August 12, 2003
THE MUSIC MAN: BRONFMAN TURNS ATTENTION TO UNIVERSAL MUSIC
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. hears the music. With his bid for Vivendi Universal Entertainment increasingly in doubt because of Vivendi's lofty price expectations, Bronfman is expected to refocus his interest on...
'FLASHDANCE' FLASHBACK IN '80S REVIVAL
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amIt's time to dust off those leg warmers. Some of the hottest looks for back-to-school are inspired by the punk, glam and "Flashdance" styles of the 1980s. Hennes & Mauritz,...
NOW DILLER'S JUMPING ON GRAY LADY
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amIn yet another challenge to the credibility of The New York Times, Barry Diller blasted the paper yesterday for "numerous inaccuracies" in an article Sunday about the financial reporting practices...
A&F BOLTS DEAL ON 57TH STREET
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amRACY retailer Abercrombie & Fitch just backed out of a seemingly done deal for a big new store at Madison Avenue and 57th Street, shocking the landlord as well as...
JUDGE KOS RIGAS BID TO BE TRIED SEPARATELY
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAdelphia founder John Rigas has failed in a bid to be tried separately from his sons on charges he presided over a $2.3 billion swindle. Manhattan federal judge Leonard Sand...
J.P. MORGAN GOBBLES UP PRICEY PICKLE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amHicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. agreed to sell Pinnacle Foods Corp., the owner of Vlasic pickles and Swanson frozen dinners, to J.P. Morgan Partners for $485 million, in a...
TRIO MOVES TO RAISE ITS STAR POWER
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe fast-growing but often overlooked cable network Trio is making a big push for recognition. The network, part of Vivendi Universal Entertainment, is set to launch its first national television...
J. CREW'S CFO EXITS FOR POST AT EQUINOX
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amJ. Crew, the casual clothing and mail-order retailer, said yesterday that its chief financial officer, Scott Rosen, resigned to pursue other interests. Sources close to the company said Rosen had...
INTO OVERDRIVE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00am* DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL "A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar" ½ Vagrant RecordsSomewhere between the simple strums of folk music and the feverish pounding of pop punk lies the...
ZANY IN ZURICH
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTRAVESTIES At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Mass. Through Aug. 17. (413) 597-3399. TOM Stoppard's 1974 "Travesties," a lunatic comedy that plays fast and loose with real historical characters, is...
'ROCCO'S WAS A SINKING SHIP' : WEEPY WAITER IS BACK AT OLD JOB
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTOPHER Goodman, the weeping waiter who walked out on Rocco Dispirito during Sunday's episode of "The Restaurant," says he was right to quit. "As soon as I first got [to...
'TOON IN TO TEEN STERN
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amNOW it can be confirmed - Howard Stern will be working with Spike TV on an animated series about his teenage years. The project, "Howard Stern: the High School Years,"...
FOX FUMES OVER 'FAIR AND BALANCED'
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amFOX News Channel is suing comedian Al Franken for using its signature phrase "fair and balanced" in the title of his new book. The network wants a Manhattan court to...
DANDY WARHOLS MONKEY 'ROUND WITH CHIC LINEUP
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Dandy Warhols, from Oregon, used to sing about heroin and bohemia with props to the Velvet Underground. But the latest album, "Welcome to the Monkey House," named for Kurt...
THE STARR REPORT
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amReege: Just the fax, please Regis Philbin faxed the July ratings grid over yesterday, with an accompanying note. "Some exciting news for you. Here are the July sweeps ratings and...
ON THE FAT WALK: DESIGNERS WANT JODIE TO GET HER SKINNY BODY BACK
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amSIX-foot-1 and 132 pounds. Those are vital statistics most of the world's women would die for - but not those in the fashion world. Gangly British model Jodie Kidd -...
BOAT KIDS STUN POLICE AT JFK
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amIn a shocking security breach at JFK Airport, three teens wandered around an active runway - and were so under the radar that they had to turn themselves in to...
'WORST MUSIC' LIST SLAMS DOORS, MICK AND CELINE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amBlender magazine has named the "50 Worst Artists in Music History" - and the list is bound to infuriate pop fans, because along with expected names like Celine Dion and...
BRONX MATH 'MOM' A CLASS ACT
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amYVETTE BECK - Educator Medal nominee --- Here's the equation that helps explain why Yvette Beck is an award-winning math teacher: She's a devoted "calculus mom" to her Bronx students...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amGet ready to pay the piper if you steal another man's wife in Mississippi. That's the lesson Harry Stevens learned after a jury ordered him to fork over $175,000 to...
TICKET 'BLITZ' GIVING POL FITS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAdd C. Virginia Fields to the list of those wondering if the city's on a ticket blitz just to raise revenue. Of course, Fields isn't an ordinary citizen. She's Manhattan's...
VET 'BLESSED' TO GET JOB BACK
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA former member of the honor guard at a New Jersey veterans cemetery, who complained he was fired for saying, "God bless you" at a funeral, has won his job...
"HUMAN SHIELD" IN THE IRAQ WAR SAID SHE WAS TOLD BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHE COULD FACE UPWARDS OF $1 MILLION IN FINES...
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA retired teacher who acted as a "human shield" in the Iraq war said she was told by the U.S. government she could face upwards of $1 million in fines...
LEAPIN' LIZARD! AN IGUANA IN B'KLYN
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAfter leading cops on a wild chase through the back yards of Brooklyn, Charlie the iguana has found a new home. The 2-foot-long reptile was first spotted rustling through garbage...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amQUEENS * Here is the man (below left) who police say tried to choke a 39-year-old jogger in Forest Park while groping and biting her. The suspect, described as in...
INSPECTIONS BLITZ AFTER DECK DEATH
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe Buildings Department will inspect every deck and porch in the Queens neighborhood where a rotting wooden deck collapsed last weekend, killing one woman and injuring three others. "I have...
TYRANT FLEES LIBERIA WAR
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Brutal Liberian warlord Charles Taylor kept his promise and flew into exile yesterday, giving hope to the downtrodden country he ruled for 14 bloody years. Under pressure from...
U.S. PUSHES FOR NEW RESOLUTION
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United States is pushing for U.N. approval of a resolution that could lead other countries to send some troops to Iraq - allowing more Americans to come...
CITY POLS: OUR BUCK$ STOP HERE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amMembers of the City Council have raised so much cash in advance of next month's primary elections that it appears that most are looking toward races in 2005 and beyond....
BUSH IS HOT FOR CURBING WILDFIRES
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday visited a resort destroyed by runaway fires in Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains and called on Congress to allow the thinning of overgrown forests to get...
MOUSE RAIDER HITS CAFE IN BREAD BASKET
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amOf Mice and Menu. The Post caught a mouse gnawing on bread at an Au Bon Pain restaurant at Third Avenue and 53rd Street. Late on the night of Aug....
COUNCIL MAY PROBE ELEX BOARD 'SLUR'
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amRacial slurs made about the Board of Elections' top African-American official could lead to an oversight hearing by a City Council committee chaired by her husband. Last week, veteran employee...
MATH PROBLEMS - 'COACH' SHORTAGE ADDS TO TEACH-TRAINING WOES
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe city will be unable to provide each of the public schools with its own full-time math coaches as planned this fall because there's a shortage of available experts, Schools...
L.I. RUNAWAY SAFE - GIRL, 12, TURNS UP IN DALLAS 8 DAYS AFTER VANISHING
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA 12-year-old girl who vanished from her Long Island home eight days ago and was feared dead has been found safe and sound in Texas. Cops say Rosanna Reyes Guevara...
FOE OF DAVIS BRO CLEARED OF THREAT
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAn aide to Geoffrey Davis, the brother of slain Councilman James Davis, accused a political opponent of making threats against him - prompting a police investigation and a speedy dismissal...
DRIVER RESCUED FROM FLOODWATERS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA woman was rescued yesterday while clinging to a tree after floodwaters swept away her car upstate. And then she was given a ticket for driving past a police barricade....
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amHERE'S what East Hampton village police reported finding late Saturday night when they raided three of the hottest clubs in town: Jean-Luc East was 164 over its legal occupancy limit...
BOND BIGS BOOST CITY'S BORROW BID
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA major bond-rating agency reaffirmed its "AA" rating on $500 million in notes that the city intends to sell this week - even though Gov. Pataki has called the sale...
'DIDDY' CREW IN BEAT-DOWN SUIT
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAn aspiring filmmaker claims in a $25 million lawsuit he was beaten unconscious when he went to Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' recording studio to try and get the hip-hop honcho...
CELEBRITY PUSH BOOSTS POPULARITY OF NO-DOC DELIVERIES
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amMidwives have labored over twice as many births in the past decade thanks to an education blitz boosting their image, as well as celebrity moms helping to push them into...
ARNIE TAKES BITE OF APPLE POWER LUNCHEON CAPS DAY IN N.Y.
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAll-action Arnold Schwarzenegger blew into the Big Apple yesterday to schmooze kids and heavy hitters alike - spending the morning with children uptown before power-lunching with GOP kingmakers at the...
RAP PLAYA GUILTY IN $$ SCHEME
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA hip-hop insider has agreed to take the rap for a money-laundering scheme uncovered by investigators probing an alleged link between the music label Murder Inc. and a notorious drug-trafficking...
L.I. 'RACE ARSONISTS' BRAGGED OF FIRE 'FUN'
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe teens charged with torching a sleeping Mexican family's Long Island home pleaded not guilty yesterday as sickening new details of their alleged hate crime were bared in court. Kyle...
HEALTH-CODE RAP IS YUCKO FOR ROCCO'S
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amMamma Mia! Rocco DiSpirito's new Italian restaurant features flies, greasy spoons and dirty towels in addition to its famed meatballs, according to a city Health Department inspection. Rocco's on 22nd,...
QNS. BEAU GUILTY IN XMAS SLAY
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man pleaded guilty yesterday to savagely killing his girlfriend with an 8-inch kitchen knife the day after Christmas 2001 - because she ridiculed the gifts he bought for...
N.J. SLIME SLIPS AWAY
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amYesterday was a real stinker for "The Blob Squad," a group of environmental workers trying to rid a New Jersey lagoon of smelly jelly residue from a decaying algae formation....
JEWISH GROUP RIPS MEL'S JESUS FILM AS 'FUEL' FOR HATRED
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amMel Gibson's controversial new movie about the death of Christ will "fuel hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism," a prominent Jewish group is charging. After attending a screening of the film, "The...
DOGGY DRUGG RAP - 'GONE WILD' GIRLS: SNOOP GOT US HIGH
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTwo teenage girls are accusing raucous rapper Snoop Dogg of offering them marijuana and "ecstasy" to flash for his X-rated "Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style" video, according to a federal...
SCHWARZENEGGER BY A CALIFORNIA LANDSLIDE: POLLS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Two new polls yesterday showed Arnold Schwarzenegger winning the California gubernatorial race by a landslide, as embattled Gov. Gray Davis called the recall an "insult." In a...
TYRANT TAYLOR FLEES LIBERIA
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Brutal Liberian warlord Charles Taylor flew into exile yesterday, giving hope to the downtrodden country he ruled for 14 bloody years. But the disgraced president vowed ominously before...
CAR-SMASH RING NETTED MILLIONS: DA
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amLaw-enforcement officials have smashed a multimillion-dollar car-insurance fraud ring on Long Island involving bogus medical claims and crooked lawyers. An eight-month probe, conducted by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office...
GORE LEGAL TEAM GUILTY OF SEX BIAS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amFederal investigators have clipped the wings of high-flying legal eagle David Boies' law firm, finding that it discriminated against female attorneys. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that the...
'RACE ARSONISTS' BRAGGED OF 'FUN'
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe teens charged with torching a sleeping Mexican family's Long Island home pleaded not guilty yesterday as sickening new details of their alleged hate crime were bared in court. Kyle...
ARNIE TAKES BITE OF APPLE - DOES LUNCH WITH N.Y. POWER CELEBS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amArnold Schwarzenegger blew into the Big Apple yesterday - spending the morning with children uptown before power-lunching with GOP kingmakers. The seemingly unstoppable California gubernatorial candidate - who has a...
'WORST' LIST SLAMS DOORS, MICK
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amBlender magazine has named the "50 Worst Artists in Music History" - and the list is bound to infuriate pop fans, because along with expected names like Celine Dion and...
HONOR GUARD 'BLESSED' TO GET JOB BACK
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA former member of the honor guard at a New Jersey veterans cemetery, who complained he was fired for saying, "God bless you" at a funeral, has won his job...
QNS. BEAU PLEADS GUILTY IN XMAS SLAY
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man pleaded guilty yesterday to savagely attacking his girlfriend with an 8-inch kitchen knife the day after Christmas 2001 - because she ridiculed the gifts he bought for...
COPS ID TEEN BIKE GUNMAN
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was being sought yesterday as the suspected bike-riding gunman who wounded six men in a revenge-fueled shooting spree after a basketball game, police sources said. Cops distributed...
'HUMAN SHIELDS' FACE JAIL, FINES
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amA retired teacher who acted as a "human shield" in the Iraq war said she was told by the U.S. government she could face upwards of $1 million in fines...
DEUTSCHE BANK FILES LAWSUIT
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amDeutsche Bank filed a lawsuit yesterday to try to force two insurance companies to pay for demolition of its Liberty Street office tower, badly damaged in the World Trade Center...
AOL GONE: 'NET GIANT WANTS OUT OF TIME WARNER NAME
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amAOL Time Warner may drop its embarrassing first name. The boss of the popular online-service provider has asked that the familiar moniker AOL be dropped from the media behemoth's official...
OSUNA WITH AILING MOM
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - The Yankees have placed right-handed reliever Antonio Osuna on the bereavement list, effective yesterday. Osuna went home to Mexico to be with his mother, who...
SWAYNE LIKES BEING CHASED
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTwo summers ago, Kevin Swayne was the chaser. Now he's being chased. Two summers ago, Swayne was a wide-eyed free agent out of the XFL and the Arena League begging...
HERM: DEWAYNE'S DOIN' FINE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES Two preseason games into his preseason NFL career, Dewayne Robertson has only a single assisted tackle to his statistical credit, something that might suggest the Jets' No. 1...
GREISEN AWAITS GIANT BREAK
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The word coming from the Giants is that Nick Greisen needs to be on the field, and the team will search for ways to hasten that process. The...
SHOCKEY AGENTS ON HOT SEAT
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Last Saturday, when the Jeremy Shockey controversy was boiling over, Giants coach Jim Fassel spent 45 minutes on the phone with Shockey's mother, Lucinda, assuring her the team...
NETS TAB FORMER LAKER DREW
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe Nets completed their coaching staff yesterday naming Larry Drew, 45, as an assistant coach under Byron Scott. Drew, who spent the last three seasons with the Wizards, was a...
SIZZLIN' PLETCHER TIES RECORD WITH 24TH WIN AT SPA
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - After smashing Hall-of-Fame trainer Frank Martin's 1982 record by winning 40 races at the Belmont spring-summer stand, Todd Pletcher reached another milestone at the Old Spa yesterday,...
FASSEL READY TO MATCH WITS WITH OLD FRIEND
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Friday's pre-season game against the Panthers brings a familiar face back to Giants Stadium, as former Giants defensive coordinator John Fox is heading into his second...
DOUBLE TROUBLE ; YANKS LOSE WELLS IN 2-BAGGER FEST
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amRoyals 12Yankees 9 KANSAS CITY - On a night the Yankees and Royals combined for an AL record 19 doubles, David Wells was the bigger news. Wells' barking back finally...
METS PLAYING FUTURES ; HOWE: WE'RE LEARNING GOOD LESSONS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amIt may not be much fun to play spoiler, but that's the role the last-place Mets have been reduced to. And yet, between now and Sept. 28, they could at...
YANKS ON SCHEDULE BOSTON'S KILLER SLATE COULD OPEN DOOR TO TITLE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Jason Giambi insists the only thing the Yankees can worry about is what they can control. It's a cliché, but true when it comes to the final...
MORROW: HE MADE US BETTER PLAYERS - AND PEOPLE
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amHerb Brooks made life for his players on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team miserable so they would share a common belief - that it was all 20 of them...
IVERSON: KOBE TALK IS USELESS
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amUSA NOTES They call him The Answer, but yesterday Allen Iverson tried to sidestep one issue: his take on the Kobe Bryant situation. Iverson has been there, he said. He...
AT 40, MALONE STILL DRIVEN TOWARD GOLD
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTeam USA gathered with coach Larry Brown before practice at John Jay College yesterday, sprawling on the floor to listen. Well, 11 players sat on the floor - the 11...
MOURNING FOR MIRACLE MAN: BROOKS UNITED 20 KIDS (& ONE GRATEFUL NATION)
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amTHE thing people always forget, of course, is that the United States didn't win the gold medal that unforgettable Friday in Lake Placid. They had shocked the world, yes. They...
OSUNA TAKES LEAVE ; PRINZ PROMOTED TO REPLACE BEREAVED RELIEVER
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - The Yankees have placed right-handed reliever Antonio Osuna on the bereavement list, effective yesterday. Osuna went home to Mexico to be with his mother, who...
LOU: HERB WAS GREAT INNOVATOR
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amOne great shining light of hockey has gone out, but Herb Brooks leaves a torch for others to pick up. Hockey lost one of its all-time greatest coaches, thinkers, promoters...
RON'S OUT OF CHANCES
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amJEREMY Shockey doesn't have to look very far to study the perfect blueprint for his own eventual calamity. A case study sits in his own locker room. He resides only...
KENYON-FOR-RASHEED DEAL NOT DEAD YET
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amNews that Arvydas Sabonis told the Trail Blazers that he intends to return to Lithuania and not play in the NBA this upcoming season caused murmurs yesterday that discussions of...
AMERICA LOSES ITS GREATEST ICE TACTICIAN
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amIT PROBABLY was the best coaching job ever. If the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team's gold medal was the biggest upset in sports history, then nobody has ever better prepared...
OSUNA TAKES LEAVE PRINZ PROMOTED TO REPLACE BEREAVED RELIEVER
August 12, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - The Yankees have placed right-handed reliever Antonio Osuna on the bereavement list, effective yesterday. Osuna went home to Mexico to be with his mother, who...