March 4, 2001
FASHION TV COVERAGE IS MOVING FAR OFF THE RUNWAY
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe face of fashion television coverage is changing - quickly. With the "retirement" of Elsa Klensch from CNN - and the network not planning to add any other style-driven programs...
TWIN VORNADO TORNADOS: THEY GOT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, BUT ROTH & FASCITELLI WANT MORE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amPROFILE STEVEN ROTH & MICHAEL FASCITELLI THEY whoosh in together, camel coats flaring, shaking hands, saying a few hellos. If the event is special enough, they will eat a few...
DESPERATELY SEEKING GEORGE KENNEDY KIN WANT RIGHTS TO JOHN'S MAG
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amKENNEDY family members are negotiating to buy the trademark and archive rights to the defunct George magazine from Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, Media Ink has learned. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg was the...
TOWNHOUSE SALES ALL IN THE FAMILY FOR MILLER SISTERS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amANOTHER Miller sister has listed her townhouse on the market. Pia Getty, perhaps the wealthiest of the trio of blond society siblings, has put her townhouse on E. 78th St....
ZUCKERMAN EYEING THE OLD DAILY NEWS BUILDING
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amALTHOUGH he owns the paper, he's never owned the building. But Mort Zuckerman may be looking to remedy that. In early May, The Daily News owner is one of the...
ANOTHER LOOK AT MARQUIS DE SADE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amIf you, like Cine File, found "Quills" overrated, overhyped and overwrought (or even if you didn't), check out "Sade." That's a French riff on the infamous Marquis de Sade, directed...
4 QUESTIONS FOR KERMIT THE FROG
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amWHY THE TELEPHONE BOOK IS SO VERY IMPORTANT TO MEWho are your heroes? The biggest hero in my life has to be Jim Henson. He showed all of us how...
NICKS & SCRATCHES IN THE DATING GAME
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amSamuel L. Jackson couldn't make it to the game - so I finagled his front row seat.I wore a miniskirt, Armani top and put my hair in Britney-esque braids. I...
WHAT I WATCH
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amDR. LARRY ROSENTHALCOSMETIC DENTIST"THE PRACTICE." I'M INTRIGUED BY HOW THE SHOW PORTRAYS THE LAWYERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR CLIENTS. THESE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS CREATES A SCENARIO THAT I'VE BECOME ALL...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amJamie-Lynn Sigler is the mob-princess daughter Meadow Soprano on "The Sopranos," and her teenage character will soon explore her sexuality on the show, which kicks off its third season tonight...
THIS BOND OFFERS VIOLENCE AND LITTLE ELSE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe name is Bond . . . Edward Bond. And though this 66-year-old playwright is well enough known in Europe - he's probably more highly regarded in France and Germany...
LONE INDI GIRL
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amAmy Ray considers herself a late bloomer. It's an odd statement coming from a Grammy-winning artist who formed the roots of the hit group the Indigo Girls in junior high...
DREAMING OF CREAM
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amGot half-and-half? Chances are your coffee does. Retail sales for the part milk, part cream concoction are fast on the rise, with consumers pouring millions more worth into their cups...
SCARING UP A NEW GIG : 'HELLRAISER' HORROR MASTER CLIVE BARKER KNIFES INTO THE GAME WORLD WITH A NOVEL NEW PROJECT.
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amClive Barker knows his way around "the boo business," as he puts it. It was this Liverpool native's talent for scaring people -- he created the "Hellraiser" movies and wrote...
YOU CAN REALLY MOUTH OFF WITH THIS VOICE GIZMO
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amWant to take make your game playing more fun and accessible? Try Game Commander 2 by Sontage Interactive, which eliminates the need to remember any keystrokes: It lets you control...
HELPING HAND FROM SLAIN SOCIAL WORKER
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amMAX MORAN has finally discovered his life's mission. Moran, who felt like a nobody who was trying to scrape life's cruel dirt off his face, became a somebody. Moran won...
EGAN HAILED AT ST. PAT'S IN HIS NEW CARDINAL RED
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amEdward Cardinal Egan got thunderous applause and ovations yesterday at a special prayer service at St. Patrick's Cathedral commemorating his new rank. Egan, the leader of the New York archdiocese's...
DUBYA RADIO TALK TOUTS TAX CUT
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bush hit the airwaves yesterday to urge Americans to buy into his whopping $1.6 trillion tax-cut proposal - and sell their elected representatives on the plan. Bush said there...
TERROR BOMB INJURES 15 AT ISRAELI MARKET
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA terrorist bomb exploded early today in the center of the Israeli coastal town of Netanya, officials said. Ambulance crews were treating at least 15 people in the open-air market...
GISELE: I'M FASHIONING NEW CAREER
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amBrazilian bombshell Gisele Bundchen has strutted down the catwalk for the last time, saying she is fed up with the frenetic pace of the runways. "Enough, it's over. It's the...
PRO-LIFERS FUME AT RUDY'S S.I. MARCH PLAN
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani marched right into a simmering abortion-rights controversy when he announced he would participate in the Staten Island St. Patrick's Day Parade today without any reservations. Parade organizers selected...
MYSTERY OF SLAIN TOURIST IN QNS.
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA 29-year-old tourist was killed in a Queens nightclub yesterday for no apparent reason, police sources said. The victim, a man from Kentucky, was stabbed at 1:10 a.m. inside Take...
POL TAKES HEAT IN SHOOTING
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTaxi drivers chief Fernando Mateo blasted City Councilman Noach Dear yesterday, saying a Bronx livery cab driver would not have been shot during a robbery attempt if Dear wasn't holding...
RUDY: FUGAZY PARDON'S OK
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday said Bill Clinton was "justified" in pardoning convicted perjurer Bill Fugazy, despite a report linking it to a $1 million pledge to the Clinton presidential library. "I...
LEONA CAN'T BUY A BREAK, BUT CAN BUY $1M BREAKUP
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amAt age 80, real-estate empress Leona Helmsley has had more crushes and heartbreak over the past year than most love-struck 15-year-olds. But few schoolgirl romances could be stranger than her...
MACAULEY'S GOT A SECRET LOVE: TABLOID
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amLooks like Macauley Culkin's days of being home alone are over. The baby-faced, 20-year-old actor, who broke up with wife Rachel Miner last year, has been secretly dating New York-born...
21 DIE IN GA. CRASH OF NAT'L GUARD PLANE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amAn aircraft carrying members of a National Guard construction crew home to Virginia crashed in a ball of flames during a rainstorm in central Georgia yesterday, killing all 21 on...
L.I. WOMAN MISSING AFTER MYSTERIOUS FIRE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA Long Island woman is missing after a mysterious fire ravaged her home, police said yesterday. Investigators said the fire broke out Friday afternoon at the home of Claudia Broder,...
COLUMBIA, NYU PRESIDENTS TO EXIT
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe presidents of Columbia and New York universities, two of the most prestigious schools in the country, are calling it quits next year. George Rupp, Columbia's president since 1992, and...
FBI: SPY THRIVED FROM AMES BUST
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Accused FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen took advantage of the fallout over the Aldrich Ames spy scandal at the CIA to boost his value as a double agent, investigators...
DON RUDY SLAYS 'EM IN MOB SKIT
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amLast night's Inner Circle media gala at the New York Hilton would have made the late Mario Puzo proud. Mayor Giuliani, who doffed his pants and donned stockings and high...
DEAD BABY FOUND WITH HOMELESS MOM
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA disturbed homeless woman clutching her dead baby son in her arms was found in a passageway inside Penn Station yesterday by good Samaritans from a homeless outreach program, police...
CITY'S IN BIG BLITZ TO BEAT BLIZZARD
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amFrantic New Yorkers were rushing to scoop up whatever salt and snow shovels they could find yesterday, preparing for a blizzard that could dump a record-breaking 2-plus feet of snow...
'WRONG-SIDE' BRAIN-OP MAN HOME, THRILLED TO SEE HIS KID
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA Staten Island man who underwent an operation on the wrong side of his skull is out of the hospital where the botched operation took place - and is in...
CALLING THE 'SHOTS' IN KIDS' HEALTH ; VACCINATION-FEARING PARENTS BATTLE CITY IMMUNIZATION LAWS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amMaja Leibovitz and Patricia Papdopulous are two mothers at loggerheads with the city because they refuse to have their kids vaccinated against deadly diseases like polio, whooping cough and hepatitis...
BY GEORGE, IT'S BLOODY BLACKMAIL!
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA British aristocrat is threatening to yank a famous portrait of George Washington from the Smithsonian Institution unless he's paid $20 million. Lord Harry Dalmeny, who owns Gilbert Stuart's 1796...
SNUFF OUT THE WHINERS ALREADY!
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe City Council may extend smoking restrictions to some outdoor areas.Steven HirschI STOPPED smoking several years ago - not because of health concerns, but because it became too much of...
LUCKY 7 GET A BUMP CASTING-CALL ROOKIES SING 'SOPRANOS' TUNE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amRemember that open casting call for "The Sopranos" that your cousin Vinnie and everyone else in the neighborhood answered last July? Well, seven lucky wannabe actors out of the tens...
J. LO FAILED IN WITNESS 'AUDITION'
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs' lawyers decided not to call Jennifer Lopez to the witness stand because she bombed out in a secret mock trial they staged to gauge her usefulness, a...
JURORS SEE SURLY SIDE OF USUALLY JOVIAL JOHNNIE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amHere are some unreported but notable happenings from Week 5 of the Sean "Puffy" Combs guns-and-bribery trial in Manhattan Supreme Court. Most days in the People of the State of...
FIGHTING FOR OUR FAILING SCHOOLS CHARTER FIRM FACES OFF WITH ADVOCACY GROUP
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA fierce battle pitting boardroom-backed educators against a feisty 1960s-type liberal advocacy group could determine the future of the city's public-school system. In one corner is the well-heeled Edison Schools...
COPS BUST MAN WITH WEAPONS CACHE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amA 34-year-old man was arrested in Brooklyn early yesterday on charges that he possessed an arsenal of exotic weapons and explosive materials, police said. Cops from the Brooklyn North Gang...
FOOT-AND-MOUTH FEARS WIDEN
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amFrance and Belgium yesterday reported their first suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease, sparking fears that the highly contagious livestock virus might have spread to continental Europe. The suspected case in...
SCOTLAND YARD TO 'GLADIATOR'S' RESCUE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amAn evil plot to abduct hunky Australian actor Russell Crowe at the British premiere of his film, "Proof of Life" - and demand a ransom of millions - has been...
COLUMBIA PREXY WILL LEAVE IN '02
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amColumbia University president George Rupp, who created a furor when he dismissed - and quickly reinstated - a popular dean, is stepping down next year. Rupp, who has held the...
HOOP VOICE LEARNS CBAS OF SURVIVAL
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amDAN Hymowitz sounds sincere when he says he wouldn't trade it for anything. That's good, because not many people would give him anything for it. At nearly 23 - he...
GLEN HOT ON PECA'S TRAIL
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amAS GLEN Sather awaits a decision by Phoenix GM Cliff Fletcher regarding Nikolai Khabibulin - Wayne Gretzky's role here is blurred - the GM is also focusing on finding a...
LOU MAY WHEEL PICK FOR 'D' HELP DEVILS IN HUNT FOR BLUE-LINE HELP
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amLIGHTNINGatDEVILSToday5:30 - Metro WABC (770 AM) The GM who followed a great spring with a bummer summer has backed himself into a corner for this offseason. But typically, Lou Lamoriello...
DEREK SLAPS GAG ON A-ROD JETER TELLS BUDDY TO ZIP IT AFTER ALEX'S LATEST PUBLIC RIP JOB
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Alex Rodriguez is finished talking about Derek Jeter in print. While Jeter refused to divulge the meat of his telephone conversation with A-Rod Friday night, Jeter made sure...
JETER'S BIG SHOT MAY FINALLY COME TODAY
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Yankees are waiting one extra day before plunging a syringe of cortisone into Derek Jeter's right shoulder. Originally the club was going to hit Jeter's shoulder yesterday....
THE GARY GAME - FOR METS SLUGGER'S LONG-RUN LOSER
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - From a distance, we have learned Gary Sheffield is dumb. Up close, we are noticing the Mets are deaf and blind. Talent does that to folks....
BOMBERS WOULD BE FAMILY AFFAIR FOR SHEFF
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - Gary Sheffield essentially swore on his grandfather's grave he wouldn't ask to renegotiate his contract if traded to the Yankees. To do so would be to break...
THE KEY WORD IS DEADLINE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amRANGERSatPREDATORSToday3:00 - MSG WEVD (1050 AM) You have to understand that the Rangers are making lineup and in-game ice-time decisions with an eye toward next Tuesday's trade deadline. That's why...
DIVERSA RUNS OFF WITH BIG A'S BUSHER
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amDiversa continued her dominance of the local three-year-old filly division as she took over the lead from pacesetting Sweep Dreams on the far turn and drew off to a 43/4-length...
JAX NOT RAPT AT RETURN
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTORONTO - Mark Jackson was a Raptor for 54 games, so he has no special feelings about returning to Air Canada Centre today. But that didn't stop him from taking...
CHRIS CAN'T HELP BUT ACT CHILDISH AGAINST OLD TEAM
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTORONTO - Chris Childs said yesterday that playing for Jeff Van Gundy became as pleasurable as root canal. The recently traded Childs, who faces the Knicks today at Air Canada...
TRYING TO WIN - PHILLIPS, MALONE MAKE NO PROGRESS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Gary Sheffield St. Lucie summit was neither peaceful nor fruitful yesterday. Instead, Dodgers GM Kevin Malone, standing on the Mets' spring training turf, questioned Steve...
TWO POINTS OF VIEW ON KNICKS - MARK MULLS WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTORONTO - At least Garden prez Dave Checketts and Mark Jackson agree on something: It was the perfect time to bring him back to New York. What Checketts and Jax...
GRANT GETS DEEP SIXED SUFFERS SPASMS IN SHELLING
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - In 12/3 innings yesterday, Grant Roberts gave up six runs on eight hits. If that wasn't bad enough, Roberts had to go to the hospital for...
SIRAGUSA EATIN' IT ALL UP RAVEN FLAUNTS SUPE TROPHY IN GIANTS COUNTRY
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amIT IS a little past 10:30 Friday night, and finally, The Fat Man Cometh. The energetic crowd at Tiffany's in Pine Brook, not far from Tony Siragusa's Kenilworth, N.J., home,...
TWO BLASTS BOOST YANKS, HILL'S STOCK
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amEXHIBITION / 11 INN.Yankees8Royals7 TAMPA - A pair of monster homers by Glenallen Hill not only carried the Yankees to a come-from-behind, 8-7, victory over the Royals in 11 innings...
MAYNARD LEAVES GIANTS FOR BEARS' BUCKS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amFour years ago, the Giants selected Brad Maynard out of Ball State with a third-round pick in the 1997 NFL Draft - the highest they've ever used on a punter....
LANE'S SHOT SAVES THE HALL - WIN GUARANTEES SPOT IN BIG EAST TOURNEY
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amSeton Hall was 6.1 seconds from what could have been the end of one of the most disappointing seasons in Big East history, and Darius Lane was 25 feet away...
LINCOLN MAKES UP FOR LOST TIME
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amFew teams in the PSAL are hotter than Lincoln. It seems the only way to get rid of the fourth-seeded Railsplitters is to hope they get lost on the way...
RUTGERS ENDS SORRY SEASON WITH DOWNER
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amProv.69Rutgers66If it were up to Rutgers graduate Tony Soprano, somebody might get whacked for this 11-16 basketball season. It ended with a whimper yesterday. Ninety seconds into the Scarlet Knights'...
NETS JUST CAN'T CUT IT ROAD'S A KILLER FOR DOOMED MEADOWLANDS MOB
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amTORONTO - Don't put out a hit on the messenger for squealing, but the Nets are about to let another decade get away from them. Imagine the nasty stuff we'd...
GAELS TAKE RIGHT ROAD
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - When Iona ended its regular season with a third-straight loss, a 19-point humiliation at Manhattan, coach Jeff Ruland said his team had reached a crossroads. It would either...
THIS DEBACLE COULD GET BUTCH FIRED
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amAfter the Islanders suffered their most humiliating loss of the season, if not franchise history, last night, signals suggest that coach Butch Goring could be fired today. The Islanders, pounded...
STORM'S DANCE HOPE IS PIPE DREAM
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amWhen St. John's opened the season by shocking Kentucky at the Garden, visions of a great season formed in the Red Storm's collective head. "It's not often you get a...
HITMEN 'D' SHOWS A 'RAYBO' OF HOPE
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe Hitmen were unable to hold on to the ball last night and the Los Angeles Xtreme came into Giants Stadium and played the home team right off the field,...
WALLACE MATTHEWS' ROUND-BY-ROUND SCORING
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amROUND 1- In their corners before the bell, Ruiz was rocking back and forth as if he couldn't wait to get at Holyfield. He was in a sweat while Holyfield's...
WITH GREATEST OF RUIZ JOHN TAKES TITLE - BUT EVANDER VOWS TO FIGHT ON
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - The best thing that could have happened to Evander Holyfield, happened last night. He got beat, clearly, cleanly and without excuses, by John Ruiz. Best of all,...
EXASPERATED JASPERS FALL SHORT
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Coach Bobby Gonzalez has lifted Manhattan from the bottom of the MAAC to within a game of the regular-season title, much of it with smoke and mirrors. But...
FUTURE LOOKS GOOD FOR JASPERS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Don't misunderstand Manhattan coach Bobby Gonzalez. He wasn't giving up on this season before it began, or using Justin Jackette's knee injury as an alibi to concede the...
ROENICK TOPS ISLES' WISH LIST
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amJeremy Roenick could be moving closer to unrestricted free agency, which leaves the door wide open for the Islanders to swoop in and sign their desired star center this summer....
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - HOLYFIELD-RUIZ MATTERS ONLY TO KING, FIGHTERS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - To both Evander Holyfield and John Ruiz, last night's scheduled 12-round bout for the WBA heavyweight title was clearly a fight worth fighting. For Holyfield, it was...
CHIN MUSIC
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amNo Juice for Jax *He weighed 215 pounds when he played and he weighs 215 pounds today. If all the supplements that are available to today's athletes were available when...