April 8, 2002
CABLEVISION'S STRIKEOUT - TAKES $600M HIT AFTER SNUBBING YANKEES
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amPlaying hardball with George Steinbrenner has come at a price for Cablevision - $587 million, to be exact. The cable giant's refusal to carry the Yankee's YES Network saw its...
CANADIANS NEAR DEAL FOR PUTNAM LOVELL
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amPutnam Lovell Group Inc., a boutique investment bank that caters to the financial services industry, is in advanced talks to be acquired by National Bank of Canada, sources familiar with...
WEINSTEIN EYES STARTING ARTSY MIRAMAX CHANNEL
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amStill smarting from his $27 million magazine flop with Tina Brown, Hollywood bad boy Harvey Weinstein is going back to his roots and launching an artsy TV channel. His Miramax...
TINA DOES H'WOOD? - $HE'S IN TALKS WITH HARVEY ON MIRAMAX ROLE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amWith more than a year to go on her five-year contract, Talk Media chief Tina Brown is already at the bargaining table with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein haggling over what...
IF THE KENNEDYS LIVED UPSTATE : LATEST LIFETIME FLICK IS ABOUT FAMILY BLINDSIDED BY RAPE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00am"We Were TheMulvaneys" Tonight at 9 on Lifetime 3 boxes of Kleenex TONIGHT'S Lifetime original movie, "We Were The Mulvaneys," from the Joyce Carol Oates novel, is the story about...
'SOUTH PARK' WON'T KILL KENNY ANYMORE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHOSE crazy kids in "South Park" have finally killed off Kenny for good. The creators of the popular, low-brow Comedy Central cartoon say the hooded, mumbling character - who as...
STARR REPORT
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amRicci guts it out - her battle with anorexia Everyone can rest easy now - Christina Ricci never saved her own vomit in a container while battling anorexia. Ricci, who's...
DOGS ARE DEF
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amTOPDOG/UNDERDOG []Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St. (212) 239-6200. ------- FOR thrilling theatrical fireworks, you're not going to do much better than Suzan-Lori Parks' "Topdog/Underdog," which opened at the Ambassador...
AND HERE WE GO, LOOPY LOUS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amHEARD the news? All of America is holding its breath this week to find out what Louis Rukeyser will do next. Don't believe me? I got it from King Louis...
DRIVEN BY GARAGE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amLAST night, Little Steven Van Zandt kicked off his garage-rock radio show (on Q104-FM at 7 p.m.), but you can find lots of this straight-up rock 'n' roll, even if...
THRIFT SECRETS OF THE RICH : BILLIONAIRES BATTLE OVER SECOND-HAND BARGAINS AT THE CITY OPERA THRIFT SALE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHE City Opera Thrift Store shopping benefit is about as far from a trip to Goodwill as you can get. Tonight, chauffeured Cadillacs will be deployed to take VIPs to...
WEDGE HAS EDGE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amTHE coolest way to lift your soles this spring is in a pair of this season's most popular shoes: wedge-heeled sandals. Whether you choose wedges with cork or stacked soles,...
ROXIE WITH MOXIE: CHEEKY BLONDE FINDS HOME IN NEW YORK'S 'CHICAGO'
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amBRITAIN'S perkiest TV star has the world's best weight-loss plan. "It's called the 'Chicago' workout," says Denise Van Outen. "Lose fat with Fosse!" Since starring in the hit musical in...
BLOOMY 'BUILDS' A BORING REPUTATION
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amI'M NO psychologist, but I think Mayor Bloomberg has a serious edifice complex. I diagnosed it for the first time last month, when Bloomberg announced plans to turn the Tweed...
ED. BD. TO REBOOT TECH WING BY PRIVATIZING
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy plans to privatize management of all of the Board of Education's sprawling computer services - and the firm founded by billionaire businessman Ross Perot is vying...
SLAIN HERO'S LAST GIFT: WIS. PARAMEDIC RAISED 26G FOR 9/11 VICTIMS' KIN
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amHUDSON, Wis. - It's a gift from beyond the grave: a nearly $26,000 windfall for widows and children of fallen WTC firefighters and emergency workers, given by a man who...
CHUCK SEEKS FEDERAL CLOUT TO COMBAT AUTO CHEATS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amClaiming that auto-insurance fraud is a "Fortune 500" business, Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday said he will introduce legislation to make it a federal crime. "In New York City, the average...
MADONNA $HUT OUT HER POOR, OLD FATHER
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amMiserly Madonna has warbled a bitter tune to her destitute dad: Papa, don't leach. Madonna's stepmom bitterly lambastes the songstress in a British news report for not helping her 70-year-old...
HUGH NIXES ROLE ON BEHALF OF LIZ
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amHeartthrob Hugh Grant has snubbed a major movie role alongside Julia Roberts in an effort to defend the honor of his former gal pal Liz Hurley. Grant - star of...
DURST 'A GOOD BUTCHER': PRIVATE EYE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amCross-dressing millionaire Robert Durst allegedly did an expert job of carving up the elderly Texas man he is accused of killing, a private eye says. "I think he was a...
DROUGHT $TALKS N.Y. VEGGIE LOVERS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe severe drought that has gripped our area over the last six months could mean higher prices at the supermarket this summer. Experts say the lack of rain and high...
BOMB THREAT GROWS HERE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe escalation of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel makes an attack by a lone bomber on a target inside the United States a "serious threat," according to American intelligence. "It's...
COUNCIL RINGS ALARM ON MAYOR'S EMS CUTS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is doing a "woefully inadequate" job of collecting $130 million it's owed by insurance companies for ambulance services, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller said yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg has...
DON'T EXPECT PREGNANCY AT 40: STUDY
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amLate motherhood among celebrities may make headlines but, for most women, waiting until 40 to have babies is too late, according to new research. Actress Liz Hurley just gave birth...
THOUSANDS AT U.N. STAND UP FOR ISRAEL
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThousands of Israel supporters rallied outside the United Nations yesterday, demanding an end to the violence that has plagued the Middle East. "Everyone is here for a purpose," said Millie...
TERRIFYING NEW REVELATION IN ANTHRAX-LETTER ATTACKS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amShocking new scientific analysis reveals that the fiend who unleashed the deadly anthrax attacks made a "weaponized" form of the bacteria more sophisticated than anything ever seen before. The disturbing...
BRAVE MOM BURNED IN VAIN BID TO SAVE TOT
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amA quick-moving fire claimed the life of a little girl early yesterday morning and badly injured three other family members as they slept in their Far Rockaway, Queens, home. The...
'HIGH LINE' RAIL MAY RUN AGAIN
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday the city will launch a four-month feasibility study on reusing the elevated "high line railway" that runs from Greenwich Village to West 34th Street. The railway,...
SNARED FIEND'S SNEERING TAUNT
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amOsama bin Laden's top terror commander Abu Zubaydah taunted Pakistani cops with cries of "You're not Muslims" when they foiled his escape from an al Qaeda safe house, it was...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThey've lost their head. Curators at a Texas museum say a shrunken human head they had on display has been stolen. The baseball-sized head of an American Indian woman was...
TIME STANDS STILL FOR MURDERED BX. BOY'S FAMILY
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amTime hasn't healed the wounds for the family of Romel "Ray Ray" Jenkins, the 5-year-old bystander gunned down in The Bronx last fall. Time's actually at a standstill. "It's still...
MIKE INSISTS A STAR ISN'T BORN
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amFresh from his first starring role in a musical, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said his performance at the Inner Circle charity dinner won't put him in the pantheon of Broadway greats....
COLD-CASE COPS LOSE '79 SLAY FILE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amA missing case file has stalled a re-examination of evidence in the unsolved, grisly murder of a Brooklyn couple more than 20 years ago. Three weeks ago, The Post reported...
ANDY: ARAFAT IS ANYTHING BUT NOBEL
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amGubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo called on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to yank Yasser Arafat's 1994 peace prize yesterday, saying he's doing the award a "dishonor." "The Nobel Committee should rescind...
MOUSSAOUI DEAL MAY BE BREWING
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors reportedly have been taking it easy on alleged "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui, suggesting there may be a deal with him in the works. Moussaoui, suspected of being part...
ROCKETS FIRED AT PEACEKEEPERS IN KABUL
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amTwo rockets were fired at peacekeeping troops in Kabul yesterday, with one explosion detonating only yards away from their compound, security forces said. One of the rockets - a 107...
POWELL MAY 'PERMIT' A CHAT WITH ARAFAT
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amAs he headed off on his high-stakes Mideast peace mission, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he'll meet Yasser Arafat "if circumstances permit" - and avoided any tough criticism of...
BIG-BUCKS TERMINAL PROPOSAL GENERATES TRANSIT HUB-BUB
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amA gleaming new transit hub connecting PATH and subway trains and ferry terminals is likely to be the first multibillion-dollar project approved for a rebuilt downtown. "In my way of...
A PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE NAME OF MLK
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton and two children of Martin Luther King held a prayer vigil in Battery Park yesterday to observe the 34th anniversary of King's death and to pray...
ISRAEL SHELLED FROM LEBANON - JETS STRIKE BACK AS NEW FRONT OPENS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Frantic Israeli civilians yesterday flocked to bomb shelters as guerrillas along Lebanon's southern border opened fire on them in the most intense fighting in the area in two...
DOWNTOWN DOLLAR DILEMMA - FEDS GAVE US $21B TO REBUILD - NOW WHAT?
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amA vast array of costly projects has been proposed for an extensive makeover of lower Manhattan - but very little has been said about who'll pay for a massive rebuilding...
CARDINAL GIVES BOOT TO N.Y. 'SUSPECT' SIX
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amSix New York-area Catholic priests tainted by sexual-misconduct charges have been asked by Edward Cardinal Egan to leave their jobs, church officials said last night. The six were on a...
ISRAEL DIGS IN: TROOPS POUND W. BANK DESPITE BUSH PLEA
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel launched a fierce offensive against two West Bank towns yesterday - a day after President Bush demanded it take immediate steps to end bloodshed in the region....
TWISTED TALE OF LOVE-TRIO SLAY CASE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amRubina Malik married two men - one because it was arranged by her father, a rich and influential Pakistani. The other she wed secretly because they were in love. The...
MT. SINAI LET MY HUBBY DIE: WIDOW
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe widow of a man who died waiting for a last-chance liver transplant at Mount Sinai Hospital claims the people who might have saved his life moved "like their feet...
DURST CARVED UP VICTIM LIKE A PRO, SAYS DETECTIVE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amCross-dressing millionaire Robert Durst allegedly did an expert job of carving up the elderly Texas man he is accused of killing, a private eye says. "I think he was a...
DOWNTOWN DOLLAR DILEMMA : MOUNTING MAKEOVER COSTS LOOM FOR APPLE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amA vast array of costly projects has been proposed for an extensive makeover of lower Manhattan - but very little has been said about who'll pay for a massive rebuilding...
REBOOT: ED. BD. PRIVATIZING TECH WING
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy plans to privatize management of all of the Board of Education's sprawling computer services - and the firm founded by billionaire businessman Ross Perot is vying...
CELTICS, NETS HAVING BRAWL WITH RIVALRY
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amDuring shootaround yesterday, Paul Pierce said that there wasn't a rivalry between the Celtics and the Nets. "It's not a rivalry," said Boston's star guard, who was plagued by foul...
IT'S OFFICIAL: RANGERS OUT!
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThis was the morning of April 4, 2001, at the Garden, and the Rangers had just finished posing for their team picture. Dave Checketts was talking to The Post about...
CELEBRATION'S ON HOLD: SCRAPPING CELTS PREVENT N.J.'S DIVISION CLINCHER
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amCeltics 102 Nets 90 Oh, well, tomorrow's another day. And so are Wednesday and Thursday for that matter. "We wanted to end it tonight but unfortunately it didn't happen," said...
MILBURY'S PATIENCE FINALLY PAYING OFF
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThis is just the beginning. That's what GM Mike Milbury is hoping after the Islanders, Saturday, clinched their first playoff berth since 1994. Instead of sitting around patting himself on...
WIN WON'T WOW DEVS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amOVERTIMEDevils 3Bruins 2 It's not false modesty. The Devils are less impressed with themselves than the results would suggest, and for good reason. Three games before the playoffs, they remain...
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SHUN-DAMENTALS ; STARS IGNORE BASICS FOR BIG-DOLLAR HIGHLIGHTS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amIN the second inning of Monday's Met opener, after Mike Piazza turned a double into a single by not running out a bloop down the right-field line, Fran Healy said,...
TORRE: GIAMBI MAY STAY AT DH
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Before yesterday's 7-2 win over Tampa Bay, Joe Torre said he put Jason Giambi in the DH spot for the second consecutive game because of the cold. Afterward...
YANKS HAPPY TO FOLLOW SORIANO'S LEAD
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amA television crew approached Alfonso Soriano after yesterday's 7-2 win over the Devils Rays at the Stadium looking for an interview. Soriano politely turned them away. "I'm not that comfortable...
JASON WINS OVER BRONX WITH ONE LITTLE SWING
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amIT DOESN'T take much to win over Yankee fans these days. In fact, sometimes just a modest ground ball that bounces a half-dozen times on its way into centerfield, barely...
'SLUMPING' DEREK'S BACK IN .300 TERRITORY
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amAnother Yankee win, and another silly question, one that never should have been asked in the first place, is answered. No, this is not the year that Derek Jeter shows...
METS CANCEL BROOM SERVICE... BUT SHOW ATLANTA THEY BELONG
April 8, 2002 | 4:00am14 INNINGSBraves 5Mets 2ATLANTA - Joe Frazier's swollen, bumpy face from his March 8, 1971 classic bout at the Garden against Muhammad Ali came to mind after watching the Braves...
ROCKET'S TURN TO SHINE ; PERFECT FOR FOUR, CLEMENS EXTENDS STAFF'S DOMINANCE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 7Devil Rays 2 The scent of perfection hung in the cold air. Roger Clemens' pitches owned that type of precision. Behind from the start, the Devil Rays looked as...
'HOME' PASSES PREP WHILE OTHERS FALTER
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThree horses ranked high on last week's "Derby Dozen" were heavily favored over the weekend in their final preps for the May 4 Run for the Roses - Repent in...
AMAZIN'S CANCEL BROOM SERVICE: GILES' HOME RUN IN 14TH FOILS SWEEP OF BRAVES
April 8, 2002 | 4:00am14 innings Braves 5 Mets 2 ATLANTA - By the time he took the mound to begin a fifth inning of relief yesterday, Satoru Komiyama was beginning to resemble Stretch...
AILING MO TO BE RE-EXAMINED
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mo Vaughn's trip to Chicago will include a stopover in New York. The Met first baseman will have his swollen right hand re-examined by team doctors today. Vaughn...
SCOTT, ANTOINE IN JAWING MATCH
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES Byron Scott refused to back down from future Hall of Famer Karl Malone. So he wasn't about to take anything from Antoine Walker. Scott and Walker jawed as...
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE: KINGS COAST PAST HELPLESS KNICKS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amKings 116Knicks 82 SACRAMENTO - Latrell Sprewell had seen the Knicks take enough abuse from the Kings last night at Arco Arena. Showing no mercy, Sacramento had built a 40-point...
KNICKS HAVE EYES ON 7-1 CENTER FROM TURKEY
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - With the franchise's recent philosophical change about European players, Knicks scout Jay Hillock was dispatched overseas for two weeks in mid-to-late March. Hillock scouted players in six countries,...
CELTS HAVE NETS' NUMBER
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amREMEMBER that great playoff battle between Bernard King's Knicks and Larry Bird's Celtics in 1983-84? Get ready for a renewed version of that war only the Nets will be playing...
GILES HR IN 14TH FOILS AMAZIN' SWEEP OF BRAVES
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA -The Mets dared Marcus Giles to beat them, and that's exactly what he did. The diminutive Atlanta second baseman slammed a three-run homer off Satoru Komiyama in the 14th...
THORN'S MEADOWLANDS MIRACLE
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amYES, there is magic in the air. Even if you don't have DirecTV. While all the attention has been on George Steinbrenner's other first-place team, the one with the Pinstripes...
SCOTT MASTERMINDED SEAT SWAP
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amNET NOTES The scouting staff ranked the rookies for last June's draft. Team president Rod Thorn engineered the draft night trade, plus the swap of Stephon Marbury for Jason Kidd...
MACCULLOCH: WE NEED TO FINISH STRONG
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amThe Nets might be headed to their first Eastern Conference championship since entering the league, but Todd MacCulloch has experienced it before and sees reason to be optimistic. "Every team...
NETS FINALLY GETTING VIEW FROM THE TOP
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amIt was a virtual certainly, coming, if not last night, then sometime this week. And when the moment arrived that the Nets clinched their first ever Atlantic Division championship, it...
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE : KINGS COAST PAST HELPLESS KNICKS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amKings 116 Knicks 82 SACRAMENTO - After Sacramento's Chris Webber whipped a bounce pass to Mike Bibby for another uncontested layup to put the Kings up 73-37 with a few...
SPREE: C-WEBB, SAC CAN BE KINGS - LATRELL SAYS OLD FRIEND CAN BUMP LOS ANGELES OFF
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Remember, Latrell Sprewell has an extremely high opinion of his former Golden State teammate Chris Webber. But the Knicks swingman believes the Kings can dethrone the Lakers, come...
POSTELL EXCUSE FOR SITTING SOUNDS 'FLIMSY'
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES SACRAMENTO - After missing the first two games of this West Coast trip, Lavor Postell said he would try to play last night vs. Sacramento. It's a shame...
RANGERS NEARING HISTORIC DROUGHT
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amMissing the NHL playoffs five straight years isn't merely as bad as it sounds, it's worse. A little historical perspective on where this Ranger feat will stand once it becomes...
ALL-CHSAA HOOPS
April 8, 2002 | 4:00amPlayer of the Year: Curtis Sumpter, Bishop Loughlin, 6-7, Sr, F Ted Gustus was afraid several times this year that Loughlin's season might be lost. "We were young and playing...