April 20, 2001
NEW YORK TIMES ABUZZ BUZZES OFF 47 STAFFERS AT ONLINE UNIT
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amNew York Times Digital has decided that Abuzz was nothing to write home about. The Old Gray Lady said yesterday she had canned another 47 staff at her Web division...
EASING ITS RULES, FCC LETS VIACOM HOLD ON TO UPN
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Federal Communications Commission relaxed its restriction against two TV networks belonging to a single company - a move widely seen as the start of a wave of FCC action...
EL DORADO OKS U2 BONO'S PAD
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE El Dorado's co-op board has no problem letting famous singers into their building. Using his real name on his application, U2 lead singer Bono - a.k.a. Paul Hewson -...
HOW TO WEAR YOUR PEPSI COLA WITHOUT SPILLING IT
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amSoon you won't have to spill your Pepsi to wear it. Pepsi-Cola Co. and AmeriCo certainly have entered into a licensing agreement to create lines of apparel, footwear and accessories...
TECHS TAKE CHARGE - NASDAQ & DOW ARE BUOYED BY SOLID EARNINGS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street rallied again yesterday, rocketing the Nasdaq up another 5 percent - for a whopping 33 percent advance in just two weeks and doling out more modest gains to...
MICRO$OFT GIVES BULLS MORE HOPE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amMicrosoft has provided more hope that the markets will continue to rally. The Nasdaq favorite, which has held its tongue while all around it tech companies have been warning of...
DEAD END FOR DETOUR? - EXECS JUMPING SHIP AMID MONEY WOES AT GLOSSY
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amFinancially ailing Detour Media Group lost its publisher and creative director this week amid a swirl of rumors that a cash crunch may soon force the company to close its...
VETERAN DEALMAKER LURED FROM DOT-COM TO CSFB
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amCredit Suisse First Boston has lured back to Wall Street a longtime dealmaker who had been among the defectors joining the dot-com stampede. Terry Kawaja, formerly the chief financial officer...
WWD FUMBLES ON WEB LAUNCH
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWomen's Wear Daily's revamped Web site lay in tatters yesterday as top brass called off the much-hyped launch. The rag trade mag's site, WWD.com, which was due to launch May...
ST. MARTIN'S IS IN A MESS - IN LATEST CONTROVERSY, AUTHOR CLAIMS PLAGIARISM
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amSt. Martin's Press is in hot water once again as another simmering controversy over the credibility of one of its top authors boils over. Author Barbara Kingsolver is said to...
SO WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY () A smart, enjoyably unsettling, Hitchockian psychological thriller from France. Running time 117 minutes. Rated R (language, brief violence). In French, with English subtitles. At...
TURTURRO MAKES ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE LUZHIN DEFENCE () John Turturro scores big at the chess board. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexuality). At the Empire, the Beekman, the Union Square, others. -------------- OF...
BANDERAS A HOOT, HEAVEN HELP HIM
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE BODY () Antonio Banderas as a Jesuit James Bond; an inadvertent hoot. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence). At the Empire, the Murray Hill, the Village East....
SPRINGTIME FOR B'WAY - MEL BROOKS' 'PRODUCERS' BLOOMS AS A BONAFIDE BIG-TIME HIT
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE PRODUCERS ()The St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street. (212) 239-6200. --------------- 'THE Producers" is a cast-iron, copper-bottomed, superduper, mammoth old-time Broadway hit. There are few trickier problems that...
FRENCH CANNES FOSTER FILM AFTER FEST FLAP
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amJODIE Foster's new film has been rejected by the Cannes Film Festival - and insiders think the snub is le payback for the actress bailing out of a prestigious judging...
SPADE ZAPPER: BLAME COCAINE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A former personal assistant pleaded guilty yesterday to the stun-gun attack on actor David Spade, claiming to be out of his mind on cocaine during the...
BARBARA'S TURN TO CRY - WALTERS GETS TEARY WITH DAUGHTER IN NEW SPECIAL
April 20, 2001 | 4:00am'Born in My Heart: A Love Story' ( ) Tonight at 10 on ABC/Ch. 7 --- COMING out against a TV special about adopting children is a little like announcing...
WHEN YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT - WHY IT'LL COST YOU $100 TO LAUGH IT UP FROM 'THE PRODUCERS' ORCHESTRA SEATS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amIF they want it, baby, make 'em pay! That's what rogue impresario Max Bialystock might say if he had a hit show on his hands.Well, the producers of "The Producers"...
A LESSON IN STAYING ALIVE - STILL KINGS OF ROCK 'N' ROLL, THE BEE GEES MAKE IT ALL LOOK EASY
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amNO tallying of rock 'n' roll royalty is complete without the Bee Gees, who have built a major musical dynasty. It's unlikely that anyone will ever equal their 1977 feat...
THERE'LL BE NO FAME TO 'CLAIM'
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE CLAIM () Thomas Hardy goes West, with echoes of "Heaven's Gate." Running time: 119 minutes. Rated R (violence, sexuality). At the Union Square, 14th Street and Fourth Avenue. ---------------...
ROBBIE DISSED THE DISC
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amROBIN Gibb called it "a joke," but his gentlemanly restraint didn't disguise the disgust and anger he still feels for the recent Robbie Williams version of "I Started a Joke."...
THIRD 'DUNDEE' IS A CROCK
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amCROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES () Insipid, unnecessary second sequel to the 1986 fish-out-of-water comedy. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG (mild violence). At the Loews Astor Plaza, the Battery...
GIVE THE FINGER TO 'FREDDY'
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amFREDDY GOT FINGERED (Zero stars) So will the audience. Running time: 93 minutes. Rated R (extremely gross and gory humor, sexuality, profanity). At the Empire, the Murray Hill, the Chelsea,...
THE STARR REPORT
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amRosie's ready Rosie O'Donnell is returning to her show - a week earlier than planned. O'Donnell, who's been battling a staph infection and hasn't hosted "Rosie O'Donnell" live since April...
A 'FOND' FAREWELL TO 'SURVIVOR' JOE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amAND then there were four. Beloved castaway Rodger "Kentucky Joe" Bingham became the 12th member of the tribe to be tossed out on last night's edition of "Survivor: The Australian...
NBC MAY PUNT XFL GAMES
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amIT LOOKS like NBC is gonna pass on televising XFL games next year. "There's nothing official, but as for NBC showing games on Saturday nights, that's not going to happen,"...
BREAST-CANCER CAMPAIGN TARGETS YOUNG WOMEN
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amYounger women are being targeted for a new breast-cancer awareness program with a colorful, user-friendly self-exam reminder being distributed on 30 college campuses. Four beauties from Ford Models - including...
CRASH IS 2ND ODDITY FOR BROOKLYN DINER
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn diner - rebuilt after a truck fire burned it to the ground 12 years ago - became the scene of another bizarre accident yesterday when a cop drove...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 20, 1995
April 20, 2001 | 4:00am"A terrorist bomb blast yesterday jolted Oklahoma City, in America's heartland, just as workers were starting their day. It shattered the downtown Alfred Murrah Federal Building just after 9 a.m.,...
DEM LATINOS TO HEAR GOV'S VIEQUES PITCH
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki tomorrow will renew his call to end U.S. Navy bombing practice on Vieques, during appearances before the Assembly Puerto Rican-Hispanic Task Force Pataki's attendance at the...
MCCALLS REPORT INCOME OF 472G
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Carl McCall and his college-president wife, Joyce Brown, made $472,273 last year, tax returns made available yesterday show. McCall, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for...
THE RACE GAME RETURNS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that race can be used as a factor in designing congressional districts so long as it is not the "predominating" factor. The decision is...
A RADICAL BORN IN THE CRUCIBLE OF THE LATE '60S
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn judge who made a controversial decision to toss a gun charge has long been a thorn in the side of authority - starting with his days as a...
SEXTORTION RAP FOR L.I. LEGAL-AID OFFICIAL
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amA Long Island official who screens criminal defendants for free legal representation has been charged with pressuring women for sex to qualify for the taxpayer-funded aid. Three female defendants have...
SUB CAPTAIN GETTING BOOT BUT NOT TRIAL
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe former skipper of the USS Greeneville will be forced out of the Navy for "unprofessional conduct" because of his vessel's collision with a Japanese trawler - but he will...
PET IT BE? FERRETS CLEAR COUNCIL HURDLE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amFerrets, 1. City Health Department, 0. The City Council took the first step yesterday to overturn the Health Department's ban on keeping ferrets as pets. By a 5-1 vote, the...
BX. LAWYER EARNS A REP AMONG RAPPERS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amMURRAY RICHMAN is on the emergency call lists for Def Jam, Murder Inc. and Roc-A-Fella Records in case a rapper ever gets pinched - and has The Bronx lawyer's phone...
'WEAKEST LINK' TAKES AIM AT 'MILLIONAIRE'
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWatch out, Regis! TV host-from-hell Anne Robinson has you in her sights. NBC officials yesterday suggested that the Peacock network's white-hot hit "The Weakest Link" is ready for a prime-time...
POOR GRADES EYED IN KID'S SUBWAY SUICIDE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amA 13-year-old honor student hurled himself to his death in front of a Queens subway train - possibly because he was despondent over a few less-than-perfect grades, investigators said yesterday....
ARRESTS BARE BLOODY TRUTH BEHIND REAL-LIFE 'SOPRANOS'
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amEight accused New Jersey mobsters from the DeCavalcante crime family - the model for the hit TV show "The Sopranos" - were arrested yesterday on new charges ranging from murder...
MY HANDSOME FACE TAMES SHREW
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amI WAS so charming, it was disarming. And that's how I tamed the Queen of Mean. From the first moment our eyes met through a crowd of onlookers outside NBC's...
BUSH IS TURNING A NEW LEAF - BACKS ENVIRO TREATY AIMED AT BANNING TOXIC CHEMICALS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush, in a high-profile Rose Garden announcement yesterday, said he'll support a Clinton-era treaty aimed at eliminating a group of toxic chemicals known as the "dirty dozen."...
SECOND WITNESS SAYS SKAKEL ADMITTED SLAY
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amSTAMFORD, Conn. - A second witness said Michael Skakel confessed to Martha Moxley's 1975 murder - adding credibility to the testimony of a man who was high on heroin when...
WE NEED PROTECTION FROM THE CONDOM JUDGE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amONCE, he was known as "The Condom Judge" - a title wielded in both ridicule and praise. Now, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach has earned new fame for freeing...
CITY COPS LAUNCH NEW 'RAP PATROL'
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe NYPD has a new hip-hop patrol that's been keeping tabs on rappers at their hangouts ever since a wild shootout on a Manhattan street corner two months ago, The...
CHINA CARTOON DEPICTS U.S. PLANE AT FAULT FOR COLLISION
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Now it's "video wars" on the China front. China yesterday released its own video in the blame-game over the spy-plane standoff - and the Pentagon immediately retorted that...
MAYOR CALLS ON FOE TO QUIT ED BD.
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday urged Board of Education member Terri Thomson of Queens to quit - a day after her borough president urged her to do so. Giuliani trashed Thomson as...
JACKO JOINING REV. AL'S SLAVE CRUSADE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amPop superstar Michael Jackson said yesterday he'll join the Rev. Al Sharpton's crusade to end modern-day slavery in Sudan and accompany him on his return trip to the war-torn African...
'PRODUCERS' PRODUCES! - TIX HIT $100 AS SMASH OPENS UP
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amIt's a hit! We're ruined! That could be the cry of theatergoers as "The Producers" opened last night to raves, with the new musical's ticket prices jumping to $100 -...
L.A. TO N.Y. - IN HALF-HOUR
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amNASA scientists are testing new airplane technology that could whisk fliers from New York to Los Angeles in less time than it takes to clear a Van Wyck Expressway traffic...
HIZZONER & HEVESI GET INTO DISSING CONTEST
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and City Comptroller Alan Hevesi - the city's new warring parties - yesterday traded attacks on issues from racial profiling to pension investments. Giuliani got the ball rolling...
EX-COP HELD LIABLE IN 'PARKING' SLAY
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amA jury ruled yesterday that a former NYPD cop and his family are responsible for the shooting death of a man over a parking space in Westchester - but cleared...
IS IT GOOD SCIENCE OR JUST GOOD PR? - PREZ'S 'GREEN SIDE' WAS WEAK FLANK
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Moving rapidly from pro-industry to pro-green, President Bush's latest decisions have once-pessimistic environmentalists thinking the president may be starting to see things their way. "Undoubtedly, in this week...
THINGS STARTING TO HEAT UP
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amIF the weather experts are right, and wouldn't that be something, saltwater fishing in New York's marine waters should take a definite turn for the better. Last weekend was proof...
LIGHTS! CAMERA! FICTION? - TV'S LATEST SPORTS MOVIES TOY WITH THE TRUTH
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S as if history is under a limited warranty. In time, notions overwhelm the realities. For example, it seems a good bet that Americans with at least one eye on...
BEATING RAP WON'T BE EASY - NEW LOOK TORONTO HAS MORE IN STORE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amOnto the Garden floor Sunday steps a flying Vince Carter, a menacing Charles Oakley, a chattering Chris Childs and a Canadian wildcard named Keon Clark, an athletic forward who blocks...
IT'LL BE A SPREE-FOR-ALL
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE KNOT in Marcus Camby's side is down only to the size of the one in his stomach at the thought of the Knicks' postseason hopes pivoting on a non-pivoting...
OAKLEY: NBA'S KIDS COULDN'T CARE LESS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Raptor Charles Oakley played for Doug Collins in Chicago, way back before the bruising forward's days as a Knick. And the 37-year-old veteran readily agrees Collins, named as...
DISTILLED FAVORED IN LEXINGTON
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amDistilled, the 5-2 morning line favorite, heads a field of 10 horses entered in tomorrow's Grade 2, $325,000-added Lexington Stakes. The winner of the Grade 2 Illinois Derby on April...
RED-HOT ROBINSON RIPS DEVS FOR LOSING FOCUS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amNotify maintenance. Vocal vandal Larry Robinson blistered the paint again. In what is becoming a rite of spring when the Devils go wrong, their coach yesterday shouted expletive-laced abuse at...
GANG GREEN GOES LOOKIN' FOR HELP IN ALL RIGHT PLACES
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe NFL Draft, which begins at noon tomorrow and continues through Sunday, is rich with receivers and defensive linemen. The Jets are in search of receivers and defensive linemen in...
METS NOT IN GREAT HURRY TO RUSH ALEX
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - As the Mets continue to search for hitting, there is a 6-foot-1, 180-pound offensive monster rocketing balls at their Triple-A affiliate. The 22-year-old Alex (the Great) Escobar is...
RAPTORS TO CRACK CARTER IN PREPARATION FOR KNICKS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES WASHINGTON - Vince Carter knows what's coming from the Knicks. But just in case, his Raptors' teammates intend to provide a reminder. They're going to start knocking the...
THOMAS VS. OAK TREE: HAIR WE GO AGAIN, FOLKS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Maybe Charles Oakley should talk with Kurt Thomas' hairdresser. Thomas' Queens-based hairdresser, who also does Latrell Sprewell's cornrows, believes Thomas has become a meaner, nastier player since he...
NYRA-LED TEAM OTB'S BEST BET
April 20, 2001 | 4:00am"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - YOGI BERRATHE long-awaited day of reckoning is near. This weekend, the future of horse racing in New York...
DODGERS ZERO IN ON CASHMAN
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - According to a source close to the Dodgers, Brian Cashman is high on the list of names the underachieving club will look at when searching for Kevin Malone's...
BIG BLUE JUST MIGHT KEEP UP THE OFFENSIVE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amIf the Giants tomorrow fall in line with the predictions swirling around them and with their first-round pick take a cornerback in the NFL Draft, it will go against some...
DEVILS NEED TO LOCATE 'A' GAME
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amSO, fellas, what do we think of the work of the Jason Arnott-Patrik Elias-Petr Sykora unit through the first four games of the playoffs? "Decent," says right winger Sykora. "We...
RAPTORS LEAVE 2000 COLLAPSE IN THE PAST
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Raptors could not have been more diplomatic or politically correct. Must be the surroundings here. So they gave all the requisite praise to the Knicks, their first-round...
COSMOS REUNION ON TAP
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amRemember the Cosmos! Just don't use their name. Long before the MetroStars, the Cosmos were New York's premier soccer team, featuring the world's premier soccer player - Pele. Now, the...
BLAZERS BETTER WIN - OR ELSE
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amSecond of two parts.TODAY's post-season prose finds us out west, where the deer, antelope and NBA champions play. And get along. At the same time, Doug Collins is back east...
VICK'S A TRICKY TOP PICK - CHARGERS NOT SOLD BUT SCARED TO PASS HIM UP
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amRight now, Chargers vice president Ed McGuire and superagents Michael Sullivan and Andre Colona are trying to hammer out a contract for Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick, who, barring an...
IT'S NOT HOKIE TO COMPARE HIM TO OTHER MICHAEL
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amAfter losing the Super Bowl, Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi immediately turned his attention to the 2001 season. Accorsi knew the Giants would be picking 30th in this year draft...
BERNIE HEADS FOR HOME WITH DAD IMPROVED
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amYANK NOTES TORONTO - With his father out of intensive care, Bernie Williams boarded a plane in Puerto Rico last night and flew back to New York to rejoin the...
AIR LEAVES COMEBACK DOOR OPEN
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Wizards' coaching void has been filled. But in handing the job to Doug Collins, a man he once played for and clashed with in Chicago, Michael Jordan...
WHITE TURNS THE TIDES
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Reliever Rick White, who has been on the disabled list with a sore right elbow since Opening Day, threw three shutout innings in the Mets' 2-0...
CARDOZO'S HILL FACES BIG TEST
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amAmong the schools interested in Daryll Hill are St. John's, Providence, Utah and Northeastern. That's a pretty impressive list. Now all the senior point guard from Cardozo has to do...
OH, WHAT A RELIEF - O'NEILL RBI, 'PEN SAVE YANKS IN 17
April 20, 2001 | 4:00am17 INNINGS: Yankees 6 - Blue Jays 5 TORONTO - On a staff that includes a Hall of Fame lock and the best closer in baseball, Mike Stanton often gets...
BERNIE COMIN' BACK - WITH DAD IMPROVING, WILLIAMS SET TO REJOIN YANKS FOR BOSOX SET
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - With his father out of ICU, Bernie Williams boarded a plane in Puerto Rico last night and flew back to New York to rejoin the Yankees tonight when...
EL DUQUE'S STILL UNSURE OF WHAT THE PROBLEM IS
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amYANK NOTES TORONTO - Here we go again. Last summer, the Yankees spent a lot of time and money trying to find out was wrong with Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez'...
WHITE LOOKS WELL AS METS TAME TIDES
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amReliever Rick White, who has been on the disabled list with a sore right elbow since Opening day was scheduled to throw in the Mets exhibition game at Triple-A Norfolk...
CARDOZO'S HILL FACES BIG TEST - THE SAT
April 20, 2001 | 4:00amAmong the schools interested in Daryll Hill are St. John's, Providence, Utah and Northeastern. That's a pretty impressive list. Now all the senior point guard from Cardozo has to do...