December 2, 1999
BILTMORE THEATER IS UP FOR SALE
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amSome of Times Square's choicest theater space is back on the block. The Nederlander family won court approval to sell landmark Biltmore Theater following a six-month court battle with hotel...
POLLACK REELS IN 61% PROFIT ON TODD-AO
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amFamed Hollywood director Sydney Pollack hit paydirt yesterday when one of his stocks rocketed 61 percent. The man behind such hits as "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie" proved prescient...
MCD'S BUYS BOSTON MARKET: PAYS ONLY $173.5M FOR 751 SITES
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amMcDonald's is buying the bankrupt Boston Market chain in a $173.5 million bargain to sell more comfort food beyond burgers and fries. McDonald's gets a popular, family-style restaurant chain across...
JORDAN CROSSING RIVER OF CONFLICT?
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amAfter seven years as President Clinton's confidante and consigliere, Vernon Jordan should know something about the appearance of impropriety and conflict of interest. But business ethics experts yesterday said Jordan's...
DKJFK READY FOR TAKEOFF ; AIRPORT STORE SET FOR 2001 DEBUT
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amAfter a glamorous Madison Avenue debut, Donna Karan will open her next DKNY boutique at a really high-flying location -- John F. Kennedy airport. When JFK's new and improved international...
RANDOM BAGS ROSE BOOK
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amPete Rose, baseball's all-time hit king who was banned from the game 10 years ago in a gambling scandal, is about to hit a home run in the publishing world....
LUETHKE CLAMS UP ON STAND IN CURRY SUIT
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amIn the latest bizarre twist in Christian Curry's $1.78 billion discrimination suit against Morgan Stanley, a key witness refused to answer deposition questions yesterday for fear of revealing government secrets....
BARNESANDNOBLE.COM TESTS 24-HOUR DELIVERY
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amBarnesandnoble.com has been secretly testing 24-hour delivery for Manhattan orders, at no extra charge. "We don't make any promises, but we want people to say, 'Wow, that's a great service,'"...
PERFECT GIFTS FOR YOUR FAVORITE DRIVER
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE are many sensible goodies and gadgets for those on your holiday gift list who own or drive a vehicle and that's almost everybody you know. Better yet, these are...
THE STARR REPORT
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amPackin' a punchNathaniel Marston, the "As the World Turns" star notorious for assaulting a helpless ATM, will have his hearing today or tomorrow in Manhattan Criminal Court. And soap legends...
LIVE VIEWS FROM MARS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amGET ready for Mars TV. CNN and MSNBC will provide live coverage of the landing of NASA's latest Mars mission -- the space agency's Polar Lander. The lander will be...
BEING 'POPULAR' IS A HASSLE - CARLY POPE DOESN'T DIG STAR SCENE
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amONE of the stars from the new WB hit "Popular" says she hates being, well, popular. Carly Pope, who plays a high school in-crowd outcast, says Hollywood is too obsessed...
IS WOODY A RIP-OFF ARTIST?
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amWOODY Allen is recycling other filmmakers' plots again - but is it an hommage or a rip-off? "Sweet and Lowdown," opening tomorrow, stars Sean Penn as a jazz musician who...
BAD PILOT BEHAVIOR:FORMER STEWARDESS ANA LAGUZZI SAYS SHE HAS SEEN IT ALL IN THE COCKPIT - DRUNKENESS, RAGE, ABUSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHOUGH the case of Egypt Air Flight 990 remains open, Ana Laguzzi says she would not be surprised if the tragedy stemmed from a psychologically distressed pilot. "It is a...
CANNED, BUT STILL SWEET
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amSO how different is it, a "Nutcracker" with canned music and a naked orchestral pit? Tuesday night I braved the picket lines -- something I might be chary of doing...
VOCALIST IS LUNA TIC
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amBECAUSE nerdy Dean Wareham sang like a wounded dog with a nasal condition, you would have thought his performance might have dragged his band Luna to the depths of no...
TONIGHT'S DEBATE MAY BE MAKE-OR-BREAK FOR BUSH
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amWIPE that smirk off your face, George W. Bush. Or, on second thought, maybe not. Bush is bound to be the center of attention -- and attacks -- when he...
FIGHTING SPIRIT THRIVES AT LEGENDARY GLEASON'S GYM
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amEach day until Jan. 1, The Post will take a look at one of New York's landmarks on the eve of the new millennium. We'll talk to people who work...
WORLD SEES IT AS AMERICAN 'ANARCHY'
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amTo the rest of the world, what's going on in Seattle reveals that America is in chaos. The violent demonstrations that delayed the opening of the World Trade Organization conference...
MIKE LONG'S RUDY PROBLEM ; WHY ISN'T PRO-CHOICER PATAKI IN CONSERVATIVE HOT WATER?
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's tin ear for New York was on display once again yesterday morning, as her attack on Mayor Giuliani's vagrancy policies competed for attention with news of the...
INDEPENDENCE PARTY BACKS TRUMP
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY -- New York's Independence Party chairman endorsed Donald Trump for president yesterday, pledging the state's Reform Party affiliate would field a slate of pro-Trump primary delegates. Jack Essenberg told...
MOMA HITS GUSHER WITH $27.5M OIL
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Museum of Modern Art hit the jackpot yesterday when a George Bellows painting fetched $27.5 million at auction -- a record for an American painting. The oil of a...
SOCCER SHOCKER: AUSSIE GALS BARE ALL
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amAustralia's top women soccer players stripped it all off for a saucy calendar -- and now they're being forced to strip the Olympic logo from it, too. Members of the...
SINN FEIN BIGS BARE LINGERING DISTRUST
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST -- Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein party has rejected the official protection and whopping salaries that go with state office -- just days after the party took seats in Northern...
LONG ROAD BACK FROM BRAIN INJURIES
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amWeeks after he was beaten into a coma at a Long Island nightclub, Shane Daniels' physical pain was giving way to mounting emotional frustration. Therapists at the Moss Rehabilitation Hospital...
CASE RESTS ON WORD OF STRONG WITNESS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe case against accused brick smasher Paris Drake was built on the shaky word of a jailhouse informant -- but will rest on the strength of a rock-solid eyewitness who...
SIMPLE WAYS YOU CAN AVOID ANY UNHAPPY RETURNS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amSavvy Shopper reveals tips and trends for gift-buying in what is shaping up as the biggest holiday season of the '90s.I T'S painful to even consider that the purple-and-green rhinoceros-print...
TRANSIT UNION DOWNPLAYS STRIKE TALK
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amTransit-union leaders tried to ease concerns about the possibility of a strike yesterday -- even as they rejected as "insulting" an MTA proposal for a 9.25 percent salary hike over...
GORE ADMITS HE INVENTED YARN ABOUT LOVE CANAL
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amVice President Al Gore scrambled yesterday to keep his latest fit of exaggeration from dumping sludge on his campaign for the White House -- backing off a claim that he...
SUPER BOWL .COM-MERCIALS GOING FOR $3M
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Super Bowl has scored a touchdown in selling ad time -- charging an astounding $3 million for a 30-second commercial. That's nearly double what ads cost in last season's...
RUDY LAUNCHES AIR WAR ON HILL FOR LA GUARDIA FLIGHT DELAYS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday accused First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton of delaying regular commercial flights at La Guardia Airport so her plane could land. Giuliani's charges were quickly denied by Clinton's...
AN AMAZED NICOLE FINDS SHE'S TALK OF THE TOWN
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amBrick-attack victim Nicole Barrett now knows about the brutal assault that nearly killed her -- but she was surprised to learn that the whole city is rooting for her. The...
JUDGE SENT SUSPECT TO JAIL FOR THANKSGIVING
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amIn court last week on a minor drug charge, Paris Drake whined. He wheedled. He begged the judge: please, let me out of jail for Thanksgiving. But tough-talking Manhattan Criminal...
'REFORMED' DRUGGIE-TURNED-LAWYER BUSTED AGAIN
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThomas Eddy, who became a poster boy for opponents of the state's harsh Rockefeller-era drug laws while imprisoned 13½ years on a minor cocaine charge, may again face a long...
HE MURDERED A PART OF HER, D.A. CHARGES ; 'DEPRAVED' SUSPECT IS ORDERED HELD WITHOUT BAIL
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amCareer criminal Paris Drake was tossed in jail without bail yesterday after being charged with attempted murder in the senseless brick attack on Nicole Barrett. "This is a horrible, serious...
TRUMP STANDS TALL AS JUDGE OKS 70-STORY APT. TOWER
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amWalter Cronkite and company were trumped by The Donald yesterday when a judge gave the real-estate tycoon the green light to finish building a controversial, 856-foot apartment building next to...
SCAM MAY MAKE THEM POKEY MEN
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amCops say they wiped out a massive Poké-con when they raided a New Jersey warehouse and seized $1 million worth of counterfeit Pokémon cards. Police said yesterday they swooped on...
COPS CLAMP DOWN ON PROTESTERS AS WTO STARTS WORK
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amSEATTLE -- Police yesterday took back the streets here after a day of wild, massive protests -- and the World Trade Organization finally got down to business with a speech...
LOCK UP CAREER THUGS LIKE HIM FOR GOOD!
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amIf New York had a three-strike-type law that covered even misdemeanors when they pass a certain threshold, then petty thugs like Drake would cease to be a threat to the...
SUBWAY HUSTLER SHOT: B'KLYN COPS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amA subway scammer was shot in the chest at a downtown Brooklyn subway stop last night by a teen fed up with his hustle, police and witnesses said. A witness...
RUDY CREW'S BIG QUESTION: SHOULD HE STAY OR GO?
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew says he still hasn't made up his mind whether to stay or go - but he sounded yesterday like he wants to stick around. "There's a...
COPS BURN BAKER IN COCAINE BUST
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amA Brooklyn baker has been busted for cooking up a scheme to smuggle cocaine from Central America, authorities said yesterday. Robert Secrist, 43, the owner of Erica's Rugelach on Fifth...
ALBANY MULLS CIG-TAX HIKE TO HELP FUND HEALTH CARE
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - State officials are secretly considering a 25-cent-a-pack cigarette-tax hike to raise $250 million for expanded health-care coverage, The Post has learned. The whopping new tax - which would...
A BIG-LEAGUE PRICE TAG FOR MINOR-LEAGUE PARK: $75M
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe price tag on a proposed Staten Island minor-league baseball stadium is headed toward the stratosphere - $75million, including improvements to the surrounding area. Michael Carey, president of the Economic...
DEAR SANTA: POST-OFFICE 'ELVES' FIELD APPLE KIDS' TOUCHING REQUESTS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amAll Francesca wants for Christmas is a few pairs of jeans, for her sickle cell anemia stricken 6 year-old. Calvin wants diet pills, so he can lose weight, and the...
BOMB GIVES BLAKE HER FIRST N.Y. WIN
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amWhen double-bug apprentice rider Janice Blake lit up the board with $111.50 Ridged Appeal in yesterday's fifth race at Aqueduct -- her first winner from five New York mounts --...
IT'S RAY REST OF WAY ; AT 2-2, LUCAS' REVIEWS MIXED
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amWith the Jets as officially out of playoff contention as they can be without an asterisk next to their name in the standings, these last five games represent an audition...
BILL DROPS HINT ABOUT Y-TUNA-K
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES One by one the hints trickle in about Bill Parcells' plans for 2000. Because Parcells, always true to his word on this, won't make a final decision on...
FASSEL HANDS OFF TO MONTGOMERY
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Week after week, Joe Montgomery sat on his stool in front of his locker. When approached about actually getting on the field, Montgomery would invariably say, "My time...
STRAHAN ISSUES TAINTED APOLOGY
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe word came down to Michael Strahan: The coach wants to see you, in his office, first thing in the morning. Strahan arrived yesterday at Jim Fassel's office at 7...
KURT EYES NEW KNICK PACT
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE -- If Knick management had any notion of allowing power forward Kurt Thomas to become a free agent at season's end, the front-line injuries the club has endured this...
NOT SO SWEET HOMECOMING FOR SPREE
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE -- Latrell Sprewell is making another homecoming tonight but don't expect him to be cursing out the good people of Milwaukee when the Knicks face the Bucks. Sprewell, fined...
SHOPPING IN QUEENS ; CONE, METS HAVE TALKED ABOUT RETURNING TO SHEA
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amDavid Cone's heart might be in The Bronx, but the free agent pitcher in search of a two-year deal admitted yesterday that he has talked to the Mets. And, because...
NO MORE CHILI ON YANKEE MENU
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Yankees made official yesterday what everybody in baseball has known for months: Chili Davis' productive career is over. Davis, who talked of retirement during the second half of last...
METS OFFER OLERUD ; $21M TO RETURN
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Mets continued the negotiating process with John Olerud, making an incremental addition to their offer for the free agent first baseman in order to match the Mariners' most recent...
BOSS SEEKING OWN NETWORK
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe odd structure of the YankeeNets' $360 million bond offering is the strongest indicator to date that George Steinbrenner is committed to starting his own sports network, financial analysts tell...
LETHARGIC STORM KOS COPPIN ST.
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's75Coppin52 What happened to the tenacious St. John's team that took the court for every game last season? Did all of the fire go to the NBA along with...
ANOTHER FLAWED GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME ; SAME 'OLD' STORY FOR RANGERS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE RANGER organization has become a caricature of itself, apparently helpless to resist adding older, expensive players on the downsides of their respective careers whenever a vacancy presents itself in...
RANGERS' PROBLEMS WORSE ; UNHAPPY DEVILS STILL CAN'T LOSE VS. RIVALS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe team troubled by too much talent beat the team troubled by not enough. The Devils' problems with management were forgotten for an hour when they saw blue. The Rangers'...
DEVILS FUMING AT FTOREK - BENCHINGS, DECISIONS HAVE PLAYERS FURIOUS
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe best spin the captain could find is that at least the players like each other. "If we had trouble in here with guys not getting along, we'd really be...
COACH IS COPPIN NO EXCUSES
December 2, 1999 | 5:00amCoppin State coach Ron "Fang" Mitchell knew this road trip would be tough - 10 straight games away from home, including mismatches against Connecticut, Purdue, Auburn and last night's opponent,...