November 15, 1999
MTVI MAKES ITS 'NET DEBUT WITH REVAMPED SITES
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amThe first fruits of Viacom's MTVi unit hit the Internet today. Mtv.com, vh1.com and sonicnet.com have each been revamped as a result of the creation of the new group in...
TRACK CHANGE FOR STATION EATERY: METRAZUR GETS NEW ENGINEER
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amChef Matthew Kenney's heavily publicized Metrazur project has been derailed for good, The Post has learned. But the long-stalled plan to open a major restaurant on the east balcony of...
SOONER OR LATER, RATE HIKE'S COMING
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amSTOCK prices will go a lot higher if the Federal Reserve doesn't raise interest rates tomorrow. And that, in a nutshell, is the main reason why there will be enormous...
GATES: NO STOPPING COMPUTER REVOLUTION
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates last night poked fun at his legal situation, but predicted an ever-expanding computer world for the high-tech giant and its competitors. "It's great...
YESTERDAY'S STARS HAIL THEIR HERO
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amEarl "The Pearl" Monroe, who once slashed and dashed across the basketball court, had to lean on a cane yesterday at Madison Square Garden as he took his place alongside...
THE STARR REPORT
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amPlaying the Lottery CBS has bought a game-show pilot from the folks who created "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." "Millionaire" co-creator Steve Knight, based in London, said the CBS...
ARE WE ALL TALKED OUT? - CHAT SHOWS GROW OLD AND FALL ON HARD TIMES
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amHERE come the judges -- and there go the talk shows. With few exceptions, TV's rowdy, raunchy, rambunctious daytime talk shows are spiraling downhill this season. And the court shows...
`POKEMON 'STROUS HIT : PIKACHU, PALS BREAK RECORDS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amWHAT'S up, Pikachu? Warner Brothers' "Pokemon: The First Movie" ruled.The estimated three-day gross was $32.4 million, and the five-day cumulative a whopping $52.1 million. "Sensational!" said the Hollywood Reporter's box-office...
MOSCOW CITY BALLET IS A LITTLE PROVINCIAL
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW RUSSIA has many ballet companies, but we in the West, for very good reason, usually only get to see the best of them. There are others. Moscow itself...
KISS-MET:TWO YEARS AFTER A DISPUTE SENT THEM PACKING, OPERA'S BEST-KNOWN COUPLE RETURNS TO NEW YORK
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amIT was a saga rife with all the drama and passion of a Puccini opera - but this tale appears to have a happy ending. Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu,...
WHISTLE-BLOWER BLUES
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amLINDA Shenwick sits in her Manhattan apartment watching the roiling debate between the Clinton administration and Congress over America's $1 billion debt to the United Nations with more than a...
CORPORATE-WEAR GOES CASUAL
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: This is an edited version of a longer article that appeared in Fashion Wire Daily(c) 1999. More than ever, fashion-forward designers are reaching out to the ambitious professional woman...
BIZ GROUP SEES RED OVER 'GREEN' GOV
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amEW YORK'S top business group yesterday expressed "alarm" over Gov. Pataki's plan to impose strict new air-emission requirements on the state's electric utilities. The Business Council of New York, in...
SEXY TENNIS TEEN INSISTS SHE'LL WAIT BEFORE SCORING
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amTeen tennis beauty Anna Kournikova has revealed that she's still a virgin -- and proud of it. The 18-year-old court ace confessed her sexual innocence as she shot down rumors...
HONEST TO GOD, POPE TO ADORN TELEPHONE CARDS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amMaking a phone call is going to be a whole new religious experience. The Vatican has approved a new line of prepaid phone cards bearing "never-before-seen" images of Pope John...
BILL TOURING QUAKE-TORN TURKEY
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amOn the first part of his 10-day tour of the region, President Clinton today visits the quake-ravaged Izmit region of Turkey, where he's expected to talk to survivors and offer...
NIGHT OF MAYHEM LEAVES EIGHT HURT AT THREE CLUBS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amEight people were shot, stabbed or beaten as mayhem broke out at three Midtown nightspots early yesterday. The most serious incident unfolded at 4:15 a.m. outside Angel's Cafe on West...
AL THROWS THINK BOMB AT CLINTON: SAYS HIS BOSS' BRAIN FOCUSES ONLY ON POLITICS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Veep Al Gore yesterday took a big step away from President Clinton, accusing his boss of relating everything in life to politics -- instead of focusing on substance,...
CIVIL LIBERTIES BIG HITS TAXI BLITZ
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amNorman Siegel, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, yesterday denounced the Giuliani administration's crackdown on cabbies who pass up minorities as "too narrow." Siegel said the "bring in...
BRADLEY SCORES $1.5M AT GARDEN
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amEx-Knick Bill Bradley showed you can go home again yesterday at Madison Square Garden where a long, tall line of basketball greats -- former foes as well as teammates --...
MEDIATOR BIDS FOR HARMONY AT RADIO CITY
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amMusicians and the management of the famed Radio City Music Hall will meet today with a federal mediator -- the first time the sides have talked since the union voted...
JESSE SET FOR JAIL IN HS PROTEST
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson set the stage for a showdown over the expulsion of six Illinois high-school students -- threatening to force mass arrests tomorrow. The civil-rights activist led 2,000...
JFK JR. 'DIVORCE' STORY SPARKS BUZZ
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amAn explosive report that John Kennedy Jr. was about to divorce his wife, Carolyn Bessette, before they died in a plane crash drew sharp reaction yesterday. The Sunday Post reported...
HEY, CAPTAIN, IT'S SCARY BACK HERE!
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amSTATISTICS dramatically show that flying is still a safer way to travel than driving a car. So why is the fear of flying one the most common of the pathological...
TALE OF THE TAPE BARES NO JET HIJACK OR QUARREL
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amInvestigators can probably rule out hijacking, suicide or a fight for the controls as the cause of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash after listening to the cockpit voice recorder, a...
COCKPIT DIALOGUE MYSTIFIES EXPERTS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amAviation experts were bewildered today by revelations about what went on in the cockpit of EgyptAir Flight 990 moments before it crashed into the sea. A source close to the...
YESHIVA KID FOUND HANGED
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amA 14-year-old boy was found hanging in the bathroom of his Brooklyn yeshiva last night -- an apparent suicide, police said. The teen, who lived in Williamsburg, disappeared into the...
REAR-VIEW DREW? WHAT CHEEK!
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amThere was a full moon in broad daylight as Drew Barrymore stripped naked in public over the weekend. Barrymore, 24, had jaws dropping as she changed clothes in the parking...
INTREPID VICTORIOUS IN CITY TOURIST WARS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amAlthough the Met has more prestige, and the Guggenheim more floor space, nobody at those highbrow institutions can say their museum helped win a war. But they can at the...
RIVAL GAMES DO A NUMBER ON N.Y. LOTTERY
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amNew Yorkers are putting up fewer dollars for a dream -- state lottery revenues have taken another big dive, according to figures released yesterday. And lottery officials admit there's no...
BRITS HAIL RING KING LEWIS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amExpatriate Brits took high tea with knockout glee yesterday, hailing countryman Lennox Lewis for topping Evander Holyfield to become the undisputed king of heavyweight boxing. "Well done Lennox Lewis, old...
AFGHANS RIOT OVER U.N. BIN LADEN SANCTIONS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amStone-throwing protesters roamed the Afghan capital last night after the United Nations hit the Taliban government with sanctions for refusing to hand over suspected terror boss Osama bin Laden. A...
JERSEY WANTS NO TRUCK WITH APPLE TRASH
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amThe garbage wars between New York and New Jersey are about to advance to a new front - the foot of the Goethals Bridge. Starting today, cops from Union County...
RUSSIANS STEP UP CHECHNYA BOMBING CAMPAIGN
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amSeven weeks after Russian forces began pounding the breakaway province of Chechnya, the region suffered its heaviest hail of bombs yesterday. Russian artillery pounded the villages of Gekhi and Urus-Martan...
MORRISON'S FEELING THE HEAT
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amHis teammates expect him to become an ex-teammate imminently, via trade. And after asking to be traded, Brendan Morrison knows he has lost some luster. Genuinely likable, he has become...
JORGEN'S REVIVAL BITTERSWEET
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amJorgen Jonsson had mixed emotions Saturday night. There was disappointment and frustration over the Islanders' 5-3 loss to the Blues at the Coliseum. And there was relief and satisfaction about...
JETS AIM RAY GUN AT PATS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amFOXBORO -- Aside from the usual super-charged emotion that goes along with a Bill Parcells Jets-Patriots showdown, tonight's matchup features an added compelling subplot. Ray Lucas. What a night for...
MUCK NEARS FIRING LINE
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amTHE decision has not yet been ratified by Garden ownership, but unless Cablevision simply will not allow Dave Checketts and Neil Smith to go forward on the call, it appears...
IT'S AN EASY DECISION : HOLYFIELD SHOULD HANG 'EM UP AFTER LATEST RIPOFF
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS -- The car was not unlike its occupant, shiny new and impressive once, slightly shopworn now, but still useful. Its trunk wouldn't stay shut. The driver had to...
AS A RULE, TV TYPES CLUELESS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amTHE NFL rulebook is not all that difficult to apply, provided one spends some quality time in its pages. But if we were told that one in 10 TV football...
LIKE MAGIC, LEWIS IS CHAMP
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS -- Here you have the perfect marriage, boxing and this city. Both are built on illusion. Whether it's Penn & Teller, Siegfried & Roy or Lewis & Holyfield,...
RUDY'S MINOR PLAN IS MAJOR GIVEAWAY
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amMAYOR Giuliani's love for the Yanks may be getting the best of him -- and city taxpayers. How else can you explain City Hall's pitch to the minor-league Staten Island...
EAGLES BLOW PAST DEFENSELESS SKINS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amEagles 35 - Redskins 28 PHILADELPHIA -- How bad is the NFC East? It is bad enough that a Redskin -- a member of a team that has lost three...
GIANTS 'O' SPARKLES IN DEFEAT
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amThere were big plays, improbable third-down conversions, long, diverse drives. There was a Giants offense on the attack. "We had them on the gallows, they were dying," Tiki Barber said....
JJ'S RED-FACED
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amORCHARD PARK -- It turns out that all isn't as rosy for the Dolphins as Jimmy Johnson's cheeks. Glowing from three hours in a gale, pumped up a few more...
JUST CALL IT A BIG BLUE BREAKDOWN - LATE TURNOVERS DOOM GIANTS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amColts 27 - Giants 19 My fault. My fault. My fault. In so many corners of the Giants' locker room yesterday, players stood up and blamed themselves for what had...
PATHETIC KNICKS STINK UP GARDEN
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amHeat 94 - Knicks 88 The Knicks disgraced themselves against Pat Riley's Heat last night at the Garden, hitting their regular season's first crisis. There finally was a buzz in...
MOURNING GIVES 'ZO MUCH MORE
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amOh, how Alonzo Mourning lies. Miami's center and team leader claims the Heat's rivalry with the Knicks is a press creation, nothing but a media-driven myth. His coach insists the...
NIGHT WAS REALLY ROUGH ON CAMBY
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Marcus Camby had every reason to be ticked off last night. His knee hurt, he threw up at halftime from the medicine he was taking for it --...
VAN GUNDY RIPS LISTLESS KNICKS
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amWITH 4:02 left in the third quarter last night at the Garden, Jeff Van Gundy called time-out and looked like an angry pit bull. He lined up his Knicks in...
JUMBO PROBLEM ON LINE
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES FOXBORO -- The Jets are significantly concerned about the status of their veteran left tackle, Jumbo Elliott. Elliott, who's seemingly always nursing a bad back, turned up in...
REID, NOT DE LA HOYA, UP NEXT FOR TRINIDAD
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS -- Don King and Felix Trinidad had three words for Oscar De La Hoya yesterday: Get lost, chicken. After King and Bob Arum were not able to come...
FAVORITES RULE STALLION STAKES
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amFavorites ruled both halves of the New York Stallion Stakes yesterday at Aqueduct. Dat You Miz Blue was sent off at 1-10 and she won the Fifth Avenue Division for...
FASSEL THOUGHT SAFETY FIRST ON BAD CALL
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES When the Giants were scrambling in the closing minutes to put together a scoring drive, they were operating with only one timeout. They should have had two, but...
FRIARS, LAZIO GET REVENGE
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amCHSFL PLAYOFFS St. Anthony 38 Holy Cross 7 St. Anthony's came into this year's CHSFL playoffs with one thing on its mind -- revenge. The Friars took a major step...
HEALTHY FARRELL'S SEMI-TOUGH
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amCHSFL PLAYOFFS Farrell 26 Chaminade 14 Tom Cuozzo sat on the sidelines with a sprained left ankle and watched his Monsignor Farrell team lose to Chaminade 34-12 earlier this year....
PLAYERS ADMITRIVALRY"S BITTER
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amThese teams know how to get under each other"s skin, how to make the other"s blood boil and their championship dreams turn into playoff nightmares. Miami and the Knicks met...
DUDLEY GETS 1ST CRACK TO ZAP 'ZO
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amIt had nothing to do with Marcus Camby's sore left knee, but Jeff Van Gundy benched Camby in favor of center Chris Dudley as the first defender to Miami's Alonzo...
GAMES AGAINST RILEY STILL SPECIAL FOR JEFF
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amKNICKS NOTES Similar to players, Jeff Van Gundy says people in his profession get up for facing top coaches. Which is why games against the Heat always remain special for...
GO HEAT LOVE LIFE IN FAST LANE
November 15, 1999 | 5:00amTHEY came into last night's game at the Garden averaging 110.7 points per game, exhausting opponents with an uptempo offense that belies their reputation. Showtime has come to South Beach....