January 27, 2000
ZIFF, EXPEDIA PLAN TRAVEL MAG
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amZiff-Davis Publishing is flying with Microsoft's Expedia.com to launch a new magazine for travelers. The yet-to-be named title is the second consumer play from Ziff-Davis Publishing, which publishes high-tech titles...
VIRGIN SAYS 'STOP!' ; MEGASTORE SLAMS MUSIC BIZ-'NET MERGERS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amRichard Branson's Virgin Megastore is threatening to close its doors in the face of mushrooming competition from media giants and their online music businesses. Virgin COO Simon Wright issued a...
QUALCOMM TAKES TECHS WAY DOWN
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amQualcomm, the tech darling of 1999, plummeted 16 percent yesterday, dragging the Nasdaq Composite Index down with it. Shares of the wireless technology provider -- which had a 27-fold gain...
COKE CANS 6,000 IN BIGGEST-EVER LAYOFF
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amHoping to put fizz back in its profits, Coca-Cola's new chief is slashing 6,000 jobs, or 21 percent of its work force, the biggest layoff in the Coke's 114-year history....
THIS QB PLAY SCORES ; CLUB TURNS STAR POWER TO RICHES
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amBernie Kosar remembers the moment, in 1991, when the NFL helped him come up with an idea to market the most visible stars of the game -- quarterbacks. The idea...
UNKNOWN PLAYERS GRAB BRASS RING
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amWithout a flagship team like the Packers, Cowboys or Steelers competing in the Super Bowl this Sunday, second-tier players who excel in the big game could hit marketing gold, sports...
PRIMEDIA'S GROSSMAN OUT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amTHE magazine honchos gathered last night at the Waldorf-Astoria for the annual Henry Johnson Fisher Awards -- a kind of lifetime achievement award that was presented to Texas Monthly publisher...
PECKER TAKING STAR TO BOCA RATON
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amStunned staffers of the Star were told yesterday that the 25-year-old magazine is moving from Tarrytown to Boca Raton, Fla., in June. David Pecker, who took over as CEO only...
GOOD HABITS FOR BAD WEATHER
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amIT "takes the angst out of winter driving." "Let's you go in the snow." "All the power to all the wheels all the time." Auto ads would have us believe...
ADS ARE REAL 'SUPER' STARS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amALL the money being spent on Super Bowl ads points to the fact that they are, well, sometimes more interesting than the game itself. Greeted with the year's largest TV...
MIRAMAX-ED OUT: AS OSCAR NOMS NEAR, LIFE IS NO LONGER THAT BEAUTIFUL FOR ONCE HOT H'WOOD STUDIO
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT a difference a year makes. Last winter, Miramax Films was flying high, buoyed by the spectacular Oscar successes of "Shakespeare in Love" and dark horse "Life Is Beautiful." But...
MIRAMAX: WE'RE NO. 1! OOPS, SORRY. NO. 2
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amThe current flap over bloated box-office tallies for Miramax's "Down to You" shows how important it is for movie studios to have the top-grossing movie on opening weekend. Miramax reported...
SETTING TRENDS IN TV LAND: TV COSTUMER DEBRA MCGUIRE BRINGS HER STAR-MAKING FASHION SENSE TO THE RACKS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN you're curled up on your couch tonight watching hour one of NBC's Must See TV marathon, take a long look at the wardrobes of the guys and gals on...
BROOKE SHIELDS COULD TESTIFY TODAY IN L.A. STALKER HEARING
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- A judge is expected to decide this morning whether the man accused of stalking actress Brooke Shields should stand trial. Mark Ronald Bailey, 41, has already pleaded...
THE STARR REPORT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amEveryone's BuddyBuddy Ebsen, 91 years young, is on the phone to talk about "The Beverly Hillbillies," which begins its run on TV Land next Monday (9:30 p.m.) after a week-long...
HAS KIRK GONE CRAZY? YES! AND HE CAN'T SING
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amWHY can't you ever find a Vulcan when you need one? Clearly, Captain Kirk has become totally illogical, or maybe it's just that William Shatner has finally flipped that giant...
HAS KIRK GONE CRAZY? NO! HIS PRICELINE.COM ADS ARE A BRILLIANT ACT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amIT doesn't really matter that people are divided on whether or not they like William Shatner's commercials for Priceline.com. The important thing is: They're talking about them. And that's the...
'NOISES' STILL SOUND
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW MILLBURN, N.J. -- Comedy needs style. Farce needs energy. Well, a little style never hurt farce, either, but its main necessity is surely that sense of utter panic...
BRAVEST BLAST 'NYPD BLUE'
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amCITY firefighters are seeing red over "NYPD Blue." The ABC-TV show's most recent episode depicted New York's Bravest as corpse robbers -- prompting their fired-up union to call for a...
TITANIC WATCH ON 'ANGEL'; JAMES CAMERON LAUNCHES $8M PILOT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amTITANIC" director James' Cameron's long-awaited TV series -- "Dark Angel" -- quietly got started this week in Canada. The series -- starring Hollywood's new "It" girl, Jessica Alba ("Never Been...
RUDY HAS NO FEAR, JUST LOTS OF GUARDS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amAmid tightened City Hall security yesterday - the day after animal-rights activists slipped into the building - Mayor Giuliani said he hasn't worried about his safety for years. "I stopped...
MCCAIN STEPS ON ABORT LAND MINE: HEDGES IF IT WERE HIS OWN DAUGHTER, 15
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amRight-to-life Republican John McCain said it'd be a "family decision" about what to do if his 15-year-old daughter got pregnant - raising questions about his abortion stance. McCain quickly changed...
BUSH 'GORES' HIS CHIEF RIVAL AT DEBATE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. - It was a round-robin attack fest as GOP 2000 wannabes - led by George W. Bush and John McCain - ripped at each other in last night's...
MARCHING BACKWARD TO THE FUTURE ; NEW YORK'S POLITICS REFLECT ITS ENTITLEMENT CULTURE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amBILL Weld, a rich guy with time on his hands, wants to do in New York what he once did in Massachusetts -- become governor. There's no opening at present,...
SHUTTLE ON MAP-MAKING QUEST
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amThe space shuttle Endeavor will begin an 11-day mission next week, packed with sophisticated equipment to create the most accurate map of the Earth ever made. Using a $9 million...
RUDY: HILL'S A RELIC OF DAYS CITY 'LEFT' BEHIND
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Mayor Giuliani yesterday charged that Hillary Rodham Clinton has the "extreme left-wing way of looking at things" that once brought New York City to its knees. "In other...
HEROES WEEP FOR TWO TRAGIC MYSTERY BABIES
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amNeighbors said they thought the tiny child was a doll that had been tossed from a window.Dozens of cops and paramedics packed a Brooklyn church yesterday to bid a tearful...
BARAK URGES AUSTRIA CHIEF TO STOP 'NAZI'
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amSTOCKHOLM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told Austria's acting chancellor yesterday that forming a government with far-right leader Joerg Haider was "highly disturbing" to every Jew in the world....
RUSSIAN UNITY CRACKING AMID CHECHEN WAR
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amOpposition within Russia to Moscow's military campaign in Chechnya increased dramatically yesterday as federal forces continued to be bogged down in the battle over Grozny. As Russian troops continue to...
STREET SHOCKS SPARK TERROR IN CITY'S DOGS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amSee Spot walk. See Spot yelp in pain. See Spot refuse to go outside. See Jane have a nervous breakdown. A children's story? No, but it is the story of...
DADDY GAVE KID'S BEAU SWEETHEART DEAL AT MTA; EXCLUSIVE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amIt's easy to get a job at MTA Bridges and Tunnels -- if you're dating the boss' daughter. MTA Inspector General Roland Malan's office blasted the No. 2 official at...
DARRYL'S STILL GOT 'POP': CANCER-FREE SLUGGER TO BE A DAD AGAIN
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amYankee slugger Darryl Strawberry has a double-header of good news to celebrate -- he's cancer-free and expecting a baby. His wife, Charisse, who stood by him through his battle with...
CELEBRATING A GRIDDLE RIDDLE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amIt's not really the 400th anniversary of the American pancake, but that didn't stop 12 hungry historians.Happy 400th birthday to the great New York pancake! You forgot? How could you?...
TEENS 'NSYNC-OPATED HEAVEN
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amA bouncing bunch of squealing teeny-boppers took over a Midtown street corner yesterday to pay noisy tribute to the newest chart-topping favorite 'Nsync. The dance-pop vocal quintet unveiled its new...
L.I. CHURCH DELIVERS FOR DEATHLY ILL IMMIGRANT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amA Long Island church is struggling to raise $200,000 for a new organ -- but this one's a real life-saver. St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Woodbury is pulling out...
BU$Y MARSHAL BUSTED ON 66 COUNTS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amOne of the city's top-earning marshals has been busted on charges he falsified records, lost his badge, chased a motorist -- and failed to notice a child in the back...
LUST IN TIME: JEFFERSONIANS SAY HE FATHERED SLAVE KID
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amThomas Jefferson probably was the father of one "and perhaps all" six of his slave Sally Hemings' children, officials at Monticello acknowledged yesterday. The latest twist in the 200-year-old presidential...
JERSEY WOMAN EXPECTS LUCKY 7: SEPTUPLETS ON THE WAY
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amOh baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby! A New Jersey woman -- going against her doctor's advice -- could become the fourth known mom in the world to deliver...
SHRINK WARNED SLAIN WIFE TO DUMP HUBBY
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amA psychiatrist warned a woman who prosecutors say was murdered by her plastic-surgeon husband that staying with him could kill her. In a 1983 letter made public yesterday, Dr. Michael...
MODEL WITNESS TO TESTIFY ABOUT WISEGUY EX-LOVE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amBrooklyn federal prosecutors want cover girl Niki Taylor to bare all about her ex-boyfriend, nightclub impresario and alleged mob associate Chris Paciello, her publicist said yesterday. The 24-year-old supermodel will...
TRUMP AND MELANIA REKINDLE FLAME
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amDonald Trump is back to model behavior -- he's apparently patched things up with sexy Melania Knauss. The skirt-chasing developer will announce his reconciliation with the gorgeous lingerie model as...
COPS' HARD WORK SOLD AGNELLO: SUSPECT HAD PLANS FOR SCRAP BIZ: NYPD
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amIt was a case of one hard-working stiff admiring others. The undercover cops who stung Carmine Agnello put in so many hours delivering scrap metal that he wanted them to...
KEYES OPENS DOOR FOR CONSERVATIVES
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H.I COULD not say one bad thing about any of the Republican candidates. But there is one man who hoists the conservative flag higher than anyone else. His name...
WESTCHESTER JAIL GUARDS HIT WITH RAPE RAPS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amFemale prisoners in the Westchester County jail became crime victims themselves at the hands of four jail guards -- two of whom are accused of rape, officials said yesterday. Carlos...
GW IS NO RHODES SCHOLAR, BUT . . .
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amGOP hopeful George W. Bush, who's taken a ribbing over his school grades, outsmarted Democrat Bill "Mr. Rhodes Scholar" Bradley -- at least once, in college. When applying to Yale...
RUDY PITCHING A $785M 'FAREWELL' TAX CUT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani today will propose an astonishing $785million cut in the personal income tax that comes with one major footnote: It won't kick in until he leaves office. In a...
GRANDMAS SMOTHER ELIAN WITH KISSES
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amElian Gonzalez finally got a big, tearful hug from his "elated" grandmothers yesterday -- more than two months after he was rescued while clinging to an inner tube off the...
TRUTH & NAIL AS DEMS DUKE IT OUT: BRADLEY BLASTS GORE AS A LIAR
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. -- Democrat Bill Bradley, taking an aggressive new stance, charged last night that Veep Al Gore could not be trusted as president -- because he has lied as...
IT'S TIME TO REVOKE GORE'S PRESS PASS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H.VICE President Al Gore has been riding pretty high these days. And one big reason is that he's been getting a fairly free ride from the press. CNN's Judy...
MCCAIN STEPS ON ABORTION MINE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. -- Abortion was the spark at last night's GOP debate as John McCain was attacked for saying it would be a "family decision" about what to do if...
MEET ONE BUNGLING BURGLAR
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amHere's a tip for budding burglars, courtesy of the cops at Queens Transit District 20: Don't go to a police station to count your loot. Barry Taylor, 33, entered the...
MAN CHARGED IN DEADLY FAMILY FEUD
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amA 24-year-old man fatally stabbed his father and then brutally kicked and beat his grandmother, police charged today. Detectives said Fernando Vasquez went to a sixth-floor apartment at 108 East...
WITH BOSS' BUCKS ON HORIZON, DEVILS BECOME MAJOR PLAYERS FOR YASHIN
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The Devils haven't even been sold yet, and the first fallout has arrived. Opponents had better start sweating. Ottawa GM Marshall Johnston insists that he is not...
NETS KNOW BURRELL'S WORTH
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amSEATTLE- It is a contribution that basically has gone unnoticed. People see the Nets having gone from 2-15 slugs with all the pep and giddy-up of medical cadavers to a...
GILL MAKES THE GRADE AS DEFENSIVE STOPPER
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES SEATTLE - It was business as usual for Kendall Gill, undersized small forward. In a span of just over 24 hours, he would be defending the Sonics' Ruben...
THE GREATEST SUPER BOWLS OF ALL TIME
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amWhich Super Bowl was the best? Unlike the 2000 Republican primary field and the recent attempt to select the No. 1 song in rock-and-roll history, there aren't many candidates. The...
CINDERELLA STORIES
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- There is that rare occasion when one Cinderella team is invited to the ball. Never before in Super Bowl history have two glass-slipper squads made it to the...
TODD FINALLY SEES LYGHT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- He wanted out. Bad. He had been stuck with the Rams for five seasons and enough was enough. How much losing could one man endure? Todd Lyght did...
MOTHER'S LOVE LED GEORGE TO GEORGIA
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The road to the top of the football world is filled with potholes sometimes, and Eddie George will never forget the bottom. He was 15 years old when...
RAM RESERVE IS READY -- JUSTIN CASE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- He is one play away from taking control of the Rams scoring machine, and if the unthinkable happens and all-world quarterback Kurt Warner goes down early in Super...
THE MUSIC CITY MIRACLE ; REMARKABLE RETURN GAVE TITANS SECOND LIFE -- & THEY NEVER LOOKED BACK
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The way Lorenzo Neal sees it, the Titans have already lost a crushing postseason game en route to Super Bowl XXXIV. Impossible? Not really. You see, with 16...
THIS TIME AROUND, VERMEIL'S THOROUGHLY ENJOING THE RIDE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Dick Vermeil is no longer the uptight dictator/nervous nellie who lost Super Bowl XV to the rambunctious Raiders. "The first two years with Coach Vermeil were real tough,"...
OCT. 31, 1999: TITANS 24, RAMS 21
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amAfter St. Louis began the season with six wins by outscoring opponents by a count of 66-9 in the first quarters, the Titans, specifically safety Blaine Bishop, were interested in...
RAMS' LITTLE FORCED TO RE-LIVE BIG PROBLEM
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- He is living a dream, having made it to the Super Bowl, but this has been an extremely difficult week for Leonard Little, a Rams reserve linebacker who...
KEARSE HAS RAM OFFENSE FREAKIN' OUT
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Jevon Kearse, at the tender age of 23 and already named the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year, might be the very best defensive player in the league...
GARO AND HIS FANS LIVIN' IN THE 'PASS'
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amWhatever Happened To...NEARLY 30 years later, Garo Yepremian jokes he's "still got the same hairstyle," that he sported during the Dolphins' 1972 undefeated season. But he's also got something else...
MARSHALL: MAN WITH PLAN
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- The participants in Super Bowl XXXIV will face four days of interview sessions, hearing the same questions day after day after day. Yet, Marshall Faulk has vowed not...
LUNDMARK LONG WAY OFF B'WAY ; RANGER PHENOM TOILING IN JUNIORS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan -- The bus eases down the ramp to the delivery entrance of the Olympic Saddledome in Calgary at 3:20 a.m. Wherever the members of the Moose Jaw...
FLEURY IS JUST A PASSENGER ON RANGER EXPRESS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rangers are winning, so it hasn't become a hot-button issue. But as the Blueshirts have won seven in a row coming into tonight's Garden showdown with the Maple Leafs,...
WATCH OUT, HOTLANTA ; SUPE'S ON FOR KNICKS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amIt is Super Bowl Week in Atlanta and Knicks guard Charlie Ward will be attending an NFL-sponsored Christian youth group rally. He wishes some of his Knick teammates would come,...
JEFF: TRAIN RIDE WAS RAIL NICE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Some Knicks viewed it as a "humbling" experience, riding the train back to New York from Washington Tuesday after their game against the Wizards was postponed because of...
NEIL: RING'S THE THING - NOW A BACKUP, O'DONNELL JUST WANTS TO WIN SUPER BOWL
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Neil O'Donnell knows he's a play away from being on the field in Super Bowl XXXIV and the thought of gaining redemption for his shaky performance in the...
ROUGH RIDE HOME FOR 4 BIG A JOCKEYS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amAqueduct track announcer John Imbriale had a busy afternoon yesterday informing bettors of a whopping 19 jockey changes on the card, caused when four riders -- meet-leader Aaron Gryder, Mike...
INJURY KOS LAVOY; DAVIS OK
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amApprentice jockey Rachel Lavoy, who has not ridden a race since Jan. 12, will be out a minimum of two to three months due to a torn muscle by her...
FISHER PUSHES ALL RIGHT BUTTONS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Jeff Fisher's success as the Titans' head coach is rather easy to trace when you speak to his players. He's approachable, adaptable, reasonable and, because he's played in...
TYSON'S TIRED ACT FOOLS FIGHT FANS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, England -- Whoever observed that you could fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time obviously has never been...
MOLLOY PROVES QUICK LEARNER
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amHS HOOPS Molloy 67 Loughlin 62 Say this for Archbishop Molloy, the team learns fast. On Jan. 11, Bishop Loughlin rushed to a 20-5 lead against the Stanners and held...
FASSEL TO GET ONE EXTRA YEAR
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- A one-year contract extension for Jim Fassel likely will be announced today by the Giants, a development which can certainly be viewed as a lukewarm show of confidence...
MCNAIR HAS AIR OF SUPERIORITY
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA -- All the big schools wanted Steve McNair to play defensive back. That's the position they felt he was best suited for. Only Alcorn State believed in McNair's ability...
ROBERTO'S BACK IN THE BRONX
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amAgrees to one-year deal. Remember way back before Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill, when the Yankees weren't any good? Remember how one of their better players on those mediocre teams...
WENDELL MAY WALK ; MET RELIEVER WANTS 3-YEAR DEAL
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amThe Mets appear to be dangerously close to losing one of their most valuable players after this season. Turk Wendell, the fiery and talented reliever who appeared in the second...
POINT STREAK IN JEOPARDY, ELIAS BEATS PANTHERS WITH 1.7 SECONDS TO SPARE
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 3 Panthers 2 SUNRISE, Fla -- Outshining the great Pavel Bure head-to-head, the hottest gunner in the NHL keeps piling up star credentials, just as the Devils keep piling...
WOODY, KRAFT DO THE TALKIN'
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amThe clouds covering Bill Belichick's future may be ready to part. New Jets' owner Robert Wood Johnson IV and Patriots' owner Robert Kraft held a high-stakes pow-wow last night in...
BUZZER SHOT DENIES NETS
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amSonics 95 Nets 92 SEATTLE -- It had to take something very special, very rare to completely overshadow the fact that three players named Keith Van Horn, Kerry Kittles and...
BURRELL'S RETURN ONLY GOOD NEWS FOR JERSEY
January 27, 2000 | 5:00amSEATTLE -- Well, at least one thing went well for the Nets last night. Scott Burrell learned there was no serious damage to his knee and he was even able...