March 6, 2000
BRONFMAN ADRIFT FROM DILLER, GEFFEN
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. may have cut himself off from his two Hollywood mentors. Seagram's CEO is said to be going it alone in his biggest ever task -- shopping the...
TIME'S NO. 1 WITH ADWEEK
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amAwards that translate into money are rare, but Adweek's annual Hot List of the top magazines usually brings in extra ad bucks for the coming year. Heading the top-10 was...
WALL STREET HAS PUT THE FED IN A BIND
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amWALL Street is in a pickle. The Labor Department announced Friday that only 43,000 new jobs were created in February. Wall Street cheered by driving stock prices up sharply in...
PHONE BILL BONANZA; GLOBAL CROSSING HANGS UP ANNUNZIATA FOR $89M
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amIt was a lousy year for Bob Annunziata's fiber-optics gamble -- but the ousted exec will still pocket a whopping $89 million in options and perks for his 12 months...
FASHION AND THE MEN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amU.S. presidents have not only shaped world events but changed fashion as well.John F. Kennedy, for example, single-handedly dissuaded American men from wearing hats. Dwight D. Eisenhower left the legacy...
BACK TO THE FUTURE ; FASHION SHOWS, PARIS 'FIREWORKS' DRAW FROM '80S
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amWE learned a lot during our first Paris Fashion Week.In the month-long, four-city show circuit, New York and Milan are where fashionistas spot mainstream trends and gawk at front-row celebs....
RICK'S NOVEL VOWS ROCKWELL CALLS 'MULTIMILLIONAIRE' FODDER FOR BOOK
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amRICK Rockwell is hoping his roller-coaster ride as America's most famous groom will help him laugh his way to the top of the entertainment business. "When life hands you lemons,...
TOP SPOTS, BAR ; NEW ZAGAT GUIDE SAMPLES NIGHTLIFE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amWONDERING where to steer your cousin the Hell's Angel when he rips into town on his hog, hot and thirsty?Or maybe a nice spot for sipping the bubbly is more...
'AMY' JUDGED BEST TV ROOKIE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe gavel came down twice for the new television hit "Judging Amy" at the second annual TV Guide Awards, chosen by the magazine's readers. The CBS drama snagged the trophy...
THE STARR REPORT
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amIt's Wayne's world Woo hoo! Party boy Wayne Newton was getting down and funky recently in Las Vegas with Playboy TV's "Sexiest Girls Next Door." Newton, who's just inked a...
'SOPRANOS' BIGGIES PUT HBO UNDER GUN FOR MORE MONEY
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amFOLLOWING two smash seasons, "Sopranos" creator David Chase is asking HBO for more money to come back and run the show. The show is expected to start shooting its third...
WHAT JUST $135 CAN BUY; GUESTS COAXED BY CASH
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amA PREGNANT girl who was murdered three weeks after she appeared on "Forgive Or Forget" was persuaded by her boyfriend to go on the show after he heard they would...
BIG JOHN CAN WIN -- EVEN IN DEFEAT
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amNEW York Republicans backing George W. Bush in tomorrow's GOP primary fear John McCain will win a surprise "moral victory" because of strong suburban support -- even if Bush takes...
MAGGIE'S FAREWELL GIFT TO PINOCHET
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amMargaret Thatcher has taken a stunning swipe at Spain by awarding former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet a pricey silver plate. The former British prime minister handed over the plate...
GOP MAY PAY FOR SINS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Republican Party has a fundamental problem with fundamentalism. Whatever happens in tomorrow's primaries, the religious war George W. Bush reignited in South Carolina will endure in American politics. The...
FEDS COULD SET BACK THE CIVIL-RIGHTS MOVEMENT
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amBILL CLINTON, like his wife, is the great panda bear of politics, and he panders like a third-grader who gives his teacher an apple. His latest panda act is to...
5 APPLE SCHOOLS GET TOP MARKS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amFive New York City high schools -- and 87 others statewide -- have been named among the top 450 public high schools in the country. In a nationwide survey, Newsweek...
MENSTRUATION 'CURSE' LIVES
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amModern American women menstruate far more often than their grandmothers did, increasing the risk for cancer, doctors say. Dr. Malcolm Pike, a medical statistician at the University of Southern California,...
'FATHER PAT' HAUNTS THEM STILL - 3 CLAIM PRIEST MOLESTED THEM
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Catholic Church tried to pay Daniel Dugo Jr. $15,000 so you would never read this story. But Dugo was worried that if he took the money, more children would...
BLOODY TRAIL CONNECTS MIAMI DUO TO BRONX MASSACRE: COPS - SUSPECT'S BOOTPRINT MATCHES CRIME SCENE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amDetectives have uncovered a grisly trail of evidence linking two Miami men to last week's slaughter of five relatives in The Bronx, sources said yesterday. NYPD cops were in Miami...
SAFIR REPAYS BIZMAN $7,100 FOR OSCAR JAUNT
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir has reimbursed the business executive who invited him to the Academy Awards aboard a private jet -- while an ethics investigation into the trip drags on...
O'CONNOR PROVES HIS 'MEDAL' AT ST. PAT'S MASS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amAn ailing John Cardinal O'Connor appeared at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Mass yesterday -- as President Clinton signed legislation awarding him the Congressional Gold Medal. "For more than 50 years,...
MCCAIN RULES OUT REFORM-PARTY BID
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amBUFFALO -- John McCain insisted yesterday he won't run as the Reform Party candidate if he can't win the GOP nomination -- but a new poll says if he did,...
COURTHOUSE TRIO NAILED BY LARRY CELONA
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amThree Manhattan courthouse workers were busted early yesterday for allegedly robbing a Brooklyn man at gunpoint for $5 and a bottle of Remy Martin cognac. The three -- Michael Taylor,...
RESCUERS IN LIFE-&-DEATH RACE TO AID REFUGEES IN MOZAMBIQUE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amInternational relief workers and foreign troops and aircraft scrambled to deliver food and medicine to tens of thousands of refugees from Mozambique's devastating floods yesterday. British, German and French helicopters...
HILLARY RIPS RUDY ON NYPD IN WAKE OF DIALLO SLAYING
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday assailed Mayor Giuliani for ignoring serious racial problems with the NYPD -- saying Amadou Diallo's death must spark reforms. "The leadership in this city refuses to...
TWIGGY: 'SEEDY' BIZ NO PLACE FOR YOUNG MODELS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amSixties fashion icon Twiggy reportedly wants to see a ban on models under the age of 16, saying young girls too often fall prey to unscrupulous operators in the industry....
ARIZONAN GAINING GROUND HERE FAST: POLL
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- With just a day to go to New York's crucial GOP primary, John McCain is picking up ground in his battle with George W. Bush, a New York...
BX. MOM CHARGED IN KIDS' DEATHS - FIRE KILLS HOME-ALONE TODDLERS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx woman was charged with manslaughter last night after she left her two young kids home alone and they were killed in a blaze, police said. Three-year-old Joquam Williams...
GOP RACE COULD TURN ON N.Y. VOTE - MCCAIN IN NEED OF BIG-STATE WIN
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amThis time, it really is up to New York -- where Republicans George W. Bush and John McCain are locked in a tightening fight to the finish. Underdog McCain needs...
G.W. REFUSES TO CURB TEXAS-BILLIONAIRE ATTACK DOGS IN $2.5M AD PUSH
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican front-runner George W. Bush yesterday repeatedly refused to ask his Texas billionaire pals to pull back their $2.5 million deluge of last-minute TV attack ads against insurgent rival John...
142 BEAT DEATH IN BURBANK JET CRASH
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amBURBANK, Calif. -- A Southwest Airlines 737 jet skidded off the end of a runway after landing last night, ripped through a blast fence and careened onto a rain-soaked street,...
L.I. BAKERY'S PARTNERSHIP TURNS SOUR
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe cookie's crumbling for the daughter of a Southampton farm family who turned a roadside chocolate-chip cookie stand into a thriving multimillion-dollar bakery popular with the East End's rich and...
BRADLEY SCOFFS AT IDEA OF BECOMING AL'S VEEP
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amDemocrat Bill Bradley yesterday said that "under no circumstances" would he consider being Al Gore's veep -- although Bradley's own dreams of winning the top spot seem headed for a...
RUSSIAN PREZ: WE'D JOIN NATO -- AS EQUAL
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amActing Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wants his country to join NATO one day -- but only if the Western military alliance treats Russia as an equal. In a...
MURDERS SOARING IN BOROUGH
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amMurders in The Bronx have skyrocketed this year, with three men killed yesterday -- bringing the total for the week to at least 12. Through yesterday, 54 people have been...
RUDY IS ALL GOP POWER PAIR HAVE IN COMMON ON S.I.
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amGov. Pataki swooped into Staten Island yesterday, where he held a pep rally for presidential hopeful George W. Bush -- right under the nose of his chief rival's top backer,...
6 INJURED IN NIGHTCLUB VIOLENCE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amAt least six men were injured in a bloody series of beatings, stabbings, slashings and shootings at three nightclubs yesterday, and a city correction officer was arrested in one incident,...
ST. PAT'S MARCH IN QNS. IS GAYS' NEXT BEST THING
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amGay and lesbian groups, excluded for years from the city's huge Fifth Avenue parade, marched yesterday in a St. Patrick's Day parade in Queens. "This is my Irish community and...
CHINA WARNS AGAINST TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amChina yesterday warned it won't ignore attempts by Taiwan to move towards outright independence, but tempered recent saber-rattling by offering to negotiate a peaceful unification. "We place our hopes on...
U.S. HOPING IT HAS WORKED BUGS OUT OF MOSCOW EMBASSY
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amFinally, a bug-free U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The new structure, to be finished by the end of the month, has been two decades in the making. It has cost U.S....
RISING HOME-CANDLE USE SPARKS MORE TRAGEDIES
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe number of home fires caused by candles is soaring locally and nationally as more and more people use candles to soothe nerves or set the stage for romance, a...
MAYBE WE NEED BOVINE INTERVENTION
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amHILLARY CLINTON isn't the only interloper from Chicago who's finding that New York City deserves its reputation for hostility. The latest out-of-towner to bite the Big Apple is "Cow Parade,"...
GAELS REFUSE TO LOSE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amIona 76 Fairfield 72 ALBANY -- Iona was three minutes away from an upset at the hands of Fairfield, just three short minutes away from being sent back to New...
ISLANDERS RALLY TO STUN FLYERS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amOvertime Islanders 4 Flyers 3 PHILADELPHIA -- Dissatisfied with what the Panthers were offering in a trade, the Islanders have told Florida general manager Bryan Murray to forget about getting...
DEVILS SALVAGE A POINT BUT OFFENSE STILL SPUTTERS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 2 Flames 2 CALGARY --This team that has died from lack of scoring the past three playoffs has shut down early this year. Still, off they go for a...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MIDDLE GROUND?
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amIF there's a silver lining -- or even a reversible one -- to the Darryl Strawberry and John Rocker sagas, it's that we can all learn one thing: We never...
DUTCHMEN DANCE ON DREXEL
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amAMERICA EAST SEMIS Hofstra 69 Drexel 51 NEWARK, Del. -- None of these Hofstra kids was born the last time their school played in the NCAA Tournament. The coach was...
'CANES COULD STAND IN SJU'S WAY AGAIN
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI -- For the second straight year, if St. John's is to get a crack at the Big East Conference Tournament title, it will probably have to win a rematch...
RANGERS STRINGING MANNY ALONG
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE -- If the Rangers are committed to sending Manny Malhotra to Guelph so they can get him to Hartford for the AHL playoffs, wouldn't it have made sense...
ROCK PUSHING HARD TO PUT ON PINSTRIPES
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amYANK NOTES TAMPA -- Tim Raines remains the longest of shots to make the Yankees, but yesterday was not only a baby step in the right direction it was also...
KNICK LOSS IS AN OLD STORY: WEARY WARRIORS SHOW THEIR AGE IN LOSS TO JAZZ
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amJazz 88 Knicks 79 Splat! The Knicks have hit a wall. Slammed into it, in fact. Old, tired, lethargic. That about summed up the Knicks yesterday in their dreary 88-79...
BOSS STILL THIRSTS FOR 1ST SPRING WIN
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA --George Steinbrenner's never-ending thirst for winning doesn't understand the difference between March and July. All The Boss knows is that finishing second is for other people whether the game...
STORM DREAM DIES HARD
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Miami 74 St. John's 70 MIAMI -- St. John's was 2.6 seconds away from a share of the Big East Conference regular-season title when Miami's Mario Bland drove the...
KNICK LOSS IS AN OLD STORY: LAYDEN'S WEEKEND: FROM EIFFEL TO AWFUL
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amSCOTT Layden, the Knicks' general manager, took the overnight flight from France to get in town just in time to witness his new team get whipped by his old team,...
BARKLEY, SJU KNOW MADNESS HAS JUST BEGUN
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI -- God created only one more season than college basketball puts on every year. Of course, HE did it in seven days, which is not nearly as long as...
ANOTHER 'SHOCKING' UPSET
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amAllen's Oop, sent off at 45-1, stalked the pace and then closed well on the outside to win the $500,000 New Orleans Handicap over Take Note of Me yesterday at...
MARCUS NEEDED AS PICK-ME-UP
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS is no misdiagnosis. The Knicks are dog-day tired. There are no easy baskets with Marcus Camby out of the lineup, no crowd-thrilling blocked shots. And Jeff Van Gundy's shallow...
LAYDEN SAYS HE SEES HOPE FOR WEIS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Knick GM Scott Layden, returning from his voyage to France to scout 1999 No. 1 pick Frederic Weis, said yesterday he was "encouraged" by what he saw. But...
BIG WEEKEND ON TAP FOR DERBY HOPEFULS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amIn the only significant Kentucky Derby prep over the weekend, trainer Neil Drysdale's War Chant remained unbeaten, winning his third start and first stakes appearance, the one-mile San Rafael Saturday...
KING DRIVES LINCOLN INTO GARDEN FINAL
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amPSAL "A" Lincoln 75 Cardozo 65 Lincoln trailed Cardozo by nine points at halftime, but Eric King wasn't worried. "Coach [Dwayne Morton] told us to keep our composure," King said...
ORDONEZ TAKES NO OFFENSE: BOBBY V'S CRITICISM DOESN'T RILE REY
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amVERO BEACH -- Bobby Valentine wants harder hitting at the plate from Rey Ordonez. So does Ordonez. The shortstop responded yesterday to Valentine's challenge contritely and seemingly unaffected by Valentine...
ESCHMEYER GETS SECOND CHANCE
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO -- Evan Eschmeyer knows he messed up. He has done his mea culpas to the media, his teammates, his coaches. He would love the opportunity to atone for...
PULSE ROCKED IN MET RETURN
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES VERO BEACH -- Making his first exhibition appearance, Bill Pulsipher nearly got pulled in his one inning of work as he pitched the sixth here during the Mets'...
ORDONEZ TAKES NO OFFENSE:VALENTINE EXPLAINS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amVERO BEACH -- Bobby Valentine's message to Rey Ordonez was offensive though not meant to offend. He sees a player who can hit more if he gave away less at...
IT'S ALL RELATIVE, MARTIN COACH SCREAMS
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amWhile players and coaches shook hands after yesterday's PSAL "A" girls semifinal, August Martin head coach Joel Ascher was screaming. Ascher was livid with the officiating in his team's 62-56...
LATEST LOSS MESSES UP DEVIL TRADE POSSIBILITIES
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amCALGARY - For the Devils, this loss may have been more costly than the others. After being trounced 4-2 in Vancouver Saturday, the Devils flew here for last night's game...
OLLI'S BEGINNING TO FILL ZIGGY'S SKATES
March 6, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - When the Islanders acquired Olli Jokinen in a trade last June, it would have been foolish to expect them to be getting as much as they lost. After...