May 11, 2000
NOT A GOOD CALL: RUBIN CAN'T GET MEX. PREZ ON PHONE FOR CITI
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amAfter six months on the job, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is finally doing what he was really hired to do at Citigroup - make phone calls to the top....
STOCKS ARE LEVELED:TECHS DRAG DOW DOWN 168, NASDAQ 200
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe stock market was knocked flat yesterday by a one-two punch - Cisco's failure to beat profit estimates, and anxiety over Microsoft's proposed remedies in its antitrust battle. The technology-packed...
COOKING UP AN IPO: DEAN & DELUCA READIES $69M OFFERING
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amFirst it was doughnuts, now it's foie gras. Following the footsteps of Krispy Kreme's hit IPO, legendary gourmet food mecca Dean & DeLuca is looking to sell its shares to...
DREYFUS FINED $2.95M FOR FOOLING INVESTORS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amDreyfus Corp. was hit with a $2.95 million fine after regulators concluded it had lied about the performance of one of its mutual funds. The manager of the funds, Michael...
LOVE BUG BITE SAY EXPERTS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Damage estimates for the "Love Bug" soared to $15 billion yesterday, as a federal investigator warned that the next computer virus could wreak even more havoc. "We can...
SEC TO EASE AUDITORS' INVESTING RULES
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amSecurities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt had some good news for accountants' wives yesterday. In a speech at New York University, Levitt said the SEC plans to relax some...
URBANFETCH-ES FOR SEPHORA.COM
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIt's late ... it's raining ... you're tired. But you need to have the latest Britney Spears CD, "The Sixth Sense" on DVD, a pint of Ben & Jerry's Chubby...
IT'S MULLER TIME - TO RESIGN
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTime Inc. Editorial Director Henry Muller - currently the second most powerful editor in the company - wants to become an ink-stained wretch again. The one-time managing editor of Time...
RANDOM HSE & AUDIBLE TO OFFER AUDIO BOOKS ONLINE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIn the first deal of its kind, Random House and Audible are creating a digital imprint called Random House Audible. Bestsellers will be available as audio books downloadable from the...
INSIDE'S FINALLY OUT ; SITE TRACKS THE DISH ON MEDIA
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTHE long-awaited Inside.com site from Powerful Media rolled out its first edition yesterday - and we are surprisingly quite impressed. We were warned that it was a sneak preview, but...
MICROSOFT BLASTS PROPOSAL BY FEDS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTop trustbuster.The Microsoft Corp. launched a blistering counter-attack on government trust-busters yesterday, asking a federal judge to immediately dismiss what it called a "radical," "adventurous," and "unfair" Justice Department plan...
MARC ANTHONY WEDS IN VEGAS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amRED-hot Latino singer Marc Anthony surprised his fiancee by whisking her to Las Vegas for an impromptu wedding.Following the Blockbuster Awards in Los Angeles Tuesday night, Anthony chartered two private...
NAILS SCRATCH TRADITION
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amNINE INCH NAILS THE stage was dark, darker than any in rock 'n' roll, and Trent Reznor - Nine Inch Nails' musical mastermind - was half-shouting with wholehearted desperation: "Don't...
ONLINE LOVERS TRAPPED IN THEIR OWN WEB
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTHE LOVE MACHINE 1/2 Glib "mockumentary" about a self-styled reporter (Marlene Forte) who tracks down and unmasks the anonymous posters at a kinky Web site, including an NYU prof and...
THE STARR REPORT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amBallot recall "Perplexed" is the word being used by some members of the New York Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences regarding a letter sent to...
BROWN'S 'GENIUS' UNCLEAR
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTRISHA BROWN The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Season runs through May 14. WHEN most people say one thing and you feel another, it's very...
SCORSESE WANTS ACTOR TO JOIN 'GANGS'
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S taken a gang to coax Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis out of hiding. Leader of the pack Martin Scorsese is negotiating with Day-Lewis, absent from screens since 1997's "The Boxer,"...
FOX TUG OF LOVEFOR ELIAN MOVIE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amFOX Family Channel is locking horns with CBS in a battle to air the first Elian Gonzalez movie. According to next week's TV Guide, Fox Family Channel is developing a...
TOURS DE FORCE ; ONE OF THESE TERRIFIC TREKS IS SURE TO SUIT YOUR OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY'RE here.Your cousins from Canada, your niece from Nice ... or maybe that nice couple you met in Bermuda. They've come to the city to see you - and the...
DR. LAURA TOUR: HEAVEN HELP US ; SHRILL SHRINK'S TV BLITZ A PREVIEW OF DAILY TALK SHOW ; HER FACE AND NECK APPEAR TO GROW TAUT WITH THE EFFORT OF SPEAKING
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIF you'd tuned in for any of the eight TV appearances Dr. Laura Schlessinger made to promote her latest book, you would have gotten a good idea of how she'll...
WEB GEEKS DISCOVER THE WONDER OF LIVE MUSIC
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE'S a certain music news group full of industry insiders where the recent discussion has been centered on the Napster debate. Members have been exchanging hundreds of e-mails, heatedly arguing...
'MILLIONAIRE' MENSA MAN SUES ABC
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amWHO wants to sue "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"? A former contestant who says the show cheated him and ruined his life. Robert Gelbman, 34, of Palm Beach, Fla.,...
SCHOOL BIGS FIDDLE AROUND AT CARNEGIE HALL
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amSchool superintendents used to giving orders played second fiddle at Carnegie Hall yesterday to master violinist Isaac Stern as part of Interim School Chancellor Harold Levy's cultural awareness program. "This...
HILL CLAIMS 'PRIVILEGE' ON WILLEY'S LETTERS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is claiming "spousal privilege" to stonewall questions about whether she urged husband Bill to release the Kathleen Willey letters. Those are the letters that President...
CITY RALLIES BEHIND SAFIR - PRAYERS AND ADVICE FOR CANCER-STRICKEN TOP COP
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amFrom cabbies to critics to the governor, New Yorkers yesterday phoned, e-mailed and even yelled words of encouragement to Police Commissioner Howard Safir in his fight against prostate cancer. "Don't...
POPE GIVES SOCCER BIGS HOLY HELL
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amPope John Paul II has charged European soccer promoters with forgetting sporting values in the pursuit of profit. And the 79-year-old pontiff urged players to live "clean lives" as a...
ISRAELI PREZ SAYS HE WILL QUIT, THEN FAINTS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Moments after publicly announcing plans to leave office early, Israeli President Ezer Weizman collapsed last night. A doctor in the crowd, which had gathered for a reception on...
COLUMBINE CARNAGE TOOK A HALF-HOUR: POLICE REPORT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amA police report will claim that the Columbine HS massacre took 30 minutes - making it nearly impossible for cops to have stopped the carnage, a Denver newspaper said yesterday....
WHAT TO BUY THE NEWT-LYWEDS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amNewt's on the 'Net preparing for his nuptials. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Callista Bisek, who will tie the knot in August, have registered at Macy's and Williams-Sonoma for...
ISRAELI PREZ FAINTS AFTER SAYING HE'LL QUIT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Moments after publicly announcing plans to leave office early, Israeli President Ezer Weizman collapsed last night. A doctor in the crowd, which had gathered for a reception on...
TEARS FOR L.I. FUME GIRL AND GRANDPARENTS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThree of the six victims of Long Island's carbon-monoxide tragedy - an elderly couple and their beloved 3-year-old granddaughter - were laid to rest together yesterday after an emotional funeral....
REFORMERS SHOULD GO FOR A KNOCKOUT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIN BULLFIGHTING, it's known as "the moment of truth." In boxing, it's that point in a fight when one of the fighters is weak and tottering and ready to be...
MADONNA IS SHOWING FROM HERE TO MATERNITY
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMadonna and child are in good hands - as this exclusive photo shows. The sexy pop star beamed with excitement the other night as she got the squeeze from boyfriend...
2 DECREES OF SEPARATION - THE INS AND OUTS OF DIVORCE IN N.Y.
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIf Mayor Giuliani and Donna Hanover pursue a legal separation, they will sit down with their lawyers to hammer out a compromise over issues like support and custody. Experts said...
A CAMPAIGN IN CHAOS ; CAN RUDY'S CANDIDACY SURVIVE THE UGLY COLLAPSE OF HIS MARRIAGE?
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amCHAOS of any kind is a disaster in politics. And Rudy Giuliani plunged his own Senate campaign into chaos yesterday with the announcement of his intention to separate from his...
BIG GAME SELLER GETS TICKED OFF BY MERE 2G
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe Detroit man who sold one of the two winning tickets for the record Big Game lottery is mad as a hornet that he's getting a paltry $2,000 for it...
WILD-CHILD KIDS HAUNT BAD-BOY CELEBS - DAUGHTERS LEARN THAT SEX SELLS IN BID FOR STARDOM
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amSHE is nude and smoldering with sexual allure. Her head and neck rest on the buttocks of an equally naked companion; her back is arched provocatively across a tree trunk....
TASK FORCE: BOXING MUST CLEAN UP ITS ACT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Comparing boxing's credibility with that of pro wrestling, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer unveiled a report yesterday calling for major changes in the sport. "Anti-competitive and fraudulent business practices...
BREAKUP NOT FATAL POLITICAL WOUND
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amA marital split rarely kills a politician's career - but it can bury any hopes for higher office, history shows. Most pundits believe the presidential bids of Vice President Nelson...
AN AFTERSHOCK OF POLITICAL OPINIONS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's marital breakup sent political shock waves rippling from City Hall to Albany to Washington - with some officials saying he had to make the split to remain a...
FARRAKHAN: MY 'WORDS' MAY HAVE KILLED MALCOLM X
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amNation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has admitted to Malcolm X's oldest daughter that he "may have been complicit in words" leading up to her father's assassination in 1965. In...
LIBERTY-LOVING PROTESTERS' PLEAS FALL ON DEAF EARS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIT WAS only a happenstance of geography, but it seemed poignant that the Statue of Liberty had her back turned on the small group of protesters assembled at the Jersey...
FORMER RUDY AIDE BACK IN THE STORM - IS LATEGANO THE ONE DONNA REFERRED TO?
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amFor six years, wherever Mayor Giuliani went, Cristyne Lategano wasn't far behind. First as his press secretary and later in a newly created post of communications director, the 35-year-old staffer...
THEIR BODIES BETRAY ANGER AND SHAME, EXPERT SAYS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani showed shame, and Donna Hanover anger when they each announced their 16-year marriage is on the brink, a top body-language expert says. "The mayor carried his head low...
'IF ANYTHING HURTS JUDI, IT HURTS US,' HER MOTHER SAYS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amJUDI NATHAN'S mom was holed up yesterday inside the family's house in Pennsylvania - a prisoner of the media and a raging hailstorm. But her thoughts were hundreds of miles...
BREAK THE NEWS TO KIDS TOGETHER, SHRINKS ADVISE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and Donna Hanover talked about their breakup at separate press conferences yesterday, but they should deliver the news to their children together, experts say. And they need to...
SHE STOOD BY HIM 'UNTIL HE THREW THIS IN HER FACE'
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amTHE oddest thing about the way events have played out, vis a vis the mayor and Judi Nathan, has been the beating Donna Hanover has taken from the media and...
JUDI'S KIN: NOW WE'LL WELCOME HIM TO CLAN
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amHAZLETON, Pa. - Judi Nathan's hometown relatives say Mayor Giuliani's separation from his wife changes everything - and they're ready to "welcome him into our family" if it ever comes...
VATICAN TO NAME EGAN ARCHBISHOP TODAY
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe Vatican plans to announce today that Bridgeport Bishop Edward Egan will officially take over as the new archbishop of New York, church sources told The Post. Egan, 68, will...
GORE'S A HARD SELL, EVEN AMONG DEMS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amBARELY anyone in New York is watching the presidential campaign because the Senate race makes such a great soap opera, but a funny thing has happened - Al Gore has...
DONNA WILL BE IN BIG DEMAND
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amWhat does the future hold for Donna Hanover? For the next several months, it appears, the status quo. She'll still be a TV host. She'll still be an actress. She'll...
BABY-SLAY AMY SPRUNG, BUT FREEDOM'S LIMITED
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amAmy Grossberg took her first steps in freedom yesterday after less than two years in prison for killing her newborn - but she still must obey a curfew at her...
NEW SHOCK IN RON-PAT CHILD DUEL
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amBillionaire Ron Perelman testified yesterday that ex-wife Patricia Duff told their 5-year-old daughter that he was trying to kill "Mommy." Taking the stand in his court case against the multimillionaire...
THEIR LOVE STORY HAD PROBLEMS FROM START - TWO TYPE-A LIFESTYLES IN CONFLICT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amDonna Hanover never really thought things would work out with Rudy Giuliani. It was 1982 and she was working as a reporter for a Miami TV station when an acquaintance...
13 CHARGED IN DMV LICENSE SCAM
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThirteen past and present Department of Motor Vehicles employees were charged in Manhattan federal court yesterday with illegally selling driver's licenses and ID cards to people ineligible to get them....
SENATE RUN IN STATE OF CONFUSION - RUDY DISMISSES INSIDER'S CLAIM HE'LL LIKELY QUIT RACE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani last night laughed off reports - one coming from within his own camp - that he was quitting the Senate race. "I've made no such decision," Giuliani told...
NYPD 'BULLET'-IN ON 'DUD' AMMO
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe Police Department last night ordered cops to turn in some 37,500 bullets for .38-caliber service revolvers after two rounds at a police shooting range failed to fire. The emergency...
MATISSE NETS RECORD $14M
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amOne of Matisse's most famous sculptures - molded from only a photograph - raked in a record $14 million at Sotheby's last night. It was the most ever paid for...
RUDY AND DONNA: IT'S THE END OF THE ROAD - SHE SAYS HIS AFFAIRS WERE THE LAST STRAW
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani stunned the city yesterday with word he and his wife are splitting - setting off a chain reaction of soap-opera-style responses from the women in his life and...
FEMALE TEACHER IN 'STUDENT-RAPE' RAP
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn high-school teacher was arrested yesterday for allegedly having sex with a student at her school. Canarsie HS teacher Nicole Matarese, 29, of Staten Island, who was charged with...
RODRIGUEZ SHRUGS OFF OWN TRIP TO WAIVERVILLE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Lefty reliever Rich Rodriguez didn't seem upset about reports that he, too, has recently been put on waivers. No one claimed the 37-year-old Rodriguez, who is...
DON'T CALL IT PITCHBURGH: REED WASTES 6-1 LEAD, THEN PEN KILLS METS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amPirates 13 Mets 9 PITTSBURGH - Pat Mahomes has been the Mets' version of Ramiro Mendoza. Last night, that meant the guy who's been known to struggle at times. Dennis...
NO INTEREST IN RODRIGUEZ
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Lefty reliever Rich Rodriguez didn't seem upset about reports that he, too, has recently been put on waivers. No one claimed the 37-year-old Rodriguez, who is...
'PEGASUS' SCARIN' THEM OFF
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amLast Saturday, after Fusaichi Pegasus broke the long losing streak of favorites in the Kentucky Derby, some called the $4 million supercolt the best horse to win the Derby since...
L'AMOUR CONQUERS ALL
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amC'Est L'Amour came up the rail and nipped Tugger by a head to win the Grade 2 $150,000 Nassau County Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Miss Inquisitive was three-quarters of a...
CAUGHT IN MIAMI'S VISE: LATRELL'S READY TOEXPLODE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S time. It's time for Latrell Sprewell to rise from the ashes that have buried him in this Knicks-Heat scrum. It's time for Sprewell to overcome the double teams, the...
CAUGHT IN MIAMI'S VISE: HOUSTON, SPREE FEELING THE HEAT
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amCut off the head, the body dies. But what if it's a two-headed monster? And what if both heads are cut off? The body lives? That seemingly-impossible act of survival...
ANELKA REIGNS IN SPAIN
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Ole, ole, it's an all-Spanish European Champions' Cup final for the first time in the 44-year history of the competition, setting up a sweetly ironic postscript to a...
RILEY PANS ZEBRA CALLS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Understand, Pat Riley wasn't making it like only the Heat got stiffed. Nope, the Knicks also got a bum deal from the officials, who, Riley felt, were far...
WARD HOLDING NOTHIN' BACK
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amIt is not that the Knicks coaching staff tries to hold point guard Charlie Ward back. Ward, consummate team player, holds himself back. When the Knicks coaches see Ward explode...
EWING TRIES TO GET GROOVE BACK
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThey were done with their assigned tasks, and that there wasn't much sweat to be seen yesterday afternoon was perfectly understandable. The Knicks, coming off a precious road victory, arrived...
A HEALTHY FEAR OF FLYERS ; DEVILS SAY PHILLY'S TOUGH, EVEN WITHOUT LINDROS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe always spicy matchup between Eric Lindros and Scott Stevens will be missing from the upcoming Eastern Conference finals. Sidelined for the first two rounds of the playoffs, Lindros, the...
DIKEMBE PLAYS IT SAFE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amFirst, Dikembe Mutombo strolled into the loud Knicks' locker room late Tuesday night to share with Patrick Ewing the good feelings of a playoff win at Miami's American Airlines Arena....
BANGED-UPCAMBY: EYE'LL PLAY GAME 3
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES There was no fife and drum playing as Marcus Camby took a seat on the edge of the court, but there could have been. Camby, a physical wreck...
ROLE REVERSAL: HOT-HITTING POSADA NOW CONSOLING SLUMPING JETER
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe Pen & Pad crowd had Derek Jeter surrounded on the other side of the Yankees' clubhouse yesterday afternoon. Mired in the worst slump of his short, but brilliant, career,...
CAIAZZA'S YOUNG GUNS LIGHT UP SCOREBOARD
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMadison 13 Midwood 2 Vincent Caiazza knew his team would make the playoffs at the beginning of the season. Beyond that, the Madison head coach couldn't even guess. "We're real...
NOTHING'S BEEN DECIDED YET ; THIS SERIES IS GOING DOWN TO WIRE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amPERHAPS we're missing something. Certainly everybody else seemed to be in Game 2, including eight-footers, free throws, passes, obvious fouls, and in the Heat's case, opportunity, which knocked only to...
HEAT HAVE SPLITTIN' HEADACHE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Heat request that the funeral urns be removed from view. Take down the black curtains and gloomy wreaths. They lost a game. One game. And now they...
CANSECO TO YANKS HEATING UP
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees showed precious little interest in claiming Rickey Henderson when the Mets put him on waivers Tuesday; but if Tampa Bay slugger Jose Canseco goes on the market next...
EL DUQUE: BIG GAME PLAYER
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amOrlando Hernandez almost won the really Big Game. A World Series hero, Hernandez revealed yesterday that a friend called him Tuesday night and one by one read the winning numbers...
MENDOZA HEADED BACK TO PEN
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With last night's game rained out and two off days next week, the Yankees are taking Ramiro Mendoza out of the rotation and putting him back in the...
A MERE SLUMP IN ROAD ; JETER BATTLING THROUGH DOLDRUMS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amFROM OPENING Day in 1996 at Jacobs Field, when he homered in his second at-bat as a full-time starter and made the defensive play of the game with an over-the-shoulder...
MOURNING WON'T BE A NO-ZO IN GAME 3
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES MIAMI - It just looked so inviting that Alonzo Mourning couldn't resist. Again and again and again. Mourning, one of the NBA's most ferocious competitors and an inside...
EMBRY, LENNY HEADED TO NETS?
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - It seems a name a day is cropping up on the list of candidates for a position in the Nets' front office. And yesterday, one hot rumor going...
AMAZIN'LY, RICKEY STILL POPULAR IN CLUBHOUSE
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Rickey Henderson's outright waiver deadline passed yesterday afternoon and the left fielder remained a Met. His good friends - including Pat Mahomes, Derek Bell, Jon Nunnally and Jay...
PIRATE 'CALL' SQUEEZES METS
May 11, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Melvin Mora heard a voice with the Mets up 7-6 in the top of the seventh and one out. He was at the plate with Todd...