February 4, 2000
MEDIA HUMOR SITE HAS BRILL IN ITS CROSSHAIRS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amEven in the Web world, life imitates art - in the Steve Brill universe at least. Modern Humorist, a new Web site, (www.modern humorist.com/mediagossip) targeted Brill in its latest satirical...
WHY YOU CAN EXPECT THE TIGHTENING TO CONTINUE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amTHE quarter-point hike in interest rates on Wednesday was really the first in the latest series -- not the fourth, as everyone is saying. You have to understand this point...
CURRY HIT WITH $4M SUIT OVER ASSAULT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amA nightclub owner is suing Christian Curry for $4 million, claiming the axed Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst beat him up, threw him through a window and caused him "excruciating"...
SHAREHOLDERS SLAM TRUMP
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amOutraged stockholders yesterday slammed billionaire Donald Trump for turning up his nose at an offer that would give them a huge premium on their moribund shares. Investors and fund managers...
BRILL NOT CONTENT: WATCHDOG UP AND OUT; STAFF IN TURMOIL
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amSteve Brill stepped out of the role of editor-in-chief of the media watchdog magazine he founded yesterday, and turned over his problems there to someone new. Controversy continued to swirl...
ETOYS GETS A LITTLE HELP FROM FRIENDS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amWith toymakers coming to town en masse soon, Wall Street is showing it's always ready to play, too. The game in this case is raising stock prices. And the stock...
TOM OF FINLAND AIMS TO HORN IN ON MAINSTREAM
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amWedged in between Puff Daddy's clothing line, Sean John and Tommy Hilfiger on this week's Fall 2000 Fashion Week schedule is the little-known Tom of Finland. The menswear designer, inspired...
FILENE'S BASEMENT SOLD TO OHIO DISCOUNT CHAIN
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amBankrupt Filene's Basement escaped likely liquidation yesterday by selling to an Ohio-based discount chain for $89 million. Value City Department Stores officially announced it will buy Filene's Basement, as The...
HIKE? NASDAQ GAINS 137
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amPerhaps they should rename the Nasdaq composite index the Teflon because absolutely nothing seems to stick to it. The day after Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates...
POSH SPICE CHANGING HER TUNE:SONGSTRESS WANTS TO BE SEAMSTRESS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amWho does she think she is -- Posh Spice or Posh designer? Victoria Adams, a.k.a. Posh Spice from the all-girl group the Spice Girls, said yesterday that she is ready...
KEEPIN' IT WEIRD ; SATIRIST AND SEX SYMBOL AL YANKOVIC SPEAKS OUT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amAS the premier satirist in modern rock music, "Weird Al" Yankovic has poked fun at some of the biggest names in the business, from Michael Jackson to Kurt Cobain, and...
IT'S STILL A 'SCREAM' ; FINE CAST CARRIES SEQUEL
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW HE'S b-a-a-a-a-c-k!The ghost-masked killer of the first two "Scream" movies has turned up in Hollywood and started skewering people again. "I'm starting to see why Tori Spelling and...
THE STARR REPORT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amTalkin' baseball Tim McCarver's new interview/discussion show kicks off Sunday on MSG Network. "The Tim McCarver Show" will air every Sunday at 11 p.m., with a repeat airing Wednesdays (11:30...
THIS 'GUN' AIMS LOW
February 4, 2000 | 5:00am'GUN Shy" is the first comedy in which the hero (Liam Neeson) meets his love (Sandra Bullock) while she is giving him a barium enema. Let's hope it's the last....
OSCAR WATCH
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amToday The Post offers its third article in a series of predictions for Oscar nominations, which will be announced Feb. 15. THE competition for Best Original Screenplay is a three-horse...
BRITISH DIRECTOR CARVES NICHE IN SLASHER GENRE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00am'LIGHTHOUSE," a rare example of a slasher movie from Britain, is several cuts above the norm for the genre. Debuting writer-director Simon Hunter makes clever use of his novel setting,...
'OTHERS' IS ; MORE TEARS ; THAN FEARS ; PSYCHICS CAN BE ESP-ECIALLY SAD
February 4, 2000 | 5:00am"The Others" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on WNBC/Ch.4 I WILL admit up front, that I might relate to DreamWorks' new spirit-laden, psychic-drama "The Others" more than, er, some others. This...
HORSE STALLS AT GATE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'SIMPATICO" is, in racetrack terminology, a non-starter.A barely adapted version of Sam Shepard's 1994 play about three people haunted by a long-ago racing scam, it's a textbook example...
THE TRAGEDY OF BRECHT'S 'EDWARD II'
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW WHY translate into English a German adaptation of an English classic, Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II"? That's not the only question raised by the production of Bertolt Brecht's "Edward...
'LATER' ON AGAIN ; NBC REVIVES OLD COSTAS SHOW WITH NEWCOMER GARRETT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00am"Later" with Cynthia Garrett Monday night through Thursday night at 1:37 a.m. on WNBC/Ch.4 NBC is suddenly acting like it cares about "Later." Remember "Later"? It's the really, really, late...
INVESTING FOR 'GUN' & PROFIT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amIN any other industry, a business making money is hardly news.That, after all, is what businesses are supposed to do. But on Broadway, where the red ink flows wide and...
LEVY SCOLDS SLOPPY SCHOOL CUSTODIANS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe new city schools chancellor yesterday escalated his attack on sloppy building maintenance, warning lazy custodians they'd "better get off the stick," and complaining their salaries sometimes top those of...
HIGHWAY COPS BUST 2 MORE DRAGSTERS ON 'DEATH' ROAD
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amTwo men have been busted in connection with a drag race along the Belt Parkway - just weeks after another race left two people dead on that highway in Brooklyn,...
PRINCE RAINIER RESTING AFTER LUNG SURGERY
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amMonaco's Prince Rainier was recovering nicely yesterday after an operation to remove part of his lung. Doctors at the Heart and Lung Center in Monaco performed the surgery Wednesday. It...
PATAKI FLIP-FLOPS ON BALLOT BLOCK
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amGov. Pataki, caving to enormous public pressure, yesterday abandoned his efforts to keep GOP presidential hopeful John McCain off New York's March 7 primary ballot. Pataki, who spent weeks defending...
MCCAIN'S CRUSADE - FOR WHAT? HE'S EXPOSED BUSH'S FAILINGS - BUT DOES THE COUNTRY NEED WHAT HE HAS?
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amON Wednesday in South Carolina, John McCain described his surging campaign as a "national crusade" -- which is exactly what it's going to have to be if he is to...
BROADCAST PIONEER JACKSON LAUNCHED NEW WAVE IN RADIO
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amHaving clocked 60 years in the radio business, Hal Jackson is the undisputed grandfather of black broadcasters in America. Jackson found he had to be a pioneer in 1939, an...
CADET COP FACES HARDEST CASE ; HE'LL TELL OF SHOTS THAT HIT DIALLO
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amAn NYPD Police Academy recruit is expected to be a key witness against four cops on trial for killing Amadou Diallo in a hail of 41 bullets, The Post has...
DEATH SITE STILL BEARS SCARS ONE YEAR LATER
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amA year after Amadou Diallo died in a rain of cops' bullets, the vestibule of his Bronx apartment house bears grim witness to the horror of his death. The doorway...
YAWNING 'DINNER' GUEST RUINS ACTORS' APPETITES
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amNew York theater audiences are getting ruder by the minute -- and performers are starting to fight back. The cast of the hit off-Broadway play "Dinner With Friends" refused to...
RUDY GOES TO WORK ON UPSTATERS WITH AD TOUTING JOB CREATION
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amHere's a look at MayorGiuliani's lastest Senatecampaign ad: TITLE: "My Job" RUNNING TIME: 30 seconds WHERE SHOWN: Upstate, for at least two weeks PRODUCED BY: Adam Goodman TEXT: Giuliani: "The...
BRIT ULTIMATUM IN ULSTER CRISIS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amIn the latest crisis to engulf Northern Ireland's peace process, Britain said yesterday it will suspend the fledgling power-sharing administration in Belfast within days unless the IRA promises to disarm....
GIRL, 9, CALLED FOR JURY DUTY THINKS 'IT'S COOL'
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amA 9-year-old girl has been called for jury duty in Brooklyn -- even though her parents have been telling court authorities for a year she's too young to serve. Her...
PHYSICIAN ADMITS: 'I WAS STONED' IN O.R.
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amA drug-addict doctor stunned a federal courtroom in Manhattan yesterday, admitting that for years he was high nearly every time he worked in an operating room. "I was pretty stoned...
BARAK-ARAFAT TALKS COLLAPSE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amTEL AVIV -- Mideast peace negotiations blew apart yesterday as a tense summit between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak ended in disaster. The vital summit...
O'CONNOR RIPS ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor is calling on politicians to help push for "a major overhaul" of the Rockefeller drug laws. The 1973 laws -- pushed through the Legislature by then-Gov. Nelson...
MEDICAL MENACE HAS HISTORY OF OUTRAGES
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amIT WAS worse than we imagined. Scalpel-happy Allan "Dr. Zorro" Zarkin joked to a sedated woman about his genitals, verbally abused an operating-room nurse, and had to be physically prevented...
'ALLY' STAR WENT PSYCHO: REPORT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00am"I'm a super bad bitch."Sexy "Ally McBeal" star Lisa Nicole Carson spent two weeks locked in a psychiatric ward on suicide watch -- and may not return to the top-rated...
RUDY SAYS HILL'S 34G TAB FOR GOV'T PLANE IS A STEAL
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday said Hillary Rodham Clinton got a bargain by paying just $34,000 for government aircraft she took on political trips to New York last year. "If you can...
$10M COP-RECRUIT DRIVE FALLS FLAT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amA $10 million campaign to recruit city residents for the Police Department netted only 720 additional applicants citywide last year, Commissioner Howard Safir said yesterday. Safir, testifying at City Council...
JUDGE SEATS 2ND LOUIMA JURY ; FEDERAL TRIAL REVISITING TORTURE CASE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amFive whites, one Hispanic and six blacks -- including the forewoman -- were picked yesterday to hear the case against three cops in the second Abner Louima police-torture trial. The...
WAR VETS: SENATOR DESERTED OUR CAUSE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amFormer war prisoner John McCain yesterday found himself on the receiving end of an attack from a coalition of veterans groups that claims he abandoned their cause after Vietnam. The...
HER CAMPAIGN BOSS GEARING UP FOR A RACE OF HIS OWN
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amHILLARY Rodham Clinton's campaign manager, Bill de Blasio, has another race to worry about -- his own. The veteran Democratic operative from Brooklyn is certain to run for the City...
STATE $LICES 'ZORRO' HOSP AND LIFTS HIS LICENSE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amState Health Commissioner Antonia Novello yesterday slapped Beth Israel Medical Center with its heftiest possible fine and said she had stripped Allan "Dr. Zorro" Zarkin of his medical license. "As...
ROOMIE WEEPS IN COURT FOR SLAIN PAL
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- A man who shared Amadou Diallo's apartment broke down on the stand yesterday after seeing a picture of his friend, who was shot dead by police in a...
SPITZER BIDDING TO BOOT LAWYER ; IN PATRONAGE STORM
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, citing an erosion of "public confidence," is moving to remove a politically connected Brooklyn lawyer as receiver of Cypress Hills Cemetery. Officials said Spitzer will...
BITING, FONDLING? NO BIG DEAL
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amCELILIA Pardodi got the frantic call yesterday from her uncle in Miami. The 45-year-old Manhattan woman was shocked to hear through the grapevine that one of Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers fondled...
GENE WILDER IN CANCER CLINIC: REPORT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amGene Wilder is being treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan -- 10 years after his wife Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer, a published report says. Star magazine...
HE SKIPPED CUBA USING 'DRAG' BUNT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amHe left with a pitching arm -- and a purse. Star Cuban pitcher Adrian Hernandez has defected to Costa Rica -- in drag. Hernandez, 25, who bears an amazing resemblance...
GOPERS WON'T LET DEM RIVALS WIPE THE MUD OFF
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amSen. Bob Kerrey said he wanted to forget Monday's mud-slinging outside Veep Al Gore's campaign rally, but Republican presidential wannabes yesterday called it a "disgrace." On a day when Gore...
COPS HUNT 'REPAIRMAN' RAPISTS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amA team of rapists posing as telephone repairmen has been preying on women in Queens for more than a year, police said yesterday. In the four incidents that Queens detectives...
MOSCOW RIPS U.S. OVER SEIZED TANKER
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe United States and Russia were locked in a tense standoff last night after the U.S. Navy seized a Russian oil tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iraq in violation...
GOV FLIP-FLOPS ON BALLOT BLOCK ; NOW SAYS MCCAIN SHOULD BE FREE TO RUN
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amGov. Pataki, caving to enormous public pressure, yesterday abandoned his efforts to keep surging GOP presidential hopeful John McCain off New York's March 7 primary ballot. Pataki, who spent weeks...
ARIZONAN POLL-VAULTS AHEAD IN S.C.
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amCHARLESTON, S.C. -- The Republican presidential race was rocked by a new poll yesterday that shows challenger John McCain surging against George W. Bush in South Carolina -- the next...
'SCOTTY' TO BE A BEAMING DAD AT 79
February 4, 2000 | 5:00am"Star Trek's" Scotty is oldly going where few men have gone before -- becoming a dad again at the age of 79. James Doohan, who played the USS Enterprise's hard-drinking...
TAPE BARES TERROR ON UPSIDE-DOWN JET
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amPORT HUENEME, Calif. -- The terrified pilots aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261 were caught on tape desperately trying to right the jet after it flipped over and plummeted toward certain...
KNICKS' BEST SHOT ALSO SHOULD BE THEIR LAST
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amJEFF Van Gundy reiterated again before last night's game against the Trail Blazers at the Garden, that this was the Knicks' "best shot" to win an NBA championship, best shot...
BAD TIMES AT MSG: VG ADMITS DISAGREEMENT OVER PATRICK'S MINUTES
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy admitted yesterday that Patrick Ewing has expressed disapproval with his playing time and it's been a source of "disagreement" between player and coach. Van Gundy said he...
BLUESHIRTS LOOKING PAST DEVILS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe not for issues connected to self-esteem, but in every other tangible manner, the Thrashers last night in Atlanta were every bit as important to the Rangers as the Devils...
WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE?
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amIN AN effort to reduce human conflicts with resident Canada goose populations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be host to a series of public meetings this month and...
STERN IS POSITIVE NBA'S GONNA BE OK
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amNBA commissioner David Stern was a little angry. Appearing at a business lunch last December that was honoring the best in sports industry executives, Stern was asked about those empty...
RED BULLET EYES GULFSTREAM TEST
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amRed Bullet, an impressive seven length winner in his career debut at Aqueduct on Jan. 8, makes his next start in a seven furlong allowance race at Gulfstream tomorrow. The...
ON HSN, THEISMANN FUMBLES AWAY CREDIBILITY
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amThere might not be anything wrong here. It might just be Y2K $ports journali$m, where everything is spelled with a dollar sign. But after Super Bowl XXXIV, ESPN's Joe Theismann...
NET WOES START INSIDE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amNets general manager John Nash knows what's wrong with his struggling team. How to fix it is another question. "We aren't good enough from top to bottom [to win] when...
MURESAN THINKS HE CAN BE A BIG HELP
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Some help for the struggling Nets might come soon in the form of the 7-7 Romanian center Gheorghe Muresan, who has been practicing with the team and has...
HIGH STAKES HOCKEY ; IF YANKEENETS TURN TO ISLES, DEVILS SALE MAY GO DOWN DRAIN
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amSale-wise, the Devils could be left out in the cold. Impatient for John McMullen to accept the offer for the Devils that some say he can't refuse, the YankeeNets are...
NOLAN HAS PLANS FOR JETS DEFENSE
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amOnce or twice each season, Mike Nolan would pick up the phone and call Al Groh. Or, Groh would dial up Nolan's number. These two defensive coaches would quickly exchange...
BIG EAST BREAKS UP DIVISION
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amThe growing pains continue for the Big East Conference. In the most dramatic changes since the Big East's inception 21 years ago, the conference announced yesterday that, beginning next season,...
GAMES SHOULD BE A BLUR
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amIn its first 92 editions, the Millrose Games earned acclaim as the world's most prestigious indoor track meet. But with a deep star-studded field and a new state-of-the-art Mondo track,...
JARVIS MAY START GRAY VS. BC
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amWith his team having lost 4 of 5 and an NCAA Tournament berth no longer a certainty, St. John's coach Mike Jarvis said yesterday that he's considering making a change...
GRADY'S EVEN BETTER
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amGrady 74 New Utrecht 53 Grady coach Jack Ringel believes in testing his team early and often, using a punishing non-conference schedule to prepare it for the playoffs. And not...
MCMAHON'S STORYLINE: PIGSKIN PROFIT
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amSO Vince McMahon, the clown king of the $251 million WWF empire, wants to broaden his horizons, move beyond the farcical world of Wrestlemania's scripted battles and thinks football's his...
LAYDEN DENIES GUARDS ON BLOCK
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks GM Scott Layden yesterday gave a vote of confidence to his point guards who, as usual, are the focus of trade talks as the Feb. 24 deadline approaches. A...
JETER, YANKS $10M DEAL,AVOID HEARING
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amIn keeping with a prearranged agreement on what would happen if no multi-year deal were in place in time to avoid a salary arbitration hearing, Derek Jeter agreed to a...
TALKS BREAK DOWN IN BID TO BUY OUT ISLES
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amDissatisfied with the financial offer presented by Bob Gutkowski and his group to buy out the Islanders' Coliseum lease, SMG has broken off negotiations with the potential Islanders owners, The...
PATRICK HAS BECOME STATUE OF LIMITATIONS: BUT WIZARDS WOULD TAKE HIM FOR JUWAN
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amSO THE Knicks are going to swap Patrick Ewing for Juwan Howard? Oh, really? I wasn't aware they needed another statue in Washington. It's a close call which one has...
JEFF: TIFF OVER EWING MINUTES
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy admitted yesterday that Patrick Ewing has expressed disapproval with his playing time and it's been a source of "disagreement" between player and coach. Van Gundy...
ODELEIN, MORRISON PERFORM AS IF IT'S LAST TIME IN JERSEY
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 4 Predators 1 Most were already looking forward to a long weekend off or at the All-Star Game. For two, last night might have been their farewell to the...
KNICKS' ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE has been a lot of talk in recent days of certain Knicks needing to display more leadership by becoming more vocal. Jeff Van Gundy, the Knicks coach, specifically called...
TEAM TURNAROUND: EWING CATALYST AS KNICKS REBOUND TO BURN BLAZERS
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 98 Blazers 88 Only 48 hours earlier, the Knicks looked the part of an NBA doormat when they were blown out of the Garden by the Magic. Patrick Ewing...
ALEXANDRE JUST GREAT IN ATLANTA
February 4, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 6 Thrashers 3 ATLANTA -- While not exactly a Tony Robbins-like motivator, John Muckler can still inspire his players now and then. Take Alexandre Daigle. Actually, Muckler did take...