January 21, 2000
CPI HOCUS-POCUS DOESN'T FOOL US
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amI hit a nerve last Monday. Aside from a couple of bubbleheads who'd like to see me die a horrible death for picking on Washington's highly-questionable inflation numbers and their...
ARNAULT TO TRY HIS LUXE ON INTERNET IPO
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amLVMH boss Bernard Arnault is usually snatching fashion houses from others, but now he's looking to sell something instead -- a stake in his lucrative Internet operations. Arnault has hired...
EX-CATWALK STAR CHRISTY INKS PUMA DEAL
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amChristy Turlington, the supermodel who walked away from the runway to go back to school, is putting her education to good use by starting yet another new business. The former...
POWERFUL MEDIA HIRES BUREAU CHIEF
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amPowerful Media has raided the Hollywood Reporter for its latest hire, snaring the trade's New York bureau chief Steve Battaglio to cover TV. The small New York office of the...
NFL CAUGHT IN WEB: SUES ICRAVETV.COM OVER STOLEN CYBERCASTS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA Web site is carrying live sporting events -- and the NBA and NFL aren't at all happy about it. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagilabue filed suit yesterday against ICraveTV.com, which...
EX-WORKER SAYS JUNO HASSLES NEW BOSS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA woman who filed a $10 million sexual harassment suit against Juno Online is being "intimidated" by the Internet giant at her new job, her lawyer told a Manhattan judge...
VIRTUAL AD WAR: CMGI HAS DOUBLECLICK IN ITS SITES
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amBoston's high-tech billionaire David Wetherell is chopping cyberspace into two pieces -- his and theirs. Wetherell yesterday said he's combined several of his 60 online companies into Engage Technologies --...
EXCITE CHAIRMAN MAY BE A GONER
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA shakeup at Excite@Home may be a prelude to Tom Jermoluk's departure from the struggling company. During a conference call on the executive change and the company's earnings yesterday, Jermoluk...
A ROCKY 'QUARRY'
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amGOOD moviemaking is often about editing: Knowing which of your favorite scenes to leave out is frequently as important as knowing what to put in. This is illustrated by "The...
FANS STILL KING IN JACKSON'S COUNTRY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S not easy for singers to keep it real after stardom strikes, but some have stayed true to their music: Springsteen in rock; Jay-Z in rap. Add country's Alan Jackson...
HE MAY BE 'WIREY,' BUT HE'S NO WOODY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00am'WIREY Spindell" is the latest vanity production by writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer, who still seems to think he's another Woody Allen -- despite a growing body of work that proves otherwise....
LOTS OF FIGHT, NO PUNCH
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT can you say about a boxing movie in which the most convincing blows are landed by Lolita Davidovich and Robert Wagner -- instead of leads Woody Harrelson and Antonio...
THIS BOXING FLICK HAS A RING OF TRUTH
January 21, 2000 | 5:00am'PLAY It to the Bone" may sink without a trace at the box office, but the true-life story it was based on lives large in the memories of those who...
THE STARR REPORT
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amOne boffo bio If you need any measure of Oprah Winfrey's popularity, consider this: Winfrey's "Biography" became the most-watched show in A&E history last Sunday, averaging 4.8 million households. It...
CRITICS ARE STIFFED
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amSO where are the reviews of "Down to You," the romantic comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. that opens today at a theater near you? You will find them here and...
NY1 SPORTS ANCHOR JUMPS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amBOYISH sports anchor Steve Cangialosi is leaving New York 1 News to take a job with ESPN Radio. Cangialosi, 36, is one of the all-news channel's best-known personalities. He's been...
THE FABULOUS BACON BOYS: THESE BROTHERS PLAY NICE TOGETHER
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amLIKE many brothers, Kevin and Michael Bacon started playing music together as kids in their family's basement in suburban Philadelphia.Though he loved jamming on his guitar, Kevin soon gravitated to...
BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS ; COURT TV GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
January 21, 2000 | 5:00am"Hollywood & Crime" Tonight at 7 & 7:30 on Court TV JUST hearing that Court TV would be rehashing all my favorite Hollywood crimes and misdemeanors for their new series,...
STUTTGART BALLET IS BACK ON ITS FEET
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW THE Stuttgart Ballet, for years one of New York's favorite companies, is back -- and it looks better than ever. It is quite extraordinary what artistic director Reid...
WITH NO SUPER NAMES IN THE SUPER BOWL... ; WHO'S GONNA; WATCH?
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amNO matter who wins this Sunday, the two teams that will compete in this year's Super Bowl XXXIV will not be household names. No Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys...
BATTLING BRANTLEY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE pooh-bahs who run one of Broadway's largest theater-owning chains have fired off missives to The New York Times complaining about the paper's chief drama critic, Ben Brantley.Rocco Landesman, the...
'THE COUNTESS' HAS SEX-SCANDAL APPEAL
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW THE Age of Victoria may have been prim, but it was not always proper. It had its sex scandals -- most of which would seem fairly minor by...
HIZZONER BETTER RUN FOR 'COVER'
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amONE book that probably won't be on Mayor Giuliani's reading list is "Cover Story" -- a just-published murder mystery set in New York City. Gerry Boyle's thriller tells the tale...
REBELS CAPTURE RUSSIAN GENERAL
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRussia's campaign to reclaim the Chechen capital of Grozny took a dramatic step backward last night when one of its top generals was captured by rebel troops. The Russian Defense...
KOHL PARTY'S ACCOUNTANT KILLS HIMSELF
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA key figure in Helmut Kohl's political party committed suicide yesterday as the slush-fund investigation of the former German chancellor deepened. Wolfgang Huellen, a senior accountant for Kohl's Christian Democrats'...
HILL'S THE TARGET OF BARB-ED QUIP
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amLEBANON, N.H. - Taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton, former First Lady Barbara Bush suggested yesterday might be a more suitable candidate in the Senate race in New York. "Maybe...
FAMILY RIPS 'RESCUERS' IN FATHER'S RIVER DEATH
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThrough tears of sorrow and anger, Maria Otero charged yesterday that rescuers on a Fire Department boat helped kill her husband by towing him with a grappling hook. "He's not...
PORN-QUEEN STOCK-TRADE INDICTMENT'S A THREESOME
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA fugitive porn star and two men accused in a three-way insider-trading scheme were indicted yesterday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. Kathryn Gannon, who appeared in more than 100 X-rated...
B'KLYN GIRL, 9, KILLED IN TRUCK HORROR
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA 9-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed crossing the street on her way to school yesterday when she was struck by the rear wheels of a poultry truck, police said. Nellie...
BUSH WALKS IOWA ABORT TIGHTROPE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican 2000 wannabe George W. Bush yesterday said the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion "was a reach" and "overstepped constitutional bounds." His remarks came in the final push to Monday's...
RUDY A 'WEE' BIT MIFFED AT CRITICS OF SHELTER RAIDS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday defended a pre-dawn police raid on homeless shelters, saying it was done to ensure the safety of the other residents. "You can't have it both ways, right?...
SETON HALL MIGHT INSTALL SPRINKLERS IN WAKE OF FIRE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe cause of a fatal fire in a Seton Hall University dormitory remained a mystery yesterday - but school officials said they might install sprinklers in all dorms to avoid...
DRASTIC SERVICE CUTS DUE FOR L.I. BUSES
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amCash-strapped Nassau County has slashed funding for bus service so severely that Long Island and Queens riders will be better off driving. MTA Long Island Bus announced yesterday that it...
THE GORE WITCH PROJECT: ONE AWFUL CANDIDATE IS HER FELLOW DEMOCRATS' NIGHTMARE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS seemed like Al Gore's week, at least since Bill Bradley's campaign began to stall in Iowa once the Veep began asking the where's-the-beef type questions that Bradley seems unable...
FEDS TARGET BUILDER IN FATAL B'KLYN COLLAPSE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amProsecutors are seeking to indict the builder involved in a Brooklyn construction collapse that killed an immigrant Mexican day-laborer under tons of wet cement, The Post has learned. Federal and...
NOT THAT MUCH FOR A SENATE SEAT: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CASH THAT DOESN'T GET REPORTED?
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amDEREK Jeter may not be the best shortstop in the major leagues, but he plays baseball well enough that the Yankees want to pay him $17 million a year to...
SNOW IN JANUARY IS . . . NEWS?!
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE NY1 News chick was on to something big. Standing in front of City Hall, teeth chattering, hair blowing, looking positively miserable, unkempt and underpaid, the reporter made a shocking...
RIVALS DO DEFT POLITICAL DANCE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa.IN A dance hall outside of Des Moines, Bill Bradley was strictly Princeton. He talked with measured tones, reflecting honesty, integrity and what some thought to be naiveté....
THIS CASE MAY BE ONE FOR THE AGES
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amKennedy cousin Michael Skakel is the oldest defendant to be treated as a juvenile in Connecticut history -- and prosecutors could face months of legal wrangling to get him tried...
RUDY PEEVED AT SHELTER-RAID CRITICS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday defended a pre-dawn police raid on homeless shelters, saying it was done to ensure the safety of the other residents. "You can't have it both ways, right?...
COOLHEADED KID SAVES THREE FROM ICY DOOM
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amA quick-acting, 12-year-old boy helped save the lives of a woman and two children who fell through thin ice into frigid Long Island waters yesterday. Gregory Peppler, a seventh-grader, called...
MAYOR'S LOVE LIFE IS ABOVE QUESTION
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday he will win respect from voters by keeping mum about his personal life -- just a day after First Lady Hillary Clinton talked to reporters about...
ALL SIGNS POINT TO EGYPTAIR CO-PILOT: PROBERS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amInvestigators say they've found no evidence of mechanical failure in the debris of EgyptAir Flight 990 -- and they are more convinced than ever that a co-pilot deliberately crashed the...
STONE THE THESPIAN EYES ROLE AS LESBIAN
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amSharon Stone, who kick-started her career with a revealing turn as a bisexual killer in "Basic Instinct," may be flirting with her Sapphic side again -- this time on the...
SCHUMER'S CASE FOR MORE SPACE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday that the city is losing the space race -- for desperately needed new offices. Schumer said that's why he's appointing a high-powered panel, led by...
2 ARRESTED IN SERB WARLORD ARKAN'S SLAY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amSerbian cops have arrested two men in the assassination of Balkans warlord Arkan, but have refused to say whether they were working for Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic. State-controlled media yesterday...
I COULDN'T LET DOWN MY GOD: DUNG VANDAL; EXCLUSIVE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amHe did it for love. In his first full interview since his Dec. 17 attack on the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "blasphemous" dung-adorned painting of the Virgin Mary, Dennis Heiner...
GONNA BE TWINS FOR CELINE: MAG
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amCeline Dion has finally had her prayers answered -- the childless songbird is pregnant with twins, a published report says. It's a dream come true for Dion, 31, who's tried...
THEY MUST PROVE THEIR MOTIVES ARE PURE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE grandmothers of raft boy Elian Gonzalez have the daunting task of proving to the Miami exile community they are acting in the best interest of their grandson -- and...
GOV WHITE HOT OVER PLOW-BOY SICKOUT
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amWinter's first snowstorm dusted the Big Apple with a blanket of white, delayed flights, closed schools -- and created driving havoc on Long Island after snow plow operators staged a...
UFT FIRES ITS OWN SALVO IN FIGHT TO HIKE TEACHER PAY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of the teachers union yesterday predicted a "huge crisis" if the city doesn't raise salaries significantly to stem a massive exodus of veteran teachers, and to attract new...
SETON HALL MIGHT INSTALL SPRINKLERS AFTER TRAGIC BLAZE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe cause of a fatal fire in a Seton Hall University dormitory remained a mystery yesterday -- but school officials said they might install sprinklers in all dorms in order...
DWI 'REHABS' MIGHT REGAIN CARS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amIn a surprise easing of the city's anti-DWI rules, drunken drivers might get their cars back if they seek treatment for drug or alcohol abuse, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said...
TERROR PLOT HATCHED IN CANADA: SUSPECT
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amAn Algerian man charged as part of a terror plot to bomb America has told the FBI he acted under orders from a man in Canada, officials said yesterday. New...
BRADLEY BARES NEW HEART WOES: HE'S HAD 4 BOUTS IN UNDER A MONTH
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amBill Bradley has suffered four more episodes of an irregular heartbeat since revealing the condition a month ago, the Democratic presidential candidate acknowledged yesterday. Bradley, 56, discussed the episodes --...
BUSH BIDS TO BOOST ANTI-ABORT STANCE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican presidential wannabe George W. Bush yesterday said the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion "was a reach" and "overstepped constitutional bounds." His remarks came in the final push to Monday's...
TEST TIES DEAD SUSPECT TO L.I. MUMMY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amDNA tests released yesterday link an unborn baby to an elderly man who killed himself after police questioned him about the body of a pregnant woman found inside an industrial...
GRANNIES EYE N.Y. TRIP IN BID TO BRING ELIAN HOME
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez could arrive in New York as early as today to arrange for the 6-year-old boy's return to Cuba and a reunion with his father. The...
MUCKLER FINALLY HAS THE HORSES TO RUN AND GUN
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRALEIGH - Among the fraternity of coaches, what John Muckler said following Tuesday's 3-2 Garden victory over the Hurricanes would be considered heretical. "When everyone becomes more comfortable and familiar...
NETS NEED SOME HOME COOKIN': ENDING 3-GAME SKID VITAL VS. PISTONS & MAVERICKS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThroughout December, the Nets worked to undo so much of the gunk they swamped themselves in through a disastrous 2-15 start. They ripped off nine straight victories at home, tossed...
B.A.S.S. FOUNDER: REEL IN RACING!
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRAY Scott, the father of the modern bass fishing industry, warns that the mix of boat racing with bass tournaments is a recipe for disaster. Scott is referring to the...
RAMS, JAGS WON'T LET EWE DOWN
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amYOU can't get away from Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick, even when talking about Sunday's NFC Championship Game. Because there are plenty of Buc backers out there who will tell...
NBA KNIGHT-MARE ; JORDAN-NIKE PARTNERSHIP CAN'T BE GOOD FOR GAME
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amIF I were an NBA team owner outside of the Wizards, I'd be very unsettled by the news that Michael Jordan's in the ownership loop. After all, from the time...
DEVILS STUDYING MARKET
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe Devils have captured an astounding 23 of their last 26 possible points. They lead the league heading towards their best-ever season. Their youngsters are blossoming into stardom. Must be...
ISLANDERS FEELING THE SQUEEZE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThey have one victory in their last 12 games. And tonight they face the Devils, the league's best team. How low can the Islanders actually go? "It's getting frustrating," Brad...
FASSEL LAWYER:NO PACT IMPASSE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe delay, he insists, is nothing to worry about, and it's actually not even a delay. So says Tom Curtin, the lawyer for Jim Fassel who is negotiating the contract...
PRIDE'S BACK WITH AMAZIN'S ON MINOR DEAL
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe Mets announced yesterday they have signed Curtis Pride to a minor league contract and invited him to major league spring training. Pride, 31, missed all of last season after...
KNICKS PLAN SAN ANTONIO PAYBACK
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy joked recently that the Knicks had treated their exhibition in Buffalo against San Antonio in October as if it were "Game 7 of the Finals."...
DON'T RIP THE POINTS ; CHILDS, WARD ARE DOING JUST FINE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amPERCEPTIONS die hard. Perceptions about the Knick point guards being ill-equipped to lead the Knicks to an NBA title die the hardest. It will take more nights like Wednesday's against...
COMMISH GUMMING UP THE BELICHICK WORKS
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amIt's been more than a week since Bill Belichick and his team of attorneys sat before NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Jets' brass Bill Parcells and Steve Gutman at a...
MACKEY WALKS AWAY
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amAfter years of trying to climb back into the upper echelon of coaching, Kevin Mackey has had enough. The coach of the IBL Trenton Shooting Stars resigned Wednesday night even...
RANGERS CLOSE IN ON TKACHUK: NEDVED, PRIMEAU PART OF 3-TEAM BLOCKBUSTER
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRALEIGH -- The Rangers are working on a blockbuster multi-team deal that would bring power winger Keith Tkachuk to Broadway, two independent sources have told The Post. As currently constructed,...
RED-HOT RICHTER STIFLES 'CANES FOR 4TH STRAIGHT
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 4 Hurricanes 1 RALEIGH -- The Rangers sure seem to have something going here, really they do. They're playing with confidence, they're playing with intelligence, they're playing with spirit....
FINALLY, A PERFECT ENDING ; NETS STOP LAST-DITCH PLAY, SNAP THREE-GAME SLIDE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe the Pistons spent the day watching tape of the Nets' recent last-play execution. After failing to get the job done in the closing seconds for three straight games, the...
FRUSTRATED FEICK GETS ON BOARD IN STARTER ROLE
January 21, 2000 | 5:00amWednesday night, Jamie Feick sat. And sat. And sat a little more throughout the second half of the Nets' 90-89 defeat at the hands of the Knicks at the Garden....