July 21, 2003
POWELL WANTS TO LEAVE FCC TOP POST - REPORT
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amFederal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell - whose plan to relax media ownership rules is facing stiff opposition in Congress - has reportedly told close friends he wants to leave...
GATOR SNAPS BACK; SIDELINED LACOSTE SCORES A U.S. COMEBACK
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amOnce a veritable uniform for preppies and tennis players, Lacoste has lost ground to competitors like Ralph Lauren - whose logo polo shirt came to symbolize a wealthy lifestyle during...
GUN FOR FUN; CRAZY CONEY ISLAND SHOOTING GALLERY
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE is something cathartic about shooting a human being, something satisfying about seeing his head snap at the moment of impact, a mist of residue wafting into the air. Which...
GOSSIP: HE'LL DO DISHING
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amGOSSIP - it's a girl thing, right? Guess again. In fact, guys are more likely than gals to enjoy their dish of daily dirt - especially if they're New Yorkers....
ABBOT GENSER/HBO; LATINO FILM FEST PACKS A PUNCH
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amJOHN Leguizamo will tell you he really took his lumps making "Undefeated" - because the good-guy actor, whose directorial debut kicks off this year's New York International Latino Film Festival,...
IT'S MOB RULE! 'STUPID HUMAN FUN' IS E-MAIL PROJECT
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amLAST Wednesday, there was a mob scene in Otto Tootsi Plohound store in SoHo - literally. One minute, there were a handful of shoppers browsing the spacious Italian footwear shop...
NOW IMAGINE WHAT 'THE MAN SHOW' WOULD BE LIKE IN FRENCH
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amTHE makers of the raucous and raunchy cable hit, "The Man Show" believe guys the world over are pretty mUch the same: they will all stop to watch monkeys, explosions...
THE STARR REPORT
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amABC borrowing NBC's playbook? NBC's cross-network promotion with "Access Hollywood" on the J.Lo/Ben Affleck interview - which snared 10.6 million viewers last Thursday on "Dateline" - has lit a fire...
LIFE UNDER THE KNIFE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00am"Nip/Tuck" Tomorrow night at 10 on FX * ½ (one and one half stars) 'NIP/Tuck," the new soap about plastic surgeons on FX, is in need of some script doctoring....
NO BUTTS ABOUT IT, THE PACK IS BACK
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amSlung low on the hips of hipsters is the '80s fashion "don't" that has become a fashion "do." It's the updated fanny pack - less frumpy and lumpy than the...
BEAUTY & THE FEAST: THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE SPA
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amMother always told you to wipe the food off your face. But now that you're a grownup, smearing edibles all over yourself is an acceptable thing to do in the...
STAR IN YOUR OWN TALES FROM CRYPT
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe good news is you can produce your own Hollywood movie. The bad news is that it won't be shown until after you're dead. The Hollywood Forever Cemetery works with...
MET MAN'S PET PEEVE - ALLERGIC WORKER: I WAS AXED FOR GRIPING ABOUT SHEA CATS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amA former Shea Stadium groundskeeper is suing the Mets for $20 million, claiming he suffered permanent lung damage when his ex-colleagues kept pet cats in a storage facility against team...
BLOODY $20.5 MILLION BRAWL OVER BROOKLYN PARKING SPACE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amTwo men were stabbed, the suspected attacker was tossed in jail, and his boss was slapped with a $20.5 million lawsuit for hiring an ex-con - all because they fought...
CHUCK BLASTS CREDIT RATES
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amInterest rates keep falling - but New Yorkers are paying higher credit-card rates than the residents of nine other major metropolitan areas, Sen. Charles Schumer charged yesterday. "With mortgage rates,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe Big Apple's fashion-conscious kids wouldn't last a day in Cameron, Texas, where the school board has just passed an ultraconservative dress code. Among the new no-nos: no visible body...
FBI BLEW SHOT AT CATCHING HIJACKERS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amA clueless FBI missed the chance to uncover the 9/11 plot by failing to aggressively probe evidence that two of the hijackers were living in the San Diego home of...
LYE-TOSS CARJACK HORROR
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amDoctors were fighting today to save the sight of an elderly Queens man after carjackers threw a caustic liquid in his face when he resisted. The 71-year-old victim was stopped...
DEATH OF AN ANGEL ; 'FIREFLY' TOT, BIKER DIE IN QNS. CRASH
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amA 2-year-old Queens girl - coming home with her mom from a trip to catch fireflies in a local park - was killed when a biker came flying down the...
HOOPS TALENT TURNED ONCE-NICE SCHOOLBOY INTO A SPOILED JERK
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amTHE nice guy turned cocky superstar has got his comeuppance. Kobe Bryant's spoiling began in Lower Merion Township, Pa., where he was knighted king of the local high school because...
BOWERY FUND-RAISER FOR BUBBA FOUNDATION
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amBill Clinton still has pulling power with the under-30 set - and a who's who of Gotham's young, social elite will play host this week to a high-profile fund-raiser for...
REV. AL SOUNDS OFF ON LIBERIA
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amAfrican-Americans must be more outspoken on the issue of when the U.S. should send peacekeepers to war-torn Liberia, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday at the beginning of a fact-finding...
CHEERS FOR POW JESSICA, TEARS FOR TRAGIC RESCUER
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amWhile the family of POW Jessica Lynch celebrates her expected return home tomorrow, the parents and fiancée of the brave Marine who helped free her are in mourning. That's because...
JUDGE MAKES 'EXTRA' $$ GRAB
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn Civil Court Judge Lila Gold raised $143,272 for her re-election bid this fall - even though she has no primary opponent and isn't even likely to take the seat...
AIRPORT SCREENERS PROTEST UNION NIX
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amCharging that their supervisors ignore their complaints about security lapses, identity theft and health risks from X-ray machines, screeners at La Guardia Airport yesterday urged the Bush administration to allow...
MIKE: DEMS $CARED OF NON-PARTY VOTE PLAN
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday said New York Democrats are afraid of his proposal to ban spending any money to put the question of nonpartisan elections to voters in November. State Democratic...
LAWYER'S HEART IS TOO BIG FOR HIS SUITS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amIf anyone told Melvyn Weiss it was time to slow down after a lifetime of good deeds because he's turning 68, it would be adding insult to injury - and...
NYPD BIGS DEFEND ROLE AT TRAIN FIRE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday insisted that its officers led the evacuation of an F train whose passengers were trapped in a Brooklyn subway-station fire. "It if wasn't for the Police Department's...
DOMINICANS PARADE THEIR FEELINGS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amMerengue and Miss Universe made yesterday's 14th annual Dominican Day Parade in The Bronx a showstopper. Dominican-born beauty queen Amelia Vega sashayed to the booming merengue beat as the march...
SHARON SLAMS MAZEN
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority announced yesterday it had outlawed groups that support violence, but in a tense face-to-face meeting, Israeli leader Ariel Sharon slammed Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen...
2 GIS SLAIN AS IRAQIS EYE MILITIA
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Two more American soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday by hostile gunfire as the commander of coalition forces announced he is establishing a militia of 6,800 Iraqis to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amQueens Two young men were stabbed and another man was beaten during a fight last night at a festival in Flushing Meadow Park, cops said. The stabbing victims, age 17...
DEREK'S BIG FEAT - JETER A SHOE-BIZ SUPERSTAR AS PINSTRIPE SNEAKER JOINS JORDAN TEAM
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amHere comes Air Jeter! Yankee superstar Derek Jeter will be doing his part to keep the Michael Jordan legacy alive when he launches a new shoe this week under the...
KOBE CAN KEEP HIS $$: ACCUSER
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amKobe Bryant's accuser got "sick" to her stomach watching the hoops superstar weepily deny on national TV that he raped her - and she doesn't want his money, just a...
MELON MYSTERY; NO RIND OR REASON AS FRUIT-LOOPY 'ARTIST' SPRAY-PAINTS TOWN
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amIs it in good taste or the work of some seedy character? That's what baffled residents of New Rochelle are asking themselves after massive murals of watermelon slices began popping...
HAMPTONS PLANE CRASH - MYSTERY SURF DUDE RESCUES 5
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amFive people survived - with the help of a mystery surfer - after their single-engine plane lost power and ditched in the waters of Great Peconic Bay off the Hamptons...
SWITCH HITS THE SPAN - BRIDGE LIGHTS TURNED OFF IN BUDGET MOVE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe light bulbs on four East River bridges have taken their toll on the city's budget. The decorative lights that adorn the cables of the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and 59th...
'4 PRIVET DRIVE' FOR SALE ; MAGIC REEL ESTATE; HARRY POTTER'S 'HOME' GOES ON AUCTION BLOCK
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe modest house where Harry Potter lives with the dastardly Dursley family is about to make a small fortune for its Muggle owner. Tomorrow, Sandra Smith is auctioning off the...
CHANCELLOR BIDS TO TURN THE APPLE INTO TUTOR CITY
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amIt's tutor time for city schools boss Joel Klein. Klein is hunting for hundreds of additional tutors as part of a citywide program to help low-performing students learn English and...
SUMMER SCHOOL IS COOL FOR 'SCHOLARS'
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amSummer-school attendance has been mostly dreadful - but one program has better than perfect attendance. Not only do all the smart kids show up at the City College HS Scholars...
PARKING PANDEMONIUM: 2 STABBED, ONE JAILED, BOSS SUED
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amTwo men were stabbed, the suspected attacker was tossed in jail, and his boss was slapped with a $20.5 million lawsuit for hiring an ex-con - all because they fought...
WAR-RAVAGED BAGHDAD ZOO REOPENS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amLife got back to normal in Iraq yesterday - at least for a handful of animals at the newly reopened Baghdad Zoo. Very few Iraqis attended the grand re-opening of...
WHALEY EAGER FOR GHO
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amAfter playing against some of the best female players in the world, Suzy Whaley is ready to take on the men. Whaley shot a 1-over-par 72 in the final round...
STEADY HAN NAILS FIRST TOUR VICTORY
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amBIG APPLE CLASSIC There was a lot less pressure this time. A year ago, when Hee-Won Han stood over a 6-foot putt on the 72nd hole at Wykagyl Country Club...
REMEMBER, TIGER IS MORTAL
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amSANDWICH, England - Tiger Woods bleeds. He, too, sheds his share of tears. The man is not a tournament-winning robot devoid of a pulse or emotion. He's a man who...
SLOPPY STERLING THROWS HITCH INTO TRADE TALKS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amJoe Torre said he is aware Sterling Hitchcock is being discussed in trade talks, but claimed he did not use the veteran lefty in the ninth inning yesterday because the...
LAYDEN TO TAKE LOOK AT N'DIAYE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amThe Knicks will take a look at a 7-foot free-agent center when the Utah portion of their summer-league begins today vs. Denver. Mamadou N'diaye, a 2000 first-round pick, joined the...
UGLY EIGHTH FINAL INDIGNITY FOR METS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amBraves 11Mets 8 ATLANTA - After three tough losses to Atlanta, the Mets were on the verge of leaving town with a modicum of pride and dignity. But with an...
THIS HIT-BY PITCH IS WAY OFF TARGET
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amIT was a week marked by remarkable reporting, none more so than that provided by Ch. 5 News sports anchor John Discepolo, whose work brought to question the recurring question...
HOWE TO ROGER: LOSE SOME WEIGHT
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - If Roger Cedeno remains with the Mets next year, Art Howe has a simple request for the 28-year-old outfielder - lose some weight. The topic came...
MAJOR SURPRISE, CURTIS-Y OF BEN ; UNKNOWN ROOK STUNS BRIT FIELD FOR FIRST CAREER WIN
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amSANDWICH, England - Who the hell is Ben Curtis? Those succinct words, spoken during the middle of the climactic British Open final round yesterday by a BBC broadcaster on the...
MONEY NOT HIGH ON QUARTERBACK'S LIST
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amMichael Strahan got paid. So did Tiki Barber and Amani Toomer and Shaun Williams. Luke Petitgout just got his reward. In the past few years, every highly-successful member of the...
COLLINS ON RIGHT PATH; KERRY HAS LIFE BACK ON TRACK
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amHe can throw, lord knows he can wing it. He can lead, in his own understated way. But of all the attributes that have intertwined to thrust Kerry Collins into...
BARANOVA'S OUTBURST PROVIDES LIB ELATION
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amLiberty 73Fever 65 Nell Fortner said she wasn't surprised when the Liberty's Elena Baranova suddenly erupted for 15 quick points in the second half. "She's one of the top players...
HERM KNOWS IT'S TIME JETS STEP UP ; EDWARDS BRACES FOR CRITICAL YEAR
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amT H IS is the year we get to find out whether Herman Edwards is ready to become an elite head coach in the NFL. Because if he wants to...
SWEEP SAVE FOR MO ; RIVERA, BIG SIXTH BAIL OUT MOOSE AND TOPPLE TRIBE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 7Indians 4 Six runs in the sixth inning provided Mike Mussina with a seven-run bulge yesterday, and not a soul in the huge Yankee Stadium crowd envisioned Mariano Rivera...
BIG APPLE'S MINORS COMING UP HUGE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amDANNY Garcia sees himself joining Jose Reyes to form the most dynamic double-play combination in Met history. The folks who speak for Chien-Ming Wang see him making postseason Yankee Stadium...
NO JOKE, REGGIE 'DONS' ATTITUDE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amIf Reggie Jackson was only kidding, he fooled a lot of folks. Saturday, late in the Indians-Yanks telecast on YES, Jackson, in the stadium for Old-Timers' Day, entered the booth...
OPEN OFFICIALS CLOCK WOODS AND SINGH
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES SANDWICH, England - When an official approached Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh on No. 12 yesterday and put them on the clock for slow play, it agitated Woods....
A COUPLE OF TRUE PROS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amTHE cast changes regularly for the Yankees these days, not often for the better. They harp on the great character guys within their clubhouse maintaining order, not recognizing the bad...
POSADA HOMER SPARKS YANKS
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amWhile spending the early part of last season recovering from shoulder surgery and the end of it battling a sore knee, Jorge Posada never felt 100 percent; both his power...
ACHY DEREK'S RED HOT
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Ice for the left shoulder . . . for the right hand . . . and for both ankles. Derek Jeter is lucky somebody doesn't take a sharp...
BJORN TO BE VILE
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amSANDWICH, England - The collapse wasn't quite as dramatic, but Thomas Bjorn played the part of Jean Van de Velde in yesterday's bizarre British Open final round. There were four...
KEEP OR DUMP? HERE'S SOME HELP
July 21, 2003 | 4:00amLET us guess: a couple of players on your team haven't been mimicking years past. Woe is you, we know. Get over it. Do us a favor and look at...