January 21, 2001
MENDIK GETS HIS CAKE AND LEX LANDMARK, TOO.
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBERNIE Mendik is getting one of his babies back. No, not his grown kids, but one of the Mendik Company office buildings that was folded into the Vornado Realty Trust...
ALBRIGHT BOOK AUCTION LOOMS : PRICE MAY TOP $1M; HILL'S ATT'Y PRESIDING
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amFORMER Secretary of State Madeleine Albright might be out of a job - but publishers expect the stalled auction for her memoir to be finalized in the next few weeks....
MANY OPPORTUNITIES LEFT FOR VCS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amTony Perkins' 1990 book, "The Internet Bubble," may have predicted the fizzling of many of the public dot-coms with great accuracy, but he still sees a place for the battered...
BABS' CO-OP HELL COMES TO AN END BOARD OKS SALE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBARBRA Streisand has finally unloaded her triplex co-op apartment in the Ardsley at 320 Central Park West. The last asking price was $7.8 million. Since first putting her 16-room penthouse...
SEE BOB. SEE BOB MESS UP: NICK'S LITTLE BRITISH HARDHAT SCREWS UP A LOT. BUT SEEING HIS MISTAKES IS REASSURING FOR THE KIDS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amTWO years ago, the big surprise of my son's third birthday party was the success of a tape called "Movin' Dirt." We popped it in the VCR and all the...
WHAT I WATCH
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSTEVE SABOLPRESIDENT, NFL FILMSTHE ONLY SHOW I WATCH BESIDES FOOTBALL IS "60 MINUTES." IT CAN BE JUST AS EXCITING.SALLY JESSY RAPHAELTALK SHOW HOSTCBS'S "SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD." IT'S GOT...
REBA MCENTIRE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amReba McEntire, who makes her Broadway debut Friday in "Annie Get Your Gun," is just right for the role of Ms. Oakley - since, like her sharp-shootin' character, McEntire is...
'BLONDE' AMBITION : KATHY NAJIMY GOES WEST - MAE, THAT IS - ON BROADWAY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIt's as if Kathy Najimy were born to play the glamorous, sassy, indomitable Mae West, a role she steps into Thursday when she takes over from Claudia Shear in the...
THE SAVVY SHOPPER
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amAPPARELBond 07 7 Bond St., between Broadway & Lafayette Street (212) 677-8487 Sale: Through January Open: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun. noon-7 p.m. Bond 07 was one of the first...
GORE GALORE MARS THESE CLASSIC DRAMAS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amPoliticians are constantly warning us about the effects of violence in movies, video games and television on the young and impressionable. But we are far from being the first society...
A TERRORIST'S STORY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIn "The Legend of Rita," Bibiana Beglau plays a brazen, outspoken German terrorist who doesn't think twice about robbing a bank, pulling off a jailbreak or gunning down a cop....
PRIZES TARNISHED BY VOTERS' CHECKERED REPUTATION
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amThe Golden Globes traditionally have been a boozier, more raffish occasion than the Oscars, especially before they were televised. The fact that it's a dinner and attendees have wine glasses...
GOLDEN MOMENT FOR THE GLOBES: AWARDS EVENT A KEY TO OSCAR HOPEFULS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIf you want to know just how the coming Oscar chads will hang, check out tonight's Golden Globe awards, one of the best indicators of who will take home Hollywood's...
SABOR CUTS TAPAS UP TO GRANDE SIZE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSabor 462 Amsterdam Ave. (between 82nd & 83rd Streets) (212-579-2929 Move over, jumbo shrimp. In the big book of culinary oxymorons, you now need to make room for tapas grandes....
STYLE ON ICE MONTREAL FASHIONS SKATE INTO ROCKEFELLER CENTER
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amThere are a few things in life that are better served chilled - a Martini, for example, or the fifth annual Montreal Fashion Show. Instead of using vixeny models who...
'BLUES' TRAVELER STEVE EARLE: FROM JAIL TO THE GRAMMYS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amCountry-rock icon Steve Earle is bigger than ever. The maverick guitar-vocalist has released seven records in as many years - all to critical acclaim - and his latest, "Transcendental Blues,"...
RESTAURANTS GETTING WRAPPED UP IN GRILLED OCTOPUS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIn case you haven't heard, fried calamari is out. Grilled octopus is in. Those looking to satisfy their craving for a briny taste with a rubbery consistency, without all the...
DOWN WITH IT
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWhat can convince even the vainest woman to add a layer of bulk to her Pilates-slimmed physique? A fashionable puffy down coat, of course. The good news is that these...
MARILYN'S 'JFK' DRESS ON THE BLOCK
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amThe sexy white gown worn by Marilyn Monroe while she sang "Happy Birthday" to John F. Kennedy goes on the auction block next month. The dress is expected to fetch...
A SPEECH OF BEAUTY RESTORING THE PRESIDENCY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBush did not issue orders. Rather, he made requests of those who had done him the honor of entrusting the office to him. PRESIDENT George W. Bush's inaugural address was...
DEVOTION SERVES HIM WELL IN LAND OF THE GIANT FANS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBert Napear, of Bayside, Queens, is such a rabid Giants fan, he chose a college so he could play football for a Big Blue legend. Napear is the first of...
HOPE COULD HELP SAVE BABIES' LIVES, SAY COPS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amPolice yesterday laid to rest two newborns whose mothers have been accused of killing them - and set out to spread the word about a new law that could keep...
EGAN DONS CARDINAL CAP TODAY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amArchbishop Edward Egan will be elevated to cardinal by the Vatican today, The Post has learned. Pope John Paul II will name Egan - spiritual leader of New York's 2.3...
PARDONS PAVING WAY FOR PICKING POCKETS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00am'TO err is human, to forgive is divine." Now whatever sunshine boy said that didn't have the unhealthy cynicism that daunts so many of us. I look with jaundiced eye...
ADOPTIONS UNDER FIRE : TWINS-CASE CRITICS RIPBROKERS & STATE LAWS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amVickie and Richard Allen paid $6,000 to an adoption facilitator for the twins they called Kiara and Keyara. But just as the plump-cheeked little girls were settling in to the...
ENOUGH ALREADY! NETS WON'T LET BILL GO
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIT was the music, stupid. That's what set CBS apart from all the other networks yesterday in the hour leading up to the swearing-in of George W. Bush and Dick...
DUBYA MAKES HIS FIRST MOVES UNDOES SOME OF BILL'S ORDERS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Here are President George W. Bush's first actions in office: * He declared today a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving. * In his very first memo, he...
A MISTY-EYED MOMENT FOR FATHER-SON LEADERS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It rained on George W. Bush's parade yesterday - but tears also fell when a damp-eyed Bush hugged his choked-up dad moments after the presidential torch was passed...
BRONX MAN SURVIVES TRAIN-TRACK TUMBLE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amRafael Montanez may have a guardian angel to thank for being alive. Early yesterday the 24-year-old Bronx man became the second city resident in a week to fall beneath the...
BARAK SCRAMBLES FOR PEACE PACT BEFORE FEBRUARY ELECTIONS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday agreed to a Palestinian offer to hold marathon peace talks to try to hammer out a deal before Israel's elections on Feb....
BILL'S SLOW RIDE OUT ON EX-PREZ FLIGHT
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBill Clinton, reluctantly leaving the White House after calling it home since 1993, bid a long, slow goodbye yesterday as he moved to New York for an uncertain future. Clinton...
PROTESTERS CRASH THE PARTY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Thousands of protesters swarmed through the streets of the nation's capital yesterday with one main message: Hail to the Thief. Demonstrators piled in front of the U.S. Supreme...
FORMER REP. LAZIO GETS A SEAT AFTER ALL
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Losing your seat in Congress apparently doesn't mean losing all your perks. Former Rep. Rick Lazio had seats right in front of the podium for President Bush's swearing-in....
LAURA LOOKS READY TO GIVE D.C. A MAKEOVER :NEW FIRST LADY RETURNS STYLE TO THE CAPITAL
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amThey were associated more closely with making fashion faux pas than setting trends - Hillary by sporting an array of ill-advised hairdos and awkward headbands, Bill because he opted to...
BARE-BONES SENATE CONFIRMS 7 BUSH CABINET PICKS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Lawmakers, eager to help President Bush get off to a quick start, voted yesterday to confirm seven of his 14 Cabinet choices before the new leader's inaugural parade...
ONE 'SLICK' FUGITIVE GETS A FREE PASS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's most stunning pardon went to New York Democratic fat cat Denise Rich's ex-hubby Marc, a financier on the lam for 17 years and wanted by the...
ON-THE-MEND REAGAN HOME
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amRonald Reagan returned home yesterday, a week after undergoing surgery to repair a broken hip. The 89-year-old former president, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, will continue physical therapy in the...
PRESIDENT BUSH : I WILL A BUILDER
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A solemn George Walker Bush yesterday pledged to build "a single nation of justice and opportunity" as he succeeded the scandal-ridden Bill Clinton and became the 43rd president....
JACKSON: I'LL BE BACK THIS WEEK IN THE PUBLIC ARENA
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson said he's ready for a return to public life this week - reversing plans to drop out of the limelight in order to reconcile with his...
PARDONS GALORE ON BILL'S MOVING DAY : HE FORGIVES BROTHER AND 170 OTHERS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Clinton gave a lot of help to his friends on his way out yesterday and granted pardons to Whitewater's Susan McDougal, his brother Roger on cocaine charges...
AN EXERCISE IN DECEPTION EX-STAFF BARES BALLY STRONG-ARM TACTICS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBally Total Fitness salespeople routinely lie to customers, use underhanded tricks to clinch sales, and even falsify documents to earn commissions and meet strict sales quotas, former employees told The...
SANITMEN FACED WITH PRETTY HEFTY SNOW JOB
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSay it ain't snow! Forecasters were predicting a blanket of up to 8 inches of snow by today in the wake of another winter Nor'easter pounding the Big Apple. And...
ACTION JACKSON GETS BIBLICAL
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN I first saw the headline, "Jackson seeks forgiveness: Admits he fathered child with aide," I panicked. "Oh dear Lord, no," I prayed, not again! Michael Jackson has fathered yet...
THEIR CRIMES CAN'T BE EXCUSED: U.S. ATTORNEY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amU.S. Attorney Mary Jo White last night blasted some of the pardons and sentence commutations issued by departing President Bill Clinton, charging they compromised justice and raised "significant law-enforcement concerns."...
MONUMENT-AL ACT BY CLINTON
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amOutgoing President Bill Clinton used one of his final Oval Office acts to blanket parts of Governors Island with national monument status - adding new restrictions on how the land...
TIME FOR DISGRACED JESSE TO SHOW BIZ DONORS THE MONEY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN the disgraced Jesse Jackson slinks into Manhattan this week for his three-day Wall Street Project conference, his corporate benefactors ought to demand: What have youdone with our money? We...
GOP CELEBRATES - AND THEY'RE HAVING A BALL : NEW PREZ HITS TOWN TO PARTY WITH THE FAITHFUL
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amDenizens of D.C. and politicos from around the country planned to shake off the cold and damp of Inauguration Day last night with scores of parties and nine inaugural balls...
UPSURGE OF GANG KILLINGS BY MEXICANS PUZZLES COPS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amRival Mexican gang members are killing each other in New York, and cops are hard pressed to come up with a reason why. Already in 2001, three Mexican gang members...
STRAP-HARANGUERS ON TRACK TO RIP TA'S PLAN FOR NEW V LINE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amStraphangers will get their first look at the Transit Authority's plans for new Manhattan and Queens subway service at a hearing Tuesday night - but some critics are already panning...
A LOT OF GOOD SPORTS ARE $TEPPING UP TO THE PLATE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSports team owners are not forgetting that George W. Bush used to be one of them. Sports executives have donated $800,000 to President Bush's inaugural committee in a bid to...
A SPEECH REACHES TO REPAIR BREACHES
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President George W. Bush's toughest task is pulling America together - so perhaps it's no surprise the most eloquent part of his speech was his bid to touch...
THIS IS REAL FOOTBALL! :FORGET FLASH, GIANTS-RAVENS WILL BE A SMASH
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBELIEVE it or not, there once was a time when football was always played the way the Giants and Ravens will play it next Sunday. And, even harder to believe,...
QUOTH THE RAVENS: NEVER SCORE : RECORD-SETTING DEFENSE REFUSES TO GIVE AN INCH
January 21, 2001 | 5:00am"Don't no one get into the end zone on the greatest.People don't score. I don't care if there's a half inch andthey've got four shots; they're not getting into our...
DEVILS ENTER BLAKE DERBY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amMONTREAL - With the Rob Blake Situation approaching a climax, two sources have told Slap Shots that the Devils are submitting bids for the fierce, multi-dimensional, elite defenseman, whose acquisition...
RIVERA GETS WINGS BACK :LIU SENIOR MAKES MOST OF 2ND CHANCE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amDISAPPOINTMENT led to disregard. Insolence led to expulsion. Realization led to repentance. That's the six-step program that led LIU senior Ray Rivera back to the Blackbirds. Back in the 1999-2000...
BEWARE HYPOTHERMIA : POSSIBLE DANGER FOR REC BOATERS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amMANY boaters find that mild winter days are uncrowded and beautiful out on the water. But though the air may be pleasant, the water will be colder, and cold water...
INSENSITIVE AD SHOWS NIKE'S NO 'FRIEND' OF DISABLED
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSPEAKING of court cases, we understand that Nike has filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of golfer Casey Martin. Martin, who suffers from a circulatory condition that...
TO JESSE, BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL : REVEREND'S RACE CARD IS OVERPLAYED
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amWEDNESDAY was a lousy day for the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Not that he didn't deserve it. First, Rev. Jackson was forced to admit that he had not long ago fathered...
HAKEEM DREAMS OF NEW TEAM : OLAJUWON HOPES TO BE ROCKETED OUT OF HOUSTON
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSUBJECT: Hakeem Olaju-Wants To Be Traded Excuse me for not completely understanding The African Nightmare's rationale behind this request. Due to dissatisfaction with no longer being the offensive focal point...
A WINLESS PRESEASON, A PERFECT POSTSEASON? : GIANTS' RISE WAS A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIT BEGAN with a jolt and a flash and a sign from above, a bolt from out of the blue. The snap, crackle and pop left behind burned bark stripped...
KEEPING 'EM LAUGHING ALL THE WAY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amDusty Zeigler makes a living crouched down, looking upside down from between his legs, so it's easy to see why he has an unusual perspective on life and football. The...
SWIRLING STORM SMASH VILLANOVA
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amSt. John's82 Villanova70 Jim Spanarkel, the outstanding college basketball analyst for MSG and ESPN, made this observation at halftime of yesterday's Big East Conference showdown between St. John's and Villanova:...
LARRY'S JUGGLIN' ACT PAYS OFF
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amDevils3 Thrashers2 The irony was lost on Bobby Holik, who nonetheless made sure the game wasn't, too. What was proven, however, is that Larry Robinson isn't afraid to keep ruffling...
NEW PACER CREW LACKS OLD PUNCH : KNICK RIVALRY LACKS USUAL LUSTER
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy watched tape of last June's Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals yesterday between the Knicks and Pacers. It was an unpleasant experience, naturally, but at least...
RICE WARMING UP FOR LAKER SHOWDOWN
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amComing off his most gritty showing as a Knick Friday in Detroit, Glen Rice said he doesn't plan to be a bench player the rest of the season. "I'm sure...
CREME DE LA FETE DEAD AT 25
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amCreme de la Fete, one of the most popular claiming horses to run in New York, was euthanized recently at the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Walkill, N.Y. The 25-year-old gelding...
SNOWSTORM KOS TODAY'S BIG A
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amRacing and simulcasting today at Aqueduct were cancelled yesterday afternoon in anticipation of the approaching snowstorm. The track reopens tomorrow for simulcasting, is dark Tuesday and resumes live racing Wednesday,...
OL' LIBERTY GOLD STRIKES IT RICH IN AQUEDUCT 'CAP
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amBy the age of 7, most non-geldings have long headed for retirement to stud. Not Liberty Gold. Yesterday, the veteran son of Crafty Prospector, who's been bouncing around racetracks in...
RAMS COME UP BIG AT GARDEN
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amFordham80GW75 Fordham's Jeff McMillan is getting ahead of himself, as freshmen tend to do. When asked how dominating a pair of big men he and Duke Freeman-McKamey can be, McMillan...
CTK WEARS THE CROWN FOR A DAY
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amGIRLS CTK48 R.B. Catholic47 Christ the King felt like the enemy. "Everyone thought we were going to lose," said Clare Droesch. "They all wanted to see that. I think that...
GOOSE'S SUPER RUN HAS TOWNIES RAVEN
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amROSEMARIE Siragusa's beautiful brown eyes opened wide as she began to tell this story. Not too long ago her son Tony told her about a special dream. In his dream,...
POINT IS LOST ON RANGERS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amRangers2 Canadiens2 MONTREAL - So maybe the Rangers weren't left for dead a week ago yesterday in Boston. Maybe they were just five feet under and not six. Maybe they...
SCOTT SAYS SORRY, BUT STICKS BY HIS REMARKS
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIt was time for another trip to see the Wizard for the Nets. Coach Byron Scott, admitting that maybe he was being a little politically incorrect with a crack that...
STEPH A 'STAR' IN SWAMP ROMP : TRIPLE-DOUBLE MAKES CASE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amNet coach Byron Scott looked at the stat sheet and saw some impressive numbers for Stephon Marbury: 20 points, seven assists and six rebounds. And it was only halftime. There...
KNICKS MIDTERM REPORT CARD: BETTER OFF WITHOUT EW
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amTHOSE who fretted about what the Knicks would become without Patrick Ewing look ridiculous now. You know what they are? Every bit a championship contender as they were when Ewing...
NETS MIDTERM REPORT CARD
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amIt was supposed to be so different for the Nets. New team president, new coach, No. 1 draft pick, two rising stars, decent supporting cast. Well, wasn't "The Michael Richards...
LOW BECOMING FOURTH-RIGHT
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amMONTREAL - The document revealed that 11 of the forwards had gotten between 3:38 and 5:54 of ice time in the first period Thursday night, with the 12th on for...
KENYON'S STILL CLINGING TO DEFENSIVE STANCE
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES When he was introduced to the area and then again during his coming out party at the start of training camp, Kenyon Martin proclaimed one goal, beyond giving...
OFT-INJURED NETS STILL FEEL STING
January 21, 2001 | 5:00amThe rebounding has been wretched. The shooting pathetic. The health situation miserable. The transition defense questionable. And there's still a whole second half of the season to go for the...