January 19, 2003
BULL'S EYE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amNo good time for sales call AT&T may have taken the mantra "Always be selling" a little too far. The telecom, which The Post reported on Friday is restructuring its...
ARM YOURSELF WITH FUNDS HEAVY IN MILITARY STOCKS AS WAR LOOMS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amMUTUAL fund shareholders are often reminded to take a long-term view about their investments. Frequent trading in and out of fund shares costs investors big - both in fees and...
MARCIA KILGORE'S BLISS IS ALL WORK
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amWhile it's not the most glamorous of offices, Marcia Kilgore's space in DUMBO is certainly functional. The long, skinny office the founder of the Bliss spas occupies is chock full...
DVDS FAST-FOWARD, PASS VCR CONSUMER SALES
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amConsumers pushed the "stop" button on VCRs in 2002 and resoundingly hit "play" for DVD machines, marking a decisive blow in this increasingly one- sided home entertainment battle, industry sales...
STARR REPORT
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amKathie Lee's got a new morning gig Kathie Lee Gifford is returning to morning television - at least for three days. Gifford, who split from "Live with Regis & Kathie...
IN THE DARK WITH MR. DARCY
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amWith the light fading across the Argentine Pampas, I sat on a horse with the dark, handsome lawyer from Buenos Aires. "If I was Mr. Darcy, would I kiss you...
SO WHAT IF THEIR PETS CAN'T READ? OWNERS WRITE TO THEIR ANIMALS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amHave you ever felt compelled to send a letter to your pet?Michael La Rue has. He's so crazy about his Shih Tzu, Lexi, that he was inspired to put his...
SEX IN SEARCH OF A DISTRIBUTOR
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amTHE notorious "Ken Park" has yet to land a U.S. distributor, but it will be getting a screening here. Directed by Larry Clark and Ed Lachman, it unreels Feb. 9...
THE PERILS OF THE PRE-SHOW: KNIVES OUT! JOAN AND MELISSA GET READY FOR TONIGHT'S GOLDEN GLOBES
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amShe may not know "Lord of the Rings" from Harry Winston, but Joan Rivers will prove that she still rules the red carpet at tonight's Golden Globes. At last week's...
HOPES OF A BOWL NEW WORLD RAIDERS & TITANS SUPED UP FOR CLASH
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Tim Brown is the poster child for the Raiders' quest to capture their first Super Bowl title in 18 years. Brown has played for the Raiders for 15...
LEONA'S FRUIT OF THE LOOMS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amONE wore her undies, so she gave him a pink slip. The other was into leather, so she gave him the boot. Is Leona Helmsley a kind, if misguided octogenarian,...
TRY THE PRIESTHOOD
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amLAST week, the world was rocked when rocker Pete Townshend was arrested for viewing kiddie porn sites, despite the fact that he says he never downloaded any child pornography, and...
HEY, JOE, WHADDYA KNOW? A KOSHER CANDIDATE!
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amLAST week, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish candidate for president of the United States, threw his yarmulke into the ring, saying he's confident voters want a "strong U.S.-Israel relationship."...
FESTIVAL FILMGOERS CATCHING AN EARLY BUZZ
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amIT'S the early days at the Sundance Film Festival, and official kudos won't be doled out until Saturday night, but after two days of back-to-back screenings, The Post has seen...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amTycoons are begging on the streets of Moscow in a game to fight stress. They pay to wear clothes that are stained to give them a foul odor - and...
COPS EYE FISHY HUBBY OVER 2ND MISSING GAL
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe husband of a missing pregnant woman is now being eyed in the bizarre disappearance of a blond college coed six years ago, California cops said yesterday. Scott Peterson -...
NYERS IN ANTI-WAR CRY AT D.C. RALLY
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amHundreds of New Yorkers joined tens of thousands of button-wearing, sign-waving, slogan-chanting protesters in Washington, D.C., yesterday at an anti-war rally - one of several worldwide denouncing America's pending war...
BUSH BOUNCES BACK IN POPULARITY POLL
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amPresident Bush's popularity grew this week - up 3 points from a poll conducted just days earlier. The Gallup Organization released numbers early last week showing Bush's approval rating plummeting...
THE 411 ON 311: WAIT & $EE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe city is set to open its new high-tech 311 non-emergency call center next month, but no one seems to know just how much it will cost the cash-strapped city....
ALLY HELD KEYS TO DEM 'JAIL BREAKS'
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A secret federal report says a close ally of Brooklyn Assemblyman Roger Green steered a scandal-linked company's campaign help to prominent politicians, The Post has learned. The feds'...
COPS SHOOT EX-DETECTIVE'S 'GUN'-WAVING SON
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe son of a retired New York City narcotics detective was shot in the leg by police outside his family home in Queens yesterday - after brandishing what looked like...
A-TRAIN CONDUCTOR TRAGEDY
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amA subway conductor on the job for a little more than a year was killed on a Queens station platform early yesterday after she stuck her head out of a...
NEW LAFAYETTE HS ATTACK
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn's beleaguered Lafayette HS is failing the grade for safety again after another kid was beaten up last week. Freshman Kristina Martinez said she was attacked by another girl after...
NEW REALITY: VIEWERS PLAY MATCHMAKER
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amHere's a dilemma: You're a reality TV fanatic who's got an itch to get hitched, but just can't find the perfect mate. Why not let America decide whom you should...
SURVIVOR'S HORROR STORY ; BRAVE STUDENT URGES: DON'T CUT TRANSIT STAFF
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe courageous student viciously slashed on a subway platform barely a week ago wants to meet with Mayor Bloomberg and persuade him to fight to keep token booths open -...
SHAME OF DIPLOMA-LESS HUNK
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Not only is "Joe Millionaire" a financial fraud, he's also a high school dropout. Evan Marriott, the 28-year-old star of Fox's reality mega-hit, confessed yesterday he left...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amQUEENS This is a police sketch of the thug who tried to kidnap two women on Thursday afternoon. Cops said the man pulled up beside a 35-year-old woman at 33rd...
OLD MAN WINTER FROST-BITES BIG APPLE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amArctic-like temperatures continued to freeze the Big Apple to its core yesterday - keeping many New Yorkers indoors and driving the city's homeless people into shelters. "It's packed in here....
GLOBAL SWARMING ; TOP TALENT SHINES OVER AWARD BASH
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amA gaggle of Tinseltown's pushiest drama queens - including Meryl, Nicole, Julianne, Renee and Catherine Z-J - are all after the same thing tonight: the gleaming Golden Globe Award. This...
VICTORIA GOTTI
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amTHE QUEEN RULES: I don't know who is telling the truth in the juicy discrimination case between Leona Helmsley and her gay former Park Lane Hotel manager Charles Bell, but...
OH NO, LOOK OUT, JOE ; 'MILLIONAIRE'S' MOJO JUST A GOLD-DIGGER, SAY OLD PALS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amBe warned, Joe Millionaire - it's time to give MoJo the heave-ho. The leggy Indianapolis blonde has not only let it slip that she's interested in your "hefty" bank account,...
'WORRIED' BLIX READY TO PUSH SLOW SADDAM
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq said today that he is "worried" by the discovery of nuclear weapons documents in the home of one of Saddam Hussein's scientists...
FIRED PAIR: BOSS BIASED
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amTwo cell-phone store workers from Brooklyn say they were the victims of an anti-Semitic intimidation campaign waged by their boss, who joked about the Holocaust and blamed Jews for the...
BANK BANDITS TAKING 'NOTE' OF EASY TAKE AT TELLER WINDOWS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amBrazen bandits have used notes to demand cash in 25 bank holdups in the first 13 business days of this year, according to a high-ranking law-enforcement official. Only a few...
BUSTS FOR 9/11 UNIONS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amMembers of a union that cleared debris from Ground Zero are set to be charged with taking pay for ghost jobs and scheming with underworld figures, The Post has learned....
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amFROM: avpriori: "Linda, you missed the biggest irony of all. This guy Joseph Massino, boss of the Bonanno family which you pointed out means 'Good Year,' is the family blimp."...
INSIDE LOOK AT LAVISH LEONA ; SHE MAY BE THE QUEEN, BUT HER CANINE IS KING
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amLeona Helmsley loves Trouble . . . and "Columbo." Those are just two of the tidbits that have emerged in former Park Lane Hotel manager Charles Bell's $40 million gay-bias...
RUDY $ECURITY SHOCKER
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe city spent $4.5 million a year on up to 44 detectives to protect former mayor Rudy Giuliani, his family and his fiancee, The Post has learned. Nine detectives, each...
CLUB KID CULKIN ; GROWN-UP MACAULAY A SURPRISE IN SLAY TALE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amWhen the body of 26-year-old club kid Angel Melendez, stuffed in a box, washed up on a beach on Staten Island in 1996, suspicion fell on Melendez's roommate, Michael Alig,...
UNION BIG WRITES WAY INTO PRISON
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amA well-connected union worker is expected to plead guilty this week to racketeering after his misplaced address book provided key evidence that exposed a long-running no-show job scheme at city...
ANALYZE THIS: HOW UNLIKELY WALL ST. STAR FELL
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amSELDOM does a sullen underachiever who earned D's in high school get to conquer New York, let alone Wall Street. But brunette charmer Holly Becker hit town at 24, armed...
9/11 VACUUM 'SCHEMERS' CALLED ON THE CARPET
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amFederal officials are warning New Yorkers to avoid unscrupulous salesmen seeking to profit from a 9/11 program to provide residents with air filters and vacuums - by misleadingly peddling their...
TOP TALENT SHINES OVER AWARD BASH
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amA gaggle of Tinseltown's pushiest drama queens - including Meryl, Nicole, Julianne, Renee and Catherine Z-J - are all after the same thing tonight: the gleaming Golden Globes award. This...
SHARK DECLINES IN DISPUTE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amCOMMERCIAL longliners have decimated shark populations in the North Atlantic to such an extent that some species may never be able to rebound, researchers say. A study in Friday's issue...
'CATFIGHT' BEER AD WENT TO BAD FROM WORSE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amEVEN the frenzied race to see who can establish a new low has its boundaries. You've likely seen the new TV commercial for Miller Lite that displays two large-breasted young...
JEROMY CAN SAY NO TO O'S DEAL ; COULD WAIVE CLAUSE - FOR A PRICE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amJeromy Burnitz has a no-trade clause to the Orioles, so Steve Phillips can do all the window shopping he wants. Ultimately, Burnitz isn't going anywhere near Baltimore unless he's paid...
HOPES OF A BOWL NEW WORLD ; RAIDERS & TITANS SUPED UP FOR CLASH
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Tim Brown is the poster child for the Raiders' quest to capture their first Super Bowl title in 18 years. Brown has played for the Raiders for 15...
YASHIN'S PLAY IS 'D'-VELOPING
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Alexei Yashin will never be in the running for the Selke Award as the league's best defensive forward, but in the last week, his play has been noticeably...
GONE IN 60 MINUTES
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - The Final Fourlorn reach for the Super Bowl today. This is the day that truly defines the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The Eagles have...
PHILLY 'O' MUST SHOW
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The old adage is that offense wins games, defense wins championships. Tell that to the Bucs, who haven't been to a Super Bowl despite perennially having one of...
TIME TO FACE THE COLD, HARD TRUTH ; BIRDS CAN ALMOST FEEL WARMTH OF SUNNY SAN DIEGO
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - At some point, the climb either has to reach the peak or else everything comes tumbling down and those making the journey are back where they started. For...
PLAYOFFS SEEM TAYLOR-MADE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amNFC CONFIDENTIAL PHILADELPHIA - Cornerback Bobby Taylor, in the NFC Championship Game against the Buccaneers today, plays in his 10th playoff game for the Eagles, more than anyone in franchise...
KNICKS NEED HOME RUN ; RETURN TO GARDEN BREAKS UP GRIND
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - No matter what happened last night in Atlanta, the Knicks will embrace coming home to the Garden for a five-game homestand. Despite their home sellout streak being snapped...
NEDNEY GETS SHOT AT DOUBLE REVENGE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amCHAMPIONSHIP CONFIDENTIAL OAKLAND - Titans kicker Joe Nedney booted a 26-yard overtime field goal to propel his team into today's AFC Championship Game against the Raiders. It would be wildly...
EVERYTHING'S ALIGNED FOR DONOVAN'S STAR TO SHINE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The first lesson along the fast track that today has Donovan McNabb playing the game he was always meant to play was a quick study in grace in...
STORMING BACK; HATTEN'S 19 IN FINAL 6:21 RALLIES ST. JOHN'S
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 77G'town 72 WASHINGTON - The horn sounded in a silent MCI Center and St. John's, arms raised, towels waving, charged off the bench. They collided with the five...
CONFIDENT NETS PLAN PERFECT TRIP
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amCall it bravado, confidence or plain old optimism. Whatever it is, the Nets are feeling it. As they embark on a telling West Coast trip tomorrow, one that features four...
LADY HUSKIES CAN DRIVE 55; SPEED PAST G'TOWN FOR RECORD-SETTING WIN
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amUConn 72G'town 49 HARTFORD - As the Civic Center crowd chanted, "Fifty-five, fifty-five," UConn women's basketball program added another piece of history to their three national titles. An advertisement on...
BUCS BEST BE READY TO BUNDLE UP AGAIN
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Buccaneers feel their dreadful record (1-21) in games played in temperatures below 40 degrees has little to do with this current team, since 13 of the losses...
FINALLY, 'CANE CURSE ENDS ; DEVILS GET REVENGE IN RALEIGH
January 19, 2003 | 5:00am"Winning against them is a relief because we haven't beaten them in a long time."MARTIN BRODEUR It required goals that were anything but routine, yet the undermanned Devils Friday managed...
SNAKE MOUNTAIN ROARS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amSnake Mountain, coupled with Voodoo as the 1-5 favorite, sat off the pace set by his entrymate, blew past him at the top of the stretch and drew off to...
WILKENS AT A LOSS ; RAPTORS CONSIDER DUMPING COACH
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amTWICE enshrined Lenny Wilkens probably has no idea to this composition how close he came to being deported from Toronto less than two weeks ago. Yet surely the Hall of...
LINDROS HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT GOOD SOLDIER
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amIf you heard it once, you heard it a thousand times out of Philadelphia, how Eric Lindros was this selfish, immature, trouble-making, root cause of the Flyers' failure to win...
SERGEI-WINGS MARRIAGE MAY BE ON ROCKS ; FEDOROV SAYS NYET TO 5-YEAR, $50M OFFER
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amSERGEI Fedorov's future in Detroit is now very much in doubt. Slap Shots has learned the 32-year-old center has rejected a five-year, $50-million offer that has now been taken off...
HOT ELIAS MAKES DIFFERENCE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 5Hurricanes 2 It started when he started, and it's still going. The Devils haven't lost since Patrik Elias rediscovered his goal-scoring touch seven games ago. Team, team, team is...
'WEATHER' BRIGHTENS: KNICKS REBOUNDON 'SPOON GEM
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 95 Hawks 92 ATLANTA - Clarence Weatherspoon had already saved the Knicks on the offensive end, mounting a season-high 18 points. But the Knicks needed one last defensive stop...
CHANEY GANG EYES HOME RUN
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Following last night's win in Atlanta, the Knicks will embrace coming home to the Garden for a five-game homestand, starting tomorrow in their MLK Day matinee...
NOTHIN' DOIN': TITLE WEEKEND A WASTELAND FOR NEW YORK FANS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- These are the toughest games to watch, the one here at the Network Associates Coliseum, the other one 3,000 miles away at The Vet, conference championship games with...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amParty Crasher So what does the world's greatest gate crasher do when the Super Bowl is in his own backyard? What he does best, of course. "Oh sure, I'm going...
THE MATCHUPS: PLENTY OF CHILLS & SPILLS AS EAGLES ROCK VET ONE LAST TIME
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Buccaneers return to their house of horrors, the Vet, to play the Eagles in today's NFC Championship Game. The following is a matchup look at the game: QUARTERBACKS and...
THE MATCHUPS: COLISEUM CRAZIES WILL PLAY ROLE IN CRASH OF THE TITANS
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amThe Raiders host the Titans in today's AFC Championship Game at Network Associates Coliseum for the right to play in Super Bowl XXXVII. Here's a look at how The Post...