February 18, 2003
THREE SUITORS COURT CHANCE-Y LAW FIRM
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amLAW firm Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells' imminent decision about where to move spells a moment of truth for two glitzy Midtown projects thirsting for tenants. After months of leading...
BONNIE'S BONANZA: US WEEKLY BOSS LANDS $1M SALARY AS CIRC SOARS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amUs Weekly's Bonnie Fuller began the first day with a new $1 million-plus paycheck yesterday by digging out of mountains of suburban snow and trekking three hours to the office....
A NEW MUSIC MAN : BERTELSMANN MAY SHIFT BMG CHIEF OVER TO RTL
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTurmoil at Bertelsmann has reached new heights - and now the company's music division in New York may be getting a new chief, sources told The Post. Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, who...
HIGH-TECH ENGINES OUTGUNNING MIDEAST POLITICS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amSOME of our biggest problems - from not being able to get the Yankees on Cablevision to unending difficulty with the Middle East - are on the verge of being...
DOPEY DADS RULE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTWO of TV's most dysfunctional dads, Homer Simpson and Al Bundy, powered Fox's ratings Sunday night to a Nielsen win. A "Simpsons" three-episode bonanza, including the animated comedy's 300th anniversary...
RAZZLE DAZZLER
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amCHICAGO At the Ambassador Theater, 219 W. 49th St. Call TeleCharge (212) 239-6200. 'CHICAGO" has played more than 2,500 performances, but it's as fresh as a show that opened last...
FABULOUS 'FAR' HAS WIDE APPEAL
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amFAR AND WIDE At the Mint Theater, 311 W. 43rd St.; (212) 315-0231. Through March 9. IMAGINE Chekhov as an Austrian. Such is the work of Arthur Schnitzler, a major...
WHAT IF...
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amQ: I am about ready to make reservations in Cancun for the week of May 31-June 7, but I'm wondering what the weather is like. We want sun, not rain....
A CRY FOR HELP; 'GET ME OUT' WILL BE ON EVERY NIGHT FOR 2 WEEKS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amI'm a TV critic - get me out of here! There - I got that out of my system. It's the inevitable lead sentence many critics will write when reviewing...
KELLY R. TALENTED; JOHN SHEARER/WIREIMAGE.COM
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amR. Kelly "Chocolate Factory" Jive Records Wrapped in legal wrangles stemming from allegations of child pornography, R. Kelly seems to have used the adversity to make "Chocolate Factory" a towering...
SCOTT WALKER IN THE PUB-BOUND DRIVER'S SEAT
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amOHIO-born pop singer Scott Walker is a legend in Eng land, but he's virtually un known here, except to serious '60s pop music aficionados. Walker, born Scott Engel, performed catchy...
UTE'S GREATEST HITS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amMY HOLIDAY ALL the world's a stage for acclaimed chanteuse Ute Lemper. Though home is the Upper West Side, where she lives with her husband and two kids, the woman...
CURRENTS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amKIDS under 18 sail free on the Costa Victoria through April 13 when they share a cabin with two adults (adult fares begin at $549 per person). The 1,928-passenger ship...
MISSISSIPPIBLOSSOMS ; THIS YEAR, CELEBRATE MARDI GRAS (OR DON'T) IN THE MAGNOLIA STATE, WRITES DAVID LANDSEL
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amDETOURS'THE past isn't over," wrote William Faulkner, "it isn't even past." He must have been speaking about his home state, because there are plenty of places in this country where...
POL WANTS MCMENU SHAKEUP
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A Brooklyn state lawmaker wants fast-food chains to provide the skinny on the nutritional content of their products. Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a Democrat who chairs his house's task...
PATAKI'S 'NET LOSSES ; STATE COMPUTER COSTS SOAR BECAUSE IT WON'T KEEP TRACK: POL
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - The Pataki administration has violated a state law requiring a full accounting of the state's vast computer networks - possibly costing New York taxpayers millions of dollars, the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amMANHATTAN The body of a young woman was discovered last night in the trunk of a car in Washington Heights. Cops found the body shortly after 7:40 p.m. at Audubon...
PAIR HAD SEX WITH DEAD GIRL, 4: COPS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA man and a woman who worked for a company that transports corpses to a California county coroner's office were arrested last week for allegedly having sex with the body...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA six-story-tall wooden elephant named Lucy has just inherited $140,000 from a lifelong fan. Marion Jean Ready was a toddler in 1914 when she first laid eyes on the huge...
PORN-STAR PRISONER: BUST MADE ME ONE HOT CELL-EBRITY
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA former porn queen sent to prison for starring in an insider stock-tip conspiracy with her Wall Street broker beau says she's become a celebrity in the big house. Kathryn...
'ICE'MAN COMETH TO STEAL
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA coldly calculating crook lifted $90,000 worth of "ice" from a Long Island jewelry store - aided and abetted by the blizzard that gripped the East Coast, cops said yesterday....
ISRAELI AMBUSH KILLS HAMAS BIG
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli commandos, hiding in a van loaded with vegetables, killed a top Hamas militant in a roadside ambush yesterday as a new campaign against terrorists intensified. The undercover...
TOURISTS FIND CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS TOOK DAY OFF
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTHE girls were dejected, suffering from wet feet and - ick! - flat hair. The 30 high school seniors had traveled all the way from Seattle, a place where natives...
ARCHITECT DIES AFTER BIZARRE STABBING
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA New Jersey architect died yesterday from an apparent stabbing that occurred under mysterious circumstances two days earlier in Manhattan. Police said they do not know who killed 55-year-old James...
ROOF COLLAPSE KILLS N.J. SMOKER
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTaking a cigarette break turned deadly yesterday when the roof over an outdoor smoking area collapsed under the weight of snow - fatally crushing one man and seriously injuring four...
RIDERS GO NOWHERE FAST UNDER 'WAIT' OF THE SNOW ; COMMUTERS BRAVE DELAYS ON PLANES, TRAINS AND BUSES
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amThousands of travelers were stranded or forced to deal with massive delays yesterday as snow and ice wreaked havoc on bus and train service across the region. Buses crawled along...
N.J. BEAU IN BOMBAY SLAY BUST
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA New Jersey businessman was busted in India yesterday on charges he hired two killers to strangle his model girlfriend - just months after their affair broke up his 14-year...
$2M JEWEL HEIST GOES UNSEEN
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA team of burglars busted open two gem-filled safes at a Manhattan jewelry wholesaler and got away with $2 million in diamonds and platinum, police said yesterday. Cops have no...
911 BOSS FACES JOB SLAP FOR FUMBLING CALL FROM BOAT TEENS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA 911 supervisor on duty when a frantic teen called for help from a 7-foot rowboat off City Island last month will face NYPD charges, officials said yesterday. The supervisor...
SICK WITHOUT HEAT
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amSome of Beth Israel Medical Center's sickest patients were without heat for nearly two days, from Sunday to 5 p.m. yesterday. The Post, notified by relatives of one of the...
FDNY'S TRAUMA ON RISE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amOne firefighter has become a "horror" who "lives on anti-depressants." Another wishes he could just retire. And another described himself as "on a roller coaster" of fear and alcohol abuse....
ZORA'S $WEET VICTORY: TURNS OUT NICE GIRLS FINISH FIRST
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amDEAR God! Despite all that sexual liberation, at the end of the day, your mother (and mine) was right: Men still date bad girls but marry good ones. Yes, the...
21 PARTIERS CRUSHED TO DEATH IN DANCE-CLUB STAMPEDE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amAt least 21 people were killed and 57 injured early yesterday when hundreds of panicked partygoers scrambled down an unlit stairway to escape choking fumes in a Chicago nightclub -...
GINSENG CAN HELP STROKE SUFFERERS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amGinseng can help improve memory in stroke patients suffering from dementia, according to a new study. Researchers at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine found stroke patients who took a...
ZORA'S $WEET VICTORY ; FAUX 'JOE' AND HIS PICK GET TO SPLIT $1M SURPRISE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amJoe picked Zora - and together, they really make a millionaire! "Joe Millionaire" bachelor Evan Marriott told followers of Fox's reality mega-hit last night that he picked substitute teacher Zora...
SNOW BUSINESS PRETTY PRICEY ; CLEANUP: $1M AN INCH 28 ARE KILLED NATIONALLY BLACKOUTS IN SIX STATES
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amMother Nature clobbered the Big Apple with a whopping, wind-whipped 19.8 inches of snow, the fourth-largest snowfall in city history - and our Winter Wonderland ain't gonna be cheap. Mayor...
STOP! GOES THE WEASEL AS EUROS BACK BUSH
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe European Union yesterday issued a "last chance" warning to Saddam Hussein - and French President Jacques Chirac promptly threw a temper tantrum, threatening to blackball nations that back President...
$1M JEWEL HEIST GOES UNSEEN
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA team of burglars busted open two gem-filled safes at a Manhattan jewelry wholesaler and got away with more than $1 million in diamonds and other stones, police said yesterday....
GINSENG HELPS AFTER STROKE: DOCS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amGinseng can help improve memory in stroke patients suffering from dementia, researchers say. Stroke patients can experience a form of memory loss called moderate vascular dementia, caused by damage to...
ZORA'S $WEET VICTORY : 'JOE' AND HIS PICK WILL SPLIT $1M SURPRISE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Joe picked Zora - and together, they really make a millionaire! "Joe Millionaire" bachelor Evan Marriott told followers of Fox's reality mega-hit last night that he picked...
MOJO SPEAKS UP
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amA dark-haired temptress who was booted from the hit reality show "Joe Millionaire" says she had no idea he was really dirt poor until the series was about to be...
IN RECOGNITION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH - MOVERS & SHAKERS - 20 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BLACK NEW YORKERS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe only thing more glorious than America's black history is America's black present. Who doesn't swell with pride at the sight of Colin Powell, a resolute black man from Harlem...
ALLEYNE LOOKING FOR LAST HURRAH
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amIt was a performance that was difficult to forget. After an inconsistent junior year, Rice's Shagari Alleyne capped a memorable CHSAA playoff run last March with the game of his...
JETER: SPAT WITH BOSS DONE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Those who know Derek Jeter laugh at the mere mention that his focus on baseball could be compromised by excessive partying. Yet, Jeter, who takes his clean image...
TROUBLED STORM SEEK OUTSIDE HELP
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Players from Baltimore stick together, especially when times are tough. So it only figured that St. John's star Marcus Hatten would reach out to another guy from the...
TENSION'S IN THE AIR FOR DEVILS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Poor Pat Burns. No matter how brilliant he is, now matter how many Jack Adams Trophies (Coach of the Year) he owns, it must be tough to be...
TORRE INSTALLS 'ORDER' TO GODZILLA SITUATION
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Joe Torre met briefly with Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui yesterday and told the Yankees' marketing tool/left fielder that one rule fits all. "I explained to him we all live...
KEY TO THE FUTURE?
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The Yankees are talking to Jimmy Key about coming to spring training as a special coach with an eye toward getting him back in the organization...
BURNITZ BACK WITH A BANG
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - The first pitch Jeromy Burnitz swung at since last season, he knocked out of the park. After arriving in town and reporting a day...
WRIST PAIN CAN'T SLOW HOU DOWN
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amPORTLAND - Allan Houston could only laugh when asked whether, after his 53-point Sunday-night soiree at the Staples Center, his right shooting wrist is back to 100 percent. "I guess...
AMAZIN'S CANNOT AFFORD A 2ND GUESS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Camp Chaos it's not, but life around here isn't as innocent as the Mets would have you believe. No, this is not Yankeeland where every day...
ROBBIE'S NOT A HAPPY CAMPER ; ALOMAR ARRIVES 'UPSET' BY METS' EXTENSION SNUB
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Roberto Alomar made an unexpected arrival to camp yesterday afternoon, where he then talked about his possible exit following this season. Coming off his worst season...
PANIC NOT IN NET PLAYBOOK
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amNet President Rod Thorn has seen enough on the court since the All-Star break to cause concern about his team. He has heard nothing on the phones in recent days...
BLIZZARD FREEZES AREA SCHEDULE
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amThe snow and wind that whitewashed the East Coast over the last two days also washed away much of the region's President's Day sports schedule. No horses raced locally yesterday,...
'STORM' MISSES YANKS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Joe Torre predicted "mayhem" and wound up with ho-hum. As expectation to reality, this day in Yankee history was New Coke. The biggest difference between Derek Jeter's morning...
HOUSTON BRINGS FIRE ONTO COURT
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amSUBJECT: Allan and Allah: Immediately following a curiously zealous 53-point effort Sunday at the expense of the ill (no Shaq) and ill-equipped (no significant help for Kobe from any allegedly...
FAMILY KIDS HOU ABOUT BIG NIGHT
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amPORTLAND - Allan Houston received a batch of phone calls yesterday at his Portland hotel room following his 53-point soiree Sunday night at Staples Center. "My father told me, 'How...
WITH FIGHT SHELVED, TYSON SHOULD BE, TOO
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amIf Tyson really is sick, it only shields what everyone in boxing circles already knows: Tyson is done as a reliable contender. THIS WASN'T exactly Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto...
BURE RETURN NO HELP
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amSenators 3Rangers 2 KANATA, Ontario - All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again. For despite Pavel Bure's return allowing the Rangers to...
KNICKS BURN OUT: HOT ROAD START ENDS AS WALLACE FIRES UP BLAZERS
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amBlazers 99 Knicks 91 PORTLAND - What, you expected them to go 6-0? One night after taking L.A. by storm with an Allan Houston blizzard, the Knicks predictably came down...
ITCHY PAVEL: 'ENOUGH! I'M RETURNING!'
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amKANATA, Ontario - Pavel Bure made it perfectly clear that not only did no one in the Ranger organization put pressure on him to return to the lineup, but that...
DOLAN APPLAUDS CHANEY
February 18, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PORTLAND - Minutes after conquering the Lakers Sunday night, Don Chaney talked giddily on the cell phone, pacing the hallway outside the Knicks' locker room at Staples Center....