August 15, 2003
A PRICEY GAMBLE - ABERCROMBIE BETS ON NO-DISCOUNT STRATEGY
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amAbercrombie & Fitch, the teen retailer known for its racy catalogs and cool collegiate looks, is playing a high-stakes game of chicken. While other retailers resort to huge promotions that...
COMCAST: WE'RE IN - IN TALKS OVER JOINT VENTURE TO BID FOR VIVENDI
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amComcast is in the game. The nation's largest cable company confirmed yesterday that it is intent on going after Vivendi Universal, saying it was in discussions about a joint venture...
CAPTIVATING COMIC
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amAMERICAN SPLENDOR [ 1/2] Don't miss this. Running time: 101 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sexuality). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Sunshine. ----- 'AMERICAN Splendor" is the splendid climax to...
YOU BETTER GET OUT OF 'TOWN'
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amOT: OUR TOWN [ 1/2] ---- COMPTON, Calif., is infamous as the scene of drive-by shootings and gangster riots - and it's light-years removed from the well-behaved, dull New England...
HEADED SOUTH
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amUPTOWN GIRLS [Half a star] A must to avoid. Running time: 93 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexuality, profanity). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Union Square, others. ---- BEWARE the...
'GRIND' IS DOWN TO NUB
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amGRIND [] Direct-to-video caliber filler. Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexuality, toilet humor). At the Empire, the Orpheum, the United Artists 64th Street and Second Avenue, others. ----- THE...
IT'S FUN, DEAR WATSON
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amTHE SECRET OF MAKING WHOOPEE II: THE HOUDINI INCIDENT. At the Greenwich House Theatre, 27 Barrow St. Through Aug. 24. (212) 279-4488. ---- 'SHERLOCK Holmes and the Secret of Making...
DELIGHTFUL 'SATAN' PLAYS DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amSAY YOU LOVE SATAN At the Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place. Through Aug. 23. Call (212) 279-4488. ----- 'SAY You Love Satan," now playing the New York International...
AT HOME ON THE 'RANGE' - COSTNER'S A COMEBACK KID WITH OLD-SCHOOL WESTERN
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amOPEN RANGE [] Welcome back to Earth, Kevin. Running time: 138 minutes. Rated R (gunplay, violence). At the Ziegfeld, Kips Bay, the City Cinemas E. 86th St., others. ---- JUST...
FREDDY-JASON FLICK REALLY IS A HORROR SHOW
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amFREDDY VS. JASON [ 1/2] No more gore.Running time: 98 minutes. R (pervasive strong horror violence/gore, gruesome images, sexuality, drug use and language). At the Empire, the Loews 84th Street,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amStaffers at the Universal Studios theme park in Florida are hunting for a man's false leg after it flew off as he rode a roller coaster. Hawley Webb alerted workers...
STEALTH MULTILATERALISM?
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amA NTIWAR or administration critics continue to lament (or rejoice) that only a "handful" of foreign troops are in or on their way to Iraq, thanks to the Bush administration's...
AIR MOGUL'S N.J. SPA TO TAKE WING
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amBillionaire airline tycoon Richard Branson is set to ink a deal to open a luxurious, $1,000-a-day hotel and health spa in New Jersey. Guests will be pampered with gourmet foods...
WITH THE FLICK OF A PEN, A PERFUNCTORY, "SORRY 'BOUT THAT," AND $2.7 BILLION BUCKS....
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amWITH the flick of a pen, a perfunctory, "Sorry 'bout that," and $2.7 billion bucks - pocket change for these creatures - Libya, formerly shunned as a state sponsor of...
15G RAPE BOUNTY
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amPolice and politicians yesterday put a $15,000 bounty on the capture of the "rooftop rapist" who has preyed on young girls for at least 10 years. DNA recovered in a...
DISASTER SAPS APPLE'S JUICE * BLACKOUT HITS EASTERN U.S., CANADA * GOV DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amA massive blackout hit New York City yesterday afternoon as huge power outages swept through the eastern United States and Canada. Federal officials said the electricity failure, which affected tens...
POWERLESS NYERS FIGHT FEELINGS OF FEAR
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amHundreds of thousands of New Yorkers - many convinced terrorists had struck again - spilled down staircases and poured onto the city streets after the lights flickered and went out...
OUTAGE CAUSE IS GRID RIDDLE - OVERLOAD TRACED TO UPSTATE OR DOWNTOWN
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg insisted an overload at an upstate or Canadian power generation plant was the cause of yesterday's massive blackout - even as federal officials blamed the problem on the...
COP REACHES OUT TO COMMUNITY
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amERIC ADAMS: Community Medal nominee ---- Eric Adams cares. The NYPD lieutenant has spent almost 20 years on the force and co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, an...
'TERROR' IS FIRST THOUGHT IN DARK DAYS
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amTO QUOTE the song, "This is the end of the innocence." It was 1965. My mother had just picked me up from school and all of a sudden the lights...
MIKE URGES: STAY WET AND MILD
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg begged New Yorkers to stay calm and drink lots of water during the power shutdown yesterday, blaming the blackout on a "natural occurrence" and that the city's emergency...
911 FOR KOBE WIFE - MEDICS TREATED HER DAY BEFORE STAR'S ARREST
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amKobe Bryant's wife, Vanessa Laine, needed medical assistance at their house a day before the NBA superstar surrendered to police on a rape charge, newly released documents reveal. Kobe, 24,...
NEWSMAN SUED IN 'HIT RUN'
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amA man injured by Jack Cafferty in an alleged hit-and-run accident is giving the CNN morning anchor a wakeup call: a $10 million lawsuit. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme...
HOW I CHEATED DEATH - THE MOVE THAT SAVED SUBWAY SHOVE VICTIM
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amAround Bellevue Hospital he's called the "The Miracle Man" - the everyday commuter who cheated death and lived to tell the story. "I'm just so glad I'm lying here and...
KILLER BLOWN TO HELL
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The leader of Islamic Jihad in Hebron - believed responsible for the deaths of more than 20 Israelis in a spate of terrorist attacks over the past two...
YANKELS' MOM SEEKS CLOSURE
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amIT CUT through Fay Rosenbaum's heart like a circular saw. "It was March 31, 1998," Fay sadly recalled. "Lemrick Nelson turned to me in court and said: 'I'm really sorry...
LIBESKIND WINS - BID TO SHIFT FREEDOM TOWER FAILS
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amA leading downtown rebuilding official said yesterday a proposal to shift the location of the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower at Ground Zero has been shelved. "It will stay where the [Daniel]...
PRESTON KEPT PRESSING ON - WILSON'S DAUGHTER CHANGED HIS GRIEF INTO GREAT SEASON
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amMONTREAL - There's not enough tape to spell the players' names above the visiting lockers in Olympic Stadium. So Preston Wilson arranges his letters to spell something else instead: TAYA'S...
JETS' LIST A REAL STEAL - BOYCOTT OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON BEST FORM OF PAYBACK
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amJUST when you thought the brutalized sports fans of New York had become conditioned to roll over and play dead, just when you thought they obediently trudged to the strains...
FINN'S IN HUNT FOR FB JOB
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES In other years, Jim Finn would return home as the enemy to all but those in the Finn household. Three times the past three years, Finn accompanied the...
LYNN'S GIANT 'D' FACING OLD FRIEND
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amWhen the Giants take the field tonight for their first-ever game on the new state-of-the-art artificial turf at Giants Stadium, there to greet them will be John Fox, the defensive...
FANS PHIL UP ON HOPE - MICKELSON'S LEAD BRINGS OUT THE LOVE FROM HAPPY GALLERY
August 15, 2003 | 4:00amROCHESTER - The galleries no longer cheer for Phil Mickelson as much as they clutch him close to their chests and hug him, hoping to keep him safe from danger,...