October 5, 2001
FRENCH CONNECTION: SALUT!
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amFrench Connection is getting into the booze business. The off-beat and controversial retail chain has decided to add a collection of vodka-based beverages to its product line. Irreverently called FCUK...
JOBLESS JITTERS - HIGHEST IN 9 YRS.; WORST STILL TO COME
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe number of jobless skyrocketed to a nine-year high yesterday - with no easing in sight as the impact from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks spreads across the economy. More...
JOHNSON PLANNING FATBURGER KINGDOM
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Basketball legend Magic Johnson hopes to score with investors, and lead a fast break into fast food. His company, Johnson Development Corp., purchased a popular Southern...
PORT DROPS ANCHOR ON PARK
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has found at least one safe harbor from the Downtown devastation. Brokers tell The Post it has leased the former MarchFirst...
EARL JEANS TO OPEN IN SOHO
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe New York retail market may be experiencing a slump - but trendy denim-maker Earl Jean is forging ahead in SoHo. The jeans company will open its New York flagship...
WINDOWS XP FAILS SO FAR TO CLICK WITH CONSUMERS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWindows XP hasn't quite set the world on fire yet. The slump in PC sales continued even though the new operating system became available on new computers two weeks ago....
ROSIE DUCKS HER COVERS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell will not appear on the cover of the November issue of Rosie, which hits next week featuring cover girl Drew Barrymore. It will mark the first edition sans...
DELL BOOTING UP - FORECAST BOOSTS NASDAQ; DOW FALLS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Dell rode to the rescue yesterday to help keep Wall Street's technology rally on its winning streak. Dell said his computer giant's on track with earnings, thanks to his...
STARR REPORT
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amStars going neck-and-neck for cancer cause Megan Mullally ("Will & Grace"), Marcia Gay Harden, Courteney Cox and Rick Fox ("Oz") are joining Ford Motor Co. and the Susan B. Komen...
DENZEL HAS HIS 'DAY'
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amTRAINING DAY [ 1/2] Mr. Washington gets down and dirty. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sex). At the E Walk, the Union Square, the Harlem USA, others....
DISNEY'S 'BIG MOVE' NEITHER BIG NOR MOVING
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amMAX KEEBLE'S BIG MOVE [ 1/2] Bland, occasionally funny Disney comedy about a wayward seventh-grader. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated: PG (includes coarse material unsuitable for small children). At the...
SO HOW MANY EMMYS DO THESE GUYS NEED?
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWHILE predicting the Emmys is fraught with difficulty, one thing that is predictable is that some nominees who should win will lose. How does that happen? I wish I knew....
GOOD BUDDIES ON A SCARY TRIP IN 'JOY RIDE'
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amJOY RIDE [] A shocker that actually works. Running time: 96 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sex). At the Empire, the Murray Hill, the Chelsea, others. -------- ANYONE actually looking...
TERROR TOPIC RATING BEST IN THE 'WEST'
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWEDNESDAY'S "West Wing" episode on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was the show's highest-rated episode. The episode - called "Isaac & Ishmael" and written by series creator Aaron Sorkin in...
REWRITING HIS-TORI - WHEN AMOS TAKES AIM, YOU'D BETTER LOOK OUT!
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN you really want to understand the meaning behind another person's words, the key is empathy. You have to take off your shoes and slip theirs on for a walk....
LA GRAN FINALE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amIT ain't over till the fat guy in the dress sings. And it looks to be over this weekend, when the all-male La Gran Scena Opera Company hangs up its...
WWF PULLS OUT OF THE WAR ZONE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHE WWF is dumping the words "War"and "Armageddon" from the titles of three of its shows because the names may be construed as "insensitive" in the aftermath of last month's...
A SPLENDID KATE BURTON GOES TO 'HEDDA' THE CLASS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amHEDDA GABLER []Ambassador Theatre. 219 W. 49th St., (212) 239-6200. -------- SHE enters, imperious in a floating pink peignoir, ironic yet rather jolly, mocking yet authoritative - and already bored,...
THEATER FOLK DEMAND VISA PULL TV AD THEY CALL . . . DOWN AND DIRGE-Y
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHEATER producers and press agents are demanding that a TV commercial designed to promote Broadway be yanked from the airwaves because they say it's too "somber" and "depressing." At a...
EXIT THIS 'KING' - FAST!
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amEXIT THE KINGThe Pearl Theatre, 80 St. Mark's Place, (212) 598 9802. Through Oct. 21. ------ EUGENE Ionesco was the poster boy for the fraudulent postwar phenomenon called the theater...
CHALK & CHEESE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00am"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" [ ] Sunday at 9 on WNBC/Ch. 4 * "UC: Undercover" [] Sunday at 10 on WNBC/Ch. 4 ------------ NBC's new Sunday night cop dramas,...
REEL OF FORTUNE - 'SERENDIPITY' IS A FLUFFY DATE-NIGHT FLICK
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amSERENDIPITY [] A guilty pleasure. Running time: 91 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate sexuality and profanity). At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the Square, others. ------- 'SERENDIPITY," an endearing romantic comedy,...
ED. BOSS REJECTS RAISE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Education Commissioner Richard Mills yesterday turned down a $30,000 raise - just hours after The Post raised questions about it. Early yesterday morning, the Board of Regents, which...
THE TAINT ON FREDDY FERRER
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amLET'S be completely clear about this: A vote for Fernando Ferrer in next week's runoff is a vote for Al Sharpton. Sharpton's late endorsement of Ferrer began the Bronx borough...
U.S. TRIES TO HIT TALIBAN, BUT SPARE INNOCENTS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pentagon war planners, in the final stages of preparations for the military operations in Afghanistan, are targeting dozens of terror camps and Taliban military depots for airstrikes and...
JET-BLAST MYSTERY - UKRAINE MISSILE MISTAKE BLAMED FOR DEATHS OF 76
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amA stray missile fired during Ukrainian military exercises was blamed yesterday for the mysterious crash of a charter jet filled with Israelis en route to Siberia that exploded in mid-air...
'33 TREATY HELPS NYPD GET ITS MAN
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amA man who allegedly stabbed a good Samaritan to death in the East Village has been brought to justice after four years on the lam - all because of an...
CROSS-COUNTRY EA$Y RIDER CHIPS IN 22G
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amYou could say that Lloyd Sutton really went out of his way to contribute to Mayor Giuliani's Twin Towers Fund. The Los Angeles businessman biked cross-country on his Harley to...
FERRER HAS SHORT LIST FOR POLICE COMMISH
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amA widely respected police chief from South Carolina - an African-American who is Jewish - is among the candidates for NYPD commissioner if Fernando Ferrer wins City Hall, The Post...
FIRST OF FINEST MEMORIALIZED TODAY
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Angela O'Reilly first met Vinny Danz, she was a newly arrived au pair from Dublin and he had just started in the Police Academy. "I told him when I...
HOMECOMING TURNS TO HORROR FOR ISRAELI FLIERS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - For many of the Israelis on Sibir Airlines' weekly charter flight from Tel Aviv to Siberia, the trip was supposed to be a joyous journey to their homeland....
BURNING DESIRE TO BAN FLAMING FLAGS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amOld Glory has been raised from ground zero's rubble, plastered on rescuers' hats and painted on New Yorkers' faces - but you can still burn it in the name of...
LEVY COUNTS ON NEW GRADE SYSTEM
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy has drafted new report cards that will grade students with numbers instead of letters. The new report cards will grade students from a low of 1...
ADS CAN'T DISGUISE U.N.'S TERROR TOLERANCE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWHO says the United Nations is fat, lazy and slow to act? Since the attack on the World Trade Center, the U.N. has been blasted, by myself and others, for...
GREEN'S BOLD BID TO WOO WHITES
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amANALYSIS Mark Green has been playing it safe for a year. Not any more. The one-time Democratic mayoral "front-runner" took off after rival Fernando Ferrer yesterday, questioning everything from his...
TEARS & SONGS FOR P.A. MISSING - EMOTIONAL FAREWELL TO 74 WTC VICTIMS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amWith song, poetry and words of inspiration, thousands of family members, friends and colleagues said goodbye to the 74 Port Authority employees missing in the terrorist attacks on the World...
RUDY AIDE'S HUSBAND IS 'A DEATH IN THE FAMILY'
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has mourned countless times and shared tears and heartache with innumerable shattered families in the weeks since terrorists toppled the World Trade Center. But yesterday, at the funeral...
MARK ROUGHS UP REV. AL - SLAMS 'BOZO' JEER, CALLS FERRER DIVIDER
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amMark Green yesterday ripped into rival Fernando Ferrer - charging that he's running a "polarizing" campaign and that his backer, the Rev. Al Sharpton, was wrong to make a "Bozo"...
MAN HELD IN TEEN SLAY
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amA 20-year-old Brooklyn man was charged yesterday with murder for allegedly killing a 15-year-old honors student outside a Flatbush nightclub. Police said a bullet fired by Kevin Morrison as he...
GROUND ZERO'S BLESSED CROSS - PRIEST CONSECRATES SIGN OF FAITH AMID THE HORROR
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amGround-zero construction worker Frank Silecchia saw his personal dream come true yesterday at the ruins of the World Trade Center - one of the large steel crosses he discovered in...
THE DAY TERROR CAME TO WAL-MART - CAMERAS CAPTURE KILLERS' FINAL HOURS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amDressed in a black and white shirt, hijacker Mohamed Atta went to two cash machines, a gas station, a Pizza Hut and a Wal-Mart in Portland, Maine, the night before...
CONGRESS URGES HONORS FOR FALLEN WTC RESCUERS - BUSH VOWS $3 BILLION IN AID AND BENEFITS FOR JOBLESS; BRITISH GOVERNMENT UNVEILS CASE AGAINST BIN LADEN
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe fire, police and Emergency Medical Service heroes who gave their lives to save thousands in the World Trade Center disaster will likely be the first recipients of the new...
FEDS VOW 'INTENSE' PROBE AS FLA. MAN GETS ANTHRAX
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amFederal officials promise a "very intense investigation" into the case of a Florida man hospitalized with inhalation anthrax, a rare and lethal disease that could be transmitted by a biological...
CIA ATTRACTS COLLEGE CROWD
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe hottest job now being pursued by soon-to-graduate college students is spying for the CIA. Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, thousands of young men and women at universities across...
HEVESI: ATTACK WILL COST CITY $105B
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amHow quickly the Big Apple recovers will depend on how much aid it can get because losses due to the terror attack could hit $105 billion, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi...
DEFENDING HOME FRONT - BATTERY PARK RESIDENT JOINS FORCES IN MIDEAST
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amHeath Hammitt always wanted to be a firefighter in the U.S. Air Force specializing in chemical warfare - a calling that now seems predestined. Hammitt, 24, is not only defending...
BLAIR'S 'HIJACK' TRIO WAS TOGETHER ON PENTAGON JET
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe Post has learned the names of the three hijackers British Prime Minister Tony Blair said have a proven al Qaeda "track record" - and all three were on the...
BONDS JOINS MAC IN THAT 70 SHOW - TIES HOMER RECORD ON DRAMATIC BLAST AFTER THREE WALKS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amHOUSTON - "Bar-ee! Bar-ee! Bar-ee!" Move over, Big Mac. Make room for Barry Bonds. He may be a hot dog, but Bonds joyfully joined Mark McGwire as baseball's greatest single-season...
EAGER LINDROS READY TO ROLL
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH - There are comeback stories all around the room, from Bryan Berard to Vladimir Malakhov to Mike Richter to Eric Lindros to . . . well, to the entire...
HEY, WANNA SEE MICHAEL? - THEN BUY A WILMINGTON SEASON TICKET
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amIT HASN'T taken long for the wide world of sports to become predicated on a single, applicable ideal: Extortion. Any opportunity to gouge the public is not only seized without...
WAIT IS OVER FOR NEW-LOOK ISLES
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amTAMPA - It's time to put on the foil. The Islanders' quest for respectability begins tonight when they face the Lightning at Tampa's Ice Palace. While most people dread the...
NETS ARE READY TO PUT THEIR TRUST IN TODD
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amChris Engler, Roy Hinson, Keith Lee, Tim McCormick, Joe Barry Carroll, Chris Gatling, Jim McIlvaine, Gheorghe Muresan, Evan Eschmeyer, Jamie Feick . . . The center position for the Nets...
BAIL ON THE REDSKINS! . . . BUT TAKE THE OTHER DOUBLE-DIGIT DOGS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amIN THE first three weeks of the season, there have been a slew of blowouts, and as a result, spreads have grown to perhaps unheard-of proportions for a Week 4...
MARTY-DEV DEAL WHETS STEVENS, FRUSTRATES HOLIK
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amHe set the market twice with blockbuster Blues contracts, then took a pay cut to remain a Devil. Seeking a new deal on the heels of Martin Brodeur's bank-breaker, Scott...
ZITO HOPES TWO CAN DO
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amA year ago at Belmont, trainer Nick Zito had the kind of afternoon most other horsemen only dream about, winning the Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne Stakes with A P Valentine,...
MIXED BAG OF FISH HAS LOCAL ANGLERS HOOKED
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHE first nor'easter of the season had a dampening effect on fishing last weekend, but many of the local hot spots came through unscathed and continue to produce bass, blues...
JETS SWEATING THE DETAILS - 'A BLOCK, A CATCH' FROM TURNING IT AROUND
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amSo close. That's the theme for the Jets during their 1-2 start. While the results aren't evident yet, just wait. At least, that's what they're hoping. "We have a lot...
VAN GUNDY, LAYDEN MAKE POINT OF BACKING WARD
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amCHARLESTON, S.C. - Knick coach Jeff Van Gundy and GM Scott Layden each has offered a vote of confidence to embattled point guard Charlie Ward, who chided reporters on Media...
GLENN BACK TO DOING PR WORK
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES Maybe Aaron Glenn is just meant to return punts for the Jets this season. First, the Jets lost first-round draft pick Santana Moss to torn cartilage in his...
BARROW, STRAHAN PLAY TRIGGER MEN
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Chances are the NFC Defensive Player of the Week Michael Strahan would have had a three-sack game against Kyle Turley and the Saints even if he rode to...
ALIVE AND KICKING - RODNEY'S BEEN BIG SURPRISE FOR JINTS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00am"I never wanted to be a punter. Never even thought about it. I used to watch Monday Night Football; my dad used to make me watch it with him. I...
GIVE LAYDEN HIGH MARKS FOR FINE-TUNING KNICKS
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amAS A satisfied (upgraded) Sixer season ticket holder, my rigid righteousness began to deform the day Billy King invited my 13-year-old son to be ball boy last season and Larry...
EL DUQUE MAY MISS ALDS - POSSIBLE ARM WOES SPUR TESTS FOR TODAY
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - With each passing nano-second, it's likely the Yankees will be without Orlando Hernandez for the upcoming ALDS against the A's. After a less-than-satisfying bullpen session yesterday, the...
VENTURA'S HEADED FOR THE HIGHWAY
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amFor the first two months this year, Robin Ventura appeared as if he had gone back in time. His 1999 swing had returned. Then June, July and August came. The...
JOE: NEW DEAL WILL GET DONE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre and George Steinbrenner didn't chat yesterday about Torre's contract situation. However, before the Yankees leave for home on Sunday, Torre expects to make contact with...
O'NEILL SHAKY IN 2ND GAME BACK
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Paul O'Neill peeled the sock off his left foot as he spoke in a solemn tone. "I didn't feel too good tonight," O'Neill said after...
RELAFORD'S HAD ONE AMAZIN' SEASON
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES If baseball were the NBA, then Desi Relaford would be vying for the Sixth Man of the Year Award. There will be no trophy, but after being given...
VENTURA FATED FOR HIGHWAY
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amFor the first two months this year, Robin Ventura appeared as if he had gone back in time. His 1999 swing had returned. Then June, July and August came. The...
RIGHT MAN FOR JOB - YANKS NEED O'NEILL BACK IN THE OUTFIELD
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - His bat appeared to be healthy Wednesday night. Now the Yankees want to be convinced Paul O'Neill's left foot is OK. After missing 15 games due to...
NO DEAL SET YET FOR JOE
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - While the possibility of Joe Torre and George Steinbrenner meeting while the Yankees are in the Tampa area and discussing a multi-year extension for the...
WALKATHON FRUSTRATING BARRY AND HIS FAMILY
October 5, 2001 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Walk like a man, Barry. Barry Bonds said he is not frustrated by the walks, but there is nothing but frustration on his face, even when his Giants...