July 2, 2001
NEXT JOB FOR PRIMEDIA: CONVINCING THE STREET
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amPrimedia was an underdog in its bidding for the troubled American magazine wing of Emap - but it carefully outmanuvered its rivals in the battle to claim Teen, Hot Rod,...
WISHFUL THINKING ; WAITING 'TIL NEXT YEAR WON'T BE LONG ENOUGH
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amAfter a poor stock market performance in 2000 and the first half of 2001, investors are starting to breathe sighs of relief that 2002 could be better. Well, don't hold...
BIDS ROLL IN FOR THOMSON MAGS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amThomson Financial, the publisher of American Banker and Bond Buyer, has received preliminary bids - in the range of $400 million to $500 million - for the financial publications it...
RICH INKS DEAL FOR 'PARDON ME'
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amDENISE Rich - the songwriting socialite and Democratic fund-raiser at the center of Bill Clinton's Pardongate scandal - has finally found a publisher for her life story: Capital Publishing, a...
GO FOURTH & HAVE A BLAST ; HOLIDAY FUN INCLUDES EMMYLOU DISHIN' 'DIRT'
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amHERE are some choice cuts for red, white and blue celebrations Wednesday. Lots of them are free, so go on and get yer ya-ya's out. Country queen Emmylou Harris released...
THE AFTER LIFE : ONE THING IS FOR SURE, YOU CAN'T STAY A KID STAR FOREVER. HERE ARE THREE FORMER TV ACTORS WHO WENT TO WORK MAKING OTHER PEOPLE STARS . . .
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT does a child star do when his show gets canceled? More often than not, these days he or she becomes a TV exec. For every Ron Howard or Penny...
DEAR JERRY: YOU'VE GOT A WIFE AND KID, THE CARS AND A HAMPTONS CASTLE. SO PLEASE ... STAY AT HOME!
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amDEAR JERRY, So TV Guide wants you to come back. It says so right on the cover of this week's issue, right under the photo of you blowing a bubble....
'I WON'T SETTLE WITHOUT CBS APOLOGY': SURVIVOR
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amMONEY doesn't matter, a lawyer for former "Survivor" contestant Stacey Stillman said yesterday. Stillman won't settle her suit against the show's producers and CBS unless they admit the show was...
WHERE OH WEAR? HOW TO SPORT THIS SUMMER'S TRENDIEST LOOKS - WITHOUT LOOKING OUT-OF-PLACE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amBUYING a pair of short-shorts is one thing. Knowing when to wear them - and when not to - requires a bit of smarts. The same goes for summer looks...
MEET FASHION'S NEW POWER TEEN - AND NO, SHE'S NOT A MODEL
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amLIKE most 15-year-olds, Jessie Della Femina is obsessed with clothes. Unlike other teens, she's turned her passion into a business. Jessica is the youngest designer ever to sell in Henri...
EXTRA! EXTRA! HOW TWO POST GUYS HELPED CREATE A FRIGHT AT THE OPERA
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amIT was a warm Wednesday night in Central Park, we wore robes and marched in step. We were supernumeraries, a 10-cent word for extras, in the New York Grand Opera...
WHEN WILL LEVY BOLT? CHANCELLOR'S CHASING A RAPIDLY ERODING REPUTATION
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amThere was a quiet but discernible buzz about town last week regarding the future of Harold O. Levy: Does the disclosure of those hugely embarrassing spending overruns in the Board...
ANDY ROMPS AMONG CITY VOTERS ; HAS NEARLY SAME BLACK SUPPORT AS MCCALL: POLL
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amANDREW CUOMO leads Carl McCall among Democrats in all five New York City boroughs, and is ahead in the city overall, 44.6 to 32.2 percent, a new private poll obtained...
MOTHER TERESA NUN ADMITS TORTURING GIRL
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amOne of Mother Teresa's most trusted nuns has been fined for sadistically burning a 7-year-old girl with a red-hot knife. A court ordered Sister Francesca to pay $27 for branding...
COPS CALL FOUL ON MARBURY FOR A SUSPENDED LICENSE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amJust-traded basketball star Stephon Marbury was pulled over and ticketed for driving his 2001 Ferrari with a suspended license, cops said yesterday. The Brooklyn native and former New Jersey Net...
ROG HAS TO STAY AWAY FROM 'FAMILY' BUSINESS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amI CAN hear Bill Clinton quite clearly talking to his brother, Rog. "You bat-brained baboon, you did what?" It's one thing to give a pardon to a convicted swindler like...
CHARLES TELLS BRO: DROP BIZ, OR ELSE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amPrince Charles has put his foot down on the moneymaking enterprises of his kid brother Prince Edward and his wife - demanding they either quit their businesses or stop being...
SCANDAL FIGURE MIGHT HEAD OLYMPICS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amAn Olympics bigwig, implicated in a bribery scandal involving the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games, has reportedly emerged as a leading candidate to run the International Olympics Committee. Kim...
FOX, MSG WILL MAKE PITCH FOR BRAVEST DURING GAMES
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amYankee and Met announcers will tell viewers about something other than fastballs and home runs this week. MSG Network and Fox Sports Net yesterday said their play-by-play teams will be...
LOVE CONQUERS ALL: COURTNEY'S SUIT BLOCKS NIRVANA SONG
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amCourtney Love has stopped the release of a Nirvana song Kurt Cobain recorded just months before his tragic death. A judge granted Love an injunction against the release of "You...
CONEY SHORE IS A DUMP ; BEACHGOERS RAISING STINK OVER TRASH HEAPS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amBeachgoers who went to Coney Island yesterday seeking sand, surf and sun found themselves picking their way through mounds of garbage. "I came down to the beach - it was...
HARLEM CONGREGATION GIVES MIKE 'BAPTISM' INTO POLITICS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral wannabe Mike Bloomberg took another step forward in his political education yesterday, speaking before the congregation of a prominent Harlem church. Bloomberg spent about 20 minutes in the pulpit...
ART BECOMES ARTILLERY ; 'REAL IRA' SWAPS STOLEN PAINTINGS FOR GUNS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amOld Masters, worth $5 million and believed to be in the hands of dissident members of the IRA, may be smuggled to New York to be exchanged for guns, according...
MOTHERHOOD ABDUCTS GILLIAN FROM 'X-FILES'
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amGillian Anderson says she'll quit the "The X-Files" after next season to spend more time with her 6-year-old daughter. "It feels good. It's time," the flame-haired star told London's Sunday...
QNS. COPS HUNT DOWN BAA-THERSOME FUGITIVE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amA gallivanting goat led cops on a wild steeplechase race through a Queens neighborhood yesterday - but they finally got the jump on him when he stopped for dinner. Cops...
'A.I.' NOT THE USUAL $PIELBERG
July 2, 2001 | 4:00am"A.I." ruled the box office over the weekend, but Stephen Spielberg's haunting tale of a troubled boy robot was too dark and gloomy to grab blockbuster business. The $100 million...
CITY, L.I. COPS MAKE EXPLOSIVE FINDS: 120G IN ILLEGAL FIREWORKS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amCops started the Fourth of July holiday week with a bang - seizing $120,000 worth of illegal fireworks and busting three men in the city and on Long Island. Suffolk...
NEW SQUARE FUGITIVE FEELS SQUEEZE OVERSEAS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amThe alleged mastermind of a fraud scandal involving the Hasidic community of New Square - who fled the United States not knowing his co-defendants would be pardoned by ex-President Bill...
ELIAN SAGA'S FORGOTTEN CASUALTY
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amDAGOBERTO MUNERO spent the one-year anniversary of Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba like he's spent the past 18 months - crying. He doesn't give a damn about the boy that...
YUGOSLAV GENERAL: WE COULD'VE BOMBED HILLARY
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A top Yugoslavia military officer claims his troops had the ability to launch a fatal missile strike at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1999 when she visited Albanian...
LEVYS: IT'S NOT SUICIDE ; SAY CHANDRA'S TOO SAVVY
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amMissing intern Chandra Levy did not kill herself, her parents insisted yesterday. Chandra, a "good friend" of California Rep. Gary Condit (D), vanished from her Washington home without a trace...
FIRE HITS CON ED STATION ; BUT POWER UPTOWN STAYS ON
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amCon Edison's summertime blues continued yesterday when a substation in upper Manhattan caught fire, sending one firefighter to the hospital, officials said. Luckily, firefighters were able to put out the...
NEW NOW PREZ VOWS ABORTION FIGHT
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amA lawyer whose first goal is to stop President Bush from naming Supreme Court justices who would ban abortion has been elected the new president of the National Organization for...
SHARON PROBE GETS OK
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amA Belgian court can now probe charges that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon committed "crimes against humanity" in the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in 1982. The...
OH BROTHER, WHAT A MESS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amTwo Connecticut teens who are deeply in love have a major problem on their hands - they've just become stepbrother and stepsister. And that's causing a major headache for Jesse...
MAN HACKS HIS LOVER TO DEATH: COPS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amA machete-wielding Brooklyn man hacked his girlfriend to death in a wild frenzy yesterday - after fighting off her daughter's desperate attempt to save her, police said. Winston McKenzie, brandishing...
GIRLS, BEWARE OF D.C.
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amBACK in the dark ages of the early '80s, when I was a college intern working in the New York state Capitol, a strict weeknight ritual was observed: the Cocktail...
SUICIDE MOM & 3 KIDS MOURNED
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amHundreds of people yesterday flocked to a tiny North Carolina church for the funerals of three young kids and their financially strapped mom, who killed them and herself by running...
COOL RELIEF RAINS DOWN
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amThundersorms swept through the metropolitan area yesterday evening, bringing welcome relief from the sweltering heat - but also bringing down power lines that left almost 55,000 Long Islanders without electricity...
TINO'S SLUMP FOUR-GONE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amTino Martinez is no stranger to extended hot streaks. He's hit three home runs in a game, and finished second in the AL in homers four years ago. But he's...
OYSTER SAVIORS' REEF MADNESS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amYou know, there are a lot of people out there doing some really weird stuff. Today, in Keyport Harbor, N.J., volunteers with the New York/New Jersey Baykeeper are going to...
ISRAEL KILLS TOP TERRORIST ; COPTER BLOWS UP BOMB PLOTTER, 2 SIDEKICKS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - An Israeli chopper last night ambushed and killed a terrorist known as "the most dangerous man in the West Bank" as he headed toward the border to carry...
WOMAN SICK OF MEDICARE BILL SNAFUS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amMary M. McCarthy is a healthy, retired NYPD detective who hasn't suffered more than minor allergies in a decade. But over the last nine years, while she's been living in...
FEDS SEEK TO DEPORT CITY CLUB BIG GATIEN
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amImmigration officials are quietly trying to boot beleaguered Manhattan nightclub mogul Peter Gatien out of the United States and back to his native Canada, The Post has learned. The grounds...
BRO: DI COULD HAVE BECOME FIRST LADY
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amPrincess Diana might have married an ambitious American politician and ended up in the White House if she had lived, her brother said on what would have been her 40th...
DEATH IN THE PANTRY: BRONX GIRL SHOOTS SELF MAKING MIDNIGHT SANDWICH
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amA 9-year-old Bronx girl's search for a jar of peanut butter in her grandmother's cupboard ended tragically when a loaded gun she found on a shelf went off and killed...
KEITH: I WANT TO STAY A NET
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amKeith Van Horn hasn't been this excited since his rookie season. And, yes, Van Horn emphasized repeatedly, he wants to return to the Nets. "The benefit that will come from...
O'NEILL SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill has struggled at the plate lately, so much so that he acknowledged Joe Torre did the right thing pinch-hitting for him in a crucial spot Saturday, and so...
TNT OVER-SERVES MARTINA
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS is how TV works: With Mary Carillo assigned to Wimbledon, TNT has one of the most complete analysts working any sport. Carillo's like one-stop shopping. She's candid, concise, humorous,...
DANDY ANDY, YANKS LOOKIN' WELL-TO-DO; PETTITTE'S RETURN SHOWS BOMBERS THE RAY TO GO
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 6 Devil Rays 1 Andy Pettitte could barely stand two weeks on the disabled list, he wanted the ball so badly. The ball found him two batters into yesterday...
GROIN WOES KO JUSTICE AGAIN
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Like Andy Pettitte, David Justice was activated over the weekend after a left groin problem landed him on the DL. While Pettitte soared yesterday, Justice soured. The Yankees...
DANDY ANDY, YANKS LOOKIN' WELL-TO-DO: FOR WOHLERS, FIRST STINT WITH YANKS A NO BRAINER
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amHE WAS OUT of options, so he agreed to step into the world of sports psychology as a patient. And in that world, Mark Wohlers was a fish flopping in...
ALBERT THE GREAT ROLLS IN SUBURBAN
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amDespite having to deal with thunder, lightning, showers and field of five quality opponents, Albert the Great staked his claim yesterday as the best handicap horse in America with an...
GILL AND NETS PART WAYS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amKendall Gill has played his last game as a Net. The team doesn't intend to bring him back as a free agent, and Gill, who joined the Nets in Jan....
O'DONNELL LEAVES DEVILS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amAs usual, the opening of free agency only means the Devils lose players. The exodus from Lou Lamoriello's happy family began yesterday, as early as it could, when late-season rental...
BROADWAY DOESN'T MATTER: OUT-OF-IT RANGERS HAVE NO CHANCE FOR FREE AGENTS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amIN this brave new NHL world that pretty much spun off its axis with yesterday's opening bell of the free-agent market, this much is now clear: Not only is Broadway...
HOT-HANDED TRIO IGNITING LIBERTY
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amAs reporters surrounded Crystal Robinson after she drained two critical three-pointers to lead the Liberty to a win over the Orlando Miracle on Saturday, Becky Hammon leaned over and said,...
IT'S WAIT-AND-SEE ON PIAZZA
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Mets are waiting to see if Mike Piazza needs to go on the DL with a hairline fracture of his big left toe. In the next few...
THERE WILL BE SNOW ON THE ISLAND
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amAfter acquiring their two centers of the present, Alexei Yashin and Michael Peca, in draft-weekend trades, Charles Wang's Islanders set out during the unrestricted free-agency period to land an experienced...
NOEL'S 3 HRS CRUSH CARDS
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amCyclones 8 Cardinals 2 Last night it was Noel's Arc - not Noah's Ark - that won the day for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Three times. After a three-hour, five-minute rain...
HOUSTON TELLS TEAMS: HEY, I'M AVAILABLE
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amAllan Houston's agent, Bill Strickland, is taking no chances. He faxed memos to 10 clubs - including the Knicks and Sacramento - letting them know how to reach him now...
METS HAVE APPY ENDING: SLIP PAST BRAVES ON KEVIN'S GEM
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amMets 2 Braves 1 ATLANTA - From the time one of Kevin Appier starts finishes and the next one begins, he studies every aspect of his opponent and his own...
PAYTON AT CROSSROADS: JAY MUST SHOW METS HE CAN STAY HEALTHY
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - It was minutes after Saturday's loss. In the hallway at the bottom of Turner Field, Jay Payton, in full uniform (sans hat), walked with batting coach Dave Engle...
BARRY'S BAT MAN GETS GOOD WOOD
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amThe secret to Barry Bonds' amazing home-run barrage this season could very well lie deep in the woods of New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. The woods are home to...
UNKNOWN SOLDIER: AS BONDS RUNS AT RECORD BOOKS IT'S EASY TO LOOK PAST GONZO
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amWhich player least deserves to be ahead of Luis Gonzalez in All-Star votes? A) Ken Griffey Jr. B) Sammy Sosa. C) Larry Walker. D) Barry Bonds. E) All of the...
CYCLONES COUNT ON AUSSIE GAHAN
July 2, 2001 | 4:00amEven in Australia, the old adage rings true that in baseball, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains. Less than an hour before the Brooklyn Cyclones were...