November 21, 2003

MEN'S JOURNAL GETS GQ STYLE - ZINCZENKO LANDS ANOTHER WRITER FROM COOPER ERA

THE spirit of Art Cooper lives on, but increasingly these days it seems to be in the pages of Men's Health. Veteran health writer Jim Thornton is the fourth major...

SBC JOINS RUSH TO 'NET PHONES

Telephone companies are reaching out to the Internet-savvy with a message: We got the hookup. Unlike the music industry, which battled - and was battered by - new technology, phone...

BLACK AND BLUE - HOLLINGER SALE COULD MAKE CONRAD A PAUPER

Conrad Black is in for a serious lifestyle change. Black, who was deposed as chief executive of his Hollinger International newspaper empire this week, could be left with just $33...

SWIG MAKES MOVE ON 44 WALL STREET

Opportunistic investor Kent Swig is snatching up another chunk of Wall Street. This time, he's made a play for 44 Wall St., the handsome 1927 office building next door to...

BOMBINGS IN TURKEY BATTER BUCK

Terrorist attacks could cause as much damage to the dollar as our ongoing trade spats, economists warn. The greenback slid again yesterday against most currencies following bombings in Istanbul that...

SEC, SPITZER FILE CHARGES AGAINST PILGRIM, BAXTER

Gary Pilgrim and Harold Baxter, founders of Pilgrim Baxter & Associates, are the latest executives to be charged by federal and state regulators in an ever-widening probe of the massive...

DONALDSON, AG KISS AND MAKE UP

After days of exchanging very public barbs, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and SEC Chairman William Donaldson appear to have reached a truce. The two held a private meeting...

END OF NIKE SPAT HURTS FOOTWEAR RIVALS

The end of a long-simmering dispute between Nike and Foot Locker could mean trouble for rivals that benefited from the feud, analysts said. Nike said earlier this week that it...

BOIES ADVISED BLACK TO TONE DOWN, RESIGN

Conrad Black has hired super attorney David Boies to represent him in the growing financial scandal at his Hollinger International newspaper empire, The Post has learned. Black hired Boies this...

BOARD PUTS SQUEEZE ON OUSTED HONCHO

Hollinger International executives continue to distance themselves from deposed CEO Conrad Black. A piece of the company's strategy to reduce Black's influence at Hollinger International is to starve Hollinger Inc....

IDOL NAMED CEO OF KORS

After months of speculation, John Idol's appointment as chief executive of Michael Kors was made official yesterday. Idol's move to Michael Kors had been expected since he reached an agreement...

DEFIANT CONRAD SAYS HE'S INNOCENT

Despite his foot-in-mouth mistakes, Conrad Black is ignoring his new handlers and still sparring with the media. Unbowed and annoyed, Black challenged a room full of reporters in New York...

END OF NIKE SPAT HURTS SHOE RIVALS

The end of a long-simmering dispute between Nike and Foot Locker could mean trouble for rivals that benefited from the feud, analysts said. Nike said earlier this week that it...

SWIG MOVES ON 44 WALL

Opportunistic investor Kent Swig is snatching up another chunk of Wall Street. This time, he's made a play for 44 Wall St., the handsome 1927 office building next door to...

'SOPRANOS' SINGING AGAIN IN MARCH

NEW episodes of "The Sopranos" will begin airing in early March, HBO said yesterday. HBO also confirmed dates for the return of two of its other best-loved shows. First, the...

STARR REPORT

Add some Jimmys ABC has re newed "Jimmy Kimmel Live" for a second season, accord ing to Entertainment Weekly, which profiles the late-night host. The timing couldn't be bet ter;...

'CAT' GOES SPLAT!; FLAT 'CAT'

THE CAT IN THE HAT [Zero stars] Look what the cat dragged in. Running time: 82 minutes. Rated PG (mild crude humor and some double-entendres). At the E-Walk, Loews Lincoln...

SHOW THIS 'BARBARIAN' THE GATE

THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS [ 1/2] (one and one-half stars) In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 99 minutes. Not rated (mature subject matter). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Sunshine....

FIRST TO WORST

GOTHIKA [] (one star) Berry, Berry bad.Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (violence, nudity, gore, profanity). At the E-Walk, the Chelsea, the Union Square, others. ----- THE conventional wisdom is...

HOT KLINE SPURS 'HENRY'

HENRY IV [] (three stars) At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 239-6200. ------ WHAT a piece of work is Falstaff! And how wondrously does Kevin Kline play him!...

GIRL MEETS BOY MEETS GIRL IN TAIWAN TALE

BLUE GATE CROSSING [] (three stars) Teenage triangle. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. Running time: 85 minutes. Not rated (mature subject matter). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth and...

HEAVY HEARTS - A GROWN-UP TRAGEDY

21 GRAMS [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Weighty drama. Running time: 125 minutes. Rated R (violence, gore, profanity, sex). At the Empire, the Chelsea, the Lincoln Square, others. ----...

CHOSEN 'TOONS IN GLORY

THE monster hit "Finding Nemo" is among 11 animated films certified as qualified for Academy Award nominations in this year's Best Animated Picture category. Besides "Nemo" - considered an odds-on...

NOW, RUFUS IS THE 'ONE'

HOW does Rufus Wainwright, the colorful, dramatic singer/songwriter who makes men and women swoon, follow up his last masterpiece, "Poses"? The 30-year-old son of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate...

HE'LL KID YOU NOT - ROCK'S SURPRISING SECRET - AND IT'S NOT ABOUT PAM

"I like to cook. I like my house to look nice . . . and I'm really into decorating." -Kid Rock"I can play the game as long as it gets...

MICHAEL TAKES OVER TV

BE prepared for alot of Jacko TV. Almost all the networks and cable channels are feverishly at work on, or are getting ready to re-air, a string of Michael Jackson...

PISTOLS SHOT DOWN

JACKSON Browne and the Dells will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year - but the Sex Pistols were left out on the street again....

NOW A COLLAGE KING

GARTH FAGAN DANCE Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street. (212) 242-0800. Season runs through Sunday. ----- NEVER give up your day job. Jamaican-born Garth Fagan is the Tony-winning...

PROUD OF THE CROWD IN BROADWAY SURVEY

DESPITE a recent rash of quick closings, there may be some good news on Broadway: audiences are getting younger and more diverse. That's the news out of the latest Who...

HEIR OFFENSIVE - BAD WORD'S OUT ON ERIC NEDERLANDER

WHEN last we checked up on bad-boy producer Eric Nederlander, he was said to be soiling his famous theater family's name by passing bad checks and stiffing people who worked...

JERMAINE IS !#$% FURIOUS AS HE BLASTS 'LYNCHING'

The King of Pop's back-up-singer brother erupted in a profanity-laden burst of anger yesterday over the allegations leveled this week by prosecutors. Jermaine Jackson told CNN his brother was "innocent"...

NOW JACKO IS THE CUFFED ONE - DA BOOKS FREAKED-OUT STAR IN ODD SPECTACLE

A handcuffed Michael Jackson was booked on sensational child-molestation charges yesterday after a dramatic, made-for-TV surrender during which the bizarre pop star looked scared out of his mind. The frail...

CITY SINKS FERRY CAPTAIN'S PAY BID

The captain of the ill-fated Staten Island Ferry that rammed into a pier last month won't be back on the city payroll after all, officials said late yesterday. Lawyers for...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

A Florida woman who suffered a stroke suddenly developed a British accent when she recovered the power of speech. Doctors say Judi Roberts of Sarasota suffers from "foreign-accent syndrome" -...

QUEEN SUES OVER HER MIRROR IMAGE

LONDON - A furious Queen Elizabeth yesterday went to court and won an injunction against the Daily Mirror newspaper after new details of her private life were revealed by the...

U.N. DIPLOS GET A KICK IN ARREARS

Some permanent missions to the United Nations aren't so permanent after all. A group of deadbeat diplomats from the West African republic of Guinea-Bissau were booted from their East Side...

SERPENTS OF TERROR - THE BOMBINGS IN ISTANBUL

WHAT, besides the Muslim religion, does the medieval theocracy of Saudi Arabia have in common with democratic Turkey and its secular constitution? Both states tried to look the other way...

'RAPE' THUG REFUSES BLOOD TEST

The career criminal a rookie cop allegedly caught red-handed trying to rape a woman in Prospect Park has refused to provide a blood sample to prosecutors, who have said they...

YOUR TOP TRIBUTES - NYERS PICK FAVE MEMORIAL PLANS

Two Ground Zero memorial designs - a cloud-like canopy filled with light and another with sunken reflecting pools in the footprints - have emerged as the favorites, according to several...

SYPHILIS SOARS IN BIG APPLE

New York City is in the midst of a syphilis outbreak and is leading the nation in the number of new infections, officials said yesterday. In the past two years,...

100,000 BRITS THRONG TO 'OVERTHROW' PREZ

LONDON - About 100,000 anti-war protesters marched against President Bush yesterday, jubilantly toppling and stomping a papier-maché Bush effigy in imitation of how Iraqis pulled down Saddam Hussein's statue. It...

JAMAICA SALT MARSHES AT BAY

What is killing the great salt marshes of Jamaica Bay? The ecologically sensitive marshland has been vanishing at a rate of 50 acres per year since 1999 - up from...

ISRAELI ENVOY: ANKARA CAN DEAL WITH THESE KILLERS

JERUSALEM - The spread of the terrorist war to Turkey this week is ominous - but the Turks know how to deal with it. That's the message from Alon Liel,...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN * A quick-thinking neighbor helped cops capture a 15-year-old boy suspected of shooting a 24-year-old man on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street yesterday. Donald Harris suffered a fractured arm when he...

COMMISH: ANTI-TERROR $LICE UNFAIR

WASHINGTON - Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday expressed "frustration" with the Bush administration, charging it was handing out anti-terror funding to isolated towns around the country that don't need it...

HAPPY HOMEMAKER - JUDI TAKES PRIDE IN CASA GIULIANI

Rudy Giuliani's wife has ditched the hoi polloi to turn herself and her hubby into Upper East Side aristocrats. And to make sure everybody knows, Judi Nathan - Judith Giuliani...

COURT BACKS UFT IN TEACH-HIRE FLAP

ALBANY - In a blow to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, the state's top court yesterday gave a boost to the teachers union when it said hiring decisions made by principals...

GENEROSA 'PAYOFF'

The former housekeeper at Generosa Ammon's East Hampton mansion claims she got a $10,000 payoff from her employer's nanny to "keep quiet" about things she had seen at the estate....

THE PRESIDENT IN LONDON: LIBERTY'S CHAMPION

ON Wednesday, George W. Bush spoke before the British people and confessed to a tragic sin of omission: "Your nation and mine, in the past, have been willing to make...

POL TRASHES POP SIDEWALK INSPECTIONS

Israel Lieber got ticketed four times in the span of three hours last February for failing to keep the sidewalk outside his Borough Park home clean, even though he says...

KERRY: DUBYA PUSHES RX FOR DISASTER

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry has begun airing an ad in New Hampshire that slams President Bush on Medicare just as Congress is getting set to pass a prescription-drug bill...

BUDGET BIG: TAX HIKE MAY DOOM MIKE

If Mayor Bloomberg doesn't win a second term in 2005, he can probably blame the 18.5 percent property-tax increase, the mayor's budget director said yesterday. Budget chief Mark Page offered...

WE WILL STOP THIS EVIL - BUSH, BLAIR TALK AFTER BOMBINGS

LONDON - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday stood side by side and vowed that the double homicide bombs in Istanbul have only strengthened their resolve "to...

TURK 'TALIBAN' IN BOMB NIGHTMARE: BLASTS HIT BRIT BANK AND CONSULATE ; 27 DIE AS U.S. EYES IRAN-QAEDA LINK

WASHINGTON - Muslim terrorists exploded two powerful truck bombs five minutes apart at the British consulate and a London-based bank in Istanbul, Turkey yesterday, killing 27 people, including a top...

ISRAEL HAS 'ROAD' RAGE FOR THE U.N.

JERUSALEM - Israel hunkered down yesterday, saying the United Nations should keep out of the Mideast "road map" to peace - and acknowledged the United States will begin trimming loan...

'CROOK' IS LEFT ALE-ING - BEER-BASHED BY CUSTOMER

A beer went right to a Long Island stickup man's head - when he was clocked with a 12-ounce bottle of brew by a hero customer, who disarmed the bad...

VERMIN LEFT WRECKAGE IN HIS WAKE

DAVID Mullings is long dead, blown away at age 38 in 1991. Carmello Quinones is long dead, shot to death in a Manhattan bar in 1995. Both executions were committed...

HERE'S JFK AT 86 CYBER IMAGE 40 YEARS LATER

This is what President John F. Kennedy would look like today if he hadn't been assassinated four decades ago, according to a computerized age progression. JFK was 46 when he...

9/11 TAPE CLASH - MIKE FUMES AS FED PANEL DEMANDS FILES

WASHINGTON - The federal panel probing Sept. 11 yesterday accused New York City of stonewalling on emergency-response tapes and FDNY documents - drawing an angry response from City Hall. The...

FAT CATS WILL DO THE CARVING

Pass the gravy and thanks for the wealth. As Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving next week, families hosting the dinners have a lot to celebrate, according to a recent Scripps...

POT KING IS JAIL SNITCH IN SLAY

A jailhouse snitch who made $25 million from dealing pot before his arrest in a Brooklyn church testified yesterday that an air vent between federal prison cells served as a...

HUNKY DEREK COURTS SEXY VJ

Derek Jeter had every reason to be distracted during the Knicks-Lakers game on Wednesday night - he was sitting with MTV's radiant Total Request Live VJ, Vanessa Minnillo. Minnillo, a...

SPECTOR SLAY RAP - ROCK BIG FACES LIFE ON SURPRISE CHARGE

'She kissed the gun. I have no idea why ... never knew her, never even saw her before that.' - Phil Spector claiming in an Esquire magazine interview that actress...

COP RELIVES '95 GUNFIGHT HORROR

For Sgt. James Hopkins, it was like a scene out of a bad horror movie. Shot three times, the 13-year veteran emptied a 16-round clip into a closet where murder...

KIN SET TO LOOK AFTER HIS KIDS

Michael Jackson's family said yesterday they're ready to care for the Gloved One's three children if they need to be separated from the accused pedophile. "[The Jacksons are] very supportive"...

QNS. TEACH BUSTED IN GIRL GROPE

A teacher was arrested yesterday after he fondled a student's breasts and put his hands down her pants in a Queens public school, authorities said. Computer teacher George Addison, 40,...

DAVE BEGS FOR A PARIS NIGHTLIFE

David Letterman is desperate for a late-night date with Paris Hilton - and he isn't taking no for an answer. Hilton backed out of a booked appearance Wednesday on "The...

2ND BUST IN CROSSFIRE KID-SLAY

A second teen was arrested yesterday for taking part in a deadly Brooklyn shootout, as the grieving family of an 8-year-old boy killed in the crossfire prepared to bury him...

TURK 'TALIBAN' IN BOMB NIGHTMARE - * BLASTS HIT BRIT BANK AND CONSULATE * 27 DIE AS U.S. EYES IRAN-QAEDA LINK

WASHINGTON - Muslim terrorists exploded two powerful truck bombs five minutes apart at the British consulate and a London-based bank in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday, killing 27 people, including a top...

HOLDUP 'CROOK' IS LEFT ALE-ING

A beer went right to a Long Island stickup man's head - when he was clocked with a 12-ounce bottle of brew by a hero customer, who disarmed the bad...

BUST IN $6 MIL CREDIT SCAM

A former Queens businessman was arrested yesterday and charged with money laundering and grand larceny as part of a $6 million credit-card rip-off scheme. Amir Ansari, a 34-year-old Pakistani national,...

UNION HAS LAST SAY AT HEARINGS

The City Council's final hearing on wacky school union rules turned into a tirade against the Bloomberg administration, with teachers and union activists last night griping about overcrowding, unruly students,...

GOP GOES ON THE ATTACK WITH ADS

WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee is jumping to President Bush's defense in the terror war - and in the presidential campaign - with its first attack ad, a GOP...

2ND ARREST IN CROSSFIRE CHILD SLAY

A second teen was arrested yesterday for taking part in a Brooklyn shootout as the grieving family of an 8-year-old boy killed in the crossfire prepared to bury him tomorrow,...

JASON FLUBS 1ST NHL START - AVS TOO MUCH FOR RUSTY RANGERS

Avalanche 4 - Rangers 3 DENVER - Oh, baby. Sanna Markkanen, nine months pregnant and due any day, could not wait. Her husband, Rangers goaltender Jussi, poised to start last...

DOC RIGHT RX FOR ABC - HE'LL BE NICE FIT ON NBA-CASTS

When the Magic fired Doc Rivers earlier this week, ABC Sports executive producer Mike Pearl, a friend of Rivers, might have been cheering. Shortly afterward, Pearl swooped in and put...

5 QUESTIONS FOR STEVE LAVIN

This week, The Post's Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN's new college-basketball analyst, Steve Lavin. The 39-year-old Lavin coached UCLA for seven years and had five trips to the Sweet 16.Q:...

MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: CRIS COLLINSWORTH VS. TROY AIKMAN (WHO'S A BETTER GAME ANALYST?)

What separates Fox Sports' NFL game analyst Cris Collinsworth from most of the pack is his passion. No matter how outlandish, Collinsworth sincerely believes his glib words. He seemingly delights...

CLASH ACT - BUCKEYES, WOLVERINES RENEW COLLEGE GRID'S GREATEST RIVALRY

Saturday, Ohio State at Michigan, Noon, ABC With his familiar drawl, sportscasting legend Keith Jackson points to Ohio State-Michigan as college football's best rivalry. "I think this one," the 75-year-old...

IGOR'S OK WITH DEVILS' DEFENSE

The game's oldest player and one of its past Russian Revolutionists, Igor Larionov qualifies as an Elder Statesman. He winces while he embraces the Devils' style. "Two different styles and...

ISLES CAN LEARN FROM LIGHTNING

TAMPA - Two years ago, the Lightning locker room was ravaged with in-fighting factions, cliques and a serious case of unprofessionalism. Leading one gang was coach John Tortorella, while the...

CITY'S TALE: WORST OF TIMES

YOU deserve so much better than this. You are a New York sports fan. You give your heart to the Knicks, your soul to the Giants, your blood to the...

GAELS RIDE ON JENKINS' SHOULDERS

Greg Jenkins' left shoulder hung loose in its socket. His mind filled with frustration, and his top athletic achievements included rolling a rubber ball along a wall at a Rye...

THIS ROCKY SEES CROWN IN FUTURE

Olympic medalist Rocky Juarez fights for his first title tomorrow night in Houston, where he meets Hector Velasquez in a 12-round duel for the WBC Continental Americas featherweight crown. In...

THE FAN'S CORNER

Having relatives who fought in both world wars does something to a man. It made Andrew Vivo a hard-core history buff. As one would guess, Vivo's history book collection is...

STRAHAN & SAPP CAN YAP ON FIELD, TUBE

GIANT NOTES The last two players expected to work together on the new NFL Network are Michael Strahan and Warren Sapp, considering the two ripped into each other in the...

GM: 'YOU CAN'T BAG IT' - ACCORSI, FASSEL KEEP FIGHTING GOOD FIGHT

Hours before Jim Fassel was ending yesterday's practice with a light-hearted moment, GM Ernie Accorsi was having a chapter in one of Bill Walsh's books copied, intending to present it...

KID GETS CALL IN RANGER NET - LABARBERA MAKES FIRST START

DENVER - Oh, baby. Sanna Markkanen, nine months pregnant and due any day, could not wait. Her husband, Jussi, who was prepared to start for the Rangers in nets last...

JETS HIT THE JAX-POT - GANG GREEN CAN STRIKE IT RICH AGAINST JAGUARS

THE Jets showed enough character in Oakland and Indy to rate the continued support of home fans. Chad Pennington's been great - in Indy he became the first passer with...

DICE RETURN HAS A HITCH - ANTONIO'S LIMP OBVIOUS IN CLIP

WHAT the hey? Tuesday, Antonio McDyess, who has yet to play for the Knicks and has had three surgeries on his left knee, scrimmaged. Afterwards, McDyess and his coach, Don...

JARVIS TWEAKING STORM LINEUP

St. John's coach Mike Jarvis either anointed Lamont Hamilton as the next good inside player yesterday or he placed a curse on the freshman center. "The only thing that could...

'REEL' BIG WEEKEND ON TAP

THE weather has not been all that cooperative the past two weeks - after all it is November - but between storms striped bass, porgies and blackfish have not disappointed...

JOHNNY ABE IS BACK FOR SACKS

JET NOTES The Jets' defensive line will be whole on Sunday for the first time this season with the return of defensive end John Abraham and defensive tackle Josh Evans....

JOSH NOT MASKING HIS DESIRE TO PLAY

In his racing mind, Wednesday was Sunday and survival in the trenches was the only thing that mattered for Josh Evans. That's when, in the throes of a no-pads practice...

KEITH COULD MISS SPREE SHOWDOWN

KNICK NOTES It would be a shame if Keith Van Horn missed the game against the Timberwolves and Latrell Spreewell on Thanksgiving Eve in Minnesota, but it's a strong possibility....

NETS MUST 'FESS UP ON KIDD'S KNEE

INJURIES to Kenyon Mar tin, Rodney Rogers and Lucious Harris, as well as Alonzo Mourning's remedial rebounding obviously share a percentage of the blame for the Nets' 5-6 staggered start....

MAKING THEIR PITCH - YANKS STILL AFTER PETTITTE

The Yankees are reaching out from the Far East to the farfetched to investigate available players and yet what stands out is just how slowly they have moved so far...

VUJANIC MAY BE TWO YEARS AWAY

Here's another dose of doom and gloom for the Knicks. The agent of Milos Vujanic said the Serbian point guard will make a 10-day visit to New York in June...

METS O FOR OFFSEASON

The Mets' offseason is nearly two months old, and so far it has been defined by speculation rather than action. Indeed, the club still has the same holes it had...

CASHMAN SETS SIGHTS ON JAPAN AGAIN

Shingo Takatsu, Japan's all-time save leader, was in New York on Wednesday to finalize his arrangement to have Joe Urbon serve as his representative. The Manhattan-based agent took a chance...

MAKING THEIR PITCH - RE-SIGNING ANDY STILL YANKS' OFFSEASON KEY

The Yankees are reaching from the Far East to the farfetched to investigate available players and yet what stands out is just how slowly they have moved so far to...

CASHMAN MAY LOOK TO JAPAN AGAIN

Shingo Takatsu, Japan's all-time saves leader, was in New York on Wednesday to finalize his arrangement to have Joe Urbon serve as his representative. The Manhattan-based agent took a chance...

LOOK OUT ABOVE, HONDO MAKING MOVE

HONDO, who rallied for a 9-7 mark last week, made huge strides in the standings as he moved past the fading Fan, Serby and Miss Charlene (the Native Canadian and...

METS 0 FOR OFFSEASON

The Mets' offseason is nearly two months old, and so far it has been defined more by speculation than action. But while the Mets continue to play the waiting game,...

BOLTS BURN ISLES

Lightning 3 - Islanders 2 TAMPA - Proving to be a wonderfully versatile bunch, the Islanders have shown an uncanny ability this season to lose games any number of ways....