August 27, 2003
EDGAR MAY BAIL - VIVENDI BOARD'S INDECISION IRKS BRONFMAN GROUP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA group of investors headed by Edgar Bronfman Jr. was considering whether to drop out of the running for Vivendi Universal Entertainment last night after Vivendi's board of directors emerged...
MADONNA-APPROVED, TELLS TIME & COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amBarbara Walters never takes hers off. Madonna wears one and now wants to order pint-sized versions for her kids. It's the latest health craze turned fashion accessory: a watch with...
NYSE RAKES IN $11M - COST CUTTING CREDITED BUT TRADING ALSO GROWS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange doubled its second-quarter profits on the back of cost cutting and slightly increased trading volume. Net income rose to $11.6 million from $5.6 million in...
READERS GET A 'QUEER EYE' - RANDOM HOUSE UNIT DROPS $1M ON MAKEOVER BOOK
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amBRAVO hit show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" has just landed a $1 million advance from Random House for a lavishly illustrated makeover book in which five gay men...
WASHPOST PAYS $30K TO JUDGE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe Washington Post has paid $30,000 to settle a complaint by D.C. Superior Court Senior Judge Tim Murphy, according to a Washington legal paper. The settlement follows the threat of...
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARCIA
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amSUDDENLY [] In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 94 minutes. Not rated (nudity, sex, violence). At the Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. Through Sept. 9. --------...
JET-SKI JUSTIN: 'I LOST CONTROL'
August 27, 2003 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Idol" star Justin Guarini has finally broken his silence over his Jet Ski mishap that almost injured a 5-year-old girl earlier this summer. "I lost control of my jet-ski,...
'RAY'-KING IN DA DOUGH - RAYMOND'S BROTHER ENDS BITTER SALARY DISPUTE, SIGNS FOR MILLION$
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amBRAD Garrett ended his holdout on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and was reportedly due back at work today. The actor has cut a new deal with CBS that significantly increases his...
GOOD LUCK, LIZZIE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amRESTAURATEUR Bobby Ochs has often relied on star power to launch his eateries - but not anymore. Ochs, who has owned and operated six Manhattan restaurants in the past two...
ISLAND IN THE STEAM
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amMAROONS [] 244 W. 16TH ST. (212) 206-8640 ------- NEW York needs more restaurants like Maroons - moderately priced, friendly and exotic. This little temple of Southern and Jamaican "home-style...
DREAM LOVERS - FALL'S SILVER-SCREEN COUPLES WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWHAT a weird summer for movie romance. The hottest couple of the season was Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres - playing fish, for goodness sake, in a G-rated movie. Kate...
A NEW CORN? WE'RE ALL EARS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amTHE future of corn is sweet. Anyone who gets his kernel- loving mitts around a husky cob of the latest breakthough in the field can tell you that. It's called...
'NIGHT' LIGHT OF B'WAY - O'NEILL TRIUMPHS AT BOX OFFICE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amTHIS summer's box office champ: Eugene O'Neill. The great playwright's four-hour masterpiece - "Long Day's Journey Into Night" - is the only Broadway show right now that is sold out...
'WHAT NOT TO WEAR': SEASON 2 - GET RID OF YOUR SCARY CLOTHES!
August 27, 2003 | 4:00am"What Not to Wear" [ ] Friday at 10 on TLC ---- 'WHAT Not to Wear," the wildly successful English show that specializes in ambush makeovers, is getting, well, made...
SAKE TO ME! RICE WINE GIVES 'EM CHILLS ALL OVER TO
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York is warming to sake - make that chilling, considering the way it's mostly being served. Everywhere you look, there's a new sake bar or sake tasting menu, not...
WORLDCOM'S EX-CEO FACING RAP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amFormer WorldCom bigwig Bernie Ebbers will face criminal charges as early as today relating to the alleged multibillion-dollar swindle at the bankrupt telecommunications giant, it was reported last night. The...
HELPING CRISIS KIDS 'BEAR' UP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amSUSAN LUCARELLI - Leadership Medal nominee ---- The sweet story of how Susan Lucarelli came to be known to tens of thousands of kids as the "Bear Lady" began two...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amIt was gross-out time in New Jersey last week when dozens of daredevils lined up at Rutgers University to participate in a cricket-spitting contest. Contestants had to put brown crickets...
COURTROOM FUROR AS 'HIT RUN' TEEN STAYS OUT OF JAIL
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens teen accused of killing a young boy while drag-racing in an SUV was allowed to remain free on bail yesterday, crushing the hopes of the victim's parents and...
GROUPS REACH OUT TO PARENTS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration is spending $760,000 to hire more than a dozen community groups to provide services to parents in 19 schools as part of a new "contracting out" experiment....
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amFROM the East Hampton police blotter, evidence that a mention in the Style Section of the Sunday New York Times is sometimes nothing to bark about. It seems charity fund-raiser...
RAID BY CRACK U.S. TROOPS NEEDLES VICIOUS IRAQI TERROR BOMB RING
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces carried out a massive raid yesterday to crush a vicious Iraqi crime ring responsible for a string of terror bombings - as President Bush vowed there...
CON IS FREE - FOR A FEW SECONDS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man who just finished serving a sentence for assault got a surprise when he walked out of prison and was busted on charges of sodomizing a 12-year-old...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A 31-year-old man was shot dead after a gun-toting thug accosted him on a Harlem street, police said yesterday. Charles Gray was crossing the street at around 9...
CITY POLS RUN UNOPPOSED
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amEven after passing mammoth tax hikes and cutting services, more than half of the City Council's incumbents won't face any opposition in next month's primaries. Twenty-eight of 51 council members...
BLACKBOARD BUNGLE INSANE AND RACIST
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN a principal of a school pleads with you not to identify him, you might think you're in Saddam Hussein's back yard and not here in the garden of democracy....
HILL TO WHITE HOUSE: SPILL EPA NAME
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton demanded yesterday that the White House provide the name of the staffer who edited press releases announcing that the air quality in New York was safe...
HEVESI WANTS MTA REFORMS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amState Comptroller Alan Hevesi proposed a series of budget reforms on the MTA yesterday, including forcing the agency to tell the public of any money it plans to put in...
POLITICAL LOBBYISTS' MAKE $22M CITY HAUL
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amCity lobbyists raked in $22.6 million last year in another record haul, it was disclosed yesterday. Figures released by city Clerk Victor Robles found the lobbying industry thriving even in...
JUDGE TOSSES SLAY FINDINGS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA federal judge threw out the convictions of two men serving life sentences for a pair of Brooklyn murders after finding that their lawyers were incompetent - and that prosecutors...
NASA 'FAILED' ITS FLIGHT CREW - REPORT RIPS AGENCY FOR PUTTING SAFETY LAST
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA damning new report blames the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia and the deaths of its seven astronauts on NASA's soft-on-safety culture - even as the investigators yesterday warned...
N.Y. SHOPPERS PRAISE RELIEF ON SALES TAX
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amBargain-hunting New Yorkers shopped till they dropped yesterday as the city and state temporarily killed sales taxes on clothing and shoes. Among the happiest were parents who took their kids...
'81 BRINKS HEIST VICTIMS HONORED
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY -Sen. Charles Schumer today will push to memorialize the two cops and guard killed in the 1981 Brinks heist in which recently paroled Kathy Boudin participated. Schumer will travel...
'GROPE' COUNSELOR BUSTED
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA counselor at a city juvenile detention center was arrested yesterday on sex-abuse charges for inappropriately touching a 15-year-old resident. Douglas James, 53, who has worked as an intake counselor...
DEAN SLATES EARLY TV AD ON$LAUGHT
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amFresh from a cross-country tour that wrapped up in New York last night, Democratic 2004 presidential frontrunner Howard Dean is launching a $1 million blitz of new TV ads as...
GRISTEDE'S GETS $186G IN SAFETY FINES
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amSeven months after a worker lost an arm in a piece of heavy equipment, the Gristede's supermarket chain is facing $186,500 in fines for employee safety violations. The Occupational Safety...
TODAY'S SAT TAKERS ARE LORDS OF BOARDS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA record number of students took the national college entrance exam this year, and math scores were the highest in four decades, the College Board said yesterday. The 1.4 million...
MOM IS DANGER TO TOT: POLICE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA severely underweight Brooklyn tot suffering from serious head injuries was clinging to life yesterday, after her mother twice delayed taking the child to the hospital, authorities said. Edith Gonzalez,...
ARNOLD RIPS DEM 'TERMINATOR' TACTICS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger tore into his Democratic rivals for taking donations from labor unions and Native Americans - and compared California's budget to a "Terminator" movie. "There is...
PAINKILLER ABUSE SOARS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amEmergency rooms in New York are seeing fewer cocaine and heroin abusers during the past two years, but instances of people abusing prescription narcotic painkillers are going through the roof,...
TWO DEAD IN COMMUTER-PLANE CRASH OFF CAPE COD
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amTwo pilots were missing and presumed dead after their small commuter plane, en route from Cape Cod to Albany, crashed into the waters of Hyannis Harbor yesterday afternoon after a...
PELOSI HAS POPPY PLAN FOR ASHES
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amDanny Pelosi said yesterday he will scatter the ashes of his late wife, Generosa, on her beloved poppies next spring, just outside the East Hampton mansion where her multimillionaire husband,...
NEW SCORES FOR TOO-HARD EXAMS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amState education officials are raising the test scores for ninth- and 10th-graders who took the controversial Math Regents exam in June, after concluding that it was too hard. The flawed...
'WE CAN'T LET TERRORISTS WIN' - EMOTIONAL BLOOMBERG'S MESSAGE TO ISRAEL
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amIn a whirlwind six-hour visit to Israel yesterday, a visibly moved Mayor Bloomberg followed in the footsteps of the 21 people killed last week in the homicide bombing of a...
NEW COURT CUTIES - GUYS GA-GA OVER NEXT KOURNIKOVAS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amIt was game, set and a match made in heaven for hoards of male fans lusting over the blond babes of the courts yesterday at the U.S. Open - but...
REVVED-UP ROBBY SWAPS HIS RACKET FOR A DRIVER
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amUS OPEN NOTEBOOKPRETTY-boy tennis pro Robby Ginepri was dealing with a different kind of love yesterday: doe-eyed actress Minnie Driver, his new girlfriend. Driver, 33, is 13 years older than...
CALL THEM THE FLUSHING FASHION FASCISTS...
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amCall them the Flushing Fashion Fascists. The U.S. Tennis Association's "personnel policy" runs two pages - and includes some doozy do's and don't's for workers. For example, "any extreme look"...
BUSH VOWS 'NO RETREAT' IN IRAQ
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday vowed there will be "no retreat" from Iraq as he sought to reassure jittery Americans that the war hasn't gone wrong, in his biggest speech...
GIS CRUSH NOTORIOUS CRIME RING
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces carried out a massive raid yesterday to crush a vicious Iraqi crime ring responsible for a string of terror bombings, gun running - and the murder...
DEAN RULES AT BRYANT PK. ROCK 'N' RALLY
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amDemocratic 2004 presidential front-runner Howard Dean wrapped up a cross-country fund-raising and campaigning tour last night with a raucous rally at Bryant Park that looked more like a Phish concert...
KOBE'S KISS & GRAB: REPORT
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amKobe Bryant's accuser says the beleaguered basketball great asked her to help him work the hot tub in his hotel room before forcing a kiss on her and grabbing her...
MYSTERY DEATH ON 5TH AVE.
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amAuthorities are trying to determine what killed a man whose body was found in a Fifth Avenue building yesterday, just minutes after a group of alleged CD counterfeiters bolted from...
HIT-RUN RULING OUTRAGE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens teen accused of killing a young boy while drag-racing in an SUV was allowed to remain free on bail yesterday, crushing the hopes of the victim's parents and...
JUDGE TOSSES TWO SLAY CONVICTIONS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA federal judge threw out the convictions of two men serving life sentences for a pair of Brooklyn murders after finding that their lawyers were incompetent - and that prosecutors...
BOUDIN VICTIMS HONORED
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY -Sen. Charles Schumer today will push to memorialize the two cops and guard killed in the 1981 Brinks heist in which recently paroled Kathy Boudin participated. Schumer will travel...
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL: FEDS CHARGE RABBI WITH SCAMMING 700G
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA high-powered Brooklyn rabbi, who's poured thousands of dollars into politicians' campaign coffers, was busted yesterday on charges of stealing $700,000 in federal funds meant to help a school for...
LOBBYISTS' CITY HAUL: $22.6M BITE OF THE APPLE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amCity lobbyists raked in $22.6 million last year in another record haul, it was disclosed yesterday. Figures released by city Clerk Victor Robles found the lobbying industry thriving even in...
ARNIE RIPS DEM 'TERMINATOR' TACTICS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger tore into his Democratic rivals for taking donations from labor unions and Native Americans - and compared California's budget to a "Terminator" movie. "There is...
CITY POLS RUNNING UNOPPOSED
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amEven after passing mammoth tax hikes and cutting services, more than half of City Council incumbents won't face any opposition in next month's primaries, according to a city voter guide...
COP SHOT: CRITICALLY WOUNDED BY HARLEM GUNMEN
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amAn NYPD captain was shot three times early today after he stopped two suspicious men on a Harlem street, police said. The shooting, which left the plainclothes officer in critical...
NOT SO JOLLY ROGER WHITE SOX CLOBBER CLEMENS, BOMBERS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWhite Sox 13Yankees 2 They were high. They were far. They were plentiful. Roger Clemens tied career highs last night in home runs allowed - four - and runs given...
RODDICK RACES BY HENMAN
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amAndy Roddick bounded into the interview room late last night wearing slippers and sucking on a grape lollipop. He busted on a veteran Times of London scribe who asked in...
PIAZZA HAS A BLAST: SLUMP-BUSTING HR IGNITES MET VICTORY
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amMets 6 Braves 5 ATLANTA - Mike Piazza was in a genuine slump - a five-game, 2-for-15 road stretch in which the superstar slugger admitted to sometimes feeling like "a...
HOWE KEEPING GLAVINE OUT OF FIRING LINE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - If the Mets and Braves both were playoff teams, John Smoltz figures, Tom Glavine wouldn't be protected from facing his former team another time this season....
JESSE ON THE SPOT ; IT'S MAKE-OR-BREAK FOR GIANT BACKUP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amJason Garrett knows very well what Jesse Palmer is going through this preseason. Garrett has made a career of being virtually nothing but a backup quarterback, while Palmer still has...
FIDDLING WITH 'PEN COULD BURN YANKS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amWELCOME to the winter meetings in August. What the Yankees are trying to do here is genetically engineer the perfect baseball team. They could wind up with the Perfect Storm...
T-MAC RESTS SORE BACK
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amTEAM USA NOTEBOOK SAN JUAN - T-Mac's back might be worse than thought. Tracy McGrady could be lost to the U.S. Olympic qualifying team for the remainder of the tournament...
HOUSTON HAS PROBLEM - ALLAN: I MAY MISS START OF CAMP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe Knicks haven't had much luck with knee surgeries the past year. There's a chance that the rehabbing Allan Houston won't be ready, as the team had anticipated, when training...
JOE WON'T RULE OUT A RETURN BY SOJO
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES For days, Joe Torre has spoken about wanting another backup infielder. Standing at second base taking grounders before last night's game was 2000 World Series hero turned coach...
HOPE SOMEONE GIVES A SNAP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Jim Fassel didn't want to have this concern again, but it's back and bad as ever. Long snapper Ryan Kuehl was back on the field yesterday, but his...
RETIRING CHANG HAS NO REGRETS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTEBOOK Pete Sampras wasn't the only popular American Grand Slam winner riding off into the proverbial sunset. Michael Chang played the last match of his career yesterday at...
EX-RAM QB TO BACK UP TESTAVERDE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets yesterday signed ex-Rams quarterback Jamie Martin to be the soon-to-be backup for Vinny Testaverde. Rookie Brooks Bollinger will open the season as the No. 2 quarterback,...
MARTIN'S PROUD TO BE BACK IN VINNY'S HUDDLE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00am"Vinny's like a general when he's out there on the field. I know that he has the ability. We all know that."CURTIS MARTIN Even now, especially now, Curtis Martin will...
SHELTERED LIFE METS PROTECT GLAVINE FROM MORE BRAVE PAIN
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amATLANTA - If the Mets and Braves both were playoff teams, John Smoltz figures, Tom Glavine wouldn't be protected from facing his former team another time this season. "I guarantee...
PIAZZA'S STILL FINE-TUNING HIS STROKE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - During a road trip that started off 2-for-15, Mike Piazza admitted to sometimes feeling like "a fish out of water." Piazza, who went 3-for-5 with a...
'OLD MAN' AGASSI HAS ALL ANSWERS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amAndre Agassi can understand Pete Sampras stepping away from the sport, even while being at the top of his game. The same questions flow through his head - Do I...
SHED NO TEARS FOR ARGENTINA
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amUSA 94Argentina 86 SAN JUAN - Jermaine O'Neal still can't walk with his head up in Indianapolis. "Not until we win a gold medal," the young Pacers' star said. But...
PATRIOTIC CAPRIATI CRUISES TO EASY WIN
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amJennifer Capriati wore a blue dress with white stars splashed all over it, made especially for the U.S. Open by her FILA designer. "Star-spangled Jennifer," Capriati called the look that...
JERMAINE SETS GOLD STANDARD
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amUSA 94Argentina 86 SAN JUAN - Jermaine O'Neal said he still won't walk with his head up in Indianapolis. "Not until we get a gold medal," O'Neal said. O'Neal still...
KIDD SITS DOWN STRETCH
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amTEAM USA NOTEBOOK SAN JUAN - The game was on the line yesterday, and Jason Kidd was where he virtually never is in such a situation: on the bench. "Jason's...
REVENGE IS SWEET FOR HENIN-HARDENNE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe last time Justine Henin-Hardenne had been in this situation - facing Aniko Kapros in the first round of a Grand Slam - she suffered a humbling loss in the...
GIANTS CLAIM DACH IN A SNAP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants' seemingly never-ending quest to find a long snapper continued yesterday with the claiming of Carson Dach, who had been waived by the Bears. Dach will play...
WHITE SOX BECOMING PERFECT FIT FOR ROBBIE
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amRoberto Alomar never made it big in New York. In fact, he fell flat on his face with the Mets. Alomar left the Big Apple a bitter man - and...
JOE WON'T RULE OUT COMEBACK BY SOJO
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES For days, Joe Torre has spoken about his want for another backup infielder. Standing at second base taking grounders before last night's game was 2000 World Series hero-turned-coach...
PIAZZA HAS A BLAST - SLUMP-BUSTING HR IGNITES MET VICTORY
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amMets 6 - Braves 5 ATLANTA - Mike Piazza was in a genuine slump - a five-game, 2-for-15 road stretch in which the superstar slugger admitted sometimes feeling like "a...
WEAVER & OROSCO OUT IN SHAKEUP
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe Yankees' musical chair bullpen left Jeff Weaver and 46-year-old Jesse Orosco without seats yesterday. While lefties Gabe White and Felix Heredia made their first appearances as Yankees in last...
CHISOX ADD TO YANK WORRIES
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amA GAME like last night's is a perfect example why Yankee fans cannot sleep peacefully despite the team's mirage of success this season. There was Roger Clemens getting battered around...
LOAIZA'S MAKING PITCH FOR CY YOUNG
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amEsteban Loaiza said home-plate ump Mike Winters had a small, albeit, consistent strike zone. The Chicago starter acknowledged he made some mistakes, both when he was ahead and behind in...
TALE OF TWO CITIES - AFTER N.Y. FIASCO, ROBBIE'S A HIT IN CHI
August 27, 2003 | 4:00am"It's a big city . . . Some guys just aren't the right type for that situation. Robbie's mellow." -SANDY ALOMAR JR. ON BROTHER ROBERTO ---- Roberto Alomar never made...
HARLEM HONORS LEGENDS
August 27, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Post is proud to join the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce in honoring this year's class of inductees into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of...