August 13, 2003
EMI MAKES A PASS ; SHAKES UP WARNER-BMG TALKS WITH A NEW OFFER
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amEMI has offered to buy Warner Music's recorded music division and is poised to pounce should talks between Warner and BMG break down, The Post has learned. An exclusivity agreement...
SPADE HAS CHIC DESIGN FOR AIRLINE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amDesigner Kate Spade is taking to the air with a line of uniforms, shoes and luggage designed exclusively for Song, Delta Air Lines' new budget carrier. All 900 employees of...
CHRYSLER'S CLOUD CLUB ON MARKET
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Chrysler Building's triplex Cloud Club is back on the market now that DaimlerChrysler has cut a deal to walk away. When it opened in 1930 as the world's tallest...
O'NEAL TURNS TO OLD GUARD TO PLUG MANAGEMENT VOID
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amAfter cleaning out Merrill Lynch's executive suites, CEO Stan O'Neal has brought back a company veteran to oversee the firm's brokerage and money management businesses. Yesterday O'Neal named Robert McCann...
ANNE KLEIN WILL SWING BOTH WAYS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amAnne Klein, known for its fashionable sportswear for women, said yesterday that it would begin selling clothes to men for the first time in its 35-year history through two separate...
MERRILL BOARD IS TENSE OVER TIES
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amTension is rising on Merrill Lynch's board as a probe into the independence and objectivity of compensation committee chair Robert Luciano is revealing that he had uncomfortably close ties to...
TYCO EX-LAWYER'S COURT LOSS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amThere was bad news for Tyco's former top lawyer yesterday, when a Manhattan judge refused to toss out the grand larceny and books-cooking charges against him. The decision by Supreme...
O'NEAL BRINGS BACK MCCANN TO LEAD WEALTH MANAGEMENT
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amAfter spending the past two weeks cleaning out Merrill Lynch's executive suites, CEO Stan O'Neal brought back a company veteran to oversee the firm's brokerage and money management businesses. Yesterday...
HAIR 'TODAY' -GONE TOMORROW
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWeatherman Al Roker got back from vacation yesterday looking like Kojak. FIRST, Al Roker lost the weight. Now the hair. The "Today" show weatherman returned from vacation yesterday sporting a...
'ESCAPE' WHILE YOU CAN
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amESCAPE FROM PTERODACTYL ISLAND At the Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St. (212) 279-4488. Through Aug. 23. 'ESCAPE from Pterodactyl Island," now playing at the New York International Fringe Festival, is...
BROOKS' DOC AIRED DESPITE DEATH
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amHBO's pre-scheduled documentary on the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" U.S. Olympic hockey team aired as planned just hours after coach Herb Brooks was killed in a car crash. "Do You...
ON THE SIDE:CARMINE'S BRANCHING OUT HERE & TO A.C.
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amCARMINE'S, the popular family-style Italian eatery in Manhattan, is taking a gamble and going to Atlantic City. Reps for the restaurant confirm it will open on the famed boardwalk inside...
THICKET TO PARADISE; CHEF GETS HIS HERBS ON THE ROOF
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWHO knew the garden of Eden was alive and well in Hell's Kitchen. "I bought this apartment for the rooftop space," says Daniel Orr, describing the West Side home he...
WHEN 'SEX' STOPS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWITH "Sex and the City" set to end its run early next year, the show's stars are starting to focus on life after "Sex." Sarah Jessica Parker, 38, says in...
I GO TO AIGO FOR SPICES OF FRANCE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amAIGO (two stars) 1608 FIRST AVE. (BETWEEN 83RD AND 84TH STREETS) (212) 327-4700 AIGO brings bright Mediterranean accents to upper First Avenue's sports-bar wasteland. Executive chef Richard Farnabe's vividly spiced...
BURGER LOVERS GIVE NOD TO RARE BAR: WELL DONE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amRARE BAR & GRILL (two stars) SHELBURNE HOTEL 303 LEXINGTON AVE. (AT 37TH STREET) (212) 481-1999 SOMEONE out there must like hamburgers topped with grilled pineapple or fried egg. Those...
BOGIE SON: NO SIZZLE IN 'GIGLI'
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S open season on Ben and Jen. There's no escaping the barbs directed at their bomb, "Gigli" - one was even lofted by Stephen Bogart (son of Humphrey Bogart and...
SETS AND THE CITY : WHEN IT COMES TO NEW YORK ON FILM, AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE THE REAL THING
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amNathan's hot dogs at Coney Island, cocktails at Chelsea's Man Ray, frolicking in Central Park's Sheeps Meadow - it can only be New York. The comedy "Uptown Girls," out Friday,...
THE STARR REPORT
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amIt's Newton, 'As' you now know E! and 102.7 Blink personality Todd Newton will host "Performing As . . . ," a new variety series premiering Tuesday, Aug. 26 on...
GET THE GOODS TO GET AHEAD
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amYou've made the big decision to further your education. New York's long list of great facilities makes it easy to reach your goals. LIU BROOKLYN CAMPUS 718-488-1011 Long Island University's...
SCHUMER: NOTANTI-CATHOLIC; ATTACK IS A BUM RAP
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amIT goes without saying that pouring lighter fluid on an already raging fire is a prescription for disaster. Yet that's just what state Conservative Party head Mike Long is doing...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amManhattan A police officer accidentally shot himself in the leg in a Lower East Side precinct house, authorities said. The injured cop - whose name was not released - was...
EVIL VIRUS ZAPPING 'NET USERS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA lightning-fast Internet virus that taunts Bill Gates has zapped tens of thousands of users of Microsoft Windows - triggering massive computer crashes around the world and slowing Web connections...
BOMBS SHATTER TRUCE; 2 ISRAELIS SLAIN IN TERRORIST BLASTS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Two 17-year-old Palestinians blew themselves up an hour apart yesterday, killing two Israelis and smashing six weeks of Mideast calm. Israel responded by sealing off West Bank towns...
CENTRAL PARK WOMAN FOUND
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe elderly New Jersey woman who vanished in Central Park Sunday turned up yesterday at a Bronx hardware store. Roma Ethel Mezoff, 71, of Middlesex walked into Buddy's Hardware on...
FED-UP WTC KIN PLAN 9/10 PROTEST
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA group of relatives of people killed in the Twin Towers plans to hold a Ground Zero rally the day before the second anniversary of the terror attacks, to call...
GROUND ZERO RABBI BEATS JAIL IN PERV PLEA
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA prominent rabbi was promised a no-jail sentence after he pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to explicitly propositioning on the Internet a cop he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Under...
BROOKLYN BOY DROWNS IN R.I.
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA 13-year-old Brooklyn boy drowned in a Rhode Island lake while his young cousin and others struggled unsuccessfully to save him, police said yesterday. Benji Vasquez was swimming at 5:49...
CHILD-RISK CHARGE VS. 'DUI' DAD
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Long Island man was arraigned yesterday on charges he drove drunk with his 4-year-old son in the car. A Suffolk County cop spotted Alfredo Solis, 45, driving a car...
PAKISTAN BIZ KID MET TERROR SHEIKH: LAWYER
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe son of a Pakistani businessman who owns a Garment District export company is accused of meeting Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed only weeks before the al Qaeda bigwig...
JAIL GUARD AN INTERNET PERV: DA
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Rikers Island correction officer who allegedly trolled for young boys on the Internet was nabbed after arranging to hook up with a "14-year-old boy" - actually an undercover cop,...
GIS IN IRAQ ALL GET YEARLONG TOUR: BRASS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. commander in Iraq yesterday said troops there should expect to serve at least a year, with a few brief breaks. Meanwhile, guerrillas attacked an American convoy...
OBESE-CITY CRISIS ; BRONX AND BROOKLYN WORST OF APPLE'S BULGING BOROUGHS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWelcome to the Fat Apple. One out of six New York adults is obese and more than half are overweight, according to an alarming study released yesterday by the city...
ARNOLD IN THE BUFF
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - An old picture of barbarian-in-the-buff Arnold Schwarzenegger hit the Internet yesterday, showing the would-be governor's considerable assets. The photo first appeared in Spy magazine 11 years ago....
LENIENCY FOR BIRD-SLAY TEEN
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA depraved Long Island teen who torched his pet parakeet on a drunken New Year's Eve dare - and later boasted about it to pals was sentenced to community service...
TEEN SURRENDERS IN BIKE SHOOTINGS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen suspected as the bike-riding gunman who wounded six men after a basketball game was arrested yesterday and charged with attempted murder after he turned himself in, police...
MIKE BACKS COPS ON JFK BREACH
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday Port Authority police acted responsibly during a security breach at Kennedy Airport this weekend - despite the fact that several youths were able to wander around...
TIME RUNNING OUT FOR TRAGIC FAMILIES TO COLLECT $7M
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA state fund for relatives of 9/11 victims has $7 million left to give away - and families have until the end of next month to step forward and claim...
KOBE P.I. DIGS UP DIRT ON BELLBOY
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant's defense wants to dig up dirt on a hotel bellboy who could be a key witness in the hoop star's sexual-assault case, according to a...
NAME RAISES ALL STARS WAR
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amArnold Schwarzenegger had kids cheering this week when he renamed his program for inner city children After School All Stars - but not everyone is thrilled. Organizers of New York's...
LITTLEST HERO; GIRL, 8, PUTS BITE ON 'ROOF RAPIST'
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA gutsy 8-year-old girl heroically beat back a sicko predator who grabbed her inside her Bronx apartment building last week - and cops now believe she may have foiled the...
CAR SCAM JUST COST YOU $200
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA multimillion-dollar insurance-fraud operation on Long Island costs each New York motorist $200 a year in higher premiums, the officials who cracked the scheme said yesterday. Suffolk County District Attorney...
CITY WITHOUT PITY GRABS THE PEOPLE'S FIRETRUCK
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S over - for now. For more than 10 weeks, defiant natives of Williamburg, Brooklyn, kept a 'round-the-clock vigil outside shuttered Engine Co. 212 - thwarting, with their bodies, Mayor...
SWEPT-OUT JANITOR BIG FILES SUIT
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA former official is suing the city's powerful janitors union, saying he was unjustly fired over rumors that he had sex with a member who came to him for help,...
SCHOOL STAFF BUSTS SOAR
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe number of city Department of Education employees busted for school-related crimes jumped 67 percent last year following probes by Schools Investigator Richard Condon's office. Thirty-five workers - including teachers...
WAREHOUSE TORCHED 'TO COVER CRIMES'
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe suspects responsible for a $170 million fraud scheme at a major health-products company desperately tried to cover their tracks by burning down a Brooklyn warehouse - and then trying...
SHOT B'KLYN TOT BRAIN-DEAD
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn toddler accidentally shot in the head was declared brain-dead yesterday. The 3-year-old boy was shot five days ago by his 9-year-old cousin with a gun the older boy...
BOND BATTLE HEADED FOR THE COURTS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn all-out war erupted yesterday between Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki after the city rejected another proposal to renegotiate a $2.5 billion aid package approved by the state Legislature over...
AGENTS DEFUSE MISSILE SCHEME ; 3 NABBED HERE IN PLOT TO SHOOT DOWN PLANE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA British arms dealer was arrested in Newark yesterday after he smuggled a shoulder-fired missile into the United States - and wanted to sell it to Muslim terrorists to shoot...
'MUTILATION' FIBBER FREED
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Ghana woman, convicted of lying to immigration authorities when she claimed her genitals would be mutilated if they sent her home, was sentenced to time served for perjury and...
ESCAPEE KILLER GETS LIFE IN JAIL
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA hired gun - who once gained notoriety by giving cops the slip - was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing two men outside a Brooklyn housing...
IRAQ GIS FACING YEARLONG TOUR THERE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. commander in Iraq yesterday said troops there should expect to serve at least a year. "It's a one-year rotation. Every soldier has been told that they'll...
FIRETRUCK, POLICE VAN CRASH IN QUEENS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA firetruck and a police Emergency Service Unit vehicle collided in Queens yesterday, injuring seven, authorities said. The accident occurred at the corner of 111th Avenue and Merrick Boulevard in...
DUBYA A REAL DOLL ACTION FIGURE RECALLS PRESIDENT'S NAVY CARRIER LANDING
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Meet GI George, a high-flying, helmet-carrying Navy pilot who should be strutting into a toy store near you by September. Blue Box Toys, a Chinese company that also...
CALIF. DREAMERS ARE DEMOCRACY'S NIGHTMARE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHE next time you complain that someone stole New York's summer, the next time you whine about the cost of a beer, the next time you kvetch about the traffic,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Florida town known as a speed trap has met its match - the AAA has put two billboards at the borders to warn motorists to slow down. And that's...
BIKE-BY SHOOT SUSPECT ARRESTED
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen suspected of being the bike-riding gunman who wounded six men after a basketball game was arrested yesterday and charged with attempted murder after he turned himself in,...
MOOSE PITCHES IN: MUSSINA LETS BOSS, PEN RELAX
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6 Royals 0 KANSAS CITY - With George Steinbrenner putting heavy pressure on his inner circle to get the Yankees to play more consistently, Mike Mussina soothed most of...
METS UPSTAGE BONDS: HOLD OFF SF DESPITE TWO HRS BY BARRY
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMets 5 Giants 4 When Art Howe was asked yesterday afternoon what he was looking for out of rookie righty Aaron Heilman, the manager uncharacteristically said, "I don't expect miracles...
GIAMBI'S KNEE MIGHT NEED SURGERY
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Jason Giambi knows there is something wrong with his left knee, but doesn't really want to find out the extent of the problem. "I will...
MILLEDGE AND METS NEAR DEAL
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets and first-round pick Lastings Milledge have agreed to terms in principle, The Post learned late last night - though interim GM Jim Duquette would not acknowledge...
IT'S BIG BASS ERA OUT AT MONTAUK PT.
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amSTRIPED bass fishing in the marine waters of New York has been unparalleled this year, but no more so than around Montauk Point, where these fish seem to be growing...
'SPECIAL' SHOWDOWN LOOMS AT SARATOGA
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - To uncover the winner of today's Grade 2, $150,000 Saratoga Special, which drew a field of eight 2-year-old colts trying 6½ furlongs for the first time, remember...
MEOLA LOVES N.J.
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amTony Meola still loves everything about this area. He just wishes every return to northern New Jersey would be identical to this week's - a road trip with the Kansas...
TIGER SET FOR OAK HILL BATTLE
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - The aura or the aroma as Ben Curtis called it that once surrounded Tiger Woods when he arrived at one of golf's major championships is gone. The fear...
BIG BEN HOPING TO STRIKE AGAIN
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amPGA NOTES ROCHESTER - Ben Curtis yesterday said his biggest thrill since winning the British Open was meeting President Bush. "That was very cool," he said. "He was a real...
TEAM USA CONCERNED WITH BEING TOO UNSELFISH
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amTwelve NBA superduperstars on one floor and not a Nick Van Exel among them. If there are any gunners-at-heart at John Jay College giving up a month of their summer...
CAN'T 'MATE' THIS UP ; SHOCKEY, FERRARA, PETITGOUT THREE UNLIKELY ROOMIES
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The rooming list for training camp usually contains few surprises. Players sharing the same position often gravitate to one another, and fast friends from years past make sure...
JETS ON GUARD ; STILL SEARCHING FOR THOMAS REPLACEMENT
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amWhen right guard Randy Thomas signed with Washington this offseason, the Jets knew it would be a challenge to replace him. But they couldn't possibly have imagined it would be...
D-DAY FOR PIAZZA : REHAB STRETCH MIGHT BE OVER
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amDepending on how Mike Piazza wakes up this morning, there could be a one-way ticket to New York awaiting him. Piazza was scheduled to catch nine innings last night in...
FONZIE: HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amFor the first time, Edgardo Alfonzo made a left turn down the tunnel to the visiting clubhouse. Alfonzo came back to Shea yesterday in a San Francisco Giants uniform. He...
DEAL WITH MILLEDGE IMMINENT
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets were finalizing negotiations with first-round pick Lastings Milledge late yesterday afternoon, and one team official expected an announcement to be made during last night's game. Milledge's...
APPRECIATING BONDS ; BOO-TIFUL BARRY DESERVES CHEERS OF N.Y. FANS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMETS fans really don't understand the kind of legend that came through Shea Stadium last night on a hot and muggy August evening. No, not Bill Clinton, who did such...
CLINTON AND LEITER TALK POLITICS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amBill Clinton and Al Leiter emerged from the players' lounge inside the Met clubhouse yesterday shoulder to shoulder. The former president and the Met left-hander seemed like good buddies, even...
JETS LOOK TO SEATS, SEE NOTHING BUT GREEN
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets are soaking fans who want to remain on the waiting list for season tickets with a $50 fee - and it's an annual surcharge, not a...
CELL PHONE MAY HAVE PLAYED ROLE IN HERB CRASH
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMourners erected a makeshift memorial made of broken hockey sticks at the site where "Miracle on Ice" Team U.S.A. coach Herb Brooks died in a wreck that may have occurred...
WELLS WILL MISS START
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - David Wells didn't arrive in New York until 4:30 yesterday afternoon, so he wasn't able to jump into an MRI tube and see the extent of the...
FONZIE HAPPY TO REVISIT FANS HE HASN'T FORGOTTEN
August 13, 2003 | 4:00am"I played here eight years . . . I still miss New York."EDGARDO ALFONZO For the first time, Edgardo Alfonzo made a left turn down the tunnel to the visiting...
PIAZZA MIGHT RETURN TONIGHT
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMike Piazza will rejoin the Mets today, but that doesn't mean he'll be in their lineup tonight. Piazza plans to work out at Shea this afternoon and talk to the...
BARRY'S ONE OF A KIND
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMETS fans really don't understand the kind of legend that came through Shea last night on another hot, muggy August evening. No, not Bill Clinton, who did such a politically...
MOOSE PITCHES IN MUSSINA LETS BOSS, PEN RELAX
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6Royals 0 KANSAS CITY - With George Steinbrenner putting heavy pressure on his inner circle to get the Yankees to stop playing so inconsistently - no matter the cost...
MILLEDGE TALKS STILL DRAGGING
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Negotiations with first-round pick Lastings Milledge continued to drag yesterday afternoon, said interim general manager Jim Duquette. "We haven't reached an agreement yet," Duquette told reporters during last...
METS UPSTAGE BONDS ; HOLD OFF SF DESPITE TWO HRS BY BARRY
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amMets 5 Giants 4 When Art Howe was asked yesterday afternoon what he was looking for out of rookie righty Aaron Heilman, the manager uncharacteristically said, "I don't expect miracles...
LEITER, CLINTON DISCUSS POLITICS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amBill Clinton and Al Leiter emerged from the players' lounge inside the Met clubhouse yesterday shoulder to shoulder. The former president and the Met left-hander seemed like good buddies, even...
WELLS HAS BEEN BETTER: BACK PROBLEM WILL CAUSE HIM TO MISS A START
August 13, 2003 | 4:00am"It's not a good sign that he had to come out of a game and go home." JOE TORRE KANSAS CITY - David Wells didn't arrive in New York until...
SHOCK THERAPY FROM COLLINS
August 13, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - There is no one better to advise Jeremy Shockey than Kerry Collins, who early in his NFL career was every bit the problem child the Giants...