April 19, 2000
ONE FUND MANAGER'S VALUE PICKS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amNOBODY would blame you if you hated stocks after last week. And there's a good chance that you'll be hating the market again in the weeks ahead as we get...
GOING TO THE DOGS - BATTERED STOCKS SCOOPED UP BY INVESTORS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe latest show on Wall Street could be called "The Return of the Living Dead." This week's rally, following last week's devastating sell-off, has driven up the prices of stocks...
JOAN VS. DAVID: SHE WINS, HE LOSES
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amJoan Helpern is coming out on top. The founder and chief designer of bankrupt Joan & David is the only member of the Helpern family who has not agreed to...
IT'S SPY VS. SPY IN SPLIT - KROLL-O'GARA TIE CUT AFTER 2 YEARS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe two greatest sleuth teams for corporate America - Jules Kroll and the two O'Gara brothers - are likely to split up their company after a disastrous two-year merger. Their...
SCAM VICTIMS SUE 'MONEY TALK' ANALYST ADRIANE BERG
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA New Jersey family has filed suit against popular radio stock analyst Adriane Berg and WABC, charging their "negligence and carelessness" led them straight into a massive Ponzi scheme. In...
HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT ERUPTS - M'SOFT VS PALM, AND VISOR
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMicrosoft has declared war in the palm-sized computer market. As the number of handheld computers explodes, Microsoft's Pocket PC software makes its debut today in a handful of hardware devices....
EXECUTIVE COPS TO RIPPING OFF CLIENTS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe head of a Manhattan investment company admitted cheating countless clients out of their money while working at two other financial firms. Michael Cilmi, 34, now the head of the...
KEDS SKIPPING INTO FASHION
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amKeds are coming back. The famous little white sneaker with the blue label on the heel is making a big push to step into the fashion-forward arena, launching a new...
CALVIN KLEIN IS TAKEN OFF THE MARKET
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amNo sale. After floating his fashion empire for six months, Calvin Klein has decided to pull it off the market and go it alone. "When we matched the offers we...
LESS CONTENT ON BRILL'S MASTHEAD
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHREE more of the old guard have packed it in at Brill's Content, as the struggling media watchdog magazine started by chairman Steve Brill is getting reshaped by new Editor-in-chief...
FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS, EASTER SEASON IS THE HOPPIEST TIME OF YEAR
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amPEOPLE are passionate about chocolate. They say it has something to do with a substance called theobromine that can make you feel as if you're in love. Over the years,...
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL'S METRAZUR WAY OFF TRACK
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMETRAZUR breaks your heart. The newly opened East Balcony of Grand Central Terminal is a setting born to greatness. But there's a glitch: This is a restaurant You may not...
RECIPE FOR ROMANCE?
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amLONG hours, short tempers and perfectionist tendencies are the traits of great chefs - but not necessarily the ingredients for great marriages. Ivy Stark and Scott Linquist - surely one...
'DINOSAUR' SPECIAL NEW CABLE TV RATINGS KING
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amDISCOVERY Channel's record-setting Woolly Mammoth special? Fuggedaboutit! Last Sunday's "Walking With Dinosaurs" stomped the Woolly Mammoth to set a new ratings record - becoming the most-watchedcable special in history. It...
BABS AND WHOOPI'S LESBIAN PIC
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amBARBRA Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg are teaming up to make a movie for the Lifetime network about a lesbian's child-custody battle. The film, "What Makes a Family," is said to...
ALL-AMERICAN MASS KILLER - COURT TV AIRS THE STRANGELY ORDINARY BOYHOOD OF THE NATION'S MOST HATED CRIMINAL
April 19, 2000 | 4:00am'TIM McVeigh: Made in America" is not an interview with the worst person ever hatched on American soil. No, Court TV does not stoop to discussing politics with the mass...
THE STARR REPORT
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA lesson learned Joy Behar was "Principal for a Day" last week at Primary School #164 in Brooklyn. After her visit, Joy received a thank-you note from her "students," which...
(MD+BO)SUPERHERO IN SKIVVIES(MD-BO) - (MD+IT)A BRIEF VISIT WITH CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS(MD-IT)
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amHARRY Potter better watch out. Lurking just behind the orphaned wizard is a silly superhero waiting to unseat him as the reigning champ of children's books. Harry's fearsome foe is...
ON THE HUNT FOR HARRY - WIZ KID WANTED
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amWANTED: an 11-year-old male capable of bringing to life one of the most famous literary characters in recent history. With a director finally attached to Warner Bros.' film adaptation of...
'BIRD' AN ABLE FABLE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00am'THE Green Bird," at the Cort Theatre, is a union of two theatrical traditions - the magical and the satirical. The 1765 fable by Venetian Carlo Gozzi, translated and adapted...
MUSICIANS ANGRILY 'CONTACT' TONYS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE musicians' union is trying to stir up trouble for "Contact," Susan Stroman's hit dance show at Lincoln Center. Last week, the Tony Award rules committee made "Contact" eligible to...
BAD GIRLS TURN TO LIFE OF CRIME - CITY IS SEEING A DRAMATIC RISE IN TERRIBLE TEENS GETTING ARRESTED
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amSo much for sugar and spice and everything nice - officials said yesterday the city is experiencing a disturbing surge in crimes committed by girls. The number of girls entering...
ACTIVIST IS MILLIONAIRE WITH CAUSE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amSTANDING on the steps of City Hall, millionaire Fernando Mateo reached out with both hands yesterday to console the grieving widow of slain livery driver Luis Francisco Perez. It was...
ULTRASOUND DETECTS HEARTBEAT OF NEEDLE NURSE'S BABY
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe pregnant needle-attack nurse rode an emotional roller coaster yesterday as her obstetrician first couldn't detect a fetal heartbeat but later used more sensitive equipment to determine her baby is...
2 SLAIN BY 'DIRTY OLD MAN' AT SENIOR CENTER: COPS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA country-crooning Air Force vet went on a deadly shooting rampage yesterday after officials at his Detroit-area senior residence threatened to boot him out for telling dirty jokes in front...
BX. LIVERY CABDRIVER BARELY ESCAPES MACHETE MADMAN
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA machete-wielding passenger attacked a livery cabdriver in The Bronx yesterday - nearly hacking off two of the cabby's fingers before cops tackled him, police said. "I'm lucky to be...
131 PERUSH IN FIERY PHILIPPINES JET CRASH
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amAn Air Philippines plane packed with holiday travelers mysteriously crashed early today in the southern Philippines - killing all 131 aboard - authorities said. There was no immediate word on...
MANHATTAN APT. PRICES HIT HOME
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe average price of a Manhattan apartment jumped 31 percent - to $733,860 - in just the first three months of the year, a real-estate survey has found. The report,...
ZOO HOPES PANDA PORN RESULTS IN CAGED HEAT
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amWorried that Viagra alone may not be enough to heat up the sex lives of its giant pandas, China is offering them an extra turn-on - panda porn! Zoo officials...
ANOTHER BULLISH DAY EASES TRADER TENSION
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amOptimism spread across Wall Street yesterday, as tech stocks soared and the broader markets rallied for a second consecutive day. Investors started to cast off fears that stocks had entered...
ANOTHER BULLISH DAY EASES FEARS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amOptimism spread across Wall Street yesterday, as tech stocks soared and the broader markets rallied for a second consecutive day. Investors started to cast off fears that stocks had entered...
HILL RETURNS $22,000 GIFT TO A TAINTED FUND-RAISER
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign yesterday returned $22,000 in "soft money" to a businesswoman linked to a Democratic campaign contribution from a drug smuggler in Havana. The donation by Vivian...
ROLE MODELS ABOUND FOR ALARMING TREND
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe alarming rise in female juvenile crimes may be a side effect of the girl-power phenomenon - fueled by drugs, alcohol and society's greater tolerance for violence. "My first glimmer...
NEW SPAN TO REPLACE BUSY WILLIS AVE. BRIDGE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe antiquated Willis Avenue Bridge across the Harlem River is slated to be replaced with a $259 million span, Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday. Giuliani, who unveiled the bridge plan as...
GIULIANI: EXPEL OLDER HS LAGGARDS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday proposed booting students out of high school if they don't graduate within five years - an idea the Board of Education immediately rejected. The mayor said these...
RUDY'S NEW PLAN TO BEEF UP NYPD
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday proposed expanding the Police Department to its largest size ever - under a plan that would block the next mayor from cutting the force through 2004. Giuliani...
PEDIATRICIAN NEEDS HIS HEAD EXAMINED
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amIN THE case of Dr. Irwin Redlener, the cheese has definitely fallen off the cracker. My psychiatric diagnosis of Redlener, a pediatrician, is that he's bonkers. Now who am I...
ELIAN FAMILY'S LAWYER: DOCTOR IS 'LUDICROUS'
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amSupporters of Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives lashed out yesterday at a top New York pediatrician who said the tug-of-war kid is being abused and risks physical harm if he stays...
HEAVENS TO BETSY, SHE'S STILL STANDING - MAY WED MYSTERY MAN AND AGAIN RUN FOR OFFICE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amBETSY McCAUGHEY STILL-ROSS has a new man in her life. And she'll be horrified that I'm starting the piece this way. Or maybe not ... The woman who's most famous...
CITY WILL PUT BITE ON HOMEOWNERS IN SKEETER WAR
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amHomeowners, beware! Stagnant water in your yard - a great breeding site for mosquitoes - is a public nuisance, and city health inspectors can come onto your property, clean it...
SPITZER: CITY WATER PLAN RUNNING LATE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The city has fallen behind in its five-year plan to protect the drinking-water supply, a report released by state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer charged yesterday. Spitzer warns that...
FOR SALE: CHANCELLOR'S HOME?
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amBoard of Education President Bill Thompson wants to sell the vacant, taxpayer-financed $1.5million chancellor's residence in Brooklyn. The brownstone has been empty for months, and will remain so if Interim...
LIVERY-CAB DRIVER BARELY ESCAPES MACHETE MADMAN
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA machete-wielding passenger attacked a livery cab driver in The Bronx yesterday - nearly hacking off two of the cabby's fingers before cops tackled him, police said. George Radhaes, 42...
HILLARY RIPS MAYOR ON POLLUTION
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amBIG MOOSE LAKE, N.Y. - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday threw her support behind federal legislation to curb acid rain - and for the first time launched an attack on Mayor...
PATAKI AND WIFE MADE 400G LAST YEAR
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and his wife raked in more than $400,000 in income last year, a whopping 62 percent jump over 1998, the couple's latest tax filing shows. Last...
RICH UNKNOWN EYES SENATE RUN
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amAn unknown but wealthy Manhattan philanthropist yesterday emerged as a key contender for the Conservative Party nomination in the Senate race. Virginia Gilder, co-founder of the conservative CHANGE-NY group, confirmed...
ROPE-DOPE BOXING PANEL AT IT AGAIN
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE biggest New York boxing event of the year will occur April 29 at Madison Square Garden. But the New York State Athletic Commission is still floundering in incompetence and...
RUSSIA SET TO BACK NUKE PACT
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amRussia's parliament will vote on and likely ratify a global nuclear arms testing treaty Friday - upstaging the Clinton administration, which failed to win approval of the treaty, officials said...
DEATH COULD STRIKE FROM ANY DIRECTION IN NEW KIND OF WAR
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S.-backed regime in Saigon 25 years ago this month, the end of a demoralizing conflict that left its mark on all aspects...
MASSACRE GRAFFITI SCARE PUTS N.Y. SCHOOL ON ALERT
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amPolice are investigating the chilling appearance of graffiti in a West Side high school warning students of an imminent Columbine-type shooting. "Warning: Columbine High School copycat," said the graffiti scrawled...
STATE COURT-CONSTRUCTION BOSS ADMITS 500G THEFT
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe state official in charge of all courthouse construction in the city admitted yesterday he stole $500,000 through kickback and bid-rigging schemes, Manhattan prosecutors said yesterday. In return for his...
SEVERED HEAD SPURS GRISLY SEARCH
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA bizarre murder mystery unfolded yesterday when a fisherman stumbled on a human head on a Far Rockaway beach - and cops later found the victim's headless body in an...
RESCUERS LIFT FLIPPED CAR OFF BADLY HURT COP
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amQuick-thinking cops and civilians used their bare hands to lift a patrol car off a Long Island officer who was trapped inside after his vehicle flipped yesterday on a rain-slicked...
FED PROBE OF NYPD TO TARGET RUDY: POLS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe federal probe of the city Police Department will include a review of whether Mayor Giuliani defamed shooting victims, two congressmen said yesterday. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Charles Rangel, both...
PAT'S POISONOUS PACT - WHY ARE BUCHANAN AND FULANI IN THIS MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE? LIE BACK AND THINK OF THE MONEY
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN with more than six months left until Election Day, it's hard to believe that a presidential candidate will say anything more astonishing than what Pat Buchanan came up with...
MID-APRIL TREAT: WHOLLY MACKEREL
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amYOU can tell the time of the year by the species of fish that migrate up the Atlantic Coast. If it's mid-April, mackerel are making their way up the New...
FORMER PLAYERS TOP NETS' COACHING LIST
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amAs Don Casey heads into what surely will be his final game as the coach of the Nets tonight, the powers behind the scene prepare for the next phase, which...
MEOLA'S BACK, DRAWING BLANKS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amWhen the MetroStars take on the Kansas City Wizards tonight at Giants Stadium, one thing is for sure: Someone's scoreless streak will end. The Metros enter tonight's contest having been...
GRIEVE BACKS PAL BOBBY V, POUNDS PHILLIPS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Tom Grieve knows Bobby Valentine as well as anybody in baseball and Valentine's former boss with the Rangers believes the cards Valentine has been dealt aren't as strong...
DEVILS ON VERGE OF SWEEP RELIEF
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The dateline lies. It's more like Florida's Sunset and the Devils' New Dawn. The Devils can complete a first-round sweep of the Panthers here tomorrow, and, oh,...
PETTITTE GETS THROUGH HIS WORKOUT OK
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Andy Pettitte hoped for the best but was prepared for the worst when he played catch with coach Tony Cloninger on the outfield grass of The...
DUQUE GOES THE DISTANCE - GIVES PEN A REST AS YANKS BASH ROGERS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Out of respect for Roger Clemens, David Cone and Andy Pettitte, the Yankees are reluctant to hang the term "Ace" on Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. Clemens is a...
HAMPTON HITS HIS STRIDE IN FIRST MET WIN
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amLast night, the Mets got their first glimpse of the real Mike Hampton. "I felt like myself tonight," Hampton said after he earned his first win of the year in...
REY, SANCHEZ SIDELINED
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Before last night's 10-7 win over the Brewers, the Mets had two key late scratches, the most surprising being Rey Ordonez. Ordonez apparently pulled a neck muscle trying...
THIS ARMISTICE A FISH STORY (LITERALLY)
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amA LARGE, singing toy fish was given to the manager by his wife. The fish was then given to the general manager, who laughed when the fish crooned, "Don't worry,...
METS FINALLY GET TO THROW THEIR ACE CARD
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amComing out of high school, Mike Hampton wasn't just known for pitching. He was also a good enough defensive back to be recruited by major colleges. Last night, in weather...
BAT MEN & ROBIN - VENTURA'S SLAM FUELS ONSLAUGHT; HAMPTON WINS FIRST
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMets 10 - Brewers 7 Steve Phillips admits Bobby Valentine's penchant for talking out of turn "hasn't affected the club's performance." In fact - and perhaps to Phillips' chagrin -...
MET CASTAWAY HAYES BREWIN' UP A COMEBACK
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amWhen the Mets released Charlie Hayes in spring training, the 34 year-old thought about retiring - for about an hour. "I told my family that if I didn't make the...
AMAZIN' NEW TALE: WHARTON & PEACE - PHILLIPS, VALENTINE 'ON SAME PAGE' SFTER CALLING TRUCE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMary Valentine, wife of Met manager Bobby Valentine, brought her husband a present from Texas yesterday, and Bobby, in turn, passed the toy onto new ally Steve Phillips. "It was...
REY & RICKEY LATE LINEUP SCRATCHES
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Last night produced two key late scratches, the most alarming being Rey Ordonez. Ordonez had pulled a neck muscle trying to deke Pittsburgh catcher Jason Kendall in a...
ALICEA IN BLUNDERLAND - BOMBERS STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THE BIZARRE DOUBLE PLAY IN 11TH
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amARLINGTON - If you missed the freaky 11th inning Monday night when the Yankees escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam against the Rangers, Jorge Posada says you won't get another chance...
HOUSTON'S SLUMP MAY BE HISTORY
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amThis was Allan Houston, Game 6 of last season's Eastern Conference Finals. The Allan Houston who scored 34 points, drove with a passion and shot the Knicks into the championship...
SPREE TURNS INTO NBA PITCHMAN
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell is officially in good graces with the NBA now. Following Monday's practice, the former coach-choker filmed a bunch of NBA playoff promos that will be aired...
50TH WIN NO CURE FOR JEFF'S JITTERS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amKnicks 100 - Pistons 88 Jeff Van Gundy was at his gloom-and-doom best last night. The Knick coach intimated yesterday that facing the sixth-seeded Raptors in the first round of...
JEFF DREADS DRAGGED-OUT PLAYOFF
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy has enough to worry about devising a game plan to stop Vince Carter but the Knicks coach isn't thrilled with the way the first-round series...
HILL NOT SURE ABOUT FUTURE WITH PISTONS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amIn his first five years in the NBA, Grant Hill and the Pistons have never made it past the first round of the playoffs. Don't expect that streak to end...
SPEED, MUSCLE SUPE UP DEVILS
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The Rangers wanted to become a speed team, so they went out this season and added players such as Radek Dvorak, who can skate all day and...
ROMPS BY RAPTORS MAKE JEFF JITTERY
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amAs an eighth-seeded team last season, the Knicks faced the Atlantic Division-champion Heat in the first round with Miami holding homecourt advantage. A big challenge indeed. But not as big...
VAN GUNDY HAS HISTORY UP HIS SLEEVE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amONE year ago at this time it was all Ernie Grunfeld's fault. That was the opinion of Dave34, the only opinion that mattered. One year ago on this date the...
SCORING DROUGHT BEDEVILING BURE
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The Panthers' supposed best player was a liability in the first two games of this series, rekindling an old hockey debate. Is a player like Pavel Bure...
CHANGES FOR THE BETTOR
April 19, 2000 | 4:00amOne of the most difficult but important keys to handicapping is figuring trainers' intentions. Let's face it: Not every horse is sent out to win every race. Some horses are...