October 26, 2001
BANANA COURTS DESIGNER SANDER
Ready-to-wear designer Jil Sander may be shopping her wares at Banana Republic soon. The retailer, a division of the Gap, Inc., is in talks with Sander to serve as a...
CALLING IT QUITS - AT&T SELLING ITS POSH, RURAL CAMPUS
AT&T is sadly unloading its bucolic corporate fortress in what analysts call the beginning of the end for the once mighty giant. The AT&T campus, sprawling over 200 acres of...
COPACABANA MOVING NEAR JAVITS CENTER
The Copacabana is becoming the first substantial nightspot to locate in the desolate Javits convention center area. The two-story warehouse building at 560 West 34th Street sits on the southeast...
CAN'T KEEP 'EM DOWN - MARTS FALL, THEN RISE; DOW UP 117, NASDAQ 43
Stocks rebounded after a sharp descent into the red yesterday as investors shrugged off a raft of grim economic news and bet their money on a recovery instead. Rising jobless...
WILL CARTER SELL OBSERVER?
ARTHUR Carter, owner of the New York Observer, has abruptly sold off The Litchfield County Times, a New Milford, Conn., weekly newspaper, prompting a new round of speculation that the...
GATES IN XP COMEBACK
Bill Gates is back on top - at least in his wealth and in getting his way with regulators. Gates launched his much-hyped Windows XP here yesterday, triggering little in...
CANTOR MAKES PAYMENT TO WTC FAMILIES
Cantor Fitzgerald families: your bonus checks are in the mail. More than $45 million in bonus payments will be sent out to the 657 families who lost loved ones when...
HEY, BONO, JUST SING
U2 AT their return engagement at Madison Square Garden, U2 was a finely tuned rock machine, with a squeaky wheel named Bono at center stage. Bono, the voice of U2,...
ABC SUSPENDS ANCHOR OVER TWO ANTHRAX SCREWUPS. . . SHE'S BAD NEWS
VETERAN ABC News anchor Carole Simpson has been suspended for two weeks with payover remarks she made about the anthrax case at ABC. Simpson, who anchors the Sunday edition of...
'GHOSTS' CAN'T SCARE UP SCRIPT
13 GHOSTS [ 1/2] Gruesome, loud, but unsatisfying haunted-house thriller. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (extreme gore and violence). At the 42d Street E-Walk, the Union Square, the Magic...
'ON THE LINE' IS TOTALLY OFF THE WALL
ON THE LINE [] More "it stinks" than *NSYNC. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG (mildly vulgar humor). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Union Square, others. --------- 'ON...
LOST IN SPACEY
K-PAX [] Earth to Spacey. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate profanity, violence). At AMC Empire 25, Loews Lincoln Square, Kips Bay, others. ----- IT'S easy to see what...
ONLY KLINE HOLDS UP THIS 'HOUSE' OF CARDS
LIFE AS A HOUSE [ 1/2] Paging Bob Vila. Running time: 123 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity, drug use). At the Empire, the Cinema 1, the Lincoln Square, others. ----...
A 'DARKO' VICTORY
DONNIE DARKO [] An engaging, time-tripping Holden Caulfield. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity, drug use, violence). At the Empire, the First and 62nd, the Village East, others....
A TEENAGER IN WOLF'S CLOTHING
GINGER SNAPS [] "Heathers" meets "The Howling" in this smart, grisly werewolf pic. Running time: 108 minutes. Not rated (language, gore, sexuality, violence). At Cinema Village, 12th Street between Fifth...
RAVING MADMAN FROM THE 'UNDERGROUND'
HE can't read music, play an instrument or hit a high C in a cold shower, but Brooklyn-born, Staten Island-raised Louie DeVito is one of the great successes in music....
HELP SEINFELDS HELP KIDS
IT'S sentimental to hold onto your baby's favorite booties. But outgrown baby carriages, cribs and basinettes - who's got room? Clear out your closets by donating gently-used baby gear and...
'THOU' SHOULDN'T HAVE - STROMAN, CONNICK & CO. FALL FLAT IN NEW MUSICAL
THOU SHALT NOT [ 1/2]The Plymouth Theatre, 236 West 45th St. (212) 239-6200. -------- YOU might have thought Emile Zola's "Therese Raquin" - a clinically observed but gritty tale of...
ONE IS SCARIEST NUMBER AT HALLOWEEN - ALL-NEWS CHANNEL TAKES BACK PARADE
NEW York 1 has snatched back the broadcasting rights to carry the city's annual Halloween parade. The all-news local cable channel, which had provided wall-to-wall live coverage of the event...
LIFE'S A DRAG FOR KINSEY - CROSS DRESSERS IN REVUE
DRAGAPELLAUpstairs at 54, 254 W. 54th St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ----- IN recent years, drag has made some fresh artistic statements, thanks to Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage, John...
LAWSUIT KOS NEW MUSICAL
LINCOLN Center Theater has pulled a promising new musical from its spring lineup because the writer's ex-wife has threatened legal action. Jason Robert Brown's "The Last Five Years," based loosely...
STARR REPORT
Broadway 'Women' make the TV rounds The producers of "The Women" are taking an interesting approach to publicizing the Broadway show - booking each star on different shows airing today....
THE BEST OF BRITISH...
"A History of Britain" [ ] The History Channel Oct. 29- Nov. 1 at 9 ---------- IF it could be guaranteed that Simon Schama would be my history professor, I...
SALMONELLA VIALS SENT TO CLINTON'S HARLEM OFFICE
Two vials containing salmonella were sent to former President Bill Clinton's office in Harlem, according to the Secret Service. Clinton did not handle the package, and the mailing has no...
TIKI SCORES AS WTC FUND AUCTIONEER
New York Giants running back Tiki Barber is rushing to ease the financial strain felt by families of the World Trade Center heroes by donating $13,000 to the Twin Towers...
MISS AMERICA TRUMPED: DONALD FAVE BUMPS HER AS MACY'S PARADE STAR
Miss America has been booted from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after Donald Trump pulled some strings for his Miss Universe. The property billionaire, who half-owns the Miss Universe Organization, admitted...
A TIME FOR ANGER - ANTHRAX: AN ATTACK, NOT JUST A SCARE
YESTERDAY, presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said that "the actions of the federal government have saved lives" in relation to the anthrax threat. That was a terrible thing to say. It...
M'SOFT PROGRAM E'XP'LAINED: IT'S FASTER & EASIER
Windows XP - as in "experience" - is Microsoft's latest version of the system software running on 95 percent of the world's personal computers. Bigger and bolder than anything the...
U.S.-BACKED REBELS LOSE GROUND
WASHINGTON - A major Afghan rebel offensive on the strategically vital city of Mazar-e-Sharif has been stalled, producing the first major setback for the Bush administration's military campaign to rout...
RUDY URGES COUNCIL TO KEEP THE TAX BREAK
Mayor Giuliani warned yesterday that the City Council would be making a "terrible mistake" if it didn't extend personal income tax cuts that are due to expire Dec. 31. Giuliani...
EX-PAL FED UP WITH 'SHAKEDOWN' JESSE
IT'S not news that somebody else is accusing the Rev. Jesse Jackson of running a race-based shakedown operation under the guise of civil-rights activism. What is news is who's saying...
RUMSFELD GETS FLAK FOR HEDGE ON OSAMA
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was on the defensive yesterday after suggesting in a newspaper interview that the United States might not be able to capture terrorist leader Osama...
RUDY: 'RIFT' WITH FBI IS NOTHING TO SHOUT ABOUT
Mayor Giuliani admitted yesterday he's been frustrated by the FBI's failure to share information about anthrax and has "registered those complaints with the FBI and with others." But the mayor...
THE BIGGEST JOB FOR MANY IS FINDING ONE
BY 8 a.m. yesterday, the human wall around Madison Square Garden had grown so thick, so frantic, Anna Oliviero had little hope of even getting inside. Oliviero is typical of...
PA MOVES TO 4 NEW SITES
The Port Authority has chosen buildings in Manhattan and New Jersey to temporarily replace the space it lost in the World Trade Center. About 2,000 PA employees who worked in...
DASCHLE BACKS $5B N.Y. BOOST
WASHINGTON - New Yorkers got a welcome dose of good news yesterday when Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said that he'll add a local boost to the Democrat's $70 billion...
GATES OPENS NEW WINDOWS IN N.Y.
Microsoft mogul Bill Gates painted the town light blue yesterday, promoting his new Windows XP, while glad-handing with the mayor, trading gags with Regis Philbin, taking a Letterman-esque walkabout in...
GOING LIKE GANGBUSTERS: FEDS GET ANTI-TERROR LAW TODAY
WASHINGTON - President Bush today signs a new anti-terror law - and the feds say they'll rush to use their expanded powers to tap phones and trace e-mail so they...
WILDENSTEIN PATRIARCH DEAD AT 84
Billionaire art dealer Daniel Wildenstein - whose family owns two prestigious Manhattan galleries and the Wildenstein Institute - has died at 84. The Wildenstein name was tarnished in the '90s...
HUCKSTERS PREY ON THE UNEMPLOYED
As 10,000 desperate job-seekers lined up outside Madison Square Garden yesterday waiting to talk to prospective employers, heartless hustlers worked the crowd offering get-rich-quick opportunities - for a price. "Earn...
'SHADOW ENEMY' SOWS NEW FEAR - CITY FOLKS COOK UP PLANS FOR SAFE MAIL
Anthrax jitters have New Yorkers poking, prodding, even microwaving their mail - just in case they're next in line for a poison attack. "The postal inspector says he can't guarantee...
'HE DIED A PATRIOT' - CAPTAIN'S COURAGE RECALLED AT FUNERAL
Capt. William Burke Jr., who died rescuing dozens - including those in his own fire company - was remembered yesterday as a brave man who will serve as "inspiration" to...
A 'BRASCO' BUST - NYPD 'GOOMBAH' BREAKS UP MOB GUN-RUN RING
An undercover cop with steely nerves and a convincing "goombah" swagger has cracked a massive Mafia gun-running ring - and cleaned the streets of a quarter-million dollars in weapons. "Good...
MARK: MIKE'S SCHOOL PLAN IS CRASS ACT
After snagging the endorsement of the teachers union, Mark Green yesterday attacked rival Michael Bloomberg for his plans for the city's schools. Green - and United Federation of Teachers president...
WORKER'S GROCERY DREAM DIES WITH HIM
EFRAIN GONZALES left Ecuador six years ago to come work in New York City and provide a better life for his wife and kids back home. And the 42-year-old construction...
COPS PUT BRAKES ON INSURANCE SCAM
Brooklyn cops have broken up a car insurance scam in which owners pretended their luxury vehicles were stolen to collect on the insurance. Sixteen people surrendered yesterday in the scheme,...
LET'S HOPE BOOK IS SOON PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY
Osama bin Laden's right-hand man is shopping his memoirs with a British publisher, but book-industry insiders in New York said yesterday they doubted someone from the terror kingpin's inner circle...
RAPE-SLAY FIEND WILL DIE IN JAIL
A Bronx man will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering a 68-year-old woman, raping her granddaughter and kidnapping the girl and a 15-year-old friend. Sidney Dixon,...
ISRAEL: WE'D END SIEGE OF WEST BANK
JERUSALEM - Israeli officials, under U.S. pressure, decided early today to propose a phase-out of the weeklong siege of six Palestinian towns, despite fresh warnings of impending suicide attacks. Prime...
MARK'S BROTHER HIRED 'ILLEGAL' SCAFFOLD FIRM
A roofing firm hired by mayoral candidate Mark Green's brother violated city building laws by failing to obtain a work permit at the building where five men were killed and...
N.Y. 'FIANCÉE' HELPED DURST MAKE BAIL
Fugitive real-estate scion Robert Durst obtained a marriage license last year to wed a top Manhattan real-estate broker, The Post has learned. The broker, Debrah Lee Charatan, used the license...
'DEVASTATING' SCHOOL CUT$ LOOM
Board of Education officials yesterday warned of "devastating midyear cuts" resulting from a state budget they charge severely shortchanges the city. Facing a $300 million budget shortfall, city officials had...
GREEN GIVES BACK 13G DONATION TO CONTRACTOR
Mayoral candidate Mark Green yesterday abruptly returned $13,500 in campaign contributions from three executives of a company involved in the fatal scaffolding collapse. "When I saw what happened and the...
ANTHRAX SPREADS AS PROBE WIDENS
Three new suspected cases of anthrax infection in New York, New Jersey and the Washington area were identified yesterday as officials revealed intriguing details about the bioterror mailings that rattled...
COPS SHOOT ROB-SPREE SUSPECT
One of two men wanted in a series of 28 Brooklyn street robberies was shot and critically wounded by police last night. Careem Miller, 26, was taken to Lutheran Hospital,...
SCAFFOLD BUILDER WAS WORKING ILLEGALLY: CITY
A roofing firm hired by mayoral candidate Mark Green's brother violated city building laws by failing to obtain a work permit at the building where five men were killed and...
BUSH BLASTS BX. BOMBERS
WASHINGTON - Baseball-crazy President Bush may love New York these days - but he still takes a "Damn Yankees" stance on baseball. "I'm for anyone but the Yankees," Bush confided...
BUSH NO FAN OF BRONX BOMBERS
Baseball-crazy President Bush may love New York these days - but he still takes a "Damn Yankees" stance on baseball. "I'm for anyone but the Yankees," Bush quipped to a...
YANKS ARE DRESSED FOR SUCCESS
IF ONLY dressing well off the field were the key to the Yankees' fourth straight World Series win. Were that the case, Joe Torre's team would have secured their victory...
YANK-SLAYER PODRES A SCHILLING MENTOR
WORLD SERIES NOTES PHOENIX - He broke Yankee fans' hearts in the 1955 World Series by winning two games, including Game 7, 2-0, for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Eight years later...
YANKS ITCHIN' TO HEAR UMP'S 'PLAY BALL!'
PHOENIX - Rust isn't collecting on their bones. But their nerve endings are beginning to feel a bit jagged. And by today, the Yankees will be seeking a World Series...
MO'S RELIEF MAKES BOMBERS A CUT ABOVE THE REST
HAVING a catch, the purest of all sporting acts, has a soothing effect on even the world's most skilled baseball players. Wade Boggs developed quite a knuckleball playing catch before...
CPSC PUSHES FOR RECALL OF BB GUNS
THE head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission is reportedly behind a possible nationwide recall of millions of BB guns. CPSC Chairman Ann Brown is apparently pushing for the recall...
I'M A BIG HIT WITH YANKEES
THIS is a column about how I won the pennant for the Yankees and just may win the World Series, as well. The Diamondbacks have Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson....
CAN IT GET ANY CHEAPER? - YESTERDAY'S POP-UP IS TODAY'S HOMER
IT was a perfect TV call, a call for the Age within a game for the Age. It was late Sunday night, too late for too many, Game 4 of...
MARCH ON WASHINGTON - GIANT OFFENSE DUE TO BUST OUT VS. REDSKINS
AFTER the come-from-ahead loss to the Rams, Jim Fassel's harshest no-comments were for the officials. Then, after the Giants failed to score a touchdown and gave away a 9-0 lead...
LEHMAN BACK TO WINNING WAYS
CARMINE Colasanto still has bad memories from last year. "We had a lot of jealousy on the team and then everything started to snowball," said the longtime Lehman head coach,...
LEAFS' KABERLE INTERESTS ISLES
There is always room for improvement. And when it comes to the first-place Islanders, undefeated in regulation through eight games, there is still a way to go. In that spirit,...
THE MAN BEHIND IT ALL - POSADA KEY TO GAME'S BEST STAFF
PHOENIX - How do you explain it? Well, he is one of the more recent cornerstones to the starting lineup and to the Yankees' phenomenal success. He didn't come up...
DYNA-MO - UNHITTABLE RIVERA DRIVES BOMBERS' MIGHTY MACHINE
PHOENIX - "Enter Sandman" was part of a Metallica album released in the summer of 1991, long before Mariano Rivera developed his patented cut fastball. But in the South Bronx,...
JETS NEED THIS WIN - PANTHERS RIGHT MEDICINE FOR AILING CLUB
A rookie quarterback. An unproven running back. The league's worst rushing offense. Those are traits of a team in trouble, one that should be beaten. And the Carolina Panthers have...
COLES, SWAYNE READY TO FLY
JET NOTES The Jets' receiving corps was struggling in the team's new West Coast offense even before Wayne Chrebet began suffering the post-trauma migraines that will force him to miss...
WIN OR LOSE, YANKS WILL GET FACELIFT - SERIES IS LAST HURRAH FOR O'NEILL, 3 OTHERS
PHOENIX - When the World Series is done, the face of the Yankees' undergoes a major lift. If Paul O'Neill, Chuck Knoblauch, Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius turn you on,...
NOW'S THE TIME FOR FRESH AIR
FAVORITE music has been replaced by 24-hour news stations. Movies aren't even an option. Time trapped in front of the TV is restricted to programming devoted to terrorism, biological warfare...
ROOKIE LEGREE SET TO FILL KEITH'S SHOES
GIANT NOTES The last time Lance Legree was this nervous, he was a sophomore defensive tackle at Notre Dame. Legree had been informed in the week leading up to the...
COLLINS: HAVE FAITH IN JINTS - QB BELIEVES TEAM'S BETTER THAN NUMBERS
Kerry Collins doesn't have faith in the Giants offense. He has blind faith. He knows the numbers, knows how bad the Giants have been in the red zone in one-point...
RANGERS TARGET AMONTE
ST. LOUIS - Just a day earlier the Rangers were trying to figure out how to get Rico Fata down to Hartford without exposing him to waivers. That this would...
BAILEY SITTIN' PRETTY IN ALL EIGHT BC RACES
Jockey Jerry Bailey has already set a record with $21 million-plus in purse earnings this year (breaking his own mark set in 1996), and he figures to add significantly to...
THUMPY OLD MEN - GRACE (36) & WILLIAMS (35) STILL PACK SOME POP
PHOENIX - Unlike many Americans who come to Arizona for retirement, Mark Grace and Matt Williams moved here with winning baseball on their minds. And now these far-from-grumpy old men...
CUP'S NOT ONLY SHOW IN TOWN
BREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK Tomorrow's eight Breeders' Cup events aren't the only races on the card. They'll be preceeded by the $100,000 Sport Page and Stuyvesant handicaps, with first post of...
SNAKES' GAME 3 STARTER IS REAL RISK
PHOENIX -Diamondback lefty Brian Anderson hopes one good night in The Bronx next week can make up for six disappointing months. The up-and-down Anderson said he can't wait to take...
THREE WAYS TO BREAK BANK - CLASSIC, JUV. FILLIES, SPRINT OFFER VALUE
Once upon a time in the Breeders' Cup, which celebrates its 18th birthday tomorrow at Belmont Park, you could bet some of the races with confidence. There were always surprises,...
DEVILS SIGN BOUCHARD
Signing their third free agent in a week, the Devils yesterday continued their restocking with former Flames, Coyotes and Predators defenseman Joel Bouchard. As was done with forwards Bruce Gardiner...
A DAY TO SWING FOR FENCES - SHAKY FAVORITES CAN LEAD TO BIG SCORES
THE 18th running of the Breeders' Cup tomorrow will showcase the most brilliant young horses in America today, a blockbuster sprint race jammed with flying machines, the cream of Europe's...
JASON NOT KIDD-ING WHEN LAUDING TODD
ALBANY - Todd MacCulloch heard the praise from Jason Kidd, who called him "the best center I've ever player with." MacCulloch was impressed. "I didn't believe it, actually," the Nets...
ACHY CAMBY RUNS REVERSE
KNICK NOTES ALBANY - It's never clear-cut with Marcus Camby. One day after saying he's ready to "rock and roll" for Tuesday's season opener against Michael Jordan, the Knick center...
NETS HUMBLE SORRY KNICKS
Nets 100 - Knicks 84 ALBANY - The Knicks' season opener Tuesday at the Garden is one of the most hotly anticipated in their history. And it has nothing to...
BLUES COAST PAST RANGERS
ST. LOUIS - Maybe one of these days things will change for the Rangers. Maybe one of these years. Then again, with a nodding glance toward last night's 5-1 loss...
RANGERS EYE TONY AMONTE
ST. LOUIS - Just a day earlier the Rangers were trying to figure out how to get Rico Fata down to Hartford without exposing him to waivers. That this would...
NO KIDD-ING, TODD LOVES THE PRAISE
ALBANY - Todd MacCulloch heard the praise from Jason Kidd, who called him "the best center I've ever player with." MacCulloch was impressed. "I didn't believe it, actually," the Nets'...
KNICKS FEEL WRIGHT'S WRONG
KNICK NOTES ALBANY - While 7-1 center Loren Woods continues to excel in Minnesota, the Knicks yesterday cut another of their second-round picks, power forward Michael Wright, Woods' Arizona teammate....
EX-YANK KILLER PODRES SAVED CURT'S CAREER
YANKEE NOTEBOOK PHOENIX - He broke Yankee fans hearts in the 1955 World Series by winning two games, including Game 7, 2-0, for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Eight years later he...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
After tying Bear Bryant's Division I-A record of 323 wins with a win at Northwestern last week, Joe Paterno said he planned on celebrating as he often does - with...