July 14, 2002
BULL'S EYE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amWSJ EDITORIAL PAGE RAMPAGE The Wall Street Journal's famously cranky editorial page stuck a finger in the eye of its Page One compatriots last week. On Friday, the editorial page...
DESIGNER MAKES WORKSPACE BLOOM
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCommuting just 1.5 miles to her Greenwich, Conn., office, the accessories designer chose the space because of its proximity to her family, and has made her family a part of...
GET TO KNOW YOUR FUND
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHE mutual fund industry has yet to be rocked with a scandal like Enron or ImClone, and may very possibly avoid that fate. But that doesn't mean fund shareholders shouldn't...
WHAT I WATCH
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amELLEN KUNES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF REDBOOK I WAS COMPLETELY FASCINATED WITH 'THE BACHELOR.' I'M BLOWN AWAY BY HOW COMPETITIVE THESE WOMEN BECOME WITH EACH OTHER. RACHELLE FRIEDMAN FOUNDER, J&R MUSIC AND COMPUTER...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ALAN CUMMING
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIn Alan Cumming's latest theater project, he plays a roller-skating pope who exposes his naked butt to the audience. "It's all about celebrity and how much we value image," the...
CURTAIN CALLS: THE FLOURISHES & FLOPS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAs any actor knows, theater lives and dies off its audience. A responsive crowd can make a show; a bad one can wreck it.But once the final line of dialogue...
YEAH, BEBE! A CRADLE-ROBBING ROMP PROPELS NEUWIRTH INTO THE OSCAR ZONE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amSexy "Chicago" and "Cheers" star Bebe Neuwirth had just one question when she laid eyes on the young actor who plays her 15-year-old lover in the new indie sensation "Tadpole."...
MR. FLOWER POWER
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIF YOU ONLY WATCH ONE SHOW THIS WEEK... "Biography" Monday nightat 8 on A&E BILL GRAHAM wasn't a participant in the rock-and-drug scene he nurtured in San Francisco in the...
THE NAKED DILEMMA: WHY DID I HIT 'SEND'?
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amWhen I wrote about being photographed naked last week, I knew I was going to get a lot of comments. I expected much of it to be negative but instead...
A LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY IN THE APPLE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCity Bakery 3 W. 18th St. (between Fifth & Sixth avenues) (212) 366-1414 The pie started it. Next thing you know, there's a City Bakery State Fair. Pastry prince Maury...
CAMPER TAKEN TO TASK FOR 'TUSK'
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIs it OK to joke about the Strokes? It is if you ask Camper Van Beethoven. But lawyers for the reunited band '80s band aren't so sure after Camper put...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amABSTRACT: HIT OF THE WEEK: Red Hot Chili Pepper's "By the Way". DUD OF THE WEEK: "Freak of Nature" pop star Anastacia messed up the words to the national anthem...
AXED EXEC LOSES HIS BIGGEST PERK: $25M PENTHOUSE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amOusted Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier has about two weeks to pack up the wife and kids and vacate his lavish, company-owned penthouse apartment at 515 Park Ave., according to...
DONNA HITS A HOME RUN
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amLAST week, Team Giuliani went into a courtroom and came out six hours later and $6.8 million lighter. Aside from the fat cash settlement, Donna Hanover also got the residential...
RED INK AND NOT RACISM DETHRONED KING OF POP
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amMICHAEL ("I am not a freak!") Jackson, in a desperate bid for publicity, last week ranted and raved that Sony honcho Tommy Mottola is a racist who isn't supportive of...
HORSE SENSE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amREMEMBER reading in "Page Six" last week that all the really special people are leaving the Hamptons and heading upstate to escape the riff and the raff? On Saturday night,...
HAMAS TRYING A NEW RACKET
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amWHO put the chutzpah in Hamas? Don't be surprised on Tuesday when Hamas-friendly attorney Stanley Cohen (yes, the one who used to be associated with terrorist-loving attorney Lynne Stewart) files...
QUEENS BUS DEAL STILL NOT FINALIZED
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amA work stoppage by private bus-line drivers in Queens was apparently still on yesterday - a day after city officials announced a deal to end the strike. Queens Borough President...
CONCERT SALUTE TO SEARCHERS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amA 9/11 widow who is still waiting for her lost husband's remains is giving something back to the recovery workers who searched tirelessly for the World Trade Center victims. Lisa...
HUBBY'S EX TO JULIA: HE'LL CHEAT ON YOU, TOO
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The ex-wife of Julia Roberts' new husband has labeled the Runaway Bride as a "husband stealer" and offered her this sobering advice: He cheated on me and...
BIN LADEN ALIVE BUT NOT WELL: REPORT
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amOsama bin Laden is still alive and believed to be hiding in the mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence network said in a report published...
COPS EYE HIT PLOT IN D.C. CAR BOMBING
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amFederal agents are investigating whether a prominent businessman or his son was the target of a ripped-from-the-movies-style car bomb. The explosion in a D.C. basement parking garage Friday left the...
ISRAELIS FOIL 'MAJOR' CAR-BOMB TERROR TRY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Israeli military is taking credit for foiling a deadly plan this weekend after pulling over a Palestinian car that was headed toward central Israel and filled with explosives, gasoline...
ONWARD & UPWARD! LET'S REACH FOR THE STARS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amBRING back the Twin Towers, all 110 stories of them! And throw in an extra foot or two for good measure. Not many planners or politicians share that view. You...
REALITY BYTES FOR L.I. KIDS OF DIVORCE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIn a rare and controversial solution to a child custody case, a woman has been allowed to return to her native Long Island with her kids on the condition they...
COPS CUT ESCAPEE COUNT TO JUST ONE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who fled police custody earlier this year - one of 21 such escapees who have bedeviled the NYPD since January - was captured yesterday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police...
SOCCER-SLAY SUSPECTS NABBED
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCops yesterday arrested the last of four suspects in the shooting of an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer, who was wounded after an adult soccer game at a Brooklyn park...
AIRLINE GROUNDS ISRAELI BIGWIG
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAn airline captain left a high-ranking Israel dignitary behind in San Francisco when "a communication breakdown" between security and the flight crew led to a heated standoff at the gate,...
76ER'S BAD BLOOD: GLASS, STAINS IN SUV PUT HEAT ON IVERSON
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCops found broken glass, rocks and smears of blood in the SUV belonging to Allen Iverson's wife during an investigation into the Philadelphia 76er's alleged gun-toting rampage last week. Sources...
TED'S SON REVEALS HIS WEIRD PLAN: I WANT TO BE FROZEN TO PLAY BALL WITH DAD
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amNot only has he shipped off his father's body to be frozen, Ted Williams' pushy son wants to ice his own body too - so he can play catch with...
2 THOUGHTS ON TWIN TOWERS: BLOOMY NOT TOO HIGH ON EARLY IDEAS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday said the six land-use proposals for Ground Zero are just a "starting point" - and that he has his own ideas he'll give to planners. At a...
SCHOOL-BUS SMASH ON LIE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTwo school buses and a van collided shortly after 7 p.m. last night on a busy stretch of the westbound Long Island Expressway near the Little Neck Parkway in Queens,...
SCHWARZ CASE IS RIGHT VS. WRONG, NOT BLACK VS. WHITE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHE match in the tinderbox of prejudice - whether religion or race - is always triggered by an infinitesimal minority of people whose brain cells have taken a stroll in...
2 THOUGHTS ON TWIN TOWERS: POLL REVEALS GREAT DIVIDE ON REBUILD
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amHalf of New Yorkers want to rebuild the Twin Towers. A Post survey of 609 people in the five boroughs revealed that 48 percent favor the idea, while 50 percent...
PA INSISTS: WE'RE NOT JUST MOTIVATED BY MONEY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amANALYSIS With an array of stake-holders ready to square off this week over design options for a rebuilt World Trade Center, Port Authority officials say there is room for compromise...
WTC RUBBLE SURVIVOR WALKS DOWN THE AISLE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amGennelle Guzman remained sane during the 26 hours she was trapped in the rubble of the Twin Towers by forcing herself to picture the face of her daughter - and...
PROSECUTORS EYEING SLAY RAP IN POWERBOAT CRASH
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amProsecutors may seek a manslaughter conviction against the hot-dogging Queens teen at the wheel of a powerboat that hit another craft, leaving two people missing and feared dead in the...
THUMBS UP FROM THEATER COMMUNITY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe president of the League of American Theaters and Producers thinks The Post's script for inviting everyday heroes to take a bow has the sweet smell of success. "New York...
WOMEN EXCEL AS MATRI-MONEY LAWYERS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe verdict is in: If you want a good divorce lawyer, you better call a woman. Gone are the days when women just answered the phones and took notes for...
IT'S THE HOOKERS VS. HOMEOWNERS: WEST VILLAGE STREET FIGHT IS TURNING NASTY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIt is nearly 2 a.m. and a little sticky with heat, but the people who crowd Christopher Street are oblivious to temperature and time. Men in stylish shirts and women...
BIG ALIMONY NO SWEAT AS BIG $$ ROLL RUDY'S WAY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amRudy Giuliani will have an easy time paying off his divorce tab. His business is off to a rollicking start after just seven months - and reeled in more than...
'CORRUPT' YASSER'S $11B STASH
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. 'AN earthquake is sweeping the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian leadership, the Palestinian people and all over the region. So says Israel's chief of military intelligence, Aharon Zeevi. The causes...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amFROM Budman: "Now making the rounds at Theological Union in Berkeley: 'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it...
W. VILLAGE CATCHES A BRAKE IN PATH PLAN
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Port Authority's controversial plan to build two new exits at PATH train stations in the West Village may have been derailed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has slammed the...
MAN SLASHED IN BOTTLE ATTACK
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amA man received 50 stitches after a he was slashed with a broken bottle in a fight over a woman in Hell's Kitchen yesterday, police said. The fight erupted around...
'SLAY' ON THE BAY: DA PROBES HOMICIDE IN BOAT CRASH
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amProsecutors may seek a manslaughter conviction against the hot-dogging Queens teen at the wheel of a powerboat that hit another craft, leaving two people missing and feared dead in the...
MAN, 21, SHOT DEAD IN BX.
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amA 21-year-old man was found shot dead in front of a Bronx apartment building yesterday, police said. The victim, who was not identified pending notification of relatives, was found at...
RE-ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: ONLY 1 ESCAPEE STILL AT LARGE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who fled police custody earlier this year - one of 21 such escapees that have bedeviled the NYPD since January - was captured yesterday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police...
BIG-MARKET THEORY A BIG LIE RANGERS, STARS NOT DRIVING UP SALARIES
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAND so Pat Quinn was heavily fined by Gary Bettman, Slap Shots has learned, for last week publicly promising a 2004-2005 lockout, but that hardly matters, not when a lout...
BEST ARM ON THE FARM
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amMatt Carson's right shoulder is only slightly different from yours in that you have an arm coming out of it and he has a Howitzer. Maybe you prefer a bazooka?...
SLATS MAY BE PENNY-WISE, MESS-FOOLISH
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S all but impossible to ridicule an organization that's going to have a $70M payroll for not being willing to spend $5M more, but we sure hope the Rangers didn't...
CAUSWELL TAKING HIS SHOT WITH NETS AFTER YEAR OFF
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe ache was bad. And it had nothing to do with the pain from the tendinitis in Duane Causwell's right knee. Miami chose not to re-sign the veteran center last...
YOUNG STARS WANT TO PROVE THEIR POINTS ; KNICKS' WILLIAMS QUESTIONS CRITICS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amFrank Williams rented out the dance club Equator in his hometown of Peoria, Ill., on Draft Night, inviting 200 family members, friends and former teammates. There was no music, just...
NETS' JEFFERSON WILL GIVE GUARD HIS BEST SHOT
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThere is an exceedingly difficult task awaiting the Nets' braintrust this season. Duplicating another 50-victory season? Child's play. Defending the Atlantic Division? Piece of cake. Winning the East and returning...
JEROME TAKES KNICK TOUR
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe Knicks laid out the red carpet for Seattle free-agent center Jerome James yesterday, even giving him a tour of their new, nearly completed practice facility in Greenburg even before...
SOX WANT SOME MO BOSTON TRYING TO SWING VAUGHN DEAL WITH METS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIt's not a case of Mo Gone yet, but New England baseball fans have cause for excitement because the Red Sox are considering reacquiring Mo Vaughn, according to industry sources....
IT'S A 'CONN' JOB IN BOWLING GREEN
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amNew York-bred Whitmore's Conn closed well in the stretch to overtake pacesetting Moon Solitaire and win the 45th running of the Grade 2 Bowling Green Handicap by 13/4 lengths at...
ALFONSO-O-O-O GOOD - SORIANO'S TWO HRS POWER YANK ROUT
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - They each own an MVP award, so Joe Torre and Jason Giambi understand what it takes to win baseball's highest individual honor. And they are seeing it from...
NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT 2003
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amSO much of the talk about these dreadful Mets has centered on what man or woman (take that, correctoids!) should be in charge of resurrecting them in the dugout, the...
SHOULDER SENDS ROBERTS BACK TO DL
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAfter Grant Roberts felt more discomfort in his tender right shoulder during Friday's loss to the Phillies, the Mets put Roberts back on the disabled list. "They decided they might...
CLEMENS DL'D; RAUL DAY TO DAY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Wanting Roger Clemens to be 100 percent for the stretch drive and October, the Yankees put the right-hander on the 15-day disabled list yesterday, less than 24 hours...
STRICKLAND SQUANDERS AMAZIN'S LATEST COMEBACK IN 12
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAfter another loss, Mike Piazza probed for more words to describe the Mets' dismal season. Searching his mind as if it were a dictionary, Piazza finally settled on some he...
SHAKY ESTES FLOPS AGAIN WINLESS SINCE SUBWAY STINT
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amIf he could pitch every game against Roger Clemens and the Yankees, Shawn Estes would be just fine. Funny thing is, there aren't many people in baseball that can say...
PRATT MISSES METS DESPITE SHEA MESS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amNo matter how low the Mets' boat may sink this season, no matter how many race for the lifejackets while GM Steve Phillips runs out of fingers with which to...
MACH THREE, CAMPBELL WIN MEADOWLANDS PACE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amJohn Campbell showed why he's harness racing's "Million Dollar Man," winning a record seventh $1 million Meadowlands Pace with Mach Three last night. Mach Three cruised to a 11/2-length victory...
GREAT TEAMS GOOD FOR GAMES MIDNIGHT'S TOLLING FOR CINDERELLAS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Yankees reload a new belt of bullets into their Gatling gun, shooting for a fifth World Series title in seven years. Two NHL teams, Colorado and Detroit, have taken...
CLEMENS EAGERLY WAITS TO GET HIS STRENGTH COACH BACK
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Roger Clemens admits he misses Brian McNamee, the strength and conditioning coach the Yankees let go after last year. McNamee, a former St. John's catcher, has worked with...
TOUGH TALK FROM TORRE AIDS WELLS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - No matter how many times they were asked about what Joe Torre said to David Wells on the mound in the third inning of last night's 14-5 win...
HOW TO BE HEARD ON ACCESS ISSUE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) has unveiled HunterAccess.com to survey sportsmen on access to federal public lands. Federal public lands are an important destination with approximately 47 percent of American...
CADDIES NEEDED FOR SENIOR PROS AT L.I. CLASSIC
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF The Lightpath Long Island Classic is looking for a few good caddies. Under the tournament's "caddie for a day" program, four fans will be selected to caddie nine...
HIS LIFE'S CALLING: MET VOICE GOT START BY RINGING A'S FINLEY
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAt home in Rockville Centre in 1980, Ted Robinson was advised by his father to call A's owner Charlie Finley about a job. At 22 and unemployed, Robinson did just...
PADILLA POURS ON THE GAS: ALL-STAR STUFF STYMIES METS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amBy calling last Tuesday night's All-Star Game a tie after 11 innings, some will argue that Bud Selig hurt the game of baseball. Others will argue that by pulling the...
YANKEES BE DAMNED: A PLAN TO SAVE BASEBALL BY FORCING THE BOSS TO KEEP HIS WALLET IN HIS POCKET
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTHESE days there are really three types of teams: small markets, large markets and the Yankees. When folks moan about financial disparity and lack of competitive balance, those are really...
TORRE NOT READY TO BLAME NICK FOR TOUGH LOSS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - With Raul Mondesi needing a cart to leave Jacobs Field and Roger Clemens being forced out of the game in the fifth inning with a balky...
YEAR OF THE CAT - DAD: TIGER OUT TO SILENCE CRITICS WITH UNDISPUTED GRAND SLAM
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amTiger Woods won't come out and say it. He's far too politically correct, far too private with his thoughts, far too adamant about not sharing his goals with anyone outside...
WILLIAMS PUTS BEST FOOT FORWARD
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amAt halftime of last Saturday's win at Columbus, after captain Tab Ramos and star striker Clint Mathis had both been felled by leg injuries, MetroStars coach Octavio Zambrano turned to...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: TWO STEVE BURTTS LIGHTING UP RUCKER LEAGUE TOGETHE
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amThe fans who crammed into Rucker Park for Tuesday evening's Entertainers League games might have noticed a striking resemblance in two of the Roughriders' guards. They saw the younger, smaller...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
July 14, 2002 | 4:00amDoubleday To Wilpon ...Get A-Rod! Everyone is familiar with the differences between Mets co-owners Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon. They are suing each other, thus making official their mutual antipathy....