June 22, 2001
SCHRAGER SPOUSE GETS SPURNED
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amSOMETIMES co-op boards can be downright cruel. Take, for instance, the building at 101 Central Park West, where they've just turned down a mother and her two small children for...
NATIONAL GIVES ICAHN COLD SHOULDER
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amIn his second rebuff of a bid to buy an airline this year, Carl Icahn has withdrawn a $181.5 million offer to buy National Airlines out of bankruptcy. Icahn pulled...
WYLY ANGLING TO TAKE CA CONTROL AWAY FROM WANG
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amGet ready for the brawling billionaires. Texan Sam Wyly threw down the gantlet yesterday as he gears up for a proxy fight to wrangle control of troubled Computer Associates away...
MARTHA GETS BIGGER - LAUNCHES CRAFT, HOLIDAY LINES FOR KMART
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe world of Martha Stewart is getting bigger by the day. Kmart is introducing Martha Stewart Everyday products for two new classifications next year - craft and holidays. In addition,...
DRKOOP UNVEILS DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amMeds! Online health site drkoop.com is launching a line of dietary supplements for ailing boomers. The introductory line is expected to include formulations for healthy joints, menopause symptoms, prostate health...
BIG TOBACCO TO CHAT WITH FEDS ABOUT SETTLEMENT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTobacco stocks shot up yesterday after cigarette companies showed they're getting the upper hand in beating the federal government's massive lawsuit against them. Major tobacco companies said they've agreed to...
RATE CUT HOPES TEASE STOCKS - DOW, NASDAQ GAIN; 1/2-PT. REDUCTION SEEN
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street's growing optimism there'll be another interest rate cut next week and surprising earnings from one of its own yesterday buoyed stocks higher. But don't expect gains to continue...
GAP TO SWING AX - AIMS TO SLASH 5% TO 7% OF HQ JOBS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amA whole lot of employees are about to fall into The Gap. Gap Inc. announced it will be reviewing 10,000 positions worldwide for its Gap stores, Banana Republic and Old...
EMAP USA BIDDING STILL A HORSE RACE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amFinal bids for the battered Emap USA property - publisher of Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Teen and Guns & Ammo - were due in today, and it's still a horse...
GAP TO SWING AX - AIMS TO SLASH 5% TO 7% OF PAYROLL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amA whole lot of employees are about to fall into The Gap. Gap Inc. announced it will be reviewing 10,000 positions worldwide for its Gap stores, Banana Republic and Old...
KELSEY HITS $75M JACKPOT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am"FRASIER" star Kelsey Grammer has a new deal that could make him the highest-paid actor in TV history, Daily Variety reports today. Grammer will rake in about $1.6 million per...
BERGMAN REPLAYS 'SONATA'
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE GHOST SONATAAt BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St., (718) 636-4100. In Swedish, with English on headphones. Through Sunday. ----- THE greatest director in the world attacks one of the...
ON 'ROCKY' GROUND - DELARIA TRASHES 'HORROR' AUDIENCE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amLEA DeLARIA, the lesbian comic and star of "The Rocky Horror Show," has never been shy about speaking her mind. But some intemperate remarks she made to TimeOut last week...
NOT IN SYNCH WITH DEEJAY AX
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amJUSTIN Timberlake of *NSYNC says he "feels sorry" for the Dallas deejays fired for broadcasting a hoax report that his galpal Britney Spears was killed in an auto crash -...
STARR REPORT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amRoberts' cutting 'Remington' remarks Now it can be told: Life on the set of the'80s hit "Remington Steele" wasn't a bed of roses, according to "Steele" co-star Doris Roberts, who's...
EMERIL NEEDS SOME SPICE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amBAM! Chef Emeril Lagasse's new sitcom left some TV execs with a bad taste in their mouths and has been sent back to the kitchen."Emeril," which is loosely based on...
'SOUTH PK.' SLIP HITS THE FAN
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am"South Park" is putting TV in the toilet again. The potty-mouthed animated cable comedy is pushing the envelope farther than ever this week - by cramming 163 un-bleeped utterances of...
FATE BRINGS SOME VERY DARK DELIGHTS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR [] Two lost souls; another winner from writer/director Tom Tykwer. Running time: 130 minutes. Rated R (violence). In German, with subtitles. At the Lincoln Plaza,...
XENA, YOU SHOULDA SEENA
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am"Xena: Warrior Princess:" series finale [ ] Tomorrow at 8 on WB/Ch.11 -------- NO tears, no regrets, no surrender. That's the Xena way, and that's how she goes out tomorrow...
JUBILANT ABOUT POP - CLASSICAL STAR SYKES HAS BRAND NEW BAG WITH ROCK COLLECTION
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHOSE who follow classical singers know Jubilant is not only a state of mind, but one of the most praised young tenors in music. Jubilant Sykes' voice has carried him...
HOT RODS, COOL CHICKS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE FAST AND THE FURIOUS Mindless, messy but often exciting summer fun for guys who really like cars and also girls. Running Time: 107 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, car crashes)....
A 'TEMPTING' OFFER
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am'TEMPTATION Island" is back - but New Yorkers who wanted to apply had to take a short trip to a less exotic locale. Rocket Science Laboratories, which produced Fox's smash-hit...
HERE'S LISA'S NEW GUY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amAMERICA got its first "view" of "The View" co-host Lisa Ling with her new boyfriend, actor Rick Yune, yesterday. Yune, starring in the new race-car movie, "The Fast and the...
ANIMALS GO CRACKERS - EDDIE MURPHY'S 'DR. DOLITTLE 2' PLAYS TO A MARVELOUS MENAGERIE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amDR. DOLITTLE 2 [* * *] Quite bear-able sequel to the 1998 hit. Running time: 81 minutes. Rated PG. At the Ziegfeld, the Empire, the Union Square, others. -------- IN...
TERRIFIED SON'S DESPERATE BID TO ESCAPE KILLER MOM
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amHorrifying new details of the deaths of five Texas kids drowned by their mom emerged yesterday - as their grief-stricken dad stunned the nation by declaring his undying love for...
ANGELIC DYLAN A 'ROCK ICON'
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amBob Dylan really is knockin' on heaven's door - a statue of him as an angel sits atop a gothic cathedral in Norway. "It's true that I was inspired by...
THREATS MAY MOVE SUMMIT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush's meetings with world leaders at next month's G-8 summit in Italy might be moved to an aircraft carrier or cruise ship because of terrorist threats, Bush-administration sources said....
TEACHER-UNION PREZ PLAYS HOOKY FROM SCHOOL VOTES
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTeachers union boss Randi Weingarten might need a civics lesson - she hasn't voted in three of the last four school board elections, The Post has learned. Weingarten, the politically...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JUNE 22, 1981
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am"Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing John Lennon in a secret court session today. And he revealed for the first time that the ex-Beatle was only one of a...
THREE KIN DIE IN B'KLYN BLAZE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThree members of a Haitian-immigrant family were killed yesterday in a Brooklyn fire that broke out in a home filled with visiting relatives. The smoke detector that could have warned...
DEMS' LOFT-Y GOAL BOGS DOWN STATE GOV'T: BRUNO
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The Legislature's top Republican yesterday charged that Democrats trying to expand New York City's loft law have brought state government to a standstill. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno...
MIDEAST MCD ADS LEAVE A BITTER TASTE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amOutraged Jewish groups yesterday chewed out McDonald's for pitching McFalafels in Egypt with a pop star who shot to fame with his chart-topping tune, "I Hate Israel." Egyptian crooner Shaaban...
FERRER: AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amMayor hopeful Fernando Ferrer yesterday called for blanket amnesty for undocumented aliens - including an estimated half million in New York City - and blasted the nation's immigration policies as...
JUDGE TO WARRING NATHANS: GET THERAPY!
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amShrinks for everybody! The judge presiding over the court fight between mayoral girlfriend Judith Nathan and ex-husband Bruce said yesterday he wants a mental-health expert to examine the former couple...
HOG HEAVES PIG SIGH OF RELIEF
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThey won't be makin' bacon out of Grunty the pig - but a lot of people won't care now, anyway. That's because Grunty was misidentified by the British press as...
WHY GIULIANI DEMS WILL BREAK FOR VALLONE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amIN 10 weeks, Democratic primary voters will go to the polls in New York City - and something like 30 percent of them are still undecided. That's a huge number...
JESSE'S WIFE GETS SOLITARY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife yesterday was thrown into solitary confinement in Puerto Rico's federal prison after she refused to submit to a daily strip and body-cavity search by guards....
MAN CHARGED IN BX. DWI DEATHS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amA Scarsdale businessman was charged yesterday with second-degree manslaughter in the drunken-driving deaths of two Bronx women. Richard Schwartz, 46, told cops he thought he was on a major highway...
HOLLYWOOD DRAMA: PALS SLAP HILLARY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's Hollywood pals are howling that she's become a prissy goody-two-shoes who is trying to muzzle them. Folks like William Baldwin, Lauren Bacall, Robin Williams and...
TODAY'S LESSON: SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE insider chuckled. It's better than becoming physically ill in the presence of a stranger. "I had a female teacher [having sex with] two boys," the insider told me. "So...
COPS CAN'T 'CATCH' CONDIT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amRep. Gary Condit yesterday insisted he'll do whatever he can "without hesitation" to help police find missing intern Chandra Levy - but police are finding him stubbornly elusive. The 53-year-old...
'OUT-OF-CONTROL' SCHOOLS: PROBER'S CHARGES ROCK ED. BOARD
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy and the Board of Education were reeling yesterday from charges city schools are rapidly spiraling out of control because of lax hiring practices, sexual abuse and...
HANKS 'CO-STAR' HAVING A BALL IN ITS NEW ROLE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amSingles, you needn't be lonely anymore. Wilson, the personable volleyball who kept Tom Hanks company in the movie "Cast Away," will soon be available at a store near you. Wilson...
GOD CHOSE THE LONGEST DAY FOR US TO MOURN THEM
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amPerhaps in his ultimate wisdom, God deigned that the longest day of the calendar year - June 21 - be the longest day of gut-wrenching, tear-pouring mourning in my memory....
LEGENDARY BLUESMAN HOOKER IS DEAD AT 83
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Lee Hooker, the gravel-voiced blues master who began performing at 14 but really made it big only when he was 73, died yesterday. He was 83. Hooker died in...
IMUS & THE WIZ DO THEIR PART
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amDon Imus and The Wiz came through for the city's fallen Bravest in a big way yesterday. The gravelly voiced radio raconteur pledged $25,000 to the Post's "Astoria Fire: Heroes...
SO LONG, 'ARCHIE': CARROLL O'CONNOR DIES
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amCarroll O'Connor, who played the grumpy, endearing bigot Archie Bunker on the groundbreaking series "All in the Family," suffered a fatal heart attack at his California home yesterday. He was...
GOV CONNECTS ON CAR-PHONE-SAFETY LAW
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - State legislative leaders and Gov. Pataki agreed last night to make New York the first state to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. The legislation...
'BUNKER' MENTALITY DELIGHTED AMERICA
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHOSE were the days. Anyone not old enough to have been around when "All in the Family" premiered in 1971 cannot comprehend the impact of this show and its incendiary...
ROGER STICKS FOOT IN MOUTH
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Roger Clinton spoke out on Pardongate for the first time last night, but might have dug himself into a hole by denying some allegations that his lawyer already...
SEX ED - TEACHER'S AIDE NABBED FOR SLEEPING WITH YOUNG BOYS: COPS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amA 23-year-old Bronx teacher's aide had an affair with a 13-year-old student - then had sex with three of his young friends to get revenge after he broke up with...
CHENEY SCRUBS TALK WITH MUSLIM GROUP
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Under fire from Jewish leaders, Vice President Dick Cheney abruptly scrapped plans yesterday to meet at the White House with a Muslim group whose founder has defended Hamas...
OUTRAGE AS RAPE VICTIM GETS THROWN INTO JAIL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amAn apparent rape victim in Florida had her horror compounded when cops investigating the crime collared her for three minor warrants. The 29-year-old woman - distraught over the rape and...
NIKI FINALLY OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amAiling supermodel Niki Taylor got a double dose of good news yesterday: She's out of intensive care and on the mend. And doctors say the blond beauty will soon be...
GATOR WON'T BE LEAVING APPLE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amOne New Yorker won't be retiring to Florida. The Parks Department yesterday gave an alligator wrestler the green light to search for Central Park's runaway reptile - but nixed his...
DNA NAILS ROB SUSPECT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island man charged with burglarizing a florist is believed to be the first criminal suspect to be locked up because his DNA is on file in a new...
SILVER CASINO OK $MELLS ROTTEN: POL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - A Queens state senator yesterday accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of seeking to personally cash in on expanded casino gambling. Saying that "money talks," Republican Frank Padavan also...
CHECKERS TO REST AT NIXON'S FEET AGAIN
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amCheckers is finally going home. The pet pooch that Richard Nixon invoked in his famous 1952 speech will be exhumed from a Long Island pet cemetery and re-buried on the...
'SOUTH PARK' GOES ON OFFENSIVE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am"South Park" is putting TV in the toilet again. The potty-mouthed animated cable comedy is pushing the envelope farther than ever this week - by cramming 163 un-bleeped utterances of...
EGYPTIAN MCD ADS FAL-AWFULLY OFFENSIVE: JEWS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amOutraged Jewish groups yesterday chewed out McDonald's for pitching McFalafels in Egypt with a pop star who shot to fame with his chart-topping tune, "I Hate Israel." Egyptian crooner Shaaban...
IMPRISONED 'PUFFY' PAL BARRED FROM SEEING BASKETBRAWL FOE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amSean "Puffy" Combs' protégé Jamal "Shyne" Barrow - serving a 10 year sentence for shooting up a midtown nightclub - won't have any trouble following an order of protection issued...
METS CAN LINE BENNY UP ANYWHERE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amOne night Benny Agbayani is a leadoff hitter. The next he bats cleanup. The Mets outfielder has more identities than Fletch. "I don't feel any different," Agbayani said. "I just...
EARLY BLUNDER WAS TURNING POINT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amJorge Velandia thought the bag was his. Desi Relaford couldn't stop his momentum. Neither one could avoid a tone-setting, fouled-up defensive play in the first inning last night. In the...
HEY, LEAVE PIAZZA BEHIND THE PLATE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE key word for the day is leave. As in leave Mike Piazza alone and leave him behind the plate. Enough of all this Piazza to first base stuff. Enough...
ESCOBAR MORE RELAXED THE SECOND TIME 'ROUND
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Highly-touted rookie Alex Escobar started last night's 10-3 loss to Montreal in center field. The 22-year-old - who was just 4-for-21 in his six-game stint with the Mets...
METS COME UP UGLY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWith the arch-rival Braves arriving in Flushing tonight, the Mets had a chance to go into this season-deciding two-week crucible on a five-game winning streak, playing their best baseball of...
VISITING BRAVES JUST WHAT AMAZIN'S NEED
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE last time John Rocker was in New York he had a little run-in with a Yankee fan - imagine that - down the Jersey shore. During his Big Apple...
ARMED AND DANGEROUS - UPSTART FLORIDA HAS THE RIGHT STAFF TO WIN EAST
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S far worse than you thought for the Mets. Not only have they spent years failing to outdo the Braves in the NL East. Not only is this year in...
NO SMILIN' OVER BAR SHOE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Skies were cloudy but the rain hadn't arrived yet for the opener. Silver Jam, racing on Lasix for the first time, hit the gate at the start...
TIFFENY'S TIMING COULDN'T BE ANY MORE POWER-FUL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWhen she was at the University of Portland, Tiffeny Milbrett didn't give much thought to what kind of career she would pursue. "I was just a soccer player," said the...
RACING'S DRUG POLICY IS IN STATE OF CHAOS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE lack of a coherent, common sense national drug policy in thoroughbred racing has long been a disgrace. Now, with the suspension of America's leading trainer, Bob Baffert, it has...
THIS JUSTIN! LEONARD FINDS SWEET STROKE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Tiger Woods changed his swing after winning the 1997 Masters by a record 12 shots, many people thought he was crazy. Not Justin Leonard. Leonard understands why Woods made...
MAC CAN'T BACK 'CAP' - MCENROE SAYS JEN WILL FALL AT WIMBY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amJohn McEnroe attended Jennifer Capriati's victory party at the French Open. The two have become friends and even talked during the revelry about playing mixed doubles together in a Grand...
KNICKS LOOK FORWARD IN DRAFT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amIt is looking more and more as if the Knicks are aiming to draft a power forward in Wednesday's draft, unless they move up to the first round. The Knicks...
TIGER: TOUR'S CASH MACHINE - FOES WIN LESS, MAKE MORE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amSO MANY players on the women's tennis tour reek of jealousy toward Anna Kournikova. They whine about her popularity not staying proportional with her ability on the court, as if...
NETS MULL RICHARDSON PICK
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Nets desire size in the NBA draft next week. But if Michigan State shooting guard Jason Richardson is available at No. 7, a 6-6 swingman might look awfully big...
IKE: I'M NOT CANCER IN CLUBHOUSE
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amHis right foot is covered by a splint and wrap nearly up to his knee and presumably, Ike Hilliard's surgically-repaired big toe is on the mend. What cannot yet be...
IT'S TIME FOR METS TO MAKE SOME HAY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe arrival of the Braves has always been exaggerated into a prelude to Armageddon, as if the future of the Mets depended on the games. But this time around, the...
RAINOUT TIX GOOD TOMORROW & SUNDAY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amDig back into that trash. Because of the rain fiasco, yesterday's Buick Open tickets can be exchanged at the gate tomorrow or Sunday, although they will not be honored today....
MUM'S WORD AT GARDEN - HONCHO DOLAN PUSHES MUTE BUTTON ON MEDIA
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS just in: The Knicks have denied permission for Jeff Van Gundy to talk to Stan Van Gundy. I got that exclusive story from a team source who took a...
SHARK SEASON STARTS STRONG
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE weekend tournaments that kicked off the shark season were on the money as far as the arrival of big fish to our offshore waters, but Sunday's storm did put...
NETS MAY CHOOSE MSU'S RICHARDSON
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Nets desire size in the NBA draft next week. But if Michigan State shooting guard Jason Richardson is available at No. 7, a 6-6 swingman might look awfully big...
KNICKS LOOK FORWARD
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amIt is looking more and more as if the Knicks are aiming to tab a power forward in Wednesday's draft, unless they move up to the first round. The Knicks...
YANKS IN TRADING MOOD - ROCKIES' ASTACIO COULD BE TARGET
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amDETROIT - George Steinbrenner gathered his Inner Circle in Tampa yesterday with GM Brian Cashman representing the Bronx faction and multiple members of the Tampa family on hand. The Boss...
MSG-YANK SPLIT WILL COST FANS
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTO understand what the MSG Network-Yankees divorce means to you, the non-corporate sports fan and cable TV consumer, we again ask that you picture yourself as a suckling pig, glazed,...
NO EASY FIXES FOR JETER, O'NEILL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amDETROIT - Joe Torre is having a difficult time getting a handle on the sub-par seasons Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill are experiencing. According to Torre, one of the reasons...
STUCK IN THE MUCK - FALSE START FOR WOODS & MOST AT W'CHESTER
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe rain, the mud, the crowds, the star: Some 32 years and a few counties away, the Buick Classic yesterday turned into Tiger Woodstock. Westchester Country Club may be as...
HILLIARD: I'M NOT A CANCER - GIANTS WR DEFENDS ACTIONS, RIPS FASSEL
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amHis right foot is covered by a splint and wrapped nearly up to his knee and presumably, Ike Hilliard's surgically-repaired big toe is on the mend. What cannot yet be...
JOHNSON MAY DON PINSTRIPES SOON
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DETROIT - Don't look for stud first baseman Nick Johnson in pinstripes tonight against the Devil Rays. But don't be surprised if the Yankees' top prospect isn't in...
UMP CLARK GETS AX
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amDETROIT - Al Clark, who was in his 26th season as a Major League Baseball umpire has been axed, The Post has learned. At the time of his firing on...
VISITING BRAVOS JUST WHAT AMAZIN'S NEED
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amWELCOME to October in June. Now that the Mets have gotten one of the most dreadful games in a most dreadful season out of their system, they can get down...
BRASH BENITEZ IS ONE STAND-UP GUY
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Franco can keep the "C." But in hockey terms, Armando Benitez may soon be in line for an "A." On Monday, the Mets closer stood up for Timo Perez...
PAYTON HEADING SOUTH FOR REHAB ASSIGNMENT
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Jay Payton, on the disabled list since May 8 with a strained right hamstring, took batting practice indoors before last night's game with the Expos. Today, he will...
GOOSE A HERO FOR EVERYMAN - MORE 'HUMAN' THAN TIGER
June 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE marketing whizzes insist Tiger Woods appeals to everybody for myriad reasons. That's why they love having him pitch their products. He's single and by all accounts unattached. This makes...