April 22, 2000
INSURER STICKS M'SOFT ZURICH TELLS GATES TO PAY OWN LEGAL BILLS
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amIt takes a giant to fight a giant. Insurance conglomerate Zurich Allied is unleashing its legal pit bulls against Microsoft so it won't have to pay Microsoft's huge legal bills...
DISNEY FORCED DYING EXEC TO GIVE UP $2.7M
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A jury ruled yesterday that Disney forced an unfair deathbed deal on a former executive - but it's unclear if the man's survivors will ever see a...
JERSEY FILMS SCORES MORE FROM UNIVERSAL
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThanks to the big box office draw of Julia Roberts' hit "Erin Brockovich," its co-producer Danny DeVito has re-upped at Universal with a sweetened five-year deal for more edgy flicks....
AT&T MAY SELL LIBERTY TO GET MEDIAONE OK
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amAT&T will likely have to sell Liberty Media to get FCC approval for its purchase of MediaOne, according to a published report. Alternately, the company may have to give up...
A RARE LOOK AT A SECRETIVE PEOPLE
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amAMERICAN GYPSYIntriguing documentary about a secretive and often oppressed people.Running time: 79 minutes. Not rated. At Cinema Village, 12th Street, between Fifth Avenue and University Place. EVEN in these politically...
SHOOT! NO DISCOUNT DUCATS AT NEW 'MEGAPLEX'
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amNO bargain movie matinees for you, Manhattan!Those who hoped the new 25-screen AMC "megaplex" on West 42nd Street would finally deliver discount matinees to Manhattan are going to be disappointed...
THE POST 'NETS ROLE IN ONLINE FLICK
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amTHE New York Post has a starring role in "Herschel Hopper, New York Rabbit," a new 45-minute animated film hopping onto the Internet tomorrow. The online kiddie flick - designed...
THE OSCAR BUZZ BEGINS! SOME EARLY RELEASES ALREADY BEING EYED
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE most spring and summer movies are long forgotten by Oscar time, at least two of this year's crop - "Erin Brockovich" and "Gladiator" - are likely to stick in...
7 DAYS OF PLAY
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: The smiles on kids' faces are a clear indication that school's out for the week (form most kids, anyway). The weather's getting warmer, and parks and zoos are a...
ALI: I'VE BEEN 'ROBED'! SAYS MOM'S HANDYMAN ;STOLE 'CLAY' COLLECTIBLE
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amAnd in this corner, the plaintiff, Muhammad Ali. The Greatest is suing to reclaim a rare boxing robe held by his mother's handyman, Walter Cuff. In a complaint filed in...
JUDGE BIDS TO COMBINE 'AUCTION-SCAM' SUITS
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amA federal judge cleared the way yesterday for a massive class-action suit against auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, saying a price-fixing scheme may have fleeced tens of thousands of dealers....
SPITZER'S DEBTS GOBBLE $5.9M PROPERTY PROFIT
April 22, 2000 | 4:00am. ALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer made $6.2 million last year and used most of it to reduce his huge campaign debt, it was revealed yesterday. Spitzer, 40, earned...
RUSSIAN POLS OK NUKE-TEST BAN
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amRussia's president-elect, Vladimir Putin, won another legislative victory yesterday when lawmakers in Moscow overwhelmingly approved the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The 298-to-74 vote approval by the Duma, the lower...
SINN FEIN CALLS ON BRITAIN TO REVIVE GOOD FRIDAY PACT
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amSinn Fein leader Gerry Adams used the symbolic second anniversary of the Good Friday accord yesterday to urge Britain to revive Northern Ireland's short-lived power-sharing government. "We cannot continue with...
CLINTONS AND GORES WILL PUT $2M BITE ON GOLDEN APPLE DONORS
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amBill and Hill and Al and Tipper will haul in a whopping $2 million for the Democratic Party when they come to town for a megafund-raiser Monday night, party officials...
DEFIANT POLS TAKE A STAND AGAINST RUDY ON CITY HALL STEPS
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amOpenly defying Mayor Giuliani's latest rules for staging press conferences at City Hall, two City Council members yesterday spent 20 minutes on the building's portico and dared police to arrest...
GORE MAY DOUBLE-TEAM LIBS TO GET HILL ON BALLOT
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amSOME key aides to Vice President Al Gore are urging him to shun the Liberal Party's presidential line in November if the party gives its U.S. Senate slot to Mayor...
EGGS-TREMELY WET SPELL CAN'T DAMPEN THE SPIRIT OF EASTER
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amNew York's faithful face a moist but busy Easter and Passover weekend. "The forecast is wet," said Gary Conte, meteorologist for the National Weather Service. "Despite the inclement weather, enjoy...
EX CHARGED IN 'PUSH' MURDERS OF TRAIN VICTIMS
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amA Pennsylvania man so enraged at his ex-girlfriend that he rear-ended her car into the path of an oncoming train was charged yesterday with killing her, her friend and two...
GOTTI HANGOUT ON THE LAMB BUTCHER SHOP MUSCLES IN ON SOCIAL CLUB
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Gotti's landmark social club in Queens has been sliced in half - to make way for a butcher shop. The Bergin Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, where...
SIX-PACK SHOPLIFTER KILLS GROCER
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn bodega worker was shot dead yesterday by a shoplifter, cops said. Abdullah Saleh Yaffi, 37, was blasted twice in the chest at the Flatbush Grocery on Flatbush Avenue...
BILL HID BABES UNDER BLANKET OF SECURITY: NEW BOOK
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A new bombshell Sexgate book alleges that President Clinton personally warned Secret Service chief Lew Merletti to keep his agents from talking to investigators about the president's "women."...
43G HOTEL BILL DOGGING FUGITIVE BAM-BOOZE-LER
April 22, 2000 | 4:00am"I was just a stupid, little 19-year-old sh-t who got drunk and did little else." That's the way former London schoolboy Andrew Smith explains how a three-month, $43,000 stay at...
FUNNY-MONEY PROBERS PUT PREZ ON GRILL
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amFBI agents and a Justice Department official interviewed President Clinton under oath for four hours yesterday in their probe into alleged finance abuses in the 1996 presidential campaign, the White...
MEOW! DIANA CALLS WILSON A SUPREME PAIN
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe cat fight between Diana Ross and former Supreme Mary Wilson got uglier last night with the pop diva labeling her ex-friend "angry, envious and jealous." Ross told ABC's "20/20"...
CITY DENIES CONFLICT IN $104M CONTRACT
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday continued to defend a $104 million welfare-to-work contract after it was reported that the father-in-law of the city's welfare commissioner had worked for the winning bidder....
TALKS FOCUS ON BRINGING ELIAN KIN TOGETHER
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amMediators last night feverishly tried to broker a deal to transfer custody of international tug-of-love boy Elian Gonzalez from Miami relatives to his dad. At one point late last night,...
SEX, AMERICAN STYLE: SOME LIKE IT SHORT
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amMost Americans spend less time making love than taking a coffee break - as little as 15 minutes per sexcapade, a new survey shows. In a random telephone survey of...
BLACKS LIVID AT CLOTHING FIRM'S 'INSULTING' MAG AD
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe creator of this ad for Reunion Menswear says he is astonished at the storm over the photos, which feature one black model holding a basketball and another whose head...
RUDY GIVES TEACHERS A WRIST-SLAP
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday blasted the Board of Education and the teachers union yesterday for "crying wolf" about attracting enough teachers for the massive summer-school program. More than 16,000 teachers have...
NO BED O' ROSES FOR HONEST LADY
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amA trifecta of stakes are on the menu today at Aqueduct, including a pair of simulcasts from Lone Star Park outside Dallas. Before the rains came, the Grade 3, $150,000...
MARCH MAGIC CAPTURES COMELY
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amMarch Magic took the lead in midstretch and edged away near the wire to win the Grade 3 Comely Stakes on a sloppy track at Aqueduct. Jostle held well to...
DIXON IN TOP COMPANY ALREADY
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe assignment makes sense in an ironic sort of way. Here he is, fresh out of as close to nowhere as it gets, bursting onto the scene with the Giants,...
ACHING REED FEELING BETTER
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amIf Rick Reed had thrown in the bullpen yesterday, he would have needed someone to catch the ball for him as if he were a quarterback warming up. But Reed,...
THOMAS BARKS AT MIGHTY OAK KURT RESPONDS TO OAKLEY TAUNT
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks' new enforcer Kurt Thomas finally fired back at the Knicks' old enforcer Charles Oakley yesterday. Eight days ago, before the Raptors whipped the Knicks in Toronto, Oakley called...
LJ BRUSHES OFF MEDIA AGAIN
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amLarry Johnson is rounding into playoff form. He blew off the media yesterday. LJ was fined a combined $35,000 during last season's playoffs for twice not making himself available to...
CUBS' BAYLOR REFUSES TO BURY THE HATCHET
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe feud between Bobby Valentine and Chicago manager Don Baylor that sparked up in Tokyo has cooled but hasn't died out. Baylor has backed off his fighting words from Opening...
EWING TAKES ON LATEST YOUNG BULL
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amExcept for getting in and out of his midnight-blue Porsche convertible, nothing has hampered Patrick Ewing more than Michael Jordan. But while Jordan is no longer sending Ewing and his...
BOBBY'S JUGGLING ACT GETS HARDER TO MASTER
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amBOBBY Valentine has proven to be a master at working a fourth outfielder into the lineup. Now, though, he has four extra outfielders. The burden of juggling has been diminished...
VALENTINE'S NOT HIDING FROM BAYLOR
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amAfter last night's Mets-Cubs game was postponed, Bobby Valentine knew what to expect. He understood where the questions about his counterpart, Don Baylor, could lead, if Valentine answered them as...
VAN: NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy continued to refute the notion the Raptors are going down because of their lack of playoff experience. Last week he called it "the stupidest thing I've ever...
BOMBERS EYE ANOTHER CUBAN RIGHTY
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Yankees can't get enough of Cuban pitchers. With Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez their ace and having agreed to a four-year, $4 million deal with Adrian Hernandez, which...
A BOMBER BUMMER BD+]]BLUNDERS, BEANBALLS LOWLIGHT BD+]]YANK LOSS
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - In a game that featured five batters hit by pitches and Blue Jay manager Jim Fregosi accusing Yankee reliever Todd Erdos of drilling Carlos Delgado on purpose, it...
FOR OPENERS, DEVILS ARE HAPPY TO BE ALIVE
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amStigma stinks, the Devils found. Team Redeem has joined the Winners-Only Club, and they much prefer that exclusive residence of the elite eight to the dumpster that was the final...
RUTGERS SIGNS EX-GOMPERS STAR
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amEddie Starks, who starred for Gompers H.S. before playing junior college basketball at Northwest Christian Academy in Miami, signed with Rutgers yesterday. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound guard averaged 17.1 ppg for...
ISLES' OWNERS CLOSER TO SALE
April 22, 2000 | 4:00amAfter haggling over financial and other issues regarding the potential sale of the Islanders to Computer Associates chairman Charles Wang, club majority owner Howard Milstein and the team's minority owners...