October 20, 2003

ATLANTIC, LUCKY SCORE AT MAGAZINE BIGS' CONFAB

THERE'S good news for the Atlantic Monthly at this year's American Magazine Conference, and Lucky is getting lucky as well, but the rest of the industry still appears to be...

TALKS GO UPTEMPO: SONY, BMG RUSH TO GET APPROVAL FOR MERGER

Music giants BMG and Sony Music are putting deal talks into high gear, hoping to beat rivals to the punch in a race to get a music merger across the...

UNEVEN IRISH CLAN DRAMA

THE COLLEEN BAWNAt the Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 W. 22 St. Through Nov. 30. Call (212) 727-2737. THERE is an entirely respectable case to be made for Dion Boucicault as...

SERIES OPENER UP 16% FROM '02

RATINGS for Saturday's Yankees-Marlins World Series opener were up over last year's Angels-Giants opener. Ratings for Game 1, between the Yankees and the Marlins, were up 16 percent over last...

MED SCHOOL TUBE

IN the land of Dr. Mehmet Oz, a healthy diet and a positive outlook on life would've done Dorothy much more good than a pair of used ruby slippers. Then...

ELIZABETH: 'I'M STILL THE SAME'

ELIZABETH Smart says she hasn't changed much since she was held captive by two drifters. "I'm still pretty much the same person," Elizabeth tells NBC's Katie Couric this Friday in...

FACE OF AN 'ANGEL'

'BUFFY the Vampire Slayer" fans in withdrawal since May's series finale may have found another reason to continue watching TV. A ghost of the beloved cult show lives on in...

ROUGH 'SKIN' NEW WRINKLE ON ROMEO & JULIET STRETCHED THIN

"SKIN" Tonight at 9 on Ch. 5 No stars IF you've been waiting for the worst new show of the season, it's here. It's called "Skin." And it's a bomb....

STARR REPORT

Rolling Sixxes Ex-"Baywatch" babe Donna D'Errico is selling her Los Angeles spa - and getting back into the acting game. D'Errico recently signed with Michael Schlessinger & Associates and is...

GREAT COATS UNDER $500: FROM PRETTY TO SPORTY, VINTAGE TO MODERN, THE SEASON'S BEST

IF you buy only one new thing this fall, make it a great coat. This season is the best for outerwear in decades, whether it's a topper suited for business...

'HE IS WATCHING OVER ME': FATHER'S DAY FDNY WIDOW RUNS FOR OFFICE

DENISE FORD cooked breakfast for her family, tidied up the small but cute house, and then hit the campaign trail. As she knocked on doors on Virginia Street, in Long...

FEDS TARGET CANADA RX

ALBANY - Businesses have sprung up all around the state to help seniors and others buy prescription drugs from Canada at lower prices - and now the federal government is...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

When you gotta go, you gotta go - just don't use the bathroom when the vice president's on board. A journalist found that out when he tried to use a...

CASHING IN ON SEPT. 11; LIBESKIND'S BOOK PLAN

--- EXCLUSIVE --- World Trade Center master planner Daniel Libeskind wants to time the release of his memoir to the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack - and in...

SUICIDES STUN NYU KIDS ; CAMPUS GRIM AFTER STRING OF TRAGEDIES

There is an empty bed in an otherwise vibrant dorm room at New York University. Stephen Bohler's clothes and bottle of laundry detergent are stacked on top of it. His...

BUSH OFFERS NEW PLEDGE TO N. KOREA

President Bush yesterday said for the first time he's willing to try to defuse nuclear tensions by offering a security pledge to North Korea - but only if the Stalinist...

YES, WE HAVE NO BONANNOS

The Bonannos? Fuhggedaboutit. Now, they're the Massinos. One of the Big Apple's biggest crime families has changed its name, revealed mob expert Kenneth McCabe, who also had this warning for...

MAN IN LIRR SUICIDE BID

A would-be suicide jumped onto the tracks at a Queens Long Island Rail Road station, but was dragged off by cops before a train could hit him. A crew member...

KILLERS TIED TO ARAFAT

JERUSALEM - A terrorist group with ties to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of three Israeli soldiers who were ambushed near the West...

GRIEVING DAD IDS BEJEWELED 'MYSTERY' SLAY VICTIM

The mystery woman found dead along a Bronx highway decked out in flashy jewelry has been identified as Sorangel Cabrera, a 38-year-old woman who relatives say was on the run...

IRAQ & A HEART PLACE ; WEDDING IMPERILS GI AND BAGHDAD BRIDE

Ehda'a Blackwell is a prisoner of love. The 25-year-old Iraqi doctor is living in fear and uncertainty in Baghdad, married to an American GI who is under orders not to...

CLARK FEELS VIDEO FALLOUT

WASHINGTON - Presidential rivals jumped on Democratic hopeful Wesley Clark yesterday over a videotape showing him praising President Bush for "great work" as recently as January 2002. "It raises serious...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Brooklyn Two teenage girls were robbed and another raped in an East Flatbush basement, cops said yesterday. The three, ages 13, 14 and 17, met up with three teenage boys...

BUMBLERS BUSTED IN ROB SCAM

A 16-year-old jewelry shop employee found beaten and bound up after a heist, has been arrested along with four bumbling friends for allegedly robbing his uncle's East Harlem store, police...

BLAINE ENDS STARVE STUNT

Weak and wobbly, an emaciated David Blaine ended his bizarre 44-day starvation stunt in London yesterday - and doctors fear his heart and other organs may have been damaged. The...

PINSTRIPE MADNESS

YANKEE fans love their team so much they could just eat them up. Emilia's Restaurant in The Bronx has renamed its entire menu for the beloved Bombers' championship run. "Jorge...

MOURNERS SHARE THEIR LOVE FOR ACCIDENT VICTIMS

Relatives and friends at wakes for two Staten Island Ferry victims yesterday recalled the victims for the laughter and smiles they brought to others. "He was the best. If you...

COP IS SHOT IN BED-STUY

An off-duty housing cop was shot early yesterday morning in Brooklyn as he was driving home from work, cops said. Juan Medina, who works out of Public Service Area 3...

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE FOR TWO COPS SLAIN IN '88

Much has changed for the family and friends of NYPD cops Christopher Hoban and Michael Buczek since the two officers were killed in upper Manhattan 15 years ago, but the...

OLD LANDFILL NEAR JFK TO BE PARK

A 400-acre park showcasing 40,000 trees and shrubs and 18 species of wildflowers will begin sprouting soon from two long-closed gargantuan landfills near Kennedy Airport. The new park will be...

BUSH OFFERS NUKE DEAL TO N. KOREA

President Bush yesterday said for the first time he's willing to try to defuse nuclear tensions by offering a security pledge to North Korea - but only if the Stalinist...

'SCARFACE' BADDEST FILM THUG

Al Pacino has just won the meanest award in showbiz - his head-busting, coke-snorting gangster Tony Montana from "Scarface" has been named the "Biggest Movie Badass of All Time." "This...

ZAGAT'S FINE SILVER ; 25TH GUIDE CHARTS CHANGES IN N.Y.'S APPETITE

Twenty-five years ago, Maxwell's Plum was packing them in, Peter Luger served the best steaks in town - and two single-spaced, Xeroxed pages, the Zagat Survey, quietly made the rounds....

MERMAID TO ORDER ; FISHY TAIL GROWS ON OUR DOYENNE OF THE DEEP

It's not every day a girl gets to be a mermaid. But this year's famous Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is offering the chance - and I gave it a whirl....

PRESIDENT OPRAH; CAR WASH'S WACKY DRAFT IS ALL WET

Last month, the folks at the Wonderful Waldo Car Wash in Kansas City, Mo., were perfectly content spraying station wagons and polishing pickup trucks. That was then. Now they're jumping...

SERIAL BRIDE HAS COPYCAT SIS: DA

Forget "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" - here's "Thirty Grooms for Two Sisters." Dezerrie Cortes - the East Harlem woman prosecutors say got married 27 times as part of an...

PROBED JUSTICE STILL TRUST-WORTHY: JUDGE

What one of the state's top judges giveth, he won't taketh away. Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippmann has rejected a request to rescind the permission he gave embattled Manhattan Supreme...

LEX STRAPHANGERS GET E & V BACK

Straphangers who board E and V trains at the Lexington Avenue/53rd Street station are finally getting some relief. Queens-bound service will resume today after trains had been forced since last...

QUEENS STUDENTS STRANDED WITHOUT TEACHERS

EXCLUSIVE More than a month into the school year, Queens seventh-grader Angela Batista doesn't have a regular math teacher. Or an English teacher. Or a social-studies teacher. Or even a...

PRIEST HAS KIND WORD FOR BASHER

The Rev. Robert Trainor, a longtime Bronx priest, has been assaulted and robbed twice this year, but still managed to forgive the brute who hit him on the head with...

BILLIONAIRE POL GETS COZY WITH REV.

EYEBROWS were raised at Al Sharpton's presidential fund-raiser at Manhattan's 40/40 club last week with the arrival of Roger Stone, the longtime GOP consultant and Donald Trump adviser. Insiders saw...

BLAINE STARVED FOR AFFECTION

Weak and wobbly, an emaciated David Blaine ended his bizarre 44-day starvation stunt in London yesterday - and doctors fear his heart and other organs may have been damaged. The...

DEMS GRIPE THAT HILLARY IS STEALING HUNDER

Some Democrats are grumping about the fact that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking the spotlight at a big political dinner in the key state of Iowa next month, when...

OUR CRABBY CABBIES ARE HAIL ON WHEELS

Cabbies are getting nastier. Complaints against yellow-taxi drivers skyrocketed 17 percent this year compared to last year, with more cabbies slapped with violations for verbally and physically abusing riders, The...

DI PREDICTED OWN CAR-CRASH DEATH: BUTLER

Princess Diana feared two years before her death she would be killed in a car crash in a plot to clear the way for Prince Charles to remarry, her butler...

DEAR SLATS: IT'S NOT WORKING

FOUR games in, no vic tories, no appreciable offensive pressure, no counter-attack off the transition that's supposed to be sparked by whatever version of the trap it is that they...

KNEE KO'S CACTUS RIDGE

ARCADIA, Calif. - Cactus Ridge, unbeaten winner of the Arlington-Washington Futurity, is out of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile after injuring his knee while working out at Hawthorne. Also, neither of...

ISLES NOT LOOKING BACK

A spectacular start two years ago left the Islanders plenty of margin for error in their bid to scratch a seven-year playoff itch. A dreadful start last season doomed the...

CONGAREE HAS CLASSIC CHANCE

ARCADIA, Calif. - In his customary blue jeans, white shirt and silver hair, Bob Baffert stood in the stands at Santa Anita yesterday, stopwatch in hand, to clock the final...

ROGERS HAS TO GET BACK INTO GROOVE

Byron Scott has been watching Rodney Rogers play for more than a year, now, and the more he watches, the more he finds himself longing for another player for his...

MCDYESS CLEARS ANOTHER HURDLE

Antonio McDyess still refuses to give a definitive date for his Knick debut, but the power forward said yesterday that he's getting "close" to scrimmaging and practicing with the club....

UNBELIEVABLE! ; JINTS AGAIN TURN VICTORY INTO LOSS

"How many ways can you lose a game? It is just unbelievable, almost like a trance."MICHAEL STRAHAN The most dangerous sign after a devastating loss is not anger, but resignation,...

SEUBERT LOST FOR SEASON

GIANT NOTES The Giants yesterday added injury to insult when they lost their starting left guard, Rich Seubert, for the remainder of the season. Seubert last night underwent surgery to...

LEVENS SHOWS GIANTS HE CAN STILL CUT IT

With each run, each broken tackle, each nice burst into the line, sharp cut and decisive move, Dorsey Levens provided further evidence that yesterday should not have been his first...

BRIAN BURIES BIG BLUE

A millisecond after Philadelphia's Ike Reese blocked - the Giants say clipped - David Tyree, Brian Westbrook cut to the sideline, racing toward the end zone, redemption, and an improbable...

BECKETT HAS THAT SWAGGER

Josh Beckett is the type of guy who prefers light beer to champagne. That's no sweat, but Beckett - the cocky 23-year-old Marlin righty slated for Game 3 - is...

MANDELLA HAS SOME WEAPONS

ARCADIA, Calif. - Ten years ago, the last time they ran the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita, trainer Dick Mandella pulled off one of the great feats of all time....

FASSEL'S LAW LEADS TO DISASTER

Eagles 14 Giants 10JIM Fassel stood at the podium, shellshocked and devastated, and talked about Murphy's Law. Except that it isn't Murphy's Law around the last-place Giants these days. It...

NICK'S BUNT WAS BIG SURPRISE

You expect it from Juan Pierre. You expect it from Derek Jeter. But Nick Johnson? A bunt single? Come on. Strange things happen at Yankee Stadium in October, but last...

JETS REFUSE TO DIE ; CLIMB OUT OF HOLE TO GET BY TEXANS

Jets 19Texans 14 HOUSTON - Suddenly, there's life to this Jets season thought to be utterly doomed just two weeks ago. Suddenly, after the preseason loss of Chad Pennington to...

VINNY EXITS WITH STYLE

HOUSTON - If this was, indeed, his last hurrah as the Jets' starting quarterback, it was a deservedly and favorably memorable one for Vinny Testaverde. Make no mistake, Chad Pennington...

MOSS PROVES TO BE LETHAL FORCE AGAIN

JET NOTES Jets 19 Texans 14 HOUSTON - Santana Moss continues to be the Jets' most potent offensive weapon. Moss was multi-dimensional in yesterday's Jets' victory, catching six passes for...

ALFONSO BUSTS OUT

Alfonso Soriano needed a little help. Joe Torre needed a little reassurance. So when Soriano met with Torre and Luis Sojo in the trainer's room before last night's game, the...

HIDEKI'S A CLASSIC YANKEE

IF Hideki Matsui had become a Yankee about four years earlier, he might have earned space in Monument Park. His smiling face would be right there with the other Yankee...

JUST GIVE US THE GAME

THIS may be asking a lot, but before this World Series is over, we'd like to see Fox show two consecutive batters without inserting a network promo, a cut to...

AWESOME ANDY DEVOURS FISH ; PETTITTE GEM HELPS YANKS RIGHT SHIP VS. MARLINS

GAME 2Yankees 6Marlins 1 Old Order and New Order combined to restore order to the World Series for the Yankees last night at the Stadium. Andy Pettitte, a staple of...

ANDY'S A KEEPER: YANKS MUST MAKE SURE PETTITTE STAYS

BEFORE Andy Pettitte delivered the first official pitch of last night's World Series Game 2, Paul O'Neill became the first former player of the Joe Torre era to throw out...

WAKE US WHEN IT'S OVER: MARLINS MAKING SERIES A SNOOZER

CAN'T we just ask the Red Sox back, see if they want to go double or nothing? Can't we just pretend that Steve Bartman got stuck in the bathroom during...

YANKS SEND REDMAN TO EARLY SHOWER

Before his Game 2 start, Mark Redman said people have referred to him as "a big Tom Glavine." Anyone who watched the Mets this season could tell you that's exactly...

MARLINS: PRO PLAYER WILL BE ROCKING

Although the Yankees stomped on Florida starter Mark Redman like he was a backyard trampoline last night, the Marlins returned to south Florida with the ability to close the Bombers...

STOP PESTY PIERRE, YOU STOP THE FISH

"We can't let Pierre get on base four times. That causes disruption."JOE TORRE YOU can put a fork in the Yankees if they don't stop the Marlins' table setter. So,...

CALL HIM AARON BOOT ; THIRD SACKER'S MISPLAY FLUSHES ANDY'S SHUTOUT

After Aaron Boone prevented Andy Pettitte from claiming the first Yankee World Series shutout in more than 50 years, the third baseman went to the mound and basically apologized. Boone...

JORGE'S CONTRIBUTING AT DEFENSIVE END, TOO

On the side of Jorge Posada's locker is a photo of a former Yankee and a quote. "Look, I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average," the...

BOSS GETS A CHANCE TO EXHALE

Emotionally, the hard part is over for George Steinbrenner. Intellectually, the Boss knows these Florida Marlins are not to be taken lightly. A happy and somewhat relieved Steinbrenner left the...

JOE TWEAKS & YANKS GET NICE PAYOFF

WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK Joe Torre didn't make major changes to his Game 2 lineup last night. He did tweak it a bit but decided to leave the slumping Alfonso Soriano...

YOUNG FISH SHOOT FOR EARLY LEAD

Those rambunctious Marlins. Those young whippersnappers. They're like a bunch of kindergarten kids. They want to get up. They want to stay up. They want it now, now, now. Restraint?...

TORRE TRIES TO CHANGE WORLD : JOE HOPES MINOR MOVES CAN ALTER COURSE OF SERIES

From the manager's office to the clubhouse to the batting practice cage, it was impossible to uncover the smallest sign of panic in the Yankees' galaxy prior to last night's...

BOONE FINDS IT'S NOT EASY BEING A HOME-RUN HERO

"It's surreal ... And before you know it, life really has gone on." BOBBY THOMSON AARON Boone learned the hard lesson of the baseball hero in Game 1 of this...

PETTITTE VERSUS PIERRE IS GAME WITHIN GAME

YOU can put a fork in the Yankees if they don't stop the Marlins' table-setter, which put a lot last night on Andy Pettitte's plate. The pitcher with the best...

FROM 7TH HEAVEN TO HANGOVER HELL: LETDOWN LEAVES YANKS IN WORLD OF HURT

THIS would be Duke not winning the NCAA title after their epic Regional Final victory over Kentucky in 1992. The Mets not winning Game 7 in 1986 after the ball...

STOP PIERRE, STOP THE FISH: YANKS KEEP MARLINS' PEST AT BAY

"We can't let Pierre get on base four times. That causes disruption." JOE TORRE YOU can put a fork in the Yankees if they don't stop the Marlins' table setter,...

NICK SHOWS YANKS CAN PLAY SMALL BALL, TOO

You expect it from Juan Pierre. You expect it from Derek Jeter. But Nick Johnson? A bunt single? Come on. Strange things happen at Yankee Stadium in October, but last...

ALFONSO BUSTS OUT: TWO-RUN SMASH ENDS SKID

Luis Sojo had been watching Alfonso Soriano and was worried that the Yankee second baseman had lost confidence. So during a pregame meeting yesterday, Sojo and Joe Torre had a...

WAKE US WHEN IT'S OVER

CAN'T we just ask the Red Sox back, see if they want to go double or nothing? Can't we just pretend that Steve Bartman got stuck in the bathroom during...

CONINE CONTINUES TO BE PRIDE OF THE MARLINS

There's no such thing as a Marlinography, no Marlin Entertainment Network and certainly no Marlin Stadium. So, Jeff Conine, what exactly is Marlin tradition? "I think it's a work in...

FLORIDA FUN BUNCH : MCKEON CAPTAINS LOOSE SHIP

The Marlins haven't lost since Jack McKeon banged the drum loudly. Less than three hours removed from last Saturday's near-lethal NLCS loss in Game 4, the Florida manager took the...

JETER'S GOTTA GET ON THE STICK: DEAD BAT A DRAG ON YANKS

WHERE'S the Yankees' World Series offense? Until they find it, they will struggle - even against the light-hitting Marlins. The National League has shut down the Yankees' hitters in the...

EARLY DEFICIT FRIES FISH

These rambunctious Marlins. These young whippersnappers. They're like a bunch of kindergarten kids. They want to get up. They want to stay up. They want it now, now, now. Restraint?...

REDMAN GETS EARLY SHOWER

Before his Game 2 start, Mark Redman said people have referred to him as "a big Tom Glavine." Anyone who watched the Mets this season could tell you that's exactly...

HITS KEEP ON COMIN' FOR MATSUI

It shouldn't be surprising any more with Hideki Matsui. The guy's proven it too many times already. There are many Yankees on this 2003 outfit who aren't playoff-tested, but even...

FOX NEEDS TO CANCEL THE CLUTTER

THIS may be asking a lot, but before this World Series is over, we'd like to see Fox show two consecutive batters without inserting a network promo, a cut to...

TORRE WARY ABOUT HAVING TO GO TO MO

WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK In Joe Torre's perfect world he wouldn't have had to ask Mariano Rivera for two innings last night in Game 2 of the World Series against the...

RUDY HASN'T HIT PANIC BUTTON

Rudy Giuliani is no stranger to crisis. The former New York mayor pulled this city through the most daunting days it has ever known, those harrowing days after the cowardly...

TROUBLE AT THE TOP: SORIANO NOT DOING JOB AT LEADOFF

Take a quick look at the two leadoff hitters from Saturday night, Alfonso Soriano and Juan Pierre. Now take a look at the score. It wasn't a coincidence. The Marlins...

NELLIE'S STEPPING BACK TO FOREFRONT

The focus is back on what happens when Jeff Nelson leaves the bullpen, not when he stays in it. It's been nine days since Nelson's ninth-inning fracas with a Fenway...

JETS REFUSE TO DIE: STUN TEXANS AFTER TRAILING 14-0

Jets 19 Texans 14 HOUSTON - Suddenly, there is life to this Jets' season thought to be doomed just two weeks ago. The Jets have climbed from 0-4 to 2-4...

SANTANA PLAYS A BIG ROLE

JET NOTES HOUSTON - Santana Moss continues to be the Jets' most potent offensive weapon. Moss was multi-dimensional in yesterday's 19-14 win over the Texans, catching a touchdown pass and...

AWESOME ANDY DEVOURS FISH: PETTITTE GEM HELPS YANKS RIGHT SHIP VS. MARLINS

GAME 2 Yankees 6 Marlins 1 Old Order and New Order combined to restore order to the World Series for the Yankees last night at Yankee Stadium. Andy Pettitte, a...