September 10, 2001
BCBG LOOKS TO DIG ITSELF OUT OF CASH CRUNCH
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe show must go on, but at BCBG Max Azria, the seams are beginning to wear thin. Though the fashion house will be putting on an extravagant fashion show under...
WWD.COM AXES EDITORS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amJUST in time for Fashion Week - layoffs of some big names at Fairchild Publications. The president of wwd.com, Rochelle Udell, and the site's editor-in-chief, Stephen Dowdell - a 15-year...
GATES' GAME PLAN ; MICROSOFT PLANS TO WIN WITH NEW XBOX
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amBill Gates is moving in to take over your home with video games. Microsoft is already working on the next generation of its Xbox gaming console. Said to be code-named...
ALL EYES NOW ON CONSUMER SPENDING
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amInvestors will be closely watching economic indicators this week in the wake of a devastating jobs report last Friday that Wall Street fears could tip the nation's economy into recession....
SUCH GOOD 'COMPANY'
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amIF television can come up with an adorable gangster, why not a lovable CIA too? For years, the intelligence agency has had a serious image problem. TV writers searching for...
THE SONGS ARE LUSTY, BUT THE BOOK'S TOO MUSTY
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amGIRL CRAZYAt the Mainstage, 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14 St. Through Sept. 16. Call (212) 362-0713. CONCERT revivals of old musicals come in all shapes and sizes. There's Encores!,...
'MARRIED' NOT MADE IN HEAVEN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amPEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED LONDON - Going to almost any new musical in London is somewhat like attending a Broadway preview - since so many of the shows here eventually...
CLINIC'S RX FOR HO-HUM ; LIVERPOOL BAND HITS TOWN WITH DEBUT CD
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amCLINIC, formed in Liverpool in 1997, slams the United States with its big debut CD, "Internal Wrangler," which updates organ-drenched garage rock with spooky, electronic touches and sounds of breaking...
STARR REPORT
September 10, 2001 | 4:00am'Tenors' return to airwaves - on A&E A&E has snatched "The Three Tenors" away from PBS - and will air their concert from Beijing's Forbidden City on Sunday, Sept. 30...
MAKING OF THE MAYOR
September 10, 2001 | 4:00am"Campaign Confidential: The Men Who Would Be Mayor" Tonight at 8 on WNET/Ch. 13 Confidentially, I don't think Michael Bloomberg's going to make it. Not if he's really like the...
FILMGOING IN MONTREAL TRÈS BIEN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00am'THIS is my 30th movie of the festival," a man sitting behind me at the Cinema Imperial remarked to a companion on the final day of the Montreal World Film...
CANADIAN BOUNTIES ; HOLLYWOOD SENDS ITS BIG GUNS TO TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - You know the fall film season has arrived in earnest when the populace of Toronto, North America's most movie-mad city (with stats to prove it), line up for...
IT'S LADIES' NIGHT: FASHION WEEK'S DESIGNING WOMEN RULE THE RUNWAYS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amAnyone who's felt out of fashion because they won't deign to wear one of the skimpy mini-skirts that are all the rage for fall owes a debt of gratitude to...
IMITATION OF PRESS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe backstage manager's orders were firm. "OK, ladies! No smiling, no hands on hips. You're stars! You're gorgeous! Now get out there!" Pretty typical pre-show backstage talk, except at the...
THREE'S COMPANY AT GENART'S SHOW
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amDesigners Liz Collins, Keanan Duffty and Danenberg/Castro's Rebecca Danenberg and Anthony Castro shared the spotlight at Saturday night's GenArt/Nokia runway show, an annual Fashion Week event that spotlights fledgling fashion...
FERRER FALLOUT COULD KO MCCALL GOV BID
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE's "growing alarm" that Carl McCall's bid to win the Democratic nomination for governor will be harmed by Fernando Ferrer's primary campaign for mayor. Senior state Democrats told The Post...
WHY EVERY CITY DEM SHOULD FEAR FERRER
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amPETER VALLONE may be the best man we've got to fill Rudy Giuliani's loafers - an experienced, moderate, humorous fellow intent on preventing this city from sliding into the sewer....
RICE: PALESTINIANS 'CAN DO MORE' TO END VIOLENCE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, yesterday put the onus on the Palestinians for new Mideast violence and said they "need to do more" to end it....
POLL: GREEN LEADS BY 8
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amA just-completed poll of 1,205 Democrats finds Mark Green with 28 percent of the mayoral primary vote, followed by Fernando Ferrer at 20 percent and Peter Vallone and Alan Hevesi...
ACTOR MATT RUSHES TO AID STRICKEN FAN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amHollywood heartthrob Matthew McConaughey has earned a four-star rave for his real-life heroics after he rushed to the aid of a woman who collapsed at the Toronto Film Festival. During...
CANCER VICTIMS, KIN COPE WELL
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amEncouraging new studies show that cancer sufferers cope with the illness - and their families handle the bad news - better than previously thought. Researchers in the United States and...
HARRY POTTER'S LOST NUDE SCENE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amRed-faced producers had to reshoot a scene in the new "Harry Potter" film after a few extras were accidentally filmed topless. The nudity was found in an aerial shot of...
PROBE RIPS ANDY IN $130M HUD MESS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Federal watchdogs today will testify that Andrew Cuomo's "lax oversight" let crooks loot a housing program for the poor that will now cost taxpayers $130 million to bail...
GRISTEDES PUTS COUNCIL RACE IN THE GROCERY BAG
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the city's biggest supermarket barons is giving special help to first-time City Council candidate Elana Waksal Posner - he's stuffing shoppers' grocery bags with her campaign literature. Gristedes...
VIDEO CAPTURES AALIYAH'S LAST DANCE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amHours before she tragically died in a plane crash, Aaliyah's last carefree moments of dancing and singing were captured on a home video. The amateur video shows Aaliyah with dancers...
NOW THEY START FIGHTING? THE MAYORAL WANNABES BEGIN TO MIX IT UP, TOO LATE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT IF? That's the question raised by the three televised debates conducted yesterday, with the New York mayor's race about to reach its climax. Two of the debates were among...
EX-COP SLAIN IN BRONX
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amAn ex-cop was killed in a push-in robbery attempt in The Bronx yesterday after he fatally shot one of the thugs who attacked him, police said. Michael Brown, 44, was...
CATHOLIC HS STRIKE OK'D
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe teachers union for five city Catholic high schools plans to strike this week - but the exact day is being kept a secret to prevent the archdiocese from replacing...
SOUTER: I JUST MISSED TILTING COURT FOR GORE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter believes he could have swung the court's crucial election ruling in favor of Al Gore if he'd had "one more day," a...
N.Y. SENS.: DOCK AID TO DIPLO-SCOFF NATIONS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amNew York's senators want to cut countries' foreign aid - by the amount of their diplomats' unpaid parking tickets. "This is an issue that drives me, and most New Yorkers,...
JACKO FAINTS AFTER PARTY - WHISKED OUT OF TAVERN ON GREEN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amAn exhausted Michael Jackson collapsed into his handlers' arms as he was about to leave a glittering post-concert party at Tavern on the Green over the weekend, sources told The...
B'KLYN PARENTS: WE'LL SUE TO HALT BOARD OF ED. CUTS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amA group of Brooklyn parents will go to court this week to prevent the Board of Education from slashing programs to close a nearly $200 million budget shortfall. Their lawyer,...
THEIR SLOGAN SHOULD BE: OUR SLOGANS STINK
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWOULD you vote for a man who promises that he's "making a difference"? How about a woman who says she's "on your side" or a guy who claims to have...
BABY IS BORN ON CENTRAL PK. ROCK
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amA baby girl was born in Central Park yesterday and left by her mother on a rock with the umbilical cord still attached, police said. A homeless man saw the...
'SO MUCH OLDER' DYLAN HAS TROUBLE WITH BIO
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe times they are a-changing, but for aging rock pioneer Bob Dylan, so is the past. He can't remember much of it, so he's relying on friends to supply anecdotes...
BADILLO RIPS BLOOMBERG OVER 'GAGS'
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amRepublican mayoral hopeful Herman Badillo yesterday lashed out at primary rival Michael Bloomberg in their only TV debate, charging that insulting jokes attributed to the media mogul prove he's "guilty...
SHOFAR, SO GOOD - TRUMPETS HERALD REBIRTH OF BURNED 1872 SYNAGOGUE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amNew York's oldest synagogue reopened to the sound of shofars yesterday, more than three years after it was gutted by a devastating fire. "For me, it's a microcosm of the...
THE NASTINESS BEHIND, AND AHEAD
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amREMEMBER Fun City? Remember when voices raised in counterfeit anger were certain to get City Hall's undivided attention? No, not the Dinkins years - but way, way back, when John...
DESIGNER HELPED BY HER RICH TRADITION
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amDemocratic fund-raiser and posh Pardongater Denise Rich knows how to throw a party - especially when it comes to her designing daughter, Ilona. Rich yesterday hosted a star-studded gala for...
'SCANDAL' OVER MIKE IS THE REAL JOKE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amREPUBLICAN mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg is a villain who quite obviously should be publicly tarred and feathered. Of course, I am talking about the "outrage" of the so-called "joke-gate scandal"...
SERENA'S SERENITY IN DEFEAT GIVES WAY TO TEARS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWhile walking off the court after her defeat Saturday, Serena Williams put on a brave face. But her stoic mask shattered when she burst into tears in the hallway. Nearly...
RECORD MOB RUSHES NETS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThis year's star-studded U.S. Open smashed all previous attendance records - even before Lleyton Hewitt's stunning defeat of Pete Sampras last night. Last year, the event, which has the highest...
ARAB THUGS KILL SEVEN ON 'BLOODY SUNDAY'
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Israeli defense Cabinet approved stringent West Bank security measures to box in the Palestinian Authority after a wave of three terror attacks left seven Israelis dead and...
'A CITY DIVIDED': VALLONE, FERRER TRADE BARBS OVER RACE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amPeter Vallone made a last-minute lunge at Democratic mayoral foe Fernando Ferrer yesterday, charging that his campaign tactics were "encouraging bigots like Sonny Carson to come out of holes." Trailing...
NEW YORK POST: FROM SEPT. 10, 1924
September 10, 2001 | 4:00am"Chicago - Sentences of life imprisonment for the murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks and 99-years' imprisonment for kidnapping the boy were meted out today to Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and...
OSCAR-WINNER HOPKINS: 'I'M JUST A STUPID ACTOR'
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amIf you see somebody eating human flesh and playing twisted psychological games a la Hannibal Lecter, don't worry - it's "just a stupid actor." That's the word from Anthony Hopkins,...
4 SLAIN IN NEW CALIFORNIA RAMPAGE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe shellshocked city of Sacramento was hit with another grisly massacre over the weekend as a fired security guard allegedly blew away four people, including three co-workers. A massive manhunt...
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT: MINIS GIVE WAY TO MAXIS ON THE RUNWAYS OF FASHON WEEK'S FIRST DAY OF SHOWS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amAnyone who's felt out of fashion because they won't deign to wear one of the skimpy mini-skirts that are all the rage for fall owe a debt of gratitude to...
'LARGEST POLL OUT THERE' GIVES MARK 8-POINT LEAD
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amA just-completed poll of 1,205 Democrats finds Mark Green with 28 percent of the mayoral primary vote, followed by Fernando Ferrer at 20 percent and Peter Vallone and Alan Hevesi...
BADILLO THROWS THE 'BOOK' AT BLOOMY
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amRepublican mayoral hopeful Herman Badillo yesterday lashed out at primary rival Mike Bloomberg in their only TV debate, charging insulting jokes attributed to the media mogul prove he's "guilty of...
TERRORISTS KILL EIGHT ON 'BLOODY SUNDAY'
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Israeli defense Cabinet approved stringent West Bank security measures to box in the Palestinian Authority after a wave of terrorism yesterday left eight dead and more than...
PEDRO'S SEASON COMES TO CLOSE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amPedro Martinez, barring a miracle rebound by Boston, won't pitch again this year. And his spot in the Red Sox rotation is going to a reliever who hadn't thrown from...
CONE'S SAVVY TO MOOSE'S PSYCHE
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amFor David Cone, it was a gesture of gratitude. Nobody knows for certain how Mike Mussina took it, but Cone made time to talk to Mussina before the Yankees' 7-2...
RICE OPENS RAIDER RUN WITH WIN VS. CHIEFS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amRaiders 27 Chiefs 24 KANSAS CITY - In the victorious visiting locker room in Arrowhead Stadium, guard Ed Wisniewski, the former Dallas Cowboy, thanked Al Davis for bringing him to...
'VOODOO' TOO POWERFUL FOR GARDEN CITY FIELD
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWho do the voodoo that you do so well? Voodoo Dancer, that's who. Yesterday at Belmont Park, trainer Chris Clement's standout 3-year-old grass filly proved her recent fourth in the...
GIANTS DEAD ON ABOUT OPENER
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - It is not as if the Giants don't know what they are getting themselves into. "It," safety Shaun Williams said, "is going to be deadly." How else to...
KNOBBY JOINS LINE TO TRAINER'S ROOM
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankee trainer Gene Monahan is going to need a velvet rope outside his room to keep order inside it. With Derek Jeter, Paul O'Neill and Scott Brosius already...
ANDY FLIES AGAIN WITH ROCKET BOOST
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amLOSER of one game, Roger Clemens goes for his 20th win tonight at the Stadium against what's left of the Red Sox. No Major League pitcher ever has been 20-1....
GANG GREEN WON'T BLAME THE SYSTEM
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES To a man, the Jets blamed themselves for yesterday's 45-24 loss to the Colts, refusing to blame the Herman Edwards or his assistants or the new systems that...
COLTS RUN JET 'D' RAGGED
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amSuddenly, Al Groh's tough 2000 training camp looks a lot more productive than his former naysayer players made it out to be. The Jets' players might remember starting 2000 4-0...
ONE TO REMEMBER ; JOHNSON BLASTS FIRST HR, YANKS ROLL
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amYanks 7 Red Sox 2 Tino Martinez and Nick Johnson. You can't mention one without thinking of the other. How does it go? Johnson is pushing Martinez out of The...
HERMAN'S HORRORS HAVE JUST BEGUN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE unraveling of Herman Edwards is going to be a sad thing to witness. It may not come today, or even next week or next month, but if you know...
POSADA BAN MAY GO INTO '02 SEASON
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWith his son back in a Manhattan hospital due to a post-surgery infection, Jorge Posada has more important issues than when MLB will hear his appeal of the six-game suspension...
O SAY CAN YOU HEAR?
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES DENVER - The new home of the Broncos is built adjacent to Mile High Stadium, which served as a hostile environment for opposing teams for 41 years. Tonight's...
RAMS SURVIVE LATE BIRD RUSH
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amOVERTIME Rams 20 Eagles 17 PHILADELPHIA - A 26-yard field goal by Jeff Wilkins in overtime gave the Rams a 20-17 win over the Eagles yesterday at the Vet, saving...
NWOKORIE RUMBLES INTO HISTORY BOOK
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amIf there was one image that defined the humbling start to the Herman Edwards Era, one picture that summed up the Jets' 45-24 season-opening loss to Indianapolis, it was DE...
COLTS' NO-HUDDLE MEANS NO HOPE FOR GANG GREEN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe Jets were determined to double-cover Indianapolis WR Marvin Harrison and take away the deep passing game. So the Colts just harried them with the no-huddle, dissected them with short...
FONZIE'S AIMING TO PLAY IN PITTSBURGH
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Edgardo Alfonzo's sprained left index finger felt better yesterday, but it didn't feel good enough for him to start. He is hopeful to play tomorrow in...
SAMPRAS: MAJORS HAVEN'T PASSED ME BY
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amDespite being humiliated in his second consecutive U.S. Open Final, despite not having won a tournament in his last 18 events, despite failing to win one Grand Slam in a...
WHAT ELSE IS NEW? JETS FUMBLE SEALS WIN FOR COLTS
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amThe final note of the national anthem dissolved into the Meadowlands air and Herman Edwards took brief pause to look toward the sky with thoughts of his late father, Herman...
THE CHASE JUST GOT TOUGHER
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amMarlins 4 Mets 2 MIAMI - The impossible became harder yesterday; the scoreboard explained that. Braves win. Phillies win. Mets lose. The miracle run may not have ended with yesterday's...
NO CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION IN CLUELESS HEWITT'S WIN
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amTHE GRAND celebration of the comeback of an all-time champion prematurely presumed to be over the hill turned into a first-time triumph of a kid from down under a rock....
HEWITT MASTERS SAMPRAS: PETE FALLS IN STRAIGHT SETS FOR 2ND YEAR IN ROW
September 10, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Lleyton Hewitt whizzed one final backhand passing shot by Pete Sampras on match point, the stunned 20-year-old Aussie baseliner fell flat onto his back. For those few seconds, roles...