March 9, 2003
NOÉ WAY OUT
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amGaspar Noé isn't upset that some critics have panned - no, make that savaged - his controversial film "Irreversible." "Even people who have written the worst reviews make publicity for...
HIGH NOTES & LOW NOTES
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amStepping Out: Brit New Wave hero Joe Jackson and his original band, with whom he recorded the era-defining albums "Look Sharp," "I'm the Man" and "Beat Crazy," will perform together...
MOVING IN: THE ULTIMATE STICKY SUBJECT
March 9, 2003 | 5:00am'Baby, I love you. But you are not moving in." This was my boyfriend's response when I told him I was facing eviction from my apartment at the end of...
STARR REPORT
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amDave not ready to return - yetDavid Letterman is taking another week off to recuperate from his bout with shingles. CBS announced late Friday that Letterman will miss this week's...
I DARE YOU: CAN DESIGNER STACEY BENDET PUT TOGETHER A GREAT LOOK FOR ONLY $100?
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amStacey Bendet could never find the right pair of pants for her petite, slim figure, so she got fed up and decided to design her own pair. "It didn't start...
NEW YORKERS PLAY FAVORITES: QUEENS NATIVE ADRIEN BRODY COULD HAVE THE INSIDE TRACK ON THE OSCAR
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amNew York is holding its breath for him. Twenty-nine-year-old Woodhaven, Queens native Adrien Brody - until now, a little-known actor and downtown scenester - is up for a Best Actor...
ADRIEN BRODY: THIS YEAR'S DARK HORSE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amRed-hot Adrien Brody could pull an upset victory at tonight's Screen Actors Guild Awards - and is shaping up as a possible dark-horse winner on Oscar night, according to Hollywood...
SUGAR BABIES: WANT TO OWN THE NEWEST EXOTIC PET? THINK AGAIN
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe New York City Health Department's tough laws against keeping wild animals as pets don't stop determined New Yorkers. Take, for example, the newest illegal pet gaining underground status: the...
JFK SCREENER STOLE $$: COPS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA security screener at JFK Airport was arrested and suspended last night for stealing money from a passenger, a witness told The Post Transportation Security Administration spokesperson Andrea Seifer confirmed...
QAEDA KILLER A LADY KILLER?
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTHE capture of porker pig/terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed begs the question: Can a man with more hair on his back than on his head ever make it as an international...
$HEIKH'S BOOTY
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amBAKSHEESH talks, nobody walks. At the end of the day, it was neighborly greed and friendlier green that did to Khalid what all the spies in the world couldn't do...
LASHED BY LYING LOTHARIOS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTHERE was good news and not so good news for the Queen of Mean and the, er, other queen of mean. The good news is the recent slashing by 95...
TUMMY-DUMMY
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amSCIENTISTS have discovered that the fatter men get, the more stupid they become. The theory is that fat around the waist (where men are most likely to collect it -...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThis is no choke. A mystery man has been going around a Florida town faking choking episodes in an attempt to pick up women. After a woman rushes over to...
NEW VIEW OF SHUTTLE PIC
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amAn eerie photo of the space shuttle Columbia in its final moments, which NASA had dismissed as being too fuzzy, may in fact show the fatal effects of missing tiles...
L.I. MOM NABBED IN RAPE OF TEEN
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA 42-year-old teacher's assistant was charged yesterday with raping a 15-year-old boy in her Long Island home, Nassau cops said. Marilu Fischetti, 42, a mother of two who works for...
PLAY-BACK TIME: B'WAY $QUEEZES NONSTRIKING UNIONS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amBroadway bigwigs aim to bring the striking musicians union to its knees by financially squeezing the members of unions that haven't walked off the job - ushers, wardrobe people, hair...
HS KIDS GIVE RITZY TOWN STICKUP SHOCK
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amBOBBY Spezzano, the 6-foot-3, 17-year-old captain of the Greenwich, Conn., HS basketball team, volunteers as a coach to youngsters in the Greenwich Basketball Association and lives in a modest low-rise,...
ISRAELI COPTER MISSILES KILL HAMAS BOSS IN CAR
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A key leader of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas was killed by Israeli troops yesterday after Apache helicopters launched missiles into his car as he rode through Gaza...
THE 'GRAND' PLACE TO SMOKE LOOPHOLE LETTING TERMINAL DINERS PUFF IN PEACE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amGrand Central Terminal is set to become a smokers' oasis on March 30, when the city's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants is scheduled to kick in. The famed...
UNIONS BRISTLE AT MIKE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg has instructed his aides to give him a list of people who should be laid off if he doesn't get $600 million in union givebacks - a move...
CHEF'S ROUNDABOUT SOLUTION: GET ON THE BUS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTop chef Daniel Boulud has come up with a novel scheme for anyone who wants to puff after a meal at his four-star eatery come March 30 - he'll send...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amManhattan A man held up an Upper East Side bank and made off with $1,700 yesterday afternoon, police said. The thief, described as a white man in his 30s, entered...
ACHIN' ASTACIO HOPES TO AVOID STINT ON DL
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Hold off on that disabled list talk, Pedro Astacio said yesterday. Astacio hopes he can avoid the DL, even though he acknowledged yesterday that his biceps...
JOSE THEY CAN SEE REYES SHINES IN DEBUT
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amMets 14Cardinals 2 PORT ST. LUCIE - Jose Reyes is one of the "Chosen Ones," especially in the Mets' clubhouse. Reyes, the recent subject of a Sports Illustrated profile about...
VICTORIA GOTTI
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amON THE NOSE: Only Michael Jackson knows for sure just how many cosmetic surgeries he has had on his notorious schnoz. He admits to two, and last week his big...
IT'S PLAY-BACK TIME: B'WAY $QUEEZES NONSTRIKING UNIONS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amBroadway bigwigs and striking musicians are digging in for a bitter battle with no new labor talks slated for the foreseeable future. Theater producers claim they have made their final...
HOOPS PLAYERS RUN OFF AT MOUTH
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amSeveral members of the St. John's University basketball team shouted racist remarks at a man operating an overcrowded Madison Square Garden elevator because he asked some of them to get...
KIDNAP TOT HOME SAFE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mom was reunited with her 2-year-old daughter yesterday, a day after the toddler was abducted at gunpoint by her father at a New Jersey hotel in a bitter...
CONCORDE STAYS VIRGIN TO VIRGIN
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amBritish Airways would turn its fleet of money-losing Concorde jets into a pile of supersonic scrap rather than allow its rival, Virgin Atlantic, to get its hands on the planes,...
'DIRECTOR'S CUT' SLASH BEAU HAS COP AT BEDSIDE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe live-in boyfriend of an Emmy winner and Oscar-nominated documentary maker was awaiting a bedside arraignment in a Manhattan hospital yesterday for the attempted murder of the filmmaker, police said....
YOUNG GUNS FIRED UP TO WIN
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY were in elementary school as the Gulf War raged 12 years ago, and their knowledge of combat comes mostly from watching movies. They are teens and 20-somethings who grew...
N. KOREAN MISSILE TEST FEARED
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amNorth Korea is expected to conduct another missile test in days - a move that could inflame the nuclear standoff while the United States focuses on Iraq. South Korea and...
URBAN WARFARE: REPUBLICANS WHO WON'T GIVE UP ON NEW YORK
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amIS there a future for the Republican Party in New York City? Jay Golub and Robert Hornak think so. At a recent fund-raiser, Golub and Hornak officially unveiled the Urban...
DA'S 'BEST' IS NO GOOD: BLAKE ATTY.
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - It could be the week Baretta makes a breakthrough. Cop show star Robert Blake, 69, returns to court tomorrow to face more evidence prosecutors say will send...
FRANCE, U.S. HUNT FOR VOTES
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe United States and France will flex their diplomatic might today in a showdown to sway hesitant U.N. Security Council members ahead of a vote on a war with Iraq...
COPS RECAPTURE 3 WHO SLIPPED THEIR GRASP
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThree handcuffed prisoners managed to flee police custody in separate incidents yesterday and today - but all were caught within 24 hours. The escapes, the latest in a spate of...
GUN TIP LEADS TO $2M IN POT
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amCops scored big yesterday, seizing $2 million worth of marijuana in what officials called a "substantial bust." Police were originally tipped off by a 911 call about a man with...
MOMS JOIN BATTLE VS. PEEP PERVS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - Two upstate women, whose kids were secretly taped changing in a closet by their kindergarten teacher, want to join a Long Island woman's push for a law that...
COP SOUNDS FIRE ALARM
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amAn Arizona cop engulfed in a fireball when the fuel tank of his Ford Crown Victoria exploded in a collision last year is expected to testify before the New York...
CONTRITE TEACHER TELLS OF BEARING STUDENT'S BABY
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA Queens public high-school teacher who had a baby with a male student 10 years her junior says that despite her love for the infant, she is sorry for "poor...
CITY'S SECRET DOOMSDAY PLAN IN PLACE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe city has a mass evacuation plan ready that includes sending people to sites such as baseball stadiums and racetracks if an exodus is necessary - but you won't know...
NEW BILL KICK$ SIDEWALK CAFÉS TO THE CURB: OWNERS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA city plan to triple the licensing fees for sidewalk cafés this spring will probably result in inflated prices and less seating alfresco, café owners say. Part of a new...
AL QAEDA'S VIDEOTAPED SCHEME TO MASSACRE SCHOOLKIDS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amHEAVILY armed al Qaeda thugs practiced storming a school, shooting children and taking hostages in a videotaped training exercise, The Post has learned. The terror rehearsal took place under the...
TOME-LY HELP FOR WELLS' SLUGGER
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amMaybe it was the booze talking. Lawyers for a Yonkers man convicted in November of punching out two of Yankee pitcher David Wells' teeth are using the southpaw's autobiography -...
HIS VANISH ANGUISH SVETLANA HUBBY FRANTIC FOR CLUES
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amShe had planned to go skiing this week at the posh Italian mountain resort of Cortina, Italy. Like many aspects of her life, it was a pastime Svetlana Aronov embraced...
RARE FIND IN AN OBSCURE WORLD
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amIn the world of rare books, tall, blond Svetlana Aronov was herself quite exceptional. "The rare book world is largely the home of stuffy men and she was a very...
THE 'SECRET' ENVOY OF JEWS AND MUSLIMS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Eugene Warner, 88, who died Friday in Las Vegas, was the unlikely but key figure in creating a back channel between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Between two deserts...
'DEATH' CABS PROWLING THE CITY
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amRiding in a Ford Crown Victoria taxi is like sitting on more than "200 sticks of dynamite" if the cab is involved in a rear-end collision, warns accident-reconstruction engineer Perry...
EDUCATORS CAN'T HANDLE ATTACK
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amMost school safety officers have no terrorism training or are ill-equipped to handle the kind of attack al Qaeda thugs practiced in Afghanistan. A law-enforcement source who has received NYPD...
3 MORE ESCAPE NYPD'S GRASP
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThree handcuffed prisoners managed to flee police custody in separate instances within 24 hours this week - bringing the total to five escapes this year. One escapee is still on...
HAPPY REUNION FOR CUSTODY-FIGHT KID
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mom was reunited with her 2-year-old daughter yesterday, a day after the toddler was abducted at gunpoint by her father at a New Jersey hotel in a bitter...
AIR FORCE 'FULL OF PERVS'
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amSexual abuse against women at the Air Force Academy is so rampant that students are warned "you're lucky" to make it through all four years without being assaulted, according to...
SADDAM'S DISARMING DEMAND
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amA defiant Saddam Hussein yesterday claimed he has fully disarmed - and demanded that the U.N. Security Council reward Iraq by ending 12 years of economic sanctions and branding America...
HOT ON TRAIL OF OSAMA
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe hunt for Osama bin Laden turned "red hot" this weekend as his pursuers scoured southern Pakistan in a desperate search for the terror chief, officials said yesterday. Sources said...
ANNA'S GOT NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amPOOR Anna Kournikova. The darling diva has spent a restless week wondering what will become of her, and her roughly $15 million in annual endorsement income, now that Sergei Fedorov...
LATEST HARRICK MESS GOES RIGHT TO THE TOP
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amLET'S start with a "Why?" Why, if everyone is now listing the past transgressions of Jim Harrick in reporting his latest alleged transgressions, is Harrick the target as opposed to...
TAKE A PASS ON BOOMER'S BOOK
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amQUIZ: Not counting John Franco, who missed all of last season, who are the three active lefty save leaders (answer below)? Some advice for folks who consider themselves true Yankee...
CAPS LOOKING TO UNLOAD JAGR
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amADD another whopping name to the list of marquee players being dangled prior to Tuesday's deadline: Jaromir Jagr. Slap Shots has learned that despite battling with Tampa for first place...
A DOSE OF ROSE CAN STILL HELP
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Before Bill Tuttle died in 1998, major league officials used to bring him around to camps each spring as a cautionary tale against chewing tobacco. Players...
VINCENT SAYS BUD MAKING BIG MISTAKE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent once again blasted his successor yesterday afternoon, warning Bud Selig that reinstating Pete Rose would be a grave historical error. Vincent,...
A LOOK AT HOW THE METS WILL THRIVE IN 2005
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The excitement within the Mets' hierarchy these days is not just about these days. For the first time since the Generation K furor, the organization believes...
KIDD STUFF JASON-TO-SPURS WOULD LEAVE NETS WITH NOTHING
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amHERE'S a depressing thought past Jason Kidd absconding to San Antonio this summer: The Spurs are so capology flush there's no need - other than immediately compensating Kidd to the...
ISLES GET SOME BODIES BACK CAIRNS, OSGOOD RETURN TO LINEUP
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amIslanders tough guy Eric Cairns was expected back in the lineup from a shoulder separation for the first time last night since Jan. 21 against the Rangers. The same went...
GIANTS GET BACK TO BUSINESS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amNow that the messy business of getting rid of Jason Sehorn is behind the Giants - a decision based more on football than finances - the team can move forward,...
COLES MAD AT JETS' APPROACH
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amLaveranues Coles, Chad Pennington's go-to guy, has been insulted by the Jets and is ready to entertain free agent offers that would land him in greener pastures, The Post has...
STARKS REFLECTS ON MIKE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amFormer Knick John Starks told The Post he will announce his retirement in the next couple of weeks. When he's officially through, Starks' greatest memories will be of his wars...
SLATS HASN'T FORGOTTEN HOW TO COACH
March 9, 2003 | 5:00am"You want to know how coaching has changed over the last 10 years?" Glen Sather, who ought to know, was saying after running yesterday's practice. "Here's how it's changed: everybody...
IN-LIMBO DANTON'S STILL WAITING FOR LOU TO KEEP HIS WORD
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amToo much is enough, already. It's time for Lou Lamoriello to atone for utterly failing to keep his word. It's time for the Devils' GM to stop being petty. It's...
AIR HE GOES
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amOld, bald and stricken with a cranky back, Michael Jordan graces the Garden as a pro for the 44th and likely final time today. One last chance to light up...
BOSS MUST OWN UP FOR DE-BOOK-LE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - The lessons learned from the David Wells debacle are many. For the Yankees, for George Steinbrenner and for Wells. The biggest is that Steinbrenner should never again play...
RED STORM TREADING IN LUKEWARM WATER
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amMIAMI - Mike Jarvis recently said his team has a tendency to suffer from amnesia. No sooner had the Red Storm shown a resiliency that had been lacking most of...
JETER: SORIANO INJURY NO BIG DEAL
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amYankees7Pirates4 Since Derek Jeter hurt his shoulder before the 2000 season, his power numbers haven't been the same. But the shortstop said there's no reason to expect Alfonso Soriano's shoulder...
BIG A MAIN TRACK OPENING POSTPONED
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe recent run of bad weather has forced NYRA management to postpone the opening of the main track until further notice. Originally scheduled to open this Wednesday, the NYRA early...
BOOMER'S A NO-GO: PUNISHMENT STILL LOOMS, BUT WELLS STAYING PUT: GM
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - Another day in Yankee camp and another chapter without a ruling on David Wells. But no matter what punishment might be coming, the Yankees made one thing official:...
COSTLY MISTAKES SNUFF OUT IONA'S RALLY
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTRENTON - Iona played hard, tough and resilient. But in the end the Gaels didn't play smart. It was their own mistakes that finally cost them in an 81-75 loss...
FAIRFIELD STAGGERS ST. PETER'S
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amTRENTON - As Fairfield guard Tyquawn Goode sat in the Sovereign Bank Arena stands Friday night, listening to music and watching St. Peter's star Keydren Clark dominate Rider, he thought...
AT LEAST THEY HAVE THEIR HEALTH FULL-STRENGTH ISLES WATCH HOPES TAKE A BEATING
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amThe Islanders were completely healthy last night and still their playoff hopes still took a beating. In an uninspiring 4-2 loss to the Devils, their chances of making the postseason...
RED-HOT STORM HOPE TO DANCE JOHNNIES EDGE HURRICANES FOR 3RD STRAIGHT WIN
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amMIAMI - It seemed like the ramblings of a madman when St. John's coach Mike Jarvis uttered the following words after Thursday night's win over Rutgers: "What we are going...
BILL TARGETS ANIMAL-RIGHTS MILITANTS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amABILL introduced into the New York State Assembly will help prosecute animal-rights terrorists. Assembly Bill 4884, introduced by Assemblyman Richard Smith (D-Blasdell), will recognize animal and eco-terrorism as forms of...
FED-UP KIDD BOLTS WITHOUT COMMENT AFTER HIDEOUS LOSS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Look at the positive. The Nets made history last night. Because if you look at their disgraceful 83-71 loss to the Rockets any other way - like in...
THORN: BYRON'S JOB SAFE
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Lose and somebody usually takes a fall. So with the Nets' recent struggles, low-level rumblings have started about coach Byron Scott and job security. But team President Rod...
KILL THE CONFERENCE TOURNEYS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amST. JOHN'S, 6-9 in the Big East heading into last night, is still only four wins away from its title. Hey, Mike Jarvis tells his guys all the time you...
MUTOMBO: YEAH, YAO! NET CENTER GIVES MING PROPS FOR NBA JUMP
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Forget the points and rebounds and blocks. For just a moment, don't even consider the overwhelming size of Yao Ming. To Dikembe Mutombo, Yao already has accomplishments far...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amREGGIE: MATSUI A 30-SOMETHIN' We're back. The Insiders have been well ahead of the pack on Hideki Matsui, pointing out last April that the Japanese slugger would be coming to...
BANNEKER BREEZES INTO PSAL TITLE GAME
March 9, 2003 | 5:00amPSAL BOYS Banneker 63 Boys 52 Gary Forbes spent much of the year atop the PSAL. The Banneker senior scored almost at will, rebounded ferociously and carried the Warriors to...