October 19, 2000
GIRL OK AFTER TRANSPLANT FROM TEST-TUBE BROTHER
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amAn ailing 6-year-old girl whose parents helped create a test-tube baby brother to give her a blood transplant has undergone a successful operation that may save her life, doctors in...
MP3.COM SAYS IT'LL SHELL OUT $30M TO PACIFY PUBLISHERS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amMichael Robertson's big payout continues. The CEO of MP3.com said the company will pay out $30 million to music publishers to get the war-torn MyMP3.com back up and running. The...
WALL ST. GRIPPED BY SELLING FRENZY
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWall Street went overboard again in its punishing mania against companies that aren't hitting earnings home runs. The reaction sent markets into a chilling 433-point tailspin in the Dow Jones...
WARNER, EMI GIVING DEAL ANOTHER SHOT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWarner-EMI is back on track - for now. Time Warner President Richard Parsons said yesterday, "We are continuing to work on" a new deal with EMI Group - and said...
GOP WON'T KEEP ALLEGED SCAMMER'S 321G
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe GOP yesterday vowed to give back $321,000 of soft money donated by a 23-year-old alleged swindler who is charged with bilking investors to fund his lavish lisfestyle. The Republican...
RAZORFISH MAKES CUTS ; ALLEY LEADER JETTISONING 8-10% OF STAFF GLOBALLY
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amRazorfish joined the trend of dot-com cutbacks yesterday by slashing 8 to 10 percent from its staff. A spokesman for the veteran Alley Web shop, which was until now the...
TAUBMAN FIGHTS BACK: EX-SOTHEBY'S CHAIRMAN WINS BIG ROUND IN COURT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amEmbattled tycoon Alfred Taubman came out swinging yesterday to clear his name as alleged mastermind of the art world's price-fixing scandal. The former chairman of Sotheby's stands accused by his...
ABSENCE MAKES ART GROW FONDER
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHAT customary good luck salutation for the theater, "Break a leg," is not regarded as very appropriate in dance! Yet luck can arrive in strange packages. When dancer/choreographer Stephen Petronio...
GOODBYE, LOLA - 'DAMN YANKEES' STAR GWEN VERDON DEAD AT 75
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amGWEN Verdon, Broadway's premier female dancer, known for her curly top of gingerish hair, her urchin grin and her stridently inimitable voice, died yesterday of natural causes. She was 75....
TONGUE-TIED AT DINNER PARTIES? DON'T KNOW 'SEINFELD' FROM SCHOPENHAUER? SEEM TO SPEND MORE AND MORE TIME BY YOURSELF? TRY THIS CRIB SHEET FOR THE ... SOCIALLY STUNTED
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amFIRST came Windows for Dummies.Now there are Cliffs Notes for cocktail parties. Ever been trapped in one of those chilly silences at a Midtown fund-raiser with nothing to say? Or...
KARAOKE CONTEST SETS STAGE FOR ANNUAL KIDS' NIGHT FESTIVITIES
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amKIDS' Night on Broadway is kicking off its ticket sales this year with something new: a Broadway-themed karaoke contest. The first 75 kids to sign up to sing show tunes...
KUNG FU KING AND STUNTMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE JACKIE CHAN KNOWS SO WELL ... IT'S A HARD-KNOCK LIFE
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amAFTER a quarter-century filming fast, furious and funny fistfights, kung fu master Jackie Chan is so immune to pain that he seems to have trouble understanding others are not. When...
THE STARR REPORT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amNo illusions about Miller's allusions Trying to decode Dennis Miller's "Monday Night Football" allusions ("Manning reads the zone blitz like Karpov does the Najdorf Sicilian!") has become something of a...
THE O.J. TREATMENT - FIRST AND 10 FOR COURT TV PLAN TO AIR CARRUTH SLAY TRIAL GAVEL-TO-GAVEL
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amCOURT TV can air the murder trial of former NFL player Rae Carruth, a North Carolina Superior Court Judge has ruled. Carruth may not be O.J. Simpson, but the cable...
DR. LAURA UNLEASHED - SHRINK DROPS SMILEY FACE TO KICK UP RATINGS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE kinder, softer Dr. Laura Schlessinger on TV is about to become more like the scolding, sharp-tongued - and more popular - Dr. Laura on her radio show. Hoping to...
FILM WEB SITES NET MOVIEGOERS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amCHRISTOPHER Guest's "Best of Show" film deserves a Best of Web award for the number of hilarious outtakes the site (www.bestofshowonline.com) has from his spoof on dog shows. One only...
DONNA'S EXPLOSIVE STAGE PERFORMANCE
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S like an infomercial. Three celebrity witnesses rap about how some lives have been changed by a correct application of the product, and how others' lives have tragically been altered...
CHURCH VANDAL FACES DEPORT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Bible-thumping Rastafarian who admitted knocking the heads off six statues at Brooklyn Catholic churches will be turned over to the feds - who will prepare to deport him, prosecutors...
BUGS MAKE CITY'S REPUTATION POISON
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Fighting roaches and other household pests has transformed the city into the pesticide capital of the state, a new report charges. The five boroughs alone accounted for about...
BOOZE ROTS TEENS' BRAINS: DOCS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe estimated 3 million U.S. teenagers who drink heavily may be suffering irreparable brain damage, new research shows. The studies support previous research that showed that 20 or 30 years...
NEW PARKINSON'S DRUG PROMISING
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTest patients who tried a new drug to calm the tremors of Parkinson's disease experienced fewer complications than from standard treatment, a study has found. But the two-year trial of...
DOUGLAS AND ZETA TO WED NEXT MONTH
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amIt's a date: Glamorous May-December couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have reportedly decided to get married next month in New York. "It will be a sumptuous party. The invitations...
PLASTER HITS QNS. TEACHER, STUDENTS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens teacher and two students suffered minor injuries when a chunk of plaster fell from the ceiling of a classroom yesterday morning, police said. Alrene Schiller, 56, and two...
HMOS, INSURERS HIT WITH FINES
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Some of the city's largest insurers were hit with hefty state fines for failing to pay claims on time. A total of 21 insurance companies and HMOs -...
FAN-NING FLAMES OF THE BASEBALL WAR - ROOTERS SHOOT OFF AT MOUTH
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amIt's The Bronx vs. Queens, Westchester vs. Long Island, yuppies vs. working stiffs, Merlot vs. Budweiser, pinstripes vs. the blue and orange. One says tomayto and the other says tomahto...
TALE OF THE TAPE
October 19, 2000 | 4:00am1956 Price of a token: 15 cents Mayor: Robert F. Wagner Parks Commissioner: Robert Moses Popular TV Personality: Ed Sullivan Top Song: "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley Hit Movie: "The...
DAVE SALUTE TO SURGEON 'DOCTORED'
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe man whom "Late Show" host David Letterman identified on TV as the "cardiac cowboy" who saved his life with a quintuple bypass, was really an actor standing in for...
NEW METS CUT FROM CLOTH OF OLD DODGERS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amI FEEL like the last Union soldier surviving from the Civil War. I keep getting calls to answer questions from radio and TV reporters about the ancient Subway Series battlefields...
FAN-NING THE FLAMES OF THE BASEBALL WAR - RIVAL ROOTERS SHOOT OFF AT MOUTH
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amIt's The Bronx vs. Queens, Westchester vs. Long Island, yuppies vs. working stiffs, Merlot vs. Budweiser, pinstripes vs. the blue and orange. One says tomayto and the other says tomahto...
WORRIED DEMS HOPING FOR CALIF. BUBBA BOOST
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amDES MOINES. THE best proof that Democrats have of Al Gore's jitters is that their savviest strategists are pleading from California for President Clinton to rescue the election. "We need...
NON-VOTERS THE SHAME OF OUR NATION
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amMY OLD man loved politics but hated Election Day. In Australia, land of my birth, pubs were closed on Election Day, to guard against those who had been overserved. This...
A SCALPER'S DELIGHT: RED HOT TIX GOING FOR UP TO 5G
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Subway Series has turned into a train wreck for thousands of fans trying to get tickets to the World Series. Ticket brokers and Internet-based sellers said the demand for...
A COUPLE OF N.Y. CLASSICS TAKING YOU TO FALL CLASSIC
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTwo of New York's heaviest hitters take their cuts in the pages of The Post next week, giving their unique perspective on the city's Subway Series. Legendary writer Pete Hamill,...
SLAIN COPS HONORED ON SAD ANNIVERSARY
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTwo hero cops slain in the line of duty were honored yesterday on the anniversary of their deaths. Mayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, Brooklyn community leaders and fellow...
BOMBERS WILL REIGN OVER MOTLEY MUTTS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amA YANKEE fan walks with the quiet confidence of a winner - not the blind optimism of a loser who just got lucky at the track. Like a guy at...
SHRINKS TO RABID ROOTERS: IT'S NOT LIFE OR DEATH
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amYou want to bean that enemy fan sitting across the table, standing at the bar or brooding beside you in bed, but Big Apple psychiatrists say you gotta remember one...
TIME FOR AMAZIN'S TO SKIN THE FAT CATS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees don't deserve this. Their smug, overbearing, fat, lazy, complacent fans don't deserve this. Their ownership, possessed of the very same attributes, does not deserve this. The Mets deserve...
SLAY-CASE DOCTOR'S SOLE DEFENSE WITNESS A BUST
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe only defense witness for the plastic surgeon accused of murdering his wife and disposing of her body without a trace 15 years ago testified yesterday that he saw her...
WELL-TRAINED INSIDER KEEPS FANS OF ALL STRIPES RIDING 'HIS' RAILS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amA Subway Series is a labor of love for Joe Hofmann. The Bronx native and diehard Yankee fan is the Transit Authority's vice president for subways, working out of a...
BILL TO BOMBERS: 'WE WILL FIND YOU'
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton mourned the 17 sailors killed in the USS Cole bombing with a message yesterday to the attackers that "we will find you and justice will prevail," as investigators...
TRAVELGATE PROBER: HILL LIED, BUT I CAN'T PROVE IT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Independent Counsel Robert Ray's Travelgate report slams Hillary Rodham Clinton for giving "factually false [and] inaccurate" testimony, but says there wasn't enough proof to prosecute her. Released by...
EXPOSING THE 'GROPE' MENTALITY OF THE NYPD - FEMALE COPS BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON SEX HARASSMENT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amEX-COP Gloria Gonzalez has 1.25 million reasons to smile after winning a sexual-retaliation case against the NYPD - but she's not. Gonzalez's voice dropped to a bare whisper yesterday as...
SCHOOL UMP'S WARNING - LEVY: DON'T EVEN THINK OF PLAYING HOOKY NEXT WEEK
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amClassrooms around the city could turn into a sea of bleary-eyed zombies as kids vowed yesterday to go sleep-deprived to soak in every second of the Subway Series. But don't...
'EMBEZZLE' PRIEST TUCKED AWAY AT QUIET RETREAT
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amAURORA, Ontario - Monsignor Thomas Gradilone, the pastor whose parish is missing at least $2 million, is spending his time reflecting at a treatment center in the bucolic Canadian countryside....
HE REACHES OUT FROM COLE TO SALUTE HIS SLAIN PALS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amNORFOLK, Va. VIRGINIA BROWN had to bite her bottom lip and desperately squeeze the cell phone pressed to her ear, trying to stay in control. Her husband, Jeffrey, a sailor...
APPLE WILL RALLY 'ROUND ITS PENNANT WINNERS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday unveiled a peek at the over-the-top fandemonium brewing for the Subway Series: a pre-series showdown tomorrow in Bryant Park. Giuliani said the pep rally for both World...
COPS LOOK TO 'BAR' TROUBLE WITH PATROLS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amCops will keep an eye on Subway Series-watching bar patrons around the city to make sure baseball fever doesn't flare into fights, The Post has learned. The NYPD is still...
RUDY'S IN STITCHES AS HILL SAYS SHE'LL ROOT FOR YANKS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday declared she will be cheering for the Yankees - prompting laughter from the world's biggest Bomber fan, Mayor Giuliani. "I'm going to be rooting for the...
BUSH AND GORE BRACING FOR AL SMITH SHOWDOWN
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amPresidential rivals Al Gore and George W. Bush, still neck-and-neck with less than three weeks to go, head for the Big Apple today for a subway showdown of their own....
FIGHTING TERRORISM THE RIGHT WAY
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amItem: "The Department of State does not clear on the referenced VOA editorial ... The 17 or so dead sailors does not compare to the 100+ Palestinians who have died...
AIDE HITS ANDY CUOMO WITH SEX-HARASS RAP
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo's inspector general has hit him with a sexual-discrimination and -harassment complaint, claiming Cuomo is out to destroy her because he doesn't like what she...
DNA LINKS SIX SEX ATTACKS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amDNA tests have tied at least six sexual attacks in Queens and The Bronx to the same man, police said yesterday. The victims ranged in age from a 9-year-old Jackson...
THANK FATE FOR THIS OCTOBER FETE
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amSO FEW hours left to achieve a perfect frenzy for New York's big baseball gala, so little time to offer thank-you's to the many people who made this possible: A...
CANDIDATES WILL AIR THEIR VIEWS ON FOX
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amGov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore agree on one thing: They've accepted a Fox TV network offer of free air time to explain their positions, network officials...
SPORTS STORES' YIELD OF DREAMS - TEAM CAPS, T-SHIRTS FLY OFF SHELVES
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amFandemonium gripped the Big Apple yesterday as the Met and Yankee faithful drew the battle lines for an out-of-this-world Series. The first Subway Series in 44 years sparked a frenzy...
CAMBY: I'M NOT A CENTER
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Being the successor to Patrick Ewing as the Knicks starting center, Marcus Camby's every word will be scrutinized this season. As such, Camby raised some eyebrows with his...
BROWN FOCUSING ON HIS NEW TEAM
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Brad Brown, a Blackhawk for two years until the Oct. 5 trade that brought him and Michal Grosek to the Rangers for Stephane Quintal, wasn't going to be...
BOMBERS KEEP THEIR QUOTE SHEET CLEAN
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees are very complimentary of the Mets. It's the protocol between two teams in the World Series - no trashtalking. After all, the Yankees used an essentially harmless and...
TOOMER TICKED ABOUT BENCHING
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Amani Toomer is not playing the good soldier when it comes to quietly accepting the benching that Jim Fassel gave him in the second half of last Sunday's...
GIANTS LEANING TOWARD YANKEES
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTypical Yankee fan. "I bleed pinstripes," he said. "The other team wears pinstripes but they don't count." Typical Yankee fan. "I'm very confident," he added. "I don't want to talk...
VG SAYS V, TORRE IN LEAGUE OF OWN
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amKnicks coach Jeff Van Gundy sees two opposite men in high-strung Bobby Valentine and laid-back Joe Torre. In Van Gundy's view, the Subway Series proves there is no right or...
KNOBBY'S READY TO TAKE FIELD
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre claimed he would play Chuck Knoblauch at second base in "the National League park" but at the time he wasn't sure that park would be Shea. With the...
DEVS' CAPITAL VISIT NO SPECIAL DEAL
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The only place the Stanley Cup champ Devils visit here is USAir Arena. No President, no Rose Garden. Unless they squeeze in a special flight for a date...
METS FINALLY CAN STAND UP TO BIG BROTHER
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Subway Series is about one thing - respect. Case closed. No matter how you color it, the Mets are considered second-class citizens in New York behind the Yankees and...
JETS HOPE TO FRY FIEDLER
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe prognosticators had a good laugh about the Dolphins in the offseason as they were putting together their expert analysis, almost every one of them placing Miami at the bottom...
MO'S NO PASSING FANCY IN GANG GREEN'S NICKEL
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Mo Lewis' all-world performance in the Jets' win over the Patriots Sunday captured enough attention that he was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week. Lewis performance,...
YANKS SING REFRAIN OF 'TOLD YA SO'
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amDavid Justice said it on national television, but the murmurs had started earlier in the week. And in the champagne-drenched aftermath of the Yanks' pennant victory over the Mariners on...
AL COMES FULL CIRCLE - YANK DRAFTEE NOW KEY MET COG
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amFew players of this generation understand this onrushing Subway Series the way Al Leiter does. Oh, there are players who grew up in the area, such as Brooklynite John Franco....
BEANED PAYTON: I'M GOOD TO GO
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amJay Payton is still wearing a bandage over his left eye, but he insists he is fine after being hit in the head by the Cardinals' Dave Veres in the...
CHAMPS WON'T FLINCH
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amBY SATURDAY night, the New York baseball teams will have been sliced and diced, matched up and broken down, and inspected and dissected. There will be so many reporters dispatched...
ZIMMER RECALLS THE WAY IT WAS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amJust like for the last Subway Series, Don Zimmer has one of the best seats in the house for this one. Not only must he know somebody, but also something...
NETS SCRAMBLING TO FILL HOLES
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - This was one time Keith Van Horn hated to be right. But he knew as soon as he went down, it was bad. And "bad" translated into a...
BENITEZ: BOOK'S CLOSED ON TINO BEANBALL FLAP
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWhen the Subway Series gets rolling this weekend, one side's heroes will be another side's villains. Morality will be in the eye of the beholder, and according to the allegiance...
MIKE TRAINING HIS THOUGHTS ON HERE AND NOW
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe he's taking the high road. Maybe he still remembers what it felt like to get drilled in the head with a Roger Clemens beanball, and doesn't want to entice...
ROCKET RETRIBUTION? - METS HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN 'COWARDLY' BEANBALL OF PIAZZA
October 19, 2000 | 4:00am"For me, I choose to try and think of Roger Clemens as a great pitcher, but I really can't say I have respect for him." - Mike Piazza on July...
V'S PROGRAMMED FOR FALL CLASSIC
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTo understand what being in the World Series for the first time means to Bobby Valentine, all you have to do is look around the manager's office at Shea Stadium....
HAMILTON SUFFERING (GLADLY) SUBWAY FEVER
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amDarryl Hamilton met a friend for breakfast at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, and when Hamilton walked into the Sheraton hotel, one of the bell man said, "Come on, you guys got...
SERIES IS A BALL FOR FRANCO - EMOTIONS RUNNING HIGH FOR JOHNNY
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amTOUGH guys never want to be caught with tears in their eyes. That's why Johnny Franco, the tough, little left-hander from the Marlboro projects in that slice of Brooklyn known...
DON'T LOOK FOR ROCKET IN FLUSHING
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Met pitchers won't get the chance to drill Roger Clemens in Game 5 of the Subway Series because Joe Torre plans on starting the Rocket in Game 2...
FOR BOSS' BOMBERS ... LOSING NOT OPTION - USUAL PRESSURE TO BE NO. 1 EVEN GREATER VS. METS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amWith eyes the color of blood, the Yankees greeted yesterday slowly following a wild celebration Tuesday night when they won their third straight AL title. It will be the last...
FOR DOC, SERIES IS SUB-PERB
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amAs the Yankees filled the clubhouse with champagne blasts and poured Moet over each other's heads early yesterday morning, celebrating their entry into the Subway Series, Dwight Gooden and David...
TURK LEFT WITH EGG ON HIS FACE
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Turk Wendell was just being an honest prognosticator. He said the entire second half of the season, the Yankees wouldn't be in the World Series. "They proved me...
DEADLINE NEARS FOR CONTEST
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amThere is one week to go to register for Aqueduct's Fall Handicapping Challenge, to be held Oct. 28 and 29 at the Equestris Group Event Area. There is $60,000 in...
ERNIE: EWING'S HAPPY
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Bucks GM Ernie Grunfeld, back at the Garden last night, revealed that he never once considered trading Patrick Ewing during his managerial stint with the Knicks. "No, it...
MCLEAN STANDS TALL IN WIN OVER HAWKS
October 19, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Not great, that's for sure, but that's hardly the issue, not for a Ranger team that desperately needed to stop its second-week stumble before it could become a...