October 27, 2003
FRESH FRUIT SALE - TASTY GIFT MAKER HARRY AND DAVID ON THE BLOCK
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amHarry and David is for sale, just in time for the holiday season. Bear Creek, the owner of Harry and David - the gift food basket maker best known for...
DOW JONES TWICE SPURNED NYT: REPORT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe New York Times approached newspaper giant Dow Jones twice last year about striking a deal, and was rebuffed both times, the New Yorker reports. Last year, Times publisher Arthur...
LION'S GATE STRIKES DEAL FOR ARTISAN
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amLions Gate Entertainment Corp. has struck a deal to buy fellow independent film producer and distributor Artisan Entertainment in a deal valued at as much as $245 million, sources familiar...
NEW CAST GOES WITH THE FLOW
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amURINETOWN [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) The Henry Miller Theater, 124 W. 43rd St.; (212) 239-6200. --- SOME shows go down the drain once the original cast is flushed...
SOME LIKE IT HOT - POL'S PEPPER SAUCE PACKS A REAL WALLOP
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amSOME borough presidents are known - if they are known at all - for sucking up to voters. Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro is known for socking it to...
ABT'S OPENER CELEBRATES DEUX GREATS
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amAMERICAN BALLET THEATER City Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. (212) 581-1212. Season runs through Nov. 9. ---- AMERICAN Ballet Theater has opened its three-week fall season at...
WILLIAMS CLOSER TO REPLACING BROKAW
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amANCHOR Brian Williams is expected to leave CNBC next September and join "NBC Nightly News" full time, sources say. The move will further pave the way for NBC anchor Tom...
SCI FI: WE GOT SECRET UFO FILES
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amTHE SCI FI Channel has cracked open the file cabinet containing the real-life version of "The X-Files." SCI FI pressured NASA into releasing top secret records about a 1965 UFO...
GAME 6 A WIN FOR FOX
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amDESPITE the Yankees' heartbreaking loss to the Florida Marlins in the World Series, the ratings for Saturday's Game 6, were a home run for Fox. The game, won by the...
STARR REPORT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amHigh noon on 'Walsh' You might want to set the VCR for this one . . . CBS' Erin Moriarty ("48 Hours") and Court TV's Nancy Grace duke it out...
OH, BOY! LOOK WHO'S SHOPPING - MEN ARE FINALLY CONQUERING THEIR FEAR OF FASHION AND WOMEN ARE DELIGHTED
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGood news, girls: Guys are finally losing their fear of fashion. From downtown boutiques to major department stores, you'll find more men than ever this fall flipping through the racks....
GOV SUPPORTS NO-PARTY VOTE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGOV. PATAKI will end weeks of silence today by endorsing Mayor Bloomberg's controversial plan for "nonpartisan" elections in New York City, The Post has learned. Republican Pataki, who owes his...
NORWAY RAT RUNS IRAQ TERROR
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The leader of an al Qaeda-linked terror group responsible for some of the biggest attacks on coalition forces in Iraq calls the shots from an apartment in Norway,...
OWNERS SEEK RETURN OF FORGED JFK LETTERS
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amInvestors who paid thousands for bombshell letters purportedly revealing John F. Kennedy's affair with Marilyn Monroe are fighting to stop the government from shredding them - even though a Manhattan...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amWheaton College students have been warned - if you're going to dance, make like Fred Astaire, not Patrick Swayze. Officials at the Illinois school, which lifted its 143-year ban on...
ROSIE'S THORNY MAG SUIT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe war of the Rosies comes to Manhattan tomorrow when Rosie O'Donnell faces off in court against the former publishers of her Rosie magazine. The former talk-show host will be...
'MOVIE' SCARES UP BIG BUCKS, CUTS DOWN 'CHAINSAW'
October 27, 2003 | 5:00am"Scary Movie 3" proved audiences would rather giggle than be grossed out, as it blew away "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" to become the nation's top-earning film. The raucous spoof of...
POL RIPS LAWYERS' 'ANTI-JEW' TACTIC
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind attacked Mayor Bloomberg yesterday for allowing city lawyers to suggest that Hasidic residents who witnessed the 1999 police shooting of Gidone Busch met in synagogues to...
CLARK BARKS: I'M THE DEMS' 'UNDERDOG'
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amOne-time Democratic presidential front-runner Wesley Clark has done a strategic about-face, billing himself as the underdog. Just last month, Clark was hailed as the new Democratic star after his much-hyped...
PASSENGER KILLED IN HAMPTONS CRASH HORROR
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThis light pole smashed through the windshield of a speeding SUV with a drunken driver at the wheel, killing a passenger in the back seat, cops said. Sally Johnson, 40,...
BRAD PITT MAY HAVE A FACE THAT STOPS MILLIONS OF WOMEN IN THEIR TRACKS ....
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amBrad Pitt may have a face that stops millions of women in their tracks - but army tanks in the Mideast? The Hollywood star hopes so. He and some of...
GOP HOPEFULS DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM MAYOR
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amWith the election eight days away, Mayor Bloomberg is certainly hoping to see a few more fellow Republicans in the City Council. But while many of the GOP candidates seek...
WHITE HOUSE GETS BIPARTISAN WARNING ON 9/11 PROBE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amSenators of both parties yesterday warned President Bush to release documents sought by the commission probing the 9/11 attacks, and insisted the White House won't be allowed to stonewall the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN (s, lcf) * A woman was found with several stab wounds yesterday afternoon near the boardwalk and Brighton Fourth Street. The woman, who was not identified, was stabbed in...
FOOD FIGHT! - N.Y. RESTAURANT WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGet yer own french fries, buster! Restaurant workers at more than 20 top New York eateries could be walking out of the kitchen and onto a picket line if a...
L.I. COP'S PURSUIT ENDS IN QNS. 'CROOK' CRASH
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amA high-speed chase that started in Nassau County and ended in a collision on Queens Boulevard in Woodside left three men in handcuffs yesterday. Police said the men, Mario Serrano,...
PENTAGON BIG DODGES DEATH ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS COLONEL AT BAGHDAD HOTEL
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was just a floor away from danger yesterday when a missile barrage blitzed the Baghdad hotel where he was staying - killing an American colonel...
POLICE OUT IN FORCE FOR HALLOWEEN
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amPolice plan to beef up security at schools and teenage hangouts in anticipation of heightened Halloween mischief this Friday night. Commanders at each of the 76 precincts will dispatch extra...
MCCAIN EVOKES GHOST OF VIET QUAGMIRE IN WHITE HOUSE JAB
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amSen. John McCain - until now a loyal soldier on Iraq - is accusing the White House of painting a Pollyanna-style picture of reality on the ground. "This is the...
B'KLYN BLOODBATH - EERIE-CALM KILLER ADMITS SLAYING WOMAN, GIRL, 11
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amA remorseless Brooklyn man walked calmly into a Manhattan station house yesterday and confessed to brutally murdering his female roommate and then waking up her young daughter to cut her...
BLACKSMITH LOWERS BOOM ON BURGLAR
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn shop owner got the better of a burglar who broke into his truck yesterday, whacking him with a two-by-four and leaving him clinging to life, cops said. Mongo...
HOUSE OF BATS - OWNER SUES OVER INFESTED HOME
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amFor 10 years, retired investment management CEO Steve Jablonski has been sharing his upstate dream home with 150 house guests - bats that scurry along the floor, fly into the...
JERUSALEM BOMB BUS SURVIVOR: GOD SAVED ME FOR A REASON
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amBatsheva Taubenfeld gave her seat on the bus to an older woman. It was a small act of kindness, a routine gesture that New Yorkers do every day without thinking...
GOV WILL BACK NO-PARTY VOTE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGOV. PATAKI will end weeks of silence today by endorsing Mayor Bloomberg's controversial plan for nonpartisan elections in New York City, The Post has learned. Republican Pataki, who owes his...
HOLY FALAFEL FUROR
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGreat balls of falafel! A wealthy church is evicting a popular Middle East restaurant from a lower Manhattan building it owns in what angry diners claim is a plot to...
BIAS ATTACK ON S.I.
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amAn Asian man and his father were the victims of a bias crime on Staten Island last night when they were attacked by three black men who hurled racial epithets,...
DEMS DO BATTLE IN DETROIT DEBATE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amDemocratic 2004 wannabes went after each other on everything from Iraq to tax cuts at a Detroit debate last night, but front-runner Howard Dean escaped pretty much unscathed. Dean has...
PENTAGON BIG DODGES DEATH - ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS COLONEL AT BAGHDAD HOTEL
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was just a floor away from danger yesterday when a missile barrage blitzed the Baghdad hotel where he was staying - killing an American colonel...
BIAS SUIT IN NYPD SHOOT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man who was shot at 33 times by undercover cops and hit with 11 bullets has sued the city for $33 million, claiming the cops opened fire for...
TAKING A 'BITE' OUT OF CRIME
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amNew York City parents worried about losing their kids to a predator or a terror attack are heading to the dentist's office. New techniques allows parents to store their kids'...
NEW STANDARDS MAKE CUNY PRIDE OF THE CITY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe City University of New York is looking like "the poor man's Harvard" again. After decades of stagnation and slumping standards, CUNY is on a major rebound, new statistics show....
WIFE CAN'T BACK DURST XMAS ALIBI
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGALVESTON, Texas - Undermining Robert Durst's alibi in the slaying of pal Susan Berman, his wife told investigators she can't remember if the couple spent Christmas 2000 at her home...
HOLLYWOOD STARS TO PROMOTE PEACE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amBrad Pitt may have a face that stops millions of women in their tracks - but army tanks in the Mideast? The Hollywood star hopes so. He and some of...
'MOVIE' SCARES UP BIG BUCKS AS IT CUTS DOWN 'CHAINSAW'
October 27, 2003 | 5:00am"Scary Movie 3" proved that audiences would rather giggle than be grossed out, as it blew away "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" to become the nation's top-earning film. The raucous spoof...
ST. JOHN'S JURY SLOGS ON
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amA weary Queens jury reached a partial verdict yesterday in the case against attempted-murder suspect Christopher Prince, on trial in the shooting of St. John's football star Cory Mitchell and...
POL WARNS FERRY CREW: START TALKING OR ELSE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe Staten Island Ferry's suicidal pilot and tight-lipped captain will have to answer to Congress if they don't tell the whole truth about the disaster to a House subcommittee hearing...
LOTTERY-BOUND AGAIN - DEKE, DICE WILL HELP, BUT . . .
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amNobody believes. Nobody believes the Knicks are a playoff team - league executives, preseason publications. Nobody believes Antonio McDyess will make it back or be the player he once was....
SELLING (OUT) THE SERIES - COMMERCIALS TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER GAME - AS USUAL
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amIT appears as if it's going to be one of those get-used-to-it/get-over-it things, like past-midnight endings to weeknight World Series games and non-refundable, per-ticket service charges for un-played games. Saturday,...
IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END THIS WAY - GAME CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF HEARTBREAK
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amTHE grass had gone un tended for only a day, for only a couple of hours, really, but it already looked shaggy, like a five o'clock shadow growth of beard....
ALONZO'S NOT ENOUGH TO BRING TITLE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThink expectations were high last season? You ain't seen nothing yet. After two trips to the Finals, the Nets will see expectations that are off the charts. "They should be,"...
BOONE: I'LL BE BACK - AARON SAYS HE'LL BE BETTER
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amAfter a disappointing playoff run and a horrendous World Series, Aaron Boone said he didn't think he played up to his capabilities. As Boone packed up his locker yesterday, he...
BOMBERS MUST CHANGE STRIPES - BELTRAN, VIDRO DEALS START WITH SORIANO
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amFOR the Yankees, this is the offseason of Alfonso Soriano. They must decide if this skilled player is a second baseman, a center fielder or their best trade chip. With...
MATSUI COULD BE CENTER OF YANKS' ATTENTION
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amIn Japan, fans and reporters wonder if Hideki Matsui will come closer to hitting 50 home runs next season, as he did in 2002 for the Yomiuri Giants. They wonder...
TIME WAS RIGHT FOR ZIM TO WALK AWAY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amDON Zimmer is old school. You must respect him for that, but it is long past time for him to move on from the Yankees. One day after the Yankees...
JOSE: IT WAS TOUGH YEAR
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThis was a tough season for Jose Contreras, and losing the World Series to the Marlins was the final hurt. Contreras, the former Cuban national star who signed a free-agent...
OUT OF THE ABYSS, SUDDEN LIFE - GIANTS REBOUND TO UPEND MINNY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The ball was sitting there, waiting to be scooped up, the result of another special teams nightmare that, like a razor-sharp dagger, was about to finally be plunged...
GUERIN SAYS DEAL IS NO GO
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThere's much printed speculation that the Stars and Maple Leafs have been in discussions about a trade that would send Billy Guerin to Toronto. However, those reports have overlooked a...
AFTER WIN, HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Relief and reassurance flowed through a happy Giants locker room yesterday following their 29-17 victory over the previously unbeaten Vikings at the Metrodome. But even in the midst...
ROOKIE PICKS A FINE TIME TO BE HERO
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Will Allen knew he was in for an all-day battle with Randy Moss, and Allen knew he would not win every skirmish against the most lethal receiver in...
FISH TURN FOCUS TO ENCORE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe Yankees have been toppled. The World Series trophy travels to Florida. The parade is tomorrow. But what in the world can the Marlins do for an encore? "We will...
MOSS CAN'T MATCH BIG BLUE QUANTITY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Is it better to have one great receiver or three very good ones? The Giants certainly would chose the latter following yesterday's crucial 29-17 triumph over the previously...
ECLIPSES STILL A HORSE RACE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amARCADIA, Calif. - The "Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships" day is designed to determine the annual Eclipse Awards for the nation's top horses, and usually does, but this year it...
MARTIN, HARRIS MAY SIT OUT NETS' OPENER
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amOver the past two years, the Nets opened their seasons and started their march to the Finals in good health. That probably won't be the case this time around, with...
THE CUP RUNNETH OVER
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amARCADIA, Calif. - The 20th running of the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita smashed all betting records - $120 million in total handle - despite no marquee horse attraction, hot...
MALLARD ATONES WITH HEADY PLAY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Wesly Mallard knew the rule and because he did, the Giants averted disaster and turned another special-teams mishap into an injection of momentum in yesterday's 29-17...
OMAR BOWS OUT OF MET GM HUNT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amOmar Minaya bowed out of the Mets' front office search yesterday afternoon, confirming a Post exclusive on Oct. 19. Despite extensive negotiations between the Montreal general manager and the Mets,...
THIS JUST ISN'T GOING TO CUT IT - GEORGE VOWS BIG CHANGES
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe pain of losing the World Series to the Marlins hadn't come close to subsiding yesterday when George Steinbrenner vowed that the face of his organization would be different next...
HAMMOND OPTIMISTIC - BUT WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF HE'S DEALT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00am"I'm just going to do what I always do, go back home, start getting in shape and getting ready for spring training, wherever that may be." -CHRIS HAMMOND ----- When...
RICK LIKELY TO BE DOWN . . . AND OUT
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amRick Down wants to be back next year. The thing is, he's probably not going to get an invitation. For the third straight year, the Yankees failed to win the...
JET QB HANDOFF FLOPS IN PHILLY - CHAD PLAYS, BUT CAN'T GET VICTORY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Let the second-guessing begin. Let the sports radio heroes start lighting up the lines. Let the Monday Morning Quarterbacks begin throwing their darts. Part Two of the Jets'...
HERM RUSHED SWITCH TO PENNINGTON
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Chad Pennington fumbled The Great Quarterback Handoff yesterday. It was up to Pennington to make Herm Edwards' unconventional plan work and it was up to Pennington to keep...
ABRAHAM SACKED BY INJURY AFTER BIG DAY
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - After playing one of the best games of his career in yesterday's loss to the Eagles, Jets' defensive end John Abraham suffered a right groin injury...
MEL: NOT SURE YET ON RETURN
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Mel Stottlemyre pulled out of the Yankee Stadium parking lot, turned right and headed for his New Jersey home yesterday afternoon. Tomorrow, he travels to his Seattle home...
VINNY'S BIG DAY NOT IN THE PLAN
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - We'll never know. Vinny Testaverde will never know, nor will Herman Edwards, Chad Pennington, the rest of the Jets or anyone else for that matter. What would have...
MCNABB HAS GRIP ON GAME AGAIN
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Donovan McNabb looked like thumb quarterback again yesterday. There were 12 reasons: 11 Jets on defense and one bruised right thumb he didn't tape. "This was the first...
JET QB HANDOFF FLOPS IN PHILLY: CHAD DROPS BALL AFTER VINNY'S START
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -Let the second-guessing begin. Let the sports radio talk heroes start lighting up the lines. Let the Monday Morning Quarterbacks begin throwing their darts. Chad Pennington or Vinny Testaverde?...
IT'S RUSH WEEK ON DEFENSE, OFFENSE
October 27, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The Jets' pass rush, already a strength through the first seven weeks of the season, was on its game early yesterday against the Eagles. Led by...