November 24, 2003
TIME FOR A DEAL - BRONFMAN CLOSE TO SEALING WARNER MUSIC BUY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTime Warner is near a deal to sell Warner Music to members of an investor group led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., following the media giant's decision to enter exclusive talks...
BERNSTEINS COUNTER ESDC PLAN
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amJoseph and Ralph Bernstein are proposing to build a 40-story Americas House corporate housing condo on a plot that wraps around the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street,...
SECRET A&F CONCEPT TO TARGET BANANA, J. CREW
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amAbercrombie & Fitch is quietly putting plans in place for a new store prototype to rival Banana Republic and J. Crew, details of which The Post has learned. The project,...
ABERCROMBIE PREPARES TO LAUNCH A NEW CHAIN
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amAbercrombie & Fitch is quietly putting plans in place for a new store prototype to rival Banana Republic and J. Crew, details of which The Post has learned. The project,...
HERE COME THE ABOVE-'AVERAGE' JOES
November 24, 2003 | 5:00am"Average Joe" [ ] (three stars) Tonight at 9:30 on NBC --- EVEN though I swore I couldn't stand to watch one more reality dating show, I was wrong. "Average...
WONDERFUL! - B'WAY'S MAGICAL REVIVAL
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amWONDERFUL TOWN [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street. (212) 239-6200. --- THIS morning - and good few more mornings to come - Broadway...
A GOOD MANSON IS HARD TO FIND
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amCBS' remake of "Helter Skelter" - the Charles Manson story - began production late last week with an actor who seems to specialize in creepy roles, Jeremy Davies, playing the...
GRIPPING, SAD 'WHERE WE'RE BORN' IS FULL OF LIFE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amWHERE WE'RE BORN At the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place. Through Dec. 21. Call SmartTix (212) 868-4444. ---- PASSION collides with the realities of life in a bleak western...
'VIEW'S THAT GIRL - THREE YOUNG CANDIDATES GET THE DECISION TODAY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTHE biggest job opening on TV right now - the "twenty-something" co-host seat on "The View" - will be filled today. Barbara Walters, the show's creator and unchallenged mother superior...
STARR REPORT
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amMike Wallace, stud Add this to the "Who Knew?" department: Valerie Bertinelli has the hots for "60 Minutes" legend Mike Wallace - who's only about 45 years older than she....
'DOG SHOW' FETCHES 2003 HOLIDAY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amDOGGONE it, Thanksgiving's gone to the dogs again this year on NBC. For the second year in a row, NBC will air the "The National Dog Show" after the Thanksgiving...
SAY, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT TODD GUY?
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTHE geeks shall inherit the earth. Or at least that's what it looks like lately on TV. From "Average Joe" to "Joe Schmo," TV is increasingly embracing the common, beer-bellied...
BEHIND THE SEAMS: EXPERTS THOUGHT THE $30 DRESS WAS WORTH $250
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amWHEN you buy that little black dress this season, what you'll get isn't always what you pay for. One from H&M that costs just $29.90 is better-made than Diane von...
SPITZER WILL RUN FOR GOV
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amSTATE Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will announce he's running for governor right after next year's presidential election - and he expects Rudy Giuliani to be his opponent, a source close...
TWO LOCAL RHODES SCHOLARS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA West Point graduate from New Jersey who is bound for duty in Iraq and a Brooklyn woman have been chosen as Rhodes Scholars in the 100th year of the...
TALKIN' TURKEY: WILD BIRDS A GROWING PART OF CITY'S WILDLIFE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amIt's no jive - wild turkeys call New York City home, and a lot more could be seen in our parks by next Thanksgiving. The Urban Park Rangers are hoping...
POLS' PERMIT PROPOSAL COULD EXTINGUISH LAW
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTwo legislators said they are leading a move to have the state's bar and restaurant anti-smoking laws rolled back by permitting qualified establishments to set their own smoking policy. Deputy...
BUSTED FOR GIVING HIS BEST SHOT
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA Bronx man who was shot in the leg has apparently proved yet again that lying only makes things worse. Michael Manley, 25, of 1020 Trinity Ave. in Morrisania, was...
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENT MORE THAN $12 MILLION OVER EIGHT YEARS TO HELP NEW YORKERS QUIT SMOKING ...
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amThe federal government spent more than $12 million over eight years to help New Yorkers quit smoking - but only about 1 percent actually did, according the National Cancer Institute....
WES DIGS UP BUSH'S BATTLE WITH BOTTLE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential wannabe Gen. Wesley Clark said yesterday that Americans admire President Bush because of the way he overcame "alcoholism" and salvaged his marriage by sobering up. The...
FRIST VOWS VICTORY ON MEDICARE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate's Democratic leader said he'd use obscure tactics to try to sink a controversial Medicare bill, though GOP leader Bill Frist predicted the plan has enough votes...
EX-CON IN LESBIAN TRIANGLE SLAYING
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA bisexual ex-con has pleaded guilty in the grisly love-triangle slaying of her lesbian gal pal during a jealous rage. Law-enforcement sources say Vanessa Santiago, 24, flew into a fit...
THE REVIEWS SAY IT BORES, BUT THIS 'CAT' REALLY $CORES
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amDespite a host of bad reviews, "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" was able to claw its way to the No. 1 spot at the box office over the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * Vandals slashed tires on 11 parked cars on a Borough Park street, cops said yesterday. The vandals struck on Saturday morning at 12:30, hitting cars parked on 46th...
CELLULAR '$ECRETS' - FINE-PRINT WARNING FOR 'SWITCHERS'
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA new report warns cell-phone users to be mindful of hidden costs buried in their contracts - especially since, starting today, customers can transfer their pre-existing cell-phone numbers to another...
A MOVING TALE OF THE WALL ST. BULL
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amThe mystery of who moved the beloved Bowling Green bull has been solved. The bronze sculpture, "Charging Bull," long a tourist favorite and Wall Street symbol, was found Saturday morning...
CONVICT SUDDENLY SILENT ON COP SLAY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amAn American serving time in a German prison for a murder there has told city police that he has information about the unsolved 1977 murder of a Housing Authority cop...
CUTTHROAT IRAQIS BUTCHER TWO GIS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amIn a burst of savagery, a frenzied Iraqi mob slit the throats of two U.S. soldiers, dragged their bloody bodies from their wrecked car and beat them with concrete blocks...
SHARON READY TO GO IT ALONE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet yesterday that he's prepared to act unilaterally on major issues if the new Palestinian Prime Minister fails to negotiate in...
WTC RIDERS BACK ON TRACK - POLS AND SEPT. 11 FAMILIES CHRISTEN TRAIN TO GROUND ZERO
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA PATH train carrying passengers from New Jersey pulled into the World Trade Center station yesterday for the first time since the fall of the Twin Towers - marking a...
NEW QAEDA MEGASTRIKE FEARED HERE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amSince last week's deadly attacks in Turkey, the "chatter" among Islamic extremists has spiked upward, suggesting al Qaeda may try a spectacular attack on U.S. soil, it was reported yesterday....
DEAN BACKED BY N.Y. LABOR
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amDemocratic presidential candidate Howard Dean was in town yesterday to pick up several key endorsements - most notably Dennis Rivera, the head of the state's most powerful labor union. "Gov....
BRAWLER'S BEAU SHOOTS 2: COPS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amThe boyfriend of a teenage girl who was involved in a fistfight in Flatbush yesterday pulled out a gun and shot the girl's rival - as well as an innocent...
CANNIBAL FIEND WARNS OF COPYCATS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amThe German freak whose tale of sex cannibalism shocked the world is warning that at least 800 other cannibals live in his country - and they might be inclined to...
MY PAL'S INNOCENT - LIZ TAYLOR BREAKS HER SILENCE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amElizabeth Taylor yesterday broke her silence on the child-molestation charges leveled against Michael Jackson, saying her longtime friend is "absolutely innocent" and will be "vindicated." The 71-year-old Hollywood legend took...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA Peoria, Ill., man who thought a dead octopus in his toilet came from the sewer system just learned that his girlfriend planted the creature as a joke. Chad Allen's...
CLEAR AS SMOKE - CIG-BAN TICKETS CONFUSE EVEN JUDGES
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amSome of the city's tough new anti-smoking rules are so complicated and confusing that health inspectors and judges don't even know what's kosher and what's not. Brian Bui knows that...
JACKO'S LOVE LETTERS TO BOY - POLICE FIND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT NOTES: REPORT
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amSuspected child molester Michael Jackson penned sex-laced love letters and poems to his 12-year-old accuser, it was reported yesterday. And the explicit missives were seized by cops during the raid...
REBBE'S TODDLER KIN KILLED
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA 21/2-year-old boy - the great-grandson of a well-known Hasidic grand rebbe from Westchester - was killed in a tragic freak accident in Williamsburg yesterday when he went with his...
B'KLYN DA FACES DEM BACKLASH
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTHE sharks are circling around the fresh political blood drawn by law-and-order Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes. Weeks before he sought the first of two indictments against the top two Brooklyn...
SCHOOLBUS KILLS TODDLER
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA 2 1/2-year-old boy - the great-grandson of a well-known Hasidic grand rebbe from Westchester - was killed in a freak accident in Brooklyn yesterday when he went with his...
OFFICERS HURT BY DWI DRIVER: COPS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTwo police officers were injured when their patrol car collided with a vehicle operated by drunken driver in Midtown last night, police said. Rescuers had to use the "jaws of...
NEW SOLAR SYSTEM WILL POWER CONEY I. SUBWAY STATION
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA new glass roof will soon cover a Coney Island subway station, allowing solar energy to power the transit hub and cut down on pollution in the neighborhood, officials said....
JAILS AX KING OF SICK TIME
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA veteran correction officer has been fired for abusing the agency's sick-leave policy, but not before he took off 744 days in 15 years, averaging at least one sick day...
'BULLY' PULPIT: HARLEM FLOCK IN BATTLE TO BOOT THEIR 'RAT' REV.
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amA group of elderly Harlem residents say they've had their church swiped from right under them by a dictatorial new pastor who has made their Sundays a holy hell. Disgruntled...
CON SUDDENLY SILENT ON '77 SLAY OF COP
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amAn American serving time in a prison in Germany for a murder there told the NYPD he has information about the unsolved 1977 murder of a housing cop - but...
KID ALREADY A VICTIM - OF HIS FOLKS' NEGLECT
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amIT REMAINS to be seen whether the boy Michael Jackson stands accused of sexually abusing is, in fact, the victim of a crime. And yet, as we consider the lifestyle...
ED. BIG TAKES TEACHING POST
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amJoyce Coppin, the Department of Education's personnel director and one of its longest-serving school leaders, is stepping down after 45 years of service to take a top teaching post at...
CON CLAMS UP ABOUT '77 SLAY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amAn American serving time in a German prison for a murder there has told city police that he has information about the unsolved 1977 murder of a Housing Authority cop...
AL QAEDA 'CHATTER' STIRS WORRY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amSince last week's deadly attacks in Turkey, the "chatter" among Islamic extremists has spiked upward, suggesting al Qaeda may try a spectacular attack on U.S. soil, it was reported yesterday....
BRAWLER'S BOYFRIEND SHOOTS 2, COPS SAY
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amThe boyfriend of a teenage girl who was involved in a fistfight in Flatbush yesterday pulled out a gun and shot the girl's rival - as well as an innocent...
ISLES RETURN HOME BATTERED, BEATEN
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amDowntrodden, disgruntled and thoroughly disappointed, the Islanders returned home from a disgraceful four-game road trip in the early hours of yesterday morning, picking up the pieces after losing three of...
KEYSHAWN PUTS 'ME' IN MEDIA
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amKEYSHAWN Johnson yesterday joined Fox's NFL studio show. He hopes to make it a gig for the rest of this season. While we weren't the least bit surprised to see...
PLANINIC MAY LOSE NET BACK-UP ROLE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amThe Nets' back-up point guard job was given to rookie Zoran Planinic. It was his to lose. He just might have lost it. In the overall scheme of the team's...
JARVIS CRIES FOUL AT THE LINE
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amLet's give St. John's the benefit of the doubt. Let's say the foul foul-shooting exhibition we saw in the season-opening loss to Marquette was more a case of first-game jitters...
KNICKS HUSTLE AS DON HOLLERS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amDon Chaney's voice has roared lately, trying to singe an aggressive attitude into his team's DNA. Mr. Nice Guy has been loud, encouraging his team to play more like the...
GOING FROM JAGS TO RICHES - CHAD, JETS CASH IN LATE WITH CLUTCH COMEBACK
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amJets 13 - Jaguars 10 Three minutes and 94 yards separated the Jets from enduring one of their most ugly and miserable losses in recent memory. Had they failed to...
ADMIRED . . . THEN FIRED
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amYOU can count on two givens in late November. Someone is unhappy about having Thanksgiving with his or her least favorite relative. And some coaches are going to be unhappy...
NO SHOCK: JEREMY WANTS IN
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amJEREMY Shockey is one of those Parcellsian throwbacks who would play the game in the parking lot with no one watching, so it should come as no surprise that he...
PEN AUTHORS LATEST CHAPTER OF LEGEND
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTHEY started rushing for the parking lot with a little more than four minutes left in a game straight out of the Kotite Era. Somewhere on the New Jersey Turnpike,...
CB BEASLEY FEASTS ON OLD TEAM
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES A week after playing perhaps his poorest game as a member of the Jets in their loss at Indianapolis, Jets' cornerback Aaron Beasley turned in his finest performance...
JETS COME TO DEFENSE OF COTTRELL
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTed Cottrell stood outside Giants Stadium after the Jets' comeback victory late yesterday, enjoying a quiet post-game tailgate gathering with his wife and some friends. Most noticeable about the Jets'...
A NIGHT TO REGRET - GIANTS, BUCS BOTH OUT TO SAVE SEASON
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTAMPA - If anyone three months ago whispered to the Giants that after 10 games they would have the identical record as the Super Bowl champion Buccaneers, Jim Fassel and...
HEY, JETS: DON'T GET TOO EXCITED
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amYOU would have thought the Jets had whipped the Jaguars 40-0 yesterday the way they congratulated themselves for their harrowing 13-10 come-from-behind victory at the Meadowlands. "This is a fantastic...
WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amRangers 6 - Senators 2 Not every veteran the Rangers sign comes here to ease into retirement. bobby Holik obviously hasn't, last year's mediocre first season across the river notwithstanding....
JAGS IN LIKE LIONS AND OUT LIKE LAMBS - AGAIN
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amKnowing how to win. It's a vague phrase, hard to quantify, and even harder to discern. But one thing is clear watching Jacksonville: It's a skill the Jaguars still have...
SANTANA ROCKS AS CHAD ROLLS
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amSantana Moss had waited patiently all afternoon, suffering through cover-twos, double-teams, safeties rolled his way; every possible thing the Jaguars could do to turn him into a non-entity. That is,...
AN UNEXPECTED TREAT
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amTime was when four-point nights by one player weren't almost as rare an occurrence as the Rangers making the playoffs. And there was more space on the ice than there...
BOBER'S GOAL: SILENCING SAPP
November 24, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES TAMPA - Crowd noise is often a problem when playing on the road, but the sort of noise Giants center Chris Bober might confront tonight has nothing to...