November 24, 2002
SUNNY SWOOPS FOR TUBBYLAND
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThere's no doubt you're in a different type of workspace when you walk into the offices of Ragdoll, the entertainment company that brought the Teletubbies to the United States. You're...
THE NEW YORKER FINALLY HAS 'IN THE BLACK' BASH
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amCould it be? Could it possibly be? The New Yorker, the venerable weekly that S.I. "Si" Newhouse, Jr. purchased in 1985 - and which has been awash in red ink...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amWinners Clive Davis, the new head of BMG Music, got a big $50 million payday to go with his big title. Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor, was mentioned as...
BROKER MAKES NASD NAUGHTY LIST
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amDifferent folks have different ways of celebrating the end-of-year holidays. For Joseph Eugene Rahm,a registered broker, the Christmas holidays represented an opportunity to be on the take. Rahm, while employed...
STARR REPORT
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amOne-man show next on Garrett's menu? Garrett Morris called to say that he's hoping to star in "Frederick Douglass," a one-man show set to open February at the Mother AME...
LINE 'EM UP: 24 MEN AND ME
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amCall it the lowest form of TV on the planet - but "The Bachelor" just changed my theory about marriage. Until now, I've always believed that there's one special guy...
NIGHT AT THE OPERA
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amMONDAY nights at 8, the Two Boots Pioneer Theater turns its basement into the Den of Cin, where retro faves are screened for a hip East Village crowd. Tomorrow's selection...
FIRE SALE! LEGENDARY PEARL RIVER MART IS MOVING - EVERYTHING MUST GO!
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amPearl River Emporium - the three-floor Chinatown shopping institution beloved by little old ladies and hipsters alike - is selling off its stock in a moving sale. The Chinese department...
THE SHOW MUST GO ON! WHY THE VISIONARIES BEHIND 'MOULIN ROUGE' ALMOST BACKED OUT OF BROADWAY
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe most highly-anticipated Broadway show of the year nearly didn't happen. Baz Luhrmann - the audacious film director who mixed Shakespeare with hip-hop in 1995's "Romeo + Juliet" and shook...
'SOPRANOS' THE NEXT 'FRIENDS'?
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amSyndication will make millions for HBO and its partners, but it might ruin "The Sopranos." HBO is only in the beginning stages of formulating a sales plan for the "Sopranos"...
WHAT A MOTHER-LOVIN' FOUL-MOUTH
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amHE'S a f - - - - -' Jew! He's a f - - - - -' squatty-body motherf - - - - -' Puerto Rican. He's a motherf -...
SMACKO JACKO NOSE NO SHAME
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amCAN someone explain why that nose-dropping, shape-shifting, child-abusing wacko hasn't gotten good and smackoed? Not a week after Michael Jackson made us all projectile vomit when his nose flew off...
FAT CHANCE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amHMMM. When I'm craving something good, I can just never figure out what the best snack is: Big Mac, super-size fries and a chocolate shake, (1,760 calories) or an apple...
SHIPS COULD BE TARGETS: FBI
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's counterterrorism division this week warned NYPD precincts that ships and harbor facilities are likely terror targets. "The FBI has no specific information that this could happen," the alert...
BLASTER OF HIS DOMAIN JERRY TRASHES PIANO MAN'S $32M EX-HOME IN MAKEOVER
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe extensive work being done on Jerry Seinfeld's sprawling East Hampton estate is no laughing matter. Town officials said the TV funnyman is ignoring the law because he doesn't have...
TERROR ON HIGH SEAS SUICIDE BOATER BOMBERS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Two Palestinian terrorists in boats packed with explosives blew themselves up yesterday and injured four Israeli soldiers after they were intercepted by an Israeli navy patrol vessel near...
KLEIN DENIES ANY CLASSROOM CUTS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein vowed yesterday that the layoffs hitting the Department of Education will not hit the classroom. "We are not laying off any teachers or school officials in...
CHILLED WINDS OF CHANGE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe Coney Island Polar Bear Club says it's getting the cold shoulder from the Parks Department. The frigid frolickers - famous for their wintry dips in the Atlantic in nothing...
NEW LIGHT ON HIT-RUN HAMPTONS DRIVER IGNORED 2ND CAR'S SIGNAL: COPS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe Hamptons hit-and-run motorist accused of mowing down a migrant potato-picker ignored the flashing lights of another driver, cops said yesterday. Leslie Jennemann's vehicle was so badly damaged from the...
'GAS' SCAMMER PUMPS BIZMEN FOR 400G: COPS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens man barely old enough to drink was arrested for ripping off unsuspecting businessmen to the tune of $400,000 by offering to help them buy gas stations, police said...
GUTTY CLARETT DRIVES BUCKEYES IT'S FIESTA TIME FOR OHIO STATE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amOhio St.14Michigan9 COLUMBUS - The Ohio State players, many of their faces streaked by rivulets of tears, stood in front of the school band and joined the record crowd of...
ENORMOUS CLOUD OVER CITIZENS FEARING THE WORST
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amLate at night, long after she has gone to bed, Gloria Lopresti can hear the sirens wail. In those anxious moments, the elderly woman lies awake and fears the worst...
IT'S A GIVE AND TAKE FOR COMMUTERS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amAre suburbanites who flock to work in the city each day getting a free ride when it comes to helping pay to clean streets, fight crime, put out fires or...
SICK HOSP THIEVES STEALING UP A $TORM AMID BUDGET CRUNCH
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amHundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computers, electronics, medical equipment, food and other property is being plundered from the city's cash-strapped hospitals every year. Sticky-fingered employees and others are...
BRITS SNAG AL QAEDA UNDERLING AT AIRPORT
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amAnti-terrorist cops at London's Heathrow Airport nabbed a suspected al Qaeda member before he could board an international flight, it was reported today. The unidentified 36-year-old man was arrested Thursday...
BLOOMBERG'S BUDGET DEAL COUNCIL OKS 18% PROPERTY-TAX HIKE AND PANEL ON FDNY CUTS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg reached a tentative budget deal with the City Council to raise property taxes by 18 percent - instead of the 25 percent he had hoped to get, it...
HEZBOLLAH KILLERS JUST LIE IN WAIT
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - With the Bush administration focused on al Qaeda and Iraq, the deadly terrorists of Hezbollah are getting a free pass. That's the scary conclusion of a number of...
TWU CALLS FOR ACTION OVER TRACK TRAGEDIES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amFollowing two transit employee deaths in 48 hours, the Transport Workers Union and the family of the latest victim yesterday demanded that the MTA overhaul safety procedures for maintenance workers...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amFROM Gail: "The Supreme Court ruled there cannot be a nativity scene in Washington, D.C., this Christmas. This isn't for any religious or constitutional reason. They simply have not been...
MADONNA'S BOND SONG 'SCORED' LOW
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe man who wrote the musical score for the latest James Bond flick blasted Madonna yesterday - saying the Material Mom's theme song for the movie is a double-o dud....
COURT CHAMP SAMPRAS 'POPS' ONE UP
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amTennis dynamo Pete Sampras and wife Bridgette Wilson have netted the ultimate trophy: a baby boy. They became parents for the first time this week with the birth of a...
NO POWER, AND EVEN - PUNCHLESS RANGERS CAN'T HOLD OFF ISLES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThey coughed, sputtered and wheezed their way through five more power plays and yet another empty third period, and when it had ended yesterday afternoon, the Rangers had been beaten...
E. SIDE MUGGER ARREST
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amCops arrested the man responsible for at least one in a pattern of eight similar Upper East Side assaults and muggings - which have women in the neighborhood hiding in...
VETERANS RIP 'POW' BIO AS A VIET 'CON'
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe problem isn't that Tom Abraham published a book in England last month in which he says he was captured by the Viet Cong then escaped into the jungles of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amBROOKLYN An East New York man became the victim of a bias attack yesterday when four thugs beat him and shouted anti-gay slurs as he made his way home, police...
COP CLOSES GAP IN GANG'S GETAWAY
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amA bumbling gang of teen thieves were caught on camera yesterday robbing a Midtown Gap clothing store - before two of them were grabbed by a quick-thinking U.N. security officer,...
NYPD BIG UNDER FIRE IN AEROSMITH 'GOT A GUN' SCANDAL
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amA top NYPD official is being probed for helping rockers Steven Tyler and Joe Perry obtain pistol licenses in return for alleged VIP treatment at an Aerosmith concert and ritzy...
'MARSHAL LAW' IN FLIGHT BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE NATION'S NEW PLANE POLICE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThese exclusive photos were taken at the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Marshal training headquarters, located at a converted airfield near Atlantic City. Here, in a garage with a cardboard-covered window,...
A TRUE PRO AT CONS LEO FLICK TELLS SCAM KING'S AMAZING TALE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amFrom the ages of 16 to 21, Frank Abagnale was an airline pilot, a doctor, a lawyer and a college professor - and a millionaire. The 10th-grade dropout was the...
MODERN-DAY ANGUISH FOR MATRIARCH OF HOLOCAUST FAMILY
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. NINETY-two year old Zhenya Axelrode lost her husband and sister in World War II but managed to save her daughter Kira from hunger and worse when the Nazis invaded...
GRISLY SLAY AND SUICIDE STUN NYU COLLEAGUES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amShe was a beautiful dentist from a close family of strivers. He was a cheery secretary at the New York University clinic where she taught. One week ago, she was...
A GIVE-AND-TAKE FOR COMMUTERS THE POST ADDS UP WHAT SUBURBANITES CONTRIBUTE TO APPLE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amAre suburbanites who flock to the city each day getting a free ride when it comes to helping pay to clean streets, fight crime, put out fires or man ambulances?...
DEMOCRATS ON THE EDGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Democratic Party seems to be having a collective nervous breakdown. Or, at the least, a very bad case of the screaming meemies. Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) sounds...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amAttention, Oliver Stone: The surviving members of the Doors will perform next year with a new lineup, with ex-Cult singer Ian Astbury, 40, replacing the still sexy, but long dead...
MUGGER FEAR STALKS UPTOWNERS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amUpper East Side women say they're hiding in their homes, looking over their shoulders, and using pit bulls for protection to avoid falling prey to a violent mugger who has...
'SEINFELD' GRANNY IN HOSP AFTER AMPUTATION
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amActress Frances Bay, best known for getting "mugged" by Jerry Seinfeld over a loaf of rye bread, was in critical condition yesterday after undergoing surgery to amputate part of her...
SEINFELD' GRANNY CRITICAL IN HOSP
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amActress Frances Bay - best known for getting mugged by Jerry Seinfeld over a loaf of rye bread - was in critical condition yesterday after undergoing surgery to amputate part...
TWU CALL TO ACTION OVER TRACK TRAGEDIES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amFollowing two transit worker deaths in 48 hours, the Transport Workers Union yesterday demanded that the MTA overhaul safety procedures for maintenance workers - and ordered train drivers to slow...
IN A NUTSHELL: THE BIZARRE SAGA
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe chimps, the masks, the kids, the rants, the marriages and accusations of sexual misconduct and now ... the dangling baby! While it's hard to say where the Michael Jackson...
A GIVE-AND-TAKE FOR COMMUTERS - THE POST ADDS UP WHAT SUBURBANITES CONTRIBUTE TO APPLE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amAre suburbanites who flock to the city each day getting a free ride when it comes to helping pay to clean streets, fight crime, put out fires or man ambulances?...
POLS STRIKE DEAL TO HIKE PROPERTY TAXES 18%
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has agreed to a compromise budget deal with the City Council that will raise property taxes 18 percent and create a blue-ribbon panel that will decide whether to...
THANKFULLY, VIRUS HAS SPARED TURKEYS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amWEST NILE has been one of the fastest spreading wildlife diseases throughout North America during the past three years, but despite the infectious plague, the wild turkey continues to thrive....
PAIR OF BLOND BOMBSHELLS SHOCKEY'S ANTICS HAVE GREAT IN A HUFF
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amEVERYBODY loves Jeremy Shockey. Everybody rushes out to buy those No. 80 jerseys. Everybody loves the fire and personality he brings to the Giants. The boy can play, all right....
HOUSTON PRESENTS PROBLEMS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Yes, they are a struggling expansion team but no, the Texans aren't easy to prepare for. So says Giants tight end Dan Campbell. "With the scheme they have...
JETS FACE UP TO THE PRESS-URE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amWhile too few professional athletes understand how newspaper reporters and columnists work, too often blaming the messenger for their woes on the field as their teams lose, it was refreshing...
CONTRERAS IS YANKEES' FIRST PRIZE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amEveryone knows the Yankees are trying to clear the contracts of Raul Mondesi, Rondell White and Sterling Hitchcock to help pave the financial way for Japanese outfielder Hideki Matsui, but...
BLOOMY'S WAY OFF BASE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amWHO knew? To better enable making an informed choice, Mike Bloomberg, during his campaign for mayor, should have announced that he would take an active interest on behalf of the...
YASHIN'S LINE TAKES OVER WHEN IT'S NEEDED MOST
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amIsles3Rangers1 On Thursday in Tampa, Dave Scatchard's line set the tone and won the game for the Islanders. Yesterday at the Garden, it was the play of Alexei Yashin and...
MET RUMORS ROCKY
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe Mets' journey to respectability took a bizarre turn this weekend after rumors surfaced that the club has been weighing a deal for Colorado left-hander Denny Neagle - while simultaneously...
YAO ABOUT THAT? MING IS MAKING BELIEVERS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - Yao Ming is almost making me forget about Priest Lauderdale. In less than a week, the hottest import from China since duck sauce has gone from a universally...
HOUSTON MIFFED BY THIRD-QUARTER BENCHING
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amT'WOLVESatKNICKSTonight7:00 - MSG WBBR (1130) It's rare when Allan Houston disagrees with his coach, but he didn't like Don Chaney's decision to bench him early in the third quarter Friday...
WARRIORS ALIVE FOR ANOTHER TITLE BID
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFSCurtis20Sheep. Bay15 Joe Bernard was only a freshman on the JV the last time Curtis won a PSAL title. But even though he wasn't on the team that won...
GUTTY CLARETT DRIVES BUCKEYES IT'S FIESTA TIME AFTER MICHIGAN WIN
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amOhio St.14Michigan9 COLUMBUS - The Ohio State players, many of their faces streaked by rivulets of tears, stood in front of the school band and joined the record crowd of...
LOCKOUT IS AN 'O4-GONE CONCLUSION - COMMISH'S MANDATE IS 'COST CERTAINTY'
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amTHE vote of the Board of Governors that essentially authorizes a 2004 lockout has already been conducted, the mandate unanimously awarded to Gary Bettman to secure a Collective Bargaining Agreement...
SCOTT: CHILDS MUST EARN RESPECT
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Now comes the hard part for Chris Childs. The backup point guard, suspended Oct. 22 by the Nets for being out of shape, will rejoin the team at...
NETS DANCE ON WOLVES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - From the opening moments it was evident. By the end of the game it was obvious. The Nets had come to play with energy, with passion, with swagger....
TAMPA BAY ZAPS SCHWAB IN FIRST START
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amLightning3Devils1 Hall of Fame coaching, this wasn't. Corey Schwab took the loss. Pat Burns takes the hit. Compounding one mistake with a second, the Devils coach let the rust accumulate...
TURBULENT JET FLIGHT MANY DOWNS & UPS SINCE WIN AT BUFFALO
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe date was Sept. 8 of this year, but it might as well have been three years ago. That's how long ago their dazzling, season-opening, 37-31 overtime win over the...
IT'S A WHOLE DREW BALLGAME FOR BILLS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amBills' receiver Eric Moulds, who'd been a star on a going-nowhere team, remembers the first time he met Drew Bledsoe after the quarterback was traded from New England to Buffalo...
GIANT MARCHING ORDERS: DON'T MESS UP IN TEXAS BIG BLUE WARY OF FLEDGLING HOUSTON
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Say it. Dhani Jones would not. "I will never, ever say a team is bad," declared Jones, the Giants' starting weak side linebacker. Jones wouldn't say it, Jim...
HOME GAME FOR STRAHAN, OTHER JINTS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amHOUSTON - There was a simple reason why Michael Strahan decided to go to Texas Southern University in this city. "It was the only school that offered me a scholarship,"...
NETS' ROAD LEADING TO NOWHERE
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amEven after Friday night's 120-79 rout of Cleveland, replete with poster-quality dunks and highlight-reel plays, the Nets know that one win doesn't solve their problems. The true test will be...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amConciliation between legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas and Mike Tyson could be in the works. It's been 19 years since the two last spoke. Back then Tyson was a fighter,...
DEVILS' FRIESEN GETTING WARM
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amThe break-in grace period is over. New Devil Jeff Friesen is operating under the premise that it is now time to produce. "When you come to a new organization, sooner...
THE FANTASTIC 4 - 'NOVA LOOKS TO AVOID PITFALLS WITH ITS FRESH NEW FACES
November 24, 2002 | 5:00amIt seemingly was the blueprint for building a college team in the age of The Race to Get to the NBA: After a stellar recruiting class - led by a...