July 24, 2003
MICHAEL PRICE BIDS $10M FOR PIA PAD WITH 'PANIC ROOM'
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSOCIALITE Pia Getty - one of the three Miller sisters (Manhattan's version of the Gabor girls, but richer) - is thisclose to selling the East 78th Street townhouse she shared...
NEW LABEL LAUNCHED TO GROW TALENT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amNot everyone is pessimistic about the health of the music industry. A trio of executives with music as well as Wall Street experience are launching a new label. The three...
SHAREHOLDERS WIN IF MGM PICKS PLAN B OR C
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMGM has a Plan B. And it may be a lot more lucrative for the company's shareholders than the first choice: purchasing the entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal - which,...
ACCOUNTING ILLS STILL CRAMP AOL
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amAOL Time Warner's accounting woes appear far from over - and the company may have to restate its financial reports yet again, executives said yesterday. The company also said its...
JAMESTOWN BUYS INTO CHELSEA MKT.
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amGerman real estate fund Jamestown is buying a 75 percent stake in Ninth Avenue's Chelsea Market. Real Estate Alert said Jamestown, which owns a host of New York office buildings,...
SNEAKER CEASE-FIRE - NIKE, FOOT LOCKER NEAR END TO PAINFUL DISPUTE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe long-running feud between Nike and Foot Locker appears to be heading for a truce, analysts and industry executives said. Senior Foot Locker managers recently traveled to Nike's Beaverton, Ore.,...
ROGERS, GUTKOWSKI STEP INTO YES BATTLE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Mike Bloomberg has appointed Tom Rogers, former Primedia CEO, and Bob Gutkowski, the former head of Madison Square Garden, to mediate a dispute between the YES Network and Cablevision....
VIVENDI EYES CEO TO HEAD POSSIBLE IPO OF VUE UNIT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amVivendi Universal has started an informal search for a chief executive for Vivendi Universal Entertainment - as it prepares for possibly taking its U.S. film, TV and music businesses public,...
QIAO XING TO FACE DELISTING
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amA Chinese cordless-phone company that's soared 300 percent on the Nasdaq in four months is getting delisted for not filing its financial reports. The Nasdaq issued a delisting order for...
RUBENSTEIN AT SEVENTEEN
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amHearst has assigned the hottest editor in the teen magazine category to try to jump-start the largest title in the field, Seventeen. Atoosa Rubenstein, now 31 years old, has an...
FORGET LOOKING LIKE A MILLION - SOON YOU CAN LOOK LIKE 50 CENT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amTaking a cue from the title of his red-hot debut album, "Get Rich Or Die Tryin,' " rap star 50 Cent is looking to strike gold in the apparel industry...
JOBS SLASHED AT VOICE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amVillage Voice Media has said it is slashing six full-time editorial staff and one part-timer from the business side, while another top editor has also apparently quit. Executive editor Karen...
COMIC RELIEF
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amARCHIE may not have been able to make up his mind, but Miramax has - it's just grabbed "Betty & Veronica." According to Variety, the studio will team with Archie...
OFF ROAD TO 'MANDERLAY'
July 24, 2003 | 4:00am"DOGVILLE" star Nicole Kidman has done an about-face on her promise to shoot the next two films in Lars von Trier's American-set trilogy, "U, S and A." The Danish director's...
LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULDN'T QUITE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amTRAIN --- LIKE a steam engine, Train chugged through a two-hour show at the Hammerstein Ballroom Tuesday that displayed its strengths and weaknesses. Lead singer and lyricist Pat Monahan, whose...
POSITIVELY 4TH RATE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMASKED & ANONYMOUS [Zero stars] Cruel & unusual punishment. Running time: 107 minutes. Rated PG-13 (mild profanity, brief violence). At the Angelika, the Empire. ---- THERE are awful movies, and...
SEND YOUR KID TO 'SURVIVOR' CAMP - BUGS, TIKI TORCHES AND EVEN BANDANAS FOR LITTLE CONTESTANTS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amIF you really love "Survivor" now you can send your kids to a "Survivor" summer camp. A pair of teachers - who are rabid "Survivor" fans - have started a...
P. DIDDY DID IT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSEAN "P. Diddy" Combs "Bad Boy II" soundtrack stole the top of the charts, selling 324,429 copies its first week out. Combs is relaunching his Bad Boy Records label with...
SEX, VENGEANCE, RACISM: 'BIG BROTHER' IS NO SISSY
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amALL the sex, violence and even a racial slur on the latest edition of "Big Brother" hasn't yet paid off in viewers. But hey - they've still got a long...
RISKIER 'JEOPARDY!'
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe show with limitless winnings In the form of a guest extension'JEOPARDY!" winners will now be able to continue indefinitely, and win scads of money, under a new wrinkle added...
BAND OF ANGELS STREET TEAMS BANG DRUM FOR THEIR FAVES
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMTV and record label bigwigs like Antonio "L.A." Reid and Clive Davis aren't the only routes for a band that wants to break into mainstream music. Sometimes the kids wearing...
'LEFT' WITH LITTLE CHOICE - ANCIENT JESSE BEST YANKS COULD GET
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amALL the seventh-and-eighth- inning anxiety that grays Joe Torre's temples has gotten old, and soon so will all the coached and exaggerated enthusiasm that accompanies every single strike thrown by...
STARR REPORT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amDrum roll, please . . . ABC has chosen the first five guys who will be featured next week on "All My Children" - one of whom could ultimately win...
'GAYEST SHOW ON 'TV' HITS BIG TIME - 'QUEER EYE' COMES OUT OF CABLE CLOSET TONIGHT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amTHE hottest show of the summer is about to get hotter. The question is: Will NBC get burned? The network says it's airing a half-hour version of "Queer Eye for...
BLOCK PARTY: HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amWITH New Yorkers piling out of the overheated and overcrowded city every weekend like rats fleeing an L train, Block Party needed a vacation, too. And where better to take...
WAITING FOR ROCCO: OUR MAN GETS IN DISPIRITO OF THINGS AT 'THE RESTAURANT'
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSINCE the first episode of the new NBC reality show "The Restaurant" aired to 7.7 million viewers on Sunday night, the second-toughest task in town is getting a reservation at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amFrederick McDowell may be the world's dumbest crook - cops say he robbed a bank by passing the teller a note written on the back of his résumé. Cops quickly...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S official - partying in Southampton Town won't be as wild next summer, thanks to legislation that passed 3-1 this week. Under the new restrictions, which come into force in...
BUNGLING BANK BANDIT BUSTED
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amA 48-year-old ex-convict on parole for bank robbery has been arrested again for allegedly robbing or attempting to rob 11 banks earlier this month, police said. Curtis Barthrop, who was...
'XMAS MOM' JAILED - 18 YRS. FOR SUFFOCATING NEWBORN
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe Long Island woman who killed her newborn son on Christmas Day by suffocating him inside plastic wrap was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison yesterday after telling...
AMID 'RAPE' CHAOS, KOBE BUYS $4M RING
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amNBA superstar Kobe Bryant bought his wife, Vanessa, an eye-popping $4 million, eight-carat purple diamond ring just days after admitting adultery and being accused of raping a Colorado hotel worker,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday identified a 22-year-old man shot and killed in his car on a Brownsville street. Richard Phillips was in the car on Evergreen Avenue and Schaefer Street...
L.I. CAR THIEF RUNS OUT OF LUCK
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMemo to car thieves: check the gas gauge before you drive off. An unlucky thief yesterday stole a car low on fuel, ran out of gas, and was assisted by...
GOPERS ROLLING IN BASH CASH
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amRepublicans boasted they're "pretty close" to the $85 million they need to host the 2004 New York convention that will renominate President Bush, making for happy talk as they gathered...
MISSILES KILLED BUTCHER'S SONS - INSIDE STORY OF U.S. DEATH STRIKE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amNew details about the killings of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, reveal they were done in by an anti-tank missile attack after U.S. commanders decided to escalate the firepower...
COMMUTING NIGHTMARE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe city was thrown into commuter chaos for nearly two hours yesterday at the start of the afternoon rush after shots rang out at City Hall. Thousands of motorists and...
SCHOOL BOSSES' HOUSE IS SOLD
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe cash-starved city yesterday sold the century-old school chancellor's residence in historic Brooklyn Heights for $2.4 million. Buyer Mohammad Iqbal, of Forest Hills, Queens, gets high marks for investment savvy....
$30M TIPSTER CAN AFFORD A BODYGUARD - AND HE'LL NEED ONE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amFor one lucky Iraqi, it's bling-bling time in Baghdad. The U.S. government said it will pay the $15 million bounty placed on each of the heads of Saddam Hussein's sons,...
JUSTICE BITES COURT CHOMPER
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man who bit off a court officer's ear was convicted yesterday for the attack. Gaetan Remy, 32, faces up to 25 years in prison when he's sentenced Aug....
DOWNER DEMS IGNORE GOOD NEWS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amTHE elimination of Saddam Hussein's evil sons Uday and Qusay was the biggest success in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, but the Democratic 2004 presidential wannabes just didn't want...
SAM'S FAREWELL - $600 WINE, FANCY CHEESE - THEN OFF TO JAIL
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amAfter one last ritzy cocktail party at his SoHo pad, Martha Stewart's pal Sam Waksal trudged nervously into prison yesterday, bidding an emotional farewell to his brother before being led...
RUDY BACKS MIKE ON BALLOT CHANGE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Giuliani yesterday threw his support behind Mayor Bloomberg's push for nonpartisan elections. "I thought nonpartisan elections will be a good thing," said Giuliani - like Bloomberg, a Republican...
I SHOOK HANDS WITH THE KILLER - ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT WAS POP! POP!
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amIT STARTED like any other day, lots of press conferences on the City Hall steps with many aggrieved groups airing their complaints. James Davis - my councilman from Fort Greene,...
BARS: CITY CIG STATS ASH-ININE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCity officials released new employment data yesterday to bolster their claim that the cigarette ban isn't hurting bar business - but nightspot owners said they're just blowing smoke. From March...
GOING COOK-OO - CHEF POUNDS RIVAL OVER VONNEGUT GAL
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCall it a tale of two chefs and a saucy lass. After discovering his girlfriend in bed with another cook, a Hamptons chef beat the stuffing out of his rival,...
RUDY URGES BUSH PUSH
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday appealed to the national Republican Party to make a big push to win New York for President Bush's re-election, adding that even if it doesn't...
DIVERSE NABE UNITED IN SHOCK AND GRIEF
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSobbing friends and neighbors of James Davis gathered in front of the slain councilman's Crown Heights home last night - desperately trying to make sense of the City Hall bloodbath...
A TURBULENT HISTORY OF MAYHEM
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCity Hall, dedicated in 1812, has frequently been the focal point of political protest - and occasional violence - in recent years. In 1971, construction workers stormed City Hall and...
VICTIM GOT HIS KILLER IN
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCouncilman James Davis unwittingly brought his killer with him to City Hall and helped him circumvent supertight, anti-terror security surrounding the home of the mayor, the City Council and the...
B'KLYN JURY CONVICTS IMAM OF $MUGGLING
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amAn Egyptian-born imam was convicted yesterday of trying to smuggle more than $650,000 hidden in boxes of Ritz crackers, Quakers Oats and baby wipes back to Egypt. His father, who...
SLAIN COUNCILMAN RELISHED HIS ROLE AS POLITICAL MAVERICK
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSlain City Councilman James Davis was a political outsider who doggedly pounded his way into elective office without the support of party leaders - and continued to abide by that...
SECURITY LESSONS OF SEPT. 11 GO UNHEEDED
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amTHE killer did not slip over a wall, tunnel under a building or firebomb his way through a crowd. He didn't have to. The man who turned City Hall into...
CONFUSION, CHAOS HIT MAYOR'S 'BULLPEN'
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg was going about the everyday business of being mayor yesterday afternoon, answering phone calls and replying to e-mail, when all hell broke loose 20 steps from his office....
POLITICS AS USUAL QUICKLY TURNED INTO DEADLY CHAOS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amIt was typical summer doldrums day at City Hall - until "all hell broke loose." About 100 people were packed into the mahogany-paneled City Council chamber for July's only "stated...
DELI MAN DIES AFTER CO-WORKER FIGHT
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens father of two died two days after a scuffle at work turned violent, cops said yesterday. Nam Kim, 60, who died Tuesday, suffered a bruised cheek and a...
SKYSCRAPER DEATH LEAP
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amA man jumped to his death from the 24th floor of a West 53rd Street skyscraper during last night's rush hour, smashing through a glass atrium on his way down,...
DERANGED RIVAL BLOWS AWAY POL - COP IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER TAKES DOWN KILLER WITH 4 SHOTS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCity Councilman James Davis was shot to death inside City Hall yesterday - blown away by a political rival he escorted around metal detectors minutes earlier. Davis, an ex-cop who...
SHOOTER WANTED DAVIS' JOB
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe would-be politician who shot and killed James Davis was a real estate dabbler from a poor family who was determined to take the place of the Brooklyn councilman. Othniel...
DERANGED RIVAL BLOWS AWAY POL: COP IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER TAKES DOWN KILLER WITH 4 SHOTS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCity Councilman James Davis was shot to death inside City Hall yesterday - blown away by a political rival he escorted around metal detectors minutes earlier. Davis, an ex-cop who...
SO LONG, LATRELL - IT'S OFFICIAL: SPREE'S OUT, KEITH'S A KNICK
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe Knicks' Latrell Sprewell Era officially ended last night. Which means the shrimpy era of the two shooting-guard starting lineup has ended too. The Knicks lose a big heart and...
SUZY'S MIND ON GREATER GOOD - LOOKS TO 'GROW GAME' VS. MEN AT HARTFORD
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amCROMWELL, Conn. - There will be no pressure on Suzy Whaley today when she begins play in the first round of the Greater Hartford Open. Truth is, there is more...
WINNING ATTITUDE HITS WAYNE'S WORLD
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe words, born of frustration, that flowed from Wayne Chrebet's mouth around midseason last year looked stark to him once he saw them in print. Often for an athlete or...
MOORE CATCHES FIRE AS ROOKIE TO WATCH
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES In every NFL summer camp, there's a rookie free agent or two flashing some skills that make you wonder if he's got a shot to leap-frog over some...
HARD ROAD AHEAD FOR BIG EAST
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amIn the wake of the defections of Miami and Virginia Tech, Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese addressed his alleged apology to ACC boss John Swofford, the tough decisions his league...
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES - NEWEST YANKEE OROSCO REUNITED WITH MEL, TORRE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amBack in 1984, Mel Stottlemyre was in his first year as a major-league pitching coach. One of the young arms on his Mets staff was a 27-year-old lefty reliever named...
CASHMAN HAPPY, BUT STILL LOOKING
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Neither Brian Cashman nor Joe Torre can think of any holes on the Yankees. But that doesn't mean Cashman is done dealing. "I think we plugged a number...
BLUESHIRTS WON'T PLAY MATCH GAME
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amPenny wise and pound foolish is the phrase that applies to the Rangers - well, at least one of the phrases - because they are willing to throw $13 million...
TODD: 'ROYAL' LOOKS READY
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - When More Than Ready ran off to win the Sanford Stakes by a pole here four years ago in 1:09.3 for six furlongs, it was one of...
ASHADO MAKES SPLASH
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Going into yesterday's Grade 2, $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes, Todd Pletcher was not having a good opening day. Winner of the training title at the Old Spa last...
FASSEL'S FIRED UP FOR CAMP
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Every year, Jim Fassel stays in the same room in the same hotel during training camp at the University at Albany. This is his seventh year checking in...
MIKE BACK IN THE SWING - 'MINIMAL' PAIN FOR PIAZZA AFTER 1ST BP SINCE INJURY
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMONTREAL - At 5:37 p.m. yesterday in front of hundreds of fans and thousands of empty seats, Mike Piazza took a huge step towards his highly anticipated return. Participating in...
WILSON NOT SWEATING SLUMP
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - Vance Wilson is stuck in a 0-for-22 slump, so Art Howe decided to give him a rest last night. Wilson, who has already started 53 games...
MELVIN FINDS MORE SUCCESS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMelvin Mora hasn't played for the Mets in three seasons, but he still has a fondness for his time at Shea, and in particular for Bobby Valentine. "He was very...
S.I. ENCORE FOR PARRISH
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amDave Parrish is back. Three years removed from helping the Staten Island Yankees win the 2000 New York-Penn League championship, the catcher and Yankees' 2000 first-round draft pick rejoined the...
KNICKS, SPREE SILENT TO END
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amIt was no different than it's been during Latrell Sprewell's five years with the Knicks. On his likely final day as a Knick, there was no communication between player and...
STORM KO LIBERTY
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amStorm 75 - Liberty 65 SEATTLE (AP) - Amanda Lassiter, who averages 3.7 points a game, made all four of her 3-point attempts and scored a career-high 16 points -...
'MINIMAL' PAIN FOR PIAZZA AFTER BP
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMONTREAL - At 5:37 p.m. yesterday in front of hundreds of fans and thousands of empty seats, Mike Piazza took a huge step towards his highly anticipated return. Participating in...
VENTURA'S HOPING TROUBLES ARE OVER
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amThe All-Star break used to be a time when Robin Ventura either played in the Midsummer Classic, or worked on his swing at home. Not this year. "Just taking three...
CASHMAN: MORE DEALS POSSIBLE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With Armando Benitez and Jesse Orosco on board, neither GM Brian Cashman nor manager Joe Torre can think of any holes on the Yankees. But that doesn't mean...
ANDY'S DANDY DOZEN - MAKES HISTORY WITH 12TH WIN 9TH YEAR IN ROW
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 4 - Orioles 2 It looked like rain again yesterday, meaning Andy Pettitte's start was in jeopardy, again. When the veteran left-hander arrived at Yankee Stadium, he sought out...
S.I. YANKS COLLAPSE LATE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amAuburn 6 - S.I. Yanks 5 The Staten Island Yankees couldn't have thought Auburn's formidable bats would stay silent forever, could they? In what seemed like some bizarre joke or...
OROSCO GLAD TO BE BACK
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amJesse Orosco is thrilled to be back in New York. It just took him a little longer to get here. Orosco, the Yankees' new 46-year-old reliever, was detoured on his...
AMAZIN'S FIRE BACK AT DRAFTEE
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - The Mets say they're prepared to forego the rights to their first-round pick, Lastings Milledge, because of perceived unreasonable demands by the Milledge camp. A day...
VG SORRY TO SEE HIM GO
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy wishes the Timberwolves were in the East. That way he wouldn't have to contend with a revamped Minnesota squad that landed Latrell Sprewell last night for peanuts...
MORE SEO EARLY WOE KOS METS
July 24, 2003 | 4:00amExpos 5 - Mets 2 MONTREAL - Once again in the first inning, Jae Weong Seo was lit up like a pinball machine on tilt. Pitching coach Vern Ruhle counted...