August 28, 2002
ANDERSEN SETTLES FOR $40M
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amEnron shareholders have reached a $40 million settlement with Andersen Worldwide SC, the organization of international companies with ties to the shamed Arthur Andersen LLP. Sources familiar with the ongoing...
TECH TROUBLE IN H-P EARNS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA weak earnings report issued by computer giant Hewlett-Packard after yesterday's closing bell may have set up the stock market for another struggle today. Yesterday's action was marked by concerns...
TARGET THINKS IT'S A SWELL IDEA TO SELL ROWLEY-DESIGNED GOODS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amTarget is getting Swell. The hip mass merchant has signed a deal with fashion designer Cynthia Rowley and creative partner Ilene Rosenzweig to create a collection of lifestyle products and...
FORMER JUPITER BUILDING GETS ASTRONOMICAL PRICE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amAN Israeli group has purchased the former Jupiter Media Metrix building for a record-setting conversion price of $42 million. The group now intends to convert the 11-story building at 21...
EX-EXEC TO KEEP $42M FRUIT LOOT
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe former Fruit of the Loom chief who help drive the company into the ground will be allowed to keep some $42 million the company loaned him. In a settlement...
WORLDCONNED - GRUBMAN'S FINGERPRINTS ON INSIDER IPO SALES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amCongressional investigators released startling Salomon Smith Barney internal documents yesterday, revealing that scandal-scarred WorldCom top execs got huge amounts of coveted IPO shares and suggesting former hot-shot analyst Jack Grubman...
NICOLE GETS $8M PAD NEAR MARTHA
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amManhattan can say "G'day" to saucy Aussie Nicole Kidman now that she's bought her own Downtown pad. The former spouse of Tom Cruise just plunked down more than $8 million...
ROSIE RIVETS MAG STAFF
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell had to march back into the offices of her troubled namesake magazine Monday to try to get the staff on track. By one account, a highly emotional Rosie...
STARR REPORT
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amInto the Woods with USA's 'Rudy' Volatile James Woods is sounding off again - this time about his role as ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the upcoming USA biopic about Rudy's...
WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT IS . . .
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amCORPUS CALLOSUM [] A head movie for the new millennium. Running time: 93 minutes. Not rated (nudity). At the Film Forum, Houston and Varick streets. ------- THE star rating system...
MILLER DIDN'T EVEN SAY IT'S ALL OVER; NINE-YEAR HBO RUN ENDS WITH WHIMPER
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amDENNIS Miller's next rant will be his last. Miller ends a nine-year run on HBO on Friday night. But unlike most shows that have been on the air that long,...
SOME BIG FAT FLOPS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amWITH $63.3 million in the bank so far, the $5 million "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" has embarrassed some summer films with far bigger stars. "The Adventures of Pluto Nash,"...
FOX ADDS TWO-HOUR 'IDOL' WORSHIP SHOW
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amFOX will wring an extra minute of fame out of "American Idol" with "American Idol in Las Vegas," a two-hour special airing late next month. The special will feature a...
YOU CAN DO IT! - GIVE SOME QUICK & TASTY DISHES A SPIN
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amTOO busy to shop for groceries every day? Does your personal food pyramid consist of five kinds of takeout? "The Can Opener Gourmet" can help. Laura Karr's spiral-bound paperback promises...
FANS GAME FOR ETHNIC CUISINE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE pro tennis players rush the net, thousands of fans are jamming the lines in the U.S. Open's Food Village. "We're even busier than last year," says Food Court chef...
SPLITTING HAIRS - EARLIER 'HAIRSPRAY' DIRECTOR WANTS CUT OF PROFITS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amYOU know a show's a hit when someone comes out of the woodwork to claim a piece of it. Rob Marshall - who directed three early readings of "Hairspray" before...
'GREEK' CHIC - LITTLE FLICK SET FOR TOP SPOT AFTER 20 WEEKS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amCALL it a big fat Greek smash. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," the summer's sleeper hit, may well celebrate Labor Day weekend by being crowned No. 1 at the box-office...
INDECENT EXPOSURE: TWO DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, PBS WANTS YOU TO FEEL SORRY FOR THE CAPTURED TALIBAN TERRORISTS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amPBS, your timing couldn't be worse. Two days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is no time to air a new documentary that is supposed to make...
'HAVE I GOT A MEAL FOR YOU': THE TRUTH BEHIND EATERIES' BIZ-BOOSTING SALES PITCHES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amIN the dog days of August, restaurants go the extra mile to stir the foodie press and drum up business. Sure, we're thrilled over the latest fusion menus and chefs'...
COPS KILL MAN WAVING FAKE GUN IN BED-STUY
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA confrontation yesterday over how much orange juice a Brooklyn church kitchen served the hungry ended with cops fatally shooting a man - who was brandishing a fake gun, police...
CUOMO'S COLLAPSE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amFUTURE candidates would do well to study Andrew Cuomo's campaign for the governorship of New York state - if they want lessons in how NOT to run for public office....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA rock fan has collected 39,000 grasshoppers to win tickets to see an Elton John show. Brandy Elliott, 26, of Saskatchewan, Canada, won a contest held by Z99 radio, beating...
MISSING KID IS LIKELY WITH DAD IN CHINA
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amPolice believe that a Chinese-born artist who disappeared with his 41/2-year-old son last month during a scheduled two-hour visitation has made it to his homeland with the boy. Rui Guo,...
HERO FIREFIGHTER WHO RAN THROUGH THE BROOKLYN BATTERY TUNNEL TO HELP WORLD TRADE CENTER VICTIMS - AND DIED AT GROUND ZERO - WILL BE HONORED
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA hero firefighter who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to help World Trade Center victims - and died at Ground Zero - will be honored with a 5-kilometer run....
EVEN READERS WERE AMAZON.CONNED
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Pellegrino's make-believe act as a mob insider was so authentic, he even conned his most important judges - the readers. The Mafia wannabe received some warm praise from Amazon.com...
FANS STRIKE BACK - BLAST PLAYERS IN POST WEB POLL
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amEnraged baseball fans took a swing at crybaby players yesterday, blaming the greedy athletes if a strike is called Friday - and vowing to attend fewer games next year if...
AUCTION OFFERS HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA guitar twice set on fire by Jimi Hendrix is expected to fetch $600,000 at auction next month. The rocker burned the Stratocaster Sunburst during a 1967 London show and...
MIKE INKS LAW RECOGNIZING GAY MARRIAGES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amGay couples who are married abroad or who have civil unions in other states will now be officially recognized by the city, under a bill signed yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg....
BAD NEWS BREWS AS HEINEKEN HIJACKS MCENROE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK Heineken hit the bottom of the barrel in blurring the line between "media alert" and shameless p.r. stunt yesterday. Reporters covering the U.S. Open were given handouts...
HE HEATS UP THE CITY'S SPIRIT WITH HIS SKILLET
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amFreddy "Sez" Schuman is as much a fixture in Yankee Stadium as the players' familiar pinstriped uniforms. Schuman, 77, walks through the stands during all Bronx Bombers home games, armed...
ONLY THING HE'S GUILTY OF IS BEING A LITTLE BRAT
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amTODAY in superior court in Norwalk, Conn., Michael Skakel is no longer on trial - but justice is. Skakel faces heavy duty time in the can for the murder of...
STREETS RENAMED FOR BROTHERS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amTwo brothers who died rescuing victims at the World Trade Center have been remembered by the Long Island town where they grew up - with two streets named in their...
WOMAN QUIZZED IN GIRL'S TRAFFIC DEATH
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe devastated family of a 5-year-old Brooklyn girl who was killed by a car as she fled a barking dog bid her a tearful farewell yesterday, as cops grilled a...
MISSING FISHERMAN'S KIN TO SUE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe family of one of four fishermen lost in treacherous seas off Long Island during a June shark-fishing tournament is suing the event sponsor for $10 million. Relatives of Robert...
COMMISH: DON'T SUSPEND 'PERV' DOC - BOOT HIM
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - State Health Commissioner Dr. Antonia Novello yesterday appealed the suspension of a Queens doctor found guilty of sexual abuse - saying the penalty isn't tough enough. Novello's rare...
MORE WORK, MORE PAY: BLOOMY TELLS POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amCops and firefighters demanding salary hikes should take a lesson from the city's teachers, who agreed to work harder and longer in exchange for more money, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday....
CRISIS MOUNTS AT JERUSALEM SITE HOLY TO JEWS & ARABS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the bitterly contested holy site that helped trigger the Palestinian uprising, is in danger of collapse, the city's mayor and archaeologists warned...
NEW YORK'S SAT DISGRACE - STUDENTS' AVERAGE IS 20 BELOW U.S. MARK
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amNew York state high-school students score lower on the SAT exams than the national average and their counterparts from neighboring states, the College Board revealed yesterday. New Yorkers - on...
DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES GET INCREASE IN SEPT. 11 RELIEF
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amStruggling small businesses in lower Manhattan will be able to get bigger federal grants to help them recover from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, officials said. The expanded World Trade...
I'LL 'SHOOT' AGAIN AFTER SLAY TRIAL, BLAKE SAYS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amRobert Blake isn't quite finished in Hollywood. In a jailhouse interview with CNN's Larry King, the 68-year-old former "Baretta" star said he'll be back in front of the cameras after...
PENN STA. ROLE FOR MOYNIHAN
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday named former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to the agency overseeing the $800 million conversion of the Eighth Avenue Post Office into a new Penn Station. Joining Moynihan...
DEHYDRATED MAGIC MAN UNDER-WATERED
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amIllusionist Criss Angel emerged pale and shaking yesterday after being submerged for 24 hours in a water tank - and promptly collapsed to the ground. The daredevil had just exited...
MIND-NUMBING NUMBERS HIT LOGIC OUT OF THE PARK
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amBaseball labor stories are filled with as many dollar signs as baseball stories told from the dugout are laced with expletives. The numbers are numbing, too complicated to make any...
BOOK PROJECT PRESERVES WTC VICTIMS' LIFE STORIES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe first in a series of tribute books documenting the lives of individual 9/11 victims was presented yesterday to Katrina Marino, the widow of Kenny Marino, a firefighter from Rescue...
STRAPHANGERS STRANDED 3 HOURS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amSome 400 frustrated straphangers were stuck underground in an East River tunnel for nearly three hours yesterday when the brakes on a Brooklyn-bound train suddenly jammed, transit officials said. The...
SLIPPING CUOMO SLAMS HIS 'DO-NOTHING' FOES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo yesterday slammed his two opponents - charging Gov. Pataki is playing politics by not having a plan to rebuild Ground Zero and that Carl McCall has accomplished nothing...
PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTER THE SAT EXAMS DROPPED A BOMBSHELL YESTERDAY
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe people who administer the SAT exams dropped a bombshell yesterday by suggesting high schools nationally are inflating students' grades. The College Board noted that the percentage of students given...
REAL KIN TRAIN SIGHTS ON CON MAN
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe Gambino family is hopping mad that a con artist has billed himself as "Michael Gambino," a supposed grandson of mob boss Carlo Gambino, to hawk a novel about loyalty,...
N.Y. POL: I FATHERED SOME LOVE KIDS, TOO
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Another candidate for state-wide office went public with a personal secret yesterday, declaring he too had fathered children out of wedlock. Green Party candidate for governor Stanley Aronowitz,...
WIFE-STAB THUG JUST OUT OF JAIL
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA suspect shot and killed by cops in Brooklyn while holding his wife hostage at knifepoint had been released from jail only hours earlier on just $500 bail for a...
'DONAHUE' DEBUT DRAWS FEW VIEWERS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe ratings for TV vet Phil Donahue's new talk show are almost too low to track. The ratings for "Donahue" scored a .1 rating last Friday - that means fewer...
2 'LOST' 9/11 MEN FOUND
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amTwo men feared dead in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center have miraculously been found alive in area hospitals. The heartbroken families of Brooklynite Albert Vaughn, 45,...
ABE ORDERED AWAY FROM CARL & MORGY
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amParking-lot magnate and parolee Abe Hirschfeld has been ordered to stay away from gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall and Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, court papers show. The pair are two of...
OH, BROTHER - SECURITY BIG HIRES KIN AFTER 'FREE' COPS WERE BANNED
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe head of U.S. Open security has found a special way to combat any threat to the tennis championship - hiring his brother. The Post has learned that USTA security...
OLYMPIC HURDLE CLEARED - CITY MAKES THE CUT FOR SHORT LIST TO HOST 2012 GAMES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amNew York City's dash for Olympic Gold was right on track yesterday after the competition to become the nation's nominee for the 2012 Games was narrowed down to the Big...
SKAKEL PEN PALS - FRIENDS' NOTES TO JUDGE BARE HORROR CHILDHOOD
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amIn a bid for leniency, lawyers for Michael Skakel yesterday submitted 90 letters to the court from friends, relatives and clergymen detailing the abuse the Kennedy cousin suffered as a...
PUBLISHER IS HOOD-WINKED - FIRM SUCKERED BY PHONY MAFIA SCION
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA small-time con man duped Simon & Schuster into bankrolling and publishing a book about the mob by allegedly lying that he was the grandson of Carlo Gambino - the...
LIBERTY BOND $CANDAL - GOP DONORS GET MOST OF $340M, GROUP SAYS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe bulk of $340 million in tax-exempt "Liberty Bonds" earmarked to rebuild downtown went to a handful of companies that donated a combined $500,000 to state Republicans, a report yesterday...
B'KLYN POL TO CUT DEAL IN 'BRIBE'
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn city councilman charged with shaking down a developer for more than $1.5 million is set to plead guilty to bribe-conspiracy charges and serve nearly four years in prison,...
BUSH TO SAUDI: SADDAM THE 'MENACE' MUST GO
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday told the Saudi ambassador that Saddam Hussein "is a menace to world peace," but said he's made no decisions on military action, the White House...
BLOODS BOSS CONVICTED AT LAST
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe ruthless leader of the Bloods and two of his henchmen were convicted in Manhattan federal court yesterday of racketeering and murder-conspiracy charges after a marathon trial. Omar "OG Mack"...
ROCKER RAPS EX WITH $UIT
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amStar supergroupie Bebe Buell has been slapped with a libel suit after blasting her ex-hubby rocker as a lazy, no-talent cheat in her tell-all tome. Guitarist Francis "Coyote" Shivers is...
FORMER RUDY AIDE IN LONG-DISTANCE RESCUE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amIt's 2:30 a.m., raging floodwaters are dragging away cars outside your home and the phone lines are dead - so who do you call? If you're ex-Deputy Mayor Tony Coles,...
FROM BIG BUCKS TO BIG BRUISER
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amAt 30, Gina Sorice seemed to have it all - a six-figure job, a wine collection and all the Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks to tickle her fancy. But then...
POLS PIG OUT AS AFRICA STARVES
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amIt's feast or famine at the Earth Summit. While starving children line up for handouts in the shantytowns of Johannesburg, South Africa, delegates to the world conference just blocks away...
COPS KILL MAN WAVING FAKE GUN ON BED-STUY STREETS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn cops yesterday fatally shot a man who refused to drop the realistic-looking fake gun he was brandishing, police said. Ernest Prather, 39, was pronounced dead at Woodhull Hospital...
CAPRIATI RIPS WILLIAMS' DAD
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amRichard Williams, father of Venus and Serena, ripped Jennifer Capriati before the U.S. Open started. Capriati's first-round 6-0, 6-0 rout of Bethanie Mattek yesterday showed she's ready for the Williamses...
LEITER STILL HOPEFUL ABOUT AGREEMENT
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - As of about 4 p.m. yesterday, Mets player representative Al Leiter believed that there would be no strike Friday. "I have more of a personal hope...
TORRE: WE WON'T LOSE OUR FOCUS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Joe Torre saw his first-place club split the eight games leading up to last night's 6-0 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park - and...
MO NEEDED BREAK FROM VALENTINE
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amMIAMI - Even beyond the ballpark, Mo Vaughn needed a little time away. After sitting out a game Sunday for the first time since April 20, Vaughn flew to his...
AMAZIN' TURNABOUT: METS MAKE WINNING LOOK EASY
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amMets 10 Marlins 5 MIAMI - John Thomson finally won in a Met uniform, but his legs couldn't quite carry him to a complete game. Even though the right-hander was...
HAVE A HAPPY ENDING
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Once more into the breach. The final week of the summer stand is upon us; six more days to pad your wallet or at least break even....
POCHMAN CAN'T COMPETE FOR JOB
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amGiants kicker Owen Pochman learned a tough lesson this offseason. He felt the twinge of a slight quad muscle strain but instead of resting for a couple of days, Pochman...
SHAKY MARAT STILL SAFIN SOUND ; BARELY ESCAPES GUTSY KIEFER
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThroughout the fifth-set tiebreaker, after more than four hours, the wounded warrior Nicolas Kiefer staggered, limped, buckled, winced and finally collapsed onto the hot Ashe Stadium Court in a pool...
COMBAT PROTESTERS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amANTI-HUNTING activists who disrupt legal hunters and anglers are breaking the law. It is hunter harassment - and it is illegal in all 50 states. Fanatical animal-rights activists have been...
GARNES BREAKS THUMB
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jets strong safety Sam Garnes broke his left thumb during practice yesterday and won't be able to play in Friday's preseason finale against the Eagles at Giants Stadium....
DEAL WON'T END GAME'S PROBLEMS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amCRUNCH time literally will describe the hours after the counterproposal the owners have expected from the players since Sunday finally arrives and the numbers go to the accountants. They will...
ABRAHAM'S IN A RUSH TO OPEN VS. BILLS
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThere was an added bounce in the step of the entire Jets' defense yesterday with the presence of John Abraham in uniform practicing. It appears that Abraham, the Jets' Pro...
JESSE GETS CHANCE AT BEING TOP BACKUP
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe Giants might be leaning toward Jesse Palmer as their second string quarterback. With Kerry Collins (left shoulder tenderness) being held out of tomorrow night's preseason finale against the Ravens,...
THIS TIME AROUND, THERE'S JUST NO BUZZ IN BEANTOWN
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - It was the Yankees vs. the Red Sox. And it wasn't. The games were still important to both teams. Maybe. Fenway Park was full, yet the emotional tanks...
HEWITT STILL FUMED AT ATP
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amDefending U.S. Open champion Lleyton Hewitt wouldn't predict yesterday that he'd take another championship - but he did predict he'd win his war against the ATP, and accused the men's...
SHAKY MARAT STILL SAFIN SOUND: SABATINI SHOWS FAITH IN ANNA
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amUS OPEN NOTEBOOK Unlike Anna Kournikova, Gabriela Sabatini was a tennis beauty who actually became a Grand Slam threat. Yesterday, the dark-haired Argentine was at the U.S. Open, presenting Tracy...
FOR NOW, STRIKE WON'T PUSH DREW TO GRIDIRON
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amDrew Henson will not call an audible - at least not yet. Casey Close, Henson's agent, said the Yankee prospect has no NFL plans even if there is a lengthy...
FEUD AT FENWAY TAKES BACKSEAT: BOOMER'S BRILLIANT AMID LABOR UNREST
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 6 Red Sox 0 BOSTON - With a very real threat that the players will strike Friday hanging in a crisp New England night, David Wells further advanced the...
ONE THING IS CERTAIN - UNCERTAINTY
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amMIKE Stanton is a good guy, especially for those of us in the media. He is bright, witty and accessible. So folks who regularly cover the team make it over...
BOOMER'S BRILLIANT AMID LABOR UNREST
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 6 Red Sox 0 BOSTON - Going with the theory that grown men involved in a $3.6 billion industry can find a way to split an ocean of glue...
FEUD AT FENWAY TAKES BACKSEAT: LABOR WAR DWARFS YANKS - SOX RIVALRY
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Only the men who run (ruin) baseball could take the buzz out of a late-season Yankees-Red Sox series at Fenway Park. New England's living room was supposed to...
HEWITT, VENUS WORTH THE WAIT
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amHopefully, the defending U.S. Open champions brought a good book to Flushing Meadows yesterday. Venus Williams and Lleyton Hewitt had to wait out the 4½ hour marathon between Marat Safin...
SABATINI SHOWS FAITH IN ANNA
August 28, 2002 | 4:00amUS OPEN NOTEBOOK Unlike Anna Kournikova, Gabriela Sabatini was a tennis beauty who actually was a Grand Slam threat. Yesterday, the dark-haired Argentine was at the U.S. Open, presenting Tracy...