August 23, 2002
GLOOMY OUTLOOK FACING BIG BANKS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amCall it bawl street, not Wall Street. The big investment banking firms, hurting after 30 straight months of down markets and a slow- or no-growth economy, do not seem to...
DEBEERS TO OPEN 1ST NY STORE AT ST. REGIS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amDe Beers LV has inked a deal to open its first store in the United States. The location, a 7,500 square foot space, is in the St. Regis Hotel, at...
DOW CRACKS 9,000 WHILE BULLS RETURN
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amStocks rallied again yesterday, the third rise in the past four trading sessions, bringing the major market indexes up more than 20 percent from recent lows. By some accounts, that...
THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS - EDITOR IN ANDERSEN HOAX HAS DUBIOUS PUBLISHING PAST
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amBOB Ickes, the man at the center of the bogus Kurt Andersen story in the August issue of Details, has an unusual past - infuriating editors across the media landscape...
PROSECUTORS OF ENRON TO PUT HEAT ON FASTOW'S WIFE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amProsecutors are set to turn the screws on Andrew Fastow - the architect of collapsed energy trader Enron's off-the-books partnerships - by going after his wife. Fresh from their first...
SELF-HELP AUTHOR NEEDS IT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amAMY'S ORGASM [1/2] Mostly charming comedy. Running time: 87 minutes. Not rated (sexual humor, language). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets. ---------- AN indie comedy, "Amy's Orgasm" plays initially...
A FILM FOR FIGHT FANS THAT'S NO KNOCKOUT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amUNDISPUTED [] Split decision. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sexual references). At the E-Walk, the Sutton, the Harlem USA, others. ---------- BASICALLY the Mike Tyson saga reduced...
'ISLE' HAS HOOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU CRINGE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ISLE [1/2]In Korean, with English subtitles. Running time: 89 minutes. Not rated (sex, gore, nudity). At Cinema Village, East 12th Street. ------ KIM Ki-Duk's "The Isle" finds new and...
FEMINISM, TUNISIA STYLE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSATIN ROUGE [1/2]In Arabic with English subtitles. Running time: 91 minutes. Not rated (language, sex). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. ------- EVEN though her homeland...
STILL SMOKIN' - AEROSMITH'S PERRY DISHES ON RIBS, KNIVES, KNEES & THE BAND
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amEVEN after a knee operation that laid him up this summer, Aerosmith guitar god Joe Perry is still defying time - playing like a rocker in his prime rather than...
JUST FAKING IT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSIMONE [] OK, smug Hollywood satire. Running time: 117 minutes. Rated PG-13 (adult themes). At the Loews 42nd Street, the Lincoln Square, the Union Square, others. ---------- 'SIMONE" is one...
TEEN CHARMER
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amLITTLE SECRETS [ 1/2] A pleasant little family film. Running time: 100 minutes. PG (thematic elements). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Village East, others. --------- THE target demographic...
FLUFF, POORLY SERVED
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSERVING SARA [1/2] Late summer cable fodder. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (vulgar humor, gunplay). At the E-Walk, the Lincoln Square, the Battery Park City, others. ------- IT'S probably...
LIVELY LOOK AT FRENCH FAMILY ANGST
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amHOW I KILLED MY FATHER [] Does father know best? In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (sex, violence). At the Lincoln Center and the Sunshine....
STARR REPORT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSimon says: Tamyra should've stayed "American Idol" judge Simon "Mr. Nasty" Cowell is weighing in on the shocking exile of fan favorite Tamyra Gray from Wednesday's live episode. "It's just...
THEY'RE NOT AFRAID - ACTRESSES VYING FOR ROLE IN 'V. WOOLF'
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA GAGGLE of Broadway leading ladies is chasing after Edward Albee this summer, hoping to win the master's approval to play Martha in a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia...
BLIND DATE WITH A JERSEY GIRL
August 23, 2002 | 4:00am'Hysterical Blindness' [ ] Sunday night at 9:30 on HBO ------- WHO knew life in Bayonne could be so difficult? Not me. I've driven by the Bayonne exit hundreds of...
OOPS! - OZZY GIVES FOX INTERVIEW HE PROMISED TO BARBRA WALTERS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amOZZY Osbourne tried at the last minute last night to derail a two-part, exclusive interview he gave to Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren in which he anguishes over wife...
COPS RELEASE BRYANT'S SON AFTER BAD BUST - MUGGING VICTIM ID'D HIM AFTER EAST SIDE ASSAULT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amProsecutors decided not to pursue attempted-robbery charges against Bryant Gumbel's son early today - in what a defense lawyer called a case of mistaken identity. "We are declining to prosecute....
KING KOS LAWSUIT BY OWN FIGHTER
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amBoxing promoter Don King scored a knockout legal win over one of his own fighters yesterday. Puerto Rican world heavyweight Johnny "Quiet Man" Ruiz had sued King in Manhattan federal...
9 FAMILY MEMBERS ACCEPT $1M-PLUS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amLess than three weeks before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America, nine family members of people killed in the tragedy have accepted an average of $1.3 million...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Connecticut man used his jury summons as toilet paper then sent it back to court officials, cops say. Christopher Gurahian, 38, of Westport, also wrote, "Stop wasting paper," on...
TENURE FOR TERROR?
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWHEN all three cable news channels go live to cover a news conference these days, the subject is usually a missing child or two. Yesterday morning, however, cable-news viewers found...
FLACCID FIEND'S STIFF SENTENCE - NO APOLOGIES FROM WEALTHY E. SIDE RAPIST AS HE GETS 3+ YEARS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA rich Upper East Side thug who beat up two women after his own impotence left him unable to rape them refused to apologize to his victims yesterday - and...
JIHAD SAVAGES - PHILIPPINE REBELS LEAVE CAPTIVES' HEADS IN MARKETPLACE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The grisly beheading of two Christian missionaries by Muslim fanatics in the Philippines has prompted the Pentagon to consider renewing combat-training missions to help crush Islamic rebels linked...
CELEBRATING THE 'INVISIBLE' NATIVE AMERICANS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amAlthough her people were the first threads in New York's fabric, they are perhaps the least well known - and Native American Rosemary Richmond is working hard to change that....
SPEEDY BUSH ENJOYING THE JOGS OF WAR
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush says he's running "with a little more intensity" since Sept. 11 - and that helps him run the war on terror. "It's interesting that my [running]...
POLS SHELL OUT BIG BUCKS FOR RUDY'S TV NOD
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amRudy Giuliani is the hottest star in political ads this year - with candidates across the country spending more than $3.4 million to air spots featuring the former mayor's endorsement,...
SCREWY AL'S LATEST DAY IN COURT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amAn X-rated diatribe against his ex-wife on his "Midnight Blue" cable show may cost Al Goldstein some extra time behind bars. The portly porn pooh-bah was arraigned on aggravated-harassment and...
CITY'S SANITATION DEPARTMENT GOT A MASSIVE BUDGET BOOST YESTERDAY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe city's Sanitation Department got a massive budget boost yesterday - nearly $67 million in federal emergency funds to cover costs of the Sept. 11 cleanup. The Federal Emergency Management...
CARL NOT GYM-DANDY WITH GAYS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amCARL McCALL's drive to win support in the gay community could hit a pothole because his wife is in the middle of a legal battle over the aborted construction of...
POLLSTERS IN A 'FIX' - QUINNIPIAC REVISES FIGURES IN DEM RACE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Quinnipiac University, admitting it used misleading figures in a recent poll, revised its numbers yesterday in the hotly fought Carl McCall-Andrew Cuomo battle for governor. Issuing the revisions...
PATAKI PRAISES TOUGH NYERS IN NEW TV AD
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amCautiously bringing Sept. 11 into the governor's race, Gov. Pataki yesterday launched a campaign ad in which he thanks New Yorkers for staying united after the destruction of the World...
KLEIN GREETS ROOKIE CLASS OF TEACHERS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amNew Schools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday praised 8,500 new teachers for taking on the challenge of teaching in city schools. "It's your rookie year. It's my rookie year, too," Klein...
SECOND PAL IN DEAL VS. JAYSON
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe prosecutorial noose around Jayson Williams' neck tightened yesterday when a second codefendant agreed to testify against him in the alleged cover-up of the ex-NBA star's shooting of a limo...
CITY TAKES A LOSS IN DIPLO-SCOFFLAW DEAL
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday unveiled a long-awaited deal to crack down on diplomatic scofflaws, but conceded that most of the $20 million in currently outstanding tickets will never be collected. "I...
TIMES EDITOR IN DEATH PLUNGE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA New York Times business editor suffering from financial and marital difficulties jumped to his death from the newspaper's landmark building in Times Square yesterday, police said. Allen Myerson, 47,...
YOU'LL SEE THIS ONCE - TV IMAGES OF 9/11 ATTACKS TO BE SCARCE ON ANNIVERSARY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThey're the most horrible and infamous images of Sept. 11 - and you'll barely be seeing them on TV on the one-year anniversary. The networks have decided to exercise constraint...
LANDLORD CHARGED IN TORCHING
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens landlord was charged yesterday with setting his building on fire in a scheme that nearly killed his accomplice, police said. Emile Moreau, 46, faces charges of arson, conspiracy,...
'HARD TIME' LIZZIE - OPTS FOR REAL JAIL, NOT DWI 'CAMP'
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman - who has her day in court today - has decided to serve her time in a regular jail with criminals rather than the cushier county drunk farm,...
SCHOOLS GOING SILENT FOR POIGNANT MOMENT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amNew Schools Chancellor Joel Klein will lead the city's 80,000 teachers and 1.1 million students in a moment of silence on the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Board...
ROCKAWAY CAR CRASH KILLS TEEN
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA car wreck in the Rockaways early yesterday killed a neighborhood youth and seriously injured his passenger, police said. Ryan Rudden, 17, was driving his 2002 Nissan east on Beach...
DIOCESE SETTLES WITH TEACHERS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe Archdiocese of New York and the union representing 450 teachers at 10 Catholic high schools have reached a settlement providing an 11 percent pay boost over three years -...
FIRED & BRIMSTONE - RADIO JERKS AXED FOR CHURCH SEX STUNT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amAn unholy sex stunt at St. Patrick's Cathedral has gotten shock jerks Opie and Anthony exorcised from New York radio. In a brief, one-line statement, WNEW-FM said it was doing...
BAD MOOD BEHIND FATAL RAMPAGE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan man says he choked his common-law wife until she was brain-dead, beat her mother into a coma with a bat and tried to strangle her 7-year-old daughter because...
COPS HUNTING CAR-HEIST THUG
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amCops are looking for a gun-wielding thug in an FDNY hat who steals vehicles from Manhattan garages - for use as getaway cars in Queens gas-station heists. The thief, described...
BRAD'S MOM: MY WORST NIGHTMARE CAME TRUE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amFROM the moment her gentle son was arrested, branded a lowlife mugger by cops, June Gumbel knew they'd picked up the wrong black man. "This is my nightmare come true!"...
5 MORE BUSTED IN GIRL'S STRAY-BULLET SLAY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amFive more members of a Mexican gang have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 10-year-old Bronx altar girl, including two on charges they provided the murder...
21 GREAT ESCAPES FROM COPS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx man under arrest on a gun charge walked out of a station house yesterday - the 21st prisoner to escape cops this year, authorities said. The suspect, Omar...
RAMPAGE BLAMED ON BAD MOOD
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan man says he choked his common-law wife until she was brain-dead, beat her mother into a coma with a bat and tried to strangle her 7-year-old daughter because...
BRAD'S HEARTSICK MOM: IT'S ALL A MISTAKE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amCOPS hunting the Upper East Side for a mugger picked up the wrong black man, Bradley Gumbel's mother insists. "He didn't do anything wrong," June Gumbel told me yesterday -...
BRYANT'S SON IS CHARGED IN PURSE SNATCH - ARREST CASTING A PALL OVER DAD'S REMARRIAGE TOMORROW
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amBryant Gumbel's son was charged with snatching a purse from a terrified woman on the Upper East Side early yesterday, knocking her to the ground before fleeing. The arrest of...
CONTROVERSIAL DQ STILL HEATS UP SPA
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - No summer meet would be complete without a controversial ruling by the stewards, and we got one in last Monday's fourth-race DQ of Silver Squire, which is...
BOXING HITS THE HAMPTONS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amLabor Day weekend in the Hamptons next week brings with it the opportunity to hit the beach and see someone get knocked out. No, Lizzie Grubman won't be there, but...
FOR FR. PETE'S SAKE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amNEAL Travis is probably getting a good laugh over this one. Father Pete Colapietro cut his fishing vacation short to come back to preside over the funeral services for the...
AUSTIN SLAMS HEWITT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWhile USA Network's Tracy Austin predicted top-seeded Lleyton Hewitt to repeat as U.S Open champion, the former pig-tailed teen phenom ripped the Aussie baseliner for his classless offcourt behavior. Austin...
TRAINER SAYS REPENT SET TO MAKE AMENDS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - If a trainer's confidence level before a big race is any indication of how his horse will run, then Kenny McPeek's comeback colt Repent is sitting on...
AILING CHREBET RETURNS TO FIELD
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES Two days after suffering a quadriceps contusion just above his left knee, Jets' WR Wayne Chrebet returned to the afternoon practice yesterday after sitting out the morning session...
CLASS, TO THE LETTER - MARA'S NOTE SOOTHED GARNES AFTER RELEASE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe letter arrived to Sam Garnes' New Jersey home last March and it immediately disarmed any animosity he was harboring toward the Giants, who'd unceremoniously released him days earlier. The...
ISLES STRAND HOWIE IN LIMBO
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amHOWIE Rose had to know why we were calling. That's probably why he didn't return the calls. Not that we can blame him. He couldn't possibly relish the opportunity to...
GOV'S PROPOSAL SHINES LIGHT ON SPORTS' DECAY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWITH this month's televised Little League games proving to even the minimally right-headed that the absence of sportsmanship - a.k.a., common decency - has become epidemic, WFAN, Sunday, has a...
CARTER'S MOMENT OF TRUTH A REALITY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - In many ways, Tim Carter feels tomorrow night's preseason game against the Jets is his real debut. Carter, a rookie receiver picked in the second round of the...
SPA CLASH 'PERSONAL'
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Most of the ink written about today's Grade 1, $400,000 Personal Ensign Handicap, and most of the money bet at the windows, will be devoted to the...
SEHORN MAY PLAY VS. JETS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Jim Fassel maintained this week that Jason Sehorn might play tomorrow night against the Jets and Fassel yesterday sure sounded upset and offered terse answers when...
UNION PAL WIDGER KEPT SPENCER OUT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amChris Widger and Shane Spencer are teammates now, sharing the same bench for the Yankees. They are close enough to knock down a post-game beer and hang out. But four...
BOBBY V: FAILURE MY FAULT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Bobby Valentine finally shed some blood for the sports radio-phoning sharks, and Steve Phillips finally admitted the obvious. Yesterday was White Flag Day, as even owner Fred...
METS' LOSING STREAK ROLLS TO 11
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amGiants 3 - Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO - When Jeromy Burnitz touched home in the second inning yesterday, it was cause for celebration. It was the first time since last...
SORE HAMMY LANDS BERNIE ON THE PINE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Thanks to a balky left hamstring, Bernie Williams was originally slated to be Joe Torre's DH last night against the Angels. However, after thinking over the issue, Torre...
FIVE THINGS TO WATCH IN CASE OF STRIKE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amFIVE questions in case of a strike: 1. What happens to injured players? Players on the disabled list at the time of a work stoppage can continue to use team...
THEY'RE STILL CHAMPS - AMAZING JOURNEY MADE US PROUD
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - You saw how the journey ended last night when Massachusetts' catcher Ryan Griffin drilled a three-run walk-off home run to send Harlem home with tearful faces and...
TORRE'S JUGGLING OF BULLPEN PAYS DIVIDENDS AGAIN
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amON TUESDAY night, in an opener against the Angels, Joe Torre began the ninth inning using Ramiro Mendoza to close before shifting to Mike Stanton with runners on and lefty...
SORIANO PLAYING SECOND TO NONE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThere are times when even major league baseball players become fans. Alfonso Soriano's electrifying at-bats are among those times, as he etches his name among the long list of Yankee...
YANKS GO TO THE WELLS ONCE MORE - BOOMER BAFFLES HALOS EN ROUTE TO 14TH WIN
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amHis Inner Circle will arch their eyebrows at the thought. He might even use it as ammunition when he wants to over-rule the others on a future talent evaluation. But...
TORRE LEARNING HOW TO MANAGE BULLPEN SHUFFLE
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amON Tuesday night, in an opener against the Angels, Joe Torre was comfortable beginning the ninth inning with Ramiro Mendoza as his closer with two righty hitters due. But when...
CHECKED 'MATE - UNION PAL KEPT SPENCER OUT
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThey are teammates now, sharing the same bench for the Yankees. They are close enough to knock down a post-game beer and hang out. But four years ago, Chris Widger...
HATS OFF TO HARLEM - PLAYERS SET TREND AT SERIES
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - From flat-brimmed hats to calling their shots - even when they strike out - to waving goodbye to home run balls and celebratory monster walks down the...
HIGH-FLYING ANGELS HAVE YANKS' NUMBER
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWith the Yankees rolling toward another postseason - if there is one - there's only one team with a winning record against the Bombers since 1998. It's not the A's...
BERNIE MISSES START DUE TO SORE HAMMY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Thanks to a balky left hamstring, Bernie Williams was originally slated to be Joe Torre's DH last night. However after thinking the issue over Torre scratched the hot-hitting...
MONDESI SHINES IN CENTER START
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amRaul Mondesi, usually as up-and-down as the Dow, has been mired in a hitting slump. But last night the enigmatic outfielder not only came up big at the plate, but...
PRESSURE, ANYONE? - FLUSHING'S SPOTLIGHT IS HOTTEST IN TENNIS
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amAt just 16 years old, Tracy Austin sat in the back seat of her parents' car doing tongue twisters. Relaxed as a teen-ager could be, she was on her way...
5 QUESTIONS FOR VIN SCULLY
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand caught up with legendary Dodger play-by-play announcer Vin Scully. Scully graduated from Fordham in 1949 and a year later was broadcasting for the Dodgers...
BOOTH BE TOLD, YES' NET DECISION DUE - RAFTERY'S ROLE AS ANALYST STILL AN OPEN QUESTION
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWhile no decision has been made by the YES Network, sources tell NYP TV Sports that Bill Raftery may not be asked back to the Nets' TV team as color...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK - CHRIS BERMAN (NOW VS. THEN)
August 23, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Chris Berman started doing his signature nickname shtick on SportsCenter, it ruled. It was creative, and it was something that had never been done. He added to the show...