August 16, 2001
INTEL PRICE CUTS SHOW CHIP INDUSTRY SLUMP
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amIS Intel really going to shake up the semiconductor industry this month with massive price cuts? Actually the shaking has already begun, although Wall Street and the media seems oblivious...
HEF'S BUNNYWOOD DEAL: PUBLISHED WORKS GET NEW LIFE ON BIG SCREEN
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amPlayboy has signed a deal to produce major motion pictures based on stories from its nearly half-century of celebrated fiction. The flicks will be in the budget range of $25...
THE FIRM DROPS SUIT AGAINST SILLERMAN; RETURNS HIS $25M
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amEntertainment entrepreneur Bob Sillerman yesterday won a nasty legal tussle with Hollywood music managers, who called him a cheapskate. The squabble started eight months ago, when Sillerman did a deal...
EGGHEAD.COM GETS FRY'D: RETAILER FOLDS, SELLS ASSETS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amYou can't make a New Economy without breaking a few eggs - and Egghead.com hit the concrete hard yesterday. The online retailer of software and peripherals filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
OVITZ PEDDLING ATG TALENT
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amWant to buy a script writer? In a desperate move to save at least some of the writers on the doomed ship of Michael Ovitiz' Artists Television Group, surviving executives...
CRUNCH TV WORKOUTS TO GET UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amCrunch nuts will soon be able to swing their fireman's ax or practice their trapeze arts in the privacy of their own home gyms. The funky health club announced yesterday...
TECH TOCK, TECH TOCK: NASDAQ AT 4-MO. LOW; PROS BRACE FOR MORE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amStocks slid yesterday as investors pounded tech stocks lower for the eighth of nine sessions, sending them to levels unseen since the market's April lows and depressing blue chips in...
JUDGE GIVES GOLDEN BOOKS TO RANDOM
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amIt looks like Random House is taking home the Golden prize. Yesterday, Bertelsmann AG's Random House Inc., in its joint bid with Classic Media, won approval from a federal bankruptcy...
STARR REPORT
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amArmstrong stars in tale of the tapes "Nightline" will air shocking, never-before-heard tapes of jazz great Louis Armstrong expressing his anger over racism - and much, much more - on...
R&B TO THE MAX
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amMAXWELLMaxwell continues his NY7 tour with performances tomorrow at the Roseland Ballroom, Sunday at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Monday at the Beacon Theater, Tuesday at City Center and Aug. 25 at...
LATE-NIGHT CARSON: MTV PERSONALITY WILL TAKE OVER WAY-LATE TALK SHOW FOR NBC
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amMTV star Carson Daly is crossing over to rival network NBC - to host its late-late night interview show, "Later." Daly, who hosts "Total Request Live" on Viacom-owned MTV, will...
THE VIRUS FIGHTERS FEND OFF HACK ATTACKS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSURF'S down! Code Red, Code Red II and even III have hit the corporate world, and the worm SirCam is invading PCs all over. Viruses are wreaking havoc this summer.Surfer...
WAS 'MANHUNT' MANIPULATED?
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amUPN's "Manhunt" is the latest reality show to be accused of rigging, reports reality show gadfly Peter Lance. Senior officials at Paramount Television asked the former executive producer of UPN's...
ROCK & MAGIC ALL MIXED UP
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amWOULDN'T you think that one series about supernatural rockers would be one series more than you need about supernatural rockers? You might think that, but you'd be wrong. In what...
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Bar Belles love New York like no one else - but this time of year, our thoughts stray. With the mercury soaring and an easy-livin' summer vibe pervading the...
WEB WAR ON CONDIT: LEVY PALS USING 'NET TO FORCE RESIGNATION
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A group of Rep. Gary Condit's constituents - led by a lawyer for Chandra Levy's family and using the Internet to spread its message - is organizing a...
COP VAN HITS GIRL IN B'KLYN
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amAn 8-year-old girl was critically injured last night when she was struck by a police van in Brooklyn. The girl, whose name was withheld, was struck on Clarkson Avenue near...
ISRAELIS KILL PLO MILITIA BIG
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian militia leader yesterday in the flashpoint town of Hebron but held off on a threatened seizure of another West Bank village. Undercover soldiers...
REVVING UP THE RACE: GOODBYE, BOREDOM - HELLO, AL
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE jailhouse doors open tomorrow for a slimmer (albeit no less sleek) Al Sharpton - and now the politics of racial grievance should move centerstage in the phlegmatic footrace to...
VA. RACE BARES AL'S WARTS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amVIRGINIA has a hot governor's race this year and Al Gore lives there now - but there are no plans for him to stump for the Democratic candidate, because the...
BRAVEST SAVE 2 IN SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amFirefighters made a daring rescue yesterday after two window-washers were left dangling 10 stories up after the scaffolding on which they were standing gave way. The men were cleaning windows...
PROSECUTED FOR DOING THEIR JOBS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amCOURTROOM 611 was broken by the eerie sound of Steven McDonald's oxygen machine. Steven, a decorated cop, was paralyzed by a punk's bullet in Central Park in 1987. To his...
LONG ON GADGETS, SHORT ON SOLUTIONS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSCHOOLS Chancellor Harold Levy came up with a gimmick that kept principals at their desks during summer training classes: free Palm Pilots. The hand-held electronic gadgets, which people use to...
HEVESI RETURNS MORE TAINTED $$
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Alan Hevesi took $9,000 in contributions from a Chinese-American businessman who conspired to smuggle hundreds of illegal immigrants into the United States, The Post has learned. After being...
SMIRKING SKAKEL TRIES TO KO CASE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSTAMFORD, Conn. - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel appeared to smirk at the family of Martha Moxley yesterday as his lawyers argued to dismiss 25-year-old murder charges against him. Skakel, the...
WEB SITE MAKING CITY ACCOUNTABLE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amA window into the performance of 18 city agencies was thrown open yesterday, with statistics posted on the Internet measuring everything from ambulance response times to pest-control inspections. Mayor Giuliani...
TARTY TEEN AD YANKED BY PENNEY
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amJCPenney has yanked a new TV commercial in which a mom scolds her teen daughter for not dressing provocatively enough. In the back-to-school ad, the girl is shown trying on...
HIGH TIMES AHEAD FOR HOMER SIMPSON & PALS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00am"The Simpsons" is getting ready to really push the envelope this season - with Homer getting hooked on marijuana. The smash Fox sitcom will also take potshots in parodies of...
ONE MORE REASON THE HAMPTONS HATE LIZZIE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE re-creation of the crash at Conscience Point certainly didn't do anything to further endear Lizzie Grubman to the ordinary residents of the bayside area. From about 10 a.m. until...
S.I. IN FOR EVEN MORE SPRAYING
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amCity officials yesterday scheduled an extra round of pesticide spraying on Staten Island after the West Nile virus was confirmed in 24 more mosquito pools collected on Aug. 9 from...
PBA WINS IN BID FOR MEDIATIOR
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Patrolmen's Benevolent Association won another round yesterday in its yearlong contract battle with the city, when the state Public Employment Relations Board named a mediator to settle the bitter...
BOSS' SUIT: SEC'Y SPREAD WEALTH IN INK-ERASE SCAM
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amA secretary who allegedly swindled $800,000 from her Wall Street boss to pay for her husband's pizza parlor also gave other family members a piece of the pie, court papers...
'NEUTRAL' RUDY SURE " MIKE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amRudy really likes Mike. Mayor Giuliani all but shouted his support for Republican mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg yesterday, as the media mogul made a surprise visit to City Hall and...
NEW YORK POST FROM AUG. 16, 1965
August 16, 2001 | 4:00am"Out in Left Field, the Beatles," read The Post's headline as we reported the Fab Four's Shea Stadium performance before 50,000 fans. "The Beatles arrived outside the left-field stands at...
PAULA TO ABE: SHOW ME THE $$
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amPaula Jones, the former Arkansas state worker who sued President Clinton for sex harassment, filed another lawsuit yesterday - this time against imprisoned businessman Abe Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld had publicly promised...
LIPTON HAS BEEF WITH AD
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amI Can't Believe It's a Court Exhibit! That's the likely reaction to a lawsuit filed yesterday by Lipton - the makers of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" - against...
KID'S BIG-LEAGUE FORM: 12-YEAR-OLD PITCHING HERO WOWS YANKEE COACH
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amMel Stottlemyre knows good pitching when he sees it. And the Yankee pitching coach didn't need to see more than a brief replay on TV and a few Post photographs...
TEACHERS BACKING ALAN'S MAYORAL BID
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi got a badly needed boost in his run for mayor yesterday - snagging the coveted endorsement of the city's powerful teachers union. "Our members, very much...
L.I. JURY WEIGHS FATE OF BIAS-BEAT SUSPECT
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amJurors today resume deliberating the fate of a Long Island man accused of beating two Mexican day laborers in what the prosecutor called a case of racial hatred "in its...
LEVY: PLAN ADDS TEACHERS: HE'D SHIFT OFFICE AIDES BACK TO CLASSROOM
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday his plan to shrink the bureaucracy will not only save up to $500 million, but send veteran teachers who now hold cushy administrative jobs...
MEMORY FADES BY YOUR 20S
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amIf you're 20-something and read this story, and then forget about it tomorrow - don't freak out. You're not suffering from early Alzheimer's. Rather, researchers say, people's memories actually start...
CYBERSEX MISTRESS FINGERS FIEND PAL
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amCybermistress Beth Loschin betrayed her sex-fiend boyfriend James Warren and is cooperating with authorities investigating the S&M torture of a runaway teenage girl, sources told The Post. Loschin, 46, is...
WOMAN IN BREAST BUST COULD RACK UP JAIL TIME
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amA woman accused of stealing $6,500 from her boyfriend's mother to get D-cup breast implants was arraigned in Manhattan yesterday on a charge that's just her size - third-degree grand...
2 COPS IN AUTO 'SCAM': PRO WRESTLER ALSO LINKED TO 'DEMOLITION' RIP-OFF
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amTwo crooked cops and a former professional wrestler helped run New York's biggest auto scam, staging crashes to rip off up to $10 million from insurers, investigators charged yesterday. The...
POLICE BRASS IGNORED ME: LOUIMA WITNESS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amA retired police sergeant testified yesterday that he was "haunted" by the conviction of Louima cop Charles Schwarz and that his superiors ignored his claims that a key witness "couldn't...
GETTING THEIR IRISH UP: INSIDE THE ST. PAT'S DAY PARADE WAR
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amEight months on job.Was asked to quit.Called "rotten." When William J. Flynn was hired last December as president of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, it didn't take him long to...
COPS: HS TEACHER SEDUCED 2 TEENS: SHE'S CHARGED WITH NOONTIME OFFICE SEX
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amA 24-year-old Spanish teacher repeatedly had sex with at least two of her male students - one of them at regular trysts in her high-school office - Manhattan prosecutors charged...
AGNELLO TO OK DEAL FOR NINE YEARS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Gotti's son-in-law will accept a nine-year prison term when he pleads guilty today to racketeering, for trying to snuff out competitors of his Queens scrap-metal business, sources close to...
PERV'S SIS WANTS TO TELL VICTIM 'HOW SORRY I AM'
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe sister of accused cybersex fiend James Warren said she wants to tell the 15-year-old girl her brother allegedly abducted, abused and lent out as a sex slave "how sorry...
DOCS SUE HMOS FOR PAYING LATE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThousands of frustrated New York doctors are suing the state's biggest HMOs, saying they often don't get paid and when they do, it's sometimes years late. They also charge the...
FORGET TOTAL RECALL STARTING IN YOUR 20S, RESEARCHERS SAY
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amIf you're 20-something and read this story, and then forget about it tomorrow -don't freak out. You're not suffering an early case of Alzheimer's. Rather, researchers say, people's memories actually...
HORMONE THERAPY BOOSTS BONES: DOCS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe problem of frail bones that is faced by elderly women can be dramatically improved with hormone-replacement therapy, a new study says. The research, published in the Journal of the...
DUBYA IN TEXAS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush spent Vacation Day 12 in three states - he started the morning in Colorado, held events in New Mexico, and returned to his ranch in Texas last night....
HANNIBAL IS NO. 1 H'WOOD VILLAIN
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amDr. Hannibal Lecter has devoured the competition -beating out such bad guys as Norman Bates and Darth Vader for the title of greatest movie villain of all time. The flesh-eating...
PENNEY PULLS AD THAT SHOWS MOM TARTING-UP TEEN
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amJCPenney has yanked a new TV commercial in which a mom scolds her teen daughter for not dressing provocatively enough. In the back-to-school ad, the girl is shown trying on...
RETURN OF THE LIZZIEMOBILE: TRAGIC SUV BACK AT SCENE OF CRIME
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amPolice and prosecutors yesterday re-created Lizzie Grubman's crash outside the trendy Conscience Point Inn, heating up their criminal case against the publicity princess. An attorney for Grubman attended the 3½...
EL DUQUE RETURN PICTURE PERFECT SO FAR
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yesterday was Team Photo Day, and Orlando Hernandez took his rightful place in baseball's version of the class picture. Although El Duque hasn't contributed much this season, he...
CLAY'S NIGHT TO REMEMBER
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amCLAY Bellinger said he couldn't remember the last time he had had a game like this, at any level, which probably means he had never had one before. Then again,...
BAM-TINO CONTINUES TO ERASE DOUBTS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amTino Martinez had a subpar season behind him, a hotshot prospect in the minors below him and the threat of a superstar free agent taking his job this offseason. Few...
SWEET SIXTEEN - ROCKET'S RECORD-SETTING ROLL CONTINUES VS. RAYS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amAt 8:23 p.m., Roger Clemens officially lost his no-hit bid. Nevertheless, The Rocket still etched his name in history last night. With one out in the fifth, the center-field scoreboard...
BENNY FEELS DEMOTED IN OF SHAKEUP
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Bobby Valentine's office door was closed before last night's 2-1 loss to the Padres. Inside sat Jay Payton, Benny Agbayani, Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Joe McEwing....
THE GREAT DEPRESSION: PODS HAND METS FIFTH STRAIGHT LOSS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Jay Payton is understandably upset at the way things are going this year. The Mets' season has been a disaster. His year has been among the most...
SLUGGERS HAVE BIG ADVANTAGE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - Hot, humid weather returned to the Atlanta Athletic Club yesterday, just in time to dry the course for today's opening round. But more hot, dry weather will...
TIGER-DUVAL RIVALRY NEEDS SHOWDOWN
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - It's a rivalry created in print only, thus far. The harder the media has tried to make David Duval the chief threat to Tiger Woods, the more...
THE OLD 'GIVEN' GO: LUKAS SAYS BAFFERT IS HORSIN' AROUND ABOUT TRAVERS START
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The 3-year-old superstar Point Given, who trainer Bob Baffert said Tuesday was "75 percent" to run in the Aug. 25 Travers, is now considered a "go" for...
COLLINS STRETCHING OUT HIS DAILY WORK ROUTINE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amHe was never a lingerer, but now he is. Mark this down as another change in Kerry Collins. Following a practice, Collins rarely if ever remained on the field, but...
RELIEVED HOLMES TO MISS DAYS, NOT WEEKS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES There was relief in the voice of Kenny Holmes yesterday as he described the injury to his right knee. "At first I didn't know, it was just in...
GOLDEN CHANCE AT REDEMPTION: LB STILL LIVING DOWN GAFFE VS. JAGS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amWhenever Michael Strahan or Shaun Williams see Jack Golden, they greet him by saying "Hi Jaguar." Of course, there is a story behind the change in first names. Tonight, when...
LINDROS DEAL DOWN TO DOLLARS & SENSE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rangers are in Eric Endgame. Eric Lindros is already undergoing extensive independent neurological testing to prove to the Rangers that he can still play hockey, and the Rangers are...
JUMP START LOOKS SPECIAL AT OLD SPA
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who over the years has unleashed many fine 2-year-olds in stakes races at the Old Spa, did it again yesterday, saddling Jump Start...
'STORM' LOOKS LIKE A MILLION
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Gus Brown continued his dominance over Saratoga hurdles in opener as he guided Comanche Raider to victory. Brown has won three of five hurdle races at, two...
O-LINE HAS BIG PLANS FOR CURT
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe goal for the Jets' offensive line is simple: Chauffeur Curtis Martin to the NFL lead in rushing yards. "We want to control the line of scrimmage, set the tone,"...
SYKORA RAISE LIKELY TO IRK ELIAS
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe quadruple pay raise the Devils offered Petr Sykora in their salary arbitration case surely will raise the eyebrows of linemate and leading scorer Patrik Elias. A verdict is expected...
HERM GIVES BOOST TO 2-FLAGS FERGIE
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES Reports of Nick Ferguson's demise appear to be premature. Ferguson, the Jets' backup safety, has had a rough few days, beginning with his two unnecessary-roughness penalties for late...
ROCKETS: SPICE RICE WITH PICK
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Glen Rice deal is a bit undercooked for Houston's liking. So the Rockets want the Knicks to add a bit of seasoning - a conditional draft pick, according to...
STICK STIRS IT UP IN SD
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Gene Michael, the Yankees super scout, was on hand last night at the Met-Padre game. The Yankees need a left fielder and San Diego has a few...
IT'S OK DUQUE OR BUST
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amON May 19, Orlando Hernandez pitched perhaps the best game thrown by a Yankee starter all year. In eight innings, Hernandez held the Mariners to one run on four hits....
TURN OF THE BAM-TINO : RESURGENT MARTINEZ CHANGES CRITICS' TUNE WITH LONGBALL
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amTino Martinez had a subpar season behind him, a hot-shot prospect in the minors below him, and the threat of a superstar free agent taking his job this offseason. Few...
EL DUQUE RETURN SEEMS PICTURE PERFECT
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yesterday was Team Photo Day for the Yankees, and Orlando Hernandez took his rightful place in baseball's version of the class picture. Although El Duque hasn't contributed much...
COME BACK, BUBBA : PUNCHLESS METS SURE COULD USE TRAMMELL'S BAT NOW
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Steve Phillips was half right. When he evaluated his offseason Bubba Trammell for Donne Wall trade, the Mets GM said the move would be a better fit...
STOTTLEMYRE LIKES LITTLE STAR'S LOOK
August 16, 2001 | 4:00amMel Stottlemyre knows good pitching when he sees it. And the Yankee pitching coach didn't need to see more than a brief replay on TV and a few Post photographs...