May 2, 2004
MOTOWN'S GORDY HITS BROADWAY NEXT YEAR
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amMotown is coming to Broadway. Legendary music executive Berry Gordy, despite having recently sold the last piece of his Motown music catalog Jobete to EMI Music Publishing, is busy producing...
BULL'S EYE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amCrony court Spectators at the federal court house in Manhattan - where dethroned tech banking king Frank Quattrone is being tried for a second time for obstruction of justice -...
JAPANESE TOURISTS FLOOD CITY TO WATCH MATSUIS PLAY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amJapanese tourists are coming to New York at record levels to see their prodigal baseball stars playing for the Mets and Yankees. The arrival in the Bronx of outfielder Hideki...
KID HAVEN TO OPEN IN JAN. 2005
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amParents of New York: Prepare for a revolution. A 20,000-square-foot kid complex is set to open on the Upper East Side next January. The new Kidville, NY complex, at 163...
PERELMAN'S EX-CEO GETS $3M
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amIt pays to get out of business with Ron Perelman. John Farrand, former CEO and president of Panavision - which Perelman chairs - took home a whopping $3 million in...
MARATHONS GO THE DISTANCE, & BEYOND
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Conel Hugh Alexander, a legendary Cold War code breaker and fine amateur chessplayer, began his game against Soviet GM David Bronstein at Hastings 1953, it quickly became celebrated in...
KEN RUSSELL'S UPS & DOWNS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amKEN Russell is as outrageous as his movies. At the Istanbul Film Festival for a tribute, the portly, white-haired director showed off his pirouetting skills (he once was a dancer),...
JUMPERS; WARM WEATHER MEANS DANGEROUS OPEN WINDOWS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amWith the weather warming up, it's natural to open the windows, but doing so could be fatal to your cat, experts warn. Animal clinics are reporting an alarming increase in...
FAREWELL 'FRIENDS'
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amGET out your handkerchiefs - it's time to say goodbye to your "Friends." It's the end of an era as "Friends" brings down the curtain after 11 seasons as one...
'FAMILY PLOTS' OFFERS GRAVE SLICE OF LIFE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amANOTHER day, another milestone. I never used to know how a corpse is lowered into a coffin, but I do now, thanks to "Family Plots," A&E's new reality series about...
COLD CASE NEW CLUES SOLVE OLD CRIMES
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amCRIME shows used to provide male actors with a fast track to stardom. Twenty years ago, "Magnum P.I" and "Miami Vice" made Tom Selleck and Don Johnson household names. In...
C-SPAN SERVES UP SCOUNDRELS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amYOU like your TV trashy? You know, a little sex, a little scandal, plenty of gossip and some very famous people in the mix? Then try C-SPAN. That's right, C-SPAN,...
HOT LIST - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amMORRISSEY TOUCHES DOWN AT THE APOLLO Morrissey: The reclusive mope rocker remains a hero to anyone whose formative years were nothing like a John Hughes movie. As the singer of...
IT'S WAYNE'S WORLD - POP'S MASTERS OF SUBURBIA SING NEW JERSEY'S PRAISES
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amHackensack. Nyack. The Tappan Zee Bridge. Not the most glamorous destinations - but these are the places that inspired one of the year's most successful pop stories. Fountains of Wayne...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amLos Lobos Three and a half stars The Ride Hollywood Records From the sound of their latest album, those East L.A. roots rockers, Los Lobos, are making music for the...
TIX & PICKS - THE CONCERTS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS SUMMER
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amTwo of the biggest concerts - Prince and Madonna at the Garden - are sold out, but this promises to be a hot summer for music fans of all persuasions....
HEAR THIS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amIN CONCERT If you're not into whining with mope rocker Morrissey - who plays five sold-out shows at the Apollo starting tomorrow - check out fiery '70s punk poet Patti...
UP IN SMOKE - WITH JIM JARMUSCH'S 'COFFEE AND CIGARETTES,' FANS WILL FIND IT VERY HARD TO GO COLD TURKEY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe Wu Tang Clan's RZA is fiercely anti-smoking and reformed puffer Vinny Vella refused to inhale. But co-stars Iggy Pop and Tom Waits both fell off the wagon while shooting...
TWO MUCH OF A GOOD THING - AN UP-TO-THE 'MINUTE' LOOK AT THE OLSENS AND THE SEXY SECRETS BEHIND THEIR NEW MOVIE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amYou see a lot of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in "New York Minute." There's the scene in which Jared Padalecki, who plays Mary-Kate's boyfriend, walks in on the girls dressed...
CAN YOU REALLY KEEP IT 'CASUAL'?
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amI have fallen into the classic New York relationship - the kind half the singles in this city are having. It's called "just casual enough." It's the relationship in which...
PAIR UP WITH THE POST - SINGLE AND LOOKING FOR LOVE? TRY OUR BRAND NEW DATING GAME
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amHERE'S HOW IT WORKS JUST been dumped?Tired of Mr. Almost-Right?Unloaded that loser you 've been seeing forever? Then have we got a date for you! If you 're free and...
THE LADIES SAY PASS THE HEINZ
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amChris Heinz - John Kerry's stepson - is probably the best thing ever to happen to the Democrats, at least the female ones. He looks like the late JFK Jr.,...
BIG APPLE JUICED, CALI-STYLE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amFirst, we had the smoking ban. Then came the pink clothes, Paris Hilton and now, Jamba Juice. If you needed more evidence that New York is the new California, head...
D.A. SEIZES JACKO JUNKO; N.J. WAREHOUSE YIELDS BIZARRE BUNCH OF BOY-OBSESSED BRIC-A-BRAC
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amInvestigators in the Michael Jackson child-sex case swooped in on a New Jersey man's memorabilia collection last month, seizing six items as evidence. Two pairs of the self-styled King of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amHere's living proof that "13" can be a lucky number. Thirteen girls were born one right after the other during a 13-hour span at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights,...
TIGER MAN'S TREK TO EX-PET IS ALL 'FUR' NOTHING
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amAntoine Yates - the Harlem man caught last year with a 400-pound tiger in his apartment - was growling at an Ohio animal shelter yesterday after officials there wouldn't let...
TV GANG PLANS ONE LAST CRY ON BIG NIGHT
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amAfter all these years of pretending, they really are "Friends." And the final airing of the hit NBC sitcom on Thursday will be emotional not just for the legions of...
THIRD WIVES CLUB ; MELANIA JOINS ELITE SORORITY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe moment her marriage to mega-mogul Donald Trump is sealed with a kiss, Slovenian stunner Melania Knauss will join a group of women with membership in a select New York...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amQUEENS *** Two men were wounded in shootings in Far Rockaway that occurred about a mile from each other at about the same time, police said yesterday. It was unclear...
HUDSON HYPOCRISY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00am'TODAY, the Hudson River is an international model of ecosystem protection . . . It's the richest water body in the North Atlantic. It produces more pounds of fish per...
'DWI' DRIVER ATTACKS RESCUERS ON FDR
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amAn unlicensed drunken driver followed up a horrific car-flipping crash on the FDR Drive yesterday by biting a cop and smacking an EMT, police said. Dennis Velez, 20, was drunk...
OTB BIZ A POOR BET
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amTHE Off-Track Betting Corporation is fading in the stretch, with its contributions to the city this year coming in at a measly $20 million on a betting handle of $1.1...
LAW GIANT AND JUDGE ARE IN CAHOOTS: LAWSUIT
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amA former Columbia University professor who now publishes the oldest newspaper in Puerto Rico claims a powerful Manhattan law firm bilked him for $170,000 in bogus legal fees - then...
JUSTICE SOUTER MUGGED ; WAS JOGGING IN D.C.
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amSupreme Court Justice David Souter was attacked by thugs as he jogged on a Washington street, authorities said yesterday. Souter, 64, was set upon at about 9 p.m. Friday by...
IN THE COMFORT ZONE ; JAYSON SAVORS VERDICT AT SLAY MANSION
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amA day after Jayson Williams was acquitted of manslaughter, the gun-fumbling NBA star enjoyed an afternoon cocktail with his wife, Tanya, at their sprawling New Jersey mansion. Their newborn baby...
BRIDES-TO-BE STORM DOC'S VIRGIN FACTORY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amLuciana, a 24-year-old Queens newlywed, found herself in a panic as the days ticked down to her January wedding - she desperately needed to get her virginity back. Her fiancé,...
TRIBECA REELS OUT RED CARPET
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe stars flocked to downtown Manhattan last night as the third annual Tribeca Film Festival kicked off with a glittering red-carpet premiere. Festival founder Robert De Niro, Will Smith and...
IT'S TOME FOR ANOTHER TRUMP ADVICE BOOK
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe Donald pulled another Trump card out of his sleeve last night - announcing a new book that will hit shelves just as the second season of the wildly popular...
JUSTICE SOUTER MUGGED; WAS JOGGING IN D.C.
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amSupreme Court Justice David Souter was attacked by thugs as he jogged on a Washington street, authorities said yesterday. Souter, 64, was set upon at about 9 p.m. Friday by...
HOW SUITE IT IS; NYU LIBRARY KID MOVES TO PLUSH DORM
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amHe's movin' on up, to the Lower East Side, to a deluxe dormitory in the sky. Finally, Steven Stanzak has got a piece of the pie - and it has...
DORM STORM IN E. VILLAGE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amA plan to house university students from around the city in a new 23-story development in the East Village has brought long-simmering community anger over a lost arts center to...
N.Y. SUITCASE SCARES SPUR TERROR 'DRY RUN' FEAR
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amPolice fear five empty suitcases left at Penn Station, New York FBI headquarters and other security hot spots in early April were a test by terrorists bent on a Madrid-type...
FEDS EYE NEW SLAY RAP FOR MOB BOSS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe feds have set their sights on new murder charges against longtime Colombo acting boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico in connection with the 1999 disappearance of the crime family's underboss....
HIDDEN EYES OF OUR APPLE ; NO ESCAPING CITY SECURITY CAMERAS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amBig Brother is watching - and he gets new sets of eyes daily. Thousands of security cameras in New York already capture almost every move you make, from buying your...
GEORGE W. BUS TO ROLL THROUGH MIDWEST
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush hits the road tomorrow on a bus tour, riding a 45-foot coach for the grass-roots launch of his re-election campaign. Working to spread a message of...
FLAT'S A REAL SHAME; QNS. THUGS IN TIRE SCAM
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amA no-good Samaritan and his team of thieves are making off with purses in Queens after offering to fix women's flat tires - which they'd just slashed. A twist on...
MIKE BUTTERS UP PARENTS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is serving breakfast to select groups of parent leaders at Gracie Mansion as part of a new public-relations campaign to push his education reforms. During the first breakfast...
WRONG-WAY 'DRUNK' ON LIE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amA boozed-up Levittown man was hit with reckless driving charges after heading down the Long Island Expressway yesterday in the wrong direction. Startled drivers called 911 around 1:40 a.m. after...
FEST WILL 'TRI, TRI' AGAIN
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amMovie legend Robert De Niro joined South Africa's Desmond Tutu to kick off the third annual Tribeca Film Festival yesterday, promising it will be "the best yet." Over eight days,...
NEW SLAY RAP EYED FOR MOB BOSS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe feds have set their sights on new murder charges against longtime Colombo acting boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico in connection with the 1999 disappearance of the crime family's underboss....
STARS STICK TO SCRIPT: I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amIt's a friendship that's endured for a decade and generated pay checks worth a staggering half a billion dollars - who'd want to say goodbye to all that? Just as...
RED, WHITE AND BOO ; U.S. STARS REJECT CHANCE TO REPRESENT COUNTRY AT WORLDS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amSCOTT Niedermayer, who has played as much hockey as anyone in the NHL this decade, boarded a flight to Prague immediately after the Devils were eliminated by the Flyers in...
DAWN OF A GIANT REBIRTH ; MANNING-COUGHLIN COMBO USHERS IN NEW BIG BLUE ERA
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amOf all the NFL drafts he's been around during a lifetime spent with his family's team, John Mara never experienced anything that matched the feelings of anxiety and exhilaration involved...
NETS POINT TO ROGERS AS X-FACTOR
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amRodney Rogers was surprised to learn teammate Richard Jefferson considered him the "key" for the Nets in their upcoming series against the Pistons. "I don't know about that," the reserve...
EDWARDS PROMISES HIS GANG WILL MANAGE CLOCK BETTER
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards yesterday noted that he's been taking significant steps toward improving the Jets' poor in-game clock management, something that has haunted them on numerous occasions in the...
PATIENCE IS A FANTASY VIRTUE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amYOU thought you could escape that easily? Nope, we're back. And though we're tardier than a Mike Piazza throw to second, we promise to make it up to our faithful...
'D' MAN IS IN CHARGE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amDon't get in Donnie Henderson's way. Don't tick him off, either. Just get it right. "Quit talking about it," Henderson barked to starting safeties Jon McGraw and Reggie Tongue as...
DON'T DISCOUNT NETS ; DETROIT'S TOUGH, BUT N.J. HAS INTANGIBLES - NO KIDDING
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amDetroit has the homecourt, a Hall of Fame coach and a defense that seemed to set a record whenever the Pistons played in a city that contained a vowel in...
GREENS MAKE GOLFERS BLUE AT BETHPAGE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amN.Y. GOLF Don't fret, Bethpage golfers, the bad greens are only temporary. At last count, there were 19 temporary greens on the five courses at the Long Island golf mecca,...
DEREK'S BACK IN SWING ; YANKEES CAPTAIN RAPS THREE MORE HITS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00am"Sometimes you hit it and find holes, and other times you don't."DEREK JETER Instead of swinging wildly at the air at the plate, Derek Jeter is once again walking on...
LUCKY SEVEN RBIS FOR SIERRA
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees may not all be hitting right now, but at least they can count on Ruben Sierra to show up and dismantle the Royals. Sierra crushed his first two...
BUSH FEELING 'LUCKY' OVER RETURN
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Travis Lee is out; Homer Bush is back in; and Kenny Lofton is on his way. The Yankee roster shuffle is moving swiftly. With Lee's inflamed left shoulder...
TODD'S ON A ROLL ; PLETCHER FOLLOWS OAKS VICTORY WITH WIN IN CHURCHILL
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - New York's red-hot trainer Todd Pletcher, who snagged the Kentucky Oaks Friday, rolled right back yesterday when his Speightstown ran six rivals off their legs to win the...
JON'S COMEBACK UN-BE-LIEBER-BLE; YANKEES BATS PROVIDE SUPPORT
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 12Royals 4 The Yankees were without Joe Torre yesterday as the manager attended his 8-year-old daughter's communion. With Torre away, bench coach Willie Randolph slid into the top spot...
STILL LOOKS RIGHT AT HOME ON MOUND
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amTRUST Jon Lieber; 22 months is far longer than Derek Jeter went without a hit. Fortunately, muscle memory might be more durable than a Don Zimmer grudge, so the transplanted...
IT WAS A REALLY SMART MOVE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00am"The Kentucky Derby has been a storied classic horse race, fleshed with agony, ecstasy . . . Few, if any, could top the soaring drama of Smarty Jones and the...
NO KEEPING UP WITH THIS JONES - 'SMARTY' STILL PERFECT AFTER DERBY VICTORY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Smarty Jones, the "Philly Flash," rode into the history books yesterday at Churchill Downs, winning the 130th Kentucky Derby by 23/4 lengths over front-running Lion Heart before a...
THUNDERSTORM TURNS CHURCHILL WET & VERY WILD
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amDERBY NOTES LOUISVILLE - The sun shined bright on "My Old Kentucky Home" yesterday, but only briefly. After a cloudy morning and early afternoon, at 4:15 p.m. the skies suddenly...
CAM CAN'T FIND SWING
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - On Friday, Mike Cameron came up in the sixth inning with Kaz Matsui on third, one out and the Mets down a run . ....
THE BLAND PLAYED ON - IT'S SAME, SORRY SONG FOR INEPT AMAZIN'S
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amPadres 3Mets 1 SAN DIEGO - Another tight game, another Met loss. At this point, it's becoming routine. The closer the games get, the worse things seem to go for...
THAT WAS REN, THIS IS NOW
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amONE day you're young, too soon you're old. Each summer in the early to mid '70s, my family's nesting place was the Jersey Shore; my weekend habitat was Harlem, 155th...
FOR NOW, GARCIA'S BEST SECOND FIDDLE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The franchise player is down and out and not coming back anytime soon. So now it's time to answer a simple question. What happens to...
BIG UNIT TRADE IS A TALL ORDER FOR BOMBERS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amPerhaps the Yanks will not get to see 6-feet-11 worth of pinstripes. "We are not trading Randy [Johnson] because we think we can win the division, and our chances of...
WIN NOW - OR ELSE ; FEW CAREER YEARS ON YANK HORIZON
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amJAVIER Vazquez is the only current Yankee whose best years are in front of him and that could be truly the most disturbing early sign for the team in 2004....
HE WAS SWIMMIN' WITH THE FISHES
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amDAVID Collier was in Costa Rica because he loved to fish and he was doing something that he hoped would one day change the life of someone dear to him....
HEAD TO HEAD - ELI VS. CHAD
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amCostello: Giants GM Ernie Accorsi was presented a dare-to-be-great situation in the NFL Draft and he took it. Eli Manning will be an All-Pro quarterback for years for the Giants....
GET THE FRED OUT! STAY AWAY FROM SHEA UNTIL WILPON SELLS METS
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amConsider this a call to arms (and wallets) for all baseball fans who still dream of a time when this is a two-team town again: you do have an option....
BONDS - THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGACY
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SAN FRANCISCO - People use many adjectives to describe Barry Bonds - amazing, unbelievable, difficult, focused. But none encapsulates the man some consider the best baseball player ever...
CADETS SELECT FUTURE POSITIONS WITH CARE, PRIDE
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amWEST POINT - Cadet football players have a lot on their minds come November. Not because the game with "Beat Navy" is right around the corner; because this is the...
BATTLEFIELD OF LIFE - ARMY FOOTBALL PLAYERS LEARNING GAME PLAN FOR REAL WARS AHEAD
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amWEST POINT - The United States Military Academy is essentially a leadership laboratory. As they like to say here: "Much of the history we teach was made by people we...
THE NOISE OF SUMMER - BROADCAST-BOOTH BLOWHARDS TURN BASEBALL INTO SHTICKBALL
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amCURT Smith, author of "Voices of the Game" and chronicler of all that binds baseball to broadcasting, had a frightening thought. "What if the next Vin Scully is out there...
HIS SECOND CHANCE - AS REYES HEALS, GARCIA GETS LOOK HE'S WAITED FOR
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The franchise player is down and out and not coming back anytime soon. So now that that's out of the way, it's time to answer a simple...
'JOCKEY' COMES UP SHORT
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - In the days leading up to the biggest, most exciting spectacle in American thoroughbred racing-yesterday's Kentucky Derby - HBO unleashed a documentary attempting to portray its key participants,...
LIEBER LOOKS RIGHT AT HOME ON MOUND
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amTRUST Jon Lieber's 22 months are far longer than Derek Jeter went without a hit. Fortunately, muscle memory is more durable than even a Don Zimmer grudge, so the transplanted...
CAN'T STOP 'SMARTY' - OUTLASTS LION HEART TO REMAIN UNBEATEN
May 2, 2004 | 4:00amHistory was made yesterday in the 130th Kentucky Derby when Smarty Jones, the "Philly Flash," caught front-running Lion Heart in deep stretch, then went on to win by two lengths...