November 12, 1999
GATES AIN'T SO TOUGH BLEW CHANCE TO END FEDS' ANTITRUST PROBE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amBILL Gates is supposed to be one of the smartest, toughest, meanest and most ornery businessmen ever to walk this planet. The Justice Department essentially said he was a corporate...
INDUSTRY STANDARD TAKING IT PUBLIC
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe magazine that covers the Internet bubble economy is testing the strength of that bubble for itself. The Industry Standard, the 19-month-old "magazine of the Internet Economy," will go public...
WANT WINDOWS WITH THAT RADIO?
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amDefiant Microsoft announced yesterday it is targeting the strip malls, going after first-time Internet users by introducing a "store-within-a-store" partnership with RadioShack. As aggressive as ever, the software giant notorious...
VICTORY LAP FOR NASCAR ; $2.4B TV DEAL BROADENS EXPOSURE, FATTENS PURSES
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThey'll be hauling money, not moonshine, in those stock cars come 2001. NASCAR's spanking new six-year television mega-contract for at least $2.4 billion quadruples its current broadcasting deal and moves...
REV. AL CHALLENGES JESSE JACKSON: SETS UP RIVAL WALL ST. OFFICE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amAl Sharpton is headed to Wall Street for deal-making, but says he won't go hat-in-hand the way his more celebrated pal, Jesse Jackson, does. The flamboyant Sharpton has rented an...
CHASE WEIGHING IPO FOR ONLINE BANKING BIZ ; HAS ALREADY BEEN TALKING TO BANKERS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amChase Manhattan Corp may be looking to cash in on dot com fever. The second-largest U.S. bank is considering selling shares in its online banking business, Chase.com. Chase Manhattan CEO...
BUYERS TAKE A RECESS ON SCHOOL IPO
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amEx-boy wonder Chris Whittle and ex-Yale president Benno Schmidt flunked their Wall Street test yesterday. The initial public offering of their Edison Schools - a company that runs pubic schools...
'MARLOWE' MAKERS ARE TOTALLY CLUELESS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00am'WHERE'S Marlowe?" You don't want to know.As one of the heroes of this headache-inducing mess describes it, "Where's Marlowe?" is "a documentary about two documentary makers making a documentary about...
THE STARR REPORT
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amNobody's laughing Craig Kilborn went too far with a anti-Jewish joke Tuesday night, the Anti-Defamation League charges. During his mock newscast on "Late Late Show," Kilborn noted that Tuesday marked...
SINGING 'ANGEL' SOARS; CHURCH'S CAREER HITS NEW HIGHS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amI T'S been about a year since Charlotte Church left her school chums in Cardiff, Wales, to become an international singing star. While her mates are back home studying their...
NFL'S RATINGS RUNNING AHEAD - SO FAR
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amAFTER years of fumbling ratings, the NFL has scored an impressive turnaround. Despite a lot of injuries to stars and some favorites - like the Jets - being knocked out...
NOT-SO-THRILLING 'OXYGEN' IS FULL OF HOT AIR
November 12, 1999 | 5:00am'OXYGEN" is a middling psychological thriller containing a terrific performance by Adrien Brody as a psychopathic killer who taunts a troubled female NYPD detective. The riveting Brody plays a charming...
BESSON'S 'JOAN' OF LARK
November 12, 1999 | 5:00am'THE Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" feels like "Braveheart" crossed with "The Sound of Music" - with some hints of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" thrown...
'HERE' GIVES ITS STARS A CHANCE TO SHINE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'ANYWHERE But Here" is a wonderful showcase for Natalie Portman, who gives an Oscar-caliber performance as a teenager suffering through life with her overbearing and flamboyant mom, acted...
'RAINMAKER' IS ALL WET
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW A farm family - father, two sons, spinster daughter - in the Midwest, 1936. It's dry, mighty dry. Along comes a charismatic con man promising rain for $100....
KOREAN TROUPE BEARSMARK OF KIROV BALLET
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amSEOUL, South Korea - The Russians are not just coming, they have already come, and classic ballet here in Southeast Asia is fast losing its traditionally Caucasian face. Looking back...
THE BEATLES' NEW RECORD
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amIT should surprise no one that The Beatles have topped the American recording industry's "Artists of the Century" list. But Garth Brooks besting the King? The Recording Industry Association of...
GREAT SCOT! POLANSKI'S 'MACBETH' STILL HOLDS UP
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amPRODUCED by Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Enterprises, Roman Polanski's 1971 "Macbeth" was notorious for its nudity and violence. Some of the killings depicted in this muddy, blood-splashed adaptation of...
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
November 12, 1999 | 5:00am'FELICIA'S Journey" is a typically stylish but shallow attempt by Canadian director Atom Egoyan to make an arty, David Lynch-style thriller out of William Trevor's celebrated novel about a naive...
B'WAY ROSTERFULL OF RE-PLAYS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amBROADWAY has pretty much run out of musicals to revive, so now it's on to plays.The latest entry in the blast-from-the-past category: Tom Stoppard's 1984 comedy "The Real Thing," which...
TAKING ON FAITH READOUT: AS RELIGIOUS SATIRE, 'DOGMA' IS ALL BARK AND NO BITE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amDOGMA Written and Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek and Chris Rock. Running time: 125 minutes. Rated R. At the First and 62nd,...
THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS STAGE MOM FINALLY GETS HER VERY OWN TV BIO MOVIE - NO SAVING GRACE FOR THIS BORE "MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS"
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amIT's hard to figure out who's going to be satisfied by the shlocky "Mary, Mother of Jesus." It's a crashing bore, except when it takes theological liberties that will hack...
RABBI: I DIDN'T ASK SILVER TO HELP 'SLUMLORD' SON
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amState Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is taking heat from his rabbi for trying to use political clout to help the religious leader's son, a Harlem landlord, get back a building...
EASY MONEY FOR HER ADVISER AS LOBBYIST FOR CITY COUNCIL - EXCLUSIVE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's chief political adviser has collected $188,000 since 1997 as a taxpayer-funded consultant to the City Council - with scant documentation to show what he's done for the...
TEACHER'S ICE SHOW HAS FAMILIAR 'RINK' TO IT
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amShe's a Rockefeller Center staple who has probably had more people catch her act than the Rockettes'. Rikki Samuels has been teaching ice skating at the Rockefeller Center Rink for...
PA'S IN A TAIL SPIN AS THE BIGS BRAWL - EXCLUSIVE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amAn in-house civil war at the Port Authority threatens to grind business to a halt. The two top executives at the bi-state agency are at each other's throats in a...
GLENN CLOSE'S MISGUIDED CRUSADE FOR KILLER MOM
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amTWENTY years later, John Murphy can still see the red stains splattered across the bathroom walls of a Syracuse steakhouse. What he saw was the blood of a 2-year-old girl,...
FIRST LADY IS ALSO THE FIRST HYPOCRITE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amI APOLOGIZE to readers, because I have absolutely run out of adjectives to describe the basic moral decadence of the Clinton gang - and I'm not talking about the Oral...
SUBWAY-SLASH TEEN'S DESCENT TO MADNESS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe family of accused subway slasher Damien Purrier said yesterday they're grateful he didn't have a gun when he launched his box-cutter blitzkrieg on rush-hour straphangers. "Thank God it wasn't...
RUDY HINTS HE'D GO '$OFT' ON HILL
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani wouldn't rule out using "soft money" for his Senate campaign ads - even as he attacked First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday for appearing in such a commercial...
SCANDAL CUTTING KATIE'S LOVE TIES TO FACE-LIFT DOC?
November 12, 1999 | 5:00am"Today" show host Katie Couric has been secretly dating the wealthy plastic surgeon whom First Lady Hillary Clinton reportedly consulted about a face lift. But a scandal in the wealthy...
SCORES PERISH IN ITALY COLLAPSE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amA six-story apartment building in southern Italy creaked ominously and then crumpled to the ground early yesterday, trapping 24 sleeping families in tons of rubble. Scores were feared killed. Rescue...
IRISH PRIME MINISTER'S PEACE HOPES DASHED - EXCLUSIVE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amAs pro-British Unionists rejected new proposals aimed at reviving Northern Ireland's stalled peace agreement yesterday, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told The Post he was bitterly disappointed. "This morning there...
EASEL COME: PICS SWIPED IN '78 DITCHED AT GALLERY
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 20 years after daring cat burglars snatched four paintings from a San Francisco museum, a mystery man dropped off three of the stolen works at an Upper East...
42ND STREET COMES FULL CIRCLE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe 42nd Street of my childhood andyoung adulthood wasn't naughty orbawdy. It was gross and depressing. Energy and enthusiasm instead of pathetic porn palaces IT'S been seven years since the...
CLINTON'S SPOKESMAN HAS $TOCKED UP ON MICROSOFT
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - White House spokesman Joe Lockhart has made a fortune investing in stock including Microsoft, the software giant being prosecuted by the Justice Department, documents show. Financial-disclosure forms show...
'ER' STAR TURNS DOWN $27M DEAL
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amSultry "ER" star Julianna Margulies has walked away from the hit medical series - rejecting a whopping $27 million offer to stay. She's decided to drop out of the NBC...
PURPLE HEART MAKES VET'S DAY - 55 YRS. LATE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amLt. Edward Andrews was wounded defending his country 55 years ago - but wasn't honored for it until yesterday. After a yearlong push for a Purple Heart medal, the 79-year-old...
MCCAIN NECK-AND-NECK WITH BUSH ; SURGES TO STATISTICAL TIE IN N.H.
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amA bombshell poll yesterday showed Republican 2000 contender John McCain has caught up with George W. Bush in New Hampshire - putting a big crack in Bush's aura of inevitability....
FOOD-BUG FLAP RUINS APPETITES:W'CHESTER SCARED AFTER TWO MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amWestchester residents worried about a deadly listeria bacteria outbreak said yesterday they're swearing off suspected foods until the source of the contamination is found. "I'm not going to buy any...
DOCS GIVING GIRL LEG UP ON CANCER
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amDoctors are replacing the thighbone with an adjustable prosthesis that will "grow" as Soleidy does. A spunky 7-year-old girl with cancer is about to have her entire thighbone removed -...
PUSH IS ON TO CURB BIGOTED CABBIES
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amFor black people hailing a taxi, it was business as usual yesterday. Cabbies continued to pass up minorities seeking a ride a day after Mayor Giuliani announced a crackdown against...
RIVER RESCUE HELPS HERO COP REDEEM REPUTATION
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amA police officer who came under fire five years ago after a suspect died in his custody was hailed as a hero yesterday after he leaped into the East River...
LATE BUSES FUEL PUSH FOR NEW SUBWAY
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThere's new ammunition in the campaign for a Second Avenue subway: East Side bus service is horrible and getting worse. The M15, which runs along First and Second avenues, was...
EGYPTAIR CREW FEARED JET WAS DOOMED: REPORT
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amSome of EgyptAir Flt. 990's crew told friends and loved ones their plane might crash - spurring investigators' theories that the disaster "was not an accident," it was reported today....
GIULIANI ADWATCH
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Title: "Compassion" Running Time: 30 seconds Where Shown: Upstate, for at least a week.
CLUES FROM 'BLACK BOX' ONLY ADD TO JET MYSTERY
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe lack of conclusive evidence from EgyptAir Flight 990's data recorder has investigators scratching their heads and exploring a wide range of possible causes for the devastating crash that killed...
PONY UP WITH COLTS - GIANTS CAN'T MATCH MANNING'S HORSEPOWER
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Giants are 5-3 and tied for first place in the NFC East in a season in which their offense has been dismal for large chunks of all but one...
BOOMER TALKS COOL DOWN
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amDANA POINT, Calif. - The Mets do not want to give up Octavio Dotel for David Wells. The Blue Jays do not think Dotel is enough by himself to get...
CLAUDE'S THINKING BIG
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amClaude Lemieux doesn't just score big goals, he sets them. "I always go into the season thinking I want to score 50," the back-again Devil said. "I think that the...
HALL'S WELL THANKS TO HARRINGTON
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amAl Harrington never played a second for Seton Hall. But Seton Hall coach Tommy Amaker yesterday credited Harrington, the former St. Patrick of Elizabeth (N.J.) star who bypassed college for...
KICKOFF TEAM MISSES DALUISO'S STRONG LEG
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES There is an extreme difference in the Giants' kickoff coverage with Cary Blanchard doing the kicking now that Brad Daluiso is out for the season following knee surgery....
POINTLESS EFFORTS MUST END ; GIANTS' OFFENSE CAN'T BE 2ND RATE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThey owe so much. So very much. "We have a lot to be thankful for because of our defense," Tiki Barber said yesterday. "We owe them a whole lot in...
WILLIAMS: SUNDAY IS VETS' DAY
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe hype machine has been working overtime this week, pumping up the Colts and their offensive machine featuring Peyton Manning, Edgerrin James and Marvin Harrison. Hold on, says Brian Williams,...
MONTEFUSCO STARTS LIFE OVER AGAIN
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amF IRST, so there's no mistaking where I'm coming from, John (The Count) Montefusco is a friend of mine. I didn't know him during his major league pitching career that...
A BASS & BLUE BONANZA
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amTHE WARM wind that swept over the marine waters on Wednesday belied the fact that anglers were still enjoying the fall bonanza of marine species along the Atlantic coast. You...
NETS DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - Now here's the problem for the 1-4, struggling and at times all too listless Nets: It could very well get worse before it gets better. With the possibility...
IT TAKES 'LUCK' TO WIN STUYVESANT
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amBest Of Luck closed well to overtake Wild Imagination in the stretch to win the 49th running of the Grade 3 $112,000 Stuyvesant Handicap by half a length yesterday. Durimente...
OLERUD & CONEY TESTING WATERS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amWith the free-agent market Kate Moss-thin, the Yankees and Mets have been focusing on what it will take to retain their own free agents. And while they have an idea,...
HOT ISLES EAGER TO TEST HAWKS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO - To the ire of general manager Mike Milbury, coach Butch Goring has said repeatedly that he's more concerned that his team plays with emotion than he is about...
KING INVITES THE BOMBERS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - In an effort to make sure there is at least one legitimate champion at the Lennox Lewis-Evander Holyfield heavyweight unification bout, Don King has made sure to...
IS THAT ALL THERE IS? AGING EVANDER: I'M NOT THROUGH
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Evander Holyfield came into the room wearing the kind of hat Crazy Guggenheim used to wear on the old Jackie Gleason show, whistling softly, limping slightly, looking...
BARKLEY'S NO WINNER AFTER FIGHT VS. SHAQ
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe Laker opponents' game plan is clear: Get Shaq to the line or the locker room. EARLIER this week, I suggested the Lakers might want to think about acquiring Charles...
SZCZERBIAK ACCEPTS CHALLENGE; OF STOPPING SPREWELL
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Some dread it. Rookie Wally Szczerbiak, a 1995 Cold Spring Harbor graduate, was more than ready for the challenge. Last night, he was expected to go...
GUTTY RANGERS BOUNCE BACK
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amOT / SUMMARY - Rangers 5 Capitals 4 WASHINGTON - The reversal of fortune within 24 hours was both dramatic and startling. For one night after losing a game at...
EL OF A PROBLEM FOR HUSKIES ; EL-AMIN'S 'GIFT' MAY BE NCAA VIOLATION
November 12, 1999 | 5:00am"There was no wrongdoing on my part. I've spoken to the people who need to be spoken to and the situation should be handled."KHALID EL-AMIN At the beginning of last...
FOURTH-QUARTER FADE - UP BY A DOZEN, KNICKS BURIED BY GARNETT'S CHARGE
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The Knicks still held a nine-point, fourth-quarter lead when Kevin Garnett crashed to the court chasing a loose ball out of bounds, avoiding an alleged hip check from...
CARDINAL EXORCISES DEVILS
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amThere were times when No. 13 Stanford's 80-79 overtime win over 10th-ranked Duke in last night's Coaches vs. Cancer semifinal looked every bit the part of the first game of...
HOBBLED HARVEY SITS OUT
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - After Todd Harvey sat out the final nine minutes of Wednesday's stunning 4-3 Garden loss to the Senators, John Muckler was asked whether the winger had been injured....
MISTER BIG SHOT - VAN GUNDY SAYS STOPPING GARNETT ALWAYS A TALL ORDER
November 12, 1999 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Kevin Garnett is listed at 6-foot-11, but none of the Knicks believes it. "He's at least 7-1," Jeff Van Gundy said before the Knicks faced their tallest order...