May 11, 2001
DIDDY CUTS PAD'S PRICE - CAN'T GET DIDDLY FOR QUADPLEX
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSEAN "P. Diddy" Combs has become a motivated seller. The price of his 12-story Park Avenue pad has been reduced, but realtors say the reduction is too little, too late...
GERSTNER WON'T SAY WHEN HE'LL EXIT IBM
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThere's only one Lou. Big Blue's Lou. IBM's Lou Gerstner faced Wall Street yesterday - but refused to say when he would step down as CEO. After a valedictory account...
NBC COULD BE PLANNING AS-SASSA-NATION
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe TV biz is abuzz about Scott Sassa's future. The West Coast president of NBC, whose contract is up at the end of the year, is increasingly expected to leave...
GONE SHOPPING - RETAIL STOCKS BUOY MARTS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amIt is not all doom and gloom out there in consumer-land. Retailers' same-store sales rose more than expected for the month of April, spurring a rousing day for the retail...
YET ANOTHER EDITOR BUGS OUT ON BRILL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amAnother high-profile editor has bailed from the rapidly shrinking staff of Brill's Content. Richard Siklos, who last week was going to be co-editor on a new magazine with Eric Effron,...
RON'S NEW SUIT - ACCUSED OF 'SWEETHEART' PANAVISION DEAL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amRon Perelman is ready to square off in court with an angry shareholder claiming Perelman pulled off a slick deal with his stock in camera-maker Panavision. The board of one...
OH, WHAT A 'KNIGHT' - SILLY PERIOD PIECE HITS JOUST THE RIGHT NOTE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA KNIGHT'S TALE [***] Great silly fun. Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence, sexual references, limited male nudity). At the E-Walk, the Lincoln Square, the Orpheum, others. ----------...
SHIRL THE GIRL WITH WITH THE CURL WAS ... TOO OLD AT 11
May 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story" [½ star] May 13, 7:00 PM ------- QUICK! What's the cutest thing about a 10-year-old pretending to be a five? Answer: Nothing! Absolutely nothing....
PRETENTIOUS DANISH 'KING'
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE KING IS ALIVE [] "Dogme" film about stranded travelers who perform "King Lear." Running time: 118 minutes. Rated R (language, sexual situations). At the Lincoln Plaza, the Quad, the...
'SWAN' NOTHING BUT UGLY DUCKLING
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN [ 1/2] One ugly duckling of a cartoon. Running time: 75 minutes. Rated G. At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the 64th and 2nd, others....
INJECTION OF LOVE - SPEARHEAD FIGHTS TO KILL DEATH PENALTY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSAN Francisco poet, activist and musician Michael Franti, 35, believes every execution makes us all a little less human. It isn't idle coffeeshop chatter - Franti and his popular band...
PAUL WITHOUT JOHN - MCCARTNEY WROTE HITS AFTER THE BEATLES - OK, NOW NAME ONE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Wingspan" [] Tonight at 9 on ABC/Ch. 7 -------- THE thing Paul McCartney should realize is this: People love the Beatles, but they don't love Wings. They may like Wings,...
DON'T BE SO SURE DA DIES ON SUNDAY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE could be a surprising plot twist on this Sunday's season finale of "The Practice." Last week's episode featured what appeared to be the murder of prosecuting DA Richard Bay...
CHINESE FARE IS BETTER AS TAKEOUT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amFALUN GONG'S CHALLENGE TO CHINA [ 1/2] TIBET'S STOLEN CHILD [ 1/2] ----------- THIS mixed bag of documentaries about China would make for passable viewing on TV, but their theatrical...
ALL ACTION, NO STORY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTIME AND TIDE [ 1/2] Mostly tedious, confused Hong Kong action flick by famed director Tsui Hark. Running time: 110 minutes. Not rated (martial arts violence and guns). At the...
THE STARR REPORT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amJay walks away from Letterman potshots Jay Leno took the high road yesterday when asked if he minds when competitor David Letterman pokes fun at the "Tonight Show" host by...
'TRACES' OF ANARCHY, SEX PISTOLS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amLIPSTICK TRACESThe Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St., at Spring Street. Through June 10. --------- THE key moments of radical rock in the 20th century are now seen as theatrical occasions....
DEAD-ON 'NET LOSS TALE IS NO DOT-COMEDY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSTARTUP.COM [] Devastating postmortem on a dead dot-com. Running time: 103 minutes. Not rated (profanity). At Film Forum, Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street. -------------- TALK about great...
'BRIDGE' OVER QUEENS STREETS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amUNDER HELLGATE BRIDGE [] Mean streets of Astoria; very earnest. Running time: 90 min. Rated R (violence, sex, profanity). At the Empire, the Murray Hill, the Battery Park City, others....
TRUMP GOES BALLISTIC OVER AN OLD FLAME
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amDONALD Trump went nose-to-nose against Hollywood gossip A.J. Benza yesterday in an on-air battle over an ex-girlfriend. Listeners to "The Howard Stern Show" were treated to an earful when Benza...
'42ND' HEAT FOR TONYS - TELECAST BATTLES OVER 'PRODUCERS,' REBA, TOO
May 11, 2001 | 4:00am"I do not disagree that '42nd Street' is the catalyst for the opening, but I don't agree that the opening is a commercial for '42nd Street.'"Gary Smith, executive producer, Tony...
SLAUGHTER ON 7TH AVE. - 3 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED ABOVE CARNEGIE DELI
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amFive people were shot in the head - three of them fatally - during an execution-style bloodbath in a drug pusher's apartment above Manhattan's famed Carnegie Deli last night, police...
ULTIMATUM EXPOSES AL'S UGLINESS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amAL Sharpton has done this city and the nation a favor by revealing that, despite all the talk about how he's grown over the past few years, he's still the...
WIFE BOUGHT SEX PILLS FOR BLAKE: PAL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTwo months before she was killed, Robert Blake's wife bought sex-performance pills for the actor in a desperate bid to kick-start a limp love life, an ex-boyfriend claims. Bob Tellefsen...
FED WANTED HIS KICKS FROM GIRL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA federal immigration agent has admitted trying to lure a 15-year-old girl to a motel to help him act out a violent sexual fantasy. Brandon Clifford, 27, of upstate Sackets...
RING-ROB OUTRAGE - THIEF PREYS ON HOSP PATIENT, 92
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS Mother's Day may be the saddest ever for 92-year-old Anna Godaire. Strapped to a hospital bed and hardly able to talk, she was victimized by a filthy thief who...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 11, 1849
May 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Alarming Riot at the Astor Place Theater," read The Post's headline about the bloody confrontation over two Shakespearean actors, British-born William Charles Macready and American Edwin Forrest. Officials called out...
RAPE SUSPECT'S KIN: VOODOO TURNED HIM BAD
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe shocked brother of the accused rapist in a turnstile-justice case yesterday blamed a voodoo curse for the Bronx man's recent string of arrests - but the suspect's ex-girlfriend said...
'ALLERGIC' REACTION: DRUGS MAY LOSE RX
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amToday's high-stakes clash over whether to make three popular prescription allergy medications available over the counter is nothing to sneeze at. A panel of experts, convened by the U.S. Food...
POWER PLANT PROPOSED ON LONG ISLAND
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amUtility officials on Long Island yesterday announced a proposal for a new power station to provide energy for 250,000 customers in Suffolk County. KeySpan and the Long Island Power Authority...
SUSPECT MAY BE FULL OF BOLOGNA - BUT HE DID SWALLOW A BULLET
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA day in court really gave Brooklyn drug defendant Louis Olivo something to chew on. On lunch break from his Brooklyn Supreme Court hearing on heroin charges Monday, Olivo got...
WOODY: EX-PRODUCER PAL TOOK THE $ AND RAN
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWoody Allen is firing some bullets over Broadway - accusing an old pal of ripping him off on his last eight movies, including Oscar winner "Mighty Aphrodite." In papers filed...
CITY: SAVE SCALPING LAW BY RAISING CAP
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The Giuliani administration favors easing - but not erasing - the state's anti-ticket-scalping law, which is set to expire next month unless lawmakers take action, The Post has...
'BULL' WAS STARTING 'ARIZ. MAFIA': FEDS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSalvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano was building an "Arizona Mafia" - with himself as the don - when he was arrested in Phoenix on charges of running an "ecstasy" drug ring,...
LANDLORDS GAIN IN COURT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amCity landlords got a step up yesterday in their effort to break through the ceiling on what they can charge for rent-controlled apartments. The state Court of Appeals in Albany...
LEUKEMIA PILL-A-DAY TREATMENT APPROVED
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe government yesterday OK'd a new pill-a-day cancer treatment for the same kind of leukemia actor Ryan O'Neal is battling, calling the molecule-specific drug "the wave of the future." Eighty-eight...
ACCUSER LEERY OF CYBERSEX RETRIAL - DA HAD TO PUSH HER TO TESTIFY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThree years after her story of kidnapping and torture helped convict an accused cybersex fiend, the victim has cold feet about testifying again at his court-mandated retrial, Manhattan prosecutors admitted...
HEVESI VS. WAL-MART ON NEXT-DAY 'PILL'
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday demanded that Wal-Mart sell the "morning-after" contraceptive pill - even though there's not a single outlet of the chain store in the city. "We are...
'ANIMAL HOUSE' IN PORN SHOCKER - DARTMOUTH FRAT'S FILTH-FILLED MAG RIDICULES COEDS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amHANOVER, N.H. DARTMOUTH College is in the midst of a wild "Animal House" scandal featuring an X-rated fraternity newsletter with provocative photos of women the brothers claim are their sex...
RUDY TO SKIP HIS DAY IN DIVORCE COURT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amDon't look for Mayor Giuliani in court today for the first-ever public hearing of his sensational divorce case. "I do not plan to be in court . . . unless...
WHITE HOUSE CLEAN IN DRUG TESTS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney - followed by 650 White House staffers - took drug tests their first week in office, and everyone was clean, officials...
W. NOMINEE FACES SEXGATE HEAT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are blocking conservative icon Theodore Olson's appointment as solicitor general - possible payback for his alleged role in digging up dirt on the Clintons. Hoping to...
POLS: IT'S PAYBACK TIME FOR U.N.
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The House of Representatives yesterday stopped the check for $244 million owed to the United Nations, in retaliation for the world body's secret vote to boot the United...
NYU PULLS BACKING FROM MIDEAST TRIP
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amNew York University yanked support for a student trip to Israel on Sunday because of security concerns - a move Jewish student activists slammed yesterday as a cave-in to Palestinian...
DEMS JOIN DUBYA IN $1.3B TAX CUT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A handful of moderate Senate Democrats yesterday helped President Bush lock in $1.35 billion in overall tax cuts - setting the stage for a bruising battle over which...
COP TALKS TUXEDO-CLAD JUMPER OFF G.W. BRIDGE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA disturbed New Jersey man wearing a tuxedo threatened to jump off the George Washington Bridge yesterday, stopping traffic for more than two hours before cops talked him down, police...
TEACH MADE ME WEAR A DRESS: TEEN
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen is suing a Flatbush parochial school and an ex-teacher for $22.5 million, charging the teacher punished him by forcing him to cross-dress. Caleb Guerrier, 19, says that...
COPS: EX-BEAU ORDERED HIT ON CABBY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe jealous ex-boyfriend of a murdered Bronx livery driver hired a neighborhood hit man to kill the mother of two for $2,000, police said yesterday. Cops arrested Fermin Pena, 30,...
FEDS OFFER $105M FOR HUD BAILOUT
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Taxpayers will have to shell out $105 million to bail out a New York City housing program that collapsed in scandal under ex-Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, federal housing...
RUDY FAULTS STANCIK IN SEX PROBE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday Schools Investigator Ed Stancik erred by not probing initial allegations against a Bronx teacher now charged with sexually abusing his students. But the mayor generally defended...
JURY HEARS OF WATKINS' STAB-SLAY STRUGGLE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSocial worker Amy Watkins' accused killer plunged a kitchen knife nearly straight through her body to silence her screams, a Brooklyn prosecutor charged yesterday. Watkins' dying moments were described in...
BIG PIGSKIN BLUNDER GOES UNDER: NOW IT'S THE EX-FL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amAfter only one season, the upstart XFL is dead, a victim of its mega-low TV ratings and mounting operating costs - and an estimated $35 million loss. The league, which...
JURY NAILS L.I. MAN IN TORTOLA SLAYING
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island man was convicted yesterday of the Tortola island beach murder of a pretty Connecticut artist - exactly one week after three of his friends were acquitted in...
COPS: FIEND CONFESSES IN RAPE-SLAY OF BRONX GIRL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA neighbor of schoolgirl Tamiqa Gutierrez was hit with murder charges yesterday after he confessed to raping and strangling the 11-year-old during a crack-and-booze binge, police said. An angry crowd...
FBI FLUB MAY REPRIEVE MCVEIGH
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe FBI said last night it goofed up by withholding more than 3,000 documents from lawyers defending Timothy McVeigh at his trial - a stunner that could cast doubt on...
TOURISTS GET TASTE OF CITY CRIME
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amHundreds of out-of-towners last night found themselves cast as extras in the just-off-Broadway drama that played out above the Carnegie Deli. Upstairs, five people were shot. Downstairs, they served pastrami....
CITY SHELTER GETS PLAZA SUITE CHAIR-ITY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amHow suite it is! Women escaping the hell of domestic violence could end up basking in the luxury enjoyed by such celebs as Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The famed...
WIFE BOUGHT BLAKE PILLS TO PERK UP SEX LIFE: PAL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTwo months before she was killed, Robert Blake's wife bought sex-performance pills for the actor in a desperate bid to kick-start a limp love life, an ex-boyfriend claims. Bob Tellefsen...
FBI FLUB MAY DELAY MCVEIGH EXECUTION
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe FBI said last night it goofed up and withheld boxes of documents from lawyers defending Timothy McVeigh at trial - a bombshell that could cast doubt on his execution...
B'KLYN COP BUSTED IN MOB-SLAY COVER-UP
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn detective was arrested yesterday on charges he helped cover up a gangland murder by his mobster cousin. Detective Michael Silvestri, 44, allegedly removed spent shell casings from the...
DOWNEY'S DRUG TEST SHOWED COKE: COPS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amRobert Downey Jr. - as suspected - had cocaine in his system when he was busted last month, authorities revealed last night. A urine test the drug-addicted star voluntarily took...
DONE DEAL: $4.6B FOR NAZI SLAVE LABORERS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA federal judge finally gave the green light yesterday to a $4.6 billion settlement to pay the slave labor and concentration-camp victims of the Holocaust. "We're elated," said Michael Hausfeld,...
DEVS' MOTTO: DUMP OR DIE - FORGET FINESSE VS. PENS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amDump or Dumber. With his aspiring repeaters freshly sprung from seven-game reform school for a fresh start against the Penguins, Larry Robinson still isn't sure the Devils learned a damned...
SLOPPY 'D' COSTS BOMBERS AGAIN
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amFor nine innings last night, the Yankees played championship defense. In the 10th, a simple victory passed them by. The Bombers turned three DPs and snuffed a rally with an...
THIS ONE GOT AWAY - PASSED BALL IN 10TH SENDS YANKS TO LOSS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe Yankees won four of the last five World Series because of certain constants; became the best in baseball thanks largely to closer Mariano Rivera and an airtight defense. Those...
FINALLY! JETER SLUGS FIRST HR
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Shortstop Derek Jeter emerged from his power slump in last night's 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Twins, hitting a solo shot in the seventh inning for his first...
ADELEKE'S SIGNING UP WITH PRIDE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSPORTS SHORTS Robeson star Kenny Adeleke, who signed with DePaul in the fall but changed his mind during the season, was released from his letter of intent from the school...
WEEKEND MENU IS A MIXED BAG
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE fluke season got underway with few complaints, and now that the striper season has started there will be many options to choose from this weekend. Bluefish and weakfish have...
BAILEY IS FINALLY CAPT. CONGAREE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amLike two ships passing in the night, Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey and trainer Bob Baffert's classy colt Congaree, who finished third in the Kentucky Derby, missed several rendezvous...
GOLF'S BRAVEHEART RETURNS NEXT WEEK
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT shouldn't happen to a dog, happened to a fellow who the 1992 PGA Tour media guide describes as "one of the nicest people ever to play the game." Ian...
BIG APPLE STILL TOPS IN CENTER FIELD
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amOK, it is not Willie, Mickey and the Duke, but the current New York teams remain the best center-field pipeline in the majors, with the promotion this week of Alex...
LOWLY CHISOX, A'S MAY CLEAN HOUSE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE A's and White Sox produced the AL's best records last year behind young talent that suggested more good stuff was coming, especially since each team added stars in the...
GARDEN'LL BE TOUGH ROOM FOR JOPPY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWilliam Joppy knows the majority of the 14,000 to 16,000 fans will be rooting against him tomorrow night in his championship fight with Felix "Tito" Trinidad at the Garden. He...
THE NIGHT ROBERTO OWNED THE GARDEN
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amBY the time Roberto Duran climbed into the Madison Square Garden ring to fight Davey Moore on June 16, 1983, he was already washed-up. Eleven years removed from his first...
CLOSE CALL MAKES DEVILS STRONGER
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amON a day of questions about whether the Devils finally have rid themselves of any post-Cup hangovers, Scott Niedermayer said he woke up with no headache. Best of all, his...
ALEX NOT SO GREAT IN THE OUTFIELD
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES DENVER - Alex Escobar wasn't great yesterday in the Mets' 8-2 loss to the Rockies. On defense, his nickname could've been E-bar. On offense, he showed his potential,...
HAVLICEK: RULE CHANGES MAY HELP NBA
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amHe never imagined he'd be in a place like this, where official NBA ashtrays and butter knives, not to mention every possible piece of apparel from every team is on...
HOUSTON MAY GO IN WEBBER DEAL - SOURCES: KNICK RETURN NOT A GIVEN
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks are willing to deal free-agent-to-be Allan Houston in a sign-and-trade package for Chris Webber this summer, two team officials told The Post yesterday. Although it likely will take...
TERRANOVA TAKES TWO MORE
May 11, 2001 | 4:00am2ND RACE - Social Top, who has a history of poor starts, broke fine and rated off the pace. She made a wide move on the turn to reach contention,...
BOBBY RIPS METS' MINDSET - SKIPPER PANS CLUB FOR 'BLAH ATTITUDE'
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amRockies 8 - Mets 2 DENVER - Bobby Valentine is like a paramedic trying to resuscitate his team from the dead. After games, the clubhouse feels like an emergency room...
JUWAN COWARD'S A BIG HIT - LEAGUE'S ALLOWED JUWAN'S HACK JOB
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amSUBJECT: Spurs One Game Away From Eliminating Mavericks; Juwan Howard One Flagrant Foul Away From Eliminating Spurs Evidently, Don Nelson's Mav Mantra is, "If you can't beat 'em, bleed 'em....
KENYON DEALT ANOTHER TOUGH BREAK
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the Rookie of the Year race no doubt was being determined, Orlando's Mike Miller was raising his scoring average on a nightly basis, hitting shots that helped to propel...
YANKEE LOSSES E-Z TO COME BY
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE HOT young team that supplies a week's worth of defensive highlights on a nightly basis was cruising along toward a win that would have swung the three-game series in...
SLOPPY 'D' SLAPS UP YANKS AGAIN
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amFor nine innings last night, the Yankees played championship defense. In the 10th, a passed ball flushed away victory. The Bombers turned three double plays and recorded another putout on...
NEW APPROACH PAYS OFF FOR BROSIUS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amScott Brosius may have figured out the perfect off-season workout: a little StairMaster, and a lot of golf. The Yankee third baseman is a notorious workaholic. Two minutes before his...
TORRE'S FACING FEW CONCERNS
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amIT has become a twice-daily ritual for Joe Torre, unflappable manager of the three-time defending World Champion Yankees. Sometimes a microphone is in his face and television camera lights are...
BERNIE'S BATTLES - YANK STAR FIGHTS SLUMP, EMOTIONAL ORDEAL OVER DAD
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amBefore last night's game with Minnesota, Bernie Williams sat at his locker, nestled in the corner of the Yankee clubhouse. When he'd inherited Don Mattingly's "corner" five years ago, it...
MORALES OUTRIGHTED TO NORWICH
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANK NOTES Yankee GM Brian Cashman confirmed yesterday that Andy Morales cleared waivers and was outrighted to Double-A Norwich. Cashman wouldn't say he was disappointed in the Cuban refugee's progress,...
GROUP CALLS FOUL ON NBA
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amA labor-rights watchdog group blew the whistle on pro basketball yesterday, branding the Salvadoran factories pumping out NBA jerseys nothing more than sweatshops. The group, the National Labor Committee for...
GREEN LIGHT FOR MIRACLE LEUKEMIA PILL
May 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe government yesterday OK'd a new pill-a-day cancer treatment for the same kind of leukemia actor Ryan O'Neal is battling, calling the molecule-specific drug "the wave of the future." Eighty-eight...