May 1, 2000
POWERFUL MEDIA BAGS $23M IN 2ND ROUND
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amKurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn, the co-chairmen of Powerful Media, said they wrapped up $23 million in second round financing headed by Flatiron Partners and Lehman Brothers. "This is the...
HILLARY JUST DOESN'T GET THE DEFICIT
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amI apologize in advance. This is a column with a lot of numbers in it. If you can't handle figures this early on a Monday, you have my permission to...
FEITH MAKES FASHIONABLE MOVE TO HAMPTONS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTracy Feith, the renegade designer whose NoLita boutique has become a first stop for fashion darlings worldwide, is opening a new store in New York's summer capital - East Hampton....
STUDIOS STREAM IN - START-UP TV 'NET-WORKS ARRIVING IN ALLEY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amStreaming TV studios are busting out all over as Silicon Alley gets a taste of Hollywood. The latest arrival is StudioNEXT, a 15-man outfit currently housed in the founders' apartments...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTIME editor Walter Isaacson is playing Jack Kerouac this week, taking the long route to his hometown in the Big Easy for jazz. Meanwhile, the staffers running the weekly in...
A MORE SERENE OASIS? - GALLAGHERS STILL ROCK ON STAGE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amNOEL and Liam Gallagher, the famous feuding brothers of the Brit-pop band Oasis, may have toned down their notorious lager-lout act since becoming fathers this year. But don't think for...
'VANYA' CRIES UNCLE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00am'UNCLE Vanya" is a comedy that concentrates on the tragic side of life.A rural community - an uncle, his niece, his mother and a doctor from nearby - is unnerved...
ONE LAST CRY FOR THE KIDS - 'PARTY OF FIVE' ENDS 6-YEAR RUN THE WAY IT STARTED: WITH RIVER OF TEARS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amReach for the Kleenex - "Party of Five" is ending its six-year tear-streaked saga Wednesday night with a two-hour, four-hanky finale. America's favorite TV orphans, the Salingers, have laughed, cried,...
THE STARR REPORT
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amFor your eyes only Things are starting to heat up at Ch. 11's top-secret, ultra-classified early-morning news show. Lynn White, late of "Good Day New York," will most likely be...
FEET FIRST: HOW TO KEEP YOUR TOOTSIES IN TIP-TOP SHAPE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amIt may take more than nail polish and a pedicure to prepare for sandal season. In fact, that same old buff-and-go might mask a potentially serious problem. "Our feet are...
N.Y. FERTILITY CLINICS LIMIT TIMES WOMAN CAN DONATE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amNew York fertility specialists say they're horrified by Julia Derek's materialistic attitude toward the donation process - and insist they would never allow it in their own practices. "A physician...
WE'RE DYING FOR A BETTER ORGAN-DONOR SYSTEM: POL
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amDemocratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said yesterday New Yorkers must wait longer for donated organs than patients from other states - and they're dying while they wait. Schumer, who said the...
HAIDER OFFICIALLY GIVING UP 'RIGHT' TO LEAD PARTY TODAY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amJoerg Haider - Austria's most controversial politician - formally resigns today as leader of the far-right Freedom Party. Haider, 50, announced his plan to quit two months ago after 14...
CAMILLA'S NOT INVITED TO BIG BASH AT PALACE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amPrince Charles is upset that Buckingham Palace has snubbed his gal pal by leaving her off the guest list for a royal birthday bash, it's reported today. Five hundred people...
LET HOLLYWOOD ELITE DRIVE LIVERIES FOR A WEEK
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amDANNY GLOVER - who is a fantastic actor and seems to be a decent fellow - is like most of the Hollywood elite when it comes to New York's social...
192 SAVED AS LINER SINKS IN SOUTH PACIFIC
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 100 American and European tourists were rescued from the waters north of Australia yesterday after their cruise ship ran aground and sank, authorities said. They said the Liberian-registered...
SUSPECT IN 5 SLAYINGS WAS IN HATE PARTY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe man suspected in a Pittsburgh-area shooting spree had a history of mental illness and had tried to recruit members for a fringe political party "dedicated to the interests of...
25 YRS. AFTER VIET DEFEAT, SORROW AND TEARS REMAIN
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The names are all there. All 58,291 of them. From Dale Buis and Chester Ovnand, both killed on July 8, 1959, to Richard Van DeGeere, perhaps the last...
SENATE HONCHO STILL PUSHES FOR ELIAN HEARINGS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate majority leader vowed yesterday to press on with a hearing into the Elian Gonzalez raid, although other GOPers may be losing resolve in the face of...
STARS LEAD GAY MARCH ON WASHINGTON
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amHundreds of thousands of homosexuals - including celebs - marched on the Capitol yesterday, joining hands and cheering recent victories that have turned into wider protection for gays across the...
CABBY SHOT IN BID TO NAB THUG - SAYS GUNMAN HAD ROBBED HIM BEFORE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amA livery driver shot on the Lower East Side yesterday was trying to turn the tables on a passenger who had robbed him days earlier. The shooting was the latest...
IT'LL BE MIAMI BEACHED! - KNICK FANS IN A STATE OF 'RAPTOR'
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe Heat is on for Knick fans. After a nail-biting 87-80 win over the Raptors yesterday, Knick fans were not just rejoicing over sweeping Toronto, but were looking ahead to...
GOV. GIVES AILING RUDY A BIG VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amRepublican leaders said yesterday they're counting on Mayor Giuliani to stay in the Senate race as he fights prostate cancer. Gov. Pataki, who joined the mayor at a Holocaust-memorial service...
EX-CON NABBED IN STAB-&-SHOOT SPREE - USES WOMAN AS HUMAN SHIELD: COPS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amA gunslinging, knife-wielding ex-con stabbed two people - then critically wounded a bystander and used a helpless woman as a human shield in a wild shootout with Bronx cops yesterday,...
STRIPPER BARES HER FANGS IN SUIT VS. COMEDY CENTRAL
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amA comic stripper who became the butt of a long-running joke on a cable comedy channel has slapped the channel with a $3 million lawsuit. Frizzy-haired, foul-mouthed funnywoman Sandy Kane,...
DEMS JOSTLING FOR CONVENTION ROLE WITH HILLARY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amSTATE Democratic Chairwoman Judith Hope has a major problem on her hands preparing for the May 16 nominating convention at which Hillary Rodham Clinton will be designated her party's candidate...
OL' DODGER FANS NEVER DIE, THEY JUST GET BLUER
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amIS THERE anything more pathetic, really, than a old Brooklyn guy rooting for the Los Angeles Dodgers? I mean, think about the psychological dynamic at work: Men old enough to...
LAWYER-ON-HOLD SEEKING JUSTICE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amA struggling Bronx woman's dream of becoming a lawyer has been held hostage for three years because a former employer she is suing for sexual harassment has challenged her truthfulness....
CYBERSNOOP DOCS SPY ON YOUR E-CHATS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amChat at your own risk. In rapidly growing numbers, sociologists, psychologists and other research scientists are lurking unannounced in Internet chat rooms and news groups, recording and studying all that's...
GEN-NEXTERS HIT TRAIL FOR GORE, BUSH
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - With Gen-Xers notoriously lazy about voting, the campaigns of Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore are relying on hipsters in the candidates' families as...
ANTHONY HOPKINS: LOCAL HERO TO LOCAL ZERO
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amFew entertainers in the world can claim the title of "gentleman actor" - but for the past three decades, Anthony Hopkins has fit the bill perfectly. Soft-spoken, articulate to a...
BOY SAYS 'REALITY SHOW' DAD ABUSED HIM
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amIn another embarrassment for "reality" television, a finalist on CBS's new "Survivor" show was arrested on a child-abuse charge after returning from his 40-day desert island stint. Richard Hatch, a...
NY LIBRARIES RANK POORLY IN HELPING BLIND READ
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - New York libraries are among the worst in the country in providing services for seniors with failing eyesight and others who are blind or visually impaired, The Post...
STRIPPER BARES HER FANGS IN SUIT VS. JOKE TV
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amA comic stripper who became the butt of a long-running joke on a cable comedy channel has slapped the channel with a $3 million lawsuit. Frizzy-haired, foul-mouthed funnywoman Sandy Kane,...
DEVILS HAVE LEARNED WELL
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amLAST year they set an NHL record for wins on the road and finished with the most points in the East. The year before that they won the Jennings Trophy...
EDMONDS SUITS PINSTRIPES
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Sometimes the worst trades are the ones you never make. This contradiction of Branch Rickey's famous statement came to mind as Jim Edmonds circled the bases again yesterday...
GOOD NEWS FOR BEST OF LUCK
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amAn initial set of X-rays taken Saturday on Best of Luck's left front revealed no fracture to a medial sesamoid. The Bohemia Stable runner was very game in the stretch...
VINTAGE BOMBER BEATING - YANKEES JUMP ON BLUE JAYS' MISTAKE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Blue Jays 1 This was a blueprint Yankees win. Under beautiful blue skies on an April day that actually felt like spring, the Yankees stamped a picture-perfect...
TORRE WILL STICK WITH STRUGGLING LEDEE, SPENCER
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amThe formula has produced three World Championships in the last four years so Joe Torre doesn't hesitate to describe the Yankees as second-class citizens when it comes to offensive production....
LEAFS' TUCKER ONLY A MAYBE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amAmong the marvelous things about the playoffs is their cumulative nature. One game affects the next, grudges become hatreds, clues become keys, and isolated plays reverberate long after the boards...
LJ ON HEAT: IT'S GONNA BE A WAR
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Chris Childs was asked why it always seems Miami is standing in the Knicks' way. Childs replied, "I think it's the other way around." Yesterday's first-round sweep of...
CONTENDERS SIZZLE
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The surface at Churchill Downs, which was dry and cuppy Saturday, was tightened up significantly yesterday, producing several sparkling workouts by contenders for Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Derby favorite...
CAMBY GETS LAST LAUGH AFTER HEAVING BRICKS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Marcus Camby got to the free throw line with 1:09 left in the first quarter. With the crowd chanting "Camby bleeps", the Knicks' 6-11 sixth man bricked both...
LJ PUTS RAPTORS THREE AND OUT - LARRY'S LATEST TREY ICES KNICK SWEEP; HEAT REMATCH NEXT
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 3: Knicks 87 - Raptors 80 TORONTO - Chris Childs had the best line in a giddy locker room yesterday moments after the Knicks completed their first-round sweep of...
IT'LL BE PULSE AT PAC BELL
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES DENVER - Lefty Bill Pulsipher is in San Francisco and is scheduled to start tonight for the Mets in their first game ever at Pac Bell Park. Bobby...
O'NEILL'S CLUTCH RIP BOOSTS BOMBERS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amWhen the ball jumped off Paul O'Neill's bat yesterday and soared into left field, it seemingly took a huge burden with it, lifting it off the Yankees' collective shoulders and...
OAK: KNICKS CAN GO LONG WAY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Charles Oakley was trying to barrel through a crowd of reporters in the Raptors' posh dressing room to start his summer vacation. But then New York's favorite blue-collar...
RAPTORS BEMOAN 'BANK-BREAKER'
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - All the Raptors admitted they hung their heads when Larry Johnson hit a three-pointer with 24.9 second left in yesterday's 87-80 series clincher. It wasn't that the shot...
IT WAS ONE 'L' OF A SHOT - JOHNSON'S TREY CRUSHES RAPTORS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Big L stood for Long. Also, Lucky. Maybe even Lonely, since Larry Johnson was so far out the ball had to clear customs on a path that,...
EMBATTLED BUTCH: I LEARNED LESSON - OFF-COURT ANTICS PUT HIS JOB IN JEOPARDY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - A disgruntled Doug Christie blamed the Raptors' playoff series loss on the team's off-the-court woes fueled by coach Butch Carter. But while Carter himself admits he'd do things...
STERN GETS ON SPREE BANDWAGON
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - Latrell Sprewell moves on after canceling the Vince Carter TV show until next fall. That's probably not the best thing for NBA, desperate to promote Carter...
JEFF TROOP HAS GUNS TO WIN NEXT WAR
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - The buzzword was that the Knicks had the experience to beat the Raptors. What they really had was the maturity. Don't mistake the two words. It is that...
COORS FATTENS METS' AVERAGES - 15-HIT OUTBURST GIVES AMAZIN'S RUBBER GAME
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amMets 14 - Rockies 11 DENVER - Dennis Cook put it best after the Mets' 14-11 victory over the Rockies here, a game that included seven home runs and 25...
AT FIRST LOOK, GROH IS HAPPY
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amAl Groh stated before this past weekend's rookie minicamp began that he wasn't going to judge his new players on three days of introductory work without pads and full contact....
AT LAST, TYSON HAS INCENTIVE - FIGURES SLOPPY LEWIS WOULD BE NO PROBLEM
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amIF THE thought of Lennox Lewis assuming the title of Baddest Man on the Planet doesn't get Mike Tyson back into the boxing business, then nothing will. The guy has...
LUKAS TIME AT CHURCHILL
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Fresh from his blockbuster 1999 Triple Crown season, D. Wayne Lukas, the Derby king, is armed to the gills for a blitz on the 126th Kentucky Derby this...
ELMORE LOBBYING FOR NETS' POSITION
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amLen Elmore, who played for the Nets and Knicks in his 10-season pro career, would like to be the Nets' next director of basketball operations. "It is a very appealing...
WANNA WATCH NBA? GET READING GLASSES
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amREAD any good games lately? I don't know exactly how many hundreds of millions of dollars NBC is paying for the rights to show NBA games this season, but it...
'PEGASUS' LEGEND IS GROWING - PUBLIC EXPECTED TO FLOCK TO 'FUSAICHI' AT WINDOWS
May 1, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - One of the first things visitors to the Kentucky Derby see when they step off the plane at Louisville International is a huge wire-mesh sculpture, hanging over the...