December 3, 1999
THE FED IS PARANOID ABOUT Y2K
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Federal Reserve is being driven to distraction by Y2K. Even as the Central Bank has been publicly tightening monetary conditions through three interest rate hikes this year, it has...
390 WILL NO LONGER RULE THE BLUE CHIPS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York Stock Exchange caved into mounting pressure yesterday, announcing it would abandon a long-standing rule that has been attacked by regulators as anticompetitive. The board of the New...
RED INK PUTS NEWS ON BRINK - LOST $17.9M LAST YEAR
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe Daily News claimed it could not afford to pay its drivers what drivers for other major papers earn because it lost nearly $18 million last year, court records show....
NOVEMBER SALES LOOK STRONG
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amRobust Thanksgiving weekend sales got the holiday shopping weekend off to a good start, and helped plump up weak sales for the month. Clothing sales were the weak spot, as...
RED-HOT AGENCY.COM DELAYS DEBUT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIf you ask for too much on Wall Street, you may not get it, at least not on Fridays. Hot online advertising shop Agency.com was originally planning to make its...
GEORGE TAGS LAGANI AS PUBLISHER
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSeven months after the departure of its last publisher, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines has finally tapped Daniel Lagani to fill the long-vacant post. Lagani, who since April has been the associate...
TINA TAKES ON THE TIMES - BLASTS REPORT THAT TALK IS DISNEY SHILL
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTINA Brown, the editor known as the Queen of Buzz, is fighting back in a stinging rebuke to her harsh treatment in this week's New York Times. Brown is infuriated...
THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S Y2K PARANOIA
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Federal Reserve is being driven to distraction by Y2K. Even as the Central Bank has been publicly tightening monetary conditions through three interest rate hikes this year, it has...
GRASSO TAKES ANOTHER PASS-O
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amCHALK up another loss for Dick Grasso. The chairman of the New York Stock Exchange could not convince his board to stick with the anticompetitive Rule 390, despite his ongoing...
GOLDEN BOY DAVID KELLEY TARNISHED
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amAS expected, ABC has announced that "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" will return as a regular series on Jan. 11, ending the short shelf life of David E. Kelley's...
'SPANISH FLY' SEDUCES BUT CAN'T SUSTAIN
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amAS critic, one dreads independent films in which the writer/director casts him- or herself in the lead because such filmmakers often become blinded by self-indulgence. But "Spanish Fly" is a...
YES --- STILL TOGETHER - ANDERSON RIFFS ON 30 YEARS OF 'ROUNDABOUT' SUCCESS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amYES, the progressive rock outfit that first got together in 1968, is still going strong despite many changes in the band. Over the years this Brit group has experimented with...
THE STARR REPORT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe Ward healer "Once and Again" star Sela Ward is teaming with Rory Kennedy to produce a Lifetime documentary, "Beauty and Aging in America" scheduled for March.Diane Keaton is one...
IT'S TOO BAD 'AFFAIR' EVER BEGAN
December 3, 1999 | 5:00am'THE End of the Affair" is an attempt to make an old-fashioned romantic weepie out of Graham Greene's novel of the same name. But the characters are so unsympathetic, the...
BIBLE EPIC, AFRICAN STYLE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amCOVERING Chapters 23 to 37 of the Book of Genesis, Mali director Cheick Oumar Sissoko's "La Genese" ("Genesis") is an African-set rethinking of the story of Jacob and Esau. It's...
A 'SWEET' SUCCESS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00am'SWEET and Lowdown" is Woody Allen in a minor if pleasant key -- a playful riff on "La Strada" starring Sean Penn as a 1930s jazz musician who neglects a...
LIGHT 'BROWNE' FULL OF IRISH COLOR
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHE movie version of "Angela's Ashes" is still three weeks away, but a more lighthearted view of Irish poverty is on view in "Agnes Browne," starring Anjelica Huston (who also...
JAMISON'S 10 YEARS MARKED AT AILEY GALA
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIT was a great occasion at City Center Wednesday night, when the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company opened its annual season with its customary gala, plus all the trimmings. The...
BRUCE TO RUN WILD ; BATS BEFORE HE'S A MAN
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHE next anguished teen series -- taking off where "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" began -- could be a new, live-action version of Batman portraying Bruce Wayne as a wild teen...
'SMOKE' BOMBS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amJANE Campion's "The Piano" had its detractors but was undoubtedly well-made. "Holy Smoke," on the other hand, is just a dreadful mess. With enough unintentional laughs to compete with "Eyes...
THE FIRST REVIEW BY OUR NEW TV CRITIC, LINDA STASI; THAT'S A-'MORRIE'
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amOprah Winfrey Presents: 'Tuesdays with Morrie' Sunday 9:00 p.m. on WABC/Ch.7 1/2 OPRAH Winfrey, who did for spirituality what Martha Stewart did for spray- painted vine wreaths, went nuts for...
MUSIC SINKS 'MARIE'
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHE worst aspect of Michael John LaChiusa's new musical, "Marie Christine," at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, is Michael John LaChiusa's new music. For one thing, much of it sounds...
MUSICAL DIRECTOR OCKRENT DEAD
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMIKE Ockrent -- the British director who staged two of Broadway's most successful and joyous musical comedies, "Me and My Girl" and "Crazy for You" -- died yesterday at the...
'MATCH GAME' HOST RAYBURN DEAD AT 81
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amGene Rayburn, famed as the host of TV's popular "Match Game," has died at 81. He died Monday in Gloucester, Mass., of congestive heart failure. After beginning his career as...
SIGOURNEY'S 'WORLD': WEAVER SHINES AS WISCONSIN WIFE IN GRIPPING PERSONAL DRAMA
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amA MAP OF THE WORLD Starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore and David Strathairn. Directed by Scott Elliott. Screenplay by Peter Hedges and Polly Platt. Running time: 127 minutes. Rated R....
SAFIR BLUNDERS IN BID TO SHOOT HOLES IN STOP-&-FRISK REPORT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amPOLICE Commissioner Howard Safir may be the only public figure who has made more gaffes this year than Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. Remember the freebie trip to the Academy...
SAD FAREWELL FOR BUS-CRASH DRIVER
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 1,000 relatives, friends, co-workers and passengers packed a Brooklyn hall yesterday to bid a tearful farewell to a beloved city bus driver killed in a freak holiday accident....
OLD FINANCE SCANDAL HAUNTS KOHL
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe German parliament yesterday voted unanimously to launch a full-scale investigation of a campaign-finance scandal centering on former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The grandfatherly Kohl, who ran Germany for a record...
RED-FACED NINTENDO PULLS 'NAZI' POKEMON
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amNintendo is promising to remove a Japanese religious symbol -- which resembles a swastika -- from one of its Pokémon cards amid protests from Jewish groups. The "manji" -- a...
BARGAIN FANS: BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE 'FLEA'
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSavvy Shopper reveals tips and trends for gift-buying in what is shaping up as the biggest holiday season of the '90s.BELIEVE it or not, there are shoppers among us who...
NOW HE'S GOT THE ANGELS LAUGHING
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIT IS always sadness that comes from the ultimate farewell -- and Roger Wood was as broken up as anyone when the dreadful news came that Joey Adams had passed...
ULSTER BEGINS 'NEW ERA' UNDER JOINT RULE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST -- Hopes of a just and lasting peace ran high yesterday as Northern Ireland's new home-rule government of Protestants and Catholics met for the first time to begin running...
PICTURE YOURSELF AT JUNIOR'S: SAY 'CHEESE'CAKE
December 3, 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...
MEXICAN MASS GRAVES MAY BE JUST THE BEGINNING
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amU.S. drug-enforcement agents fear the four mass grave sites being dug up along the Mexican border may be only the tip of the iceberg -- there could be hundreds more...
IT'S OFFICIAL! JACKIE AND PEE WEE TO GET STATUE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe city will commission a life-size statue celebrating a historic scene in baseball -- the moment Brooklyn Dodger Pee Wee Reese put his arm around teammate Jackie Robinson amid racist...
DRUG-FIGHTING COLONEL'S WIFE PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO COKE RAP
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe wife of a U.S. Army colonel in charge of the anti-drug effort in Colombia was arraigned yesterday on charges she shipped more than 15 pounds of cocaine and heroin...
FEDS INDICT REPUTED N.J. MOB BOSS AND 38 OTHERS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe feds yesterday won indictments for the reputed acting head of a mob family and 38 others on racketeering charges in crimes ranging from murder to hijacking to a $1...
STUDENTS SWEAT OUT SCHOOL SQUEEZE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amOvercrowding is so bad in one Brooklyn public school that officials count the time students spend "going up and down the stairs" to get to class "gym time," a district...
URBAN MUSIC GAVE B'KLYN GANGSTA 2ND CHANCE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amShawn Carter was a tough Brooklyn street thug dealing drugs in the projects and watching his life add up to a big fat zero -- but a lucky twist of...
FUNNYMEN REMEMBER THEIR HERO
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSome of America's funniest comics mourned Joey Adams yesterday, saying the comedian's kind heart was as legendary as his repertoire. "I've known him for about 70 years, and I say...
TRAFFIC'S TURNING US INTO APPLE JAM
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe Big Apple will crawl into the new millennium with a record number of cars, trucks and buses clogging city highways and streets, transportation officials said yesterday. About 10 million...
CONTROL THAT RAGIN' CAJUN
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amFIRST Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp is keeping close tabs on tart-tongued Ragin' Cajun James Carville. On Sunday, Carville gleefully declared on "Meet the Press" that as a volunteer for...
HOW WE BRAINWASHED NEW YORK
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amForgive me if I'm a little self-obsessed, but just from reading this week's press clips on The New York Post, I have grown drunk on my own power. Make no...
RUDY: FIXING SCHOOLS MUST BE #1 PRIORITY
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday the central issue in the next election for mayor should be education -- the same issue Ruth Messinger used to try to unseat Giuliani in 1997....
BARBRA BAGS FAR-FETCHED 900G WITH 'GARAGE SALE'
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amBarbra Streisand fans yesterday doled out thousands for the diva's trinkets, including her plastic bracelets and dusty bric-a-brac -- adding new meaning to the saying, "One man's garbage is another...
RUDY ON 'AIR HILLARY' SLAM: 'I WAS KIDDING'
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday backed away from his charges that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton caused gridlock at La Guardia Airport -- saying he was just "kidding around." "Lighten up, come...
PHONY COPS GUN DOWN BX. DAD AS KIN WATCH
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amFour armed thugs pretending to be cops forced their way into the home of a Bronx dad and shot him to death in front of his horrified family yesterday, police...
YANK TIX PRICES WILL HIT FANS RIGHT IN THE POCKET
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThose great Yankee moments are going to cost more for Stadium fans next year. Just like players demanding higher pay after a great season, the Yankees want their fans to...
SEATTLE CALM AS PREZ INKS KID-LABOR PACT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSEATTLE -- President Clinton capped his visit to the stormy World Trade Organization meeting yesterday by signing a treaty banning child-labor abuses, as police and protesters calmed down after two...
FAREWELL ; TO PRINCE OF COMEDY ; PAL JOEY MADE US LAUGH FOR DECADES ; FAREWELL TO PAL JOEY, THE PRINCE OF COMEDY
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amJoey Adams, the legendary comic's comic who brought smiles to the faces of Post readers each morning for more than 20 years, died yesterday. He was 88. "New York is...
RAPPER JAY-Z ARRESTED IN STABBING - VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT CHIC CLUB
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amGrammy-winning rapper Jay-Z was arrested last night in connection with the stabbing of a young record exec during a posh party at the Kit Kat Klub in Manhattan. Witnesses told...
FORMER MISS AMERICA 'WAITING' FOR BIG BREAK
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Miss America 1998 moved to New York this summer looking to get work as an actress, she headed straight to Broadway and landed a job -- waiting tables at...
FORBES' BULLETS BOUNCE OFF BUSH -G.W. EMERGES FROM N.H. DEBATE UNSCATHED
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amPresidential contender George W. Bush last night escaped unbloodied from his first debate against his Republican rivals in New Hampshire -- which included especially nasty swipes by billionaire Steve Forbes....
WONDER OF WONDERS! STEVIE MIGHT SEE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSightless singing superstar Stevie Wonder reportedly is about to undergo an experimental medical procedure that could allow him to see again for the first time since he was a baby....
MCMULLEN DENIES SALE TO GEORGE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe rumors refuse to go away, but the Devils' owner denied yesterday two months' worth of talk that George Steinbrenner is trying to buy the team for $160 million. "It's...
OSCAR HAS THE BLUEPRINT ; FOR 21ST CENTURY
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amISTOOD in the back of the line just like any other fan yesterday at the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue, waiting patiently just like everybody else to get Oscar Robertson's...
SALTWATER ACTION STILL SPICY
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHIS may be the middle of the hunting season, but for saltwater anglers it continues to be a season of plenty. Fishermen have been enjoying a terrific fall run of...
THE NAKED TRUTH; RUTGERS 'STRIP PRACTICE' SUIT DOESN'T BARE UP
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHIS column is not normally moved to defend Division I basketball coaches, but the highly publicized suit filed this week against Rutgers and Kevin Bannon not only doesn't pass the...
TIME FOR THE LEAD LOSER TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amI keep picking up the paper every day, hoping against hope that someone will write the column that has been tearing me up since Sunday. Yesterday was Thursday and still,...
FASSEL PROMISES NOT TO CARRY GRUDGE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES It is over and done with. That is the attitude of Jim Fassel regarding the controversy that boiled over this week, triggered by disparaging comments made by Michael...
JUMBO, FABINI INDICTED FOR L.I. BAR BRAWL
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Jets tackles Jumbo Elliott and Jason Fabini were indicted yesterday by a grand jury for their roles in a Long Island bar-room brawl in July. Both players will...
OGBOGU APPROACH TO GAME IS FINALLY WORKING
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amEven in the lowest points of his disappointing rookie season, it was never Eric Ogbogu's talent that was in question; just his work habits. But this year Ogbogu realized he...
KENNEDY'S WAIT PROVES WORTHWHILE
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amKennedy90Walton43 Sometimes, patience is not a virtue. After losing last year's PSAL championship game, Kennedy's star forward/center J.C. Mathis had one thought: "I can't wait for next year." Well, next...
CAZZIE'S SCORING BIG AS DIVISION III COACH
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amHE was an incandescent scorer. Now he's a guiding light. Cazzie Russell, Division III basketball coach and minister, knows which profession is more valuable. If only today's pros could learn...
THEO TAKES BLAME ; FLEURY HIS OWN WORST CRITIC
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIn another time and place, Theo Fleury might stand up in the locker room, call his team to order, then speak his mind. But not here and not now, not...
PLAYERS: PETE BELONGS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amPete Rose's determination and resilience can never be questioned. And while his desire and passion for baseball is undoubted, he is still empty inside. But now Rose, now involved with...
THE PARCELLS FACTOR: GIANTS ITCHING TO BEAT EX-COACH
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe way Jason Sehorn figures it, if Keyshawn Johnson truly wants to associate only with winners and superstars in the swankiest places, he can't hang out with any of his...
PHILLIPS HAMMERING OUT OLERUD'S NEW CONTRACT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amThere are strong indications John Olerud will return to the Mets next season, provided the Mets agree to make only a small adjustment in their offer to the free-agent first...
FRANCO DECIDES HE'S STAYING PUT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amAfter two months of deliberating, John Franco finally reached the most difficult decision of his career. Vowing to do whatever the team asked of him, the Mets' all-time saves leader...
PINCAY LOOKS LIKE 'SHOE IN'
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSome sports records will never be broken. Others just appear that way. In 1966, when jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. came to the U.S. from Panama at 20 years old, Bill...
MAPP DRAWN TO THE GARDEN
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMajestic Mapp will never forget the first time he stepped on the Garden floor as a junior at St. Raymond's. The chills still run down his spine. "You think about...
MR. SONIC GOES BOOM: PAYTON TESTS WESTPHAL
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amONCE again, Gary Payton showered the Sonics with his keen sense of leadership and well-developed maturity following Tuesday's submission to the Lakers. Angry at Paul Westphal for benching him in...
NETS GET DUNCKED
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amSpurs96Nets94 The clock showed 6.8 seconds left and, shockingly, the stands at the Meadowlands Arena still held people. That was very unusual. But even more unusual was the Nets still...
COCKY ISLES GET BURNED
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIt's difficult to imagine the Islanders brimming with overconfidence. Heading into last night's game with the Flames, the Islanders had lost three of their last four and were holding the...
CAMBY QUICK CURE: MARCUS' RETURN SPARKS KNICKS
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 84 Bucks 80 MILWAUKEE -- Memo to Marcus Camby: Ignore Patrick Ewing. Play hurt. The Knicks are better than .500 today (9-8) and you wonder how much better they...
BONILLA WON'T SIT QUIETLY: VOWS TO MAKE FUSS UNLESS METS PLAY HIM
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIf you thought Bobby Bonilla was a troublemaker for the Mets last year, you ain't seen nothin' yet. "Y'all are going to like me a lot this year if I...
'EXCUSED' WALLACE JOINS IDLE EWING, LJ
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE -- Here's the daily Knick big man report: Jeff Van Gundy casually mentioned he didn't expect Patrick Ewing's return for "a couple of weeks" but then later admitted that...
NO PAPERS FOR SPREE IN LAWSUIT
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MILWAUKEE - Brew City native Latrell Sprewell spent most of his time before last night's game filling out last-minute ticket requests. Yesterday morning, he said he had about...
KNICKS' BIG WORRIES - 'EXCUSED' WALLACE JOINS IDLE EWING, LJ
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - Here's the daily Knick big man report: Jeff Van Gundy casually mentioned he didn't expect Patrick Ewing's return for a "couple of weeks" but then later admitted much...
LAWRENCE CAUGHT IN 'NET
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIt was waivers.com for Mark Lawrence. While surfing the internet Wednesday night, the 27-year old right wing learned that the Islanders had placed him on waivers. Considering that he had...
PORTER AIDS STEPHON
December 3, 1999 | 5:00amIt wasn't quite the same as a sit down with Freud. Or even some reassuring words from Mom. But the next best possibility for Stephon Marbury's mental health was in...