September 17, 2000
THREE FIRMS SAY, 'PEPSI PLEASE'
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWHO gets to drinketh of the Pepsi site? As the bubbly brand gets down to the bottom of its glass, we are effervesced to unearth the three final developers -...
BABS' PAD BACK ON THE BLOCK
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT'S too painful to remember for Barbra Streisand may turn out to be the triplex she's been trying to unload for the last two years. Once again, her Central Park...
DEBUTING DESIGNING WOMEN 'ONES TO WATCH': ROI, PENN AND DISNEY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amAlice Roi is tired. Make that tired and hung over. She'd waited fruitlessly until 10 p.m. for some models to show up for a fitting the night before, then decided...
A PASSION FOR FASHION - CFDA'S FERN MALLIS FIGHTS TO OVERCOME SHOWS' CHALLENGES
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Bryant Park shows are in full swing, her father is sick in the hospital, but Fern Mallis - executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America -...
HAMPTONITES ENTER THE RING PUBLISHERS WILL FIGHT IT OUT IN THE CITY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amLOOKS like there will be a clash of Hamptons magazine entrepreneurs in the Big Apple after all this season, even if Marvin Shanken - owner of Cigar Aficionado, Wine Spectator...
JAMISON ENCOUNTERS A BLACK MOOD AT HEARST
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amIs there a chill in the air inside the Hearst magazine empire headed by Cathie Black? Maybe it should be called Black ice. It should have been a good week,...
WHAT I WATCH
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amJULIO IGLESIAS, JR. Singer/actor "The Practice." Dylan McDermott is a great actor who plays a great lawyer. I just wish he could have been my attorney when I was getting...
HOW'S THE LEATHER?
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amThough sweater weather is still a few weeks off, September's up-and-down mercury has New Yorkers pulling out their fall jackets sooner than usual. Say hello to leather weather! Indeed, women...
CURRYING FLAVOR AT KALUSTYAN'S
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amJust walking through Kalustyan's door is a sensory treat. The Curry Hill bazaar on Lexington Avenue is so packed with neatly arranged bulk spices, grains and nuts, one good whiff...
DYNAMIC DUOS OF HOLLYWOOD: SCREEN STARS ARE PAIRING UP TO INCREASE THEIR POWER AND APPEAL
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amActors may love to hog the spotlight, but even the biggest stars know you can't beat the buddy system. Look at Hope and Crosby. Newman and Redford. Bogie and Bacall....
BEHIND THE SCENES, DIRECTORS PLAY FAVORITES, TOO
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amCertain filmmakers are noted for frequently working with the same actor: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro for instance. Less known are the behind-the-camera people that some directors favor. Bernard...
DOLPHIN KICKS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amThis is not your father's Flipper. This console version of the dolphin adventure games makes good use of the best features of the Sega Dreamcast machine: graceful movements, fluid graphics...
BEAT IT, NAPSTER: BUTTON-DOWN CREATOR OF A NEW, LEGAL MUSIC SITE AIMS TO OUTDUEL THE PIRATES
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amChris Gladwin is nothing like Shawn Fanning, the renegade music pirate whose Napster site has shaken the music industry to its downloanable roots. The 36-year-old Chicago entrepreneur is an MIT...
THE BEST BANDS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF: THESE NEW YORK GROUPS ARE HEADED FOR SUCCESS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amOn any night in New York, there are scores of bands performing in the city, and every one of them is hoping to make it big. They hope, though the...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: MONICA KEENA
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amMonica Keena, star of the movie "Crime + Punishment in Suburbia," which opened Friday, is so excited about her first lead role in a major film, you would think she...
4 QUESTIONS FOR JACKIE CHAN
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amJackie Chan, one of the world's best known Kung-Fu chopping action heroes, was almost sold at birth. More on that later. The Hong Kong native - a veteran of nearly...
BOOK REVIEW
September 17, 2000 | 4:00am"PAGAN BABIES" BY ELMORE LEONARDDELACORTE PRESS 224 PAGES, $24.95 Father Terry Dunn, the cool and watchful hero of Elmore Leonard's latest crime caper, is not like other priests, and not...
NOTEWORTHY MUSIC CELEBS TOP THE CHARTS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWill the Beatles machine ever stop? More than 30 years after the Fab Four disbanded, some 10 books are being released about England's most famous export. By far the most...
AUSSIE SLANG BANG: AVOIDING A NOAH'S ARK
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHE words Noah's Ark are used more in Sydney than the Vatican. It's not that Sydney is more holy. It's just that those words have a familiar ring to anyone...
COPS HUNT 'SUNDAY' SEX FIEND
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amPolice yesterday said they are looking for a "Sunday rapist" - a man who followed two teens into their Flatbush buildings then sexually attacked them on separate Sundays. The suspect...
CONN. MAN JOE GOIN' GREAT GUNS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S curious that Joe Lieberman blames Hollywood for the violence in this country, because he represents Connecticut, a state that is headquarters to a vast right-wing conspiracy of gun manufacturers...
REBELS PLEAD FOR GOV'T TALKS IN PHILIPPINES
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amMuslim rebels were trying to negotiate yesterday with the Philippine government, which launched a surprise attack aimed at rescuing 19 hostages, including one American, in a remote island jungle. The...
JUST CONSIDER THE SOURCE SOME COMPLAINTS OF 'POISON' A LITTLE TOO SUSPICIOUS: PROBERS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amThe Big Apple is being flooded with complaints of poisoned bottled water - but some are phony. So far, the city has received 22 complaints, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. In...
N.Y. HOSP STAY FOR JOE'S IN-LAW
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amDemocratic veep candidate Joe Lieberman's mother-in-law remained in New York Presbyterian Hospital yesterday with an unknown abdominal problem, but she's expected to be released in the next few days. Ella...
'CATS' FANS SCRATCHING FOR STAGE LEFTOVERS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amThe severely "Cats"-addicted swarmed yesterday to the Winter Garden Theatre for a crack at a purr-fect array of famous props and costumes from the 18-year-old show. About 200 people paid...
RUDY OUT TO DERAIL BRATTON MAYORAL CAMPAIGN
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amFormer Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who is inching closer and closer to declaring his candidacy for mayor, faces a monumental hurdle he may not be expecting: Rudy Giuliani. City Hall...
GUN-LOVERS TAKE AIM AT MOMS IN COLORADO
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amDENVER - A group of mothers against guns celebrated the first anniversary of the anti-gun Million Mom March this weekend by slinking around a hotel - fearful of the adamant...
LAWYER: I'LL SUE SPIELBERG OVER VIOLENT GAMES
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A lawyer for families of victims of a 1997 Kentucky mass school shooting said yesterday he'll sue moviemaker Steven Spielberg if he doesn't pull violent video games from...
REPORTS SUGGEST LEE WAS A POLITICAL PATSY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amNew reports of security violations by President Clinton's ex-CIA chief yesterday underscored questions about whether scientist Wen Ho Lee was the victim of a politically motivated double standard. At issue...
SOME REFRESHING NEWS: CITY WATER TESTS CLEAN
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amNew Yorkers afraid of buying tainted bottled water can save their money and their nerves by reaching for the nearest tap - lab tests conducted for The Post found that...
FROM BOOM TO GLOOM ON WALL STREET
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amThe party may be over for Wall Street. The ax man is headed for as many as 20,000 jobs on The Street because of the current consolidation craze, and plunging...
BRAVE RUDY LEADS STEUBEN PARADE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amAn upbeat Mayor Giuliani made a surprise appearance at the annual Steuben Parade yesterday - marching 23 blocks along Fifth Avenue less than a day after he had radioactive seeds...
MISSING-BODY SLAY TRIAL DUE TOM'W
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Manhattan prosecutors convicted Sante and Kenneth Kimes of murder in May - with no corpse and no direct evidence - it was a criminal-justice first for New York state....
GUN-LOVERS TARGET MOMS IN COLORADO
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amDENVER - A group of mothers against guns celebrated the first anniversary of the anti-gun Million Mom March this weekend by slinking around a hotel - fearful of the adamant...
SLASH-AND-ROB RAMPAGE ABOARD BROOKLYN A TRAIN
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amOne woman was slashed in the face and another robbed by a group of thugs on a subway train early yesterday in what police suspect was a Bloods gang initiation...
BRITS HAWKING TITLES OF DUBIOUS DISTINCTION
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amLord almighty! The British system of lords and ladies is in upheaval. Lords with hereditary titles have been thrown out of Parliament. Ordinary British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens can apply...
MAN OH MAN! - NAUTICA'S CHU GOES SPORTY, GENE MEYER PLAYS ON COUNTRY AND RALPH LAUREN GETS NOSTALGIC AT THE SPRING 2001 MENSWEAR COLLECTIONS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amLet's hear it for the boys! Last Thursday and Friday, a number of menswear designers provided a punchy start to Spring 2001 New York fashion week, showing warm weather looks...
'SQUIGGY' MAKES MS LAUGHABLE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00am"Laverne and Shirley" funnyman David "Squiggy" Lander, who's written a book about his 20-year battle with multiple sclerosis, gave a pep talk to fellow sufferers yesterday, telling them, "You can...
BRITISH PRESS RIPS TELL-ALL BOOK ON DI
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWith an explosive new tell-all on Princess Diana about to be published, the British tabloids yesterday came out swinging against its author, Patrick Jephson, who was Di's trusted personal secretary...
RICK 'PARADES' WELCOME VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio got some encouragement yesterday from Mayor Giuliani, who bear-hugged him at the start of the Steuben Day Parade and whispered in his ear - "you're doing a great...
JAGGER'S LOVE CHILD GETS HIS DA-DA OUT!
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amLet's spend some time together - again! Mick Jagger is reportedly making some beautiful music with Luciana Morad, the mother of his young love child. The 57-year-old Rolling Stones frontman...
SLASHED TEEN GIRL FENDS OFF GANG'S A-TRAIN RAMPAGE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen heroically fought off Bloods gang members who slashed her face on a subway train early yesterday and then went on to rob another woman passenger, cops said....
HIGH AND DRY VOYAGERS RETURN HERE IN LAP OF CRUISE LINE BANKRUPTCY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amFor some it was a relaxing vacation. Others would call it the cruise from hell - via Halifax. The Big Red Boat II docked on the West Side yesterday, delivering...
HAIR MAY SOLVE '96 CABBY SLAY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amPolice cracked this case by a hair - literally. A single strand of hair found in a baseball cap left at a Queens crime scene four years ago provided the...
WIFE OF IOC PRESIDENT DEAD AT 67
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amEmbattled International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch abruptly left the Sydney Games to be at the side of his gravely ill wife - but she died in Spain while...
POLLS VAULT AL'S LEAD IN MIDWEST
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amAUSTIN, Texas - New polls in key Midwest states yesterday boosted Democrat Al Gore as GOP rival George W. Bush vowed to fight back by getting tougher and stumping all-out...
NO HOLDS BARD AT BAM
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWhy are the British so good at performing Shakespeare? After all, the spoken English of Shakespeare's day probably sounded more like that of contemporary New England ("What's the latest from...
SAVING INFANTS FROM LIFETIMES OF PAIN EARLY TESTING HELPS DOCS FIGHT DISEASE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHREE-week-old Alexa Cardone was rushed to a Long Island emergency room on the brink of death. Hours of vomiting had left her severely dehydrated. Ken and Nicole Cardone watched helplessly...
GAS CHAOS IN BRITAIN IS A WARNING FOR U.S.
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amGrim images of Britain's energy crisis - closed gas stations, police escorting gasoline tankers, hospitals and sanitation cutting back services - provided a sobering lesson to the United States last...
BUSH, GORE BOTH WANT BIG BITE OF BUDGET SURPLUS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore are in as close a race to eat up the projected budget surplus as they are to win the presidency....
WHEN THE PC POLICE RUN NATIONAL SECURITY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHE federal government's bungling has made a martyr out of Wen Ho Lee, who now appears to many people to have been the victim of racial profiling. As a result,...
PERELMAN CUSTODY FIGHT EATS UP $15M
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amIt was a simple issue. But after 21 months, testimony from 34 witnesses, two spinoff trials, 23 trips to appeals courts and a trial transcript that runs more than 12,000...
SADDAM'S SABER-RATTLING
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. SADDAM HUSSEIN is roaring again, charging Kuwait with "stealing Iraqi oil" by pumping it from rich fields near their mutual border. Kuwait angrily replied to Saddam's charge last week...
JENNY WINS SIXTH GOLD
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Because it has come with a little help from her friends, Jenny Thompson is downplaying her golden achievement. By anchoring America's world-record, 4x100 final effort, Thompson won her...
VINSON FIGHTIN' FOR FALLEN KIN U.S.' SHORTEST OLYMPIAN IS LONG ON MOTIVATION
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Every time Clarence Vinson steps into a boxing ring, he carries more than the not-inconsiderable burden of trying to win a prizefight. On his right shoulder, he carries...
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS SLEEPWALK TO VICTORY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Maybe it was because they were up late Friday at the opening ceremony or maybe the odd-style offense employed by Korea last night really did confound them, but...
TALL ORDER FOR DREAM TEAM
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Vince Carter and Ray Allen may be ordering Chinese takeout tonight. The two sharpshooters promise to be the main offensive weapons as the U.S. Dream Team struts toward...
HIP-HOP CAB DRIVER GIVES HOUSTON RIDE TO REMEMBER
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The next time Dream Teamer Antonio McDyess is on the foul line in a crucial situation, he better beware of Allan Houston's cut-up hip-hop chant. Let Houston explain....
APPLE'S TEUSCHER EYES GOLD MEDLEY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - New York's golden girl of swimming begins her second Olympic medal chase tomorrow. And conditions couldn't be better. Bronx native and former Columbia University star Cristina Teuscher will...
GIANTS, CHICAGO A TALE OF TWO SEASONS - BEARLY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO-Off to a 2-0 start, the Giants are starting to dream big dreams. Playoffs ... division titles ... did someone say, "Super Bowl?" Whoaaaaaa. Let's not get carried away. After...
KNIGHT CRITIC PAYS THE PRICE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - When former Indiana coach Bobby Knight spoke of his firing on ESPN earlier this week, he said his son Pat, an IU assistant, was the real...
STEVENS BOUNCIN' BACK EX-RANGER FINDS NEW LIFE WITH FLYERS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Hockey goes on for Kevin Stevens. More importantly, so does life. "Health-wise, I'm fine. Sobriety-wise, I'm fine, too," Stevens, who signed as a free agent this summer with...
VG DUCKS ON EWING STATUS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy is prepared to go to battle with the team that he has - with or without Patrick Ewing. "Change is inevitable," Van Gundy said yesterday after running...
PIAZZA IS AT A LOSS DESPITE HR
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTE MONTREAL - There once was a label - deserved or undeserved - that he was a little bit selfish as a player. Today, the label is not correct...
GOOD OLD JOHNNY! - AMAZINGLY, FRANCO HITS THE BIG 4-0
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - On April 24, 1984, he made his major-league debut for the Reds. He was a 23-year-old kid, who was from Lafayette High in Brooklyn and had gone on...
GATORS STEAL ONE FROM VOLUNTEERS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amKNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Jesse Palmer stepped into the Florida huddle 91 yards from a game-winning touchdown against Tennessee and just 2 minutes and 14 seconds to cover the daunting distance....
DON'T CALL THE DEVILS A DYNASTY
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amHere are some ways to judge a company - profits, excellence of product and happiness of employees. With the Devils, one out of three ain't bad, but it could be...
FOND MEMORIES
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amROGER Kahn, 78, author of "The Boys of Summer," the greatest baseball book ever written, makes me miss the late Don Drysdale all over again in his latest book "The...
BUT SERIES-LY, FOLKS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amQUICK, Yankees, find a pair of scissors and a thumb tack. Appearing on MetroChannel's Game Face, Met reliever Turk Wendell was asked by an in-studio Met fan about the prospect...
TOP OF THE HILL - CONE'S BEST FIT IS PEN
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amPAUL O'Neill has a right hip pointing in the direction of October apprehension, compounding the calm before the next storm in Chuck Knoblauch's arm and the anxiety every time a...
O'NEILL'S HIP TO SHELVE HIM - EXPECTED TO MISS ABOUT A WEEK
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yesterday's picture-perfect afternoon did nothing to improve Paul O'Neill's mood when it came to his bothersome right hip keeping him out of the lineup. "Walking into the park,...
SOJO STARS AS SUB
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amAs the large crowd of television cameras and reporters drifted away from his locker yesterday, Luis Sojo called out, "See you tomorrow!" with a twinkle in his eye. Sojo was...
ONE AWESOME AUSSIE - THORPE CAPS RELAY UPSET OF U.S. AFTER SETTING MARK IN 400
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - He already had won his race in record time. He already had won the hearts of an entire nation. And he already had won accolades at 17 that...
N.J. CITIZENS MADE IT CLEAR: KILL BEAR HUNT
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHE New Jersey Fish and Game Council's 6-4 vote to halt Monday's bear hunt in that state will be talked about for months to come, but what it really comes...
KRAYZELBURG NOW FREE TO BE THE BEST
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The immigrant tale will be familiar. It will revolve around parents fleeing the terrors associated with prejudice elsewhere to seek a better life in America for their children....
BAD KNEE PUTS BELL ON BENCH
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - Derek Bell showed the evidence of why he thinks he won't be ready to play again until tomorrow in Atlanta. His bruised left knee was twice...
REED ALL ABOUT IT! RICK & FONZIE HAVE AMAZIN'S ALIVE & KICKIN'
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amMets10Expos4 MONTREAL - Remember when the Mets had lost seven-of-eight to begin this month. You probably thought they were dead didn't you? But after knocking over the Expos last night...
U.S. SOFTBALLERS SAY, 'NO-NO, CANADA!'
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amBLACKTOWN, NEW SOUTH WALES - Four years ago in Atlanta, 15 American women did something that had never been done before - namely, win a gold medal in softball, an...
IT'S ORLANDO ON - EL DUQUE RETURNS TO FORM AS GLENALLEN PROVIDES POP
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amRoger Clemens has supplanted him as the Yankee ace. Andy Pettitte has come from off the pace to place, and it's not clear if Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez or Denny...
BECHT'S GOOD BET AGAINST BUFFALO
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amLook for the Jets to get rookie tight end Anthony Becht involved in the passing game soon - as soon as today against Buffalo. With the Bills stacking up against...
GOOD THINGS COME IN 3'S - JETS, BILLS BATTLE FOR TOP MARK IN EAST
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amToday's showdown between the Jets and Bills at Giants Stadium is everything a player, coach or fan can ask for - especially this early in the season. First place in...
TO JASON & MARCUS, SIZE MATTERS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - There is a matchup set for this afternoon at Soldier Field worth the price of admission. The reason the Giants are so thrilled Jason Sehorn is returning to...
SWEATING BIG BLUE BULLETS GINTS FEAR LETDOWN AGAINST DESPERATE BEARS
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO -They have heard it for a complete week, and it is so ingrained in their minds that any word-association game produces a consistent response from the Giants. You say...
SHOCKED JOCK IMUS THE REAL HYPOCRITE
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amDON IMUS' national radio/TV show Friday included an in- studio appearance of semi-regular Joe Lieberman, Democratic vice presidential candidate. Imus noted Lieberman's leadership position in the war against an entertainment...
FAST TIMES, LOW SCORES IN 'SPEED GOLF,' THERE'S NO TIME TO FRET
September 17, 2000 | 4:00amI've found the secret to playing my best golf and it has to do with speed - as in speed golf. The premise is to take the mind as completely...