December 21, 2000
SUIT SAYS THE MOUSE FOULED ; CLAIMS DISNEY STOLE TV-'NET TECHNOLOGY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMost everybody has heard of enhanced TV - but barely anyone has heard of ACTV. That's going to change if the small, New York City-based ACTV has its way. The...
AMAZON TRYING CLEARANCE BINS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amAmazon.com is dialing for dollars in yet another arena - the clearance business. The Web retailer is testing out an outlet site at www.amazon.com/outletpreview. The outlet site is selling books,...
RACE ON TO SUCCEED LEVITT ; HE'LL LEAVE SEC. IN FEB., AND FIELD IS WIDE OPEN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amArthur Levitt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and champion of individual investors' rights, said yesterday that he'll step down in February. And the jockeying to replace him has...
WHEN THE MARKET TURNS SOUR,LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S official: the Nasdaq composite index has lost more than 50 percent of its value and has been in a bear market for four months. And the Dow, home of...
AOL-TW TO FEDS: OK US NOW, PRETTY PLEASE!
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amAmerican Online and Time Warner reached out to the Feds yesterday and desperately asked them to close their merger before the year's end. AOL's vice president of telecommunications policy, Steven...
O'NEILL AWES STREET ; BIG BIZ LIKES TREASURY SECRETARY NOMINEE
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amPaul O'Neill, President-elect Bush's pick for Treasury secretary, will likely be a hit with Wall Street. That's because he's an outspoken champion of dumping corporate income taxes. And he wants...
REALTYIQ AXES 100+ AMID FUNDING TROUBLES
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amRealtyIQ, one of the nation's largest online real estate space and sales listing services, laid off more than 100 employees yesterday, mostly at its New York headquarters. CEO Bruce Weissberg...
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR SAFE AND SANE DRIVING
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThough Santa is still making his list and checking it twice, it's not too early for us to make our own list of New Year's resolutions for safe and sane...
OHLMEYER'S SEASON OVER?
December 21, 2000 | 5:00am"MONDAY Night Football" honcho Don Ohlmeyer may not return next year to quarterback the broadcast's coverage. With only one more Monday night game to go this year, Ohlmeyer has not...
HOW TO PICK ROMANTIC GIFTS: DON'T GO OVERBOARD UNLESS YOU'RE SURE: EXPERTS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE we don't like to think about it - in every relationship one person usually falls harder than the other. Don't embarrass yourself this year and let your holiday gift...
GANG-HO FOR 'SOPRANOS' ; RIVAL JERSEY COUNTIES PUT OUT WELCOME MAT FOR TONY AND HIS MOB AFTER FILM BAN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHREE New Jersey counties are going to the mattresses for "The Sopranos" - just days after the gangsters-on-Prozac drama was banned from filming in Essex County. Officials in Union, Middlesex...
NUT-FREE SHOW SAYS BAH HUMBUG TO SUGARPLUMS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amELIOT FELD'S BALLET TECH The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street. (212) 242-0800. Through Dec. 31. ONCE again Eliot Feld and his Ballet Tech are passing the Nuts,...
TICKLING IVORIES THE HARD WAY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amDAVID Phillips sings softly, coaxing a few gentle chords from the piano.Though he makes it look effortless, singing while playing piano isn't easy - especially if you've lost eight fingers."Ever...
THE STARR REPORT
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIt's 6 and 11 for Anastos at 2 Ch. 2 is expected to announce that, as expected, Ernie Anastos will co-anchor the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts upon his arrival...
TALK'S QUIET KING ; CAN LARRY SURVIVE THE TIDE OF CABLE TV YELLERS?
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE people who run the cable news channels have decided that news is out and talk is in. The only question is: What kind of talk - the high-decibel arguing...
NEW GADGETS GET A WORKOUT
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amSurfer gURL's turned from an exercise junkie to a exercise-gadget junkie.There are a zillion gadgets out there to monitor whatever can be monitored - calories, heart rates, even bad breath...
WERE FEMINISTS DUPED BY 'PRINCESS?' INS PROBERS: GHANIAN'S STORY IS A PACK OF LIES
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amSHE was a cause-celebre for American feminists: a refugee African princess pleading for asylum because she faced genital mutilation in her West African village. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Julia...
'BUTTERFLY BALLOT' DESIGNER SAYS THREATS MADE LIFE HELL
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe Florida election official who designed the notorious "butterfly ballot" said her life has been "hell" for the past six weeks as she regularly received threatening hate mail. Theresa LePore...
MADONNA MEDIA SHOWER MAY NIX BAPTISM
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna has threatened to cancel her infant son's baptism in a Scottish cathedral tonight out of fear a growing army of reporters will spoil it. In a closed-door meeting with...
LIFE STARTS AT 40? FORGET ABOUT IT!
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amScientists have confirmed that life does begin at 40 - it begins to go downhill! Not only do the 40s signal the start of mental decline, but further diminishment is...
DI HOTEL TO GET VIP ESCAPE EXIT
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMohamed al-Fayed wants a more discreet exit from his Ritz Hotel in Paris to avoid a repeat of the car chase that ended in the deaths of Princess Diana and...
SHE'S POISONED THE WELL FOR REAL VICTIMS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE fraudulent Regina Danson ought to be on the next Ghana-bound plane out of JFK, with a swift kick in the rear end. Her self-serving lie has made life vastly...
A MAN FOR HIS TIMES ; THE CITY ULTIMATELY OVERWHELMED LINDSAY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE first thing that jumped out as the news bulletins about John Lindsay's death began moving yesterday is that the former mayor was 79 years old. John Lindsay, 79? Impossible....
FLU SHOT BEST HOPE VS. TOUGH NEW STRAIN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe nasty flu virus sweeping the nation is "substantially different" from those in past years, and few people will escape it without a flu shot, health officials warn. Most cases...
BRONX FIREMEN GIVING THEIR HOMELESS PAL PROPER BURIAL
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amWhen a homeless man died in the cold and no one claimed his body for a proper burial, it was the firefighters of a South Bronx station house that came...
HE REFRESHED 'FUN CITY' WITH HEART & MIND
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amJOHN LINDSAY was an idealist who didn't have a mean bone in his body and tried to do good during a tough time in this city and country. He was...
HEALTH DEPT. TRIES SNIFFING OUT DOCS WHO BOUGHT COKE
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amState health officials have opened their own investigation to identify cocaine-buying doctors caught in a federal drug sting earlier this year, officials said yesterday. Federal drug agents busted a home-delivery...
PRISON-GUARD STAB TIED TO HOSTAGE PLOT
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amA terror suspect wrote out detailed plans for taking hostages inside a high-security wing of a Manhattan jail before stabbing a guard in the eye and nearly killing him, authorities...
MIRACLE BIRTH AS FETUS SURVIVES GRISLY HIGHWAY CRASH
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amA baby torn from the womb in a horrific Kentucky traffic accident that killed his mother miraculously survived. The newborn - named Patrick, in honor of a teen who cared...
CANCER CLAIMS MANTLE JR.
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMickey Mantle Jr., the limelight-shunning oldest son of the all-time great New York baseball hero, battled his dad's legend and a similar booze addiction before finally succumbing to the same...
BARAK MAKES BID TO HEAD OFF PERES
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is pre-empting an election challenge from Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres by offering major new concessions to the Palestinians, sources said. A new...
JUDI'S PLEA TO PRESS: GO EASY ON US
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's gal pal urged the media yesterday to "proceed with dignity" in covering his personal life - pointing to the mayor's ongoing battle with prostate cancer. "The mayor has...
YANK FANS HIT BACK AT A-ROD OVER JETER JABS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amYankee fans yesterday were crying foul over newly signed Texas Ranger superstar Alex Rodriguez's claim that hometown hero Derek Jeter can't carry his quarter-billion-dollar jockstrap. Rodriguez recently told ESPN Radio...
SAGA OF HATED QNS. HOUSES HAS HAPPY ENDING
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amOne of the most controversial initiatives of John Lindsay's administration was his plan to put low-income housing in middle-income neighborhoods. The flashpoint was the proposed Forest Hills houses - which...
DUBYA'S DAD: IT WASN'T A 'GET EVEN' THING
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Former President George Bush insisted yesterday that his son did not run for president to "get even" for 1992. "It is not about getting even . . ....
KEY WITNESS AGAINST GOTTI IN-LAW BUSTED IN CAR THEFT
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe government's key witness against John Gotti son-in-law Carmine Agnello was busted six months ago for car theft, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. John "Ricky Redd" Roberts, 42, was arrested and...
GRIEVING AIDES HAIL BRAVE MAN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amFriends and former colleagues - some choking back tears - remembered John Lindsay yesterday as a "courageous" mayor who tried to heal divisions in the city he loved best. "He...
SANDRA BULLOCK IN CLOSE CALL BUT UNINJURED AS HER PLANE CRASH-LANDS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe nose gear of a plane carrying actress Sandra Bullock broke off on landing in Jackson Hole, Wyo., yesterday, causing the aircraft to skid off the runway, officials said, but...
INTERIM N.J. GOV TO GET '01 HEAD START
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIf Christie Whitman joins the Bush administration as expected, Republicans say they'll have a leg up in New Jersey's gubernatorial race next year because another Republican will be warming the...
HILLARY E-BASHED ON PUBLISHER SITE
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amRed-faced Simon & Schuster execs were aghast yesterday after outrageous sexual and racist comments crammed the "Reader Reaction" section to Hillary Rodham Clinton's already-published White House book on the company's...
MOURNING THE MAYOR WHO KEPT CITY CALM: CHARISMATIC POL 'DEFINED AN ERA'
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amJohn V. Lindsay, the matinee-idol mayor, was hailed yesterday after his death as a patrician politician with a shirtsleeve style who eased racial tensions and attracted the best and brightest...
ED. BOARD BACKS PLAN LETTING PRIVATE FIRM TRY TO FIX FAILING SCHOOLS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe Board of Education indicated yesterday it will permit the nation's largest for-profit school-management firm to run five of the city's worst schools - despite opposition within its ranks. A...
SHE MIGHT CASH IN ON HIS STATUS AS A CELEB
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIs Mayor Giuliani's celebrity status money in the bank for Donna Hanover? As surprising as it might seem, the New York courts have ruled that celebrity status is communal property...
CHRISTIE HAS TO SETTLE FOR EPA ; PRO-CHOICE VIEWS COST HER U.N. POST
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman is poised to head the Environmental Protection Agency after right-to-lifers nixed her for a flashier job, GOP officials said yesterday. President-elect Bush could...
RAPE-SLAY FIEND CONVICTED AMID CHEERS & TEARS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amCries, gasps and shouts of "Yes!" burst out in a packed Manhattan courtroom last night as family members heard a Harlem man pronounced guilty of murdering three girls and brutally...
KILT-CLAD GUY GETTING THE HANG OF TRADITION
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna groom Guy Ritchie will be in his altogether underneath the kilt he's wearing to tomorrow's star-studded wedding in a Scottish highlands castle, it was reported today. In a bow...
B'KLYN WOMAN'S NEW LIVER MIGHT BE WHAT KILLS HER
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman who received what she thought would be a lifesaving liver transplant at prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital is living with a nightmare - her new liver is cancerous...
RUDY IN A RU$H TO HOLD ON ; DONNA MAY TAP HIS FUTURE EARNINGS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani may have beaten wife Donna Hanover to the punch in divorce court in order to stop her from hitting him where it hurts - his wallet, legal experts...
EX-CHAMP'S GAL PAL SUES FOR PALIMONY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amPretty-boy pugilist Oscar De La Hoya's ex-girlfriend walloped him with a $62.5 million palimony suit yesterday, claiming she gave the "Golden Boy" his Midas touch. In papers filed in Los...
MICKEY ROONEY HAS HEART SURGERY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMickey Rooney yesterday underwent multiple bypass surgery in a California hospital, Daily Variety reports. Rooney, 80, needed the surgery because of a blocked artery, Variety columnist Army Archerd says. The...
GANG DUO QUIZZED IN HARLEM SLAYING
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amTwo gang members were being questioned last night in connection with the murder of a young Harlem woman. Cynthia Blair, 18, was found dead Tuesday on a rooftop of a...
TIRE DEATH SPARKS $75M SUIT
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIn a case recalling the Firestone tire tragedies, the family of a Brooklyn teacher who died after a blowout sent his car slamming into a highway barrier last July is...
NET GAIN IS CELTIC PAIN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amBOSTON - Forget about hitting 'em high. The Nets wanted to hit the Celtics low last night. And delivering the low blows, they hoped, would be Aaron Williams and Kenyon...
BRODEUR, BELFOUR IN PLAYOFF FORM
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIt's way too simple, but instead of Best Player Wins, some insist the playoffs are Best Goalie Wins. Those believers found evidence in June's Stanley Cup finals. Those were two...
BIG A TO OFFER DARK DAY 'CASTS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amNYRA will begin offering dark-day simulcasting at Aqueduct beginning opening day of Gulfstream's 2001 meet on Wednesday, Jan. 3. Admission gates will open at 11 a.m. The New York State...
ISLES LOSE JONSSON TO KNEE INJURY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amAnother injury for the Islanders. Just as he was playing his best stretch of hockey in two seasons, defenseman Kenny Jonsson will miss three to four weeks with a medial...
TAYLOR-MADE MOTIVATION ; RB'S BARBS GIVE JINTS EXTRA FUEL
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amFred Taylor had better be ready. He had better be ready for what he either wittingly or foolishly unleashed. He had better be ready for the fury that he helped...
MONEY CAN'T CURE A-ROD'S BAD CASE OF DEREK ENVY
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amHE HAS been guaranteed more than a quarter of a billion dollars and he is the best baseball player on the planet. He is young and handsome, intelligent and charismatic....
FASSEL DOESN'T WANT ANY BACK-DOOR BANTER
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES As he prepares the Giants for their final regular season game and then the playoffs, Jim Fassel says he knows for sure that this year's team is far...
METS FREE MAHOMES, M. FRANCO
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amPat Mahomes, Matt Franco, Lariel Gonzalez and Jorge Velandia were all not offered contracts and are free agents eligible to sign with any team. GM Steve Phillips is planning on...
JARVIS ISSUES STORM WARNING
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's, the only Big East team with a losing record, is mired in its first three-game losing streak in four years. The Red Storm, hosting Manhattan at 7:30 tonight...
CASHMAN STEAMED AT ESPN'S HIDDEN MIKE TRICK
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Brian Cashman told agent Jeff Moorad the Yankees had an interest in free-agent slugger Manny Ramirez, the Bombers' GM believed he was talking through a speaker phone only to...
HALL'S STATUS STILL UNCERTAIN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES Al Groh is still not acknowledging who'll kick for the Jets Sunday, waiting for a couple of practices to decide between incumbent John Hall and newcomer Brett Conway....
CAMBY: THERE'S NO REASON TO PANIC YET
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amMarcus Camby has a holiday message for Knicks management: Don't pull the trigger on any trades just yet. "We've had key guys out of the starting lineup with injuries," Camby...
GAEL FORCE KOS XAVERIAN
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amAll Hallows 56 Xaverian 53 Want to know what's different about All Hallows this year? Just ask Marvin McCullough. "We have a different attitude," McCullough, a senior, said. "We have...
GROH TRIES TO CIRCLE JET WAGONS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIt was 11 yesterday morning and Al Groh walked into the Weeb Ewbank Hall media room for his daily press conference, sat down and began talking about the Jets' Sunday...
RICE ON THE BLOCK: KNICKS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON GEIGER, DAVIS, ARTEST
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe staggering, structurally flawed Knicks have given up on trying to make their star-studded perimeter trio of Glen Rice, Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston work, and have made a decision...
SATHER EYES DEAL FOR L.A.'S BLAKE
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amIf Glen Sather has his way, the Blues' mighty defense twosome of Chris Pronger and Al MacInnis won't be the NHL's most imposing blue-line duo for long. That's because the...
SCOTT SICK OF EMPTY NETS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amCeltics 99 Nets 86 BOSTON - This being the holiday season and all, inspired scribes might want to describe the Nets' performance last night in verse. Yeah, but try coming...
DEVILS USE 'A' GAME TO DESTROY DALLAS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 4 Stars 1 Forward lines in hockey earn nicknames with big-time performances in games like this. Call Jason Arnott's trio The A Line. Each member of Arnott's threesome had...
POWER PLAYS KILL RANGERS
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amBlues 6 Rangers 3 In the spirit of the holiday season, the Rangers must have made the decision to be charitable to themselves. That must be it. For that's the...
FOR RICHTER, IT'S NOT THE BEST OF TIMES
December 21, 2000 | 5:00amAS A KID growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, it was hard for Mike Richter to get an image of Eddie Giacomin, for the simple reason that the Flyers were...