September 22, 2003
DILLER GROUP BUYS HOTWIRE FOR $665M+
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amBarry Diller is gobbling up another online travel agency. Diller's e-commerce giant, InterActiveCorp, is to announce today that it has agreed to purchase Hotwire.com, a 3-year-old discount travel site founded...
AN OUTSIDE CHANCE - REED'S HIRING CALLED A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYSE named John Reed interim chairman of the world's largest equity exchange to get an outsider with an insider's edge. The former co-CEO of Citigroup - who is charged...
ATTENTION TURNS TO GRASSO AIDES' PAY
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amAll eyes at the New York Stock Exchange are starting to focus on what could shape up as the next scandal on Wall Street: the retirement packages of Dick Grasso's...
EMI MOVES ON WARNER MUSIC BIZ
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amEMI has once again offered Time Warner roughly $1 billion in cash for majority control of its music division, The Post has learned. With the proposal, EMI, once shunted to...
AN OUTSIDE CHANCE - BIG BOARD BRINGS BACK EX-CITIGROUP BOSS REED
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amSeeking to find an outsider with an insider's understanding, the NYSE may have hit the jackpot in naming John Reed interim chairman of the world's largest equity exchange. The former...
HAIL THE QUEEN! - ARETHA GETS ALL THE RESPECT SHE DESERVES
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amARETHA FRANKLIN ---- LIVING up to her crown as the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin got plenty of R-E-S-P-E- C-T from the sold-out house for her performance at Radio City...
MUSIC PERFECT FOR 'LOST'
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amPEOPLE are already mentioning Bill Murray and Oscar in the same breath for his understated performance in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation." If only Grammys were handed out for most...
LAS VEGAS CAAN-IVALE - RESCUING SIN CITY FROM THOSE 'C.S.I.' WEENIES
September 22, 2003 | 4:00am"Las Vegas" [] (two stars) Tonight at 10 on NBC ----- FOR reasons I hope never to understand, NBC and Gary Scott Thomas (the writer of the really fun flick,...
STARR REPORT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amPatrick Stewart has been inked for a guest-starring role on "Frasier" in a farcical storyline that only Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce and company could pull off with panache. In...
EMMYS LOOKED LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS ... TOO BAD IT TURNED SO CHEAP
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amTHE TV industry loved John Ritter so much, it bestowed on him the ultimate TV honor at last night's Emmys: It used his death to propel viewership. It wasn't enough...
LAST-MINUTE GIANT KICK SAVES EMMY FROM 'HEIDI' REPEAT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOX came a sweaty 12 minutes short Sunday of an agonizing decision: either anger football fans - or the rest of the country. But when the New York Giants kicked...
KID CUTE - CHARLIE SHEEN GROWS UP FAST IN 'TWO AND A HALF MEN'
September 22, 2003 | 4:00am"Two and a Half Men" [ 1/2] (two and one-half stars) Tonight at 9:30 on CBS ---- BEHOLD the wonder of Charlie Sheen. This man seems to expend no energy...
RITTER WIDOW TURNS DOWN EMMY TRIBUTE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amJOHN Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck, yesterday declined an invitation to attend the Emmys, which included a tearful special tribute to her late husband. Sending word through a family spokesman, she...
MAKING A BID FOR BARGAINS: DISCOUNT DESIGNER DUDS ON EBAY - IF YOU'VE GOT THE TIME
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLIKE most non-filthy-rich people, I'm always looking for a bargain - especially when it comes to fashion. But trawling through the piles of designer castoffs at Century 21 and battling...
BRUNO BOOSTS SMOKER HOPES
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amAKEY backer of the state's harsh new anti-smoking law has some hope for smokers: Changes may be coming. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer), under considerable local criticism for a...
NEXT: NO CIGS IN YOUR CAR
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Smoking even in the privacy of your own car could be banned under one of at least five state bills introduced in the past year to limit where...
SLAUGHTER ENDS DREAM LIFE WITH MY ONLY LOVE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amMario Davenport had a dream and he was well on his way to making it real. The 22-year-old Navy man was building a life for his wife, Charisse, and the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amWhere are Orville and Wilbur when you need them? One hundred years after the Wright Brothers first took to the skies, a replica of their legendary airplane has failed to...
ARNIE ERASING RIVAL'S LEAD
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The wild California recall race is as close as ever, with Arnold Schwarzenegger running in a dead heat and embattled Gov. Gray Davis showing life, according to...
ISRAEL WANTS A FENCE FAST
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The re- emergence of Yasser Arafat as the boss of the Palestinians is spurring Israel to accelerate construction of a controversial security fence designed to thwart homicide bombers....
STILL NO JUSTICE FOR PEARL: WIDOW
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic extremists in Pakistan almost two years ago, says she doubts that the ringleader sentenced to death...
BLOOMY BOOSTS TICKET GADGETS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday defended the city's new plan to use handheld computers to issue traffic tickets - suggesting it will prevent agents from mistakenly citing law-abiding citizens. "We want to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Cops yesterday released the sketch (above) of a man they said they wish to question in relation to the slaying of a 90-year-old man who was pushed down...
MEDIA FUELS BIAS-CRIME SPURT: MIKE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amMedia coverage of a recent bias attack in Staten Island has motivated similar crimes across the city, Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday. "Unfortunately, when you write about some things, it sometimes...
SECURITY WAS BEEFED UP AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY ...
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amSecurity was beefed up at the Statue of Liberty and in New York Harbor yesterday after authorities received information of a possible terror threat, sources told The Post. Federal officials...
BUSH: I'LL STICK TO MY GUNS AT U.N.
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he'll make no apologies to the United Nations for attacking Iraq without U.N. approval because "the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein."...
COPS SHOOT L.I. SUSPECT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amCops shot a man trying to rob a pharmacy in Franklin Square, L.I.. last night, authorities said. Police received a call that a robbery was in progress at the CVS...
NICKS KNOCKS BRITNEY'S MTV KISS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amVintage rock chick Stevie Nicks has gotten in her licks on the controversial Madonna-Britney kiss at last month's MTV Music Video Awards. "First of all, Madonna is too old to...
AWARDS GET DOSE OF REALITY - HOT GENRE READY FOR PRIME TIME
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe Emmys got real last night. For the first time, the prime-time Emmy awards show gave out an award for best reality show. TV shows that had been put down...
SURVEY REVEALS THE CHANGING FACE OF BOTOX USERS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amHave you noticed people have fewer wrinkles these days? The amount of Botox injections have increased 50 percent to a record 1,123,510 users in 2002, the year it was approved...
WILLIAMS SIS' PAL OUT OF JAIL
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The man who was with the sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams when she was shot dead last week has been released from jail, where...
NEW WAVE OF BIAS CRIMES JOLTS CITY
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amAt least eight bias-related crimes were reported throughout the city over the past three days - including three on Staten Island, where the recent string of incidents started when a...
ON THE BEATEN PATH - SIDEWALKS ARE LANDLORD BURDEN NOW
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amStep on a crack, break a landlord's back. Crumbling city sidewalks and lawsuits stemming from their disrepair have become the sole responsibilities of commercial landlords and owners of buildings with...
'SOPRANOS' GETS WHACKED - 'WEST' IS BEST OVER MOB HIT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00am"The Sopranos" fell one Emmy short of a sweep last night. James Gandolfini, who plays the conflicted mobster Tony Soprano, and Edie Falco, who portrays his long-suffering wife, were named...
ALBANY BLOWS 200G ON EMPTY MIDTOWN OFFICE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The GOP-controlled state Senate has wasted more than $200,000 of taxpayer funds by continuing to rent the Midtown office of former Manhattan Sen. Roy Goodman, even though he...
3 GIS DIE IN IRAQ ATTACKS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq and 13 were wounded in a mortar attack and roadside bombing, military officials reported yesterday. The number of American soldiers killed...
HOOP-STAR HORROR - KILLED KIDS, SELF IN FRENZY OVER CUSTODY
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amTwo weeks ago, the mention of Bryan Randall brought happy memories of one of Buffalo's most memorable young sports stars, an outgoing basketball player who went on to excel on...
B'KLYN KIN VS. COPS IN $15M SUIT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe Connelly family has had plenty of run-ins with the law - the most gruesome when the youngest son brutally stabbed two friends to death in his bedroom in August...
CITY OPENS GATES TO HS 'COLLEGES'
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amBill Gates is joining forces with Mayor Bloomberg again - spending his fortune to open a network of new "early-college high schools" in the city that will allow students to...
KIDS GET ZERO FOR CONDUCT - SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS SOAR
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amCrime reports may be down in schools, but more students are being naughty. The number of suspensions shot up 12 percent last year, new data shows. A total of 31,564...
MIKE'S SECRET LIFE - HIS PRIVATE SCHEDULE INCLUDES RAUNCHY FILM
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amAfter spending three grueling hours at Gracie Mansion interviewing candidates for the Criminal Court bench, Mayor Bloomberg was ready for some laughs. So on a Sunday in March, he high-tailed...
RUN, HILL, RUN, SAYS BUBBA
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton has been urging his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to break her promise to serve her full, six-year Senate term so that she can run for...
WEB OF DECEIT - CHILDREN EASILY BUY DRUGS WITHOUT RX OVER 'NET
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amPurchasing prescription drugs over the Internet is so easy even a young kid can do it. Richard "Bo" Dietl, an ex-NYPD cop who runs his own investigation company, had his...
EX-CITIBANK BIG IS NYSE GUY
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange has named former Citigroup chief John Reed interim head of the Big Board - and offered to pay him a princely $1 for his services....
DALAI LAMA'S PEACE PITCH
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amCompassion is the all-purpose solution to terrorism and the war in Iraq, the Dalai Lama told thousands who gathered to hear him speak in Central Park yesterday. The exiled Tibetan...
SCHOOL FIRM OFTEN FAILS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amBill Gates is giving $29 million to a nonprofit education firm to open 30 new, smaller city high schools - even though half the current schools the group sponsors aren't...
UNDERDOGS HAVE THEIR DAY: DEBRA SAVORS 'GRACE'FUL WIN
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amIt was a night of upsets at the 55th annual Emmy Awards. Favorites Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker did not win for Best Actress in a Comedy. The statue...
IT'S SPIT-ACULAR - BILLS, FINS FUELED BY BAD BLOOD
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - After a week of trash talking about what comes out of Eric Moulds' mouth, the spit was expected to hit the fan last night in Pro Player...
CAN'T SEE GAME FOR THE GRAPHICS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amADVANCE to the rear! The most striking part from FSN-NY's throwback Mets telecast in salute to Bob Murphy Friday night actually came the next day, during the Expos-Mets telecast on...
TEMPERS IN TAMPA - LOU GETS BOMBERS FIRED UP
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Devil Rays 0 ST. PETERSBURG - Unable to beat the Yankees, Lou Piniella attacked their manhood yesterday and nearly ignited a brawl that the playoff-bound Yankees had...
ROBERTS REGRETS RAGGED 9TH
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amThe scene, even without the pennant-race pressures this month should bring, is exactly what Grant Roberts wants. It materialized a shade before 4 p.m. yesterday - a 1-1 game in...
TIGHT HAMSTRING HAS ROGER WORRIED
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - The Yankees have their fingers firmly crossed that Roger Clemens' right hamstring problem isn't anything serious. "It's tight now," Clemens said after a 6-0 win over the...
ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES A LOSER - 'STRUGGLING' JETS SPUTTER AGAIN VS. PATS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOXBORO - The ominous signs were all there, lit up in front of the Jets like a blindingly bright neon sign cutting through the darkness of night. You just knew....
GIAMBI, JETER GET DAY OFF
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre rested Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi yesterday. For Jeter, it was a routine day off and had nothing to do with him getting...
SEO WHAT ELSE IS NEW? - ROOKIE RIGHTY GETS NO HELP AGAIN
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amExpos 4 - Mets 2 Jae Weong Seo tossed another gem and his team took another loss. Might as well be the epitaph on the Mets' 2003 tombstone. The Mets...
HAPPY MEAL - HAMM FEASTS ON SWEDES IN D.C.
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amUSA 3 - Sweden 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. - For Mia Hamm, the celebration was as spontaneous as one of her dazzling runs. After her third assist of the day sealed...
TIKI CAN'T SHAKE CASE OF FUMBLE-ITIS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER, Md. - Tiki Barber spent much of this past week doggedly defending himself against the label that he's a fumbler. Barber lost fumbles in each of the...
EDWARDS EDGY OVER FAKE FG
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES FOXBORO - Indicative of the building tension around the Jets, Herman Edwards grew visibly defensive and defiant about a fake field goal play he called, even though no...
INT PUTS DAMPER ON DAY FOR VIN
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOXBORO - It was a milestone Vinny Testaverde probably dreamed about as a kid, but can't appreciate at the moment. With 264 yards passing yesterday, Testaverde passed the legendary Johnny...
CAN'T FAKE THIS KIND OF DESPERATION
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOXBORO - It resembled the "You play to win the game!" speech of last season. The emotion, the frustration and the defiance was the same. Jets coach Herman Edwards was...
AN AWFUL WAY TO WIN
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - There is no excuse for this any longer. None. There is no redeeming value in a victory, valuable as it may be, earned in overtime when it...
CURTIS: RUNNERS READY TO EXPLODE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amFOXBORO - The Jets cannot run the football with any form of consistency and time is running out on them to fix things. Yet Curtis Martin, who was held to...
BY THE 'SKINS OF THEIR TEETH - JINTS ALMOST BLOW IT, BUT SAVE WIN IN OT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amOVERTIME: Giants 24 - Redskins 21 LANDOVER, Md. - Can a precious win be tarnished? Can victory feel like defeat? Are the Giants any good? Who the heck knows. What...
RAMSEY BEMOANS LOST SHOT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - After the way he'd brought the Redskins back, after the impossible hurdle he'd already cleared, this wasn't the way Patrick Ramsey figured the night would end. Surely,...
JINTS USE TRICK TO FINN-ISH OFF WIN
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - As the Giants staggered into overtime yesterday, Jim Fassel had not emptied a bag of tricks that was so full in the first half and so depleted...
MATT GOES OUT KICKING
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - The longest week of Matt Bryant's life had begun with a simple set of instructions. "Deep middle squib," Bruce Read, the Giants' special-teams coach, had barked early...
BY THE 'SKINS OF THEIR TEETH - JINTS NEARLY BLOW IT BUT SAVE WIN IN OT
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - As another disaster was forming, the Giants could see their season disintegrating, all those lofty aspirations vanishing, plowed under by two of the most devastating, tear-the-heart-from-the-chest losses...
DBS BURN BLUE AGAIN
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER, Md. - As the Giants contemplate their 2-1 record heading into a badly needed bye week, one concern looms larger than any other: What's going on with...
FASSEL LIT AN OT FIRE UNDER GIANT OFFENSE
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - The Giants could see the determination on Jim Fassel's face all week. He first had been knocked down by Bill Parcells and the Cowboys, and then kicked...
TOO MUCH RICKY - WILLIAMS, DOLPHINS BOP BILLS
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amDolphins 17 - Bills 7 FORT LAUDERDALE - When the Dolphins, the team favored to win the AFC East, opened the season by losing at home to the Texans, all...