June 21, 2002
DIVING DOLLAR DRAGS DOW DOWN 129
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. dollar fell to a two-year low against other major currencies like the euro and the yen, wreaking havoc on U.S. financial markets. The dollar has been dropping for...
MARTHA'S MINIONS ARE LINING UP TO TAKE HER PLACE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is hoping no one will be the next Martha Stewart. But if she runs into serious trouble in the ImClone insider trading scandal and has to take a...
2 COLUMBUS SAVED - BUT LANDMARK BUILDING WILL LOOK DIFFERENT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Columbus Circle has been saved - sort of. The tiny American Craft Museum will make its home at the former Huntington Hartford Museum - saving it from Donald Trump's...
HEARST'S NEW LAUNCH ON TARGET
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amTHE choppy advertising market has not dissuaded Hearst Corp. from pressing ahead with its launch of Chic Simple this fall. The project was actually announced in February as a joint...
EDDIE BAUER SET TO NAME A NEW CHIEF
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThere could be one less empty seat in the game of musical chairs currently going on with fashion retailers. Struggling retailer Eddie Bauer is on the verge of naming a...
BLUNDERING HERD - MERRILL QUITS NEW FUND AS BITTER BOSSES QUIT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch has retreated from its aggressive merchant-banking effort, as new management at the embattled brokerage shifts strategy. And some top-level leadership looks set to bail out in the wake....
MEET SANDRA LEE, NEXT LIFESTYLE GURU
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amDeals already are afoot to create a new Martha Stewart. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has signed a pact to create from the ground up, a new lifestyle guru that could...
CHIPS OFF THE OLD HARD-METAL ROCK
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE detractors say Nickelback is a cheap imitation that relies on tired hard-rock clichés, none of the fans at the Hammerstein Ballroom seemed to want any return on their deposit....
NOTHING TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amDAHMER [] Unsettling but superficial biopic. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (sex, violence, language). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. ----------- THE hair on the back of most...
STARR REPORT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMorning 'do: Perkins, Roker share air Rival morning weathermen Tony Perkins ("Good Morning America") and Al Roker ("Today") appeared on the air together yesterday in Washington, on each other's shows,...
BASK IN THE 'SUNSHINE'
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amSUNSHINE STATE [] Wonderfully acted but underedited ensemble piece. Running time: 141 minutes. Rated PG-13 (language). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square and the Union Square. ----- LIKE no other...
2002: SPACE ODDITY:EARTH IS DOOMED! BUT 'ODYSSEY 5' LOOKS A SURVIVOR
June 21, 2002 | 4:00am"Odyssey 5" Tonight at 10 on Showtime * * * SOMEWHERE in space, in the not-too-distant future (like tonight), there will appear a show that is part "2001: A Space...
FINE-TOONED FUN
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amLILO & STITCH [1/2] An utter delight. Running time: 85 minutes. Rated PG (sci-fi violence). At the E Walk, the Cinema 1, the Union Square, others. ------------ JUST when traditional...
WHAT'S BUGGIN' DAMON WAYANS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amIS Damon Wayans scared of Bernie Mac? It sure looks that way, but Damon is too shrewd a show-business player to just come out and admit he's afraid Bernie's going...
'DREAMS' ANGEL IN THE WINGS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amHARVEY Weinstein is so taken with producer Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, "Bombay Dreams," that he wants to co-produce it next season on Broadway. After catching a preview of the...
ORIGINAL CYNDI
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amBECAUSE Cyndi Lauper really is so unusual, it's impossible to believe she grew up in Ozone Park.And then you talk to her. Fuggeddaboudit. Lauper is a true-blue Queens girl. On...
KIND OF A DRAG
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amJUWANNA MANN [] Weak, hackneyed drag comedy. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual and toilet humor). At the E Walk, the 84th Street, the Loews Village, others. -------------- IF...
YOU YANKS MUST BECRAZY
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amFOX'S summer phenom "American Idol" keeps a psychologist on hand to help contestants deal with the rejection they encounter on the show. A Fox spokesperson confirmed "American Idol" producers hired...
OUTING BETTY OOPS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amIF you're a show queen (and if you're this far into my column, you must be), I urge you to check out John Flynn's hilarious cabaret act - "Dances With...
PSYCH IT OUT: 'MINORITY' DEFINITELY MAJOR LEAGUE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMINORITY REPORT Spielberg and Cruise go back to the future. Running time: 144 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, profanity, sexuality, drug use). At the Empire, the Beekman, the Union Square, others....
THEY DEAL, YOU LOSE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amYOU'RE not going to want to read the rest of this piece when I tell you that it's about a) the New York City Council, b) a late-night budget negotiation,...
'DRAGSTER' SLOWED BY $1M BOND
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amAn Israeli teen charged with murder after racing a red Ferrari into a man in Bay Ridge once proclaimed he'd "rather die than be in jail," prosecutors said yesterday, prompting...
FIRE-DAD DEATH AN ACCIDENT: DEFENDANT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe firefighter's father killed in a Brooklyn blaze as his son was responding to it got out of the fire safely but returned to get some clothes, the lawyer defending...
NUCLEAR FAMILY: CARL'S WIFE CASHES IN ON ATOM POWER
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE a nuclear-power plant in Westchester has become a hot issue in the governor's race, the wife of candidate Carl McCall quietly has been profiting off one of the plant's...
SCHOOL BUILDERS ACHIEVE A LOW-RI$E
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe School Construction Authority has heeded Mayor Bloomberg's call to slash sky-high building costs because spending on new renovation projects is down 20 percent. SCA president Ronald Gottlieb said yesterday...
HOSPITAL RUSHES ROOKIES INTO O.R.
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA prominent Manhattan hospital - abandoned by several recent graduating residents - stunned a group of untrained medical interns this week by rushing them into its general-surgery unit, The Post...
COPS PROBE CHILD SEX ON CLASS TRIP
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigators are trying to determine if an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl was raped or consented to sex with two boys during a class trip. Cops said the girl was on a...
ANDREW CUOMO TOOK HIS CAMPAIGN TO THE STREETS YESTERDAY
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo took his campaign to the streets yesterday in his first day of petitioning to get on the Democratic primary ballot for the governor's race. Cuomo - who must...
'ABUSED' SISTERS TO TESTIFY
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amSuffolk County prosecutors have asked for grand-jury testimony from two sisters who claim they were molested as children thousands of times by a Long Island priest, The Post has learned....
WIDOW, 95, FOUND SLAIN IN CLOSET
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amResidents of a rapidly gentrifying upper Manhattan street are terrified after a frail, 95-year-old woman was found strangled in the closet of her longtime home. Widow Georgianna Werner was found...
IS NEW YORK MAKING IT TOO TOUGH TO GRADUATE?
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amGETTING a high-school diploma in New York state is about to get a lot harder - maybe too hard. Raising standards is rarely a bad idea. But why require skills...
LANDLORDS NIX OFFER TO OWN UP TO BRIBES
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amManhattan property owners were recently offered the chance to revive their stalled tax appeals - but only if they revealed whether they had ever bribed an assessor, The Post has...
MY 'REMOTE' MEMORY OF MARTHA THE EGOMANIAC
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amON THE night that "Saratoga" Marty was given a racehorse as a gift, Martha "Moneybags" Stewart made a horse's you-know-what of herself. The recipient of the horse was former Post...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA New Orleans woman called 911 when her dog stopped breathing - and now she faces jail for improperly using the emergency services number. Camille Wood, 19, said her 3-year-old...
WEB FIRMS HAWK BLUE-LIGHT SPECIALS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amFor as little as $13,000, anyone can create the impression they are a real cop on patrol by buying a used police car - complete with lights, sirens and a...
THE BEAMS COULD BE BACK NEXT SEPT. 11
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe sponsors of the popular "Tribute in Light" memorial hope to bring it back for the one-year observance of Sept. 11 and are seeking support from the victims' relatives. Frank...
RUDY PAL QUITS B'KLYN BIZ ZONE AMID DEBT DEBACLE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA former city commissioner and childhood pal of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani resigned from the helm of a Brooklyn business improvement district after a spate of ill-fated capital projects left...
ATTACK OF THE CANCER-KILLING TOMATO
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA miracle tomato has been engineered to help fight cancer. The new variety contains higher levels of a chemical that can offer increased protection against the disease. The tomato was...
PIANO MAN NOT PLAYING 'BIG SHOT' IN REHAB
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe Piano Man hasn't shed his Average Joel persona as a rehab patient at Connecticut's elite Silver Hill Hospital - he's opted to share a 10-bedroom house with other patients...
WIDOW'S $50M CESSPOOL SUIT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe grieving widow of an off-duty federal drug agent, who died last year in a collapsed cesspool in his Long Island yard, has lodged a $50 million lawsuit for negligence....
GAY REV. DENIES RECTORY ROMPS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA gay priest accused of supporting a young go-go dancer lover with a Queens parish's funds spoke out for the first time yesterday, telling The Post the charges are "all...
COP IN 'DWI' HORROR: JAILED AFTER MOWING DOWN BIKER IN BROOKLYN
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA motorcyclist was clinging to life last night and an off-duty NYPD cop was in jail on drunken-driving charges after a horrifying crash on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn. Officer...
JUDGE SLAMS SMIRKY RAPIST
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA remorseless Upper East Side rapist chuckled and leered at his victim as he was sentenced to 35 years in prison yesterday - infuriating the judge. "He's laughing!" Manhattan Supreme...
E-MAIL SETS OFF SIRENS: PAKISTAN 'SHOPPER' SPURS FEARS OF AMBULANCE PLOT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amAn anonymous Pakistani e-mailer asked a New Jersey ambulance corps how to buy an ambulance and run a rescue squad just a month before two Middle Eastern-looking men tried to...
CITY'S NEXT DEFICIT JUST GREW BY $1B
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe estimated gap for next year's city budget has ballooned by $1 billion - to $3.7 billion - officials admitted yesterday, the day after reaching a deal on a new...
CIAO: GOTTI GANG GONE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amIt's enough to make John Gotti turn in his grave - the feds are administering the last rites to his once-powerful Gambino crime family. Only five days after the godfather's...
DECAL PLAN WOULD STICK IT TO IMPOSTORS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is considering a plan to use special decals on emergency vehicles during major events following a new alert that terrorists might try to use firetrucks, police cars and...
'TOOTH PHONE' INVENTION WILL ALLOW YOU TO CALL A HEAD
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amIn the future, the voices you hear in your head will actually be there. The reason: two students at the Royal College of Art in London have designed a phone...
ALL EYES ON THE PRIZE: APPLE LAUDS POST'S LIBERTY MEDAL
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amFrom a duchess to a dancer, people in all walks of New York life yesterday backed The Post's Liberty Medal Awards, which honor the "ordinary" citizens who make the city...
CLINTONS ARE CLEARED ON NEW SQUARE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amBill and Hillary Clinton are off the hook over the controversial clemency granted to four New Square men who stole millions from the federal government for a phony Jewish school....
CUT THE ACT, DONNA
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amSO MUCH for Grandma. We're back in court with heavyweight high-heeled combatant Donna Hanover Never-Giuliani, in her epic grab at Rudy's expanding wallet. And we find that Donna has made...
NYPD WANTS TERROR BUNKER
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE The Police Department has requested $270 million from the Bloomberg administration to build a high-tech underground "bunker" in case of another terrorist attack, The Post has learned. "It would...
FEDS' BUST RIPS COVER OFF '89 'HIT'
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amHe was the man John Gotti wanted dead. Yesterday, 13 years after the gangland execution of Staten Island businessman Fred Weiss, the feds finally caught up with the Gambino gangsters...
DOWNTOWN DWELLERS' NO. 1 WORRY: TOXIC AIR
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMost lower Manhattanites are more fearful about their air quality after the Sept. 11 attacks than about another terror strike, a new poll shows. Most residents also report more health...
WHITE HOUSE RIPS 9/11 LEAKS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday hit the roof over leaks of ominous pre-Sept. 11 messages - and Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate the security breach. White House...
RUDY DIVORCE BOMBSHELL: ADULTERY - DONNA: HIS CHEATING WAS 'CRUEL AND INHUMAN'
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amDonna Hanover has a message for Rudy Giuliani: You can't divorce me, I'm divorcing you - for "open and notorious adultery." The city's former first lady came out swinging against...
LAW NEAR ON PERV CLERGY
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - State lawmakers appeared to reach final agreement last night on a historic "clergy reporting" bill that would force priests and others to disclose alleged child-sex abuse dating back...
'DUMPSTER' GIRL IN QNS. STAB HORROR
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amRescue workers pulled a bleeding and dazed 12- year-old girl out of a Queens Dumpster yesterday, rushing her to the hospital with stab wounds in the chest. The stabbing apparently...
SHOPPER SHOOTS HIS MOUTH OFF THEN GETS SHOT IN FOOT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA man shouting epithets into his cell phone was shot in the foot at a mall on Long Island last night - after a gun-toting passer-by thought the man's crude...
FIRE DAD'S TRAGIC MISTAKE: LAWYER
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe firefighter's father killed in a Brooklyn blaze as his son was responding to it got out of the fire safely - but returned to get some clothes, the lawyer...
FINEST FACE 'BLUE' EXODUS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe Big Apple is bleeding blue as hundreds of cops are quitting the NYPD for better-paying jobs elsewhere, the city police union charged yesterday. Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch...
HOLY WAR OVER 'SOPRANOS' GIBE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx pastor infuriated a group of Italian parishioners yesterday, accusing their leaders of "Sopranos"-like intimidation tactics in a bitter feud over holding an annual devotional procession in the church....
THE END FOR FILM COMMISH
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amPatricia Reed Scott, who has led the city's film office for the last eight years, is being replaced. "We're searching," said a mayoral aide. Scott has served three mayors as...
'DOC' DUBYA TAKES AIM AT CIGS & PIGS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A fitness-minded President Bush yesterday urged Americans to kick the butts - and get off their butts for more exercise and better health. "Cut out tobacco, drugs and...
CUOMO PLAYS MEET-AND-GREET ON STREET
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo took his campaign to the streets yesterday in his first day of petitioning to get on the Democratic primary ballot for the governor's race. Cuomo - who must...
N.Y. DRIVERS IN NEVER-ENDING JAM SESSION
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amHere's some news sure to give New York motorists major gas pains - city drivers waste an average of 73 hours sitting in rush-hour traffic every year, a new survey...
WHO'S THAT GIRL?
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amHere's one buxom blonde you don't want to meet in a bar - it's Woody Harrelson in drag. The former "Cheers" star plays a transvestite in the new film "Anger...
HALLE'S IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMeet the hottest bag lady in the world it's Halle Berry. The Post spotted the Oscar winning stunner hauling no less than four bags on the set of her latest...
RETIRES FIRST 19 BATTERS AS METS TOPPLE TWINS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMets 3 Twins 2 A little more than three hours before his first pitch, Steve Trachsel strolled through the Mets clubhouse, took a quick look at the lineup on the...
DON'T BRING THAT STUFF IN HERE! ESPN MAGAZINE VIOLATES NETWORK'S CONDUCT CODE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amA VETERAN staffer at ESPN last week compared the network to a huge cheese factory. The idea, he said, is for everyone, everywhere to buy, then eat ESPN brand cheese,...
ESTES GUTLESS? NOT RIGHT AT ALL
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amIN ADDITION to being a left-handed Hall-of-Fame bowler, Brooklyn's Johnny Petraglia is a student of left-handedness. For example, Petraglia's research tells him overcoats were first made to be unbuttoned by...
BLAME CAPTAIN, TOURNEY: ANGLERS' DEATHS AVOIDABLE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amRESPECT for the sea is the most important piece of equipment that any angler should carry when venturing out for a day of fishing, and it's obvious to me that...
METS NEED A CURE FOR SICKLY BATS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amChris Chambliss doesn't own a medical license. But if the Mets' newly appointed hitting coach wants to enhance his job security, he had better start thinking like a doctor. Mo...
BOOMER LEFT HEART IN SAN DIEGO
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amDENVER - Follow David Wells' eyes tonight when he is on the mound at Qualcomm Stadium and there is a strong chance his gaze will wander toward the seats down...
NETS UNDER KNIFE ; K-MART, WILLIAMS GO IN FOR REPAIRS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amKenyon Martin in a cast? For five weeks? AAARRRGGGHH!!!! Hey, better now than in-season. That's the feeling after the Nets' star forward underwent a successful operation to remove bone chips...
GIANTS SIGN CAROLINA PICK
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThe Giants yesterday signed the first of their seven draft picks when linebacker Quincy Monk agreed to a three-year, $930,000 contract. Monk, a seventh-round pick from North Carolina, is slotted...
LAYDEN NIXES BIG DOG FOR SPREE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amEVIDENTLY, Latrell Sprewell remains in high regard around the Garden despite his habitual lateness and the fact the Knicks are forced to play him out of position at small forward....
RANGERS WANT CUJO
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - The curtain is about to close on Broadway's Mike Richter Show. Well-placed sources have told The Post the Rangers will not present Richter with a bona fide contract...
MARLINS DANGLE FLOYD AS POSSIBLE TRADE BAIT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DENVER - The Florida Marlins have initiated steps toward dealing hard-hitting outfielder Cliff Floyd and have focused on what the Yankees have to offer. According to industry sources,...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOW: ROCKET HURT AS ROCKIES BASH YANKS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Rockies 14 Yankees 11 DENVER - No break. No fracture. No chip. And no idea if it will keep him from making his next start. That's how a...
KNICKS MAY HAVE TO KEY ON CLARK: RAPTOR IS PLAN B IF WILCOX IS GONE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amIf the Knicks go small in Wednesday's draft and take the electric guard Dajuan Wagner of Camden, GM Scott Layden will make a heavy pitch for a big man during...
N.Y. SHOULD NOT PLAY BALL ON SEPT. 11
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amEVERY time you think the lords of baseball cannot become more callous, greedy and inhumane, they go and prove you wrong. The other day they slipped a fastball by us....
FORD RECALLS HUMBLE START
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amWhitey Ford is in the Hall of Fame, won World Series titles and had his No. 16 jersey retired by the Yankees. But he can still relate to the players...
PRO BALL A TRIP FOR YOUNG YANK
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amYoung professional baseball players can be taken by surprise by how hard they have to work once they get out of high school or college. Scott McClanahan isn't one of...
HUNTER'S PIAZZA 'GRAB' HITS A SNAG
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amTwins centerfielder Torii Hunter is the king of the snatch-back catch, jumping high to steal home runs from opponents. He did that to Mike Piazza last night at Shea with...
WILPON BACKS GM, BOBBY
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amFred Wilpon usually shies away from public endorsements of his employees, because he realizes an owner's thumbs-up is often seen as a kiss of death. But in a published report...
BOBBY HAS FAITH IN SATORU
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES For every awesome highlight of Ichiro Suzuki or Kazuhisa Ishii, there's wishful thinking connected to the work of Satoru Komiyama. What would've happened, one wonders, if the Japanese...
MARLINS SHOP FOR FLOYD DEAL
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DENVER - The Marlins have initiated steps toward dealing hard-hitting outfielder Cliff Floyd and have focused on what the Yankees have to offer. According to several sources the...
TRACHSEL'S RIGHT ON: RETIRES FIRST 19 BATTERS AS METS TOP TWINS
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMets 3 Twins 2 About three hours before his first pitch, Steve Trachsel strolled through the Mets clubhouse, took a quick look at the lineup on the wall and declared...
VALENTINE STILL KEEPING THE FAITH IN KOMIYAMA
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES For every awesome highlight of Ichiro Suzuki or Kazuhisa Ishii, there's wishful thinking connected to the work of Satoru Komiyama. What would've happened, one wonders, if the Japanese...
TALL ORDER: HEAT'S ON LAYDEN TO MAKE KNICKS' DRAFT PICK COUNT
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amWith the seventh pick in the 2002 NBA draft, the New York Knicks select ... someone who better make an impact. When commissioner David Stern steps to the lectern aat...
FOX'S GUERRERO MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amFox Sports' Lisa Guerrero admits she is pretty. She says it has helped her career, which shows she is smart, too. "It absolutely helps," said the 38-year-old Guerrero, who often...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amCHRIS BERMAN vs. ERNIE JOHNSON JR. (Studio hosts) The fact that many readers don't know Ernie Johnson Jr. is a testament to the good job he does. On the other...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BOB MURPHY
June 21, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand caught up with Mets' Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Murphy. The 77-year-old Murphy has been with the team since its inception in 1962. He...