February 14, 2000
HACKER KING DISSES WEB TANGLERS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amAmerica's most notorious hacker says the computer vandals responsible for last week's assault on some of the Web's most popular sites simply aren't "cool." Kevin Mitnick, who spent 59 months...
LEVITT WARNS ABOUT 'NET TIPSTERS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amBeware the Internet, especially when getting stock tips, warned Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt at a conference in Los Angeles over the weekend. Levitt cautioned investors to be...
WARNER'S WARNING ; TELLS SPIELBERG: DIRECT, OR GET OFF THE POTTER
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWarner Brothers has given Steven Spielberg an ultimatum -- direct the upcoming "Harry Potter" flick immediately -- or don't do it at all. The uber-director has said publicly that he...
S&P SEES TROUBLE IN U.S. MARKET BUBBLE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT do Cyprus, Panama, Egypt and the U.S. have in common? The Standard & Poor's rating service recently said that the economic systems of these countries are vulnerable to problems....
MCCAIN TO 'JAY' WALK ; 'TONIGHT'S' PREZ PARADE STILL SEEKING GEORGE W.
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amJUST one day after Al Gore appeared on "The Tonight Show" last week, word came that Sen. John McCain had been booked for March1. Although it may have looked as...
NIPPING ATLEO'S HEELS'BEACH' BOY HAS COMPETITION
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S not easy being Leonardo DiCaprio's stepbrother.Even tougher when you're making a silver-screen debut in "Pups," a shoestring-budget indie opening the same day as DiCaprio's massively hyped "The Beach." But...
TALENT SAVES A NOT SO 'CLEAR' REVIVAL
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER ENCORES at City Center began its season of concert revivals with a revisit to "On a Clear Day You Can...
FROM RUNWAYS TO REALITY: FIVE FASHION WEEK TRENDS ON THEIR WAY TO YOUR WARDROBE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe models go home, the tents come down and designers eagerly await word from fashion editors and department-store buyers on which looks worked and which didn't. When fashion week is...
DRESSED TO THRILL: THERE'S A PERFECT WEDDING DRESS FOR EVERY BODY TYPE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWhether you're a skinny minny or a hefty honey, there's a wedding gown out there with your name on it. "Wedding dresses are generally more structured than most other dresses,...
'SIMPSONS' MAKE NED A WIDOWER
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amMaude Flanders, we hardly knew ya. The goody-two-shoes wife of Ned Flanders, the Bible-beating next-door neighbor on the Fox TV hit "The Simpsons," died last night after getting pelted by...
HOLLYWOOD GETS PERSONAL; CELEBRITIES ADD UNIQUE TWISTS TO MAKE NUPTIALS MORE MEMORABLE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amREMEMBER when everyone wanted a wedding like the late Princess Di's? Well, those days are over. The most enviable weddings these days don't take place at Westminster Abbey, but in...
THAT NEW YORK FRAME OF MIND ; GETTING HITCHED IN THE APPLE REQUIRES EXTRA PLANNING
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amGETTING married in suburbia is a breeze. Country clubs and big backyards are reception-ready. Cars make it easy to get to the church on time. And there's always a light...
THE STARR REPORT
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amMaher's landing "Politically Incorrect" has found a gay couple who will marry on Friday's show (12:05 a.m. on Ch.7).Mark Barr and Scott McCoy have agreed to the ceremony, and will...
IS ROSIE READY TO HOST HER OWN TV GAME SHOW?
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIS Rosie O'Donnell angling to get her own game show? In recent months, O'Donnell has been endlessly hyping ABC's smash-hit "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on "The Rosie O'Donnell...
SAM & COKIE SAFE -- FOR NOW; RUMORS OF 'THIS WEEK' SHAKE-UP 'DEAD WRONG'
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amREPORTS of Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts' demise are greatly exaggerated. ABC's "This Week," the Sunday morning public affairs program which for 16 years was moderated by David Brinkley, has...
NEW YORK GIRL IS FISH OUT OF WATER FOR FELLA
February 14, 2000 | 5:00am"Navigating the Heart" Tonight at 9 p.m. on Lifetime EDITH Iglauer, a former New Yorker magazine writer -- not to mention New Yorker -- wrote a book, "Fishing With John."...
EX-PARTY BOSS FEARS BUSH TEAM ISN'T IN N.Y. STATE OF MIND
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amFORMER GOP National Committee Chairman Rich Bond says he's "mystified, dismayed and worried sick" over George W. Bush's lackluster New York campaign. "One of my credentials is having been the...
IT'S 'VOW'-ENTINE'S DAY IN CENTRAL PARK
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIt's all hearts and flowers today, but a Central Park wedding ceremony yesterday was an early kickoff for couples celebrating Valentine's Day around the city. The noontime nuptials between Thomas...
RUDY 'CHECKS' HILLARY IN TIP WAR: PAYS WAITRESS $60 FOR $35 LUNCH BILL
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amSeeking to parlay a gaffe by Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mayor Giuliani yesterday left a whopping 70 percent tip at a Long Island diner. Giuliani, who was lunching with...
SCHULZ, 'PEANUTS' PASS TOGETHER INTO LEGEND
February 14, 2000 | 5:00am"Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz always wanted his popular comic strip to die with him. Instead, he died with the comic strip. The legendary cartoonist -- who once said life wouldn't...
FBI EYED HOOP GREAT FOR BETTING ON OWN GAMES
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIt was a tall tale the FBI couldn't resist: basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain was the subject of several investigations into whether he bet on games involving his own NBA team,...
NO FUTURE IN ROMANCE?
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amAs the 21st century unfolds, women won't need men, according to a prediction in this week's Time magazine, in which a group of actors, authors and architects forecasts big changes...
'HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED'
February 14, 2000 | 5:00am"Peanuts" fans yesterday mourned cartoonist Charles Schulz as a man who made the world laugh. "There are two types of people in the world," said Marta Largos, 46, a market...
GRIFTERS' SLAY TRIAL BEGINS TODAY
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amMother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenneth Kimes go on trial today for allegedly conning and killing an elderly East Side socialite who disappeared over a year and a half ago. The...
REX'S LAWYER: HONEST ERROR
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amFilm critic Rex Reed is red-faced about being arrested on shoplifting charges at a Lincoln Center record store -- a crime his lawyer said was an innocent mistake. "He's totally...
R&B LEGEND'S 'DAUGHTERS' IN FIGHT OVER HIS BODY
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amTwo New York women who say they are daughters of the late rhythm-and-blues legend Screamin' Jay Hawkins want to bring his body home to the United States. The 70-year-old singer,...
SHE'LL NEVER ESCAPE MARK OF 'ZORRO' - MOM RELIVES NIGHTMARE OF WICKED DOC
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amTWO days after she gave birth to her daughter, Liana Gedz couldn't understand the pain. Her stomach hurt in the wrong place, she kept thinking, in a spot suspiciously high...
WALL STREET DILEMMA: IS IT 'CORRECT' TO BUY TODAY?
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amTo buy or not to buy, that is the question. After stocks plummeted last week, leaving the Dow Jones industrial average officially in a market correction, investors are trying to...
OH, BOWIE! IMAN TO BE IMOM AGAIN
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amThere are some big ch-ch-changes in store for aging glam rocker David Bowie and his supermodel wife Iman -- the fab couple announced yesterday they are expecting a baby. "This...
'SCRAMBLED EGG' MOM REGRETS GIVING UP BABY
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amThe Staten Island woman who bore a switched-before-birth baby says she's sorry she ever handed the child over to his genetic parents. "Donna Fasano regrets the day she turned over...
HE 'ROOTS' OUT GRANDDAD'S PAST
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIt's taken three years, dozens of phone calls and hundreds -- maybe a thousand -- pieces of documents, but Grant Harper Reid can now say he knows all there is...
PRIDE AND GROOM FOR DOGS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIt was all pup and circumstance at Madison Square Garden yesterday, where the cream of the canine crop was primped and pampered to prep for the 124th annual Westminster Kennel...
HAS REV. AL SET THE STAGE FOR A SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE?
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIF THERE is nothing to fear except fear itself, why the hell am I terrified? Simply, it's because if justice truly prevails in the weeks ahead, the Rev. Al Sharpton...
HAIDER INSISTS HE WAS KEPT IN DARK ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amFar-right Freedom Party leader Joerg Haider says it took him years to condemn Hitler and the Holocaust because that infamous period in history was virtually ignored by his teachers. He...
ECO-LOGICAL LEO TOTALLY INTO GORE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIf 14-year-old girls could vote, Al Gore would be a presidential shoo-in -- now that Hollywood hottie Leonardo DiCaprio says he's in the veep's corner. The heartthrob star of "Titanic"...
TOY MAN HAS DEVIL OF JOB TO FIND HIS LOST 'GOSPEL' DOLLS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amAn Atlanta entrepreneur is frantically searching the Big Apple for six dolls that he created with his life's savings. Chester Erby's prototypes of the "Gospel Grandma" dolls were last seen...
TRUMP IS OUT OF THE RUNNING
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Donald Trump, the tycoon who toyed with the idea of being president, today throws in the towel after deciding that the White House is out of reach. Trump...
BUSTED YANK: CHINA AIMING TO BEAT 'GONG'
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens woman busted in Beijing for taking pictures during the Feb. 4 mass arrest of Falun Gong members said yesterday her detention opened her eyes to the struggle between...
'DUBYA' DEFENDS HIS BOB JONES VISIT :SCHOOL FOUNDER CALLED DAD 'DEVIL'
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amANDERSON, S.C. - Republican George W. Bush yesterday defended his decision to speak at controversial Bob Jones University, even though his dad was denounced as "a devil" by school chief...
FARRAKHAN: I DO LIKE A FEW JEWS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amNation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan has told an anti-Zionist Jewish group: "There are Jews I can ... love." Farrakhan, who has been criticized for his anti-Semitic comments, told the...
PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWITH the gunfire from Columbine High School still ringing in our ears and images of dead and wounded schoolchildren and teachers fresh in our minds, pre-emptive action to help prevent...
BUSH DEFENDS BOB JONES COLLEGE VISIT
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amANDERSON, S.C. -- Republican George W. Bush yesterday defended his decision to speak at controversial Bob Jones University, even though his dad was denounced as "a devil" by school chief...
GORE HUDDLES WITH SHARPTON: BUT IT'S FLAKE WHO ENDORSES THE VEEP
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amVeep Al Gore yesterday huddled with the Rev. Al Sharpton, but didn't get an endorsement -- although he did win the Rev. Floyd Flake's support amid signs rival Bill Bradley's...
POLS WONDERING IF LATINOS ARE READY TO SAY 'SI' TO GOP
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIN 1994, Hispanics in Texas had reason to fear the newly inaugurated governor -- George W. Bush. An overwhelming majority of them had voted for Democrat Ann Richards. "We were...
DIALLO 'LEAD' COP TO PROVIDE KEY TESTIMONY TODAY
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- It's do-or-die day for the defense in the Amadou Diallo police murder trial. With lead Officer Sean Carroll and their star civilian witness both on deck to testify,...
INVENTOR LETTING OFF A LITTLE STEAM
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amBRETT STERN is an inventor. Need an artificial hip with greater range of movement? Stern's your man. Want to turn a bolt of fabric into a blouse in seconds --...
BASEBALL STILL OFF ITS ROCKER
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amSPRING training opens this week and the big story remains John Rocker, detriment to baseball. But consider that the Mets' 1999 season ended in Atlanta, Game 6 of the NLCS,...
BADGE GEARED UP FOR GEORGE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amSouthbelle Stable's Badge breezed five furlongs in 1:02 over Aqueduct's fast inner track yesterday morning and will now head down to Laurel Park to start next in next Monday's Grade...
RAF NOT SLOWING DOWN
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 3 Sharks 1 Picking up steam rather than running out of it, Brian Rafalski is simply skating around the wall most rookies hit at this point of the season....
COUNTRY ONLY MAKES GRADE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amA full field of serious Triple Crown contenders is eyeing Saturday's Grade 1 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park, and the result should have a big impact on next...
MANNY GETS FILL-IN ROLE: RANGER SEES RARE ICE TIME
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amTim Taylor could play Friday night against the Bruins with a badly bruised left thumb, but he could not go last night against the Islanders. Isn't that thumbthing? No; it...
DEVILS TO BE SOLD AFTER PLAYOFFS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amThis is as official as it gets without signatures or a press conference. John McMullen is selling the Devils to the YankeeNets, but will retain control of the Stanley Cup...
SAY AIR MAY BE READY TO DEFLATE DANCERS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amFirst, His Airness fired the coach, then he told his players to dress up off the court - and now he may be ready to give the sneaker to the...
LSU KO'S KENTUCKY; TEMPLE TIPS TERPS
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amStromile Swift had 26 points and LSU's defense harassed Kentucky, ranked No. 18 in The Post Top 25, into 23 turnovers in the 24th-ranked Tigers' 70-57 win yesterday. LSU (19-4,...
GUTKOWSKI TO PROTESTERS: I FEEL YOUR PAIN
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWatching at home in Cold Spring Harbor, potential Islander owner Bob Gutkowski could feel the passion flowing out of section 332 during a fan protest rally at the Coliseum on...
WEST PROVES BEST ; SHAQ, TIM SHOW THE WAY
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWest Stars 137 East Stars 126 OAKLAND -- Michael Jordan wasn't supposed to steal the show at the 49th All-Star Game at The Arena in Oakland. But the NBA gave...
HURT MALONE MAILS ONE IN
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTEBOOK OAKLAND -- Karl Malone, as promised by his agent, arrived in time to be introduced for his 12th All-Star Game yesterday. But his participation was minimal. Malone, who...
HALL LOOKIN' FOR CONN-VINCING WIN: PIRATES USE HUSKIES AS MEASURING STICK
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall has already beaten local rival St. John's and handed a 19-0 Syracuse team its first loss of the season. But in the Big East, teams are stacked up...
VAN GUNDY ENJOYS 1ST STAR STINT FROM SEAT
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Jeff Van Gundy didn't leave his seat during last night's 49th NBA All-Star Game, which in itself is a small miracle considering the Knicks' coach is a standing...
LAZY RANGERS PAY THE PRICE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amIslanders 4 Rangers 2 So maybe the Rangers were confused and thought that last night's game at the Garden against the Islanders was an optional, like so many of their...
JORGEN LENDS ASSISTANCE TO ISLE WIN
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amJorgen Jonsson wonders why his recent offensive tear should come as a surprise. Didn't everyone follow him the last seven years in the Swedish Elite League? Well, if not, Jonsson...