January 5, 2000
GEORGE W. CAN'T BE TOO HAPPY ABOUT THIS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE is at least one person in America who is not likely to cheer the appointment of Alan Greenspan to his fourth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board....
PROS' TIPS ON PROTECTING YOUR NEST EGG
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTwo big down days in the market are enough to get any investor worried about protecting a nest egg. It's become doubly important now because so many investors have done...
CLINTON ASKS GREENSPAN TO STICK AROUND
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amAlan Greenspan's The Man -- and will continue to be a dominant force in the U.S. economy for four more years. You wouldn't know it from the sell-off on Wall...
NASDAQ BOARD OKS $1B FOR-PROFIT PLAN
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amThe board of the National Association of Securities Dealers yesterday unanimously approved a plan to raise $1 billion by converting the Nasdaq-Amex stock market into a private, for-profit company. Chairman...
A LITTLE KISS TO GROW ON - BISOU-BISOU MAPS NAT'L EXPANSION; EXCLUSIVE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amBisou-Bisou, the trendy fashion company known for its slinky, stretch clothes, is set to open 40 stores within the next two years, including one in New York City. The Los...
TOMMY HILFIGER TAKES ANOTHER HIT
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amDumped again. One day after an analyst started a stampede out of Tommy Hilfiger stock, star golfer David Duval announced he was trading in his Hilfiger golf clothes for Mossimo....
A NEW PILLAR AT CBS - EX-PRODIGY BOSS TO HEAD 'NET WORKS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amCBS chief Mel Karmazin has tapped Russ Pillar, most recently the head of Virgin Entertainment Group, to run the Tiffany network's new Internet division. Pillar, 34, who ran Prodigy Internet...
TINA TALKS GANDEE AWAY FROM VOGUE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTINA Brown yesterday poached longtime Anna Wintour-sidekick Charles Gandee from Vogue. The move is sure to rock the Conde Nast flagship -- which was already reeling from the defection of...
STERN GETS $170M FOR VILLAGE VOICE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPet-food king Leonard Stern has reached an agreement to sell the Village Voice and seven other alternative weeklies in the Stern Publishing empire to Weiss, Peck & Greer, an investment...
BOLO COULD USE A BIT MORE SPICE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00am'THE problem with paella is, something is always overcooked," Bobby Flay told his Food Network audience the other day. To prevent that, "I always cook everything separately." How come, then,...
HEAVEN? ACTUALLY, MORE LIKE PURGATORY
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amYES, there is a Burger Heaven. St. Peter won't greet you at the Pearly Gates there, but one believer tells us it's a place where women in Hermes scarves and...
THE STARR REPORT
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amLosing patience Several cast members are checking out of ABC's "General Hospital." Among those leaving the show are Steve Burton (Jason), who will leave on Jan. 17, and Anders Hove...
MGM'S SUPER-WOES
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amJAMES Bond couldn't save MGM, which, for the second year in a row, finished last among Hollywood's 10 biggest studios in 1999. Now, after earning just $310 million for the...
'MALCOLM' A 5-FINGERED BART
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amFOX wants a kid named Malcolm to become the next Bart Simpson. Ten years ago, Bart--the animated ten-year-old underachieving prankster on ''The Simpsons" -- helped put the fledgling Fox network...
WILL NEW YORK TV EVER GET SOAPNET?
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amSOAP fans should be salivating over the prospect of a 24-hour cable soap channel, except for one thing: Few of them will get to see it when it's launched Jan.24....
SCIFI SERIES AREN'T THE ANSWER TO THE FUTURE - GAY SPACE MONKS (& IT GETS WORSE)
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amI'VE seen the future. And now that I've had a peek, I'm really furious that the world didn't explode as promised on Jan. 1st. I wouldn't have had to sit...
12 DOCS IN SEARCH OF OSCAR
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences narrowed the field of documentary film contenders yesterday, reducing the 55 entries hoping to be nominated to a dozen finalists. The 12...
H'WOOD TAKES ON 'BEFORE' AND 'AFTER' MARKET
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amEXCEPT for "The Godfather," sequels rarely are better than the original. But what about prequels? They seem to be Hollywood's hottest trend after the success of Fox's "Star Wars: Episode...
USUALLY WHITE-BREAD GRAMMYS GET A WORLD VIEW
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amThe most distinguishing trend in music over the last year was the coming of age for the Latin artist, and that was reflected in this year's Grammy award nominations. So...
LATIN LOVIN' - SANTANA SNAGS AMAZING 10 NOMINATIONS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amCARLOS Santana rose from the classic-rock graveyard yesterday to lead the pack of Grammy Award nominees with an astounding 10 nominations -- including best song, record and album of the...
A DOLLAR AND A BAD DREAM
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNEW York City is still clamoring over the fact that just one winning ticket was sold in the Millennium Millions drawing held on New Year's Day. While the unidentified winner...
PASTRY SAINTS: CHEF JILL ROSE LEAVES A FOUR-STAR KITCHEN TO TEACH WOMEN ON WELFARE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amFrom where will the country's next superstar chef emerge? Most likely, he or she will be a top graduate from the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A.), or, perhaps, a gifted...
FAR RISKIER THAN CAMP DAVID - SYRIA DOESN'T EVEN BRING A CONCILIATORY ATTITUDE TO THE TALKS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT are the acceptable risks that Israel should be willing to take for peace? This is the question that has been at the center of Middle East negotiations ever since...
KIDS TAKE CUE FROM PRO-ABORTION GOV'T
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNO PARENT -- in fact, nobody -- would want to see two young bright people rot in jail for years because of one, albeit horrific, mistake. I am talking about...
COMA MOM WAKES -- AFTER 16 YEARS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPatricia White Bull has a lot of catching up to do. After spending 16 years in a coma, she suddenly awoke on Dec. 24 -- a Christmas Eve miracle that...
TORTURED ATTICA INMATES TO GET $8M
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNew York state agreed yesterday to fork over $8 million to former Attica inmates brutalized by prison authorities after the bloody 1971 inmate rebellion -- ending years of litigation. "It's...
PUTIN PUTTIN' PRESSURE ON CHECHNYA
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amRussian forces launched a furious new offensive on Grozny yesterday as acting President Vladimir Putin declared his country must win the brutal conflict in Chechnya. Fresh Russian special forces joined...
BABY-SLAY FREEDOM FUROR - JAILED AMY'S PALS FUME AS BRIAN GETS OUT
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amBaby-killer Brian Peterson walked out of prison yesterday into his mother's arms, provoking howls from supporters of his still-jailed ex-girlfriend Amy Grossberg -- who say he sold her out. Peterson,...
HILLARY'S MOVE-IN DAY IS JUST CRATE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amIt was moving day at Hillary Rodham Clinton's new house in Westchester County -- but the first lady was nowhere in sight. She stayed at the White House while two...
PAUL GIVES '$2M' TO TRAGIC LINDA'S CANCER CENTERS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPaul McCartney has given a "substantial" donation to the two U.S. medical centers where his wife, Linda, was treated before she died of breast cancer. Neither center -- New York's...
MERGER'S OFF FOR TED & JANE - SEPARATING TO HAVE 'TIME FOR OURSELVES'
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPower couple Ted Turner and Jane Fonda are looking for a little "personal time" -- away from each other. The media mogul and his movie-star wife announced yesterday they are...
UNHAPPY UNIONS TARGET GOV SPEECH
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- As many as 30,000 unionized state workers will try to shout down Gov. Pataki today as he delivers his sixth annual State of the State address to the...
DEVOTED BROOKLYN DAD SLAIN ON HIS WAY TO FACTORY JOB
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn factory worker and devoted family man was gunned down in a mysterious drive-by shooting as he walked to a Queens bus stop in the predawn hours yesterday. Luis...
SHRINKS: THEY BOTH HAD TO (E)GO THEIR OWN WAY
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTop psychoanalysts say the bust-up of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda is the result of two fiery super-egos finally crashing and burning. And Turner may be more to blame, according...
BEARS BITE BULLS IN WALL ST. BLOODBATH
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amWatch out -- yesterday's bloodbath on Wall Street may not be over. Experts warned that stocks might continue to drop in the coming weeks after they experienced their largest single-day...
JETS' SHRINKING PILOT - BELICHICK SUFFERS FEAR OF FLYING ON FIRST DAY AT HELM
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amHe waited years to be a top dog in New York, but it turns out that coach-for-a-day Bill Belichick didn't want the job of Jets head coach after all. A...
GORE'S STYLE IS SIGH-ENTIFIC
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- If George W. Bush has The Smirk, Al Gore has The Sigh. Nine times during last month's debate against Bill Bradley on NBC's "Meet the Press," Gore emitted...
SOMETHING FISHY AS TUNA DROPS PAL FOR A LOSS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amBILL BELICHICK wakes up this morning in professional limbo, his reputation sullied and his new year off to a terrible start. And he has his longtime mentor, Bill Parcells, to...
THIRD ADOPTION MOVES ROSIE NEARER MAMA MIA
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTalk-show host Rosie O'Donnell has a new baby boy -- the third child she's adopted in the past four years. The newest O'Donnell, Blake Christopher, was born one month premature...
BOARD OF ED SEEKS 'PENSION' JOB FOR CREW
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amThe Board of Education is trying to find a short-term job for Rudy Crew to qualify him for a city pension. The ousted schools chancellor will be eligible to collect...
FANS WANT PARCELLS TO RETURN TO COCKPIT
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amJet fans had only one thing to say after yesterday's shocking resignation of coach Bill Parcells' hand-picked successor: Come back, Tuna! Gang Green diehards accused Parcells' replacement, Bill Belichick, of...
$100M LOTTO WINNER SET TO BE UNVEILED
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amSomebody's hit it rich -- but lottery officials are keeping the name of the $100 million Millennium Lottery under wraps for now. Officials are planning an announcement Friday, said New...
2 LAST-CHANCE DEBATES MAY SWING N.H.
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. -- Suddenly, it's all for real. Democratic White House wannabes Al Gore and Bill Bradley go head-to-head tonight in the 21st century's first debate -- a wake-up call...
PUFF REBUFF: WHAT GUN? - PALS SHOOT DOWN LOPEZ-RIFT RUMOR
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amRenegade rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs told a Manhattan grand jury yesterday he had no gun before, during or after last week's Midtown hip-hop club shooting, sources told The Post. And...
WILLS' THRILLS SCARE CHARLES INTO 24-HOUR DRUG WATCH
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPartying Prince William has been put under a 24-hour drug watch by hyper-vigilant royal dad Prince Charles, it was reported today. Charles -- "worried sick" about the drug culture linked...
B'KLYN DEMS ROCKED BY INSIDER 'PATRONAGE' LETTER
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTwo members of the Brooklyn Democratic political machine have written a bombshell letter all but exposing the patronage link between party lawyers and the court system, The Post has learned....
MEET RUDY'S RIGHT-HAND MAN - TEITELBAUM RUNNING MAYOR'S SENATE RUN
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amDuring Rudy Giuliani's first successful run for mayor, Bruce Teitelbaum spent his nights trudging through the streets of Brooklyn, tacking up campaign posters. Just seven years later, Teitelbaum is the...
WRITER KING ENRAGED BY DRIVER'S NO-JAIL DEAL
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amA horrified Stephen King yesterday blasted as "irresponsible" the plea agreement that allowed the driver who struck him to avoid jail. Under the deal, Bryan Smith pleaded guilty in a...
U.S. WOULD GRANT VISA TO CUBA RAFT BOY'S DAD
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTalk of sending 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez home to Cuba gathered steam yesterday as U.S. officials vowed to move fast to grant the boy's father a visa if he wants to...
NO MURDERS IN SEVEN PRECINCTS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amDeath took a holiday in seven police precincts last year -- where no murders were reported, final NYPD statistics show. Police Commissioner Howard Safir called the news "fantastic," noting that...
DEADLY NORWAY TRAIN CRASH
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amAs many as 33 people were killed when two Norwegian passenger trains crashed after they were sent hurtling toward each other on the same track, officials said. The two diesel...
PARENTS SEE TOURIST KIDS SLAIN IN AFRICA
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amGunmen opened fire on a family of French tourists in a Namibia danger zone, killing three children in front of their parents, officials said yesterday. The slaughter - which also...
SINGER CALLS DIZZY DADDY AND SUES FOR 'RECORD' $$
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amA jazz singer claiming to be the love child of jazz great Dizzy Gillespie filed a lawsuit yesterday against the trumpeter's widow, demanding half of his record royalties. Jean Bryson,...
RUDY'S RIGHT-HAND MAN - GIULIANI PICKS TEITELBAUM TO HELM HIGH-STAKES SENATE RUN
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amDURING Rudy Giuliani's first successful run for mayor, 28-year-old Bruce Teitelbaum spent his nights trudging through the streets of Brooklyn, tacking up campaign posters. Just seven years later, after holding...
HE'S BIG, BAD BILL - BELICHICK NO LONGER PARCELLS' BOY
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amHE finally got fed up with being Little Bill. That's the only rational explanation for what Bill Belichick did yesterday, taking the handout from Bill Parcells and throwing it right...
NEW PLAYGROUND FOR URBAN KIDS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amTHE idea of an inner-city child snowboarding down a mountain seems pretty far-fetched, what with the cost and all. The sport can get a little on the expensive side, even...
MAKE MONEY WHERE IT'S SUNNY
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amLast year during the Gulfstream Park winter meet that runs from early January through mid-March, bettors at Aqueduct and New York City OTB poured more than $67 million through the...
BIG BLUE PRESSURE STARTS WITH FASSEL
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amEXPECTATIONS were higher than they have been for several years, which is why the letdown was so severe, so crushing. Coming into this season, the Giants believed they were headed...
OH, SAY CAN YOU C?
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amQUARTERBACKS: C On paper, nothing special out of Kerry Collins (191 of 332, 57.5 percent, 2,316 yards, 8 TDs, 11 INTs, QB rating of 73.3). He showed a rocket arm,...
SWEET PUTS STARCH INTO RICE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amRice 71 La Salle 52 Rice's Andre Sweet spent much of the second quarter yesterday on the bench and had only six points at the half. In the third quarter...
AS USUAL, FRANCESA DISSES FANS & 'FAN
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amIN THE spirit of calling it a career, Mike Francesa announced yesterday that his credibility is officially in retirement. Don't try to talk him out of it. He doesn't want...
BELICHICK ERROR THANKFULLY OVER
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amJETS fans should be breathing a sigh of relief today. They should consider themselves fortunate, very fortunate that Bill Belichick isn't the head coach of their football team. In less...
DEVIL SURGE HELPS FTOREK IN STAR WAR
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -- To many of these Devils, their underwhelming climb back into a share of the division lead could have an ironic, unintended consequence. Depending on the stamina of Roger...
PLAYERS ARE PERPLEXED BY JETS' CHAOS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amThe latest Jets news -- Bill Belichick's shocking resignation -- coming one day after Bill Parcells retired from coaching, hit the players hard yesterday, particularly those on defense. Jets' CB...
RESTED EWING LEADS KNICKS DOWN STRETCH
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe Patrick Ewing should rest for 12 minutes at a time more often. After a strong first quarter in which Ewing scored six points, he wasn't much of a factor...
PITINO FEELS BILL'S PAIN
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amCOACHES know how other coaches think. While Bill Belichick's resignation looks like bizarre behavior to the rest of the world, Rick Pitino offered this fascinating comment last night before his...
NETS CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amPacers 116 Nets 111 INDIANAPOLIS -- The opportunity certainly was there for the Nets. On the surface, so were all the key elements. But there also were some very extenuating...
MARK HEAPS PRAISE ON CASEY'S TROOPS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS -- The Pacers are a better team, make no mistake. But the Nets have more talent individually, insisted Mark Jackson. "Talent-wise, man for man, they're probably a...
SETON HALL USES E-ZPASS IN FIRST TEST
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall 71 Villanova 64 The Seton Hall Pirates can only hope they pass their first test next semester as well as they aced their first real test of this...
ALLAN STAR-TLES CELTS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 96 Celtics 88 With the new millennium 24 hours away, Allan Houston was telling The Post that he doesn't look at himself as having an "All-Star season." He instead...
CHILD CHANGES CHILDS' OUTLOOK
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amChris Childs walked into the Knick locker room before last night's game wearing a bracelet around his right wrist. An I.D. bracelet from an Atlanta hospital. Childs, proud father of...
BELICHICK STUNNER - I QUIT! - JETS IN CHAOS AS COACH BOLTS AFTER ONE DAY
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amSame old Jets. Same old turmoil. After what transpired yesterday in yet another historic, bizarre day at Weeb Ewbank Hall, it appears the three-year Bill Parcells era was a mere...
THIS TIME, BRUINS LIGHT UP LUONGO
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amSuddenly, he's 20 again. Suddenly, Roberto Luongo is just another struggling NHL rookie goaltender, overwhelmed with expectations that have soared out of control. With Luongo taking a battering for his...
NOTHING SPECIAL FOR VIRGINIA TECH
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- The special teams Team of the '90s was done in by its own forte last night. When Virginia Tech looks back on its 46-29 loss to Florida...
HOW SWEET IT IS FOR BOWDEN - GETS PERFECT YEAR -- AND TITLE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- It took all of Florida State's talent, depth, experience in big games and heart to beat Virginia Tech 46-29 and give coach Bobby Bowden his most cherished...
BUTCH BACKS BANNED ODJICK
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amIn the wake of Gino Odjick's hefty eight-game suspension Monday for sucker-punching Pittsburgh's Darius Kasparaitis on Dec. 30, Butch Goring said he condoned the cheap shot, but added that players...
BEST BRINGS OUT WORST - QUEST TO BE NO. 1 COMES WITH PRICE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - From deep in the Florida panhandle, Bobby Bowden has built the nation's biggest, baddest and best football program in America. But the time has come to ask...
MARBURY'S IN, BUT GILL'S OUT
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - One worry falls by the wayside. So another one jumps up to take its place. Welcome to the world of the Nets. While Stephon Marbury waved off any...
JACKSON SAYS NETS ARE 'A TEAM TO RECKON WITH'
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The Pacers are a better team, make no mistake. But the Nets have more talent individually, insisted Mark Jackson. "Talent-wise, man for man, they're probably a...
A CHILD CHANGES CHILDS' OUTLOOK
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amChris Childs walked into the Knick locker room before last night's game wearing a bracelet around his right wrist - an ID bracelet from an Atlanta hospital. Childs, proud father...
VAN GUNDY: BELICHICK KNOWS HOOPS
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES During Jeff Van Gundy's visit to Jets' practice in August, the Knicks coach got to speak briefly with then assistant Bill Belichick. Van Gundy was floored by how...
HALL AWAITS TOUGH TESTS ON SCHEDULE
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall's Pirates may be off to their best start in five years, but they know full well it'll be the final 17 games that define what kind of team...
WHO'S NEXT?
January 5, 2000 | 5:00amOn Sunday, Bill Parcells was the Jets' head coach. On Monday, it was Bill Belichick. Today, ther's no one. Who's going to be the next leader on the Jets' sidelines?...