July 1, 2001
SUNTRUST IS READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amSUNTrust's day in the sun could be around the corner. Just as the merger between Washington Mutual and Dime heats up the industry, SunTrust is stepping into the spotlight to...
PART CHAT, PART TUTORIAL
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amSTOCKJUNGLE.com is similar to a lot business-related sites, serving as a place for interested investors to meet and mingle. Yet it manages to carve out its own niche by taking...
BULL'S EYE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amGeek's gobbledygook gets the girl (plus PC) Wake up and smell the halitosis! Computer geeks faced off at PCExpo this week in the America's Fastest Geek competition, sponsored by ExtremeTech...
PUGLIA'S FINANCIAL SERVICES FUND GETS KUDOS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amFINANCIAL services stocks - and the mutual funds that specialize in them - got two big boosts last week. First, Washington Mutual announced plans to acquire Dime Bancorp - setting...
WATCH THE CASH FLOW
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amKEEP your eye on the cash. As long-dormant merger-and-acquisition activity starts to get active again, shareholders are getting a chance to assess how executives feel about their company's prospects. One...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: TYRESE GIBSON
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amIn John Singleton's new movie, "Baby Boy," Tyrese Gibson plays Jody, a 20-year-old who's still living in the 'hood with his mama. Jody is also the father of two kids...
'SUN'-SHINE FROM VIET
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTRAN Anh Hung doesn't mince words. In New York recently to promote his new movie, "The Vertical Ray of the Sun," the Paris-based Vietnamese director let loose at Hollywood. "John...
BERGMAN MAKES HIS MARK AT BAM
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA theater director leaves more footnotes than footprints. In 50 years time, Jerome Robbins will not be remembered as the director of "Fiddler on the Roof" but as the choreographer...
OH, THE CHARMS OF A SOUTHERN BOY
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amBeing an ignorant Brit, I never distinguished between Americans from different places - heck, they were all just Yanks to me. But one romantic evening with a Southern gent named...
4 QUESTIONS FOR SHIRI APPLEBY A 'ROSWELL' ROSE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amWho are your heroes? My younger brother, Evan, because he's got focus and determination. He's a computer science/engineering major at UCLA.Is there a book or movie that has changed your...
WAYANS IN AGAIN ; BROTHERS RETURN WITH 'SCARY MOVIE 2'
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amIt ain't easy being funny. Just ask Marlon and Shawn Wayans, who are slumped in their chairs at Manhattan's Four Seasons Hotel restaurant, heads back, eyes closed, moaning about not...
DOUGH UNTO OTHERS AT AFFORDABLE BOULEY BAKERY
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amBouley Bakery 120 W. Broadway (at Duane Street) (212) 964-8362 Want to eat at Bouley Bakery without spending a lot of bread? It's possible. The foyer of the TriBeCa eatery...
A GOOD MOJITO IS HARD TO BEAT-O: SO, IN THE INTEREST OF RESEARCH, WE SEEK OUT THE PERFECT CUBAN CONCOCTION
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bar Belles aren't all about work. Last weekend, we cut ourselves some slack and took a break from all the drinking in Manhattan, that is. We packed up our...
SOFT ON HARD-CORE: EXPLICIT SEX SCENES ARE COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA new wave of explicit films featuring full frames of hard-core action will soon invade theaters across the country, as directors and distributors push the limits of what's acceptable and...
'L.I.E.' REVS UP FOR NC-17 RUN
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the longest-standing assumptions in the movie business is that an NC-17 rating is the commercial kiss of death. But now a small distributor is set to test that...
EROTICA COMES OUT OF HIDING AND ONTO THE SHELVES
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amErotic books were once the province of grubby old men in trench coats ducking into Times Square sex shops. Today, thanks to the expanding availability of explicit material, they've gone...
CAN WE CAN THE TRASH TALK?
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Bloomberg may be a genius in the world of financial news, but the man seems to be a few watts short of the brightest bulb in the tree when...
CAN WE GET SOME QUIET?! NUANCE OF GAMES RUINED BY RELENTLESS ARENA MUSIC
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amFOR some odd reason, this column has long served as a sports fan complaint department. The most common, time-tested gripe is about loud and incessant canned noise at ballparks and...
PIERCE BROSNAN'S BOND STILL UNBROKEN
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amSquare-jawed screen hunk Pierce Brosnan will be keeping his license to kill despite reports that James Bond producers want a new actor to play the martini-loving secret agent. Those producers,...
DISBELIEVING WINNER WON'T CLAIM $1M PRIZE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA man whose name was drawn as the lucky winner of a $1 million sweepstakes won't claim the cash - because he thinks it's all a hoax. Tax giant H&R...
HERE'S A STRETCH: GOV. PATAKI LIMBERS UP WITH YOGA
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, who likes to summer in the Hamptons, has quietly started visiting Hamptons-based "Yogi to the Stars." "Oh boy, I love George so much," celebrity yoga instructor...
POLS NEED TO HEAR WISDOM FROM THE PARK BENCH
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE was a time when homeless families, under a different city administration, were actually put up in the Waldorf-Astoria - I'm not kidding. And then there were times when scurrilous...
KILLER MOM: 'DEVIL'S IN ME'
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe Houston mom accused of drowning her five children in the bathtub believes "the devil's in me," her brother says. Andrea Yates told relatives, when they visited her in jail...
BOY IN A WEE BIT OF TROUBLE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amAn Italian tot was ticketed by cops for using a tree as a toilet. The 3-year-old boy was so traumatized by the experience that he couldn't urinate for the next...
CHANDRA PROBERS EASING UP ON CONDIT
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A shift in the search for missing intern Chandra Levy from Capitol Hill to Dumpsters near her apartment is expected to take the heat off her "good friend"...
CHELSEA LOSES POWER AFTER FIRE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA fire in a circuit-breaker left more than 2,800 apartments in a 15-block area of Chelsea without power for more than six hours yesterday. Linda Goldblum and her husband were...
SLOBBO'S DEFIANT FAREWELL DETAINED DICTATOR TAKES ANGRY TRIP TO 'CIRCUS' TRIBUNAL
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amBefore leaving for the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in The Hague, ex-Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic defiantly declared, "Brother Serbs, now farewell!" Milosevic also mocked the court as a "political circus" and...
PERES, ARAFAT ALL SMILES AFTER TALKS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shook hands publicly in Lisbon yesterday after holding informal talks on a test cease-fire aimed at ending nine months of...
BOTTOM LINE: MODEL'S GOT A $UPER BUTT
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amSome of Hollywood's sexiest stars have a cheeky secret they'd like to keep under wraps - when it's time for the camera to zero in on their bottoms, they use...
STATE OWES CITY $20M IN CELL-PHONE TAXES: GREEN
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amDemocratic mayoral hopeful Mark Green was ringing mad over cell-phone fees yesterday, charging the state should give back roughly $20 million in hand-held phone taxes to improve the city's 911...
CHENEY KEEPS ON TICKING DOCS START HEART BOOSTER
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Doctors said yesterday that a new device implanted in the chest of weak-hearted Vice President Dick Cheney should help "avoid a crisis." During surgery lasting about 50 minutes,...
ALBANY TO CITY: PAY UP OVER DIALLO COSTS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTo New York and much of America, the trial of four city cops charged with shooting Amadou Diallo raised a host of serious issues. But to the city fathers in...
TAKE IT FROM ME, A DEFIBRILLATOR KEEPS A GOOD BEAT
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amPost columnist Victoria Gotti knows what Vice President Dick Cheney is going through. In 1998, her heart went haywire, and she had to get an implantable cardioverter defibrillator like the...
REV. AL'S VISITOR BOOTED EX-JAILMATE RAMIREZ CAN'T GET BACK IN
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the three freed "Vieques Four" was turned away yesterday from the federal prison where he spent 40 days after he tried to get back in to visit the...
FOR STOSSEL, NO SUCH THING AS BAD PUBLICITY
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amControversial TV reporter John Stossel has a passion for science, liberty and pickup volleyball games.N.Y. Post: Michael NorciaJohn Stossel, the in-your-face muckraker who's been both lauded and lambasted for confronting...
PNEUMONIA FELLS MICK'S EX-GAL PAL
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amLuciana Morad - the mother of Mick Jagger's 2-year-old son - is seriously ill with pneumonia. The 31-year-old Brazilian bombshell and her son Lucas Morad Jagger were on their way...
FEDS LET TERROR SPY WRIGGLE FREE SUSPECT WAS PHOTOGRAPHING SECURITY OPERATIONS AROUND TOWN
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe feds let a suspected terrorist slip through their hands last month after he was caught snapping reconnaissance photos of security operations at four federal buildings in lower Manhattan, The...
VOCAL VICAR BREAKS RECORD
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA British vicar preached his way into the record books yesterday by delivering a sermon that lasted nearly 29 hours - a new world record for an unscripted speech. About...
DOCTOR DEMENTED HOW HARVARD PROF BECAME SEX WACKO AND KILLER
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amFamily man, Harvard professor, sex-starved wife-killer - Dr. Dirk Greineder is a man of staggering contradictions. On the surface, the nationally renowned asthma expert was a kindly Dr. Jekyll, devoted...
NASHVILLE LEGEND CHET ATKINS DIES
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amChet Atkins, a guitarist who influenced such greats as George Harrison and Mark Knopfler and a record producer who created the lush string-laden Nashville Sound of the '60s and '70s,...
BRITNEY SPEARS BIOPIC DEAL
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMaybe it will be a short flick. Teen pop queen Britney Spears is reportedly set to star in an autobiographical film. The curvy crooner will apparently play herself in the...
HOOPSTERS $CORE FOR FIRE HEROES
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe New York Liberty yesterday made a slam dunk for charity - contributing $10,000 to the families of the three firefighters killed in the Astoria fire on Father's Day. "Those...
BELFAST ON BRINK WITH COALITION CRUMBLING
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amBottles flew and riot police filled the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, yesterday as a 3-year-old governing coalition of Catholics and Protestants lurched toward collapse. The new trouble came as...
WISEGUY FIRES AT 'TRASHY' CLINTONS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMembers of New York's Gambino crime family are distancing themselves from the Clinton pardon scandal, calling the former president's family "low-rent, trailer-park trash." Thomas Gambino, 72, son of the late...
RESCUERS SAVE 2 BOYS OFF CONEY IS.
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amGood Samaritans rescued two boys from the waters off Coney Island in separate incidents last night, police said. The first boy, a 9-year-old, swallowed water in the surf off West...
COPS GO '4TH' ON BIGGEST FIREWORKS BUST
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTwo tractor-trailer loads of illegal fireworks were seized in a bust on Staten Island, police said yesterday. Cops arrested two men with 70 cases of explosives - worth an estimated...
L.I. KID PREDATOR NAILED: COPS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island man was arrested yesterday for sex attacks on kids he lured into his home with alcohol and cigarettes, police said. Suffolk County cops charged Kurt Rasmussen, 48,...
B'KLYN CROOKS RIP OFF 25G FROM OFFICE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTwo masked men sneaked into a Brooklyn apartment-rental office yesterday and made off with $25,000, walking out the front door right under the nose of a security guard cops said....
MOB EX'S SEX PARTIES PLAYS HOSTESS TO CLUB'S SWANKY SWINGER ORGIES
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe ex-wife of a top John Gotti lieutenant heads a swingers' club that throws sex parties in a swanky Manhattan hotel, on yachts and at her New Jersey home, The...
STICKY PROBLEM WITH DMV WINDOW STICKERS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The state is in sticker shock. Millions of registration stickers issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles won't stay affixed to motorists' windshields, as required by law. This,...
WHO'S WAITING IN THE WINGS?
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell is always the first name up in the guessing game over who'd replace Vice President Dick Cheney if he had to step down...
TENANT: THIS IS SO 'MESSED' UP
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amIf Kinston Cooper could, she would gladly give Natasha Harris her apartment and move somewhere else. Ever since her landlord turned the Soundview building into a way station for Harris...
NEW YORK POST FROM JULY 1, 1859
July 1, 2001 | 4:00am"The Blondin Niagara Feat," read The Post's headline about French daredevil Jean Francois Gravelot. "The Great Blondin crossed the Niagara River on a tightrope, without exhibiting the slightest fear or...
HAPPY B'DAY, PRINCESS DI
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amOn what would have been her 40th birthday today, admirers of the late Princess Diana remember a dynamic woman who escaped the prison of a fairy tale for a life...
PLEA TO 'SURVIVOR 3': KENYA GIVE US A BREAK?
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amKenyan wildlife guides say "Survivor 3" is ruining their business. "Survivor" producers have leased about two-thirds of the Shaba National Reserve, where the 1960s classic "Born Free" was filmed, reports...
JESSE PUTS $QUEEZE ON TOYOTA
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amYOU have to hand it to Jesse Jackson. While he keeps striking out politically, he continues to strike gold with craven corporations. Jackson's latest victim? The Toyota Motor Corp., which...
SHARON TELLS OF YASSER'S 'RAPIST' AIDE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. SECRETARY of State Colin Powell, working hard last week to save the Israeli-Palestinian truce from collapse, got some special insight from Ariel Sharon into the dubious top aides around...
WILLS PLAYS SHERLOCK IN DI THEFT
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amScotland Yard wants Great Britain's Prince William to help them ID more than $10 million in objects allegedly stolen by his late mum's butler, The Mail on Sunday reports. Detectives...
G.I. GRILLED AGAIN OVER OKINAWA RAPE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amJapanese cops questioned a U.S. Air Force sergeant for a second day yesterday following the rape of an Okinawa woman. Police were also interviewing several witnesses to the attack, which...
GAS-DELIVERY TRUCK CRASHES THROUGH FLOOR OF QNS. GARAGE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amA gasoline truck crashed through the floor of a Queens garage while making a delivery yesterday, crushing 20 cars and spilling thousands of gallons of the fuel, officials said. The...
HOME, SWEET HOME: CITY PAYS SKY-HIGH RENT FOR SHABBY HOMELESS ROOMS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe city is shelling out an average of $3,000-a-month each for 800 apartments that would normally rent for $600 to $800 to provide temporary housing for homeless families. Many of...
ALFONZO COULD BE BACK SUNDAY
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - The Mets hope that when Edgardo Alfonzo returns from the disabled list, he looks like the old Edgardo Alfonzo and not just an old Edgardo Alfonzo....
FLYERS MAKING ERIC SWEAT
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe Flyers haven't just put Eric Lindros behind them. In two weeks flat, they have driven over him, leaving a 6-5, 237-pound Gumby squashed on the pavement. They don't need...
PLAN ON SPENDING A LOT FOUR YEARS LATER, RANGERS STILL TARGET SAKIC, JAGR
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY are Plan A and Plan B, just as they were four summers ago when Dave Checketts, Neil Smith and Colin Campbell were in the jobs currently held by Jim...
HEAD TO THE SPA FOR A GREAT COURSE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amLOCAL GOLF Golfers heading up to the Spa this summer to see the ponies might want to put a few dollars down on Saratoga National. Just about a mile down...
ALBERT'S GREAT AT HOME
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amHorse of the Year 2001 won't be decided until they run the Breeders' Cup Classic Oct. 27 at Belmont Park. But today at Belmont we peek ahead to the Breeders'...
THE CRUELEST GAME BOXERS HAVE NO ONE FIGHTING FOR THEM
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amIN passing a judgment that will merely impact the remainder of Hasim Rahman's life, Judge Miriam Goldman Cederbaum made a rather remarkable admission in Manhattan Federal District Court last week....
ROGER CAN'T WIN EXCEPT ON MOUND
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amIn the screaming, never-ending talk show world we live in, Roger Clemens has an ulterior motive for everything. If Clemens says the All-Star Game would be a nice place to...
'SWEET' CLAIM IS PAYING OFF
July 1, 2001 | 4:00am1st RACE - Former jockey turned trainer Frank Laboccetta Jr. is starting to open some eyes with his training abilities. He claimed Sweet Runner for $22,500 on May 20 and...
ESCHMEYER EAGER TO RE-SIGN WITH NETS
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe big man the Nets still seek just might be a very familiar face: Evan Eschmeyer. Teams may begin negotiating with free agents today and Eschmeyer is among the Nets...
HEAT IS ON WOHLERS NOW
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMARK Wohlers had a choice. He had a no-trade clause and could have shunned New York. He could have avoided questions about a five-year-old slider to Jim Leyritz that still...
RIGHT NOW, BERNIE'S JUST TWO, TOO HOT
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMinutes after Bernie Williams' second home run of the day had sliced through the hot, humid air permeating Yankee Stadium, minutes after he'd rounded the bases with an eighth-inning home...
JUSTICE: I'M NOT RETIRING
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amDavid Justice is retiring at the end of this season? Don't believe everything you read. In a Daily News gossip column last Sunday, the Yankees' DH/left fielder reportedly declared in...
AMAZIN'S DUMP DARRYL
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - Darryl Hamilton and the Mets parted ways yesterday, followed closely by the inevitable parting shots. After Hamilton was designated for assignment with the purpose of either releasing him...
CINCY'S 'WILD THING' HEADED TO THE BRONX
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amRight-handed reliever Mark Wohlers was acquired by the Yankees from the Reds yesterday, a move first reported by Joel Sherman in Friday's Post. The Yanks traded 19-year-old minor-league pitcher Ricardo...
DEVS PASS ON MOGILNY
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThere was no last-minute offer, so the Devils' leading goal-scorer last season is an unrestricted free agent today. Taking the same no-offer approach that led to the departures of almost...
CRYSTAL SPARKLES
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amLiberty72Miracle60 No matter how many shots Crystal Robinson has missed in a game, Liberty head coach Richie Adubato doesn't care. "I tell her to keep shooting," Adubato said. It's a...
THEY'RE ROLLING NOW - BERNIE'S PAIR OF HOMERS PUTS YANKS 12 OVER .500
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amDon't mistake the Yankees' constant state of flux as chaos. It's their winning ingredient. About a half-hour after right-handed reliever Mark Wohlers declared he couldn't wait to get to New...
KAMENSKY, TAYLOR GONE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amTwo years, 123 games, 27 goals, minus-31 and $14.33 million later, the Valeri Kamensky Error has come to a close on Broadway. Signed by ex-GM Neil Smith to a four-year,...
METS KEEP ON CHOKING BATS GO ICE COLD AGAIN VS. BRAVES
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amBraves5Mets2 ATLANTA - When the Mets played their season-opener at Turner Field, the message board inside the road clubhouse read, "Welcome to the National League Champion New York Mets." As...
SWELLING HINDERS PIAZZA
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTESATLANTA - A little before 1 p.m. yesterday, Mike Piazza hobbled through the Turner Field halls and into the road clubhouse limping along like the Mets' own blond-haired Willis...
THE SUMMER OF C-WEBB KNICKS TAKE AIM AT WEBBER, HAVE TO DEAL WITH HOUSTON
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks begin "The Summer of C-Webb" today as longshots to land All-Star power forward Chris Webber. Webber, the most prominent free agent available, arrives in Detroit today, not to...
PHENOM LEARNING HARD-KNOCK LIFE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amEVER so slightly, the barrel twists in the air, the handle resting just above his shoulder. Eyes locked, hips set. "Hit me a line drive, left center, a double!" Staten...
NEW DEC SURVEY IS REAL FISHY
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation is seeking the cooperation of all recreational anglers in conducting a comprehensive survey of sport-fishing activity in the Hudson River. The survey is...
PIAZZA HOPES TO HIT SOON
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - A little before 1 p.m. yesterday, Mike Piazza hobbled through the Turner Field halls into and into the road clubhouse limping along like the Mets' own...
MAGNIFICENT MARINERS: SURPRISING SEATTLE RACKING UP WINS AT RECORD-SETTING PACE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amPoll his fellow agents and they will acknowledge Scott Boras is among the smartest men in baseball. Ask general managers he consistently pins to the mat in contract tussles and...
HOW MARINERS WERE BUILT: BEST-SELLING TEAM
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amThe surprising Seattle Mariners are now baseball's No. 1 cash machine. The team, which is burning up the diamond with its 56-20 record, has stormed to the top position in...
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME: THE DEBATE ENDS HERE: POST SELECTS TOP 10 MOST MAGICAL SPORTS FILMS EVER MADE
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amMuch debate has been made as to what the best sports movies of all time are. For this sweltering summer, devoid of any new, quality sports flicks, here come the...
SEATTLE NOW A 'BOONE TOWN'
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amBret Boone, 32, came to the big leagues with Mariners nine years ago, too cocky and strong-willed to understand that Lou Piniella could help him become a better hitter. Boone...