November 16, 2003
BULL'S EYE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amTV DAs for TD In the online trading system, TD Waterhouse is represented by two separate but equally dramatic actors: Steven Hill, a curmudgeon in a bear market, and Sam...
BRONFMAN MAKES VIRTUE OF NECESSITY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amWhen your son squanders the family fortune, it's probably going to affect your retirement plans. In the case of Edgar M. Bronfman, whose son Edgar Jr. blew the family's $14...
WHERE TO EAT AFTER ... VISITING THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThere's a new Center for Architecture in town (536 La Guardia Place, between Third and Bleecker streets), opened by the American Institute of Architects. Among the inaugural exhibits is "Going...
WIN SOME, LOSE SOME ; THIS TV CRITIC NO EXPERT AT PICKING THE HITS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amI'M bursting with pride at the news that "Skin" has been cancelled. I pegged this new Fox series about the porn industry as the worst new show of the season...
STARR REPORT
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amIt's got a ring to it Ch. 11's Toni Senecal is tying the knot with longtime boyfriend Tracy Shea. Senecal, who hosts the station's "Toni Time" entertainment segments, had a...
NAKED IN BUDAPEST
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amCINE File has long wanted to visit Budapest, but he's yet to make it. So when he received the offer to meet with Hungarian actress Erika Marozsan, star of the...
FAITH AND FUNK ; HE MADE WOMEN SWOON, THEN FOUND GOD - NOW, AL GREEN MIXES THE HOLY WITH THE LOWLY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00am'I'm so excited," says 57-year-old legendary soul singer Rev. Al Green. "I've got my fingers crossed, eyes crossed, toes crossed, legs crossed." The man behind bedroom classics like "Here I...
A GUY WITH NO CLUE WHO LEFT ME IN A STEW
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amI bought this guy dinner and it hadn't even occurred to him to see me safely home. Was he that desperate to get away? I lay awake in bed for...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe look of love: Asked to entertain the troops for a guitar-tuning moment at Town Hall, Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson hesitated before doing his spot-on impersonation of Elvis Costello...
IN OUR HALL OF SHAME, THESE FOLKS ARE ... GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amWhat a week. MSNBC aired an interview from Iraq with an Army officer who spoke of encountering two straight days of mortar fire. As he spoke, a graphic appeared at...
SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE: SHOCK - NOT AWE - OVER TAPE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amEveryone 's talking about it,even though few have seen it in its entirety - the videotape of socialite Paris Hilton and ex- boyfriend Rick Solomon en flagranto. The tape -...
SHOPAHOLIC: I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER CHARLIE SMITH PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amWhen London-born fashion designer Charlie Smith moved to Brooklyn with her family two years ago,she didn 't want to take orders from anyone but herself. Five months ago,she opened up...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amTalk about making a stink. A woman in China, frustrated over her husband's body odor, has made him sign an agreement to take a bath every day. The wife, Yin,...
MEPHAM PARENTS TO PLOT ACTION
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDozens of Long Island parents outraged at the handling of broomstick hazing assaults at a Mepham High School football camp are organizing a secret meeting tomorrow to plan action against...
HERO BARBER SAVED KIDS BEFORE COP KILLED BANDIT
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA quick-acting barber described yesterday how he plucked two panicked kids from harm's way after a gunman stormed his Brooklyn shop in a botched stickup moments before the robber was...
BILL PAL PLANS PLEA ; FUND WHIZ BILKED BENEFIT GALAS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA California fund-raiser to the stars, who reportedly has been questioned in the ongoing probe of former President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, is expected to plead guilty tomorrow to...
SCHUMER CALLS FOR S.I. VET CEMETERY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amStaten Island vets are fighting for a veterans cemetery to call their own, and have enlisted Sen. Charles Schumer to help. Schumer said 6.7 percent of Staten Islanders are veterans....
MACHETE 'MUGGER' FROM FAMILY OF MOB KILLERS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA suspect nabbed last week for committing 10 Brooklyn muggings in 61 minutes is the son of a convicted murderer and related to two mob killers who were rubbed out...
PREPPY HELD IN PARTY PUMMEL
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA 16-year-old Fordham Prep School student has surrendered to cops on charges of assault in the gang-bang beating of a teenager during a boozy Upper East Side party that left...
HILL HAS PREZ-ENCE IN IOWA HEARTLAND
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDES MOINES - Iowa's top House Democrat said yesterday that voters would flock to the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton if she ran for president. Rep. Leonard Boswell told...
BX. SLAY SUSPECT IS BUSTED IN BELGIUM
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the NYPD's most wanted, accused killer Robin Valentin, was captured in Belgium after a two-year hunt, police said yesterday. Valentin, 22, went on the lam after allegedly killing...
TRAIN 'SURFER' FIGHTS FOR LIFE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA maritime college student was still fighting for his life yesterday when he was critically injured and his buddy killed "subway surfing" after a booze-filled night in Manhattan. Brian Hochstetter,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn Police yesterday identified the 83-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a city bus in Midwood on Friday. Theresa Giallomardo of Van Siclen Street, was crossing Kings Highway...
LUXE-LINER TRAGEDY; COLLAPSE KILLS 13 ON TOUR OF QUEEN MARY 2
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amTragedy struck the world's largest and most expensive cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, yesterday when a temporary gangway collapsed, sending least 13 people to their deaths and injuring 32...
THE MOLD RUSH IS ON
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe mold rush is on. Contractors are seeing lucrative dollar signs in the city's creeping mold epidemic, yet many are unscrupulous, or simply unqualified, government and private experts say. Certified...
GIFF IN CITY HALL HUDDLE WITH CAMPAIGN VETERAN
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amCITY Council Speaker Gifford Miller last week met with veteran political consultant David Doak, possibly in preparation for a 2005 mayoral campaign. "He came with a full entourage and a...
'STARVE' BROTHERS GET REHAB
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amTwo brothers of a starving teen found in New Jersey last month have also needed medical treatment since they were taken from their adopted family and put into foster homes,...
FUEL TANKER CRASH ON S.I.
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA gas tanker carrying 4,200 gallons of fuel jack-knifed on Staten Island last night, hitting a car and a utility pole and forcing Con Ed to turn off power in...
MYSTERY DEEPENS IN DRIVE-BY SHOOT
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDetectives were seeking suspects and a motive in the mysterious shooting of a father and son, both of whom were blasted in the face Friday night while driving on the...
CELEB SLEUTH'S MYSTERY H'WOOD TAPES
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amCelebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano goes to jail tomorrow for hiding hand grenades in Hollywood, but the biggest bombshell from his bizarre behavior could be yet to come. Some of...
FERRY PILOT LIED ABOUT RX: PROBE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe suicidal Staten Island Ferry pilot, who claimed he was on blood-pressure medication at the time of last month's deadly crash, did not take prescription drugs beforehand, a law-enforcement source...
NY1 STAR AWAKENS; REPORTER OUT OF 2-MONTH COMA
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amNY1 reporter Rebecca Spitz regained consciousness yesterday morning, nearly two months after being struck in the head by a van's mirror while covering a news story in Harlem, her brother...
BOMB HORROR AT SYNAGOGUES
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amAt least 22 people were killed and hundreds more injured yesterday when terrorists set off a pair of Sabbath-day car bombs at Istanbul's two largest synagogues, leaving burned and bloodied...
STEAKHOUSE'S PACT WELL-DONE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the city's fanciest steakhouses has struck new contract with its workers - ending a week in which disgruntled employees waved placards and picketed outside it and other tony...
'SORRY BANDIT' JAILED IN POLITE ROB SPREE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amJust call him the "Apologetic Bandit." Daniel Genis, 25, suspected in a string of knifepoint robberies throughout lower Manhattan, was nabbed Friday afternoon after he was spotted by one of...
'INAUGURATOR'; ARNIE STAR OF LOW-KEY CEREMONY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, warming up for his inauguration tomorrow, promised to bring the boom back to a reeling Silicon Valley. "The most important thing we need to...
PARIS' TACKINESS REVEALS HILTON FAMILY'S VACANCY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amParis Hilton, the hotel heiress whose prolific body of work has gone straight to video faster than Gary Busey and Lorenzo Lamas movies combined, seems to have an even more...
CANDIDATES FEEL HILL PREZ-ENCE IN IOWA
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDES MOINES - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had the look, the message and even the campaign theme music for a White House run, but last night she was content to...
OVERTIME SET TO BUST COP BUDGET BY $200M
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD is on pace to go $200 million over budget in the fiscal year that began in July, according to figures supplied by the Independent Budget Office. That would...
CAR STRIKES QNS. WOMAN, 90
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA tough-boned old lady miraculously survived a run-in with a Lincoln Town Car in Queens yesterday - winding up in stable condition in Elmhurst Hospital after being hit by the...
MAMBO KING AND LANDLORD OUT OF STEP
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe man who popularized the mambo says his landlord is stepping on his toes. Horacio Riambau, 82, claims he is being threatened with eviction from his apartment at 117 West...
INSIDE TOWERS FOR OUR TIME ; A BEAUT IS BORN AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amAn astonishing thing just happened at Columbus Circle: the $1.8 billion, twin-towered Time Warner Center blossomed into an actual building. After three years of construction, the scaffolding and sidewalk bridges...
DISTURBING WRINKLE AT CHIC BOTOX CLINIC
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA Botox doctor who worked with a ritzy Fifth Avenue spa says the place ripped him off and tried to take over his practice, then locked him out when he...
'INAUGURATOR' ; ARNIE STAR OF LOW-KEY CEREMONY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, warming up for his inauguration tomorrow, promised to bring the boom back to a reeling Silicon Valley. "The most important thing we need to...
THE EARLY-SEASON HONEYMOON'S OVER
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amPredators 4 Islanders 3 NASHVILLE - It's painfully obvious that something is rotten in Islander Country. Again. The optimism and all-around peachiness of the first month of the season has...
ISLES PLAN TO SLASH TICKET PRICES
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amHOO boy, do we seem to have been very wrong about the Islanders, a team that not only seems finally to have an admirable blend of technical ability, maturity and...
DEKE ACHE IS WEIGHING ON CHANEY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The last thing Dikembe Mutombo needed as he tries to win Don Chaney's fourth-quarter trust is an injury. At Thursday's practice he tweaked his groin, turning to run...
EX-NET JAX NOT HOLDING A GRUDGE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES ATLANTA - Stephen Jackson says he has no grudge against the Nets. Yeah, right. "I got it all out of me. I didn't think I was treated the...
MEN AGAINST BOYS ; ONE-TIME RIVALRY IS NOW MISMATCH
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 5Rangers 0 The great rivalry has become a major mismatch. Even the Ranger who turned his back on the Devils had to admit the obvious. "We are nowhere near...
NO EXCUSE FOR KOVALEV
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amENOUGH. Enough already with the excuses he offered the middle of the week about how it's easier in Pittsburgh because players are allowed to be themselves and not so much...
SPICE ISLAND RALLIES TO CAPTURE L.I.
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amGiven the way European shippers dominated this year's Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, it's no surprise that three of the top five finishers in yesterday's Grade 2, $150,000 Long...
JOEPA'S FAR FROM FINISHED
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The voice is still so full of Brooklyn, of Marine Park, Avenue U and East 33rd Street, of St. Edmund's Parish in Flatbush. Joe Paterno grew...
KOBE WANTS OWN SHOW
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amWELCOME to the NBA, where Jazz fans are wondering why John Stockton took so long to retire and turn over the point-guard position to Carlos Arroyo. Why would TNT's crew...
YANKS' SHEFF DEAL STIRRING SLOWLY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amGary Sheffield is interested in the Yankees, and the Yankees are interested in Gary Sheffield. When the two will actually meet is another story. Contrary to reports that Sheffield met...
BIG TEN SHAKEOUT ; TITLE SHOT AWAITS OSU-PURDUE WINNER
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - The Big Game is next week. This was the really important game before the Big Game. Before Ohio State could play for the Big Ten title next week...
NORRIS KEYS CLASSIC COMEBACK
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFSP. Richmond 21Lincoln 14 Aubrey Norris frequently watches old football games on ESPN Classic and pays particular attention to the ones that ended dramatically. He's become an admirer of...
GIANTS FACE EAGLES ON WING & A PRAYER ; FASSEL WATCH STARTS TODAY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - If a team is worth anything, if it has the talent and the toughness, at some point in a season it makes a stand. Not by words, but...
SOUND THE HORN! CLUELESS CHANEY MUST START MAKING BETTER USE OF KEITH
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amSO what happened to all that talk about posting up Keith Van Horn, letting his size advantage at small forward work to the Knicks' advantage. What happened? Just like everything...
TIME TO COME UP BIG
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - They keep talking about playing Giants football, then play pee wee football too much of the time. New York's plea is this: If there is ever a day...
THUMBS UP FOR MCNABB
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Donovan McNabb's numbers remain lousy, but ever so slowly, he is returning to form as he battles a sprained thumb on his throwing hand that's limited...
ZORAN PUTS SMILE ON SCOTT'S FACE NETS ROOKIE SHOWS OFF GAME
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Maybe it was the presence of veteran Robert Pack. Or maybe Nets' rookie Zoran Planinic simply said, "Enough!" and played the way he knows how to play. Either...
MATTINGLY LIKES MIKE ON FIRST
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDon Mattingly believes Mike Piazza could play first base. "If he wants to, I do," Mattingly, who won nine Gold Gloves at the position, said yesterday. The Yankees' new hitting...
LET'S SHOUT FOR THE SOUND
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amLONG Island Sound is the only estuary in the entire country that is protected by the Ocean Dumping Act. This protection is necessary because the Sound is dying. There has...
MATTINGLY: MIKE COULD HANDLE 1B
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amDon Mattingly believes Mike Piazza could play first base. "If he wants to, I do," Mattingly, who won nine Gold Gloves at the position, said yesterday. The Yankees' new hitting...
PIAZZA WANTS TO STAY AT SHEA ; MET STAR DENIES HE WANTS OUT - FATHER
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amMike Piazza has denied reports that he wants out of New York, according to his father, Vince, who spoke to the Mets star about the stories. "I talked to him....
TRADE WOULD BE ALL ABOUT PAY-ROD
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amIf the Mets acquire Alex Rodriguez in a deal for Mike Piazza, they won't get the Texas shortstop at a discount. According to Scott Boras, A-Rod's agent, Rodriguez cannot restructure...
SHEFF OF THE FUTURE? GEORGE YET TO MOVE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amGary Sheffield is interested in the Yankees, and the Yankees are interested in Gary Sheffield. When the two will actually meet is another story. Contrary to reports that Sheffield met...
LUCK OF THE BUCKEYES ; OHIO STATE SQUEAKS PAST BOILERMAKERS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME Ohio St. 16 Purdue 13 We've been asking this question for two years now. Even Ohio State coach Jim Tressel didn't know how to respond when was asked if...
LUCK OF THE BUCKEYES ; OHIO STATE EKES OUT ANOTHER AMAZING WIN
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIME Ohio St. 16 Purdue 13 COLUMBUS - Buckeyes or Luckeyes? You decide. We've been asking this question for two years now. Even Ohio State coach Jim Tressel didn't know...
ACHY DEKE MAY SIT OUT VS. CELTS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES He played, he conquered, he made what looked to be the game-winning tip-in with 33 seconds left. But Dikembe Mutombo's heroic 13-point, 14-board effort was spoiled because he...
MILLER STILL A KILLER AT THE GARDEN
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amReggie Miller came out on fire last night. He scored 10 points in the first quarter, then eight more in the second. "He's killing us, as usual," season-ticket holder Spike...
GARDEN OF GLOOM KNICKS STAGE 24-0 RUN - THEN COLLAPSE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amPacers 95Knicks 94 Only Don Chaney's inept Knicks can rewrite their own record book with a whopping 24-0, game-turning run and still choke away the game in the devastating final...
BACK IN BUSINESS ; FINALLY, K-MART & NETS BRING 'O'
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amNets 100Hawks 85 ATLANTA - The very thought seemed ridiculous. The Nets averaging 84 points a game? The Jason Kidd-Kenyon Martin-Richard Jefferson-Alonzo Mourning-Kerry Kittles and all-the-rest Nets, scoring that paltry...
'ZO GETTIN' IN GROOVE
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES ATLANTA - Alonzo Mourning wanted his minutes to be productive. Can't get much more productive than 10 points in 12 minutes. Despite battling the need to get the...
GUMBEL-SIMMS TEAM THE BEST IN THE GAME
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amMISTAKES happen. There are so many mediocre-to- bad broadcast teams that the only way to explain the existence of a good one is that it's the result of serendipity, a...
RIGHT TIME TO PLAY INDY
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - If there ever was a time to play a 7-2 team on its home field, this is it. If there ever was a time to catch a team...
EDWARDS-DUNGY RIVALRY LIKE 'WILLIAMS SISTERS'
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Herman Edwards juggled a complex set of emotions last January after he led the Jets to a 41-0 shellacking of the Colts in the first round...
JETS' RUN-TWO PUNCH ; MARTIN, JORDAN MUST KEEP COLTS IN CORRAL
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amThe Jets know the Colts are going to run on them today. Twenty-one straight running plays against them last week in Oakland, coupled with their last-place ranking in run defense...
THE POST'S TOP 25
November 16, 2003 | 5:00am1. CONNECTICUT Last season: 23-10, lost to Texas in NCAA South semis. Coach: Jim Calhoun, 399-159 in 17 seasons. Key player: Jr. C Emeka Okafor Talent, depth and the rarest...
HEART OF THE HUSKIES: CALHOUN'S LIFE LESSONS PUT UCONN ON TOP
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amIF Jim Calhoun would tell his players one anecdote before the season's first practice, he might curtail how often he yells, stomps, and whirls around to the fans behind the...
REGGIE'S ACCEPTING NEW ROLE ON PACERS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amWhile Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley and Jeff Van Gundy are gone from the Garden, Reggie Miller hangs on, the last vestige of the Knicks-Pacers wars of the '90s. When Miller...
IT'S ALL ABOUT PAY-ROD: ALEX PACT WOULD COST AMAZIN'S
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amIf Alex Rodriguez comes to the Mets, it won't be at a discounted rate. With speculation that the Mets might try to orchestrate a Mike Piazza-for-Rodriguez superswap, some observers have...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amA national disgace The word in Phoenix this week at the general managers meetings was that it was a good thing Tommy Lasorda and George Steinbrenner didn't show up to...
ISLES' FORECAST IS CALLING FOR A LOT OF SNOW
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - Just when you thought Rick DiPietro had staked his claim as the Islanders' No. 1 goalie, Garth Snow started in nets here last night for the third straight...
LET'S SPEAK UP FOR L.I. SOUND
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amLONG Island Sound is the only estuary in the entire country that is protected by the Ocean Dumping Act. The reason for this protection is that the Sound is dying...
NORRIS KEYS A CLASSIC COMEBACK
November 16, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS P. Richmond 21 Lincoln 14 Aubrey Norris frequently watches old football games on ESPN Classic and pays particular attention to the ones that ended dramatically. He's become an...