November 10, 2001
E! NETWORKS GETS REAL, SLASHES STAFF
Next up on "E! True Hollywood Story" - the downsizing of a Hollywood television network. E! Networks confirmed yesterday that the company will lay off about 9 percent of its...
WWF SMACKDOWN PRESIDENT FIRED; 39 STAFFERS BOUNCED
Wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and his wife Linda have tossed their president out of the ring to save money. Stuart Snyder was bounced yesterday as president and COO, along with...
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: DO YOU HAVE TO BE AN ANNE RICE FAN TO LOVE HER NEW MINISERIES?
"Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints" Sunday and Monday at 8 on Showtime RIGHT upfront, let me mention that I am not the world's biggest Anne Rice fan. I...
FROM CUBA, A LITTLE OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THAT
BALLET NACIONAL DE CUBA City Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. (212) 581-1212. Through tomorrow. SINCE Alicia Alonso's Ballet Nacional de Cuba made its U.S. debut in 1978,...
TAKING THE FIFTH
DO too many Jimmy Choo boots, Hermes scarves and Chanel handbags turn you off your liquor? Why not take a stroll over to the other Fifth Avenue - Park Slope's...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
'KILL it! Kill it!" According to court documents, that's what I told the chef when he informed me he was holding a live lobster. Whether you're pro- or anti-dinner party,...
HELP STILL NEEDED: DUBYA SAYS WE SHOULD ALL PITCH IN - HERE'S HOW AND WHERE TO VOLUNTEER
President Bush said he wants everyone to pitch in and volunteer to help get the country back on track. Two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, there are still plenty...
LIVELY ARTS FOR ALL: SYMPHONIES, SCREENINGS AND SO MUCH MORE - ALL FOR THE FAMILY
Good things come in bunches. How else to explain the four family performance series headed our way -not one of which stars a guy in a purple dinosaur suit. We're...
TOTALLY FOR TEENS
There's a reason we call them "teens" - stuck as they are between kid-dom and adulthood. But no teen wants to be wedged between the 'rents and their little siblings...
REMEMBER THE DOGS OF WAR VIETNAM VET SALUTES K-9 COMRADES
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Americans will salute everyone who has served in our armed forces, including the 1 million soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives to help...
TOWERS-FUND AID CHECKS GO OUT
Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday that the first 73 checks from the Twin Towers Fund have gone out to families of NYPD and Port Authority cops, firefighters, EMS employees and court...
ARAB SNIPERS KILL ISRAELI MOTHER OF 4
JERUSALEM - Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli mother of four yesterday afternoon as she drove alone in her car near the embattled West Bank town of Jenin. The...
ARAFAT U.N.-BOUND DESPITE BUSH SNUB
JERUSALEM - Despite the cold shoulder he's been told he'll get from President Bush, Yasser Arafat is still expected to come to New York this weekend for the U.N. General...
BITTER BRO: DEM BIGS SHAFTED LOYAL MARK
The brother of defeated mayoral candidate Mark Green said he believes his brother "always helped the very group that seemed to turn against him" on election night. In an exclusive...
POSTAL UNION LICKED IN BID TO SHUT STATION
A Manhattan federal court judge yesterday stamped out the postal union's case to shut down Morgan Station, the city's main mail-processing center, for anthrax cleaning and testing. Judge John Keenan...
FEDS PAINT PORTRAIT OF ART FRAUD
Two crooked auction house execs huddled in a Lexus at a JFK Airport parking lot to hash out the details of a massive price-fixing scheme, prosecutors charged yesterday. Sotheby's former...
LEATHERNECK RUDY CUTS IT WITH THE MARINES
From the Halls of Montezuma to the sidewalks of Broadway. Mayor Giuliani joined New York area Marines at the Times Square armed-forces recruiting center to help celebrate yesterday's 226th anniversary...
FUROR OVER FED PLAN TO SNOOP ON LAWYERS
WASHINGTON - Aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday defended his new rule letting investigators eavesdrop on phone calls between lawyers and suspected terrorists in jail. But Ashcroft's rule was...
RUDY TO NYSE: STAY RIGHT THERE
Outgoing Mayor Rudy Giuliani doesn't want the Stock Exchange to anchor a new World Trade Center instead of moving to the Wall Street site that cost the city nearly $400...
W. HERE TO LAY OUT THE 'BUSH DOCTRINE'
WASHINGTON - President Bush comes to New York under super-tight security today to lay out the "Bush Doctrine" at the United Nations, putting the world on notice that "now is...
COURT RULING ON PAY A BIG BOOST FOR PENSIONS
City teachers can fatten their pensions by working in summer school and after-school programs, a mid-level appeals court ruled yesterday. The four-member Appellate Division in Manhattan ruled the Board of...
BLOOMY'S AD $$ MAY TOP RECORD OF CORZINE
MIKE Bloomberg could shatter all spending records in the mayor's race, including the $63 million that Jon Corzine shelled out for a Senate seat in New Jersey. "I think when...
B'KLYN DRUG SUSPECT ID'D AS FATHER OF HOOPS STAR
NBA all-star Stephon Marbury may have avoided the perils of the Coney Island projects, but police say it appears his father hasn't. Cops say a man they busted earlier this...
3 DAYS: THAT'S HOW LONG IT HAS TAKEN MICHAEL BLOOMBERG TO EMBRACE NEW YORK'S LEFT-WING A-LIST
He ran as Rudy Giuliani's Republican heir - but mayor-elect Mike Bloomberg's first public gestures are reaching deep into Democratic territory. In just three days since winning office, Bloomberg has:...
SUBWAY SWAB-DOWN ANTHRAX PROBERS WILL TEST THE TRAINS
The city's army of anthrax investigators is taking to the rails - swabbing the city's subways for the potentially deadly spores, Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday. The testing is starting with...
F'S TURN TO A'S AT TOP SCHOOLS
ALBANY - With the bulk of the city's schools failing, state education officials yesterday highlighted 96 that are considered among the most rapidly improved in the state. "We're starting to...
SCHOOL SICKENS ME: TEACH
A veteran Stuyvesant HS teacher has stayed away from his beloved school near ground zero for all but three days since it reopened Oct. 9, complaining foul air in and...
STOCK-BILK ACCOUNTANT GETS 10 YRS.
A crooked accountant, who cooked the books for a major boiler-room brokerage house, took a tongue-lashing yesterday as a federal judge sentenced him to 10 years behind bars yesterday. Throughout...
KERIK NIXES A 2ND STINT AS COMMISH
Police Commissoner Bernard Kerik, one of the Big Apple's towers of strength after the World Trade Center disaster, yesterday turned down Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg's offer to stay on as top...
FAREWELL TO A LEGEND 'FALLEN WARRIOR' MOURNED ALONG WITH FDNY ROOKIE
New Yorkers yesterday honored more firefighters lost on Sept. 11 - including one whose heroics made him one of the city's most legendary firefighters and the other a "probie" who...
STATE PARTY BOSS QUITS TO ESCAPE HEAT OF DEFEAT
ALBANY - State Democrat Chairwoman Judith Hope - reeling from Mark Green's mayoral defeat and her own political gaffe - announced last night that she'll resign next month. Hope's unexpected...
BACK IN DADDY'S ARMS: KIDNAPPED GIRL DROPPED AT MALL AS EVIL ABDUCTOR FLEES
A grateful father hugged his daughter and wouldn't let go after the 6-year-old was released unharmed yesterday by a brazen kidnapper who snatched her from the front yard of her...
FEDS TARGET A MAD SCIENTIST
WASHINGTON - The FBI now believes the mysterious anthrax mailer is a lone scientific killer, similar in many ways to the Unabomber, with no apparent link to Osama bin Laden...
STAFFER AT THE NEW YORKER MAY BE LATEST VICTIM
An editorial assistant at The New Yorker may be the latest known Manhattan media worker to have been infected with anthrax. City officials yesterday afternoon announced they just discovered another...
REBEL TROOPS BOOT TALIBAN AND TAKE KEY NORTHERN CITY
WASHINGTON - Afghan opposition forces broke through Taliban defenses in Mazar-e-Sharif yesterday and seized control of the strategic northern city in a major early victory for President Bush's anti-terrorism war....
GUTTY 'ZONA STUNS GATORS
Lute Olson brought an unranked Arizona team with just nine scholarship players cross country to tip off the college basketball season in the Coaches vs. Cancer Ikon Classic. So much...
JINTS FACING BIG CHALLENGE
A big challenge awaits the Giants' defensive line. Make that a huge challenge. There is no weightier assignment than this for the likes of Michael Strahan, Cornelius Griffin, Keith Hamilton...
NO PLACE LIKE HOME - UNLESS YOU'RE THE JETS
Giants Stadium used to be a place of great memories for Herman Edwards. It was there in 1978 that Edwards, then a defensive back for the Eagles, returned a fumble...
CANARSIE AIMING TO REBOUND VS. BAYSIDE
AFTER a demoralizing 21-0 loss to Sheepshead Bay last week, Canarsie head coach Mike Camardese expects a different team to show up this week. At least he hopes so. "We...
POWERFUL HURRICANE TARGETS BOSTON AREA
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The playoffs have begun. Oh, you didn't think there was a playoff in Division I-A college football? There is, it's just a bastardized version of a...
RANGERS LOOKING TO ROLL FOUR STRAIGHT
BUFFALO - So someone wanted to know when Ron Low would be returning to a traditional six defensemen and 12 forward lineup in lieu of the 7-11 he's been rolling...
METS MAY FACE TAMPERING RAP
You would guess Major League Baseball has more important things to worry about these days. Guess again. The league that favors using a Daisy Cutter to eradicate an insect is...
STEVENS, DEVS AGREE ON 2-YEAR EXTENSION
In a deal that will keep him in New Jersey beyond his 40th birthday and raise his career earnings to $53 million, Devils captain Scott Stevens has agreed to the...
JEFF: MAGIC SHOULD MIND OWN BUSINESS
INDIANAPOLIS - Dismissing Magic Johnson as "just another fan," Jeff Van Gundy yesterday fired back at the former Laker great for his spicy critique of the Knicks earlier this week....
VAN: DON'T BLAME ME BLOWING BIG LEAD IS FAULT OF TOP GUNS
Pacers103Knicks95 INDIANAPOLIS - Latrell Sprewell smoked to the hole, hitting all sorts of left-handed layups. Allan Houston drained sweet jumpers. Mark Jackson stared down New York City rookie point guard...
ELIAS NETS HAT TRICK TO LIFT DEVS
OVERTIMEDevils3Leafs2 Just as Tie Domi was warming up his last laugh, the Avenging Devil dramatically rammed it right back down his throat. The gurgles will still be heard tonight in...
TERRAPINS TOPPLE TEMPLE
Maryland 82 Temple 74 Maryland held off a torrid shooting display by Temple's Lynn Greer to beat the Owls 82-74 in the consolation game of the Coaches vs. Cancer Ikon...
'ZONA-GATORS: LESS LUSTER
That electric, up-and-down-the-court, blow-out-the-scoreboard championship game in the Coaches vs. Cancer Ikon Classic never came to be last night. Once again, Maryland suffered an early-season meltdown. The Terrapins, coming off...