January 21, 2002
THE GRAND INQUISITOR - CAN JOHN MCENROE BECOME THE NEXT GREAT QUIZ MASTER?
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amREVELING in a ratings bonanza the day after the debut of ABC's "The Chair," it's caustic host, John McEnroe, is a little shocked to hear his name mentioned in the...
'BEAUTIFUL' OMEN FOR AN OSCAR
January 21, 2002 | 5:00am'A BEAUTIFUL Mind" sure looks like the picture to beat at the Oscars following its Golden Globes triumph last night. The awards for best picture (drama), Best Actor (drama) for...
STARR REPORT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amBaker's dozen: Sarah Frank at 13 There's much more to Sarah Frank than "the woman who brought 'Ab Fab' to America." True, Frank - the former president of BBC Worldwide...
LINDA REVIEWS THE MOVIE
January 21, 2002 | 5:00am"Video Voyeur" [ 1/2] 9 p.m. tonight on Lifetime ---------- WHAT could/would/should you do if you find out that someone has been videotaping your most intimate and secret moments? (Answer...
GOOD-TIME SADIES
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amTORONTO'S the Sadies, featuring country-pickin' brothers Travis and Dallas Good, move fluidly through garage rock, alt-country, surf-abilly and cowpunk. Their electrifying originals even have the feel of a spaghetti-Western soundtrack....
A POWER PLAY FALLS TO PIECES
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amNO. 11 (BLUE AND WHITE) McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, (212) 206-1515. Through Feb. 3. ------ THE patterns of life in a rich, suburban high school appear to...
SECOND TO NUN - JODIE FOSTER, THE FORMER CLARICE STARLING, PICKS UP A NEW HABIT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - There are a few things the normally loquacious Jodie Foster doesn't like to talk about - her private life and "Hannibal," for starters. She was friendly...
SECURITY GADGETS TO GET PRINTS OF THE CITY
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amNew high-tech fingerprint scanners will soon be providing speedier background checks on Big Apple cabby, limo-driver and dock-worker wannabes. Both the city Taxi and Limousine Commission and the bistate Waterfront...
WTC 'VISIONARIES' ON DELICATE GROUND
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amWOULD you like a 110-story "building full of holes" that's "pre-shot, pre-blown-out and pre-exploded"? Or would you like a New World Peace Center consisting of a series of crabgrass-like towers...
STARS' 'NET' WORTH - 'LOW-COST' LUCCI TOPS LIST OF TV'S BEST BARGAINS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amShe is among the best of television's scheming soap stars and has appeared on "All My Children" since its debut in 1970, but Emmy-winning Susan Lucci also turns out to...
BARBARIC BX. BRAWL LEAVES 7 INJURED
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amFive men were stabbed and another two injured in a savage brawl in a Bronx diner early yesterday, a police source said. The patrons viciously slashed and punctured each other...
SNOW CAN'T SLOW WTC LABOR CREWS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00am'Sno problem - that's what workers at Ground Zero said when the white stuff started falling over the weekend. "Work continued, and there was no delay," said Frank McCarton, a...
NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND OMAR
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amTribal forces in Afghanistan are closing in on Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar as he runs out of places to hide. "He is still in Afghanistan," Kandahar governor Gul Agha...
GENDER-BENDER VICTORY VS. RAPE SHELTER
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amA Canadian woman who used to be a man has been awarded $5,000 because her dignity was injured after her bid to become a rape counselor was rejected. Kimberly Nixon,...
MADONNA'S EX TELLS OF HIS ABORT SUPPORT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe ex-boyfriend who made Madonna pregnant says he supported her decision to abort their baby. Andy Bird, a penniless English drifter when he met the Material Girl - who'd already...
'DEVIL' DROVE MOM TO MURDER
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amMurderous mom Andrea Yates' zombie-like demeanor masked a twisted mind dominated by demons and blood lust, a new report reveals. Yates, 37, has been charged with capital murder in Houston,...
CONVENTION-AL WISDOM - GOP BIG: APPLE A 'FAVORITE' FOR '04 BASH
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A top Republican said yesterday that New York is a top contender to host the GOP presidential convention in 2004. "I certainly think it's a sentimental favorite to...
BYE, BYE, GUYS? DOCS DEVELOP FAKE SPERM
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amMen may soon be cut out of the equation when it comes to making babies. A revolutionary new fertility technique is being developed that would make it possible for two...
DARING YANK STEPPES UP TO SPREAD WORD OF OSAMA BOUNTY
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amWhen President Bush said the United States would get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," everyone seemed to be putting up the Osama wanted posters. One man took this terror...
TREAT THEM LIKE MOBSTERS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amTHE writer F. Scott Fitzgerald said it best: "The rich are different from you and me." The alleged heist-meisters in the Enron-Andersen second-story job are still counting their millions, as...
POWERBALL KEEPS ROLLING AS JACKPOT REACHES $80 MILLION
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe gigantic jackpot of the multistate Powerball lottery hit $80 million yesterday after the 15th-straight draw without a winner. The cash prize for a sole winner on Wednesday would be...
DRY ICE: WINTRY CITY STARING AT DROUGHT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amWe may be just weeks from a full-fledged drought, city officials warned yesterday. The city's water supply is at a dangerously low level, having dropped steadily in recent weeks. The...
AIR-TRAFFIC 'CONTROLLER' - REP'S PLAN CUTS FLIGHTS OVER ROCKAWAYS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amNew flying patterns that will substantially reduce the number of flights over the Rockaways were unveiled yesterday - but residents remained skeptical. Concerns over the noise and danger of planes...
BIDDER RIDES OFF WITH ROY'S 412G SADDLE
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amRoy Rogers' silver-, gold- and ruby-studded saddle sold at auction for a whopping $412,000 - as his family unloaded the star's prized possession to pay off a Wild West-sized tax...
MONICA DOES MOSCOW IN RUSSIAN OPERA
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amA new opera headed for the stage in Moscow could have Monica Lewinsky seeing red. The Sexgate intern will be portrayed as a KGB double agent in "Monica in the...
CAROL BURNETT'S DAUGHTER CARRIE LOSES HER FIGHT WITH LUNG CANCER
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amComedian Carol Burnett's 38-year-old daughter, who shared her mother's struggles with addiction and collaborated with her on a play, died yesterday in Los Angeles. Carrie Louise Hamilton, an actress and...
CHOPPER CRASH KILLS 2 MARINES - MECHANICAL PROBLEM IS BLAMED IN AFGHAN SUPPLY-FLIGHT TRAGEDY
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amMechanical failure is being eyed as the cause of a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed two Marines and injured five others. In the third fatal U.S. military aircraft crash...
NO HOPE ON THE VERIZON - CO-OP HAS HAD PHONE DISSERVICE SINCE 9/11
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amResidents of a building on lower Broadway are livid at Verizon because many of them are still without telephone service more than four months after the World Trade Center attack....
ENRON AUDITOR: IT'S NOT ON OUR ACCOUNT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amAccounting giant Arthur Andersen - accused of turning a blind eye to Enron's shady financial practices - insisted yesterday its actions were "appropriate." Andersen Chief Executive Officer Joseph Berardino tried...
PERFECT STYLES WERE IN FASHION
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amStunning. That's the only word to describe practically all the red-carpet walkers at the Golden Globe Awards. There was nary a Fashion Don't in sight as Hollywood's brightest stars proved...
RUMSFELD: JAIL NOT SO TERROR-BLE
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday defended the treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda detainees in Cuba, as another plane full of prisoners landed at Guantanamo Bay. The 34 terror thugs,...
AWARDS ARE 'MIND' EXPANDING - 'BEAUTIFUL' FLICK, 'MOULIN ROUGE' TAKE TOP HONORS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00am"A Beautiful Mind," the movie about a schizophrenic mathematician, came up with the biggest numbers last night at the Golden Globes, taking four major awards: best dramatic film, screenplay, actor...
ISRAEL THWARTS SUICIDE BOMBER
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Bracing for a new wave of terrorism, Israel early today captured a would-be suicide bomber on his way to a town north of Tel Aviv while wearing an...
ALLIES PLEDGING MILLIONS TO REBUILD
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amRepresentatives of more than 60 governments and international organizations are meeting in Tokyo today and tomorrow to pledge millions toward rebuilding Afghanistan's economy. The United States pledged $296 million over...
BROOKLYN GETS 'MENTAL' COURT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe state is opening a mental-health court in Brooklyn to keep the mentally ill from getting trapped in revolving-door justice. The aim of the court, set to open in March...
B'KLYN HS HOOP TEAM CAN'T PASS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe basketball team at Brooklyn's Prospect Heights HS is flunkin' instead of dunkin'. Prospect had to drop its heralded boys varsity basketball program this year after six of its 11...
LABOR NOW WORKS FOR REPUBLICANS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amNEW YORK Democrats face more defections from the powerful state labor movement as the AFL-CIO moves closer to Gov. Pataki and the GOP, The Post has learned. Sources said the...
ENRON AUDITOR: IT'SNOT ON OUR ACCOUNT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amAccounting giant Arthur Andersen - accused of turning a blind eye toward shady financial practices by Enron - insisted yesterday its actions were "appropriate." Andersen Chief Executive Officer Joseph Berardino...
MUSH ADO OVER DOG-SLED CRASH
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amA Canadian woman's bizarre, dangerous-driving lawsuit, targeting a dog-sledding psychiatrist, has given cops in the Arctic "paws." Barbara McKenzie, of Whitehorse, Yukon, slammed into a dog sled on the Alaska...
'GUARD'FATHER IS THE BIG WINNER - TOP CELEBS SEARCHED AT AWARDS-SHOW DOOR
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amA glittery Who's Who of Hollywood turned out last night for the 59th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Attendance was heavy, although slightly more subdued than...
ISRAELIS AWAIT NEW TERROR
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel is bracing for a new wave of suicide and car bombings after receiving urgent intelligence warnings in the last few days, The Post has learned. "We are...
LOU'S GOT SOME HOLES TO FILL
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - This is duct tape method of emergency repair. Meanwhile, sources say Lou Lamoriello fears another pipe is deteriorating, and the Devils' GM may have already decided that he...
KNICKS FACE CRUCIAL TEST - AIM TO STING HORNETS IN MLK DAY MATCHUP
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe Knicks have played some memorable games over the years on Martin Luther King Day. Last season's win over San Antonio included Marcus Camby's botched attack on Danny Ferry that...
GOOSE WADDLES INTO RETIREMENT
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Though somehow it is hard to believe the hole in the middle of Tony Siragusa's fat face will ever be plugged, the 340-pound defensive tackle assuredly has stopped...
DONOVAN STARTING TO SPREAD HIS WINGS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Donovan McNabb has put the NFL and the Giants on notice. The mobile quarterback is the most dangerous weapon in the league and he has that Jason Kidd...
NETS HIT ROAD ON TOP OF GAME
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amExactly what the Nets expect out of their four-game road trip depends on whom you ask. Coach Byron Scott says breaking even would be OK. Rookie Richard Jefferson says three...
BIG MONEY OR FANS' WELFARE? TO THE NFL, IT'S NO CONTEST
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amTHE institutionalized lunacy that found the replay rule beating the Raiders in an overtime, prime-time, New England snowstorm Saturday night was nothing compared to what we didn't see. At game's...
JOHNNIES GET THEIRS IN END - HATTEN JUMPER TOPS CATS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amSt. John's 65 - Villanova 63 What does one make of this St. John's team? It is 13-4 overall, 4-2 in the Big East after a 65-63 win over Villanova...
RAMS CLEARLY AT HEAD OF THE PACK - ST. LOO TURNS FAVRE INTO INT MACHINE
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amRams 45 - Packers 17 ST. LOUIS - No, Brett Favre did not take a dive in this game the way he did in sacking himself against Michael Strahan and...
TONY DUTROW'S GOING TO 'WAR'
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amTrainer Rick Dutrow Jr. is vying with Scott Lake atop the standings at the current Aqueduct meet, but no one's been more dangerous this winter at the Big A than...
PATRIOTS GET PROPS FROM SLASH
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Kordell Stewart (12-22, 154 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) moved one step closer to redemption and vindication yesterday. The quarterback who they tried to run out of town...
BUS GETS 'SHOT' DOWN
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The Bus got a flat tire yesterday. "I just took a shot, pretty routine, and my body just had an adverse effect," Bettis said after Steelers downed the...
NEW TERRIBLE TOWELS CLEAN BALTIMORE'S CLOCK
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - It is a different place than Three Rivers, and it seemed like a different time yesterday, when the Steel Curtain came roaring out of this Iron City's past...
THE STEEL CURTAIN FALLS ON RAVENS - PITTSBURGH, KORDELL 'D'-THRONE BIRDS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The short, loud, reign of the Ravens is over. The Steelers rendered the loss of Jerome Bettis moot and the loquacious Super Bowl champions mute yesterday, zipping their...
FAVRE FLOPS WITH SIX-PACK OF PICKS
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Brett Favre figured he could have done even more. "I could have thrown eight, had we gotten the ball back," he said wryly. Six was enough -...
RAMS ARE CLEARLY AT HEAD OF 'D' PACK - SIX INTS OF BRETT DOOM GB
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - His defense was so good, Mike Martz probably feels even Jason Sehorn could have picked off a pass. Brett Favre was so bad, you figured he must...
QUIET KURT'S GOOD ENOUGH
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amNFC NOTES ST. LOUIS - It's been a rough stretch for Kurt Warner. He was hit in the throat in the regular-season finale against the Falcons and bruised his vocal...
AENEAS LEADS D IN PICK PARADE
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amNFC NOTES ST. LOUIS - The marquee matchup of Brett Favre vs. Kurt Warner did not come off as scheduled. The two Pro Bowl quarterbacks had their moments, but it...
SHAW FIGHTS PAIN FOR STRONG GAME
January 21, 2002 | 5:00amST. JOHN'S NOTES Only Willie Shaw knows how much pain shoots through his left knee on a daily basis. The MRI he had earlier this season confirmed there is no...