November 21, 2001
'BOOM BOOM ROOM' SUIT BACK IN COURT
Plaintiffs in the five-year-old Salomon Smith Barney "Boom Boom Room" sexual harassment and discrimination case are heading back to court - to try to throw out the $20 million settlement...
2 RESIDENTIAL SALES COLLAPSE
WHAT a difference six months makes. The sale of two high profile apartment buildings have evaporated. The spring marketing of the Montrose, the Wellington and 101 West End Avenue were...
XBOX, GAMECUBE SALES SETTING RECORDS
Let the games begin. Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube are setting sales records, and are almost sold out after being available for less than one week. A Goldman Sachs survey...
HUGE SHIPWRECK - CRUISE LINES MERGE IN STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL
Cruise ships are sailing into their most dangerous waters in years. Two of the world's three largest cruise lines - the Royal Caribbean and Princess flags - announced the industry's...
OUTBACK INKS 10-YR. LEASE ON EAST SIDE
The room where Woody Allen once played jazz clarinet will soon kangaroo-hop to the Rockhampton Rib-Eye and the Bloomin' Onion. Those aren't dances, but dishes. Outback Steakhouse, the Australian-themed chain...
STOCK MARKET FALLS INTO A HOLIDAY MODE
Stocks took a dive yesterday, falling back from bull market territory and racking up their biggest one-day losses this month. After days of solid gains - nipping at the heels...
WILL HEARST LOSE MARIE CLAIRE?
IS the seven year old Hearst/Marie Claire partnership headed for trouble? A Hearst spokesman said, "The Marie Claire partnership is just fine, thank you. Your perception that this is not...
THE BIG STINK GOES ON
WILLIAM Shatner has broken his silence about breaking wind. And he's denying that a mysterious noise that shocked his fans on a new videotape was the sound of his own...
WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ENOUGH - VATICAN SPECIAL KEEPS THE BEST SECRETS
National Geographic Special: "Inside The Vatican" [ ] Tonight at 8 on WNET/Ch. 13 ------- USUALLY I am the biggest sucker in the world when it comes to "National Geographic...
'SPY' HAS PITT-FALLS
SPY GAME [] James Bond and the Sundance Kid. Running time: 123 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Loews Village, others. ------ DON'T you...
BURNS & ALLEN, AGAIN
SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK [] Been there, done that. Running time: 107 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sexual situations). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Murray Hill, others. ----------- THE...
'HOT'?: MUMMY MIA! - FRASER TO GO FROM EGYPT TO TENNESSEE ON BROADWAY
BRENDAN Fraser, that mummy-hunting matinee idol, will make his Broadway debut this spring as Brick in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The production, which...
STARR REPORT
Third time's a charm for Jennings Is the balance of power shifting in the evening-news race? For the third consecutive week, ABC's "World News Tonight," anchored by Peter Jennings, beat...
A HAUNTING SPANISH CIVIL WAR STORY
THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE [] Striking art-house shocker. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 106 minutes. Rated R (gore, violence, sex, profanity). At the Empire, the Lincoln Plaza, the Angelika,...
LEE MAJORS IN FROM THE 'COLD'
OUT COLD [] "No brains, no headache." Running time: 90 minutes. Rated PG-13 (topless women, much sexual suggestiveness). At the Empire, the Sutton, Loews 34th St., others. ---------- 'OUT Cold"...
HOW BROTHERS TREAT THEMSELVES AND OTHERS
THE WAY WE LAUGHED [] Longwinded but moving story of two brothers in mid-century Italy. In Italian with English subtitles. Running time: 124 minutes. Not rated (nothing offensive). At the...
WRINKLES DON'T HURT 'AB FAB,' SWEETIE
AFTER a five-year absence, pill-popping, champagne-swilling duo of Edina and Patsy - stars of British comedy "Absolutely Fabulous" - are back in a big way. There was considerable doubt about...
KNIGHT TO FORGET
BLACK KNIGHT [] Cheesy, cheap-looking, unfunny comedy. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13. At the Murray Hill, the Chelsea West, the Harlem USA, others. -------- MARTIN Lawrence has been more...
A STARRY 'ADAMS' FAMILY
THE WORLD OF NICK ADAMS --------- THERE was a one-night, star-drenched performance of "The World of Nick Adams" at Lincoln Center on Monday. "The World of Nick Adams" was a...
A WING AND A PRAYER - NO EARLY BIRD? HERE'S SOME LAST-MINUTE SHOPPING HELP
WE know your type. Every year, like clockwork, you forget your anniversary and then frantically dial around town praying for a last-minute cancellation to snag a table at a suitably...
'HARRY' MOVIE FULL OF POTTER HOLES
Rabid Harry Potter fans have spotted more than a dozen goofs in the blockbuster movie. And they say Chris Columbus, director of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" - which...
WHITE HOUSE CLOSED TO TOURISTS
WASHINGTON - The White House is closing its doors to public visitors through the holidays - and maybe for good - because of fears over terrorism. Tours of the presidential...
FIGHTING TERROR - AND CRIME, TOO
NOW it begins. The Post's Murray Weiss is reporting a 24 percent jump in New York City shootings, despite the much-noted plunge in criminal activity after the World Trade Center...
WTC COP GIVES SHIRT OFF HIS BACK
Touched by a Nebraska schoolboy's letter about how Sept. 11 affected him, a big-hearted New York City cop has sent the youngster a nifty souvenir: the shirt off his back....
A SAD AND LONELY TURKEY DAY FOR SEPT. 11 WIDOW
STAR ORTIZ was deep in thought on the living-room couch when she looked up. And she panicked. Her baby, Rebecca, 10 months old, was playing there a second ago. Where...
DEDE DID IT, CLAIM TAUBMAN LAWYERS
The star witness against Sotheby's mogul Alfred Taubman was a "trigger-happy," two-faced executive who cooked up a massive price-fixing scheme and then tried to make her boss take the fall,...
FIRE BOSS MAKES DISABLED GIRL'S DREAM COME TRUE
A disabled girl's dream of seeing the Statue of Liberty up close on her first trip to New York was nearly shattered because the site's been closed since Sept. 11....
TELL-ALL ARTICLE DOOMS STUDENT-PROF SEX
The nation's second-oldest college has banned faculty from having sexual relations with any and all students - even if they're not in the professor's class - after a scandalous article...
CROWN HEIGHTS AND BED-STUY 'HOT SPOTS' FOR PROSTATE CANCER
A new state cancer map released yesterday pin-points an alarming rate of "late-stage" prostate cancer in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The incidences of late-stage prostrate cancer in that section of...
TALIBAN ARE TOLD: YOU CAN GIVE UP - OR YOU CAN DIE
WASHINGTON - Afghan opposition forces yesterday gave Taliban and al Qaeda fighters three days to surrender the northern city or Kunduz - or face the bloodiest battle of the 46-day-long...
LASER LOUSE IN RAPE RAP - HAIR-REMOVAL CLIENT SAYS HE ATTACKED HER
A Madison Avenue laserologist tried to rape a woman who came to him for a bikini-line hair-removal treatment, authorities said yesterday. Investigators looking into the charge against Selcuk "Sal" Kandemir,...
VALLONE RAISING $1M FOR PETE PAC
Outgoing City Council Speaker Peter Vallone is hoping to raise as much as $1 million in a highly unusual $5,000-a-ticket fund-raiser just two weeks before leaving office. Aides said the...
WORKERS' COMP STOMP - DA: VIDEO OF FAKER DISPROVES HIS STORY
A bus maintenance man caught on videotape swinging a sledgehammer when he should have been laid up in bed was busted for chronic abuse of workers' compensation, prosecutors say. Andrew...
THIS SCANDAL'S DIANA IS NO LADY
ON THIS side of the Atlantic, she was known as "The Terminator." In merry olde England, she was "Mrs. Thatcher." But yesterday, Diana "DeDe" Brooks, the woman-of-steel ex-CEO of Sotheby's,...
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE, COPS TELL BX. 'KID KILLER'
Cops have fingered a 21-year-old man as the shooter of a 5-year-old boy and another innocent bystander who got caught in a crossfire when a fierce gun battle erupted on...
ISRAEL NABS TOP TERROR SUSPECT
JERUSALEM - Israeli forces yesterday arrested a high-ranking Palestinian radical linked to the assassination of a Cabinet minister. Officials said Ahmed Maslamani, seized in east Jerusalem, was a prominent official...
BILL'S BOY GEORGE WEDS
Former Clinton White House stud George Stephanopoulos tied the knot yesterday with Alexandra Wentworth in a star-filled ceremony on the Upper East Side. The beaming bride - an actress and...
INHALATION ANTHRAX HITS CONN. WOMAN, 94
A 94-year-old widow from rural Connecticut, who leaves her home only to go to the beauty parlor and church, has tested positive for deadly inhalation anthrax - the most perplexing...
DEMS' RECIPE FOR SELF-DEFEAT
NEW century, new truism: The late Tip O'Neill's well-worn observation that "all politics is local" no longer rings completely true. As far as New York's Democrats are concerned, all politics...
FALUN GONG FOREIGNERS BUSTED IN CHINA PROTEST
China plans to boot 35 foreign followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement - including several Americans - after they staged a protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square yesterday. The...
L.I. SEX-SLAVE SICKO GETS 4 YRS. IN JAIL
Long Island kink queen Beth Loschin pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually assaulting and torturing a Massachusetts teen last summer, getting a four-year stint in the slammer. The 46-year-old Farmingdale woman...
RUDY NIXES POSITION ON WTC PANEL
Mayor Giuliani has decided he doesn't want a role on the city-state commission that will oversee downtown redevelopment, sources told The Post yesterday. Giuliani will still name three people to...
OSAMA: DON'T LET U.S. GET ME ALIVE - ORDERS GUARDS TO KILL HIM IF HE'S CORNERED
WASHINGTON - An increasingly desperate Osama bin Laden has given his son and top aides instructions to kill him if American forces close in on his mountain hideout, according to...
LET THE METER . . . RUN!
A Midtown street turned into a surreal scene yesterday when a cab suddenly caught fire in the middle of the road. The unidentified cabby was driving on East 44th Street...
WE ALL NEED THIS 'MARCH' IN NOVEMBER
When the 75th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade steps off tomorrow at 9 a.m., it will be the biggest and brassiest yet. Led by the Radio City Rockettes, the high-steppers will...
CIGAR MAG GIVES HEROES A HOT TIME
Firefighters are used to rushing into smoky rooms - but yesterday they did it for fun, as Cigar Aficionado magazine hosted an event for the FDNY and NYPD at the...
ZERO DAYS OFF AT GROUND ZERO
The hundreds of workers at ground zero will stay on the job around the clock through Thanksgiving and the other upcoming holidays, Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday. The move came after...
DOOMED AIRPLANE'S RUDDER JERKED THREE TIMES
After nine days of study, investigators probing the crash of Flight 587 have isolated eight seconds of mayhem and three severe rudder movements as holding the key to the disaster....
POWER-PLANT AIR TESTS DUE
Environmental and community groups scored a big win yesterday as a top court told the state to do unprecedented air tests at 10 controversial power plants or shut them down...
TRAIN-PUSH VICTIM NOT DOING WELL
Doctors fear for the recovery of a Brooklyn woman whose neck was broken when a madman pushed her under a subway train last week, authorities said yesterday. Latchmie Ramsammy, a...
SCAM SUSPECT COULDN'T BEAR TO LOOK AT HIMSELF IN THE FACE
A scam artist, who surrendered after growing tired of seeing his wanted poster, was charged yesterday with 20 counts of police impersonation, theft and fraud, cops said. Keith Powell, 40,...
MELTING POT GOES NATIONWIDE - MORE IMMIGRANTS SETTLING IN OTHER CITIES
New York City may still be a melting pot, but more foreigners immigrating to the United States are settling in other cities. U.S. Census estimates released yesterday reveal that while...
EX-INS BIG IN NEW ALIEN-BILK SCHEME
A former INS inspector who did time for extortion is facing new charges of scamming would-be Chinese immigrants out of more than $575,000, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Using an alias,...
SLAIN REPORTERS FOUND DEATH GAS
Two of the journalists slain in Afghanistan this week had discovered what appeared to be highly deadly Sarin gas at one of Osama bin Laden's bases, it was reported yesterday....
EX-BIZ BIG BEATS RAP IN ASSAULT
A former Morgan Stanley analyst was feeling bullish yesterday after a Manhattan jury took just three hours to acquit him in a bizarre assault case that could have landed him...
CHOLESTEROL-FIGHTING DRUGS MAY HELP BEAT HIV
Cholesterol-lowering drugs may be able to slow the advance of HIV, researchers say. A study published in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences found that removing cholesterol from...
ARTHRITIS EASE COULD BE A GINGER SNAP
Ginger may help ease arthritis pain, a new study shows. A pill containing extracts of the popular root spice has proven to be just as effective as conventional painkillers, according...
JURY GETS SPA CLUB ASSAULT CASE
Jury deliberations began yesterday in an odd misdemeanor assault trial that could land a former Morgan Stanley analyst in jail for allegedly threatening and elbowing the director of the nightclub...
BUSH VOWS $1B FOR POOR - URGES AMERICANS TO 'DIG DEEPER'
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday pledged $1 billion in aid for the homeless and asked Americans to "dig a little deeper" for charity during the holiday season. Bush made the...
IT'S 'MARCH' IN NOVEMBER
When the 75th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade steps off tomorrow at 9 a.m., it will be the biggest and brassiest yet. Led by the Radio City Rockettes, the high-steppers will...
INHALATION ANTHRAX HITS CONN.
An elderly Connecticut woman has tested positive for inhalation anthrax - but authorities are waiting for more tests by the feds to confirm she has the disease. If the Centers...
U.S.-BRITAIN RIFT LOOMS OVER GROUND-FORCES PLAN
There is a rift developing between the United States and Britain over British plans to send 6,000 troops to Afghanistan, British newspapers reported yesterday. Prime Minister Tony Blair wants to...
SLAIN JOURNALISTS FOUND NERVE GAS IN TERROR LAIR
Two of the journalists slain in Afghanistan this week had discovered what appeared to be highly deadly Sarin gas at one of Osama bin Laden's bases, it was reported yesterday....
REVLON GETS MOORE FOR ITS MONEY
Hello, Clarice. Revlon has added another beauty to its stable, "Hannibal" star Julianne Moore. She'll join models Caroline Ribeiro and Rhea Durham and actresses Halle Berry, Melanie Griffith and Sarah...
TURKEY DAY STUFFIN'S - BANG YOUR DRUMSTICKS FOR PACKERS, BRONCOS
THE Silverdome always has been Brett Favre's personal house of horrors, a place where he's been chased down, smacked around and picked off. That will change tomorrow. In the past,...
IT'S FALLING APART
GIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: C+ Life on the run was no fun for Kerry Collins (21 of 37, 321 yards). Two interceptions came late and one deflected off his own receiver....
HERE'S A GUARANTEE: TWO LOSSES & IT'S OVER
FIRST things first: Jim Fassel guaranteed nothing late Monday night. What he wanted to say is he challenged his team in the aftermath of a 28-16 loss to the Vikings,...
TROUT TOPS WINTER FORECAST IN N.J.
THIS winter, the N.J. Division of Fish and Wildlife will release more than 12,000 rainbow trout into selected lakes throughout the state as part of its annual Winter Trout Stocking...
METS HAVE RIGHT BAIT TO HOOK SHEFFIELD
The Mets are determined not to make the same mistake twice. They let Gary Sheffield slip through their fingers last spring and paid a heavy price, falling out of the...
NETS NEED TO REGAIN INTENSITY
SALT LAKE CITY - The bus ride to practice for the Nets was as cheerful and uplifting as a week with the in-laws. "It was like we were about to...
YANKS TALK TURKEY WITH JASON'S AGENT
The romancing of Jason Giambi by the Yankees started yesterday when club officials had several discussions with Arn Tellem, the representative for the stud free agent first baseman. Yankee voices...
SPREE AND EASY - LATRELL POWERS KNICKS TO ROUT
OAKLAND - It took this arena and these Golden State fans to arouse the burning passions in Latrell Sprewell once again. In a shockingly dominant display for a club ready...
BLUESHIRTS LIGHT UP ROY
Theo Fleury snickered when asked if he cared to weigh in with an opinion on the Great White North's Great Debate - Who should be in nets for the Olympic...
RANGERS RIDIN' HIGH ON LINDROS' SHOULDERS
ERIC Lindros took out Dan Hinote on Vladimir Malakhov's goal, took Adam Foote to the corner on Theo Fleury's. Basically, Lindros took Colorado to the woodshed last night without scoring...
ICHIRO DOES IT AGAIN - NOSES OUT GIAMBI FOR AL MVP
Ichiro Suzuki knew he was MVP good. He just wasn't sure that America's baseball writers would catch on to his greatness. "I'm not surprised about how I did it this...
TIKI TESTY AFTER PLAY-CALL SNUBS
GIANT NOTES Tiki Barber appears ticked off about the way he was used - actually, the way he was not used - in the Giants' 28-16 loss to the Vikings...
BOSS TO SACK BULLPEN COACH
Although it hasn't been announced, Tony Cloninger is out as the Yankees' bullpen coach. And unlike hitting coach Gary Denbo's dismissal, which was handled by Joe Torre and GM Brian...
COTTRELL'S WORK PAYS D-VIDENDS
It's been a dizzying, down-and-up emotional ride this past month for Jet defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell. After what seemed like a lifetime building a reputation as one of the NFL's...
YASHIN'S BEEN WORTH THE COST
If you're looking for Alexei Yashin, you can probably find him in the stick room. Day after day, there's Yashin, sawing, shaving and putting a heat gun to his magic...
GOING GETS TOUGH IN NIT
There is a long-accepted notion that tough early schedules mold tough teams. Michigan State's Tom Izzo subscribes to that theory, but Jim Boeheim calls it a myth. Boeheim says it...
ALL IN ALL, DEVIL EFFORT KNOT BAD
Devils 3 - Flyers 3 PHILADELPHIA - If the Devils miss Alexander Mogilny this much, they'll be in even deeper trouble when Bobby Holik leaves. That situation may be the...
'SPOON HURT, IFFY FOR SUNS TONIGHT
KNICK NOTES OAKLAND - Carrying Clarence Weatherspoon into the locker room proved tougher last night than taking out the Warriors. 'Spoon sprained his right ankle late in the third quarter...
HOUSTON IS HARDLY 'D' MAN
KNICK NOTES OAKLAND - Jeff Van Gundy has kept the threat hanging for days, ever since he benched Allan Houston for Shandon Anderson to start the second half Friday in...
MAKING HIS POINT - VG DEFENDS DECISION TO STICK WITH JACKSON
OAKLAND - Not only did Jeff Van Gundy stick with Mark Jackson as his starting point guard for last night's game vs. Golden State, but the Knicks coach came to...
RANGERS NEED BEEF BEFORE SEASON GETS SERIOUS
CALGARY, which hasn't made the playoffs in five years, is 13-2-2. The Blackhawks, who haven't participated in four, and whose owner hasn't cared about winning in 40, are 12-6-4. Phoenix,...
THEO-LOGY: WINS, THEN GOLD
Theo Fleury, who almost certainly will be skating for Canada in the Salt Lake Games, snickered yesterday morning when asked if he cared to weigh in with an opinion on...
GOMEZ LEFT GROPING FOR ANSWERS
PHILADELPHIA - It's too late for a sophomore slump now that Scott Gomez is in his third NHL season. But the 1999-2000 NHL Rookie of the Year is confused and...