June 23, 2002
INVESTORS ARE CRAZY ABOUT NEW STOCK DEALS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amDespite the stock market slump, investors are still having a love affair with new stock deals. While stock market returns are under water, investors are buying new stock by the...
ORDERLY STAMPEDE: CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE DRAGS STOCKS DOWN
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. stock market is suffering a crisis of confidence unlike one seen during any other period in history. The major market averages fell in 12 of the past 14...
FUND AIMS TO RIDE UP LESS EYED MID-CAP VALUE STOCKS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amSURE, Liberty Select Value fund is a bit expensive, with its 5.75 percent front-end load and its 1.22 percent annual expense fee. But it is one of only a handful...
SPIDEY TAG SALE THE INCREDIBLE COMIC WHIZ TO SELL $4M COLLECTION
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amIn what is believed to be the largest sale of its kind, Spider-Man's co-creator is selling off everything but Spidey's blue and red underwear. Legendary comic book guru Stan Lee,...
TINSELTOWN'S TIGRESS : PUBLICIST KINGSLEY LOOKING TO CREATE SYNERGY OF STARS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAt 70, Hollywood publicist Pat Kingsley carries more celebrity secrets than anyone. She's a feisty character right out of a potboiler novel but she'd never write one herself about any...
BIOTECHS STILL STRONG CASH-RICH COS. OFFER SOLID BUYS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe ImClone fiasco shook the entire biotech sector, and clinical flops and product delays just made things worse. But rather than avoiding biotechs, the smart money is buying into solid...
BULL'S EYE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amSEC'Y O'NEILL NOW LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY Odd-couple Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and U2 rock legend Bono teamed up for a fact-finding trip to Africa this month. The staid,...
2 SECONDS THAT LAST FOREVER
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amIf you only watch one show this week.... 'Minute By Minute'on A&EWednesday at 10 p.m. YOU'VE seen the footage a hundred times - a smiling Ronald Reagan surrounded by aides...
SIT, BEG, FREE ASSOCIATE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThere are some shocking statistics that, up until now, have been ignored by members of the mainstream media - who, unlike myself, don't have the courage to base their news...
SCI-FI: A CRITICAL ODYSSEY
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amWhat's the best sci-fi movie of the past 100 years? Stanley Kubrick's 1968 epic, "2001: A Space Odyssey." At least that's what the 115 members of the Online Film Critics...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JENA MALONE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe product of a one-night stand who sued to be free of her mother's guardianship at 14, baby-faced actress Jena Malone is certainly advanced for her age. She says she's...
TOBACK RELIVES A REALLY BAD ACID TRIP
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amDirector James Toback, who took more than two decades to make "Harvard Man," has packed this very personal film with autobiographical references that draw from the flamboyant writer-director's life and...
ITS CUP RUN OVER, YANKS HARDLY CARE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00am'You know what my favorite part of a soccer match is?" cracked a co-worker Friday. "It's that part when all the guys line up and grab their b - -...
LUNA LEADER LANDS FINE, THINKS SMALL
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amHe was once a prince of indie rock, but these days Dean Wareham lives just like any ordinary music fan. Front man of Luna, one of the pivotal bands in...
CITY CELEBRATES RODGER'S LEGACY
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe gifts of Richard Rodgers, conceivably Broadway's most successful composer, wrote theater music that caught the American moment and touched the world's heart. With the centenary of his birth upon...
WHAT I WATCH
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amYAKOV SMIRNOFF Actor/comedian "Everybody loves Raymond." Here's a nice reasonably intelligent guy who is totally and completely baffled by what life throws at him. That, in a nutshell, is me....
BATTERY POWER : EAT UP THE GREAT HARBOR VIEWS AND TASTY TREATS DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amNight fog makes the esplanade at Battery Park City one of the most romantic spots in town. The tree-lined walkway was deserted on a recent evening, except for a dog...
HE'S AN UNLIKELY LEADING MAN
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAdam Sandler prefers to remain hush-hush about his personal life (he was briefly dating Alicia Silverstone and is currently engaged to actress/model Jacqueline Titone). Though, in his movies, he always...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Canadian man mistakenly cleared of attempted murder when the jury foreman coughed as he read the verdict is scheduled to get a new trial. The judge at the original...
UN-FARE TO WIDE-BODY AIR TRAVELERS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amBEFORE last week I feared only one thing - and it wasn't fear itself. My biggest fear was that one day I'd wake up and find out that I really...
WHY, IT'S THE PRINCESS WHO WOODY BE QUEEN!
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amNO wonder Prince Andrew split from Fergie faster than Pavarotti's stretch pants! As these pictures clearly prove, Fergie is actually Woody Harrelson in drag. Although both camps deny the allegation,...
PRIEST SEX SCANDAL: UNHOLY LOVE TRIANGLE HOW RANDY REVEREND BROKE UP A MARRIAGE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amDAVID Zweck was angry when he found out his wife was seeing another man. But he went through the roof when he discovered she betrayed him with the Catholic priest...
SCHWARZ IS PLANNING TO REBUT LOUIMA
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAbner Louima is set to take the stand tomorrow and once again finger Charles Schwarz as the cop who held him down while he was sexually assaulted in a Brooklyn...
TWIN TOWERS WORKER MOURNED IN QUEENS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amJames Cartier, a young electrician who perished in the World Trade Center, was remembered in an emotional funeral service yesterday as a man who embraced life. "Sept. 11, 2001, was...
SERVICE CELEBRATES BRAVEST HERO
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amHero 9/11 firefighter Vernon Cherry yesterday was laid to rest beside two fallen brethren after a funeral in which he was remembered as a "beautiful person" who lived for his...
ISRAEL TROOP CALL-UP AS TERROR INTENSIFIES
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The recruitment of reserve army troops begins in Israel today to back up a renewed hard-line response to Palestinian homicide bombings. The call up for reserves came as...
RUNNING FOR OFFICE: NO BUBBAS IN BUSH'S HEALTHY WHITE HOUSE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amHe may not have crossed the finish line yesterday in the top 20, but President Bush was definitely hot to trot in a three-mile run with hundreds of White House...
67 HURT AS LIRR TRAINS 'BUMP'
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Long Island Rail Road trains collided on the same track in Queens yesterday, causing minor injuries to at least 67 passengers plus brief delays, a spokesman said. The accident...
MARTHA'S FRUMP CARD: SHE'S NO DOMESTIC DIVA AT ANTIQUE SHOW
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amEmbattled Martha Stewart looked like the diva of disaster yesterday when she went antiquing in the Hamptons. Trying to put her stock scandal on the back burner, the diva of...
CAR MISSING WITH GIRL, 2, IN IT
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amCops searched last night for a 2-year-old girl who disappeared after she was left alone in an idling car in front of a Brooklyn restaurant while her mother went inside...
CAREENING TAXI HURTS 15 OUTSIDE BLOOMIE'S
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAn out-of-control taxi mounted the curb and struck several street vendors outside Bloomingdale's yesterday, injuring 15 people, two of them critically, police said. The accident occurred at 4:55 p.m. at...
HUBBY IN 'KILLER' TAXICAB CONFESSION: COPS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAn unhappily married Staten Island man was busted after suggesting to an equally unhappy cabby that they should kill each other's wives, cops said. According to investigators, on Thursday Robert...
COPS BUST QUACK PAIR
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Crown Heights pastor and his wife have been put on ice for trying to cure a woman's walking problems by slicing her feet with razor blades, dousing them with...
SONS ALSO RISING: FAME RELATIVE FOR BIG-SHOT BROTHERS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amCan two brothers from the Upper West Side stand to share the spotlight? Lately, the sons of attorney Arthur Liman, the Senate's lead counsel in the Iran-Contra/Oliver North hearings, haven't...
TRAGIC FINAL SCENE: TEARS FOR FILM FAN WHO DIED ON MOVIE SET
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAs an aspiring actress and filmmaker, Amanda Winklevoss was beautiful, smart, athletic, ambitious and talented. She was also "very curious," a friend said. And that curiosity may have led to...
CABBY: A GOOD DRIVER WITH BAD LEGS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe cabby at the center of yesterday's sidewalk smash-up is a Queens family man with a clean driving record, but pals say his health problems include a chronic leg ailment...
FEDS FEAR NEW ANTHRAX ATTACK
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe anthrax powder that claimed five lives last year was reportedly made within the last two years - meaning the faceless killer who mailed it could strike again. Authorities are...
2 KILLED, 6 HURT
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTwo died and six others were hurt when two cars collided head on in Brooklyn last night, cops said. The accident occurred just after 10 p.m. on Third Avenue between...
POLS FAST-TRACK AMTRAK BAILOUT
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amArea lawmakers, fearing Amtrak service at Penn Station could be derailed before the end of next week, have urged the Bush administration to approve a $200 million loan guarantee to...
COURIC VS. COULTER ON TV
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amMorning television darling Katie Couric may be extra early to work Wednesday. That's when Couric may get to settle a score with one of the scheduled guests on "Today," conservative...
ARAFAT'S APOLOGIST AMANPOUR POURS IT ON
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amNever fear, Yasser Arafat. You still have a loyal fan at CNN. The cable news channel's execs came groveling to Israel last week, seeking to repair damage caused when Prozac-popping...
CELEBS SIGN ON FOR ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amSigourney Weaver, Vanessa Williams and Billy Crudup are among the celebrities who have agreed to perform some 40 new works written in response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11....
WHY DONNA'S BITING BACK BIG AT RUDY
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amUnless you live in a bag, chances are good that you did not miss the gist and grist of the latest in the bombshell divorce of that dynamic duo Rudy...
PLANNERS ON WRONG PATH: ACTIVISTS VILLAGE BRAWL ON STATION
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amA tense showdown between Gov. Pataki and West Village residents over a plan to build two new PATH-station exits on historic Christopher Street is coming to a head. Some two...
TRAILBLAZING ASTRO BOOSTS SPIRITS BACK HOME
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. THE only good news that Israelis got last week - while going through one of the worst period of terrorist attacks - arrived from Houston, Texas. From the space...
GROWING WAVE OF SUPPORT TO HONOR UNSUNG HEROES
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe Post's Liberty Medal Awards to recognize New Yorkers who have made the city special is a fitting initiative after the horrors of the Sept. 11 attack, a city official...
EASING OFF ON KID-CIG SELLERS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The state is moving toward easing sanctions against stores that sell cigarettes to minors, The Post has learned. Final legislative passage is expected this week on a bill...
9/11: THE AFTERMATH WTC KIN STRAIN TO BE HEARD
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amIn mid-April, leaders of several Sept. 11 victims' relatives groups quietly met with Rudy Giuliani to seek guidance as their frustrations with his successor, Mayor Bloomberg, began to fester. In...
MAYOR IN NEW PUSH TO REACH OUT
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amCity Hall will send a letter to relatives of every World Trade Center victim seeking their thoughts about the first Sept. 11 anniversary. Several victims' relatives say the first anniversary...
HINGIS AND HER GOLF GUY COURT FRIENDLY FANS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amCROMWELL, Conn. - Tennis superstar Martina Hingis has forgotten the first rule of New York sports: The fans never forget. After her boyfriend, Spanish golf sensation Sergio Garcia, received a...
HELLISH 'HEALERS' BUSTED IN B'KLYN
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Crown Heights pastor and his wife have been put on ice for trying to cure a woman's walking problems by slicing her feet with razor blades, dousing them with...
WOMAN SUES ARCHDIOCESE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amA woman who says she had a sexual relationship with a priest when she was a teen is suing the priest and the Archdiocese of New York for $59 million....
CARNAGE ON LEX NEAR BLOOMIE'S
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAn out-of-control taxi jumped a curb and slammed into a crowd of pedestrians outside Bloomingdale's yesterday afternoon, injuring 15 people, two of them critically, police said. The accident occurred at...
NELLY HIP-HOPS HIS WAY UP SUMMER CHARTS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amWhoa, Nelly! Hip-hop sensation Nelly is making a serious bid for this summer's hottest song as his single, "Hot in Herre," continues to skyrocket to the top of the charts....
CHEAP ISLES CAN CLARK
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Just when you're confident the Islanders truly do get it, something like this comes along: You may have heard of the abrupt departure of assistant GM and player...
BLUES SET TO LET TKACHUK SKATE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Don't think the Blues would like to rewind the clock back to the trade deadline of 2001 so they could undo the deal that brought Keith Tkachuk from...
FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR AMERICA'S STARS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amMOMENTS after the U.S. soccer team's 1-0 loss to Germany on Friday, Landon Donovan's eyes welled with tears, stunned the team's run to the World Cup quarterfinals was over. Earnie...
HS STARS NOT AS BRIGHT THIS YEAR
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amWas last year's draft an aberration or a sign of the future? The first player chosen was a high-school senior, Kwame Brown. So was the second player, Tyson Chandler, and...
WILCOX IS GOODEN READY TO TAKE HIS GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amChris Wilcox can thank Drew Gooden partly for his meteoric rise. During a sophomore season occasionally marked by lackadaisical play, Wilcox' buttons were pushed during Maryland's NCAA championship run, pushed...
GARDEN PARTY COULD BECOME MULTICULTURAL
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amSo you've never heard of Nikoloz Tskitishvili or Maybyner Hilario. You might want to listen up. Because beneath all the Drew Goodens and Dajuan Wagners in this richly talented draft,...
KNICKS BUCKING FOR BIG DAWG
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amSO, there you go and here I am, idly watching my imaginary Escalade's 22-inch dubs go round and round, uncomplainingly waiting for the NBA to come to its collective draft...
NETS' BEST DEAL WAS ONE NEVER MADE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amStephon Marbury for Jason Kidd. The greatest trade in the history of the Nets' franchise. It opened up the Nets' draft night maneuvering, which led to another trade. Together they...
'IKE' WOULD GIVE WAGNER TRIPLE CROWN
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF Johnson Wagner is looking to pull off a rare hat trick this week when the Met area's top amateurs tee off at the 47th Ike Championship at Montclair...
RAGING FEVER RALLIES TO TAKE PHIPPS 'CAP
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amRaging Fever, a filly who usually battles for the early lead, surprisingly sat off the pace yesterday under jockey John Velazquez before making her move on the turn, allowing her...
SOUTHERN-FRIED CYCLONE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amYOU go from Arkansas to New York this smoothly, you must be one of two things: A senatorial hopeful riding your husband's coat-tails, or a slick-fielding infielder for Brooklyn. Gee,...
NO MORE GOOD OLD DAYS AT NBA DRAFT: YOUNG GUNS, EXOTIC IMPORTS CREATE NEW-LOOK LOTTERY
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amOne veteran NBA scout reminisced about how the business has changed. "You knew where most of the best players were, and everyone would go to the same games - Duke-North...
MIKE DOESN'T MAKE SPLASH: MILBURY FAILS IN BID TO TRADE DIPIETRO
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - The big deal that Mike Milbury sought to make by offering Rick DiPietro to Boston and Atlanta never materialized, and so an Entry Draft day that lacked sizzle...
BLUESHIRTS THINK BIG WITH FIRST PICK
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Try to remain seated, friends; the Rangers broke with decades of tradition by drafting some size up front with their first pick in yesterday's amateur lottery. It comes...
METS, YANKS ARE STUNNED BY SUDDEN LOSS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amAbout three hours before the Mets' game against Kansas City last night, most of the Amazin's were huddled around the clubhouse TVs, jaws slack, eyes wide. They'd just heard that...
LILLY SMELLS LIKE ROSESHUTS OUT PODS ON MASTERFUL THREE-HITTER
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 1Padres 0 SAN DIEGO - Having supervised Ted Lilly's bullpen session before the lefty faced the Padres at Qualcomm Stadium yesterday, Mel Stottlemyre made the walk from pen to...
CLEMENS PUTS INJURY FEAR ON ICE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Two days of icing his right forearm had considerably reduced its swelling and left Roger Clemens believing he won't miss a turn. In fact, Clemens is hoping...
RED-HOT TARASCO SPICING TEPID LINEUP
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTony Tarasco hasn't gotten much playing time this year, but he's sure made the most of his moments in the lineup. Last night was more of the same. Tarasco provided...
ROYALS BEST GRIEVING METS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amOn a day when Darryl Kile's death took the baseball world aback, it's easy to understand how friends and former teammates would find it hard to concentrate on a game....
POLLUTION SAVES FISH? C'MON!
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amJUST when you though you've heard everything, the Army Corps of Engineers says dumping of toxic sludge into the Potomac River protects fish by forcing them to flee the polluted...
BOOK LISTS THE SURLIEST SIGNATURES IN SPORTS DON'T ASK FOR THESE AUTOGRAPHS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE it's no longer a surprise that the sports memorabilia/autograph business is as greed-ugly as it almost had to become, we still often hear from those who have eagerly attended...
INTERLEAGUE DOG DAYS REALLY A ROYAL WASTE
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ROYALS are at Shea. Their bus driver took the wrong turn at 42nd street and ended up in Queens instead of The Bronx. It wouldn't be so bad if...
ROBBIE STAR STILL BRIGHT: LEADING 2B VOTING DESPITE STRUGGLES
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amRoberto Alomar's season has been filled with anticipation, respect and confusion. Those are also the attributes that best explain Alomar's position in the All-Star balloting. The 12-time All-Star second baseman,...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
June 23, 2002 | 4:00amLEAVING IN A HUFF Armstead follows in Sam's footsteps If history repeats itself, Jessie Armstead will still hate the Giants 38 years from now. After all, Sam Huff rightfully remains...