October 13, 2003
KOSNER EXITS NEWS ON THE QT
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amEd Kosner went gently on his final day in office. Kosner, the three-year editor in chief of the Daily News, left for lunch on Friday afternoon and is not coming...
MAX CAPITAL SNAPS UP PARK AVE. ATRIUM FOR $455M
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amIn its second big-bucks buyout in 10 days, aggressive real estate giant Max Capital Management is forking out $455 million for 237 Park Ave., the sleek office building known as...
THE TURNER TIDE - WITH KELLNER OUT, CNN FOUNDER'S INFLUENCE RISES
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amCNN founder Ted Turner's influence at the news network is growing, The Post has learned. Turner recently intervened to help save the job of top CNN executive and Turner favorite...
'ROOSTER' WORTH CROWING ABOUT
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA ROOSTER IN THE HENHOUSE At the Kirk Theatre, 410 W. 42 St. Through Oct. 25. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---- MR. Mom, the stay-at-home dad, role reversal. Haven't we...
ROCKIN' ROLE GIRL - STRAIGHT SCOOP ON GINA'S NEW GIG
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amGINA Gershon has a secret. And no, it's not that she's a lesbian - despite what more than a few women dreamed about after seeing the actress play Sapphic in...
CHANGING MINDS - ONE JOKE AT A TIME
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amJACKIE Mason's favorite comedian is back in town. But Ray Hanania - whom Mason booted from a Chicago comedy club last year as his opening act after discovering Hanania was...
WHICH ONE IS THE PORN STAR? OUTRAGEOUS LOOKS MAKE IT TOUGH TO TELL SOCIALITES FROM XXX GIRLS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amIS the woman next to you a Penthouse Pet or a society princess? It's becoming a lot more difficult to tell the difference. Sexy lingerie, obvious implants, fake tans and...
STARR REPORT
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amNick's Nite gallery Christian Slater, Wendie Malick, Michael Clarke Duncan and Tim Curry all check into 'toon land tonight as guest voices on Nickelodeon's "Jimmy Neutron" special (8 p.m.). It's...
MY CARNI-WAIL - OKAY, IT'S NO 'SOPRANOS' - BUT HBO'S 'CARNIVALE' IS SO EXTREME
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amWHAT is it about carnivals? Like clowns and dolls with teeth, they're supposed to be fun. But they actually end up being insanely scary, even though you have no idea...
MTV BACHELOR REGRETS THAT LAPSE DANCE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amMTV is turning into a big practical joke. MTV - which already has a "gotcha" hit with "That '70s Show" star Ashton Kutcher's "Puck'd" - is about to debut new...
REPORTER'S BLOG BACK ONLINE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amTV reporter Kevin Sites, whose popular Internet column from Iraq was shit down by his then-employer, CNN, is working for MSNBC - and his column is back. Sites' "blog" -...
TOP POL BOOSTS NORMAN
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amATOP state Democrat yesterday called the indictment of Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman "a lot about nothing," and predicted Norman would be acquitted. "If I was a betting man, I'd...
TOO-SEXY LIBRARIAN - CLAIMS BIAS IN SUIT VS. HARVARD
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBeautiful Harvard reference assistant Desiree Goodwin is one smart librarian - but her sexy short skirts, tight blouses and dark skin are holding her back professionally, her lawsuit against the...
'DRUG THUG' IN B'KLYN 'DEATH' TRIAL
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn accused drug boss - who could be sentenced to death for allegedly shooting two men to silence a witness - is set to face the strangers who will likely...
'CUB' REPORTER - POST'S MAN RESCUES BABY LION IN OHIO
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amWAPAKONETA, Ohio - One week after a Siberian tiger was discovered living in a Harlem apartment, The Post rescued an 8-day-old lion cub it found in a cramped cage at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amFinding a bathroom yesterday in Virginia City, Nev., wasn't difficult - the hard part was catching one. That's because 22 outhouses and portable toilets were hauled onto the town's main...
'PROUD' PREZ GAVE GOVERNATOR CONGRATS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush told Arnold Schwarzenegger, "I'm proud of you," in his private congratulatory phone call from the White House the morning after the California election. Bush, who stayed...
MIKE 'RAZES' HELL CITYWIDE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's vow to crack down on overdevelopment will likely extend beyond the borders of Staten Island to overpopulated communities in all the outer boroughs, City Hall officials tell The...
NYPD BRASS BACK TO SCHOOL
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amSeeking to prevent another catastrophe like the botched police raid that led to the death of a 57-year-old Harlem woman, the entire NYPD brass is being called in this month...
HUSH-HUSH RUSH - PILL POPPER KEPT WIFE IN THE DARK, TOO
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amRush Limbaugh's battle with prescription drugs was so private that even his wife may not have known, it was reported yesterday. Marta Fitzgerald may have been just as shocked as...
PALESTINIAN PM HINTS AT QUITTING
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, fed up with fighting Yasser Arafat for control over security issues, yesterday indicated he's set to quit the post. Wary top Israeli sources...
SYRIA HAS BUTCHER'S BILLIONS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amAs much as $3 billion of Saddam Hussein's legendary fortune reportedly is sitting in Syria. American officials have found that chunk of Saddam's stash sitting in banks controlled by the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amQUEENS (s, lcf) * A young man was shot and killed in Queens last night. Luis Salazar, 20, was shot once in the stomach by an unknown assailant at about...
CAR-BOMB CARNAGE AT BAGHDAD HOTEL
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amSuicide attackers exploded car bombs just 50 yards from a Baghdad hotel filled with Americans yesterday - killing six people and wounding 32 others. But quick-thinking security guards prevented a...
GIS RIP LETTERS AS FORGERIES
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amForm letters claiming to be from U.S. troops in Iraq and hailing the Army's accomplishments there have cropped up in newspapers across the country - although some of the troops...
NEW S.I. MYSTERY-ILLNESS CLUES
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA team of Health Department doctors is closing in on what caused four Staten Islanders to be stricken with encephalitis or an encephalitis-like virus. While one person was released from...
ESCAPEE MAY HAVE FEARED PRISON ATTACK
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA suspected serial killer who busted out of a maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania by scaling down a wall using a rope of knotted bed sheets may have fled because he...
PASSENGER BEATS & ROBS DRIVER ON B'KLYN BUS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA city bus driver was viciously beaten and robbed along his route in south Brooklyn early yesterday. The attack occurred at 5:30 a.m. as Marcello Castro, 37, was driving his...
MIKE: WE'D HAVE BUSTED PEDRO
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted Boston Red Sox punk Pedro Martinez for body-slamming 72-year-old Yankee coach Don Zimmer - saying the pitcher would have been arrested if he had committed such...
PITCHER EXPECTS A WALK IN BULLPEN MELEE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBoston police yesterday continued their criminal investigation of two Yankees, seeking witnesses who might have seen their suspected thrashing of a Red Sox grounds crewman at Fenway Park. Yankee pitcher...
MIKE IN STEP WITH TODAY'S BIG PARADE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amThousands are expected to salute their Italian heritage today and proudly march up Fifth Avenue in the Columbus Day Parade. The skies will be sunny, the temperatures will be in...
ERR-LINE IGNITES HIJACK SCARE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amFighter jets were scrambled off the New Jersey coast early yesterday after the crew of a Central American airliner accidentally reported it was being hijacked, Air Force officials said. Military...
CRASH WOMAN: 'COP' RAPED ME
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn car accident turned into a horrifying nightmare for a woman who said she was first robbed - and then raped by a man who told her he was...
HOME-ALONE HORROR - MOM AT WORK AS FIRE KILLS BOY, GIRL
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA 9-year-old girl and her baby brother died in a suspicious fire in their basement apartment in Brooklyn yesterday after their mother left them home alone while she went to...
ESCAPE-PLUNGE INMATE: PAL PUSHED ME
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amA convict who was seriously injured when he plummeted five stories trying to bust out of a maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania said he was pushed by his partner-in-crime, a suspected...
LET'S MAKE A DOLL: HARLEM PLANS MUSEUM
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amMadame Alexander dolls, the haughty high-fashion collectibles coveted by divas like Oprah Winfrey, Demi Moore, Britney Spears, will soon be more accessible. The venerable doll company plans to open a...
THE GENERAL ADVANCES - CLARK TIED WITH BUSH IN SHOCKING POLL
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, who joined the Democratic presidential race last month, is in a statistical dead heat with President Bush, a stunning new poll shows. Bush...
'KILL BILL' PROVES ITS CHOP$ AT BOX OFFICE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00am"Kill Bill" made a killing over the weekend: The gory Quentin Tarantino flick took in $22.7 million to become No. 1 at the box office. The bloody homage to 1970s...
'DRUG THUG' 'DEATH' TRIAL IN BROOKLYN
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn accused drug boss - who could be sentenced to death for allegedly shooting two men to silence a witness - is set to face the strangers who will likely...
FUNNY CIDE WILL GO IN BREEDERS'
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amFunny Cide is back, and the Breeders' Cup has got him. In a surprise development yesterday, trainer Barclay Tagg said the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, who hasn't raced since...
MOURNING NO FAN OF MOVING
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES Count Alonzo Mourning in as a Net who likely would want out if the team moves to Long Island. "I didn't come here for that. I came here...
GANGING UP ON SPORTSMANSHIP
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amSATURDAY, a few hours before the Yanks-Red Sox created that warm, fuzzy feeling of a street riot, Miami played at Florida State on ABC. In the second quarter, something so...
SHOEMAKER DEAD
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amLegendary jockey Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed since an auto accident in 1991, died yesterday in his sleep at home in San Marino, Calif., at age 72. Born in Fabens, Tex., on...
KURT CONSIDERS TAKING OPT-OUT
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amKurt Thomas has given his first indication he's considering opting out of his contract after the season and becoming a free agent. According to a source close to Thomas, the...
MCKEON NOT SURE ON RETURN IN 2004
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amNLCS NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Before yesterday's Game 5 against Cubs, Florida manager Jack McKeon said that he was uncertain if he would return for 2004. The one condition he said...
CAPTAIN DEREK WAS SET TO GO DOWN FIGHTING
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - If Derek Jeter, the Yankees captain, is going to get in a teammate's face, you won't see it. If an opponent is trying to get into one of...
BLUE BUNGLERS - SLOPPY GIANTS TOPPLE TO 2-3
October 13, 2003 | 4:00am"We're not doing the things you have to do to win football games." -JIM FASSEL ---- FOXBORO - No controversy, no turning point. The Giants are a losing team for...
SOX CHEERLEADER IN YANK PEN IS ASKING FOR TROUBLE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - As I stood in the Yankee bullpen two hours before last night's game, I was thinking to myself, why do the Red Sox need a cheerleading groundskeeper? What's...
BASEBALL STILL HAS SOME FIGHT LEFT IN IT BEANTOWN BRAWL IS GOOD FOR GAME
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - There was a cut nose, a gashed hand and - according to police reports - cleat marks on a back. But there was no black eye for baseball...
ZIMMER SAYS HE'S SORRY BUT PEDRO SHOULD BE APOLOGIZING
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The old man couldn't keep his emotions in check, that was as clear as it was predictable. He'd walked into the interview room with Joe Torre and a...
TIKI FEELS 'HORRIBLE'
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES FOXBORO - The feeling, he admitted, was "horrible" as a stoic Tiki Barber yesterday faced the music after yet another costly fumble in a 17-6 loss to the...
DWI PUTS ABRAHAM ON BENCH
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES As expected, Herman Edwards opted to deactivate John Abraham as disciplinary action for the starting defensive end's DWI arrest last week. Abraham, who has 2½ sacks this season...
LINCOLN ROUTS FT. HAMILTON
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amLincoln coach Shawn O'Connor was justifiably excited about the prospect of watching WR Nyan Boateng blossom into one of the best receivers in the PSAL. His only question was if...
BATTERED KERRY IS LEFT A BEATEN MAN
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amFOXBORO - For a moment, a disturbing loss flirted with becoming so much more damaging when the Giants' offensive linemen turned around and saw their quarterback flat on his back,...
AT LEAST NO ONE'S WATCHING
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amFOXBORO - The Gi ants won't be able to hide behind the Yankees much longer. They're lucky Wellington Mara and Bob Tisch own them rather than George Steinbrenner. No one...
NOT OVER TILL BILLY GOAT SINGS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - The year was 1945. World War II ended. Jack McKeon already was 15-years-old. "The Lost Weekend" won the Oscar for Best Picture. A popular song was "It's Been...
PASSING A MILESTONE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amON the final play of the first quarter, Vinny Testaverde zipped a pass to wide receiver Curtis Conway, who caught the quick slant and gained 24 yards before being tackled...
ASTROS GM TO SNUB METS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - According to published reports, Houston general manager Gerry Hunsicker is expected to remove himself from the Mets' search for a new GM as early as today. Hunsicker interviewed...
SORRY DAY AT SOGGY FENWAY - ZIM APOLOGY, GAME 4 WASHOUT CAN'T QUELL CONTROVERSY
October 13, 2003 | 4:00am"I'm embarrassed of what happened [Saturday]. I'm embarrassed for the Yankees, the Red Sox, the fans, the umpires and my family. That's all i have to say, I am sorry."...
ANOTHER SHOT FOR MOOSE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Andy Pettitte did his job. Roger Clemens did his job. Mike Mussina didn't do his in Game 1. Tonight he gets a second chance, after Joe Torre moved...
FISH STILL BREATHIN'
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 5Marlins 4Cubs 0 MIAMI - With the Cubs' first trip to the World Series since 1945 at stake yesterday afternoon, manager Dusty Baker likened Game 5 of the NLCS...
'WE'VE GOTTA HAVE IT': DAMON - OUR HOPES HINGE ON GAME 4
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - By the way, the Yankees still lead the ALCS, two games to one. Lost in all the furor surrounding the brawls, the bullpens and the benches clearing is...
A SORI STATE OF AFFAIRS FOR ALFONSO
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - When Joe Torre announced that Enrique Wilson would bat leadoff in Game 3 of the ALCS and that the usual No. 1 hitter, Alfonso Soriano, would hit last,...
JETS PAY THE BILLS - ROUT RATCHETS UP HOPE FOR SEASON
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe Jets threw an unexpected, impromptu house party yesterday at Giants Stadium. The only guests who left the building unhappy were the Buffalo Bills, after being pummeled 30-3 in a...
ACHY KARIM YANKED FROM LINEUP
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amALCS NOTEBOOK BOSTON - The Yankees came out of Game 3's brawls in worse shape than the Red Sox since they lost right fielder Karim Garcia and the Red Sox...
ABRAHAM'S BENCHING SPARKS 'D'
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amShaun Ellis might be John Abraham's biggest fan. That hasn't changed even though Abraham was deactivated for yesterday's game against the Bills after pleading guilty to driving while impaired last...
RESURGENT AIR GAME PAINTED BUFFALO INTO CORNER
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES What in the world was Anthony Becht doing getting behind Lawyer Milloy, the Bills' former Pro Bowl safety, in the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown catch yesterday?...
CONFIDENCE GAME - JETS GAIN HOPE FROM ROUT OF BILLS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe Jets threw an unexpected, impromptu house party yesterday at Giants Stadium. The only guests who left the building unhappy were the Buffalo Bills, after being pummeled 30-3 in a...
RAIN WON'T WASH AWAY BITTERNESS - POSTPONEMENT PROVIDES A COOLING-OFF PERIOD BUT TENSIONS STILL HIGH
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - It was not business as usual last night at a soggy Fenway Park where Game 4 of the Yankees-Red Sox ALCS was rained out. And it's not likely...
BECKETT & SOSA HAVE HEATED EXCHANGE IN 4TH
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amNLCS NOTEBOOK MIAMI - There was no Yankees-Red Sox redux yesterday at Pro Player Stadium, but Florida's Josh Beckett and the Cubs' Sammy Sosa exchanged words after a fourth-inning brushback....
BURKETT GETS BUMPED AS SOX SHUFFLE ROTATION
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Last night's rainout might be the luckiest break the Red Sox could have received. As a result, the Sox can set up their rotation in a way that...
SORRY DAY AT SOGGY FENWAY - EMOTIONAL ZIM PROVES TO BE THE BIGGER MAN
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The old man couldn't keep his emotions in check, that was as clear as it was predictable. He'd walked into the interview room with Joe Torre and a...
BAD FOR BASEBALL? ARE YOU KIDDING?
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - There was a cut nose, a gashed hand and - according to police reports - cleat marks on a back. But there was no black eye for baseball...
$10G FINE BAFFLES KARIM
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amALCS NOTEBOOK BOSTON - Karim Garcia wants to know why he was fined $10,000 by baseball's top cop, Bob Watson. "I am sure it's about the fourth inning," said Garcia,...
KNUCKLER DANCING IN YANKS' THOUGHTS
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The question now is, since the Yankees just faced Tim Wakefield on Wednesday, will it be any easier to handle his knuckler in tonight's rescheduled Game 4? The...
JOE'S JUGGLING ACT PUTS MOOSE ON HILL
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Andy Pettitte did his job. Roger Clemens did his job. Mike Mussina didn't do his. Mussina took the loss in Game 1 of the ALCS, giving up four...
PEDRO: NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - After all the players in the Red Sox clubhouse had filtered out last night, Pedro Martinez broke his silence. Martinez was asked whether he was happy that the...
BULLPEN SCENE WAS A REAL POWDER KEG - SOX CHEERLEADER IN WITH YANKS IS ASKING FOR TROUBLE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - As I stood in the visiting bullpen two hours before last night's game was postponed, I was thinking to myself, why do the Red Sox need a cheerleading...
GAME 4 TIX GOOD TOMORROW
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amRather than inconvenience two sets of fans with last night's rainout, the Sox attempted to make things easier with their ticket policy. Fans with tickets to last night's game can...
SOX PRAISE ZIMMER'S GESTURE BUT . . .
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox applauded Don Zimmer's heartfelt apology yesterday, but it doesn't sound as if there are going to be any mea culpas from their end. Like everyone...
NELSON INSISTS HE DID NOTHING WRONG
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Karim Garcia was reluctant to talk about the ugly incident that occurred in the Yankees' bullpen prior to the start of the ninth inning Saturday in Game 3...
SOX SUITS FAN FLAMES - DEFY SELIG'S PEACE DECREE
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox' three main executives, after being explicitly told by Bud Selig not to discuss the inflammatory incidents around ALCS Game 3, added to the bizarre nature...
DEREK WAS SET TO GO DOWN FIGHTING
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - If Derek Jeter, the Yankees' captain, is going to get in a teammate's face, you won't see it. If an opponent is trying to get into one of...
ENOUGH OF THIS FREAK SHOW - PLAY BALL!
October 13, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - The rain started early, and it kept coming down, right through the Giants-Patriots fiasco in Foxboro, right through batting practice at Fenway, keeping everyone chatty, keeping the craziest...