June 25, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSUMMER's got to be more than running out for frappuccino taste tests and sparking rolling blackouts with your new air-conditioner; you're supposed to go outside at some point. But with...
'BLAIR WITCH' LOOKS TO BUY LION'S GATE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amArtisan Entertainment Inc., the producer of the blockbuster movie "The Blair Witch Project," is in talks to buy Canada's Lion's Gate Entertainment Corp. in a deal valued at $100 million...
OFFICES, CHEAP! - SUBLEASES FLOOD REAL ESTATE MARKET
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSublet fever in Manhattan has dumped the equivalent of more than five Empire State Buildings-full of office space on the market, depressing rents and skimming the froth from owners' pockets....
MIRAMAX 1ST ON BLOODBATH
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTINA Brown's Talk Miramax Books is the first publisher to snap up a proposal about the recent royal family bloodbath in the Himalayan mountain kingdom of Nepal. The imprint just...
DAYTIME 'MILLION' LANDS ON CH. 2
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amA daytime verison of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" has been bought by Ch. 2, which will pair it in the afternoons with another runaway game-show hit, "Weakest Link."...
A PEEK AT 'SEX': CREATOR TELLS WHRE SHE WENT FISHING FOR MR. BIG
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHE creator of "Sex and the City" says New York City men who refuse to date anybody but gorgeous fashion models was her major inspiration in creating the show. Candace...
ALLSTARS SLIDE IN FROM THE HILL COUNTRY
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amLUTHER and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars are the sons of roots-rock producer Jim Dickinson, who was so taken with the electric blues from North Mississippi hill country...
STARR REPORT
June 25, 2001 | 4:00am'Division' star decides to splitLela Rochon Fuqua has opted to leave Lifetime's female cop drama "The Division," which will return for a second season in January. A Lifetime spokeswoman confirmed...
RIGHT IN THE FUEHRER'S FACE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amHow does the Cartoon Network deal with ethnic stereotypes in the old cartoons? Sometimes the network withdraws them altogether, as it did earlier this month when it pulled 12 shorts...
IS BROADWAY READY FOR 'URINETOWN'? QUIRKY LITTLE MUSICAL HOPES TO MAKE A BIG SPLASH
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY'VE seen it all in "Hair" and heard it all in "The Vagina Monologues." But will audiences flock to a Broadway musical that hangs on the question, "To pee or...
CAB 'BIG BRO' BRITTANY SURVIVE LIKE COLLEEN IN SHOWBIZ? IT ALL STARTS WITH A MAKEOVER
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN the stylists at Oscar Blondi ask the nose-ringed Brittany Petros how she wants her hair to be, she is vague: "bright, kind of funky, retro, like a purple or...
HERE ARE THE CITY'S BEST-DRESSED WAITRESSES: WITH THEIR NEW DESIGNER UNIFORMS, THESE STYLISH SERVERS ARE TRAY CHIC
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S not enough for a bar or restaurant to have great food and drinks. In order to survive in New York's fickle food scene these days, the joint also has...
GLAM, BAM - THANK YOU, MA'AM!
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAT Leeora Catalan's brand new Shop Noir, everything sparkles. Jewelry and jeans are dotted with rhinestones and sparkling sequins, and even the checkout counter is covered in Swarovski crystals. Rhinestones...
$100 TICKETS? MAMMA MIA!
June 25, 2001 | 4:00am'MAMMA Mia!" has joined "The Producers" in raising its top ticket price to $100. The infectious musical from London that uses the songs of ABBA, "Mamma Mia!" opens at the...
THE FUNGUS THAT FEEDS ON YOUR CDS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amScientists have discovered a new form of fungus that eats compact discs. The fungus attacks the outer edges of the disc, consuming plastic and even aluminum - making the CD...
MCCALL PROBES TAX $$ SPENT TO HYPE PATAKI - TAKES AIM AT 'NONPOLITICAL' AD BLITZ
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSTATE Comptroller Carl McCall has begun a sweeping investigation into how much government money is being spent to promote Gov. Pataki on television and radio. The until-now secret probe involves...
PITT, STOP! JENNIFER FIRST SAID NO TO SEX
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amBrad Pitt had to wait an astounding nine months before bedding his bride-to-be Jennifer Aniston, it was revealed yesterday. The stunning "Friends" star kept saying no to her hunky boyfriend...
STUDY LINKS 'BAD' FOODS TO CANCER
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amOne in three cancers is caused by eating the wrong foods, a new study says. The research, which looked at the lifestyles of more than 500,000 people, confirmed that low...
RARE STONING SENTENCE IN IRANIAN MURDER CASE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAn Iranian court has sentenced a woman to be stoned to death for cheating on her husband and helping her lover murder him. Her lover will receive 100 lashes for...
DOUBLES PARTNER 'FANCIES' ANNA
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amA top female tennis player confessed she'd get hot and heavy with Anna Kournikova in a minute. Barbara Schett - recently voted the sexiest babe in tennis - said of...
PAUL, 59, HAILS VEGGIE VITALITY
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAll you need is vegetables. That's the word from Paul McCartney, who says being vegetarian for the past quarter-century has kept him going strong. The legendary rocker, who turned 59...
CHANDRA LOST HER JOB - CRUSHED WHEN PAL DIDN'T INTERCEDE: REPORT
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amMissing intern Chandra Levy was distraught over suddenly losing a job she loved - and cops are also looking for a missing uncashed check, it emerged yesterday. As the mystery...
TRACK TIES BIND THIS FAMILY
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the 8:08 a.m. No. 6 subway train left Pelham Bay station in The Bronx the other day, unsuspecting passengers took a ride into history. At the train's controls was...
PALESTINIANS GREET OFF-COURSE ISRAELI 'FLIER' WITH OPEN ARMS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAn Israeli paraglider got the shock of his life yesterday when he was blown off course into a Palestinian village - and found himself being cheered and offered food. Adi...
BLOOD-PRESSURE ALERT FOR YOUNG MEN
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amYoung men should be just as concerned about high blood pressure as older men because they're in danger of dying from heart attacks and strokes later in life, a new...
'PATIENTS' A VIRTUE ONLY FOR LEGAL SLIMEBALLS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amVINNY "Mad Dog" Coll would tell his Irish father, who was concerned about the future of his son, that he was in the insurance business. Strictly speaking, this was not...
CAT RX MAY SPUR HIV VACCINE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amA vaccine has been invented to stop the spread of a form of HIV in cats - and scientists believe it proves a human vaccine is possible. Researchers also hope...
'POOR SUBSTITUTE' BLAST MAY MAKE FORD DEFLATE TIRE PLAN
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amStung by a congressional critic, Ford Motor Co. could halt the proposed use of suspect tires as replacements for those Firestone tires already involved in a massive recall, it was...
STEM-CELL RESEARCH MERITS A LOOK: LOTT
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe use of embryonic stem cells in research has great potential to lead to cures in major diseases, the Senate's top Republican said yesterday. "There are some delicate questions here,...
TALIBAN THREATENS U.N. WITH EVICTION
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe United Nations is about to get the boot from its mission in Afghanistan - for not paying the rent. The nation's Taliban rulers have ordered the United Nations out...
ELECTROSHOCK TURNS HILLSIDE TO HELLSIDE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amA WATCHDOG group says mental patients at Hillside Hospital in Queens are being abused - mentally. Since January, about a dozen patients have been coerced into receiving electroshock treatment under...
MOTIVATOR SELF-HELPED HIMSELF TO MY WIFE: EX
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSelf-help guru Tony Robbins' wedding plans are being marred by a furious ex-husband who's claiming the master motivator stole his pretty, blond wife. John Lynch told The Vancouver Sun he...
IT'S A TIDE OF GAY PRIDE - PARADE THRILLS THOUSANDS DESPITE FLOAT MISHAP
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThousands of cheering supporters lined Fifth Avenue to watch drag queens, barely dressed lesbians and a pack of politicians march in celebration of gay pride. The exuberant celebration was marred...
MIKE HEDGES ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAfter marching in yesterday's Gay Pride Parade, mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg said it shouldn't be the government's job to tell people who they can or can't marry. But that's as...
EVEN GOPERS DOUBT DUBYA WOULD VETO DEM HEALTH BILL
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senators from both parties yesterday predicted that President Bush will cave in to Democrats and sign a patients' bill of rights if it's approved by Congress. Despite Bush's...
INVESTORS WATCHING GREENSPAN WITH INTEREST
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amCheaper mortgages and credit cards, a boom in stocks - it's Greenspan gift time again. All eyes are on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan this week in expectation of another...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JUNE 25, 1951
June 25, 2001 | 4:00am"For the benefit of a relatively intimate audience of perhaps 35,000 bug-eyed TV fans, the first commercially sponsored colored television program will be broadcast today. It will be a one-hour...
LOSING FAITH IN THE CLERGY - BRONX PRIEST'S HOLLOW WORDS GLOSS OVER SEX SCANDAL
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHE pastor at St. Simon Stock Church in The Bronx told Mass-goers yesterday that allegations of sex abuse by their former priests was taken "very seriously" from the start. Father...
N.J. PRIMARY GETS FAST & FURIOUS - GOP'S WOULD-BE GOVS GOING DOWN TO WIRE FOR VOTES
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe nasty New Jersey primary battle between Bob Franks and Bret Schundler came down to the homestretch yesterday, as both men jockeyed for votes in the squeaker GOP gubernatorial race....
FIREMAN NABBED IN KID MOLEST
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAn off-duty firefighter was arrested for sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy inside an upper Manhattan doughnut shop, police said yesterday. Douglas Chizmadia, 60, was nabbed inside a Dunkin' Donuts at...
'HIT' SIGN SUITS B'KLYN STADIUM
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amLEAVE it to two fanatical Yankee fans to restore one of the great traditions of Brooklyn baseball. When the Brooklyn Cyclones take the field at their beautiful new stadium for...
NEW SHOCKS ROCK PERU QUAKE TOWNS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAftershocks continued to rock Peru yesterday as rescue workers searched for survivors of Saturday's massive earthquake, which killed dozens and injured hundreds more. The initial quake registered 7.9 on the...
PERU'S CORRUPT SPYMASTER SNARED
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe fugitive Peruvian spymaster accused of running a shadowy empire of arms trafficking, money laundering and extortion has finally been captured. Vladimiro Montesinos - who was the target of a...
GEE, WIZ, THANKS FOR HELPING
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe Post's fund for families of the fallen Astoria firefighters kept growing yesterday, and employees of The Wiz had high hopes for even more contributions in the coming week. Dwayne...
L.I. DRAG RACE LEAVES 2 DEAD
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amA real-life version of the hit drag-racing movie "The Fast and the Furious" was played out on the streets of Long Island yesterday - and ended with two people, including...
S.I. BOMBERS' NEW PARK REAL WINNER
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe Staten Island Yankees gave minor-league baseball fans something to cheer about last night as they christened their gleaming new ballpark with a victory over the Hudson Valley Renegades. "This...
GOTTI PAL'S LIPS SEALED ON SEX CLUB
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amA longtime associate of John A. "Junior" Gotti is following in his footsteps and refusing to testify in the Atlanta Gold Club racketeering case. Federal prosecutors want Craig DePalma, 34,...
S.I. BOMBERS' NEW PARK A REAL BLAST
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe city opened a new page in its baseball history last night with the dedication of a gleaming new ballpark for the Staten Island Yankees. With a blast from the...
FORD MIGHT DEFLATE TIRE PLAN
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amStung by a congressional critic, Ford Motor Co. could halt the proposed use of suspect tires as replacements for those Firestone tires already involved in a massive recall, it was...
DEATH COMES CALLING: TERROR BIG BLOWN UP IN PHONE BOOTH
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amAn exploding pay phone on the West Bank yesterday killed an Islamic militant singled out by Israel as a top terror suspect. Palestinian officials lashed out at Israel for what...
VELAZQUEZ TAKES TWO
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Velazquez, firmly atop the jockeys' standings at the Belmont spring/summer meet, won a pair of races yesterday including the $75,000 Mount Vernon Handicap aboard Truebreadpudding, boosting his score to...
RANGERS DEAL GRAVES TO SHARKS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Time marches on. Now, so does the Rangers' perfect soldier, Adam Graves, to a contending team that gives him a chance to regenerate his career. Rangers GM...
TEDIOUS PACE KILLING GAME
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSOMEDAY the guardian angel that hovers over Major League Baseball - the one that creates new fans while sustaining the old ones - is going to throw its wings into...
BUMPY BACK 9 KEEPS TIGER AT BAY
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe footsteps were growing louder and louder yesterday as Tiger Woods made his way around the front nine. When he made the turn after having shot a crisp, 4-under 32,...
VIJAY CAN'T SNAG THIRD EAGLE AT 9
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amBUICK NOTES Vijay Singh's string of two straight eagles on No. 9 ended yesterday when he hit the trap to the right of the green on the 505-yard uphill par-5....
GARCIA SITS IN BUICK'S DRIVER SEAT
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTiger Woods is not going to win the Buick Classic today. But Sergio Garcia - aka "El Nino" - very well might. And for this tournament, which sold Woods, Woods...
BOMBERS STINK UP FISH TANK; PEN LETS D-RAYS STEAL VICTORY FROM UNDER YANK NOSES
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amDevils Rays 5 Yankees 4 ST. PETERSBURG - The Yankees' season didn't follow the shower water into the drain. However, there wasn't enough liquid in the Tropicana Field bathroom to...
RANGERS LOSE HEART & SOUL
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN Jari Kurri left the Oilers, Scott Thornton was assigned No. 17; when Paul Coffey departed, his No. 7 was handed to Mark Lamb, and when Grant Fuhr boarded the...
IT'S TIME TO TAKE DOWN THE METS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE IS a nice little press room at Shea Stadium. For years, the walls of that room were adorned with 110 pictures of writers who have covered New York baseball,...
YANKS AIN'T DONE DEALIN'
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Nobody believes the Yankees are done dealing after getting Jay Witasick from the Padres Saturday night. George Steinbrenner still craves Jason Giambi and if the...
KARSAY'S QUITE A RELIEF
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amUntil Friday, the Braves' closer had been a racist loudmouth who hated subways and diversity and everything else about New York. Yesterday, the man closing their 8-4 win over the...
RIGGAN WASTES NO TIME ADDING TO LOST CAUSE
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amMaybe it was the whirlwind day Jerrod Riggan was going through. Maybe it was jet lag or lack of sleep. Or maybe it's whatever voodoo Atlanta has on the Met...
LIBERTY GET DOWN & DIRTY
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amLiberty 82 Sparks 69 The Liberty had a simple game plan yesterday, according to Tamika Whitmore. "Los Angeles is the dirtiest team in the league," the forward said. "We decided...
GARCIA'S COMING FAST AND FURIOUS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSERGIO Garcia went to see the "The Fast and the Furious" on the eve of the 66 he shot yesterday in the third round of the Buick Classic at Westchester...
PECA JOINS ISLES' MAKEOVER
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The perpetually recycling Islanders, the NHL's wasteland for seven non-playoff seasons, are suddenly, dramatically, predisposed to competitiveness. For the second time in two days yesterday, they traded...
HOCH, HAYES MAKE MOST OF TRUE LIES
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThere is a common thread between the two closest golfers to Sergio Garcia for today's pushed-back final round of the Buick Classic at Westchester CC. Scott Hoch and J.P. Hayes...
ROCKET PREFERS ALL-STAR HOLIDAY
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Having avoided the disabling leg problems that have plagued him the previous two seasons during the first half, Roger Clemens thinks the Yankees would be better served...
SHEA LOOKING MORE LIKE HOUSE OF PAIN
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHE ONLY meaningful games left for the Mets are the parlor games of figuring out who stays and goes from this dreadful team. The actual games, like yesterday's 8-4 loss...
BRAVES SWEEP MISERABLE METS ON JORDAN HR
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amBraves 8 Mets 4 The Mets were exposed and exploited, getting hit over the head with a broom before the Braves swept them yesterday at Shea. Their 8-4 defeat was...
ATLANTA'S WIN MADE OF STEAL
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Atlanta's Rafael Furcal, who had a career-high four hits yesterday in the Braves' 8-4 win at Shea, sparked a running game that left the Mets catching their breath....
GRAND OPENING FOR S.I. YANKS
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amS.I. Yankees 3 Renegades 1 With a breathtaking view of the Manhattan skyline yet close enough to bustling New York Harbor that you could smell diesel fuel, Richmond County Bank...
S.I. YANKS LOVE NEW HOME
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amThe baseball last night was secondary on Staten Island. With a breathtaking view of the lower Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor, the Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George,...