July 5, 2002
TOWERING OVER CON ED - APARTMENTS, OFFICES PLANNED FOR EAST SIDE ELECTRICAL SITE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amAn 850-foot office tower and a 770-foot residential tower are among the structures proposed to replace Con Ed's Waterside steam plant by the year 2011. Under a so-called worst-case scenario,...
MS. MAG GETS NEW CHIEF
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMS. Magazine has a new editor-in-chief: Tracy Wood, a hard hitting investigative reporter who has carved a name for herself at several leading southern California newspapers. She cut her teeth...
MARAH SOARS SOLO
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMARAH ----- IT was just a rumor: Bruce Springsteen was going to play a Lower East Side club with a young Philly band with which he'd recorded a song earlier...
ALL THE STARS WILL BE OUT IN TORONTO
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amNEW films starring Dustin Hoffman and Michelle Pfeiffer will have their world premieres at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Brad Silberling's "Midnight Mile" is a drama starring Hoffman, Susan...
FABULOUS PILOBOLUS DANCERS FINE ATHLETES
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amPILOBOLUS DANCE THEATREAt the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Season runs through July 20. ------- THE more the Pilobolus Dance Theatre changes, the more it...
LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL ENHANCES CITY'S . . . STATE OF THE ARTS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE answer was: "Definitely no!" The question was: "Does New York need a summer arts festival?"New York is a never-ending, year-round arts extravaganza. Why try to shoehorn a special festival...
YOU'LL NEED PATIENCE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amGROUP [1/2] Six-screen mock-doc. Running time: 106 minutes. Not rated (language). At Village East. -------- AN interesting but often infuriating experiment in "multi-channel" or divided-screen filmmaking, "Group" is a non-comic...
BEST FRIENDS REVEL 'WITHOUT' A CLUE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amME WITHOUT YOU [1/2] The kind of chick flick that gives chick flicks a bad name. Running time: 107 minutes. Not rated (sex, nudity, profanity, drugs). At the Angelika, Houston...
HEAR SOME EVIL
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amREAD MY LIPS (SUR MES LEVRES) [ 1/2] Riveting psychothriller. In French with English subtitles. Running time: 115 minutes. Unrated (violence, brief nudity, language). At the Paris Theater. -------------- 'READ...
IDLE MUSINGS ON GREAT WHITE WAY
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amNEWS, gossip, rumor, innuendo, speculation and random thoughts to fill a column on a sleepy holiday weekend: Jerry Zaks has passed on directing a $10 million stage version of "An...
STARR REPORT
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amRaunch date: Cristina tells all on '20/20' Hispanic TV personality Cristina Saralegui is, perhaps, the most famous woman you've never heard of. Known to her millions of viewers simply as...
FUGITIVE CAUGHT BY NEW COURT TV SHOW
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amBEST-selling crime author Dominick Dunne, now hosting "Power, Privilege and Justice" on Court TV, has taken a page from "America's Most Wanted" - apparently he helped to capture a fugitive...
NBC'S DRINK PROBLEM - FROM LENO TO COMMERCIALS, NETWORK CAN'T HANDLE LIQUOR
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amSOMEONE ought to hold an intervention for NBC because this network has a problem with booze. As a result, it has acquired a habit for sending mixed signals about mixed...
QUICK QUIZ: THE FASTEST ANIMAL ON EARTH IS... ... BIG HINT: NOT HIM
July 5, 2002 | 4:00am"The Most Extreme" [ 1/2] Sunday at 8 on Animal Planet -------- EXTREME skiing. Extreme snowboarding. Extreme skateboarding. And now - on TV - extreme animals. No, it's not about...
THE SINS OF A 'FATHER' WEIGH HEAVILY ON A FATHER
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE sound of the ticking clock is slowly driving Roberto Olivares mad. Olivares wants his estranged, 22-year-old son to pursue criminal charges against four priests who allegedly sexually abused him...
SADDAM'S STEPSON: I'M NO 'FLIGHT' RISK
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's stepson was headed to the same flight school that one of the Sept. 11 hijackers attended when he was arrested on immigration charges, officials said yesterday....
GUN MAYHEM SPARKS TERROR FEAR AT LAX
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amAn El Al security guard blew away a gunman yesterday to end a wild shootout that left two bystanders dead in front of the Israeli airline's counter at L.A. International...
FBI'S PHONE RANGERS BID TO 'SPOOK' AL QAEDA IN U.S.
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe FBI is launching a massive preemptive strike against possible al Qaeda attacks this weekend by interviewing hundreds of people across the country who may be linked to terrorism, it...
END OF THE TRAIL FOR GROUND ZERO COWBOY
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amA Texas cowboy with a heart as big as his home state rode into Ground Zero yesterday, ending an eight-month pilgrimage to honor the Sept. 11 victims. "It's very sad,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amWorkers in Jamestown, N.Y., last month discovered a 124-year-old billboard featuring William "Buffalo Bill" Cody when they began removing an outside wall of a crumbling building. According to an Americana...
FIREWORKS RING SMASHED: COPS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amCops have extinguished an illegal fireworks ring in Brooklyn, officials said yesterday. Police from the Fireworks Task Force swooped into a home on Woodpoint Road at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, and...
GRANDPA'S AGONY - ACCIDENTALLY LEAVES TOT IN HIS SWELTERING TRUCK
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amAn unconscious 16- month-old girl - with a 108-degree body temperature - was rushed to a Long Island hospital in critical condition after her grandfather said he forgot about her...
PAKISTAN NIGHTMARE - QNS. MAN: THEY JAILED ME - FOR AIDING U.S.
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A Queens man recently arrested in Pakistan says he was jailed for trying to tell U.S. officials where Osama bin Laden's chief aide was hiding out. Now back...
'KILLER' GIRL, 13, 'CRAZY:' GUARDIAN
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amA 13-year-old girl, charged with the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old girl in a Brooklyn housing project, had been threatening other youngsters over the past few months, the suspect's foster...
W. NILE IS BACK - KILLER VIRUS TURNS UP IN S.I. MARSH
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe dreaded West Nile virus has turned up in the Big Apple again. A sample taken from a stagnant body of water on Staten Island on June 25 showed evidence...
DAD FACES 'SHAKEN BABY' RAP
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday for allegedly shaking his 4-month-old son into critical condition, police said. Police were called to Adrian Sullivan's home at 31 St. Marks Ave. in...
BRITISH POP PERV SHIES FROM U.S. WRATH
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amHe may still "Want Your Sex," but past-his-prime pop pervert George Michael no longer wants your scorn - he says he won't release a President Bush-bashing single in the United...
TRIAL LIKELY, WITH NO DEAL IN SIGHT
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman has not reached a plea-bargain deal with a Long Island prosecutor, and her lawyer says he expects the judge in the case to set a date for trial....
JUDY'S JUDGMENT ON LIBERTY MEDALS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amHere's Judge Judy's verdict on The Post's honoring salt-of-the-earth New Yorkers: She's all for it. "Often, the worst of times inspires the best in people," said Judge Sheindlin. "Celebrating the...
MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE - JULIA GETS HITCHED TO CAMERAMAN LOVE AT HER N.M. RANCH
July 5, 2002 | 4:00am"Runaway Bride" Julia Roberts celebrated a stay-at-home wedding yesterday, marrying her cameraman sweetheart at her canyon-view New Mexico ranch. The Oscar-winning actress made it legal with her lensman lover, Danny...
CUOMO'S CALL TO CITY HALL HAS WEIRD RING
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE was an interesting call to the "bullpen" offices of Mayor Bloomberg this week - from Andrew Cuomo. In a prerecorded call to a Bloomberg aide in City Hall's second-floor,...
NYPD HELICOPTERS SPOTTED TWO PRIVATE PLANES IN RESTRICTED AIRSPACE OVER THE CITY YESTERDAY
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amNYPD helicopters spotted two private planes in restricted airspace over the city yesterday and pursued them to a New Jersey airport. The planes were flying erratically, as low as 50...
CONTROVERSIAL HOT-DOG KING THE WIENER BY A 'NOSE'
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amLISTEN, I know what I saw. Before the hot dogs had even cooled at yesterday's 85th annual hot-dog-eating championship at Nathan's, the losers began insisting that world champion Takeru Kobayashi...
PRESIDENT BUSH LED THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IN SMALL-TOWN WEST VIRGINIA YESTERDAY
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush led the Pledge of Allegiance in small-town West Virginia yesterday as the crowd defiantly shouted the words, "under God" in a Fourth of July celebration of...
4TH OF JULY GOES OUT WITH A BANG - DAZZLING FIREWORKS RENEW THE CITY'S SPIRIT
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amTerror threats, sweltering heat and heavy hearts couldn't stop the city from letting freedom ring in star-spangled style yesterday. In an Independence Day marked by brilliant fireworks and solemn remembrance,...
COP SHOT - AND ABANDONED
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe recent death of Ben Ward, the city's first black police commissioner, prompted an outpouring of tributes, many of which hailed his groundbreaking role and his difficult battle against racial...
'GOOD GIRL' LIZZIE - ONE-TIME WILD CHILD SHUNNING PARTY LIFE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMeet the new Lizzie Grubman. A year ago, she was New York's premier p.r. party princess, but after she slammed her Mercedes SUV into the velvet-rope crowd at Conscience Point...
A HUGE HOORAYFOR THE U.S.A. - N.Y. RECALLS 9/11 AS IT SALUTES 7/4
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amTerror threats, sweltering heat and heavy hearts couldn't stop the city from letting freedom ring with style yesterday. In an Independence Day marked by solemn remembrance, New Yorkers turned out...
BUSH: ONE NATION, UNDER GOD
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush led the Pledge of Allegiance in small-town West Virginia yesterday as the crowd defiantly shouted the words "under God" in a Fourth of July celebration of...
ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR HOLIDAY WEEKEND
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amFLUKE fishing in the New York Bight finally took a turn for the better, and along with the phenomenal porgy fishing, the Fourth of July weekend should provide lots of...
ISLES FANS MAKE THE CALL
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amYou've got to hand it to Islander fans. They will be heard. While NHL managers and agents have been hitting the phones this week hard with the opening of the...
UGLY FANS: TV'S BIG TURNOFF
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amTELEVISION people, especially directors of live sports events, long ago established the gold standard among in-house fans. The very best fans, according to those whom directors are most eager to...
TIME'S RUNNING OUT - METS AGREE THEY HAVE TO GET ACT TOGETHER NOW
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMIAMI - It is not a totally hopeless case, the Mets keep telling people. Until they are mathematically eliminated, they have no other option but to play out the schedule...
NATURALLY, THOME HAS NO EXCUSES AS STREAK ENDS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amJim Thome had several excuses at his disposal, but it would be unnatural for him to use any of them. His sore back was barking. He DH'd in yesterday's 7-1...
BOMBERS NUMB AS DEREK HITS DIRT
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amIT WASN'T the heat, it was the fragility. The whole Yankee season - all $135 million of it - may have been lying in the dirt near second base at...
YANKEES OVERCOME INDIANS AND INJURY - RAUL'S SLUGGING OFFSETS TRIBE'S TAKEOUT OF JETER
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Indians 1 The media throng surrounded Derek Jeter to find out the extent of the All-Star shortstop's sprained left knee and bruised leg. A hard third-inning slide...
RANGERS RE-SIGN RICHTER
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amHere are the questions: Now that Mike Richter has accepted both the reality of the marketplace and the ramifications of having been part of five straight playoff misses and taken...
NO FOOLIN': LEFT BANK SETS MARK
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amIn a dominating, track-record performance, Left Bank swept to the lead on the far turn and drew off under jockey John Velazquez to win yesterday's Grade 2, $150,000 Tom Fool...
MOOSE DOESN'T FOLD UNDER 7TH-INNING STRESS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Enrique Wilson had just misplayed a routine grounder to allow the Indians to load the bases with no outs in the seventh inning. The Yankees led by three...
YANKS OK WITH HARD SLIDE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amCleveland second baseman John McDonald's left knee was red and swollen. He was surrounded by a group of reporters, predominantly from New York, who were firing questions about his clean...
METS' SHIP SINKING FAST - FIVE UNEARNED RUNS TORPEDO AMAZIN'S
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMIAMI - Late Wednesday night in Philadelphia, reliever David Weathers said the worst possible thing that could happen to the Mets was for the pitching to go south just as...
METS CALL UP BACSIK TO PITCH IN FOR TRACH
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Left-hander Mike Bacsik will be recalled from Triple-A Norfolk in order to make tonight's start against the Marlins. Bacsik, 5-4 with a 3.39 ERA for the...
TRIBE'S MCDONALD SLIDES INTO STADIUM INFAMY
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amCleveland second baseman John McDonald's left knee was red and swollen. He was surrounded by a group of reporters, predominantly from New York, who were firing questions about his clean...
RICHTER SIGNS WITH RANGERS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe Rangers yesterday signed Mike Richter to a two-year contract after the goalie was made available to all takers on the free-agent market earlier in the week. Richter's deal, which...
LEFT BANK SETS MARK IN 'FOOL'
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amIn a dominating, track-record performance, Left Bank swept to the lead on the far turn and drew off under jockey John Velazquez to win yesterday's Grade 2, $150,000 Tom Fool...
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN - GM LAYDEN EMAILS FANS TO CLEAR AIR 'BOUT MOVES
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amIn an attempt to reach out to the fans following the harsh treatment he received at the Garden Theater nine days ago on Draft Night, Knicks GM Scott Layden E-mailed...
MILWAUKEE'S FINEST - ALL-STAR GAME HONORS BASEBALL'S TOP MOMENTS
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amALL-STAR GAME TUESDAY, 8 p.m., FOX ---------- Think of your favorite moment in baseball history. Then turn to a friend and ask his or her top moment. Was it different?...
THE NATURAL - PIAZZA'S AT HOME BEHIND THE PLATE - AND THE MIKE
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amMike Piazza's ease with the media will likely translate to a post-playing career that will feature broadcasting. He wants to do it, and TV talent evaluators like who he is...
BEST DAMN SPORTS ... VS. MOHR SPORTS (WHICH SHOW IS DUMBER?)
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amFox's "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" and ESPN's Mohr Sports are supposed to appeal to the young demographic. These programs tell you that some TV execs think this age...
5 QUESTIONS FOR CHRIS EVERT
July 5, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand caught up with NBC tennis analyst Chris Evert. The 47-year-old Evert won 18 grand slam singles titles in her career, including Wimbledon, which is...