June 16, 2002
NICOLE MILLER TAKES ON THE PILL
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIs there anything she won't do? Fashion designer Nicole Miller is coming dangerously close to Pierre Cardin territory of overexposure with her most recent fashion foray. Known for her kitschy...
COIN OF THE REALM RETURNS FOR SALE BY GOV'T.
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAt $6 million, it's the most valuable coin the world, but owning it is a federal crime that'll land you in prison. The fabled 1933 Double Eagle is known as...
LEGG MASON SIGNS UP . . . A CRISIS HONCHO?
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt must be nice to be so on top of your game you can joke about hiring a crisis management expert. That's exactly what Bill Miller, the winningest mutual fund...
HISPANIC RADIO DEAL WORTH WAIT
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIn announcing Univision's blockbuster deal to buy Hispanic Broadcasting Corp., Univision CEO Jerry Perenchio finally succeeded in clinching a deal he's been pursuing for years. One source familiar with the...
LADIES CHEER BELNICK BOOTING
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amWhen the news broke that Mark Belnick was ousted from his job as general counsel for Tyco, dozens of Wall Street women let out whoops of joy. The women in...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS & LOSERS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amWINNERS: Catherine Zeta-Jones: The sultry Hollywood star was named the new million dollar spokesperson for VoiceStream, replacing Jamie Lee Curtis. Clive Calder: The king of teen pop sold his Zomba...
LINCOLN CENTER AND ITS FAILED MISSION
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAsk anyone who knows or reads me: I'm a sucker for the non-profits. Sure, I love Broadway and the so-called commercial theater, but I believe the future of the English-speaking...
SHE'S NEVER HAD A REALLY BAD DAY : 4 QUESTIONS FOR CATHERINE BELL
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amWho are your heroes? My mom is one of my heroes. She was a single mother who worked and took care of me and has always been supportive and loving...
HOMER IN A THONG DIDN'T WORRY THEM DOWN RIO WAY
June 16, 2002 | 4:00am"The Simpsons:Blame It on Lisa"(Wed. at 8 on Ch. 5) FOX has a reply to Brazilians who were offended by an episode of "The Simpsons" this past season: The network...
'KISS' OFF!
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAmerica has always been prudish when it comes to movie sex. Take Billy Wilder's 1964 black comedy, "Kiss Me, Stupid." Protests by the then-powerful Legion of Decency, which tried to...
A MOB-AND-POP SHOW
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIf you're among the many TV executives looking for an original, one-of-a-kind, groundbreaking reality series that apes "The Osbournes" as closely as possible without constituting copyright infringement, you've come to...
VACATION ROMANCE OR SOMETHING MORE?
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amI've always been keen on holiday romances - the overly eager teen in Brazil, for example, and my buck-toothed condo builder in Colorado. But usually, after a couple of days...
RISING STAR SOMETHING TO 'CHERISH'
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amFor a rising Hollywood star who would turn heads on her worst day, Robin Tunney had some inspired ideas about how to make her "Cherish" character seem believably dorky and...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: LISA RINNA
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amLush-lipped actress Lisa Rinna is ecstatic about her new job on cable TV's "SoapTalk," a gig she says she's always dreamed about. Not only does she get to talk about...
THE MOUTH THAT ROARED - AND ROARED SOME MORE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amOn the court and off, John McEnroe is infamous for putting his racket in his mouth - and a few other inappropriate places. Is he a charming rebel or an...
MARTHA MIGHT LOOK MARVELOUS IN DESIGNER STRIPES
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt's not a good thing. Martha Stewart, the queen of canning, might end up in the can. Yes, the woman who has deco rated every home except the big house...
HOOD FAREWELL: NEIGHBORS PAY THEIR RESPECTS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Dapper Don's funeral created a mob scene in his old Queens neighborhood and near his infamous hangout yesterday as people said farewell to someone "who will live forever." Hundreds...
EX-COP OBSESSED WITH ONE WHO GOT AWAY - A PRIEST
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amDALLAS.LOUIS SERRANO is a former city cop who is still chasing a criminal he can't collar: the Catholic Church. In his eyes, a runaway predator priest and the church hierarchy...
EGAN TO OUST PERVS IN 'CLEAR CASES'
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amEdward Cardinal Egan will seek to defrock any New York Archdiocese priest who has "a clear case" of child molestation, his spokesman said yesterday - as criticism continued about American...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe new nation of East Timor thinks it's found a way to fill its coffers: produce coffee. The poor, ravaged, newly independent country has grown the bean to great success...
NYPD PROVIDES THE PROTECTION
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amNew York's Finest made sure the streets of Queens were safe yesterday as John Gotti's funeral motorcade made its way through the borough and hundreds of spectators gathered along the...
DON SLEEPING WITH THE RICHES
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amCrime paid big-time for Dapper Don John Gotti. Investigators say his personal wealth was well into the millions, and he had tons of cash in multiple bank accounts. But the...
JAILED KIN MISS THE BIG SENDOFF
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amFuhgedaboudit! John Gotti's son and two of his brothers were unable to pay their last respects to the Dapper Don at the mob scene that was his funeral yesterday -...
A FORE!-TUNE SPENT ON OPEN TONY TENTS CEOS' FAIRWAY TO HEAVEN HOLE LOT OF DIFFERENCE IN SERVICE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amBethpage State Park is touted as the course for the common man, but the CEO's and VIPs visiting the U.S. Open have managed to bring country club comfort to this...
IT'S 'PETAL' TO THE METAL IN FLOWERY PROCESSION
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amFROM inside one of the 42 black cars in the John Gotti funeral procession, the streets of Queens seemed transformed into a slow-motion scene straight from "The Godfather." Gotti's cortege...
GOTTI GOES TO UNDERWORLD: 'FANS' OF DEAD DON MOB HIS BURIAL RITES IN QNS. SPECTACULAR
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amDapper Don John Gotti got a clapping, cheering, weeping sendoff yesterday from wiseguys, wannabes and ordinaryfellas who filled the streets as the outlaw hero took his final ride. "Goodbye John!...
MANY TOOK SAINTLY VIEW OF THIS SINNER
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIF today is Father's Day you better believe yesterday was Godfather's Day. "They took his body but they will never take his spirit," said son Peter Gotti. "A sad day...
PAYBACK'S A PITCH METS GET REVENGE ON CLEMENS WITH BATS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Mets took their revenge on Roger Clemens yesterday afternoon not by hitting him, but by shellacking him. Two years after the Rocket drilled Met catcher Mike Piazza, the Mets...
THANKS, DAD, FOR TEACHING ME TO CHASE MY DREAMS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amYESTERDAY my dad made the final journey to his resting place. John Gotti was an incredible man and I know he would have been impressed by the hundreds of people...
'COP' BUSTED IN PERV SNAPSHOT
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amA peace officer who took a photograph of his girlfriend's sleeping 14-year-old daughter with her breast exposed has been busted, police said yesterday. Stanley Bates, 30, an employee of the...
'VIGILANTE' JEWS WILL SET FORTH A BATTLE PLAN
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Jewish Defense Group - which says it wants to protect its neighborhood even as critics call them vigilantes looking to inflame tensions - will hit the streets today with...
NEW MT. SINAI SHOCK STAFF JUST LAUGHED AS MOM LAY DYING: KIN
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe death of a woman in the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency room six years ago has come back to haunt the hospital at a time when its patient care is...
NO BODIES FOUND YET IN BANK
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amClad in Tyvex jumpsuits and heavy-duty respirators, recovery workers spent their second day searching for human remains inside the controversial Deutsche Bank building on Liberty Street yesterday. Nine firefighters teamed...
GANG'S ALL THERE: WHO'S WHO OF MOBSTERS SHOW UP FOR BURIAL
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amDozens of mobsters said farewell to John Gotti yesterday, packing a small chapel inside St. John Cemetery to say goodbye to their former crime boss. The wiseguys - who included...
SWINGERS HAD A GOLF BALL WITH SOME 'PROS'
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amCall it a golf wife's worst nightmare. Cops found a prostitution ring in full swing at a California golf course, complete with sex romps with golfers on the fairways of...
ISRAELI TROOPS SLAIN 2 SHOT AFTER HELPING FOIL CAR-BOMB PLOT
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Israeli soldiers were shot dead in a Gaza Strip gun battle yesterday - just two hours after their unit foiled what officials said could have been a devastating car...
WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN APT.
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side woman was discovered bludgeoned to death in her apartment last night, cops said. Police responded to the building at 1830 First Ave. after a neighbor reported...
PROBERS REVISIT '99 TEEN DEATH
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amState health officials are taking another look at the case of 13-year-old Toby Stein, who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1999 of an undetected infection. Free of cancer after...
MEET THE CLASS OF 9/11 BRAVE KIDS TO BE GRADS OF GROUND ZERO
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt should have been a memorable school year capped by commencement and career dreams. But for many high-school seniors affected by Sept. 11, the biggest lessons learned have been outside...
GRIEVING STUDENT STRUGGLING TO MAKE HER HERO DAD PROUD
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amOn the first day of Dana DeNiro's last year in high school, Peter Carroll celebrated by making his stepdaughter a special breakfast. Hours later, Carroll was dead, one of 343...
FBI ARCHIVING MASSIVE TALE OF THE TAPES
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe FBI plans to keep hundreds of videotapes, thousands of surveillance photos and reams of investigative reports about late Gambino crime boss John Gotti. A massive amount of Gotti-related evidence...
PENNY-WISE & BILLIONAIRE FOOLISH
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAdmirers of Martha Stewart find it hard to believe she would ever gamble her $2.5 billion empire just to save a few hundred thousand dollars in an allegedly shady stock...
STEWART'S STOCK WOES HER 'LIVING' NIGHTMARE MARTHA DOWN $100M AS OWN FIRM HITS SKIDS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAnnus horribilus. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II said it first, but Martha Stewart is well on the way to making a declaration of her own. And it's only June. America's queen...
CELEB PALS SHUN BIOTECH DUD LIKE THE PLAGUE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe lights have gone out in the celebrity world Sam Waksal tried to befriend for fame and fortune. Now the founder of bruised biotech dud ImClone has been indicted on...
BUSH REBUFFS ARIEL ON FREEING COLLARED POLLARD
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. THE only "no" that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heard from President Bush last week in their White House meeting came when he asked the president to look into...
OFF-DUTY COP NAILS GUNMAN
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop stopped a gunfight on a Brooklyn street, sending one shooter to the hospital in critical condition, police said. Police Officer Earnest Kenner saw the firefight at the...
BASS TIME OF THE YEAR
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE freshwater bass season opened in New York State yesterday, offering anglers a chance at some of the most exciting fishing anywhere in the northeast. The St. Lawrence and Hudson...
U.S. DEFENSES DOWN AGOOS COOKED OTHER CHANGES RATTLE BACK LINE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe United States' soccerrivalry with Mexico had been one-sided for years, but has grown in intensity the past decade as the Americans have challenged their southern neighbor for regional supremacy....
WILCOX WORKOUT WOWS KNICKS SCOTT, DON BOTH ISSUE RAVE REVIEW
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThis solidified it. If Knick brass had a tiny reservation about Chris Wilcox entering yesterday's big Garden show, GM Scott Layden got blown away by the dynamic, athletic 6-10 power...
ABC BOOTS THE BRITS TO TAPE DELAY
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amSoccer fans discovered yesterday morning that the World Cup match between Denmark and England was not shown live on ESPN or ESPN2. ESPN's Disney partner, ABC, will choose games for...
MIKE GETS HIS PAYBACK
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amMike Piazza didn't gloat. Methodically, he ran around the bases as if his 327th career longball was just another on his Hall-of-Fame resume. As if hitting a homer off Roger...
WARRICK'S THOUGHTS WERE OF DAD
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe lone amateur left at Bethpage had a day to forget yesterday. Kevin Warrick had something more important than the U.S. Open on his mind. "Dad may still be in...
DAVID WEATHERED GIAMBI COMEBACKER
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amWhen David Weathers was in high school, he was struck in the nose with a baseball and hospitalized for a week. You can still see a little dent if you...
PLAY AT PLATE WOULD'VE BEEN ONE FOR AGES
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amTwenty-nine year-old visions of Pete Rose and Buddy Harrelson danced in everyone's head. With one out in the sixth yesterday, the plot made the mind race back to Rose and...
STINKER OF A DAY FOR ROG
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amRoger Clemens has had better days than yesterday. Shawn Estes threw an 87 mph fastball behind him in the third inning. Clemens gave up a shocking two-run homer to Estes...
FALDO'S 66 TRIP BACK TO FUTURE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amNick Faldo flashed back to 1996 yesterday, and it was some kind of retro show. Faldo, who's playing in his 60th consecutive major championship this week thanks to a special...
JETER 4-CLOSES ON JOKER
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amDerek Jeter had some fun with a heckling Met fan behind first base late in Friday night's 4-2 Yankees victory in 10 innings. "It was one guy and he was...
WELLS-ASTACIO MAY REKINDLE FEUD
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe one major domino that could have declared the Yankees-Mets beanball battle dead refused. So, when the rivals meet tonight at Shea Stadium in the rubber game of the Subway...
REY SCORES WHILE ROCKET & JASON DOZE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amOf the first three Met runs yesterday, it was the least surprising. But it lost out in the Shock Dept. only because Shawn Estes took Roger Clemens over the left-field...
ESTES FINALLY PUTS HIMSELF ON THE MAP
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amSHAWN Estes didn't have a Q rating heading into the weekend. He was just sort of there. Nothing about him stood out, least of all his performance. Every fifth day...
THIRD AND LONG-SHOT FOR OPEN PURSUERS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe chase, the pursuers say, is just a trap. For the last three U.S. Opens, the 54-hole lead has stood up through 72. Winners Payne Stewart in 1999, Tiger Woods...
ROOT FOR WOODS TO SLAM THE DOOR
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amAS a sports journalist, I am expected to be impartial when it comes to rooting for a person or team to succeed or fail. But I'm rooting for Tiger Woods...
PHIL WAKES IN MICK OF TIME PATIENCE THE KEY TO PUSHING TIGER
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amHere's an upset. As he turns 32 today, Phil the Thrill is taking a chill pill. His swashbuckling, gambling style has endeared Phil Mickleson to his galleries, but has also...
MAMADOU'S 4-SPOT SHAKES UP GALAXY
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amMetroStars 5Galaxy 0 When the MetroStars pulled off the biggest deal in MLS history, it was to get Mamadou Diallo and Andy Williams in hopes of salvaging a promising season...
WOODS UP BY 4 SHOTS AFTER THIRD-ROUND SCARE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amFor about 20 emotion-packed minutes yesterday, the 102nd U.S. Open had not only transformed into a pressure-cooker, up-for-grabs major, but it was careening toward a potentially historic final-round shootout between...
MULLIN GOING TO STRIKE GOLD
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amYOU know, I kinda enjoy these post-Finals, pre-draft columns; they give me ample opportunity to get things off my chest and do some especially educated speculation. For example, the Warriors...
SERGIO SAYS HE'S SORRY TO TIGER
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amOne day after ripping the U.S. Golf Association for what he claimed was its preferential treatment of Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia yesterday apologized to Woods, leaving a note at Woods'...
SURGING GARCIA GETS AN EARFUL
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amIN THE absence of significant doglegs on long, straight, and narrow Bethpage Black, the closest challenger to Tiger Woods going to Day Four offers instead: Dog's ears. Sergio Garcia's ears...
MAGGERT MAKES MOVE SURPRISING 68 MEANS TIE FOR 3RD
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amBethpage Black was re-done for the U.S. Open as a difficult place to find the ball, never mind yourself. But lying in the overgrown weeds, tied with Phil Mickelson, five...
BIG APPLE TAKING BAD RAP ONLY TOWN BLAMED FOR ITS JERKS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE there's never a good excuse for bad behavior, every time a creep gets mouthy in a golf gallery during a televised event from the New York City area, a...
CAP GUN AIMED AT FREE AGENTS AND RICH CLUBS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amBEFORE handing the Stanley Cup to Steve Yzerman in Detroit on Thursday night, Gary Bettman took the time to laud the Red Wings and pay tribute to Hockeytown. But if...
SHARK WON'T TAKE BAIT: NORMAN PRAISES BETHPAGE
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Shark wouldn't nibble when given his chance to quibble with Bethpage Black. Greg Norman was 12-over after yesterday's round, and still over the top with his praise for the...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amYOU TOO, STEVE Phillips' neck is hanging out there with Bobby's For most of his now shaky tenure as general manager of the Mets it seemed Steve Phillips could do...
WILD SOLUTION FOR GAME: ADD TWO MORE TEAMS TO PLAYOFFS
June 16, 2002 | 4:00amWHAT if a system could be created in which more teams had playoff hopes, division winners were given greater rewards and more money would flow into the game? That sounds...