June 12, 2001
BANKS SANK LINDA'S BIDS TO SELL COMPANY
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn the time leading up to Warnaco Group Inc.'s voluntary bankruptcy filing yesterday, one thing's for certain: Linda Wachner's creditors did not help her efforts to rescue her struggling lingerie...
3 BIG OFFICE BLDGS PULLED OFF MARKET
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amAs the city's real estate market cools, three major office buildings are being yanked off the market. Two Downtown buildings, Nos. 44 Wall and 50 Broadway won't be sold. Meanwhile,...
ONLINE MUSIC, DVDS LATEST ON MONTI'S HIT LIST
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amMonti just won't give up. Just months after launching an investigation of music CD prices, European Commission antitrust czar Mario Monti has launched another attack on the world's largest media...
WARNACO BANKRUPT; WACHNER OK'D ON $600M IN FINANCING
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amLinda Wachner's stake in Warnaco - worth $37.4 million just one year ago - is now virtually worthless. With Warnaco's bankruptcy filing yesterday, Wachner's holding is worth just $1.8 million,...
FORD GETS LICENSE TO SPEED CAR TIE-INS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFord will soon be making everything from eveningwear and luxury luggage to tools and camping gear. The auto giant yesterday bought one of the world's leading licensing companies, The Beanstalk...
KARMAZIN'S DREAM ; VIACOM HEAD WANTS CNN AND NBC
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amMel Karmazin has a dream - to one day own everything. The Viacom president, in a whirlwind of press interviews and media conferences, said he not only wants to buy...
ECHOSTAR ADDS MILLION SUBS; ; DIRECTTV TO FALL
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amEchoStar Communications, the second-biggest U.S. satellite broadcaster, has grown by 1 million subscribers in the last seven months and is on target to add 1.7 million new users this year....
JOHN TAKES ON BIG MUSIC
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amI want to admit to a crime. I made a copy of all the Beach Boys' songs. Since Napster has finally seen the errors of its ways and settled most...
EXCITE GETS $100M FOR LAST-DITCH BID FOR LIFE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe vulture has landed for Excite@Home. The ailing broadband ISP, led by CEO Patti Hart, raised $100 million in a private placement yesterday from Promethean Asset Management. The Lexington Avenue-based...
FLACKS COULD STEER YOU TO QUACKS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amHOW many publicists does it take to plug a physician?I wondered as much after a p.r. person called to trumpet the teeth-whitening prowess of a certain dentist. Since I'd heard...
'BOY' FOR THE BIRDS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amBYRD'S BOYPrimary Stages, 354 W. 45th St. Through July 1; (212) 333-4052.KINGSBlue Heron Arts Center, 123 E. 24th St.; (212) 358-3903. BALTIMORE: a warehouse, full of piled-up trunks. A crazy...
THE CAPE OF MANY COLORS ; FIND A WEALTH OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN SOUTH AFRICA'S NO. 1 PARTY TOWN
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWHERE Cape Town ends and District Six begins, just behind the idly threatening, all-but-defunct fortress that is the Castle of Good Hope, there's a little café called the D6, all...
BUZZ
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amHealthy brew Tea is a lot more than a drink with jam and bread - it's a powerful bacteria fighter. So say microbiologists, who say tea fights infection, viruses and...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWater way to go Forget the turnpike. For a day at the Jersey shore, jump on New York Waterway's service to Sandy Hook and Fort Hancock for fun in the...
FIRST, TRY SURVIVING THIS: LOS ANGELES
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amCASTING for the next round of "Survivor" is almost a done deal. The final interviews to determine the next group of 16 castaways for "Survivor: Africa" end today. And only...
TIME'S ON FX'S SIDE WITH NEW CABLE DATE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFX will launch on Time Warner Cable Sept. 5 - four months earlier than originally planned. Time Warner will carry FX on Ch. 58, making the network available to more...
REALITY TAKES A SWING AT SINGLES ; 'ELIMIDATE' NAMES THE BIG DAY
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amADD "ElimiDate" to to the already bloated list of new reality shows. Telepictures, which produces "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," has announced that it's sold "ElimiDate" for a two-pronged fall debut....
A SHAKEUP IN CBS 'WOLF' LAIR
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWOLF Lake" is the latest freshman series to undergo a pre-season shakeup behind the scenes. The latest behind-the-scenes shakeup involves the show's executive producer, John Leekley, getting the boot. Leekley...
MEETPRESS MEDIA MESS HAS 'BEASTLY' TIMING
June 12, 2001 | 4:00am"The Beast" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on WABC/Ch. 7 THE networks should spend less time moaning over how HBO and Showtime get to show naked, jiggly babes, and more time...
STARR REPORT
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amCNN's Bierbauer courts a new move Veteran CNN reporter Charles Bierbauer has announced that he will leave CNN after the end of the Supreme Court's term later this month. Bierbauer...
U2 MAY BE BACK FOR FALL ENCORE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFANS who missed out on tickets to U2's two sold-out Madison Square Garden dates next week - don't despair just yet.Guitarist the Edge has revealed to The Post that there's...
A LITTLE BIT EDGY, BUT SWEET
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amSUGAR RAY "Sugar Ray" Lava/Atlantic Records Somewhere in the no man's land between sticky-sweet teen pop and the thrash of tattooed punk lies the musical aesthetic of Sugar Ray. On...
SNEAK PEEK AT 'A.I.': A FUTURISTIC TAKE ON FAMILY VALUES FROM KUBRICK AND SPIELBERG
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE hotly anticipated "A.I.," which opens June 29, has been kept under the tightest veil of secrecy of any movie since Stanley Kubrick's famously hush-hush final film, "Eyes Wide Shut."...
LOVE YOUR LOVE HANDLES: GREAT SEX IS ALL IN THE MIND
June 12, 2001 | 4:00am"HONEY, do you think I'm fat?" does not make for good pillow talk.That's just one way people are letting their love handles sink their love lives. "A pot belly is...
EMPTY PROMISES ; CANDIDATES' BIG OFFERS TO FIX THINGS THE MAYOR DOESN'T CONTROL
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amI ONCE had lunch with the late Eldridge Cleaver, the one-time Black Panther-turned-cryptoconservative, when he was running in California as a Republican. The issue that would catapult him into the...
WOW! THIS KENNEDY WON'T TOSS HAT IN RING
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amNot every Kennedy is destined for public office - Matthew Maxwell Kennedy, a son of Robert F. Kennedy, yesterday decided not to run for Congress. The surprise announcement came just...
SANTE BIDS TO DODGE L.A. SLAY TRIAL
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amKiller grifter Sante Kimes goes to court in White Plains tomorrow to fight extradition to California on a murder charge. Kimes, 66, and her son Kenneth are each already serving...
B'KLYN CALLING FOR HELP IN PHONE SNAFU
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amDigitally challenged dialers are making life a wrong-number hell for some Brooklyn phone customers - deluging them with as many as 100 misdialed calls a day. The calls, all dialed...
HEART-HEALTHY WHITE WINE IN THE WORKS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amRed wine is good for your health - and now white wine may soon have the same benefits. That's the word from Israeli scientists who've made a startling breakthrough in...
HE WAS DEFIANT, NOT BRAVE, AT END
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTERRE HAUTE, Ind. SUE ASHFORD looked up at the sheet-white Indiana sun, the cobalt sky and took a deep breath. "The air is no longer polluted . . . he's...
SEX-CASE TEACHER DENIED BAIL, DESPITE CHURCH BID
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx teacher who says he's HIV-positive was denied bail yesterday on charges he sodomized two boys - despite his mother's church group offering to put up the money. A...
ABC SCORES FOR MAKING THE MOST OF NOTHING
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amIT WAS the most closely watched execution in modern history, yet only a few saw any part of it. Instead, the TV networks, whose cameras were barred from the death...
DEAD END WAS IN THE STARS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh's horoscope on his execution day eerily predicted the Oklahoma bomber had unusual things in store for him. Post astrologer Sally Brompton said the star charts of McVeigh, a...
ISRAELIS EXTRADITE SUSPECT IN $115M SCAM
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn businessman who allegedly fled to Israel as the feds closed in on him was extradited yesterday on charges of masterminding a $115 million bank swindle using an elaborate...
METS SPEND AMAZIN' DAY WITH DUBYA
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Mets scored at the White House yesterday, catching President Bush at home just before the First Fan left for Europe. It was the first time the Mets...
SHAH'S DAUGHTER IS DEAD AT 31
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amLeila Pahlavi, the attractive 31-year-old daughter of the late shah of Iran, has died in London after a long period of depression, her mother said yesterday. She gave no cause...
TENNIS ACE SUES OVER AGONY OF DE-FEET
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amMartina Hingis says she's the one paying for endorsing an Italian designer's tennis shoes - they've wrecked her feet, the tennis ace claims in a $40 million lawsuit. Hingis, the...
THEY DON'T WORSHIP MADONNA ; HER OLD CORONA NEIGHBORS RECALL FUTURE STAR AS STUCK-UP SPONGER
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amBEFORE LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLD WHEN Madonna returns to the Big Apple stage next month, one Queens neighborhood will be heaping scorn instead of snagging overpriced tickets. Corona hasn't...
CELL MAKERS EYE DEVICE AS RADIATION PROTECTION
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe world's big three cell-phone makers quietly have been working on protective devices to reduce the amount of radiation absorbed by the brain, newly discovered patents suggest. The cell-phone industry...
TRAGIC CLOSURE FOR GRIEVING GRANDMA
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amOKLAHOMA CITY - "The bad man is dead," Jannie Coverdale told her dead grandsons as she stood before their shared tombstone, moments after witnessing Timothy McVeigh's last breath. "He cannot...
EX-CHAMP LENNOX IN REMATCH VS. KING
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amDon King went head-to-head against dethroned heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis in Manhattan federal court yesterday - just as the U.S. Supreme Court ordered him to face Lewis' manager in a...
3 INSURERS: DOC STOLE MILLIONS AT 'BILL MILLS'
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amA New York doctor hid his ownership of a chain of medical mills that recruited bogus patients "injured" in staged car accidents to bill millions for needless tests and treatment,...
YOU CAN COUNT ON FAST FREDDY IN EMERGENCY
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amDEMOCRATIC mayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer has proved he could land a job in another field - emergency services. The Bronx borough president helped attend to an unconscious car-accident victim -...
PLEA DEAL IN MOMENT OF TOOTH
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe world's largest female bodybuilder pleaded guilty yesterday to disorderly conduct, bringing to a close her bizarre Little Italy cop-biting incident. "It goes away," smiling strongwoman Nicole Bass, 37, said...
SADDAM'S NOVEL BECOMING IRAQI MUST-SEE TV
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amHe's a feared international terrorist - and now he's a TV producer, too! Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is transforming his first novel into a 20-hour TV miniseries. But don't start...
DOWNEY DAD: NEW RX GIVES MY SON HOPE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID. ROBERT DOWNEY Jr.'s father believes his son can lick his drug addiction by using a new regimen of nutritional supplements to eliminate his destructive cravings. "The last I...
DUO SUES CLINIC AFTER WIFE LEARNS SHE HAS HEPATITIS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn couple yesterday sued a Bay Ridge clinic linked to an outbreak of hepatitis C. Deborah Postler, a kindergarten teacher, was diagnosed with the potentially fatal illness in early...
INSURER NIXES LIVERY COVERAGE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amNine thousand livery cabs - about 30 percent of the city's livery fleet - face losing their insurance, endangering drivers' livelihoods and customers' rides. About half of those cabs' policies...
3RD PARTY'S 'RIGHT' MAN FOR MAYOR
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amA politically unknown Queens lawyer will be named today as the Conservative Party's candidate for mayor, The Post has learned. "We believe we need a real conservative in this race...
WWII MEMORIAL FIRM HAS 'NAZI TIES'
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Disgusted lawmakers yesterday called for a probe after finding out the parent company of a firm building a new World War II memorial had once used Jewish concentration-camp...
THAT'S A DEPARTURE FOR BUSH ; OKS POLLUTION STUDY, THEN FLIES TO EUROPE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday offered limited support for fighting global warming in a bid to blunt the criticism of Europeans who've accused him of doing zilch. Hours before catching...
SUPREMES SAY SCHOOL CAN'T BAR BIBLE CLUB
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday had good news for the Milford Good News Club - ruling that an upstate school cannot bar the after-class kiddie Christian club while...
ALREADY 2,022 TEACHERS PLAN TO RETIRE THIS YEAR
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTeachers are leaving the classroom in droves. More than 2,000 teachers and other educators have filed for retirement since January - surpassing the total for all of last year, city...
E. SIDE KIDS' RICH REWARD: NEW $12M HS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Board of Education will open a new "rigorous" 700-seat college-prep high school on the Upper East Side - only for kids who live in some of the most affluent...
NEW YORK POST: FROM JUNE 12, 1939
June 12, 2001 | 4:00am"COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - America held a birthday party for baseball today in this upstate village, where Abner Doubleday, a 20-year-old West Point cadet, conceived the game 100 years ago. A...
TOBACCO ADS STILL HOOKING TEENS, STUDY SAYS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTobacco companies haven't kicked the habit when it comes to targeting teens with ads, a study released yesterday said. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center discovered...
SCHOOL UNIFORM-ITY: BLOOMBERG WANTS DRESS CODE FOR CITY KIDS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amRepublican mayoral hopeful Michael Bloomberg yesterday called for mandatory uniforms for all students to help combat the "state of emergency" in city public schools. "It is the greatest thing that...
PALESTINIANS TRASH U.S. PLAN
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Mideast tensions flared yesterday as Palestinians angrily rejected American efforts to cement a cease-fire, and Jewish settlers protested behind the tiny body of a baby killed in recent...
MCVEIGH TRIED TO SAVE SOUL: HE ASKED FOR LAST RITES
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh got religion in his final moments - requesting last rites after he was strapped onto a gurney to be executed for the Oklahoma City bombing. "He asked for...
FILIPINO REBS BEHEAD U.S. CAPTIVE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFamily hopes it's untrue. Muslim rebels in the Philippines said yesterday they executed an American hostage - and chopped off his head as "a gift" to their countrymen. "We have...
INSIDE THE FREAK BOX: CITY CLUB WHERE SEX IS ON THE MENU
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amHip partygoers are lining up to strip naked and perform sexual acts in one of New York's hottest nightclubs - while signing over the rights to allow their pictures to...
CHURCH CALLS ITS PRIESTS TO ORDER
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amEdward Cardinal Egan convened a solemn meeting yesterday with several hundred of the archdiocese's priests, to lay down the law on sexual abuse and misconduct, sources told The Post. He...
RODRIGUEZ FINDS A WAY TO ERASE BITTER MEMORY
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amRay Rodriguez had plenty of time to think about his appearance in the PSAL championship game at Yankee Stadium a year ago. "It always hits you, the memory of a...
LIBERTY'S OUT TO PROVE THEY LEARNED THEIR LESSON
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amBack in early May, the Liberty all but guaranteed a WNBA championship this season. Having made it to the championship series in three of four years, including the last two,...
THERE'S NO QUIT IN DANEYKO ; BLUELINER: I HAVE AT LEAST A YEAR LEFT
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFlatly denying reports elsewhere that he is contemplating retirement, the all-time Devil told The Post yesterday he is coming back for one more year, at least. "I'll be back," Ken...
MUTOMBO MIFFED AT LATE BENCHING
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The court seemed to shift heavily in Philadelphia's favor late in Game 3. Shaquille O'Neal fouled out with 2:21 left. What a perfect time to exploit...
JINTS' MONTY OUT FOR YEAR
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe brief but injury-marred, frustration-filled career of Joe Montgomery took another cruel turn yesterday when the muscular Giants running back took two steps on the practice field and, untouched, went...
MONTICELLO STRIKE LOOMS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amA threatened horsemen's strike may halt live racing at Monticello Raceway starting tomorrow. In a release sent out by the Monticello Harness Horsemen's Association, the horsemen state that they have...
SHAQ, DIKEMBE: IT'S WAR
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Forget that bunk about a series getting interesting when the home team loses. That's happened in these Finals with each team but what has really lifted the nation's...
WILPON: MET MESS IS PLAYERS' FAULT ; CO-OWNER ABSOLVES PHILLIPS, BOBBY V OF BLAME
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It's not Steve Phillips' fault. It's not Bobby Valentine's fault. It's the players. That is why the Mets have stunk so far, according to co-owner Fred Wilpon. "The...
WILPON: MET MESS IS PLAYERS' FAULT: THIS BOSS NEEDS TO LOOK IN MIRROR
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amFRED Wilpon is right. It's not Bobby Valentine's fault. It's not Steve Phillips' fault. Here at Second Guesses R Us, we have identified the problem(s) with the Mets, and they...
WANTED: TIGER HUNTER; NEED TALENTED GOLFER TO STALK MAJOR MENACE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amTULSA - This is not an attack of Tiger Woods and his assault on every significant golf record imaginable. It's a plea for somebody other than Woods to step forward...
HOUSTON HOLDS HIS OPTIONS OPEN
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amAllan Houston hasn't ruled out returning to Detroit to be the king of the Palace of Auburn Hills if a deal with the Knicks blows up. With the Pistons interested...
NETS SHOULD TRADE CAREFULLY
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - If the Nets wind up trading Keith Van Horn, they might want to make sure they get some size in return. And that's because they could be without...
SPENCER'S READY TO REJOIN YANKS
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Shane Spencer's extensive journey back to the big leagues from a very serious knee injury is close to complete. A Yankee executive yesterday described Spencer being promoted from...
SELIG ADMITS CONTRACTION A POSSIBILITY
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amAmerica's darlings reside in Minnesota, where the Twins somehow lead the AL wild-card race by five games over the Yankees. And the big deal is? The big deal is that...
RUSCH HOUR FOR GLENDON
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES BALTIMORE - Glendon Rusch knows he's disappointed the Mets this season. The plan going into the season was that Rusch would help Kevin Appier pick up the slack...
PHIL'S FEELIN' THE HEAT; SIXERS FORCE ZEN MASTER TO STAND UP AND COACH
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - From what we've seen so far of this Laker-Sixer series, I see it rapidly developing into the most fiercely competitive 5-game NBA Finals in history. Larry Brown's Sixers...
HILL TO STAY AT FORDHAM
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amAfter coming agonizingly close to landing the Cavaliers head coaching job, Bob Hill has decided to remain at Fordham. According to sources close to the situation, Cleveland GM Jim Paxson...
RANGERS STOCK UP ON FARM
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amThere is certainly no guarantee that Barrett Heisten, the 21-year-old left wing selected 20th overall in the 1999 NHL entry draft - whose free-agent signing by the Rangers was reported...
IS KNOBBY ON BLOCK? QUESTIONS, RUMORS ABOUND REGARDING CHUCK'S YANK FUTURE
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amWhen nobody wants to talk, there usually is plenty to discuss. Such is the situation regarding Chuck Knoblauch's future with the Yankees. Is Knoblauch in the final year of a...