February 17, 2002
HE'S SURROUNDED BY SOUND
It's all about the music in Kedar Massenburg's office. As CEO and president of Motown since 1999, he is credited with bringing the legendary label into the modern age, so...
HATE TAXES? CHECK OUT THIS FUND
AS New Yorkers begin to prepare for the April 15 tax deadline, they are probably bemoaning their fates since they live in one of the most highly taxed places on...
7TH ON SIXTH GOING CORPORATE FOR CASH
New York's fashion week has taken on a decidedly more corporate and commercial face. Instead of sponsors that have an involvement with the fashion industry, IMG's 7th on Sixth fashion...
MAGIC NUMBER OF RETIREMENT KEEPS RISING
How much money would you need to tell your boss to take your high-paying job and shove it? According to an informal survey of Wall Street executives conducted by The...
NEED ANY STOCK TIPS? - THEN, LISTEN TO THE BUZZ ON THE STREET
Buzz can make or break celebrities' careers - so what about investors' portfolios? Though this is a risky path to tread, buzz can talk stocks up or down - and...
WAKSAL'S ANGELS - ICAHN IS HIS LATEST CELEBRITY BENEFACTOR
Once again, a celebrity is coming to the rescue of wacky Sam Waksal. If you can call financier Carl Icahn a celebrity. But Icahn's mere pronouncement last week that he's...
WALL STREET INSIDER SLAMS PROFIT CULTURE
It's not uncommon for Wall Street to be criticized, but it's pretty rare for the criticism to come from a market insider. Yet Peter Cohan, founder of a tech-oriented investment...
MONSTER MAN
As a kid on the Upper East Side, Larry Fessenden was fascinated by 1930s horror flicks like "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man." "I wanted to stay home and watch them....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: DONALD FAISON
Donald Faison, who plays a surgical intern on the TV comedy "Scrubs" and stars as a struggling actor in the recent flick "Big Fat Liar," says he enjoys playing characters...
OSCAR LOSERS WHO GOT 'ROYAL' SHAFT
Who were the big losers when the Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday? "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Black Hawk Down" and, if you can believe it, "Moulin Rouge." Though "Tenenbaums" was named...
GAMES AIM TO PUT SEXY SKATING MOVES ON ICE
With scandal unfolding at a feverish pace over allegations of score-fixing at the Winter Olympics, I believe I speak for figure-skating aficionados everywhere when I say: Couldn't they hike up...
CLASSICS WITH CLASS AND A MODERN TOUCH
A classic, by definition, is a work of art that can retain significance for generation after generation. But some old works of art, while their antiquity is unquestionable, do not...
BEAM US UP, SCOTTIE : TAKE IT FROM THE PRESIDENTS, THESE LITTLE TERRIERS RULE
OK, so the adorable Scottish Terrier named Champion Carpescot Charismatic Devil , of Scottsdale, Az., only finished fourth in the Terrier Group at last week's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show....
EAT, DRINK, MAN, WOMAN IN CHINATOWN
When Chinatown does restaurant week, it's restaurant month. The community, suffering since September, is ringing in the new with a Lunar New Year Celebration featuring prix-fixe meals, parades and entertainment...
ISN'T IT STRITCH? WHY, YES, AND AT 76 SHE'S BETTER THAN EVER IN 'LIBERTY'
There are no chandeliers that fall from the rafters, no massive sets, no chorus boys. Just a bare stage featuring one chair -and a 76-year-old woman with great legs, cast-iron...
WHAT I WATCH
KRYStAL Pop singer "Judge Judy." I just love the way she weeds out all the bull and gets right to it. She's very thorough with her explanations so there is...
WITNESS TO A FINAL SERMON
ELNA Seabrooks almost missed church last week, but with all the services the Catholic Church offers, she figures she doesn't have a good excuse to stay home. So there she...
OLYMPICS' AXEL OF EVIL
EVERYONE was shocked - shocked! - that Olympic judges would fix the pairs skating competition. Huh? I'm shocked - shocked! - when any of them turns out to be honest....
COP-KILLER GETS BEAT AT HIS OWN NASTY GAME
THE smirk has finally been wiped off the filthy face of David McClary, who assassinated police Officer Ed Byrne on Feb. 26, 1988. McClary, serving life without parole for a...
SADDAM HANGS TOUGH - '20 TIMES' MORE DANGEROUS THAN TALIBAN GOONS
WASHINGTON - Ruthless Saddam Hussein, with his massive army and willingness to unleash his witch's brew of chemical and biological weapons, presents President Bush with a far more dangerous opponent...
EX'S JEALOUS RAGE SPARKS A BLOODY VALENTINE HORROR
He called her five times a day. Driven to the heights of a jealous obsession after his teen girlfriend - the mother of his infant daughter - moved back in...
B'KLYN KID REBOUNDED FROM FAMILY TRAGEDIES
Jayson Williams has gone from the tough streets of Brooklyn to the fame and fortune that comes with being a basketball star. Williams, 33, who played nine years in the...
GOLD WAR TENSIONS ON RISE IN UTAH
SALT LAKE CITY - A Cold War set in between the Canadians and the Russians yesterday when the new gold medalists spurned their rivals' offer of a skate-off and accused...
GRAMMYS' GLAM STARS GRAB GLITZY GOODY BAGS
As if they need it. The megawatt stars taking the stage at this month's Grammy Awards are each getting a $16,000 grab bag worth of freebie loot. Monogrammed pens and...
THE 'HOLE' TRUTH ON DIRTY OMAR
The Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is holed up in remote and rugged mountains in central Afghanistan, an Afghan official said yesterday. "We have had certain indications" that Omar...
THE FOCUS IS NOW ON JAYSON - PROBE CENTERS ON EX-NET'S ROLE IN ACCIDENTAL GUN DEATH
The mystery deepened over the fatal shooting at the palatial New Jersey home of former Nets star Jayson Williams yesterday as new theories emerged suggesting the athlete-turned-broadcaster may have been...
SKATING MEDALIST SHOWED HER METTLE EARLY
Jamie Sale was once a determined 7-year-old on pint-sized skates, dreaming of the Olympic gold even as she was given a mere third-place medal in a local skating competition. On...
COP'S KID WOUNDED IN B'KLYN SHOOTING
An 11-year-old boy - the son of an NYPD cop - was shot and wounded in Brooklyn yesterday morning when he walked into the crossfire of an irate gunman, police...
NEW WARNING TO N. KOREA AS BUSH'S ASIAN INVASION BEGINS
As he left for a six-day Asia trip, President Bush yesterday issued a new warning to "dangerous" North Korea, which he has blasted as part of an "axis of evil"...
POL HAS LEFTOVER ROY-AL FORTUNE
ALBANY - When Roy Goodman recently joined the Bloomberg administration after 33 years in the state Senate, he took with him an eye-popping campaign war chest of nearly $1 million,...
TEACH NABBED IN DRUG BUST
A New York City public school teacher has been busted for buying narcotics in Brooklyn, police said yesterday. Phillip Gugliara, who teaches at Brooklyn's Samuel J. Tilden HS, was arrested...
SCRAP SLAP: COPS SHUTTER AGNELLO'S JUNKYARDS
Heavyweight hoodlum Carmine Agnello may be locked up tight in a federal prison - but he's still finding trouble on the streets of New York. Yesterday, cops shuttered three Queens...
STABBED 40 TIMES - B'KLYN FIEND KNIFES 11-YR.-OLD HOSTAGE
An 11-year-old Brooklyn boy was taken hostage, held for ransom and then stabbed some 40 times last night by a modern-day Fagin, who allegedly makes neighborhood children steal bicycles for...
ENRON EXEC PLANS TELL-ALL BOOK
Enron whistle-blower Sherron Watkins will reportedly sign a $500,000 book deal to give the inside story on the energy giant's collapse. Watkins, who was a senior financier with the company,...
HOW A FRIED-CHICKEN DINNER TURNED BLOOMBERG FROM A STUFFED TURKEY TO A TOP ROOSTER
It was Feb. 5 - and crunch time for Michael Bloomberg. The businessman-turned-politician was eight days away from giving the most important speech of his new mayoralty, the one where...
MOM OF 3 FIGHTS OFF KNIFE-WIELDER
A tough-as-nails mother of three refused to yield to a knife-wielding mugger at a Brooklyn ATM machine, and now is wearing 26 stitches on her fingers as a badge of...
VICTORIA GOTTI
THE flood of e-mails, snail mail and telephone calls protesting my comments last Sunday about the Michael Jordan divorce saga has me wondering if readers understood what I wrote. Let...
HEROISM IS WOMEN'S WORK AT GROUND ZERO
One was a cop who pulled victims from the rubble, one a single mom who spliced cables to light the mountain of ruin, and another was a grandmother who donned...
DOG-MOURNER'S DOUBLE DILEMMA
Cali, the adored pet dog of a Wall Street executive, died three weeks ago, but millions of her cells live on in an animal-gene bank that preserves them for future...
THE NOON SWOON - 'LAZY' SCHOOLS SEND KIDS HOME EARLY SOME DAYS
Some mischievous high-school students don't have to cut classes anymore. The Board of Education now simply gives them the afternoons off. A network of four "alternative" city high schools has...
CUT HIM SOME SLACK, SAYS SIS OF 'BOXCUTTER' FLIER
The family of the Long Island man arrested in St. Louis while carrying two boxcutters on an American Airlines flight say the arrest was "a mistake." "There's no reason for...
A FUN FALL TO COME: 'TWAS A WEEK WITHOUT TRAUMA OR DRAMA
ABSTRACT: The biggest surprise about the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week's Fall 2002 show was that there were no big surprises. New York designers did what they do best. Michael Kors turned...
BAD AS HE IS, TYSON DOESN'T DESERVE THIS
I NEVER thought I would write the words that appear in the next sentence. I am beginning to feel sorry for Mike Tyson. I am beginning to believe that Tyson...
FISH & WILDLIFE BOSS IS RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB
LONG-time proponent of our hunting and shooting sports traditions and dedicated wildlife conservationist Steven A. Williams has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the U.S. Fish &...
RED-HOT HATTEN BOOSTS STORM TO CRUCIAL WIN - SHAW ADDS 11 POINTS IN 2ND HALF
St. John's 73 - Va. Tech 63 It's still the regular season, but St. John's has already reached the survive-and-advance part of its schedule. In the balanced Big East, every...
ON FURTHER REVIEW, STARS CO-CHAMPS
THIS just in from the IOC: after review by nine impartial judges of Brett Hull's in-the-crease-goal that decided Game 6 of the 1999 Finals, Jacques Rogge has directed Gary Bettman...
NOW, MCENROE CARES ABOUT KIDS?
JOHN McEnroe, on Jim Rome's Fox Sports Net "Last Word" show last week, said that he gave up his racket-throwing tantrums because he didn't want to set a bad example...
CABLEVISION SURVEYS RIGGED? YES!
YES NETWORKAS things currently stand, three million area Cablevision subscribers still don't know if they'll be able to watch 130 Yankee cable telecasts this season. In a related development, Cablevision...
CLAUSSEN PICK OF THE LEFTY LITTER - BOMBERS ARE HIGH ON YOUNG SOUTHPAW
TAMPA - Pick your history. The Yankees have done as good a job as any organization developing lefty starters. Three southpaws from the system (Al Leiter, Eric Milton and Andy...
TORRE TELLS DUQUE HE'S GOT A SHOT
YANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Believe what we are telling you. That was Joe Torre's message to Orlando Hernandez yesterday morning when the manager told the pitcher he was one of...
BOOMER PUSHES IT - WELLS GIVES SORE BACK EARLY TEST
TAMPA - A "wild hair" led David Wells to a pitching mound yesterday much earlier than anybody expected. Thursday GM Brian Cashman said Wells working off a hill might not...
D'AMICO LEFT IMPRESSION
PORT ST. LUCIE - He didn't know it then, but Sept. 13, 2000, was a resonating moment in Jeff D'Amico's career. D'Amico was pitching for Milwaukee at the time, enjoying...
HOPE FADING FAST FOR HALL
Illinois 75 - Seton Hall 65 Seton Hall is treading on a slippery slope. Hope appears to be fading as quickly as the Pirates' 11-point lead did in yesterday's 75-65...
STEVE STILL BELIEVES IN BENITEZ
MET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Some critics will never be satisfied as long as Armando Benitez is the closer for the Mets. Those people are no doubt upset Benitez...
PROPER GAMBLE PROVES GOOD BET IN 'PRECIOUS'
Oops, they did it again! The day after Man I Love Clare paid an American all-time record of $351 to show in the seventh race at Gulfstream Park when odds-on...
WOLVES: SORRY, CHARLIE
With the buzz running through the Garden Friday that the Terrell-Brandon-less Timberwolves were discussing a deal with the point guard-glutted Knicks involving Charlie Ward, Minnesota executive Rob Babcock squelched it....
CHANEY'S MAGIC NUMBER: 18 MORE W'S
At yesterday's practice, Don Chaney gathered the last-place Knicks together for a little speech. It didn't sound as if the talk was the stuff of M. Donald Grant or Tug...
KIDD NOT ONE TO ROLL MCDYESS
Having already been warned about tampering by the league about comments regarding Denver's Antonio McDyess, Jason Kidd yesterday weaved through all the questions and attempts to get him charged with...
GARDEN HOUSE CALL? - DOC APPEARS TO HAVE KNICKS ON HIS MIND
DOC RIVERS gave us some invaluable insight into his Machiavellian personality by refusing to summarily squash suggestions he's being pegged as the leading candidate for the job as Knicks coach...
YO, CHEEK IT OUT! JOEY BAGS BRONZE
SALT LAKE CITY - When it's over, they all insist they're just happy to give it their all. But Joey Cheek really was. "I can't do any better than this,"...
OH, NO! APOLO CRASHES - SETTLES FOR SILVER AFTER FOUR-SKATER SPILL
SALT LAKE CITY - Nursing a gash to his thigh, U.S. hot shot Apolo Anton Ohno stumbled on hands and knees to a silver medal last night after a spectacular...
DO YOU BELIEVE IN RICHTER? - YES! MIKE BRILLIANT IN TIE WITH RUSSIANS
MEN'S HOCKEY U.S. 2 - Russia2 SALT LAKE CITY - The job of goaltending a U.S. hockey team through another great international series was - despite all he has done...
CEDENO RARIN' TO GO :PUMPED TO BE MET AGAIN AFTER TIGER TANGLE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Roger Cedeno thought he was having trouble conveying how he felt on the day he went back to work after the 9-11 invasion. He was wrong...
THE BIG EAST
JOHNNIES NEED HOT HATTEN : Storm's tourney dream on bubble The book on St. John's has been out for some time now, but the theme has become increasingly clear as...
APOLO CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF
SALT LAKE CITY - It seems as if short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno has been on the launch pad longer than one of the first space shuttles. Launches were scrapped...
REDEMPTION SONG: U.S. SKATERS TRY TO BURY NAGANO NIGHTMARE WITH NEW TUNE
SALT LAKE CITY - Already, you can tell it's different this time. A U.S. hockey team that bombed in Nagano and had many members getting repeatedly bombed in Nagano, thrashed...
HEART OF A LION: JERSEY STAR'S JOURNEY LEADS HIM FROM AFRICAN CIVIL WAR TO PENN ST.
You've heard all the war stories about blue-chip high school football recruits, but you've never heard anything like the story of Tamba Hali. Hali was the most sought-after defensive end...
IT'S ALREADY MO-TOWN : BIG APPLE MEETING GENTLE GIANT BEHIND THE MENACING GLARE
There's is a toughness to Mo Vaughn that is evident when he speaks of a way the Mets can quickly bond as team despite all the new personalities they've assembled...