July 25, 2000
BURROWS TAPS TARSES FOR THREE SISTERS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amIt's official. Jamie Tarses, the former ABC programming whiz, has landed at James Burrows' Three Sisters Entertainment, the legendary TV director's production company. The 36-year-old television exec, who has been...
30 ROCK SUIT CAN GO ON, JUDGE SAYS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amDavid Rockefeller is among those who have been called to testify in a long-running and bitter class action lawsuit filed by former Rockefeller Center shareholders. A Delaware Federal District Judge...
SEAGRAM-VIVENDI WOE - TOP EXECS SCRAMBLE TO REJIG CANAL + DEAL
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. and Jean-Marie Messier are trying to repair the cracks in their blockbuster merger. Top Seagram execs have gone back to Vivendi headquarters in Paris to try to...
OTHER U.S. COS. IN FOREIGNERS' SIGHTS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amIn the great telecom square dance, Deutsche Telekom's deal to buy VoiceStream has the other world powers of communications looking to hook up in a hurry. The other five of...
STANTON, WIFE STRIKE IT RICH
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Stanton and his wife built their wireless group from scratch six years ago - but it's clearly no mom-and-pop operation anymore. Stanton, 44, and his wife, Theresa Gillespie, 46,...
THOUSANDS SIGN UP FOR NEW E-BOOK
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amStephen King scared up 41,000 readers in 15 hours yesterday - each promising to shell out a buck to buy the first installment of his controversial new e-book. "It's phenomenal....
NASD'S THE TOAST OF DOWNTOWN
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY'RE breaking out the Cristal downtown. Not in club VIP rooms, but in the offices of commercial brokers and the Downtown Alliance, the influential business improvement district. The reason, of...
CASSANDRA GROUP GOES BUST
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe investment fund run by accused swindler-to-the-stars Dana Giacchetto has filed for bankruptcy - and named a slew of A-list celebs as potential creditors. The Cassandra Group said in court...
NAPSTER FINALLY INKS 1ST DEAL
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amPiracy king Napster announced its first legitimate deal yesterday. The file sharing service's CEO, Hank Barry, said Napster will promote one single by one new artist called Ellwood on their...
HBO TURNS DOWN THE VOLUME
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHBO is turning down the volume on its push to create the pre-eminent hip, urban Internet portal. As a result of HBO parent Time Warner's planned merger with Internet giant...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHip-pocket Hamptons If your summer sojourns include the east end of Long Island, ease the way with a copy of the new Hamptons CitySlicker map (Hagstrom, $7.95). Laminated for protection...
TALL TALES OF TENNESSEE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amEAST Tennessee is the last place I expected to run into New York refugees, but after spending a little time on its mountains, in its green valleys and on old...
NEWPORT IS RICH IN ELEGANT ATTRACTIONS - STYLISH YET VIBRANT, THERE'S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amIT is most famous for the incredibly opulent summer cottages built at the turn-of-the-century by the incredibly rich, for being the home of the Tennis Hall of Fame, and for...
GENTEEL PLACES TO STAY AND DINE - HISTORIC HOTELS, REGAL RESTAURANTS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE is so much history in Newport that it quite literally follows you to dinner and to sleep. Nearly every place has a story. White Horse Tavern was built as...
DELIGHTS FOR THE EXPLORERS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE young, or even the young at heart, will find much to smile about in Newport. An amazing menagerie of animals, including a lion, giraffe, bear, camel, elephant, and even...
THE STARR REPORT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amDawn of the (un)dead Michelle Trachtenberg landed the role-of-a-lifetime by simply, well, showing up. Trachtenberg, who's been cast to play Buffy's sister Dawn in the WB's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer,"...
TROUPE TAKES A 'WALK'
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS year's Lincoln Center Festival is proving unusually rich in dance events.Though the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's performances, which ended over the weekend at the LaGuardia Concert Hall,...
EVE 6 NO. 2 ADDS UP
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amEVE 6 "Horrorscope" ( 1/2) RCA It's just a prediction, but Eve 6's sophomore album, "Horrorscope," is the disc that will cement the band's reputation as creators of thinking three-minute...
A SISTER (AND BROTHER) ACT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Stacey Earle was a girl, she used to hide in the bathroom to sing so no one could hear her. Little did she know her whole family was listening...
CREEPY? TRY SLEEPY! HERE'S WHAT BUGS ME ABOUT USA'S 'THEY NEST'
July 25, 2000 | 4:00am"They Nest" Tonight at 8 p.m. on USA 1/2 'THEY Nest." They also put me to sleep. Look, I love scary movies. And I'd love nothing more than a scary...
FOX SERIES GOES BACK TO SCHOOL
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - After a summer of big brothers voting you off the island, producers of a new Fox series hope viewers will still answer reality's bell - and the...
SHRINKLESS IN THE CITY: WHEN THERAPISTS VACATION IN AUGUST, IT'S ENOUGH TO DRIVE PATIENTS CRAZY
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE poets were wrong: April isn't the cruelest month. As everyone in therapy can tell you, it's August -- when their shrinks go on vacation. "It's become almost a cliché,"...
COURT IN THE ACT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE International Tennis Hall of Fame sits on the downtown end of fabled Bellevue Avenue. It was built as a private club by New York Herald pub lisher James Gordon...
OUT OF 'VIEW': DID STAR TRY TO SAVE O.J. FROM AX ON SHOW?
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amSTAR JONES may have been the lone dissenter in the decision to cancel O.J. Simpson's appearance on "The View," despite Barbara Walters' assurances to the contrary yesterday. Walters, whose company...
HERO TEEN DIES IN BID TO SAVE PETS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Long Island honors student saved her mother and sister from their burning home, then rushed back into the inferno for her pets - only to die with one...
BUSH SKIPS HIS BEST BET - HE SHOULD'VE GONE FOR THE STRONGEST NO. 2 - JOHN MCCAIN
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amREPORTS that George W. Bush has chosen Dick Cheney as his running mate suggest that Bush has acted soberly and wisely, for Cheney has been the best foot soldier the...
GAYFRYD AND SAUL TAKE STOCK OF LIFE - SOCIAL LIONS STARTING OVER AFTER COLLAPSE OF STEINBERG BIZ EMPIRE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amA COUPLE walks on a Hamptons beach, heads bowed, eyes narrowed and hair flying in a bracing Atlantic wind. The short stocky man, his face a jovial oval and his...
TRASH PLAN BARELY DENTS RAT WOES
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amMost garbage at Housing Authority projects won't be protected from rats, even after a three-year program to add compactors at 35 more developments, a top official said yesterday. Testifying at...
DROWNED S.I. GIRL'S FUNERAL IS PARENTS' 'NIGHTMARE'
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Staten Island teen who drowned when she and her baby sister were swept away in rough surf was laid to rest yesterday as her heartbroken family and friends honored...
VANILLA 'PATCH' KOS CRAVING FOR CHOCOLATE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHere's sweet news for chocaholics looking to kick the habit. English dietitians said yesterday they have tested a skin patch that releases whiffs of vanilla that may help reduce cravings...
NO ONE FEELS SAFE AFTER LATEST DISCOVERY
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE tough, old man was flat on his back, as weak as a kitten and with mental faculties to match. At 82, the man still enjoyed a firm grip and...
FEDS WRAP PAROLE-$CAM CASE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amAides to Gov. Pataki cooked up "the biggest fund-raising scandal that this state has seen in a very long time," federal prosecutors charged in wrapping up their case in Brooklyn...
TRAFFIC LIGHT COULD HAVE AVERTED KID'S DEATH: POL
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe death of a 9-year-old boy struck by a car on a Brooklyn street described as a "speedway" could have been prevented if the city heeded calls about the danger,...
FATAL END TO HOSTAGE DRAMA
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amA three-day hostage crisis in Florida ended in bloodshed and mystery yesterday with the suicide of a murder suspect and the death of one of his captives - a woman...
EDUCATORS PRAISE LAW TO PUNISH THUGGERY
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThree teachers who were assaulted in their schools hailed a new state law yesterday boosting penalties for such attacks and making it easier to remove unruly students. The Safe Schools...
SENATE FOES IN CONVENTION CAMEOS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amALTHOUGH there's heavy national interest in the Senate race, both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio will spend just a day at their parties' respective political conventions in Los Angeles...
IT'S NOT EXACTLY THE DYNAMIC DUO
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amWELL, yesterday's Colin Powell boomlet - all three hours of it - was fun while it lasted. And last week's brief John McCain rebirth was a kick in the pants,...
CARDIAC TO HEART OF THE MATTER
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amMedical experts differed yesterday on whether Dick Cheney's history of heart trouble could pose a health risk if he becomes vice president. Cheney, 59, suffered his first mild heart attack...
YANKS-METS SCALP SCAM - 16 BROKERS AND BOX-OFFICE HELP BUSTED IN SWEEP
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHundreds of thousands of dollars in prime baseball tickets have been scalped in the past year through a conspiracy of brokers and Yankees and Mets box-office workers, investigators charged yesterday....
HE SERVED GEORGE THE ELDER WELL
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amDick Cheney was once President Bush's right-hand man - and now he's being tapped to become George W.'s. Bush's decision to go with Cheney, a secretary of defense in his...
MINOR DUTIES KEEPING CITY TEACHERS OUT OF CLASSROOM
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHundreds of high-school teachers are doing jobs from pushing paper to monitoring halls and cafeterias - instead of instructing kids. At 10 schools - including some of the worst performing...
EXPERT SAYS LEVY'S PLAN WON'T WORK WITHOUT $$
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy's plan to privatize the city's worst schools is doomed if he fails to provide firms adequate funds to run them, says the head of the nation's...
FEAR BITES AT GREEN HEART OF CITY - BUT EXILED PARKGOERS STAY COOL AS SPRAYING NIXES CONCERT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThis bites! That was the reaction in Central Park yesterday after the city announced the discovery of virus-infected mosquitoes and the beginning of emergency insecticide spraying. "It's scary," said hospital...
CHENEY WINS GOP VEEP STAKES
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush settled on Dick Cheney as his running mate last night - splitting Republicans and cheering many Democrats who said the former secretary of defense brings little to...
CENTRAL PK. WILDING CONFESSIONS: WE ACTED 'LIKE HYENAS'
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThey were like animals - like "wild hyenas" - suspects in the Central Park wilding admitted to cops in explosive confessions released yesterday. "Everyone was throwing water on the ladies,...
HILLARY AD PUTS NEW SPIN ON HEALTH-CARE FIASCO
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday unveiled a new ad designed to turn her most spectacular White House failure - the 1994 health-care debacle - into a positive for her Senate campaign....
WEST NILE SPRAYING SHUTS CENTRAL PARK - FIRST INFECTED MOSQUITO FOUND IN MANHATTAN
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amCentral Park was shut down last night, and much of the rest of Manhattan is set for spraying tomorrow - after the first discovery of mosquitoes carrying the deadly West...
DID JONES ARGUE 'VIEW' THAT JUICE HAD TO MAKE CUT?
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amStar Jones may have been the lone dissenter in the decision to cancel O.J. Simpson's appearance on "The View," despite Barbara Walters' assurances to the contrary yesterday. Walters, whose company...
HERO TEEN'S FATAL BID TO SAVE PETS
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amA 15-year-old honors student saved her mother and sister from their burning home, then rushed back into the inferno for her pets - only to die with one beloved pup...
NEW PATCH KOS CRAVING FOR CHOCOLATE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amHere's some sweet news for chocaholics looking to kick the habit. English dietitians said yesterday they have tested a skin patch that releases whiffs of vanilla that may help reduce...
FIGO'S MADRID DEFECTION IS DASTARDLY
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Barely had the ink dried on the contract that took Hernan Crespo from Parma to Lazio for a world record fee of $54 million, when the $60 million...
NICE GUY MARTIN'S MAN OF FEW WORDS - LETS GAME DO TALKING
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amPay no attention to the cold shoulder. Ignore it if he ignores you. Should you say "Howdy-do" and receive a stare in return, don't take it personally. That's just how...
DALUISO ALIVE & KICKING
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - He offered an honest and accurate appraisal of himself as a placekicker: "I think I'm a good field-goal kicker and I was an exceptional kickoff kicker."...
JINTS' THOMAS IS LIVIN' LARGE ; BIGGEST CORNER IN NFL
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Way back in high school, he sensed something strange was happening. Either everyone around him was shrinking, or else he was growing. "I noticed the whole secondary was...
PENNINGTON IN COMMAND - ALREADY
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES If Saturday's intra-squad scrimmage was rookie QB Chad Pennington's first test as an NFL player, he passed with flying colors. He controlled the huddle, ran the offense and...
TIGER'S IN PERFECT HARMONY
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - Tiger Woods hit all the shots that won the British Open last week at St. Andrews. He completed the rare and coveted career grand slam by thinking...
MEL MANAGES TO KEEP FAITH ; MET HAS EYES ON THE PRIZE
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amThroughout the whole Larkin Watch, Melvin Mora didn't make one error. On the field in Atlanta, he was flawless. Off of it, he was better. He understood the situation and...
ALFONZO SHOULD BE BACK IN LINEUP TONIGHT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Although the Barry Larkin Watch didn't end as GM Steve Phillips wanted, the Mets are expected to get middle-infield help for tonight's game at Shea against the Expos....
VINNY CAN'T WAIT FOR FIRST REAL HIT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amFor a man with 13 years of NFL experience, a pair of Pro Bowl berths and a Heisman Trophy, Vinny Testaverde sounds more like an eager rookie when he talks...
CELTS' FORTSON BACK ON KNICKS' WISH LIST
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amUnable to make progress on a Brian Grant sign-and-trade and with their own free agent forward Kurt Thomas still unsigned, the Knicks have revisited acquiring the Celtics' Danny Fortson. The...
TRADE TALK 'WHITE' HOT
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - George Steinbrenner will gather his inner circle in Tampa today and tomorrow, and the question on the table will be very simple. "Do we have enough experience in...
O'S BORDICK NOT YET SOLD ON AMAZIN'S
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Mike Bordick knows all about the Mets disastrous dalliance with Barry Larkin and understands the Mets and Orioles have held discussions about the possibility of a deal involving...
NEAGLE'S 'GUT FEELING' - HIS FUTURE'S IN BX.
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - There is going to come a day when Denny Neagle tires of being asked whether he'll sign a long-term extension with the Yankees. However, the affable...
O' WHAT A BREATHER! TORRE'S 'REST LINEUP' GIVES ROCKET ENOUGH TO GROUND ORIOLES
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 4 Orioles 3 BALTIMORE - If Mike Bordick was going to dump a flare single into right field or spank a liner to left, Roger Clemens wanted it on...
BORDICK'S NOT SOLD ON AMAZIN'S
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Mike Bordick knows all about the Mets disastrous dalliance with Barry Larkin and understands the Mets and Orioles have held discussions about the possibility of a deal involving...
YANK TALK 'WHITE' HOT: RONDELL A FOCUS - BUT OTHERS EYED, TOO
July 25, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - George Steinbrenner will gather his inner circle in Tampa today and tomorrow, and the question on the table will be very simple. "Do we have enough experience in...