January 4, 2000
LEXINGTON HOTEL TO BE A RADISSON
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe musty Lexington Hotel is getting a fresh makeover and marquee brand for the new millennium. The new owners are sprucing up the 700-room building at 511 Lexington Ave. with...
DURST GOES WEST: MAJOR REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR 57TH STREET
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amDEVELOPER Douglas Durst, whose glittering Conde Nast tower brought media chic to once-lawless Times Square, next wants to glamorize Midtown's far, far West Side. In a departure for the real...
LEGG MASON'S MILLER HAS MAGIC TOUCH
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amMiller oversees the only fund that has managed to beat the returns of the S&P 500 for nine years. NEW funds: Who needs them? There are more than 1,000 funds...
MARTS DRIFT APART; DOW DOWN, NASDAQ GAINS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amStocks ended 1999 with a record-setting celebration and began 2000 with a serious hangover -- except for the Nasdaq, which continued its seemingly never-ending party. "They just can't stop the...
KOZMO CUSTOMERS GET SURPRISE BILLS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amLocal Kozmo.com customers received more than videos and snacks over the Christmas holiday -- they got billed for items they never ordered. About 100 New York Kozmo-users who have accounts...
BEZOS MAKES $1.5B FROM AMAZON HITS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amE-man-of-the-year Jeff Bezos stole Christmas from most of the other online retailers -- and enriched himself by another $1.55 billion. Although his Amazon.com hasn't earned any money yet, it captured...
MATTEL'S CFO RESIGNS AFTER ITS WORST YEAR
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThere's more trouble in toyland. Another top executive at Mattel is heading for the door just as the company finished its worst year ever and was hoping to get off...
Y2K AUCTION IS GOOD BID-NESS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amAfter seeing the domain name www.Year2000.com garner a staggering $10 million bid on eBay, cyber squatters are putting every possible Y2K domain name on the web auction block. Cyber squatters,...
COOL MIXING [ WITH HOT COCO
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amJUST NO OTHER WAY Coco Lee ½ Epic /550 Music Though 23-year-old Hong Kong native Coco Lee has achieved star status throughout Asia and the Pacific rim, this young singer...
FROM KING OF COMEDY TO SULTAN OF SCHMALTZ
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT the hell happened to Robin Williams?How did one of the most gifted comedians in Hollywood turn into the sultan of schmaltz, someone whose movies are as eagerly anticipated as...
THE WORST MOVIES OF 1999:GUEST CRITIC JOEL SIEGEL JOINS EBERT
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amROGER Ebert is listing without his longtime movie-review partner, the late Gene Siskel. For the first time, Ebert will deliver his "Worst Of" list without Siskel, who died last February...
NBC SUED OVER 'Y2K' FLICK ; CHEESEHEAD CLAIMS RIGHTS ON ZANY TALE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amA Wisconsin man is cheesed off at NBC, claiming the network stole his idea for its disaster movie, "Y2K: The Movie." Darrel Mazzari, an engineer and Town Clerk in rural...
THE STARR REPORT
January 4, 2000 | 5:00am2 by 4 (p.m.) WCBS/Ch.2 will announce today that Jeane Willis is the executive producer of its 4 p.m. newscast, beginning later this month. Ch.2 is bumping the low-rated "Martin...
SPEARS WANTS A STAB AT ACTING
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amTHE movie star who wants to direct has become such a cliché it's turned into a running gag. Now it seems every singer wants to be a movie star, with...
'MILLIONAIRE' HOTLINE OPEN
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amABC has opened the official "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" hotline again. To try for a chance to become a contestant on the most successful gameshow of the last...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amMast appeal Travelers who'd like some experience in sailing or windsurfing should investigate the Discover Sailing program. Created by the National Sailing Industry Association, the program offers a free packet...
CLOONEY HAS ROLE IN LIVE 'FAIL-SAFE' ; SIDNEY LUMET AGAIN DIRECTING COLD WAR TALE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amTHE next time you see George Clooney on TV chances are he won't be in the ER, but rather in an unusual stunt-broadcast: a live production of a 1960s movie...
EIGHT IS TOO MUCH: BROADWAY STARS ARE CUTTING BACK TO SEVEN SHOWS A WEEK, THREATENING PROFITS AND WORRYING PRODUCERS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amCAROL Burnett isn't doing it. Audra McDonald isn't doing it. Judi Dench and Brian Dennehy didn't do it. Olympia Dukakis doesn't want to do it. David Hare did it but...
THE POST RATES CANDIDATES' HEALTH
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN Bill Bradley was hospitalized on Dec. 10 for a pre-existing heart condition it raised a red flag: Which presidential candidates are physically and mentally fit to take office? Now...
ORGY OR PIZZA PARTY? TWO WOMEN CLAIM THEY WERE SEXUALLY HARASSED AT JUNO SERVICES ONLINE, BUT THE COMPANY SAYS CHARGES ARE OFF-BASE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER reading court papers about the "Animal House" atmosphere of Juno Online Services, one of the hottest Internet companies, a visitor might expect a food fight in the conference room....
UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WILL WEAR THE CROWN
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amPrince William admits he had a king-sized hangover that lasted more than 24 hours following a boozy New Year's Eve celebration. And his confession has raised eyebrows, because the hunky...
'IT'S VERY SAD' AS THE QUIT HITS THE FANS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amJet fans were not flying high yesterday after learning about the resignation of coach Bill Parcells. "I think it's very sad," said Denise Kerr, 22, a saleswoman from Brooklyn. "I'm...
GEORGE THOUGHT HE WAS A GONER: BUDDY
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amGeorge Harrison feared he and his wife were about to die during their furious struggle with a crazed knifeman last week. The lucky Beatle -- stabbed just an inch from...
BEATTY BOWS OUT OF ROLE OF PREZ CONTENDER
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWashington can wait, Tinseltown superstar and liberal titan Warren Beatty has decided. "I'm not running now," he told Vanity Fair magazine in his first interview since speculation began about his...
O'CONNOR: 'THANK GOD I'M BACK' AT WORK
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amA cheery John Cardinal O'Connor was feeling blessed yesterday on his first day back at work -- saying he hopes he's strong enough to return every day. "It's a real...
PARCELLS REPAIRED BROKEN JETS ; PUT WINGS ON LOSING FRANCHISE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amHe was the man who fixed broken football franchises. For 16 seasons in the NFL -- first with the hapless Giants, then with the hapless New England Patriots and finally...
YANK RELIVES TERROR ON HIJACK JET ; THOUGHT SHE WAS MARKED FOR DEATH
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe only American held hostage during the hijacking crisis in Afghanistan said she was sure her life was over when one of the terrorists asked her to spell the word...
FIRST LADY IS FINALLY SET TO BED DOWN IN N.Y.
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is on the move this week -- from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to 15 Old House Lane, sources said yesterday. Six months after she launched her...
PUTIN BOOTIN' YELTSIN'S DISCREDITED DAUGHTER
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amActing Russian President Vladimir Putin fired Boris Yeltsin's scandal-tainted daughter yesterday -- making a dramatic break with the past at the start of his first full week in office. In...
RENT WAR CLOSING DOORS AT HISTORIC FRAUNCES TAVERN
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThey may not be turning off all the lights at the historic Fraunces Tavern this week, but the lower Manhattan restaurant will be closed for a while. The museum on...
JURY-PICK FOR NEW LOUIMA TRIAL
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amPotential jurors filed into the Brooklyn federal courthouse yesterday for the start of the second Abner Louima police-torture trial, where one of the accused cops is expected to take the...
RUDY'S RIVALS GIVE HIM A BUMPY RIDE ON TOURISM SPOTS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe New York City Convention and Visitors Bureau found itself drawn into the Senate race yesterday after announcing a winter tourism campaign featuring Mayor Giuliani in a radio ad that'll...
LOYAL AIDE BELICHICK RIGHT MAN TO FILL BILL
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThere's always been an element of destiny in Bill Belichick's long football life. Born in 1952 in Nashville, the future Jets coach was named for Bill Edwards, then the head...
TUNA: I WON'T TRY TO CO-PILOT THE JETS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amBill Parcells, the Jet head coach who retired yesterday after restoring pride and performance in the beleaguered franchise, will retain a front-office title but definitely not call the shots from...
CAPITOL HILL BILLY? PREZ MULLS SENATE RUN
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- President Clinton, who last summer scoffed at a Senate run after he leaves the White House, has flip-flopped -- and is now suddenly open to the idea. Clinton...
DREAM DUO WILL NEVER GET TO ; LEAD SAME TEAM
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThey'll never be a dynamic duo leading the Jets to the Super Bowl. Cablevision's Charles Dolan, the presumptive new owner of the Jets, and Bill Parcells, the outgoing coach, are...
DOG TALE'S HAPPY ENDING
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amNew York's disappearing Y2K-9 is doggone no more. A Connecticut family was reunited yesterday with Talulah, their beloved pooch, who was frightened by the millennium fireworks in Central Park and...
TRAFFIC DEATHS SURGE IN CITY
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe number of people killed in Big Apple auto crashes skyrocketed 13 percent last year, despite Mayor Giuliani's ongoing campaign against traffic violations. A total of 416 people died in...
ARE PUFFY & JENNIFER IN SPLITSVILLE? ACCUSATIONS FLYING BETWEEN RAPPER AND ACTRESS LOVEBIRD
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amROMANTICALLY speaking, they are still, for now, the first couple of hip-hop and Hollywood. But behind the scenes, in the hardball of Manhattan grand jury politics, accusations of betrayal are...
FEDS EYE NEW ALGERIA LINK TO TERRORIST PLOT
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe feds are investigating another Algerian in connection with a terrorist plot to smuggle explosives into the country from Canada, officials said yesterday. A man, identified on a court calendar...
JUDGE BLOCKS NYPD BID TO PROMOTE COPS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge has barred the NYPD from promoting hundreds of cops to the rank of detective specialist -- at the request of the officers union. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association...
ANTHRAX SCARE AT SS OFFICE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amA hoax letter yesterday frightened workers in a Bronx Social Security office into thinking they'd been exposed to deadly anthrax spores, police said. A Planned Parenthood clinic offering abortion services...
ISRAEL-SYRIA TALKS CAN'T GET STARTED
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amSHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- In a major setback on the first day of the historic Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations yesterday, the two sides couldn't even agree to hold a face-to-face meeting. President...
SEXGATE-SCARRED MONICA STILL LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky is looking for love. The slimmed-down Sexgate siren -- who will soon be taking up permanent residence at her Greenwich Village apartment -- says she wants to get...
RUDY LOSING AIDE LEVINE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amDeputy Mayor Randy Levine said yesterday he'll step down to work for a Manhattan law firm. Sources said that Levine, one of Mayor Giuliani's closest aides, will also take a...
BACKING BUSH BOOSTS DOLE IN GOP 2000 VEEPSTAKES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Ex-candidate Elizabeth Dole's decision to jump on the George W. Bush GOP presidential bandwagon puts her back in the veep sweepstakes -- but she's anything but a sure...
LOOKING FOR PRIVACY IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amMONICA LEWINSKY sure has adopted a bizarre strategy for maintaining a low profile. She insists that she craves privacy, but then goes on "Larry King Live" to talk about herself...
BIG NEWS ABOUT Y2K BUG: THERE ISN'T ANY!
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe first workday of 2000 went off yesterday without any major Y2kinks here or around the globe. "All the problems have been minor," Mayor Giuliani said of the virtually bug-free...
HE'S A WINNER -- AND WINNERS NEVER QUIT
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amHIS heart wasn't in it anymore, the old coach said. After all, he had been in the game a long time, and much about it had changed. The business of...
BACKING BUSH BOOSTS DOLE IN VEEPSTAKES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Ex-candidate Elizabeth Dole's decision to jump on the George W. Bush GOP presidential bandwagon puts her back in the veep sweepstakes - but she's anything but a sure...
A RHYME TO HIS REASON
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe farewell poem Bill Parcells recited to his team about being true to oneself is so moving that it helped break up the marriage between the author's son and his...
5-5 BROWN STANDS TALL FOR JAMAICA
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amH.S. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Dave Brown's line against Wadleigh last week was impressive. He scored 25 points, had seven assists and grabbed six rebounds in Jamaica's four-point loss. He...
OTB-NYRA DEAL ON ROPES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe merger of New York City OTB with the New York Racing Association, which appeared imminent for months, looked dead in the water yesterday after NYRA informed Mayor Giuliani it...
NOLES VS. HOKIES: ALL FOR 1 - TECH OUT TO PROVE IT'S FOR REAL IN SUGAR SHOWDOWN
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- If you listen closely, you can hear the folks at ABC quietly praying for a competitive Sugar Bowl game. Tonight's showdown between Virginia Tech, which has never...
YOUNG DIDN'T SEE IT COMING
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWithout George Young, there might not be Bill Parcells, NFL coaching legend. Young -- the man who gave Parcells his first NFL head-coaching job -- said yesterday he thought Parcells...
FRUSTRATED FASSEL: THERE'LL BE CHANGES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amUnacceptable. More than anger, frustration, relief or bitterness, that is the message Jim Fassel sent echoing through the locker room as his players yesterday packed up for home, once again...
H.S. COACH SAW FIRE IN YOUNG TUNA
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amBill Parcells went to dinner at Manny's in Moonachie with his first coaching mentor, 78-year-old Mickey Corcoran, on Sunday night. They both ate hamburgers. Parcells got his usual drink, an...
ODJICK BANNED 8 GAMES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amIslanders left wing Gino Odjick was suspended by the NHL yesterday for eight games for his cheap-shot punch at Penguins defenseman Darius Kasparaitis during the third period of the Isles'...
STILL LOOKING FOR WAY OUT
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Devils 4 Senators 3 KANATA, Ont. -- Their sinking ship bailed out by the guy who still doesn't want to be on board, the Devils have a new destination...
MARBURY GIVES CASEY A SCARE
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- When you stop and think about it, there is not a lot really worth getting all worked up over and worried about. The Y2K bug? Much ado about...
TEARFUL TUNA SAYS GOODBYE: JETS STUNNED AS PARCELLS RETIRES
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amBill Parcells, in one of the most dramatic moments of a Hall of Fame career littered with memorable moments, walked into the auditorium on the second floor of Weeb Ewbank...
A JERSEY GUY ALL THE WAY: BILL NEVER FORGOT HIS ROOTS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amJERSEY guys don't forget. They don't forget where they come from, who their friends are and when they've been wronged. Above all else, Bill Parcells is a Jersey guy. That...
NEW YEAR'S REVELATIONS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amCOMBINE what I hear from being in the mix with a sharpened flair for poor taste, and you have a blender of NBA educated speculation for the year 2000. On...
JEFF: TUNA'S GREAT COACH
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy has been around coaching greatness before, having served as Pat Riley's assistant for four years. But last summer, Van Gundy, fresh off taking the Knicks to the...
GIANTS NEED HORSES ON BOTH SIDES OF BALL
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE WAS no way the Giants were turning any corners with these corners. May the same plague that wiped out Jason Sehorn, Phillippi Sparks and Conrad Hamilton be upon anyone...
KNICKS TRYING TO FIND ROOM FOR BRUNSON
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTESThe Knicks continue searching for ways to open up a roster spot for point guard Rick Brunson, who has been buried on the injured list for the last 10...
MARK BILL PAID IN FULL
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amD ON'T be angry with Bill Parcells this morning, Jets fans. Don't go searching for skeletons in closets. Don't try to sift through any smoke and mirror shows. Don't waste...
NEW COACH ABSENCE A PR BLUNDER
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amIn typical, can't-get-it-right Jets' fashion, Bill Belichick was inexplicably not made available for interviews yesterday on the day he was named the 14th coach in franchise history. The excuse made...
FASSEL DENIES PLACING 'MUZZLE' ON ARMSTEAD
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES What we have here is a failure to communicate. Something just isn't getting through between Jim Fassel and Jessie Armstead, the Pro Bowl linebacker who continues to complain...
DEPARTURE HITS JETS LIKE A TON OF BRICKS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00am"I told him I was happy for him. I felt he retired as a champion ."VINNY TESTAVERDE Vinny Testaverde looked as if he'd either already been crying or he was...
BOBBY BO'S ALIMONY: $29.8M
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amNeed a loan in the year 2020 or so? Go see Bobby Bo. Setting himself up for his shuffleboard years, Bobby Bonilla agreed to a buyout from the Mets that...
PARCELLS LEAVING GIANT LEGACY
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWhat should Bill Parcells' legacy be? Talk to the old Giants who played for him and the answer is easy: One of the greatest coaches ever, if not the greatest....
STORM TURN UP HEAT, PUMMEL PANTHERS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's 82 Pittsburgh 58 Welcome to a special Monday night edition of "Meet the Press." Proving to be much tougher on its guest than Tim Russert ever is, St....
NO DEFENSE FOR THIS DEFEAT ; BLUESHIRTS NEED LEETCH ON BACKLINE -- AND FAST
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amBlues 5 Rangers 2 Almost all of a sudden, it seems, the cumulative effect of Brian Leetch's absence is beginning to tell on the Rangers, and tell on them to...
TUNA IN BLUE PART II? LET RUMORS START
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amIt's next autumn, and Bill Parcells is getting bored with life as a consultant. He gets the itch to coach once again. The only team he'd even consider coaching again...
FROM JERSEY TO CANTON: AS A GIANT, PATRIOT OR JET, PARCELLS WAS ALWAYS A WINNER
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amBill Parcells' coaching resume is one that will be filed in a legendary cabinet next to fellows named Lombardi, Noll and Shula. The one difference between Parcells and the company...
EX-PLAYERS SAY COACH KNEW HIS TIME HAD COME
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amWhat should Bill Parcells' legacy be? If you talk to the old Giants who played for him, the answer is an easy one: one of the greatest, if not the...
STORM BRACED FOR BEASTS OF THE EAST
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's may have already played 10 games before last night's tilt with visiting Pittsburgh; but in keeping with the dawning of the millennium, coach Mike Jarvis said the Red...
LEETCH RETURN TO OPEN A NEW CAN OF WORMS
January 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rangers will play four games in six nights in Carolina, St. Louis, Atlanta and Pittsburgh beginning Jan. 20. That trip is now the target for Brian Leetch's return to...