January 6, 2000
ROTHSCHILDS PLAN 'MAJOR' MOVE IN U.S.
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amIf any high-profile bankers out there are looking for a new job, the Rothschilds are hiring. The most famous name in banking is planning a big push into the United...
FEDS WANT ANOTHER CRACK AT NAUGHTON
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- Federal prosecutors said yesterday they'll take another shot at former Infoseek executive vice president Patrick Naughton, who dodged two Internet sex charges last month. A bitterly divided...
PENGUIN BOSS SKIPS TO AOL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe siren call of cyberspace has seduced another print veteran. Michael Lynton, chairman/CEO of the Penguin Group -- the worldwide book-publishing arm of British-based media giant Pearson PLC -- is...
APPLE'S INTERIM CEO MAKES IT PERMANENT
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amAmid a roar of applause, Steve Jobs announced he's back at Apple for good -- and is giving up his $1-a-year job as "interim chairman" to work full time on...
TARSES TALKS MATERIAL WITH MATERIAL GIRL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna's Maverick Records is in talks to expand its film and TV division -- and is expected to name former ABC programming guru Jamie Tarses head of the show. The...
DOW BOUNCES BACK - GAINS 124 IN SEESAW SESSION; NASDAQ OFF
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe stock market did its best imitation of a pogo stick yesterday -- bouncing up and down, up and down -- before ending the day mixed. After dropping as much...
P.O.V. MAGAZINE DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amCritically acclaimed P.O.V. magazine folded yesterday, just two issues shy of its fifth anniversary. Parent company Freedom Communications is estimated to have lost about $12 million since 1996 -- including...
AMAZON RECORD DISAPPOINTS INVESTORS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amAmazon.com dropped 14.9 percent yesterday, as its stock slid $12.19 per share to $69.75 after the super e-tailer said its 1999 fourth-quarter sales exceeded 1998 levels for the entire year,...
JOE BROWN STEPS DOWN
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amJUDGE Joe Brown, who was billed as the only sitting judge with his own judge show, is giving up his real-life court duties to focus on his very popular nationally...
HURRICANE GIVES THUMBS-UP TO DENZEL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amRUBIN Carter wasn't precisely floating like a celluloid butterfly yesterday, but the former boxer -- whose life story is now being depicted on screen in "The Hurricane" -- was a...
SONNY KNOWS BEST - BOY GENIUS IN FAMILY OF UNDERACHIEVERS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00am"Malcolm in the Middle" Sunday at 8:30 p.m. WNYW/Ch.5 MALCOLM in the Middle," Fox's new partially functional family sitcom, has nothing to do with reality. For one thing, the parents...
THE STARR REPORT
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amRare Jane air Just wondering if the marital separation of Jane Fonda and Ted Turner will impact the selection of Fonda's movies shown on Turner-owned TBS and TNT. Insiders say...
SON OF CURLY - BURLY EX-'COMMISH' CHIKLIS COPS TOP 'STOOGE' BIOPIC ROLE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amABC has found its Curly. The man who has won the hotly contested role of the world's most famous Stooge is none other than Michael Chiklis -- who once starred...
WALL-TO-WALL WALTZES
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amIF you've ever wanted to be made positively giddy by waltzes, you would have been happy to have been in attendance at the New York State Theater Tuesday night. They...
THE DEATH OF VIDEO? - BOOMING DVDS HIT FAST FORWARD
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amVIDEO killed the radio star -- now it's about to get its come-uppance.DVD, currently the fastest-growing consumer electronics product on earth, enjoyed booming sales of both players and movies over...
A CUR-IOUS TRIBUTE AT CITY HALL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani threw New York's favorite millennium mutt a bone yesterday -- honoring her rescuers in a City Hall ceremony full of chomp and circumstance. "This is awesome," said a...
VICTIM TAKES AIM AT SEAN AND JENNIFER
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amA bystander shot in a dispute involving Sean "Puffy" Combs' pals blasted the rapper and his gal-pal, actress Jennifer Lopez, yesterday -- saying her life is just as important as...
'SAINT' BORIS SPENDING ORTHODOX NOEL IN ISRAEL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amBoris Yeltsin is celebrating the first Orthodox Christmas of the new millennium today on a trip to the Holy Land scheduled before he resigned as Russian president. Yeltsin said he...
RUDY ASKS PROBE OF PATRONAGE IN B'KLYN
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday called for a "full and complete investigation" of the Brooklyn courts after two Democratic Party officials virtually admitted judges hand out assignments based on patronage. "I think...
FAY WRAY, 92, STILL CARRIES TORCH FOR KONG
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amKing Kong didn't deserve to die. That's the word from Fay Wray, the actress who made a monkey out of the giant ape in the 1933 film classic. "I feel...
TRUMP'S NOT QUAKIN' OVER SHAKIN' ANYMORE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amDONALD Trump is still not comfortable with you or your germs. He's getting better on the germ front. In deference to his campaign for the presidency of the United States,...
PATAKI ADDRESSES EDUCATION CRISIS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Gov. Pataki proposed a broad overhaul of the state's education system yesterday as thousands of chanting state workers sought to disrupt his State of the State address. Pataki,...
A GUT THING: MARTHA'S BRAVEST BIZ GAL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amForget glamour -- it's guts that count, and women like Martha Stewart, Calista Flockhart and Madeleine Albright are leading the pack, a magazine poll says. In its second annual poll...
A PEEK INSIDE THE OTHER WHITE HOUSE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN married couples change job status and move into the mystery geography of a new house, the tension is tighter than a piano wire. Here's how it might be going...
CITY FAULTED FOR NOT EQUIPPING FIREMEN KILLED IN 1994 BLAZE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge has found the city negligent for not providing safety gear to three firefighters who were killed -- a failure Mayor Giuliani blasted as "one of the more...
HOLIDAY PAY FOR ATM BANDITS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amDaring thieves capitalized on New Year's Eve hoopla and Y2K fears of banking chaos to rip off $300,000 from a set of Manhattan ATMs. As 2 million revelers gathered in...
COMPLAINTS ON COPS DROP A BIT
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe NYPD yesterday released figures touting a 1.2 percent drop in civilian complaints -- but a statistical snafu showed the dip could be even slighter -- less than 1 percent....
ATTACK EARNS MOM 60 DAYS IN DETENTION - HIT TEACHER OVER KID'S BAD GRADE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mom who attacked her daughter's teacher over bad marks learned her lesson yesterday when a judge sentenced her to 60 days behind bars. Brenda Smith, 45, stood silently...
PURGING THE PEPPERPOT
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amMiddle America has weighed in -- declaring Monica Lewinsky much too tawdry to represent Jenny Craig weight-loss centers. That's the opinion of several Jenny Craig franchises in Wisconsin and Iowa,...
FIRM HAS EXCELLENT DEM-OGRAPHICS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amIf President Clinton does jump from the White House to the investment house of Lazard Freres, he should feel right at home. The tony firm has long been known as...
MAG: BILL EYEING A $10M JOB ON WALL STREET
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe fabled Wall Street investment bank that recently hired First Pal Vernon Jordan may have landed an even bigger fish -- President Clinton. Amid a swirl of speculation about president's...
RAFT KID'S KIN OUTRAGED - VOW FIGHT AFTER INS ORDERS HIS RETURN TO CUBA
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amMiami relatives of Cuban tug-of-war tot Elian Gonzalez vowed a last-ditch court fight to keep him in the United States -- after authorities ruled the refugee boy should be sent...
EXILE WARRIOR NOW FIGHTS FOR PEACE WITH CASTRO
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amELOY Gutierrez Menoyo is used to fights. He fought in the streets and jungles of Cuba at Fidel Castro's side to overthrow the corrupt, American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Later he...
DID BILL DRAFT THIS MASTER PLAN?
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHE ugliest 48 hours in Jets history -- which have left the team leaderless, rudderless and adrift -- have the NFL whispering that Bill Parcells orchestrated the seemingly unplanned events....
$1M ECSTASY BUST IN B'KLYN
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn businessman tried to sell more than $1 million worth of the club-kid drug Ecstasy to a federal informant, prosecutors charged yesterday. Joel Schwartz, 49, was nabbed Tuesday, more...
THE CLINTONS SLEPT HERE: FIRST NIGHT IN CHAPPAQUA
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe first couple traded the Beltway for the 'burbs and bunked up in their Westchester home for the first time last night -- with dreams of a Senate race dancing...
STUDY FAULTS OVERCROWDING IN CLASSROOMS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amPublic school classrooms in New York City are more like sardine cans than places of learning, with almost half of all kindergarten through eighth graders in classes of 28 or...
PUFFY'S PAL IS CHARGED IN NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amA protégé of Sean "Puffy" Combs was indicted on attempted-murder charges yesterday -- becoming the first defendant in the hip-hop club shooting that has ensnared the rapper and his superstar...
PARCELLS: I'M IN CHARGE - OFFERS HOPE HE'LL RETURN AS COACH
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amBill Parcells assured Jets fans he won't walk away from the team until its coaching crisis is resolved, telling The Post last night he's still in charge. "I'm the director...
MIKE ASKS AND ZETA SAYS YES
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amActor Michael Douglas followed his basic instinct and finally popped the question to raven-haired Welsh love Catherine Zeta-Jones -- during a romantic New Year's Eve getaway in Aspen. "While no...
DEMS GET NASTY IN 1ST N.H. MATCHUP OF 2000
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amDURHAM, N.H. -- Bill Bradley accused Veep Al Gore of falsely claiming the Bradley health plan would hurt blacks as the two 2000 Democratic wannabes went after each other in...
MCCAIN FACES KEY TEST AS PRESSURE INCREASES
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amBEDFORD, N.H.A LOT of voters are still falling in love with Republican 2000 wannabe John McCain up here in the first-primary state of New Hampshire -- but analysts are asking...
OUSTED CREW WILL FLOAT AWAY ON 225G PARACHUTE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amOusted city schools boss Rudy Crew will collect his paycheck through June, get moving costs and a 14-week consulting gig to qualify him for an $18,000-plus- a-year pension, the Board...
STARS SING PRAISES OF 'SOPRANOS' AT PREMIERE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amIt was a mob scene in Midtown last night as a parade of stars turned out for the New York premiere of the second season of HBO's hit-man hit "The...
EDUCATION MONEY GOING TO WASTE - ... BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BOTHER CARL MCCALL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY GOV. Pataki spoke for fully 64 minutes on the state of New York state yesterday - it's good, he said - while several thousand protesting government employees stood outside...
L.I. MAN FOUND DEAD IN CESSPOOL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amPolice searching for a missing 66-year-old man made a grisly discovery in his backyard on Long Island yesterday - they found his body in his cesspool. Clifton Berry, of 21...
QNS. MAN COPS PLEA IN ARMY DRUG CASE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens man pleaded guilty yesterday to acting as a go-between in an international drug ring that allegedly involved a U.S. Army colonel's wife. Hernan Arcila, 54, told U.S. Magistrate...
LUZZI GOES NORTH FOR NEW AGENT
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amJockey Mike Luzzi reports that he has a new agent in Tony Micallef. Micallef was previously an agent in Canada, where his clients included Daniel David (nephew of Hall of...
SEMINOLES' CROWN TRUE PASSING FANCY
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- If you never saw one play in Tuesday night's Sugar Bowl and were asked to determine the winner based on the final stats, the conclusion probably would...
BOWDEN, NOT BEAMER, MADE RIGHT CALL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- Decision time came early for Virginia Tech and late for Florida State. Tech made the wrong call and failed. FSU made the right call and won the...
DAN: TUNA BETTER THINK TWICE ABOUT RETURNING
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amDon't do it for the money. That's the advice Dan Reeves would offer to his friend Bill Parcells, who, after retiring as head coach of the Jets, finds himself at...
JAYSON WON'T BE BACK SOON
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe cavalry is still off in the distance for the Nets, at least 6-8 weeks away. That's if it arrives at all in the form of Jayson Williams this season....
SHERMAN'S TORN ON SURGERY CALL
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES You can never have enough cash socked away for emergencies, enough bottled water just for the sake of having bottled water and now in the case of the...
VG: EWING'S GETTING SHAFT FROM REFS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It seemed the 20th century ended like it began -- with Patrick Ewing getting all the calls. In the Knicks-Wizards game Dec. 30 in Washington, coach Gar Heard...
NO MOVEMENT ON JETER, RIVERA
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amTo say there has been any movement in long-term contract negotiations with arbitration-eligible superstars Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera would be "optimistic at this point," according to Yankee vice president...
KENNEDY ENJOYS A BRONX LAUGHER
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amKennedy 103 Clinton 59 J.C. Mathis will probably have a much different season next year. The 6-8 senior from John F. Kennedy still hasn't picked a college, but wherever he...
ALLAN DOING GREAT IMPRESSION OF STAR
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amAllan Houston has come such a long way from the reserved coach's son who came to the Big Apple in the summer of 1996, occasionally looking like a deer caught...
CHARA SET FOR LINDROS REMATCH
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amSoon after being humiliated by Flyers star center Eric Lindros last Sunday, Islanders defenseman Zdeno Chara began preparing for tonight's rematch. "It starts a couple of nights before," Chara said...
BELICHICK'S DAD KNOWS BEST - SAYS SON GREW UP WITH MIND OF HIS OWN
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amSince when is making the correct choice for yourself and your family a federal crime? Bill Belichick reserves the right to tell the Jets thanks, but no thanks as he...
TUNA'S LARGE AND IN CHARGE - PARCELLS STARTS TO PUT PIECES BACK TOGETHER; EXCLUSIVE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amNo one associated with the suddenly tumultuous Jets quit, retired, resigned or experienced any sort of meltdown yesterday. In short, after 48 of the most shocking hours in New York...
RANGERS SKATE BY LEAFS IN OVERTIME
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Rangers 3 - Maple Leafs 2 The Maple Leafs may lead the East but they play as if they come from the West. Which, come to think of it,...
MCMULLEN MAY NOT DEAL DEVS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -- While rumors flew last night that the Devils were close to being sold to the YankeesNets for an incredible $230 million, better information suggested a deal is only...
BRODEUR RIDES TO THE RESCUE
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -- Others call these nail-biters. Martin Brodeur calls the tight games fun, perhaps because he's been so good in them. That's certainly the primary reason the Devils have risen...
NEDVED IS PROBLEM NO. 1
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amTWO-ON-ONE against Bryan Berard, Petr Nedved looked off more than just his teammate, Jan Hlvac. He looked off the ghost of Keith Primeau present and Mark Messier past, off the...
VALERI MUST EARN SALARY
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amTHE BEST year hockey ever had was 1987, when Valeri Kamensky was one of the five very best players in the world lifting the game to a level we may...
SCHEDULE MAY HALT QUEST FOR PRIMEAU
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rangers maintain interest in Keith Primeau, absolutely they do. But even if Carolina owner and apparent acting GM Peter Karmanos reverses his stance and places the unsigned Group II...
HERB ADDS SPICE TO JAGR - PENGUIN CAPTAIN THRIVING UNDER BROOKS
January 6, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - To an NHL gone ga-ga over no-fault 4-on-4 OT, the prospect of Herb Brooks coaching Jaromir Jagr should be heaven. It is to Jagr. The runaway MVP choice...