October 17, 2001
WILL BERRY BE PICKED BY BMG?
Former EMI music chief Ken Berry could soon be headed to BMG, say music industry sources. The axed music man, who this weekend was forced out of the top spot...
CLASSIC TOYS ARE HOT - SHRINKY DINKS A HIT THE SECOND TIME AROUND
When it comes to toys, usually only the newest with the coolest technology get hot. But Shrinky Dinks are proving the exception to the rule. The plastic that shrinks when...
LAYOFFS PILE UP IN MFG. SECTOR
United Technologies Corp. yesterday rewarded its staffers for the firm's 14 percent increase in earnings by issuing a stack of pink slips. And the worst earnings season in a decade...
CHILDS TO DESIGN THE NEW 7 WTC
SILVERSTEIN Properties has hired architect David Childs to design not only a replacement for the Twin Towers but a new building where 7 World Trade Center stood, sources say. The...
LUXE RUNNING OUT - TERROR, RECESSION DIMS LVMH OUTLOOK
Luxury goods aren't moving the way they used to. Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the leading luxury-goods conglomerate, in its second earnings warning yesterday said it expects zero...
DJ-ERS' FURY AT JERSEY
DOW Jones Chairman Peter Kann said he plans to pull 290 jobs previously at the World Financial Center in Downtown Manhattan and permanently assign them to new sites in New...
SPECULATORS RUN ON AILING PRIMEDIA STOCK
To embattled Primedia boss Tom Rogers, a meager 34 cents meant a lot yesterday. Rogers has seen nearly $20 million disappear from his personal holdings of the company this year,...
STARR REPORT
The 'Dr.' is out: CBS makes 'Bold' move It's official: Hunter Tylo is off "The Bold and the Beautiful." Yesterday we reported that Tylo was still in contract negotiations with...
AN EDIFICE COMPLEX
BERLIN BABYLON [ 1/2] Oddly oblique documentary about the 1990s reconstruction of Berlin. Running time: 88 minutes. Not rated. At Film Forum, Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street....
NOT MUCH TO LOVE ABOUT 'INTIMACY'
INTIMACY [] Hard core, soft narrative. Running time: 119 minutes. Not rated (extremely explicit sex, profanity). At Cinemas 1,2,3 and the Angelika. -------- 'INTIMACY," which includes footage of legitimate actors...
'WAKING LIFE' IN SLEEPY TOONTOWN
WAKING LIFE [] What a trip. Running time: 99 minutes. Rated R (profanity, cartoon violence). At the Union Square, Broadway and East 13th Street. ------ 'WAKING Life" is a breakthrough...
THE MUSIC'S HABIT-FORMING, NOT THE RAUNCH
JANE'S ADDICTION ---- DRESSED fittingly in retro-pimp splendor for most of the Jane's Addiction reunion show Monday, frontman Perry Farrell turned Madison Square Garden into a tawdry peep show. Jane's...
THELOST: BOY CHILD STAR GROWS UP, STAYS DRUNK
"Corey Haim: The E! True Hollywood Story" Tonight at 8 on E! TONIGHT'S "E! True Hollywood Story" on Corey Haim is the best profile of a former child star since...
ROCKIN' THE FREE WORLD - MUSIC'S ELITE AT GARDEN FOR WTC BENEFIT SUPER-CONCERT
THE greatest concert extravaganza ever to be staged is music's answer to the most dastardly act of terrorism ever committed. On Saturday at Madison Square Garden, the elite of American...
IN THE WINGS
TWO high-profile musicals trying out in regional theaters may be Broadway bound. The first is "The Visit," the new musical from songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb, and playwright Terrence...
TURKEY HAS ALL THE FIXINGS FOR FINE WINE
HAVE any Okuz Gozu lately? That's one of the trippingly named local grapes used to make wine in Turkey. Archaeological evidence shows people have made wine in Turkey's Anatolia region...
TRIUMPH IN TUSCAN
BEPPE [] 45 E. 22ND ST. (212) 982-8422 ----- 'IT isn't really pasta," my lunch companion, a famous restaurant critic learned in Tuscan cookery, remarked of Beppe's mouthwatering testaroli ($10)....
REVIEWER TAKES A BITE OUT OF EATERY
A restaurateur whose business was hurt by a bad review says the stinging critique was poorly timed. Last week, accomplished chef Zarela Martinez was horrified to find her 2-month-old eatery,...
NOW GET INTO HOT KITCHENS
IF you need a prod to get out of your apartment and back into a restaurant dining room, this should do the trick. "I Love New York Restaurant Week" is...
SO, DO YOU JUST WANNA HAVE SOME FUNGUS?
THERE'LL be a fungus among us when the Plaza Hotel hosts the third annual "Tartufi Tasting" tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. in its Rose Room, which should smell distinctively...
TERROR 22 ARE TIP TOP
LAST Friday's special episode of "America's Most Wanted: Terrorists" resulted in a record 1,400-plus anonymous tips regarding the whereabouts of the FBI's 22 Most Wanted terrorists - including Osama bin...
NICE FACE, A PITY ABOUT THE VOICE
'Popstars 2" Thursday at 8 THE WB, home of good looking, demographically-correct teens, has brought back one of its big hits from last season, "Popstars," filled with gorgeous teens who...
BACK TO THE STOVE IN DROVES - YES, NEW YORKERS COOK ; LILIAN HAIDAR
YOU don't have to be Dr. Laura to understand cooking's allure at the moment. When you roll ground meat and spices together, you'll wind up with meatballs. Such simple facts...
APPEASING TERROR ; AS WE FIGHT, WE TELL ISRAEL TO GIVE IN
'IF they want us to stop our military operations, they've just got to meet my conditions. And when I said no negotiations, I meant no negotiations." President Bush made that...
WOMEN'S CLINICS HAVE LONG FELT OUR NEW FEAR
IT has come to this. Envelopes. Elevators. Bridges and tunnels. Unaccompanied bags. In a world where the mailroom sits on the front line of terror, everything we see, touch, smell,...
PINSTRIPES STILL RATE HIGH IN TV LAND
TV analysts say ratings for the Yankees' dramatic, come-from-behind series victory over Oakland would have been better than last year - if not for the events of Sept. 11. "Absolutely,...
BILL & HILL MAY PACK 1-2 PUNCH FOR GREEN
Mark Green has two big guns waiting in the wings for him - Bill and Hillary Clinton - as he waits to be officially declared the winner of last week's...
OUR PSEUDO-ALLIES
FEARFUL of a United States that goes it alone, the multilateralists among us swooned at Colin Powell's feet all last month as he went about building a "coalition against terror."...
BLACK HUMOR HITS GREAT WHITE WAY
Take my anthrax - please! New Yorkers are turning to gallows humor to cope with the city's growing panic in the wake of the World Trade Center collapse and anthrax...
GOV PULLS PURSE STRINGS TIGHT TO SAVE $3B
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki ordered a "hard freeze" on state hiring and a crackdown on state spending yesterday to cope with losses stemming from the World Trade Center attack. Pataki,...
YANKS A GRAND SLAM - BOUNCE-BACK BOMBERS PUMP UP CITY
Saying the Yankees exemplify the extraordinary spirit and resiliency of all New Yorkers, Bomber backers boasted yesterday that their team is going to torpedo the Seattle Mariners in the American...
DURST TAKES A POWDER - REAL-ESTATE HEIR CHARGED IN TEXAS SLAY SKIPS BAIL
Cops launched a nationwide manhunt for real-estate scion Robert Durst yesterday after he failed to show up for his arraignment in Galveston, Texas, on charges of beheading and dismembering his...
LAURA'S CLASS ACT - STANDS IN AS N.J. KIDS' PERFECT SUBSTITUTE
First Lady Laura Bush cuddled and comforted a frightened little girl yesterday as she read to kindergarten kids in Newark to show the joys of teaching. Little Tyday Siah Chambers...
SPITZER TO HMOS: TELL IT LIKE IT IS
ALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday that patients at six of the state's largest HMOs will now receive specific details when their claims are denied. Spitzer said the...
BLOOMY ASKS HOSP WORKERS FOR HELP
Republican mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg made a long-shot pitch yesterday for the endorsement of one of the city's most powerful and liberal-leaning unions - health-care workers Local 1199. But all...
FOLKS CALL PERFUME BOSS IN-SCENT-SITIVE
Employees of New York stores that sell Joop! fragrance yesterday turned up their noses at its creator - who gave an interview where he seemed to approve of the World...
HALLOWEEN HEROES OUTSELL VENOMOUS VILLAINS
Move over ghosts and goblins - here come Mayor Giuliani, President Bush and Osama bin Laden. Costume shops around town say Halloween is expected to give New Yorkers another chance...
WTC HERO 'PRIZED' BY HIS LOVING KIDS
Fallen firefighter Kenneth Marino loved to give "prizes" to his young son and daughter. But his best prizes of all were his humor, sensitivity and courage, his wife, Katrina, said...
PART OF 'BENT' SCULPTURE FOUND IN RUBBLE
Rescue workers have pulled two large pieces of a monumental outdoor sculpture from the rubble of the World Trade Center, The Post has learned. The first piece of "Bent Propeller"...
ELECTION-DELAY BID NIXED
An effort to postpone next month's election for two weeks was shot down yesterday after the city Board of Elections - voting along party lines - refused to ask the...
WE'RE SENDING IN THE BIG GUNS - BEHEMOTHS KNOCKING 'EM DEAD
WASHINGTON - U.S. forces moved yesterday to break the back of the Taliban military machine with massive air assaults on elite units that prop up the regime, as well as...
ANOTHER BREAK FOR MOTORISTS
The five-hour morning ban on single-occupancy vehicles using the East River crossings below 63d Street is being curtailed to four hours - 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. - starting today....
GRATEFUL BANK GIVES 100G
Asahi Bank has a lot to be thankful for - its 90 employees made it safely out of the World Trade Center courtesy of the brave firefighters, cops and rescuers...
FRAUNCES TAVERN SENDS THUGS A DEFIANT MESSAGE
TWO floors above me, on Dec. 4, 1783, George Washington said his farewell to arms - and the men who risked their lives for these United States of America gave...
FLY THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES - UNITED AXES FLIGHTS, CANS 5 MILLION RESERVATIONS
So you've booked a flight for the holidays. Well, book again. That's what United Airlines will be asking 5 million customers who have reservations. The nation's second-biggest carrier has announced...
SAME SICKO SENT 2 'TOM' LETTERS - SIMILARITIES ON BROKAW & DASCHLE ENVELOPES
The envelopes from two anthrax-spiked letters sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and NBC anchor Tom Brokaw bear striking similarities - leading experts to conclude they were sent by...
W. HOUSE: TRIP WON'T SHANGHAI WAR EFFORT
WASHINGTON - The White House yesterday sought to reassure Americans that President Bush will be safe and able to command the war on terror from afar as he takes off...
U.S. SKEPTICAL OF AFGHAN 'DEFECTOR'
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials last night said they're trying to sort out whether a top Taliban official really is trying to defect - but the White House vowed that no...
EXCLUSIVE: TERROR CELLS 'ACTIVE': HIJACKERS' CREDIT CARDS STILL BEING USED
Credit cards belonging to the suicide hijackers continued to be used after the Sept. 11 attacks - indicating associates of the terrorists remained in the United States weeks after the...
TEACHER SLASHED ON EAST HARLEM STREET
An East Harlem teacher suffered multiple slash wounds when she was attacked by a woman while walking home from school. The United Federation of Teachers said the teacher from PS...
SHARON SETS TOUGH TERMS FOR PLO STATE
JERUSALEM - Pressure mounted yesterday on Israel to accept a Palestinian state to cool the ongoing Mideast crisis - but Prime Minister Ariel Sharon laid out tough conditions for statehood....
GUN-TOTING JET WAS A 'PACKER' BY ACCIDENT
New York Jets defensive back Damien Robinson, who allegedly drove into Giants Stadium with an assault rifle in his SUV, said yesterday he "inadvertently" left it there after going to...
UNION RIPS GRADING OF TEACHERS
Principals are unfairly flunking teachers based on unsubstantiated allegations from students, the head of the teachers union charged yesterday. The United Federation of Teachers is expected to pass a resolution...
RAPPER JAY-Z TO COP PLEA
It may be a "Hard Knock Life" - but there'll be no hard time for hip-hop honcho Jay-Z. The multimillionaire gangsta rapper plans to cop a misdemeanor plea in Manhattan...
TAX-PREP CHEAT GETS 9 YEARS
The senior half of a crooked father-and-son team of tax preparers got nine years in the slammer yesterday for filing IRS returns with more than $35 million in bogus deductions,...
CITY SHUTS UNIT OF LAB AFTER SPILL
A unit of the city's Public Health Laboratories was shut down after technicians may have inadvertently contaminated it as they performed anthrax testing on a suspicious letter sent to NBC...
FEDS CHARGE CONN. ENVIRO WORKER IN HOAX
COVENTRY, Conn. - A state environmental worker has been hit with federal charges for lying to FBI agents investigating an anthrax hoax, Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday. Joseph Faryniarz,...
YOU DIRTY DOG! - PLUMBER CITED IN WTC RESCUE GEAR THEFT
A ghoulish Board of Education plumber was busted yesterday for stealing supplies from a World Trade Center disaster site while his bosses looked the other way, schools investigator Ed Stancik...
KILLER KID COPS PLEA
The youngest of three boys who burned a homeless man to death last spring pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court. Robert Velasquez, 14, admitted he served as...
ANTHRAX TERRORIST: 'DEATH TO AMERICA'
The anthrax-tainted letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle contained a remarkably potent strain of the killer bacteria - and the chilling message "Death to America," it was revealed...
HARDLINE ISRAELI POL SHOT IN HEAD
JERUSALEM - A far-right Israeli politician was the object of an apparent assassination attempt today, and officials feared the gunmen were Palestinians. If so, it would be the first-ever Palestinian...
NFL COULD SUSPEND 'HIGH-CALIBER' JET
New York Jets defensive back Damien Robinson, who allegedly drove into Giants Stadium with an illegal assault rifle in his SUV, could face suspension under the NFL's "guns and weapons"...
FLY THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES
So you've booked a flight for the holidays. Well, book again. That's what United Airlines will be asking 5 million customers who have reservations. The nation's second-biggest carrier has announced...
RAPPER TO COP PLEA IN NIGHTCLUB STAB
It may be a "Hard Knock Life" - but there'll be no hard time for hip-hop honcho Jay-Z. The multimillionaire gangsta rapper plans to cop a misdemeanor plea in Manhattan...
GOV PUTS CLAMP ON SPENDING
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki ordered a "hard freeze" on state hiring and a crackdown on state spending yesterday to cope with losses stemming from the World Trade Center attack. Pataki,...
YOU DIRTY DOG! PLUMBER STOLE WTC RESCUE GEAR: COPS
A ghoulish Board of Education plumber was busted yesterday for stealing supplies from a World Trade Center disaster site while his bosses looked the other way, Schools Investigator Ed Stancik...
ANTHRAX THUG: 'DEATH TO AMERICA'
The anthrax-tainted letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle contained a remarkably potent strain of the killer bacteria - and the chilling message "Death to America," it was revealed...
EMBASSY BOMBERS IN COURT TODAY
A Manhattan federal judge will hold a pre-sentencing hearing today in the case of four men who blew up U.S. embassies in Africa at the orders of Osama bin Laden....
EISLEY, WARD EARN BACKCOURT POINTS
EXHIBITION: Jazz 85 - Knicks 80 SALT LAKE CITY - The Knicks' revolving point-guard carousel took a spin at Delta Center last night, and Mark Jackson was left without a...
OCTOBER ROUSES CHAMPS
SEATTLE - The Yankees did what the Mets could not at the end of the season - they successfully rallied from a seemingly insurmountable position to inspire New York. You...
OSTERTAG FLUNKS KNICK TEST
KNICK NOTES SALT LAKE CITY - Perhaps the only person not booing Utah center Greg Ostertag at the Delta Center last night was Knicks GM Scott Layden. Ostertag, whom Layden...
IT'S PRIME TIME FOR N.Y. BIG-GAME HUNTERS
THE big-game hunting season is well under way in the Empire State, and although the events of Sept. 11 have affected where we can hunt, it is still a great...
CRAIG: BAN PROS FROM OLYMPICS
The U.S. hasn't won the gold medal in Olympic men's hockey since 1980. When they try to end that streak this February at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City,...
PECA'S RETURN BOOSTS LINEUP
The captain is back. Mike Peca is expected to return to the lineup tonight against the Hurricanes after missing the last two games with a concussion. Peca, who sustained the...
SCARED STRAIGHT ; FALLING INTO 0-2 HOLE WOKE THE CHAMPS
ALCS: Yankees vs. MarinersJUST when you thought New York was in for another routine baseball season - you know, a quick run through the AL Division and Championship Series, followed...
COOL UNDER FIRE ; HUMBLE ICHIRO THRIVES ON PRESSURE
ALCS: Yankees vs. Mariners SEATTLE - The complete package is no bundle of nerves. Ichiro Suzuki slaps the ball to all fields, has power to reach most seats, can throw...
IKE NEEDS TO START
AT some point soon, most likely this week, Jim Fassel will have a decision to make regarding one of his receivers. Now that Ike Hilliard is as healthy as he's...
STRAHAN ON SACK ATTACK
No player in Giants history - not even the legendary Lawrence Taylor - has ever put together as dominant a three-game stretch as Michael Strahan just completed. Strahan's 8.5 sacks...
NO PRESSURE TOO BIG FOR FEARLESS JOE
ALCS: Yankees vs. Mariners Look in Joe Torre's sad eyes and they tell a story. Those eyes say: Trust me. I've been there. Somehow, we'll make it through this together....
M'S BEAT YANKS - REGULARLY
ALCS: Yankees vs. Mariners The greatest playoff team in baseball history vs. the greatest regular-season team in baseball history. That's what you got when the Yankees and Mariners met nine...
BRAVES HAVE EDGE ON HILL WITH GLAVINE
PHOENIX - Tom Glavine said "Ummm" for a moment, trying to rev up some politically correct answer that couldn't be misconstrued in any way. The question, though, was too rudimentary,...
PADRES SKIPPER TELLS YANKS HOW TO . . . BEAT THE M'S
ALCS: Yankees vs. Mariners Beating these Mariners will not be easy. It only happened 46 times in the regular season and two times in the first round against the Indians....
LIKE A BROKEN RECORD ; SELE KEEPS HEARING ABOUT POSTSEASON FAILURE
It's a tag he can't remove, like one of those department store gadgets that explode with blue ink when you try to steal clothing. Aaron Sele is the winningest major...
YANKEES, MARINERS WELCOME REMATCH
SEATTLE - It's one thing to break another club's record for victories in a season. It's totally something different to pry a pennant from their cold, dead hands. The Mariners...
PATIENCE PROVES POTENT FOR PINIELLA
ALCS: Yankees vs. Mariners The Mariners have not only taken a page from the Yankees' book, they've taken two. GM Pat Gillick wisely molded the Mariners into a team-oriented squad...
JETS UNDER THE GUN - ROBINSON'S ARREST LET HIS COACH, TEAMMATES DOWN
DISTURBING news emanated from Weeb Ewbank Hall yesterday. Word of Jets' free safety Damien Robinson's arrest Sunday for possession of an assault rifle found in his car as he entered...
UNIT COMES UP BIG: HURLS 3-HIT GEM TO CARRY D'BACKS IN NLCS OPENER
GAME 1D'backs 2 Braves 0 PHOENIX - On Oct. 5, 1969, in the first year of the league championship series, the Orioles' Dave McNally threw seven innings of no-hit ball...
ANDY'S HAPPY TRIP THROUGH BULLPEN ZONE IS OVER
SEATTLE - The Yankees talk about running on adrenaline this time of year, and Andy Pettitte had his level in the danger zone Monday night. The left-handed starter spent time...
HEAD-TO-HEADGAMES - LINDROS, STEVENS RESUME RIVALRY
Neither man is comfortable acknowledging the singular significance of tonight's Garden showcase between the winless and deposed champion Devils and the mildly resurgent Rangers. But there no getting around this,...
SCOUT: M'S DON'T HAVE A CHANCE: SURGING YANKS WILL MAKE LOU CREW GO RINGLESS IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE - The Mariners won 116 games. They have the home-field advantage in the best-of-seven ALCS. Right fielder Ichiro Suzuki is a lock for the AL Rookie of the Year...
IT'S TOUGH TO PICK A LOSER ; BOTH YANKS, M'S LOOK UNBEATABLE
SEATTLE - It's never going to end. If the A's, a year smarter, a year better, keeping a better pace through the second half than the team setting an American...
MEXICAN CLUB QUITS ON METROS
The MetroStars' Copa Merconorte game against Chivas tonight was canceled when the Mexican club pulled out of its trip to New York, citing travel concerns in the wake of the...
SORE JETER RESTS HIS ACHING BONES
SEATTLE - Derek Jeter felt a lot older than 27 yesterday. While every other Yankee hit during yesterday's workout at Safeco Field, Jeter spent the afternoon in the hot tub...
MIGHTIEST 'PEN WINS
ALCS NOTEBOOK SEATTLE - Not since the 1990 Nasty Boys in Cincinnati has a bullpen received so much credit for a team running away and hiding during the regular season....
BRAVES GO FROM JAVY-NOTS TO JAVY
NLCS NOTES PHOENIX - Javy Lopez, who hurt his left ankle the next-to-last weekend of the regular season against the Mets, was added to the Braves' playoff roster yesterday. Wes...
LEGENDS OF THE FALL: ALDS MIRACLE PROVES YANKS CAN'T LOSE IN OCTOBER
Some series are meant to be. You can be sure destiny had a hand in putting together this one. The Mariners put up 116 wins in the regular season, tying...
THE MATCHUPS: CLASH OF THE TITANS
Here's what the last three postseasons have taught us. The Yankees always find a way because they have more talent and more baseball smarts than their opponents. They also have...
SCOUT: M'S DON'T HAVE A CHANCE
SEATTLE - The Mariners won 116 games. They have the home-field advantage in the best-of-seven ALCS that opens here today. In right fielder Ichiro Suzuki , the M's have a...
ALL CARDS ON TABLE IN POINT-MAN DECK
SALT LAKE CITY - The Knicks' revolving point-guard carousel took a spin at Delta Center last night and Mark Jackson was left without a horse. Jeff Van Gundy sat Mark...
HEAD-TO-HEADGAMES: LINDROS, STEVENS RESUME RIVALRY
When the Rangers ended their galling 23-game winless streak against the Devils on Mar. 31, they talked about how the 4-3 Meadowlands victory would serve as a stepping stone for...