October 5, 2002
APRES VIVENDI , MESSIER TO STAY IN THE BIG APPLE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amJean-Marie Messier is gearing up for his second act on the New York stage. The former chief executive of Vivendi, who was ousted in July, will remain in New York,...
MOUSE'S RATING IS A DIS-ASTER
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amRatings agency Standard & Poor's took an ax to Disney's credit rating yesterday, and investors fled the stock. The agency lowered its rating one notch yesterday on Disney's long-term debt,...
ON CRASH COURSE? DOW CONTINUES NOSE DIVE; DOWN 2.25% FOR WEEK
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amA bad day ended a bad week for stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average registered its third triple-digit loss for the week when it dropped 188.79 to 7,528.40. For the...
PITT-PAULSON MEET QUESTIONED
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amOops! He did it again. Just when SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt was making headway putting his well-earned Mr. Softee image to rest, the nation's top securities cop holds a secret...
KING KRAVIS' NET WORTH LIKELY TO HIT $2.17B
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amLeveraged buyout king Henry Kravis is negotiating a deal that would make the billionaire a whole lot richer. Kravis' stake in his firm, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. would be...
'CSI' CA$HES IN
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE stars of "CSI" are now a lot richer. CBS has doubled the per-episode salaries of stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger - a just reward for "CSI," which continues...
PORN AGAIN: GREG KINNEAR RESURRECTS SEX-CRAZED 'HOGAN'S HEROES' STAR ON BIG SCREEN
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amGREG Kinnear consulted some unusual reference materials before playing murdered "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane - kinky porn tapes that Crane made starring himself and scores of women. "There was...
FREE FOR ALL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amKnit pick If you visit Union Square Park tomorrow, you'll find hundreds of needles. Wait, don't call your congressman. It's only the Knit-out and Crochet 2002 festival, a free event...
WORDS UP!
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amWalt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg and - you? It could be. The Kitchen is looking for a few good New York poets and poetry fans when it opens...
COME TO MAMA
October 5, 2002 | 4:00am"Sweet mama's like candy/My mama's a real jam candy," sang Roy Orbison, without ever having visited the unsubtle pink and yellow saloon in Williamsburg that bears the song's name. But,...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet runs about ten inches of text every week. Nothing should be inferred from this. Oh, okay. Infer away. SHOE HORNY After studying 104 men, British researchers...
FAMILY SECRET: CATCH THE TRACHTENBURG CLAN IN CONCERT BEFORE THEY BLOW UP
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amMove over, Partridges - here come the Trachtenburgs. There may be only three of them, but this eccentric ensemble is poised to snag the title of America's favorite musical family...
HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThere's nothing like a fresh-picked apple - especially when you've picked it yourself. And this week and next is peak season. Here are some pick-your-own farms within easy driving distance...
OUT & ABOUT WITH JUDY BLUME : FUDGE AUTHOR RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE SUBLIME - NEW YORK CITY
October 5, 2002 | 4:00am"Oh!" cries Judy Blume, stopping dead in the middle of Broadway. "Did you see what that woman is holding? A turtle!" And she shakes her head, thrilled. If you've ever...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amBefore they awarded a $500,000 settlement to porn star Teri Weigel for injuries sustained in a car accident, a Virginia jury was forced to watch Weigel do what she does...
FOR COP, IT'S LOVE, HONOR, POST BAIL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amAn NYPD veteran convicted of fraud Thursday got married a few hours later, and had to begin his honeymoon yesterday with a bail hearing - where his teary-eyed bride agreed...
THE POOP FROM BLOOMY: FIND A JOHN WITH JOE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThose tall lattes and cappuccinos may be strong grounds for visiting Starbucks - but when Mayor Bloomberg looks at the booming coffee chain, he's lured by another attraction: the toilets....
BUSH COMES TO SHOVE IN DEM CARTOON
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defiant Democrats yesterday said they'll keep spreading an e-mail cartoon that shows President Bush pushing a dark-skinned man and a sweet old granny in a wheelchair off a...
PASTA JOINT COMES HOME
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amNino's Restaurant is back in business - and with a new name, Nino's American Restaurant. Nino's, which supplied about 500,000 free meals to relief workers at Ground Zero, reopened yesterday...
U.N. GUNMAN HAD BEEN ON 'SURVIVAL' DIET: FEDS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amA U.S. postal clerk who fired seven bullets at the United Nations Secretariat Building to protest starvation in North Korea stopped eating for two days before the attack - to...
GIVE ME A SOLITARY REASON WHY GOTTI'S IN THE HOLE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ghost of John Gotti swirled around the federal appeals court yesterday as his brother Peter Gotti stayed in solitary confinement over a crime for which he has never been...
PALS SHOUT 'COVERUP' IN DOC DEATH
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amFriends and relatives accuse Jamaican officials of trying to cover up the death of a Manhattan doctor found with his throat slashed in his hotel room. A Jamaican autopsy report...
ISRAEL DEFENSE BOSS: U.S. TO ATTACK IRAQ BEFORE DECEMBER
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's defense minister has said he expects the U.S. to attack Iraq by late November - remarks that "irritated" Washington officials. Speaking at a closed meeting with Israeli...
HILLARY MAY BATTLE CHUCK FOR TORCH'S SENATE POST
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Scandal-scarred Sen. Bob Torricelli hasn't even left the Senate, but New York Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chuck Schumer could wind up fighting over the spoils - his...
FIREMAN MAKES WHORE-IBLE ERROR
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amAn off-duty FDNY firefighter was arrested in an NYPD sting early yesterday for drunken driving and patronizing a prostitute, police said. The embarrassing episode occurred at 12:20 a.m. when Michael...
N.J. DEMS TO HIGH COURT: BALLOT BATTLE IS NONE OF YOUR BIZ
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New Jersey Democrats yesterday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the squabble over whether ex-Sen. Frank Lautenberg should be allowed to replace Sen. Robert Torricelli...
PATAKI POWER$ PAST PENNY-ANTE CARL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amHeading into the final stretch, Gov. Pataki has a massive cash advantage over Carl McCall - dwarfing his Democratic rival's campaign war chest by an 11-to-1 margin. According to records...
'SON' PUTS STOCK IN DREYFUS DNA TEST
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amA 40-year-old Florida man says he comes from good stock - legendary Wall Street wiz Jack Dreyfus - and he wants a judge to help him prove it. In papers...
BUSH SET TO TELL NATION: TIME'S UP FOR SADDAM
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amPresident Bush will take his case against Iraq to the nation Monday in a prime-time TV address - and warn that time is running out for Saddam Hussein. The president...
FEDS BUST NEW BIN LADEN 'CELL' : GI AMONG 4 U.S. CITIZENS JAILED IN AFGHAN-WAR PLOT
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amFour suspected terrorist cell members - including a former U.S. Army reservist - were busted yesterday on charges of trying to travel to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda after the...
TRAITOR'S TEARS: SOBBING LINDH GETS 20 YEARS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - John Walker Lindh sobbed yesterday as he denounced terror and got 20 years in jail for fighting with the Taliban, but the father of slain CIA agent...
NYPD MOSQUE SPIES HAVE FEDS IRATE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe Police Department is conducting its own secret intelligence-gathering operations about an out-of-state mosque - without informing the FBI or its own detectives assigned to the Joint FBI-NYPD Terrorist Task...
JUDGE PUTS 'CRUMB BUM' MOB BAKER BACK IN JAIL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amNothing short of steel bars can stand between a mobbed-up baker and his taste for bread crumbs. A federal judge yanked bail for Mario Fortunato - owner of the locally...
BLOOMY BUCKS UP BRIBE-RAP BRONX POL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amMAYOR Bloomberg took time from a busy schedule to travel to a remote corner of The Bronx on a stormy night last week to join a fund-raiser for state Sen....
STRUCK DOWN BY THE RANDOM HAND OF FATE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe latest sniper victim appears to be just as randomly chosen as the other five people killed in Maryland's bloody 17-hour killing spree. Pascal Charlot, killed Thursday night as he...
TICKER-TAPE CHARADE ON PARADE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe city is closing lower Broadway next week for a fake ticker-tape parade - and inviting all New Yorkers to join in - as part of an elaborate video presentation...
HUNTER KILLS AGAIN : 6TH DEATH FOLLOWED BY LADY'S WOUNDING
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amPolice linked a sixth death yesterday to the coldblooded sniper killings of five Maryland residents - while the manhunt continued for the psycho marksman and an accomplice. Police said they...
WRITER'S CRAMP : MORE MCCALL JOB-SEEKING MISSIVES SURFACE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Records released yesterday revealed more instances of Carl McCall writing letters to help get people jobs - just two days after the campaign claimed it had made all...
FIRST NOISE BUSTS BEGIN SHUSH PUSH
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg's anti-noise initiative got off to a quiet start in Greenwich Village last night as a small army of cops handed out few summonses for disturbing the peace. Dozens...
BATHROOM 'ARSONIST' BUSTED AT QNS. CAMPUS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amA college student believed to be the arsonist behind a series of bathroom fires at La Guardia Community College was arrested yesterday in a sting operation by campus security. Undercover...
HUNTER FEAR SPREADS: DESPERATE SEARCH AS NEW PAIR FALL PREY
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe hunter may have claimed two more victims. Investigators, fearing the mystery sniper has expanded his killing field, are checking for links between his five Wednesday-night and Thursday-morning hits in...
ANGELS EARN THEIR WINGS : HALOS HAVE YANKEES STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Forget about laid-back Southern California. This energized bunch of Angels has so much juice they have even roused this normally sedate, baseball-disinterested populace. A record Edison Field crowd...
GROIN INJURY PUTS MUSSINA ON SHELF
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - "We need for our starting pitching to take charge again," Yankees manager Joe Torre said on Thursday. "I mean, not that the last two guys [Roger Clemens and...
WIEMER GIVES ISLES NASTY EDGE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amTuesday morning, after Jason Wiemer put the butt of his stick in Devil agitator Mike Danton's face on a faceoff following a cross-checking fracas, Danton said Wiemer was a dirty...
BRINK OF DISASTER :BOMBERS BLOW 6-1 LEAD, FALL BEHIND 2-1
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 3Angels 9Yankees 6 ANAHEIM - When George Steinbrenner slipped David Wells a contract between the cleavage of two cheeseburgers at a Florida burger joint last Christmas, The Boss had...
ANGELS' PEN MIGHTER
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The bullpen used to be the strength of the Yankees. Against these Fightin' Angels, though, the Yankee bullpen is overmatched, all because of some 20-year-old kid. The Yankees...
WASHBURN GETS GAME 4 START
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Angels are going for the kill with their ace today. Anaheim, which made a remarkable role reversal from desperate pursuer to jugular-seeking hunter, will send Jarrod Washburn...
JINTS THINK OF EMMITT AND SEE STARS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amThey tackle him, game after game, year after year, on grass and turf, in coldness and heat, in sickness and in health. The most senior members of the Giants' defense,...
NO RELIEF FOR SORIANO : BOMBERS' BULLPEN SQUANDERS HEROIC HOMERS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Memo to Alfonso Soriano: Do not hit late, game-altering homers on 0-2 pitches with two outs at this time of year. It is great for you, bad for...
WILLIAMS' RIB INJURY WORSE THAN IT SEEMS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - While Bernie Williams downplayed the discomfort in his left rib cage Joe Torre admitted his cleanup hitter and center fielder was playing with an injury that would have...
LEHMAN MAKING ANOTHER TITLE RUN
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amCarmine Colasanto isn't overly excited about how his team has played. "We're still a long way from being a good football team," said Lehman's coach. "We're doing things that you...
JETS ARE LUNGING FOR LIFE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amWith nearly a month to go before Halloween, it's awfully early for NFL players to be thinking about a must win; nevertheless, with the offensively potent Chiefs coming to the...
BOOMER HANDLES WEIGHT OF ALDS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Regardless of the outcome of Game 3 of this ALDS, David Wells will take the mound today in a pressure situation. That's exactly the way he wants it....
DEVILS' ALBELIN GOES UNCLAIMED
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amLou Lamoriello survived yesterday's waiver draft with his Devils intact and added some roster flexibility in the process. Taking advantage of it, however, will be expensive. When Tommy Albelin -...
IRISH RUNNERS ARE TAKING ON NEW CHALLENGE
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amIt's typical for runners to move up in distance as they age. Thirty-year-old Mark Carroll, the latest in a long line of great Irish milers, said yesterday that he's moving...
VERSATILITY, DEPTH GIVE NETS SOLID SHOT TO REPEAT SUCCESS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amKenyon Martin can play small forward or power forward. Same with Rodney Rogers, but throw in some center, too. Kerry Kittles and Lucious Harris are off-guards who play point in...
CHAMBLISS 1ST UP FOR METS
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amChris Chambliss may possess the one X-factor that none of the other major candidates for the Mets' managerial vacancy has: availability. Yesterday afternoon, the Met hitting coach became the first...
SAY HALO TO UNDERRATED ANDERSON
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The ALDS could be the stage that finally shines a national spotlight on Garrett Anderson. The relatively little known Angels left fielder might finally shed the "best kept...
RANGERS GRAB FLAME IN DRAFT
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amSo what about Ronald Petrovicky, whom the Rangers selected from Calgary in yesterday's Waiver Draft? Is the 25-year-old winger this year's version of Zdeno Ciger, expected to supplement the attack,...
FOURTH AND LONG : QUARTET OF HRS PUTS A'S UP 2-1
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 3A's 6Twins 3 MINNEAPOLIS - The A's have the Twins where they want them, just like they had the Yankees last year and the year before and, according to...
HUDSON GOES FOR THE KILL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Tim Hudson, called by teammate Eric Chavez a big-game pitcher, pitches the biggest one of his life today, trying to nail down the A's first division series in...
SPREE MIGHT HAVE BROKEN KNICKS DEAL
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amCHARLESTON - Latrell Sprewell, in possibly failing to give "prompt notice" to the Knicks about his off-season hand injury, might have breached his Knick contract, according to a clause in...
DEREK MUST DELIVER : JETER-LED LINEUP CAN PICK UP STAFF
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - When Derek Jeter was a senior at Kalamazoo (Mich.) Central High School in 1992, the Yankees were hot to draft him in the first round. However, they heard...
HALOS' HUNGER HARD TO BEAT
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The Yankees' late-season schedule looked so sweet. It didn't matter that the Red Sox were hanging around in the A.L. East. Anyone who cares about pinstripes knew the...
IT'S MO VS. THE MONKEY
October 5, 2002 | 4:00amANAHEIM - There are two big questions in this series. Can Mariano Rivera get back to being Mariano Rivera, and what's up with the Rally Monkey? Rivera insists that all...