November 9, 2003
BULL'S EYE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amBEST OF BOCA Most over-used word: ethics. Most underutilized concept: ethics. Most under-attended panel: ethics in the securities industry. Most notably absent: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Most indirectly...
LIFE AFTER TOM: CASH-COW GUCCI BRAND MAY GO TO THE MALLS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amCash-cow Gucci brand may go to the malls The double G logo will probably stay, but the reins of Gucci will pass from the glamorous, pinup-boy designer Tom Ford to...
PRE-TRIAL KOBE: NO ONE'S TUNING IN;
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA funny thing happened on the way to the Kobe Bryant trial: Despite TV's best efforts, no one seems to care. Not the TV-watchers we spoke with over the last...
THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00am'Finding Nemo" may have broken DVD sales records last week, but it will face a real challenge come Oscar time from a sophisticated animated feature about a club-footed grandma, her...
SOFTIE CELEB SAVES STRAY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amWhat would you do if you were driving along a busy highway and you spotted a stray dog darting in and out of traffic? For Eric Stoltz, there was only...
I'VE BEEN 'PUNK'D' ; PRANKS SHOWS ARE A LITTLE HARD TO SWALLOW
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amMESSAGE to Jamie Kennedy: If you ever play a prank on me, I'll break your nose. I know that sounds extreme, especially since I've never intentionally broken anyone's nose in...
ADAMS' B-SIDE; IT'S TOUGH STAGING A COMEBACK AT AGE 29
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amWill the real Ryan Adams please stand up? The critically adored East Village-based singer/songwriter is as well-known for his diva-like temper as he is for writing heartbreaking, evocative love songs....
MOMA KNOWS BEST ABOUT GERMAN FILM
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amCine File always looks forward to the Museum of Modern Art's annual festival of German movies. This year's series - the 25th, no less - has arrived and continues through...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... THE VINTAGE POSTER FAIR
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe International Vin tage Poster Fair takes place Friday through next Sunday at the Park Central Hotel (870 Seventh Ave). For more information, visit www.posterfair.com or call (800) 856-8069. Afterward,...
A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION AND A LITTLE MORE ACTION
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amWe spent an hour discussing how he could prove to his ex that he would be a great dad while he shrieked, "But I'm useless, I'm useless." The great thing...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amLove Shelby: Shelby Lynne performed her porch-swing country tunes and blue-eyed soul songs at four sold-out sets at Joe's Pub. For one set, she paid tribute to Johnny Cash with...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER HELEN WANG PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amHELEN SAYS: "Find one key item that will give you 'the look' and you can get by." When Helen Wang was only 13, she transformed her dorm room at a...
SHOWSTOPPING TWISTS & TURNS: A-LIST MOVIE STARS HIT THE BOARDS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amForget the silver screen. A-list actors are fleeing the Hollywood Hills to tread the boards on Broadway. Perhaps the glamour of movie-making seems like less of a serious career these...
CANINE COUTURE: DOGGIE DUDS DESIGNED BY OUR OWN CINDY ADAMS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amFirst, there was Juicy Couture. Now, there's Jazzy Couture - the first fashion-forward collection for cosmopolitan canines. It's a look whose time has come, says Post columnist Cindy Adams. "My...
'REAL' GIPPER FILM COMING
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amGet ready for the "real" story about the Reagans. A documentary video series featuring news clips and other historic footage of President Ronald Reagan is planned as the next step...
ANGUISH OF 'OUT SICK' SKIPPER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA longtime captain of the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry boat was supposed to be at the helm that day but was out with a tooth problem that put him in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA California high school has picked a girl to be homecoming king. Angela Anthony, 17, was crowned king at Hayward HS in Oakland. Anthony went for king because her best...
DEEP-POCKETS DEAN ABANDONS $$ LIMITS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amDemocratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean has decided to opt out of the public financing system for the primaries in an effort to keep pace with President Bush's massive fund-raising machine....
FUNNY TWENTIES ; NEW BILLS ALREADY IN COUNTERFEIT
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe newly redesigned multicolored $20 bill was put into circulation on Oct. 9. The first arrest for churning out counterfeits came less than a week later. On Oct. 13, two...
GAY NAVY GRADS WANT 'OUT'
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA former student at the Naval Academy who hid his gay lifestyle while at the Annapolis school is trying to establish an official gay and lesbian chapter of the school's...
I'M NO HERO, SAYS JESSIE'S LIFE SAVER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe soldier who saved the life of Pfc. Jessica Lynch will tell his story to Mike Wallace on CBS's "60 Minutes" tonight. Pfc. Patrick Miller, from Valley Center, Kan., was...
RAPPER GOES HOME ; SLICK RICK GLAD TO BE OUT OF JAIL - BUT FEARS APPEAL
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amBritish-born rapper "Slick Rick" Walters, back home in The Bronx yesterday after 17 months behind bars, may not be out of the woods yet - immigration authorities have a week...
RUDY GETS MIKE OFF THE HOOK IN RACE-POLITICS SLAP
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amFORMER Mayor Rudy Giuliani had to intervene to prevent infuriated allies from lashing out at Mayor Bloomberg, who was quoted in a magazine as saying "everything was always couched in...
MATES DEFEND MUM CAPTAIN BEING 'HUNG OUT TO DRY'
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amTHE grim-faced captain who has stonewalled investigators in the Staten Island Ferry crash is not the vilified culprit being blamed for the deadly disaster, say his family, friends and co-workers....
POLL SHOCK FOR BUSH
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amFifty percent of Americans would not vote to re-elect President Bush, according to a Newsweek poll. And leading Democratic presidential candidates continue to gain on Bush, with Gen. Wesley Clark...
2 BODIES FOUND IN MYSTERY CAR
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amCops in Maryland made a gruesome discovery in the trunk of a car registered to a New Rochelle woman: the bullet-riddled bodies of a man and a woman, police said...
TV GUNMAN'S RAGE ; COURT WOES, BACK PAIN FUELED ATTACK ON LAWYER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The gun-toting senior who tried to blow away an opposing lawyer in a surreal scene captured by TV cameras was enraged by an explosive combination of excruciating...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amQUEENS Detectives are investigating how an elderly woman who suffers from dementia wandered off from a hospital Friday evening only to be killed by a car several hours later, police...
YASSER SNATCHES 'SECURITY' POWER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amPalestinians reached a compromise for a new government yesterday under which security powers key to a U.S.-backed peace plan will be in the hands of a council controlled by President...
TRAGIC DATE WAS FIRST - AND LAST - FOR DOOMED BEAU
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA Yonkers man who plummeted to his death during a lover's quarrel between his new girlfriend and her ex was on his first date with her when the jilted lover...
CITY MISSED BOAT ON RULE 'VIOLATION'
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe city may have duped the public when it claimed that Capt. Michael Gansas violated a rule that the ferry boat captain must be in the dockside wheelhouse during all...
TOT SWIPED IN CARJACK MOM LEFT NISSAN IDLING WHILE SHE PICKED UP FOOD
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens mother was living a nightmare yesterday after a man stole her car with her adorable 2-year-old son sitting peacefully in the back seat, police said. The drama unfolded...
CITY MISSED BOAT ON SAFETY RULE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amTen current and former Staten Island Ferry workers say last Monday was the first time the city ever notified them of a rule requiring the captain, rather than the assistant...
HOW CAPTAIN OF DEATH FERRY GOT HIS SEA LEGS IN NAVY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amTHE man at the center of the Staten Island Ferry crash is a churchgoing father of two who once piloted Navy submarines in Haiti and the Philippines and twice helped...
MRI REPAIRMAN ZAPPED IN JOB GONE WRONG
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA freak accident set an electrician on fire - leaving him critically burned - while he was repairing the power line for an NYU Medical Center MRI machine, police and...
BEAU KNIFED BEFORE PLUNGE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe Yonkers man who plunged to his death during a lover's quarrel in an uptown hotel Friday was stabbed in the neck before his tragic fall, the Manhattan district attorney...
HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO WORK THAT DAY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA longtime captain of the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry boat was supposed to be at the helm that day but was out with a tooth problem that put him in...
POST'S LONGTIME GARDENING COLUMNIST, GUEST, DIES AT 82
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amFamed New York Post gardening columnist C.Z. Guest, who delighted readers with her down-to-earth Around the Garden feature, died yesterday in her sleep of natural causes at her Old Westbury,...
DOZENS KILLED IN SAUDI BLASTS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amSuspected al Qaeda suicide bombers, devastated an upscale housing complex in Saudi Arabia's capital yesterday, likely killing as many as 30 people and wounding about 100 others, diplomats said. A...
EMPTY LEGACY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amLegacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, by Rich Lowry, Regnery, 342 pages, $27.95 THIS book grew out of 9/11 - an effort to understand the roots of America's...
JAY-Z: WE'RE NOT BOUNCING CHECKS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amAllegations that Jay-Z's nightclub is bouncing checks all over town are a bum rap, the hip-hop star's rep claimed yesterday. Ron Berkowitz, spokesman for the rapper's 40/40 club, downplayed allegations...
IT'S ALL CASUAL
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amDoing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Lan- guage and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care by John McWhorter, Gotham Books, 279 pages, $26 BERKELEY professor and Manhattan Institute...
HEY, GUYS, THE MAG WAS CALLED ROSIE FOR A REASON
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amRosie O'Donnell was looking at the world through blues-colored glasses last week when witness after witness got on the stand to declare that she was a mean, bold, ranting bitch...
ABDUCT SUSPECT'S LAWYER: SHOW IS COURTING TROUBLE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe rush for television ratings tonight could further delay justice in the already slow-moving Elizabeth Smart kidnap case, a lawyer for her accused abductor says. The story of the Mormon...
CANCER SURVIVOR RIPS ROSIE'S SORRY EXCUSE FOR AN APOLOGY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe breast-cancer survivor who was taunted about her disease by Rosie O'Donnell is still waiting for an apology, The Post has learned. And O'Donnell admitted under oath that the she...
WORKER ZAPPED IN M.R.I. MISHAP
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA freak accident set an electrician on fire - leaving him critically burned - while he was repairing the power line for an NYU Medical Center MRI machine, police and...
TOT SWIPED IN CARJACK: MOM LEFT NISSAN IDLING AT EATERY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA desperate Queens mom made a passionate plea for the safe return of her 2-year-old son last night after a man stole her car as the adorable tot sat peacefully...
GAY TEENS' RICH MILK SHAKEDOWN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amTeenage transgender prostitutes from Harvey Milk HS boasted of earning up to $600 a night turning tricks and stealing from johns - then would blow it all on extravagant shopping...
SOLDIER DEAD IN BAGHDAD BOMB ATTACK
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA U.S. soldier from the 1st Armored Division was killed and another was wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad early today. The deadly strike come hours after new...
RICH MILK SHAKEDOWN: FRIENDS: GAY HS 'HOOKERS' CASHED IN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amTeenage transgender prostitutes from Harvey Milk HS boasted of earning up to $600 a night turning tricks and stealing from johns - then would blow it all on extravagant shopping...
STRIKES END BLOODIEST POSTWAR WEEK IN IRAQ
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amExplosions rocked Baghdad yesterday after U.S. warplanes bombed targets in Iraq in retaliation for the downing of another American helicopter. Guerrillas fired at least one mortar, which landed close to...
CARJACK TOT SAFE: COPS FIND MISSING BOY ON LONG ISLAND
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amA missing Queens toddler was found safe and sound asleep in the back of his mother's stolen car by a New York City cop early this morning - ten nervous...
BACK IN THE PICTURE CAPS LOOK TO DUMP $55 MILLION EX-STAR
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amIT IS one of hockey's most melancholy stories, the fall from grace of Jaromir Jagr, who not so very long ago lit up the league with a combination of irrepressible...
BACK IN THE HOT SEAT ; BRODEUR RETURNS TO FACE POTENT SENS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amKANATA, Ont. - To the Devils, this is where they really won last year's Stanley Cup. Martin Brodeur figures the Senators they beat last spring will be even better this...
ISLANDERS LOOKING TO SLASH WIEMER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amOn Friday afternoon, Jason Wiemer was called into Mike Milbury's office, where the Islanders GM told the gritty winger he would be moved or waived, The Post has learned, signaling...
BIG BLUE CAN'T FALL INTO TRAP ; WOEFUL FALCONS CONCERN GIANTS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amTrap? You want a trap? Sidle up to Dorsey Levens and ask him about a trap game. "I remember the game like it was yesterday," Levens said. It wasn't yesterday....
ALLEN CAN PAY PRICE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES As the Giants today face the 1-7 Falcons, the only Atlanta offensive player who truly presents matchup problems for opponents is receiver Peerless Price, a coveted free-agent signing...
OFFENSE MAKING ITS POINT
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amWE expected them to be standing atop the Empire State Building, flexing their muscles, lighting up New York in blue with the Greatest Show on Earth seen around Maratown since...
DEKE AND DESTROY ; MUTOMBO ROCKS AROUND THE BLOCK AS KNICKS ROLL
November 9, 2003 | 5:00am"I thought [Friday,] he was just exceptional." DON CHANEY Before the Knicks' fourth-quarter comeback Friday against the Kings, they had defensive breakdowns. But one man stood out defensively all night....
LAMPE CAN'T FIND HIS WAY OFF INJURED LIST
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Rookie Maciej Lampe is eligible to come off the injured list today, but don't count on it anytime soon. The 7-foot big man from Poland was surprised to...
THICK AS THIEVES ; KERRY, KIDD STEALING THE SHOW
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Nets had just completed their conquest of the Celtics Friday and Alonzo Mourning yelled over to Kerry Kittles at the far end of the Nets' locker...
RAHMAN WANTS TO BELT JONES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Roy Jones isn't sure whether his next fight will be at light heavyweight or heavyweight, but if he's looking for volunteers Hasim Rahman has his hand raised....
COLLINS LIKES BEING CENTER OF ATTENTION
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Say the name "Jason Collins." The responses invariably are similar. "Cerebral," said Nets president Rod Thorn. "Confident," said Byron Scott. "Consistent," said teammate Aaron Williams....
PIAZZA EXPECTS TO PLAY 1ST BASE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amMike Piazza is ready and willing to play first base next year. The next step for the Mets and Piazza is to determine how many games he'll play there. "I...
BEST OF N.Y. BATTLE IT OUT
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe spotlight falls on state-breds today at the Big A, which hosts the four New York Stallion Stakes worth a hefty $450,000 in purses, restricted to horses whose sires stand...
YOUTH MOVEMENT? HA! RANGER VETERANS CAN'T GET GOING AGAINST PHILLY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amFlyers 2Rangers 1 A week ago, the Rangers were celebrating their sudden infusion of youthful energy. Now, that youth is either stapled to the bench or in Hartford. Welcome to...
BLUESHIRTS COME UP SMALL AGAINST HUGE FOES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amKEN Hitchcock said it wasn't a matter of getting the sleep out of his team's eyes, more that his Flyers couldn't believe what they were seeing. "The tempo I saw...
DENT WAITS FOR SIGN ; BUCKY COULD REPLACE MAZ AT THIRD BASE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amBucky Dent doesn't know what the Yankees are going to do about filling Lee Mazzilli's third base coaching job, but the former Bombers hero and manager would love to be...
SHEEPSHEAD TOUGH ROAD PAYS OFF BIG
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFSSheepshead 28Erasmus 14 As the losses piled up for Sheepshead Bay this season, coach Fred Snyder tried to keep his team upbeat. "We were losing to some very good...
GIVING THEM 'FITZ' ; PITT WR QUIETLY BIDS FOR HEISMAN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Less than five weeks from tonight, the eyes of the nation's college football fans will be focused on New York, where the Heisman Trophy will be awarded to...
SITTING DUCKS CHANEY BENCHES DIKEMBE - AND PAYS PRICE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amBucks 90 Knicks 87 MILWAUKEE - Coach Don Chaney met with Dikembe Mutombo in the Knicks' hotel yesterday morning, with Mutombo asking the coach to rethink his philosophy and play...
VICTORY FITZ PITT: PANTHERS RALLY AS JONES' 4 TDS CAN'T SAVE HOKIES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amPittsburgh 31 Va. Tech 28 PITTSBURGH - Virginia Tech's Kevin Jones put up Heisman Trophy statistics for four quarters. Pittsburgh's Larry Fitzgerald waited until his team's final drive. Maybe the...
MILBURY PLANNING TO SLASH WIEMER
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThrashers 4Islanders 3 The Islanders were simply disinterested. In last night's 4-3 loss to the Thrashers, they skated away from every fight they were challenged to, they shied away from...
SENSATIONAL, BUT . . . GOMEZ TRADE RUMORS OVERSHADOW DEVILS' WIN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 1Senators 0 KANATA, Ont. - Amid all the hubbub of this night of Devils wonder, there came the rumble that teams are pitching for 2000 Rookie of the Year...
DON WON'T DWELL ON LAST YEAR'S STRUGGLES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MILWAUKEE - The Knicks' Achilles heel last season was their utter failure to muster the energy to win on the second nights of back-to-backs. Their 2-17 record on...
NO KNICK ENCORE BACK-TO-BACKS STILL A SORE POINT
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amBucks 90Knicks 87 MILWAUKEE - Since it worked so well last time, Don Chaney went back to the old strategy of sitting Dikembe Mutombo for the fourth quarter. For the...
VICTORY FITZ PITT ; PANTHERS RALLY AS JONES' 4 TDS CAN'T SAVE HOKIES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amPittsburgh 31Va. Tech 28 PITTSBURGH - Virginia Tech's Kevin Jones put up Heisman Trophy statistics for four quarters. Pittsburgh's Larry Fitzgerald waited until his team's final drive. In a showdown...
ROY REIGNS ... AND BOOS RAIN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - It was the first time in his career that Roy Jones was booed. It also was the first time he was beaten up. His left eye swollen,...
PREPARE TO TRAVEL WITH GUN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amIT never was easy for hunters to travel by air, and since 9/11 it's become a real chore. But if you are traveling with firearms, following a few simple rules...
FAN MAN TRAGEDY FITS BOXING PROFILE
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amWHERE are they now? Don't ask. Thursday was the 10th anniversary of Fan Man's fan-propelled parachute descent onto the ring apron during the seventh round of the Evander Holyfield-Riddick Bowe...
FINISH TO SEASON ONLY START OF STORY
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amCATERPILLAR doesn't manufacture a shovel big enough to get the Jets out from 2-6. Even Santana Moss can't go that deep. So what is there left to play for? "These...
CHESTER FEELS RIGHT AT HOME
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES OAKLAND - Chester McGlockton began his career with the Raiders, so he knows exactly what to expect when he returns to Oakland today as a member of the...
CHAD IN SEARCH OF RAID-EMPTION ; LOSS IN PLAYOFFS LINGERS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amOAKLAND - Two months passed before Chad Pennington would allow himself to watch it. It was March when he finally decided to do what he'd been holding off doing. "I...
GOOD HUMOR MAN
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amWELCOME to the NBA where a number of teams began this season with a legit shot to go winless and scoreless. Have you eyeballed TNT's hilarious Shaquille O'Neal commercial? You...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
November 9, 2003 | 5:00am'He was born to be a coach' Jim Leyritz's locker was next to Don Mattingly's. He knows why Mattingly is so revered in New York. "He went out to play...
BEST OF N.Y. BATTLE IT OUT IN FOUR STAKES
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe spotlight falls on state-breds today at the Big A, which hosts the four New York Stallion Stakes worth a hefty $450,000 in purses, restricted to horses whose sires stand...
BACK IN THE PICTURE : RANGERS IN HUNT AS CAPS LOOK TO DUMP JAGR
November 9, 2003 | 5:00amIT IS one of hockey's most melancholy stories, the fall from grace of Jaromir Jagr, who not so very long ago lit up the league with a combination of irrepressible...