January 12, 2003
SPITZER, BUSH VOW REFORM FOR STREET
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is going to create new laws to end wrongdoing on Wall Street. In an NBC interview, Spitzer said he would roll out a package of...
'TIS THE SEASON TO CLEAN UP YOUR FUND PORTFOLIO
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amSO the holiday season is finally over. You've put away the gifts you're keeping, returned the ones you hate and cleaned house. Now it's time to apply that same attitude...
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS - COTY COZIES UP TO CELEBRITIES
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIn June, Coty, Inc. treated several hundred editors to a personal welcome from Jennifer Lopez and a spectacular fireworks display shot from a barge on the East River for the...
GIVE MARTHA A MOUTHFUL
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amMartha Stewart wants you! What she really wants right now are your recipes. With the debut of the domestic doyenne's Everyday Food magazine, she and her staff have to generate...
EBAY BOASTS BIGGER BIDS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amWhile most people cruise eBay for "Welcome Back Kotter" lunchboxes or spare parts to a V-2 rocket, the market for luxury items is increasing on the online auction site. Just...
STRINGER ATTACHED - SONY BOSS LURED LACK INTO TOP MUSIC JOB
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTo understand the unlikely appointment of Andy Lack as head of Sony Music, look no further than his close friendship with Howard Stringer. Stringer, chairman and chief executive officer of...
BULL'S EYE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBEWARE OF GEEKS BEARING GIFTS TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer has been called many things, but "Grinch" is a new one. In lieu of a cash bonus for Christmas, each TheStreet.com employee...
STARR REPORT
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amGive 'em Lip; Imperioli bytes into deal "Sopranos" news: Tony Lip (Carmine on "The Sopranos") was huddling with producer Anthony Esposito the other night at Italian restaurant Via Oreto (1121...
WONG IS RIGHT
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amAs Cine File has been shouting for a long time, the most exciting cinema today comes from Asia. And, as he also has been saying, one of the most exciting...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amMichelle Rodriguez might be the most feared actress in Hollywood. She's known for playing super-tough chicks in movies like "Girlfight," "The Fast and the Furious," "Resident Evil" and "Blue Crush"...
CULT LEADER - HE WAS A SMITH. ENOUGH SAID.
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN Johnny Marr left the Smiths in 1987, he knew the chances of ever again being in a band that meant so much to so many people - and was...
LAD FEVER: WHY AMERICANS GO FOR BLOKES
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amWhat is it about the Brits? Madonna moved to London for her Brit, Guy Ritchie;Jennifer Connelly is set to wed her "Beautiful Mind" co-star, Englishman Paul Bettany; and Liv Tyler...
THIGH HIGH
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amRemember the old adage that says hemlines fall when the economy's bad? Well, it's a bunch of bunk. How else does one explain the proliferation of miniskirts (barely) covering the...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amHecklers from Hell: Interpol is getting the Ryan Adams treatment from its fans. At Maxwell's, one rock chick was shouting a request for "Love Will Tear Us Apart" to the...
HOW TO WED A MILLION-AIR HEAD
January 12, 2003 | 5:00am"JOE Millionaire" debuted last week with an astonishing 18.6 million viewers, which breaks down roughly to 18,597,000 women and three men, all of whom happen also to be avid fans...
SEXUAL HEALING
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amLAST week, British females went bonkers after The British Medical Journal accused drug companies of creating a fake medical condition - female sexual dysfunction (FSD) - just so they could...
LOT OF MALACHY
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTONIGHT, actors and lay people from all over the city will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of St. Malachy's Church, known as the actor's chapel, at the Marriott Marquis with...
GET REEL, KOREA
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amLAST week, North Korea threatened a Third World War by flat-out renouncing a global treaty on nuclear weapons. When they were done renouncing, they began denouncing the latest James Bond...
HAPPY NEW YEAR
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIT'S ironic that Bonanno capoditutti capi Joseph Massino was nailed by the cops for racketeering and murder right at the beginning of the new year.Bon anno means happy new year,...
SHRINK IN A STINK OVER 'SEX PREY' TALK
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amA lawyer for the Long Island shrink accused of plotting to kill six patients expressed outrage yesterday over another lawyer's charge that the doctor sexually preyed on a patient. "I...
THE TOXIC 'TERROR' IN YOUR BACK YARD
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBritish police charged four North African men on chemical weapons and terrorism charges yesterday - after allegedly finding one of the world's deadliest poisons in a London apartment last week....
OPEN DOOR TO DRUGS & TERROR: BORDER RESERVATION'S TANGLED-UP TURF LINES
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amST. REGIS MOHAWK RESERVATION - Thursday night, about a half-hour after dark, three small boats left the shore of Cornwall Island, Canada, laden with contraband. Outfitted with powerful engines capable...
FUGITIVE SCION'S 'SEX & SURF' LIFE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amVENTURA, Calif. - Max Factor heir, accused rapist and fugitive from the law Andrew Stuart Luster has simple needs. "He likes sex and surf," defense lawyer Roger Jon Diamond told...
FINE WHINE OVER 'CRAP' VINTAGE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amA French wine magazine is calling it sour grapes after a court fined it $320,000 for damages to beaujolais producers for labeling their wine as "excrement." France's High Court ruled...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amAn angry mob in Blantyre, Malawi, attacked a senior ruling party official who local residents suspected was harboring vampires. Eric Chiwaya was hospitalized after being severely beaten by the stone-throwing...
BRRR! TEMPS TO ZERO OUT
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amA blast of arctic air will put the Northeast in a deep freeze for the next several weeks, making it the coldest stretch of winter weather in seven years. "Temperatures...
BOYS AND THE HOODS: ID THIEVES TARGETED BACKSTREETERS AND NEW KIDS: FEDS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTwo boy-band impostors are facing the music - and could end up as the new kids on the cellblock. Two Massachusetts men have been indicted on charges of stealing and...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTHE BRONX A man in Norwood has been charged with unlawful imprisonment, sodomy, sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child, cops said yesterday. Franklin Neblett, 23, of 3569...
CHILLING LOOK AT THE DUNGEON : FILTH, JUNK WHERE BROTHERS STARVED
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amThe first look inside the Newark "House of Horrors" where a dead boy was found in a locked room with his starving brothers reveals a rancid basement filled with squalor,...
DANCER'S SON EYED IN FATAL PUNCH
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amThe son of a New Jersey go-go dancer charged in the horrific child abuse of her cousin's three children is suspected of delivering the blow that killed one of the...
300-LB. ALBINO CHARGED IN RAPE OF RUNAWAY, 13
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amA 300-pound albino man from The Bronx is being charged with statutory rape after allegedly seducing a 13-year-old New Jersey girl with promises of stardom, according to police. The suspect,...
WHO, ME? PETE DENIES KID-PORN LINK
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amSays he's no pedophile. Aging British rocker Pete Townshend denied he's a pedophile yesterday - claiming he dabbled on kiddie porn Web sites to do research for the section of...
VICTORIA GOTTI
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amSEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL: I don't have any inside information, but I do know the FBI raid at the Murder Inc. offices of rap music honcho Irv Gotti...
COPS CAP THIEVING DRUGSTORE COWBOYS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIngenious bands of drug thieves who allegedly raked in tens of millions of dollars by swiping over-the-counter medications from the shelves of drugstore chains were arrested yesterday after a five-month...
YOUNG RFK WAS WRONG TO SLAM MICHAEL SKAKEL'S LAWYER
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amMICKEY SHERMAN, lawyer for Michael Skakel, said yesterday: "I wish Bobby had been there for the whole trial." He was referring to young Bobby Kennedy's article about Skakel's trial in...
STRAY SHOT HITS TEEN IN B'KLYN MOSQUE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amA Staten Island teen standing inside a Brooklyn mosque filled with worshipers, including children, was hit in buttocks by a stray bullet fired during a shoot-out in the street nearby,...
THE OTHER MAN
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amAm I the only person who goes on vacation and instantly forgets that the real world exists? Despite promises to myself, I always land in romantic trouble. Last week I...
HANDSOME HUNK AN ORDINARY JOE: TV 'MILLIONAIRE' NOT THE SHARPEST: EX-LADY PALS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Tanya Tyrrell's heart skipped a beat when the handsome hunk across the room at the Hot Tuna Bar cast his dark eyes in her direction. Tall...
HOW HE FLEXED 'MILITARY' MUSCLE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amCHATHAM, Va. - Hargrave Military Academy is the epitome of a southern military school, strait-laced and steeped in tradition. It is as remote from the world of desperate damsels on...
MOB CLAN DECIDED TO SING TOGETHER
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amMeet the family of canaries who brought down an elusive Mafia don. Richard "Shellackhead" Cantarella, 59, his wife Lauretta Castelli, 57, and his son, Paul, 31, decided over the Christmas...
SECOND HELPING: GLIMMER OF HOPE AT SHUTTERED 'GOURMET CORNER'
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIt was the grandfather of the urban gourmet shop - prodding the city's proliferation of farmers markets, the comeback of cooking and the essays detailing a raft of fresh ingredients...
JOAN THROWS SOFTBALLS : I'M A PUSSYCAT, SAYS 'PEN-CHUCKER' RIVERS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBrash comedian Joan Rivers brushed off her recent pen-throwing tantrum last week, saying she is too much of a "coward" to attack a rental-car agent the way cops have described....
SMUGGLERS' EASY RIDE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amAmerican Cal Broeker spent much of the 1990s working undercover - mainly for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and once for the U.S. Secret Service - to bust smuggling operations...
9/11 RENT OUTRAGE : LMDC SITTING ON DOWNTOWN TENANTS' GRANT CASH
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amThe Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is holding hostage more than $7 million in rent grants it promised to downtown residents - saying their landlords have to fix building violations first....
BRITS HOPING TO 'YANK' FOREIGN TERMS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIn bid to protect British English, a member of Parliament wants a ban on American words on air. Harry Barnes' proposal would replace "fries" with "chips," "vacation" with "holiday," and...
POPULAR PLANT THAT SPURS FEAR OF TERROR
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBritish police charged four North African men on chemical weapons and terrorism charges yesterday - after allegedly finding one of the world's deadliest poisons in a London apartment last week....
CHILLING NEWS: EXPECT TEMPS TO ZERO OUT THIS MONTH
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBrace yourself. A blast of arctic air will put the northeast in a deep freeze for the next several weeks, making it the coldest stretch of winter weather in seven...
BRR! TEMPS TO ZERO OUT
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBrace yourself. A blast of arctic air will put the northeast in a deep freeze for the next several weeks, making it the coldest stretch of winter weather in seven...
RUNAWAY, 13, FOUND WITH PAL, 20
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amA 13-year-old New Jersey girl who ran way from home Friday to meet a man she met on a telephone chat line was found safe by cops yesterday in The...
COP CAP BAND OF SHELF-RX THIEVES
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amAn ingenious band of drug thieves who allegedly raked in tens of millions of dollars by swiping over-the-counter medications from the shelves of drugstore chains were arrested yesterday after a...
ON-THE-FLY CALLS HAVE BURNS FUMING
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Devils' coach was expansive, finally finding something he'd care to discuss with the press. Pat Burns has a beef with the NHL. Burns was agitated over a...
SABRES' STORY MAY ADD A SAD CHAPTER
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTHE small-market Senators and Sabres have been linked all along in this NHL winter of distress, and now, it has been strongly suggested to Slap Shots, the two teams are...
MCLAREN-TO-ISLES CLOSE IZZY WOULD GO FOR BRUIN D-MAN
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amKyle McLaren is expected to soon become a member of the Islanders in a trade that would send Brad Isbister to Boston for the holdout defenseman. Rumors increased late this...
RAIDERS FIGHTING AGE, CAP
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - The Jets today face a Raiders team that's talented, battle-tested and in a desperate fight against football's Father Time. It's no secret to anyone in the Silver and...
HERM TO JETS: BURY THEM! VOWS NOT TO LET UP ON RAIDERS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - It happened behind closed doors, and what Herm Edwards said to his team, and the way he said it, with passion, with conviction, and where it came from,...
IT'S WHOLE BREW WORLD FOR COACH
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amBURLINGAME, Calif. - Just as he said he would last week when the Jets learned they were going to back Oakland for the fourth time in 20 games, Herman Edwards...
NAMATH: BEST YET TO COME
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Broadway Joe Namath won't guarantee it, but the Jet legend believes his old team will beat the Raiders today in Oakland and advance to the AFC Championship Game....
THE MOMENT IS HERE HIGH-FLYING JETS READY TO RUMBLE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - The moment is one that those who've lived it crave to experience over and over and over again. It's a moment that those who've never experienced it, and...
K-MART SEES NO NEED TO TOOT VAN HORN
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES That was then, this is now, Kenyon Martin insists. Yes, he was upset after the Nets were swept from the Finals by the Lakers and spoke his mind....
SCOTT JEERS FICKLE FANS FOR BOOING
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTo the 14,000 regulars who attend Nets games, Byron Scott gives you thanks. To the 6,000 curiosity seekers who showed up for the Sacramento game and booed last week, Scott...
ZONK'S LATE RUSH TAKES AFFECTIONATELY
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amWith Pocus Hocus scorching on the lead, pressured by With Ability through sizzling fractions of :22.1 and :45.4, the pace scenario in yesterday's Grade 3, $100,000 Affectionately Handicap set things...
NBA SENIORS GET STIFFED
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amQUESTIONS For Those Of Us Forever Trapped In Our Wonder Years: Do you realize today's NBA players cut out retired players from their merchandising deal with the league? In other...
BORN & RAIDER-ED IN BROOKLYN OAKLAND AL A NYER AT HEART
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - All it takes is a sliver of an opening, an inch of daylight, and Al Davis is gone, all the way back to New York, all the way...
UNSUNG TRIO COULD HAVE SPECIAL EFFECT ON GANG
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - The Jets will trot three players onto the field today who, although they generally fly under the radar in terms of stardom, could be the difference today against...
STRENGTH VS. STRENGTH NINER 'O' FACING NFL TOP 'D'
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Today's NFC divisional game between San Francisco and Tampa Bay is filled with subplots: Offense vs. defense. Momentum vs. consistency. And friend vs. friend: the Bay Area coach...
TITANS SURVIVE IN OT:ON THIRD TRY, NEDNEY KICKS OUT STEELERS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMETitans 34Steelers 31 NASHVILLE - The Titans will be the Jets' biggest fans today after assuring themselves a spot in the AFC Championship game with a fortunate 34-31 overtime victory...
KID'S A REAL HOT SHOT HE'S TOP RECRUIT ... AND HE'S 13
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amMalcolm Pope can't even count the number of phone calls he's received regarding his son, Malcolm Jr. The calls come from all over the area, from coaches interested in getting...
LET THEM READ DICKENS!
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amACCORDING to Mayor Bloomberg, New Yorkers should get over it - they should pay what cable TV charges or learn to live without cable, not to mention learn to live...
SINKERS WEIGHING ON FISHING GROUP
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTHE American Sportfishing Association is reaching out to state natural resource agencies that may consider new policies relating to lead fishing sinkers summarizing research down on sinker ingestion by waterbirds....
SHINJO SIGNS ONE-YEAR DEAL
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amThe Mets and Tsuyoshi Shinjo agreed to a one-year contract last night. The deal is worth $600,000, and Shinjo can earn another $400,000 in incentives based on plate appearences. "He...
IT'S SHORTS AND SWEET BLAKE'S TRICK SPURS UNDERWEAR SHOWER
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIslanders 7Thrashers 3 All the underwear on the ice looked like an elaborate frat boy prank. But some 200 pairs of blue boxers littered the Coliseum sheet because Jason Blake...
TITANS SURVIVE IN OT: NEDNEY'S THIRD TRY KICKS OUT STEELERS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTitans 34Steelers 31 NASHVILLE - The Titans got yesterday what the Giants wished they'd had last week in San Francisco, a second chance to kick a game-winning field goal and...
AS COACH, PATRICK'S RIGHT AT HOME
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amIt's different now, Patrick Ewing will admit. He uses a different entrance. He works for a different team. But it hardly seems to matter. Because for Ewing, Madison Square Garden...
DEVILS BRING BACK A VERY STRANGE POINT
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 3Lightning 3 TAMPA - Stranger and stranger this night went. First, the Devils scored three goals for the second time in 10, the first three of the game to...
TENNESSEE LONGS FOR JETS' WIN
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - As a crowd of some 68,000 happy Titans fans exited The Coliseum here last night, they were looking for a Jets bandwagon to ride. "J-E-T-S . . ....
KNICKS FADE AGAIN: FINAL TICKSPROVE TOBE KILLERS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amWizards 89Knicks 84 This end-game collapse by the Knicks was the most crushing of the season. And when Othella Harrington threw the ball away on an inbounds pass with 4.1...
AT GARDEN, SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE AIR
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Michael Jordan said the Garden fans didn't seem the same - but then, neither did he. Though Jordan scored 23 points, he missed his last six shots, including...
DONOVAN'S EAGLES OUTSOAR VICK'S FALCS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amEagles 20Falcons 6 PHILADELPHIA - Way back on the Eagles' second offensive play, Donovan McNabb last night rolled to his right and decided to take off. He sprinted down the...
A NIGHT AT THE VET - FANS PHIL STADIUM TRYING TO HELP EAGLES
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Atlanta finally beat Sherman last week, marched into Green Bay scorching the Packers, their coach, and their hollowed earth with the first Lambeau Field playoff defeat in history....
O.J. BROUGHT DRAGNET TO ORANGE BOWL
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amREADER Mike Ganis notes that O.J. Simpson's tireless search for his wife's murderer recently led him to the USC Orange Bowl practice in Florida . . . It wasn't enough...
MCNABBING VICTORY: EAGLES OUTSOAR VICK, FALCONS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amEagles 20 Falcons 6 PHILADELPHIA - Way back on the Eagles' second offensive play last night, Donovan McNabb rolled to his right and decided to take off. He sprinted down...
PHILLY'S REID BEST IN THE BUSINESS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amNFC PLAYOFF CONFIDENTIAL PHILADELPHIA - When Donovan McNabb went down with a broken right ankle with six games remaining in the regular season, the Eagles looked to be in trouble....
THE KEY TO VICK-TORY: EAGLES TAKE AIM AT FALCONS QB
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - There is a tendency to be careful when Michael Vick is on the premises, because you don't want to be the defender forever caught in the highlight film...
ATLANTA GETS CHILLY RECEPTION
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amNFC PLAYOFF CONFIDENTIAL PHILADELPHIA - So, what did everyone expect last night at chilled Veterans Stadium, when the rabid and notorious Eagles fans convened for an NFC divisional playoff game...
BUCS NEED TO STOP POTENT NINERS' OFFENSE
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Today's NFC divisional game between San Francisco and Tampa Bay is filled with subplots: Offense vs. defense. Momentum vs. consistency. And friend vs. friend: the Bay Area coach...
SMOKIN' GUNS RIGHT ON TARGET
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Through all the games Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston have played together, dating to the 1999 season, only five times before Friday had they both rung up 30...
CRUNCH TIME FOR KNICKS: CHANEY'S TEAM FINDS WAY TO WIN IN CLUTCH
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amMichael Jordan played the Garden last night, and a sellout crowd was on hand for a game containing at least a tiny layer of playoff implications. As bad as the...
METS WAITING ON SHINJO
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amThe Mets were still waiting on outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo to come to terms with them as of yesterday afternoon. The two sides are close to agreement on a deal of...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
January 12, 2003 | 5:00amLAP OF LUXURY: SAD SHOCKEY SEEKS TREATMENT AT SCORES Rookie sensation Jeremy Shockey apparently isn't one to let the bad taste linger from last Sunday's Giant collapse in San Francisco....