August 29, 2000
TIME PARENTING TO 530 FIFTH
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe Parenting group of Time Inc. is consolidating its magazines and upcoming Web site in new green-motiff digs at 530 Fifth Ave. By November, Parenting Group magazines Parenting, Baby Talk...
NEWMARK'S MAVERICK CULTURE - COWBOY JIMMY KUHN RIDES REAL ESTATE GIANT
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amIMAGES of the Old West, not of modern Manhattan, adorn the office of James D. Kuhn, co-president of powerhouse Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc. "Jimmy" and fellow cowboys Jeff...
WARNING OF BANK DEFAULT CLIPS LOEWS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amComing soon to a theater near you: "Bankrupt Megaplexes!" Loews Cineplex Entertainment was beaten up on Wall Street yesterday after the company warned that it won't be able to meet...
MP3.COM'S CEO: WE'RE PROTECTING ARTISTS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe head of MP3.com took the witness stand in federal court yesterday to defend his company as a champion of copyright rules out to protect artists from the "chaos" of...
VIACOM PLANS TO MERGE THE BOX WITH MTV2
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amOne year after acquring The Box, MTV Networks is set to merge the interactive music channel into its MTV2. "We can confirm that we are in discussions with MTV2 about...
LEHMAN ZAPS YAHOO! - BECKER'S WARNING SLASHES 9% OFF STOCK
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amCall it the Curse of Lehman. Another big dot-com reeled yesterday when Lehman Brothers Analyst Holly Becker sent blue-chip king Yahoo! into a slump by declaring the company's outlook "worrisome."...
'SURVIVOR' HATCH'S BOOK MAY LAY AN EGG
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe bid by "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch to cash in on his fame with a high priced memoir appears to have plateaued with bidding stalled at just under $500,000. Hatch...
E-TAILERS TRADING CLICKS FOR BRICKS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amINSIDE.COM and Space.com shocked Web watchers when they each announced plans to publish "real world" paper magazines. But they are hardly the first online players seeking a presence and profits...
JUNIOR DOUBLES YOUR GUITAR-LISTENING PLEASURE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amJUNIOR Brown's got a gimmick: A "guit-steel," a double-necked instrument he invented so he could smoothly move from sliding on the steel to a picking on the traditional guitar. It's...
VOICE-OVER ACTOR'S JUST MOO-VELOUS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amCOWS, chickens, rabbits, ducks, elephants, baboons - Charlie Adler's resume reads like a census report from the zoo. But it's not. Adler is a voice-over actor, and these are just...
MADONNA'S SINGLE IS 'MUSIC' TO BRIT EARS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amIT seems the Brits love Madonna back."Music," the first single from the Anglophile's upcoming album of the same name, has debuted at the top of the British pop charts, despite...
HICKS, LICKS SCRATCHING 7-YEAR ITCH
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amDAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS "Beatin' the Heat" ( ) Surfdog Records On his first album in nearly seven years, Dan Hicks offers more reports from the brink of...
NEWSCASTER'S NEW CASA
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amLOCAL TV news veteran J.J. González is the new managing editor of "Noticias 41," the three-times-a-day newscast on Spanish-Language Univision 41 (WXTV). González, 68 - best known for his 28-year...
'BIT' A SIZABLE FEAT - LITTLE PEOPLE EYE BIG ROLES & MAKE THEIR OWN SHORT
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amTIRED of playing Christmas elves and leprechauns, vertically challenged actors Verne ("Mini Me") Troyer and Phil Fondacaro have taken matters into their own hands. The two star in a short...
IS RUDY READY TO BE AN ACTOR?
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amCBS is chopping up the cast of "Survivor" into small pieces and spreading them across primetime. Rudy Boesch, the crusty 72-year-old retired Navy SEAL - who was arguably the most...
'FESS UPS MESS UP - COURT TV CHANGES KILLER VIDEO SHOW
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amCOURT TV - which had hoped to jump on the reality bandwagon with a show featuring the videotaped confessions of killers - has suddenly found itself in the hotseat. Several...
HEY, IS STATUE RALPHIE?
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE out there Jackie Gleason is smiling. A 1,000-lb. likeness of blustery Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden was unveiled yesterday at the Port Authority bus terminal at 40th Street and...
DRESS-UP IN TUXEDO - DAMSELS, JOUSTERS & MEAD AT A RAUCOUS RENAISSANCE FAIRE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE "CASTLE" at the Renaissance Faire is made of wood, not stone. The "Tudor village" of vendors and carnival games is set 100 feet from a highway. And villagers didn't...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amShow me the money Check out a new product that's handy for New Yorkers and their out-of-town guests. The Midtown Manhattan Money Map ($5.95) is a comprehensive guide to banks,...
SCENES FROM SYDNEY - EXPLORING THE MANY SIDES OF THIS COLORFUL METROPOLIS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE ultimate Sydney snapshot has to be the Harbour Bridge.It's where the city literally begins, and ends. All things lead to the bridge, the Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay,...
HIGH-TECH CHASTITY BELT: IT'S ABOUT 'TIME'
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amAn Italian sexologist has developed a modern-day version of the chastity belt - saying he expects it to sell well among suspicious couples. The electronic device - attached to the...
WHY THE AUSCHWITZ DISCO'S A NO-GO
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amLAST Friday, Polish teens and young adults danced, drank and cavorted late into the evening at a local discothecque, gyrating to the latest techno and heavy-metal music. Sixty years ago,...
DOGS GIVE DISABLED A NEW LEASH ON LIFE - TRAINED POOCHES CAN BE OWNERS' ARMS AND LEGS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amLITTLE Lacey Tompkins would be really lost without her beloved pooch, Ruhr. "He's practically my best friend," the dark-haired Manhattan 8-year-old says shyly, rubbing her hand along Ruhr's head. But...
ASPCA CASHING IN ON PONIES' PLIGHT
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE summer's most thunderous animal-rights dust-up has nothing to do with cows, cancer or the nut jobs at PETA. This battle pits beast against beast. The manure is flying between...
DROWNING BOY SAVED BY DOLPHIN
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amA daring dolphin rescued a 14-year-old boy from drowning yesterday in the Adriatic Sea, an Italian news agency reported. The boy, who does not know how to swim, said he...
HIRSCHFELD COPS TAX PLEA, AGREES TO PAY $1M FINE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amOddball millionaire developer Abe Hirschfeld - already in jail for hiring a hit man to try to kill his business partner - pleaded guilty yesterday to $5.5 million in tax...
DESIGNATED DRIVER JAILED IN DWI DEATH
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amA Long Island man received the maximum sentence yesterday for the drunk-driving death of a college student in a heart-breaking court session held the day after what would have been...
HS HAZING RAMPANT: STUDY
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amAlmost half the high school students who answered a nationwide survey said they were forced to undergo hazing rituals to join athletic teams, the band - and even church groups,...
CITY PANEL PANS SAFIR'S TRIP TO '99 OSCARS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amAn ethics panel has rebuked former Police Commissioner Howard Safir for accepting a free trip to the Academy Awards from a "personal friend" who, it turns out, he had met...
LAZIO STRIKES RIGHT 'NOTE' IN HIS LATEST FUND-RAISING LETTER
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amRICK LAZIO'S "urgent" new fund-raising letter cuts to the chase. In the notecard-size mailing, Lazio tells potential donors he needs only six words to convince them to grab their checkbooks:...
WAS 'JAR BABY' STOLEN FROM JERSEY MORGUE?
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amJersey City cops are hoping to solve as early as today the mystery of a chemically preserved baby discovered among a macabre collection of skulls and human bones in a...
GIULIANI: USTA'S PLANE RULE RISKS OVERHEAD SLAMS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani smashed a serve aimed at the U.S. Open yesterday - accusing tournament directors of sacrificing safety in the sky in exchange for quiet on the tennis court. A...
DEMS RIP CHENEY FOR TURNING $2B PROFIT ON TROOPS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democrats blasted GOP vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney yesterday for saying too many U.S. troops have been sent abroad while running a business that took in $2 billion for...
A UNIFORM APPROACH TO SAVINGS - HERE'S WHERE YOU CAN BUY DUDS FOR LESS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amBefore parents of school-age kids shop 'til they're broke - even for much-hyped but not always less-expensive uniforms - the city Department of Consumer Affairs offered some buying tips yesterday....
NO 'HELLO, DALAI' AT U.N. POWWOW
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT is one supposed to make of a giant powwow of world religions that manages to make room for the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, the race-baiting Brooklyn wackadoodle, but refuses to...
'SURVIVOR' MADE KELLY SICK TO HER STOMACH
August 29, 2000 | 4:00am"Survivor" runner-up Kelly Wiglesworth walked away with more from the tropical island than $100,000 - she also came home with an intestinal parasite. The 23-year-old river guide, who noshed on...
IS CHELSEA OXFORD-BOUND?
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Chelsea Clinton has been following in her dad's footsteps a lot lately: India this spring, Africa yesterday - and maybe to Oxford University next year. TV talk-show host...
COPS TESTIFY QUOTAS LED TO FALSE REPORTS ON TRUANTS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amThree city cops on the truancy beat testified yesterday they fabricated dozens of reports because they felt pressure to meet quotas - referring to each hooky player they found as...
RICK UNVEILS TAXES AND NEW AD ATTACKING HILL
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio released his income-tax returns yesterday - and immediately unleashed a new attack commercial that charges Hillary Rodham Clinton is not to be trusted. The 30-second spot accuses the...
NIXON BIO'S AUTHOR NO STRANGER TO CRITICISM
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amENGLISH-BORN biographer Anthony Summers, whose new book brands Richard Nixon as a ruthless drug-addicted wife-beater, has made a career out of shattering American icons. In earlier books, Summers painted J....
'PRETTY GOOD' RECORD, DESPITE PAST PROBLEMS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amHatzolah is the country's largest volunteer ambulance service, and responds to about 70,000 emergencies a year, mostly in Jewish neighborhoods. It was started about 30 years ago in Williamsburg after...
THE DONALD COMES CLEAN - ADMITS SPENDING 150G ON ADS AGAINST CASINOS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Donald Trump revealed for the first time yesterday that he spent at least $150,000 in unreported lobbying to defeat a proposed Indian casino for the Catskills. That's on...
HATZOLAH MAY FACE SUIT IN B'KLYN CRASH DEATHS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amGrieving relatives of a father and son killed in a collision with a Hatzolah vehicle said last night they may sue the volunteer ambulance service, whose officials denied any wrongdoing....
EWING: IT'S NOT GETTING TO ME
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amPOTOMAC, Md. PATRICK EWING put on his game face yesterday when I asked him if the past two weeks of trade-talk turmoil had gotten to him. "I don't even worry...
PERU GRANTS NEW TRIAL FOR N.Y. 'TERRORIST'
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amPeru's top military tribunal yesterday overturned the life sentence of Lori Berenson, a New York woman convicted of terrorism. But she faces a new trial in a civilian court, which...
TRIBAL LEADERS SNUB CLINTON PEACE PLAN
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton was snubbed yesterday on another peace-making mission. The president, who was in Tanzania for what was hoped would be a peace-signing ceremony ending seven years of...
RAMSEYS' LAWYER: DA IS 'FISHING'
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amA lawyer for the parents of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey yesterday accused a Colorado prosecutor grilling the girl's mom of going on a "fishing expedition" meant to tie...
COPS: HIT-RUN TRUCKER KILLED WIDOW, 87
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amPolice yesterday arrested a truck driver and charged him in a Queens hit-and-run that killed an 87- year-old woman who was crossing a street near her Jamaica home. Cops said...
NEWBORN FOUND IN 8TH AVE. SUBWAY
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amA healthy newborn boy was found abandoned last night on the subway platform at Eighth Avenue and 15th Street. The boy, swaddled in a long-sleeved shirt with the brand name...
USTA 'NO PLANE' RULE MAY CAUSE OVERHEAD SLAM: RUDY
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani smashed a serve aimed at the U.S. Open yesterday - accusing tournament directors of sacrificing safety in the sky in exchange for quiet on the tennis court. A...
RUSSIANS EXTINGUISH TV TOWER INFERNO
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amRussian firefighters extinguished the blaze yesterday that gutted Moscow's huge TV tower and killed at least two people. The firefighters won their 26-hour battle with the flames high inside the...
MYSTERY SHROUDS MURDER-SUICIDE AT UNIV. OF ARK.
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amAn English professor and a graduate student at the University of Arkansas were shot to death yesterday in an apparent murder-suicide on the first day of classes, police said. University...
COPS GRILL JONBENET'S MOM, DAD
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe parents of slain 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey said they agreed to a grilling yesterday by Boulder, Colo., cops in order to help find their daughter's killer. "They may...
ADWATCH
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IT'S CELTIC RULE IN GLASGOW
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - As sporting contests go, the "Old Firm" matches between Rangers and Celtic, Glasgow neighbors and by far the biggest clubs in Scotland, often come close to civilian warfare....
OTB PREZ SEES NYRA DEAL
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - New York City OTB president Bill Carnevale said yesterday it was his "gut feeling" that the long-anticipated sale of OTB to the New York Racing Association, which...
SILVERBULLETDAY HANGING 'EM UP
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amSilverbulletday, the Bob Baffert trainee who was last year's three-year-old filly Eclipse Champion, has been retired and will be bred next year, according to her owner Mike Pegram. "All good...
FINALLY, GOLDEN CAN LAUGH ABOUT GAFFE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES For the last two preseason games, Jim Fassel had this little ritual, approaching rookie linebacker Jack Golden and offering some advice. "Before every game he always tells me,...
BAXTER GETS 'DREAM' JOB AS STARTER
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Fred Baxter called it "a dream come true." He has, after all, been at this NFL thing for eight years. So, when Jet coach Al Groh matter-of-factly mentioned...
JESSIE: KERRY CAN CARRY US - BIG-PLAY OFFENSE EXCITES ARMSTEAD
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt is really quite simple, in the eyes of Jessie Armstead, who often is willing and able to boil complex matters down to the bare bones. Until the Giants found...
JETS EAGER TO GET REAL WITH PACK
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe rabbit the Jets are chasing this week is real now. No more practice opponents. No more trial and error. This week's practice began yesterday with a different edge to...
TOP SEEDS BUST OPEN IN FLUSHING RAIN - DELAY AND NEW ADS CAN'T BOG DOWN PETE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amPete Sampras is not gaining any friends on the ATP men's tour. He has come to a point in his career where he only cares about adding to his Grand...
CY YOUNG TALK IS JUST THAT, LEITER SAYS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt is a dream to Al Leiter. To be mentioned as a Cy Young Award candidate is something he finds implausible. But that is where Leiter is at this point...
MARTINA THUNDERS PAST ALINA; CAPRIATI PUTS BAD DAYS BEHIND HER
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTES Never has a No. 1 seed with five Grand Slams under her belt been so dismissed as a major title threat. Although Martina Hingis is ranked No....
FRANCO MUSCLES OUT MCEWING - STRAINED PECTORAL FORCES METS TO MAKE ROOM FOR ARMS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES John Franco's strained left pectoral muscle didn't hurt him as much as it did Joe McEwing. The Mets utilityman was sent down before last night's game with the...
BENNY A TRUE SURVIVOR - LEADOFF MAN'S MADE MOST OF CHANCES
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT is more surprising, the leading man or the leading men? That Benny Agbayani is hitting first or that the Mets have finally hit first? Five weeks ago, the Mets...
TURK PLAYS SAVIOR TO AILING PEN
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amNo one needed to tell Turk Wendell the touch-and-go status of the bullpen last night. Sure, he said he had no idea closer Armando Benitez was not available after working...
FIRST AT LAST - AMAZIN'S TIE BRAVES ATOP EAST
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amYou want to know the best part about these first-place Mets? They are not satisfied. They wake up today tied atop the NL East with the Braves because they beat...
VENUS, ANDRE FIND DRY GROUND
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amMartina Hingis was the top seed as the U.S. Open started last night, but all eyes in the National Tennis Center were on Venus Williams, and it wasn't because of...
MENDOZA HEADED IN RIGHT DIRECTION - THE BRONX
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - When Ramiro Mendoza arrives in The Bronx Friday night he won't be close to pitching in a big-league game. However, just the fact that the medical...
CLEMENS, BATS SINK MARINERS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Have the Yankees finally reached the point where they are ready to separate from the rest of the AL East field? Watching the way Roger Clemens pitched and...
DOTEL'S BEEN CLOSED-MINDED IN HOUSTON
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amOctavio Dotel is trying very hard not to love his current job as closer for the Astros. "I don't want to like it too much in my heart," the former...
AL: CY'S WRONG FIT - LEITER CONSIDERS HIMSELF LONGSHOT TO WIN PITCHING PRIZE
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt is a dream to Al Leiter. To be mentioned as a Cy Young Award candidate is something he finds implausible. But that is where Leiter is at this point...
ROCKET, JOSE SINK MARINERS
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 9 - Mariners 1 SEATTLE - Have the Yankees finally reached the point where they are ready to separate from the rest of the AL East field? Watching the...
BELLINGER, YANKS CRYING TEARS OF JOY
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - When Don Zimmer told Clay Bellinger he was a Yankee two years ago at the end of spring training, tears of joy flowed down the journeyman minor leaguer's...
GOODEN'S BECOME DOC-OF-ALL-TRADES
August 29, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - In an era where every hurler seemingly has a job description attached to them, Dwight Gooden has assigned one to himself. While Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte,...