mayor Giuliani's town-hall meeting...
GIFT PROBE PUTTING HEAT ON 'TORCH'
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amFEW public officials have lived la dolce vita quite as thoroughly as Bob Torricelli. The fiery New Jersey senator - known as "The Torch" for his combustible temper - cavorts...
RIOTERS ATTENDED ANARCHY 'CAMP'
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amHundreds of hard-core activists participating in the weekend's anti-globalization demonstrations have received special training in civil disruption at "direct action" camps in the United States. Much of the chaos planned...
HYPOCRISY'S NOT VERY FUNNY, LADY
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amDEAR Barbra Streisand: As you recover from your celebration of Earth Day, I have some sincere and heartfelt requests: One, turn off the lights in your many mansions; candles are...
GREEN-ISH BUSH HEDGES ON ARCTIC-DRILLING IDEA
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amTop aides are signaling that President Bush has dropped, at least for now, his controversial push to drill oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Bush's latest flip-flop aimed...
SUICIDE KID'S DAD CALLS COPS RACIST
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amAn angry, grieving father accused cops yesterday of calling the death of his son a suicide because the 13-year-old - who died under the wheels of a subway train -...
BLOOMBERG IS TAKING A 'BUCK' SHOT
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Bloomberg says if he becomes mayor, he'd give new meaning to the slogan, "The buck stops here." Bloomberg is offering to work for the bargain-basement price of $1 a...
NEW TRADE PACT BANS DICTATORS
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush and 33 other leaders at the violence-marred Summit of the Americas yesterday endorsed a free-trade zone by 2005 - but said only democracies will be welcome. Failure to...
PROTESTERS SLAM LEADERSHIP
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE handful of protesters who showed up yesterday at the support rally for the embattled Hale House in Harlem just wanted to make sure Lorraine Hale saw their faces. They...
GREEN DAY: MARK SET TO DECLARE TOMORROW
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amTrying to maintain his lead in the polls, Public Advocate Mark Green will officially throw his hat into the ring tomorrow - the second Democrat to officially enter the mayoral...
BUSH WEAPONS DILEMMA MADE IN TAIWAN
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush this week - probably tomorrow - faces a key decision that could set off sparks in China as he reveals what arms he's willing to sell to Taiwan....
COP WAS AT WAKE WITH KIN BEFORE THEIR DEATH CRASH
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amThe heartbroken city cop whose family was wiped out in a tragic car crash last week had been consoling them about another relative's death just minutes before their fatal smashup....
TODAY, TOO, SPRINGS AHEAD TO SUMMER
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amBaked Apple revelers - juiced up over yesterday's record-setting scorcher - are hot for another sweet dose of summer-like temps today. And Mother Nature won't disappoint them, forecasters say -...
SPEEDING COP VAN HITS MOM
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amA police van slammed into a Brooklyn mom yesterday, sending her flying 10 feet into the air - and angry witnesses insisted it was speeding unnecessarily. Yomaris Figueroa, 39, was...
BX. CABBY SLAIN IN APPARENT ROAD RAGE
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amA livery cabdriver who dreamed of being a cop was stabbed to death in The Bronx last night - in what may have been a fatal road-rage confrontation, police said....
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 23, 1971
April 23, 2001 | 4:00am"Mayor Lindsay today signed a perishable-food labeling bill. The measure, hailed by Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson as 'the first bill that would decipher food codes, which are known to...
POST PROBE KICKS GYM INTO ACTION
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amBally Total Fitness is still under investigation by the state attorney general, but some customers say they've gotten some relief since The Post exposed allegations of deceptive practices against the...
SIZZLING SUN LOVERS SAY: SPRING FORWARD!
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amBaked Apple revelers - juiced up over yesterday's record-setting scorcher - are hot to trot for another sweet dose of summer-like temps today. And Mother Nature won't disappoint them, forecasters...
SPEEDING COP VAN HITS MOM IN B'KLYN
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amA police van slammed into a Brooklyn mom of two yesterday, sending her flying 10 feet into the air - and angry witnesses insisted the vehicle was speeding unnecessarily. Yomaris...
TWO GRAND FOR VELAZQUEZ
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Velazquez registered his 2,000th career victory with a 3 1/4-length victory aboard Tom's Thunder in the $100,000 New York Stallion Stakes Times Square Division at Aqueduct yesterday. It was...
ON SECOND DAY, JETS THINK 'D'
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amAfter each pick the Jets made during Day One of the NFL Draft, Terry Bradway, Herman Edwards and Dick Haley would trek downstairs at Weeb Ewbank Hall to the press...
FLIGHT CONTROL ; SPREE, KNICKS LET AIR OUT OF VINCE, GRAB GAME ONE
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amKnicks 92 Raptors 85 There it was, Toronto's second possession of the series, Vince Carter dashing to the hole, getting a half-step on Latrell Sprewell as he glided into the...
ALLEN, THEN QUESTIONS
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amSome day, the Giants may look back on this past weekend as the NFL Draft in which they found a Pro Bowl cornerback, a starting defensive end, a quarterback to...
METS GET THE REDS OUT
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amMets 5 Reds 1 CINCINNATI - The most encouraging sign for the Mets in back-to-back wins over the Reds in Cincinnati was Mike Piazza going 0-for-7 until a meaningless eighth-inning...
GOD IS WARD'S . . . EXCUSE FOR BIGOTRY
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amCHARLIE Ward is one of those ultra-religious guys - and they come in all denominations - who uses his religion to protect himself from himself. In 1997, when he incited...
SPREWELL: VINCE ISN'T DONE YET
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell, one day after predicting Vince Carter and the Raptors will be sent home early, was in full praise mode after he and his mates grounded "Air Canada" in...
ROBIN INJURES HAMMY
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Robin Ventura felt as if he stepped in a hole as he chased Kelly Stinnett's popout in the seventh. Officially, he had tightness in his right...
FSU'S WEINKE AT TOP OF SECOND-DAY QBS
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amAfter a couple of bonanza quarterback crops in recent years, this year's NFL Draft consisted of Michael Vick and a lot of question marks. Even Vick, the former Virginia Tech...
OAK WENT BY BOARDS IN OPENER
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES For so long, he was the embodiment of the defense and the rebounding that made the Knicks the Knicks. Yesterday, Charles Oakley again felt how the other side...
O'NEILL'S GOT SURPRISE POP
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amIt didn't look like much when Paul O'Neill sent a 1-2 pitch towards the wall in right field with one out in the bottom of the tenth inning yesterday at...
KNICKS FIND A WAY TO GET CARTER, AGAIN
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amOn his first drive to the basket with barely more than one minute expired, Vince Carter saw a huge opening. Up he went. The Knicks sent help, mainly in the...
STREET CRY HURT, WILL MISS DERBY
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amSheikh Mohammed of Dubai's dream of winning the Kentucky Derby this year likely vanished in smoke yesterday with the announcement his star colt Street Cry injured his right front ankle...
HE'S NO ANGEL: WARD'S JUST LOST
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amWONDER of wonder. Miracle of miracles. A truly remarkable thing happened yesterday at Madison Square Garden. A player in a Knicks uniform got booed. Loud and long. Most importantly, for...
YANKS GET 'JUST' ENOUGH; JUSTICE, O'NEILL HIT 10TH-INNING HRS TO RESCUE YANKS
April 23, 2001 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Yankees 4 Red Sox 3 As David Justice rounded the bases yesterday after his game-winning, walk-off home run in the Yankees' 4-3, 10th-inning victory over Boston, the entire...
BOO BIRDS GIVE CHARLIE FLOGGING
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amThey entered the game together -Charlie Ward and Raptors back up point guard Chris Childs - with 9:52 remaining in the second quarter. The Garden boos were ferocious, but it...
LJ SUITED, BUT NOT UP TO PLAYING
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Johnson, who had missed the last six regular-season games and 14 of the last 22 with back pain, was in uniform yesterday, but did not play. Jeff...
EL DUQUE TO GET SECOND OPINION ON ELBOW
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Apparently Orlando Hernandez will go to see famed Dr. James Andrews in Alabama today for a second opinion and to have more exams done on his sore elbow....
ALVIN STEPS UP ON FIRST BIG STAGE
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amHelp. That's what the Raptors sought all game for Vince Carter in their offensive schemes. After their superstar appeared tight and rushed - and very ineffective - the Raptors spoke...
MARCUS, KURT OWN THE GLASS
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amHARRY Robinson, the longtime radio super-stat man at the Garden, saw Marcus Camby limp out of the tunnel yesterday after the Knicks dispatched Vince Carter and the Raptors in Game...
NO WILT IN LILLY IN YANK START
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHROATS cleared as Joe Torre began his trademark, ever-so-slow stroll to the mound. Beers were set aside to free hands for the obvious. All eyes found the left-hander. Theodore Roosevelt...
DEVILS LEARNED HUGE LESSON
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH - The building was full, pompoms were waving, and the crowd was in full throat from beginning to end on this wonderful warm-weather hockey day. Let it be said...
DEVS CAN 'CANES & LOOK TO LEAFS
April 23, 2001 | 4:00amGame 6 Devils 5 Hurricanes 1 RALEIGH - With one scare dispelled, the Devils now tackle the terror of T.O. Bring it on, the Stanley Cup champs say. Bring on...