August 29, 2002
CRACKER BARREL TO GET ROLLED BY NAACP
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amDENNY'S well-documented problems with racial discrimination charges are the subject of books. Now there are some people making book that Cracker Barrel will suffer the same infamy. The full name...
SILVERMAN'S PAY CUT $21M BY CENDANT
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amAdd Cendant CEO Henry Silverman to the list of corporate bigwigs who just got handed a big paycut. Silverman's 2002 pay is expected to be only $15 million, down from...
STILL SKITTISH ; MUTUAL FUND REDEMPTIONS SEND STOCKS LOWER
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amStocks plunged yesterday as mutual fund managers were forced to sell to cover redemptions by skittish investors. Fund managers are also making their usual end-of-the-month adjustments to their portfolios to...
MORT MAKES $1.5B TOP BID FOR 399 PARK AVE.
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMort Zuckerman's Boston Properties appears to have outbid rivals to acquire the coveted Citigroup building at 399 Park Ave. for $1 billion. Mort appears to have bested Brookfield Financial Properties,...
EVERGREEN INDICTMENTS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amTwo investment advisers were indicted yesterday on charges they stole $6 million from a corruption-riddled investment fund. Jon Knight and J. Anthony Huggins both pleaded not guilty to grand larceny...
NEW YORK LIFE TAKES B'WAY SITE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amNew York Life is giving up its midtown office for a spot overlooking Ground Zero. The insurance company has subleased 45,000 square feet on the 37th floor of 120 Broadway...
NEW PRIMEDIA EXEC BOOTS FORMER TEEN QUEEN IVERSON
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amAnnemarie Iverson has been bounced as editor-in-chief of Seventeen, just short of her one-year anniversary on the job. Elizabeth Crow, the new editorial director of Primedia, will oversee the teen...
QUINN MANSE PRICED AT $5M PROPERTY HOLDS GREENHOUSE, POOLS - AND ACTOR'S GRAVE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE'S good news for Anthony Quinn fans looking to get closer to the deceased movie idol. His widow, Katherine Quinn, is selling the couple's large Bermuda-style waterfront home in Bristol,...
WHO WANTS TO BE A HILLBILLY? CBS MOVES REAL FAMILY INTO CLAMPETT MANSION
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amYEE haw! Move over Ozzy and Anna Nicole. CBS is dusting off the "Beverly Hillbillies" and turning it into a reality show. The project, tentatively titled "Real Beverly Hillbillies" wants...
THE TALK'S ALL ABOUT LIFE AFTER OPRAH AND ROSIE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amDAYTIME talk shows are having an identity crisis. And the companies that make them are trying to figure out how to stem the overall erosion in viewership that has plagued...
63 SMALL MIRACLES IN 9/11 GARDEN OF LOVE ; 'PRIMETIME'S' BABIES BORN SINCE THE HORROR
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amHERE are the most beautiful babies in the world - 63 children (including two sets of twins) born this year to the widows of 9/11. This incredible photo was taken...
FINEST OF FRINGE FEST
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMany are Fringe-y - but few are chosen. Herewith, some of the big winners of this year's New York International Fringe Festival, which closed Sunday after 195 shows and more...
CHEAP TICKETS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amIf you love theater - but hate coughing up big bucks for tickets - Playwrights Horizons has an offer you can't refuse. For each of its 2002-03 productions, the off-Broadway...
PUFFY'S RULES: WORLD'S STRICTEST DRESS CODE FOR 'GREATEST PARTY OF ALL TIME'
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amLADIES, if you want to attend P. Diddy's party tonight, make sure to wax your bikini line and get a pedicure. Gentlemen, don't forget to shave - and wear Dolce...
CRASH SITES: WHERE TO FIND THE RED-ROPED ROYALTY
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe Video Music Awards (airing tonight at 9 p.m. on MTV) promise to be as rowdy as ever - but the real fun starts after the last award gets handed...
MTV HOST WILL PAK A PUNCH: LOOKING HOT FOR TONIGHT'S VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00am'IT'S all about the birds," shrieks MTV host SuChin Pak, flailing her arms around the colorful network studio, as a band of "TRL" fans scream in the background. "People have...
DURST TOOK ON SLAIN WIFE'S ID, BOOK SAYS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amReal-estate heir Robert Durst assumed the identities of dozens of people - even using the Social Security number of the wife he's suspected of murdering, a new book about the...
HAROLD LEVY'S PARTING $HOT
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amHarold Levy is gone, but some consultants he hired in the days before he left the chancellor's office will be around for at least another year at a cost of...
IRAQ TOO TOUGH? ; LOOK AT THE RECORD OF 'EXPERTS' WARNING OF SADDAM'S STRENGTH
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amIF you predict disaster constantly, you may be right eventually. But the track record of America's pundits on military matters looks laughably shabby for now. For the past dozen years,...
IT TOOK REAL GAMBINO TO RAT OUT SCAMMER
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amIt took the gangster son of the real-life "Godfather" Carlo Gambino to rat out Simon & Schuster's "Scambino" author. Thomas Gambino, 73, was the first person to blow the whistle...
THE VACANCY LIE ; DOWNTOWN 20 PERCENT EMPTY? IT'S PROPAGANDA, NOT FACT
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amLIES, damn lies and statistics: The people who want you to believe the worst about Downtown are getting away with murder, figuratively speaking. It's time they got called on it....
WHERE'S THE ANGER?
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE first anniversary of Sept. 11 fast approaches, and the ceremonies have been set: intense, commercial-free TV coverage of what promises to be simple, dignified, yet extremely emotional proceedings at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amA Louisiana woman who allegedly tried to set up a drug deal by phone was arrested - after she accidentally dialed the cops. Tara Smith, 32, reached a sheriff's deputy...
WARNING 'SIGNS': AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS RATE NASTY & NICE PLAYERS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amU.S. Open autograph hounds were serving bouquets and bile yesterday in their unofficial "naughty and nice" rankings of the tennis world's top talent. Outside the players clubhouse, about a dozen...
PRESS TOURS, UM, 'PESTICIDE' PLANT
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's government yesterday gave Western journalists a carefully orchestrated tour of a factory the United States believes is producing chemical weapons agents - but which Iraq claims...
GOP'S BEST WEAPON: CANDIDATES USE HILLARY IN ADS TO BEAT UP ON RIVALS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Voters around the country are seeing plenty of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - as a negative figure that Republicans in three states are using as a weapon to...
3RD HOOKER BUST FOR 'JOHN,' 81
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amWhat's that saying about not being able to teach an old dog new tricks? An 81-year-old World War II veteran - believed to be the oldest man ever arrested for...
IN THE TENT WITH THE SULTANS OF SCHMOOZE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE moment of clarity came minutes before Andy Cuomo moved in to kiss me goodbye. As many men have learned the hard way, this was a mistake - I spilled...
BIGGEST LOSERS AT TONIGHT'S MTV AWARDS: THE CARS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMTV stands for Monstrous Traffic Vortex - at least in Midtown today. The annual MTV Video Music Awards show at Radio City Music Hall, which happens tonight, means that numerous...
CITY WORKERS' $108M-EGA WIN
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amA group of city Housing Authority workers yesterday validated New York's first winning ticket in the Mega Millions lottery - a slip of paper worth a cool $108 million. The...
IRISH-BORN VET HAS LIVED FOR AMERICA - & NEW YORK
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMartin Murphy, 92, has been nominated for the Post's Freedom Liberty Medal by his granddaughter, Barbara Healy, 25, because of the amazing life he's led in New York since he...
MOM'S ANGUISH: MARTHA KIN MUST WAIT EXTRA DAY FOR JUSTICE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amNORWALK, Conn. - Dorthy Moxley waited nearly 27 years to plead that Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel should get the maximum sentence in her daughter's slaying - but she'll have to...
BEING A KENNEDY DOESN'T MAKE HIM GUILTY
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMARY Alice Cooke grew up with the Kennedys and the Skakels. It was in Hyannis Port and Greenwich, Conn., and she remembers the Kennedys spoon-feeding their kids. "I also remember...
WORLDCOM CANARIES:TOP EXECS WILL SING TO AVOID PRISON TIME
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amInvestigators are tightening the screws on ex-WorldCom chief Bernie Ebbers, after three executives allegedly at the center of a $3.8 billion accounting scam decided to sing to the feds to...
FEDS BUST BROOKLYN 'DRUGLORDS'
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe feds yesterday corralled a team of alleged drug kingpins known as "the Four Horsemen" and more than a dozen of their street-level heroin dealers yesterday, accusing them of wreaking...
NEW DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC RULES
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amCity officials are banning cars from a major artery of lower Manhattan and creating a bus-only corridor for commuters during rush hour to further ease congestion downtown, Mayor Bloomberg announced...
KABUL IS AGAIN THE LAND OF THE BANNED
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New culture cops in Kabul have banned romantic Indian movies and women singing on TV in an ominous symbolic return to the dark days of the Taliban. The...
RODRIGUEZ RESIGNS FROM CITY COUNCIL
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amAngel Rodriguez, the indicted Brooklyn politician who's expected to plead guilty to bribery and conspiracy charges today, quietly resigned yesterday from the City Council. Rodriguez, 45, turned in his resignation...
TIMES SQUARE READIES FOR SOME FOOTBALL
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amNext week's Times Square bash to kick off the NFL season will be on the scale of a New Year's Eve celebration, with at least 100,000 expected, it was announced...
SCHOOL BIG SHOWS OFF 'SWAT' TEAM
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday appointed his top aides - including the controversial Providence, R.I., schools boss and a former two-star military general - while hinting cuts to the bureaucracy...
B'KLYN JUDGE IS SUSPENDED
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn Supreme Court judge, under investigation for alleged real-estate fraud, was suspended - with pay - yesterday while the state's highest court decides whether to boot him from the...
TEACHERS: BOSS LIKES 'EM YOUNG AND ITALIAN
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amEight teachers have filed age-discrimination complaints against a highly regarded Brooklyn schools superintendent, charging he gave them bad job ratings in order to bring in "young, slim, attractive, Italian women."...
BLACK HALL OF FAME WELCOMES LEGENDS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amStars from the sports and entertainment world were out in full force at City College last night to honor more than a dozen legendary celebrities at the Second Annual National...
TV ANCHOR HELPS NAB WIFE-SLAY SUSPECT
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx man was nabbed in the murder of his wife when a TV anchorwoman tipped cops after he called her threatening to commit suicide, police said. Robert Cabassa, 52,...
ISRAELIS WRITE THE BOOK ON BOMBERS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli police will begin issuing a pamphlet tomorrow to help citizens spot homicide bombers before they strike. Israel's police and security services had debated the move because they...
SLEEPERS - FEDS SMASH ARAB TERROR COMBAT CELL
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In the first bust of a "sleeper cell" on U.S. soil since 9/11, the feds yesterday charged five Middle Eastern men in Detroit with plotting terror attacks in...
TENNIS ACE MISSES EX AFTER SEEING NAKED PIC
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK Teutonic tornado Tommy Haas says seeing a photo of himself and his ex-girlfriend nude in The Post yesterday morning really woke him up. "It's a very nice...
'TOY GUN' SHOOTING JUSTIFIED, SAYS KELLY
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe police shooting of a Brooklyn man wielding a toy pistol Tuesday appears to be justified, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday. Ernest Prather, who had 18 prior arrests, including...
JACKIE: I DIDN'T GET PALESTINIAN COMIC CANNED
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amHours after saying he was concerned that a performance by a Palestinian comic would make people uncomfortable, Jackie Mason insisted yesterday he had nothing to do with the comedian's firing....
MIKE GETS TOGETHER WITH 9/11 KIN
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amJust two weeks before the first anniversary of World Trade Center attacks, family members of victims met yesterday with Mayor Bloomberg for the first time since April to discuss their...
MARIO IN THE MIDDLE: DEM DEBATE FOCUSES ON ANDY'S DAD
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Gov. Mario Cuomo isn't on the ballot, but he was a hot topic in yesterday's Democratic debate between Cuomo's son, Andrew, and state Comptroller Carl McCall. In the face-off...
BOBBY V GETS GAME SUSPENSION
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Bob Watson suspended Met reliever David Weathers three games for plunking Colorado's Juan Uribe on Sunday, and manager Bobby Valentine was fined and given a one-game...
AND THEN THERE WERE 2 ON TV 'IDOL'
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amIt's down to two on "American Idol." Nikki McKibbin, 23, from Grand Prairie, Texas, was the latest to get booted from the hit Fox talent show, in which the grand...
CALL FOR ATTACK VOTE COULD BACKFIRE ON DEMS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amTHE new Democratic mantra is that President Bush had better ask Congress to ratify an attack on Iraq, which is a bit bizarre because that vote is the last thing...
SALINGER'S HOLDEN HIS PRAISE OF N.Y.
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amHolden Caulfield to New York City: Drop dead! J.D. Salinger, the celebrated reclusive author whose "Catcher in the Rye" became the best-selling Manhattan-based novel ever, now detests the Big Apple...
DURST TOOK ON SLAIN WIFE'S ID: BOOK
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amReal-estate heir Robert Durst assumed the identities of dozens of people - even using the Social Security number of the wife he's suspected of murdering, a new book about the...
PALESTINIAN COMIC NO JOKE TO JEWISH JACKIE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amOy, vey - no way! That was the word from Jackie Mason when he discovered his opening act was a Palestinian-American comic who jokes about the bloody Middle East conflict....
MUSSINA TOO TOUGH FOR PEDRO, RED SOX
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 7 Red Sox 0 BOSTON - R.I.P. Red Sox. Another New England summer is done. And if a players strike can be averted, the Red Sox will do something...
METS HEAD HOME ON SOUR NOTE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMIAMI - It was a very routine evening. The Mets lost, Bobby Valentine gave his postgame press conference and the players knotted their ties and tipped the clubhouse guys. It...
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Derek Jeter pumped his fist as if it all still mattered. He threw a short right uppercut in celebration as Bernie Williams' three-run homer cleared the Green Monster...
HAAS CAUGHT IN SHIRT STORM
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amThird-seeded Tommy Haas nearly lost his shirt twice yesterday. After the USTA ordered him to remove a white sleeveless shirt before his first-round match, creating a U.S. Open furor, the...
STAKES AT SPA ARE HIGH FOR PRADO, BAILEY
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - As the days dwindle down to a precious few at the Old Spa, there are still four big stakes races to be run over the Labor Day...
HEALTH IS ONLY WORRY IN FINALE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Some things always happen, and the Giants losing their last preseason game of the summer is one of those things. Heading into tonight's finale against the Ravens, the...
WILLIAMS' PAPA BURIES HATCHET
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amLooking to end his war of words with Jennifer Capriati, Richard Williams said he agreed with the tennis star's remarks that he has no class. "She's right," Richard Williams, the...
DE LA HOYA-VARGAS: NO LOVE LOST
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe upcoming grudge match between Oscar De La Hoya and Fernando Vargas is being billed as Bad Blood. According to De La Hoya, it also could be hyped as Turf...
RE-PETE PERFORMANCE ; SAMPRAS FLASHES OLD FORM
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amFaced with rumblings that he's washed up, Pete Sampras played like the old Pistol Pete yesterday at Ashe Stadium, wiping away, for a day, at least, cries for his retirement....
THUMB'S UP FOR GARNES IN OPENER
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jets' starting strong safety Sam Garnes, who was wearing a cast on his left hand to protect the left thumb he broke in Tuesday's practice, will not miss...
WHY THEY'LL SETTLE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBASEBALL will have a deal by tomorrow or soon afterward because: 1. The players have long established their willingness to walk out and stay out. The owners finally understand how...
STANTON: BUD IN TOWN A GOOD SIGN
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - While Mike Stanton felt Bud Selig coming to New York yesterday to get involved in baseball's labor talks was a positive step, the Yankees' player rep warned that...
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: JETS RETURN TO CITY ROOTS WITH MOVE TO GROUND ZERO HOTEL
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amThe Jets are trying to put the New York back into the New York Jets, and they're taking calculated, measured steps to do so. Among those steps is a move...
WILLIAMS BOOTED AS OPENER NEARS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amLet's get this straight. Eight days before the bright lights get turned on for the regular season and the Giants are introducing themselves to a new punter and a new...
METS FEEL DEAL CAN GET DONE IN TIME
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMIAMI - Late Tuesday night, Mets catcher Vance Wilson acknowledged that a football analogy was a good way to sum up baseball's latest labor stalemate. It was suggested that collective...
TEAM USA PLANNING TO WIN BIG
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - There's a basketball tournament. There's a U.S. team. So naturally there are expectations of routs by your average red, white and blue-blooded American. "That's the feeling, but that's...
PIERCE HIGH ON NETS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - If Boston's Paul Pierce had his way, Rodney Rogers would have stayed with the Celtics or signed someplace like Jupiter rather than the Nets. But Rogers selecting New...
PETTITTE'S HELD BACK FROM START AGAIN
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ng because of a stiff lower back that Joe Torre and Brian Cashman said wasn't a major concern. "He came out of his last start with it," said...
ISRAELI, PAKISTANI PARTNERS CLEAR FIRST HURDLE
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amTechnically, they were just another wild-card doubles team that was playing on the Grandstand court in the first round of the U.S. Open. But they soon realized - again -...
IMPROVED TALKS MOVE SIDES CLOSER TO DEAL
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBaseball boss Bud Selig was heckled as he strode into a Park Avenue office yesterday to join negotiators deciding if Major League baseball will go on strike tomorrow. The drop-dead...
THERE IS NO TOMORROW
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - It can all go away tomorrow. Mike Mussina and David Wells' chances to win 20 and Alfonso Soriano's possibility of going 40-40. Bernie Williams' run at a batting...
PETTITTE HELD BACK AGAIN
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Andy Pettitte won't start against the Blue Jays tomorrow night, strike or not strike. Pettitte was scratched from the outing because of a stiff lower back...
BOBBY V, WEATHERS DEALT SUSPENSIONS
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Bob Watson banged his gavel and handed out suspensions yesterday, and Bobby Valentine wanted to plead his case to the judge. Met reliever David Weathers received...
ZIM: I WANT TO STAY
August 29, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Asked if tonight could possibly be his final game if the players go on strike and wipe out the rest of the season, Don Zimmer told The Post...