April 12, 2000
IS SOUTHDOWN A TARGET?
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amIS Southdown Inc. going to be the target of a takeover attempt? Speculators think the Houston cement-maker's recent nervousness is quite suspicious. And that's why the fast money on Wall...
REBELLION AT NASD - BOARD GOVERNOR WANTS FRANK ZARB OUT NOW
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAn influential member of the National Association of Securities Dealers' board of governors has declared war on the group's chairman, Frank Zarb. Alan Davidson took his ongoing feud with Zarb...
BANK ONE BOOSTS SECURITIES BIZ
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Jamie Dimon took over as head of Bank One Corp. two weeks ago, he said he had no plans to move the commercial giant toward investment banking. Yesterday, the...
$1B CREDIT LINE BOOSTS RITE AID SHARES
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amBeleaguered Rite Aid saw a ray of hope yesterday, when word that it got a $1 billion credit line pushed its stock up nearly 30 percent. Shares in the No....
NO MORE PERKS FOR CHEAP AETNA DOCS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amDoctors who hold down medical costs in exchange for a percentage of the money they save health insurers probably won't get those cash perks from insurers anymore. Under the terms...
NASDAQ IS BEARING DOWN - DOWN 19.7% FROM ITS RECORD HIGH
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amInvestors continued to batter technology stocks and build up blue-chip names yesterday, driving the Nasdaq composite into a year-to-date loss for the first time in two months. The Nasdaq fell...
SCOUTING A STUDIO; MOGULS EYEING YONKERS FACTORY FOR FILM SHOOTS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amRobert De Niro and Miramax Films honcho Harvey Weinstein, spurned last year when they tried to build a mega-studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, are considering a site in Yonkers....
PET PEEVES ARE UNLEASHED AT ANIMAL FAIR
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amIS it a cat fight? Or a dog fight? The magazine and Web site Animal Fair is supposed to benefit poor animals - but the humans running it seem to...
CLASSIC GREEK
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAVRA 141 E. 48TH ST. (212) 759-8550 'I PREFER not to fraternize with my food before I eat it." My squeamish friend explains why she sits out the waiter's invitation...
YUK-FEST TO PEEL INTO BIG APPLE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amCALL it anything, but don't call it small.With more than 200 comics, 70 events and 30 venues, the eighth annual Toyota Comedy Festival will barrel through the city from June...
IT'S LOTSMORE THAN MATZO NOW: HOW TO PASS OVER TO HAUTE HOLIDAY FARE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMAYBE you've heard that there are more Jews in New York City than in Israel. Not quite. There are, however, more than in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined - 1.6...
REVISITING HISTORY IN DENMARK
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amCOPENHAGEN 1/2 Royale Theater, 242 W. 45th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, (212) 239-6200. Reviewed on April 7. THEATER can involve itself very excitingly, very immediately in the large,...
FIGGIS' FILMLESS FEATURE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amTHE revolution will not be televised (yet) but it's coming soon to a cinema near you. Envelope-pushing director Mike Figgis, who had a mainstream hit with 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas,"...
ONE GOOD TURNER DESERVES ANOTHER
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amIT looks as if "The Graduate" - the live, Kathleen Turner-bares-all "Graduate," that is - might matriculate, moving beyond London and possibly coming to Broadway. "We would love to take...
DOMINGO MAKE-OVERTURE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amSUPERSTAR tenor Placido Domingo is revamping his Midtown restaurant.After lukewarm reviews from critics, the singer (who's not used to anything but rave notices) is giving the restaurant a make-overture. Formerly...
TONY'S DILEMMA ; COMMITTEE FACING SOME REAL STUMPERS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amIS "Contact," a show in which everybody dances but nobody sings, a musical? How about the plot-free "Riverdance"? Is "True West," which was first produced in 1980, a revival or...
THE STARR REPORT
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAnchor away at Ch. 2 Ch. 2 anchor Jim Rosenfield has been let out of his contract, sources say. Rosenfield, who anchors Ch. 2's 5 p.m. newscast, apparently declined to...
WHO'S REPLACING KATHIE LEE? ONE MAN WILL MAKE THE CALL.; ONLY REGIS CAN GIVE THUMBS UP
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amTHE road to replacing Kathie Lee Gifford as co-host of "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee" leads to just one place - Regis Philbin. Regis' new prime-time power and prestige...
'SOPRANOS' PUTS HBO IN GOOD NUMBERS RACKET
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amSUNDAY'S second-season "Sopranos" finale on HBO snagged a whopping 9 million viewers - a record for original HBO programming. The one-hour thriller - in which "Big Pussy" Bompansiero (Vincent Pastore)...
'ABC TOLD ME SINK OR SWIM'; EX-OLYMPIAN SUES NETWORK ON AGE BIAS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amFORMER Olympic gold-medal swimer and sportscaster Donna deVarona slapped her old bosses, ABC, with a $50-million age-discrimination suit yesterday, claiming she was dumped because she was over 50. deVarona, who...
JURY CLEARS DOC OF MOLESTING PATIENT
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAn ex-doctor wept hysterically in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday when a jury cleared him of sodomizing a sedated patient - charges he said have destroyed his life. "I've still lost...
BESIEGED EDITOR A VICTIM OF A FOOLISH TIDAL WAVE FROM THE LEFT - FORWARD'S GREAT LEAP BACKWARD
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amNEWS that Seth Lipsky is in the process of being forced out as president and editor of the newspaper he founded a decade ago - the English-language edition of the...
N.Y. ANTI-SEMITISM ON RISE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAnti-Semitic incidents are on the decline in the United States and New York City, but increasing in New York state - which is first in the nation, an Anti-Defamation League...
PUTIN'S ARMS POLICY IS A 'START'
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Vladimir Putin advanced his foreign policy agenda yesterday by getting parliament to debate a long-range nuclear arms treaty agreed to in 1993 by Boris Yeltsin but never ratified. The...
HOLOCAUST DENIER'S REPUTATION IS HISTORY
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amBritish Holocaust denier David Irving yesterday lost the libel suit he launched to defend his academic reputation - and was promptly branded an anti-Semite and racist. Irving sued American scholar...
RUDY KOS UPSTATE TRIP FOR YANKS' HOME OPENER
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani postponed two upstate campaign appearances today to attend the Yankees' home opener - assuring his GOP supporters that he's not committing a political error by spending his day...
MY LONG RIDE HOME ON FACTORY-FRESH CITY BUS - BLESSED IS TA'S BEHEMOTH IN 4-DAY, 7-STATE HEARTLAND TOUR
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amIN A dark corner of a lonely truck stop off Interstate 80, where weary truckers seek the comforts of food and companionship, Kris Tackitt plies her trade. But her tiny...
THIEF TURNS TO GOD, THEN TURNS HIMSELF IN
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAn ex-con has been charged with robbing a Long Island church last year - after he found God and turned himself in, saying he wanted to pay his debt to...
THESE KIDS ARE TOO YOUNG FOR LESSONS LIKE THIS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAT 7 years old, the little girl likes to play. With Barbie dolls, mostly. Her mother taught her the parts of the body. And where it's OK for someone to...
TRANSVESTITE POLICE CAPT. TRANSFERRED TO NEW POST
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan police captain was quietly transferred to another borough after fellow cops spotted him wearing a woman's wig and a dress, sources said. The "very embarrassed" captain, the supervisor...
FANS: WHAT'S WRONG WITH WHITNEY?
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amIF, IN four weeks' time, you sit down to watch the Arista Records 25th-anniversary special taped Monday night, you will witness Whitney Houston seemingly at the top of her game....
CO-OP PREZ MUST PAY BIAS DAMAGES HIMSELF
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The former board president of an East Side co-op is personally on the hook for $124,000 for his part in denying a sublease to an interracial couple, the...
HILL DOES A JOB ON RUDY'S 'PERVERTED' WELFARE PLAN
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Hillary Rodham Clinton charged yesterday that Mayor Giuliani "perverts" welfare reform - attacking for the first time what her opponent promotes as one of his crowning achievements. "We...
METS & YANKS STRIKING OUT IN BID FOR CITY STADIUM FUNDS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMet and Yankee fans hoping to see their favorite teams in new stadiums in the near future shouldn't hold their breath. Talks between City Hall and the teams over how...
COP ON HOT SEAT WHILE VERMIN RUN FREE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amHE'S drinking espresso in north Jersey with the wiseguys - and his name ain't Tony Soprano. He's Gennaro Vittorio and he had a habit of shooting guys and caving in...
BUTCHY SIDE OF BROOKE - TELLS GAY MAG WOMEN 'VERY ATTRACTIVE'
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amSultry actress Brooke Shields says she had a gay ol' time growing up - raised with the help of two male homosexual "godmothers" - and finds many women "very attractive."...
NEWS CORP. HOSTING WORLD-AFFAIRS FORUM
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMikhail Gorbachev and Colin Powell will be among the dignitaries participating in a global forum hosted by News Corp. to discuss America's role in international affairs in the new century....
GIRL'S THREATS WERE ALL TALK, OFFICIALS FIND
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amA seventh-grader busted last week for threatening to kill three teachers and three administrators at her Flushing junior high school never intended to carry out any attacks, investigators said yesterday....
NBC MAY SHELL OUT COOL $20M TO KEEP KATIE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amKatie Couric may soon be the highest-paid queen of morning TV - the perky "Today" hostess is said to be eyeing a whopping $20 million deal with NBC. The network...
YOU CAN CALL BO'S NEW BEAU 'TEN' TURNER
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mouth from the South has a Bo-dacious new girlfriend. Ted Turner - who recently separated from Jane Fonda - is dating Bo Derek, the sultry star of "10," sources...
PARDON IS NEWS TO CLINTON'S MAN
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton's spokesman said yesterday he isn't aware of any attempt by Clinton to persuade Al Gore to save his hide with a Sexgate pardon. Speculation about Gore...
BUSH MAN: SORRY I LOBBIED - BACKS OFF PRO-MICROSOFT STANCE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ralph Reed, one of Republican George W. Bush's senior strategists, yesterday apologized for trying to lobby Bush on behalf of Microsoft - and against the government antitrust case....
SUPPORT GROWING FOR LEVY TO STICK AROUND
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amInterim Chancellor Harold Levy could stick around - at least a little longer. Board of Education officials are considering extending Levy's six-month term - even if he isn't their choice...
NYPD NEAR FED OVERSIGHT - RIGHTS PANEL TO PROPOSE MONITOR
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amA federal civil-rights panel will recommend an independent monitor to oversee New York's police force, sources familiar with the commission's thinking said yesterday. The Civil Rights Commission, a Democratic-leaning panel,...
BOARD OF ED ZEROING IN ON TEST-CHEATERS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amBoard of Education watchdogs will probe 170 schools today as part of a campaign to prevent cheating on high-stakes reading tests. "Please let's focus on real achievement and send the...
CONE & YANKEES START ALL OVER:DAVID'S GIFT TO MEL: BUSINESS AS USUAL
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID Cone will try to treat today as business while understanding this is not business as usual. He has won 140 games as a New York player and all but...
PARENTS UP IN ARMS OVER THIRD SEX ATTACK AT HARLEM SCHOOL
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amFurious Harlem parents yesterday demanded more security guards and teachers' aides at PS 200 in the wake of the reported rape and sodomy of a 9-year-old girl - the third...
JONBENET PROBERS OK POLYGRAPH FOR PARENTS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amInvestigators in Colorado said yesterday they've accepted a public offer by the parents of JonBenet Ramsey to take a lie-detector test. The announcement by Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner came...
ELIAN'S D.C. REUNION WITH DAD LOOKS SHAKY
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amPlans for a reunion today in Washington between tug-of-war kid Elian Gonzalez and his dad were thrown into turmoil late last night when his relatives claimed the boy did not...
SCHOOLKIDS VISIT FAMOUS PLAYMATE
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Four classmates of Elian Gonzalez visited the tug-of-war tot at his Miami home yesterday - frolicking in the back yard and showering him with kisses. "It didn't feel...
ELIAN AND FLA. FAMILY FLYING TO MEET HIS DAD
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amElian Gonzalez today will see his dad for the first time in five months -when the boy flies to Washington with his Miami relatives for an emotional reunion. Jorge Mas...
MYSTERIOUS CLUSTER WORRIES EAST SIDE WOMEN
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Upper East Side may be one of the priciest places to live in the world - but it's also one of the riskiest places in the city for developing...
RENO: I'D MEET WITH ELIAN'S KIN IN FLORIDA
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amAttorney General Janet Reno is willing to meet Elian Gonzalez's relatives in Miami - but the trip won't derail the government's plans to return the child to his father, officials...
MAP SHOWS BREAST-CANCER RATES: HIGHER INCIDENCE FOUND IN 4 BOROS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A new state breast-cancer map, broken down for the first time by ZIP code, shows elevated rates in parts of the city and surrounding suburbs. The map shows...
DERBY PREPS IN SPOTLIGHT
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe last big weekend of betting before the May 6 Kentucky Derby begins tomorrow with the third and final round of the Derby Future Wager, which continues through Sunday. Saturday...
DEVILS HAVE TO GET MORE FROM MOGILNY
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTEBOOK For a guy who has scored 76 goals in a season, 16 more than Pavel Bure ever did, Alexander Mogilny isn't overflowing in self-esteem. Being the one Devils'...
SMITH & WESSON NOT 1ST WITH GUN SAFETY LOCKS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amTHE pact between Smith & Wesson and the Clinton Administration has allowed the firearms manufacturer to take the spotlight for safety initiatives that many other guns makers volunteered to do...
GIANTS LOOK AT LINEBACKERS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe strong sentiment and belief is that the Giants with the 11th pick in Saturday's NFL Draft will take a running back. If the unthinkable happens and Thomas Jones, Shaun...
DEVILS OWN WORST ENEMY
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe marquee says the Devils face the Panthers when the Stanley Cup playoffs open tomorrow night. Really, the Devils will be battling themselves. If they win that war, they are...
FOR PAYTON, NO MORE WAITIN': MORE ABS AT HAND
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The scouts always said the ball jumped off his bat and made a special sound. Former Norfolk manager Rick Dempsey used to say that Jay Payton reminded him...
HAMPTON TAKES REED-ING LESSON
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The theory went that Mike Hampton would lead the Met pitching staff. But Hampton plans to twist this thought beginning at 7:05 tonight. The No. 1...
WINGIN' IT TO ANOTHER CUP
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amGARY Bettman led the movement to four-on-four overtime, the NHL's greatest innovation in decades. The commissioner last week also pledged to oppose to any attempt in the foreseeable future to...
CURTIS SAW WRITING ON WALL
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Chad Curtis tried to reason why the Yankees dealt him to the Texas Rangers last December, the plucky outfielder concluded it had nothing to do with his ability or...
CONE & YANKEES START ALL OVER: OPENER IN BRONX IS CHANCE TO ATONEFOR ROCKY ROAD TRIP
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amOne day late, David Cone will be tackling two assignments today when he acts as master of ceremonies for the 76th home opener at Yankee Stadium. Cone and the two-time...
SORE BACK MAKES ANDY MISS TURN
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While the Yankees aren't at the point where they believe Andy Pettitte's back problem is serious enough to place their lone lefty starter on the shelf, there was...
KNICKS HOPE TO RIDE BIG WIN A LONG WAY
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks say the effects of Sunday's heartbreaking loss in Miami could've broken a weak team and dismayed even a strong one. But they claim the momentum of Monday's uplifting...
JIMENEZ MAKES BIG IMPACT
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amMajor-league stars Andres Galarraga and Omar Vizquel honed their skills in the Criollitos de Venezuela, the Venezuelan Little League. Jairo Jimenez is on track to follow their footsteps. Jimenez, a...
KEYSHAWN GRABS TAMPA'S BIG BUC$ ; JETS COLLECT TWO MORE NO. 1 PICKS
April 12, 2000 | 4:00amLike it or not - and Jets fans should find little reason to like it - Keyshawn Johnson is no longer the center of the Jets' universe. Johnson last night...