August 9, 2005
VIAGRA, UNOCAL, GREED, AND THE WEATHER
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amHERE'S what I think. I think Orioles' slugger Rafael Palmiero should admit to taking steroids but deny that he uses Viagra. Really, even for a $500,000 endorsement fee, what kind...
A LOT OF LUCK - SALE SPEEDS ROCKROSE PLAN FOR HOTEL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amIT took a little serendipity and a lot of patience, but the Elghanayan family-owned Rockrose Development Corp.'s hugely successful 2 Gold St. rental apartment tower will soon be joined by...
WEB ADS TO DOUBLE BY 2010
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amOnline ad sales will more than double in the next five years, with search engine marketing leading growth, a new study says. Sales will hit $18.9 billion in 2010, compared...
MARTHA MAYHEM - DOMESTIC DIVA'S CABLE GURU SPLITS AFTER BURNETT BATTLE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's third loyal executive, who'd kept the empire glued together during her prison ordeal, has abruptly left over a nasty snub. The latest major split in Stewart's management team...
BRUCE SNAGS PRIMEDIA UNIT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00am"Bid 'em up" Bruce Wasserstein has gone hog wild and swooped in as the winning bidder of National Hog Farmer and other trade titles and Web sites contained in the...
AG GETS PLEA 16 ON BIDS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amNew York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer continues to garner guilty pleas in the wide-ranging insurance bid-rigging scandal, scoring another one yesterday from Kevin Bott, an executive at Liberty National...
ANCHOR GLASS SHARDS TO SPRAY CERBERUS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAnchor Glass, the beer bottle company that is largely owned by the $14 billion Cerberus family of hedge funds, announced it is seeking bankruptcy protection yesterday. Cerberus turned a pretty...
CRACKED ANCHOR CUTS CERBERUS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAnchor Glass, the beer bottle company largely owned by the $14 billion Cerberus hedge funds, announced it is seeking bankruptcy protection yesterday. Cerberus turned a pretty penny in September 2002...
OIL GETS PUMPED - U.S. EMBASSY SHUTDOWN PUTS PRICE NEAR $64
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amUnrest in the Middle East and fears of U.S. production problems sent oil prices to another record high yesterday. Crude finished the day at $63.94 a barrel, up $1.63, after...
JANE TAPS ELLE GIRL EDITOR
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amCan a woman named Brandon be the new Jane? Brandon Holley, the founding editor of 3 1/2-year-old teen magazine Elle Girl, has been tapped to succeed Jane Pratt as the...
HEATHERETTE GOES RETAIL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amNot many fashion labels can count the transvestite Cody Ravioli, Miss Piggy and Paris Hilton as clients. Then again, Heatherette, which burst onto the fashion scene five years ago with...
TAT'S ALL FOLKS! - FAD FADES, SO GEN X PAY$ BIG TO REMOVE TATTOOS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amALONG with a Roman haircut and a pog collection, the must-have accessory of 1995 was a tattoo. While you could grow out the hair and sell the pogs, Karma McDermott...
DEMANDING GROOMS SHOW ALTAR EGO
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amBridezilla - a Star Jonesian creature known for firing caterers, making bridesmaids cry and running amok through bridal accessory shops - is firmly established in the annals of nuptial lore....
EXPRESS CHECK-IN - GOSSIP, HOT TOPICS AND OTHER NEWS YOU'LL USE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amGOING FLAT? ATTENTIVE readers are well aware of our love for Song Airlines, the cheeky Delta cousin that's flying just about everywhere we need to be these days. It offers...
STARR REPORT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amEllen's leaving home Ellen DeGeneres is returning for a third season of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" with a bit of a surprise: She'll be taking the show out of the...
EMPIRE RISING - LINDA FALLS FOR ANCIENT 'ROME'
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amIF ABC's "Empire" soured you so badly on ancient Rome that you'd sooner watch an epic about the rise and fall of Bucksnort, Tenn., I think I've found an ancient...
HATED PUCK STILL A REALITY 'STAR'
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amOK, so here's proof that we're not the only ones who think "Apprentice" wannabe Omarosa is the most obnoxious person around - or that "Joe Millionaire," aka Evan Marriott, isn't...
MORE THAN JUST TOUCHDOWNS - MADDEN 06 DELIVERS STARPOWER
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amFORGET game time. Now it's showtime. That's the message of EA Games' hotly-anticipated latest installment of Madden NFL Football 2006 ($49.99), out today, where your public persona and social skills...
YOU'RE INVITED TO DYLAN'S COMING-OUT PARTY
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE times they really are a-changin'. The famously reclusive Bob Dylan is getting a full coming-out party in the next month and a half, with a Martin Scorsese biopic, accompanying...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA New Jersey woman who had police cars racing to her home after three 911 calls insists it was her dog that phoned. Sylvia D'Antonio, 46, of Lake Parsippany, says...
CURSE OF THE SENATE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00am'If Hillary really wants to be president, and I expect she does, she won't run for the Senate next year.' CAN Hillary Clinton be defeated in her race for Senate...
GAZA EVICTION NOTICE - ISRAEL GIVES SETTLERS 'MIDNIGHT' ULTIMATUM
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's defense forces officially notified more than 8,000 Gaza Strip settlers yesterday that they have until midnight on Aug. 16 to leave their homes - or face eviction...
CANARIES WANT MORE FOR $INGING
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amDURING the days of Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, rats came cheap. But now, the feds are finding the cost of doing business with informers is skyrocketing. All the government had...
FREDDY JOINS CHORUS 'RAILING' FOR SAFETY FIX
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amWeeks after his rivals released transit safety plans, Democratic mayoral front-runner Fernando Ferrer unveiled his own yesterday. What the city's transit system needs to combat terrorism are closed-circuit cameras, high-tech...
CORZINE TAKES A DIP AFTER GAL-PAL PAY $LIP
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Jon Corzine's lead in the New Jersey governor's race has slid to single digits after the revelation that he gave $470,000 to an ex-lover who heads the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Three men were attacked when they refused to leave a Sheepshead Bay block party, authorities said yesterday. The victims, ages 18, 19 and 22, were viciously accosted at...
DRIVER JAILED 11 YEARS FOR RAPE ATTEMPT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens livery driver was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday for trying to rape a former flight attendant to whom he'd given a ride. "I made a lot...
ABC GAL'S HUBBY IS SHOT - ANCHOR VARGAS RUSHES TO COLO.
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAs ABC mourned broadcast legend Peter Jennings yesterday, Elizabeth Vargas - one of the stars in the running for his job - rushed off to Colorado after her husband was...
GOP COULD SERVE RICE IN WHITE HOUSE RACE: POLL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be right up there in the 2008 Republican presidential race with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain if she were...
AIDS THUG SPIT BLOOD IN KILL BID - PLEADS GUILTY
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amIn what prosecutors call an unprecedented case, an HIV-infected career thug admitted in Manhattan yesterday that he had tried to murder four cops and a psych ward orderly - by...
PIRRO'S HUGE 'ALBERT'ROSS - TAX-CHEATING AND PHILANDERING HUBBY WILL LOOM VERY LARGE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amJeanine Pirro is running - and her husband is hiding. Or at least keeping a very low profile. Albert Pirro - convicted tax cheat, admitted philanderer and father of an...
DWI EX-CON KILLS WOMAN: COPS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA young Long Island woman was killed by a drunken driver who had prior convictions for both manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, police said yesterday. Driving with his headlights off,...
'4-BEER' DOC KILLS WOMAN - DRIVING FROM MET GAME
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA young doctor who got behind the wheel after working more than 24 hours and downing four beers at Sunday's Mets game fatally struck an immigrant mom of two as...
LANDLORD RELENTS ON FLAG BAN
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAn East Side couple threatened with eviction for flying an American flag outside their home said they were further insulted yesterday when their landlord backtracked and said they could keep...
LIKE GODFATHER, LIKE SON: FEDS - BUT 'JUNIOR'S' DEFENSE SAYS HE QUIT LIFE OF CRIME
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors yesterday accused John "Junior" Gotti of succeeding his father as head of the Gambino crime syndicate, a charge Gotti's lawyer boldly admitted - but he also insisted his...
HOT 97 $MACKED - SPITZER FINES RADIO STATION 10G A 'POP' - OR 240G TOTAL - OVER SLAPPING CONTEST
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amHot 97 discovered what a "smackfest" really feels like yesterday when Eliot Spitzer slapped the station upside the head with $240,000 in fines. The attorney general said the station's much-criticized...
U.N. HONCHO GUILTY IN $1M GREASE JOB
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amIn a bombshell development in the oil-for-food scandal, a U.N. official who doled out lucrative contracts pleaded guilty yesterday to soliciting a $1 million bribe. The surprise plea by Alexander...
EX-'OFFICER' ARRESTED IN PERV ATTACK
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA former hospital cop dragged two girls, 9 and 12, into bushes in a Queens park yesterday, then beat and molested one of them, police and other sources said. Peter...
PERP BITES OFF COP'S FINGER
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA rookie NYPD officer lost part of his finger last night when a parolee bit it off during a routine traffic stop in Brooklyn, police said. Doctors at Bellevue Hospital...
'SHOOTER' BOY'S SIB ARRESTED
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe older brother of a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy accused of shooting an 11-year-old girl in the face was arrested yesterday for allegedly bringing the gun to the apartment where the...
DMX IN WHEEL-DEAL VIOLATION
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amHip-hop superstar DMX was back in front of a Queens judge yesterday, charged with violating a deal he got last year when he admitted crashing through a Kennedy Airport parking...
RAPPED UP TIGHT - COPS FLOOD GARDEN FOR EMINEM, 50 CENT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amTwo of the rap world's biggest performers took the Madison Square Garden stage last night amid a backdrop of tight NYPD security. Cops were out in force to make sure...
WAITING FOR A MIRACLE - VIGIL FOR SHOT GIRL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAs an innocent 11-year-old girl clung to life in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the face yesterday, the 10-year-old boy accused of shooting her clung to his mother...
GOODEN JR. BUSTED AGAIN FOR DRUGS, GUNS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amLike father, like son. Dwight Gooden Jr. has been busted yet again - after Florida cops found a plastic bag with 16 grams of pot and an illegal stash of...
GAY WHITE WAY - ROSIE ON B'WAY FOR A 'FIDDLE' WITH FIERSTEIN
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt's oy-fficial! A boisterous, openly gay Irish-American comic from Long Island has been tapped to play a devout Orthodox Jewish wife and mother living in a tiny Russian village in...
DMX GETS WHEEL-DEAL VIOLATION
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amHip-hop superstar DMX was back in front of a Queens judge yesterday, charged with violating a deal he got last year when he admitted crashing through a Kennedy Airport parking...
NEW YORK FANS GIVE EDGE TO 'HOME'BOY FITTY
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe summer's hottest, most anticipated concert - The Anger Management Tour - hit Madison Square Garden last night featuring the ebony-'n'-ivory hip-hop package of 50 Cent and Eminem. Words and...
DRINKS ON THE HOUSE - MOST TEENS GET BOOZE FROM FOLKS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe American Medical Association has some advice for parents: Put a lock on that liquor cabinet. According to a new survey released by the AMA yesterday, almost half of all...
JACKO JURORS REGRET VERDICT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Two book-writing jurors from Michael Jackson's sensational kiddie-sex trial yesterday admitted they caved in to star-struck peers and let "a pedophile" back on the streets. Jurors Ray...
DA: NAME-CALLING LED TO BLOCK-PARTY SLAY
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens teen told detectives that he blew away a classmate Saturday night because the boy had disrespected him at a block party - calling him a "p- - -...
NEW LIVER SAVES P.R. EXEC'S LIFE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan public-relations executive stricken with a mysterious liver disease, and just days from death, has received a lifesaving transplant. Shari Kurzrok, 31, was in stable condition at NYU Medical...
'BURGLAR' BEATEN AFTER CHILLING ENCOUNTER
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amResidents of a Crown Heights building beat up a serial burglar after he broke into an apartment, then held him for the cops, police said yesterday. Dale Shields- whose long...
GUARD FILES SEX SUIT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA correction officer is suing the city for $20 million, charging that a Rikers Island warden sexually harassed her for six months by holding her hand, nibbling her ear and...
JENNINGS' LOSS MAY SAVE LIVES
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amScores of Peter Jennings fans vowed to quit smoking in his honor yesterday - and medical experts predicted that the late newsman's televised admission that he had lung cancer would...
NEIGHBORHOOD IN SHOCK - HATE ATTACK STUNS PROUDLY MIXED B'KLYN ENCLAVE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amYears ago, before Tracy Vincent was even born, the only black people her neighbors saw in Flatlands were those on the bus on their way to the mall at Kings...
WHEN SMOKE CLEARS, REEL PUFFERS ARE THE BAD GUYS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe days when Bogart and Bacall blew smoke rings are over - because today's movie smokers are likely to be villains, a new study found. "Most investigators have concluded that...
JUDGE IN DOG DAZE - NIXES GRANNY'S CLAIM
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amA 91-year-old East Hampton woman who watched pit bulls rip apart her beloved poodle can't sue the killer dogs' owners for "loss of companionship" because a dog is only property,...
WAR OF THE ROSES - PIRRO OUT FOR HILLARY'S JOB PIRRO OUT FOR HILLARY'S JOB; JEANINE CHALLENGES HILL IN SENATE MS. MATCH
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Setting up a historic, all-female faceoff for the U.S. Senate, Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro yesterday declared she'll seek to unseat Hillary Rodham Clinton. Republican Pirro made the...
ONE-NOTE SONG A LOSING TUNE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - If the best Jeanine Pirro can do right now is say that Hillary Clinton should be defeated because she may run for president in 2008, Republicans can pack...
BALLER OF THE WEEK: TYRONE "THE NEGOTIATOR" GRANT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amBrooklyn born and raised, Tyrone Grant has spent all of his adult life as a pro basketball player. The 6-foot, 7-inch forward/center from St. John's was selected in the 1999...
UNIT MIGHT MISS START VS. TEXAS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES An MRI yesterday on Randy Johnson's back showed inflammation of the lumbar spine, so his start Thursday against Texas is still in doubt. Johnson, who will be reevaluated...
'BLESSED' NICK GOES INTO HALL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The dream that first burned in the heart of a 10-year-old boy who jumped the fence at Aqueduct to watch the races came to fruition yesterday when...
T.D. VANCE'S 'FAME' IS FLEET
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amMid-Atlantic trainer Graham Motion continued to assert status as super-dangerous turf trainer at Old Spa, sending out T.D. Vance to win Grade 2, $150,000 Racing Hall of Fame Stakes by...
TRACHSEL MAY BE NEAR RETURN
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amSteve Trachsel is expected to start Thursday for Triple-A Norfolk. If everything pans out fine, Trachsel could start at Shea next week for the Mets. Trachsel has not pitched all...
COUGHLIN IS 'O' SO UPSET - IRATE COACH PULLS OFFENSE OFF FIELD
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - A frustrated Tom Coughlin kicked the second-team offense off the field for one play yesterday morning and later sent a loud-and-clear message that he's not happy...
BIG BLUE RAGE - GIANTS PROMISE RETALIATION VS. JETS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - If there is one preseason game to tune in this summer, it's Giants-Jets on Aug. 26. "There's going to be plenty of animosity out there, believe me," Giants...
NEW SINGH AND DANCE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amPERHAPS Vijay Singh is mellowing in his older age, or maybe he's more willing to show the media and the public he has a personality after all. During the promotion...
COACH CAN'T KEEP UP WITH WOODS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe early bird burned Baltusrol. His less-punctual coach saw most of it. "He's like a clock that isn't set properly," coach Hank Haney said after Tiger Woods woke up Baltusrol...
BRIGGS: MERCER'S ACT NEEDS CLEANING UP
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAs befitting a man who has appeared in "New York Undercover," "Bad Boys II" and the newly released "Transporter II," Brooklyn's Shannon Briggs has earned his Screen Actors Guild card....
METS: WESTWARD HO!
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amWillie Randolph likes to say that he trusts his guys." With that in mind, he won't belabor the obvious before tonight's game in San Diego. "We definitely have to play...
TY'S THE LIMIT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE morning workout had ended at Hofstra, and a nine-year-old boy in a nearby parking lot, his face painted half white and half green, was asked what he thought about...
GOOSEN LOOKS FOR REBOUND
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amRetief Goosen has always been resilient. As a teen he was struck by lightning and survived. When he won his first major championship, the 2001 U.S. Open at Southern Hills,...
TIGER SET TO POUNCE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amHE IS Out There, again, lurking, looming, lying in the weeds, languishing in the overactive imaginations of his competitors. Tiger Woods arrived early yesterday morning, worked and walked his way...
LAW LANDS WITH JETS - PRO-BOWL CORNER LANDS LONG-TERM PACT
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jets finally got their man. Ty Law signed a deal yesterday that could be worth more than $28 million over the first three years and as much as $50...
PROS TAKE AIM AT BALTUSROL'S LENGTH
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amPGA NOTES The pros have noticed Baltusrol's increased length, not only the 650-yard 17th, but the four par 4s on the front nine that top 475 yards, including two over...
NETS EYE SHAREEF DEADLINE
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amJason Kidd was the lead recruiter as the Nets wooed free agent Shareef Abdur-Rahim. And Abdur-Rahim wants to play with Kidd. The question of whether the two Cal products will...
MICKENS VICTIM OF SALARY CAP
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES Last week, Ray Mickens praised the Jets' potential signing of fellow cornerback Ty Law, saying he was looking forward to playing with the former Patriot even though his...
GOODEN'S KID BUSTED
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amLike father, like son. Dwight Gooden Jr. has been busted again - after Florida cops found a plastic bag with 16 grams of pot and an illegal stash of .44-caliber...
AS USUAL, A-ROD IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez hasn't had a day off yet this season, and he doesn't look like he needs one. A-Rod made his 110th start of the season at third base last...
BOMBERS GIVE SOX, DUQUE EL - MUSSINA, 'PEN OUTDUEL HERNANDEZ, CHI
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 3 - White Sox 2 As Mike Mussina's pitch count soared well past the century mark during a rocky sixth inning last night, Yankee manager Joe Torre admitted only...
BOMBERS GIVE SOX, DUQUE EL - MUSSINA, 'PEN OUTDUEL HERNANDEZ, SOX
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 3 - White Sox 2 Mike Mussina is essentially the last man standing in the Yankee rotation, a dubious distinction that could mess with a lot of pitchers' minds....
YANKEES STILL IN ARMS' WAY - DOCTORS EXAMINE JOHNSON, PAVANO
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amAs of gametime last night, the Yankees weren't sure whether Randy Johnson would make his Thursday start - or whether Carl Pavano would start again this year. In other words,...
BOMBERS MAY SOON HAVE NOMO ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE worst starting pitcher in the American League in 2005 is not available to the Yankees on Thursday, and that actually qualifies as a dispiriting fact. Joe Torre announced yesterday...
REYES IS A BIG HIT WITH PEDRO
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES As Pedro Martinez talks about Jose Reyes, he sounds sort of like a proud uncle talking about his nephew. "Seeing Jose grow in front of your eyes is...
ESCALONA MAY HELP OUT JETER
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amYANK NOTES Derek Jeter has only missed two games all season, even though Joe Torre revealed last Thursday that the shortstop has been battling a hamstring problem. Yesterday, the Yankees...
TICKET TO OCTOBER: GRIT, OFFENSE AND MO
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amTHE worst starting pitcher in the American League in 2005 is not available to the Yankees on Thursday, and that actually qualifies as a dispiriting fact. Joe Torre announced yesterday...
BANGED-UP BERNIE SITS, SHOULD AVOID DL
August 9, 2005 | 4:00amBernie Williams was scratched from the lineup for a second straight game last night and may not be ready to play today. Williams jammed his already bothersome right shoulder Saturday...