June 19, 2004
VIACOM SHEDS BLOCKBUSTER
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amMedia giant Viacom will rake in $738 million from its plan to spin off video-store chain Blockbuster. The terms of its spin-off plan, announced yesterday, include a $5 per share...
JONES' BONEPARTH CONQUERS MAXWELL SHOE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amJones Apparel Group said yesterday that it had reached an agreement to buy the Maxwell Shoe Company for $346 million in cash, ending a rare hostile takeover battle and providing...
MIRAMAX EYES WORKER LAYOFFS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amNew York-based movie studio Miramax is considering cutting up to 20 percent of its work force as it faces a budget crunch at the end of its fiscal year, a...
D.A.'S PAPER CHASE; CRIMINAL CHARGES COULD BE NEXT FOR NEWSDAY
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amNewsday may face criminal charges for puffing up its circulation figures, adding to a growing list of legal woes. Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon said yesterday he had opened...
MARKET REPORT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThanks for the huge response to our June 5 cover on renovations that make you money. I've heard a lot of your personal fixer-upper stories, so I'd like to add...
HIP HARBORS - IF YOU'RE READY TO BE ONE OF THE METRO-AREA BOAT PEOPLE, TRY THESE FIVE TOWNS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amWITH so many miles of shoreline around, it's tough to know which port to choose. After interviewing real estate agents, marina owners, and boaters, we came up with these favorites....
GIMME SHELTER - JANET'S FLASH PAD
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amWHAT have you done for yourself lately, Janet Jackson? According to our records, you've become a neighbor of Harrison Fordand his skeletal gal-pal, Calista Flockhart, in Chelsea. Jackson's luxurious digs,...
A MAD, MAD, MAD MAD AVE. - PARKSIDE, EVEN NEAR OFFICES, AIN'T CHEAP
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amIF you haven't been to Madison Square Park recently, you may not recognize it. While it was once undesirable, it's now gorgeous, replete with gardens, sculptures and fountains. Perhaps most...
DOWN WITH IT - THRIFTY MIAMI BUYERS SHUNNING SOUTH BEACH IN FAVOR OF NEW LUXURY CONSTRUCTION DOWNTOWN
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amIF you're thinking of joining Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz and all the other celebrities who have recently bought Miami pads, here's an inside tip: South Beach is so, like, totally over....
CANADIAN CANARY AT CARNEGIE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN we last saw k.d. lang, she was singing ballads with Tony Bennett. Now our favorite vegetarian lesbian non-capitalized chanteuse has even more manpower behind her - the entire Brooklyn...
'JEOPARDY' CHAMP HITS 13
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amIS thirteen an unlucky number? Not if you're "Jeopardy!" champ Ken Jennings! Jennings won for the 13th consecutive time on "Jeopardy!" last night, extending his record and adding another $30,000...
PHISH SCALES HEIGHTS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amPHISH WHILE the rest of New York huddled for cover as rain doused Gotham on Thursday, Vermont's Phish wailed through four hours of incredibly intricate, intensely pretty noodles that illustrated...
BUFFY 'TOONS UP FOR RETURN; ANIMATED PILOT BASED ON WB/UPN SERIES
June 19, 2004 | 4:00am'BUFFY the Vampire Slayer" is clawing her way back to TV - as a cartoon. The animated show, which is still a pilot and has not been picked up by...
THE ASIAN PERSUASION
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE third New York Asian Film Festival is off and running, and once again it's a must-see. Gone are the days when countries like France, Spain and Italy were in...
HOLY SHIRT! YOU'LL NEED MORE THAN A PRAYER TO BUY A MADONNA CONCERT T-SHIRT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amSHE may have found religion, but Madonna's still a material girl. A black "Re-Invention Tour" tank top costs a whopping $85, and on her Madonnatourstore.com Web site, fans can buy...
POP STARS- FAMOUS NEW YORK DADS TELL US HOW THEY DO IT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amChef, baseball star, rocker. Rewarding professions, all - but they're nothing compared to the real work of being a father. And no matter how big you are outside the house,...
SLEEP-AWAY SURVIVAL TIPS FROM THE PROS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amIt's an early-summer ritual: packing for sleep-away camp. And no, you can't take your cell phone. What's a homesick camper to do? Bring on the stationery, stuffed animals and photos....
QAEDA SICKOS BEHEAD YANK; POST VILE PHOTOS BEFORE SAUDI GANG CHIEF IS SLAIN
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amAl Qaeda fiends beheaded a kidnapped New Jersey man yesterday and posted ghoulish photos of their victim on the Internet. "The infidel got his fair treatment," a Saudi-based branch of...
2ND ARREST IN CORRECTIONS SLAY
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amCops have arrested the second man wanted for murdering an off-duty corrections officer during a melee outside a Queens nightclub, cops said. Todd Coleman, 23, was busted in Baltimore after...
FURIOUS HILL SENT CHEATER BILL TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH FOR 2 MONTHS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amBill Clinton was banished to the couch for at least two months after he 'fessed up to his Oval Office sex romps with Monica Lewinsky, the ex-president's hotly anticipated memoir...
BURY BEASTS IN PIG FAT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amNOT tomorrow, not the day after, but in a skinny minute, the following must happen. Every single mosque in this United States must make a simple statement. And that is:...
COPS BUST PANTHERS FOR GUNS, POT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amA group of Black Panthers was busted in Harlem last night when cops found guns and drugs in their rental car, police sources said. The group was pulled over at...
'SAM': KEEP ME IN STIR - WAS AGAINST PAROLE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz told a parole panel last week he did not want to be released from prison because of the heinous nature of the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amHe's given a whole new meaning to the term "Dr. Feelgood." Oregon osteopath Randall Smith told a patient that having sex with him would be the best medicine for her...
IT'S GOOD RIDDANCE TO EVIL THUG
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The twisted terrorist killed in a firefight only hours after he beheaded New Jersey hostage Paul Johnson was al Qaeda's military commander in Saudi Arabia. Top U.S. and...
WINONA TO GET A FREE PASS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A judge yesterday knocked down Winona Ryder's shoplifting convictions from felonies to misdemeanors, and set the stage for her case to be wiped from the records....
MIKE ZINGS PORK-BARREL COUNTY POLS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amTo show his growing displeasure over how homeland-security funds are being used for "pork barrel" politics, Mayor Bloomberg has pulled New York City's five boroughs out of a nationwide organization...
BRONX GIRL KILLED OVER ICED TEA
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amA Bronx teen stabbed and killed a friend after the two got into a scuffle when she refused to get him an iced tea, cops said yesterday. Nathaniel Geebro, 16,...
HOSP RAPE HORROR; L.I. PATIENT DRAGGED INTO MEN'S ROOM
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amA trouble-plagued Long Island hospital was the scene of more turmoil yesterday when a female patient was dragged into a bathroom and raped while waiting for an elevator, cops said....
OLYMPIC TORCH BLAZES TRAIL TO N.Y.
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Olympic spirit will ignite in New York City today as the star-studded 2004 Athens Games torch relay winds it way through all five boroughs. Great athletes from gymnast Nadia...
WEB BROWSER SPIDEY CLINGS INTO ACTION
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amLook out! Here comes the (very big) Spider-Man. A mammoth balloon of the web-headed wonder swung into Union Square Park yesterday, showing residents why he's referred to as "your friendly...
KILLER KIMES REVEALS DUO'S SICK SAYING
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The turncoat son of infamous New York grifter Sante Kimes told a jury yesterday that he and his mom led their murderous lives by a chilling family...
SADDAM HAD U.S. TERROR PLANS: PUTIN
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amRussian President Vladimir Putin yesterday buttressed President Bush's claim that Iraq posed a direct threat to America by saying Russian intelligence was tipped off that Saddam Hussein was preparing anti-American...
MOMA EXTORTIONIST'S WORK OF ART
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amAn underworld character who reportedly doled out no-show union jobs rebuilding the Museum of Modern Art pleaded guilty to extortion yesterday. Carl Carrara, an alleged associate of the Genovese crime...
$6M - 5 NAILED IN HARDWARE RIP-OFF OF
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amLong Island cops arrested five people after cracking their $6 million scam that involved billing a hospital group for phantom locks, lock parts and "hundreds of thousands of door knobs,"...
BRICK-SLAY FURY ; B'KLYN MOURNS HOMELESS MAN BEATEN BY TEEN FIENDS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amTwo 15-year-old Brooklyn boys pleaded not guilty yesterday to beating a homeless man to death with 40 bricks outside a church - as the neighborhood tried to make sense of...
HILLARY POLLS JUST AS WELL AS KERRY
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Clinton would do as well as Democratic nominee-to-be John Kerry if she were running against President Bush right now, a new poll shows. Both Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Kerry...
MIKE MAKES DEAL ON HS 'PUSH-OUTS'
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration reached a court settlement requiring city education officials to stop the alleged practice of "pushing" overage students out of school. The court order, approved by Brooklyn federal...
SILVER AGREES TO SOUTH FERRY PLAN
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amA $15 million fund to improve Battery Park led Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday to withdraw his objections to the $400 million renovation of the South Ferry subway station. The...
ONLINE EXCERPTS ARE MEATY - BUT NOT JUICY
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amNote to parents: Don't get upset if your young kids log onto the Internet to hear former President Clinton read the first two audiotaped excerpts from his book. In the...
JOHNNY ON THE SPOT; MCCAIN STUMPS FOR DUBYA AMID SOLDIERS' CHEERS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amPopular Republican Sen. John McCain yesterday left no doubt who has his support for president as he hugged President Bush and hailed him to U.S. troops as the man who's...
TIGER'S TRUDGING ALONG ; FAILS TO MAKE CHARGE AT LEAD
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amPHIL Mickelson laid the challenge just as Tiger Woods was ready to begin his second round of the 104th U.S. Open yesterday at Shinnecock Hills. As Woods was heading to...
4 SURVIVE SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amFour men miraculously slithered to safety in The Bronx yesterday after the scaffold they were working on gave way and left them dangling 17 floors off the ground. The men...
SON OF SAM: LET ME ROT IN PRISON
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY -"Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz told a parole panel last week he did not want to be released from prison because of the heinous nature of the crimes...
TOT IN DEATH PLUNGE; FALLS OUT 6TH-FL. WINDOW
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amA playful toddler plunged to his death yesterday after falling out of a sixth-story window in his babysitter's Washington Heights apartment, cops said. Aneudis Burgos-Ortega, 21 months old, was playing...
BROWN'S OPTIMISTIC FOR RETURN
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - Kevin Brown's back is feeling better but the eccentric hurler isn't predicting he will come off the DL and start Saturday against the Mets at...
MIKE CATCHES SPOTLIGHT - PLATE GREATS GATHER TO HONOR HR CHAMP
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE greatest hitting catcher there ever was squatted down again last night, both for old time's sake and as the toast to the hardest position there is. For better or...
BRICK-SLAY FURY - B'KLYN MOURNS HOMELESS MAN BEATEN BY TEEN FIENDS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amTwo 15-year-old Brooklyn boys pleaded not guilty yesterday to beating a homeless man to death with 40 bricks outside a church - as the neighborhood tried to make sense of...
OLYMPIC TORCH BLAZES TO N.Y.
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe Olympic spirit will ignite in New York City today as the star-studded 2004 Athens Games torch relay winds it way through all five boroughs. Great athletes from gymnast Nadia...
BOMBERS TRADE WHITE TO CINCY
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The Yankees last night accomplished something very few thought they could: They found a team willing to take Gabe White. In a deal announced during the third...
KNICKS MAY ROLL DYESS AGAIN
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amEven though Antonio McDyess has called Isiah Thomas "sneaky" and felt dissed by the Jan. 5 trade to Phoenix, he is interested in returning to the Knicks this summer, according...
PAVIN HOPES DEJA VU LASTS TWO MORE DAYS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThis time, the ball was only 189 yards from the front of the green, about 20 yards less than where it had famously sat on another afternoon nine years before....
FUNK FEELS GOOD WITH HIS GAME
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amFred Funk passed a gut-check yesterday. He was 3-under Thursday in his opening round at the 104th U.S. Open when foul weather started wreaking havoc with Funk's concentration. He double-bogeyed...
ANOTHER TEST FOR METROS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe MetroStars are clearly a better, more talented team than they were last year, but their record is worse than it was at the same time last season. They've underachieved...
SLIDING LIBERTY IN REBOUND MODE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amPreparation for tonight's game at Indiana began for the Liberty about a half-hour following their 24-point loss to Seattle at the Garden Tuesday night. Immediately after that disastrous defeat, coach...
SHANE'S BACK; FLOYD'S HURTIN'
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Shane Spencer was back in the lineup last night, which was the good news. But it was as a replacement for Cliff Floyd, which was the bad news....
MAGGERT HANGING AROUND AT 5-UNDER
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amAt 40 years old, this U.S. Open may be Jeff Maggert's best chance to win a major. He just may have to bend his patient, conservative game plan to chase...
STEWARDS FEEL HEAT AFTER DQ
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amSecond-guessers jumped all over the stewards after controversial a DQ in fourth race for 2-year-old maidens at Belmont yesterday. Tip City, at 9-1, set pace under Mike Luzzi, and was...
METS ADD 1-2 PUNCH - HIDALGO JOINS TEAM; REYES ON DECK (FINALLY!)
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amOne's here. One's coming. Richard Hidalgo, the Mets' newest right fielder, strolled into the Shea clubhouse yesterday at approximately 3:40 p.m. At around the same time today, Jose Reyes is...
DON'T BET AGAINST IT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amTHE GAMBLER? He's gone. The daredevil drives, the foolhardy flop wedges, they're all gone, too. You get the feeling that when Phil Mickelson goes to Vegas these days - if...
AZERI TAKING ON TOUGH PHIPPS FIELD
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amIn what could be the best short field of fillies and mares assembled in New York since Bold 'n Determined, Genuine Risk, Love Sign and Davona Dale hooked up in...
FURYK RALLIES TO STAY ON COURSE ; EAGLE, BIRD PIVOTAL
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe first day was for grand tradition, the return of the defending U.S. Open champion, ailing or not. Yesterday was for Jim Furyk and his comeback. His Open seemed about...
HAAS WILL ENJOY HIS FATHER'S DAY ; SON REMAINS IN FIELD
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amPop Haas is playing golf on Father's Day tomorrow. So is his son. While Jay Haas saw his first-round share of the U.S. Open lead vanish in a 4-over afternoon...
ACTIVATED JASON OUT OF SYNC
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - No wonder Jason Giambi didn't want to go on the DL when he rolled his right ankle May 21 in Texas. While Giambi wasn't in...
ALL EYES ON MOOSE- MIKE TO TEST AILING GROIN TODAY; DL POSSIBLE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - With apologies to Brad Halsey and his family, the neophyte lefty making his major-league debut today in front of a national television audience for the Yankees against...
GOOSEN TAKES WING, FLIES INTO CONTENTION
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amWhile all eyes were on Ernie Els, who is the South African known as the Big Easy, Retief Goosen was making it look easy at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Goosen,...
DUVAL (25-OVER) NOT DEFLATED
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amDavid Duval crouched down on the 18th green to survey a seven-foot putt with the late-afternoon sun casting long shadows across Shinnecock Hills. Through the quiet and intense silence of...
PHIL STANDING OUT IN CROWD ; FAN FAVORITE MICKELSON TIED FOR LEAD
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amThe momentum is building. You can feel it from every corner of Shinnecock Hills. Phil Mickelson is poised to win the U.S. Open, ready to make it two major victories...
MARUYAMA EYEING MAJOR WIN ; ENTERS 3RD ROUND IN TOP PAIRING
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amShigeki Maruyama whipped Tiger Woods over the first 36 holes of the 104th U.S. Open. Now he's looking to beat Phil Mickelson. Maruyama and Mickelson will be paired in the...
HARROWING 11TH HOLE HAUNTING FOR JIMENEZ
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES The killer hole of the day came for Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez, who arrived to the par-3 11th hole well in contention to make the cut at 3-over...
WHITE DEALT TO REDS
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The Yankees last night accomplished something very few thought they could: They found a team willing to take Gabe White. In a deal announced during the third...
HIDALGO'S DEBUT IS FORGETTABLE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES On his way to Shea yesterday afternoon, Richard Hidalgo got his first indication that he was in New York City. Friday afternoon traffic. "Unbelievable," Hidalgo marveled. "That was...
YANKS FLOP IN L.A.
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amDodgers 6 Yankees 3 LOS ANGELES - Playing Dodger Stadium for the first time since the 1981 World Series, the Yankees put on a dreadful performance last night. Jason Giambi...
REYES EXPECTED BACK TONIGHT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Jose Reyes is set to make his long-awaited return to the Mets tonight. The team has not announced anything officially, but rest assured he's on his way after...
CAMERON HAS BLAST LAUGH - WALK-OFF HOMER LIFTS METS ON PIAZZA NIGHT
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amMets 3 Tigers 2 You hear all the time about players in The Bronx "arriving" as Yankees because of some big moment. You don't hear it that much at Shea....
ELS, PHIL SET TO COLLIDE
June 19, 2004 | 4:00amGolf has been yearning for a rivalry, and for the last five years it's been assumed that meant someone to challenge Tiger Woods, who entered the 104th U.S. Open as...