June 13, 2000
BOO-STER SHOTS FROM EX-EMPLOYEES
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amSome ex-Boo.commers are back on the Web - but this time they're twitting their former employer. WhatIdidforBoo.com is a cross between a form letter and a Mad Lib, inviting former...
HOME DEPOT DRAGS DOWN DOW
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amWall Street continued its summer skittishness yesterday, with all three major market averages turning down in light trading. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 49.85 to 10,564.21, while the technology-packed...
FOUNDER: EPARTIES' OVER ; ECOMPANIES SELLS PLANNING SITE FOR A SONG
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Jake Winebaum fled Disney to start an Internet incubator, the move was seen as a sign of doom and gloom for the major media companies. How would they ever...
NOT SHOPPING - JUST DROPPING
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amARE we finally grinding to a halt? Today's government report on May retail sales will give financial pundits yet another chance to rate Alan Greenspan's handiwork - and debate whether...
TALK RIPPED APART: TINA'S MAGAZINE SET FOR MAJOR MAKEOVER
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amIs Talk magazine making a last stand? Barely nine months old, Tina Brown's title is undergoing its second major makeover - this time a radical one. The Euro-look that Brown...
FEDS TAKE SWIPE AT VISA, MASTERCARD
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amFresh from its victory over Microsoft, the Justice Department charged ahead in its antitrust case against Visa and MasterCard yesterday - telling a federal judge in Manhattan that the two...
LAKE PLACID IS SERIOUS ABOUT FILM
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID, N.Y. - When Jill Hennessy motorcycled nearly 300 miles from New York City to promote her new film here, her arrival landed on the front page of the...
SORRY SINEAD KEEPS FAITH
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amSINEAD O'CONNOR "Faith and Courage" ½ Atlantic Indomitable is the muse that guides Sinead O'Connor, a woman who has a gift for making both music and trouble. On her fifth...
SENIORS SAY, LET THE GAMES BEGIN! AND THEY'RE NOT PLAYING CHECKERS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amMOST mornings, Dorothy Bavaro says, she springs out of bed.With fitness classes to teach, errands to run - and a competition to train for - she doesn't have time to...
WIDE SPECTRUM OF WOMEN IN MOVING 'RAINBOW'
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amfor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufAmerican Place Theatre, 111 W. 46th St., (212) 239-6200. NTOZAKE Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow...
50-YEAR WAIT IS OVER
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amCOUNTRY music legend Ray Price will travel 120 miles by bus for a decent haircut in Texas, but he last played in Manhattan almost 50 years ago, at the old...
THE STARR REPORT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amHitting the roof It's not exactly The Beatles on the roof of Apple Records, but Bon Jovi will become the first band to perform on the roof of the Ed...
COLLEGE TAKES THE CLEAVER TO BEAVER
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amLEAVE out the beaver.Beaver College, founded in Pennsylvania's Beaver County in 1853, is in for a name change. The school's board of trustees voted 23 to 1 to change the...
BERG ICED IN LAWSUIT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amA group of investors allegedly snared in a $35 million stock swindle are suing radio talk show host Adriane Berg and her station, WABC (770 AM). In a class-action suit...
X FACTOR PUTS 'POWERPUFFS'; ON THE BIG SCREEN
June 13, 2000 | 4:00am'POWERPUFF Girls" Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup are jumping to the big screen. Cartoon Network's top-rated kiddie series, which debuted in 1996, is slated for a Summer 2002 release and will...
'BROTHERLY' LOVE; GERMANS HAIL I SPY VERSION BY MICHAEL STARR
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amGERMANY'S edition of "Big Brother" ended with a bang last Friday - turning the winner into a national (and much richer) celebrity. John, a 26-year-old carpenter, snagged the $120,000 prize...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amBlue notes Folks in Florida can't seem to keep themselves high and dry. First it was an underwater Easter egg hunt, now it's the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival. From...
EVERYONE STILL LOVES LARRY :MEN WHO WOULD BE KING CAN'T TOUCH QUIRKY GUY IN THE RED SUSPENDERS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amYOU can learn the darndest things watching "Larry King Live." For example, if you were watching Friday night, you would have learned how Larry likes his bagels. "I have a...
KOSOVAR FAMILY'S BABY AMERIKAN DREAM SHATTERED
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amFERIZAJ, Kosovo - Baby Amerikan is now 13 months old, plump, wide-eyed and curious. He's just starting to walk and is grabbing everything in sight. A year ago, at the...
DEIFYING A DESPOT - CLINTON & CO. PAY HOMAGE TO A KILLER OF AMERICAN TROOPS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amONE of the worst men of the 20th century died on Saturday, and in response, Bill Clinton and his administration celebrated a mass murderer's honesty and commitment to peace. Hafez...
DEFECT-BID CUBAN NOW 'REPENTANT'
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe Cuban baseball player whose bid to defect to the United States failed last week has "repented," officials in Havana say. Andy Morales, 28, doesn't face punishment but may quit...
UNION IS OFF TARGET PORTRAYING BRUCE AS CHEAP-SHOT ARTIST
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amTHE PBA is either planting evidence or framing the wrong guy when it attacks Bruce Springsteen as anti-police for his new song - "American Skin" - about the death of...
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE - 'SURVIVOR' OUSTS 'MILLIONAIRE' FROM WEDNESDAY SLOT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amABC has cried uncle in the war between CBS's "Survivor" and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." After two weeks of head-to-head combat, ABC has abandoned Wednesdays and will air...
N.Y. MAY AVOID NILE VIRUS' WORST BITE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amResearchers are creating a West Nile virus "risk map" to predict where another deadly outbreak may occur - and it looks like New York may be spared this summer. Florida...
13.5 MILLION U.S. KIDS LIVE IN POVERTY: REPORT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 13 million American kids live in poverty, the second most - just behind Mexico - among industrialized countries, a new report says. The U.N. Children's Fund report said...
RICK SWITCHES HIS STAND ON HATE CRIMES
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - GOP Senate hopeful Rick Lazio dashed to the middle of the political road yesterday - declaring his support for hate-crimes legislation after saying just last week he was...
BUSH YANKS CONFEDERATE-FLAG PLAQUES
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amTwo plaques honoring the Confederate flag were yanked off a Texas state court building over the weekend at Republican George W. Bush's request. The move to defuse a potential embarrassment...
I WANT BEST PRINCIPALS IN WORST SCHOOLS: LEVY
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday he wants to reassign the city's best principals to help run the worst schools. "One of the things I'm going to be doing is...
GIULIANI OPTING OUT OF SURGERY: INSIDERS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has decided not to undergo surgery for his prostate cancer, City Hall insiders said yesterday. Ending six weeks of agonizing over his options, Giuliani announced in the Fox/5...
SUPER BOWL SLAY PANEL ACQUITS PALS OF NFL STAR
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amAn Atlanta jury yesterday cleared the two men who were on trial with Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis for the deaths of two men in a post-Super Bowl brawl. Lewis...
'DOUBLE DIP' BOXING BIG IS PROBED
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe State Athletic Commission has launched "a full investigation" into charges that a prominent boxing promoter improperly took more than $350,000 from a Madison Square Garden title fight, The Post...
GO-GO DANCER GETS 30G IN THE END - DOCTOR HIT ON BUTT IMPLANTS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amA former go-go dancer who sued a plastic surgeon for using breast implants to enlarge her butt got a little more booty yesterday when a Manhattan jury awarded her $30,000....
EX-PAROLE BOSS INDICTED IN CAMPAIGN $CANDAL
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amA retired state parole commissioner was indicted yesterday on charges of lying to a federal grand jury probing whether Gov. Pataki's fund-raisers offered to release inmates in exchange for campaign...
DOLLAR GIVEAWAY A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amFree money! An offer that sounds too good to be true is coming to two Manhattan subway stations today when the U.S. Mint hands out 6,000 free samples of its...
NUKE-SECRET HARD DRIVES MISSING FROM LOS ALAMOS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amTwo computer hard drives with classified nuclear secrets have vanished in the latest case of apparent sloppy security - or worse - to plague Uncle Sam's troubled Los Alamos National...
BUTTAFUOCOS SPLIT UP - JOEY INSISTS: SHE'S STILL MY 'BEST FRIEND'
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amJOEY BUTTAFUOCO and his wife of 23 years are heading for divorce, according to family sources. "It is true that we live under separate roofs, and that is just about...
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THOSE WHO DID NOTHING?
June 13, 2000 | 4:00am'IT FELT like a tinderbox of anger!" That's how Monica Showalter described the mood on the streets at Sunday's Puerto Rican Day Parade. The South Bronx resident spent hours burrowing...
WILDING VICTIM BIT & CLAWED WAY OUT - SAYS COPS DIDN'T HELP WHEN SHE REPORTED ATTACK
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amA woman mauled by a band of hoodlums on a Central Park sex-attack spree said she clawed her way out of the crowd as her frenzied attackers tore at her...
JUDGE SENDS BOBBY BROWN BACK TO JAIL
June 13, 2000 | 4:00am, bad Bobby Brown - husband of megastar Whitney Houston - will spend the next 36 days cooling his heels in a Florida jail after admitting he violated probation by...
HE'S CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE 'SKIN' CENTER OF SHOW
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amIT WASN'T a matter of whether Bruce Springsteen would perform the controversial song "American Skin" at the first of his 10 sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden last night, but...
THE BOSS MEETS DIALLO'S KIN - THEN MOVES THEM TO TEARS WITH TRIBUTE SONG AT GARDEN
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amRocker Bruce Springsteen held an emotional meeting yesterday with the parents of slain African immigrant Amadou Diallo before taking the stage at Madison Square Garden to sing his controversial new...
ROSEANNE (YES, ROSEANNE!) TO DO PLAYBOY
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amShe's shed a bunch of pounds and now Roseanne says she's set to shed her clothes for Playboy. Once roly-poly but newly svelte, Roseanne, 47, will get a five-figure sum...
POLICE: THUGS VIDEOTAPED THEIR RAMPAGE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe wilding thugs who molested five women around Central Park videotaped their sickening rampage, one of the victims told police. The footage could be valuable evidence for investigators, who charged...
PRIEST CHARGED WITH SEX ABUSE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn priest was charged yesterday with abusing a 14-year-old boy who sometimes stayed with him in the rectory. Frank J. Capelludo, 52, who faces charges of sodomy and sex...
MORE 'PORNO' BARNEY BOOKS POP UP
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amAt least two more cases of pornographic Barney-the-dinosaur books have turned up in the area - one of which featured a primer on "lust" and "wild sex." The discoveries in...
THEY'RE FILTHY RICH, SINGLE AND AVAILABLE: HERE'S HOW ANYONE CAN EASILY ACHIEVE TRUE MARITAL BLI$$
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amLOVE is the most important thing - but love plus a billion dollars is better. So why not set sights on one of these eligible New York billionaires and billionairesses?...
EGAN BIDS FAREWELL TO CONN. AND EYES NEW 'MIRACLES' HERE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amNew York Archbishop-designate Edward Egan formally closed the book on his 12 years as bishop of Bridgeport yesterday and said he's ready to take on the Big Apple. "Thanks a...
WHITNEY'S HUBBY GETS FIVE MORE WEEKS IN FLORIDA JAIL
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amBad, bad Bobby Brown - husband of mega-star Whitney Houston - will spend the next 36 days cooling his heels in a Florida jail after admitting he violated probation by...
RUDY NIXES SURGERY: INSIDERS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has decided not to undergo surgery for his prostate cancer, City Hall insiders said yesterday. Ending six weeks of agonizing over his options, Giuliani announced in the broadcast...
GARDEN FANS BACK BRUCE: FLOCK TO CONCERT AMID FLAP ON DIALLO
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amFans flocked to the Bruce Springsteen concert at Madison Square Garden yesterday, saying they back The Boss in his battle with cop unions over a controversial new tune about the...
HMOS GET BIG WIN IN HIGH-COURT DECISION
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled yesterday against a woman who blamed her ruptured appendix on a doctor seeking a bonus for cost-cutting - a setback for patients who want...
HE BACKS ACTION VS. QUEENS TEACHER
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amBoard of Education officials yesterday said they booted a popular teacher from a scandal-plagued Queens school for unspecified charges of misconduct. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy defended the action taken against...
REHABBING SEHORN SAYS HE'S DOING JUST FINE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amHe's fine. That is the abbreviated answer to one of the most often-asked questions swirling around the Giants: "How's Jason?" Jason Sehorn says he's fine. "I can get back to...
KOBE'S OK TO GO FOURTH, 'PROBABLY'
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The Lakers carried a healthy 2-0 cushion into Game 3 of the NBA Finals. So Kobe Bryant didn't play and rested his sprained left ankle instead....
LA'S RICE NOT TAKING SNUB SITTING DOWN ; BOILING OVER BENCHING
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - You got the feeling Glen Rice wanted to scream. But in the wake of playing just two fourth-quarter minutes in a Lakers NBA Finals defeat, he stayed outwardly...
HACK-A-SHAQ NOW ATTACK-A-SHAQ
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - On the Pacers' preference scale, double teaming rates somewhere below sticking your tongue in an electrical socket and noshing on deep fried dog food. They simply hate doing...
KAMENSKY, MACLEAN LEFT UNPROTECTED BY RANGERS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amGlen Sather last week said that he would not buy out the remaining three years of Valeri Kamensky's contract. That, however, did not mean that the GM had intentions of...
LOUGHERY: THORN WILL PICK BEST COACH, NOT BEST FRIEND
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Rod Thorn has his short list of coaching candidates for the Nets' vacancy prepared and the number is nowhere near those who have surfaced with interest in the...
PRATT'S BAT IS DOIN' FINE OFF THE PINE FOR AMAZIN'S
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES CHICAGO - The Mets' MVBP - Most Valuable Bench Player - is easily Todd Pratt thus far. The 33-year-old Pratt deserves respect because in addition to his solid...
REED LOOKING TO TURN BACK CLOCK
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The Mets are hoping tonight's the night Rick Reed returns to his early-season form. After getting off to a 3-0 start with a 2.21 ERA, Reed has been...
DEALT OLIWA RIPS DEVILS ON WAY OUT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe Battle of Wounded Knee turned into a parting war last night when enforcer Krzysztof Oliwa ripped GM Lou Lamoriello on his way out the Devils' door. In a deadline-beating...
DEVILS WILL PARADE IN THE PARKING LOT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amIt makes sense logistically, if not aesthetically. The Stanley Cup Parade will be on the Tarmac of Triumph, a/k/a The Meadowlands parking lot, tomorrow evening. "Our fans know how to...
LIBERTY, MYSTICS SET TO BATTLE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mystics can't shoot! Yesterday at the NBA Store in Manhattan, Washington Mystic standouts Chamique Holdsclaw, Nikki McCray and Vicky Bullett entertained a crowd of more than 150 as they...
NBC BACK INDY BUSINESS ; PACERS' GAME 3 VICTORY THRILLS NETWORK
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It was sad to see Shaq take on the Pacers almost single-handedly in Game 3. It was the most one-sided competition in Indiana since Dan Quayle took on...
XAVERIAN, MOUNT MUST WAIT
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amIf Xaverian wants to repeat as champions, it will have to wait a couple of days to do it. The CHSAA "A" Championship Game between defending champion Xaverian and Mount...
S.I. GIRLS ARE RAINING CHAMPS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amPSAL SOFTBALL Port Richmond 1 Van Buren 0 It took 22 hours, but Port Richmond finally did it. For the fifth time in eight years, the Red Raiders are the...
MARTINEZ YANKS' PLAYOFF NIGHTMARE
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not just Pedro's fall-off-the-table curveball; or his bend-your-knees changeup; or his can't-catch-up-to-it fastball. It's those three pitches - all of which he throws for strikes - combined with his...
EVERETT MAKES THE TRUTH HURT: MYSTERY MAN DRIVES BOSOX
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amCarl Everett will tell you he doesn't believe in the word "clutch," which is ironic, because that's the label he's developed. The Boston center fielder will tell you he's not...
RAIN GIVES ROGER REMATCH WITH PEDRO
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amThanks to a second rainout in as many nights, Joe Torre is likely to skip Ramiro Mendoza's turn in the rotation in order to keep struggling Roger Clemens on a...
BOSTON'S MVP-EDRO ERASING ALL DOUBTS
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amBASEBALL'S best player is leaving no room for doubt. Even King George (Steinbrenner), and any variation of those two proper nouns, would have to acknowledge Pedro Martinez is the Most...
CHUCK FAKING INJURY? WHAT A TOTAL CROCK!
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amIF Yankee fans are unable to take Chuck Knoblauch to their pinstriped bosoms, there is no lack of reasons. His arrival had a mercenary feel to it, as he forced...
BOSS HOT FOR SOSA: SAMMY CHASE IN HIGH GEAR - AND YANKS THINK IT CAN HAPPEN
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amFeeling they need another bat to be champions again in 2000, and wanting to add a mega-star to boost the appeal of a potential new cable channel, the Yankees have...
KNOBLAUCH WARY ABOUT HIS RETURN
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amYANK NOTES Chuck Knoblauch was scheduled to be back in Joe Torre's lineup last night after missing five games due to a tendinitis-wracked left forearm. How long the leadoff hitter...
SAM OLD STORY: YANKS: WE'RE WILLING TO DEAL YOUTH FOR SOSA
June 13, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre does not know if he will have the chance to write Sammy Sosa or Juan Gonzalez into his inconsistent lineup, or insert Brad Radke, Ismael Valdes or Kevin...