July 11, 2002
STAKING OUT ICM - POWER BROKER HAS DISCUSSED INVESTMENT DEAL
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amOne of Hollywood's top talent brokers may be close to brokering a deal of its own. International Creative Management, a top U.S. talent agency, has talked to former SFX Entertainment...
WHAT CSFB DIDN'T TELL US ABOUT THE PACER OFFERING
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amCREDIT Suisse First Boston loves Pacer International. The brokerage firm began covering the stock this week with an extremely flattering six-page report on the newly public company that accompanied a...
EAST HAMPTON PUBLISHER BLOCKS BID FOR STAR
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe bid by vulture capitalist Fred Seegal to become a 50 percent partner of the weekly East Hampton Star has been torpedoed. Co-owner and publisher Helen Rattray appears to be...
FASHIONMALL.COM READY TO CLOSE UP ONLINE SHOP
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe end of Fashionmall.com could be very near. The Internet portal could be liquidated or acquired by another business as soon as the end of the year. Taubman Centers, a...
HARLEM DEVELOPMENT LANDS STATE WORKERS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA new $80 million office development, home of H&M's first Harlem store, is getting a boost with a 124,000-square-foot lease for 271 state office workers. The 150,000-square-foot office project is...
GEORGE LANDS HAMPTONS PAD
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amUNLIKE the boldface names that are reportedly abandoning the Hamptons en masse, George Stephanopoulos has bucked conventional wisdom by purchasing a home on the seemingly saturated East End. The former...
DEUTSCHE BOSS' EXIT MAY PUT VOICESTREAM IN PLAY
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amEmbattled Deutsche Telekom Chief Executive Ron Sommer's expected departure would likely make its VoiceStream Wireless unit takeover bait, Wall Street watchers say. VoiceStream, the sixth-largest U.S. wireless provider, is an...
SOLLY MUST PAY UP: FEDS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amCitigroup's Salomon Smith Barney has until the end of business today to respond to lawmakers' records request regarding allocations of IPO shares to WorldCom big shots or face penalties. Separately,...
STAKING OUT ICM: POWER BROKER HAS DISCUSSED INVESTMENT DEAL
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amOne of Hollywood's top talent brokers may be close to brokering a deal of its own. International Creative Management, one of the country's top five talent agencies, has held talks...
MILLER GETS OUTTA HBO
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amDENNIS Miller's long-running rant on HBO is ending next month. The acid-tongued, high-brow comedian is quietly calling it quits after nine years of "Dennis Miller Live." HBO officials confirmed that...
DEFECTIVEDETECTIVE: IF YOU DON'T LIKE 'MONK' THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU, TOO
July 11, 2002 | 4:00am"Monk" Tonight at 9 on USA ½ WHAT would you get if you combined the smarts of Sherlock Holmes, the quirkiness of Columbo, and the physical humor of Inspector Clouseau?...
DONAHUE: I CAN'T BEAT O'REILLY
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Talk show pioneer Phil Donahue, who is making a much-hyped return to TV next week, says he probably won't get good ratings in the game he virtually...
PEPPER SHAKERS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amRED HOT CHILI PEPPERS --------- LOOKING for a great band to play your next backyard barbecue? The Red Hot Chili Peppers are now doing garden gigs.On the lawn at Ellis...
TOKYO TROUPE'S 'OVERTURES' MOST WELCOME
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPACIFIC OVERTURESThe New National Theatre of Tokyo at Avery Fisher Hall, 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Performances tonight,tomorrow and Saturday, at 7:30 p.m. CenterCharge, (212) 721-6500. ----------- LINCOLN Center Festival...
STARR REPORT
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amHelp hotlines benefiting from 'Crime' Dick Wolf's "Crime and Punishment" finished the week as TV's 10th-highest-rated show (9.3 million viewers) - and continues to generate calls on the help hotlines...
CH. 2 NEWS FLOP SAYS WE'RE 'MEAN'
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amCH. 2 anchorwoman Angela Rae couldn't get out of New York fast enough, it appears. "It's a mean city," Rae said of New York. "Six months in, I was tired...
BOSS TIX
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amSUMMERTIME means Springsteen and fortunately The Boss is back! As part of a 46-city North American and European tour announced yesterday, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform...
NELLY CD STILL NO. 1
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amNELLY held his lead over Eminem as the St. Louis rapper's "Nellyville" topped "The Eminem Show" for the second consecutive week in the Top Album Sales Charts. "Nellyville" sold 447,200...
HIGH NOTE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Young People's Chorus of New York City took first place this week in an international choir festival held in Canada. Under the direction of Francisco J. Nunez, the group...
BRIDGE & TUMMY CROWD - ZAGAT SURVEY SAYS B'KLYN DESERVES OWN BOOK
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amFORTY-FIVE years after the Dodgers fled, Brooklyn has finally returned to the big time - with its very own Zagat Survey. Out in stores today, the 112-page book features a...
'IDOL' HANDS OUT A REAL SURPRISE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amJ. HELTON, the 21-year-old Atlanta native whose presence on "American Idol" caused an argument among the show's judges last week, was chosen last night as the 10th and final contestant...
SUPERHERO SMACKDOWN! BATMAN AND SUPERMAN FACE THEIR TOUGHEST ENEMY YET - EACH OTHER
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amHOLY license to print money! In what promises to be a box-office bonanza, The Caped Crusader will square off against The Man of Steel in a new movie called "Batman...
PAIR CONFESS TO TEEN SLAY: COPS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amTwo suspects confessed yesterday to the brutal beating death of a 13-year- old boy in Brooklyn, authorities said. Brooklyn residents Clarine Jones, 20, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Delon Lucas, 18, of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amFirst, they were taught their ABCs. Now, students at a Massachusetts school must learn their HIVs - after they shared a needle to draw blood samples during a science lesson...
SNIPER KILLS COMMANDO - 1ST ISRAELI 'WAR' CASUALTY IN 3 WEEKS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - An Israeli commando was killed by a Palestinian sniper yesterday while searching for secret tunnels used to smuggle arms from the Sinai desert to the Gaza Strip, authorities...
SAVED SOUL TABS REHAB THERAPIST FOR LIBERTY MEDAL
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amRobert Vavrecan said nominating Jennifer Jacome for a Post Liberty Medal was a no-brainer - she saved his life. After a long battle with cocaine addiction - capped by a...
9-YEAR STRETCH FOR BABY 'BULL'
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe son of Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano was sentenced yesterday to 91/4 years in federal prison for his role in an "ecstasy" ring run by his mob turncoat dad. Gerard...
SIDEWALK CYCLISTS TO PAY PRICE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amResponding to New Yorkers who have been mowed down by speeding cyclists, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday signed into law a measure slapping a new $100 fine on bicyclists caught pedaling on...
SKULL-DUGGERY
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - An Afghan man claiming he had the head of Osama bin Laden's right-hand man - and demanding a $25 million reward - was told to get lost after...
ANDREW CUOMO YESTERDAY SAID HE THINKS FORMER MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI SHOULD BECOME THE NEXT BASEBALL COMMISSIONER
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amGubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo yesterday said he thinks former Mayor Rudy Giuliani should become the next baseball commissioner - to prevent such fiascoes as the All-Star game ending in an...
KID'S PRICE: 60G - MISSING DAD AGREED TO 'SELL' CUSTODY: MOMC
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA Chinese-born artist who disappeared with his 4 1/2-year-old son during a scheduled two-hour visit had once agreed to give up the boy for $60,000, the youngster's mother told The...
TWO-THIRDS FLUNK MATH
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amKids showed improvement on city math tests this year, but two out of three still aren't making the grade, according to results released yesterday. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday...
DICE GAME TURNS DEADLY
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA 16-year-old Brooklyn boy was mercilessly gunned down yesterday when he tried to help his friend settle a dispute with another gambler over a dice game, police said. Tiquan Rivers...
COUNCIL HAS VOTES TO ALTER TERM LIMITS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amIn a strong show of force, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday marshaled 44 of the 51 council members to revamp the term-limits law. The bill also has been fast-tracked...
AMMON 'SLAY' HOME ON BLOCK
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe Hamptons mansion where financier Ted Ammon was found bludgeoned to death last October is officially on the market. Ammon's widow, Generosa Ammon Pelosi, has listed the six-bedroom, English country-style...
SENATE PUTS TEETH IN ANTI-FRAUD BILL
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Moving swiftly against a rash of corporate scandals, the Senate yesterday approved tough new penalties for paper shredders and fraudulent accounting. The measure makes it a felony to...
DASCHLE SHOULD MIND HIS OWN BIG BIZ
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amTHERE'S a distinct whiff of hypocrisy about the Democratic bid - with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle heading the charge - to paint Bush & Co. as too "cozy" with...
NBA STAR UNDER GUN: PHILLY COPS SEEK TO ARREST 76ERS' IVERSON
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPhiladelphia cops yesterday ratcheted up their pressure on 76ers basketball superstar Allen Iverson, arguing he should be criminally charged for threatening two men while armed and looking for his wife...
TOUGH TIME FOR HOT-WATCH SELLER
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA Manhattan watch dealer to the stars was busted for selling a stolen timepiece, but he says he's innocent and has the receipt to prove it. Lee Rosenbloom, the owner...
ALE NOT WHAT IT SEEMS: PREZ-WATCHERS BUZZING OVER NEAR-BEER PIC
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush - who put his wild ways on ice years ago - has not fallen off the wagon. The president, who says he hasn't touched a drop of booze...
SCHWARZ JURORS BEG FOR BREAK
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amExhausted jurors deliberating in the retrial of ex-cop Charles Schwarz asked a Brooklyn federal judge to send them home early after they failed to reach a verdict in their second...
3 DAYS OF 'OW' FOR THE DOW
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amWall Street got socked yesterday as stocks plunged for the third day running and the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average sank below the 9,000 level for the first time since...
GROUND ZERO KIDS RULE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amStudents at elementary schools closest to Ground Zero earned the highest scores on English exams this year despite enduring the horrific terrorist attacks and months of disruptions. At PS 234...
MTV'S 'OSBOURNE CANCER' DILEMMA
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amMTV is wrestling with how to incorporate MTV matriarch Sharon Osbourne's cancer into its hit reality show "The Osbournes." Sharon, 50, wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne and co-star/executive producer...
LINEUP CHANGE FOR TEAM CUOMO
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amTrying to get a political boost, Andrew Cuomo is restructuring his campaign and increasing the role of several aides, including two ex-employees of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, The...
DONNA MAKES THE CREEP PAY
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amIT WOULD have been a helluva lot easier for Donna Hanover to suck it up and take what was offered to her and the kids -$1,800 a month in support...
FDNY BRASS HEAR SECRET WTC TAPES
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amSenior FDNY officials yesterday listened to an hourlong 9/11 tape of World Trade Center radio transmissions found early this year, but would not disclose what it revealed about the final...
NOW SHE'S THE PRIMA DOUGH-NA: RUDY WILL PAY HANOVER $6.8M TO END MARRIAGE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amDonna Hanover was feeling like $6.8 million bucks yesterday after ending her brutal divorce battle with Rudy Giuliani, but the acrimonious war of words that marked the case showed no...
BOY STRUCK BY COP VAN DIES
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe 13-year-old boy who suffered a skull fracture when he was hit by an unmarked police van's mirror died yesterday. Keith McKissick was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital at about...
ANOTHER SUSPECT ESCAPES
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amHours after Mayor Bloomberg expressed relief that the NYPD had recaptured a prisoner who scammed his way out of court, and assured New Yorkers that measures are being taken to...
'MADAME EX' CRAVED REVENGE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amYOU'D hope Donna Hanover-Never-Giuliani would finally have found some peace. And that Rudy Giuliani would have earned a little rest in return for his doing the right thing, and paying...
REPAVED STREETS ON ROAD TO RUIN
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amJust weeks after city officials completed an ambitious repaving schedule on 37 miles of lower Manhattan roads, nearly one-fifth of the streets and crossroads are being dug up again. In...
HEIST AT VERSACE'S NETS $2M
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA whopping $2 million in cash and jewels was stolen from the Versace boutique on Fifth Avenue yesterday - and cops suspect it was an inside job, police sources said....
PORN KING IN NEW HARASS BUST
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPorno prince Al Goldstein - free on bail while he appeals his conviction for harassing a former employee - was arrested yesterday on a new harassment charge, this time involving...
'BRAWL' RAPPER SURRENDERS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amRapper Fat Joe turned himself in to police yesterday and was arrested on assault charges stemming from an early-morning fight at B.B. King's Blues Club in Midtown in May, cops...
LAWMEN SNIP PHONY-ID RING
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA joint local and federal crackdown on phony-ID sellers has resulted in hundreds of arrests in the metropolitan area, it was reported last night. Among those arrested was a man...
DRIVER SHOT IN B'KLYN ROAD RAGE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amAn out-of-town driver - enraged that he was honked at - shot a Far Rockaway man in the arm yesterday afternoon when the victim tried to pass him, police said....
COPS SEEK EX-CON IN SISTER SLAY
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amBrooklyn detectives are hunting a "possibly armed" man suspected of shooting his sister dead in an argument over ownership of the house in she which she was found slain Monday....
2ND MAN HELD IN SOCCER SHOOTING
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA second man was arrested yesterday and charged with shooting of an off-duty correction officer during a soccer game at a Brooklyn park. Kamel Reese, 16, was picked up yesterday...
VICTIM TORTURED WITH HOT KNIFE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amA trio of gunmen seeking cash tortured an Elmont, L.I., man by repeatedly heating a knife and painfully branding his skin in an effort to force him to reveal where...
BOGUS GOODS, $1M SEIZED IN QUEENS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPolice recovered $1 million in cash and thousands of counterfeit high-end goods from a Queens home used as a money-laundering base for a multimillion-dollar narcotics ring, authorities said yesterday. Cops...
WILLIAMS' DAUGHTER REACHES OUT TO W.
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe daughter of baseball legend Ted Williams has issued a desperate plea to President Bush to help convince her estranged half-brother to abandon his bizarre scheme to freeze the dead...
COPS GRILL 2 IN TEEN'S BEATING DEATH
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amTwo suspects were questioned yesterday in the brutal beating death of a 13-year-old boy in Brooklyn, as the NYPD launched an internal investigation into the delay in reaching the youngster...
IT'S MIKE VS. URBAN SCRAWL
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg launched a graffiti-cleanup drive yesterday by insisting, "We are not going to walk away from the needs of this city" even during a severe fiscal crunch. "We're a...
WILLIAMS KIN'S PLEA TO DUBYA
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amThe daughter of baseball legend Ted Williams has issued a desperate plea to President Bush to help convince her estranged half-brother to abandon his bizarre scheme to freeze the dead...
NETS HAVE POINT TO MAKE ; TEAM'S SUMMER JOB: FIND BACKUP FOR KIDD
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amSummer leagues afford NBA teams a chance to experiment with young players, maybe solve that final-roster-spot question through an unexpected source and generally look over free-agent hopefuls. That process begins...
BOSS: MAKE DIVISION SERIES A BEST-OF-7
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - It hasn't happened since 1997 when the Indians eliminated the defending World Champion Yankees in the first round of the playoffs. Yet, George Steinbrenner is afraid the day...
AIN'T OVER 'TIL IT'S OVER ; YANKS NOT COUNTING BOSOX OUT
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Over? Did somebody say the AL East is over? That's the consensus of many who believe when the Yankees grabbed Raul Mondesi and Jeff Weaver last week, they...
MILLER PARK LARK ; SELIG'S INEPTITUDE TURNS ALL-STAR GAME INTO JOKE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amMIKE Piazza could see Tuesday night's All-Star Game debacle coming almost precisely the way it unfolded - and he had a weary resignation in his voice. Before commissioner Bud Selig,...
HOU: KNICKS JUST NEED BIG MAN TO WIN EAST
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amAllan Houston believes the Antonio McDyess trade makes the Knicks playoff-bound again. And he predicted the addition of a solid free-agent center would put them back as favorites to win...
CHANEY'S BIG ON NESTEROVIC . . . BUT MINNY SAYING 'NO DEAL' AND 'WE'LL MATCH'
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amOne day after Rasho Nesterovic's agent asked Timberwolves management to look into a sign-and-trade with the Knicks, Don Chaney said he'd love to have the 7-foot Slovenian on his pivot-less...
HERE'S HOW TO FIX ALL-STAR MESS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amWE knew going into the All-Star festivities that the problems besetting the sport would be as front and center as Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez. The players had a scheduled...
NCAA RULES AREN'T AS EASY AS ABCD
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amSammy Mejia had some goals when he knew he was invited to the adidas ABCD camp. He wanted to work on his game and find out how good he was....
LASORDA: NO TYING IN BASEBALL
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amSometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Other times it rains, and once in a blue moon, the commissioner of baseball orders the game to end in a tie. Such was...
YANKEES PONDER EL DUQUE PUZZLE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - The Yankees are facing a dilemma these days when it comes to Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez. Do they: Hold him for insurance and have a disgruntled...
WARRIORS EYE JORDAN
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amNets assistant coach Eddie Jordan continues to be a hot prospect for head-coaching positions around the league. Now the Warriors are interested. According to West Coast sources, Golden State GM...
JUST CALL THEM BAD NEWS METS ; FIRST-HALF DISASTER ON AND OFF THE FIELD
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amBetween rookie baseball cards and occupied lockers, between mysterious one-named hitting instructors and mysteriously heavy bats, the Mets were beset by the typical off-field problems that undermine unsuccessful clubs in...
SHOW THEM THE MONEY! THAT'LL GIVE 'ALL-SCARS' INCENTIVE
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Ted Williams must have rolled over in his ice block. A tie? In the All-Star Game? Both managers running out of players after 11 innings? What? Commissioner Bud...
ALL EYES ON JAMES AT CAMP
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amEveryone knows LeBron James is a great basketball player . . . and it's a good thing he is. The 6-7 James sauntered into the Adidas ABCD Camp at FDU...