September 13, 2000
TUNING IN ON CLEAR CHANNEL'S MIXED SIGNAL
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE'S an obvious reason why Clear Channel Communications' stock has lost a quarter of its value over the last month - and there is a much less clear explanation. And...
ORACLE'S ELLISON COULD ENDORSE A $1.31B PAYCHECK
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amFour months after topping Bill Gates in a battle of their company stock values, Larry Ellison is adding another record: the biggest-ever paycheck, at $1.31 billion. The founder of Oracle...
AT&T GOES TO WASHINGTON LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT OF TALKS WITH TIME WARNER
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amDesperate times call for desperate measures - according to AT&T's rulebook. Down-and-out AT&T Chairman Michael Armstrong seems to be doing everything in his power to get away from the negotiating...
FLUSH WITH CASH, GOVWORKS TOSSES 25 FROM ALLEY OFFICE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amWorking for the government means never having to be fired. Not so in the New Economy. Alley-based govWorks revealed yesterday that it has scaled back its operations over the last...
NEW CHAPTER FOR PEARLSTINE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amNORMAN Pearlstine, the editor-in-chief of the Time Inc. magazine empire has books in his future. Yesterday, giving hints of new directions in his career, Pearlstine said he is going to...
'SURVIVOR' BOOK DIES AT HANDS OF CBS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00am"Survivor" Richard Hatch may have won the $1 million prize on the hit CBS TV show - but his bid to add a $500,000 literary jackpot has not survived the...
THIS BOY BAND IS PAST ITS GROWING PAINS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amHANSON THE terminally hip aren't going to like this, but Hanson, the brother act that helped usher in the boy-band craze three years ago, played a terrific concert at the...
SHEDDING LIGHT ON NAZIS' TORTURE OF GAYS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amPARAGRAPH 175Worthy documentary about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, narrated by Rupert Everett.Running time: 76 minutes. Not rated. In German and French with English subtitles. At Film Forum, Houston Street,...
'ALMOST' FLAWLESS : THE BOYS IN THE BAND, IN THE WIDE EYES OF A TEEN
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amALMOST FAMOUSThe adventures of a 15-year-old rock journalist (Patrick Fugit) in 1973. Utterly delightful, with breakthrough performances by Kate Hudson and Jason Lee.Running time: 122 minutes. Rated R. At the...
A CORDIAL MIX FINDS ITS NICHE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amRESTAURANT REVIEW PASTIS ½ 9 NINTH AVE. (AT 13TH STREET) (212) 929-4844 TEN months old, Pastis has settled in nicely. A stampede might settle in more easily than Keith McNally's...
THE LOEWS-DOWN ON NEW BOULUD RESTAURANT PLANS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMANHATTAN'S newest culinary teaming could be Loews Hotels CEO Jonathan Tisch and chef Daniel Boulud. According to sources, the two men have been in talks for the past six months...
SOUTH OF THE ORDER : RESTAURANTS ARE HEATING UP WITH A GROWING LATIN AMERICAN CUISINE SCENE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amTALK about getting your mojo working. Chef Douglas Rodriguez knew he was onto something years ago while cooking Cuban food at Miami's upscale Yuca restaurant. But even the man now...
PUMPKINS PLAY IT OUT ON WEB
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Smashing Pumpkins, which will break up at the end of the year after their final tour, have turned to the Internet to release their last album. In a move...
THE STARR REPORT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSchlessinger slip ads up for CorzineLaura Schlessinger lost two advertisers right after her first show aired Monday on Ch. 2. New Jersey U.S. Senate candidate Jon Corzine and local attorney...
IT'S NOEL COWARD ON A DROLL WITH 'SPIRIT'
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amBLITHE SPIRITPearl Theatre, 80 St. Marks Place, through Oct. 15. Call (212) 598-9802. NOEL Coward plucks us down in an English living room and sets it crackling with wry, awkward,...
'SURVIVOR' IN SPACE! NBC'S $40M REALITY SHOW TO PUT WINNER ON RUSSIAN ROCKET
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amNBC is shelling out nearly $40 million for a reality game show that will send the winner into space on a Russian rocket. "It's going to be hard to top,"...
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT FOR LATIN GRAMMYS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amTHE stars will step out salsa-style tonight at L.A.'s Staples Center for the first Latin Grammys, an unprecedented salute to the growing musical category. Latin music's hottest performers are competing...
FLY ME TO MIR - I'M READY TO GO
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amI DESPERATELY want to be a spaceman. And now I may get my chance. "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett has just gotten NBC to agree to fork over $40 million big...
TUNING IN TO TEX-MEX EXPERIENCE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMEXICAN RADIO ½ 19 CLEVELAND PLACE (SOUTH OF SPRING AND LAFAYETTE STREETS) (212) 343-0140 IF there could be a shrine to Tex-Mex food, Mexican Radio would be it. First, there's...
DISNEY TO BE MORE 'R'ESPONSIBLE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amDISNEY said yesterday it will try to reduce the violence kids see on the silver screen by explaining why movies received an R rating. The entertainment giant said the information...
CENTRAL PK. STING-ALONG
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSTINGFree concert in Central Park. UNDER clear skies, Sting joined the exclusive Central Park concert club that includes Paul Simon, Elton John and Diana Ross, among others, with a free...
ANTI-COP ACTIVISTS WIN, BUT TOLL IS MURDEROUS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amTHE so-called activists who trample on the NYPD every chance they get don't have the guts to go to The Bronx and explain why so many kids have their palms...
NO BAIL FOR MAD. AVE. LANDLORD
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side landlord coldly took out his garbage after fatally shooting an elderly tenant, prosecutors said yesterday at his arraignment. Louis Hubrecht, 65, was held without bail on...
AL: I'LL PUT TEACHERS TO THE TEST
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMIDDLETOWN, Ohio - Al Gore, riding a school bus with elementary school students, yesterday issued a stark warning to teachers and principals - shape up or ship out. The Democratic...
FIRETRUCK-BUS COLLISION LIKE 'AN EXPLOSION'
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amA city bus and a firetruck collided in a thunderous crash at a busy Midtown intersection yesterday, injuring 17 people and snarling crosstown traffic. "The impact was like an explosion....
SHE GETS A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FROM HERSELF
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton experienced another first when she cast a ballot for herself in yesterday's Democratic Senate primary - after voting for her husband in more than a...
PREZ EYES U.S. PETROLEUM RESERVES
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton moved closer to a decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve yesterday as the global oil crisis threatened to send prices for gas and home heating oil spinning...
CAMPAIGN SNAPSHOT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amBUSH: Quote of the day: "Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminal about prescription drugs." -- In denying that a GOP ad blasting...
POLS HITTING THE GAS ON AUTO-SAFETY OVERSIGHT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amCongress and the Clinton administration turned up the heat on Firestone and Ford yesterday, calling for broad new inspection powers to ensure auto safety in the wake of dozens of...
FORGET ABOUT IT, GERALDO
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amDEAR Geraldo Rivera: I respect you enough to tell you the blunt truth - don't run for mayor! You can't win, but you can lose your reputation. You will not...
INSIDE THE DEADLY GUCCI FAMILY FEUD : BOOK REVEALS WHY DESIGNING WOMAN PLOTTED EX'S MURDER
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSITTING in the cavernous Milan courthouse, wearing a smart, pistachio-green designer suit and with her dark hair freshly coifed, Patrizia Gucci seemed every inch the haughty ex-wife of a Gucci-empire...
CHEATING TALE OF THE TAPES SPURRED VICKY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amVictoria Gotti decided to dump her husband after prosecutors turned over tapes of him sweet-talking his mistress, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday. Gotti - novelist daughter of jailed mob...
POLL: 61% : OF JEWS BACK HILL : BUT FEW CARE ABOUT RICK PIC WITH ARAFAT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amDemocrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has the support of 61 percent of Jewish voters in New York, while GOP rival Rick Lazio has 30 percent, a new Post/Fox 5 poll shows....
COPS ASK HELP IN SEX-FIEND HUNT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amBronx detectives are looking for a man who sexually attacked four women, including one forced to put her crying baby back to sleep so he could complete the attack. The...
DEM CONTENDERS: CITY HOUSING CRISIS A LEADING PRIORITY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe major Democrat contenders for next year's mayoral race yesterday laid out plans to solve the city's housing crisis - with solutions ranging from hiking city investment, to enlisting federal...
NEWBORN HAS THE DOUGLAS DIMPLE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe world's most famous dimple has been passed along to a new generation. Dylan Douglas, the month-old son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, has the same trademark dimpled chin...
BOXER-IMPOSTOR RAPIST KO'D
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge sentenced a remorseless serial rapist who posed as a respected boxer to 148 years in prison yesterday so "the women of New York will be safe from...
ONLY PLACE FOR THE BIG GAMES IS THE BIG APPLE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amIS THIS the America we want to show the rest of the world? Imagine the Olympics ... in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, a perfectly acceptable town, if you like Ohio, wasn't important...
DICK NETS $18.5M STOCK WINDFALL
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amRepublican vice-presidential nominee Dick Cheney turned an $18.5 million profit last month by exercising stock options and selling his stake in his former company, Halliburton Co. Cheney, who had been...
N.Y. WANTS TO BE LORD OF RINGS : WILL BID FOR 2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amLet the gamesmanship begin! New York City, which yesterday officially unveiled its Olympic-size plans to host the Summer Games in 2012, will face stiff competition from seven other U.S. cities...
SPOTLIGHT ON FIRST DEBATE TONIGHT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe bell will sound tonight on Round One of New York's political title bout, when the first debate between U.S. Senate rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio airs on...
WRONG-WAY TRAIN SCARE FOR TA TUNNEL CREW
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amA crew of eight Transit Authority workers had to leap for their lives when a train roared down the wrong side of an East River tunnel where they were replacing...
SAVVY GOV PICKS UP THE BEST BUY IN TOWN
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amGov. Pataki treated himself to the best deal in town yesterday - plunking down 25 cents for the red-hot New York Post. The governor bought his copy of the Big...
LIEBERMAN: I DIDN'T TRY TO EVICT MOM
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Aides to Joe Lieberman denied yesterday he tried to evict a mother of five who claimed she lost her job and couldn't pay rent after falling on a...
BIG'S LAME CLAIM RILES BEAT COPS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amA top NYPD official has applied for a $140,000-a- year tax-free disability pension, claiming that an injury from an old car wreck makes him unable to work - although he's...
CITY'S H.S. STUDENTS ARE NOT MAKING GRADE: STUDY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amA whopping 84 percent of city high school students would fail to earn a diploma if new state Regents requirements were in place today, an explosive new report shows. And...
W. NILE COUNT AT 11 WITH 3 NEW CASES
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amThree more people have been infected with the West Nile virus, bringing to 11 the number of people in the metropolitan area who have contracted the potentially deadly disease, officials...
TRUMP & PAL TO SUE STATE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Donald Trump and consultant Roger Stone say they will sue the state over a probe of their lobbying practices. The two, through their lawyers, said they would ask...
BILL HAD LAWYER 'FESS UP TO HILL: BOOK
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton squirmed out of breaking the news to Hillary of his tawdry sexual dalliance with Monica Lewinsky - leaving the unsavory task to his lawyer, David Kendall,...
DOWNEY: PRISON WAS MY SALVATION
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amNewly freed Robert Downey Jr. says his stint in prison saved his life - which had spiraled into a nightmare of shooting drugs, blowing his salary and sleeping around. "There...
BUSH UNDER FIRE FOR CHEESY 'RAT' ATTACK
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush's GOP campaign hit another pothole yesterday as he scrambled to cope with charges that a Republican TV ad flashes the word "rats" in a subliminal attack on...
RUDY HAS CHILLING WARNING ON HOME HEATING-OIL PRICES
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amWith oil-industry analysts predicting high prices into next year, the city plans hearings this month aimed at helping homeowners avoid heating-oil rip-offs, Mayor Giuliani announced last night. With heating-oil prices...
FIRST LADY FIRST BY A MILE IN DEM PRIMARY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton handily won the Democratic Senate primary last night against her unknown opponent - making history by becoming the only first lady ever to win an election. Instead...
COURT DETAILS $1.2B HOLOCAUST-PAY PLAN
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSwiss banks should pay $800 million of the historic $1.25 billion Holocaust settlement to victims who can prove they hid money from the Nazis in Swiss accounts and never got...
PROSECUTOR 'TRASHES' MADISON AVENUE'S TENANT-SLAY LANDLORD
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side landlord coldly took out his garbage after fatally shooting an elderly tenant, prosecutors said yesterday at his arraignment. Louis Hubrecht, 65, was held without bail on...
DEM INCUMBENTS ROLL IN CITY PRIMARY RACES
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amNew York City's congressional incumbents were popping champagne corks last night as they turned back powerful challengers in tense Democratic primaries. Bronx Rep. Eliot Engel, facing the most bruising battle...
VOTERS GIVE BRONX JEER TO RAMIREZ
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amIt was a bad night for Roberto Ramirez. The Bronx Democratic chief endorsed four candidates in yesterday's primary battles and lost every one of them - rattling expectations he can...
METS HOPE COLD ROBIN CAN BE OLD ROBIN AGAIN
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Mets' ship refused to dock during Robin Ventura's days off, and doing his part to bring it in expended a lot more energy than just two days at the...
THE ATTACK IS BACK: METS BATTER BREW CREW TO END HITTING DROUGHT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMets 10 Brewers 2 Perhaps last night will make them right again. The Mets smashed the Bad News Brewers 10-2 at Shea and pounded out 13 hits in the process....
BETTER THAN REST: SLUMPING PIAZZA MAY GET MORE TIME OFF
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amHe won't make the excuse. Mike Piazza will not say his recent woes are because he is tired. "I'll be the first to say I'm not swinging the bat the...
DIG DEEP FOR VALUE PLAYS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amForm seems to have taken a holiday opening weekend of the Belmont fall championship meet. Of the 29 races run, 15 winners paid double digits (16 of 30 if you...
JET REPORT CARD: SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKSVinny Testaverde (16-of-37 for 281 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT) struggled for much of the game, but how can you overlook the stirring comeback he engineered for the second consecutive...
NETS INTERESTED IN MULLIN
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amIt sounds simple and logical. The Nets need outside shooting. Chris Mullin is an outside shooter. Chris Mullin was waived by Indiana yesterday. So, might Chris Mullin become a Net?...
WHITMAN ASKS COUNCIL TO IGNORE BEAR FACTS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amIT appears that Gov. Christie Whitman was bending to pressure from animal rights activists when she asked the New Jersey Fish and Game Council to call off New Jersey's first...
LOMAS STILL NOT SATISFIED ; OLD-TIMER DEFINES NEW GIANT ATTITUDE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amHE was fairly disgusted, and at the moment it is no simple task to find much disgust inside the Giants' locker room. But there was old Lomas Brown, a day...
U.S., AUSSIES SET TO MAKE SPLASH
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The pool will be heated. The thrashing anticipated for the Sydney International Aquatic Center is being preceded by trashing. America will arrive as the team favorite, but also...
JETS WILL NEED MORE THAN GUTS TO GET BY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amIn a quiet moment yesterday morning at Weeb Ewbank Hall, Bill Parcells and Al Groh met. "Congratulations," Parcells told Groh in the wake of the Jets' stunning 20-19 comeback win...
MARA CUTS DOWN TV GRASS RIP
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The first-year grass field at Giants Stadium took a beating Monday night from Al Michaels, who in the second quarter of Jets-Patriots said, "It looks like, frankly, a...
WAYNE: SO WHO NEEDS KEY?
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Wayne Chrebet defiantly proclaimed that the Keyshawn Johnson replacement search is over after Monday night's Jets win over the Patriots. Jets wideout Dedric Ward, who had one 100-yard...
DEAL FOR CARTER BRUIN?
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amBURLINGTON, Vt. - There isn't a young power forward anywhere to be found on the roster, which is why the Rangers have begun to investigate the possibility of dealing for...
LEWIS-TUA IS STARTING TO HEAT UP
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amLennox Lewis doesn't want to fight David Tua. Both Lewis and Tua admit that. The reasoning from each side, however, is very different. Tua said that Lewis has been avoiding...
ROBINSON'S THREAT SET GOMEZ STRAIGHT
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amThat candid admission suggests the NHL Rookie of the Year will not require a larger helmet to accommodate a swollen head as he battles the dreaded sophomore slump. And how...
CONNOLLY SHOWS ISLES SOMETHING NEW
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - When asked which Islander has made the most improvement from last season, the players don't even hesitate: Tim Connolly. After showing flashes of offensive brilliance in his...
IT'S STILL KNIGHT'S SHOW
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amBobby Knight was fired on Sunday. Yesterday he named his own replacement. Officially, it was Indiana University athletic director Clarence Doninger announcing that assistant coach Mike Davis had been named...
SCHAAP ACES KNIGHT TEST
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSLAM dunk. Monday, when ESPN called to tell us that Bobby Knight would be interviewed live last night on the network by Jeremy Schaap, the son of Dick Schaap, we...
RODRIGUEZ: 3-LEFTY PEN CAN'T WORK
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amRich Rodriguez is extremely disappointed in his performance this year. But he's not too surprised. "From the start of spring training, I was concerned," Rodriguez said before the Mets' 10-2...
EWING BUSINESS IS THE TALK OF CHARITY GAME
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMore than helping people and making other, less fortunate lives better, the underlying theme at last night's New York Basketball Classic for Wheelchair Charities was that NBA basketball is a...
CALL BOMBERS TEAM TURMOIL ... AND TEAM TOUGHNESS
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID Cone went through his regular off-day workout yesterday without incident and was cleared to pitch Friday against the Indians. The clearance comes only a week after Cone separated his...
KNICKS NEARLY PICKED SPEEDY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amHad 76ers point guard Speedy Claxton fallen two more spots in June's draft, he would be a Knick today, team sources said yesterday. Knick sources claim that if Claxton had...
U.S. WOMEN CAGERS SAVOR GREAT ESCAPE
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - U.S. women's Olympic basketball players were still shook up after facing their toughest opponents ever when thousands of rioting protesters hell-bent on disrupting the World Economic Forum trapped...
BIG TOE AILING ARMANDO
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Automatic Armando Benitez hasn't pitched since Saturday's 6-3 loss to the Phillies because of tendinitis in his right big toe, The Post has learned. The injury is one...
TWO HITS, RBI DON'T MAKE ABBOTT HAPPY
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMike Piazza isn't putting his home on the market. Mike Bordick hasn't been delegated to platoon duty. But on a night when both All-Stars rested, they were hardly missed. "Everybody...
TALK OF THE TOWN ; METS BATTER BREW CREW AFTER CLUBHOUSE CONFAB
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amMets 10 Brewers 2 It's just a game. That is what the Mets told each other in a players-only meeting an hour before last night's 10-2 domination of the Bad...
BENNY GETS BALL ROLLIN'
September 13, 2000 | 4:00amWE GOTTA stop being overanxious, said the Mets, after scoring 38 runs in their last 15 games. We gotta be more patient, said the Mets, who had gone nine contests...