January 6, 2003
MAX BUYS OUT BASS FOR $461M
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amMax Capital has bought out Robert Bass and its other partners in two city properties for $461 million, The Post has learned. Adam Hochfelder, chairman and CEO of Max Capital,...
STARR REPORT
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe Pitts: Aniston tops Brad in 'ET' ranking "Entertainment Tonight" will introduce its first-ever "Hot List" of the top 20 celebrities on tonight's show (7 p.m./Ch. 2) - with "Friends"...
WILL 'JOE' FIND HIS 'JANE'?
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amREALITY TV just keeps getting nuttier. And that's really incredible when you stop and consider that it was only two years ago that TV - for a short time anyway...
HERE WE GO AGAIN! OPRAH TELLS VIEWERS ... BATTLE OF THEBULGE IS BACK
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amOPRAH is back - on a diet. The queen of TV talk told viewers last week that she is has lost 33 pounds so far on a custom weight-loss program,...
KENYA DIG IT? N.Y. FEST FEATURES 33 JEWISH FILMS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amJEWISH cowboys, Jews in Kenya - and the flight of Billy Joel's family from Nazi Germany.Those are just a few of the subjects of the 12th annual New York Jewish...
TV'S FIRST REAL-TIME HERO
January 6, 2003 | 5:00am"Lance Loud! A Death InAn American Family" Tonight at 9 p.m. on Ch. 13 ½ ONCE upon a time - before Anna Nicole Smith bared her big fat body to...
PRIME TIME'S BEST DRESSED: TV STARS TURNING VIEWERS ON TO THE LATEST LOOKS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amFASHION magazines may tell you what next season's trends will be, but if you want to know what's hot right now, turn on the TV. Joe's Jeans, Seven for All...
THE WAY WE WORE: HIT SHOWS THAT CHANGED OUR CLOTHES
January 6, 2003 | 5:00am'SEX and the City" isn't the first TV hit where the shoes are as important as the plotlines. For the last four decades, clothes have played a starring role on...
SWEET CHARITY GOING $OUR
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amLocal nonprofit groups, which are dependent on private and public donations, are feeling the effects of a shaky economy, as charitable giving is on the decline. Many metropolitan cultural institutions,...
GOV WON'T USE 'T' WORD
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amGOV. Pataki won't say if he plans to seek tax hikes this year when he delivers his State of the State Address Wednesday, insiders predicted yesterday. The insiders said Pataki...
SCOTS CHEF TAKES HIS BURNS TO HEART
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSTEVE SMITH is understandably upset. In less than a week, he is expected to feed 100 Scotsmen, yet federal bureaucrats have blocked him from getting sheep lungs, none of his...
TWU VOTE IS DUE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amTransit Reporter Bus and subway workers are expected to vote on their new contract this week, union officials said yesterday. Ballots were sent out Friday to most of the Transport...
WOUNDED MOB RAT POISED FOR PAYBACK
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amMichael "Cookie" D'Urso awoke in a pool of blood, a bullet lodged in his neck. His cousin, whom he loved like a brother, lay dead beside him. They'd been ambushed...
HARD TRUTHS ; LATEST SHOOTINGS DON'T MERIT PROTESTS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amERIC Adams is diplomatic. Ask him if the cop who shot and killed the toy gun-wielding boy in Harlem last week did the right thing, Adams hesitates, and gives a...
THIS CONFLICT COULD USE A PAPAL REFEREE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSINCE Britain's Neville Chamberlain licked Hitler's jackboots, we learned that a politician's prescription of a cure is worse than the curse. Kamikaze pilots did not succeed in World War II,...
DA A CLASS ACT AT LAFAYETTE HS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is conducting his own class on crime at violence-plagued Lafayette HS today - just days after the NYPD sent a host of officers there in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amAn Australian thief made a big misss-stake when he snatched a bag containing a venomous red-bellied black snake. The bag was taken from the trunk of a professional snake catcher's...
SADDAM OK'D GULF WAR WMD STRIKE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amDespite warnings of utter destruction, Saddam Hussein gave his commanders preconditioned orders to unleash weapons of mass destruction on American troops during Operation Desert Storm, sources said. Iraqi forces were...
250G CAR WOULD BE THE CADILLAC OF CADILLACS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amVa-va-va-vroom! A huge - and hugely expensive - new Cadillac could be roaring past you soon. General Motors is weighing whether to crank out a new model dubbed the Cadillac...
ADOPTION IS CITY'S 'PET' PROJECT
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration will begin a push for more animal adoptions - hosting adoption fairs in city parks for the first time, administration officials said yesterday. Details remain to be...
ALL SIGNS POINT TO ARAFAT
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amANALYSIS TEL AVIV - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his defense minister, Shaul Mofaz, would have preferred to finally expel Yasser Arafat from Ramallah in response to yesterday's double...
DEMS: TAX PLAN TOO RICH FOR US
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Democrats said President Bush's new tax-cut package is skewed to the rich and that a better plan would offer more for middle-class taxpayers. Trying to gain an...
ISRAEL'S ARROW ON TARGET TO FEND OFF IRAQ MISSILES
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Israel yesterday tested its new Arrow missile interceptor system - as it prepares to defend itself if the United States goes to war with Iraq. During the previous...
DEMS URGE BUSH: LET'S TALK WITH N. KOREA
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amAs the North Korean nuclear crisis mounts, Senate Democrats blasted the Bush administration's hard-line stance and South Korea turned to Russia to rein in the communist state. Sen. Carl Levin...
SHOWS TRY TO STAY IN PLAY
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amThis winter could be a show-"stopper" for many Broadway plays struggling against dismal sales, prompting producers to frantically go all out to try to shore up their precarious productions. The...
N.J. CHOPPER TEAMS ARE READY TO RUMBLE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amWith the holidays over and a confrontation with Iraq drawing closer, American troops based right here in the metro area are readying themselves to answer the call to war. Not...
BIRTHDAY GIRL BORN IN '95 - THAT'S 1895
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amBertha "Mom" Dillard is one for the ages. Believed to be the oldest New Yorker, the Bed-Stuy resident turned 108 yesterday and is feeling "no different than when [she] was...
A GREEN MACHINE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amQUARTERBACKSChad Pennington (19-of-25, 222 yards, 3 TDs, 142.0 rating) is unflappable, with numbers and results that make him the best QB in the game today. ARUNNING BACKSCurtis Martin (15-67 rushing)...
THE REAL LATRELL STANDS UP
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Welcome back, Latrell Sprewell. The Knicks' best player had slumped his way through a miserable two-game stretch that had seen him shoot a combined 4-for-15 from the floor....
STOUDAMIRE: I LOVE NY: DAMON'S MIGHTY FOND OF PLAYING IN THE BIG APPLE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amIf the Knicks are still interested in Damon Stoudamire, they can rest assured that the feeling is mutual. The Blazers point guard, a trading block mainstay the last two years,...
SUPER BOWL, OR BUST
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amIT really doesn't matter that it's Oakland next instead of Nashville. The way the Jets are playing, they wouldn't care if the AFC divisional playoffs were in Baghdad. But the...
DISTURBED WOMAN KILLS KIN: COPS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amA woman who friends said had psychiatric problems that put voices in her head and once drove her to a suicide attempt stabbed her cousin to death in her East...
VICK STOLE TORCH FROM TIRED FAVRE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amGREEN BAY - Perhaps one day it will be looked at as the seminal moment for two quarterbacks and two teams. When Brett Favre took a knee to end Saturday...
DIKEMBE NOT BITTER SEEING NET SUCCESS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - His right wrist is in a cast, his eagerly anticipated homecoming game is down the tubes, his team is playing like masters of the universe since he went...
NETS ARE STREAK SENSATIONS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES ATLANTA - The Nets easily are basketball's hottest team, having won nine straight. But it's how they've done it that is really impressive. In the streak, which the...
MADDOX: MAN OF STEEL: QB RALLIES PITTSBURGH PAST BROWNS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSteelers 36 - Browns 33 PITTSBURGH - Roaring back from a deficit that grew to as many as 17 points early in the third quarter yesterday, the Steelers earned a...
CALL-UPS NOT HOT TO TROT
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amDespite three December goals, Joel Bouchard has not secured lengthy job with Blueshirts. N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg For sure, Joel Bouchard and Richard Lintner make for nice stories. Each veteran...
VOLATILE THOMAS GETS JETS REVVED UP
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe volcanic eruption inside the Jets' locker room usually occurs some 30 minutes before the players take the field for whatever game they're playing. It's about that time when they...
WALKING ON AIR IN STEELTOWN
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK PITTSBURGH - Earlier this season, Steelers quarterback Tommy Maddox couldn't walk. Yesterday, he could have walked on water in leading Pittsburgh all the way back against the Browns in...
RETURN TO OAKLAND: GANG GREEN'S ROAD TO SAN DIEGO GOES THROUGH BLACK HOLE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets are going to Oakland. Again. A year removed from their 38-24 Wild Card playoff loss to the Raiders in Oakland and six weeks removed from their 26-20 Monday...
HERM: WE'VE IMPROVED SINCE VISIT TO OAKLAND
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES The Jets are a better, more confident team than they were six weeks ago when they lost to the Raiders 26-20 on Monday night, according to Herman Edwards....
WHY NOT THE GOP? BLACK TO THE FUTURE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amWhy would a black per son even think about becoming a Republi can? That's the question raised in multiple letters in the wake of the Trent Lott storm. Take this...
$TRAPPED MTA PAYS RABBI 60G
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amDespite mounting pressure to curtail its spending, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is forking over nearly $100,000 a year for a full-time chaplain and his secretary. Rabbi Tzvi Berkowitz makes $60,000...
RITZY APTS. TURN INTO SOLID MOLD
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE The world's most expensive condo building - 515 Park Ave. - has been invaded by killer mold, The Post has learned. Many of the rich and powerful residents of...
PROPOSED TOY-GUN BAN PROVES CRIME DOES NOT 'PLAY'
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amThe City Council is moving forward with sweeping legislation aimed at banning the sale and possession of all toy guns - including the water pistols kids shoot in the summer....
INSIDE CLONE ZONE ; CULT BOSS SPENT TRAGIC DAD'S $$ ON 'LABORATORY'
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amNITRO, W.Va. - Down a long, locker-lined corridor in the old high-school chemistry lab here, Clonaid cultist Brigitte Boisselier spent six months on what she described as a secret cloning...
INFERNO IN BRONX ; MASSIVE BLAZE GUTS STORE AND WREAKS HAVOC ON NEIGHBORHOOD
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amA five-alarm fire consumed a huge Bronx furniture store yesterday, forcing the evacuation of three neighboring apartment buildings and disrupting subway service on a nearby elevated line. Ten firefighters suffered...
IT'S A BLUE MONDAY FOR GIANTS' FANS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amIt was a true Blue heartbreaker for stunned Giants fans last night after their team dropped the ball with a 24-point lead and lost to San Francisco - dooming hopes...
TAUNTS HYPED, THEN BLASTED
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amFIVE big games, Fiesta through Forty-Niners. Let's take 'em in reverse: Giants-Niners (Fox): While Fox tried to turn it into Jeremy Shockey vs. the Niners, if one were to buy...
STOUDAMIRE: BRING ME TO NY
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amIf the Knicks are still interested in Damon Stoudamire, they can rest assured that the feeling is mutual. Long rumored to be a Scott Layden target, the Blazers point guard...
DREAMS OF GLORY ARE GONE IN A SNAP
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - They walked around their shattered locker room with hollow eyes and raspy voices, ankle-deep in self-pity and self-loathing. Michael Strahan's eyes were closed, his head resting sadly...
TWIN BOMBERS STRIKE TEL AVIV ; DEATH TOLL AT LEAST 23 IN GRUESOME RUSH-HOUR BLASTS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amTEL AVIV - Two Palestinian homicide bombers blew themselves up yesterday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100. The attacks, just three weeks before the Jan. 28...
JUST DOESN'T ADD UP: HOUSTON PULLS UP FOR TWO AS KNICKS FALL SHORT BY THREE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amBlazers 92 - Knicks 89 The good news is that the Knicks didn't have any trouble snapping the ball last night. The bad news is that they did have trouble...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amTHE BRONX A gunman shot and killed one man and wounded another yesterday in Morris Heights. The violence erupted at about 6:30 a.m. in front of 1824 Cedar Ave., when...
RIDERS PAY MORE THAN THEIR 'FARE' SHARE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amEver wonder how much of your $1.50 goes toward the operating costs of city buses and subways? While the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is on track to raise fares to as...
REVOLVING DOOR NOW SLAMMING ON CROOKS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSince 2000, 39-year-old David Pizarro has been arrested nine times for drug possession and petit larceny. He never got more than 15 days in jail. Pizarro was busted again in...
IT'S A CLOTHES CALL AS APPLE FANS RUSH SHOPS FOR TEAM JERSEYS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amPumped-up football fans shopped frantically yesterday for Jets and Giants merchandise to sport while watching the big games. They shopped till they dropped -all the while knowing that their quest...
LET'S SETTLE IT HERE!
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amIT WILL be called the Big Apple Bowl and each year the nation's eyes will turn to New York where the college football championship will be decided. Unlike the Olympics...
PAT, YOU'RE NOT TO BLAME FOR ALL
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amPAT doth protest too much. Seemingly surprisingly sensitive, Devils' hard-nosed Pat Burns has chosen to declare himself the Devils' criticism sponge, even if most of the flak aimed at his...
TILDEN'S KING RULES
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME Tilden 78 Roosevelt 69 Andre King stands about 6-4 and is big enough to take up most of the lane when he's under the hoop. The senior is one...
TERRELL GETS THE LAST WORD
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Terrell Owens said the Giants were running their mouths all day yesterday. By any objective measure, Big Blue had every right to talk trash, dominating San Francisco...
GARCIA'S POISE LED SF BACK
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Garcia's legs, grit and composure ended the Giants' season as much as his last-minute scoring pass to Tai Streets did. The quarterback, following in a long...
WHAT A BIG BLUE CHOKE! GIANTS WASTE 24-PT. LEAD VS. SAN FRAN
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amWILD-CARD GAME 49ers 39 Giants 38 SAN FRANCISCO - This was a snap for the Giants, an absolute, utter snap. And then it was a disaster. Because of a snap....
ONE SHOCKING DROP ; JEREMY FLUBBED CHANCE TO ICE IT
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - It came down to a botched snap, sure, a problem the Giants had for much of a season that came full circle with a final spin out...
TOOMER'S SWEET DAY HAS SOUR ENDING
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - It should have been the sweetest day of Amani Toomer's career, the kind of homecoming about which they write fairy tales. A group of 20 friends and...
DEFENSE FAILS GIANTS: NINER OFFENSE MOVED AT WILL FOR STUNNING LAST-MINUTE WIN
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - On four series yesterday, the Giants had to make just one defensive play to put away the game and they couldn't do it. After three quarters of...
JINTS LOSE MORE THAN GAME
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amNFC WILD-CARD CONFIDENTIAL SAN FRANCISCO - The Giants, in the first round of the playoffs in 1997 and again yesterday, not only blew commanding fourth-quarter leads, but also unraveled emotionally...
MARIUCCI JOB SAVED BY RALLY
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - In a little more than one quarter of football yesterday, coach Steve Mariucci went from an unemployment line to the south end zone of Candlestick Park pumping...
SPIKE COULD HAVE SAVED JINTS' DAY
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - A spike play could have changed the Giants' fate yesterday - but it never happened. Matt Bryant lined up for a 41-yard field goal to save the...
SUCH A SHOCKING END: COULD HAVE USED MORE JEREMEY
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The alarm in Jeremy Shockey's head never goes off, either when it is time to call in for his radio show, or for his first NFL playoff...
BIG BLUE'S CAKEWALK FALLS APART IN A SNAP
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - All that was left at the end of the calamity was a hollow ache, and a full deck of unanswerable questions. How? Why? Was it real? Was...
DEFENSE ALL OVER MAP FOR BIG BLUE
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The day started out ominously for the Giants defense. On their first play in yesterday's NFC Wild Card playoff game, cornerback Will Allen missed a tackle on...
COVERAGE WAS FIESTA OF FLUBS
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amLET'S take it chronologically, Fiesta through Forty-Niners: Fiesta Bowl (ABC): Sports Emmys for live coverage are often rewarded for bad telecasts of big games that become good games. Owning the...
WHAT A BIG BLUE CHOKE! GIANTS WASTE 24-PT. LEAD TO SAN FRAN
January 6, 2003 | 5:00amWIlD-CARD GAME 49ers 39 Giants 38 SAN FRANCISCO - This goes down as the greatest collapse in the storied and now sullied history of Giants football. Utter domination was turned...