October 7, 2003
PLUS-SIZE MAG ON TAP
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amCharming Shoppes, one of the nation's largest retailers of plus-size clothing, is wooing customers with a fashion magazine that goes beyond the usual catalogs and so-called magalogs. The quarterly magazine,...
PLAYING THE FIELD - WARNER MUSIC PUTS BRAKES ON TALKS WITH EMI
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amDick Parsons is taking a breather. The Time Warner CEO has taken music merger talks with EMI off the "fast track," according to sources, and is now expected to field...
SABAN CHASING TW'S MUSIC PUBLISHER
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amInternational media mogul and billionaire Haim Saban has expressed interest in acquiring Warner Music publishing unit Warner Chappell, The Post has learned. Investment bank Morgan Stanley is in the process...
NYSE EX-DIRECTOR BIT HIS TONGUE, WATCHED STOCK
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amONE of the New York Stock Exchange's directors wanted to resign in the days before Richard Grasso got the heave-ho but was afraid to quit because he feared Grasso might...
SUIT SLAPS M'SOFT FOR VIRUS WOES
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amA Los Angeles filmmaker has sued Microsoft Corp., arguing that the software giant should be held responsible for the recent series of destructive virus attacks on its products. Court papers...
CENTURY THEATER MAY FETCH $12M; SALE OF THE CENTURY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amTHE landmarked theater off Union Square that's now home to "Beckett/Albee" is on the sale block and could fetch upwards of $12 million for its owner, J.C. Compton's Theater First...
GENERAL GETS $5M FOR HIS MEMOIR AUTOBIO
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amGen. Tommy Franks, former commander of the U.S. forces that overthrew Saddam Hussein in Iraq, has landed a $5 million advance to write his autobiography for HarperCollins' Regan Books. "His...
WALL ST. BANKS $22B AFTER RECORD LAYOFFS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amIt's said our body's elements are worth $25 - but on Wall Street, you're worth around $619,050 to the bottom line when you're fired. That calculation comes after a report...
FACING THE MUSIC - BRITZ, KINNEY RESURFACE FOR BIG BOARD MEETING
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amFormer New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso's two top lieutenants will address the Big Board floor community this afternoon, making their first public statements since the exchange's problems began...
WAL-MART REACHES DEAL FOR STORES IN SECAUCUS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWal-Mart is creeping closer to the city with a deal in Secaucus. A ground breaking takes place today at Harmon Meadow where Hartz Mountain Industries signed a lease with Wal-Mart...
RICKIE LEE AT HER 'BEST'
October 7, 2003 | 4:00am* Rickie Lee Jones "The Evening of My Best Day" [] V2 Records Over the years, Rickie Lee Jones' songwriting has moved steadily away from character sketches of lovable losers...
EUROSTAR, BABY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amYOU wouldn't think that an English train could ever go as fast as a Japanese bullet train, but thanks to a new section of track opened a little more than...
A CRANK CALL - MARK ELLWOOD SKIPS PROVENCE IN FAVOR OF LOVABLY GROUCHY LANGUEDOC
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amI find Provence, with its postcard-pretty coun tryside, just a little too perfect; the cynic in me suspects that its rustic charms are solely on show for the tourists who...
NERVOUS REPORTERS ASK: HOW'M I DOING?
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amNY1's "In the Papers" has become must- see TV for New York's media mavens. Each morning, at around 7:45, viewers - most especially reporters, editors and publishers - lean in...
FROM POP TO PAP
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amIF Bob Dylan had gone to medical school, he might have been singing a different tune - something like, say, "Red Hot Mamas" or "The Menopausal Blues." In short, he...
OLD WORLD, NEW YEAR - THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ITALY TO WELCOME IN ANOTHER YEAR, SAY POST COLUMNIST LINDA STASI AND HER DAUGHTER, JESSICA STASI ROVELLO
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amYOU can't really know Italy until you've spent a holiday partying like an Italian, with Italians. And there's no place on earth that's more fun, more glam - and more...
WHO SAYS IT IS TOO SOON FOR IRAQ DRAMA?
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amNBC is developing a mili tary drama centered on a U.S. Marine unit stationed in Iraq. It may seem a bit early for a TV series based in Iraq, but...
IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00am"Frontline: Truth, War and Consequences" [ ] Thursday night at 9 on PBS ---- 'FRONTLINE" opens its 20th season Thursday night with a show more incendiary than post-war Iraq. And...
BATTLE OF THE BOROUGHS: THE FINAL ANSWER
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S the East vs. West battle that's divided families, ended friendships and started many a bar brawl. We're not talking about the infamous hip-hop war, but a feud that has...
BIG PICTURE - BEHIND-THE-SCENES SECRETS OF DESIGN DIVA DONATELLA
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amMILAN, Italy - For Donatella Versace, bigger isn't just better - it's the only way to go. Thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars went into the 25-minute...
BURY CLEVER MOBSTERS - TWO-DECK COFFINS HIDE DEAD
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amA mobster undertaker in the real-life Sopranos crime family used "double-decker coffins" so that whacked victims could be buried secretly in the same box as legitimate clients of his funeral...
GOOD FORE!TUNE - CITY TITANS TO GET HARBOR-SIDE GOLF COURSE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street power players will soon be able to do lunch deals over golf and be back to their offices in just 10 minutes. The first salt-air golf course of...
FAST-ACTION ZERO GROPED ME, TOO: STUNT GAL
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amArnold Schwarzenegger apologized again for his behavior toward women yesterday after a stuntwoman who worked with him on "Terminator 2" and "True Lies," claimed he photographed her breasts and sucked...
WTC LEGAL BATTLE COSTS LARRY $100M
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amLarry Silverstein has spent close to $100 million so far on the mammoth legal battle with his Twin Towers insurers - and has told officials he needs another $80 million...
MAN STABBED IN TIMES SQ.
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amA man was badly stabbed or slashed in Times Square late last night, police said. The man, in his 40s, suffered wounds to his face and upper chest on West...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amA man's car backfired, accidentally setting fire to his dog, which rolled on the grass to extinguish its coat - and started a forest fire. "I have been in firefighting...
KOBE GETS SWATTED ON NOTES BID
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amKobe Bryant has blown it again with a Colorado judge, who slapped down his bid to look at a sex-assault counselor's interview with the woman accusing the NBA superstar of...
PRESIDENT BUSH HAS CREATED A NEW "IRAQ STABILIZATION GROUP" ....
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has created a new "Iraq Stabilization Group," led by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, to try to speed up the rocky reconstruction efforts and give the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A police car responding to an assault call ran into a livery cab in Midtown yesterday, injuring two police officers and a civilian, police said. The patrol car...
TURKISH TROOPS MAY BE ON WAY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Turkey's Cabinet agreed to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq yesterday, giving the Bush administration a desperately needed boost in its campaign to get Muslim countries to help rebuild...
'HAZE' DAD DIES - DA WANTS HIS SON AND TWO OTHERS TRIED AS ADULTS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe father of a suspect in the Long Island hazing scandal was found dead at his home over the weekend - the victim of the sadness and stress caused by...
PILFERING PAIR GUILTY OF 350G WTC SCAM
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amTwo conniving businessmen who tried to profit from 9/11 are heading to prison after being convicted of scamming almost $350,000 from World Trade Center disaster benefits. Alexander Koltovskoy, 36, of...
'93 WTC THUG STAYS IN PRISON: SUPREMES
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ramzi Yousef, convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, lost his final legal battle yesterday when the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. The high court essentially...
COUNCIL TARGETS SCHOOL BULLIES
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe City Council is taking on bullies who harass teachers and students. It will hold a hearing today on proposed legislation that would force the Education Department to draw up...
ISRAEL HAS RIGHT TO FIGHT: BUSH
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amPresident Bush upheld Israel's right to self-defense yesterday, while a new crisis threatened to erupt on Israel's border with Lebanon. Bush said he had told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
ROBBER BAGGED 15G IN FOUR HITS ON BANK
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amA brazen, 21-year-old bank robber's repeat performances at the same Queens bank - four times in a little over a month - netted him a boffo $15,000, cops said, and...
KIDS START 'SNAPSHOT' TESTS TODAY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amCity public school kids today begin taking new "low-stakes" tests so teachers can identify their strengths and weaknesses and adapt their instruction to help those struggling in reading and math...
TATS ALL, FOLKS - TATTOOS COULD CONVICT 'SAMMY BULL' HIT MAN
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amAn assignment to crush mob canary Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano was no skin off this reputed wiseguy's back, the feds say. Dozens of tattoos that coat Thomas "Huck" Carbonaro's frightening...
4 CHARGED IN QNS. BAT ATTACK
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amFour Queens youths have been charged with attempted murder in a brutal baseball-bat attack that left one teen with severe brain injuries and two others seriously wounded, authorities said yesterday....
TRAGIC KIN OF 9/11 IS MISSING
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amCops yesterday were scouring the Meadowlands marshes for possible clues in the mysterious disappearance of a "brilliant" Westchester college student - the daughter of a Cantor Fitzgerald exec killed on...
GIS UNDER FIRE AFTER MARRYING IRAQI GALS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amIt's been no honeymoon for two Florida National Guardsmen who met and married Iraqi women while serving in Baghdad. The love-struck soldiers - Sgt. Sean Blackwell, 27, of Pace, Fla.,...
AUTO SCHOOL DRIVEN TO SUCCEED
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amHere's the perfect school for students who want to drive to class. The Bloomberg administration yesterday said it's given the green light for a regional automobile training and education facility...
THE (BIG) CAT'S AWAY - VETS EXAMINING HARLEM TIGER IN NEW OHIO HOME
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amMing, the Harlem-dwelling tiger, didn't exactly have a rip-roarin' time in Ohio yesterday - he underwent a battery of tests that may one day allow him to roam free in...
LEAK IS A 'CRIMINAL ACTION': BUSH
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said it was a "criminal action" for someone in his administration to leak the name of a CIA officer. "This is a serious charge, by...
BENCH BUM ROBIN IS FOR REEL
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe funny thing about this frumpy old man sitting on a Greenwich Village bench is - he's actually Robin Williams. The Oscar-winning star is in town filming "The School of...
MARTHA ASKS JUDGE TO CUT FED CHARGES
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amMartha Stewart appealed to a Manhattan judge yesterday to toss out two federal charges against her, including the most serious count of securities fraud that could land the domestic diva...
SMASH-UP AT SAKS - 3-CAR WRECK JAMS 5TH AVE.
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amA cab, an SUV and a minivan had a demolition derby in front of Saks Fifth Avenue yesterday, jamming traffic for an hour and leaving seven people with minor injuries,...
EVEN SURFERS STOP TO CATCH SCHWARZENEGGER'S WAVE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amHUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - Things may be getting closer in the recall election, but it's pretty clear that Arnold has the wetsuit vote, the 5-percent-body-fat vote and the bleached-hair vote....
COPS SAVE FOUR KIDS FROM FIRE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amTwo rookie cops rushed into a blazing Brooklyn apartment building yesterday and rescued four youngsters, cops said. Officers Joselito Chaparro, 27, and Russell John, 26, broke down doors in the...
'HAZE' DAD DIES - STRESS OVER HS SEX-SUSPECT SON TOO MUCH TO BEAR
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe father of a suspect in the Long Island hazing scandal was found dead at his home over the weekend - the victim of the stress caused by his son's...
MANILOW AID$ FIRE VICTIMS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe man who writes the songs the whole world sings is about to write a check to help the victims of Saturday's arson fire which left 18 people homeless in...
ONE KILLED IN CHELSEA CRASH
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amAt least one person was killed in a car accident in Manhattan early this morning, police said. The accident occurred at West 23rd Street and 11th Avenue in Chelsea at...
CLASSROOM EXTRA - PLAYING IS MORE THAN JUST FUN
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amAbstract: All that studying and homework can make school life tough. Perhaps your favorite time is recess. Recreation time and extra-carricular activities are just as important as your studies ....
ARNIE'S RIVALS ON THE ROPES - CONAN BIDS TO DELIVER KNOCKOUT PUNCH TODAY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amCalifornians head to the ballot box today in the historic recall election of governor Gray Davis, with the latest poll showing voters will oust the unpopular Democrat and replace him...
ESCAPE ARTISTS - BOSOX TOP OAKLAND IN THRILLER TO REACH ALCS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 5: Red Sox 4 - A's 3 OAKLAND - Barry Zito left one in Manny Ramirez's wheelhouse, and he turned it into a Red Sox-Yankee American League Championship series....
NOT GETTING IT DONE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amGiants Report Card QUARTERBACKS: D Of the three INTs Kerry Collins (31-41, 276 yards, 3 INTs, 59.8 rating) threw, two were deflected and not totally his fault. The third was...
DEBUT HAS MOURNING ZO EXCITED
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amPHOENIX - No, this won't be as emotional as Opening Night will be in three weeks. But Alonzo Mourning still will be anxious - very anxious - after he pulls...
ABRAHAM EXPECTED BACK SOON
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jets defensive end John Abraham, who was arrested for DWI last week and sent home by Herman Edwards to South Carolina to be with his family, was not...
'GIDDY' CHAD TAKES TOSSES - COULD RETURN TO JETS NEXT MONTH
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amThe Jets are 0-4, fresh off of a bye weekend of watching all three of the other teams in the AFC East win games and with a season that is...
NEVER MIND BOSS' BLUSTER - YANKEES ARE ... WINNERS ALREADY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amFOR the sixth time in his seven career playoff appearances, Barry Bonds did not get out of the first round. For the 11th time in the last 12 years, the...
BRYANT SIDELINED 3-4 WEEKS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants expect Matt Bryant to miss at least three games with his pulled hamstring, so The Great Giant Field Goal Derby begins today. "We're probably looking at...
DRIVEN DEVILS PLAN TO GO 4TH
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amNow they play for their place in posterity. They have to be better than last year's Cup-winners, and the Devils have an almost sacred duty to go for broke, to...
BOMBERS' BATS SHOW LIFE AT LAST
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amNobody panicked when the Yankees managed just eight runs in the first three games of the ALDS. Why would you? Have you seen the names in this lineup? "You kind...
BUCK: PETTITTE WON'T GET TEXAS HOMECOMING WITH RANGERS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amIt is possible that Andy Pettitte is pitching his final games as a Yankee, but Rangers manager Buck Showalter told The Post the theory that Pettitte will go home to...
GAME 1 RIPS PUT BERNIE ON A MISSION
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The look on Bernie Williams' face has changed. So has his outward demeanor. While Williams can never be confused with a hard-looking man, there is an edge to...
LOOK WHO'S 4 WINS AWAY FROM GLORY - MARLINS, CUBBIES UNLIKELY MATCHUP
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Ordinarily, a Cubs-Marlins series would be billed as the team time forgot versus the team nobody cares about. It is downright stupefying, then, that both teams begin Game...
KNICKS WANT DEKE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amSources say the Knicks are prepared to sign Dikembe Mutombo when he clears waivers 48 hours after the Nets release him. Having spent $900,000 of their $4.9M mid-level exception to...
HOWE NOT SURPRISED BY UPSETS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - For the first time in four Octobers, Art Howe isn't in the postseason. Don't laugh when we say he's not that far removed, however. Howe's Mets played both...
ESCAPE ARTISTS - RALLIES SECOND NATURE FOR SOX
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, bad bullpens apparently included. The Red Sox blew so many saves this year, suffered so many losses that they would never...
ALONZO'S WAY OFF BASE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amJUST because the Nets are buying out Dikembe Mutombo's contract (thus saving $10 million of their two-year, $37M liability and double that number should there be a luxury tax during...
SOMEONE SHOULD REVOKE BOSS' POETIC LICENSE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amTHE man is a poet, when you think about it. And, really, you should think about it that way. Because if the statement that George Steinbrenner released yesterday is meant...
PUDGE: I ALMOST LANDED AT WRIGLEY
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES CHICAGO - It made about as much sense as anything else in the National League this season, so it was no surprise that Ivan Rodriguez said yesterday that...
RANGER 'D' TANDEM HAPPY ABOUT REUNION
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amGreg de Vries remembers the scrappy rookie defenseman from Massachusetts battling alongside him during Edmonton's 1998 training camp. He also remembers finishing that camp in a meeting with Oiler brass,...
YANKS POP CHAMPAGNE - AND HOLD THE WHINE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS is all about the destination, not the journey. "This is only the first part of the journey," Jason Giambi said after the Yankees erased the Twins in four games...
BOSTON'S SHAKY RELIEF REVERSES FIELD IN ALDS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Red Sox bullpen, a season-long anxiety, had pitched 9 1/3 innings of scoreless relief coming into last night's Game 5. Meanwhile, the A's relief corps, their season-long...
GIDDY GEORGE GETTING GOOFY - YANKEES' ALDS VICTORY HAS STEINBRENNER ALL PUMPED UP
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amWhile George Steinbrenner awaited the outcome of the Red Sox-A's game last night to see whom the Yankees would play in the ALCS, The Boss reminded everybody that second place...
1ST TIME A WONDER FOR BOONE, WHITE
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amAmid the champagne showers in the visitors' clubhouse Sunday, Aaron Boone and Gabe White sought a moment of temporary refuge. "We kind of looked at each other and said, 'This...
NOW THINGS GET REALLY INTERESTING FOR YANKS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS is all about the destination, not the journey. "This is only the first part of the journey," Jason Giambi said after the Yankees erased the Twins in four games...
HORRIFIC COLLISION MARS WIN
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amALDS NOTES OAKLAND - Boston center fielder Johnny Damon left last night's game in an ambulance and spent the night in a local hospital following a frightening head-on-head collision with...
GIDDY GEORGE GETTING GOOFY - STEINBRENNER ALL PUMPED UP AS YANKS TAKE AIM AT BOSOX
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amBring on the Red Sox. In a delicious matchup of bitter rivals, it's the Red Sox-Yankees in the ALCS with a trip to the World Series in the balance. The...
ESCAPE ARTISTS - BOSOX STOP A'S IN THRILLER TO REACH ALCS
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 5: Red Sox 4 - A's 3 OAKLAND - Barry Zito left one in Manny Ramirez's wheelhouse, and he turned it into a Red Sox-Yankee American League Championship series....
IT'S SAME OLD STORY FOR CHOKING A'S
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Ken Macha said it was "a great game" and "a shame somebody had to lose." But the manager didn't answer why it was his A's who, in the...
JAPAN ENCORE FOR BOBBY V?
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amNLCS NOTES CHICAGO - When Bobby Valentine was fired as Texas Ranger manager in 1992, he found refuge in the Far East and turned around his managing career. Now, Valentine...
HORRIFIC COLLISION MARS GAME
October 7, 2003 | 4:00amALDS NOTES OAKLAND - Boston center fielder Johnny Damon left last night's game in an ambulance following a frightening head-on-head collision with second baseman Damian Jackson while the pair was...