August 13, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amWITH Time Inc.'s recent bagging of IPC Publishing, home of the original "laddie" mag, Loaded, that already-crowded niche just might get more crowded. How do the various versions of the...
AOL-AT&T SPOILER: COMCAST, MICROSOFT PLOTTING STRATEGY
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amFaced with the prospect that AOL Time Warner might walk away with AT&T's cable business, Comcast and Microsoft huddled last week to talk strategy, The Post has learned. Top executives...
ATHENA PLANS CONDOS FOR LIBERTY BLDG.
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amAlfred Taubman and his son-in-law Louis Dubin are drawing up preliminary plans that call for construction of 25 to 30 condominiums at their new Liberty Building between 64th and 65th...
HEARST'S HEAVE-HO GALA
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amHEARST top brass swung the ax last week, firing as many as 50 people, according to sources - then convened for rooftop margaritas at the Manhattan home of Hearst Magazines...
'SEAGULL' SOARS IN THE PARK
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE actress visiting her brother's country estate may be middle-aged, but she's vain as a peacock, trim and taut and beautiful. "The reason I'm in this remarkable state of preservation...
NETWORK EXEC'S FIDEL FALLOUT
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amIN a scandal David Letterman may dub "Stupid CBS Boss Tricks," the feds plan to quiz network president Les Moonves about a private trip he took to Cuba for dinner...
STARR REPORT
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSpade billboard a 'Just' cause Get ready to see David Spade like you've never seen him before - and aren't likely to see ever again. The "Just Shoot Me" star...
ADDICTION AFFLICTION
August 13, 2001 | 4:00am"Iyanla" 12:30 a.m. tonight on WABC/Ch. 7 I woke up one day a few years ago, and TV had turned into a 1970s encounter group. Suddenly, there was a TV...
TURNER MAY 'GRADUATE' AU NATUREL TO B'WAY
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amKATHLEEN Turner may be bringing her full monty act to the Great White Way.The sizzling Hollywood actress - who caused a sensation in London last year by taking off her...
'DISTRICT' HAS CHANDRA PLOT
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amCBS is turning Chandra Levy's disappearance into a plot line for its D.C. cop show, "The District." The upcoming (Aug. 18) issue of TV Guide reports that the show's season...
RATS GALORE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHOSE rats that made "Fear Factor" a hit are coming back - in a movie about the rats under New York City. Such is stardom. Fox's "The Rats" - a...
IS TONY GETTING TOO BIG FOR TV?
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amTHE world has become an oyster for "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini - albeit one with cable TV-flavored cocktail sauce on the side. While Gandolfini, 39, enjoys his immense popularity and...
A GIG OF HER OWN: SWEETHEART OF THE RADIO TAKES CENTER STAGE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amYOU may have heard Laura Cantrell on the radio - playing other people's music instead of her own.The Nashville native has been a radio sweetheart since the late 1980s, when...
THANK HEAVENS FOR THE NEW ELLEGIRL: ELLE MAGAZINE'S LITTLE SISTER IS QUIRKY, CUTE AND QUITE INTERNATIONAL
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amWith it's funky neon cover and famous young covergirl, ELLEgirl looks like a typical teen fashion magazine. Yes: It has the pre-requisite team of cool teen stars talking about their...
IT'S A MAG, MAG, MAG, MAG MONTH: THE POST'S CHEATER'S GUIDE TO THE SEPTEMBER ISSUES OF FASHION'S BIG FOUR: W, VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZARRE AND ELLE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSOME people count the days until Christmas. But those of us who love clothes wait impatiently for the mid-August day when the September issue of Vogue arrives. The most wonderful...
HEY, GUYS, BE CAREFUL WITH SEXY 'SOPRANO'
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amLook at this photo at your own risk - it's Tony Soprano's red-hot daughter stripped down to the bare essentials! And we're not kidding about the warning, because sexy Jamie-Lynn...
MCCALL A FIRST-CLASS FLIER, TOO: 18G IN FARES FOR 'AIR PATAKI' CRITIC
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSTATE Comptroller Carl McCall, who has repeatedly blasted Gov. Pataki for costly air travel, has spent more than $18,500 on premium air fares for official travel since 1998, The Post...
HERMIT'S FUNERAL FOR A FEW HE KNEW
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amMysterious sausage-and-eggs hermit Irwin Rose was a dealmaker with scores of pals in finance, art and music - but just nine people watched yesterday as his plain pine casket was...
KATE MOSS TO WED MAGAZINE EDITOR
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amKate is gathering no Moss in the romance department - the reed-thin supermodel has told friends she's going to wed boyfriend Jefferson Hack and start a family, it was reported...
W. UNYIELDING ON STEM-CELL LIMIT: TOP AIDE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush has drawn his line at limited federal funding for stem-cell research and won't go further, even if there are scientific breakthroughs down the road, a key adviser said...
WHAT WE NEED IS A CURE FOR THESE MAD SCIENTISTS
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amI KNOW as much about biochemistry as I do about alligator wrestling, and I suspect that Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is similarly challenged. And yet here he has been...
RED WHINE ALTERS BATHING-BEAUTY ACT
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amWHO even knew she was alive? That's what the performers at Coney Island's "Burlesque at the Beach" show were asking after they received a letter the other day, demanding that...
GOTTI GIRL'S SAD CHOICE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSPRINGFIELD, Mo. - John Gotti's oldest daughter is paying the painful - and heartbreaking - price of braving a serious medical condition so she could rush to the side of...
U.S. EMBARGO HELPS CASTRO
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amDAVID works hard five days a week to break the law. He spends 40-plus hours on his feet in a factory so he can violate the U.S. embargo of Cuba...
HEAT WAVE KILLED 4 IN CITY
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amFour New Yorkers died as a result of last week's blazing, record-setting heat, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday. The victims - a 57-year-old man and two women, 76 and...
SEA HUNT FOR GLENN MILLER'S PLANE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amDivers are planning an ambitious deep-sea expedition to locate the remains of jazz legend Glenn Miller, whose plane crashed over the English Channel in 1944. The famed bandleader was declared...
SEC'Y, HUBBY FACE CHARGES TODAY IN ERASABLE-INK CASE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amAnamarie Giambrone, the quiet Queens secretary who allegedly made off with almost a million bucks from her Wall Street boss by using erasable ink on checks, is expected to be...
COPS: 'LEAD'-FOOTED THIEF SHOOTS HIMSELF
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amA gun-toting thug got shot in the foot when a livery cabby resisted a robbery attempt in Queens, police said. Cops said Damien Vernon, 19, approached a Red Carpet Car...
FATAL PLUNGE OFF THROGS NECK
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amFor the second time in less than two weeks, a man jumped off the Throgs Neck Bridge yesterday, but this time, the results were tragic, police said. The unidentified 32-year-old...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM FROM AUG. 13, 1936
August 13, 2001 | 4:00am"In victorias and surreys, hansoms and barouches, buggies and tally-hos, a gay delegation of New Yorkers clad in the raiment and - in, the cases of the men - the...
L.I. PAIR HELD IN WEB GIRL'S KIDNAP AND RAPE ORDEAL
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Massachusetts girl was raped and held against her will for a week by a Long Island man and woman she met on the Internet, police said yesterday. The...
FINALLY! CONDIT RESPONDS ; VOWS EXPLANATION AMID CALLS TO QUIT
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amRep. Gary Condit broke his silence yesterday after two newspapers called for his resignation - insisting he cooperated with the investigation into intern Chandra Levy's disappearance and promising he'll explain...
HOMELESS SITES HAVE 'MOB' LINK
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amNearly a quarter of the apartments the Giuliani administration rents for emergency homeless housing are owned by a Brooklyn man indicted on bribery charges with members of three New York...
L.I. LAWYER MAKES A FACE AND BLOWS HER CASE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amChristina Gulotta has a face that can stop a trial - and did. Suffolk State Supreme Court Justice James Catterson declared a mistrial in a medical malpractice case the Long...
4 DIE IN FIERY CRASH: COP RESCUES KID IN N.J. CAR HORROR
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amAn SUV driven by a Queens man collided head-on with a Jeep on the Garden State Parkway yesterday, killing him and three other people in a fiery crash. But a...
'BALDIE' HEADS GENOVESES
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amA little-known, 50-year- old mob boss from Staten Island has the reins of the Genovese crime family, the nation's most powerful, The Post has learned. Al "Baldie" Longo took over...
FUNERALS SET TODAY FOR CRASH VICTIMS
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was bracing for a tear-filled day of funerals after learning that the bodies of five vacationers killed in a Grand Canyon helicopter crash were...
PRIMARY FOCUS: WHAT EACH MAN MUST DO
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amWAKE up, New York! One of the biggest days in the city's political life is coming up real quick - Primary Day is only one month from tomorrow, just in...
SEA HUNT FOR GLENN MILLER PLANE IS SET
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amDivers are planning an ambitious deep-sea expedition to locate the remains of jazz legend Glenn Miller, whose plane crashed over the English Channel in 1944. The famed bandleader was declared...
S.I. 'BALDY' IS HEAD OF TOP U.S. CRIME FAMILY
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amA little-known, 50-year- old mob boss from Staten Island has the reins of the Genovese crime family, the nation's most powerful. Al "Baldy" Longo has been running the sprawling Genovese...
CRASH KIN'S ANGUISH : STILL AWAIT BODIES OF NYERS ON TRAGIC TOUR
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amThe relatives of the five Brooklynites killed in a Grand Canyon helicopter crash waited in agony yesterday for the bodies to be flown home so they could receive the prompt...
COPS: 'LEAD'-FOOTED CAB THIEF SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE TOOTSIE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amA gun-toting thug got shot in the foot when a livery cabby resisted a robbery attempt in Queens, police said. Cops said Damien Vernon, 19, approached a Red Carpet Car...
BRUTAL HEAT KILLED FOUR IN THE CITY
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amFour New Yorkers died from last week's blazing, record-setting heat, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday. The victims - a 57-year-old Manhattan man, an 80-year-old Manhattan woman, a 76-year-old Manhattan...
NOT AGAIN! COPYCAT BOMBER MAIMS 20 IN ISRAEL SUICIDE BLAST
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A suicide bomber walked into an Israeli café yesterday, shouted, "God is great!" and lit a fuse strapped to his body - blowing himself to smithereens and wounding...
DUBYA IN TEXAS
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amOn Vacation Day 9, President Bush and wife Laura emerged from their Texas ranch to go to church in nearby Crawford, where the sermon featured the summer flick "Planet of...
JUST 'COASTING': JETS VOW TO OPEN UP OFFENSE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSo, you're one of those rabid Jets fans who was antsy to see some flashes of firepower out of the new "West Coast" offense as the Herman Edwards Jets were...
CH. 9 OUTFOXES ITSELF
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amEVER hear of a reverse shmoo? A reverse shmoo is a self-inflicted double-cross, when, by trying to be a wiseguy, you mostly victimize yourself. TV has become practiced at performing...
CARTER'S HALL OF A DAD, TOO
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSHE is The Kid's Kid, no doubt about it. The Living In The Past Mets honored Gary Carter yesterday in a touching ceremony before yet another dreary loss, 4-1 to...
LIMELIGHT? NO, THANKS!: PETITGOUT HAPPY TO BE UNNOTICED
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - As he was approached yesterday for an interview, Luke Petitgout at first was surprised, but then broke into a knowing smile. Oh, yeah, he heard the remarks about...
IT'S ALL OR NOTHING FOR BIG MAC (.192)
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amIn golf, they would say Mark McGwire doesn't have a short game. But in golf, you don't get points for hitting the ball off the course. In baseball, you do....
BAILEY OPENS UP LEAD ON VELAZQUEZ
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - After the first two weeks at the Old Spa, perennial leading rider Jerry Bailey and young John Velazquez, who topped the standings at Belmont Park, were dead-heated...
CASHIER'S A REAL DREAM FOR ASMUSSEN AND MECHE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Before this meet began, neither trainer Steve Asmussen nor stable rider Don Meche - both regulars on the Midwest circuit - had ever been to the Old...
BROOM WITH A PEW! METS STINK UP SHEA AS REDBIRDS SWEEP
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amCardinals 4 Mets 1 On a wet, gray afternoon in Flushing that was as dreary as the Mets' season, St. Louis demonstrated just how far the NL champs have fallen....
BIG BLUE'S SERIOUS TONE CALMS DOWN IRKED FASSEL
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Jim Fassel started yesterday's morning team meeting with a warning. "I told them I was going to be up their [butt] if they walked through stuff," Fassel said....
LAWTON STARTING TO FEEL AT HOME
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amBeing traded to the Mets was the hardest thing that Matt Lawton's ever been through. "I felt like a fish out of water," Lawton said yesterday after providing the Mets...
GARY HANDLES PIAZZA WITH KID GLOVES
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amPerhaps it was a compliment that went awry, but considering Gary Carter's past statements about Mike Piazza, one never knows. Carter said he admires the work Piazza has done on...
SLOW START MEANS 'L' FOR CHEN
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amIt's hard to imagine Bruce Chen having a worse start to his afternoon than in yesterday's 4-1 loss to St. Louis. What was impressive was the way he rebounded. Chen...
GORDON ALL SET TO MAKE RETURN
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amIt seems the Jets can wait no longer for a punt returner emerge from their roster. Though Herman Edwards would not yet commit to saying he's ready to sign someone,...
CHAVEZ WASTES NO TIME
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - After missing races Saturday due to bruised knee, Jorge Chavez made a successful return in openerto as he guided Max O Max to front-running score. Fortunate Streak...
A'S SWEEP BOMBERS ON GIAMBI HE IN 9TH
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Jason Giambi doesn't want the Yankees in October. Based on Giambi's swashbuckling A's sweeping three from the Yankees, that would be cool with The Bombers. "They know how...
EL DUQUE CLOSES IN ON RETURN
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Yankees firmly believe they have the pitcher to fortify the back of their rotation, an area that has been taking a pounding lately. If everything goes well...
MOOSE GIVES UP TWO TOO MUCH
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amOAKLAND - If that old sports sage Bill Parcells is believed, Mike Mussina is a whisker above mediocrity. "You are what your record says you are," was Tuna's mantra when...
KNOBBY'S BACK, BUT FUNK JUST GETS WORSE
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Even though Derek Jeter went 4-for-5 with a homer hitting leadoff in Saturday's 8-6 loss to the A's, Joe Torre moved the shortstop into his usual...
JOEL SHERMAN'S PLAYOFF DERBY
August 13, 2001 | 4:00amSecond of two parts With more than a quarter season still to go, all three NL divisions and the wild card are in play. There is no Seattle-like runaway in...