September 18, 2000
DICK CLARK TO RUN SHOWS?
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amDick Clark's name was being bandied about at yesterday's shows as the frontrunner among the various production firms vying to take over the staging of 7th on Sixth. CFDA President...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amIF it's not already hernia- inducing lugging Vogue and Elle and the other venerable fashion behemoths to the 7th on Sixth shows all week, a fresh crop of their edgy...
NAME'S SAME, BUT ALL THE DETAILS CHANGED
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amDetails Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres figures the best way to deal with all the excess baggage attached to the oft-reinvented magazine is to simple attack it head on. "FIRST ISSUE" is...
FOR EVERYTHING ELSE, THERE'S PRAYER
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSPEND and be saved! Pope John Paul II and officials at the Vatican are negotiating with Visa and Mastercard to release a new credit card. The Vatican Treasury credit card...
CHASE CUSTOMERS TAKE ON NEW SET OF 'CHALLENGES'
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCHASE Manhattan Bank quietly launched an "enhancement" to its online banking service last week - and that's when the troubles began. The top execs like CEO William Harrison were obviously...
FUND MANAGER'S GOAL IS TO BEAT MARKET AVERAGES
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTOM Giles knows how to build a red-hot portfolio of stocks. "As a kid growing up in Texas, I used to love to go camping and build fires," he said....
MEGA-YACHTS FOR THE MEGA-RICH
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amIf Hamptons oceanfront rentals seem pricey, sticker shock will definitely set in for floating sea palaces. These yachts, the hottest must-have toy for the super-rich set, have tariffs that make...
WITH DEBT AND NO PROFIT, OMNISKY CLEAR FOR TAKEOFF
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amOmniSky Corp., a provider of a wireless Internet and e-mail service for users of Palm Pilots, will have its initial public offering this week. The company is planning to sell...
FIGHT CLUB, WALL STREET STYLE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amNEED to get in shape for the upcoming Brokers Brawl? That's the famous boxing match that gets Wall Streeters into the ring to bash each other's brains in. Last year's...
THE WEEK AHEAD
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amMONDAY Banc of America Securities' annual investment conference kicks off with presentations by Oracle, Clorox, Intuit, Best Buy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Level 3 Communications, Cisco, Microsoft, VoiceStream, VeriSign, Hewlett-Packard, Applied Micro Circuits...
SOLLY ANALYST ABSENCE SETS TONGUES WAGGING
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S not often that a top-ranked analyst in one of investment banking's hottest fields gets the chance to take a two-month vacation. So when Salomon Smith Barney's top-ranked wireless telecom...
ACE WORKS MAGIC ... OUTSIDE THE OFFICE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amBEAR Stearns Chairman Ace Greenberg has a trick up his sleeve. No, the legendary penny-pinching Wall Streeter, who once sent a company-wide memo urging employees to re-use paper clips and...
KEEPING UP: WWW.STREETFUSION.COM
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amINSTITUTIONAL investors still seem to have an advantage over individuals, but their edge is quickly decreasing. One reason is Web sites such as the one run by StreetFusion (www.streetfusion.com), which...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS & LOSERS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amThis week's winners: Larry Ellison, Geoff Boisi, Johnny Deep, Ralph Nader & Losers: Thomas Renyi, Bill Gates, Richard Hatch, Jason Olim
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR MARK MCCORMACK
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amMark McCormack Founder and CEO, International Management Group Manager for Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter and Venus and Serena Williams
HEY AARP, YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK INTO THIS FRAUD
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amI WONDER when the AARP will finally get around to complaining about its members being cheated. In case you don't recognize the initials, AARP stands for the American Association of...
TIME-WARNER, EMI TRY TO SALVAGE $20B UNION
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTime Warner's Richard Parsons was set to fly into Brussels today to try to salvage his company's merger with EMI. Parsons will reconvene with Warner Music chief Roger Ames and...
TEENS ARE IN VOGUE, AND VOGUE'S INTO TEENS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amVogue has spawned its first child. The fashion magazine led by British style baron Anna Wintour has finally launched its long-awaited teen edition, Teen Vogue - the first spin-off of...
PSEUDO SIGNAL FADING - WEBCASTER'S POTENTIAL BUYERS HANGING BACK
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amFor sale: entertainment network, slightly used. Pseudo.com is on the block - but takers are proving hard to find. Sources close to the situation say the streaming-entertainment site has been...
BACK TO SMOKY ROOMS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amFOOLISHLY, I thought it was that clever old Voltaire who first said: "The more things change, the more they are the same." Looking it up, I found it was the...
THE STARR REPORT
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCh. 4 goes sour on PCRM anti-milk adCh. 4 spiked an anti-dairy ad that was supposed to air last Tuesday. The ad, sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,...
NEXT BIG THING; AT LAST! SOMETHING ORIGINAL ON DAYTIME TV
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE people who syndicate daytime TV shows sure have their work cut out for them. On the one hand, they don't want to shatter the complacency of daytime couch potatoes...
THOMAS WOLFE'S BRILLIANT TAKE ON THE RACIAL DIVIDE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHOMAS Wolfe, the playwright? In 1923, the famous novelist wrote a play in Harvard called "Welcome to Our City" (originally "Niggertown"). The play, with more than half the cast in...
GENTLE BEN A 'BEAST' - KINGSLEY PIC DRAWS KUDOS; OTHERS DON'T DO SO WELL AT TORONTO FEST
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - One of the best-received movies of the big International Film Festival here was "Sexy Beast," a title that stars the unlikely Ben Kingsley."People are very nice when they...
THE MAN WHO REALLY LIGHTS UP TINSELTOWN
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amLIGHT a cigarette, a legal product, in Hollywood, and wait for decapitation. Knock Hollywood for transforming itself from Tinseltown to Trashtown and await the same fate. Freedom of choice to...
MYTHS OF THE MEDIA - A CULTURE OF PREJUDICE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCONSERVATIVES have been complaining about media bias against them and the politicians who reflect their views for more than three decades - and in the past weeks they have been...
CHILLING WARNING: HEATING COSTS MAY DOUBLE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amWithout fast action by the federal government, the price of home heating oil in New York will double this winter, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday. "It's not an exaggeration to...
'BUM' STEER FOR STRIP-CLUB DRIVERS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amGet ready for the latest in auto-eroticism - a drive-through strip joint. Motorists are paying $5 a minute to watch naked dancers bump and grind through the window of an...
ELECTIONS NOW JUST 'MUNSTER' MUSH
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amLIKE it did many New Yorkers who detest Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio, last week's primaries offered me only bad news: "Grandpa" Al Lewis had lost. The final numbers aren't...
RICK ISSUES AD STICKING TO TAX PLAN, NOT HILLARY
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amGOP Senate candidate Rick Lazio shifted his strategy yesterday, releasing his first major "issues" ad - touting his tax-reduction package and mentioning Hillary Rodham Clinton only in passing. Over three...
HERITAGE ON PARADE FOR HARLEM FEST
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amEven in a town of St. Patrick's Day parades, Macy's Thanksgiving Day parades and the occasional World Series bash, some folks believe the African-American Day parade is the best of...
SEX FIEND HITS EATERY
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amA brazen thug, who burst into a Manhattan restaurant brandishing a gun yesterday, sexually assaulted an employee and raided the cash register before he fled. The violence took place just...
W. COMES A-COURTIN' GALS' VOTE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amAUSTIN, Texas - Republican George W. Bush released a "Blueprint for the Middle Class" yesterday as he revved up for a long week of courting the female voters who've spurned...
RUDY: ME BACK BRATTON? THAT'S A GOOD ONE!
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amFormer top cop Bill Bratton said yesterday that he expects Mayor Giuliani will be in his corner if he makes a run for City Hall - a claim that had...
TRAGIC INXS HUNK'S LOVER IS FOUND DEAD
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe sexy blond lover of INXS rocker Michael Hutchence - who committed suicide in 1997 - was found dead under mysterious circumstances over the weekend. Investigators are probing whether Paula...
JETS BOOST BID FOR W. SIDE STADIUM
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe Jets have signed on two top political players to help quarterback the team's plans for a new Manhattan stadium that could be used in the city's bid to host...
COURAGEOUS EX-GYMNAST BACK IN N.Y.
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amFormer Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, whose Olympic dreams were halted with a tragic paralyzing fall, returns today to the city where her career ended - with a message of hope...
CITY LOGS MORE CLAIMS OF TAINTED WATER
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSix more people, including three kids, reported buying suspect bottled water over the weekend, although at least half the bottles tested clean and cops downplayed the possibility of tampering. Three...
RICK LAZIO ADWATCH
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTITLE: "Plan Revised" RUNNING TIME: 30 seconds WHERE SHOWN: Statewide PRODUCED BY: The Murphy, Pintak, Gautier, Hudome Agency. TEXT: Announcer, "Rick Lazio, he's one of us. Unlike his opponent, Lazio...
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO! ROOKIE DESIGNERS STRUT THEIR STUFF
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amAND they're off! The stylish marathon known as New York fashion week started on a spunky note yesterday with strong presentations by several established and up-and-coming designers. William Calvert's attention...
DEAR DIARY: 'BRIDGET JONES' MAY BE DONE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amUltrapopular British author Helen Fielding is reportedly about to close the book on alter-ego Bridget Jones - at least temporarily. Fielding, whose phenomenon "Bridget Jones' Diary" features the fictional angst-filled...
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE WEEK AHEAD: Democrat Al Gore edged ahead in key Midwest states and most national polls last week. Now George W. Bush needs to become the new "Comeback Kid" fast...
MCCAIN: AL'S WARNINGS ARE 'CENSORSHIP'
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amAUSTIN, Texas - John McCain yesterday put a giant "stop" sign in front of Al Gore's threat to have government step in unless Hollywood stops marketing violent movies to kids....
LADY WRESTLER BITES: COP ; OFFICER'S THUMB CHEWED IN MELEE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amStrapping lady wrestler Nicole Bass was down for the count and behind bars last night after pulling a Mike Tyson and biting a cop during a wild melee in Little...
HILLARY BUDDY'S BUBBLE BURSTS - HIGH-RIDING ROCKLAND DEAL-MAKER NAILED WITH BRIBE CHARGE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Hillary Rodham Clinton began thinking last year about running for the Senate, one of the first people she called was veteran New York state Democratic Party operative Paul Adler....
WEALTHY PREFER NO NEIGHBORS ATOLL
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amDon't even think of docking there. With no economic slowdown on the horizon, New Yorkers are rushing to build vacation homes on dwindling land parcels for acres of cash -...
PREZ RACE: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST? - HOW AL & W. STAY TRIM ON THE TRAIL
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The two men running for president are also running to burn off fat. Between stump speeches, fund-raisers and coast-to-coast travel, George W. Bush, 54, and Al Gore, 52,...
TYRANTS BREWING 'OCT. SURPRISE'?
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSaddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic are once again threatening their neighbors, raising the ominous specter of twin foreign-policy crises at the height of the U.S. election and presidential transition. In...
BULLETPROOF VESTS LEFT HOLE IN CITY'S POCKET$: CRITIC
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amA major manufacturer of protective vests says the city was taken to the cleaners - to the tune of more than $1 million - when it bought 11,000 high-tech vests...
DQ ENDS ZIP'S STREAK
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amWhat no other horse was able to accomplish in four straight stakes dating back to July 3 - beating City Zip - the stewards finally did yesterday at Belmont Park,...
WILL HAMPTON SHOP FOR HOME IN ATLANTA?
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - There has been a rumor throughout the year that Mike Hampton, tonight's starter, is going to call Turner Field home next year. Is it true? "I...
CHUCK GIVES TRIBE A CHANCE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amBEYOND the brutal beating the Indians handed the Yankees yesterday at the Stadium, this was a tale of two lefties with frightening playoff implications for Joe Torre's club. The 15-4...
TIME TO TURN IT UP AT THE TED
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - They are ready. They think the Braves aren't invincible anymore. It is time for the Mets to prove themselves in Atlanta. Despite the Mets 5-0 loss to the...
A GOOD SHOW, BUT TOO LATE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amFOR ALL the scandal and false pretenses that are the Olympics, its Opening Ceremonies are still pretty darned neat. In fact, given that all 441 ½ hours of NBC's, CNBC's...
EAST TIMOR'S RAMOS TRUE FREEDOM FIGHTER
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Victor Ramos' Olympic experience lasted precisely two minutes, 23 seconds, and it did not end well for him. And yet, the smile he wore was of the type...
MINOR-LEAGUER ON TOP OF WORLD
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Try to get your mind around 1,272 games. Try to understand how many bus trips that means, especially that 14-hour monstrosity from Wichita to Shreveport in the Texas...
BACK TO HOUSE OF MET HORRORS ; AMAZIN'S CAN EXORCISE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCLOSE your eyes and think back to the Mets playing at Turner Field over the past few seasons. This is what you're seeing: Jay Payton, pinch running for Tony Phillips,...
'PEGASUS' BREEZES IN WORKOUT
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amKentucky Derby and Wood Memorial winner Fusaichi Pegasus breezed seven furlongs on the main track yesterday morning in 1:28 1/5 with exercise rider Andy Durnin up. He worked in company...
BRAD'S FOOT FOLLIES NEARLY LOSE GAME
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES CHICAGO - Heading into this season, the Giants were confident that Brad Daluiso would make a complete return from the severe knee injury that curtailed his 1999 season....
AMERICANS RULE THE POOL - TAKE GOLD & SILVER IN MEN'S 400 IM, WOMEN'S 400 FREE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - In the 24 hours between the demoralizing silver medal by the U.S. in the 4x100 relay Saturday and the final two races on the card last night, Americans...
VLAD KNOCKS WIND FROM AMAZIN'S; METS HEAD SOUTH AFTER 'SPO'S BLASTS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amExpos 5 Mets 0 MONTREAL - Who's your Vlady? For the Mets yesterday, it was Vladimir Guerrero. The 24-year-old Guerrero crushed two homers yesterday and Mets' momentum heading to Atlanta...
BIG BLUE TURN INTO SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE: BEARS CAN'T CASH IN ON GINT MISHAPS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amGiants 14 Bears 7 CHICAGO - There was much we knew, and plenty we did not know about the Giants heading into yesterday's game against the Bears. We knew the...
WELL, ISN'T THAT SPECIAL? WILLIAMS, HAYES JUMP-START JETS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amS PECIAL-team players cost an NFL team the least amount of money against the salary cap, risk the limbs that are the most expendable, hold positions that are the most...
PERFECT JETS DROOL: GANG GREEN BLITZES BILLS, EYES SHOWDOWN VS. BUCS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amJets 27 Bills 14 Hey, Keyshawn Johnson, look who's coming to dinner Sunday. That's right, the 3-0 getting-along-just-fine-without-you Jets. The Al Groh-led, Vinny Testaverde, Wayne Chrebet, Curtis Martin, tough defensive-minded...
HAIL MARY RIPS HEART OUT OF THE BILLS
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amAll touchdowns are worth six points on the scoreboard, but in the heart, clearly some are worth more than others. Marcus Coleman's Hail Mary on the final play of the...
JENNY CAN'T DO IT ALONE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The individual gold medal Jenny Thompson so badly craves once again slipped away. And this time so did silver and bronze. Trying mightily to match the powerful strokes...
DEVS' ROBINSON TURNS JUGGLER
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amThis is going to be more trouble than the Devils want, for as long as Jason Arnott remains unsigned. Even before starting to experiment with Scott Gomez as his replacement,...
BILLS: WE GAVE IT AWAY
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amOn the surface, the numbers - three fumbles, seven penalties for 66 yards - are ugly enough; but they don't begin to tell the tale of the Bills' bumbling ways...
'HERCULES' CAN'T HACK IT - TURKEY'S 3-TIME CHAMP FAILS TO LIFT INITIAL WEIGHT
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Pocket Hercules, the most accomplished weightlifter in history, has been dethroned - and in a big way. Naim Suleymanoglu failed in three attempts to lift his opening weight...
HAYES' HUSTLE A HUGE FACTOR
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES One of the unsung Jets heroes yesterday was special teams ace Chris Hayes, who had a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and a special-teams tackle. He was a...
CHAMINADE WINS SLEEPER
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amChaminade 3 - CTK 0 One team had a sophomore quarterback making his first start and an inexperienced running back still trying to fit into the offense. The other team...
MARTIN'S QUIET BUT EFFECTIVE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amAs Jet fans digest yesterday's 27-14 first-place-securing victory by the Jets over the rival Bills with their coffee and breakfast today, visions of many big plays and different heroes will...
BIG BLUE TURN INTO SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE: WINNING BREEDS SOLIDARITY
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - There's a huge six-foot picture as you enter the offices of Giants Stadium that shows a jubilant Phil Simms hugging Lawrence Taylor. The picture was taken at Soldier...
JINTS' FG GAME NEEDS WORK
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - It was more than just the kicks, of course. "The whole operation has to be smooth," Brad Daluiso said. The whole operation was lousy. Rarely can a team...
MALCHOW SETS BUTTERFLY MARK
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - U.S. swimmer Tom Malchow set an Olympic record in the 200-meter butterfly this morning at 1:56.25, easily earning his way to the semis. Malchow, 24, already holds the...
BIG BLUE TURN INTO SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE: OL EARNS ITS STRIPES IN GROUND BATTLE
September 18, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Lomas Brown has played 16 years in the NFL, and this is the first time he can ever remember being 3-0 to start a season. "I have to...