August 11, 2001
ROMANCING ROTH: SONY WAITS TO NAME JOE CHAIRMAN
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amHollywood hit-maker Joe Roth is a step closer to taking the helm of Sony Pictures' struggling studio. Roth, who as an independent has been making all of Julia Roberts' and...
UP TO 1,000 JOB CUTS ARE EXPECTED AT AOL
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amSteve Case and Gerry Levin are revving up their chainsaws. Reports say AOL Time Warner is gearing up for a round of aggressive staffing cuts, as the media megacorp strains...
NASDAQ DELAYS REVENUE REPORT
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amUpstart Nasdaq Stock Exchange delayed releasing its revenue report to the public until Aug. 20 to make sure they have their accounting ground rules set with the Securities and Exchange...
PRINCE JEFRI'S ROYAL RUMMAGE SALE
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amIt's a one-of-a-kind garage sale for the rich and famous. The remnants of a $16 billion spending spree by Brunei's skirt-chasing Prince Jefri are going on the auction block today...
TAME INFLATION BOOSTS STOCKS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe Dow rocketed 117 yesterday as more economic data locked in optimism that the Fed will cut rates again. And Wall Streeters are predicting a market rally next week. The...
DR. DAN'S PRESCRIPTION: RATHER'S RX: CBS ANCHOR DAN RATHER SAYS READING "ONE NEWSPAPER A DAY" IS THE BEST MEDICINE.
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amSHOOT-from-the hip Dan Rather shocked viewers Thursday night by suggesting they read a newspaper to get more detailed information than what CBS News could offer. The subject was President George...
KATIE IN WAITING: COMPETITORS WOO COURIC WITH BIG-BUCKS OFFERS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00am'TODAY" show co-host Katie Couric is being wooed heavily by competitors - one of whom reportedly spent $100,000 trying to recruit her. Couric's NBC contract expires next May, and there's...
THE 'NAKED' TRUTH: VERY LITTLE BARED IN STAGE SHOCKER
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amJACQUELINE Linke thrilled them in Sydney, wowed 'em in Edinburgh - and scandalized 'em in Dublin, inspiring the headlines "Sex Play Leads to a Walkout" and "Sex-Storm Actress Gets Death...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amKnowledge divas, don't leave the table kicking, screaming and breaking plates. Take a deep breath, inhale these facts and be a dinner table deb. A STAR IS WORN The release...
THIS SORBET'S A SURE BET
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amHot enough for ya? While this weekend is supposed to be slightly less blistering than a boil on the butt of a demon in Hades, it's not time to turn...
FAR OUT - IT'S THE FRINGE! QUIRKY THEATER THAT'S FIT FOR KIDS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amBears that turn into witches and back again; a man possessed by the spirit of a ventriloquist; a look at the friendship that inspired "Alice in Wonderland." That's just some...
TV COMIC DREW IN HOSP FOR HEART ILLS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Buzz-cut comic heavyweight Drew Carey yesterday underwent a procedure to relieve a painful blockage in a coronary artery, his spokeswoman said. The angioplasty and insertion of a...
GORE'S FUZZY FUTURE: BEARDED AL PONDERS ANOTHER RUN FOR PREZ
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - At least for the moment, wife Tipper insists Al Gore is keeping his new beard - the patchy gray one that has the political world buzzing. "The beard...
TEACHER COPS PLEA IN STUDENT-SEX CASE
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Queens high-school teacher who was charged with having sex with one of his students was sentenced to five years of probation yesterday as part of a plea deal. Mark...
GOOD SAM 'KILLERS' WERE READY TO PARTY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe trio of carjackers charged with killing a good Samaritan after he gave them a ride were on their way to New York from Philadelphia to "party" with an unidentified...
GIRL, 14, FOUND DANCING AT L.I. STRIP CLUB
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe owner of a Long Island strip joint has been arrested and charged with having a 14-year-old girl dancing topless at his club. The teen is a runaway from Florida,...
GOV DECLARES HIS INDEPENDENCE
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI is lending his name to promote the Independence Party of Manhattan, even while expressing "serious concerns" about controversial party leader Lenora Fulani. Pataki is listed as a "special...
INTERN'S MOM FORMS GROUP FOR FAMILIES
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe mother of missing intern Chandra Levy yesterday joined with family members of other missing people to form a new support group. On Day 101 of her 24-year-old daughter's mysterious...
DAN'S A COLLEGE MAN - AT 11
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amDanny Zhu - an 11-year-old math whiz kid from Queens who aced the high-school math Regents exams - will be permitted to go to college this fall, the Board of...
DRUG-TAINT RABBI GETS FOUR YEARS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn rabbi who endangered thousands of lives by selling $4.1 million worth of contaminated fertility and Parkinson's disease drugs to pharmacies was slapped with a four-year prison sentence yesterday....
CARMINE'S ARSON-PLOT PLEA DEAL GETS WHACKED
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amPlea negotiations between federal prosecutors and lawyers for John Gotti's son-in-law Carmine Agnello have broken down - and Agnello is now preparing to face off against the government at trial...
COURT: PERMIT ART WITHOUT PERMIT
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amIn a victory for street artists, a federal appeals court has upheld a Supreme Court ruling that they don't need a permit to sell their wares in the Big Apple....
COPS: BX. WIFE HAD 'HIT' MEN KILL HUBBY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Board of Education secretarial temp was arrested for putting out a successful "hit" on her husband, cops said. William Rodriguez Jr., 37, an ex-Transit Authority employee and father of...
ISRAELIS NAB BOMBER : DESTROY PLO HQ AS PIZZERIA VICTIMS LAID TO REST
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli security arrested a second would-be suicide bomber and searched for others yesterday as the victims of Thursday's horrific terrorist blast in a Jerusalem restaurant were buried. Tight-lipped...
LEVY HIRES A PRO TO FIX BLDG. WOE$
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday hired a veteran building expert to fix the mess that caused a $2.8 billion shortfall in the Board of Education's school-construction program. Former city Buildings...
POLL BOLSTERS BUSH'S STEM-CELL DECISION
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Americans back President Bush's decision to OK limited stem-cell research by a decisive 2-1 ratio, according to the first poll yesterday after his nationally televised speech. Bush was...
LIL' PALS IN BIG TROUBLE: COPS: RAPPERS SHOT MAN FOR TALKING LOUDLY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThree of raunchy rapper Lil' Kim's posse, including the cousin of the slain Biggie Smalls, were arrested yesterday on charges of firing a barrage of bullets at a stranger who...
IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL FOR THE FORMER VEEP
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amAl Gore gets back in action today when he teaches a seminar in politics at Vanderbilt University in his home state of Tennessee. On Monday, Gore also will launch a...
COPS GRILL SUSPECT IN SANIT-MAN SLAY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amPolice were still questioning a suspect last night in the murder of a Sanitation Department worker. The 25-year-old man was grilled by cops after he was picked up in the...
TEEN DROWNS TAKING MIDNIGHT DIP
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amA 16-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy trying to escape the heat drowned after climbing a fence to go for a moonlight swim in a locked city pool, cops said. Andre Kashon Parker,...
MIKE SETS MARK WITH $9M BLITZ
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amMedia mogul Mike Bloomberg spent an eye-popping $9 million in the past 25 days in his self-financed City Hall bid - setting a record for a citywide race, records released...
WHAT A RELIEF! BAKED APPLE IS COOL PLACE AGAIN
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe burnt Big Apple finally came out of the oven yesterday after thunderstorms made temperatures dive 16 degrees in one hour and took the heat off soaring demands for power....
W. NILE CASE SPURS S.I. SPRAYING
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe city will start spraying pesticides on the North Shore of Staten Island tomorrow night after a 73-year-old resident was believed to be infected with West Nile virus. It marked...
B'KLYN TOT FAINTS IN HOT CAR
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mother on a shopping trip left her 2-year-old son in the car in the sweltering heat for almost an hour yesterday afternoon, rendering the child unconscious, police said....
PFIZER TRIO PILL-FERED VIAGRA: FEDS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThree Brooklyn Pfizer workers are facing stiff sentences on charges they've been swiping Viagra pills and selling them in bulk - by the thousands - for a dollar a pop,...
HEART WOES PUT GOTTI IN GRAVE CONDITION
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amVomiting and heart trouble prompted prison officials to move cancer-stricken crime boss John Gotti to a Missouri hospital, friends and a lawyer for the Dapper Don said. Gotti's heart woes...
VICTIMS' AUNT HAS PITY FOR DWI COP
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amZuny Pena, who lost her nieces Maria and Dilcia when they were run down by accused DWI cop Joseph Gray, decided to stay away from yesterday's rancorous rally at Brooklyn...
CITY CHEERS ON 'BABY BOMBERS'
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amNew York City is rallying behind The Bronx's own Rolando Paulino All-Stars today as they make another run at the Little League World Series. If the Bronx Baby Bombers win...
NEW YORK POST FROM AUG. 11, 1977
August 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Son of Sam's Own Story" was The Post's headline on an account of what David Berkowitz told police following his arrest. "For a full year, the .44-caliber killer prowled New...
CHINA PLOTTED TO SWAY '96 VOTE: PANEL
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - China had a secret plan to influence the 1996 election by funding sympathetic candidates, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a report issued yesterday. "The plan was an...
DUBYA IN TEXAS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush stayed mostly out of sight on his ranch in Crawford, Texas on Vacation Day 7 after his big speech on stem-cell research, but he gave an interview to...
AS USUAL, A DREARY EXHIBITION
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amFOXBORO - Good news for the Giants: They lost a pre-season game last night. Can a grand season be far behind? They went 0-4 in these practice games a year...
WILLIAMS' PUNTS GIVE JINTS HOPE
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amFOXBORO - Backed up in his own end zone, punting into the wind, Rodney Williams was in a tough situation early in the fourth quarter last night. What followed may...
TARNISHED FINISH: METS BLOW CHANCE TO GAIN ON BRAVES
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amLike a game of telephone, the first-place Braves' loss last night traveled from ear-to-ear in the Mets' dugout. There were small discussions on how a victory would cut the Mets'...
PIAZZA ABOUT TO CATCH CARTER
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES With Gary Carter headed for the Mets' Hall of Fame tomorrow, it seems only fitting that Mike Piazza is about to tie Carter on the all-time catchers' list...
MLB'S DECISIONS PUZZLING TO BOMBERS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Ted Lilly's suspension wasn't the only situation that had the Yankees arching their eyebrows. Having been denied permission - with Scott Brosius during the 1999 penant race and...
A'S WALK OVER YANKEES: LILLY, WITASICK LOSE CONTROL IN BLOWOUT
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The way Ted Lilly pitched last night he shouldn't be suspended. He should be demoted. Starting against the A's after he appealed a six-game suspension handed out by...
JETS UNVEIL HERMAN WARFARE
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amHerman Edwards knows exactly how he'll feel on the inside once he takes his place on the home sideline early this evening at Giants Stadium for the Jets' preseason opener...
JETS SEEK A RETURN TO GLORY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amPunt returner continues to be one of the most compelling positions on the Jets in terms of who'll end up handling the work. With No. 1 pick Santana Moss shelved...
FARIA A BUDDING METROSTAR
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amAlong a path that has been filled with detours, MetroStars' forward Rodrigo Faria has landed in the MLS. Born in Rio, Faria grew up on the soccer field. He played...
'SWORD' GOING SOFT
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The ear-splitting thunderstorms that blew through the Old Spa on Thursday night, dumping an inch of rain on the track, forced yesterday's three grass races to the...
KNICKS ADD ANDERSON, EISLEY IN RICE SWAP
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amJust call them the New York Jazz. It remains to be seen what kind of music the new Knicks will produce, but they are a more interesting team on this...
KNICKS JAZZING UP THEIR ACT : RICE DEALT FOR ANDERSON, EISLEY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amJust call them the New York Jazz. It remains to be seen what kind of music the new Knicks will make, but the club acquired two players more in tune...
JOE JUMPS ON CHUCK WAGON - KNOBBY IS TORRE'S PRIME CHOICE IN LEFT
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Chuck Knoblauch is Joe Torre's first choice to play left field every day. However, if Knoblauch doesn't start to produce, Torre isn't going to stick with Knoblauch simply...
YANKS OBJECT TO LILLY BAN - ROBBY RULING HANGS OVER START VS. A'S
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND -- When Ted Lilly took the Coliseum mound last night trying to cool the sizzling A's, the entire Yankee organization was still indignant about the lefty being suspended for...
PATS GET BACK TO BUSINESS
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES FOXBORO - For the Patriots, last night's preseason opener against the Giants was a welcome return to football after a harrowing, troubling and mournful start to this summer's...
FRANCO'S LEFT ELBOW GOOD TO GO
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Through the rain, Bobby Valentine watched John Franco warming up before last night's game, wanting to make sure the setup man's left elbow was OK. Valentine, who held...
'73 RUN AMAZIN' MEMORY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe optimism is guarded, which is probably how it is before most miracles. It was that way in 1973, no matter if more than 20 years of hindsight tell a...
TIME FOR GIANT ROOKIES TO START PLAYING GAMES
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amFOXBORO - Heading into last night's preseason opener against the Patriots, the Giants were anxious to take a look at several of their young players, specifically their seven draft picks....
GIVEN A CHANCE, COOPER PRODUCES
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe scene had played out many times this season. A Liberty practice would end and everyone would tell Camille Cooper how well she had done. The 6-foot-3 Cooper routinely displayed...
WAKEUP CALL SAVES LIBERTY
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amLiberty 77 - Miracle 67 For one half last night, the Liberty looked like a team ready to fall hard. Down by 11 to Orlando and playing no defense, Vickie...