June 13, 2001

BUYOUT PLAN DRAWS JAHR-RING REACTION

Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Middelhoff is facing an angry shareholder revolt by the founding family behind the company's magazine group. The Jahrs, the family that founded the Gruner + Jahr publishing...

OFFERING COULD KRAFT 2ND-BIGGEST IPO

Huge demand for shares in today's Kraft IPO sent the offering price soaring into the stratosphere, causing some investors suffering from altitude sickness to bail out. Although hungry investors are...

WATCH THIS SPACE! BUTT-UGLY MARTIANS TO BE EVERYWHERE ON EARTH THIS FALL

The Post Goes to The Licensing International Show Prepare for the invasion of the Butt-Ugly Martians. In September, kids will be watching the 3-D animated action-adventure-comedy series, eating Butt-Ugly pasta...

CISCO SCALES BACK IN TIMES SQ.

CISCO Systems is dramatically scaling back its plans for office space in New York - but isn't bolting the city altogether. Instead of taking 500,000 square feet of office space...

RELIANCE GOES BUST ; ICAHN SEEKS TO FEAST ON GIANT'S CARCASS

What a mess Saul Steinberg has left behind. The once powerful insurance giant he built, Reliance Group Holdings, yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection against a tangled backdrop that...

AOL DROPS OFF EMAP

AOL Time Warner has dropped out of the quest for Emap USA, said several financial sources. A Time Inc. spokesman said, "We never say if we're at the dance -...

WHAT, NO 'BIG SLEEP'? AND OTHER OMISSIONS FROM THE A.F.I.'S ROSTER

THE American Film Institute's latest list is going to start us film buffs arguing. Any list of the 100 most thrilling scenes in American movies that lumps together "Titanic," "12...

LORD OF THE FLOPS STRIKES AGAIN: 'BELLS ARE RINGING' PRODUCER MITCHELL MAXWELL BOUNCES PAYCHECKS - FOR THE THIRD TIME

THE $6 million flop revival of "Bells Are Ringing" closed Sunday amid a morass of unpaid bills, bouncing paychecks and angry confrontations between the show's lead producer, Mitchell Maxwell, and...

SKIES SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL FOR MATTHEWS

DAVE MATTHEWSBAND THE Dave Matthews Band went out with a bang at Giants Stadium Monday - with a fireworks display that AC/DC's Angus Young would have traded his schoolboy knickers...

GO GO MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE DANCIN'

DIM SUM GO GO ½ 5 E. BROADWAY (AT CHATHAM SQUARE) (212) 732-0796 DIM Sum Go Go's name might bring to mind prancing white knee-high boots of the '60s, but...

'ROLLERBALL' REMAKE SKATES THE ISSUES

VETERAN director Norman Jewison is blasting the upcoming remake of his 1970 cult classic "Rollerball," saying it glorifies the violence he satirized in the original. "They sent me a script...

KINGSLEY A MADE MAN IN 'SEXY BEAST'

SEXY BEAST Ben Kinglsey kicks butt.Running time: 91 minutes. Rated R (violence, sex, profanity). At the Empire, Lincoln Plaza, the Union Square, others. BEN Kingsley burns up the screen as...

MAKE US A SANDWICH

POST readers: Show us what we're made of!You've always looked to the New York Post for news stories with bite. Now's your chance to bite back by turning the city's...

STARR REPORT

CBS Rather pleased with viewer victory "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" has won the weekly network news ratings race in total viewers for the first time in three...

EAT! EAT! IT'S SUMMER

MANGIA is known for takeout and catering corporate lunches, so when a copy of the chainlet's cookbook (HarperCollins, $29.95) hit the office, it was a bit of a surprise. On...

THE LITTLE RACISTS?; 'RASCALS' COMEBACK ON AMC GETS GANG-BANGED BY CENSORSHIP

'THE Little Rascals" are getting censored - again. Cable's American Movie Classics has bought the rights to 71 of the 221 "Our Gang" comedies that were made by early Hollywood...

'O BROTHER,' GREAT MUSIC!

JOEL and Ethan Coen's Southern period-piece comedy, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," achieved only moderate success - but the soundtrack has taken on a life of its own. The million-plus-selling...

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE PALACE

SHUN LEE PALACE 155 E. 55TH ST. (212) 371-8844 AT Shun Lee Palace, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, it helps to be a house pet. By "pet," I don't...

TEARS FOR MOST FAMOUS CLOWN OF ALL ; BEDTIME FORBOZO

WHERE have all the TV clowns gone? Gone to TV heaven, all but one. And now, that one - Bozo, the last and best-known of all the TV clowns who...

'FACTOR' STRIKING 'FEAR' INTO RIVALS

NBC's new reality show "Fear Factor," lambasted by the critics, answered back by handily winning its timeslot in its Monday-night debut. "Fear Factor," which aired from 8 to 9 p.m.,...

ON THE SIDE: HARBORING A GRUDGE OVER PEARL

FORMER partners Mary Redding and Rebecca Charles are embroiled in a good ol' cat/fish fight. Sources say the two - who opened the Pearl Oyster Bar on Cornelia Street in...

GI BLAST INDICTMENTS DUE

Federal prosecutors will soon seek justice for 19 servicemen killed in a Saudi Arabia bomb blast by indicting several terrorists, it was reported last night. A federal grand jury in...

AMNESIA TWIST AS MISSING CANADIAN TURNS UP AT JFK

A Canadian theater director who was reported missing from his Midtown hotel last week turned up last night at Kennedy Airport - and said he didn't remember where he'd been,...

CONSERVATIVE SLATE: WHO ARE THESE GUYS?

The Conservative Party yesterday unveiled its slate of candidates for citywide office - and all three are little-known lawyers. In his first public appearance of the campaign trail, Queens lawyer...

'TORCH' BLOWS SMOKE ; AS PROBE CLOSES IN, ATTACKS ARE HIS ONLY DEFENSE

A GOOD offense may be the best defense, but in Bob Torricelli's case, it's starting to look like the only defense. The New Jersey senator has launched an all-out attack...

BIN LADEN PLOTS BUSH HIT: TERROR WATCH IS ON FOR JULY SUMMIT IN ITALY

International security forces are working furiously to thwart a plot by Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden to assassinate President Bush and other world leaders at a major economic summit...

GOV OFFERED HOUSING JOB TO CITY DEM

ALBANY - Gov. Pataki has made another dramatic effort to win Democratic support, offering a prominent Brooklyn Assemblyman a key state job, sources told The Post yesterday. The sources said...

NO. 1 MOVIE THRILLER'S A REAL SCREAM

A weirdo mama's boy, his shriveled-up mother and a deadly motel shower are the nightmarish images that still jolt film fans the most. The American Film Institute last night named...

B'DAY CARD SHOWS JUDI'S KID LOVED RUDY

'RUDY, Happy Birthday. Thank you for always being there for me when I needed someone to talk to, and thank you for loving my mom. Hang in there. "Love always...

LEAD-PAINT ALERT AT BX. SUBWAY STATIONS

Transit crews sent lead paint flying off eight elevated stations in The Bronx - including one next to a school - for five months without testing to find out if...

HUNG JURY SPARES LIFE OF BOMBER

A heartbroken 12-year-old girl, whose mother was killed by a terrorist bomb, ripped a Manhattan jury yesterday for not sentencing the mass murderer to death. Tara Kavaler, whose mom, Prabhi,...

DOCS PROVE RAPID ANTIBIOTIC DOSE PREVENTS LYME DISEASE

A quick dose of antibiotics can take the bite out of Lyme disease, a new study shows. Some doctors already give antibiotics to people immediately after they are bitten by...

DON'T THINK HE'S BROKE

Mayor Giuliani's not exactly a pauper. His salary is set at $195,000 a year, and his perks include free housing, free transportation and free food - with a chef in...

FILIPINO WARNS OF NEW BEHEADING

Muslim rebels yesterday threatened to kill a second hostage, as they taunted the Philippine army about beheading a U.S. captive. "We've released unconditionally one American, our amigo Guillermo, but we...

JOLIE ALMOST BECAME 'WHACKED'-TRESS

Sexy Angelina Jolie was once so depressed, she tried to hire a hit man to kill her. The wacky star of the upcoming blockbuster "Tomb Raider" said she came perilously...

CITY: WE'LL X-TINGUISH CHIC CLUB'S SEX FESTS

Nightclub investigators plan to raid New York celeb hangout Spa in a bid to wipe out a new craze in which partygoers perform amateur strip shows and allow their pictures...

'BIDDER' END FOR MCVEIGH ON 'NET

The instant Timothy McVeigh was dead, crime-buff bottom-feeders were filling Internet auction sites with McVeigh items, trying to make a killing off his infamy. eBay was auctioning what it billed...

INJURY SCAM NETTED $12M: SUIT

A network of "bill mills" paid at least 2,500 people to fake injuries in car accidents and raked in $12 million for therapy, dentistry, acupuncture and other treatment that was...

ELECTROCUTION HORROR: FRAYED WIRE KILLS B'KLYN GIRL, 13, IN BEDROOM

A 13-year-old Brooklyn girl was electrocuted in her bedroom while dressing for school yesterday when she brushed against a metal rail on her bed that was touching a frayed stereo...

RAP BIGS TURN TABLES ON GOV'T CENSORSHIP

Rap music's hottest artists and industry moguls met yesterday to discuss policing their own music - before the government steps in to legislate their lyrics. During day one of the...

B'KLYN THUG BASHES MOM OF 4 INTO COMA

A Brooklyn mother of four was clinging to life in a coma last night after a wild-eyed mugger bashed in her head with a piece of wood - and viciously...

PLAYING 'FAST AND LOOSE': HIGH-SCHOOLERS POSTING SEX RUMORS ON INTERNET

THE name of the biggest tramp in school has been tossed about by gossip mavens since the one-room schoolhouse - but now teens are discovering that the chatter is no...

VIRUS KILLING COMPUTERS

A computer hacker offering links to video clips of Tim McVeigh's death executed as many as 100 computers with a lethal virus. Brigham Young University computer science student Brad Chapman,...

'SPIDER-MAN' STOCK-SCAM WEB: COMIC CREATOR'S PARTNER INDICTED IN $25M SCHEME

A suspect in a stock swindle involving the legendary creator of Spider-man comics has been indicted for weaving a web of hype that cost unwary investors $25 million, prosecutors charged...

DUBYA'S REIGN IN SPAIN HIGHLIGHTS DAY 1

Day 1 of President Bush's first official trip to Europe: * Where he was yesterday: Madrid to meet with Spain's King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia and at the...

HOW HE CAN AFFORD RAOUL

Even if he cleaned out his entire bank account, Mayor Giuliani could afford to pay his legal pit bull, Raoul Felder, for only 12 hours of work. But the mayor's...

PREGNANT PAUSE IN TEEN-MOM RATE

Parents can rest a little easier - the nation's teen pregnancy rate has dipped to a record low. Experts point to some teens having less sex, others using contraception more...

INSURER HITS BRAKES ON N.J.: STATE FARM CITES RATE CAP IN MOVE TO DROP STATE'S DRIVERS

Like a bad neighbor, State Farm won't be there. New Jersey's largest car insurer says it's pulling out of the state - where whopping premiums are the highest in the...

CHURCH UNVEILS TOUGH NEW SEX-ABUSE POLICY

New rules issued by the New York Archdiocese have ordered all prospective employees who will work with kids or the elderly to undergo background checks, The Post has learned. Under...

BLOOMBERG RIPS DEM SPY CAM

Michael Bloomberg's campaign yesterday accused the state Democratic Party of dirty tricks for having a worker videotape him during his appearances across the city. They issued the complaint despite having...

PATAKI LOBBIES TEAM BUSH TO HALT VIEQUES BOMBINGS

WASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki yesterday pressed the White House to stop military bombing exercises on Puerto Rico's Vieques island. Bush was traveling in Europe, so Pataki had to settle for...

CLINTON GAVE SHAFT TO MOYNIHAN'S STAFF

WASHINGTON. FORMER Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan launched Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate career, but when it came to hiring her staff, Clinton said "no thanks" to Moynihan's crew. Clinton declined to...

KERIK TO REVEAL LIFE STORY

Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has struck a deal to write his life story - and the book will include heart-wrenching revelations about how his mother abandoned him as a child,...

FARRAKHAN IN HUDDLE WITH RABBI

Fiery Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and nationally prominent Rabbi Marc Schneier reportedly held a top-secret meeting in Manhattan this week. The hush-hush session Monday night was a first...

PUFFY WAS KING FOR DAY AT RIKERS

Rap impresario Sean "Puffy" Combs got the royal treatment at Rikers Island, where he was whisked into the jail by a top union official to visit a co-defendant in his...

HIZZONER CAN BANK ON ONLY 7G, HIS ATT'Y SAYS

Mayor Giuliani is having a serious cash-flow problem, his lawyer revealed yesterday. Giuliani has only $7,000 in his personal bank account - despite his $195,000-a-year salary and free housing, lawyer...

SETBACK FOR DYING GOTTI WHILE JUNIOR IS ISOLATED

Mob boss John Gotti, who's dying of head and neck cancer, has taken another health hit - from pneumonia. The imprisoned-for-life Gambino chief was treated with a half-dozen antibiotics at...

SEX FIEND ON THE LOOSE AFTER ATTACK IN VILLAGE

A man followed a 24-year-old woman into her Greenwich Village building last night, pushed his way into her apartment and threatened to rape her - but was frightened off by...

POLS HIT POTHOLE ON ROAD TO TOUGHENED DWI LAWS

ALBANY - A push to lower the DWI blood-alcohol threshold has hit a roadblock in the Legislature over tougher drunken-driving penalties. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer) yesterday insisted his...

PHILIPPINE REBELS: WE'LL BEHEAD ANOTHER HOSTAGE

Muslim rebels yesterday threatened to kill a second hostage - as they taunted the Philippine army about beheading an American captive. "We've released unconditionally one American, our amigo Guillermo, but...

DEAL COULD SETTLE CASE OF KIDNAP/ADOPT PARENTS

The couple who 22 years ago allegedly kidnapped the boy they wanted to adopt inched toward a deal yesterday with his biological parents that may help settle the heartbreaking case....

WOMAN HURT IN B'KLYN COP-CAR CRASH

A 62-year-old woman crossing a Brooklyn street was injured yesterday after a car collided with a police cruiser rushing to check out a report of gunfire, authorities said. The woman...

ROGER A 'DODGER' IN YANK-MET WAR

The Yankees and Mets will face off again this weekend at Shea Stadium, the first time the two teams have met since their showdown in last year's World Series. And...

GOLDEN MOLDY GETS NEW TV GIG

Gumby is back. Beloved claymation characters Gumby and Pokey are returning to TV after a 10-year absence. ABC will use the green Gumby and his orange-pony sidekick Pokey to lure...

BLIND MAN HAS HORSE SENSE

It's enough to make even the most jaded Big Apple straphanger do a double take: a miniature horse in sneakers on the subway. And the diminutive filly isn't just any...

AMAZIN' AWAKENING? PEREZ, VENTURA LEAD WAY AS MET BATS BASH O'S

Mets 10 Orioles 3 BALTIMORE - Before last night's 10-3 win over the Orioles, Met manager Bobby Valentine said his team felt as if it's not good enough. He said...

FANS CALL HR 'JOKE'

It always hurts to lose a game after blowing a ninth-inning lead, but it's even more frustrating when the loss comes because of a foul ball. That's what happened to...

DEFEAT MOST FOUL ; PUNCHLESS YANKS FALL TO EXPOS ON DISPUTED DINGER

12 Innings Expos 2 Yankees 1 If George Steinbrenner wasn't happy yesterday, guess how he feels this morning. The Yankees owner voiced his displeasure publicly in Tuesday's newspapers, criticizing his...

SHARK'S ON THE MENU FOR L.I. NEEDY

IN a partnership that has lasted 10 years, the fisheries group FISH Unlimited and Star Island Marina will once again clean, package and distribute shark meat caught from the 15th...

JOE ADDS FRANK AS ALL-STAR AIDE

Five years ago, Joe Torre was convinced he was going to lose his brother, which makes what he will share with Frank in a month - the last unfulfilled dream...

OAK-TREE HOPES FOR N.Y. RERUN

It's a longshot, but as the Raptors look to deal disgruntled power forward Charles Oakley, he hopes Toronto GM Glen Grunwald gives the Knicks a ring. Oakley, who has one...

IRABU AMBIVALENT ABOUT RETURN

Hideki Irabu has worked a lot of stuff out this year. He has finally recovered from offseason elbow surgery and ensuing tendinitis, as well as tendinitis in his knee. The...

IKE'S GOING UNDER KNIFE

At long last, there appears to be a resolution to the bizarre Ike Hilliard saga. The missing-in-action receiver will undergo surgery Monday on his right foot, but neither the Giants...

NO MONTICELLO AT OTB

New York City Off-Track Betting will not be taking wagering on today's live racing from Monticello Raceway. Monticello will host an 8-race card, abbreviated due to a horsemen's strike. The...

YANKS CALL SHANE, BRAGG TO BOLSTER BENCH

It's been a long time coming for both Shane Spencer and Darren Bragg. Time being a relative term. For Spencer, yesterday's call-up from Triple-A Columbus was a relief after he...

TIGER WINNING MENTAL ROUND

TULSA, Okla. - It was Tuesday of U.S. Open week yesterday - still two days before the start of the championship - and yet you got the distinct feeling, through...

A TIGER WIN COULD MEAN BULL MARKET

U.S. OPEN NOTES TULSA, Okla. - How will Wall Street react to Tiger Woods after this week's U.S. Open? If it reacts the way it has for the last year-plus,...

JUNKYARD DOG A KNICK FAN

PHILADELPHIA - Toronto free agent forward Jerome Williams would love to move his Dog Pound to the Garden. Williams, dubbed the Junkyard Dog for his intense and hustling style of...

TIGER'S BIGGER THAN COLOR

TULSA, Okla. - Jim Thorpe, now earning his living on the Senior Tour, was recently lamenting the lack of African-American golfers currently on the regular PGA Tour. "Back in 1975,...

TWO CAUSING A STIR AT OPEN

TULSA, Okla. - Among the masses of favorites and hopefuls at Southern Hills attempting to win the 101st U.S. Open this week, two in particular are among the more curious...

NETS TILTING TOWARD SIZE IN DRAFT

PHILADELPHIA - The Nets want size first and foremost with their first round pick at No. 7 and if they happen to get a lot of youth along with it...

SIXER PREZ TAKING ANTICS TO NEW HEIGHTS

FINALS NOTEBOOK PHILADELPHIA -- Sixer President Pat Croce is climbing the Walt Whitman Bridge today. No, not to jump. To hang a banner. A huge "Go Sixers, Beat L.A." banner....

A HOLE NEW BALLGAME

PHILADELPHIA - OK, Lakers, start worrying. The Sixers have you right where they want you. They're down 2-1 in the NBA Finals. They were down 2-1 against Toronto and came...

TARI MAKES CHARLOTTE PAY

Liberty 79 Sting 70 Chapter One of the book on Liberty center Tari Phillips: Don't get her mad. Charlotte learned that the hard way. Early in a 79-70 win over...

V SAYS QUIET OFFSEASON HURT CHAMPS' ESTEEM

BALTIMORE - A day after co-owner Fred Wilpon said Met players haven't played to their potential, a very candid Bobby Valentine theorized why before last night's 10-3 win over the...

BOMBERS TELL BOSS: IT'S NO BIG DEAL

When The Boss is unhappy, every Yankee is unhappy - not necessarily by choice. After Yankees owner George Steinbrenner publicly voiced his displeasure with his team in yesterday's morning's newspapers,...

GIVE REED POINTS FORGUTTY STINT

MET NOTES BALTIMORE - It shows just how good Rick Reed has been that last night's six-inning effort tied his shortest outing of the season. "That was a battle," said...

YANKEES MUST TURN OFF NOISE

IT'S time for George Steinbrenner to take a break from belaboring the obvious, which, of course, is that the Yankees couldn't hit Chuck Wepner if he led with his chin....

IT'S NO BIG DEAL: TONED-DOWN GEORGE MASTER OF OBVIOUS

HAVE been feeling particularly old and bitter lately, especially every time a young Turk born without manners and reared without discipline sticks his microphone over my shoulder and does a...

HE'S NOT TELLING US ANYTHING WE DON'T KNOW, BOMBERS SAY

When The Boss is unhappy, every Yankee is unhappy - not necessarily by choice. After Yankees owner George Steinbrenner publicly voiced his displeasure with his team in yesterday's morning's newspapers,...

ZEILE ELBOWS WAY BACK INTO THE LINEUP

MET NOTES BALTIMORE - Todd Zeile returned to the Mets' lineup last night after reporting that his strained right elbow is fine. Zeile missed Sunday's game because of the elbow...

SLUMBER COMPANY: PUNCHLESS BOMBERS WASTE LILLY GEM

12 INNINGS Expos 2 Yankees 1 Contrary to popular belief, George Steinbrenner doesn't talk just to exercise his gums. Those who don't listen or pay attention to him don't last...

LETTING OFF ESTEEM - BOBBY V: QUIET OFFSEASON HURT MET CONFIDENCE

BALTIMORE - A day after co-owner Fred Wilpon said the players in the clubhouse haven't played to their potential, a very candid Bobby Valentine theorized why before last night's game....

VICKIE'S RIGHT ON THE MARK

Liberty guard/forward Vickie Johnson dreams of tooling around the Big Apple one day in a burgundy colored Jaguar convertible with leather interior and a wood grain dash. At the rate...