November 21, 1999
TRADER IS FLOORED AT NYME
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE was a bit of drama on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange this week. After a few days of huge volatility in the oil markets, an oil...
AMAZON.COM IS LESS THAN IRRESISTIBLE
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amBACK in the good old days, booksellers were quiet, literate types who spoke proper English and knew obscure rules of grammar. While Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com have managed to make...
CAROL AUTHORS IN CONTRACT HELL
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amMORE than 1,000 authors' contracts -- past and present -- may now be tossed into limbo as a result of the bankruptcy filing of Carol Publishing. While Steve Schragis has...
KPE CELEBRATES BEAUTY.COM
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amMark Patricof stayed in the shadows at the party for cosmetics retail site Beauty.com on Thursday night, as the ultrathin girls picked at canapés and transvestites tottered among the suits....
CNN MAN GETS UPPER FIST IN FIGHT
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amCNN staffers should tread carefully: producer Doug Ganly has a strong jab and mean right cross. The 185-pounder bravely took on 210-pound bruiser John Gordon in the most exciting bout...
HERE'S A FOOLPROOF WAY TO GET RICH ON THE WEB
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amHERE'S an idea for an e-biz: a how-to site where you can buy the stuff you read about. So, How to Carve a Turkey has hyperlinks to electric carving knives....
MEALS & DEALS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amYe Waverly Inn16 Bank St. (at Waverly Place) (212) 929-4377 With Thanksgiving just a few days away, one's thoughts naturally turn to turkey. But at Ye Waverly Inn, it's Thanksgiving...
CAPTIVATED BY 'KATE'
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWunderbar, wunderbar and, again, wunderbar! One dare says no less of Michael Blakemore's scrumptious and sumptuous reinvention of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate," now triumphantly installed, possibly for life, at...
WELL CHOSEN WORDS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00am"War and Peace" it's not. It's much funnier. "Haikus for Jews," the recently published second book by lawyer-turned-writer David M. Bader, is a collection of nearly 100 haikus, written in...
THE BOOK REPORT: IN REVIEW
November 21, 1999 | 5:00am"The Phantom of Manhattan" by Frederick Forsyth, St. Martin"s Press, 177 pages, $19.99.(MD-BO) It was inevitable that someone would write a sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera." But why...
GUY-GERCOUNTER
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amNAME: Eustace King AGE: 27 SPOTTED: 50th Street and Sixth Avenue HOMETOWN: Evanston, Ill. RESIDENCE: Jersey City, N.J. HEIGHT: 6' WEIGHT: 190 lbs. OCCUPATION: Corporate marketing manager PERSONAL CLOTHING STYLE:...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL...
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amIn "Sleepy Hollow," opening this week, a headless horseman rides through the woods. How did your guy "lose his head" over you? Julie Diaz Queens We went away with another...
TECH IT OUT
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amIf you've ever despaired because you couldn't add a signature or a sketch to a word-processing document -- and you're sick of tangled mouse cords -- here's the perfect package...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: PEGGY FLEMING
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amLast year, I turned 50, became a grandmother, fought breast cancer and remodeled my kitchen," begins Peggy Fleming's recently released autobiography, "The Long Program." And that was just one year...
SERIES OF TEENS ON SCREENS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00am"Fast Times" in AstoriaJennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn and Phoebe Cates were up-and-coming actors when they signed on to make "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" in 1982. They went on...
A FIENNES ROMANCE:THE ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE STAGE AND SCREEN
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amThere's something about Ralph - "It's Rafe, actually" - Fiennes that stops any attempt at levity dead in its tracks. The English actor with the probing hazel eyes specializes in...
'BULLETPROOF' RAPPER GETS PROBATION
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amBody-armor rap.Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard has been sentenced to serve three years probation and enter drug treatment after pleading no-contest to charges of wearing body armor and making threats. When...
DON'T RUN ; HILL, JUST WALK! ; VOTERS' HARSH SIGNAL
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amHey Hillary, pack it in! A majority of New Yorkers -- a stunning 53 percent -- are telling First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton they don't want her to run for...
SAFIR: I KNOW WHAT KIND OF PRESSURE DIALLO COPS FACED
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amIN a week when we are all going to be talking turkey, Police Commissioner Howard Safir cuts right to the bone. "It was a terrible, terrible tragedy, but I am...
WILL PEOPLE THINK REEL 'Y2K' PROBLEMS ARE THE REAL THING?
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amGovernment officials who are afraid people believe what they see on TV are setting up special hot lines and preparing news flashes to prevent a panic when the NBC "Y2K"...
A SON'S VIOLENT INSANITY IS DAD'S STRUGGLE
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amMICHAEL, a paranoid schizophrenic, crashed through the locked bedroom door of his father, Jim, last year and, throwing punches like a madman, savagely beat the 69-year-old man. Jim, a Korean...
LABOUR OF LOVE: MRS. BLAIR PREGGERS AT 45
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amAll of England is agog at the news that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his 45-year-old wife, Cherie, are expecting a baby. The pregnancy for Britain's first lady marks the...
A VERY SPECIAL DELIVERY ; MOM, 56, GIVES BIRTH -- AND MIGHT DO IT AGAIN!
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amA Westchester woman who gave birth at 56 is believed to be the oldest woman ever to carry a healthy child to term in New York state, her doctor said...
PREZ A MARBLE-OUS MEDIATOR
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- President Clinton, playing the role of international mediator, yesterday called on British officials to give the Greeks their marbles back, but a British official told Clinton to butt...
WILL SMITH HAS HIS EYE ON BEING 'FRESH PREZ'
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amRapper-actor superstar Will Smith has political ambitions.Rapper-actor superstar Will Smith wants to be the first black president, he told a London paper. "I've always thought I'd like to become America's...
POLS SERVE UP A THICK $LICE OF PORK FOR NYERS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The federal budget passed by the Senate Friday night may be loaded with pork -- but New York legislators say it's kosher. The budget, passed Friday night and...
EL DUQUE IN WEDDING WIND-UP
November 21, 1999 | 5:00am"El Duque" has found his duchess. Yankee pitching ace Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez reportedly got a marriage license in Coral Gables, Fla., on Friday. He's marrying 22-year-old Noris Bosch, the...
MOM SAYS SON, 5, WAS MOLESTED AT SCHOOL
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe mother of a 5-year old student at lower Manhattan's PS 97 said yesterday that her son was sexually molested in the school bathroom -- after a teacher's aide sent...
REV. AL: I'LL DECLARE SOON IF SHE WON'T
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday warned Hillary Clinton that if she doesn't formally declare she's running for the Senate by January, he'll likely jump in the race. "If you're too...
DEADLY GERMS HITTING ; THE ROAD ON L.I. ; WATCHDOGS WARN OF BIO-DISASTER
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTwice a week a car drives along local highways from JFK Airport to the tip of Long Island carrying dangerous viruses and other biological materials to the Plum Island Animal...
A SHORT LIST OF WHAT IS RIGHT WITH OUR WORLD
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWE news columnists usually devote ourselves to essaying on the failures, outrages and sundry idiocies of our day, as reported by fine journals such as the one you're holding in...
JEWISH SUPPORT IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has emerged from her bungled visit to the Middle East unscathed among Jewish voters, but her support is nowhere near what she needs to win,...
HOPES RISE AS 'FULLY AWAKE' BRICK VICTIM MOVES IN BED
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amBrick-attack victim Nicole Barrett was fully awake and moving her arms and legs yesterday, giving her doctors new hope that she'll pull through. "She's still critical. She is awake, and...
FRANKLY, GRAY'S STILL RATES AS HOTTEST STUFF ON B'WAY
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amMohammed Hussain isn't worried about the Y2K bug -- he says his frankfurters will still be top dog in the city in the next millennium. "Everybody loves hot dogs and...
TEARS & CHARGES AS AGGIE BURIALS BEGIN
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amHOUSTON -- Scott West, 19, was laid to rest here yesterday, the first victim of the Texas A&M bonfire tragedy to be buried. "Scott was participating in a tradition he...
POL: CITY YAWNING AT ILLEGAL AWNINGS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe city is losing $1.5 million a year because inspectors can't seem to locate thousands of illegal storefront awnings - although they're right out on the sidewalk, a city councilman...
AUCTION IS EARTHLY END TO COMET CULT'S SAGA
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amSANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A suicidal cult that put little stock in worldly possessions was remembered yesterday in a materialistic manner: with an auction. The county of San Diego sold...
HOPES RISE FOR IMPROVING VICTIM OF BRICK ATTACK
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amBrick-attack victim Nicole Barrett was fully awake, saying a few words and moving her arms and legs yesterday, giving her doctors new hope that she'll pull through. "She's still critical....
PIRATE EXPECTATIONS ARE WELL-GUARDED
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amFor a change, the story at Seton Hall is about who is coming, not going. The Tommy Amaker to every other university in the nation rumors can take a rest,...
VAN'S COACH OF WEAK ; KNICKS REFLECT HIS LACK OF CHARACTER
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWHATEVER happened to the unwritten rule, which applies to players AND COACHES, about keeping criticism of each other in the locker room? Certainly nobody can accuse Jeff Van Gundy (or...
HERB; EWING ATTENDED NO PARTY
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Patrick Ewing wasn't at the party. So says his chief confidant, Herb Williams, the 41-year-old former Knicks center who was released by the club before training camp. Williams,...
LJ SHUT DOWN; SURGERY AN OPTION
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWhen The Post reported Nov. 9 Larry Johnson was considering back surgery in the offseason, he firmly denied it. "No way, no way, no cutting, no cutting," LJ told The...
MOM: MARBURY A WINNER AMONG LOSERS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amSay this for the Nets: Their world is an interesting place. Long after the Nets fell to the Sixers 100-96 at the Meadowlands last night, Stephon Marbury, who grows increasingly...
BROOKLYN BOXER IN CRITICAL CONDITION
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY -- Stephan Johnson, a junior middleweight from Brooklyn, was carried from the ring on a stretcher after suffering some brain damage after being knocked out in the 10th...
GREENING OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTHOSE who enjoy the great outdoors and what it has to offer got some help last week from Capitol Hill. The House Resources Committee voted to send a truly historic...
'MAZE' ROARS BACK TO TAKE SMITH
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWhen your horse is dead-last in a 14-horse field with only seven furlongs left to run in a 13/8-mile turf race, it's usually time to tear up the tickets. Unless...
MSGR. FARRELL HOLDS THE LINE
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amSt. Anthony's RB Frank Lazio rushed for 161 yards, but he needed to get another six inches. Monsignor Farrell (9-2) won the CHSFL AAA title last night by beating the...
WEINKE TRIVES IN THE SWAMP
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amGAINESVILLE -- He was literally a man among boys. Mature. Confident. Determined. Chris Weinke, Florida State's 27-year-old quarterback, looked the big, bad Gators in the teeth and kicked them in....
HOLY TRINITY GOES FROM 0-4 TO TITLE
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWith their team's record at 0-4, the coaches of Holy Trinity told their players that they could go "all the way." Not everyone believed them. "When we were 0-4, I...
STORM NOT SWALLOWED AT PIT ; BEAT FRAN WITH 5-POINT PLAY ST. JOHN'S70N. MEXICO62
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE -- With 4:45 remaining, it appeared Fran Fraschilla might get a measure of revenge for being fired 17 months ago by St. John's, a team he rebuilt into national...
TIME FOR BIG BLUE TO WALK THE WALK
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amRALJON, Md. -- This is more than The Game. In many ways, this is The Season. It is Put Up or Shut Up today for you Jim Fassel Giants. You...
NHL MIGHT END EAST-WEST PLAY
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO -- The NHL, seeking a way to rekindle the rivalries that have always been the heart of its game, is considering a move to conference-only play within the next...
WRETCHED BENGALS TOO BAD TO PASS UP
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE are all kinds of trends, some of which are complicated. If so inclined, one can latch on to a team that has covered four of its last five at...
METS LOOKING EAST YET AGAIN
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe Mets have some interest in yet another Japanese pitcher. With the team prepared to let lefty Kenny Rogers sign elsewhere, the Mets have contacted the agent for Japanese left-handed...
GOMEZ KEEPS CASHING IN
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amDevils3Senators1 This team that doesn't believe in individual bonuses may have to cough up $100,000 on this one. The Devils shouldn't mind. Showing no flash-in-the-pan signs, Scott Gomez is taking...
TOM V IN STRIKING DISTANCE
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amAfter the first day of the Aqueduct Fall Handicapping Contest, The Post's Tom "The Bomb" Valledolmo put himself into great striking position heading into the final day of the contest....
REDEMPTION DAY? ; JINTS LOOK TO AVENGE 50-21 HUMILIATION
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amRALJON, Md. -- He was not on the field, and yet he felt disgusted and humiliated, so much so that he was hesitant to wear anything with a Giants logo...
MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN THIS 'D'
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amRALJON, Md. -- Are they that bad? No, not the Giants' offense, but rather, the Redskins' defense, which has been worse than advertised. The Skins on defense got where they...
DEFENSE IS EAGER FOR SECOND CRACK
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amJETS NOTES The Jets' defense has been salivating for this rematch with the Bills, who ravaged them on the ground and frustrated them with a lot of Flutie in the...
CURTIS CARRYIN' THE LOAD ; MARTIN'S RUN TO TOP A JET BRIGHT SPOT
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amYou don't expect a 3-6 team to be No. 1 in the league in anything. Yet quietly, diligently and sometimes in dominant fashion, the Jets have become the NFL's top...
THEY'RE PERFECT TOGETHER: CONE & YANKS A MARRIAGE WORTH SAVING
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amDAVID Cone should stay a Yankee. It would be best for him. It would be best for the team. Some marriages should not be saved. This one should. This couple...
IT'S ALL ON THE LINE ; BYPASSING PACE AT ROOT OF TUNA'S WOES
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTHE UNLUCKY Jets continue to draw short straws, one of which could break Jumbo Elliott's back at any time. "Surgery is not an option," Bill Parcells said earlier this week....
HE CAN RISE TO TOP OF HEAVIES DOOR'S OPEN FOR GRANT
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY -- By the time you read this, you probably will have been told countless times that Michael Grant is either a): A Great Fighter, or b): Well On...
THE CHOKE'S PUNCHLINE ; KNICKS GET LAST LAUGH IN SPREWELL'S RETURN ; SPREWELL, KNICKS STRANGLE WARRIORS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks86Warriors77OAKLAND -- Latrell Sprewell didn't do the "crushing" or "killing" of the Warriors last night at the New Arena in Oakland on his own. All night, Spree drew double-teams, taunts,...
STARKS: WACKY AND WONDERFUL
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Other than allegations of being hooked up with a prostitution ring that has ties to organized crime, a coach-choker revenge game for Latrell Sprewell against P.J. Carlesimo, Jeff...
CALIPARI BECOMES NETS' WORST NIGHTMARE ; NUMB NETS PAY CALIPARI TO BEAT THEM
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amSixers100Nets96 In his two-plus seasons with the Nets, John Calipari had an unfailing ability to command attention, to hurl himself into the center of any situation. That flare for the...
GATOR FANS WARN 'NOLES: IT'S IN BAG - WARRICK SWAMPED BY TAUNTS
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amGAINESVILLE -- The Dillard's department store here began running low on shopping bags Friday afternoon. It was the darndest thing. Some folks were making minor purchases in order to get...
NOT JUST ANOTHER GAME ; P.J. PUMPED UP FOR SPREE-MATCH
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Even P.J. Carlesimo broke down and admitted last night's game between his Warriors and Latrell Sprewell's Knicks wasn't "like another game" as he tried to claim last week...
HERB: EWING ATTENDED NO PARTY
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES OAKLAND -- Patrick Ewing wasn't at the party. So says his chief confidant, Herb Williams, the 41-year-old former Knicks center who was released by the club before training...
STEVENS BENCHED, DAIGLE GETS CALL
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO -- The Rangers, who have been plagued much of the season's first 20 games by an unsatisfactory work ethic, last night took Kevin Stevens out of the lineup and...
NCAA MUST STOP MADNESS ; PLAYERS DESERVE STIPEND
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE -- The NCAA got paid this week. It's time its players did, too. Six billion. That's $6,000,000,000.00, to be exact. It's what CBS paid the sanctioning body of college...
NETS GIVE DOUGLAS STARTING NOD ; NETS TEAM UP DOUGLAS WITH MARBURY
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe Nets have gone big and bulky. They've gone small and quick. And still the search continues for a winning formula. It's beginning to seem as if man will uncover...
SPREE FANS THE FLAMES ; BARKS AT HECKLER IN RETURN TO OAKLAND
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Earlier than his custom, Latrell Sprewell took the court at about 6:20 p.m. Pacific time last night with buddy Rick Brunson for early shooting drills. There were only...
ANYTHING CONN HAPPEN!AS HUSKIES PROVED, COLLEGE HOOPS HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWe owe Connecticut a 'Thank you.' All of us. Any athletic director who dares to dream that he can build a perennial national title contender almost from scratch; any coach...
FLINT STONES: MENTALLY TOUGH MICHIGAN STATE HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN IT ALL
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amWhy Michigan State to win it all? Yes, the Spartans are deep, talented, well-coached, experienced and play one of the toughest schedules in the country. But a lot of teams...
NEW GM CHANGING FACE OF ROCKIES
November 21, 1999 | 5:00amQUIZ -- Cal Ripken Jr. has annually led his position in games played. But with a few DL stops last season, Ripken only started 85 games at third. Which AL...