March 3, 2003
CARLYLE JOINS DAVIS BID ON VUE ASSETS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe politically connected Carlyle Group - whose backers include former President Bush and Colin Powell - is joining oil tycoon Marvin Davis' bid for Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets. With the...
PONY'S NEW REINS - NEW DEAL PUTS FOOTWEAR MAKER IN FIRM'S SHOES
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amAfter putting its Pony on the comeback trail, The Firm is about to turn over the reins to a new owner. The Beverly Hills-based artist-management outfit - home to such...
BEAR STEARNS IN DEAL TO STAY AT METROTECH
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amBear Stearns, developer Bruce Ratner, and the city have clinched a 20-year deal to keep 1,500 jobs at Ratner's MetroTech complex in Brooklyn, The Post has learned. It's a win-win...
THE $150 MILLION PICTURE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amRECOGNIZE any of these guys? It was a film-lover's dream come true on Dec. 8, 2002, when a dozen of Hollywood's most recognizable lead ing men - plus rising star...
STARR REPORT
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amABC to Dick Clark: Thanks, but no thanks ABC has vowed to juice-up this year's Daytime Emmy Awards (May 16) - and they've started by not asking back Dick Clark....
SHE SIGNED UP TO FIND A HUSBAND - YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amAT a bar somewhere in mid- town Manhattan, everybody is going to be hoping Billie Jeanne Houle will find love tonight. The spirited blonde bombshell, a self-described army-brat from Upstate...
SNIPER MOVIE UNDERWAY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHE USA network is trying to find actors who can play the two snipers a movie about last fall's D.C.- area sniper murders."The Beltway," scheduled to air this spring, has...
'HI, HONEY, I'M HOME!' - MRS. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS DIRECTS HOLLYWOOD'S SCARIEST ACTOR
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amFOR Rebecca Miller, marriage is an adventure. When you're Mrs. Daniel Day-Lewis, "honey" is a man who eats nothing but prison slop for days, skins animals himself and insists on...
WHO PACKS J.LO'S SUITCASE?
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amJENNIFER Lopez spent last week in Europe promoting "Maid in Manhattan" - and had a clothing crisis at every stop. In Berlin, she tugged at the hem of her Roberto...
UP CLOTHES AND PERSONAL - TELEVISION'S RED-CARPET ODDBALL TELLS ALL IN A DISHY NEW FASHION BOOK
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amSTEVEN Cojocaru stands out on the red carpet. The TV fashion commentator - a sort of Joan Rivers in Steven Tyler's clothing - is becoming as much of a personality...
PROTESTING WAR WITH A BIG FAT GREEK READING
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amREHEARSAL time was almost up for director Beth Ann Mastromarino and something wasn't right. The cast had run through its lines over and over, but Mastromarino wanted to make sure...
CITY'S $$ WOES LET CONS OFF EASY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amConvicted felons who have completed half their probation are getting off the hook early - in order to save money during the city's budget crunch. The Probation Department cleared 1,079...
SUIT $HOT DOWN - CITY WINS NEW TRIAL OVER WOUNDED THUG AWARDED $9M
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe city has been granted a new trial in the case of a criminal awarded millions of dollars after he was shot and paralyzed by a cop. And officials see...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe score at Kentucky Mountain Bible College - God 1, Devil 0. After months of asking for a new phone number, the Vancleve-based school is finally being allowed to drop...
SCHUMER URGES BAN ON EPHEDRA
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday said ephedra, the dietary supplement blamed for the death of a big-league pitcher, should be banned. He also said there are about 30 knockoffs currently on...
BIG TUMMIES MAKE MEN BIG DUMMIES
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amHere's another good reason to lose weight, guys - scientists have determined that the fatter you are, the dumber you get. The first study of the mental abilities of obese...
SUBWAY HAS NEW 'FOREIGN' ACCENTS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPolish and Creole could be added to MetroCard vending machines in two Brooklyn neighborhoods by the end of the year, The Post has learned. The machines, which already display instructions...
GRIEVING KIN: CUT OFF HIS FINGERS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amRAY Downey believes he has a perfect solution on how to treat the monster mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. "If he doesn't talk, cut off his fingers one at a time...
'CHICAGO' WINS MORE TOP AWARDS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00am"Chicago" razzle-dazzled two key film industry groups over the weekend, widening its Oscar lead with awards from the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America. The producers...
HILLARY HAWKS UP WAR TALK
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "fully supports" President Bush's Iraq policy, her office said last night - on the eve of her visit today to an upstate arsenal that makes military...
THE 'FINAL' WTC PLAN: GRADE IT ZERO
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amSO now Gov. George Pataki has made his choice for Ground Zero. It will be for future governors, and for all New Yorkers, to live with its consequences. In the...
'CRADLE' ROCKS THE BOX OFFICE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00am"Cradle 2 the Grave" karate-kicked the competition over the weekend, soundly whipping "Old School" and "Daredevil" at the box office. The martial arts/hip-hop thriller, starring chop-socky vet Jet Li and...
FIRMS GET THE TECH OUT OF HERE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amNew York City is watching its technology workers ride the information superhighway right out of town. With the economy struggling and the bursting of the dot-com bubble, many companies are...
BOOS RAIN ON MIKE'S PARADE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg got pelted with rain - and some boos - at the fourth annual Queens St. Patrick's Parade yesterday. The Sunnyside event - dubbed the "all inclusive parade" because...
AL QAEDA'S IRAQ 'ARMY' GROWS TO 400
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amAs many as 400 seasoned al Qaeda fighters have slipped into northern Iraq to carry out terrorist attacks against American forces, U.S. intelligence officials say. The fighters, veterans of the...
POUR-EXCUSE ROAD CREWS SPEND DAY SITTING ON THEIR ASPHALT
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe city says it has launched an all-out assault on the exploding number of potholes, but a Post probe found some repair crews frittering away their time - in one...
SLAIN PHILLY 'ORGAN' MAN ID'D
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPhiladelphia officials yesterday identified a 60-year-old man whose body was found with the heart, liver and one lung cut out - but they were waiting for the results of an...
MUSICIANS WILL WAIT TO SETTLE B'WAY SCORE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amBroadway producers and the musicians' union have agreed to continue to fiddle with their contract until at least Thursday, averting a threatened strike today. The contract between The League of...
'INSANE' ASYLUM OFFER TO BUTCHER
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amIt must be true that dictators of a feather flock together - North Korean despot Kim Jong Il has reportedly offered Saddam Hussein asylum in the so-called Democratic People's Republic....
NEIGHBORS SOLD OUT 9/11 FIEND: REWARD-SEEKERS GAVE COPS TIP THAT ENDED 8-YEAR-HUNT
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amU.S. authorities had tried to catch Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for years - but only succeeded after a series of events that began with greedy neighbors tipping off...
WEDDING-BRAWL BLUES
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amA boozed-up teen turned into the wedding guest from hell yesterday - threatening security guards with a knife and smashing beer bottles after being cut off by the bartender, Long...
GAY-BASH HORROR ON UPPER E. SIDE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amA trio of gay-bashers from Queens were busted after stomping, kicking and threatening to kill an Upper East Side man as he walked home from a bar early yesterday, police...
WRIST SLAP FOR SEX ED: BX. TEACH TEMPTRESS TO GET LIGHT SENTENCE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amA former teacher at a Bronx Catholic high school who had sex with a 16-year-old student in a seedy motel will be sentenced to not more than weekends in jail...
QNS. KIDS CHARGED IN GUN-SLAY ACCIDENT
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amTwo Queens teens were busted yesterday for shooting and killing a friend while playing with a gun they thought wasn't loaded, police said. Cops arrested Julian Outcalt, 18, and a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * Six people were injured yesterday when a police car and a civilian vehicle collided in East New York. Police said two cops on routine patrol were driving south...
FRANCE'S AMI SADDAM PUT THE 'IRAQ' IN CHIRAC
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amIt's no surprise that France is threatening to torpedo the U.S. battle to bring down Saddam Hussein. French President Jacques Chirac and Saddam have been pals for years. Their friendship...
IRAQ HAS 110 MORE MISSILES
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amIraq yesterday said it destroyed six more of its illegal Al Samoud 2 missiles, for a total of 10 - but was estimated to have 120 of them before the...
ISRAEL UNCOVERS HAMAS PLOT TO CAR-BOMB SHARON
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Hamas terrorists planned to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last month by planting a car bomb in his motorcade, Israeli officials said yesterday. Officials said they got...
QAEDA EXPERT NYPD
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly has summoned all personnel with the rank of captain or higher to headquarters today for a lecture by an al Qaeda expert. Rohan Gunaratna, author of...
BRITNEY IN NEAR-BRUSH WITH BURGER
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amFans couldn't be blamed for thinking Britney Spears has given up her vegetarian ways. The Post caught the blond pop tart sitting in a Mercedes, happily chowing down outside a...
CAR HITS POLICE HORSE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amA police horse was hit by a car and nearly killed last night - but was saved by emergency surgery. Boots, a 13-year-old former racehorse who has been with the...
'THRILL KILLERS' STRIKE AGAIN
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amAn East New York auto-parts store worker who was slain on Friday may be the latest victim of a pair of thrill-killers who last month murdered two people in bodegas...
HERE HE IS - FIRST PHOTO OF CAPTURED 9/11 TERROR MASTERMIND; CAPTURED KILLER'S SECRETS COULD EXPOSE U.S. CELLS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amAl Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, shown here just after his capture, was nabbed with a "mother lode" of records that could soon bring more arrests - including busts of...
BROOKLYN FIRE HERO SAVES BOY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amA rookie firefighter crawled into a burning apartment in Brooklyn early yesterday to rescue an unconscious 11-year-old boy, officials said. Ronald Mitchell, 29, was one of the first firefighters at...
PICTURE THIS: CLASSIC NEW YORK FOR SALE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPhotos of some of New York's most notorious gangsters will soon be available for purchase online - courtesy of the Municipal Archives. As part of an effort to market some...
A NEW 'WORLD' FOR S.I. STUDENTS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amBrainy Staten Island students could be getting their own elite "campus" high school for foreign studies under a plan being considered by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and College of Staten...
66% OF CITY PUPILS ARE IN A FLUNK FUNK
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amNearly 300,000 city public school students are in danger of flunking and repeating a grade next year, new data obtained by The Post shows. That figure represents a potentially huge...
OAKLAND, RAIDERS ARE STILL AT ODD$
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amSAN DIEGO - If you thought the Oakland Raiders were put on the defensive during the Super Bowl, wait until you see the team in court this spring. That's when...
B'WAY MUSICIANS WILL WAIT TO SETTLE SCORE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amBroadway producers and the musicians' union have agreed to continue to fiddle with their contract until at least Thursday, averting a threatened strike today. The contract between The League of...
BUTCHER'S 'INSANE' ASYLUM
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amIt must be true that dictators of a feather flock together - North Korean despot Kim Jong Il has reportedly offered Saddam Hussein asylum in the so-called Democratic People's Republic....
CITY WOE$ LET CONS OFF EASY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amConvicted felons who have completed half their probation are getting off the hook early - in order to save money during the city's budget crunch. The Probation Department cleared 1,079...
MIKE ORDERS UP A SHOT FOR BOOMER
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Piazza shook off comments about him in David Wells' tell-all book with a characteristic shrug and his patented "Whatever," but the All-Star catcher couldn't resist...
SORE ANKLES TAKE TOCCET OUT OF RACE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amLast month Vindication, last year's unbeaten 2-year-old champ, was knocked out of the Kentucky Derby by an injury before he even raced at 3. Last week he was joined by...
GEFFEN'S STEAL SAVES IT
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amCHSAA 'A': St. Francis 64 - St. Peter's 60 St. Francis Prep's Bryan Geffen stole the show during yesterday's intersectional CHSAA "A" playoff game against St. Peter's at Iona College....
CEDENO IN CENTER WON'T ADD UP
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The money is already spent and, sorry to say because he is such a pleasant guy, wasted on Roger Cedeno. Shoehorning him into center might seem...
WAITS TO HAVE BYPASS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Bullpen coach Rick Waits may undergo open heart surgery this week and will be away from the Mets for an undetermined amount of time....
ORIOLES BASH BACSIK, OPENING DOOR FOR CONE
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amOrioles 15 - Mets 6 PORT ST. LUCIE - After carefully watching the final two minutes of David Cone's side session yesterday morning, Tom Seaver strode toward the practice mound...
JONES WILL PLAY THE HEAVY FOR A 'LOTTA' MONEY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - There is no turning back now for Roy Jones, Jr. No going back to fighting nameless light heavyweights for a payday. No more promotions that feature more...
GARDEN PARTY OVER, NOW LAYOFFS BEGIN
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amALL me a party pooper, but there's something grotesquely warped about Madison Square Garden spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw Patrick Ewing a party on the eve of...
HOO-RAY! YANKS TOPPLE TAMPA BAY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amYankees 5 - Devil Rays 4 TAMPA - Some players called it "Game 1." Others labeled yesterday's action against the lowly Devil Rays at Legends Field, "The Super Bowl." George...
MAILMAN'S DELIVERY IS AGING WELL
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amJerry Sloan likes to joke that Karl Malone isn't getting any younger. Maybe not. But the 39-year-old Jazz star is still getting it done. He was at it again in...
ALUMNI NIGHTS WEIGHED BY KNICKS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Spurred by the rousing success of Friday's Patrick Ewing retirement ceremony, the Knicks brass is considering staging an Alumni Night each season to honor a past Knick, The...
NETS GET BOUNCED - KIRILENKO TIP-IN GIVES JAZZ WIN
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amJazz 91 - Nets 90 At the end, the Nets had just taken a one-point lead through Kenyon Martin's second-chance effort. Now they entrenched in their zone as John Stockton...
FLURRY OF TURNOVERS IS DIZZYING
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES It was 2:16 of pure hell for the Nets' offense in yesterday's 91-90 loss to the Jazz. The Nets committed six straight turnovers, four by Jason Kidd and...
'SORRY' STATE FOR BOOMER - MAY FACE DISCIPLINE DESPITE APOLOGY
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - On Saturday David Wells apologized to the front office. Yesterday he did the same in front of his teammates. By tomorrow Wells could be facing disciplinary action from...
BIG TESTS AHEAD FOR GONZALEZ
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amDespite all of Manhattan's victories, regardless of the regular-season crown the Jaspers clinched before even taking the court last night, coach Bobby Gonzalez knew all along this season would be...
CURIOUSLY QUIET GEORGE CAN'T HIDE FROM THIS MESS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - George Steinbrenner came marching down the tunnel yesterday at Legends Field - George never walks - he is baseball's Gen. Patton, always moving forward. The Boss waved off...
GRANDMA CHEERS HER BOY'S BIG SHOT
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amIN her living room, Louise Hatten could hear everything, feel everything. It didn't matter that she was sitting 200 miles away from where her grandson, Marcus, was putting the finishing...
KNICKS LEFT OUT IN COLD
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amT'Wolves 99 - Knicks 90 MINNEAPOLIS - It was zero degrees in this city yesterday and it took the Knicks an entire half to defrost. Playing like frozen stiffs for...
WALLY LIGHTS UP SPREWELL AGAIN
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - It started during the 2000-2001 season when the Knicks stole one at Target Center and Latrell Sprewell began jawing in Wally Szczerbiak's face in the final...
HATS OFF TO MARCUS - STORM STUN DEVILS ON HATTEN FT FOLLOWING HERM PEP TALK
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's 72 - Duke 71 Mike Jarvis stopped practice every 10 minutes on Saturday, looked his St. John's players in the eyes, and kept driving home an improbable message....
RAGING RANGERS TAKE AIM AT ISLES
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amOnce again, the Rangers enter early March as a desperate team. They're hoping to surge enough, and hoping the teams ahead of them will sag enough, to catapult themselves into...
SEAVER: GIL MERITS HALL CALL
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Tom Seaver was "very surprised" Marvin Miller was not elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, of which he is a member, and...
'SPLITTERS TOO TOUGH IN THE END
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL 'A': Lincoln 47 - Douglass 37 PSAL 'A': Cardozo 51 - Gompers 45 The script appeared already to have been written.Lincoln, after a dominant, undefeated PSAL season, would march...
'SKINS SIGN JETS' HALL
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amThus far the revolving door keeps spinning and the Jets continue to lose players. Yesterday, the Redskins again plucked away one of the Jets' unrestricted free agents, signing kicker John...
GIANTS HOLD ON TO HILLIARD, EYE LANDETA
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Giants yesterday in somewhat of a surprise secured their own receiver, Ike Hilliard, and soon may engage in an interesting tussle with the Jets for the services of Sean...
JASPERS ARE MAAC DADDIES
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan 69 - Iona 58 So you think last night's game meant nothing to Manhattan? Think having locked up the top seed in next week's MAAC tourney and sown up...
DAVID GOES POST-AL
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amDavid Wells has fingered the reason his book, "Perfect I Am Not" is causing a colossal buzz: The Post. According to the pitcher turned author, had The Post ignored his...
TOM TABBED MARVIN, GIL
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Tom Seaver was "very surprised" Marvin Miller was not elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, of which he is a member, and...
CARDOZO GETS SPOT IN SEMIS
March 3, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL 'A': Cardozo 51 - Gompers 45 Cardozo should have been overmatched yesterday. The Judges were without Skyler Khaleel, their lone inside presence who is out with a torn right-knee...