September 28, 2003
BULL'S EYE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amHOT WHEELS You are what you drive, even more so if you're a CEO. The top 10 cars favored by chief executives - who don't have to pay for their...
WHY I STILL LIKE 'FRASIER' ; 10-YEAR OLD SERIES REMAINS ONE OF TV'S PLEASURES
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amYOU can compose a fairly long list of what's gone wrong with "Frasier" as its 10th and final season gets under way. But I'll miss it anyway. This show was...
COPING WITH CANINE CANCER
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amBy now, you'd think my dog, Sam, would be suspicious. For the past two weeks, it's been raining extra-special treats: hot dogs, pizza, falafel, liverwurst, cheddar cheese, burgers (both the...
MAY TIME AT FESTIVAL
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amMORE than 40 years after her death, Anna May Wong is ready for her close-up. A newly restored print of the little-seen silent "Piccadilly" (1929), in which Wong is featured,...
STARR REPORT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amVirgin Records recording artist Stacie Orrico is not only making herself heard, but seen as well. Orrico will be all over the TV land scape the next several weeks, start...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amYou oughta know: One-time pop star Alanis Morissette told an audience in Lima, Peru, "Thank you, Brazil!" She tried to rectify the situation by blaming booze: "I don't remember saying...
A SECOND CHANCE FOR FASHION BLUNDERS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amI'll put on a spangly sweatshirt and blue eye shadow, and think I look like Chloe Sevigny - until someone points out I look more like Liza Minnelli. Eighties revival?...
THE NEW NEW WAVE ; BANDS BORN BEFORE THE CD GET ANOTHER SPIN
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amYearning for simpler sounds - pre-grunge, pre-alt-rock, pre- hunt-for-the-next-Strokes? Just turn on your radio. Or MTV. Or VH1. The biggest artists today had their heyday 20 years ago. Madonna, with...
COME ON, GUYS, FACE UP TO IT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amRemember watching Michael Jackson in "Thriller" and thinking: Does he really need all that makeup to be scary-looking? Typical dinner-table conversation circa 1983 also speculated about Joan Rivers' tight face...
SHOPAHOLIC: WHO KNOWS HOW TO DO '80S STYLE (FOR $100) BETTER THAN A JORDACHE DESIGNER?
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amRemember Jordache jeans? The skintight, high-waisted jeans were a staple in every stylish woman's wardrobe in the 1980s, and helped women get used to the idea that spending a ton...
YOUNG NOT IMMUNE FROM GOLD RUSH
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Neil Young, one of my favorites since college (best nine years of my life!), has lately been seen on TV - the Metro channel, last week - singing from...
STREET HONORS 9/11 HERO
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amFirefighter Thomas McCann died on 9/11, and yesterday the Queens block he grew up on was named in his memory. After months of petitioning, McCann's family got 44th Street in...
WIRING EYED IN DEADLY BLAZE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side resident died early yesterday morning when his apartment became engulfed in flames. The fire, which broke out at 1:33 a.m. on the fifth floor of a...
HOLDOUTS LAUNCH BRAZEN ATTACK ON U.S. COMPOUND
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amGuerrillas launched rockets at an American compound in Baghdad yesterday hours after U.S. troops exchanged gunfire in a clash that killed at least two Iraqis. No one was killed in...
'FIGHT' DOOMED HONOR STUDENT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amSlain honor student Matthew Hall was an innocent bystander in a melee between rival gangs who were renewing a fight that began earlier in the day over a girl, police...
'PERV' COP DEAL WON'T SAVE JOB
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA plea deal offered to a suspended NYPD cop who was indicted in Oregon for taking explicit sex photos of an underage girl, whom he then married, could still get...
BUSH, PUTIN UNITED ON NUKE THREAT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amPresident Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin yesterday presented a united front as they called on Iran and North Korea to give up any nuclear-weapons dreams and Russia backed the U.S....
MADONNA'S QUICK PEEK SHOW
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amMadonna is coming to a book-signing at the Barnes & Noble store in Rockefeller Center tomorrow - but only winners of a lottery will be allowed into the event, where...
BOATER'S BODY WASHES UP ON L.I.
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA body washed up on a Long Island beach yesterday morning, and cops said it's probably the missing New Jersey man whose empty boat was discovered Thursday morning. The Coast...
UNBRIDALED EXCE$$; TYCO 'THIEF' HOSTS 400G WEDDING
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amNANTUCKET, Mass. - With less than 48 hours before he was to stand trial on charges of looting $600 million from his company, disgraced Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski was living...
TENANTS FLEE WEAK-WALL HOMES
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amResidents at two East Village townhouses fled their homes yesterday after bungling repair workers put the buildings in danger of collapse by removing crucial support beams. The dozens of displaced...
GANG STABS STUDENT DEAD AT BX. BUS STOP
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA Bronx teen waiting for a bus to take him to night school was stabbed to death while trying to protect his friends from a group of thugs, cops and...
BANDITS MAKE MORE EASY WITHDRAWALS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amIt's robbery in broad daylight - and it's a booming occupation. The number of robberies at banks in the city is up 148 percent from last year, according to new...
COMPTROLLER SLAPS ED. DEPT. WITH SUBPOENA
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amCOMPTROLLER William Thompson has issued a subpoena to secure documents relating to the construction of a Queens high school. It's the first time since taking office that Thompson has invoked...
PARACHUTE SABOTAGE AN EVIL WAY TO SKY-DIE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amAmerican and British authorities have joined forces to try and solve two eerily similar cases of parachute sabotage. Stephen Hilder, a 20-year-old Brit veteran of more than 200 jumps, was...
THE SPICE OF STYLE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amLA Cote Basque, one of the city's few surviving formal French restaurants, just announced that it will reopen as a lower-priced brasserie. This almost surely guarantees that we will lose...
ANGRY MOB ATTACKS CABBY AFTER HE STRIKES BX. BOY, 8
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA livery cab driver who struck a Bronx boy after the child darted in the street was attacked by an angry mob of witnesses who kicked and punched him as...
WILL J.LO AND BEN PULL MARRY SURPRISE?
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Could today be the big day for J.Lo and Ben Affleck - or knot yet? Rumors are swirling in the tiny, tony California seaside hamlet of Carmel...
'SHOOTING' BY COP SPARKS NEAR RIOT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA man was injured in a confrontation with police last night, angering residents of a Bronx neighborhood who thought he had been shot by an officer. Cop were trying to...
PEARL'S PREMONITION; SLAIN REPORTER TOLD OF ABDUCTION FEARS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amReporter Daniel Pearl was so worried about his safety that he sent his Wall Street Journal boss detailed instructions about what to do if a staffer disappears in one of...
HIS LAST TRAIN HOME; TRAGIC COMMUTER'S FOOTSTEPS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amJust two hours before murderous thugs killed him outside his suburban home, Anthony Battaglia was doing what thousands of New York commuters do every evening - having a drink with...
MUSLIM & MISSING; KIN FEAR TERROR-SUSPECT NAB
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe manager of a ritzy city gourmet food chain - who mysteriously vanished near Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks - may have been nabbed as a terror suspect, his...
TRIAL OF HIGH-LIVING CEO 'BUY GUY' GEARING UP
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amHe took excess to a new level. A $6,000 shower curtain. A $2 million party for his wife in Sardinia - with a birthday cake that featured exploding breasts and...
TERRIFIED BRO FEARED KILLER VISIT FROM DURST
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amSOMETIMES, no lock on the door is secure enough. As word spread in 2001 that alleged cuckoo killer Robert Durst had jumped bail, running from a murder charge, his youngest...
CRIME STATISTICS MEANINGLESS WHEN VIOLENCE HITS HOME
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amIF you're the honor student's mother, the immigrant worker's brother, or the little girl whose daddy was killed on his way home from work, crime statistics are just a bunch...
BIG-CITY LIFE A PARENT TRAP ; CITY LIFE DOOM$ PARENTS: AUTHORS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amTHE picture-perfect family - where both parents pursue careers and earn good money - is a trap that's sending thousands of big-city couples toward financial ruin, a new book says....
50 CENT STEAL: RAPPER GRABS TYSON'S CASTLE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amBullet-prone rhymer 50 Cent has bought Mike Tyson's former Connecticut mansion - once valued at $25 million - for a song. The platinum rapper and one - time crack dealer...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn A 29-year-old man was shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Crown Heights early yesterday, police said. The victim, who was not identified, was shot twice at Vanderbilt...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA senior citizen is suing a construction company claiming its employees imprisoned him for 25 minutes in a portable toilet while verbally abusing him. William Tremmel, 68, says a construction...
SLAIN HONOR STUDENT'S 'FATAL FIGHT'
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amSlain honor student Matthew Hall and some friends got into a fight with two young men on bikes, who then gathered reinforcements and chased them down, witnesses say. Hall, 18,...
MUSLIM & MISSING: KIN FEAR TERROR-SUSPECT NAB
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe manager of a ritzy city gourmet food chain - who mysteriously vanished near Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks - may have been nabbed as a terror suspect, his...
ISRAEL ON HIGH HOLIDAY ALERT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amAs Israel remained on high alert during the Jewish holy days, a 7-month-old baby girl and a 30-year-old man, the first casualties of a terrorist attack during the holiday season,...
CALIFORNIA RECALL DEBATE WACKY BY THE NUMBERS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amTwo incredibly important political debates with approximately 450,000 candidates took place last week. One was the Democratic presidential debate, which required a giant hall-just to fit the stage full of...
BX. TEEN IN KNIFE SLAY AT BUS STOP
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amA Bronx teen waiting for a bus to take him to night school was stabbed to death while trying to protect his friends from a group of thugs, cops and...
PROBE OF TV MAN'S HOSP DEATH
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe state Health Department is investigating the death of Sean Kimerling, the 37-year-old TV sportscaster who succumbed to testicular cancer earlier this month, The Post has learned. A department spokesman...
WATERFOWL LEVELS HEALTHY
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amHUNTING waterfowl is a tradition that dates back to the first American settlers, and while some duck and goose numbers declined, sufficient conservation efforts were made over the past decade,...
METROS BRACE FOR UNITED
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe MetroStars can feel their archrival breathing down their necks. With Thursday's 2-0 win, D.C. United (10-9-6) has crept within a single point of the MetroStars and can pass them...
JINT 'D' LEAKY MESS ; FOES MARCHING WITH EASE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amJAY Fiedler must be sali vating. Tom Brady can hardly wait. Old friend Donovan McNabb most likely wants in. Daunte Culpepper and Randy Moss at this very moment are circling...
NHL CLAIMS MAY NOT HOLD WATER ; PLAYERS DISPUTE LOSSES
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amJUST so there's no mis understanding. The NHL's claim that it lost $300 million last year is just that: the NHL's claim. Just because the league says so doesn't make...
U.S. WOMEN SEEK QUARTERS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amCOLUMBUS - The American soccer powerhouse is merely picking up steam. The U.S. women's soccer team, coming off a 5-0 win over Nigeria, can take total control of Group A...
AS SEASON WINDS TO CLOSE, BELL TOLLS ONE LAST TIME
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - Jay Bell homered in his first major-league at-bat in 1986. He scored the winning run in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. It says a lot about...
JOE'S EARNED HIS KEEP
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amGEORGE Steinbrenner should have been sitting in the Yankee dugout yesterday listening to Joe Torre talk about Roger Clemens and the Rocket's family and why Clemens is at peace with...
MOUNTIES' DEFENSE ; CAGES EAGLES
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amMount 14St. Peter's 6 John Valentini has been going to Mount St. Michael football games for as long as he can remember. "I grew up by this field and in...
IT'S BEEN A TWIN-TWIN SITUATION SANTANA, STEWART STAR
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amDETROIT - The hitter who turned the Twins' lineup around wasn't even on the team at the All-Star break. The pitcher who turned the Twins' rotation around wasn't even in...
TIGERS SCRATCH & CLAW TO END
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amDETROIT - At this point, Alan Trammell says it doesn't matter. Friday night, the Tigers lost their 119th game and moved within one defeat of tying the 1962 Mets' record...
BARNABY'S JOB STATUS UP IN AIR
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amGlen Sather says that Matt Barnaby's spot with the Rangers isn't in jeopardy, but the 30-year-old winger who has received less playing time this preseason than any other healthy veteran,...
FINAL BLASTOFF ; ROCKET MAKES LAST REGULAR-SEASON START IN BRONX
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amAs Roger Clemens walked in from the bullpen yesterday to a quasi-standing ovation, he strode toward the Yankee Stadium mound for the last time in the regular season and possibly...
TORRE: WE NEED NELLIE
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With the Yankees having already clinched the AL East and on the brink of another 100-win campaign, Joe Torre would seem to have precious few worries going into...
GHOSTZAPPER PASSES 'EM ALL IN VOSBURGH
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amWith a devastating last-to-first move in yesterday's $500,000 Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park, trainer Bobby Frankel's 3-year-old colt Ghostzapper ran his way into contention for a spot in the Oct....
IT'S ALMOST OVER ; MET BRIGHT SPOT: SEASON ENDS TODAY
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amMets 9Marlins 3 MIAMI - Mercifully, there will be no 162nd game tomorrow at Shea Stadium against the Giants. Today is the last day to watch the walking dead, aka...
GOLD-WINNING MINESHAFT MAY SKIP BREEDERS'
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe crowd at Belmont Park applauded Mineshaft, the best American racehorse since Cigar, as he jogged to the starting gate for yesterday's $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup. Then they...
FINAL BLASTOFF: ROCKET SOARS IN LAST REGULAR-SEASON START AT STADIUM
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6Orioles 2 As Roger Clemens walked off the mound at the Stadium yesterday - possibly for the final time - he held a finger skyward, and patted the interlocking...
OH, BABY! MESI MAKES HEAVYWEIGHT STATEMENT
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amBUFFALO - With Lennox Lewis contemplating retirement, Roy Jones headed back to the light-heavyweights and Chris Byrd still struggling for recognition, the heavyweight division is in transition at best -...
GAME 1 SEES LIGHT OF DAY
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amNow that the Cubs will be prime time Tuesday, the Yanks will get a rare postseason afternoon start. Game 1 of the ALDS against the Twins will start at 1:06...
BAT MIGHT KEEP JUAN IN LINEUP
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Juan Rivera hit two home runs - five in his last five starts - and had career-highs in RBI (four) and runs (three) in yesterday's 6-2 win over...
DUO PUTS MINNY IN TWIN-TWIN SITUATION
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amDETROIT - The hitter who turned the Twins' lineup around wasn't even on the team at the All-Star break. The pitcher who turned the Twins' rotation around wasn't even in...
AMAZING! TIGERS NOT WORST (YET) RALLY AVERTS 120TH 'L'
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amDETROIT - They'll talk about it for years here, raising their glasses to what happened last night and toasting the memory in tribute. Call it the Motor City Miracle. The...
MANNY'S NOT MVP MATERIAL ; SLUGGER'S ATTITUDE A DETRIMENT TO RED SOX
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amWHY couldn't Manny Rami rez just care? We could have overlooked the indifference to baserunning and defense when it came time to cast an MVP vote. But not indifference to...
CURTIS EXPECTS TO CARRY LOAD
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Watch the Jets run today. Watch Curtis Martin run right, left and center. Herman Edwards has made nothing secret about the fact the Jets will commit to the...
PARCELLS: DEWAYNE CAN GROW INTO STAR
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amWhen Dewayne Robertson lines up across from the Cowboys' offensive line today at Giants Stadium, Bill Parcells will get an up-close look at a player he coveted during the NFL...
JETS FACE BIG 'D': DESPERATION ; REELING JETS GREET OLD FRIEND TUNA
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThey're desperate. They're angry. They're humbled. They're 0-3. They're at home. They're facing their controversial former head coach. They have everything to win for. This is why the Jets simply...
THERE'S NO ANTONIO ; KNICKS OPEN CAMP WITH MCDYESS LIMITED
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amThe Knicks' post-Spree era begins this week devoid of expectations and hope. Any Knicks playoff talk begins and ends with discussion of Antonio McDyess' mending knee. Players with three years...
HEAVYWEIGHT TALENT MUST STEP FORWARD
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amBUFFALO - With Lennox Lewis contemplating retirement, Roy Jones Jr. headed back to the light heavyweights and Chris Byrd still struggling for recognition, the heavyweight division is in transition at...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
September 28, 2003 | 4:00amTragedy in the ring : Documentary examines Paret-Griffith, 41 years later The sight of Benny (Kid) Paret slumped unconscious at the fists of Emile Griffith one Saturday night never escaped...