October 6, 2003
COURTING PIXAR - WARNER BROS. PLAY SPICES UP PIXAR-DISNEY TALKS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amAs if contract talks between Walt Disney and partner Pixar Animation Studios weren't heated enough, rival Warner Bros. has apparently thrown another log on the fire. Within the last two...
WAGE FREEZE AT TOP OF TROUBLED TIME
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMorale at Time Inc. was given another jolt as the company in recent days has begun telling managers and executives that they must forgo raises in a new round of...
SACK JACK! - VALENTI'S SCREENER BAN SLAPS INDIE PIX
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amJACK Valenti must go. The arrogant longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America has turned this year's Oscar race into a Hollywood farce by rewriting the rules at...
MOVIE LOVERS, BEWARE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amWHY should the average moviegoer care about Jack Valenti's screener ban? Because it isn't just about people in Beverly Hills watching movies in their homes instead of running their Rolls-Royces...
INTENSE LOVE SONGS FROM STRIPPED-DOWN STING
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amSTING --- FEW entertainers have it. And, in fact, quiet power wasn't always a quality that Sting possessed. The brashness of his misspent youth has been recast over the years...
R.E.M.-PRESSIVE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amR.E.M. --- TWICE during the superb concert - at the start and at the end - chrome- domed singer Michael Stipe faced the Jones Beach audience Friday night and said...
FISHING FOR ANSWERS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amYOU'VE heard of lining up for Springsteen tickets, or to shake hands with your favorite author, but what Jo Ann Alter did the other day pushes the definition of fandom...
STARR REPORT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amIt's one thing to earn the right to appear on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" - but to be chosen out of thin air? Well, it's about to happen....
'GMA' CREEPING UP ON QUEEN KATIE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amABC's perennial bridesmaid, "Good Morning America," has tied NBC's top- rated "Today" show in New York - a significant achievement in the cutthroat world of morning television. "Today," the longstanding...
'THE O.C.' HEADS BACK TO SCHOOL
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN Fox's hit drama "The O.C." comes back from its baseball-imposed hiatus later this month, there are going to be some changes - especially now that school's starting. "The parties...
IT'S A STING THING - ROCKER HOPES HIS 'LOVE' WILL HEAL WOUNDS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York is a couple of years past Sept. 11, 2001, but that grim day still haunts rock icon Sting - so much so that it spurred him to return...
WINNING CONAN WILL BE BACK FOR RUDY
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMOVE over, President Bush. A victory by Arnold Schwarzenegger in tomorrow's California recall election will make the Terminator THE star at the Republican presidential nominating convention in Madison Square Garden...
A WHITE HOUSE WITHOUT AN OFFENSE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amBACK from Iraq, former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik was passionate last Friday as he stood with President Bush and recalled the horrors of Iraq's worst weapon of mass destruction -...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amA sick game called "hogging" - in which men try to score with heavyset women - is all the rage in Cleveland. "It's just easier. You're not embarrassed getting shot...
SIZE PROBLEM - KEY EVIDENCE FOUND, BUT WEAPONS HUNT MUST GO ON
October 6, 2003 | 4:00am'I'm sort of amazed [that] what was powerful information about both [Iraq's] intent and [Iraq's] actual activities that were not known and were hidden from U.N. inspectors seems not to...
KOBE IN CHAOS - MARRIAGE IN SHAMBLES BEFORE RAPE CASE: REPORT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00am'[There was] aggressive groping with no warning ... followed by sex.' - Friend of Kobe accuser --- Months before he was charged with rape, NBA superstar Kobe Bryant contacted a...
BALI BOMB ARCHITECT REWARDED FOR TERROR
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amCaptured terror operative Hambali has boasted to interrogators that last year's Bali nightclub bombing, which killed 202, made al Qaeda so happy that he got rewarded with $100,000 for more...
PROPERTY-TAX HIKE MIGHT STICK: MIKE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amAfter months of saying he'd like to roll back the 18.5 percent property-tax hike, Mayor Bloomberg edged away from the idea yesterday, saying some taxes are "a fact of life."...
ROOMMATE STRANGLER ADMITS 2ND SLAY: COPS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe drifter busted in the grisly strangulation of his Brooklyn roommate has not only confessed to that murder, but has also admit choking another roommate to death in Buffalo last...
HASIDIC HORROR OF YOM KIPPUR ARSON
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amA fire believed to have been intentionally set swept through several Brooklyn buildings, destroying the homes of eight large Hasidic families on the eve of Judaism's most sacred day. Some...
'THEY SHOULD BE DEAD' FIVE GIRLS SURVIVE L.I. 'DUI' CRASH
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island teenager who was driving her four best friends to a party early yesterday was arrested for suspicion of drunken driving after she plowed head-on into another car,...
OUTED SPY SEEKS U.S. PROTECTION
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe former U.S. diplomat whose wife was outed as a CIA agent in the Iraq uranium flap yesterday said the leak has put her life at risk but the U.S....
TOP B'KLYN DEM QUITS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amA top political aide to Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman Jr. abruptly resigned his $62,000-a-year job with the state Senate Democrats late last week as county leaders prepare for a...
TRAGIC MOM GRIEVES FOR 'PRECIOUS' LITTLE ERIC
October 6, 2003 | 4:00am'Eric had the most amazing eyes and this wonderful smile. He just drew you in.' - Vivian Pliner-Josephs on her son. --- Little Eric Josephs' mother always told him, "Eric,...
THE SACRED YOM KIPPUR HOLIDAY, WHICH JEWS BEGAN OBSERVING AT SUNDOWN LAST NIGHT, CONTINUES TODAY ...
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe sacred Yom Kippur holiday, which Jews began observing at sundown last night, continues today with fasting and prayers. Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, or...
OPPONENTS OF CALIFORNIA'S RECALL WILL UNLEASH A TV AD ATTACKING ARNOLD ...
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Opponents of California's recall will unleash a TV ad attacking Arnold Schwarzenegger as a sexual predator, the campaign announced yesterday. In statewide spots that air statewide today, popular...
ISRAEL BLITZES SYRIAN TARGET - 'YOM KIPPUR' AIRSTRIKE NAILS TERROR CAMP
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - On the eve of the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel staged its first airstrike on Syria in 30 years - its warplanes dropping 1,000-pound bombs...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amQUEENS * A man was shot and killed by an unknown gunman on a South Jamaica street corner yesterday, police said. Robert Catoe, 20, was found lying on the corner...
GRACIE MANSION BECOMES NEW TOURIST HOT SPOT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amTour attendance at fabled Gracie Mansion has skyrocketed this year, fueled by a $5 million anonymous donation for a makeover that some believe came from Mayor Bloomberg - the first...
AMERICANS, BRITS SPLIT WITH EUROS ON RAID
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amIsrael's attack on a reputed terrorist base in Syria drew fire internationally yesterday but won support from lawmakers in Washington. France and Germany said the raid, Israel's first strike on...
A JUNGLE OUT THERE - TIGER VICTIM HAS MORE BEASTS UPSTATE: GIRLFRIEND
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe Harlem man who housed a 400-pound tiger in his apartment has an upstate abode where he keeps other exotic animals - like "camel, oxen and zebras," his girlfriend said...
MCCLINTOCK DENIES HE'S AT THE 'NADER' OF HIS CAREER
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amCARLSBAD, Calif. - State Sen. Tom McClintock looks a little out of place. He's the only guy in a suit at a luau. At a fund-raiser for fellow State Senator...
TWISTED NEW ETAN 'ALIBI'
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe main suspect in the death of Etan Patz, who vanished from a Manhattan street 24 years ago, has a new, highly improbable story of what he was doing the...
ARNOLD GROPES FOR FINAL STRATEGY
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger and more than 5,000 of his fans descended on the state Capitol yesterday, as the actor-turned-candidate tried to lift himself out of a quagmire of sexual-misconduct...
'BRIDEZILLA' ATTACKS REALITY-TV NETWORKS OVER WED VID
October 6, 2003 | 4:00am"Bridezilla" wants her revenge. A Bronx woman whose nutty nuptials were shown to the nation during sweeps week on the reality-TV special "Bridezillas" has filed a $136 million suit against...
WAKSAL: MY ARROGANCE DID ME IN
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amJailed ImClone chief Sam Waksal never expected the feds to nail him for insider trading - and blames his arrogance for making him feel that he was above the law....
TROUBLE IN 'PARADISE' - TIGER MAN THOUGHT HIS HOME ZOO WAS 'GARDEN OF EDEN'
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe Harlem man who was mauled by his 400-pound tiger when he brought home a kitten said yesterday he dreamed of creating his very own Garden of Eden. Antoine Yates,...
IRAQ DOES HAVE WMD: ARMS MAN
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe head of the weapons hunt in Iraq yesterday said his teams are hot on the trail of anthrax and Scud missiles, and he's "amazed" that anyone could think the...
'THEY SHOULD BE DEAD' - FIVE GIRLS SURVIVE 'DWI' HORROR CRASH
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island teenager who was driving her four best friends to a party early yesterday was arrested for drunken driving after she plowed headlong into another car, cops said....
MESSY DIVORCE - PACK-RAT PROF MADE MY LIFE A HELL: WIFE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amA nutty professor forced his wife to live in squalid conditions in their Long Island condo for more than a decade - subjecting her to years of abuse while refusing...
CAB-FARE WAR: YOU LOSE, NO MATTER WHO WINS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amCall it the battle for a "fair" hike. Two groups petitioning the Taxi and Limousine Commission for a fare increase are at odds over how much fleet owners should be...
ECHOES OF THE CIA LEAK - THAT'S (718) 832-6459
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amWHAT do social insects, Genghis Khan's cavalry and the cyberbullies at MoveOn.org have in common? Swarming. Social insects aren't much on individuality. Gene-driven, they do low-order tasks in the service...
20% OF HS KIDS AWOL EACH DAY
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThousands of city high-school kids have extended their summer vacation by playing hooky from school, new attendance figures obtained by The Post show. On a given day in September -...
DIDDY: MURDER LIE CUTS DEEP
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amSEAN "P. Diddy" Combs had just emerged from a long business meeting to proclaim: "It's the newest con game in town - shake down and blackmail someone with a high...
MUTOMBO MOVE IRKS MOURNING
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe honeymoon is over almost before it began. Alonzo Mourning, the Nets' new star free agent center, emphatically voiced his displeasure over the team's decision to buy out the remaining...
HOLYFIELD MAY HAVE SEEN ENOUGH
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - After first saying he wasn't going to retire following his loss by technical knockout to James Toney, Evander Holyfield said he would at least consider it. "I'm...
KNICKS HAVE SHOT TO LAND MUTOMBO
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe Knicks, center-starved since the trade of Patrick Ewing, have twice tried and failed to land Dikembe Mutombo over the last two years. They're hoping they finally get it right...
DIKEMBE HAS KNICKS ON HIS LIST
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amDikembe Mutombo never has been in this territory before: "where my services were not needed." But that is only in the eyes of the Nets, so Mutombo hopes to land...
SATHER MULLS FINAL CUTDOWN
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amAnd on the 25th day, the Rangers rested. A day off for the Blueshirts yesterday in the aftermath of Saturday's final exhibition match in Boston, their first to themselves since...
EVERYTHING'S SET UP PERFECTLY - WELLS GIVES YANKS TIME TO BREATHE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Per fect He's Not, but Perfect They've Been the last three games and now, wouldn't you know it, everything is breaking just perfectly for the Yankees. You didn't...
SEEKING SHELTER FROM STUPIDITY
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amSANCTUARY! Sanctuary! I can't take it anymore! Friday night, Braves-Cubs on ESPN, bottom of the first, Greg Maddux on the mound. Take it, Joe Morgan: "One thing you also have...
GIAMBI'S LEFT JAB STARTS IT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amThe "oohs" and "aahs" always come when Jason Giambi pulls the ball, crushing blasts off the upper-deck facade or simply scorching singles and doubles to right. But Joe Torre always...
SANTANA'S STREAK IS DEEP-SIXED IN FOURTH
October 6, 2003 | 4:00am"You make mistakes against them, you'll see what happens. They bang it around pretty well." - RON GARDENHIRE --- MINNEAPOLIS - It took 13 innings, but the Yankees finally figured...
FICK FINED FOR SHOT AT KARROS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amNLDS NOTES ATLANTA - Robert Fick was fined by both the Braves and Major League Baseball for his juvenile, unsportsmanlike actions during and after Game 4. Fick was nailed for...
DROPPED-TO-NINTH NICK RESPONDS WITH BIG HIT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Joe Torre continued to play the slumping Nick Johnson at first base yesterday in Game 4 of the ALDS. However, he moved Johnson as far down in the...
BIG BLUE BLOW-UP - JINTS GET TESTY AFTER LIMP LOSS TO MIAMI
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amStanding at the locker room door with a solemn, grim look etched onto his 87-year-old face late yesterday afternoon was Wellington Mara. As his players filed in after their 23-10...
HUDSON GIVES NOD TO ZITO
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amALDS NOTES BOSTON - Tim Hudson, who felt what he first thought was only a tweak in his hip in popping up Todd Walker for the final out of the...
NOW, BERNIE'S BACK WHERE HE BELONGS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - He is the most intriguing Yankee to watch, always has been, because the Bernie Williams you see is always unfiltered, unplugged, completely unspoiled by anything other than the...
WAS THERE EVER REALLY A DOUBT? - IN THE END, BOMBERS STILL TEAM TO BEAT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - To the zaniest and most thrilling postseason perhaps in major league history, the Yankees brought a dull efficiency. They are not pretty on defense, and on offense they...
GIANTS OUGHTA BE KICKING THEMSELVES
October 6, 2003 | 4:00am"This team right now is not where we need to be." -TIKI BARBER --- THE Giants didn't lose 23-10 to the Dolphins yesterday because they lost their field goal kicker...
DEAD SOX STILL ALIVE - A'S SEEMED CURSED AFTER LATEST FAILURE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 4: Red Sox 5 - A's 4 BOSTON - Eighty-five years after the cursed selling of Babe Ruth, it appears the Red Sox, those uncanny victims of mind-boggling collapses,...
SHOCK TREATMENT CAN'T FINISH 'FINS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amJeremy Shockey was into it now. Shockey was catching balls and Bavaro-ing defensive backs and signaling first downs and Giants Stadium was on fire with him. So the Dolphins, 23-10...
KERRY CARRIES CUBS INTO NLCS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 5: Cubs 5 - Braves 1 ATLANTA - It wasn't a world championship - yet - but Kerry Wood and the Cubs have partially erased their playoff drought. An...
STOPPING RICKY ALL FOR NAUGHT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amRicky Williams told the anecdote in much the same fashion as other athletes might spout a cliche. Very casually, Williams revealed the Giant defenders were bragging about how they had...
FOR CUB FANS, IT WAS DO . . . OR CRY
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTA - It was only 3:45 p.m., and three college-aged guys with identical Sammy Sosa authentic jerseys were walking on Pollard Boulevard outside Turner Field. More than four hours before...
MCKNIGHT REVERSED COURSE OF BALLGAME
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amWhile all the Giants' eyes locked on No. 34, Dolphins receiver James McKnight stayed calm, focusing on the fundamentals of the reverse. Before the play that changed yesterday's 23-10 Miami...
FICK MUST PAY FOR CHEAPSHOT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amNLDS NOTES ATLANTA - Robert Fick was fined by both the Braves and Major League Baseball for his juvenile, unsportsmanlike actions during and after Game 4. The Atlanta first baseman...
STOTTLEMYRE STILL UNSURE ABOUT RETURNING NEXT YEAR
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The champagne flowed at one end of the room while Mel Stottlemyre wore a big smile at the other. Everybody wanted to talk about Stottlemyre's starters as the...
BOOMER COMES UP BIG AGAIN
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - There was nothing all that remarkable about David Wells yesterday. Not when you consider his postseason history. "Boomer was his normal big-game self," Aaron Boone said. The Yankees'...
TWINKIES LEFT WAVIN' WHITE FLAG
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - LaTroy Hawkins said it all after he and the Twins saw their season end to the Yankees yesterday. "I hate to see them get any better. The next...
JOHNSON DELIVERS IN CLUTCH
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Between the bottom of the third inning and the top of the fourth in yesterday's Game 4, this Yankee-Twin series was defined. The game was still scoreless in...
GIAMBI CAN STICK FORK INTO CURSE
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Champagne and shaving cream never felt so good to Jason Giambi. Three times Giambi had played in the postseason and three times his team had lost in the...
DEREK'S ENJOYING HIS RUN
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Derek Jeter capped his spectacular Division Series play yesterday with a ninth-inning home run to left, this after leftfielder Shannon Stewart had robbed the Yankee shortstop of a...
STARTERS EXORCISE ANGEL DEMONS
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - It was there, and it wasn't. Everyone remembered, yet no one talked about it. Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre explained that it went "unsaid," but not forgotten. The stench...
HIDEKI HAS FIRST TASTE OF YANKEE JUBILATION
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - They were lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery. Everyone wanted to make sure they reached David Wells with a bottle or six of bubbly, and they...
BOOMER HOPING BOSTON IS NEXT
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Just about nobody on the Yankees would admit his preference for their ALCS opponent: Oakland or Boston. Good thing there was David Wells. "You'd like Boston because it's...
FROM FRUSTRATION TO PURE ELATION! - THIS ONE IS SWEETER THAN USUAL
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - They'd waited a long time for this, old Yankees, new Yankees, all of them. If that sounds a little odd, given the number of clubhouses they've soaked with...
YANKS ARE WELLS SET UP
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Perfect He's Not, but Perfect They've Been the last three games and now, wouldn't you know it, everything is breaking perfectly for the Yankees. You didn't really expect...
YANKEES GO 4TH IN MINNY HA-HA - GET LAST LAUGH VS. TWINS, AWAIT A'S OR SOX
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Send in the clowns. While the A's and Red Sox provide drama amid comedy in the other ALDS, the Yankees put the overmatched Twins to sleep yesterday with...
FASSEL: NO REGRETS FOR RESTING TIRED TIKI
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES There was a curious sequence in the fourth quarter yesterday with the Giants trailing the Dolphins by only six points when Jim Fassel opted to rest Tiki Barber....
HAMSTRING SIDELINES KICKER
October 6, 2003 | 4:00amMatt Bryant said he felt a pop. Jeff Feagles, like most of Giants Stadium, saw Bryant grab his right leg as soon as his 43-yard field goal went through the...