May 18, 2000
INSIDE.COM IS GLITCH CENTRAL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amNow we know why Inside. com planned a "soft" launch. The new media Web site from Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn at Powerful Media had just about as many glitches...
MARKETS LOSE SOME STEAM
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amThen again, maybe it's not so great. A day after the Federal Reserve's latest interest-rate hike and a big stock market rally, investors rethought their optimism. Every major market index...
GUCC'S PET PROJECT - PENTHOUSE PUBLISHER TO BUILD A.C. HOTEL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amBob Guccione has inked a deal with Ramada Hotels to build a $140-million 800-room luxury non-casino hotel on two acres in Atlantic City, The Post has learned. The Penthouse Magazine...
FOUNDER OF PIXELON IS BACK IN JAIL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amPixelon's best-known fraudster is back in the slammer. David Stanley, the founder of the streaming video company, who turned himself in to cops last month on fraud charges, has been...
BARBIE'S NEW BOSS - KRAFT CHEESE HEAD TAKES MATTEL HELM
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe king of American cheese is rescuing the troubled toyland of Mattel. After 23 years at Kraft Foods, Robert Eckert has signed on for one of the roughest corporate turnarounds...
IT'S REAL COMPLICATED AS EDITOR GETS FIRED
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amEmbattled Real Simple Editor Susan Wyland was ousted from her job at Time Inc. after putting together only three issues of the new magazine. Wyland's firing marks an even more...
NEWS CORP. TEEING UP A GOLF TITLE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amNews Corporation returned to the magazine publishing world this week with the debut of Maximum Golf. The magazine is trying to hook away from the terrain of the Big Three...
BRITNEY MOVES 'EM ONE MORE TIME
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amJive Records - home to teen heartthrobs Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC - did it again with Britney Spears' latest release. Spears' new album, "Oops! ... I Did It Again," dominated...
FOX ROLLS SEVEN AND X FACTOR FOR FALL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amNOW that Fox has renewed "The X-Files" for one more season, the network is expected to announce a new fall lineup today peppered with big stars and powerhouse producers -...
THE STARR REPORT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amOpen invitation Cyndy Garvey was Regis Philbin's first "A.M. New York" co-host before heading back to L.A. and being replaced by Kathie Lee Gifford - who's now leaving "Live with...
'CREEK' GAY KISS BREAKS TUBE TABOO
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amANOTHER TV taboo will be shattered next Wednesday night when "Dawson's Creek" features the first gay-romantic kiss between two male characters. In the "Dawson" season finale, "True Love," Jack (Kerr...
DATE WITH AN ANGEL - VISIT LEAVES MOTORCYCLE CLUB'S IMAGE SHOT TO HELL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amAFTER being thrown from a motorcycle in Nice seven years ago and breaking both legs in nine different places, I swore hell would freeze over before I got back on...
MODEL BEHAVIOR - SECRET GALS SMILE FOR PRE-SHOW AUDIENCE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amCANNES, France -The last 48 hours have been busy ones for Victoria's Secret girls.Tuesday evening, their arrival in Cannes was celebrated at a poolside cocktail party at the Martinez, the...
'DON CARLOS' GIVEN ROYAL TREATMENT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHIS blond hair jolts up in angry shocks. His tie is undone. He spends most of his time posing or writhing on the palace floor in passionate love for his...
'BRADY BUNCH' CONFIDENTIAL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amDEAR God, will it never end? First there was the real "The Brady Bunch," and we had to live through not only Mr. Brady's ever-expanding perm, but Greg's as well....
METALLICA VS. ME
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amTRYING to get banned from Napster isn't easy.The file-sharing music hub and the band Metallica have become even more popular since the heavy-metal rockers demanded Napster ban 317,000 fans suspected...
DUCHOVNY COMING BACK TO 'X-FILES'
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA CONTRACT dispute wasn't enough to keep David Duchovny from seeking the truth on Fox's "The X-Files." Duchovny said yesterday that he'll return for a eighth season on the cult...
'PIGGY' POSH JUST CAN'T PUT ON THE POUNDS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHere's the skinny on Posh Spice - she's painfully thin even though she eats "like a pig." The sexy superstar is 21 pounds underweight - she tips the scales at...
REPORT DETAILS A RACIAL SHOCK IN WIFE-SLAYINGS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Men are beating their girlfriends and wives less, but white women are increasingly likely to be killed when they are abused, a new Justice Department study shows. Although...
ALL EYES WILL BE ON HIZZONER TONIGHT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amTonight's nationally televised town-hall meeting is the latest hope for an answer from Mayor Giuliani on whether he's in - or out - of the nation's most closely watched Senate...
SIERRA LEONE GRABS BRUTAL REBEL LEADER
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amSierra Leone's ruthless rebel leader was captured and paraded naked through the streets yesterday in a stunning turn of events that added new tensions in the war-ravaged nation. Foday Sankoh,...
NEW RUSSIAN PM VOWS ECONOMIC REFORM
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA smooth-talking liberal economist was overwhelmingly confirmed as Russia's new prime minister yesterday, and promised to press ahead with free-market reforms. Mikhail Kasyanov's confirmation by a 325-55 vote of the...
AUSTRIA NEAR $$ DEAL FOR NAZI VICTIMS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amAustria has agreed in principle to pay nearly $400 million to victims of Nazi forced labor, U.S. officials and other drafters of the plan said yesterday. Participants at a two-day...
WILL RUDY GET JUDI'S VOTE NOW?
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amRudy may have won Judi's heart - but he's never had her vote. Mayoral gal pal Judi Nathan - a registered Republican who has been at Rudy Giuliani's side to...
PROTEST CALLS CONNERY A DARK KNIGHT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amIT WAS supposed to be the crowning moment of a 50-year career, but now an ugly shadow of controversy lies across plans to call Sean Connery "Sir." Powerful voices are...
NO BONES ABOUT IT, T. REX IS TOPS IN THE FIELD
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA 13-foot-high, 41-foot-long T. Rex named Sue invaded Chicago yesterday amid equal measures of popular science and theme-park glitz. Schoolkids gawked and spectators ooh-ed and aah-ed as the curtain dropped...
PIRRO STANDS BY HER MAN IN TAXING TIMES
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amWestchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro came to the aid of her embattled husband yesterday outside court in White Plains as opening arguments began in his million-dollar tax-cheating trial. "My family...
SADISTIC DEMON A MASTER OF ATROCITY IN TORTURED NATION
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amFoday Sankoh - who claims to talk to God and not need food - recruited 10-year-olds and fed them drugs so they would torture enemies by gouging their eyes out...
PREZ: BIN LADEN PLANNED U.S. MILLENNIUM TERROR
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton said publicly for the first time yesterday that Saudi terror fugitive Osama bin Laden plotted to set off bombs to kill Americans celebrating the millennium. "Last...
RUDY LIVES FOR LIGHTS CAMERAS & THE ACTION
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amIF YOU'VE got a psychic friend, call him for the scoop on tomorrow's Rudy-for-Senate headlines. Consult ye tea leaves while ye may. Inquiring minds are desperate to know what our...
RED SAUCE SIMMERS AGAIN WHERE GALLO'S BLOOD FLOWED
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE best scungilli this city ever served was spoiled by Joey Gallo's blood on April 7, 1972, on the occasion of his 42nd birthday - and his demise from this...
CHURCH VANDAL CONFESSES HIS SINS TO POLICE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Scripture-spouting Rastafarian yesterday admitted smashing up religious statues at five Catholic sites - telling detectives he was carrying out orders from a higher authority. "He told us that God...
'ICE' SALE BURNS TRUMP - RIPS MARLA'S PLAN TO AUCTION RING
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMarla Maples is kissing off ex-hubby Donald Trump with the ultimate insult - auctioning off the pricey diamond engagement ring he gave her. And the billionaire developer, who's rarely at...
HILLARY ORDERED TO COUGH UP HER PHONE LOGS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton took a day off from campaigning but got slammed by a federal judge's ruling that she must turn over her phone records in a lawsuit over alleged...
NANCY GIVES BUSH BELATED BOOST
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former First Lady Nancy Reagan yesterday said her husband "would be proud of" George W. Bush - giving the Texas governor a tardy boost in his quest to...
STATE DEMS MIGHT PUSH TO LEGALIZE GAY 'MARRIAGES'
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - State Democrats yesterday took a step toward endorsing marriage-like recognition for gay and lesbian couples in New York. The state Democratic committee quietly agreed during a work session...
2 EX-KLANSMEN TO BE CHARGED IN '63 BOMBING
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amTwo ex-Ku Klux Klansmen surrendered yesterday to face murder charges in one of the civil-rights era's most heinous acts: the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four...
ELIAN'S COMMUNIST DUDS OUTRAGING MIAMI EXILES
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMiami's Cuban exile community was in an uproar yesterday over photographs showing Elian Gonzalez dressed in a communist youth-league uniform. The pictures, published in the Cuban daily Granma, show Elian...
SLAIN DRIVER'S PALS: KILLER'S A DEAD MAN
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amEnraged colleagues of a Bronx livery driver who was murdered early yesterday say they know who the killer is - and vowed vigilante-style revenge. Drivers told The Post that when...
DONNA'S PLAYING WAIT-&-SEE GAME - DAD: 'SHE'S HAVING REALLY ROUGH TIME'
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA nerve-wracked Donna Hanover returned to Gracie Mansion yesterday to wait with the rest of New York for estranged hubby Rudy Giuliani's big decision on the Senate race. "She's having...
LEVY VOWS A SHAKEUP AFTER UNANIMOUS VOTE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHarold Levy was unanimously named permanent schools chancellor yesterday - and immediately vowed to overhaul the Board of Education bureaucracy. "I think re-engineering is critical," Levy after the board's 7-0...
FORMER TEACHER FESSES UP TO SEX RAP
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA former Brooklyn high-school teacher pleaded guilty yesterday to having sex with a 16-year-old student during trips to Atlantic City - saying Jesus made him admit the crime. "I did...
ASSEMBLY DEMS IN BOLD COUP BID VS. SILVER
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Democratic tensions exploded yesterday in an unprecedented coup attempt against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The dramatic ouster effort was led by Assembly Majority Leader Michael J. Bragman of...
VIGILANTES TAKING TO THE STREETS IN BITTER SEARCH FOR THE DEVIL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amBRONX car-service owner Duke Nunez and his friend Jaws began the search for the Devil yesterday. That's the way Jaws described the face of the stick-up man he thinks fired...
TEACHER THREATENED TO POISON OWN KIDS IN EXTORT PLOT: COPS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amA teacher feuding with her estranged husband was charged yesterday with threatening to poison their young kids with school lab chemicals, police said last night. Swapna Singavara, 32, of Jamaica,...
KNICK FANS 'HAVE FAITH' THEY'LL REBOUND
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amKnick fans were feeling the Heat last night as New York lost Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals, 87-81, in Miami to move within one game of elimination....
RUDY MIGHT ANSWER THE QUESTION TONIGHT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amTonight's nationally televised town-hall meeting is the latest hope for an answer from Mayor Giuliani on whether he's in - or out - of the nation's most closely watched Senate...
BOWEN ARROW TELLING
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Bruce Bowen had all of 21 seconds to run up and down the court and re-break his sweat. He had been sitting on the bench, already with a...
BOMBERS' SLUMBER A BUMMER - TORRE FIDDLES WITH LINEUP IN ATTEMPT TO WAKE BATS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankee offense, a once-powerful juggernaut that used to score at will and leave opposing pitchers humbled, is malfunctioning mightily. And last night Joe Torre tinkered with the sputtering machine...
ZO: I'VE GOT TO BE SUPERMAN
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Shaquille O'Neal has the Superman tattoo. Reggie Miller has the Superman shirt. But Alonzo Mourning has Superman expectations from Heat fans. Mourning, whose flaw according to Pat Riley...
KNICK CRY: ALL A-BOARD!
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The problem is rebounding. The solution is size. Jeff Van Gundy may want to just take the size off his bench and put his size-wise Knicks into the...
MIAMI'S TIRED OF KNICK ACT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Pat Riley is sick of the Knicks. For four straight years, sunsets have occurred in the West, lottery winners lie that their lives won't change and the Knicks...
VAN GUNDY TURNS UP HEAT ON EWING
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - Patrick Ewing's offensive woes have been clear to see as he's shot 36 percent in the Eastern Conference semifinals and has been outscored 23.3 to 13.9...
A PASSING FANCY - FORMER QB WARD TAKES ALL THE ATTENTION IN STRIDE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Each time the Knicks' bus travels from the Miami airport to their Coconut Grove hotel with a Heat game on tap, Charlie Ward gives in to a bit...
NO PLACE LIKE THE ROAD - KNICKS RIGHT AT HOME IN MIAMI
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The frustration of being bounced from the playoffs in two straight playoffs by the Knicks is starting to wear on Pat Riley. You can tell by his ridiculous...
REPENTANT RILEY: I'M SORRY
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Pat Riley said he was trying to be funny. And he admits he was neither funny nor appropriate with a remark regarding the Gestapo. "It was a stupid...
ROGER NO LONGER TOP SHELF - BUT ROCKET CAN STILL CUT IT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHE STARTED the five-game losing streak, getting hammered at Comerica Park by the Tigers, so last night the Yankees turned to Roger Clemens to end the skid into second place....
KNOBBY GETS ON THE STICK
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Chuck Knoblauch, the Yankees' leadoff hitter and tablesetter, reached base twice in Tuesday's 4-0 loss to Chicago and said he's slowly but surely starting to get comfortable at...
SPENCER HOPING TO CLEAN UP LIKE BUDDY BUBBA
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amThis seems to be a pretty good week to be a longtime Yankee farmhand. A night after Colorado's Bubba Carpenter got his first career home run in game-winning fashion against...
BENNY NOT SOLD HE'S SAFE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Benny Agbayani - subscribing to Yogi's wisdom - won't admit it is totally over. But it likely is. The saga that had him on the next plane to...
JONES JUMPS BACK INTO ROTATION
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHow righty Bobby Jones comes back tonight in his first start since being disabled on April 17 with a strained right-calf muscle has far-reaching importance. The 30-year-old Jones is the...
A ZERO'S WELCOME - CHAMP ARRIVES LIKE A CHUMP
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Fusaichi Pegasus, the hottest horse in the universe, was to be greeted like an all-conquering king when he arrived at Pimlico yesterday to put his brand on Saturday's...
SATHER AWAITS RANGER OFFER
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amWhile Glen Sather is, in the words of at least two of his friends, "very interested," in the Rangers' vacant general manager's post and has spoken twice in the last...
PIMLICO CARD ON SATURDAY MENU
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amWith the Preakness Stakes on tap for Saturday, fans at Belmont Park can enjoy full card simulcasting of the Preakness Day card from Pimlico to go along with the live...
KINGS OF QUEENS UP METS' SLEEVE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets today are scheduled to unveil the logo, schedule and ticket information for the Queens Kings, their Class A league team scheduled to begin play at St. John's University...
'PEGASUS' ROLLS A SEVEN - DERBY WINNER MADE 3 - 5 TO RULE PREAKNESS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Fusaichi Pegasus, the $4 million supercolt whose smashing victory in the Kentucky Derby stamped him a strong threat to sweep the Triple Crown, will break from post 7...
DELP THINKS 'FUSAICHI' CAN BE SPECTACULAR
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Not since Spectacular Bid in 1979 had a favorite won the Kentucky Derby until Fusaichi Pegasus. Not since Spectacular Bid, who lost the Belmont Stakes after stepping on...
FLYERS ARE LIARS; FLYERS DO NOT WANT LINDROS BACK
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Flyer organization's casual acquaintance with the truth was never more evident than Tuesday night, when someone with some authority decided to deceive the paying customers about whether Rick Tocchet...
YOU DIRTY DEVIL - RAMSAY ACCUSES JERSEY OF CHIPPY PLAY, LATE HITS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amVOORHEES, N.J. - The on-ice hostility of Game 2 continued to percolate in Flyers camp yesterday, when coach Craig Ramsay took offense to the post-game remarks of Devils coach Larry...
EWING ANSWERS VAN GUNDY'S CHALLENGE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - Patrick Ewing's offensive woes had been clear to see as he had shot 36 percent in the Eastern Conference semifinals and has been outscored 23.3 to...
DEVILS, FLYERS: THIS MEANS WAR - BITTER RIVALRY REKINDLED AS TEAMS AND COACHES EXCHANGE POT SHOTS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe weapons were words, only because there was no game. There will be no return to civility now, not between these again-bitter rivals, not with these Devils and Flyers each...
IT'S BLOOD OR NOTHIN'
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amRULE of thumb, in the eye, or otherwise: The wider an opponent's skin is opened during playoff games, the more room there is to crawl underneath. "Claude Lemieux skated up...
JORDAN OFFERS JARVIS JOB - SJU COACH NEARING DEPARTURE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amFor the second time in less than three years, St. John's must prepare for another coaching search. Mike Jarvis has been told by Michael Jordan that the Washington Wizards' coaching...
RICKEY LANDS WITH MARINERS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Well, that didn't take long. Rickey Henderson - released by the Mets on Saturday - agreed to terms with the Mariners yesterday. It was the first day Henderson...
HEAT'S PRIMED TO GO FOR KILL
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Pat Riley admitted he was sick of the Knicks. Four years and 22 games during the playoff schedule against the same faces will wear on you more than...
ROCKET GETS EVEN, NOT MAD - PLUNKS VALENTIN, STOPS SKID
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amFOREMOST, there was a game to be won, a losing streak to be stopped. First, there was another score to be settled. Roger Clemens was supposed to have Clay Bellinger...
KNOBLAUCH YANKS' LEADING MAN AGAIN
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amLast night, the Yankee lineup looked as if Joe Torre had picked the names out of a hat. But among the few that stayed in their usual spots was Chuck...
HEAT HEART A LITTLE BIGGER - KNICKS UNABLE TO DIG DOWN DEEPER
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - It wasn't as much about the homecourt as it was about heart. Nor was it as much about talent as it was tenacity. The Knicks had their opportunity...
AWESOME AL CAN'T LOSE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMets 4 - Rockies 2 To understand the importance of Al Leiter during the Mets' sluggish start, all you need to look at is one statistic. In games Leiter's started,...
YANKS HAVE GRAND OLD TIME - BERNIE'S BLASTS HELP SNAP 5-GAME SKID
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 9 - White Sox 4 Bernie Williams' drive rose into the sky and the crowd's roar rose with it. Fans cheered as Williams' fifth-inning grand slam cleared the right-field...
SHAKEUP SUITS SHANE JUST FINE
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Manager Joe Torre's lineup shakeup seems to have benefited more than one Yankee. While Bernie Williams hit second in the order and had two homers - including a...
CAMBY: IT'S GONNA BE TOUGH
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Knicks know this challenge will be one of the most difficult they will ever face. In a deathmatch where for 10 straight games the Knicks and Heat...
CALL HIM DAN THE TORPEDO - MAJERLE'S BOMBS SINK KNICKS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Bruce Bowen summed up Dan Majerle's shooting ability quite simply and very aptly. "He has no limit to his range," Bowen said of Majerle, who hurled in two...
RILEY'S HEAT TAKING BEST SHOT TO PUT KNICKS AWAY
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Pat Riley admitted he was sick of the Knicks. Four years and 22 games during the playoff schedule against the same faces will wear on you more than...
JEFF: WE ARE GETTING OUR GLASS KICKED
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Jeff Van Gundy has grumbled all season about his team's inefficiency when it comes to rebounding. So you can imagine the mood of the Knicks' coach after Game...
HEAT PUT KNICKS INTO MIAMI VISE! - SEASON'S ON BRINK AFTER GAME 5 LOSS
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - History says the Knicks' season is over. History shows 84 percent of teams that have won Game 5 after being tied 2-2 have gone on to win the...
HOUSTON, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The All Points Bulletin went out about 9 p.m. A 6-6 male, wearing No. 20 in Knick colors disappeared. Right off the hardwood. Taken by aliens, perhaps. Of...
TATTOOED CAMBY: I'LL TAKE THE HEAT
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The last time the Knicks played a pivotal Game 5 of a best-of-seven series on the road deadlocked at two it was Marcus Camby who drove the club...
GUTTY HARDAWAY FINALLY HEATS UP
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - After a first quarter where he did little more than run up and down the court, Tim Hardaway knew he needed to be more participant than spectator in...
SCORING SPREE STOPS IN FOURTH
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - After carrying the offensive load for three quarters, Latrell Sprewell ran out of gas in the fourth in last night's 87-81 loss. He scored a game-high...
MOURNING: THIS SERIES AIN'T OVER
May 18, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES MIAMI - Alonzo Mourning is back to thinking the Heat are down in the series. It's a safeguard mechanism against overconfidence. The Heat center, whenever Miami is up,...