August 2, 2002
ADIDAS PLANS SOHO STORE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amGlobal sportswear company Adidas is running into SoHo to open a flagship Adidas Originals store. The German firm's Oregon-based U.S. division cut a deal for the 3,700-square-foot former Ad Hoc...
STOCKS BACK DOWN - DOW FALLS 229, NASDAQ 48; 'DOUBLE-DIP' FEARED
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIt's hard to shake the fear. Stocks plunged again yesterday, as investors fell back on their worries about the weakness of the U.S. economy. Not even the "perp-walk effect" worked....
CONSUMERS FAIL BACK-TO-SCHOOL TEST
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amBack-to-school shopping season may be in full swing but back-to-school shoppers aren't. Corporate scandals and economic worries are shaking the confidence of consumers, making the traditionally busy season considerably more...
EBBERS WILL BE NEXT - FEDS ARE LEANING ON SULLIVAN, MYERS TO FLIP
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amLook out, Bernie Ebbers! Prosecutors have the sweet-talking Mississippian - who walked away from the now-bankrupt WorldCom with a cool $500 million in his jeans - and the company he...
STARBUCKS EXPRESS-O ON THE GO
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIt's not enough that a cup of Starbucks coffee costs twice as much as regular coffee. But then you've got to wait and wait and wait for the "barista" to...
MORGAN STANLEY TO AX BIG BANKERS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amAfter dragging its heels while rivals announced staff cuts, Morgan Stanley & Co. is finally jumping into the fray. The securities firm is handing out pink slips to at least...
WARNACO EXPECTS NEW SEC ACTION
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amWarnaco could be the headed into the regulators' hot seat. The Securities and Exchange Commission has informed the company, maker of Calvin Klein jeans and underwear, that it intends to...
STARR REPORT
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSept. 10 airdate for PBS 9/11 documentary PBS has announced a Sept. 10 airdate for "America Rebuilds," its 90-minute documentary about the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the...
'THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON' FEELS TERMINAL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDSAt Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall (use entrance at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, go down ramp and make a U-turn). Through Aug. 20. Call...
GOOD GOLLY! - LEGENDARY LITTLE RICHARD IS CALLING IT QUITS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amHE calls himself "The Originator, the Emancipator, the Architect of Rock 'n' Roll."Credit him, too, then, with being the inventor of musical braggadocio. But Little Richard - born Richard Penniman...
'CSI' TO BE COMIC BOOK
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amWATCH out Batman! Those super-sleuths on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" will soon be the stars of their own comic book. Max Allan Collins, who wrote the graphic novel that inspired...
SODERBERGH'S INSIDER TALE IS 'FULL' OF IT
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amFULL FRONTAL [] The emperor goes skinny dipping. Running time: 101 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Lincoln Square, the Cinema 1, the Chelsea, others. -------------- YOU can't get...
DREADFUL 'DISGUISE'
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amTHE MASTER OF DISGUISE [Zero stars] Painfully unfunny comedy. Running time: 80 minutes. Rated PG (fart jokes, sexual innuendo). At the Chelsea West, the Union Square, others. ---------- NO one...
'LIVE' LACKS LAUGHS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amMARTIN LAWRENCE LIVE: RUNTELDAT [] Unfunny stand-up. Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (strong crude sexual dialogue and pervasive language). At the E-Walk, the Kips Bay, the Union Square, others....
THEY SEE GREEN PEOPLE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSIGNS [] Fright Night, if no classic. Running time: 107 minutes. Rated PG-13 (frightening moments). At the E-Walk, the Chelsea, the Union Square, others. --------- ESSENTIALLY a rural version of...
ARE THERE SIGNS IN CROP CIRCLES?
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amMEL Gibson may get his name above the title in "Signs," but the real star of the movie is the crop circle which appears mysteriously overnight. Here, everything you need...
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00am"Armadillo" Tomorrow night at 9 on A&E LORIMER Black is a man with an identity crisis. And it's not just his own identity he's unsure about. Everyone he meets has...
'BIG BRO' BURNOUT: NY'S MONICA RATES THE ROOMIES AND WARNS: SLOW DOWN OR LOSE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amBROOKLYN'S Monica Bailey, the candy store manager who nearly won "Big Brother 2," has some advice for her "Big Brother 3" cousins: The "Big Brother" competition is a marathon -...
MISS AMERICA CROWNS WAYNE BRADY HOST
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amCOMEDIAN Wayne Brady was named yesterday to host of the Miss America pageant, the first African-American to anchor the famous beauty contest. "I think it's a cool thing for the...
NYPD WANTS TV SHOWS TO PAY
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amCALL it NYPD green. The NYPD is cracking down on new TV shows that portray New York City cops, requiring producers to pay royalties to the department. "It applies to...
BACK IN 'TOWN' - PAUL NEWMAN HOPES TO RETURN TO B'WAY
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amPAUL Newman has been visiting theater owners in search of a Broadway house for the Westport Country Playhouse's revival of Thornton Wilder's great meditation on death and life, "Our Town."...
PAIR OF PRESLEY PLAYS PRIMED FOR PRODUCTION
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amTWO new musicals about Elvis Presley are in the works. The first - which is being developed by Los Angeles-based Immortal Entertainment - is about the legendary romance between Presley...
PARTY DEFENDS 2-POLL POL - CONSERVATIVES SAY CANDIDATE WENT TO POLLS TWICE BUT PULLED LEVER ONCE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amConservative candidate Dan Mahony signed in to vote at two different Manhattan polling sites in last year's race for mayor - but didn't cast his ballot twice, his spokesman said...
HIRSCHFELD SOUGHT IN ANOTHER HIT PLOT
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amParking garage magnate Abe Hirschfeld, paroled from prison a week ago on charges of seeking to murder a business partner, may still have the urge to kill, law enforcement sources...
LITTLE LEAGUE SHAME: LATEST SEATS KEEP 'ABUSIVE' PARENTS AT A DISTANCE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSIGN of the times: With regional Little League World Series finals being contested, it's worth noting that at least three youth-league baseball fields in central New Jersey have gotten a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amTwo hermit crabs dressed as surfers have won a crustacean beauty contest in New Jersey. The Ocean City competition required people to create tableaux featuring costumed crabs. The Miss Crustacean...
THE 'GLUT' EXCUSE - FOES OF REPLACING WTC OFFICES PUT OWN NEEDS AHEAD OF CITY'S
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amCONFUSED over how big to rebuild the World Trade Center site? Well, try imagining a healthy, 200- pound man felled by a disease that temporarily causes him to lose weight....
BIG MCCALL DONORS HAVE SEX-SCANDAL BOOZE LINK
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIF HE has any loyalty to his campaign donors, Carl McCall should be serving shots of Jagermeister at his fund-raisers for the governor's race. McCall this year has pulled in...
PARTYING ON A SINKING SHIP
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. Bankrupt service provider WorldCom is planning an all-expenses-paid booze cruise for its New York employees - and was struggling to keep the party...
'DWI' COP TEST-IMONY - FUROR OVER FIELD RESULT AS OFFICER BLAMES BIKER
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amVictor Wilson leaves court after pleading not guilty in the death of Stefanos Kiladitis (inset), whose mom, Kalliopi, participated in a rally earlier.Post photos: Michael Norcia (left); Spencer A. BurnettA...
I'M OFF THE 'HOOK' - MY TERRIFYING DAY AT 'JOHN' SCHOOL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amI'M GOING to think twice before I pick up a hooker in this city. That's because I audited a graphic, scared-straight style class at the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office -...
JAIL GUARD'S KIN MOURN SLAIN TOT
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amGrief-stricken relatives and friends of a correction officer who accidentally shot and killed his young son gathered at the family's Queens Village home yesterday to pay respects. Three-year-old Jonathan Olaya...
TWEED EXCEED$ - COST OF REBUILD SOARS TO $100M
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThe cost of sprucing up the Tweed Courthouse - the new headquarters for top city education officials - climbed close to the $100 million mark yesterday, and it's likely to...
FORMER POL NIXES DEAL ON PERV RAP
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amA former Brooklyn Democratic boss pleaded not guilty yesterday to sodomizing a 13-year-old girl - rejecting a deal offered by prosecutors that would have landed him behind bars for one...
POLICE-ID JUDGE COPS OUT IN DRUG-SALE CASE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThe Manhattan judge who sparked an uproar by insisting three undercover narcotics cops reveal their names on the witness stand yesterday took herself off the case. State Supreme Court Justice...
HYSTERICAL MOM CAN'T BELIEVE LAWYER'S TACTICS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS as if the grieving mother had been shot in the heart. A second time. "Oh, my God! What kind of people are these? They don't have any feelings!"...
ENRON RAI$ES ITS UGLY HEAD IN WAR FOR GOV
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amAs Andrew Cuomo slammed Carl McCall for taking donations from tainted corporations, McCall turned the tables and called his rival hypocritical - for pocketing $136,000 from the family of a...
PRESIDENT BUSH ANGRY OVER JERUSALEM BOMB
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A "furious" President Bush yesterday said he's "just as angry as Israel" over the Jerusalem bomb that killed five Americans - but he didn't threaten any direct U.S....
LETHAL PIECE OF TAPE: COVERED SWITCH WOULD HAVE SAVED ELEVATOR GIRLS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amA safety switch that could have kept an elevator from fatally crushing the heads of two children had been tampered with in a New Jersey mansion, prosecutors said yesterday. The...
CUFF-LINKED EXECS IN CUFFS: FEDS PARADE DISGRACED MONEYMEN IN $3B FRAUD
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amTwo ex-WorldCom execs charged with fiddling the books to the tune of $3.8 billion to keep the telecom giant afloat were paraded around in handcuffs yesterday in the feds' latest...
G.I. BILL: I'LL CARRY RIFLE AND DIE FOR ISRAEL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amBill Clinton - who avoided serving in Vietnam - says he would take up arms and "fight and die" for Israel if Iraq attacks the Jewish state. "If Iraq came...
4 RETIREES BID NYPD FAREWELL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amFour veteran cops said goodbye to the NYPD yesterday as they wrapped up their careers in Brooklyn. Sgt. Dennis Keenan and Police Officer William "Harpo" Silvestri said farewell to colleagues...
ED. BOSS GIVES KLEIN GO-AHEAD
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThe state education boss yesterday OK'd Mayor Bloomberg's choice of trust-buster Joel Klein as the new city schools chancellor, despite his limited educational background. Education Commissioner Richard Mills had to...
JUDGE EDDIE WOULD NAIL COP-KILLERS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amJUDGE Eddie Torres was working out at the 23rd Street Y in the early '80s when my colleague Phil Messing asked him, "How do you feel?" Judge Eddie replied, "I...
FBI GETTING INVOLVED IN BLAST PROBE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThe FBI has launched an investigation into the bombing at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, which killed seven people, including five Americans. "The FBI has opened an investigation, and we are cooperating...
COP'S BRUSH WITH STUPIDITY
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens detective allegedly stole a credit card from a prisoner and used it to buy an electric toothbrush and an answering machine, authorities said yesterday. Detective Edgardo Rodriguez, assigned...
HEROES SNATCH TOTS FROM FIRE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amA retired city cop and a plumber yesterday raced into a burning Long Island house to rescue two kids. Both youngsters, a 3-year-old boy and his 22-month-old brother, were not...
'ED' STAR: DRUG RAP IS BOGUS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amA star of the NBC comedy show "Ed" yesterday denied smoking crack with a homeless Brooklyn man - and his lawyer said Josh Randall merely asked the other man for...
LOVERS' LANE RAPE, KIDNAP ORDEAL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amLANCASTER, Calif. - Cops killed a brazen kidnapper in a dramatic shootout yesterday, ending a 12-hour ordeal for two teenage girls who were abducted at gunpoint from a lovers' lane...
STATE SNIPS SUSPECTS IN ID-THEFT RING
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amFour people were indicted in a massive identity-theft ring that stole personal information from WNYC, the New York State Insurance Fund and other organizations, authorities announced yesterday. State Attorney General...
FRUITS AND VEGGIES MAY HELP SPARE SMOKERS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIf you've got to smoke, then make sure to eat your fruit and vegetables, doctors say. While smoking makes you prone to serious illness, eating plenty of healthy foods is...
TERROR BLAST LOOKS LIKE AN INSIDE JOB
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli investigators suspect the Hebrew University bombing was prepared well in advance by explosives experts, and carried out with the help of an Arab student or worker on...
TEENS RESCUED, LOVERS' LANE KIDNAP SUSPECT SLAIN
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amLANCASTER, Calif. - Cops blew away an armed kidnapper yesterday and rescued two teenage girls, giving a happy ending to a story that began as a nightmare. The abductor took...
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR - WEAVER GETS NO SUPPORT AS ANGELS EDGE YANKEES
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amAngels 2 - Yankees 1 ANAHEIM - Jeff Weaver's best effort as a Yankee wasn't good enough to beat the Angels last night at Edison Field. Say what you want...
ROCKET'S ON TARGET TO RETURN NEXT WEEK
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The numbers were good but the performance was better. As a result Roger Clemens is headed back to a Yankee rotation that could use some help. Out since...
GILDER SEEKING HAT TRICK
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amNearly as torrid as the temperature, Oregon's Bob Gilder is breathing some life into the Senior Tour this weekend as he tries to pull within one of Chi Chi Rodriguez's...
RHAPSODY IN DEEP BLUE - READY FOR PORGIES AND BASS?
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amFLUKING may be your best bet, if you plan on saltwater fishing this week, although there are plenty of porgies around and there is also some nice action on bluefish....
GOLD MOVER FAVORED IN HONORABLE MISS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Gold Mover, who defeated Xtra Heat in the Grade 2 Princess Rooney at Calder on July 13, was installed as the 8-5 favorite for today's $100,000 Grade...
WAR EMBLEM'S A SHORE THING - INVADES MONMOUTH AS THE 7-5 FAVORITE
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Kentucky Derby-Preakness winner War Emblem, looking to get back in the groove after stumbling badly at the start and finishing eighth in the Belmont Stakes, will break...
SPA SHOWDOWN DRAWS SUPER 6
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Six horses, five Grade 1 winners. No wonder tomorrow's Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap is being billed beforehand as the "race of the year." While one of...
KNICKS BUILD NO-RING CIRCUS - OPTIMISM CAN'T HIDE BIG HOLES
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amAS YOU drove into the parking lot yesterday at SUNY-Purchase it was impossible to miss the large handwritten sign. There, in big blue letters - Knicks' blue - were these...
LIBS TRYING TO KEEP THE GARDEN ABLOOM
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThere was something in the air last Sunday at Madison Square Garden, and the Liberty smelled it. The playoffs had arrived early. "Oh ... Oh ... I really felt the...
JUMBO BIG HELP FOR JETS - VETERAN TACKLE OUT OF RETIREMENT
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amJumbo Elliott doesn't have to do this. He doesn't have to show up for training camp, live in a cramped college dorm room and sleep on an undersized bed on...
NETS SIGN CHILDS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThe Nets made it official yesterday, signing Chris Childs to a two-year, $3.5 million deal to be Jason Kidd's caddie. It will be Childs' third stop in the metropolitan area....
ISLES SIGN WIEMER
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amJason Wiemer was signed to a one-year deal yesterday, making him the third Islander in the last two weeks to avoid an arbitration hearing this month. Terms of the deal...
ROOKIE CARTER'S INJURY ANGERS FASSEL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Morning practices at Giants training camp are usually tame, especially when compared with the full-pads intensity of the afternoon sessions. Jim Fassel often says his team is in...
EX-XFLER EYES SPOT WITH TEAM
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amMike Furrey, a long-shot free-agent receiver vying for a spot on the Jets, is attempting to follow in the footsteps of Jet receiver Kevin Swayne. The road Furrey has traveled...
BAILEY'S NOT SO SECRET AGENT MAN
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Jerry Bailey isn't riding solo in his blitzkrieg attack on the Old Spa. Although J.D. took the collar yesterday with just four mounts, he still holds a...
BIG BLUE FIGHTING MAD NOW
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - It was nothing out of the ordinary. That is the point Brandon Short was attempting to hammer home. No big deal. "Something that's the norm for us," he...
NEW BEGINNING - METS, THOMSON EYE PERFECT FIT AT SHEA
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amAbout two years ago, John Thomson was contemplating retirement. At the age of 26, a rash of injuries had halted the right-hander's progress with the Rockies and his arm hadn't...
HERM SEES GREAT THINGS IN FERGUSON
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards spent some time yesterday talking up a number of his players for having standout training camps so far. One of those players is nose tackle Jason...
PEDRO GOOD ROLE MODEL
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amJOHN Thomson can relax now. He's among friends. Pedro Astacio, who had ERAs of 6.23, 5.94, 5.27 and 5.49 in four seasons at Colorado and went into last night's game...
DIXON HOPES TO HOP INTO LINEUP
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Anyone attending Giants training camp for the first time yesterday would have come away thinking that No. 86 was one heck of a player. Ron Dixon...
ROCKET SET TO FIRE - AIMING FOR RETURN TO YANKEES AFTER SOLID REHAB START
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The numbers were good but the performance was better. As a result Roger Clemens is headed back to a Yankee rotation that could use some help. Out since...
MO'S LOOKIN' UP, BUT APPLE RETURN STILL A WAYS OFF
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - Mariano Rivera is eligible to come off the disabled list Monday, but don't look for the All-Star closer be activated before next weekend. Rivera will throw...
ON THE LINKS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amPATE LEADS INTERNATIONAL Steve Pate capitalized on a 5-point eagle and favorable playing conditions to forge a narrow first-round lead yesterday in The International at Castle Rock, Colo. Pate finished...
CROWD FIRES UP OCTAVIO
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amTo hear ex-Met Octavio Dotel tell it, last night's box score should include an "L" next to the attendance. Dotel, who was instrumental in the 1999 Mets' run to the...
OZ TURNS WIZARD WITH A SHEA GEM
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amCurt Schilling, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez . . . Roy Oswalt? Get used to it. Pretty soon, Oswalt will be mentioned with the best pitchers in baseball. Oswalt, a 24-year-old...
KAZMIR SIGNS FOR A RECORD BONUS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Despite what his adviser called "the most collusive environment ever in the draft," first-round pick Scott Kazmir has agreed to terms with the Mets, a club official confirmed...
MET OFFENSE CORNERED
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amSTEVE Phillips traded Jay Payton, leaving the Mets cornered at the corner outfield spots. Stuck with Jeromy Burnitz in right field like gum on their shoes. Up against the wall...
NO 'O' IN AMAZIN'S - ASTROS' OSWALT OUTHURLS ASTACIO AS METS' HITTERS GO FROM HOT TO HIDEOUS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThrough two-thirds of the season, Pedro Astacio has mostly ranged between good and excellent. But last night, on a night when every pitch mattered, Astacio didn't measure up to fellow...
NO 'O' IN AMAZIN'S : ASTROS' OSWALT OUTHURLS ASTACIO AS METS' HITTERS GO FROM HOT TO HIDEOUS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amAstros 3 Mets 1 For the first time in this series, runs were at a premium for both the Mets and Astros. Last night's final outcome didn't look anything like...
KAZMIR SIGNS FOR AMAZIN' BONUS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets announced last night that they have signed Scott Kazmir, their first-round draft pick. Kazmir, a 6-foot left-hander drafted 15th overall from Cypress Hills High School in...
ZINTER'S LONG JOURNEY FINALLY LEADS TO SHEA
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIn 1989, when the Mets signed their first-round draft pick, Alan Zinter, the team flew him up to Shea Stadium. He didn't return to Flushing until Tuesday. Incredibly and inspirationally,...
ROCKET SET TO FIRE: AIMING FOR RETURN TO YANKEES AFTER SOLID REHAB START
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The numbers were good but the performance was better. As a result, Roger Clemens is likely headed back to a Yankee rotation that could use some help. Out...
BIG UNIT VS. BIG APPLE -: WITH RANDY ON HILL, METS FACE TALL ORDER
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amDiamondback General Manager Joe Garagiola Jr. wishes everyone could see Randy Johnson an hour after his starts. The 6-foot-10 "Big Unit" can usually be found sitting at his locker, resembling...
5 QUESTIONS FOR DAVE JENNINGS
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand caught up with new Giants radio analyst Dave Jennings. The 50-year-old had been the Jets' radio analyst the past 14 years. He also will...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK - WARNER WOLF VS. LEN BERMAN
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amIf you had Warner Wolf over Len Berman . . . you lost! Over the last two decades, the two most recognizable local network sports anchors have been Wolf and...
RED LIGHT ON MESSINA - SAL UNLIKELY TO REJOIN ALBERT ON RANGERS RADIO
August 2, 2002 | 4:00amThere was a buzz in sports media circles this week that MSG Radio's search for a new Ranger analyst might lead back to an old voice. The whispers had Sal...