February 24, 2000
SANDER'S LAST WALK DOWN RUNWAY
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amJil Sander may be showing her final collection in Milan today, but the real action is happening behind the runway. Fashion insiders are buzzing that Hussein Chalayan, who walked away...
FBI MEMOIR FROM REAL-LIFE CLARICE STARLING
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amFBI agent Candice DeLong has snagged an estimated $400,000 from Hyperion, the consumer book publishing arm of Disney, for a memoir of her career as a crime-busting profiler in the...
CITI'S MILLER LEAVES FOR PRICELINE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amHeidi Miller decided yesterday to trade the security of working for the nation's biggest financial services company for the chance of big riches working for a .com. The 46-year-old chief...
LOW-BALL RATING FOR YANKEENETS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe New York Yankees may put a solid-gold product on the field, but when it comes to their effort to raise $250 million through a private placement of bonds, they...
INSIDERS SET TO BAIL AS CYTOGEN GETS HOT
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amA little-known biotechnology stock called Cytogen Corp. became the fifth most-actively traded security in the markets yesterday, even as most investors scrambled to figure out its business. Cytogen develops and...
D.C. BULL SESSION ; NASDAQ SOARS ON GREENSPAN'S TESTIMONY
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amInvestors in high-flying technology stocks roared their approval yesterday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress the bull market was not the target of interest rate hikes. The tech-heavy...
ARNAULT MET TAUBMAN; SOTHEBY'S SHARES UP 21%, DESPITE PROBE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amFrench tycoon Bernard Arnault stepped up talks to acquire Sotheby's in December, just months before the auction house was rocked by a federal price-fixing probe. Despite the scandal, the company's...
THE PURE BEAUTY .COM HERD STARTING TO THIN
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amEven in the lightning-paced world of e-commerce, the shakeout of beauty sites has come quickly. After launching just last fall, cosmetics e-tailers are branching into other products and services, selling...
TELEMATICS: BRINGING THE INTERNET TO THE DASHBOARD
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTELEMATICS. If you haven't heard this word yet, fear not. You will. It's being built into more and more nameplates. By the end of this year, telematics systems will be...
'SHOUT'-ING MATCH: BOLTON IN COURT BID FOR ISLEYS' SONGS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMICHAEL Bolton is trying to gain control of the huge Isley Brothers song catalogue that includes "Shout!" - just six years after the famed soul siblings successfully sued him for...
'WAITING' SERVES UP REHEATED CLICHES
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHE WAITING GAME The loves and misadventures of a group of aspiring actors who wait tables at a Manhattan eatery. Writer-director Ken Liotti's menu includes self-absorbed bores spouting the kind...
THE STARR REPORT
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amAll the talk at 11 Those rumors about Ch.11 launching an early-morning news/talk show just won't go away. They're heating up again, this time with a mid-to-late March startup date...
THERAPY FOR 'PERFECT' PIXIE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amLONG Island pixie Dyanne Iandoli met with a child psychologist before starring as tragic beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in CBS' ripped-from-the-headlines murder mystery. The 8-year-old blond, blue-eyed Iandoli -- who...
A WEEK OF WEBRE'S WASHINGTON
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amDance Review WASHINGTON BALLET The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street, (212) 242-0800. Season runs through Sunday. A restaurant takes its essential character from its chef.Sure, the rest...
ACTING UP NICELY
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTheater Review THE TORCH-BEARERS Greenwich House Theatre, 27Barrow St., (212) 541-8441. Through March 4. DRAMA Dept., a lively and enterprising group with a taste for the satirical in American theater,...
SPIELBERG CLOSES POTTER CHAPTER
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amSTEVEN Spielberg made it official yesterday and said he will not direct the "Harry Potter" movie. The famed filmmaker took himself out of the running after months of intense pressure...
TOP 10: WHY KATHIE LEE NEVER HOSTED 'LETTERMAN' BEFORE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIF you just can't get enough Kathie Lee, your prayers may be answered. Tonight she'll be hosting "Late Show with(out) David Letterman." And you worried that Mike Douglas would be...
NETS ARE MARRIED TO 'REALITY' SHOWS -- FOR BETTER OR WORSE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amDON'T think for a minute that the self-destruction of "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire" means the end of reality TV. It doesn't matter at all to the people who...
SNAG YOUR OWN MILLIONAIRE ; HOW TO FIND THE MEN WITH THE MEGABUCKS IN GOTHAM
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIF you want to marry a millionaire, you're better off going the do-it-yourself route than relying on television set-ups.Witness the impending annulment of Darva Conger, the 34-year-old ER nurse who...
BLONDE DATE; MORNING TV BATTLING OVER MRS. MILLION
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTHE morning-show wars got nasty this week when NBC accused ABC of deliberately keeping "Multi-Millionaire" bride Darva Conger so late yesterday that she missed her date on "Today." A limo...
JENNIFER'S SIDESHOW IS UPFRONT AND CENTER
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amYEARS from now, nobody will remember who won the Grammy for Best Pop Album -- let alone Best Polka Album -- but Jennifer Lopez's barely there, one-button wonder of a...
'SMOOTH' IN GROOVE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIT WAS oye como yeah! for Carlos Santana and his namesake band at last night's Grammys, where the Latino guitar master gathered eight of the 10 categories for which he...
NEW FAMINE CRIPPLING ETHIOPIA: DIRE WARNINGS ECHO '84 CATASTROPHE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amEthiopia is on the brink of a catastrophic famine that could rival the 1984 disaster that killed a million people, according to a new report by the relief agency Save...
CITY BUS ACCIDENTS JUMP 13%
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amCollisions involving Transit Authority buses soared by nearly 13 percent last year as ridership continued its upward surge. During the first 11 months of 1999, there were 5,092 collisions involving...
GO FIGARO: FROM IOWA CORNFIELD TO THE OPERA HOUSE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amHis rich bass-baritone has enthralled presidents the world over -- from George Bush to Nelson Mandela. But Simon Estes' career couldn't have started in a more modest setting: America's heartland....
MURDER IN WOODSTOCK: ; A GOOD KID GONE BAD? ; SON ARRAIGNED TODAY IN SLAY, TORCHING OF PARENTS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTODAY, 23-year-old Adam Roberts will be arraigned in a Kingston courtroom on charges that he killed his wealthy parents and torched their bodies to cover his tracks. Prosecutors say Roberts,...
BIG SWINGS FOUND IN PRESCRIPTION PRICES HERE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amWhen it comes to buying drugs at New York pharmacies, the Department of Consumer Affairs has a prescription for savings -- you'd better shop around. New Yorkers can save hundreds...
DA JOHNSON'S MISSED CHANCE ; NEW YORK STILL NEEDS ANSWERS FOR WHY THE DIALLO TRAGEDY OCCURRED
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amSTATE Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi laid down the law and order on the Amadou Diallo jury yesterday -- and anybody who expected otherwise doesn't understand the political culture that...
HEVESI BOOSTS NEW SMOKING CRACKDOWN ; BAN WOULD COVER BARS & DOORWAYS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amComptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday urged the city to enact the toughest smoking law in the country -- expanding restrictions to include bars, private offices and even building entryways. Hevesi's position...
PATAKI RACES TO ENERGIZE BUSH
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Stunned New York Republicans scrambled yesterday to create a grass-roots campaign for embattled Texas Gov. George W. Bush -- just 13 days before the crucial March 7 primary....
EXPELLED CUBAN 'SPY' WILL HOLD OUT IN D.C.
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe top-ranking Cuban diplomat ordered to leave the United States after the State Department tabbed him as a spy master will hole up in his country's diplomatic compound in Washington,...
HUBBY-SLAYING GRANNY SET FOR LETHAL NEEDLE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S judgment day for the woman they call the "Black Widow." Today, at 6 p.m., Betty Lou Beets is due to become the second woman executed in Texas since the...
BLUSHING BRIDE QUICKLY KISSES OFF TV MARRIAGE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMade-for-TV bride Darva Conger says she is embarrassed, regretful -- and ready for an annulment after a fantasy honeymoon with disgraced groom Rick Rockwell. "I never in a million years...
MCCAIN'S NEXT MISSION IS SELLING HIMSELF TO SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIF John McCain wants the Republican nomination, he's going to have to convince social conservatives he's one of them. Here's what McCain needs to do: First, in the next week...
TRASHED TONYA ON THIN ICE WITH ASSAULT CHARGES
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amDisgraced ice queen Tonya Harding bloodied her live-in boyfriend in a drunken rage -- and then complained she broke a nail, police said yesterday. Electrician Darren Silver, 28, told cops...
REALITY'S ABOUT TO BITE THIS FADING STAR WHO NEVER GREW UP
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amDARRYL STRAWBERRY has never had to confront the reality of being a drug addict. He has never had to worry about where his next paycheck was coming from, let alone...
APPLE TAKES BIGGEST TAX BITE IN U.S.
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration may be on a four-year tax-cutting kick, but New York City remains the urban tax capital of the country -- by a wide margin. That's the conclusion...
BRADLEY'S PLAYING CATCH-UP IN N.Y.
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amBill Bradley campaigned in New York for six of the past nine days -- but still left the state yesterday behind in the polls and facing a clobbering by Vice...
TRIAL IS GRIST FOR BRONX DA'S POLITICAL MILL
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY.WHATEVER the verdict in this trial of agony, the "Bronx Four" will go down in law-enforcement history. And it appears that Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson, who started it all,...
BUSH ASKS: WHERE'S MCCAIN'S GOP BEEF?
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- Wobbling GOP front-runner George W. Bush hit the left coast yesterday, taking a shot at presidential rival John McCain's problems in wooing core Republicans. "It's amazing to...
ISRAELI BIG THREATENS HEZBOLLAH ; SAYS LEBANON WOULD 'GO UP IN FLAMES'
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIsraeli Foreign Minister David Levy created an uproar yesterday when he threatened Hezbollah terrorists, warning that Lebanon would "go up in flames" if they dared strike again at Israel. Although...
HEVESI SAYS RUDY'S RUNNING UP A DEBT FOR HIS SUCCESSOR
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi accused Mayor Giuliani yesterday of proposing a budget that looks good in an election year -- but hides spending increases and sets up huge future budget...
FEDS TRY TO TRIP UP SCHWARZ IN LOUIMA TRIAL
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amConvicted torture cop Charles Schwarz's second day on the stand turned hostile yesterday as federal prosecutors tried to shred his story that he didn't participate in the Abner Louima attack....
O'CONNOR'S EYESIGHT DETERIORATES
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amA weakened John Cardinal O'Connor's eyesight is failing, fueling speculation that he's going to retire as early as next week, The Post has learned. Sources close to the cardinal, who's...
STRAW MAY BE CALLED OUT ON STRIKES
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIt could be three strikes and yer out today for Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry -- as baseball commissioner Bud Selig considers hitting the slugger with his third suspension over a...
NOW TO SEE WHO WINS 'REAL' GOP
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amFORMER front-runner George W. Bush's new mantra is that rising rival John McCain can't win real Republicans -- but a lot of GOP strategists say Bush may soon have to...
PREZ MIGHT BOOST TROOPS TO QUELL KOSOVO VIOLENCE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe Clinton administration is considering sending more troops to Kosovo to help stop the growing violence in the northern sector of the province, Pentagon officials said last night. Responding to...
TOP MED JOURNAL TRIES TO HEAL ITSELF
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIn an embarrassing confession, the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine today admitted doctors with financial ties to drug makers were allowed to write about new drug treatments 19 times...
SALESMAN SURGERY NO CRIME: DA
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe death of a woman on an operating table at Beth Israel Hospital -- where one of the people tending to her was a salesman -- wasn't a crime, the...
BUSLOADS OF 'BLUES' CHEER FOR NYPD 4
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMore than 100 sign-waving, chanting supporters of the four cops on trial for the murder of Amadou Diallo converged yesterday on the Albany courthouse where a jury is deliberating the...
'PUFFY' INDICTED IN ALLEGED BRIBE BID
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs was indicted yesterday on bribery charges for allegedly trying to buy his way out of a gun-possession rap stemming from a Midtown hip-hop club shoot 'em up....
RUDY TO QUEENS STADIUM PROTESTERS: VOTE FOR HILL
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani last night faced down hundreds of angry Queens residents, telling them he's not going to change his mind about building a minor-league baseball stadium in their neighborhood. "You're...
SANTANA LEADS GOLDEN OLDIES ; GUITAR GREAT WINS EIGHT TIMES TO CAP COMEBACK
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amOldie-but-goody guitar man Carlos Santana was top banana last night -- walking off with eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his monster comeback "Supernatural." And 53-year-old pop...
JENNIFER TAKES PRIZE FOR BREAST NEW ARTIST
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIf the Oscars are about class, the Grammys are about flash. And this year, trash. The awards ceremony hadn't been televised for 10 whole minutes before Jennifer Lopez proved herself...
COPS' FATE NOW UP TO DIALLO JURY ; JUDGE DISMISSES ONE PANELIST FOR DISCUSSING CASE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Jurors were set to begin their second day of deliberations today in the racially charged murder trial of four white Bronx cops who cut down unarmed West African...
OAK KEEPS VINCE'S FEET ON GROUND
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIf you're waiting for the circus around Vince Carter to give him too much of an inflated ego, it probably won't happen as long as Charles Oakley is his teammate....
LANG MAY 'BE READY' FOR TRADE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Before the Knicks faced the Clippers Monday, Jeff Van Gundy told center Andrew Lang to "be ready." Van Gundy hadn't said those words to Lang in months. So...
FEICK CAUGHT UP IN TRADE WINDS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI - Follow this progression if you can. Last year, Jamie Feick asked to be released by the Bucks and got his wish. He went home to his Ohio farm...
LANE IS HAPPY GOPHERS LET HIM GET AWAY
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall's Darius Lane grew up in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb less than an hour from the University of Minnesota. He'd grown up a Gopher fan, cheered them on...
WINTER COOLS OFF 'HOT' TRAINERS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amWhat a difference 1,300 miles and 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit can make. At the current Gulfstream Park meeting, Bill Mott tops the trainers standings, Mark Hennig is second and Todd Pletcher...
RICKEY: GET ME OUTTA HERE! CARD SHARK WON'T ACCEPT SAME ROLE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- If Rickey Henderson has the same role as he did last season, then he wants out of a Mets uniform. "I rather be somewhere else," the...
RED-HOT HABS BIG DEVIL TEST
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMONTREAL -- Their Presidents' Trophy aspirations do not permit slumps. It's time to find out about these Devils, winless in three as they visit the NHL's hottest team. "It's a...
IF OBEN STAYS, GRAGG'S LIKELY A GONER
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amThe warning comes from several sources, none named Ernie Accorsi, the Giant GM who will make the decision. If the Giants are able to accomplish their off-season priority -- re-signing...
DE LA HOYA VOWS TO DUKE COLEY OUT
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIf you're coming to Madison Square Garden Saturday night to see the old Oscar De La Hoya, you might just as well stay home. If you're coming to see the...
ERIC DREADS PAL'S FUTURE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. -- Eric Davis and Darryl Strawberry have known each other since they were 10 years old and living in Los Angeles, drawn together the way kids are when...
MCSORLEY BAN HARSHEST
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amSticking him with the harshest punishment in league history yesterday, the NHL suspended Bruins defenseman Marty McSorley for the remaining 23 games of the regular season, plus the playoffs, for...
MAYFAIR'S FRIENDLY FIRE BURNS MICKELSON
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMATCH PLAY NOTES CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The finish of the first round at yesterday's Andersen Consulting World Match Play Championships at La Costa belonged to close friends Billy Mayfair and...
SHANE FIRST IN LINE AT DH AS YANKS MULL DEALS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- With Darryl Strawberry expected to be suspended today, the Yankees have a gaping hole in the DH slot. And while they were looking for a left-handed bat before...
DEVS: DON'T KO FIGHTING
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amMONTREAL -- Like everyone else, the Devils are disgusted by Marty McSorley's clubbing of Donald Brashear. They do not, however, believe this stick-swinging case should prompt the NHL to ban...
REGGIE HAMMERING OUT HIS RETURN TO PINSTRIPES
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- Hall-of-Fame slugger Reggie Jackson is close to rejoining the Yankees as an instructor who will work at every level within the organization. Jackson parted ways with...
STORM, NCAA ON SAME PAGE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amIt started off as the blind date from hell, and usually such a first impression is impossible to overcome. But this is a professional relationship, not a personal one, and...
TIGER COMES OUT ROARING: CRUSHES CAMPBELL 5&4 IN FIRST ROUND
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amCARLSBAD, Calif. -- Word that we should beware of an early exit by Tiger Woods was gaining momentum around La Costa Resort and Spa as yesterday's first round of the...
BEARCAT DRAWS 1-GAME BAN
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amBad news for Cincinnati is probably good news for St. John's. The NCAA yesterday instructed the Bearcats to declare freshman forward DerMarr Johnson ineligible for one game for violating bylaw...
YANKS RALLY 'ROUND DOWN & OUT DARRYL ; STRAW SUPPORTED AS HE AWAITS FATE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Minutes before the first full-squad workout of the spring, the Yankees sat at their lockers and watched Darryl Strawberry step to the middle of the room where he...
YANKS RALLY 'ROUND DOWN & OUT DARRYL: ANOTHER DAY TO WONDER WHAT MIGHT'VE BEEN
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Darryl Strawberry was supposed to be in hitting Group 2 yesterday. At 11:50 a.m., he was to join Tino Martinez, Paul O'Neill and Jorge Posada in the cage...
SYMPATHY FOR STRAW EXTENDS TO ST. LUCIE
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The 11-year-old boy on the other end of the telephone wire sounded like a lot of 11-year-old boys on Tuesday night. "You see what happened to...
RAPTORS' CARTER SIMPLY DINO-MITE!
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amOf all the amazing things Vince Carter did last night, Toronto head coach Butch Carter noted the most important: "Vince's plays kept the crowd out of the game," the coach...
HALL HOLDS OFF GOPHERS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall 64 Minnesota 61 This was not the sort of game tape Seton Hall would send to the NCAA selection committee. The Pirates took bad shots, got bludgeoned on...
NEAR-PERFECT ZO NAILS NETS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amHeat 99 Nets 85 MIAMI -- Here is the really scary thought for the Nets. Shaquille O'Neal, with 35 points and 13 rebounds, was the easy center matchup for them...
COLLAPSE PUTS PULSIPHER IN HOSPITAL
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Bill Pulsipher was found unconscious by his wife, Michelle, yesterday at about 3:45 p.m. in the bathroom of their home, according to Mets' GM Steve Phillips....
LAYDEN LIKELY TO STAND PAT
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amAs GM Scott Layden mulls whether to rent-a-rebounder today at his first trading deadline with the Knicks, Clippers power forward Maurice Taylor has become available to the club. As talks...
VINCE GOES ON A SPREE : CARTER KOS KNICKS
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amRaptors 99 Knicks 88 If Knicks GM Scott Layden still believes no tinkering is necessary at today's 6 p.m. trading deadline, then he should take a closer look at last...
EWING'S LEFT KNEE DOING OK AFTER SPILL
February 24, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It was quite a scare. Patrick Ewing crashed to the court with 4:15 left after Toronto's Antonio Davis collided into him on a baseline drive. Ewing held his...