December 1, 2003
SHOPPING WEEKEND STARTS WITH A BIG BANG
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amConsumers flocked to malls and stores on Black Friday, giving retailers a solid start to the holiday shopping season. The strongest sales came from the discounters, which attracted crowds of...
ROY DISNEY QUITS, SEEKS EISNER EXIT
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amRoy E. Disney has abruptly quit as Walt Disney Co.'s vice chairman and demanded that CEO Michael Eisner also step down. The 73-year-old Disney, who's held the post 20 years...
CASE BACKED LEVIN DOWN ON EVE OF MERGER: BOOK
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amGerald Levin, CEO of Time Warner, was convinced that the head of AOL, Steve Case, was a good man by the way he hugged his wife. It's cheesy and laughable....
THE WORM TURNS UP - ON ESPN
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amESPN will premiere a two-part documentary on Dennis Rodman's basketball comeback starting tomorrow night at midnight. "We wanted to present an honest and detailed look at what one former superstar...
CALLING THE GHOST OF COSBY PAST - 'SNL'S MORGAN GETS HIS OWN SERIES
December 1, 2003 | 5:00am"The Tracy Morgan Show" [ ] (two stars) Tomorrow night at 8:30 on NBC ---- WHAT do you get when you combine George Jefferson and Cliff Huxtable? Well, tomorrow night...
JACKO NO-GO
December 1, 2003 | 5:00am'TOP of the Pops" was forced to drop a planned worldwide premiere of Michael Jackson's new video this weekend because it wasn't finished. A spokesman for Jackson's label Sony said,...
RIDICULOUS IS SUBLIME OFF-B'WAY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS was hardly the worst of times off- Broadway, which provided many a chuckle and an occasional tear in a season that seemed to specialize in satirical comedy. The brightest...
CHANGE FOR THE WORSE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amCAROLINE, OR CHANGE At the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street. Call Telecharge (212) 239-6200. ---- A black woman who works in 1963 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, as a maid for...
BEDTIME FOR BOZOS - PARIS HILTON'S OTHER SHOW STARTS TOMORROW NIGHT AND IT'S SO FUNNY SHE CAN COME OUT OF HIDING NOW
December 1, 2003 | 5:00am"The Simple Life" [ ] (three stars) Tomorrow night at 8:30 on Fox ---- HOW you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paris? That's the question...
STARR REPORT
December 1, 2003 | 5:00am'Eye' guy's encore "Queer Eye" guy Thom Filicia wasn't yet on the pop-culture radar screen last year when he attended the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame Awards. Well, a...
TV NEWS MAY SOON GET ITS OWN GOOGLE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amGET ready for the Google of TV news stories. Singingfish is the first search engine that finds specific video-based news reports, commercials, movie clips and audio on the Internet. The...
HAUTE TOT: LABEL-CRAZY MOMS TURNING KIDS INTO MINI FASHIONISTAS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA Burberry raincoat for $450. A pink Coach bag for $98. A Marni dress for $370. Pretty snazzy stuff for a 2-year-old. The prices may sound outrageous, but designers are...
BEAR ESSENTIALS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amCan kids tell the difference between cashmere and polyester - and which do they prefer? We asked a dozen kids in Midtown to choose between a red cashmere $900 teddy...
GOV OUT OF LUCK IN WAR VS. CHUCK
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amGOV. PATAKI has failed again in his bid to recruit a candidate to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer next year. Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, after weeks of consideration,...
LOTTO HUBBY HEALTH SHOCK
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island man whose estranged wife cut him out of her multimillion-dollar lottery windfall has been dealt more bad news - he's been diagnosed with lung cancer. Ken Parker,...
GRAND CENTRAL SCRUBBING
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amGrand Central Terminal is getting another face lift. Five years after the cavernous rail station underwent a makeover, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has embarked on a $36 million project to...
SHELTER PUSH JOLTS QUEENS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA private housing agency is sending shock waves through a Queens neighborhood by pushing a proposal to create the nation's largest homeless shelter with room for 1,200 women and children,...
WINE FLOW MAY BE CORKED
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amYou'd better enjoy your French champagne on New Year's Eve - a looming trade war could stop the flow of high-class bubbly and other European wines after Jan. 1. Negotiations...
NEW CITY PUSH TO FIGHT HIV
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amAs Mayor Bloomberg unveils a Gracie Mansion exhibit for World AIDS Day today, the city is preparing a new program to combat rising HIV rates, The Post has learned. Health...
BUYERS MUST LOOK GIFT CARDS IN THE MOUTH
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amBeware of store-bought gift cards - they may contain hidden fees if you don't use them right away, Sen. Chuck Schumer warned yesterday. "If you don't use them very quickly,...
DARING SAVE TURNS FINEST INTO BRAVEST
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amTwo hero cops saved six people, including three teenagers, from a burning Staten Island apartment yesterday, officials said. Sgt. Scott Nicholls, 38, and Police Officer Mark DiPilato, 35, were on...
AN OUTPOURING OF JOEY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amHundreds of cheering fans and musicians gathered at Second Street and Bowery yesterday for the unveiling of Joey Ramone Place. Joey, who was born in Queens, and his fellow Ramones...
NO BAIL FOR SUSPECT IN SUBWAY SLAY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe alleged gunman who shot and killed a 21-year-old man on a Queens subway platform during a botched mugging was ordered held without bail by a Queens judge, authorities said...
A FEE GROWS IN B'KLYN: RIP-OFFS SEND AUTO RATES SOARING
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn drivers pay far higher insurance premiums than those other boroughs because of a massive crime ring based there that stages accidents every day, elected officials say. As a result,...
THUGS GET DECKED - 'AMERICA'S MOST WANTED' PUTS FACES ON CARDS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amGiving new meaning to the term "Dead Man's Hand," the TV show "America's Most Wanted" is putting out a set of playing cards aimed at helping track down some of...
BET WAR EYED IN HIGHWAY SHOOTS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe father-and-son victims of a double shooting on Harlem River Drive last month were the reputed heads of a notorious Cuban gambling ring called The Company, which rakes in tens...
ORIENT EXCESS - NEW MANDARIN HOTEL'S 12.6G SUITE IS CITY'S COSTLIEST
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe new Mandarin Oriental hotel is putting off The Ritz as proprietors of the priciest hotel suite in the city. The Columbus Circle luxury hotel is set to offer a...
WHY FLAMES OF PASSION ARE STOKED
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amNo one should be surprised that married firemen assigned to console 9/11 widows are actually falling in love with them, too - it's all part of their "rescue fantasies," top...
SWASTIKA HATE SPREE HITS CITY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA wave of anti-Semitic bias incidents were reported in Brooklyn and Queens over the holiday weekend, just days after a series of tire slashings in predominantly Hasidic Borough Park. Police...
CRASH-FOR-CASH CON - CITY RUSSIAN RING SCAMS $500M: FEDS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amForget about the mob - the big money in New York's criminal underworld is going to Russian fraudsters who've turned auto-insurance scams into a $500 million monopoly. FBI agents Kevin...
OZZY: I WAS MOLESTED AS A CHILD
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amEccentric rock legend Ozzy Osbourne says he was sexually abused as a youngster in England by two boys who regularly pounced on him as he walked home from school. The...
FDNY WIVES GET BURNED - MANY DUMPED FOR 9/11 WIDOWS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amIt's the FDNY's "dirty little secret." At least a dozen of New York's Bravest - some of them assigned to look after Sept. 11 widows - have left their wives...
KIDS 'LOST' FIREFIGHTER DAD
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amOn a recent afternoon, Kristin Zazulka, 18, and her 8-year-old sister watched from the window as their father walked hand-in-hand with another young girl to their grandmother's house next door....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * A 21-year-old man who survived a shooting earlier this year was shot and killed over the weekend on a Brownsville street, authorities said yesterday. Police said Michael Dowdy...
BOMB THREAT GROUNDS PLANE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA plane bound for Newark was detained in San Francisco after someone phoned in a bomb threat to the airport, San Francisco airport police said early this morning. The caller...
HOW TERRORISTS THINK
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amWONDER why Muslim terrorists have targeted Muslim nations such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia? Try reading the rants of Zacarias Moussaoui, the bored al Qaeda jihadist sitting in a U.S....
GANG-STYLE MURDER ON B'KLYN STREET
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA 21-year-old man who survived a shooting earlier this year was gunned down and killed this weekend on a Brooklyn street, authorities said yesterday. Police said Michael Dowdy was walking...
HONORS STUDENT, 12, SHOT
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amA 12-year-old honors student was hit in the knee by a stray bullet outside her Brooklyn home while walking with her grandmother early yesterday, police and relatives said. Quanmera Sanders,...
SOLDIERS BLAST 46 GUERRILLAS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces repelled an attack by Saddam Hussein loyalists yesterday, killing at least 46 Iraqis in a bloody battle in the northern city of Samarra. Five Americans were...
TRAVELIN' MAN W. BACK TO D.C.
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush jetted back to the White House from Texas yesterday fresh off his surprise Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad. Bush is slated to hold four fund-raisers this week,...
GIS BLOW AWAY 46 SADDAM FANATICS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces repelled an attack by Saddam Hussein loyalists yesterday, killing at least 46 Iraqis in a bloody battle in the northern city of Samarra. Five Americans were...
HERO HUBBY 'KILLED' HIS MARRIAGE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amOn Sept. 12, 2001, firefighter Gerry Koenig and his wife, Mary, were slated to start a new life: They were to sign papers to buy a 14-acre spread upstate, and...
THE 'DYESS MAN COMETH - ALL SYSTEMS GO TONIGHT FOR ANTONIO
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amFrom the one-handed, above-the-rim rebound he snatched to brushing off a hip-check from Keith Van Horn, all signs at yesterday's practice pointed to one thing: Antonio McDyess will make his...
IT'S MCNICE TO SEE YOU
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amTHERE came a moment toward the end of practice yesterday, near the conclusion of one of the most anticipated five-on-five scrimmages in Knicks history, when Keith Van Horn forgot whom...
THERE ARE NO SAFE TIMES TO LISTEN TO FAN
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amANOTHER ambush, another hit and run. And another voice message, this one from a father to say that he can't believe that a sports radio station would go so low,...
CARTER'S STAR SOARS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amCATCH a rising star. "It's my first Monday Night ever playing in one," Jonathan Carter was saying not long after the Maddencruiser had left the Jets' Saturday night practice under...
DREW BECOMES BILL OF GOODS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amDrew Bledsoe entered yesterday's game still feeling the effects of a mild concussion suffered in last week's loss to the Colts, but that wasn't the only reason he wasn't right....
BIG BLUE OFFENSIVE LINE: WE LET KERRY DOWN
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amSacked six times yesterday, Kerry Collins naturally felt quite a bit of pain in the Giants' ugly 24-7 loss. But the offensive linemen charged with protecting him insisted they felt...
COWART STILL ADJUSTING TO 4-3
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES Sam Cowart leads the Jets with 119 tackles this season entering tonight's game against the Titans and will finish first on the team in that category for the...
CONNORS 'DOING BETTER' AFTER SURGERY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amYankees pitching guru Billy Connors was resting comfortably yesterday in the cardiac surgical unit at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after undergoing quadruple bypass surgery over the weekend. Connors is...
ONE TITANIC TASK - JETS OUT TO STEAL WIN, REDEMPTION
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amWhen the lights come on at Giants Stadium tonight for their nationally-televised game against the Titans, the Jets hope the nation will get a chance to see that they're not...
GIANTS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE - BUFFALO STAMPEDES LIFELESS BIG BLUE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amOn the first play of the game, Kerry Collins tripped over one of his offensive linemen's feet and nearly fumbled as he barely completed a handoff to Tiki Barber, who...
CAN'T BLAME COLLINS FOR THIS ONE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY are so bad, so battered, so bloodied, so bewitched, bothered and bewildered that you couldn't help but think after watching Bills 24, Giants 7 yesterday that they have quit...
CALL 'EM BIG BLACK & BLUE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES It rarely fails: Bad teams get hurt more often than good ones. That's what happening to the Giants. Starters are falling by the wayside, game after game, and...
PITT FOUND BEST WAY TO STOP FITZ
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Old college basketball joke: Who's the only man to stop former North Carolina star Michael Jordan one-on-one? Coach Dean Smith. New college football joke: Who's the only man...
FASSEL & CO. HIT NEW BUFFA-LOW - CAN'T MAKE SENSE OF THIS MESS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amNOBODY truly saw this wretched Giants' season coming. It is only true that very early Kerry Collins began to feel something coming, his back foot becoming the plant foot that...
'DISSATISFIED' MARA NOT THE MERRIER
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe goal every season is to win, but as an 87-year-old who has seen most everything there is to see in the business, Giants co-owner Wellington Mara sets a slightly...
COURT JESTERS - KINGS CRUISE TO 32-POINT LEAD, STAVE OFF NETS' SECOND-HALF RALLY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amKings 105 - Nets 92 SACRAMENTO - Rarely, if ever, have the Nets been hotter. Shots of all kinds - post ups, mid-range jumpers, 3-pointers, dunks - went in against...
JAZZ SYSTEM KEEPS PLAYIN' RIGHT NOTES
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES SACRAMENTO - Arroyo (or Lopez) to Kirilenko (or Harpring). Not quite "Stockton to Malone," huh? And yet the Jazz, the opponent on the Nets' five-game road trip finale...
RANGERS SLAM ON BRAKES
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amMaple Leafs 4 - Rangers 2 They let it get away. The Rangers had something going last night against the Maple Leafs and they let it get away. But then,...
DEAL'S ALL BUT DONE - SHEFF REPORTEDLY A YANK FOR $37M
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amOfficially, Gary Sheffield remains a free agent this morning. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Conflicting reports continued yesterday as unofficial sources insist Sheffield is in the Yankee fold for three years...
BRODEUR, DEVILS KNOT AVALANCHE
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amDevils 1 - Avalanche 1 DENVER - They persevered, and that's one of the things the Devils do best. Road-weary and offense-poor, knocked off-kilter by the loss of Jamie Langenbrunner,...
KINGS CROWN NETS - ICE-COLD FIRST HALF DOOMS JERSEY
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amKings 105 - Nets 92 SACRAMENTO - Rarely, if ever, have the Nets been hotter. Shots of all kinds - post ups, mid-range jumpers, 3-pointers, dunks - went in against...
LANGENBRUNNER IDLE 2-3 WEEKS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amDENVER - It could have been worse, and still could be, but the Devils breathed a sigh of relief when projecting that Jamie Langenbrunner will be idled only 2-3 weeks...
NETS HAVE PAIN ON THE GLASS
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - It is the central point in the Nets' entire game philosophy: defend, rebound, run. The Nets are not rebounding like they have. So they're not running like they...
RANGERS FEEL BOXED IN
December 1, 2003 | 5:00amThe Rangers have been doing many things well lately while constructing a 3-1-3 streak they carried into last night's Garden match against the Maple Leafs. Staying out of the penalty...