November 13, 2004
EISNER RUED HIS OVITZ HIRE: GOLD
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWalt Disney CEO Michael Eisner said he knew hiring his old friend Michael Ovitz as company president was a mistake but saw no basis to dump him and deny his...
LITTLE GUYS, TOO ; AG WIDENS INSURANCE PROBE TO WORKPLACE RIP-OFFS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amEliot Spitzer yesterday widened his insurance corruption fight to uncover bold rip-offs of more than 4 million workers who bought life and accident insurance through their jobs. It was the...
DAILY NEWS SUES ITS UNION
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amDaily News Publisher Mort Zuckerman has accused his pressmen's union of engaging in acts of "sabotage" that have caused massive problems and slowdowns at the paper's printing plant over the...
SHOPPERS' GOOD CHEER BRIGHTENS OUTLOOK
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amShoppers are becoming the economy's real heroes, with their spending brisk and their outlooks bright. New data said consumers increased their buying of clothing, accessories and furniture last month. And...
BIG BIDNESS - GOING, GOING, GONE: THE $11M+ UZAN AUCTION
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amON Wednesday, seven luxury apartments that once belonged to Turkish moguls-turned-fugitives Cem and Hakan Uzan were auctioned off for a total of more than $11.5 million. Wish you'd been there...
GIMME SHELTER
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA piece of eight ANOTHER portion of what was originally the late restaurateur Warner LeRoy's palatial apartment has sold. known as 59 C, part of the original 8,600-square-foot pad at...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - AROUND THE WORLD
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amTriple Pier Antiques Show Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 88, 90, 92, 12th Avenue at 55th Street (212) 255-0020 Sale: Nov.21-22 Open: Sat., Pier 88, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Pier 90, 9...
MORE YUCKY CHUCKY
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amSEED OF CHUCKY (one star) Badly directed slasher comedy.Running time: 87 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, profanity). At the Empire, Loews 84th Street, the Union Square, others. 'SEED of Chucky,"...
KARL MARKS THE SPOT - MOBS STORM H&M FOR CHEAP-CHIC LAGERFELD LINE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amNEW Yorkers just can't resist a bargain. Four years after Swedish chain H&M first took the city by storm, the frenzy was reignited yesterday by the arrival of the one-season-only...
NBC, 'LAW' FITTED FOR NEW SUIT
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amAprominent Indian-American Brooklyn lawyer is suing "Law and Order" -claiming the show defamed him by creating a crooked lawyer character with the same first name, nationality, facial hair and even...
WIGGLE ROOM - COLORFUL AUSSIE FOURSOME SET FOR KIDS' GARDEN PARTY
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThey're the Fab Four of the 4-and-under set, the Barney bunch's answer to The Beatles. Meet the Wiggles - unless, of course, you already have, in which case the mere...
CAN DO! GIVE THANKS WITH THE PHIL
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThanksgiving may be two weeks away, but New York's hometown band is ready for it now: Today, at its first Young People's Concert of the season, the New York Philharmonic...
COMPUTER TRAINING - ALL THE WAY TO THE NORTH POLE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amAll aboard the Polar Express - the Web site, that is. While you're waiting to see the big-screen version of Chris Van Allsburg's beloved Christmas tale - or if you've...
LUCKY STIFF: DEAD MAN GETS $400 REBATE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThey say only the dead know Brooklyn. Perhaps they should check Queens, where the city sent out a $400 tax rebate to a homeowner who died 34 years ago. That's...
CALL OFF MOB HIT: JUDGE; ASHCROFT BID FOR DON'S DEATH 'TROUBLING'
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA federal judge said he is "deeply troubled" by outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to seek the execution of Bonanno boss Joseph Massino - and ordered prosecutors to submit...
A GRAVE CASE OF COVER-UP ; CAUSE OF DEATH SECRET AMID AIDS RUMOR
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amYasser Arafat's death closed one chapter in Mideast history but opened a new book - the mystery of what killed him. Arafat was buried without the autopsy demanded by his...
SWEET LACI'S JOURNEY FROM LOVE STORY TO TALE OF HORROR
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWHEN a mutual pal first excitedly handed Scott Peterson the phone number of dimple-cheeked Laci Rocha in college in 1995, Peterson thought it was part of a prank - and...
CITY GAINING IN RAT RACE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amRats are on the run. A year after the city launched the Citywide Rodent Control Program targeting 37,000 properties in rat-infested neighborhoods, 1,200 homes and buildings in the designated areas...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWhen Gizmo, his girlfriend's unfriendly dog, woke him by jumping on his chest, Joseph Favre of Largo, Fla., tossed the tiny mutt across the room and went back to sleep....
QNS. PARENTS RIP SCHOOL CELL-OUT
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA group of Queens parents are mad as cell that a company installed wireless transmitters on a building across from their children's elementary school. About 40 parents and elected officials...
GANGSTER RAPS ; 'CHINESE MOBSTERS' INDICTED
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe feds yesterday indicted 51 members from the city's two top Chinese organized-crime groups on charges ranging from attempted murder to immigrant smuggling, gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering and running a...
BUSH DETERMINED TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC PALESTINE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday pledged to help build a democratic Palestinian state by the close of his second term and vowed to expend "the capital of the United States"...
'HORSE' TRADER HELD IN $70M HEROIN RAP
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA Venezuelan drug kinpin was charged yesterday with allegedly smuggling 1.5 tons of heroin - worth $70 million - from his homeland to the United States. Luis Alberto "El Gordo"...
WAR ON TERROR
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Jordanian terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi urged his militant followers to continue to battle U.S. forces in Fallujah yesterday. He insisted that victory "is on the horizon" even...
RIOTING AS BODY ARRIVES IN W. BANK
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amYasser Arafat's funeral turned to chaos yesterday as grief-stricken, surging crowds engulfed the helicopter that brought his body to the West Bank. Palestinian security officers fired wildly in the air...
EX SLAYS LOVER'S NEW BOYFRIEND
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA 31-year old Brooklyn man was stabbed to death by his girlfriend's former beau in what cops are calling a crime of passion, police sources said. The violence erupted when...
S.I. POLS MAKE VROOM FOR NASCAR
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThey're off to the races. Several lawmakers and business leaders in Staten Island have been treated to NASCAR tickets by the company that is trying to bring a massive race...
ED. SECRETARY QUITS CABINET
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Education Secretary Rod Paige is leaving his post - the third Cabinet member to resign since President Bush won re-election. Paige, 71, a champion of the administration's groundbreaking...
BONANNO MOB KILLER GETS OFF EASY WITH 27 YRS.
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA hefty 27-year sentence for two mob murders never looked so good as yesterday, when a judge backed off threats to reject a Bonanno hit man's plea deal for that...
MTA 'AIRS' OUT A PASS FOR $1B IN JETS DEAL
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe cash-strapped MTA could pocket between $600 million to $1 billion from the sale of the air rights over the West Side yards where the city plans to build a...
FIEND GUILTY OF RAPING L.I. GIRL, 13
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA Long Island jury needed only 90 minutes yesterday to convict a factory worker - who became known as the "candy-kid rapist" - on all charges, including rape, attempted murder...
PISTOL POPS KILLED 'NOISY' NEIGHBORS: DA
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe man accused of gunning down two young men and the mother of one of them in Sheepshead Bay last year may be a gray old man, but he's a...
YOU'LL NEED BLANKETS FOR THE BIG CHILL
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amNovember will feel more like November this weekend with frigid nights and more threats of snow. Yesterday's wet mix of freezing rain and northeast winds of more than 10 mph...
BRONX ZOO INVADER GOES OFF HIS CROCKER
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA deranged man stripped naked and plunged into a tank of crocodile-like caimans at Bronx Zoo yesterday - and lived to tell the tale. Stunned cops and zookeepers rushed to...
A JUST VERDICT FINALLY WIPES THAT SILLY SMIRK OFF LOUSY CREEP'S FACE
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amSCOTT PETERSON finally wiped the goofy smile off his face. The jurors have spoken. Or rather, they have shouted, at the tops of their lungs - "Murderer!" Nearly two years...
WOMEN WEREN'T FOOLED BY SLIMEBALL'S PRETTY-BOY LOOKS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWomen are cheering the conviction of coldblooded Scott Peterson, a psychopath with boy-next-door looks who murdered his pregnant wife -and sent chills through wives and moms everywhere. "I think the...
DENZEL WILL BE GREAT'SHAKES'; SET FOR B'WAY 'CAESAR'
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amFRIENDS, Romans, scalpers, get me house seats: Denzel Washington is coming to Broadway in "Julius Caesar." The two-time Oscar winner will play the title character in Shakespeare's great tragedy starting...
L.I. BARS WIN BIG IN LEGAL ASH FRAY
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amDespite the state smoking ban, smokers are being allowed to light up with abandon in a trio of Suffolk County taverns as long as they're willing to pay the fine...
JAY-Z BUDDY BUST IN KELLY PEPPER SPRAY
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA New Jersey man has been charged with assault in connection with the much-hyped Madison Square Garden pepper-spray attack that disrupted the Jay-Z and R. Kelly "Best of Both Worlds"...
'GIFTED' PALS AID STAR NUPS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWedding bells will be ringing today for Star Jones and Al Reynolds, as months of rumors and hype culminate in the couple's Park Avenue nuptials. The wedding party, which includes...
TAPE WORM ZARQAWI TALKS TRASH
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Jordanian terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi urged his militant followers to continue to battle U.S. forces in Fallujah yesterday. He insisted that victory "is on the horizon" even...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** Four people - including three teens - were busted in connection with a shooting on an Allerton basketball court last August, police said yesterday. The gunfire that...
OFF HIS CROCKER - BX. ZOO IDIOT SURVIVES SWIM WITH CAIMANS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amA deranged man stripped naked and plunged into a tank of crocodile-like caimans at Bronx Zoo yesterday - and lived to tell the tale. Stunned cops and zookeepers rushed to...
STUYVESANT COULD TURN INTO 'CLASSIC'
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe Big A stewards might want to post a traffic cop at the clubhouse turn for today's Grade 3, $100,000 Stuyvesant Handicap, which drew a field of eight older horses...
'CATOMINE' POINTS TO DERBY
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amSweet Catomine, runaway winner of Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Lone Star Park, could run again this year in Dec. 19 Hollywood Starlet, according to trainer Julio Canani. In any...
SOSA IN SIGHT; BUT FAT PACT COULD BREAK DEAL FOR METS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amKEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -Toting his luggage, Omar Minaya strolled through the Ritz-Carlton lobby, hopped in a cab and prepared to board an airplane out of Florida. The GM meetings may...
BIG UNIT REMAINS IN YANKEE PLANS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amKEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - After a week-long string of meetings and conversations, a weary Brian Cashman was looking forward to one important final get-together. Lunch with his grandmother. Before leaving...
FRIENDS & FOES ; BUDDY BATTLE LEADS UNDERWHELMING CARD
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S moments like this when boxing fans must know that the folks at HBO and the Garden don't take you seriously. Don King certainly doesn't. Seriously now. Who would pay...
COWART, STRAIT RETURN
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES The Jets, handicapped by injuries at linebacker and defensive back, will welcome back with open arms MLB Sam Cowart and rookie CB Derrick Strait tomorrow against the Ravens....
SNACK ATTACK ; FOOD POISONING CAN'T SACK ABRAHAM
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amJohn Abraham feasts on quarterbacks and well-done offensive linemen on Sundays, but a bad piece of chicken he consumed Tuesday night nearly kept him off the Kyle Boller Buffet Line...
DEFENSIVE FRONT SEEKS UPPER HAND
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Few people know better than Norman Hand just how valuable Michael Strahan is to the Giants. The tackle has played on the defensive line with Strahan all year...
DRAWING THE LINE; GIANTS CAN'T LET GUARDS DOWN IN PROTECTING KURT
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amLuke Petitgout suffered a concussion during last week's loss to the Bears, but the injury wasn't the only reason his head hurt. "We as a line made a couple of...
WILLIAMS, NETS GIRD FOR DIRK
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amIn the season's embryonic stage, Eric Williams didn't quite make Nets fans forget Kenyon Martin. He got off to a .154 shooting start. Heck, he didn't make them forget Dean...
WVU & BC SQUARE OFF IN BIG EAST SHOWDOWN
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amMORGANTOWN, W. Va. - For No. 10 West Virginia, today's game at noon is a chance to cement a share of the Big East title, and earn its first BCS...
LET THE ARTEST RUMORS BEGIN - REPORT: KNICKS INTERESTED IN RAPPIN' PACER
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES j Jerome Williams went on a big spiel yesterday about what the Knicks need. Williams said they don't need an offensive dynamo such as Eddie Robinson - but...
MAC SLOT ON FAN TO BENIGNO
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amIn a major shake-up at WFAN, Jody McDonald is out, while Joe Benigno is moving to the midday shift. Benigno will join Sid Rosenberg on the new FAN 10-1 p.m....
FLYERS OUT TO DERAIL FRIARS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amHS PLAYOFFS St. Anthony's typically has more talent and a deeper roster than almost any other team in the CHSFL, but those elements aren't necessarily the key to why the...
PUNCHLESS CARD AT GARDEN
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amIt's moments like this when boxing fans must know that the folks at HBO and the Garden don't take you seriously. Don King certainly doesn't. Seriously now. Who would pay...
IT'S JUST TOE BAD - FOOT INJURY KOS EDDIE-TO-KNICKS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe Knicks' season took another odd turn when Eddie Robinson's physical yesterday morning revealed he has a crack in a bone near his left big toe that will require season-ending...
HAPPY SENDOFF - KNICKS BEAT CLIPS, HEAD FOR TOUGH ROAD STRETCH
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 110 Clippers 96 The Knicks needed this, Lenny Wilkens needed this, Tim Thomas needed this. They needed the Clippers, a club that hasn't played defense since its inception. And...
JUST TOE BAD ; FOOT INJURY KOS EDDIE-TO-KNICKS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe Knicks' season took another odd turn when Eddie Robinson's physical yesterday morning revealed he had a fracture under his left big toe that would require season-ending surgery, according to...
JAMAL: CURRY LOVES NEW YORK
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES While Eddy Curry said publicly he doesn't want to leave the Bulls, his best friend Jamal Crawford said if he is traded, the Knicks would be a sweet...
JUST TOE BAD - FOOT INJURY KOS EDDIE-TO-KNICKS
November 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe Knicks' season took another odd turn when Eddie Robinson's physical yesterday morning revealed he had a fracture under his left big toe that would require season-ending surgery, according to...