May 23, 2000

FOX SUING CRAMER & THESTREET

Fox News Channel sued hedge-fund manager Jim Cramer and his TheStreet.com yesterday, accusing them of breach of contract for failing to do a weekly stock-tip TV show. The cable network...

PARTNER'S WOES STUMP TRUMP

DONALD Trump has a new game plan for his "Tower of Power." Don't hold your breath to see commercial condominiums any time soon at the ever-in-the-news GM Building "at Trump...

WHO'LL BUY BOO? SIX SUITORS IN QUEUE

The list of potential suitors in negotiations to buy all or part of Boo.com has been narrowed to six, says KPMG, the failed sportswear e-tailer's liquidator. "Some are U.K.-based, some...

GM HIT BY STAMPEDE TO HUGHES

General Motors stock plunged 12 percent yesterday when far more shareholders that expected opted to exchange their shares for shares of the company's Hughes Electronics subsidiary. The offering was so...

MONDAY MARKET BLUES - THE NASDAQ SPRINGS BACK FROM EARLY FALL

Investors were treated to a case of whiplash yesterday, as the stock market went into a freefall, then bounced back in a powerful afternoon rally. The Nasdaq composite index was...

MAG WARS BREAK OUT - BERTELSMANN POACHES AMEX EXEC FOR BUILD-UP

Bertelsmann boss Thomas Middlehoff is cranking up the volume on the company's sleepy American magazine subsidiary, Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing. Yesterday the head of the German media giant raided...

CIBC NEARS DEAL ON MAD. AVE. BLDG.

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is close to inking a long-awaited deal to occupy a 900,000-square-foot building to be built at 300-310 Madison Ave., The Post has learned....

E-TAILERS GO TO PRIVATE LABELS

AS the pile of dead and dying e-tailers grows, those left standing are taking survival tips from the off-line world. The latest online trend is private-label merchandise, inspired by highly...

ARMANI TAKING CONTROL OF CLOTHES LINE

Giorgio Armani is taking more control over his clothing line, as Italy's Holding di Partecipazioni appears to be inching away from the fashion business. Armani's fashion group has agreed to...

NAPSTER GETS $15M & NEW CEO FROM VC IN TUNEUP

MP3 music rebel Napster Inc. has scored a $15 million investment from blue chip venture capitalists Hummer Winblad. Winblad's Hank Barry, a former rock drummer and copyright lawyer, announced he...

COHEES GET SLICE OF CARVER, BOARD SEATS

Parties in a nasty battle for control of Carver National Bank have reached a truce that gives a group of hostile raiders from Boston two Carver board seats and $475,000....

DISNEY'S BLACK EYE - DUMBO MOVE INTO TOYSMART COST $40M

Disney's Go Network stumbled to another disaster Friday when it pulled the plug on Toysmart.com, its educational toy e-tailer. Confusion reigned at the Waltham, Mass., company yesterday as 150 staff...

THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE CITY

At the turn of the last century, Harlem was poised at the threshhold of what would become known as its Renaissance. The Great Migration of blacks from the South -...

WOODY GOES STRAIGHT TO CABLE: NEW ALLEN FILM SPOOFS VIRGIN MARY AND SPOOKS DISTRIBUTORS

WOODY Allen"s latest, and most controversial, movie is going straight to cable TV -- and it"s certainly not the tepid "Small Time Crooks." A thoroughly outrageous religious spoof called "Picking...

RUSTIC BLISS EAST OF L.A. - TINY TWENTYNINE PALMS OFFERS AN OASIS OF CALM

MIND and body are in severe need of relaxation. It's the end of a long week in Southern California, and the Joshua trees are calling my name. I drive to...

RABBI SEEKS THE FLOUNDERING AMONG FELLOW FANS

WITH more grass than Central Park and almost as many bikini tops, nobody would confuse a Phish concert with a bar mitzvah. So what's a Hasidic rabbi doing in a...

WHALE OF A PHISH SHOW

PHISH IN a world of pre-packaged, lip-sunk music, Phish is definitely and thankfully swimming against the current. At the first of their Radio City Music Hall concerts Sunday, the Burlington,...

HENLEY DOES A GOOD 'JOB'

DON HENLEY "Inside Job" Warner Bros. Don Henley's first album in 11 years, in stores today, seems to have been created as much for the artist himself as it was...

SMOOTH SAILING - THE OCEAN PRINCESS, THE NEWEST LOVE BOAT, GLIDES INTO SERVICE

A NEW cruise ship is introduced every few weeks these days, and many suffer through a difficult shakedown period. Inaugural-cruise passengers often complain of cold coffee, public areas still under...

I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE ; THE IN-CROWD IS AT HARLEM'S ARTY CLUBS AND BARS

Harlem's economic boom has reignited nightlife uptown, and it's not just a weekend affair. Old, storied establishments are relying on more than just nostalgia to keep the crowds coming back...

ON A WING AND A PRAYER

It's not hard to have your spirits lifted in Harlem, where houses of worship abound. But one church on 120th Street in particular is lifting spirits in more ways than...

CONFESSIONS OF A CANNES FILM FESTIVAL VIRGIN

CANNES, France - Though I'd been warned, nothing can really prepare you for the overwhelming combination of exhilaration, frustration and exhaustion that is the Cannes Film Festival. Even veterans have...

STILL PAINTING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS...

He's as much a part of the New York tourism landscape as - well, actually Franco Gaskin has few comparisons. Tourists from Japan to Germany look up Gaskin when their...

GIELGUD DEAD AT 96 ; ACTOR-KNIGHT WON OSCAR FOR 'ARTHUR'

SIR John Gielgud, a legendary stage actor of the last century who won an Oscar for playing a sarcastic butler in the movie "Arthur," is dead at the age of...

CAN'T WEEN BAND OFF PENNSYLVANIA

AARON Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, formed Ween in 1984 after taping keys together in an eighth-grade typing class in New Hope, Pa. Nine albums later, the "brothers" - now known...

THE STARR REPORT

One 'Wheel' of justice On today's "People's Court" (3 p.m. on Ch. 4), Judge Jerry Sheindlin rules on a case pitting two brothers arguing over winnings from a "Wheel of...

SAVE ME FROMTV BIO-HAZARDS; WHAT'S THE POINT OF CELEB LIFE STORIES; IF THEY LEAVE OUT ALL THE NAUGHTY BITS?

WHEN I was a kid, my father who had my best interests at heart, and my brother who didn't, made me watch "The Pride of The Yankees," and "The Babe...

'GREED' STILL A GOOD THING, SAYS FOX

FOX raised some eyebrows by not including "Greed" as a regular series on its fall schedule, announced last week. But network officials now say the show could return as a...

TRAVELER'S UPDATE

Feeling peckish? Those hungry for a taste of Hungary don't even have to leave the tri-state area. Check out the Hungarian Festival on Somerset Street in New Brunswick, N.J., on...

UNION MIGHT SACK FORMER JETS PLAYER... NFL STARS RAN AROUND STRIKE TO SHOOT ADS

THE Screen Actor's Guild is investigating whether to discipline former Jets wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson and at least two other NFL players who shot TV commercials in the middle of...

GOING FULL CYCLE; GET ON YOUR BIKE AND ENJOY THE VIEW

There's no better way to tour a Big Apple neighborhood than from atop a bike, and when that neighborhood is Harlem, it's a workout for both body and soul. From...

HITCH A RIDE ON THE WEB - TRAVEL VIA THE INTERNET IS CHEAP - BUT YOU NEED TIME & PATIENCE

MUCH fuss has been made of the explosion of travel-made-easy via the Internet. Often, the discussion is tempered with more than a hint of cynicism. Two sites, which in Internet...

STUDY: RX'S FOR PROSTATE HAVE SAME SURVIVAL RATE

A new study shows men with early-stage prostate cancer had very high survival rates no matter which procedure they chose to treat the disease. A survey of 6,877 men getting...

HOLY SMOKE! TOBACCO MIGHT HELP STOP AIDS

Tobacco, blamed for millions of deaths every year, may also provide a lifesaving HIV vaccine. "Imagine growing drugs on acres instead of big stainless steel vats," Brandon Price, the chief...

RICK RACES TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME: 16 APPEARANCES IN FIRST TWO DAYS

Rep. Rick Lazio ended his get-to-know-me tour yesterday with a parting shot at Hillary Rodham Clinton - while the first lady released a new commercial in which she speaks directly...

HOPE HIGH IN ULSTER AS DEADLINE PASSES

The deadline for IRA disarmament passed yesterday in Northern Ireland, but there was still optimism that a Catholic-Protestant coalition government can be restored. The 1998 Good Friday accord called for...

FAMILY-VALUES BRIT POL'S KIN HAS PORN PAST

The brother of Britain's family-values-championing education minister admitted in a London court yesterday that he has appeared in pornographic movies. Tim Blackstone, 54, was testifying in his libel suit against...

U.N. PEACEKEEPERS SLAIN AND MUTILATED

The mutilated bodies of as many as 11 U.N. peacekeepers were found by authorities in Sierra Leone yesterday - severely complicating efforts to secure the release of hundreds more U.N....

ADWATCH: HILLARY

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NEW DRUG HELPS S.I. MAN BEAT LEUKEMIA - FROM DEATH'S DOOR TO NORMAL LIFE IN 2 WKS.

SIX months ago, John LaSalla was at death's door, convinced he would not live to see the year 2000. The 54-year-old Staten Islander had battled leukemia for six years and...

HIS RECORD SHOWS LAZIO VOTES WITH THE IN CROWD

REP. Rick Lazio's eight-year voting record is a muddle of contradictions. There is evidence to support the theory he is a Pataki moderate, and to support the theory he is...

A CLINTON CORNERED - WHY LEAN, LOVABLE LAZIO HAS THE LIBERAL MACHINE WORRIED

AFTER an unimpressive speech kicking off his Senate run on Saturday, Rick Lazio rallied impressively the following morning. He was energetic, well-spoken and well-informed during his five appearances on the...

FUROR AS WOMEN WIN OK TO PRAY AT WALL

JERUSALEM - Israel's Supreme Court yesterday ruled that women can hold prayer services at the Western Wall, an unprecedented decision that created an uproar among Orthodox Jews A three-judge panel...

FIRST PHOTO OF THE BLAIRS' BRAND-NEW BABY

Say hello to the newest member of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's kitchen cabinet - his newborn son, Leo. Cherie and Tony Blair cuddled their day-old sleeping infant, who was...

HIZZONER'S INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WAR CHEST

Mayor Giuliani isn't as flush with campaign funds as everyone seems to think - he may end up with little more than half the $9.1 million that was in his...

EWING, SPREWELL & CO. HAVE THE TALENT TO RUN LAPS AROUND INDIANAPOLIS

INDIANAPOLIS. THEY run this big race here. It's really fun. Cars go around and around in an oval. Sometimes they blow up. It's not that much different from the Pacers....

MAILER'S WIFE SAYS LIFE IS FULL OF NOVEL TWISTS

THE wife of wildcat author Norman Mailer has never been known to dish about life at home. But not anymore. While promoting her first novel, "Windchill Summer," in Britain, Norris...

UNSCRAMBLED SMUT WITH YOUR SCRAMBLED EGGS

THOSE considerate guys and gals on the Supreme Court, who believe Americans have the right to view three-way sex with their breakfast Cheerios, probably have never watched TV in Manhattan....

GAY MCCARTHYISM THREATENS US ALL

McCARTHYISM is coming to Midtown, as a planned dot-com demonstration against Dr. Laura Schlessinger threatens the free-speech rights of us all. What an organizer is calling the nation's biggest anti-Dr....

PREZ COURTS CONGRESS AS CHINA-TRADE VOTE NEARS

WASHINGTON - President Clinton is on a final lobbying blitz today, twisting arms in Congress in an effort to convince Democrats to vote for permanent, improved trade relations with China....

HOOSIER-VILLE NOT QUITE LIKE AN ACTUAL CITY

As long as the Knicks have to start a big series in the Midwest, why can't it be in an actual city like Chicago? Indianapolis is a place where the...

ELIAN RESCUER 'PEPPERS' RENO WITH $100M SUIT FOR RAID

WASHINGTON - Donato Dalrymple, who shot to fame after helping rescue Elian Gonzalez from the seas off Florida, yesterday sued Janet Reno for $100 million. Dalrymple was hiding in the...

IT'S THE INDY $5,000 - TIX FOR GAME 1 OF KNICKS-PACERS GO THROUGH ROOF

It's Miller Time for the Knicks again - deep-pocketed fans are dishing out up to $5,500 for courtside seats to tonight's big game with the evil Pacers. Ticket brokers and...

COURT OKS DAYTIME 'SEX' - 24/7 FOR RAUNCHY-CABLE SUBSCRIBERS

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court hopped into bed with Playboy yesterday - giving two thumbs up to raunchy daytime cable TV. In a 5-4 vote, the high court agreed with...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS BOY'S SCHOOL-BUS DEATH

An 11-year-old Queens boy died yesterday after he was found unconscious on a school bus and frantic efforts to revive him failed, officials said. The bus was dropping off students...

RUBY SLIPPERS CLICK IN SALE'S LEAD ROLE

A pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" is expected to be the walk-away hit at tomorrow's auction of Tinseltown and TV memorabilia. "The slippers have been...

BEATEN COUP BIG VOWS TO FIGHT ON

ALBANY - Former Assembly Majority Leader Michael Bragman lost his effort to oust Speaker Sheldon Silver last night - but vowed to fight on. Bragman, a Syracuse Democrat who launched...

IT'S A CHINESE PUZZLE: WHY IS THERE NO FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA?

SHENJDE LIAN spent two years in a Chinese prison. He endured blistering interrogations - 120 of them. He was denied food if he didn't rat on his pro-democracy friends. And...

RUDY HAS A KISS FOR WOMAN DONNA SAYS RUINED MARRIAGE

Accused mayoral marriage-wrecker Cristyne Lategano-Nicholas got a friendly kiss from Mayor Giuliani yesterday at their first public meeting since his wife bitterly accused the pair of having a fling. Giuliani...

RICK RACES TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME - 16 APPEARANCES IN FIRST TWO DAYS

Rep. Rick Lazio ended his get-to-know-me tour yesterday with a parting shot at Hillary Rodham Clinton - while the first lady released a new commercial in which she speaks directly...

TOUR BUS KILLS ACTOR IN MIDTOWN

An elderly former soap-opera actor was killed by a double-decker tour bus yesterday afternoon as he was trying to cross a Midtown street, police said. Randolph Walker, 71, who once...

BOOT BUBBA OFF THE BAR, ARK. LEGAL PANEL SAYS

WASHINGTON - An Arkansas law panel yesterday said that President Clinton should be booted off the bar - citing "serious misconduct" for lying under oath about Monica Lewinsky. An indignant...

TOBACCO MIGHT HELP STOP AIDS

Tobacco, blamed for millions of deaths every year, may provide a lifesaving HIV vaccine. Researchers at CropTech, a biotechnology firm in Blacksburg, Va., are working to genetically alter the tobacco...

FORSTMANN: SENATE-RACE CASH GOES TO FIX SCHOOLS

Businessman Ted Forstmann says he'll spend some of the millions he would have used for a U.S. Senate campaign to push instead for an end to what he calls the...

SHOVER IS FOILED BY SUBWAY SAMARITAN

A Brooklyn woman was lucky to be alive today after she and a good Samaritan fought off a crazed homeless man who tried to drag her by the hair into...

MAGIC TALKS A GOOD GAME

Don't let anyone tell you that Magic Johnson has lost even a step since moving from the basketball court to the corner office. "If I'm a 10, I'd say Kobe...

BELL KEEPING POSITIVE TONE: HAMPTON TRADE THROW-IN MAKES GOOD ON PROMISES

SAN DIEGO - During spring training it seemed like Derek Bell was on some sort of PR kick. Everyone had heard about Bell's infamous complaint in Houston the day Astros...

ONCE AGAIN, METS ON A LONG, WINDING ROAD: QUIRKY SCHEDULE SENDS AMAZIN'S CROSS COUNTRY

MET NOTES SAN DIEGO- The term Dennis Cook used to describe the National League schedule maker who made up this current road trip was "moron." The Mets began last night...

DEVILS DESPERATE TO AVOID EXORCISM

PHILADELPHIA - There was one of the disappointed disappointments, Alexander Mogilny, smashing his stick and throwing it into the empty stands. Then he skated across the rink, grabbed another of...

A NORMAL DAY, EXCEPT ...

PHILADELPHIA - After what could have been their last morning skate of the season, the Devils were called to the boards here yesterday by Larry Robinson, who spoke to them...

DEVILS HOPED FOR LIFE AFTER FIVE

PHILADELPHIA - The Flyers, who have sealed the slot, last night were trying to seal the deal, a task not likely to be as easy as Games 3 and 4...

FLYERS MESS WITH SUCCESS

PHILADELPHIA - On the brink of a Stanley Cup final berth, Craig Ramsay decided to mess with success last night. With center Daymond Langkow expected to return for the potential...

REIGN IN SPAIN: VIVA DEPORTIVO!

Brian Glanville, noted soccer columnist for The Times of London, has covered 11 World Cups, including the last two for The Post.LONDON - In an era when club policy consists...

ONCE MORE, WITH BAD FEELINGS.... HOBBLIN' HOUSTON'S GOTTA STEP UP

INDIANAPOLIS - Had Clarence Weatherspoon not missed that 14-footer and Latrell Sprewell not grabbed the rebound, Allan Houston might be the Jamal Mashburn of the Eastern Conference semifinals: the player...

HELP WANTED: SOSA, GONZALEZ, B.J.IN YANKEE RUMOR MILL

CHICAGO - Their bodies rested on Michigan Ave. yesterday, but the Yankees' minds danced all day. Having lost seven of nine, Derek Jeter to the DL, Shane Spencer and Chuck...

LEDEE NOT ALONE IN YANKS' DEAD WOOD CLUB

YANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - While Ricky Ledee has evolved into the home office for blame when it comes to the Yankees' struggles at the plate, he isn't the only Bomber...

WOODY THRILLED TUNA DECIDED TO STAY ON

As the footage from the Jets' annual highlight film, titled "Fighting Back," rolled yesterday at the All-Star Cafe in Midtown Manhattan, the new owner, sipping on a bottle of sparkling...

BUICK WILL HAVE EUROPEAN FLAVOR

The Buick Classic, when it tees off June 8 at the Westchester Country Club's West Course as the warmup to the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, might represent more of...

GIVE VAN GUNDY HIS PROPS ; KNICK COACH GOOD AT PROVING HIS CRITICS WRONG

INDIANAPOLIS - It began with torrents of abuse showering down on him, for what was characterized as a blasphemous omission of Marcus Camby in the closing minutes of a Game...

JEFF WORRIED HEAT'S WHINE WILL HELP PACERS

INDIANAPOLIS - An incensed Jeff Van Gundy called for the NBA to step up and discipline the Heat for their classless bashing of officiating during which they trotted out the...

ONCE MORE, WITH BAD FEELINGS... REG SPEWS VENOM ON KNICK-PACER EVE

INDIANAPOLIS - Having disposed of the Miami Moaners, the Knicks now get a tougher assignment with just one day to prepare - one day to lick their wounds before Reggie...

BIRD: CAMBY A MARC-ED MAN

PACER NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird doesn't care if it's Dale Davis or Dale Evans, Austin Croshere or Stone Cold Steve Austin. He just wants somebody to body Marcus Camby...

KNICKER KNOCKER: PACERS' MILLER HATES 'EM AND BAITS 'EM

INDIANAPOLIS - Reggie Miller hates the Knicks. Respects 'em, but hates 'em all the same. Yeah, and so what else is new? Miller, the Pacers' guard who has been so...

INDY SEES TOUGHER ROAD WITH EWING IN THE WAY

INDIANAPOLIS - This is the year, say the Pacers. This is their fifth trip to the Eastern Conference Finals in six years. They've been stopped by the Knicks twice. By...

ST. JOHN'S GLAD COACH IS STAYING

Mike Jarvis is staying at St. John's - for now, anyway. And players, recruits and school administrators expressed delight over that fact yesterday. "I'm pretty excited because at least I...

MILLER WILL PUT HOUSTON'S SORE ANKLE TO TEST

KNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The Knicks were lucky Miami shooting guard Dan Majerle was unable to exploit Allan Houston's sore left ankle in Sunday's Game 7 Knicks' victory. Certainly, Reggie...

ADAMS' CHANCES ARE GOING, GOING ... ALIVE

H.S. BASEBALL Adams 5 Roosevelt 3 Glenn Beyer thought the ball was out. "As soon as he hit the ball, I thought it was over the fence," the John Adams...

HE'S MAGIC, INC. - BUT HE'S NOT ALL BUSINESS

Don't let anyone tell you that Magic Johnson has lost even a step since moving from the basketball court to the corner office. "If I'm a 10, I'd say Kobe...

JARVIS NIXES WIZARDS

St. John's coach Mike Jarvis removed himself from consideration for the Wizards' head-coaching job yesterday after Washington boss Michael Jordan began negotiations with another candidate, sources close to the situation...

LINDROS WEIGHS GAME 6 RETURN

PHILADELPHIA - Eric Lindros was hit with some exciting news yesterday when he was cleared to begin practicing with the Flyers. Whether he will play in Game 6 tomorrow night...

LINDROS A FLYER NIGHTMARE

PHILADELPHIA - They're hearing footsteps now, the Flyers are; only the footsteps they're hearing aren't those of the Devils. Instead, they're coming from Eric Lindros, that huge elephant who insists...

DEVILS GET STAY OF EXECUTION ; FLIP FLYERS, FORCE SIXTH GAME

GAME 5 Devils 4 Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA - It's in their court, now. If they can't win once at home in a series, the Devils don't deserve a seventh-game shot...

CAN YOU SAY LETDOWN? LOGIC SAYS KNICKS WILL FALL IN GAME 1

AFTER surviving a third straight homicidal playoff series with Pat Riley's fanatically fervent forces and completing Sunday's harrowing assignment of stifling the Heat in Game 7 on their home stove,...

SUDDENLY, DEVILS FIND LIFE AFTER FIVE

PHILADELPHIA - The easiest explanation for the difference between night and day, Game 4 to Game 5, is that the Devils, their alarm clock shrilly sounded by their coach, finally...

NETS AND ISIAH TALKING

INDIANAPOLIS - While their situation suddenly became far more attractive through the dynamics of Ping-Pong balls that led to the top spot in the lottery, the Nets are stepping up...

METS FLUSH RUSCH GEM: FRANCO, OFFENSE FAIL TO DELIVER

Padres 1 Mets 0 SAN DIEGO - If you just looked at the boxscore, you might be mistaken about which left-handed pitcher last night's 1-0 Met loss to the Padres...

ROBIN NESTLES BACK INTO STARTING LINEUP

SAN DIEGO - Third baseman Robin Ventura returned to the Mets' starting lineup during last night's 1-0 loss to the Padres. Ventura had not started either of the Mets' final...