December 14, 2001
CALYPSO DRESSED TO IMPRESS MEN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amCalypso, a favorite store of trendsetters in New York and East Hampton, is dancing into the men's arena. The retailer will open its first men's store, Calypso Homme, on Broome...
LEHMAN TO PAY AILEY $5M IN BUILDING DEAL
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amLehman Brothers will have to pay $5 million to get dance company Alvin Ailey out of the new building Lehman is acquiring from Morgan Stanley. Alvin Ailey was guaranteed space...
BOOM TIMES FOR TAXI MEDALLIONS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amForget stocks - the richest investment payoff in town following the terror attacks appears to be taxi medallions. Prices of medallions have skyrocketed 14 percent in the past three months,...
HUMBUG INVESTORS SPARK STOCK SELL-OFF
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amStocks plunged to a one-month low after retail sales drooped and two tech bellwethers reported earnings shortfalls. And the soggy marts may be with us through the holidays. "I'm actually...
AETNA, QWEST LEAD LATEST SURGE IN LAYOFFS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amScrooge isn't taking a holiday. Although new claims for unemployment fell last week, layoffs are still coming. Aetna Inc., the Hartford, Conn.-based health insurance provider, said yesterday it would slash...
NBC'S HARD SELL - NETWORK FIRST TO NIX TABOO FOR $PIRITS ADS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTelevision will finally start tapping into the booze industry's billions as it tosses out a long-held taboo on airing liquor commercials. NBC is opening the door for distilled-spirits ads, and...
BLOW'S JFK JR. BIO TO BE EXCERPTED IN VF
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amVANITY Fair will excerpt the controversial bio on John F. Kennedy Jr. by Richard Blow, a one-time top editor on the now defunct George, the political magazine JFK Jr. founded....
WHAT A TANGLED WEB THESE FOLKS WEAVE . . .
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amLANTANA [] An Aussie "Short Cuts" with a terrific ensemble cast. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (sex, profanity). At the Union Square, East 13th Street and Broadway. ----- THE...
O, 'TENENBAUMS'!
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTHE ROYAL TENENBAUMS [] You'll laugh, you'll cry - the year's best movie. Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (profanity, nudity, drugs). At the Lincoln Square and the Union Square;...
A SPANISH SOAP
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amSECOND SKIN [ 1/2] -----ELENA (pixie-haired Ariadna Gil) doesn't know that her husband, Alberto (Jordi Molla), is having an affair with a hunky male doctor, Diego (Javier Bardem). And Diego...
SCENES FROM AN UNCONVENTIONAL MARRIAGE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amIRIS [] There is nothing like a Dame. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated R (sex, nudity, profanity). At the Lincoln Plaza, Broadway and 67th Street. ----- 'IRIS," opening today for...
THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amNOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE [ 1/2] Mostly disappointing, often gross parody of teen movies, recent and vintage. Running time: 85 minutes. Rated R (language, half-nudity, sexual and lavatory humor). At...
SURREAL TREK OF A PILGRIM
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amKANDAHAR [ 1/2] Powerful but flawed tale of a "pilgrim's progress" from Iran to Afghanistan. Running time: 85 minutes. Unrated. At the Lincoln Plaza, Broadway and 63rd Street. -------- THE...
BOAST OF THE TOWN - KID ROCK MAY BE 'COCKY' BUT HE EARNED IT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amLIKE the title of his new album, Kid Rock is cocky. When he spoke to The Post, he interrupted questions, slagged bubble-gum pop stars and boasted relentlessly about his own...
'GMA' PICKS UP PACE IN MORNING RACE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00am'GOOD Morning America" closed the gap with the "Today" show even further last week. Last week's "GMA" finished within 630,000 viewers of "Today" - the closest gap between the two...
THE STARR REPORT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amJilly would have been proud "Good Day New York" weatherman Dave Price, Food Network personality Bill Boggs and attorney Mickey Sherman were among the celebrities jam-packed into the opening of...
BRING US YOUR DEAD - PSYCHIC HOSTS IN DUEL FOR GHOSTS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTV is turning into a psychic battlefield. Acclaimed medium and best-selling author James Van Praagh is getting his own daily TV show next fall - joining another medium, John Edward,...
ROCKERS READY TO HANDLE 'MESSIAH'
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amANYTHING can happen when a bunch of rockers take on a centuries-old classical masterpiece. But the result is not "Roll Over Beethoven" - it's the "Downtown Messiah." Handel's "Messiah" has...
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS PICK 'DRIVE' AND 'BEDROOM'
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amIN a snub to Hollywood, the New York Film Critics Circle yesterday named David Lynch's cryptic, arty thriller "Mulholland Drive" the best movie of 2001. At the same time, "In...
SCENE OF THE CRIME - OFF-STAGE BROADWAY: BRIBED, BURGLED AND BLITZED
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBRIBERY at the TKTS booth. A thief at the Ford Center. And a drunk at the St. James. It's one of those weeks when what's happening off stage in the...
BALLET WITH ALL THE BELLS & WHISTLES
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBALLET MECANIQUEThe Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., (212) 242-0800. Season runs through Dec. 16. ------ CHOREOGRAPHER Doug Varone, long a critics' favorite, is on the cusp of serious fame. Doug...
CLOUDY 'SKY' - TURBULENCE AHEAD FOR TOM, PENELOPE AND ANYONE WHO SEES THIS BIZARRE, TWISTED FABLE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amVANILLA SKY [ ½] Convoluted thriller-cum-sci-fi-fable. Running time: 134 minutes. Rated R (sexuality, language, violence). At Lincoln Square, Kips Bay, Magic Johnson Theatres, others. ---- CAMERON Crowe's "Vanilla Sky" has...
BEHIND BARE TIMES SQUARE SCENE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amWHERE did all the people go? The dream sequence in "Vanilla Sky" in which Tom Cruise freaks out as he realizes he's all alone in Times Square is one of...
BIN LADEN IS TRAPPED LIKE RAT - U.S. AND AFGHANS ZERO IN ON CAVES AFTER AIR POUNDING
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amU.S. commandos and Afghan tribal fighters believe they have Osama bin Laden surrounded in a cave complex in the remote Tora Bora mountains, Pentagon officials said last night. The latest...
HOMELESS 'ANGEL' A BLESSING AT GROUND ZERO
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amSHE'S the angel who stands at the gates of the "hell." Linda Bishop patrols the perimeter of ground zero daily, holding an American flag, greeting its workers and guiding awe-struck...
MAN CLEARED BY ROB VIDEO SUES
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man who says he spent 7 ½ months behind bars on a robbery charge because prosecutors withheld a videotape proving another man committed the crime is suing the...
NEW MODEL-SLAY AGONY
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amMONTREAL - A friend of model Marie-Josee St. Antoine, found brutally murdered in her Manhattan apartment in 1982, says she's relieved the NYPD is revisiting the case, but it's too...
YASSER'S 'HERO' DREAM CRUMBLES AMID NIGHTMARE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. ISRAELI tanks, which yesterday advanced to within 1,000 feet of Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, are sending him a clear message: You're history. You no longer figure in the...
RAPIST HUNTED - LET LOOSE AFTER PAROLE VIOLATION
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amCops are searching for a paroled rapist who was set free on $500 bail - even though he allegedly menaced a man Sept. 11, claiming to be one of the...
HIS TRUE GOD IS POWER
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amON the videotape released by the administration yesterday, Osama bin Laden explains why the American effort to exterminate him and his al Qaeda cockroaches might actually bring a little sanity...
NEW YORKERS REVOLTED BY SICK ANTICS OF A MONSTER
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amIn Times Square, while 100 people quietly watched the videotape on TVs in Nasdaq's windows, one man aimed his index finger at the image of Osama bin Laden, cocked his...
WE AIM K.O. BLOW AT OSAMA - BLISTERING OFFENSIVE RAINS DESTRUCTION ON HIS MOUNTAIN LAIR
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amU.S. warplanes, commandos and Afghan tribal allies launched a scorched-earth offensive on Osama bin Laden's mountain hideout yesterday in an all-out bid to capture the terror master. Military officials now...
CITY OKS FULANI BOND
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration approved a $5 million tax-exempt bond for a group tied to state Independence Party leader Lenora Fulani - after Gov. Pataki's office "expressed an interest," The Post...
MOM AND SON FOUND SLAIN IN BX. APARTMENT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amDetectives want to question the boyfriend of a 46-year-old Bronx woman whose decomposed body was found in her apartment next to the body of her 15-year-old son. Cops made the...
VICTIMS VIEW A VILE VIDEO - BRAVEST SUFFER INSULT ON INJURY
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTHE FIREFIGHTERSNO GUTS, no glory - and if guts were made of gold, the lads at Engine Co. 54 on Eighth Avenue should be millionaires. The lads here suffered like...
POL'S PLEDGE TO $LAP SCHOOL BOARD
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA Long Island legislator yesterday said he wants to deny state aid to schools that refuse to conduct a daily Pledge of Allegiance ceremony. Assemblyman Steve Levy (D-Suffolk) proposed the...
VICTIMS VIEW A VILE VIDEO - LAUGHTER PROVES GUILT TO WIDOW
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTHE WIDOWHE laughed. And at once, she knew. For the first time since her husband was taken from her, Star Ortiz had no doubt she was staring into the face...
OLYMPIC BIG IN THE RUNNING FOR MIKE POST
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe head of the committee trying to lure the Olympics to New York is a leading contender to become the fifth deputy mayor in Mike Bloomberg's Cabinet, sources said yesterday....
HE DOESN'T ACT LIKE HE'S A MADMAN, EXPERT SAYS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amI found that watching the videotape of Osama bin Laden yesterday was like looking at a "smiling Satan." But, from a psychological point of view, the man believed to be...
DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM A CHILD
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA 7-year-old Manhattan girl did her best Picasso impression and doodled her way onto the cover of next week's TV Guide. Beata Rubin's picture was chosen from works by dozens...
MOOLAH ON MULLAH'S HEAD
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe U.S. government is set to put a hefty price on the head of Taliban chieftain Mullah Mohammed Omar and a small group of his top aides. Defense Secretary Donald...
N.Y. GAVE $47B MORE THAN IT GOT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - New York's taxpayers sent the federal government a whopping $47 billion more in taxes than the state received in federal spending last year, said a new analysis yesterday...
CASE CLOSED: OSAMA DID IT - MADMAN'S EVIL BOASTS ARE 9/11 SMOKING GUN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush believes a smoking-gun video shows the world that Osama bin Laden is a "murderer" who's hellbent on destroying civilization, the White House said yesterday. The chilling,...
SLIMY SLEAZEBALL FROM HELL MAKES FOR LOUSY TV
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amIF YOU loved the camera work in "The Blair Witch Project," have I got a show for you: "Osama: The Home Movie." But you already know that, because, unless you...
ARAB CONSPIRACY KOOKS SHOUT: IT'S ALL A FORGERY!
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe U.S.-government released Osama bin Laden videotape was dismissed as unconvincing propaganda in many parts of the Arab world, with some blasting it as a complete fabrication. Only in a...
JUDGE WANTS PARDONGATE LAWYER NOTES
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe criminal probe into former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich picked up new steam yesterday when a judge ordered the fugitive financier's lawyers to turn over their papers...
VIDEO CONVICTS MADMAN: LAWYERS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amOsama bin Laden's gleeful dinner chat is enough to nail him in a court of law, some of the city's top defense lawyers say. Benjamin Brafman, who defended Sean "P....
SHEIK WHO CAME TO DINNER PROVES SAUDI TERROR TIES
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -The mystery sheik on the Osama bin Laden tape is a visiting Saudi named Sulayman, officials said last night - underscoring the terror mastermind's ties to Saudi Arabia, where...
HOMER, SWEET HOMER! - A BIG APPLE GUIDE FOR YANKS' NEW SLUGGER GIAMBI
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amWelcome to New York, Jason Giambi. You've truly a hit a grand slam by choosing the Big Apple as your new home. The City That Never Sleeps can be a...
'20TH HIJACKER' DEFIANT - TELLS U.S. TO PAY HIM FOR TIME IN CUSTODY
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA defiant terror suspect shuffled into court publicly for the first time yesterday to deny any part in the Sept. 11 attacks and demand the United States pay him for...
HERO COP KEEPS HIS HEAD TO DELIVER BABY
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA veteran NYPD sergeant was hailed as a hero yesterday for delivering a baby girl - less than 10 hours after a bullet pierced his helmet during a fierce gun...
'RINGS'-SIDE AT CELEBRITY BASH
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe hobbits invaded Manhattan last night as "Lord of the Rings" premiered to a star-studded audience at the Ziegfeld. Gov. Pataki hosted the high-powered gala, which raised $315,000 for the...
SHOPLIFT RAP FOR WINONA
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA sticky-fingered Winona Ryder was busted for shoplifting at a ritzy Beverly Hills department store, cops said yesterday. Ryder, whose real name is Winona Laura Horowitz, tried to lift $4,760...
TOWER FACADE TO FALL
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe last vestige of the Twin Towers - a haunting skeletal fragment of one of the gleaming buildings - will be taken down this weekend, sources said yesterday. The somber...
EVIL BOAST OF A SMIRKING KILLER - VILE OSAMA'S OWN WORDS ARE A 9/11 SMOKING GUN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a stunning insult to the thousands who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, a smoking-gun video of Osama bin Laden shows the terror boss cruelly smirking as...
ARAFAT UNDER SIEGE - HOLES UP AS ISRAEL SLAYS A 'MOST WANTED' TERROR BOSS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces besieged Palestinian towns, bombed police stations and knocked the main West Bank radio station off the air yesterday in a widening offensive against terrorism. A militant...
BELOW-'0' CHILL FOR ALASKAN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThere's no time to think, feel, or reflect, says Maxx Whittaker of Ketchikan, Alaska - one of hundreds of ground-zero workers clocking an average of 100 hours a week digging...
COURT OF APPEALS OVERTURNS COP'S $1M ACCIDENT AWARD
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The state's top court yesterday threw out a $1 million judgment awarded to a city cop injured in a car accident while on duty. Responding to a domestic...
BULLETS FLY IN MIDTOWN AFTER ARMORED-CAR HEIST ATTEMPT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA gunfight erupted in Midtown yesterday when a robber ambushed two armored car guards delivering $600,000 in cash, cops said. The bandit cornered guards David Villanova and Fred Rivera in...
PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN MIDTOWN TRUCK ACCIDENT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amA woman walking to her job at a Midtown post office only minutes after saying goodbye to her husband died yesterday when she was struck by a truck as she...
NEW MODEL-SLAY AGONY - REOPENED CASE PAINFUL FOR KIN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amMONTREAL - A friend of model Marie-Josee St. Antoine, found brutally murdered in her Manhattan apartment in 1982, says she's relieved the NYPD is revisiting the case, but it's too...
ED. BOARD PREZ FINDS DIGS NEAR GROUND ZERO
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe president of the Board of Education has found a great bargain for a new apartment - in Battery Park City near ground zero. Ninfa Segarra just moved into a...
METS BIDDING TO BRING BUBBA BACK
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - The Mets reacquired Roger Cedeno yesterday morning, then mulled options that could return Bubba Trammell to their outfield, as well. The Mets had offered Jay Payton and a...
N.J. SLAPS BAN ON REDUCTION OF MENHADEN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTHE commercial menhaden fleet lost the ability to fish in New Jersey waters when the State Senate voted last week to pass a bill which prohibits taking these valuable forage...
ONE FOR THE BIRDS - CARDINALS ARE TOUGH FOE FOR DOWNTRODDEN GIANTS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amAFTER last week's inexcusable loss in Dallas, there were some curious comments in the Giants' locker room. One player talked about playing the rest of the season for pride, another...
BARNABY BACK TO PESKY SELF
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amIf you look up the word irritating in the dictionary you are sure to find a picture of Matthew Barnaby. Other synonyms like agitating, frustrating, and in-your-face also apply. But...
NBA COGNIZANT OF 'NEW REALITY'
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amTHE BOTTOM of the NBA's application form for media credentials to the league's February All-Star Game in Philadelphia contains some unsettling and uniquely post-9/11 language. Where applicants to previous All-Star...
MORALE'S WAYNE-ING - ADD CHREBET TO GROWING LIST OF HERM'S GANG GROAN
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amAs the Jets continue to search for touchdowns - they've managed only seven in the last six games - the frustration level amongst the offensive skill players has been rising....
LINDROS LUCKY INJURY NOT WORSE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rangers sure know how fortunate they are. And with the season's viability of its most important franchise having flashed before its very eyes, maybe the NHL does, too. Yesterday's...
KEENAN & CO. INVADE JERSEY
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amAfter an emotional 3-2 OT victory over the Atlantic-leading Islanders on Wednesday, the 13-11-3-2 Devils appear to be heating up, going 4-1-1 in their last six. They hope to keep...
SUPER CHIEFS MAKE AN EXPRESS STOP
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amCanarsie 70 - Tran. Tech 49 When Transit Tech knocked off a Gary Ervin-less Robeson to improve its league record to a surprising 4-0 on Tuesday, head coach George Vernile...
GOOD GUY GIAMBI PERFECT PINSTRIPE FIT
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amALL THE nine-figure baseball stars say roughly the same things at these say-hello press conferences. They thank the right people. They say they came here for a chance to win....
CORNERED SEHORN TACKLES HIS CRITICS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amJASON Sehorn is an easy target: He's handsome, he's philosophical, he's married to a TV babe and he's on a billboard in Times Square wearing nothing but his underwear. He...
NIGHTMARE'S ONE SLUMP AWAY
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amIN 1998, 1999 and 2000, the Yankees were the champions of the baseball world. Then, in 2001, they fell one strike short. So, they did what any self-respecting professional sports...
NETS SEE DIFFERENT MOURNING
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - The universal consensus is Alonzo Mourning, battling kidney disease with medication and guts, is nowhere near the player he was, stamina-wise. One of the NBA's most ferocious warriors...
JASON MAKES FAMILY PROUD
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amAfter Jason Giambi donned his Yankee cap and slipped on his new No. 25, he turned to his father, John, and said, "Well, Pop, it's not 7, but it's pinstripes."...
PERFECT IN PINSTRIPES - GIAMBI LIVES OUT BOYHOOD DREAM
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amYou want to know what type of guy Jason Giambi is? Judging by his first words after putting on a Yankee jersey yesterday and the water that filled his electric...
YANKS GET VANDER WAL FROM GIANTS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amThe restructuring of the Yankees took one big step yesterday when Jason Giambi was introduced at Yankee Stadium. However, the club also took small steps. They acquired veteran outfielder John...
TORRE HAS PLEASANT PROBLEM
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amJoe Torre doesn't know what his Opening Day lineup will look like. The manager, who recently signed a three-year extension, likely will bat Derek Jeter leadoff, but after that Torre...
CEDENO MAKING RETURN TO SHEA
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Imagining what speed on the bases would look like in front of Edgardo Alfonzo, Roberto Alomar and Mike Piazza, the Mets acted with the quickness of the player...
HAPPY COUPLE HOME IN N.Y.
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amWhen Kristian Rice met Jason Giambi, it wasn't just love at first sight. More like love at first week. "We met, and it was like we had known each other...
A'S GM HAS BIG HOLE TO FILL
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Oakland GM Billy Beane had to trade Mark McGwire midway through the 1997 season, and heard that "was the end of the A's." But he entrusted first base...
NUGGETS' ISSEL LEARNED HIS LESSONS WELL
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amADOLPH Rupp would have been proud of the way Dan Issel conducted himself following Tuesday's home loss (the team's fifth straight) to the Hornets. Remembered as much for his contemptible...
SPREE SPUTTERS IN CLUTCH ; CLANGS TWO LATE SHOTS AS PISTONS NIP KNICKS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amPistons 99 - Knicks 97 AUBURN HILLS - Don Chaney is riding the back of the red-hot Latrell Sprewell. But for the second straight game, it wasn't enough. Now Spree...
GONZO DEAL UNLIKELY, BUT NOT HOPELESS
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Until the hours just before consummation of their trade for him, the Mets perceived landing Roberto Alomar as a long shot. They have considered signing Juan Gonzalez to...
A'S GM'S BEEN ON THIS ROAD BEFORE
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Oakland GM Billy Beane had to trade Mark McGwire midway through the 1997 season, and heard that "was the end of the A's." But he entrusted first base...
KNICKS READY TO TAKE ON AIR
December 14, 2001 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - It's no longer a case of Latrell Sprewell having to worry about Michael Jordan. It will be the other way around when the Knicks face the surging...