May 14, 2000
TIMES TALKS HIGH ROAD AND TAKES LOW ROAD
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amTAKING the high road can be so hard. The New York Times editorialized on Wednesday that "the non-tabloid press will respect the request for privacy from Mayor Giuliani and not...
GATES LESS RESPECTED THAN MOM AND MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIN the late 1960s, John Lennon outraged the world when he declared that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. The world has changed. In a survey of recent...
T. ROWE PRICE MISSES THE BOAT WITH METAPHORS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAFTER two full months of hugely volatile markets, Wall Street's top gurus are searching for a new metaphor to describe stock movements. "Roller-coaster ride" has been done to death, as...
MONEY HONEY'S CLASS A HIT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amMARIA Bartiromo demonstrated her star power on Monday night when more than 200 New Yorkers sat in a sweltering room for two and a half hours to soak up the...
THIS WEEKS WINNERS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00am* OPRAH WINFREYThe talk-show goddess printed an additional 500,000 copies of her new magazine because of overwhelming demand. * MARTIN SORRELLThe WPP chief finally struck a deal for Y&R and...
....AND LOSERS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00am* RICHARD THOMANThe Xerox CEO was squeezed out after the stock slid 50 percent during his one year at the helm. * ROBERT RUBINThe former Treasury Sec was embarrassed when...
IN UTILITIES, DIVERSIFICATION IS KEY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN as the Standard & Poor's utility index beats all other market averages in year-to-date performance, some of its members are doing quite well while others do quite poorly. Enron,...
HIGH-VOLTAGE STOCKS : UTILITIES GAIN AS THEY REAP BENEFITS OF NEW MARKETS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAs technology stocks ran out of energy this year, utility stocks experienced a power surge. So far in 2000, the Standard & Poor's utility index is sitting on a gain...
MOON LANDING LOOMS FOR UPI : REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON IS SET TO BUY WIRE SERVICE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Moonies are very close to landing on Air Force One. Media Ink has learned that the venerable but battered United Press International is on the brink of being sold...
WHAT I WATCH
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amALLAN HOUSTON NEW YORK KNICKS SHOOTING GUARD'Moesha' and 'Third Watch.' They are funny but at the same time deal withreal-life issues that we can all learn from.TONY VINCENT PLAYING 'JUDAS'...
"IN THE HEART OF THE SEA" BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK, VIKING, 302 PAGES, $24.95
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIf you loved "Titanic" and gobbled up "The Perfect Storm" then "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick is just for you. It's a gripping, real-life tale of...
4 QUESTIONS FOR CLIVE DAVIS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amEAR FOR MUSIC, EYE FOR HEROES Outspoken Arista Records' founder and president Clive Davis, 67, has been a force behind more superstars than network TV. The music industry vet, who's...
FOX'S DEN:TAKE A PEEK AT THE RETIRING ACTOR'S 88-ACRE CONNECTICUT HOME
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThis is Michael J. Fox's sanctuary - a bucolic retreat in the lush farmlands of Connecticut, far from the madding crowds of Manhattan. Having effectively retired from screens big and...
THREE CHEERS FOR SPEARS!
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amBritney Spears "Oops! . . . I Did It Again" * * * Jive Records Tightly wrapped, nicely packaged Britney Spears - America's prom queen - has done plenty of...
BRITNEY DOES IT AGAIN! WITH A DYNAMITE SECOND ALBUM, THE TEEN QUEEN PROVES SHE'S NO ONE-HIT WONDER
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIf the title of Britney Spears' sophomore album, "Oops! . . . I Did It Again," proves prophetic, the savvy blond singer is well on her way to a career...
MOTHER KNOWS BEST
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIt's rare for a teenager to admit she's bridged the generation gap with her parents. But Britney Spears is no ordinary young woman. Just in time for Mother's Day, Spears...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: FLORENCE HENDERSON
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amDespite numerous stints on Broadway and the big screen, Florence Henderson will always be remembered as the lovable mom on "The Brady Bunch." The youngest of 10 children, Henderson moved...
MOTHER'S DAY SAFETY NET
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIt's Mother's Day and -- surprise! -- you're completely unprepared again. A few years ago, this predicament would have sent you on a mad dash to the stationery store for...
HALTERED STATES
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amBeach season's still weeks away, yet the city's most ardent fashionistas are already sporting suntan-friendly halter tops. Whether made of eye-catching prints or stretchy, shiny fabrics, halters are a stylistic...
DESIGNERS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS: WHEN STYLE RUNS IN THE FAMILY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amEvery day is Mother's Day on Seventh Avenue. Just ask designer Carolina Herrera, whose daughters Patricia and Carolina Jr. honored the work of their style-setting mom with careers as a...
TAPPING INTO POLISH BREWSKIES
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAs far as status goes, Polish brews are, at best, an afterthought among beer cognoscenti, ranking so far below the lagers and stouts from Germany, Belgium and Holland that some...
GET A WHIFF OF THIS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amEver tried blowing into your cupped hand to check your breath? It doesn't work. Experts say that you can't smell your own breath using that technique. What you get, if...
YOU NEVER SAUSAGE FISH!
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amFish lovers know the name Christer's well: The Midtown Scandinavian restaurant has carved a niche by serving superb seafood, particularly salmon. Now its chef, Christer Larsson, has added two less...
THE WORD ON MUM - JOHN CLEESE'S THERAPIST WIFE OFFERS PEARLS OF WIT AND WISDOM ABOUT MOTHERS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amBritish comedian John Cleese gets serious when speaking about his third wife, Oklahoma-born shrink Alyce Faye Cleese, whom he calls his ticket to sanity. "I realized that, basically, my doctor...
"THE RETURN" BY BUZZ ALDRIN AND JOHN BARNES, FORGE, 301 PAGES, $25.95
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAs a little boy, I would gaze up into the galaxy on a clear night and dream about the cosmos. What is out there? And will we ever get there?...
RECOMMENDED READINGS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00am* Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., Steven A. Holmes, author of "Ron Brown: An Uncommon Life," will be at the Barnes & Noble at 600 Fifth Avenue (at 48th Street) signing...
"IN HER DEFENSE" BY STEPHEN HORN, HARPERCOLLINS, 376 PAGES, $25
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amTalk about giving the ending away. Lawyer-turned-novelist Stephen Horn does just that in the opening chapter of "In Her Defense," his impressive, debut-whodunit But it doesn't matter, since it's what...
WILL DIGITAL 'DINOSAUR' MAKE FILM A FOSSIL?
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amLOOK, Ma, no film!Disney's "Dinosaur," reportedly the most expensive movie ever made (with a price tag topping $200 million), will make history of another kind when it opens Friday at...
RIVALRY KEEPS 'EM ON THEIR TOES
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThey are resident rivals in New York, each featuring a lineup of athletic stars who are expensive but considered among the best in the world at what they do. And...
HATRED FOR WIFE'S KILLER CARVED IN STONE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAn 84-year-old Brooklyn widower pulls no punches when discussing his wife's killer - a memorial stone placed in front of his home tells the murderer on the loose to "rot...
DON'T RUN OUT ON YOUR OWN PARTY, MR. MAYOR!
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amDEAR RUDY, Whatever you are doing in bed, you must not do to the Republican Party. You did it once by backing Mario Cuomo, a Democrat, for governor against George...
'REBELS ALMOST SKINNED ME ALIVE'
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amA British major who narrowly escaped from war-ravaged Sierra Leone says rebels threatened to skin him alive. Marine Phil Ashby - captured with 70 other U.N. peacekeepers in the west...
700G DEBT FORCES CLINTON ACCUSER INTO BANKRUPTCY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAlleged prez groped her.groped by President Clinton, is more than $700,000 in debt and has filed for bankruptcy, it was reported yesterday. Willey, who declared just $19,000 in assets, probably...
VATICAN LINKS FATIMA SECRET TO POPE ATTACK
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe third secret of Fatima, which some thought foretold the exact date of doomsday or lurid church sex scandals, actually warned of the assassination attempt against the Pope, the Vatican...
MARCHING MOTHERS TAKE AIM AT GUNMAKERS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAs many as 200,000 women, including busloads from New York, are set to take a Mother's Day stroll for gun control in Washington today. President Clinton boasted yesterday that by...
BRAZEN DAYTIME BANDIT STALKING CENTRAL PARK
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amCops are probing a series of boldfaced daylight stickups in Central Park to determine if they're the work of a serial robber. In the past five weeks, three groups of...
BEAU CHARGED WITH KILLING LOVER'S GRANNY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amA Bronx man was charged yesterday with shooting his girlfriend in the face and killing her grandmother in Harlem, police said. Bobby Lango, 27, was picked up at a relative's...
STOLEN CYANIDE RECOVERED SAFELY IN BRONX
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amTwenty drums of poisonous potassium cyanide stolen from a New Jersey warehouse were found in a residential Bronx neighborhood yesterday, dumped near a baseball field. None of the orange drums...
FUNKY FLICKS FROM JAPAN
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amJust the names of the movies should be reason enough to run downtown to the Screening Room for a funky Japanese Outlaw Masters series: "Female Convict 'Scorpion' - Jailhouse 41,"...
MOBSTER'S POSH PRISON LIFESTYLE ANGERS MOM OF MAN HE KILLED
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe anguished mother of a Staten Island man slain gangland-style says she hasn't slept since learning her son's killer enjoyed the high life in jail. "My reaction was disgust with...
LAWMEN SAY VIOLENT GASTINEAU'S AN 'O.J. WAITING TO HAPPEN'
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amAs a New York Jets superstar, Mark Gastineau pummeled quarterbacks by day and first wife Lisa by night. In the past two years, he's switched exclusively to women. Gastineau's attacks...
GOP BOSSES STEAM AT RUDY'S BIG NIGHT OUT DINNER, STROLL SET OFF ALARM BELLS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amLeading Republicans yesterday expressed outrage over Mayor Giuliani's very public late-night dinner and stroll with gal pal Judi Nathan, as political fallout over the mayor's extracurricular activities grew. The GOP...
COLD WAR SCHEME: NUKE THE MOON
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe Pentagon reportedly planned to blow up a nuclear bomb on the moon as a massive display of military might during the height of the Cold War. Physicist Leonard Reiffel,...
PUT YOUR KIDS AHEAD OF SENATE BID, RUDY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00am'IT'S something between Donna and me. Not anyone else ... Just between Donna and me," the mayor said the other day. He's wrong. There are two other people involved: the...
POLICE: DREW'S HOT MOM PACKIN' HEAT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe pistol-packin' mama of actress Drew Barrymore was busted yesterday after cops stopped her for plastering fliers in the East Village and discovered a loaded gun in her handbag. Jaid...
DONNA GIVING THANKS TO NEW YORK SAYS PUBLIC SUPPORT HELPS HER COPE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amA shaken but determined Donna Hanover has two grateful words for New Yorkers: Thank you. "Many New Yorkers have written and called to say their prayers are with me," Hanover...
BLEEDING HACK HELPS NAB BANDIT: COPS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amA livery cab driver had his throat slashed by thugs with a boxcutter in The Bronx yesterday - and then helped chase one of them down, police said. The attack...
NEW POLL: HE'S STARTING TO SLIP AGAINST HILLARY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Mayor Giuliani is losing ground to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Senate race - as a significant number of voters say his stormy marital problems have diminished his...
PROSECUTORS: VILLAGE PUB OWNER AIMED TO $CORE BIG
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe lure of large profits enticed the co-owner of Greenwich Village's landmark Minetta Tavern into setting up a three-man Ecstasy-smuggling ring, federal prosecutors charge. Tavern owner Joseph Colgan was carrying...
FEDS TRY TO KEEP TABS ON ECSTASY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. EACH morning at 8:30, a group of lawmen gathers in a sixth-floor command post at Customs Service headquarters here to plot the next offensive in the war against...
RUDY GETS HAIRCUT AND BRUSHES UP ON FUTURE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amFresh from a romantic rendezvous with gal pal Judi Nathan, a jaunty and smiling Mayor Giuliani huddled with aides on his future, got a haircut and went to play golf...
MOTHER'S DAY CARDS TELL SHRINK MORE ABOUT KIDS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amDoes the Mother's Day card you chose shed light on your relationship with mom? The Post spoke with several men and women as they picked out cards and asked them...
PUSHERS RECRUIT HASIDIC TEENS AS 'MULES'
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amShimon Levita was a 17-year-old religion student when he was swept up in an international Ecstasy ring. His job was to recruit other Hasidic teens to join the fold as...
NARC WHO BUSTED RING FEARS FOR LIFE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - For one year, a 29-year-old Israeli police officer, code-named "The Prince," penetrated a massive Dutch drug ring that was flooding Israel and the United States with Ecstasy pills....
ROCKER BILLY'S A COUNTRY 'SQUIER'
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT do you call a man with a 25-foot saw? If he's in Central Park, you might call him Billy, or considering the size of the saw, and his intensity,...
KNICKS HAVE KNACK FOR MAKING IT HARD
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amFOLLOWING exhaustive review and re-enactment, David Stern's investigation regarding Anthony Carter's game-winning basket has determined, "There was a second shooter on the grassy knoll." I haven't seen a miracle like...
HOLIK: I'VE GOTTA HIT THE NET DEVILS CENTER FEELING PRESSURE OF ; RED-LIGHT DROUGHT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It has been five years since the Devils have been playing for the Prince of Wales Trophy, five years since their only Turnpike Series with the Flyers, five...
BEST DEVILS' SEAT AT HOME ON COUCH
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN print and/or electronic media folks take shots at fans for not selling out playoff games, they demonstrate a haughty detachment from the non-corporate, ticket-buying public. WFAN is a steady...
WHAT'$ THE GAME? : HERE'S HOW TO SPICE UP YOUR NEXT ROUND
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIf you've got a golf game - whether it's you against a friend, a foursome or a tournament - we've got a gambling game for you. Here's a look at...
OUTDOORS CAN BE A TICKING TIME BOMB
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amENJOYING the outdoors is not what it used to be now that any one who steps foot in most areas of the northeast has to worry about that tiny little...
DEVILS' BIG THREE BEEN THERE BEFORE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Larry Robinson won five Stanley Cups in his first seven seasons in the NHL, then went the first six years of the 1980s without even getting another shot...
PRESTON POWER
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amMarlins 7 Mets 6 So let's not focus on Rickey Henderson for a moment. Let's focus on May 22, 1998. Thats is the date the Mets acquired Mike Piazza, which...
HEAT FEEL GOOD ABOUT A.C.'S SHOT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amA day later, the shot still counts. "It was the best no call I think anybody who has been an interested viewer and has watched the game for years would...
WIZARD CHOICE STILL UP IN AIR
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amWhat was the case when he was the greatest player in NBA history remains true today in the Wizards' search for a head coach: The ball is in Michael Jordan's...
HEAT'S HOPING HARDAWAY CAN HELP OUT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amSure, Anthony Carter is the hero for now. But if the Heat have a legitimate chance of winning a crown, they know Tim Hardaway and his aching left foot must...
RILEY GETS RILED
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIt doesn't sound like Pat Riley thinks his team is ready to win an NBA championship. While it's doubtful that the intense coach has ever been known as a happy-go-lucky...
'BULLET' WORK FOR PREAKNESS LOOMS LARGE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIn his four lifetime starts, Red Bullet has faced 36 other 3-year-olds. Only one finished in front of him: Fusaichi Pegasus, who beat Red Bullet by 41/4 lengths in the...
FLYERS' PRIMEAU A GAME-TIME DECISION
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amVOORHEES, N.J. - After 20 minutes of solitary skating yesterday, Keith Primeau decided to test himself, so he joined his teammates in the adjacent rink. For Primeau, the Flyers' center,...
BEVO LOOKS OK AFTER BIG WIN
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amPeter Callahan's Bevo made a successful return to the races Friday, dueling the seven-year-old Laredo into defeat and then digging in and holding off Intidab, last year's A Phenomenon winner....
SPREE: REFEREES SAID THEY BLEW IT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell admitted yesterday that referee Bob Delaney told him on the court Friday night that the officials may have blown the call on Anthony Carter's game-winner because they weren't...
SPREE LOVIN' MIAMI
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe forceful nature of the Knicks has given way to a new and unappealing trend that threatens to blow them right out of a playoff series they have no business...
IMPERFECT WORLD TAKES 'RISK'
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amIf this trend continues, then Fusaichi Pegasus will have his hands full when trainer Bobby Frankel sends Aptitude from California back to New York for the Belmont Stakes. So far...
HAMPTON'S THISCLOSE TO HR HERO
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amMike Hampton almost did the unthinkable yesterday. He nearly shared the back page with the released Rickey Henderson. With only the injured Rey Ordonez left on his bench, manager Bobby...
DETROIT IS CALLING HIM GONE-ZALEZ
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - With each passing day it's becoming very clear that Juan Gonzalez' first season as a Tiger will also be his last. Publicly, Gonzalez says he enjoys his new...
IT'S A MOTOWN MELTDOWN : LOWLY TIGERS POUND PETTITTE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Big games don't happen in the middle of May, right? Wrong. Because when it comes to the suddenly slumping Yankees taking on the Tigers at Comerica Park today,...
YANKS STRAIN TO UNCOVER JETER'S STATUS
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amDETROIT - Day Three of the Great Derek Jeter Abdominal Strain Saga brought yet another target date for the Yankees. When Jeter left Thursday night's game with a problem under...
VAN GUNDY RIPS KNICKS OVER POOR REBOUNDING
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amRip, rip, rip. Jeff Van Gundy was at it yesterday, laying into the Knicks for a multitude of sins and saving his most brutally honest appraisal for what he believes...
TOO CLOSE TO CALL : NOT MUCH TO SEPARATE KNICKS AND HEAT
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amFOR HIS next trick, Anthony Carter makes that shot not only from the other side of the backboard, but between his legs and behind the concession stand on the 200...
SOME MATES ARE SAD TO SEE HIM GO
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amUnaware he was in his final hours as a Met, Rickey Henderson spent part of yesterday's game away from the dugout. Far from any clubhouse card table, Henderson was in...
RELEASE WAS NEEDED BUT IS NOT A CURE-ALL
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amRICKEY Henderson finally had his scholarship revoked yesterday. As with just about anybody involved with big-time sports, the removal of the free ride coincided with a reduction in production. Thus,...
LJ'S MAGIC MISSING DOWN STRETCH
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amWith the Knicks thirsty for points in this offensively challenged series, Jeff Van Gundy went against convention and stuck with Marcus Camby down the stretch in Friday's heart-breaking 77-76 OT...
YOU CAN'T PIN THIS ON RICKEY
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amMarlins7 Mets6 With Rickey Henderson gone, now maybe the Mets' focus can just return to baseball. With the releasing of the 41-year-old Henderson yesterday and Whartongate having been broken exactly...
GOTTA GET 'OVER' IT : BUMMED-OUT KNICKS TRYING TO LOOK AHEAD
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks gathered yesterday at Purchase College, bummed out but bent on moving on from the painful memory of Anthony Carter's miracle. Several Knicks talked about getting over the Carter...
RUN OUT OF TOWN : FED-UP METS GIVE RICKEY OUTRIGHT RELEASE
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amMets GM Steve Phillips and manager Bobby Valentine just couldn't stand saying, "That's just Rickey being Rickey" even one more time. They were so sick of it that the Mets...
MUSSINA NOT BALL-ISTIC :STRUGGLING ORIOLE OFFERS OTHER REASONS FOR HR MANIA
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amONE MAN'S OPINION:Orioles' ace Mike Mussina has allowed MLB-worst 12 homers this season but doesn't believe it's because balls are juiced.New York Post: Nury HernandezCURT Schilling says Hall of Famers...
DOWN & OUT! :BASEBALL'S BOOTED UMPIRES STRUGGLING TO KEEP LIVES TOGETHER
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amTHE last time we saw the 22 Major League umpires booted last season following a botched labor action, their heads were held as they walked off the field on Sept....
PEGASUS OWNER FLYING HIGH
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amFusao Sekiguchi arose from the depths so fast it's amazing he didn't get the bends. Just four years ago, the colorful, 64-year-old owner of Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus -...
RAINES GOING FOR GOLD?
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amJUST between us: Nellie the Whisper says Tim Raines, who threw out ceremonial first pitch at the Stadium last week, will resurface playing for U.S. Olympic team in Sydney, if...
TIME TO SEND JUAN PACKIN'
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amTIGERS GM Randy Smith, trying to do something that would call positive attention to his unsuccessful time in Detroit, dealt for Juan Gonzalez over the winter, a move that has...
SCOUT KNEW IZZY HAD RIGHT STUFF
May 14, 2000 | 4:00amYOU won't find his name in the league leaders, but J.P. Ricciardi is having a big year. Ricciardi not only is the man who spotted non-drafted Mike Bordick playing in...