July 9, 2001
COMCAST BEAR HUG ; TAKES $58B AT&T CABLE BID TO HOLDERS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amComcast is putting the squeeze on AT&T. Brian and Ralph Roberts, who run the No. 3 cable company, gave AT&T head C. Michael Armstrong a bear hug yesterday, looking to...
NAPSTER STILL ASLEEP AFTER EIGHT DAYS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amNapster's little nap is looking like a coma. The file-sharing service, once the champion of the freewheeling Internet culture, has now been unavailable for eight days. Napster execs pulled the...
PECKER, PERELMAN PAIR UP
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amA NEW weekly fashion magazine in the works by David Pecker and Ron Perelman is going to be called Style 24-7, Media Ink has learned. The magazine will hit Sept....
2 DEGREES OF PREPARATION ; IVY GRAD MAKING IT OFF-B'WAY
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amACTING doesn't require a college degree, let alone the kind of Ivy League pedigree Hill Harper has.What's a Brown University graduate with a Harvard law diploma doing off-Broadway?Very well, thanks....
LUKE'S THE REAL HORROR
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE ROCKY HORROR SHOWCircle in the Square. 1633 Broadway. (212) 239-6200. WHAT do you say in the second place about a show you didn't much care for in the first...
'MUSIC MAN' STILL IN TUNE
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE MUSIC MAN 1/2 At the Neil Simon Theater, 250 W. 52nd St. between Broadway and Eighth Ave. (212) 757-8646. Clive Barnes revisits Broadway favorites to see how they hold...
TEEN FANCLUB BOPS FROM PSEUDO PUNK TO POP
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amGLASGOW'S Teenage Fanclub frontman Norman Blake would like to be stuck in an elevator with Paul McCartney. That makes sense given this Scottish band's pop influences - The Beatles, the...
AFTER THROWING AWAY THE SCRIPT, FILMMAKERS WERE IN THE . . . JURASSIC DARK
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT'S scarier than a vicious, sharp-toothed T. Rex on the rampage?Try following in uber-director Steven Spielberg's footsteps on a mega-grossing, record-breaking franchise - without a script. That was the intimidating...
PTERRIFYING PTERODACTYLS! SEQUEL HATCHES NEW DINOS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amONE of the biggest criticisms of "The Lost World" was that it didn't feature any new dinosaurs - just the same old beasties from the first film. But armchair paleontologists...
STARR REPORT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amMrs. Robinson a tough act to follow NBC is still testing hosts for its syndicated version of "Weakest Link," which kicks off in January on CBS-owned Ch. 2, which is...
MANKIND VS. MACHINES ; FOLEY TAPPED TO HOST BATTLING 'BOTS ON TNN
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amWWF wrestler Mick "Mankind" Foley has left the ring - but the fighting has just begun. Foley, author of two best-selling books on his broken-bone life in wrestling, will host...
MODEL TEEN'S RUNWAY DREAMS: LOCAL GIRL IN CATWALK COMPETITION TO BE THE NEXT GISELE
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amDOES a 10th grader from Bayshore have what it takes to be the next Gi sele Bundchen or Cindy Crawford? Courtney McBride is strutting her blond, 14-year-old stuff tomorrow night...
I WAS A WANNABE MANNEQUIN - FOR A DAY
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTake RuPaul's advice if you want to be a supermodel, you better work! It takes more than perfect genes to reach the top in the cutthroat world of modeling you...
CANDIDATES AT A LOSS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt's Nov. 6, the polls have just closed, and there's only one man still standing. What becomes of the other five mayor wannabes who won't be? The four Democratic hopefuls...
HARRY POTTER AND THE 'OB$CENE' TV DEAL
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amHarry Potter hopes to cast a powerful spell over the four major TV networks - and get one of them to shell out $70 million for the rights to air...
TERROR LINKS EYED IN MONTREAL MCDONALD'S ATTACKS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Police say attacks on eight area McDonald's over the weekend were carried out by a "large and very organized" group. "It was obviously a group of people trying...
HE DIDN'T COME CLEAN IN THIS DIRTY BUSINESS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amHAVING an affair in Washington is not an indictable offense, otherwise Capitol Hill would look like a ghost town. But these months of anguish for the Levy family are not...
BOB: POPE GIG ONE OF MY BEST
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amIt's doubtful he'll ever convert the Vatican into a rock 'n' roll palace, but Bob Dylan says his favorite performance of all time might have been when he played for...
NEW YORK'S CRISIS NEXT TIME
July 9, 2001 | 4:00am'THERE is no good in arguing with the inevitable," wrote the poet James Russell Lowell, back before New York was a city. "The only argument available with an east wind...
SICK STALIN SKETCHED VILE CARTOONS OF VICTIMS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amNotorious Russian dictator Joseph Stalin cruelly sketched sick cartoons of the men he ordered to be executed, newly released Soviet documents have revealed. In one of the doodles, drawn in...
HEVESI WANTS MORE MAMMOGRAM VANS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amFresh from warning that the city is facing huge deficits in the coming years, Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday called for City Hall to shell out $2 million to buy and...
DAFFY KHADAFY SAYS U.S. ROOT OF ALL EVIL ; HEATS UP AFRICAN UNITY TALK
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe United States is a cutthroat global troublemaker masterminding violence everywhere from Chechnya to Nigeria, Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy charged yesterday. "I say, beware of the Americans, do not allow...
BIG APPLE NO LONGER BUSH'S FORBIDDEN FRUIT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - He postponed it twice and visited 32 other states first - but President Bush finally makes his first visit to New York tomorrow. Bush, who got 15 percent...
OUTRAGE AT ISRAEL CONCERT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amA world-famous conductor has broken a decades-old Israeli taboo by playing a piece by Richard Wagner, an anti-Semite who was Hitler's favorite composer. Daniel Barenboim, who is Jewish, stunned the...
N.Y. PRISONS HAVE MOST AIDS CASES
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amAIDS cases in the nation's prisons have skyrocketed, with New York state having the most HIV-positive inmates. The disturbing trend comes despite the fact that AIDS-related deaths behind bars have...
ASTHMA LINKED TO WEIGHT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amSome asthma sufferers would breathe easier if they just shed a few pounds, a hopeful new study suggests. U.S. researchers found a "significant" link between the debilitating respiratory malady and...
G-MEN PROBED IN NUKE 'SPY' FLUB
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amSeveral FBI agents reportedly are being investigated for their roles in the botched espionage case against nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee. The probe comes as the Justice Department prepares to...
GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! ELVIS' LAST VENUE ALL SHOOK UP
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amElvis has not only left the building, but the building's been blown up. Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, where The King gave his final performance on June 26, 1977 -...
SETBACK IN COLE PROBE
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amYemen could soon try and execute suspects in the suicide bombing of the USS Cole - severely hampering FBI efforts to prove terror kingpin Osama bin Laden was behind the...
WELL-VERSED GURU'S ODE TO WALL STREET
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amNOWADAYS, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by "analysts," only one man has the guts, the...
TWO KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amA woman and a teenage girl were killed in separate traffic accidents over the weekend, police said. The driver of a Dodge minivan lost control and hit a post on...
CONDIT LIE TEST DEMANDED ; CHANDRA'S FAMILY STILL DOESN'T BELIEVE HE'S TOLD ALL
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe parents of missing D.C. intern Chandra Levy will ask Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie-detector test because they don't believe he told cops everything he knows, it was...
GEORGE HAS BRAIN TUMOR ; EX-BEATLE IN SWISS CANCER CLINIC: REPORT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Harrison - who had a lung tumor removed two months ago - is being treated for a brain tumor at a Swiss cancer center, a Zurich newspaper reported yesterday....
COPS: LOUT TRIES TO STEAL GIRL'S BALLOONS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amA man attacked a 13-year-old dancer in front of her Midtown hotel, hitting her in the face and stealing a bunch of balloons she was holding, police said yesterday. "Give...
THE HUSBAND BEATERS ; MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF BATTERED SPOUSES ARE MEN
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amMore and more men are coming forward to admit they are the victims of spousal abuse - but men's-rights advocates say the number is still dramatically underreported. A 1998 Justice...
JAIL GUARD A SUSPECT IN FATHER'S BASH SLAY
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amA Rikers Island guard yesterday bashed her sister in the head with a pipe, hours before their father was found bludgeoned to death in their Queens home, cops said. Steve...
HARD FALL FOR RISING P.R. STAR ; CRASH SHATTERS GRUBMAN'S WORLD
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe morose, puffy-faced young woman leaving a Hamptons courthouse in tears yesterday couldn't have looked more different than the beaming Lizzie Grubman who has been seen next to celebritydom's brightest...
SEARCH FOR MISSING BOAT-CRASH VICTIMS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe search resumes this morning for two people feared drowned after two boats collided on Greenwood Lake, police said. The bodies of two other boaters who died in the weekend...
FLACK'S FLAK MAY DAMAGE HER BIZ
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe old public-relations adage, "There's no such thing as bad publicity," may not apply to Lizzie Grubman's business now, fellow flacks said last night. In fact, they said, her Hamptons...
BIG 'CHANGE' AT PAY PHONE COULD MEAN 35-CENT CALL
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amStart saving those dimes - Verizon is making moves to raise the cost of a New York pay-phone call to 35 cents. The last bargain in the city - the...
MOM'S HMO HEARTACHE ; CAN'T BRING COMA BOY HOME
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amFor the past two years, Scott Dudick hasn't been able to walk, talk or see. And now, he can't go home. The 13-year-old Long Island boy has been confined to...
CONDIT UNBECOMING: KIN - LEVY FAMILY SLAMS 'LATE' CONFESSION AS HOMICIDE COP TAKES REINS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe family of D.C. intern Chandra Levy was outraged yesterday at Rep. Gary Condit for waiting so long to admit to an affair -as cops assigned a homicide detective to...
LIZZIE CRASH PROBERS: IT WAS NOT ACCIDENT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amPublicity princess Lizzie Grubman wept in handcuffs yesterday as cops slapped her with nine felony charges for mowing down 16 people at a Hamptons nightclub with a Mercedes-Benz SUV and...
A WASHED-UP FRAUD AT 22 ; CAMACHO WALKS AWAY WITH HIS TITLE BUT NO CREDIBILITY
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amHOW sad it must be to be 22 years old, and know that you are finished. To know that your life is a lie and your adopted nickname a sick...
GODOLPHIN'S E DUBAI ROMPS IN THE DWYER
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe Godolphin Stable, owned by Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, has been trying to make an impact on American racing with its well-regarded 3-year-old colts for several years. It finally succeeded...
HIGH SCHOOL HOP; NEW STEP'S ALL THE RAGE AT ADIDAS CAMP
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amNot too long ago, players showed up to the adidas ABCD camp to prove themselves to college coaches. Well, things have changed. "College is great and all, but the [NBA]...
VALENTINE DOES OWN THING ; RIPS PRESS OVER FLOYD FLAP
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amSIX hours from Seattle on the red eye, his face a matching color at being 13 games from first place, doing a burn over the assassination of his character equal...
DOUBY TAKES OFF FOR THE SUMMER
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amABCD NOTES Ask most players in Quincy Douby's position what they did last summer and you get a litany of basketball camps and tournaments that they went to throughout the...
ON DIFFERENT TRAINS ; YANKS, METS HEADING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE first half ended fittingly. Not just with the Yankees winning and the Mets losing. But with the Yankees offering promise for the second half while the Mets unearthed more...
MENDOZA SHOWS REY WHO'S BOSS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amRamiro Mendoza poured gasoline on a sixth-inning brush fire in last night's game. His saving grace was facing one of the lamest hitters in the majors with the outcome on...
TURK FLIPS OVER LOSS TO YANKEES
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTurk Wendell's tantrum after leaving in the seventh inning could have been childhood trauma being unleashed. Or maybe it was just Yankee hatred. Wendell took the loss last night to...
NO DECISION, BUT RANDY'S JUST DANDY
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amRandy Keisler exited last night's game in a sixth-inning jam and on the wrong end of a no-hitter. It must be nice to be a Yankee, knowing the world champs...
A BOMBER BASH ; YANKS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MET PEN TO WIN FINALE
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEES 4 Mets 1 Sixty minutes prior to the last Subway Series of the season, Joe Torre was asked if he thought Mets-Yankees had lost something off its fastball. "I...
BOBBY V WELCOMES FLOYD TO ALL-STARS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amBobby Valentine looked like a prize-fighter arguing against what he perceived as a wrong decision by the judges. On the day Valentine handed the Marlins' Cliff Floyd his official ticket...
SUPER-SUB RUSCH GETS NO SUPPORT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe Met starters' success may be attributed to osmosis. Somewhere in the unconscious portion of their minds, they may have absorbed how difficult it is to hit by watching their...
NO BENCH KEPT REY IN GAME
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amWhy didn't Bobby Valentine pinch-hit with the bases loaded and Rey Ordonez up with one out in the sixth last night? Valentine said it was because the Mets were again...
NECK SPASMS SEND REED TO THE BENCH
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES When Rick Reed arrived at Yankee Stadium yesterday, he looked less like an All-Star and more like something out of horror movie. "He looks like Frankenstein walking around...
MO'S ANKLE STILL A PROBLEM
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Shortly before game time, Mariano Rivera's right ankle was X-rayed and the pictures showed no structural damage. About four hours later, Rivera closed out a 4-1 Subway Series...
CYCLONES CHOP DOWN VERMONT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amCyclones 14 Vermont 5 After Cyclone home games, children in attendance are permitted to run the bases after the game is over. From a line that forms along the first-base...
KNICKS HAVE EYE ON BURRELL
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe expected return of Allan Houston will do nothing to improve the Knicks' perimeter defense, a weakness Jeff Van Gundy railed about all last season. So GM Scott Layden is...
BALBONI'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amSteve Balboni has been to the show. That's why he was signing more autographs than any of the players on the field last night before the Cyclones 14-5 poudning of...
TWO DIFFERENT AGENDAS: YANKS AIM TO REPEAT, METS AIM TO REBUILD
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY will not see each other again. The Mets will go their way. The Yankees will go their way. The two parts of the Subway head on different rails. The...
PIAZZA SET TO TEST TOE BEHIND PLATE FOR NL ALL-STARS
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amAs Mike Piazza strolled into the Mets' clubhouse at 4:58 p.m. yesterday, it was evident where he was headed. The first Met to arrive at Yankee Stadium was headed on...
MO VOWS: I'LL BE FINE- RELIEVER'S NOT CONCERNED ABOUT ANKLE INFLAMMATION
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTests haven't been done on Mariano Rivera's right ankle; nor are there any scheduled during the All- Star break. In fact, Rivera was making plans to go home to Panama...
VALENTINE PROVES HONORABLE : ADDING CLIFF TO ROSTER SHOWS IT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amTHE BEST of intentions, turned into an accusation of the worst of intentions, so it's easy to understand Bobby Valentine's anger. "I was trying to be a good person and...
IT'S EASY TO MISS CHOATE'S IMPACT
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amIn the pecking order of the Yankees' bullpen, Randy Choate refers to himself as a wild card. Joe Torre said Choate's more like an unsung hero. There's been so much...
TORRE EYES JUSTICE
July 9, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTEBOOK Joe Torre believes the Yankees will add a lethal bat to his lineup during the second half. Just don't expect it to be Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon or...