May 7, 2000
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00am* DAVID REMNICKThe New Yorker editor cleaned up at the National Magazine Awards, taking home the general excellence prize. * L.A. REIDAfter six months of waiting, the record exec was...
...AND LOSERS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00am* GERRY LEVINThe Time Warner CEO got a storm of criticism and a stern rebuke from the FCC after pulling ABC off his cable systems. * MICHAEL ARMSTRONGThe AT&T boss...
NEW YORKER FETES SCRIBES : KING, RUSHDIE AND OTHER LITERARY STARS PACK MAG PARTY
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE literary event of the year may have been the bash at the home of New Yorker Fiction Editor Bill Buford on Friday night. Even Grove/Atlantic president Morgan Entrekin, no...
WHAT I WATCH
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amBRAD JACOBS COSMETIC SURGEON "Star Trek Voyager." Seven of Nine shows that breast augmentation is alive and well in the 23rd Century. REBECCA LOBO WNBA CENTER NEW YORK LIBERTY "Friends."...
A FEST GROWS IN B'KLYN
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival has come a long way, baby.Started in 1998, the fest at first had trouble finding enough films to fill its three-day run at a bank...
"FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS" BY JAMES BRADLEY,
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amBantam, 353 pages, $24.95 On Feb. 23, 1945, the lives of six boys were irrevocably changed by a split-second in time that was captured on film. They were "the flagraisers,"...
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May 7, 2000 | 4:00amIt's rare that a first novel is both brilliantly written and has a solid, carefully threaded plot, but Andrew Pyper pulls it off. "Lost Girls" is a terrifying thriller that...
"EASY PREY" BY JOHN SANDFORD,
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amPutnam, 407 pages, $25.95 Here's hoping that John Sandford never retires investigator Lucas Davenport or stops dreaming up diabolical killers for the supersleuth to battle. This crackerjack suspense writer is...
RECOMMENDED READINGS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00am* Paula Wolfson and Lloyd Wolf, authors of "Jewish Mothers: Strength, Wisdom, Compassion" will be on hand at the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., at 92nd Street, today at 3:30...
GREAT DANES THROUGH THE AGES: OUR LINEUP OF CLASSIC AND COMIC HAMLETS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amEthan Hawke's "Hamlet" delivers his "To Be or Not to Be" speech in a stocking cap while strolling a Blockbuster store - then replays the soliloquy on his digital camcorder....
HAWKE'S HAMLET A PRINCE OF DARNESS: STAR INSPIRED BY KURT COBAIN
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amEthan Hawke excels at portraying moody, introspective slackers. So it's not surprising that in interpreting "Hamlet," he looked to Gen-X icon Kurt Cobain for inspiration. "As a kid, I loved...
THE NEW KING OF THE CLUBS: TWO EX-PARTNERS FROM LIFE ARE LOCKED IN A DANCE-DEN DUEL
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLife, the sprawling Bleecker Street dance hall, ruled as king of the clubs for the last three years. But now that the glitteratti-gilded hotspot has closed its doors for good,...
BRAZILIAN HOT SPOT: WE'RE NO. 1
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWhile Spa and Lotus are locked in a death duel, the hot dance den Saci is trying to emerge as the city's newest "it" club. The West 41st St. nightspot...
TECH IT OUT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWhy wait for holidays to show your relatives and friends the latest video or photos of your family? With the Xirlink IBM Pro Max digital Web camera, you can easily...
GETTING FRAMED! FASHIONISTAS FOCUS ON COLORED SUNGLASSES WITH '70S STYLE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amFashion aficionados who are fond of the Me Decade will be glad to hear that the era inspired this season's coolest shades. Irine Bilo, a fashion stylist who has worked...
BOND STREET'S THE NEW DESIGNER DESTINATION
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amSoHo? So over. NoLIta? No thank you. Chelsea? Think again, girl. It's NoHo - and Bond Street, in particular - that reigns as New York's current nucleus of designer chic....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JODI ANN PATERSON
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWhether it's hard or easy to believe, Jodi Ann Paterson is the first Playmate of the Year in the magazine's 47 years to have earned a college degree. A year...
COMPARING COOLERS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amSummertime (almost), and the sippin' is breezy. Downright chilly, in fact, when the quencher in question is a coffee cooler. While the basics behind coffee coolers are the same --...
MEALS & DEALS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amHell's Kitchen 679 Ninth Ave. (between 46th and 47th streets) (212) 977-1588 You would think that chef Sue Torres, who recently opened the restaurant Hell's Kitchen, already had a full...
GUY-GERCOUNTER
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amNAME: Robert Dumas AGE: 29 SPOTTED: 49th Street and Sixth Avenue HOMETOWN: New York City RESIDENCE: Roosevelt Island HEIGHT: 5'10" WEIGHT: 155 lbs. OCCUPATION: Attorney PERSONAL CLOTHING STYLE: Chic, tidy...
MEMO TO MAYOR: DON'T BARTER SOUL FOR LIBERAL VOTES
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amFRANKLY, I celebrate Rudy Giuliani's warmth towards a beautiful lady. But it rattles my root canals to see the best mayor in the world committing political suicide. Judi Nathan, who...
'LETHAL' STAR DUMPS HUBBY
May 7, 2000 | 4:00am"Lethal Weapon II" star Patsy Kensit reportedly stunned her rocker hubby Liam Gallagher in an overseas phone call last week - telling him: Our marriage is over, and don't even...
MAYOR'S MISSUS ENDS HER SILENCE ABOUT MARRIAGE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe mayor's beleaguered wife said yesterday she's been living through "difficult days" and is preparing for "decisions that have to be made." As Donna Hanover entered St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday...
HISPANICS HAIL MAN WHO SHARED HOPES
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amNew York's Hispanic Catholics yesterday recalled John Cardinal O'Connor as one of their own - a spiritual leader who understood their plight as immigrants. Several thousand parishioners from an array...
DREAMER$ FLOCK TO N.J. : TRYING THEIR LUCK AT RECORD $300M LOTTO
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amNew Yorkers flocked to New Jersey yesterday after learning there was no winner in the Big Game lottery, swelling the jackpot to a U.S. record of more than $300 million....
TWO CHARGED IN SLAYINGS OF RUSSIANS HERE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amSuspects in two slayings involving Russian emigres have been charged in the cases - including the wife of one of the victims and a man nabbed in California who is...
SENATOR TED'S NIECE MARRIES IN HAMPTONS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe Kennedy clan flocked to the Hamptons yesterday as the niece of Sen. Ted Kennedy got hitched. Amanda Kennedy Smith, 33, wed Washington tax lawyer Carter Hood, 31, at the...
JOLIE-GOOD TIME AS ANGELINA WEDS BILLY BOB
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe simpleton who wielded a "Sling Blade" and the sexy wacko of "Girl, Interrupted" have gotten their act together and walked up the aisle. Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and...
PARENTS RIP SONGBIRD'S AXED MANAGER
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amCharlotte Church's parents reportedly have accused her ex-manager of "highly inappropriate" and "excessively tactile" behavior toward the teen singing sensation. Maria and James Church also claim that James Shalit, 38,...
RUDY AND HILL JOCKEY FOR LIBERAL NOD
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani, who is expected to win the Liberal Party bid, talks to reporters outside the Intercontinental Hotel, where both he and Hillary yesterday met with party leaders.N.Y. Post: Dan...
WHO SWIPED RUDY-'N'-HILL ART?
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amA caricature of Mayor Giuliani and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton mysteriously vanished on the night of the gala Inner Circle political spoof, which both Senate candidates attended. The pen-and-ink...
HE WANTED ALL KIDS TO THRIVE: LEVY
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amInterim Schools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday praised John Cardinal O'Connor as a friend of public education as well as parochial schools. "Cardinal O'Connor cared for all children," Levy said. "He...
EX-PROSECUTOR TO LEAD CIA-BOSS PROBE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno has lured an organized-crime prosecutor out of retirement to lead a new probe of ex-CIA Director John Deutch, who downloaded security secrets onto his...
BUTLER: PERELMAN BEDDED 3 WOMEN A DAY!
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amRon Perelman consoled himself after his breakup with Patricia Duff by bedding three women a day, court papers claim. The Revlon chairman is "a total sex addict," the couple's former...
BIDDING ADIEU TO A LOVING FRIEND :KIDS AND DISABLED FILL CATHEDRAL WITH PRAYER
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThose dearest to John Cardinal O'Connor - children, the disabled and the downtrodden - filled St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday to say goodbye to their beloved prince of the church. Dozens...
'PEGASUS' LEGEND ONE FOR THE AGES LEAVES 'FAVORITE CURSE' IN DERBY DUST
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Fusaichi Pegasus, nicknamed "Superman" as a baby gamboling in the Kentucky bluegrass, sprouted wings like his mythical namesake and leaped Churchill Downs' Twin Spires in a single bound...
IRA PLEDGE COULD FULFILL FERVENT WISH OF O'CONNOR
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Irish Republican Army yesterday said it will soon start to disarm - a breakthrough in the Northern Ireland peace effort that John Cardinal O'Connor worked and prayed...
MANHATTAN BEEP THROWS HER WEIGHT BEHIND LEVY
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan Borough President Virginia Fields yesterday said she wants acting schools boss Harold Levy to be the permanent chancellor. Fields' surprise support for Levy came as Post columnist Jack Newfield...
PETA GIVING US (MENO)PAUSE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOOK, I like our furry friends as much as the next guy, but those PETA people have gone too far this time. They've been papering the country with complaints about...
MAYOR'S 'GOOD FRIEND' WANTS MEDIA TO SHINE SPOTLIGHT SOMEWHERE ELSE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amCandlelight dinners and drawn shades - not things most New Yorkers used to associate with tough-talkin' Mayor Giuliani. But the lid popped off the long-simmering secret life of Rudolph William...
'SEEDY' MOB BOSS A BIT OF A SMUGGLER ; MOB BOSS A 'SEEDY' SMUGGLER
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge "Georgie Neck" Zappola, a Luchese crime-family capo, bribed a prison guard with a $1,000 shopping spree to smuggle his sperm to a Manhattan fertility clinic for use in impregnating...
SUMMER JOBS APLENTY FOR STUDENTS WITH ITCH TO EARN
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThere are lots of jobs available for young people willing to skip the beach this summer, a Post survey of employment found. Because of the economic boom, there are more...
FED-MED GOUGERS TAKE TAXPAYERS FOR $1B RIDE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMedicare has been throwing away $1 billion a year in taxpayer money by routinely overpaying for wheelchairs, walkers, commodes and other medical equipment. The massive program, which provides $200 billion...
DEBT-RIDDEN DIOCESE IS IN THE POORHOUSE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amNew York's next archbishop will find himself faced with a major financial headache, according to church sources. As one priest recently noted, John Cardinal O'Connor's successor "will have to be...
CARDINAL'S PARTING GIFT WAS A LESSON ABOUT LIVING
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTO crib a line from Emily Dickinson: Because Manhattan never stops for death, death kindly stopped for it.Kindly because 10 mournful minutes in the life of the city on Friday...
MCCAIN AND BUSH SET TO PASS THE PEACE PIPE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The summit designed to turn George W. Bush and John McCain from enemies to allies has been prepared like a summit between warring nations - and both sides...
CRY 'UNCLE'
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amAt the Roundabout Theater, which has been going for 35 seasons now after the humblest of beginnings, nothing exceeds like success. The company started in a cramped basement under a...
B'KLYN MOM IS A FORCE AGAINST GUNS
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amIn the sea of shining female faces that will fill the Mall in Washington on Mother's Day, look for one very special lady. She is Brooklynite Johnnymae Robinson, and she...
PEACE DEAL IN N. IRELAND WAS HIS DREAM: POL
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Irish peace agreement will be fitting tribute to John Cardinal O'Connor, who prayed and worked for peace until his death, Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) said yesterday. "This...
NAMELESS FLOP SET TO RECLAIM HIS 'PRINCE' TAG
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amPrince has decided to sign off on the bizarre and unpronounceable symbol that forced fans to refer to him as "the Artist Formerly Known as Prince." The carefully-coifed rocker will...
ZEROING IN ON LOVE-BUG SUSPECT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amCyber-sleuths yesterday zeroed in on the possibility that the destructive "Love Bug" computer virus was hatched in Australia by an 18-year-old German exchange student who was "bored." Fredrik Bjoerck, a...
UPSTATE ANGLING STILL TOP NOTCH
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE lakes and rivers to the north of New York City offer lots of exciting freshwater fishing and tomorrow marks the beginning of the walleye, northern pike, pickerel and muskellunge...
NO TIME TO STAND PAT : RILEY AT ROOT OF KNICK-HEAT RIVALRY
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - There have been fights and near fights. There has been tension thicker than London fog, emotion hotter than desert sands. There has been heartbreak and elation, euphoria and...
JINT SECURITY BOSS DEAD AT 75
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Mansfield, the field security manager for the Giants for the past 24 years, passed away Friday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after a long battle with cancer. He...
DUDLEY'S READY, WILLING AND ABLE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amChris Dudley, remember him? He was the last Knick in the Purchase College gym yesterday. With back spasms possibly shelving Patrick Ewing against the Heat today for Game 1 of...
SPINDRIFT SHOCKS MARCY IN U.S. DEBUT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amSpindrift acted immaturely in the paddock and at the gate but once the race went off his mind was on running as he closed well on the outside to win...
MASHBURN HOPING TO 'BUST' OUT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Jamal Mashburn smiled and bit his lip. He wasn't going to say what he really felt about his critics. "I can't say what I really want to say,"...
BEAUGAY, CARTER ON TAP TODAY
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amClosing day at Aqueduct will feature two stakes, the 23rd running of the Beaugay Handicap and the 10th running of the Grade 1 Carter Handicap. In the $200,000 Carter, Affirmed...
TORRE GIVING CHUCK EVERY CHANCE TO STAY ACTIVE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amGround balls yesterday. Batting practice today. Return to the lineup tomorrow? Maybe. That's Chuck Knoblauch's program, although if his sprained left hand doesn't improve, the Yankees' second baseman and leadoff...
ACHING PATRICK MAY MISS OPENER : BACK SPASMS MAKE EWING QUESTIONABLE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Uh-oh. Burdened by back spasms, Patrick Ewing was unable to practice in the Knicks' final session before flying here. In a jarring development, Knick coach Jeff Van Gundy...
ROCKET AT 250 & COUNTING SURGING CLEMENS MASTERS ORIOLES
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amYankees3 Orioles1 They had done their knuckle-to-knuckle celebration on the field moments after their sixth straight victory. Now, as they disappeared into the dugout and headed up the ramp to...
HATED ZO ALMOST WAS LOVED KNICK
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Before some of the more obstreperous Knicks fans begin to demonstrate against Alonzo Mourning, it's intriguing to underline how close these same people came to worshipping him on...
NO ROOM IN GARDEN FOR SELFISH YASHIN
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - It is now virtually certain that the Senators will formally place Alexei Yashin up for bid immediately following the May 24-25 arbitration hearing that will determine whether the...
NETS WILL SIT DOWN WITH ISIAH THIS WEEK
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Nets have said they want a name. And they said they will begin interviewing people for their vacant posts, including coach and director of basketball operations, as...
YOU CAN'T MASK JORGE'S TALENT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees' next All-Star hides behind a mask for three hours a day, but not when he goes out in public. He doesn't need it then. His best friend on...
SEND IN THE CROWN? WELL, MAYBE THIS YEAR
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Dare we finally breathe the words "Triple Crown?" Why not? We've got the horse right here. Unleashing one of the greatest, smoothest, easiest finishing runs of modern times,...
FAST-STARTIN' BERNIE'S SOMETHING TO SEE
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe book on Bernie Williams is that he's a slow starter. But the Yankee center fielder has spent the early part of this season rewriting that book. Maybe it is...
SUFFERING IN SILENCE : KENT'S JUBILATION IS TEMPERED BY DEAF SON'S PLIGHT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amKENT Desormeaux probably never will be able to fully share the experience of riding the winner of yesterday's Kentucky Derby, his second Derby victory of the last three years, with...
PUPIL TOPS LUKAS IN SHOOTOUT
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - There was a race within a race in yesterday's Kentucky Derby, between Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who ran three horses, and Lukas' former protege, Todd...
STEVENS & CO. FINALLY ANSWER BELL
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - The sneer was back on Scott Stevens' face, the one we all remember so well from Game 2 of the 1995 Finals when the captain leveled Slava Kozlov...
BOBBY: BENITEZ MY MAIN MAN (CASE CLOSED)
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Bobby Valentine moved yesterday to squash any notion that John Franco might supplant Armando Benitez as the Mets' closer, though the manager may use Franco in that role...
BAD BLOOD AS DEVILS GO UP 3-2
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - All that remained for the justifiably frustrated Maple Leafs was the desperate goon show. All that remains for the Devils is to finish them off tomorrow. Defiant on...
HILLUVA A GOOD TEST
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amIf you're a golfer and you're afraid of heights, don't play New York Country Club. If you like elevation changes, great views of the Manhattan skyline and uniqueness to the...
HARDAWAY: KNICKS BETTER WITH EWING
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES MIAMI - The Heat heard the news about Patrick Ewing and his back yesterday, but they are expecting him to play today in Game 1. Tim Hardaway noted...
A RITE OF SPRING: PLAYOFFS WOULDN'T BE SAME IF KNICKS AND HEAT DIDN'T SQUARE OFF
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS is what we want, what we crave. What we need. This is why we labor through those back-to-backs, fighting sleep on consecutive nights to catch a glimpse of the...
HAMPTON MIXES MISERY, MYSTERY :... BUT VALENTINE BELIEVES LEFTY WILL START TO HEAT UP
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The dark eyebrows are pinched as if he's in a constant state of perplexity. Perhaps this is his normal demeanor, but unless you were part of his clubhouse...
QUINN'S STILL PLAYING GAMES
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Against the Maple Leafs, the game doesn't start with the faceoff or end with the horn. Coach Pat Quinn is playing this series all day, every day, using...
THERE'S NO DEFENDING MALAKHOV
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Larry Robinson did a much better job defending Vladimir Malakhov than Malakhov has defending against the Maple Leafs through the first four games of the conference semis, that's...
TRIUMPH FOR LITTLE GUYS :ROSE AND VELEZ WINNERS EVEN IF THEY FINISH LAST
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - This is what the Kentucky Derby is all about: Twenty cars parked on the lawn and in the backyard of houses lucky enough to have been built within...
HISTORY PLAYS NO FAVES
May 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - In the past 21 years, American horseplayers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars betting the favorite in the nation's No. 1 horse race, the Kentucky Derby. In...