May 15, 2000
LIBERTY TO THE IMAX - HISTORIC W. 42 SITE TO GET REDO, BIG SCREEN
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe historic Liberty Theater on West 42nd Street - where Fred Astaire once danced and sang in George Gershwin's "Lady Be Good" - is being restored and converted into a...
WEB FIRMS LAND ON MAIDEN LANE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amAn Internet incubator company will be warming its start-ups from a new nest.nearly 50,000 square feet of space at the Home Insurance Co. building at 59 Maiden Lane, The Post...
RAINBOW ROOM SPARED EQUITABLE ROOFTOP RIVAL
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe Cipriani family can relax: Their Rainbow Room complex at 30 Rockefeller Plaza won't have to face a bruising battle with a planned new skyscraper-top restaurant a block and a...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amGRAYDON Carter is still miles ahead of Tina Brown in their race to be the best celebrity editor in America. Carter's Vanity Fair won't have to worry about her Talk...
FED NOT FOOLED BY GOV'T STATS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amHAS the problem of inflation been licked? Not even close. Last week, Washington announced that wholesale inflation declined 0.3 percent in April. There had been two 1 percent increases in...
AT LAST! A TV SERIES BASED ON (GOSH) US
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amCALL us pyschic- but we can predict with certainty right now what the most-watched new fall series will be around this office. It is a show called "Deadline" - from...
THE WEEK TV EARNS ITS MONEY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS week is the most important week of the year for network television - but it has nothing to do with you. True, ordinary viewers do mean something to the...
VICTORIA'S SECRET RECIPE: LINGERIE GIANT LOOKS FOR CURVES, CHARACTER AND PLAIN-OLD PERFECTION IN ITS MODELS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThis week, The Post is offering exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage of the Victoria's Secret Cannes 2000 Fashion Show. Today, a look at how the 26 models were chosen. Next, Post fashion...
THE STARR REPORT
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amAuthor, author! Ch. 9's newest reporter is also a soon-to-be-published author.Dave Barker, who has officially joined Ch. 9 as a full-time investigative reporter and back-up anchor, has written "The Magic...
'KATE' KISSED - REVIVAL WINS 6 AWARDS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00am'KISS Me, Kate" keeps racking up prizes.The popular Broadway show swept the Drama Desk Awards last night, earning six, including outstanding revival of a musical. "Kate" star Brian Stokes Mitchell...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! - DATES WITH CELEBS & STAR TURNS ON THE BLOCK FOR ACTORS' FUND
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amFANCY David Duchovny's voice on your answering machine message? Or maybe you already have too many friends, and would prefer to have Fran Drescher's nasal bleatings on your tape. These...
GOPERS TELL MAYOR: WE'VE GOTTA KNOW IF SENATE BID'S A GO
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amTOP New York Republicans - from Gov. Pataki to GOP Chairman William Powers - are privately urging Mayor Giuliani to declare his intentions "as soon as possible." GOP insiders say...
MATERNAL MARCHERS MISSING THE POINT ON WEAPONS LAWS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMOMS, Those in the liberal anti-gun lobby will tell you that a woodsman does not need a .38-caliber revolver to hunt a wild boar - and they're right. But what...
CITY TELLING TOP OFFICIALS TO TRIM BUDGETS - NOW!
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The city's budget director has ordered agency heads to scale back planned projects he says the city may no longer be able to afford. The city is fast...
GREEN: LOW PAY FOR LAWYERS HURTS FOSTER KIDS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amNew York kids languish in foster care 15 months longer than the national average - because the state doesn't pay lawyers enough to push the cases through Family Court, Public...
PISTOL-SACKING MAMAS RIP GUN VIOLENCE - D.C. RALLY PUSHES FOR LEGISLATION
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A small army of mothers, many pushing strollers or holding their young children's hands, crowded the National Mall yesterday, lending their voices to a stalled gun-control effort. Speakers...
WATCH OUT, MARY JO - JOEY'S GOT A NEW PAL!
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amL.A. transplant Joey Buttafuoco seemed happy to be back in the old New York yesterday - filming his latest bit part and frolicking in Midtown with a mystery red-headed friend....
HUNGERING FOR A WAY TO CUT DOWN ON PIGEONS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amNEW YORKERS have always had a love-hate relationship with the pigeon. As much a city symbol as the Empire State Building or the subway, the pigeon has always been the...
DRUG CZAR TAKES HEAT IN WAR PROBE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe Gulf War record of Gen. Barry McCaffrey - now the nation's drug czar - comes under fire in a new magazine article which says troops under his command may...
ELIAN MISSES 'MAMA' ON MOTHER'S DAY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMother's Day was a bittersweet occasion for Elian Gonzalez - who spoke to his Cuban grandmothers but said he missed his mom, who perished in a boat wreck. "Everyone is...
BROOKE'S FELLA IS RINGER FOR A FIANCE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amComedy writer Chris Henchy - the beau of actress Brooke Shields - purchased a four-carat diamond engagement ring yesterday and plans to pop the question, The Post has learned. Observers...
'FRIENDS' LAND 750G PER EPISODE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThey'll be there for you for another two years - and they'll be making big bucks to boot. Facing a network deadline, the cast of NBC's "Friends" signed a two-year...
CABBY SLAIN, TWO OTHERS ATTACKED
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amA yellow-cab driver was stabbed to death during an argument over a Midtown parking space and two livery-cab drivers were assaulted by robbers, police said yesterday. Baurahima Doukoure, 37, was...
SLAIN COPS LIVE ON IN HER HEART
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amNew York City Police Officer Tara Burns knows the heroic names etched on the cold gray wall all too well. Burns, a 10-year veteran, began her trips to Washington in...
DONNA GETS A CALL FROM RUDY: HE WISHES HIS WIFE A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amSpurned spouse Donna Hanover spent Mother's Day playing golf with her son, going to church with her daughter and speaking briefly to hubby Mayor Giuliani - who didn't send a...
DONNA GETS A CALL FROM RUDY - HE WISHES HIS WIFE A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amSpurned spouse Donna Hanover spent Mother's Day playing golf with her son, going to church with her daughter and speaking briefly to hubby Mayor Giuliani - who didn't send gifts....
HIZZONER SLAMS 'MALICIOUS' REPORT HE'S BOWING OUT
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani last night insisted he hasn't made any decision about his political future or his medical condition - saying a published report that claims otherwise is "totally inaccurate." Speaking...
OFFICER MAKES IT HER SACRED DUTY TO HONOR FALLEN FINEST
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amNew York City Police Officer Tara Burns knows the heroic names etched on the cold gray wall all too well. Burns, a 10-year veteran, began her trips to Washington in...
LATEST STATS POINT TO STUNNING GAINS IN WAR ON CANCER
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amCancer rates and deaths in the United States dropped between 1990 and 1997, a trend that's fueling hopes for an ultimate victory in the long war against the disease. U.S....
CAN SURGERY BE CUT OUT? - RADIATION AN EXPANDING ALTERNATIVE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amPROSTATE-CANCER patients, like Mayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir, traditionally had to choose between survival and sex when deciding on their treatment - but not anymore. Doctors say new...
STUDENT BODY VOTES TO SEE MORE OF THEM
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Debbie does ... Binghamton? Student leaders at Binghamton State University want the campus video store to stock porn movies for rent. The school's Student Assembly recently voted 23-7...
CRACKDOWN SPURS JUDGE GRUDGE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe state court system is cracking down on patronage and waste in the judicial system - and several judges aren't happy about the changes. Behind the jurists' ire are memos...
HEAT CHOKE ON THEIR BIG APPLE TURNOVERS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amFrom Miami's viewpoint, it was not a case of the Knicks taketh. It was more of the Heat giveth away. And to a man, the Heat gang shook their head...
AN ARM, AND SO MUCH MORE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amIT wasn't when Mike Hampton got the strike call on the 27th out of yesterday's 5-1 win over the Marlins that the crowd was most animated. It wasn't even when...
SPREWELL RUNS OUT OF ANSWERS IN SECOND HALF
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amHe was there when the Knicks needed him to snap out of an early funk, but that was the best there was out of Latrell Sprewell. The defensive clamps applied...
BACK AND FORTH, IT'S BEST OF 3
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThis tango has been ongoing for three years running, with no sign of change. Win, lose, win, lose. Momentum be damned. In the last 14 playoff games between the Knicks...
MCEWING'S A HUSTLER
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES With Rickey Henderson given his unconditional release, the first Met to get a crack at replacing him in left and leading off is Joe McEwing, and you'd be...
HERE'S GAME 4 IN A WORD: WARD- IT'S ALL CHARLIE AS KNICKS TIE SERIES
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 4 Knicks 91 Heat 83 Which was the more stunning Garden scene yesterday? Charlie Ward, hero for the second time in five days, having his name chanted by the...
KNICKS' GLASS EMPTY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThey scrap, they fight, they dig in, they hound, they harass, and it all amounts to a waste of time when, after all that determined work, they don't do something...
TAKING STOCK IN GEIGER COMMENT
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE "Whattaya gotta do to win today's game?" has become a stock TV question that inspires stock TV answers and stock disinterest from TV viewers, the Sixers' Matt Geiger, Saturday,...
HEAT'S HARDLY SATISFIED WITH NEW YORK SPLIT
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amReporter after reporter kept coming to Dan Majerle's locker after yesterday's 91-83 Knicks' win over the Heat asking him if he was satisfied with the split in New York. Each...
RICKEY HAS NO REGRETS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amRickey Henderson was back at Shea Stadium yesterday, not to play for the Mets but to say goodbye to them. Baseball's all-time stolen base king was given his unconditional release...
IT'S THOMAS TO THE RESCUE
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amONE reason Kurt Thomas could have Alonzo Mourning for lunch over 13 of the best individual minutes the Knicks enjoyed yesterday was because the Knick forward used to smell what...
A LEADER, A HERO
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amJESUS saves. And so does Charlie Ward. The most respected man in the Knick locker room, the man every player looks to for leadership and fellowship, and not just in...
IT'S HAMPTON, COMPLETELY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMets 5 - Marlins 1 This was quintessential Mike Hampton yesterday. He beat Florida with his bat, robbed the Marlins with his glove and most of all smothered them with...
PATRICK PRAISES THE WARD'S WORK
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amTwo nights earlier, Patrick Ewing had an enormous effect on the Knicks' Game 3 loss to the Heat. Although he made the game-tying shot in regulation, he struggled all night...
ALONZO: WE GAVE THE KNICKS A GIFT
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amIf Alonzo Mourning were as careful with the basketball as he is about giving the Knicks credit for their 91-83 victory over Miami yesterday at the Garden, the Heat might...
CRUISE CONTROL'S ENOUGH
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - So here was Larry Robinson yesterday afternoon demonstrating just how little he really knows about hockey. "We have to be able to play at our peak," the Devils'...
FOR OPENERS, DEVILS DON'T BREAK A SWEAT
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amGAME ONE: Devils 4 - Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA - The Devils made it look easy, and if the Flyers don't have more tomorrow than they had yesterday, the Stanley Cup...
BAD START FOR BOUCHER
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Goaltender Brian Boucher might need a few games to get comfortable in a series. At least that's the way it seems, as the Flyers' rookie opened his second...
SUPER WARD A BITTER PILL FOR CARTER
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe it was simple professional pride. Or maybe it was the stinging feeling of going from unquestioned hero to possible goat in the course of one game. But Miami guard...
KNICKS GET TOUGH ON BOARDS IN 4TH
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES The saying goes that rebounds equal rings. For the Heat yesterday, rebounds equaled only frustration. Oh, Miami outrebounded the Knicks, 48-37, but it hardly mattered. "We outrebounded them...
JEFF'S JUGGLIN' FRAGILE EGOS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy made cryptic remarks about the need for selflessness before yesterday's Game 4 against the Heat at Garden. He called his team "very fragile" and he...
'PEGASUS' MAKES BELIEVERS
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe word is out. Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus is the Second Coming, a four-footed phenom who'll dominate Saturday's Preakness Stakes en route to the Triple Crown. Not since Easy...
WIPEOUT OF A WEEKEND - BOMBERS SWEPT IN MOTOWN
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amTigers 2 - Yankees 1 DETROIT - Paul O'Neill was talking about his miserable weekend but he could have easily been describing the Yankees' inaugural excursion to Comerica Park, a...
MASHBURN OWNS UP TO MISTAKES
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amJamal Mashburn sat quietly in the visitors' locker room after yesterday's game still dressed in his Miami Heat uniform and still sweaty from the day's work. His head was in...
HARDAWAY GOING THATAWAY?
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amTim Hardaway may be through in the Eastern Conference semifinal series for the Heat. Maybe, he's through with the Heat for good. The 33-year-old, five-time All-Star who has been plagued...
JETER JOGGING, BUT RETURN IS UNCERTAIN
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DETROIT - Derek Jeter finally tested his strained abdominal muscle yesterday, jogging lightly on the outfield warning track prior to the Yankees' 2-1 loss to the Tigers at...
PLATO'S LOVE CAPTURES KINGSTON
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amPlato's Love closed well on the hedge and edged out Doctor Cat by a nose to win the $83,150 Kingston Handicap for statebred 3-year-olds and up on the Belmont turf...
PIAZZA MAKES 'EM PAY
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amMike Piazza said all but one of his swings yesterday was "lousy." Obviously, he makes his good swings count. "Fortunately, I didn't try to pull the ball," Piazza said of...
LIGHTS OUT FOR KNIGHT?
May 15, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana University trustees exited Room 243 of the University Park Hotel in a somber single file yesterday afternoon following a two-hour meeting to discuss the fate of...