October 20, 2002
'RING' OF TERROR
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amCine File is in no hurry to see the Hollywoodized thriller "The Ring," but he's eagerly awaiting the unreeling of the Japanese original at the Walter Reade Theater. Not only...
STARR REPORT
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIt's Showtime for Schwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger will help Showtime kick off the 25th anniversary of "Pumping Iron," the movie that launched him to stardom. Schwarzenegger will be in town Nov....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ROD STEWART
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIf anyone defines glam rock, it's Rod Stewart, who's known for strutting around the stage in brightly colored satin suits, silk scarves and leopard-skin prints while belting out his famous...
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amHow old is too old to go on a family vacation?I asked myself this again last week after I joined my brother (34), sister (29), mother and father on a...
FOIE GRAS AND OTHER FRENCH TREATS JUST DUCKY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amMake room for foie gras. This week, the savory specialties and luscious wines of the Bordeaux and Aquitane regions of Southwest France are popping up at some of the top...
HOW TO DRESS LIKE A ROCK STAR: HAVING FANCY DESIGNER FRIENDS, AWARDS SHOWS TO ATTEND, AND AN OZZY FIXATION HELPS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur is widely regarded as one of the most stylish women in rock - mainly because she never looks like she's trying.Auf der...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amLawdy Miss Clawdy: The disc "Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits" continues to crown the charts around the world, but the King's very first guitar, which dates back to his 11th birthday...
GUESS WHO I SAW AT GROUND ZERO?!? A 20-YEAR-OLD SCIENTOLOGIST SEEKS STARS, SLEEP AT SITE OF DISASTER: A 9/11 STORY YOU DEFINITELY HAVEN'T HEARD BEFORE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amApparently, the demand for reading material about Sept. 11 is so drastically high that you can have spent three weeks feeding volunteers at Ground Zero and score a book deal....
MY POSSE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR POSSE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amEntourages are everywhere. Though he claims to have downsized his posse, it seems that Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' crew is as large as ever. They recently butted heads with Latrell...
ARNIE FLEXES HIS POLITICAL MUSCLES
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amSANTA MONICA, Calif. - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is out to terminate youth crime. But the movie muscleman won't say if his new mission is the first step toward running as...
DONNA GOT HERSELF A LIVE ONE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amWHILE Rudy & Judi are planning a wedding for thousands - give or take a few hundred - Donna Hanover has quietly begun putting her old life behind her by...
SLOW ON THE DRAW
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIF you're going to kill with impunity, the only place to do it is in the nation's capital and its environs. First, there was Chandra Levy. Early on, the cops...
NOWHERE TO TURN, NO WAY TO DRIVE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amAND you thought the last city administration's loopy idea to reverse the traffic on the 59th Street Bridge before Christmas and put up fences on corners to keep us from...
INTOLERABLE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIN religious news last week, the pope declared that zero tolerance is just not tolerant enough when dealing with those big zeroes, the pedophile priests. How about a tolerance level...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA mother made her son stand on a street corner with a sign around his neck saying, "I didn't do my homework!" The sign urged motorists to "beep the horn...
TARGETED VA. TOWN TAKES AIM AT FEAR
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amFREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Steve Crow woke up Friday morning thinking about the sniper. Not a unique thing in this traumatized Southern town, but more pointed that day. Because it was...
PLACE PETR IN MIDDLE RANGERS WASTING NEDVED'S TALENTS ON THE OUTSIDE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIT IS way too early for a reliable read on the Rangers. It is not, however, too early to affirm that the Rangers will be a superior team by moving...
TEUTONIC TURKEYS TURNING TERROR LAIR INTO 'ART'
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe German apartment where Mohamed Atta plotted the Sept. 11 attacks is being turned into an "art happening" this week. Avant-garde artists from Berlin are planning an exhibit of paintings,...
OUTRAGE OVER 'GARBAGE DUMP' RESTING PLACE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amDiane Horning won't allow the ashes of her son and other Sept. 11 victims to be treated "like garbage." She was stunned recently to discover that soil and ashes containing...
L.I. SHOOTER: HE WILL KILL AGAIN OF LIKE MIND: FELLOW FIEND REVEALS KILLER'S DARK AIMS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amNew York's homegrown sniper provided a glimpse into the mind of the madman who is terrorizing Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., and also offered police tips on how they might...
SPAMMERS PUSHIER THAN EVER
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amAs if junk e-mail and pop-up ads weren't annoying enough, now advertisers can invade your computer system itself to put their ads in your face. A developer of bulk-mail software...
LEFT TURN SMOOTHS ROAD DOWNSTATE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amNew York City used to be off limits to Republicans in the heat of a statewide race, but Gov. Pataki has taken large bites out of the Big Apple, and...
JENNIFER IS TRULY A 'ROCK' & ROLLER
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amMaybe the video should be called "Jenny With Her Rock." Jennifer Lopez showed off a sparkling diamond ring to friends at her latest video shoot in Los Angeles on Friday,...
FRUSTRATED POLICE PLAN TO HYPNOTIZE WITNESSES
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amCops desperate for clues in the Psycho Sniper case have begun bringing in experts to hypnotize witnesses in hopes of jogging hidden memories that may help them figure out the...
ABDUCTED KID HOME AT LAST
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan mom returned home from China with her 5-year-old son yesterday after a tense custody battle with her Chinese ex-husband. Camille Colvin, 35, spent nine days in the central...
WEST BANK CRACKDOWN
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel cracked down on Palestinian militants yesterday, busting eight suspects in the West Bank as the State Department's top Mideast envoy landed in Egypt to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli...
BLAZE RAZES FIRE IS. HOME
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amFire Island lived up to its flaming name yesterday, when a blaze destroyed an oceanfront home and seriously damaged two others, officials said. No one was injured in the inferno,...
BABY HOSTAGE HORROR TOT SPARED AS QUEENS DAD SHOOTS SELF, THREE OTHERS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amAn enraged Queens man - saying, "I just want to hold my baby" one last time - shot three people and held two others hostage, including his 4-month-old daughter, for...
NBC'S 'THRAX THRASH
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amAnthrax-tainted carpeting, office furniture and paper from the offices of NBC television are finally being destroyed - more than a year after a letter containing spores of the deadly bacteria...
SLAY JURY ACQUITS EX-MAYOR
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA former mayor accused of killing a black woman during a 1969 race riot in York, Pa., was acquitted of murder, while two men also charged in the shooting were...
CARJACKER KILLS 2 IN SHOOTING SPREE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amPolice were searching last night for a pistol packing car thief who carjacked two people in New Jersey then cruised to the Bronx and shot two livery cab drivers to...
TERROR NIGHTMARE - SNIPER STRIKES? - 37-YEAR-OLD MAN SHOT IN VIRGINIA PARKING LOT
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA shooting that left a man wounded outside a Ponderosa Steakhouse in Virginia last night may be the work of the Psycho Sniper, police said. Law-enforcement officials said a 37-year-old...
IT'S 'AISLE' STYLE WEDDING-GOWN GURUS OFFER UP IDEAS FOR RUDY'S BRIDE-TO-BE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amMove over, David and Liza - the city's next most-anticipated wedding is impending. America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and his love of loves, Judith Nathan, are rumored to have already compiled...
BROTHERS-OUT-LAW? ACCUSED JEWEL FENCES ARE INNOCENT, KIN INSIST
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Uzbek-born brothers charged with spearheading a stolen-jewelry network that spread gilt-ringed tentacles from Manhattan to mysterious overseas addresses could never be part of a conspiracy, family members say. That's...
DARKER SIDE TO THE 9/11 'WONDER' PILL
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA popular antidepressant drug widely prescribed to New Yorkers affected by the Sept. 11 attacks could trigger suicidal thoughts and cause severe withdrawal problems in some patients, experts say. Paroxetine,...
OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE KNESSET
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. ISRAEL will soon have a representative who is openly gay for the first time in the Israeli parliament's history. But he may not be the first homosexual in the...
ELECTION 2002 GOV IN DRIVER'S SEAT STEADY STYLE WORKING FOR MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD PATAKI
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIn the weeks leading up to election day, Nov. 5, when New Yorkers will choose a governor, The Post on Sunday will focus on the three leading candidates. The first...
TRASH TALKERS TOUT 'RAY-GUN' TO ZAP RUBBISH
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA giant "ray gun" that vaporizes garbage into thin air could be headed our way to help solve the world's worst trash-disposal crisis. New York churns out more garbage than...
BRAVEST WIDOW'S ANTI-ANXIETY SCARE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amA 9/11 firefighter's widow who has taken Paxil and other drugs for anxiety and depression since the Sept. 11 attacks says she once slumped to her knees in a crowded...
ONLY AFTER 6TH SHOOTING DID FEDS TAKE NOTICE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amFive people were dead and the nation was in turmoil, but the baffling case of the Beltway Sniper did not change from a local to a full-blown federal investigation until...
SHELL-CASING 'CLUE' YIELDS NO LINK
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amCops desperate for clues in the Psycho Sniper case have begun bringing in experts to hypnotize witnesses in hopes of jogging any hidden memories that may help them figure out...
FEDS CALLED IN AFTER 6TH SHOOTING
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amFive people were already dead and the nation was in turmoil, but the baffling case of the Beltway Sniper did not change from a local to a full-blown federal investigation...
ELEVATOR-UNION SCAMMERS GOING DOWN
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amThirteen members of a powerful elevator union busted for allegedly running an extensive no-show job scam have now entered guilty pleas to charges arising from the investigation. They are among...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
October 20, 2002 | 4:00am* Cops shot and killed one man and wounded two others after gunfire erupted during a drug bust, police said yesterday. Police said narcotics cops were conducting an operation on...
THREE HOMERS KO ANGELS IN GAME 1
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Barry Bonds and Reggie Sanders wounded them before J.T. Snow killed the Angels in Game 1 of the World Series last night at Edison Field. Snow, a former...
COMEBACK CAN START WITH JUST ONE VICTORY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amHerman Edwards' one-themed message to his team this week: "Win Sunday." "We just have to get back to trying to win a game," Edwards said, referring to the Jets' four-game...
ALWAYS KEEP CLEAN & COOL AFTER THE KILL
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amBOW SEASON is under way in New York's Southern Zone and in order to ensure the quality of fresh venison, hunters must know what to do with a deer before...
MIKE MAKES RIGHT SCIOSCIA PLANTED SEED FOR DODGERS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Spend time around the Angels, and you will hear players and staff describe the assets that have made Mike Scioscia perhaps the top young manager in the majors....
YANKS SLASH 25 JOBS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - In a move that could impact the future of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, The Post has learned that the Yankees have fired Leo Astacio, El Duque's interpreter, in...
FED-UP LOU TO CONFRONT SEATTLE BRASS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amLou Piniella met with the Devil Rays yesterday, but he didn't talk about parameters for a new contract. In fact, the Tampa native made it clear to Tampa Bay that...
DISGUSTED BULLS ADMIT BLOOM IS OFF ; ROSE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amALMOST inaudibly, but scarcely surprising (in my orb of influence, at any rate), the Bulls have alerted limited NBA partners that Jalen Rose's remaining $72 million, 5-year obligation is (enthusiastically,...
GANDER HOLDS ON TO EMPIRE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amGander, the gallant grey warrior, took over the lead on the far turn and held off the fast-closing Compelling World to win the $250,000 Empire Classic by a half-length at...
SPREE, KNICKS BEGIN THE HEALING PROCESS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amPerhaps the mending began yesterday when Latrell Sprewell met with coach Don Chaney at the Knicks' Westchester practice facility after the team's return from a preseason, three-game Western sweep. The...
VINNY WILLING TO HELP, READY TO PLAY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amSUNDAYS are hell, because you have been the general and now you are the good soldier. It isn't your team anymore; it's The Kid's team. You are on the sidelines...
CLARETT CLOCKS BADGERS OHIO ST.'S FROSH RB QUIETS TRASH-TALKING WISCONSIN
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amMADISON, Wisc. - The Wisconsin Badgers played a smart, disciplined, hardcore defensive football game yesterday. They made just one mistake. They talked trash to the best running back in the...
SLOPPY BUT TO THE POINT
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amIsles5Thrashers4 ATLANTA - It wasn't pretty and it wasn't easy, but the Islanders last night accomplished the one goal they set out for themselves from the moment their plane touched...
THIS LOSS COULD BE COSTLY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00am'Canes3Devils1 RALEIGH - Not only did Pat Burns' magic touch desert him here last night, just as Kevin Constantine's did last April, but now his captain faces league review of...
GARDEN FANS ARE NOT AMUSED
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amRangers2Predators2 Perhaps if the Rangers had invested the same determination and energy into the first 45 minutes as they did in the final 20, they would not have been booed...
MAGOWAN NOT BACKING OFF ON BAKER STANCE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Peter Magowan offered some thaw yesterday in his Cold War with his manager Dusty Baker. However, the Giants owner refused to melt away all their issues or discount...
FOR OPENERS, BONDS EMBODIES CLUTCH PLAY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - After 17 major league seasons, Barry Bonds made a quick statement. Four pitches, two swings. That is all it took to answer the questions: would the Angels pitch...
THE BAY BOMBERS OPEN WITH A BANG - THREE HOMERS KO ANGELS IN GAME 1
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Barry Bonds and Reggie Sanders wounded them before J.T. Snow killed the Angels in Game 1 of the World Series last night at Edison Field. Snow, a former...
SNOW PUTS THE ICING ON GIANT CAKE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - On this night it was the Giants who owned the Thunder Stix. So much for those plastic tubes that truly fascinate these SoCal fans. And yes, when you...
S.F. 'PEN WRITING TITLE TALE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amHow do you become a champion these days? You get a great bullpen. Look for all the reasons you want why the Giants have been so successful, but it's the...
CLUTCH BATS DON'T SHOW FOR ANGELS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANGEL NOTES ANAHEIM - Giving up three home runs certainly didn't help, but the Angels had to look at their lack of production in the clutch as the main reason...
BREEDERS' CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS RUN IN THIS FAMILY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe old saying goes like mother, like daughter. If Storm Flag Flying wins the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Arlington Park on Saturday, trainer Shug McGaughey and the Phipps family...
A CAREER OFF-COURSE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amCLIMAX, N.Y. - The distance from Aqueduct racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Centerbrook Farm outside this sleepy Catskills hamlet can't be measured in miles alone. Centerbrook, owned by noted...
ROAD TO RECOVERY OR RUIN FOR JETS LOSS TO MINNESOTA WOULD SAP ALL HOPE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amAbsurd as it may sound just six weeks into the season, but today marks a last stand of sorts for the 2002 Jets. The Jets either stand up strong against...
SANTANA VS. RANDY IN MOSS MATCHUP
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amThere'll be another Moss on the field in today's Jets-Vikings game at Giants Stadium. Sure, Vikings' prolific receiver Randy Moss will likely make big play or two today, but the...
LAND OF THE LOST: MORONIC STATISTICS RULE IN TV'S FOOTBALLVILLE
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amF OOTBALLVILLE is a town governed by the logic of how a vast majority of the media's football experts explain - and for years have explained - the relative merits...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amFROM RAGS TO RICHES Don't be shocked if ex-Yank matinee idol Dave Righetti is the next Giants manager. We hear that should Dusty Baker leave - possibly for ESPN -...
DUNSTON REMEMBERS ROOTS: GIANT DEVELOPED GAME ON FIELDS IN BROOKLYN
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Just because the Yankees weren't in the World Series for the first time since 1998 and the Mets' chances died in May, that didn't mean the Series was...
SIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - And a gnat shall lead them. That's what David Eckstein is - a gnat posing as a leadoff hitter. He is the anti-Barry. Too small, too overmatched and...
BOOK ON BONDS STILL OPEN
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The best thing about Game 1 of the World Series starting last night for Mike Scioscia was the world could see how his Angel pitchers worked Barry Bonds...
BACK-TO-THE-FUTURE BACK : BUCKEYES AND CLARETT BADGERED BY HISTORY
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amMADISON - We've gone back in time only to wind up in the same place. The year is 1972. Ohio State is undefeated. The Buckeyes boast the best freshman running...
IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF: JACKIE BREAKING COLOR BARRIER BIGGER THAN ANY 'MOMENT'
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amPRIOR to Game 4 of the World Series, the culmination of a season long promotion by major league baseball and a sponsoring credit card company will end with the announcement...
THE RUNNING MAN: IAN SMART CHASING COLLEGE FOOTBALL IMMORTALITY AT DIVISION II C.W. POST
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amThe most prolific running back in college football plies his trade right here in New York. He is a 5-foot-9, 190-pound testament to the value of hard work overcoming a...
'NEW CHARLIE' SHOWS UP FOR NEW SEASON
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amWho says the Knicks have to trade for a point guard? Not if "The New Charlie" - as Don Chaney now calls him - continues his recent ways. After a...
BURNS NOT A STICKLER: PAT SHOULD CRACK DOWN ON CURVES
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amRALEIGH - For a no-nonsense coach who demands discipline, Pat Burns seemed a bleeding heart enabler as he winked at the forest of illegal sticks that nearly cut down his...
RANGERS, RUCINSKY IN IMPASSE: CZECH HOLDING OUT FOR GUARANTEED $3M
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amSo does or does not Martin Rucinsky have an offer on the table from the Rangers? "We made him an offer a little over two weeks ago," Glen Sather said...
RADEK BACK ON TRACK: MARTINEK'S RETURN GIVES ISLES A BOOST
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Islanders' defense got some much-needed help last night with the return of Radek Martinek. Martinek, who had been sidelined with a rib injury since being leveled in...
KENT SET TO FINALLY BREAK OUT
October 20, 2002 | 4:00amJeff Kent smiled when someone mentioned that he needed to have a breakout series for the Giants to win the World Series. "That's what my wife is saying," Kent said...