August 11, 2003
FIRED EXEC SUING AOL-TIME WARNER FOR CUT OF DVDS
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amFormer Warner Bros. Home Video chief Warren Lieberfarb - who was unceremoniously fired late last year - is gearing up to wage a legal battle against AOL Time Warner, The...
COMCAST CLOSER - ROBERTS BRINGS ON HERB ALLEN FOR VIVENDI BID
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amComcast is getting serious about making a run for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, and the cable giant has retained powerhouse media banking firm Allen & Co., The Post has learned. The...
GO TO SEE 'CABARET'
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amCABARET at STUDIO 54 [] Roundabout Theater Company at Studio 54, 254 West 54th St. between Broadway and Eighth Ave. (212) 239-6200. ---- THE musical "Cabaret" has been longer at...
THE LOW-RIDER LOWDOWN FROM REAL PEOPLE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amWE hit the streets of New York armed with this picture of socialite bad-girl Paris Hilton clad in revealing, how-low-can-they-go jeans and asked passersby what they thought. Here's what they...
HOW LOW CAN THEY GO?
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amHEMLINES may rise and fall with every passing season, but jeans just seem to keep falling. And falling. And falling. Denim that actually hits your waist - instead of your...
HAWAIIAN ADVICE: DO A RAIN DANCE!
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S been raining a lot lately. Have you considered taking up hula dancing? That advice comes from Harry Kim, chief executive of Hawaii County, whose office just happens to sit...
THE STARR REPORT
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amArnold rockin' the vote for 'Cupid' guy? Could the media feeding frenzy surrounding Arnold Schwarzenegger and his run for governor of California be having an effect on - gasp! -...
A GAY IN THE LIFE: BET YOU CAN'T GUESS WHAT THESE FIVE HOLLYWOOD HOPEFULS HAVE IN COMMON
August 11, 2003 | 4:00am"The AMC Project: Gay Hollywood" Tonight at 10 on AMC * * ½ (two and one half stars) IF you've had more than your share of reality TV, gay-themed and...
MILLIONAIRE MONSTER: MAX FACTOR - HEIR ANDREW LUSTER WAS THE WORST KIND OF CREEP - A SNEAK WITH MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS. A LOT MORE MONEY.
August 11, 2003 | 4:00am"A Date With Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster" Tonight at 9 on Lifetime * * ½ (two and one half stars) IT'S tough to find a real-...
JUSTIN'S 'CRUSHES' & CRASHES
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amHas Justin Timberlake fallen for another woman? No, the man we caught on Friday making an early-morning exit from a Manhattan hotel with current squeeze Cameron Diaz is just lip-synching...
GUTSY TEEN IS A FRIEND IN STEED
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amASHLEY MARTINEZ - Young Heart Medal nominee --- Champion teen equestrienne Ashley Martinez was the only one inside a Staten Island riding stable when the roof blew off from a...
LESBIANS SUE 'ANTI-GAY' DOC
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amMercedes Candelaria Garcia says she complained for months about a lump under her arm, but her female doctor focused on only one thing: the patient's life as a lesbian. "Don't...
PARTY TIME: HOW B'KLYN BOSS LIVED IT UP ON THE DEMS' DIME
August 11, 2003 | 4:00am"I don't think the contributors had [Norman's expenses] in mind when they donated their money.' - A Brooklyn Democratic Party official. --- It's good to be the boss. Clarence Norman,...
COURTING DISASTER - MAN MAKES FIRST BID TO KO ALL RULINGS BY 'CONFLICT' JUDGE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan man wants an appeals court to toss all of an embattled judge's rulings against him because of her alleged undisclosed conflicts of interest - the first in what...
MATT & NATHAN SET FOR DEC. 31
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amMatthew Broderick and Nathan Lane are not only coming back to "The Producers" - they plan to kick off their triumphant return on New Year's Eve, The Post has learned....
FEINSTEIN'S DIG AT DEM 'HYPOCRISY'
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amThe most popular Democrat in California - and the only one who tops Arnold Schwarzenegger in polls - yesterday said her party's fallback strategy to keep the Terminator from becoming...
SICKO SNIPS GIRLS' CLOTHES AS THEY DOZE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA fetish freak dubbed "Jack the Snipper" has thrown a dose of fear into a quiet New Hampshire college town by slicing clothing off sleeping women in their own apartments....
CHARLIE DANIELS THROWS THE BOOK AT H'WOOD HALFWITS
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amHIS fans think his music is platinum. And some believe his politics are gold. Country legend Charlie Daniels has put down his guitar for a few minutes and picked up...
SCHUMER COULD FACE 'HOLY' WAR
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amACONTROVERSIAL new poll has found front-running Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer vulnerable to defeat next year - but only if his opponent rips him as anti-Catholic. The still-secret poll of...
COPS RAID HAMPTONS HOT SPOTS
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amCops raided three of East Hampton's hottest clubs over the weekend, causing patrons to flee and owners to count up their losses. Authorities say they pounced after receiving numerous complaints...
BRILLIANT HOOFER REVIVED DYING ART OF TAP DANCE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amWITH Gregory Hines, even his eyes danced - and his staccato feet were pure tap magic. After years of the all-American art of tap-dancing declining in audience appeal, Hines helped...
JAY IT AIN'T SO! MUSCLEMAN CANDIDATE LIED TO LENO
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amArnold Schwarzenegger kept them guessing all the way - and even told "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno that he was bowing out of the California governor's race just minutes before...
SHARON: PEACE ON HOLD
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA tough-talking Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet yesterday that he would not move ahead with the "road map" for peace and the creation of a Palestinian state until Palestinians had...
QNS. JOGGER FENDS OFF SEX 'STRANGLER'
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA 39-year-old woman jogging in Forest Park, Queens, bravely fought off a sexual predator who tried to strangle her while groping and biting her, cops said yesterday. The attacker crept...
OLDEST PROFESSION GETS YOUNGER
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amTeenage prostitution is soaring in New York and around the country - with more and more girls going into the sex trade from middle-class homes. "Compared to three years ago,...
RIDERS BUYING IN BULK
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amStraphangers are taking a swipe at the fare hike - and more of them are doing it by buying unlimited MetroCards. Bus and subway riders looking to save a few...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amIT WAS a party that Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman Howard Lutnick wished he didn't have to throw. But toss the first annual "White Party" he did - and now many of...
PHONE-IN TIP COULD HAVE SAVED COUNCILMAN
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amSeveral months before Councilman James Davis was murdered at City Hall, a 311 operator received a call about a lack of security there, documents obtained by The Post show. "Caller...
HOT LINE BURNS MAYOR - NYERS CALL 311 TO RIP FIRE CLOSINGS, CIG BAN
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amThousands of New Yorkers are calling 311 to give Mayor Bloomberg the 411 on his job performance - and their feedback is not so good. The city's non-emergency hot line...
BLOOMBERG 'BONDING' WITH PATAKI
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg remained optimistic yesterday that Gov. Pataki will come up with a way to settle a $2.5 billion dispute with the city, even as other city officials told the...
QAEDA LEADER PLOTS GI AMBUSHES: REPORT
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA Saudi man is masterminding a deadly alliance between al Qaeda terror thugs and Saddam Hussein's henchmen that's behind the increasingly sophisticated attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, a new...
SOGGY, SOGGY SUMMER IS DRIVING THE CITY MUGGY
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amWelcome to Monday - and more bad weather ahead! As of yesterday, the Big Apple has had rain for 12 straight days, making it one of the wettest summers in...
HOMEOWNER CITED IN QNS. DECK DEATH
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amThe owner of a Queens home whose deck collapsed, killing his mother-in-law and seriously injuring his aunt, has been cited for violations related to the shoddy structure, a city official...
TREE KILLS DRIVER - FALLING BRANCH CRUSHES CORRECTION OFFICER
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA beloved "gentle giant" correction officer was killed in a freak accident on his way to work at Rikers yesterday morning when a tree limb suddenly fell on his car...
BILL TO HOLD POLS 'ACCOUNT'ABLE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amCandidates would be held accountable for any illegal activity done in their name - even if they claim to know nothing about it - under a proposed new state law....
CHAIR-ITY FOR A SCHOOL IN NEED
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA city furniture company has donated 200 new chairs to a Lower East Side public school whose students were getting splinters sitting in 40-year-old wooden chairs. "The chairs were very...
ISRAELIS AVENGE HEZBOLLAH KILLING
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli warplanes blasted Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon yesterday, hours after the militants fired shells over the border into an Israeli town, killing a teenage boy and wounding...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A heroic cashier at a KFC restaurant in Claremont was shot in the head during a botched robbery early yesterday, police said. Babu Ram, 26, was grazed...
QNS. MAN KILLED IN 'DWI' SMASHUP
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA hardworking Queens man was killed two blocks from home when his drunken buddy's car collided with another vehicle early yesterday, cops said. Rafael Ramirez, 23, who was working nights...
80 FLEE FIRE AT POSH HOTEL
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA kitchen fire sent smoke billowing through a trendy Midtown hotel yesterday, forcing some 80 guests into the street. The blaze, in the basement kitchen of The Royalton on West...
GOLDEN STATE-MENT - TAX FORMS SHOW ARNIE A $57M MAN
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amGovernator wannabe Arnold Schwarzenegger is worth his weight in California gold - earning a whopping $57 million in just two years, his latest tax returns show. The muscle-bound movie mogul...
KIN SUE OVER RAT-DEVOURED CORPSE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amThe family of a slain Bronx man has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city and two funeral homes, claiming his body was eaten by rats while in their...
'50S WOMEN WERE FITTER
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amWomen have come a long way in 50 years - but not when it comes to being leaner and fitter. A new report claims women were in much better shape...
MILK WOULD OPPOSE GAY HS: NEPHEW
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amHe's the namesake of the city's new gay high school - but slain civil-rights leader Harvey Milk would have opposed singling out homosexual youths, a relative says. Andy Milk, nephew...
GOLDEN STATE-MENT TAX FORMS SHOW ARNIE A $57M MAN
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amGovernator wannabe Arnold Schwarzenegger is worth his weight in California gold - earning a whopping $57 million in just two years, his latest tax returns show. The muscle-bound movie mogul...
QNS. JOGGER FENDS OFF SEX STRANGLER
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA 39-year-old woman jogging in Forest Park, Queens, bravely fought off a sexual predator who tried to strangle her while groping and biting her, cops said yesterday. The man ambushed...
DWI DRIVER'S PAL KILLED IN CRASH: COPS
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA hardworking Queens man was killed two blocks from home when his drunken buddy's car collided with another vehicle early yesterday, cops said. Rafael Ramirez, 23, of Jamaica, who was...
TOURIST MUGGER MAY HAVE STRUCK
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amPolice are trying to determine if an attack on a 25-year-old woman on the Upper West Side was the work of the same man who attacked a Canadian tourist a...
SIX WOUNDED IN B'KLYN SHOOTOUT
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amSix people were wounded in a wild shooting spree in Brooklyn last night, police said. The incident took place in the vicinity of Avenue N and Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie...
BICYCLIST SHOOTS 6 IN B'KLYN
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amA bicycle-riding gunman wounded six people returning from a basketball game in a wild shooting spree in Brooklyn last night, police said. The violence took place near Avenue N and...
SCHOOLS OF SHAME - CITY'S SORRY SIX GO FROM BAD TO WORSE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amIt's no secret that the New York City public school system is in crisis - but new inspection reports obtained by The Post show some schools are a complete disaster....
WHAT WON'T THIS 'DOG DO? ; RUSSO GIVING POMPOUS PARTNER RUN FOR HIS MONEY
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amWHY is Mike Francesa so widely identified as the pompous one in the Mike and the Mad Dog entry? It seems more like a push. Monday, working solo on the...
LUKAS EYES ADIRONDACK
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas used to own today's feature at the Old Spa, the Grade 2, $150,000 Adirondack Stakes for 2-year-old fillies. From 1985-88, when the Lukas...
ZEILE: I HAVE NO ROLE HERE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Todd Zeile wasn't in yesterday's lineup, despite the presence of left-hander Jamie Moyer. And while Zeile insists he isn't frustrated, he is wondering about his current role. "I...
IRATE FASSEL EXPELS CLARK AFTER PUNCH
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - One strike, you're out. Recalling how his team self-destructed in a show of macho rage in the closing seconds of last season's playoff collapse in San...
HERM: CURT NOT HURT DESPITE NO TOUCHES
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Where is Curtis Martin? Two preseason games into the summer, and Martin has yet to touch the ball. After sitting out last week's game in Tokyo, Martin played...
ROG, MOYER IN ONE FOR THE AGES
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amBetween them they've started more than 1,000 games, spent more than 35 years in the majors, and logged 81 birthdays. Roger Clemens even joked after yesterday's duel with Seattle's Jamie...
'PRIVATE' IS MAJOR SURPRISE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The parade of winning favorites that turned the Old Spa's "graveyard" moniker upside down through most of the meet's first three weeks came to an abrupt halt...
JETS SWAMP CINCY ; STORMY WIN YIELDS FEW BRIGHT SPOTS
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amJets 28Bengals 13 Well, at least nobody got hurt. This is the best, most positive conclusion to be extracted from the tedium that was the Jets' 28-13 preseason victory over...
LEIT DIMS QUICKLY: LEFTY SEES STREAK END IN PHOENIX
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amD'backs 7Mets 4 PHOENIX - Al Leiter was cruising through his start yesterday afternoon, two-hitting the Diamondbacks over 42/3 innings and outdueling Randy Johnson. But in a three-batter span with...
PIAZZA SURPRISES HOWE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amOn Saturday afternoon, Art Howe said he was unaware Mike Piazza had brought his first baseman's mitt to Triple-A Norfolk and was potentially planning to play the position there. "That's...
DIXON JUST A GIANT PAIN ; FASSEL FUMES AS WR MISSES MEETING
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The turbulent, often troubled relationship between Ron Dixon and the Giants is close to being severed after yet another blunder by the responsibility-challenged receiver. Dixon, already a special...
LIVING THE NFL DREAM ; JOHNSON HAS KICK MAKING BIG RETURNS
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amTHE unfortunate part about the NFL is there are so many dreamers, and just one dream. Albert Johnson and Ian Smart - C. W. Post's Ian Smart - are reaching...
FLOYD LEAVES TEAM TO SEE AILING DAD
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Cliff Floyd left for Florida early yesterday morning on a trip of a personal nature. The Met left fielder was scheduled to visit the Miami area...
ICHIRO GETS BEST OF MATSUI AT PLATE, IN FIELD
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amThey have completely different playing styles, and fairly different personalities as well. But simply being high-priced, highly-productive Japanese imports on contending rivals has linked Hideki Matsui and Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki....
JASON, JEFFERSON EXPECT K-MART BACK
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amJason Kidd and Richard Jefferson each had two words for teammate Kenyon Martin about his unhappiness over the contract extension offer the Nets made. Those words: "Keep working," from Kidd,...
LEIT DIMS QUICKLY ; LEFTY CAN'T HOLD LEAD IN PHOENIX
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amD'backs 7 Mets 4 PHOENIX - Al Leiter was cruising through his start yesterday afternoon, two-hitting the Diamondbacks over 42/3innings and outdueling Randy Johnson. But in a three-batter span with...
SURPRISE: PIAZZA PLAYS FIRST
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amOn Saturday afternoon, Art Howe said he was unaware Mike Piazza had brought his first baseman's mitt to Triple-A Norfolk and was potentially planning to play the position there. "That's...
JUST ANOTHER LOAD OF BULL! NEW FACES, OLD STORY AS REKUEF CREW MELTS DOWN VS. M'S
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amMariners 8 Yankees 6 Plenty of options. That's supposed to be the biggest plus surrounding this revamped Yankee bullpen. "We've got the right matchups," Jorge Posada said, defending his team's...
BOMBERS' OCTOBER PROMISE GETTING DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE
August 11, 2003 | 4:00amFOR the third straight weekend, the Yankees faced a team they may very well meet in October. And for the third straight weekend, the Yanks lost two of three and...