May 2, 2000
GEORGETTE'S 2ND WIND:KLINGER'S SPA GETS A YOUTH TREATMENT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amGeorgette Klinger is back and ready to battle for a slice of New York's competitive spa-going population. The 60-year-old day spa with its signature brushed-steel double doors has just completed...
THE BIG M&A SLUMP: APRIL IS SLEEPIEST MONTH SINCE SEPT. '98
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amApril truly was the cruelest month - especially for investment bankers doing mergers and acquisitions. Their line of business totally dried up last month, leaving them with little income at...
MICROSOFT OPENS GATE FOR MARKETS' GAINS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amMicrosoft led all three major stock market averages higher yesterday, reflecting investor belief that the effects of the proposed break-up won't kill the high-tech industry, after all. The software giant's...
DID YOUNG CHANGE TUNE? SUIT SAYS ROCKER BLOCKED THE SAME BIO HE OK'D
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLegendary rock musician Neil Young has been slapped with a $1.8 million lawsuit claiming the singer has put the brakes on an authorized biography. The suit, filed yesterday in Los...
KMART DOYENNE-YBROOK; MARTHA: RETAIL DEAL LEAVES ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amWe thought it was a good thing ... . Kmart is crying "foul" over reports that Martha Stewart is unhappy with their lucrative retailing relationship - but the domestic diva...
COMPAQ, GATEWAY, HP SET UP HUGE B2B
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amThree computer giants yesterday announced a new virtual business-to-business marketplace that will offer electronic parts and products at discounts - and raise new antitrust concerns. Fierce competitors Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and...
MUSEUM TO TAKE PEOPLE TO THE PEOPLE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTime Inc. plans to open a People museum in Rockefeller Center in time for the Christmas rush - and the price of admission will be a part-year subscription to one...
CABLEVISION BLANKED
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amYankeesNets cable-TV rights deal in trouble (Steinbrenner)Despite making a whopping $100 million a year-plus offer to secure New York Yankees' television rights well into the future, Charles Dolan's Cablevision Systems...
THESE TWO NEED EACH OTHER TOO MUCH TO SPLIT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amWILL Martha turn Kmart into Marthamart? Can Floyd Hall keep her in line? Stay tuned. We know Floyd needs Martha. The $1 billion in sales volume that Martha Stewart Everyday...
TOWER GROUNDS ITSELF - AND 300 PASSENGERS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTower Air abruptly pulled the plug on its scheduled service yesterday - leaving thousands of customers with worthless tickets and stranding 300 people who planned to fly last night to...
BILLY JOEL LIVE & KICKIN' ON '2000'
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amBILLY JOEL "2000 Years: The Millennium Concert" ½ Columbia As a concert master, the more Billy Joel lets the music just happen, the better the show is. The piano man...
DIAMOND PROJECT'S 'MANOEUVRES' A GEM
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLET New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, 65th Street at Columbus Avenue, (212) 870-5570. Season runs through June 25. NEW York City Ballet's nine-week season sprang...
'CONTACT' WINS 5 FOR STROMAN
May 2, 2000 | 4:00am'CONTACT" - Susan Stroman's acclaimed dance show at Lincoln Center - won five Outer Critics Circles Awards yesterday, including Best New Musical. Stroman picked up awards for her direction and...
MOVIE-BUDGET MANIA: FIVE SUMMER FILMS SET TO BREAK $100M MARK
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amSUMMER means bare midriffs, ice cream, beach trips - and big, big movies. This season, crowds seeking solace from the heat will be whisked away to second-century Rome, the battlefields...
THE STARR REPORT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amBurning the 'flag' As if Ch. 7 doesn't have enough headaches vis a vis dead air in Manhattan, some staffers are grumbling about the station's new microphone flags - insignias...
COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION ; ACTORS' STRIKE STOPS WORK ON ADS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTELEVISION and radio actors went on strike yesterday against the agencies that make commercials. More than 200 protesters - including veteran movie and TV stars Richard Dreyfuss, Jerry Stiller and...
'MILLIONAIRE' CLEANS '60 MINS' CLOCK
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amREGIS Philbin's final answer to Mike Wallace: Fuggeddaboutit! ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" creamed CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night, raking in nearly twice as many viewers when the...
MAE BEST KEPT SIMPLE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amDIRTY BLONDE Seen Saturday, April 27, at the Helen Hayes Theatre, 244 W. 44th St. 'DIRTY Blonde" is a look into how Mae West got that way and how two...
GO AHEAD - THINK NEGATIV
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amNEGATIVLAND is best known for the 1990 single "U2" - which mixed the Irish pop band's riffs with samples of Casey Kasem cussing - and the lawsuit that followed. U2's...
CH.11 JOINS THE MORNING CRUSH; WB HIRES FAMILIAR FACES (AND A CHOPPER) FOR AN EARLY-BIRD SPECIAL SHOW
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amCH. 11 is starting its own early morning TV show to compete with "Good Day New York," the "Today" show and "Good Morning America." The "WB11 Morning News," scheduled to...
VINTAGE VOYAGER - REGAL EMPRESS HAS MORE ORIGINAL FEATURES THAN MOST SURVIVING LINERS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Regal Empress is no sea monster. She offers no mountain of decks stacked as high as a New York apartment building, no rock-climbing wall, no ice-skating rink and no...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLow-tech trek If you're nervous about puchasing tickets on the Web, but would still like to take advantage of its travel discounts, stop in at Lowestfare.com's new ticket office. Located...
OASIS RUNS A BIT DRY AT RADIO CITY
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN though the Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, have gone through some major personal changes - such as sobriety and fatherhood - their band, Oasis, seemed unaffected at their one-night...
ONE MAN'S BATTLE AGAINST PANIC ATTACKS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amAIRLINE travel has always frightened me. But that fear was nothing compared to the terror I felt during my first panic attack on a flight to Chicago in late December...
DUO IN 'PRIVATE' PRISON ON EVE OF PAN AM TERROR TRIAL
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amCAMP VAN ZEIST, THE NETHERLANDS - Zeist Prison is the only penal institution in the world that is built to withstand a nuclear or biological-weapons attack. The drab but massive...
AL'S DOUBLE BLUNDER ; BY BASHING A BOGUS BUSH 'COLD-WAR FIXATION,' GORE BLOWS HIS OWN BEST FOREIGN-POLICY BET
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN the most committed Republican has to acknowledge that, when it comes to foreign policy, Al Gore has experience and George W. Bush doesn't. The "experience" card would seem to...
NO ONE MRS. THE POINT OF HANOVER'S ICY STATEMENT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amSO MUCH for dirty words. Donna Hanover Don't-Call-Me-Giuliani, the first lady who wants to make the city safe for the word "vagina," neglected to use a certain C-word when she...
SYRIA MAY COME OFF TERROR LIST, U.S. HINTS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The State Department yesterday unveiled its latest hit list of terrorist states - and suggested Syria could get off the roster if it signs a Mideast peace deal....
NYPD BIDS TO ARREST SLIDE IN RECRUITS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amWhat if the NYPD gave a Police Academy class and no one came? Faced with a shrinking pool of recruits, the Police Department is scurrying to find enough candidates to...
SHE GIVES CANCER HER BEST SHOT - TEST VACCINES LEAVING PATIENTS FREE OF DISEASE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE'S no trace of illness in Beth Gifford's youthful, 42-year-old face. Yet, just a little over two years ago, the Bowling Green, Ky., native and mother of two was diagnosed...
BREAKTHROUGHS ON THE HORIZON
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amBreast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, with about 182,000 new cases expected to be diagnosed this year. But there's good news: Death rates are declining significantly...
CRIME'S DOWN FOR YEAR, BUT MURDER STILL ON RISE: COPS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amCrime in the city dropped again last month, maintaining the downward trend of the past several years - even as murder continued to rise, new NYPD statistics show. There were...
CORPORATE CREEPS MAKE YOU PAY - AGAIN
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amONCE a bunch of creeps, always a bunch of creeps. That's the bottom line on the folks who run Time Warner Cable. What else can you say about people who...
HUSBAND'S TRIAL COULD BE TAXING FOR W'CHESTER DA
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amHundreds of would-be jurors are set to file into a White Plains courtroom today in the first stage of a tax-evasion trial that could have major implications for the turbulent...
RUDY EYES CONSERVATIVE WRITE-IN
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's campaign and supporters in the state Conservative Party are considering a write-in campaign to seize the party's Senate nomination, officials said yesterday. Giuliani backers raised the possible back-door...
SPITZER: GET LAWYER OFF CEMETERY CASE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday asked a judge to toss a politically connected lawyer off a controversial Brooklyn receivership case that has sparked a massive probe into court patronage....
TV JUNKIES HIT HARD BY WITHDRAWAL
May 2, 2000 | 4:00am"I want my ABC!" That's the cry coming from New Yorkers suddenly facing a world with no soaps and no Oprah. "I can't watch 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'!"...
STARR'S COLLEAGUES GIVE 32G TO HILLARY
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLawyers at former Sexgate prosecutor Ken Starr's law firm are donating a bundle to their colleague's old nemesis - Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton received $32,250 from 34 lawyers and the...
ABC COULD LOSE TV $WEEPS-TAKES
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe standoff between ABC and Time Warner Cable that blacked out Channel 7 for millions of viewers couldn't come at a worse time - the beginning of the all-important May...
MONO-LOGIC: DONNA PUTS SHOW ON HOLD
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amDonna Hanover is pulling out of "The Vagina Monologues." New York's first lady announced yesterday she's postponing her scheduled two-week appearance in the provocative play "due to personal family circumstances."...
OUTRAGE IN ALBANY OVER 'WHITES ONLY' MED TESTS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Black and Latino lawmakers were outraged red yesterday over a health-fair test they say was for "white women only." A bone-density scanner used by an Albany-area hospital at...
ISRAEL SCOFFS AT IRAN SPY 'CONFESSION'
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amOne of 13 Iranian Jews on trial in Iran for espionage yesterday did an about-face and suddenly confessed to being a spy for Israel - a confession an Israeli official...
AOL MAKES GRADE WITH SCHOOLS E-MAIL SERVICE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amHey kid, you've got mail! E-mail that is - if America Online has its way. Beginning May 17, the country's largest Internet service provider will offer a free education service...
BRITS RANSACK MCDONALD'S IN MAY DAY RIOT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amAnti-capitalist May Day protesters in London trashed a McDonald's yesterday - while more than 20 people were arrested on disorderly conduct charges at a parade in Manhattan. The British protesters...
JEWS OFFENDED BY HOLOCAUST COLLEGE DISPLAY
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amJewish undergraduates at Sarah Lawrence College were outraged yesterday by a mock concentration camp comparing the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon to the Holocaust. About 10 student members of FIST...
WIFE IS FACING STIFF PENALTY IN IMPLANT SCAM
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury convicted a wife yesterday of taking infidelity to new lengths - by using her husband's insurance to buy inflatable penile implants for her boyfriend. The jury needed...
LANDLORDS SET TO ASK 9-15% RENT INCREASE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLandlords will be demanding the highest rent increases in a decade - up to 15 percent - at a meeting today of the Rent Guidelines Board. Ignoring Mayor Giuliani's warning...
BOMBING-RANGE ACTIVISTS PREP FOR FEDERAL INVASION
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amProtesters blocking a Navy bombing range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques braced yesterday for an expected raid by federal agents - as U.S. warships sailed into nearby waters....
EX-BEAUTY QUEEN ON LAM SET TO SURRENDER
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amA former Mrs. America, charged with lying to authorities when she filed for bankruptcy, is expected to surrender this week, a prosecutor said yesterday. Jill Scott Chance, 40, crowned in...
UNDERCOVER COPS WILL POSE AS LIVERY HACKS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe NYPD will be manning decoy livery cabs with undercover cops in an aggressive move to catch thugs in the act, The Post has learned. There will be just one...
BILL MAY ASK COURT TO SHIELD HIS 'LOST' E-MAILS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The administration may invoke executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing documents in the controversy over missing e-mails that are under subpoena. The White House yesterday sent the...
2 BUSTED IN SLAY OF RABBI'S WIFE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTwo New Jersey men were arrested last night, charged with murder-for-hire for allegedly killing the wife of a philandering Philadelphia-area rabbi. Leonard Jenoff, 54, and Paul M. Daniels, 26, were...
FIDEL LEADS ELIAN-FUELED MARCH
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amFidel Castro traded his combat boots for tennis shoes yesterday and led hundreds of thousands of people in a May Day march - energized by the fierce custody battle over...
BAD NEWS FOR N.J. MAN WITH NEW HAND
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe world's first hand-transplant patient is in danger of losing the hand - a grim possibility that hits New Jersey paramedic Matt Scott especially hard. Just four months after Clint...
GRIM OUTLOOK FOR NEW-HAND PATIENT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe world's first hand-transplant patient is in danger of losing the hand - a grim possibility that hits New Jersey paramedic Matt Scott especially hard. Just four months after Clint...
'INSIDER' TO GOV: SIGN SAFE-CIG BILL
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The tobacco-industry whistle-blower who inspired the movie "The Insider" urged Gov. Pataki yesterday to sign legislation requiring all cigarettes sold in the state to be self-extinguishing. Jeffrey Wigand...
CAMPED-OUT ACTIVISTS PREP FOR VIEQUES RAID
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amProtesters blocking a Navy bombing range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques braced yesterday for an expected raid by federal agents - as three U.S. warships waited in nearby...
LOOK OUT FOR 'CAPTAIN' ; BAFFERT LIKES HIS LONGSHOT'S CHANCES
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Bob Baffert, who has won two of the last three Kentucky Derbys and is poised to challenge Wayne Lukas as America's best trainer, is taking aim at this...
'READY' IS ALL SET TO GO ; DARK HORSE CLIMBS IN EYES OF BETTORS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - One day he was filet mignon; the next, chopped liver. Last summer More Than Ready - the dark-horse candidate for Saturday's Kentucky Derby - was being hailed as...
FOCUSED WAR CHANT A BLUR IN WORKOUT
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It was a busy morning yesterday at Churchill Downs as eight Derby horses and one wannabe rattled off a series of quick workouts. Trainer Neil Drysdale, who sent...
LOUIS' GLAUNER TAMES TERRIERS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amGIRLS SOFTBALLMary Louis 4 St. Francis 1 St. Francis Prep and Mary Louis Academy are supposed to be two of the best softball teams in the CHSAA. Yesterday, that hardly...
RARIN'-TO-GO VINNY: I COULD PLAY RIGHT NOW
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amVinny Testaverde looked well yesterday, as the Achilles tendon he ruptured in the 1999 season opener didn't prevent him from shooting a crisp 72 at yesterday's Cadillac/NFL Golf Classic media...
NO SWEATING THE HEAT: PAT'S RATS LUCKY IN SEASON SERIES
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amDon't try to compare Miami's 3-1 season-series record against the Knicks to Toronto's 3-1 regular-season mastery over Jeff Van Gundy's troops. While Toronto routed the Knicks in the regular season,...
STERN UNFAZED BY SAGGING TV RATINGS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amNBA commissioner David Stern said yesterday the league's poor television ratings last weekend were not the result of the extended playoff format but rather having less desirable first-round games. Overnight...
CALM BEFORE THE STORM ; NO PANIC AT SJU OVER COACH, PLAYER ISSUES
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amConsidering the number of major decisions the St. John's basketball program faces over the next few weeks, there's a peculiar calm at Alumni Hall. Athletic director Ed Manetta Jr. doesn't...
MCGRADY RUNS FOR BORDER
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTRACY McGRADY has played his last game in a Raptors uniform, it says here. Immediately after Sunday's game, the free agent-in-waiting became the first athlete from a losing team to...
NO SWEATING THE HEAT: MUM'S THE WORD FOR MIAMI PLAYERS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amNo, Pat Riley isn't too uptight. The Heat coach warned reporters following yesterday's practice in Miami that there would be no saucy quotes coming out of his camp this week...
LAYDEN: JEFF CERTAINLY IN PAT'S CLASS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Pat Riley has four more NBA titles than Jeff Van Gundy, more hair, snazzier suits and 14 more years of head coaching experience. But Knicks GM Scott Layden...
SPRING IN MIAMI IS PURE HELL ; RILEY CAN'T ESCAPE KNICK NIGHTMARE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amAS DESIGNED by Dave Checketts in dark moments, this must be Pat Riley's hell. Riley refused to face management and media and fully explain his Knick departure; instead, he merely...
BRENDL HEADED FOR WOLF PACK
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe Calgary Hitmen's playoff loss may ultimately prove the Ranger organization's gain. Because when Calgary, which won the WHL championship by going 58-12-2, was ousted on Sunday by the Kootenay...
PIAZZA MAY BE IN LINEUP, BUT ...
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Mike Piazza, who hyperextended his right elbow and sprained his right wrist Friday night, could start tonight if everything goes well when he takes regular batting practice...
HOLIK'S TURNING MATS INTO ONE WILTED LEAF
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS WAS was Jan. 6, 1999 when the Devils were at the Garden to play the Rangers. The Devils' lineup was on the board in the home locker room, with...
MOM HELPS SCOTT REVIVE ; GOMEZ LISTENS, THEN ENDS SLUMP
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amWithout an answer for his first slump of the season, rookie Scott Gomez used an unlimited supply of lifelines. He e-mailed his friends, including Ben Brady, an Iona hockey player....
MARTIN THE GREAT PUTS DEVS IN LEAD
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 3 Devils 5 Maple Leafs 1 Start the semis. If the Devils are going to score goals, too, the way Martin Brodeur is playing goal, call this series off...
BOMBERS' WIN AGE-OLD STORY
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - They are the two giants of the AL. They have become as much an October staple as Halloween or Columbus Day. You must go back to the 1993...
KNOBBY'S HAND STILL FEELS SORE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - Just because Chuck Knoblauch was in the lineup last night against Jaret Wright at Jacobs Field doesn't mean his bothersome left hand was back to 100...
YANKS BAG A BIG ONE: SPENCER'S DOUBLE OFF BASE LIFTS BOMBERS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 2 Indians 1 CLEVELAND - There isn't an MRI tube wide enough or a magnet with enough strength to locate the lucky horseshoe that is hidden in the collective...
THIS AMAZIN' LOSS TRULY RE-PULSE-IVE: BILL AWFUL IN PAC BELL POUNDING
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amGiants 10 Mets 3 SAN FRANCISCO - Everybody knows the story by now, and everybody is tired of it - especially Bill Pulsipher. It's been a sad saga, and last...
QUINN PUTS STEVENS ON WHINE LIST
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amComplaining to the press about the Devils worked once, so Leafs coach Pat Quinn went for the jackpot. He tried to take Scott Stevens, the Devils' best player in these...
PUNCHLESS DEVILS LIVING ON THE EDGE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amEIGHT NHL conference semifinal games had been played through Sunday night and the losing teams not only had been shut out five times, they had scored the grand but not...
FOR AMAZIN'S, IT'S A RUSCH TO EXCELLENCE
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, while the craziness of the Mets' up-and-down season went on, assistant GM Omar Minaya went to his boss to recommend a pitcher. Minaya...
TODD TAPS ROCKIES TO END DRY SPELL: ZEILE'S BAT COMES ALIVE AT COORS
May 2, 2000 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Todd Zeile recalls that, before the Mets-Rockies series began last Friday night, he'd been carrying negative thoughts with him to the batter's box. He wasn't trying to...