January 24, 2000
WHO'S ON TOP IN THE MERGER
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amTime Warner Chairman Gerald Levin has struck again. While many thought the 60-year-old media kingpin signed off on his last major deal when he shook hands with America Online, today's...
WARNER-EMI DEAL IS MUSIC TO AOL'S EARS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe merger of Warner Music Group and EMI Group -- expected to be announced today -- would turbocharge the planned union of America Online and Time Warner. The music powerhouse,...
MEMORIAL FOR OCKRENT
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amA memorial service for Broadway director Mike Ockrent will be held today at 1 p.m. at the New Amsterdam Theater. Ockrent, who staged the hit musicals "Crazy For You" and...
'BEETHOVEN SEVENTH' ISN'T LUCKY FOR TWYLA THARP
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW WAGNER called it "the apotheosis of the dance." A century ago Isadora Duncan performed a solo to it. Nearly 40 years later the Russian choreographer Leonide Massine used...
'PSYCHO' ANALYSIS: DESPITE NC-17 SEX FLAP, THIS FILM HARDLY SIZZLES
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah --No other film on the Sundance program has enjoyed the buzz of "American Psycho," Mary Harron's adaptation of the notorious 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis. But...
TRAILBLAZER HAIRSTON DEAD AT 98
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amPioneering black actor Jester Hairston -- praised for his trailblazing African-American roles and blasted for his turn in TV's "Amos 'n' Andy" -- died last week in Los Angeles at...
BUCKS FOR 'BUCK'
January 24, 2000 | 5:00am'DOWN to You" producers Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente had a big weekend, nailing the No. 1 spot with an $8.3 million opening and selling their next project to Artisan...
BANDERAS UP AGAINST THE ROPES ; 'BONE' LATEST TO BREAK
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amANTONIO, Antonio, wherefore art thou, Antonio?Heartthrob no more, Antonio Banderas has endured a brutal past 12 months, enough to deflate even the most modest Latin lover. First there was "The...
NOTHING BLESSED ABOUT 'THOU'
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amTIM Disney's "Blessed Art Thou" is as much a cartoon as any of Walt's animated features. Despite the film's fine cast, you never care about any of its crudely drawn...
WHEN YOU WISH . . . ; A DISNEY WHO'S AN INDIE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amSEX, lies, mouse ears and trust funds?It's not easy being an independent filmmaker when you're a Disney. We're talking Tim Disney, son of Roy E. Disney and grandnephew of Walt....
QUESTIONS FROM THE HART: EX-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK AND THE NATION'S FIXATION WITH HIS PAST
January 24, 2000 | 5:00am"Anytime I talk about the past [Donna Rice], the press turns it into the lead of the story!" Gary Hart fumes, his voice shaking with anger over the telephone. "The...
TOTES ARE HIS BAG, TOO: KATE SPADE'S HUSBAND OFFERS CLASSIC STYLES DONE UP IN STURDY MATERIALS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIt is natural to assume that the handbag line Kate Spade is named for the woman who designs it. But that's only half true. Kate Spade is the company name...
JUST A 'NORMAL'; PACK OF WEIRDOS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00am"Brutally Normal" Tonight at 9 on The WB 1/2 I HAVE a confession to make. I am no longer in high school. But some of my best friends are --...
THE STARR REPORT
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amOpen 'Access'? Could we possibly be seeing Giselle Fernandez anchoring the "Eyewitness News" on Ch.7? Sources say the former "Access Hollywood" co-anchor has been talking to execs at Ch.7 about...
AN E!-DUCATION: HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS SERIES HIT THE JACKPOT
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIF IT wasn't for "Mysteries & Scandals," Dan Blonsky wouldn't have won a million dollars. And the folks at E! Entertainment Television couldn't be more pleased. Blonsky, last week's big...
'WAS' TAKEOFF WON'T AIR
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amA promising newsmagazine-parody show that had been tentatively slated to debut in mid-season on Fox has been scrapped. The show -- a takeoff on traditional newsmagazines such as "20/20" and...
HE'S (EXP)ANDREW CUOMO ; BOOSTING HIS N.Y. ROLE AS AIDE TO GORE AND HILLARY
January 24, 2000 | 5:00am"The view is that Bradley's national campaign can be buried here in New York."CLOSE GORE SOURCEANDREW CUOMO, escalating his involvement in state politics, will play key roles in Al Gore's...
HEART-OP SURVIVOR, 92, 'LIVES' FOR THE YANKEES
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIsrael Pearlman would've just died if he couldn't see his beloved Yankees again. Really. Against the advice of several doctors, Pearlman, 92, underwent a double-bypass heart operation last month --...
WORLD OBESITY RATES INFLATING
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amWeight a minute -- the number of obese people in the world has, for the first time, caught up with the number who are underfed. There are 1.2 billion overfed...
WAS THERE AN UNFAIR RUSH TO JUDGE 'JEW HATER' REV.?
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIF SHE had been in the room, Hillary Rodham Clinton's whole political life would've flashed before her eyes. There, in front of a predominantly black audience at the Rev. Al...
IOWA CAUCUSES ARE DEMOCRAZY IN ACTION
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amRIGHT now, run down to Kelsey's Bar and ask Archie Bunker what a caucus is. "Hey, I was dere in the big one, WWII, and dem caucuses were lying all...
CLINIC CHIEF DOUBTS SKAKEL 'CONFESSION'
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe former owner of the rehab center where Michael Skakel allegedly "confessed" to killing Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley 24 years ago says he strongly doubts the Kennedy nephew ever admitted...
BRADLEY: I'LL REBOUND AFTER IOWA
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES -- Bill Bradley yesterday vowed to go the distance and fight for the Democratic presidential nod all the way to the August convention -- no matter what happens...
CULINARY CRITIC CLAIBORNE DIES AT 79
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amFamed chef and food writer Craig Claiborne -- whose vast talents in the kitchen and behind the typewriter elevated culinary criticism to a new high -- has died at the...
BUSH: NOBODY TWISTED MY ARM TO BE PRO-LIFE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa -- Republican front-runner George W. Bush yesterday insisted "no one's pushing me around" on the abortion issue as he stakes out stronger right-to-life positions for today's Iowa...
ECUADOR FEARS NEW PREZ MAY BE COUP-COUP
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amEcuador's new civilian president began work yesterday amid public skepticism as he vowed to follow the same economic policies that helped spark the unusual military coup that brought him to...
HEATING-OIL PRICE HIKE IS LEAVING NYERS COLD
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amComplete weather report / Page 39State and federal officials are a hot under the collar about skyrocketing heating-oil prices during the region's frigid cold snap. This month, New York's heating-oil...
TEARS & CHEERS FOR FOX ; MICHAEL REPEATS AS BEST ACTOR
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amMichael J. Fox brought Tinseltown to tears last night, telling a star-studded crowd, "I'll be in touch," as he took home Best TV Actor honors for the second year in...
SEXIEST CELEBS TURN SHOW INTO 'SKIN CITY' ; NECKLINES PLUNGE AT GLOBES FEST
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThere wasn't enough rain to go swimming, but lots of starlets took the plunge at last night Golden Globe awards. A parade of glamorous women showed off their cleavage --...
REAGAN KIN RECALLS FIRST ALZHEIMER HINT
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amFormer President Reagan showed the first signs of Alzheimer's Disease in 1993 -- once forgetting a movie in which he had starred -- but it was six more months before...
'MISSING' RUSSIAN COMMANDER DEAD
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amAs Russian troops got closer to seizing the Chechen capital yesterday, rescuers found the body of a prominent Russian military commander who last week had been believed captured. The fate...
DORM-FIRE PROBERS EYE PRANK GONE BAD
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amInvestigators zeroing in on a student dorm room at Seton Hall University are looking into whether a prank sparked the tragic blaze that killed three students. They seized several boxes...
ST. JOHN'S GRAD ADDS TOUCH OF 'SENIOR' CLASS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amAn 85-year-old grandma turned grad-ma yesterday as she proudly received her bachelor's degree from St. John's University. As she accepted her sheepskin in liberal studies, Sophie Meyer earned the distinction...
JOINT DECLARATION: AL TRIED TO COVER 'POT': GORE & I GOT HIGH DAILY: EX-COLLEAGUE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amA longtime friend who says he supplied pot "regularly" to Al Gore now charges that the Democratic presidential hopeful leaned on him to "stonewall" the press about their alleged dope-smoking...
O'CONNOR PRAYS FOR ABORTION PROTESTERS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor held a special pro-life Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, urging participants in today's anti-abortion march in Washington to keep "praying and working" to uphold the "sacredness...
WAR-HERO DRUG CZAR UNDER FIRE IN TV PLOY
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amGen. Barry McCaffrey is used to winning -- but the U.S. drug czar is nursing war wounds for giving networks big-bucks incentives to insert anti-drug messages in TV shows. The...
BABY-SALE HEROES HEAD HOME WITH LITTLE NIKOLETT
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe international tug-of-love for Baby Nikolett rages on -- even though the couple who helped bust the baby-selling scam that ensnared her have taken her home to Minnesota. Lauren and...
TEEN KILLS SELF IN POLICE DRAMA
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old Brooklyn man shut himself in a room and committed suicide after pointing a gun at cops, police said yesterday. Police were called to 410 Sutter Ave. in East...
'SOPRANOS' MAKES IT A REAL MOB SCENE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe mob scored its biggest hit last night when "The Sopranos" bagged top honors in all four categories it was nominated for at the 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The...
GOTTI BEATS ODDS AGAIN: TEFLON DON'S 'CLEAN' AFTER BOUT WITH DEADLY CANCER
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amImprisoned mob boss John Gotti, who battled one of the toughest forms of cancer for the past year, is free of the disease as he goes into his eighth year...
ELIAN'S GRANNIES GOING HOME EMPTY-HANDED
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amElian Gonzalez's grandmothers plan to fly back to Cuba today without seeing the 6-year-old refugee -- as Congress returns to work with Republicans who vow to make the tug-of-war tot...
EXILES HAIL HIM AS 'MIRACLE OF GOD'
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI -- The struggle to keep Elian Gonzalez in the United States has taken on the trappings of a religious crusade for many fervently anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami. "Elian...
'SEX' SIRENS CHIC-TO-CHIC IN EPISODE OF 'SKIN CITY'
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIf the Golden Globes gave out awards for fashion, the big winner would the very stylish cast of "Sex and the City." "Sex"-y Kristin Davis would have walked off a...
'BEAUTY' IN OSCAR'S EYE ; BUT SPACEY LOSS MEANS IT'S NO LOCK
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Golden Globes aren't exactly the Iowa caucuses -- but the victory by "American Beauty" as Best Movie Drama has confirmed this tale of suburban angst as the front-runner in...
FOX MOVES THEM TO TEARS, THEN BRINGS THEM TO FEET
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amMichael J. Fox went out a winner last night. The good-guy actor reduced the Tinseltown crowd to tears and brought them to their feet when he said simply, "I'll be...
TRANSVESTITES CHARGED WITH SLASHING TEENAGER
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amTwo transvestites wielding a boxcutter slashed a 16-year-old girl across her face as she stood on a Queens subway platform last night, police said. Cops identified the suspects as Luz...
SLEEPWALK DEFENSE FACES TEST IN N.J. MOLEST TRIAL
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amScott Falater, an electronics engineer from Phoenix, was sentenced to life in prison without parole recently for stabbing his wife 44 times and then drowning her in their swimming pool....
RUTGERS FOCUSING ON STORM BREWING
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amRutgers 73 Villanova 60 It's been almost a year since The Snub; a year since Rutgers won 18 games and didn't get an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. So after...
'CUSE WARY OF HUSKIES' BITE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThis is the sort of game Big Monday was intended for. Defending national champion Connecticut on the road at surprising sixth-ranked Syracuse, the last undefeated team in the land: Dynasty...
PALS: HE'LL GROH INTO IT ; AL'S READY FOR JOB, FRIENDS SAY
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Al Groh stands at the podium for today's 1 p.m. press conference inside the Weeb Ewbank Hall auditorium to be announced as the 14th head coach in Jets' history,...
EXPECT PARCELLS TO RUN FRONT OFFICE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amBill Parcells will emerge from his bunker and appear for the first time in public with new Jets' owner Robert Wood Johnson IV when Al Groh is announced today as...
INJURED TOSCANO OUT 4-6 MONTHS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amPaul Toscano, who broke his arm in a spill at Aqueduct Saturday, had a plate inserted during a two-hour procedure yesterday at Jamaica Hospital. Toscano's arm was broken in two...
NETS HOPE BIG GHEORGHE COMES BACK IN BIG WAY
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amPORTLAND -- The Nets were preparing for a recent opponent and popped in a tape from an early season game. Right away, they were able to spot Gheorghe Muresan. Remember...
MAX'S PAL KEEPS CITIZEN IN CHECK
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amMax's Pal, pounded down to 3-2 favoritism by those in the know, made every step a winning one in yesterday's $75,000 Fred "Cappy" Capossela Stakes for 3-year-olds at the Big...
MCNAIR & COMPANY COME UP TITAN-IC: CALL QB A LEADER - PERIOD
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE -- Much will be made this week about Steve McNair being the second black quarterback to make it to the Super Bowl. It didn't take long for McNair to...
FOR DORSETTS, THE SON ALSO RISES
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE -- There's another Dorsett headed to the Super Bowl. Titan safety Anthony Dorsett Jr. will follow in the footsteps of his famous father, former Cowboy star Tony. Here's the...
PLAYERS IN AL'S CORNER
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe player reaction to Al Groh's elevation to Jets head coach has been mostly favorable. "He's a no-nonsense guy," linebacker Bryan Cox said. "He's a student of the game and...
EWE GOTTA BE KIDDING ; FOX LOOKS SHEEPISH WITH PREGAME JOKE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amFOR ALL the money and promotion Fox and CBS invest in their NFL pregame shows, they mostly remain a weekly insult to viewers of all ages who actually hold some...
IT'S REDEMPTION FOR O'DONNELL
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amAFC NOTEBOOK JACKSONVILLE -- Neil O'Donnell said yesterday that all that old Jet stuff and the bad parting is behind him. But he also smiled like someone who has gotten...
ROMEO BOLTS FOR BROWNS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIt didn't take long, but Al Groh, who's going to be named the Jets' head coach today, has already embarked on his first bit of adversity. Late Saturday night, Groh...
SURPRISING SONICS AMONG BEST IN WEST
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIn the crowded and vastly talented West, nobody expected the Sonics to create any noise. Although their loss yesterday in Toronto was their second straight, revamped Seattle has been a...
KNICKS HAVE KNACK OF LOSING BIG GAMES
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Knicks have played 39 games this season and they still haven't beaten anybody. Tonight is No. 40. The Knicks host road-weary Seattle, which is quietly having a very fine...
MCNAIR & COMPANY COME UP TITAN-IC: TROUNCE JAGS, HEAD TO SUPE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE -- At 8:20 yesterday morning the Titans' bus rolled out of their team hotel 20 minutes south of Alltel Stadium and pulled onto highway A1A. Led by two motorcycle...
RAMS TAKE 'D' TRAIN TO THE SUPER BOWL: PROEHL'S HARD WORK FINALLY PAYS OFF
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- Ricky Proehl's motto is: "Good things come to thosee who work hard." He has preached that all season to wide receiver Torry Holt, a rookie who doesn't...
WARNER'S DREAM YEAR LIVES ON
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - It just keeps getting better and better for Kurt Warner. As magical as his season has been, going from unknown backup quarterback to the league's Most Valuable...
RAMS TURN TO 'D' TRAIN TO THE SUPER BOWL: DEFENSE THE STORY IN OUSTER OF BUCS
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- The fast lane was cut off, completely. Nowhere to go. They wanted a race and they got a crawl. The Rams, the highest flyers in the league,...
BUCS OK WITH REF'S REVERSAL
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- What already was a bad situation turned much, much worse for the Buccaneers when a replay overturned what at first looked to be a catch for receiver...
FED-UP ISLE FANS PLAN PROTEST
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amIt was another irritating night for Bob Ceparano last month as he watched the Islanders suffer yet another humiliating loss on television. Having seen her husband's blood boil over the...
RANGERS COOL TO TRADE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- When the Keith Primeau saga finally came to an end yesterday with his trade to the Flyers for Rod Brind'Amour, so did any realistic chance for the Rangers...
FOR ST. LOUIS, IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENGE
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- Even after all these years of losing and futility, the Rams cannot go to Super Bowl XXXIV and consider themselves a team of destiny. That designation falls...
STEVENS IN DRUG BUST ; RANGER JAILED AFTER ADMITTING HE USED CRACK
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amPolice found several grams of suspected crack cocaine, various drug paraphernalia and about $3,000 in cash in [Stevens'] motel room. Rangers forward Kevin Stevens, 34, was arrested and jailed early...
TAMPA 'D' IS HEROIC IN DEFEAT
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amNFC NOTEBOOK ST. LOUIS -- They said they would halt the mighty Ram offense. They said their defense was up to the challenge. And then the Bucs went out and...
HE'S SICK, NOT EVIL
January 24, 2000 | 5:00amA TLANTA -- Within the context of the relationships that can be formed between journalists and the professional athletes we report on, Kevin Stevens and I are friends. But then,...