February 10, 2003
PUBLICATIONS FIGHT OVER FASHION FEST
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amWhile designers vie for attention on the catwalks, the war among publications covering the fashion shows in Manhattan this week is also heating up. Us Weekly pitches 12,000 copies of...
VIVENDI BACKS OFF - HALTS PLANS FOR IPO OF U.S. ENTERTAINMENT ASSETS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amVivendi has shelved plans for an initial public offering of its U.S. entertainment assets, The Post has learned. An IPO of Vivendi Universal Entertainment, led by its chairman and co-chief...
ZELNICKMEDIA BUYING SMALL STAKE IN VANGUARDE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amZelnickMedia, headed by former BMG chief Strauss Zelnick, is to announce today it is buying a stake in magazine publishing house Vanguarde Media. Terms were not disclosed, but a source...
ABC TEMPTS JACKO JOURNO
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amMARTIN Bashir, the British TV reporter who scooped the world with that train-wreck Michael Jackson interview last week, has been offered a multi-million-dollar deal to work for ABC, according to...
IS SLAYER FAITH THE NEXT BUFFY?
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amPRODUCERS of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" are close to creating a spinoff starring the renegade Slayer Faith. Fan Web sites have been abuzz in recent days with reports that Eliza...
DANCE WITH ME - 'MOVIN' OUT' CAST FINDS LOVE OFFSTAGE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY'RE hooking up, stepping out and making out at "Movin' Out" - and we're not just talking about what's happening onstage. The show - which follows several friends through their...
STARR REPORT
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amSister act 2: Hiltons on 'ET' beat "Entertainment Tonight" has made a deal with sisters Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton to be special correspondents for the show all this week...
HEAVEN & BLUES
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amMARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS SALUTE TO THE BLUES ---- IF Martin Scorsese's Salute to the Blues extravaganza at Radio City Music Hall said anything, it was this: The palette that holds...
NATHAN LANE GOES TO WASHINGTON IN THE ... BEST TV SHOW YOU CAN'T SEE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amIF Gopher could serve four terms in Congress, why not Guppy Sherman? I posed the question to Gopher himself, who is otherwise known as former U.S. Rep. Fred Grandy (R-Iowa)....
BEN THERE, DONE MATT - A LONG WAY FROM 'GOOD WILL HUNTING' FOR MR. J. LO AND MATT WHAT'S-HIS-NAME
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY were once crowned the golden-haired twins of Hollywood, but now Ben Affleck is pulling ahead of his childhood buddy Matt Damon in the race for superstardom. Affleck, named People...
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN - FASHION WEEK BURSTS OPEN WITH EVERYTHING FROM '60S VAMPS TO '80S PUNKS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amWONDERING what you're going to be wearing next fall? Well, don't try to figure it out based upon what was on the runways yesterday: The looks were all over the...
HOW TO PUT ON A BAD SHOW
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amWANT to learn how not to put on a great fashion show? Borrow some tricks from Miami socialite-turned-designer Alvin Valley, who put on a monstrous spectacle yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria...
BONNIE - SHE'S JUST LIKE US - LIGHTS! CAMERA! HELP! NOT ALL FAMOUS EDITORS ARE NATURAL-BORN FASHION DIVAS- BUT THIS ONE SURE TRIES HARD
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amEXTRA! YOU'LL NEVER CATCH BONNIE IN SANDALS EVERYONE will be watching Bonnie Fuller this Fashion Week - but let's hope for her sake they're not watching too closely. While the...
THE ARE-YOU-FABULOUS QUIZ
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amFASHION Week can be a time for self-reflection. When better to take stock of your own status in the style world? It's all in the invitations you receive (or don't),...
STYLE BITES - BEST BETS FOR A NIBBLE AT THE TENTS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amSOME restaurants hilariously make their reputations on the fact that they're popular with models - people who don't eat. So it's unclear how many leggy cuties you'll really see at...
ON THE TUBE - SOMETIMES, THE BEST FRONT-ROW SEAT IS YOUR LIVING ROOM COUCH
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amONE of the best places to watch the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week action is from home - on MetroChannel's "Full Frontal Fashion." Editors, writers and stylists alike depend on the "Cliffs...
WHILE YOU'RE WAITING - DO-IT-YOURSELF FASHION REVIEW
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amABSTRACT: If you enjoyed playing "Mad Libs" as much as we did, you'll be a whiz at this loving imitation. Play with one or more friends. Without showing them this...
CAMPAIGN $EASON - STUDIOS IN BIG-BUCKS BIDS TO WIN OSCAR VOTES
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amMeryl Streep may very likely make history when Oscar nominations are announced tomorrow - but she's got nothing but scorn for the presidential-style campaigns into which studios pour millions pursuing...
GOV'S $WEET 'HEART' DEAL PUMPS CITY COFFERS DRY
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki has approved an unprecedented new law that Mayor Bloomberg privately warned would worsen the city's "dire budget situation," The Post has learned. The measure, which Pataki...
STATE GOP TARGETS CHUCK AND HILL
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amSTATE Republicans have decided to "take off the gloves" and launch tough attacks on Democratic U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chuck Schumer, The Post has learned. The attacks, slated...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amFor sale: one ship's bell, old and corroded, big piece missing. First user: Christopher Columbus. Bidding will start at $1 million when the bronze artifact from the Santa Maria, flagship...
COP, WIFE CHARGED IN 'AUTO' EROTICISM
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amNYPD cop Michael Musantry says he loves his wife - but not enough to have had sex with her while parked in a Connecticut shopping center. Musantry and his wife,...
HOW DARE THE FRENCH FORGET - COWARDS SHOULD LOOK TO THESE GRAVE REMINDERS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amCOLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - They stand only 3 feet high, but they're towering mountains of sacrifice. I'm standing in the American Cemetery. Gray clouds hang low as if in mourning for...
JUDGE TO DELIVER CLOSURE ON 'PREGNANT FIRING' COMPLAINT
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amMaria Kotowski filed a complaint more than a decade ago with the city's Human Rights Commission claiming she was fired from her job at a fertility clinic because she was...
BILLION-BUCK BOOST NEAR FOR COPS & FIREFIGHTERS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe city and state budgets could get an infusion of almost $1 billion - money that could help the Fire and Police departments at a time when the country is...
POLS: SALT PILES WASTE PRIME WATERFRONT
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amMunicipal tow pounds and salt mounds are hindering the development of recreational spaces on the city's waterfronts, several elected officials said yesterday. David Yassky, chairman of the City Council's Waterfront's...
HOMELESS QUINTS - B'KLYN BABES, AFRICAN MOM CAUGHT UP IN RED TAPE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTHE first quints ever born at Kings County Hospital arrived in November to great fanfare - 50 wriggling fingers and 50 curling toes. But with four of the smiling, burping...
SHUTTLE DEBRIS HEADS TO FLA. AS PROBERS EYE DEADLY ICE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amFederal authorities announced plans yesterday to transport the debris of the shuttle Columbia to Florida as investigators weigh a new theory that ice from a wastewater vent may have doomed...
'JOE' POLL: IT'S ZORA! ZORA! ZORA!
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe suspense has become unbearable as the whole world waits for "Joe Millionaire" to choose his lucky - or is it unlucky? - lady tonight. But Post readers have already...
SICKO JACKO EXPOSÉ - '93 PAPERS BARE KID'S 'SEX TRYST' NIGHTMARE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe shocking court documents Michael Jackson never wanted you to see - graphically detailing his alleged sexual trysts with a 13-year-old boy - have finally been revealed. "Michael Jackson put...
CANCER BOY'S DAD BLASTS SLEEPOVERS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThe 12-year-old cancer-stricken boy who shared a bedroom with Michael Jackson was whisked into hiding last night as the youngster's dad emerged to say the sleepovers his son had at...
B'KLYN HOUSING FUROR: NONPROFIT EYES $7M APTS. SALE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn-based not-for-profit housing group stands to make a $7.5 million windfall on the proposed sale of an ailing apartment complex where the chief tenant has become the city's Department...
HOMICIDE BOMBERS DIE IN MASSIVE CAR BLAST
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThree Palestinian bombers driving a car rigged with thousands of pounds of TNT blew themselves to bits yesterday during a gunfight with Israeli soldiers outside a military outpost on the...
B'DAY TOT LOST PALS TO L.I. FIRE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThere were two empty seats at Toni Nasta's third birthday party yesterday - her closest friends died in Saturday's deadly fire in East Patchogue, L.I. "It breaks my heart. They're...
MICHAEL JACKSON YESTERDAY VOWED TO RELEASE VIDEO FOOTAGE HE SAYS PROVES HE WAS UNFAIRLY PORTRAYED
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amMichael Jackson yesterday vowed to release video footage he says proves he was unfairly portrayed in a recent damning TV documentary. In the British TV special that made headlines around...
COPS HUNT THRILL KILLERS IN DELI SLAYS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTwo killers coldly gunned down a customer in a Queens grocery, then drove to Brooklyn and blew away a deli owner there, police said yesterday. Ballistics tests revealed that the...
DRUG BUST YIELDS $60M IN COCAINE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amCops seized more than $60 million worth of cocaine and busted five men on charges of belonging to a Mexican drug-trafficking ring, authorities announced yesterday. The five were nabbed Saturday...
BUSH WARNS IRAQ - AND U.N. - TO GET REAL
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday dismissed claims by top U.N. weapons inspectors that Iraq's cooperation has improved - bluntly warning Saddam Hussein that the time for playing games is over....
KIDS SEE DAD KILL MOTHER, COPS SAY
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amAn estranged husband stabbed his wife to death in Brooklyn yesterday as their two horrified kids fought desperately to grab the knife away, cops and family members said. Evelia Hughes,...
SCARED SEAGAL TO DEBUT AS WITNESS VS. MOB
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amAction hero Steven Seagal never wanted the new role the feds will force on him this week - star witness against the mob. "I think that to testify in a...
TAXICABS' TV ADS DRIVING ME CRAZY
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amIGOT into an elevator, and there was a TV telling me about a new mouthwash. At the bus stop, there was an ad telling me I'd look better in leather...
READY FOR OUR CLOTHES-UP
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amFashion Week sashays into full swing today in Bryant Park - and neither snow nor rain nor sleet will stop the world's top designers from showing off their stuff. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * A Fort Greene man beat his brother over the head with a blunt instrument inside the home the two men shared, police said. Cops charged Anthony Dukes, 38,...
PENTAGON MOM - D.C. BIG HAS KIDS & CAREER
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Torie Clarke is one of the funniest people in the nation's capital, but she has one of the most serious jobs - as the Pentagon's chief spokeswoman. And...
DRUG BUST BAGS $60M IN COCAINE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amCops seized more than $60 million worth of cocaine and busted five men on charges of belonging to a Mexican drug-trafficking ring, authorities announced yesterday. The five were nabbed Saturday...
COPS HUNT 2 DELI-SLAY SUSPECTS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amCops believe that two men who coldly gunned down a customer in a Queens grocery also targeted a Brooklyn deli later - slaying the owner. Ballistics tests revealed that the...
LONE-WOLF KILLER - NO ONE TO WELCOME CHAMBERS FROM JAIL
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amAUBURN - When Robert Chambers walks out of the hulking concrete prison here this week, his 15-year sentence for killing Jennifer Levin fully served, he'll taste freedom alone. According to...
A FIERCE BIDDING WAR HAS BROKEN OUT AMONG THE LONDON TABLOIDS FOR THE FIRST INTERVIEW
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amA fierce bidding war has broken out among the London tabloids for the first interview with the mother of Gavin Arvizo, the 12-year-old cancer victim who shared Wacko Jacko's bed....
READY FOR OUR 'CLOTHES-UP' - IT'S GETTING IN-TENTS AT BRYANT PARK
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amFashion Week sashays into full swing today in Bryant Park - and neither snow, sleet or rain will stop the world's top designers from showing off their stuff. The sizzling...
SWEET AT HOME WITH THE HALL
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amFor Seton Hall's Andre Sweet, it was all about comfort, comfort in the classroom and on the court and returning to the comforts of home, family and friends. Now, a...
IT'S LEBRON TO THE FUTURE - SAVORING A GLIMPSE OF THINGS TO COME
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTRENTON - The kid came flying out of his crouch behind the backboard, propelled by his heart. And in that moment, he underscored exactly why we'd all gathered in this...
STORM CLOUD'S TRACKING JARVIS
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amSt. John's athletic director David Wregzyn wasn't in Alumni Hall Saturday to hear some of the fans calling for coach Mike Jarvis to be fired. The fans' opinion hardly matters....
VINDICATION MAY BE OUT, BUT BAFFERT STILL IN HUNT
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amPoor Vindication. Just three days after launching the Post's annual Derby Dozen as the top seed, Bob Baffert's champion colt was knocked out of the classics by a tendon injury...
CONTEST NO SLAM DUNK - JEFFERSON LEARNS FROM LAST-PLACE FINISH
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES ATLANTA - The Nets' Richard Jefferson finished dead last in the four-man slam dunk field here Saturday night. But he definitely wants to come back for another shot...
PRESSURE CAN'T STOP JAMES SESSION
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThere have been expensive cars and free clothing. There have been national television showdowns and metro-area visits. But whether he's been in the midst of his biggest controversies, his brightest...
AGBAI'S SOARING AFTER ACCIDENT
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The game wasn't televised, so there were no instant, gut-wrenching replays of the bizarre injury that could have left Boston College forward Uka Agbai paralyzed. None,...
GARNETT DISHES ADVICE JAMES
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Minnesota All-Star Kevin Garnett has not given advice to LeBron James and doesn't feel he needs to give advice to James, but insists he would in a heartbeat...
HOBBLED TELFAIR RESCUES LINCOLN IN SECOND HALF
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amLincoln 65 - St. Anthony 61 TRENTON - Sebastian Telfair showed up to Lincoln's game last night against St. Anthony's (Jersey City) with the bad right ankle that had been...
SLOW START TAKES STARCH OUT OF RICE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTRENTON - Rice appeared to be heading toward one of its most lopsided losses in recent memory. Instead, it turned into one of the most frustrating. The Raiders nearly overcame...
NO LETDOWN FOR THE HALL
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amSeton Hall 97 - St. Peter's 80 Seton Hall's makeup tilt against St. Peter's last night had all the trappings of a classic letdown game: A lowly foe sandwiched between...
AIR-RIVEDERCI, MIKE - OTHERS SHINE BRIGHTER, BUT JORDAN GAME'S STAR
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTWO OVERTIMES: West 155 - East 145 ATLANTA - For much of the night, he shot more like Dead Air than Rare Air. The most spectacular, jaw-dropping dunks and moves...
AIR-RIVEDERCI, MIKE - OTHER STARS SHONE BRIGHTER, BUT NIGHT BELONGED TO MJ
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - For much of the night, he shot more like Dead Air than Rare Air. Twice at the end of regulation, he failed to deliver. The most spectacular, jaw-dropping...
MVP GARNETT: MIKE'S WELCOME TO STAY
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES ATLANTA - Players not named Michael Jordan participated in the NBA All-Star Game last night.Honest. And the one who did the most was Minnesota's stallion, Kevin Garnett, who...
ALL-STAR KIDD'S PLAY - JASON'S ONE GOAL: GET BALL TO MIKE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - From the moment he stepped on the court, Jason Kidd had one specific goal in mind for his sixth All-Star Game last night. Get the ball to Michael...
'SPECIAL' OCCASION FOR PISTONS' WALLACE
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES ATLANTA - Ben Wallace wasn't going to miss this. The Piston's defensive bear of a man became the first non-drafted player chosen to start an All-Star Game. So...
CTK'S BEAUFORD STEPS UP BIG IN PRIME TIME
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amCTK 76 - CBA 51 TRENTON - Bob Oliva has coached more than his share of star players at Christ the King. This year, the Royals don't have any high...
VILLANUEVA STILL AIMING FOR LEAP TO NBA
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amTRENTON - Charlie Villanueva is clueless. At least that's what he says. "I have no idea what I'm going to do next year," said the 6-foot-10 Villanueva, who is starring...
AIR-RIVEDERCI, MIKE - JORDAN TAKES FINAL ALL-STAR GAME BOW
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amATLANTA - Players wanted to wear Michael Jordan-model apparel. And more and more, although he turned down offers, there was a belief that Jordan would start in his 14th and...
RANGERS MUST NOT RUSH RETURN OF RUSSIAN ROCKET
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN it had ended Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia with a 2-1 loss, Glen Sather repeatedly referred to the Rangers' inability to capitalize on their chances as the primary cause of...
BRODEUR NETS 30TH AS DEVILS ICE WILD
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Wild 2 The NHL's GMs could prove they aren't utterly clueless, that they actually know something about hockey. Come April, the braintrust could finally vote Martin Brodeur...
BOWLING FOR SQUALOR - PBA LATEST SWIMMER IN SPORTS' EXPANDING CESSPOOL
February 10, 2003 | 5:00amThis isn't about bowling, per se, it's about everything else, including bowling. But before it's too late, do your best - go out of your way - to get to...