August 20, 2001
DISNEY DRAWS UP FIFTH AVENUE EXIT PLAN
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMickey Mouse may be joining Bugs Bunny in a hike off Fifth Avenue. Sources tell The Post that Disney execs have been quietly offering its more than 40,000-square-foot flagship store...
EX-HOLLYWOOD REPORTER EDITOR LANDS AT PREMIERE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMovie biz jourmalist Anita Busch has found a new home - at Premiere magazine. The former Hollywood Reporter executive editor will co-write a new column in the celeb-friendly mag. Busch...
ALL EYES ON THE FED : WALL ST. EXPECTS RATE CUT TO BOOST GROWTH
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amAlan Greenspan's stuck again deep in the middle of a stalled economy, and may not offer any miracles tomorrow. But Wall Street is still hoping the Federal Reserve chief will...
HE'S READY TO 'MOBILIZE' HIS MUSICAL TOUR
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amGRANT-LEE Phillips has been roaming the streets of TV's "Gilmore Girls" as the local troubadour. This week, he begins roaming the country, touring behind his new solo album "Mobilize." You...
CITY'S POETS ON MOTION
August 20, 2001 | 4:00am"Taxi Dreams" Tonight at 9 on WNET/Ch. 13 'ON a gambler's chance and astranger's stance in a bidfor my share of the green,I ride the yellow horse onthe concrete course...
2002 ZAGAT SURVEY IS OUT TODAY WITH ALL THE REASONS WHY . . . THEY LOVE NIGHT LIFE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amASIA de Cuba remains "paradise found" for the cosmo crowd, who again voted it their favorite hangout in Zagat's 2002 New York City Nightlife Survey. Swizzle-stick-thin bodies mixed with pretty...
'SURVIVOR' MEETS DINNER THEATER ; TNN LAUNCHES 5 NEW SHOWS - ALL WITH A HILARIOUS TWIST ON TODAY'S REALITY TV CRAZE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amGET ready for reality TV - but with a sense of humor. The National Network (TNN) is rolling out a slate of five shows beginning tonight, all of which will...
STARR REPORT
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amPrice is negotiable as talks continue Dave Price's forced absence from "Good Day New York" hasn't had much effect on the show's ratings. Price has been off the air since...
UPN MAY WELCOME INFESTATION OF AD BUGS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amADVERTISERS and network execs are preparing to drop yet another bomb in their escalating invasion of prime-time TV shows. It's another twist in the ever more devious marketing wars: UPN...
GETTING SNIPPY WITH IT: FIVE DESIGNERS SHRED COUTURE T-SHIRTS - AND TELL YOU HOW TO DO IT AT HOME
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amSOMETIMES a T-shirt isn't just a T-shirt. The shirts pictured here, for example, surely qualify as bona fide works of art. The Post sent a plain white Hanes T-shirt and...
THIS MAGICIAN DECKS ME
August 20, 2001 | 4:00am'WRITE a word on the back of this business card," magician Steve Cohen told me. I chose a word, wrote it down and folded the business card twice. Next, Cohen...
MOLD EYED IN 3 DEATHS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amToxic molds in an East Side housing complex are responsible for at least three deaths in the past two years, court papers charge. The deaths of Troy Lang, 62, Hiram...
DANNY MOM'S HEARTACHE ; TOO POOR TO LEAVE DOMINICAN AND SEE HIM PITCH
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amONE of the first things our hometown pitching ace Danny Almonte did after his perfect game Saturday was call his mother. "Mami, did you see me? Did you see me?"...
ED. CRISIS IS PARENTS, NOT MONEY
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amBEFORE asking a New York City mayoral candidate about the public schools, pack a lunch. They have a lot to say. Too bad it doesn't amount to much. For the...
GOV MAY BE NEAR DEAL ON BUDGET
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amTOP-SECRET talks involving Gov. Pataki and the leaders of the state Legislature have raised the possibility of a breakthrough budget agreement. The talks have progressed so far that Pataki, Senate...
TEACHER DIS-UNION OVER HEVESI NOD
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMany teachers across the city are refusing to march in lockstep with their powerful union, which has endorsed Alan Hevesi for mayor, The Post has found. A survey of rank-and-file...
CHINA KEEPS U.S. UP IN THE AIR
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amChina mysteriously barred a U.S. Navy patrol plane from making a routine landing in Hong Kong, U.S. officials revealed yesterday. The Xinhua News Agency in Beijing quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman...
BUBBA URGED BARAK: HUSH ON RICH PARDON
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amTranscripts of Bill Clinton's discussions of a possible pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich show the then-president cautioned then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to be careful about what he said...
CLINTON QUIETLY TURNS 55
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton spent a quiet first birthday out of office yesterday, celebrating No. 55 in privacy. The former president and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went to church yesterday...
'JESSE'S HEIR' A LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amAL SHARPTON'S waist may have gotten smaller, but his head is just as big. For sheer chutzpah, nothing beats today's kickoff of his exploratory committee for a presidential run. It's...
'PUFFY' SAYS HE'S GOT NO KNIGHTMARES
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amSean "Puffy" Combs claims he's not afraid of arch rival Marion "Suge" Knight now that the Death Row Records head is out of prison. Knight, the godfather of West Coast...
MILLI VANILLI SURVIVOR LANDS PERFECT GIG IN KARAOKE TOUR
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe strange and tragic story of Milli Vanilli just got even weirder. Fabrice Morvan - who was one half of the shamed duo - is staging a comeback by singing...
COPS: B'KLYN CYBER-PERV RAPES TEEN
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amCops arrested a 23-year-old Brooklyn man yesterday who allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old Tennessee girl he met over the Internet. Anthony Vincent, 23, of Bensonhurst, was charged with statutory...
LANDLORD CAN MAKE A KILLING
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side landlord, charged with shooting an elderly tenant to death, is shopping around his Madison Avenue properties in a lease deal that could earn him millions. Louis...
MARILYN MANSON IN WEB RANT TO RIP SEX RAP
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amGoth rocker Marilyn Manson has lashed out at the lurid sex charge against him - insisting prosecutors are using trumped-up allegations to get him behind bars. "This is nothing more...
BUDDIES' TIFF TURNS FATAL
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man arrested yesterday for stabbing a friend to death during an argument had previously served time in prison for killing a man with a knife, police said. Nelson...
REV. RIPS COPOUT ; ANGRY AL CALLS KERIK'S RESIGN REASON 'ABSURD'
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton took to the airwaves last night to slam Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, after The Post revealed that one reason the city's top cop is quitting is...
TWIN HATE CRIMES ROCK NEIGHBORHOOD
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Police Department's Hate Crimes Unit yesterday was investigating a bias incident and a tire-slashing in Crown Heights. Around 9:30 Saturday, residents of a building at 481 Crown St. found...
BOY, 11, NABBED IN COP STABBING
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amPolice yesterday arrested an 11-year-old Brooklyn boy for allegedly stabbing an off-duty cop in the back last week. The attack occurred after Edward Cook, 47, a member of the Yankee...
FUROR OVER GAZA KID DEATHS ; SIDES BLAME EACH OTHER IN VIOLENCE AT MILITANT'S HOME
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel denied Palestinian accusations last night that it fired a rocket into a militant's Gaza Strip house, killing him and his two small children. Hospital officials confirmed that...
VIGIL IN CROWN HEIGHTS ; RESIDENTS RECALL TIME OF DEATH AND RIOTS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amWith solemn vigils and shows of reconciliation, Crown Heights yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of 7-year-old Gavin Cato and the bloody rioting that scarred the city in...
HERO K9S HAVE QUITE A TALE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amTwo lucky sisters and the hero dogs who saved their lives after their car plunged down a mountainside in North Carolina were back home on Staten Island last night. "I...
LITTLER-LEAGUERS CHEER ON THE BIG KIDS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rolando Paulino All-Stars' littlest fans got a taste of the big-time last night - and not even a steady rain that forced their heroes' game to be postponed could...
ATLANTIC CITY HEIST ERUPTS IN VIOLENCE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMost of the action was away from the tables last night at the Trump Taj Mahal casino - the scene of an armed heist, a shooting and a carjacking. The...
NEW YORK POST: FROM AUG. 20, 1866
August 20, 2001 | 4:00am"RECONSTRUCTION," read The Post's headline as we reported on a historic proclamation from Washington, D.C., marking the end of Civil War hostilities: "I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,...
NEIGHBOR ATTACKS HILL'S BRO IN PA. HOME: COPS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother was attacked at the family's summer home in Pennsylvania - and his other brother and a local woman held the assailant for cops. The violence...
VICTIM OF LIZZIE SUV CAN'T GET COMP PAY
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe bouncer whom publicist Lizzie Grubman allegedly called "white trash" before running him down with her SUV is getting insult added to his serious injuries, his lawyer says. The security...
CULTIST NIXES JAIL RELEASE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amA cult leader linked to 14 Florida homicides is refusing to leave prison until the feds let him reconnect with his followers. Yahweh Ben Yahweh - who followers believe is...
DUBYA IN TEXAS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amLife on the ranch passed quietly for President Bush in Texas yesterday, as he marked a 16th quiet day of vacation while prepping for today's trip to a Harley-Davidson factory....
HERO DOGS' NABES PAWS-ITIVELY THRILLED
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amNeighbors of the Staten Island pooches who helped save their owners' lives after their car plunged off a mountainside in North Carolina were anxiously awaiting the return of the courageous...
VIGIL IN CROWN HEIGHTS: RESIDENTS RECALL TIME OF DEATH AND RIOTS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amBlack residents of Crown Heights attended a vigil last night to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of 7-year-old Gavin Cato and the outpouring of anger that resulted in...
CROWN HTS. PEACEMAKERS: 10 YRS. AFTER, VICTIMS' KIN TO MEET
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe families of the two innocent victims in the Crown Heights riots plan to meet for the first time today in a powerful gesture of peace 10 years after the...
36 DEAD IN MINE BLAST
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amA horrific gas explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine killed 36 miners yesterday, and 14 others are still missing. The Emergencies Ministry said the methane-gas blast tore through a shaft...
IRA'S SECRET BOMB TESTS IN COLOMBIA
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Irish Republican Army has been secretly testing a deadly napalm bomb in the jungles of South America. Authorities say an IRA team recently arrested in Colombia had launched "fireball...
TIGER: SLUMP PART OF GAME
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - Tiger Woods, who closed out his defense of the 83rd PGA Championship with an even-par 70 yesterday, shrugged off his mediocre performance this weekend as nothing more...
SHAUN IS BECOMING PICKY ; WILLIAMS' GOAL: MORE INTERCEPTIONS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - He can't help himself. His first instinct is to hit. Hard. To separate the receiver from the ball, and if body parts get battered in the process well,...
LIBERTY CAN'T BLOCK OUT SOL
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 2 Sol 53 Liberty 50 The Liberty were three minutes and 37 seconds away from closing out the Miami Sol in their WNBA Eastern Conference semifinal series yesterday. The...
FRACTURE-PRONE TIKI'S NOT MILKING HIS INJURIES
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - In the span of 10 months, Tiki Barber broke a bone in his left thumb, broke a bone in his right forearm and broke a bone in his...
THRILLS ELUDE TIGER'S FANS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amWE PITY the Tigerized fools who walked out on CBS' PGA Championship coverage, Saturday, because they've been habit-formed to view golf as Tiger Woods or nothing. Out of contention, Woods...
POINT'S TRAVERS HINGES ON WORK
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Point Given will have his final drill at Del Mar this morning for Saturday's Travers Stakes, after which trainer Bob Baffert will decide whether to forge ahead...
FRANKEL HAS A WEEK WORTH REMEMBERING
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - What a weekend - what a week! - it was for trainer Bobby Frankel at the Old Spa. Last Monday, Frankel's 2-year-old filly You won the Adirondack....
EL DUQUE WILL TAKE HILL TOMORROW
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre finally announced when Orlando Hernandez will pitch. He didn't announce whom El Duque will replace in the rotation. Hernandez will start tomorrow night in Texas, filling...
M'S LOSE STARS, NOT GAMES
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amIMAGINE taking Jackie Gleason and Art Carney out of The Honeymooners. Or removing Kobe and Shaq from the Lakers. How about The Beatles minus John, Paul and George? Now, try...
CAMERON'S DAY OUTPACES JUNIOR
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMike Cameron stood by his locker, surrounded by media, wearing a smile brighter than the gold studs in his ears. He'd just gone 4-for-4 - including a grand slam and...
SEATTLE SLAUGHTER ; MIGHTY M'S BATTER ANDY, YANKS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMariners 10 Yankees 2 Aces high, aces low. As much as everyone wanted to hype this weekend series between the Mariners and the Yankees, it was closer to high-stakes poker...
FREE-AGENT DESI SHOULD FIND WORK
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - People are excited about whom the Mets could bring in this offseason. Jason Giambi? Barry Bonds? Chan Ho Park? But they also could lose one...
HALL GETS NEW LIFE WITH JETS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amJohn Hall figured he was a goner after last season. There were many thoughts running through his head as walked out of the Jets' locker room after the end of...
JORDAN'S READY TO TAKE FLIGHT
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amThree months ago, Lamont Jordan took umbrage at being the fifth running back selected in the NFL draft. Today, he's the happiest Jet of them all. "I might have been...
WHAT'S THIS? TOW IN A ROW?
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amMets 6 Dodgers 5 LOS ANGELES - Like an earthquake that tears down a city, the Mets' horrid offense has crushed nearly all the good feelings of last year's National...
YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE THIS TEAM: BRONX STARS PLAY FOR FUN OF IT
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Fans know. They know when a team has personality, when a team is not playing scared. That's what happened here in 1998 at the Little League World...
AS USUAL, PHIL DOES JUST ENOUGH TO LOSE
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - Phil Mickelson couldn't see any silver lining in losing the 83rd PGA Championship yesterday to David Toms, and rightly so. "I'm not going to beat myself up,...
CREW CUTS DOWN STARS
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amCrew 1 MetroStars 0 Not even a 45-minute, extra-man opportunity could help get the Metro- Stars past the Columbus Crew yesterday at Giants Stadium. The MetroStars found themselves outgunned in...
LAYUP A SLAM DUNK ; TOMS TAKES TITLE, DENIES PHIL WITH SAFE PLAY ON 18TH
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - It was easy for David Toms to talk about with the Wanamaker Trophy at his side, a major championship on his resume, and a $936,000 check in...
TOMS EARNS SPOT ON RYDER SQUAD
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK DULUTH, Ga. - By winning the PGA Championship yesterday, David Toms vaulted from 14th place to fifth in the Ryder Cup points standings, assuring himself a spot on the...
TIGER ON TAILSPIN: IT'S PART OF GAME
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - Tiger Woods, who closed out his defense of the 83rd PGA Championship with an even-par 70 yesterday, shrugged off his mediocre performance this weekend as nothing more...
MONTGOMERIE'S DQD FOR BOGUS PAR ON 7TH
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK DULUTH, Ga. - Colin Montgomerie was disqualified from the 83rd PGA Championship yesterday after he signed for a "3" on the par-3 seventh hole when his actual score was...
ANOTHER PHILABUSTER : TOMS TAKES TITLE AS MAJOR HEX HITS MICKELSON AGAIN
August 20, 2001 | 4:00amDULUTH, Ga. - Three more rolls of a golf ball and Phil Mickelson might have won his first major championship. But his slow-rolling birdie putt on the 18th green stopped...