June 27, 2004
PULP AFFLICTION - MOVIES ARE SUPER,BUT COMICS CRAWL
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe movie "X-Men," released in 2000, introduced more fans to the mutant superheroes than comic books ever had. But for those who actually sell comic books, it was the blockbuster...
STILL GOT AOL ONLINE MESS - TW BOSSSAYS AOL'SNOT FOR SALE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWhen federal officials disclosed last week that an AOL insider had stolen 92 million customer screen names and sold them to spammers, it seemed like just more bad news for...
MATTIE LIVES ON BEST-SELLER LIST
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMattie J.T. Stepanek, who died of a rare muscular disease last Tuesday, had three wishes in his life: to get his poetry published, to be on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"...
PACINO GOES 4TH
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amSPEND the Fourth of July with Al Pacino. No, the actor hasn't invited fans to watch the fireworks with him, but four of his flicks are unreeling Thursday through July...
RED-HOT DOGS; BOSTON TERRIERS: THIS YEAR'S 'IT' CANINES
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTO judge from a wave of current TV advertisements, the Boston terrier is one hot breed. The little black-and-white dog currently appears in commercials for MasterCard, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Geico, Zyrtec,...
MIDEAST POLITICS AT FIDE TOURNEY
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE international chess federation's (FIDE) world championship that began last week should have been a huge publicity coup - but is marred by an embarrassing boycott and charges of anti-Semitism....
CALIFORNIA CRUSH - LORI LOUGHLIN WOWS US ON THE HIT SHOW 'SUMMERLAND'
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY'RE not in Kansas anymore. And like Dorothy in "TheWizard of Oz," the three kids from Kansas who move to southern California in the WB's hot summer soap "Summerland" are...
GIVE ME PARIS: A HARD-BOILED COLUMNIST EMBRACES 'SIMPLE LIFE'
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMY life is murder. As a news columnist for this paper, I've covered stabbings and rapes, torture and child abuse. O.J. Simp-son, Scott Peterson and Marv Albert. Death, disease and...
HBO SERIES' RERUN SUFFER IN SYNDICATION
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amHAS there ever been a bigger ad campaign for a single TV show than the one TBS has mounted for "Sex and the City"? You can't walk two feet without...
EAT MY DUST - AT 50, VAN SUSTERN STILL SLAYS THE COMPETITION
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amJUST for the record, Greta Van Susteren, TV's top legal eagle, turned the big 5-0 recently. Except for the chocolate layer birthday cake herhusband, John, baked for the occasion, she's...
LAYFIELD FIRING A WAKE-UP CALL FOR NBC
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE questions, once again, must be asked: Are TV executives as stupid as they act, or is stupidity part of their act? And that leads to one more question: How...
SUN DANCE: P.S.1 RAVES AGAIN
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amIn just a few short years, P.S. 1 has cultivated a wildly popular Saturday afternoon happening that fuses four of downtown New York's greatest interests: art, booze, deejays and hooking...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE CURE "The Cure" (three and one half stars) Geffen/Universal After 25 years of toying with gloomy despair and disintegration on good but uneven albums, the Cure has made a...
HEAR THIS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT Guitar legend Eric Clapton plays Madison Square Garden Monday through Wednesday. Introspective rockers Chris Robinson & the New Earth Mud at Irving Plaza on Monday. Sting and Annie...
SHE'S AGED WELL
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amChange has been the constant in the life of R&B diva Brandy since she was crowned a pop princess when she was just a mere 15 years old. "Wouldn't life...
SPIDEY ALMIGHTY - WEBSLINGER SWINGS HIGHER THAN EVER IN SUMMER'S MOST SPECTACULAR SEQUEL
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amAbout halfway through "Spider-Man 2," Tobey Maguire's costumed webslinger takes a huge spill. One moment, he's swooping from building to building. The next, he misses his mark, abruptly tumbling several...
INTO THE 'SUNSET' - ETHAN HAWKE & JULIE DELPY WRITE THEIR ROMANTIC WRONGS IN SOULMATE SEQUEL
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA fever dream of youthful hope and romanticism, 1995's "Before Sunrise" was an unusually modest love story about two 23-year-olds, Jesse and Celine, who meet by chance on a train....
HOW TO SHOP LIKE KIRSTEN - THE STYLISH 'SPIDER-MAN' STAR FINDS IT ALL DOWNTOWN
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWHERE does Kirsten Dunst get her fun style? Elizabeth Street. The "Spider-Man 2" star and Vogue covergirl mines the Lower East Side and SoHo for vintage duds, dainty jewels and...
MEET MARKET - THE PLACE WHERE THE POST HOOKS YOU UP AND SENDS YOU OUT
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amSexy shutterbug in search of spontaneous soul mate Joy, 26, is the studio manager for a New York photographer, and we reckon any guy would be crazy not to try...
DID HE BLOW HER COVER?
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amLast week, Dan chose Lorraine, and we sent them off to one of the grooviest new nightspots in the city, the hip Meatpacking venue Vento - all expenses paid, of...
SHOPAHOLIC: TUTUS TO TANKS - BALLERINA MARIA KOWROSKI GIVES BARGAINS A WHIRL
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amAs a ballerina with the New York City Ballet, Maria Kowroski is usually on the road - so when she returns to New York, she pirouettes directly into her favorite...
BIJOU'S BUMP AND GRINDING
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWILD child Bijou Phillips has been busy licking her wounds on this coast after her messy split with Sean Lennon. Phillips, who's been taking a breather in New York City...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA Minnesota man has been busted for drunk driving -for the 23rd time in 20 years. Raymond Sherman's latest arrest came after he led cops on a chase through Bloomington....
DEMS BOOST RISING BLACK STAR
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amIn a sign that national Democrats are making a serious push to pick up a soon-to-be vacant Senate seat in Illinois, candidate Barack Obama yesterday delivered his party's response to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** A gun-toting thug is being sought for robbing a gas station in Morrisania yesterday, police said. The crook entered a BP station at 481 E. 163rd St....
SICKO SIC 'EM ON COP - B'KLYN PIT-BULL ATTACK
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who became enraged when two cops tried to ticket him for drinking beer in public ordered his starving pit bull puppy to attack, sending one officer to...
FIRE CAPT.'S WIDOW IN SECLUSION
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe distraught wife of an FDNY captain who was found dead in a seedy Brooklyn motel room was secluded at her Long Island home yesterday. She is confused about the...
'FAHRENHEIT' IS MOORE'S $CREEN GEM
June 27, 2004 | 4:00am"Fahrenheit 9/11" burned up the box-office charts on its opening night - and the controversial Michael Moore flick is set to smash the record for highest-grossing documentary of all time....
TRUCKER IN TOT DEATH IS 'CLEAN'
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe truck driver who accidentally ran over and killed a preschooler walking from his Head Start graduation Friday has a "clean driving record," his boss said yesterday. The driver of...
FARE FIGHT; GUN JAM SAVES CABBY
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA badly beaten Bronx livery driver said he was lucky to be alive yesterday after a thug's gun aimed at his head jammed during the holdup. Veteran cabby Jose Sanchez,...
HOLY SMOKE AT WALLACE WEDDING
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA fire struck the celebrity-magnet St. Ignatius Loyola church on the Upper East Side yesterday, disrupting the wedding of newsman Mike Wallace's grandson with a haze of smoke. The blaze...
ZARQAWI GOONS KIDNAP 3 MORE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amBloodthirsty Iraqi militants loyal to al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed yesterday they kidnapped three Turkish workers and threatened to behead them if their home country doesn't pull its...
A MOM ON A MISSION ; JOSE'S WIFE MADE 6 BIDS FOR FREEDOM
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amLOS PALACIOS, Cuba Yankee pitcher Jose Contreras' wife just wouldn't take no for an answer. The Cuban government told Miriam Murillo-Flores she couldn't leave to join her defector hubby in...
B'KLYN SICKO SICS 'EM ; DOG, MAN BITE COP
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA failed gymnast who descended into a life of drinking and homelessness waged a bizarre battle with cops yesterday, in which he ordered his starving pit bull puppy to bite...
NYPD BASHED ON BIAS BEATING
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA man beaten because he is gay was badly treated by cops who responded to the incident, a city legislator charged yesterday. John Solis, a 39-year-old legal secretary, was leaving...
JOSE, KAZ START 'EM UP
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWE GOT a glimpse, just a taste, just a hint, because that's what these Mets have specialized in during this most curious baseball season: teasing, flashing previews of all that's...
SEX-IDEMIC - CRAZED LUST ADDICTS ARE DOING THE TOWN
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amSexual addiction has become an epidemic in New York, with over a half-million men and women suffering from the disease and more diagnosed every day, experts say. Internet pornography, including...
WORKFARE CRACKDOWN ; CITY EYES 70% HIRE RATE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe city will launch a tough new get-to-work program for the least-employable welfare recipients amid looming federal laws that would require 70 percent of those on the dole to get...
GOP LISTS ITS 'PARTY' GUESTS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Gov. Pataki, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. John McCain will all get starring prime-time speeches at the Republican convention in New York later...
WALKIN' OUT ; B'WAY STARS POISED TO STRIKE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTime is running out as actors and producers try to avoid a strike that would shutter nearly every show on Broadway, devastating the summer tourist season. Members of Actors' Equity...
CASHMAN: GLAVINE CAN STAY IN QUEENS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Brian Cashman shot down a report the Yankees would be interested in Tom Glavine if the Mets fell out of the NL East race and were looking to...
CAB BLOWS TOP ON WEST SIDE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA yellow cab exploded on the Upper West Side yesterday evening and erupted into an inferno, leaving passersby screaming and ducking for cover and sending plumes of smoke into the...
HELL ON WHEELS IN QUEENS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA berserk driver unleashed a wave of destruction on a quiet Queens street last night, smashing into three cars, mowing down a teenage girl and slamming into a second woman...
FINAL DAY - WALKIN' OUT: HIT PLAY FACE CURTAIN AS ACTORS GEAR FOR STRIKE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTime is running out as actors and producers try to avoid a strike that would shutter nearly every show on Broadway, devastating the summer tourist season. Members of Actors' Equity...
SADDAM FEELS HEAT ON EVE OF GOV'T SHIFT
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's CIA interrogators are stepping up the pressure on the ousted dictator to spill his secrets this week, believing he is fearful of a new government taking...
WAKSAL & BUNK BUDDY ARE JAILBIRDS OF A FEATHER
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amConvicted ImClone founder Sam Waksal's best buddy at a Pennsylvania prison camp is a disgraced synagogue director who stole $1.2 million from his struggling congregation. Waksal, 56, who is serving...
HARD TIMES FOR MARTHA ; CUSHY CONN. PRISON ALREADY JAM-PACKED
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMartha Stewart will be hoping for special treatment to allow her to serve time at the overcrowded minimum-security prison camp near her home - or risk getting sent to a...
PUNCHY DEPUTY D.A. OUT ; QUITS IN SCRAP FLAP
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA top Bronx prosecutor who broke a man's nose on a Manhattan street and allegedly flashed his badge to get out of trouble will resign, The Post had learned. Ricardo...
CITY LATE TO REVOLUTION
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA COMPLEX computer system planned in 1996 to process time and attendance data for the entire city work force may not be completed for three more years. The price tag...
DIVORCE EXPERT EYED FOR COVERING HIS ASSETS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amAn accountant tapped to help clean up the state's matrimonial courts is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly making crooked evaluations in cases before embattled Manhattan Supreme Court Justice...
PARENTS' PLEA-MAILS TO KLEIN REVEAL SCHOOLS' LACK OF CLASS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThousands of desperate parents have deluged Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with e-mail rants that can be summed up in one word - help! Please, Mr. Klein, stop the schoolyard bullies...
THEY'RE SAFE AT LUXURIOUS HOME
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMiriam Contreras never again has to wake up in a dilapidated flat with cockroaches parading through her windows and chickens running amok in her yard. Instead, the wife of Yankee...
GOV IN TERROR 'WASTE' $PAT
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - A top Democrat is criticizing Gov. Pataki for redirecting millions of dollars in anti-terrorism aid from New York City and other high-need urban areas to the suburbs. Assemblyman...
FREEBIES FOR POLS WITHOUT HORSE CENTS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Top state lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno have solicited free season-long clubhouse passes to racetracks run by the scandal-scarred New York Racing Association, The Post has...
GOP CAST OF STARS - RUDY, ARNIE TOP SPEAKER LIST
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Gov. Pataki, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. John McCain will all get starring prime-time speeches at the Republican convention in New York later...
SITTING PRETTY: 'FOUR MORE YEARS' IS LOOKING A LOT MORE LIKELY
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHERE'S just no denying it: June - like baseball for Garrett Morris' Chico Esquela on Saturday Night Live - "been very, very good" to Michael Bloomberg. Some 16 months before...
EPIDEMIC: SEX ADDICTS ARE DOING THE TOWN
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amSexual addiction has become an epidemic in New York, with over a half-million men and women suffering from the disease and more diagnosed every day, experts say. Internet pornography, including...
AIDS HOUSING A RAT-INFESTED HORROR
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amLiving conditions are beyond deplorable for poor people with HIV and AIDS who live in city-subsidized housing, contends a City Council investigation to be released today. Rats roam at residents'...
POLS GET RACING FREEBIES
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Top state lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno have solicited free season-long clubhouse passes to racetracks run by the scandal-scarred New York Racing Association, The Post has...
HEAT'S ON SADDAM
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's CIA interrogators are stepping up the pressure on the ousted dictator to spill his secrets this week believing that he is fearful of a new government...
OUTDOORS ACT COULD BE GREAT
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA BILL with potentially historic significance for the future management of public lands and fish and wildlife was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week. If passed, the Americans Outdoors...
TRADE WINDS KEEP BLOWING
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amJUNE has been fun for rumor-mill fanatics. There's still more than a month left until the waiver trade deadline and already you see all kinds of movement. Last week we...
SHAQ WON'T KEEP PACERS ; O'NEAL DELETES INDIANA FROM LIST
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amSO, Kobe Bryant finally has a start date (Aug. 27) for his Eagle scout trial. This gives him exactly two months from today to unite the community and divide community...
OLD HAT FOR MATT ; GINTER UNFAZED BY STADIUM START
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amA night game at Yankee Stadium, on national television, with Mike Mussina your mound opponent. Not the easiest matchup for Matt Ginter. "It'll be a great challenge," said Ginter, who,...
TAKE THE FIFTH - PLEASE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Jae Seo is struggling in the majors. Scott Erickson is struggling in the minors. And there isn't exactly a surplus of quality pitchers available right now via trade....
DEVS, ISLES PASS ON NEW YORK'S SCHREMP
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amRALEIGH - The password was "character." Suffice to say, then, that given the opportunity to select highly talented but allegedly flighty Fulton, N.Y., native Robbie Schremp in the first round,...
SLATS GETS HIS GUY ; RANGERS GRAB GOALIE MONTOYA WITH NO. 6 PICK
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amRALEIGH - According to Glen Sather, Al Montoya is the best 18-year-old goaltender he's seen since Dan Blackburn. The Rangers did it, did what they'd pretty much been advertising for...
80-PERCENT SHEFF SHOULDERS OFFENSE
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amJoe Torre wasn't sure whether he would be able to use Gary Sheffield before yesterday's game against the Mets. "We're going to see how he does in batting practice and...
JOSE, KAZ REV UP THE MOTOR
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amWE GOT a glimpse, just a taste, just a hint, because that's what these Mets have specialized in during this most curious baseball season: teasing, flashing previews of all that's...
REACH OUT AND GRAB SOMEONE; METS RIP YANKS, WHO NEED HURLER
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMets 9 Yankees 3 Call information. Then dial the Seattle Mariners. Ask for Bill Bavasi. And don't listen to the jive that Freddy Garcia isn't available. After watching Brad Halsey...
'STELLAR' TURNS IN STUNNER
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amStellar Jayne, the longest price on the board at 29-1, took the fight to Ashado early and it paid off as the D. Wayne Lukas trainee held off the favorite...
BIG FOURTH ONE AMAZIN' CLUTCH SHOW
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThey kept coming. Again and again and again and again. One hit after another for the Mets with runners in scoring position. In an explosive, game-turning, six-run fourth inning yesterday,...
GREAT DAY FOR METS, FANS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amNEVER mind Art Howe, not dull entirely by intention, or Joe Torre, hardly needing one more reason to have his boss get crazy, for seeming annoyed they don't get to...
'JOY' REIGNS IN 100G TREMONT
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amGold Joy came from out of the clouds, as heavy favorite Primal Storm could do better than third, to upset the field in the $100,000 Tremont at Belmont yesterday. Trained...
HOT-HITTING METS ATTAIN PERFECTION IN AMAZIN' 4TH
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThey kept coming . . . again and again. One hit after another for the Mets with runners in scoring position. "Everybody just kept going," Richard Hidalgo said. In that...
RILED BOSS RIPS GIAMBI, BOMBER BATS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe latest installment of the Subway Series is one game old and already, George Steinbrenner doesn't like what he sees. Following the Yankees' desultory 9-3 loss to the Mets yesterday...
BRAD HAS SLOPPY 2ND START
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amFor weeks, it has been apparent that the Yankees need more pitching. Yesterday, Brad Halsey did nothing to change that theory. The left-hander could not follow up his solid debut...
AMAZIN'S SOAR, YANKEES SNORE; METS RIP HALSEY, CAPTURE OPENER
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMets 9 Yankees 3 One Subway Series win over a lethargic Yankee club that issued six walks, hit a batter, made two terrible defensive plays, collected six hits against a...
SCORE ONE FOR THE FANS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amIGNORE the irritation of Art Howe, who is dull not entirely by intention, and Joe Torre, who hardly needs one more reason to make his boss crazy, at not getting...
FARMHANDS GET BIG-LEAGUE TIPS ON CONDUCT
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amThe Met minor leaguers hear the refrain every spring training. Some front-office face preaches about representing the franchise well and the balancing of fan interaction with falling prey to a...
CARDOZO'S IVEY GROWS INTO NBA DRAFT PICK
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amRoyal Ivey wasn't a hot prospect when he graduated from Cardozo, so he spent a year at Blair Academy in New Jersey. Even after a season at the prep school,...
ART FAILURE - METS MANAGER MUST PROVE HE DESERVES TO KEEP JOB
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amTHE METS get the next few weeks to show us where they are as a team, where they are as an organization, and whether they truly are anything more than...
IT'S A 'HARD' LIFE - RED SOX FANS IN NEW YORK MIGHT SUFFER MORE THAN ANY
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amIMAGINE being a cursed Red Sox fan. Not a single World Series title since 1918. What could be worse? How about being a Red Sox fan in New York? You...
HEAD TO HEAD
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amPost baseball writers George King and Kevin Kernan make their pitch on who is the better fit for the Yankees: Freddy Garcia or Randy Johnson. George King: Freddy Garcia was...
TOM ON HIS SIDE - COUGHLIN NEEDS GIANTS TO SUPPORT HIS METHODS
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amRAY PERKINS never had one. Bill Parcells did. There's the quickie history lesson for Tom Coughlin. When a head coach rides into town, proclaims himself the new sheriff and lays...
TYSON FIGHTING PAST - TRYING TO KO BAN BY N.J. GOVERNOR
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amNORMALLY sports is a "what have you done for me lately" business, except when it comes to boxing and, more specifically, Mike Tyson. The mere mention of the former heavyweight...
REAL LACK OF SUPPORT - NHL LIKELY TO LAY OFF 60 PERCENT OF ITS STAFF
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Across the NHL, dozens of team employees earning between $25,000 and $60,000 have already been laid off in anticipation of a lockout, with hundreds more to follow. "An...
COMEBACK IN BLACK - FORMER GIANTS QB COLLINS GETS NEW START ON RAIDERS' BENCH
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amALAMEDA, Calif. - Kerry Collins may not have mastered the Raiders' offense yet, but he certainly has the wardrobe down. Sitting on a park bench outside the team's offices, Collins...
WIE, MYSELF & I - SELFISH LPGA PLAYERS SHOULD OPEN ARMS TO HER
June 27, 2004 | 4:00amMICHELLE WIE will be one of the main attractions at this week's U.S. Women's Open at Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley, Mass., and there better not be a single...