January 22, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWith the nasty weather keeping us inside, we've come to realize our living spaces are really quite grubby. Time for some hints from the shelter mags. When Marian McEvoy left...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG'S ENEMIES LIST
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amDEATH threats aren't usually this complicated. Then again, financial writers aren't supposed to get them from corporate executives. I've been a journalist for some 25 years and have ticked off...
TRENDY CLOTHIER DIESEL TO OPEN ON UNION SQ.
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amDiscount furniture is out, designer clothes are in at Union Square. In a fashionable upgrade for the Union Square retail scene, popular Italian-based casualwear maker Diesel will soon open a...
GUCCI'S INTO LEATHER - IN TALKS TO BUY LUXURY BRAND BOTTEGA VENETA
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe highly acquisitive Gucci Group is in talks to buy luxury leather goods manufacturer Bottega Veneta, The Post has learned. If a deal is consummated, - and talks could still...
TRUSTEES MAY FACE LAWSUITS OVER NASDAQ PLUNGE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTalk about biting the hand that feeds you. Many trust beneficiaries, who have seen their bounty drained by tanking tech stocks, could be lining up to sue their trustees. After...
ONLINE TRADING PLACES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTHEY'RE the real "Monopoly" games on Wall Street. Investment challenges that let you put play money on the line have outlasted the 'Net boom that brought so many of them....
BETTING BOTH WAYS FOR A PAYOFF
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amMARC Halperin is placing big bets on two countries: one that looks to be heading into a recession and the other already in a recession. Sound like a recipe for...
SO YOU THINK YOU'RE WELL-READ?
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amNOW that you've made your millions and have run out of mindless toys to buy, it's time to show the world your erudite side. Short of buying a Ph.D., you...
WALL ST. TICKET FRENZY
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA-based Raymond James Financial Services got a few unexpected calls from competitors last week. No, they weren't looking to take over the 1,900-location broker-dealer. The companies were dialing up their...
CNNFN HAS AN ALTER-EGO
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE'S a new financial news Web site taking the 'Net by storm - and it looks awfully similar to CNNfn.com: the financial news network. But it's actually "CNNdn.com, the financial...
CAR ACTING UP? LOG ON TO YOUR E-GARAGE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amGREASE monkeys are going digital. A company in Houston, Texas, has found a new application for the Web: fixing your car. Lynn Graham thinks that this most mechanical of activities...
DEMYSTIFYING TAXES FOR LOWER-INCOME PAYERS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amCRITICS say the federal tax code is so complicated that even its creators - members of Congress - can't figure it out. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), a Congressman from New York,...
TRACKING PSEUDO'S DEMISE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00am"IT'S like kinda watching a car crash." Pseudo - the most-talked-about, least-watched online entertainment project ever - gave the world a classic after all. Former Pseudo employee Jim Downs's 12-minute...
THE STARR REPORT
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amSay it ain't so! Even bagels now verboten Here's a note from an (anonymous) NBC insider regarding our item about NBC slashing its supply of newspapers to staffers. "I am...
BROOKE'S PRETTY BABY II - A LESBIAN COUPLE'S CUSTODY BATTLE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWhat Makes A Family ( ) Tonight at 9 p.m. on Lifetime --------- MY first thought when I received a copy of "What Makes A Family," tonight's Lifetime made-for-TV-based-on-real-life movie...
THE 'BIG PICTURE' ON SUPER SUNDAY
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amFORGET nachos, beer, and bratwurst. The big selling Super Bowl accessories this year are big screenTVs. More super-sized TV sets are sold during the two weeks leading up to the...
THE ULTIMATE GAME SHOW: IS HE GUILTY? - CONVICTS COULD GET RESULTS OF DNA TESTS LIVE ON TELEVISION
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amREALITY TV may never get more real than the latest show developed - getting inmates out of jail based on DNA evidence. Fox - the network known for such eyebrow-raising...
BUTTER THE POPCORN AND THEN STRIKE UP THE BAND
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing lame about the Club Foot Orchestra. Since 1987, the eclectic ensemble has been putting the sizzle into silent movies by setting them to its own scores. Tonight the...
REALITY BITES IN A '70S PARABLE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amMORE LIES ABOUT JERZYVineyard Theatre, 108 E. 15th St. Through Feb. 11. -------- IT'S New York in 1972. Jared Harris superbly plays Jerzy Lesnewski, a Polish émigré writer who has...
GOING FOR BROKE: THE LOVE MARKET
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amRELATIONSHIPS are just like the stock market - they're often marked by extreme volatility, can reach lows you never thought imaginable and may even leave you broke.Come to think of...
PEOPLE WHO EAT PEOPLE - CANNIBALISM: IS IT FACT OR H'WOOD FICTION?
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amCANNIBALISM is back in style: in the form of Anthony Hopkins' Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the forthcoming "The Silence of the Lambs" sequel "Hannibal," out Feb. 9.Of course, cannibalism has...
SPIN CYCLE - DEEJAYS CRANK UP THE VOLUME AT CHIC BOUTIQUES AND SALONS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWANT to hear some great new music? You don't have to brave crowds at the music store or score tickets to a hot live gig at Irving Plaza - just...
NOSE-HAIR EPIC CLIPPED SHORT
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amIS Elsa Bauml really crying over a lost nose-hair clipper? It looks that way. Sitting in her Upper West Side office, Bauml, who has been making nose-hair clippers for half...
UNEMPLOYED ANDY REVS UP 'GOV BID'
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amANDREW CUOMO moved swiftly over the weekend to begin preparing his race for governor, approving the hiring of campaign staffers and setting his fund-raising in motion. Sources close to the...
JESSE TEARFUL & THANKFUL IN CHURCH TALK
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amAn emotional Jesse Jackson broke down in tears yesterday as he spoke in public for the first time since admitting he fathered a child outside his marriage two years ago....
PLANE SKIDS OFF SNOW-COVERED RUNWAY AT JFK
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amPassengers aboard a JetBlue flight landing at JFK Airport had some frightening moments yesterday when the aircraft slid off a snowy runway and landed in a ditch. None of the...
THE BILLION-DOLLAR BEATLE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amThat's the tune being belted out this week by Paul McCartney, who has become the world's first billionaire rock star. The former Beatle's personal wealth skyrocketed to $1.06 billion this...
FILI-BLUSTER TEDDY WILL BE 'LEFT' ALL ALONE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amAS THE knives glisten again today in the Ashcroft confirmation hearing, two elements of failure and success leap out like lizards. One, Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D-Mass.) has failed to rattle...
EMT, 38, DIES SHOVELING
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amA 13-year veteran of the city's Emergency Medical Service unit died of a heart attack early yesterday after being stricken with chest pains as she shoveled snow in front of...
BRITNEY'S CHASTE 'HONEYMOON'
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amBritney Spears spent three nights holed up in the honeymoon suite of a posh Rio hotel with her hunky *NSYNC boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, it was reported last night. But the...
JINTS FLY INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amGiants fans sent their Super Bowl-bound boys in blue off to Tampa yesterday with predictions that the Las Vegas odds-makers and other naysayers will be eating crow, maybe even raven,...
ROOTING FOR THE G-MEN NEVER GETS OLD FOR HER
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amEighty-four-year-old Claudia Cupo is the grandmother of all Giant fans. Cupo is the second of five finalists in The Post's "Biggest Giants Fan" contest. There will be a fabulous grand...
IT'S OFFICIAL: CALL HIM CARDINAL EGAN - MAKES FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST ABORTION LAW
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amArchbishop Edward M. Egan, in a move anticipated for weeks, was elevated to the College of Cardinals yesterday, and immediately used his bully pulpit to come out swinging against abortion....
FORDHAM PROF MAKES HISTORY
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rev. Avery Dulles, a former agnostic turned Fordham University religion professor, yesterday became the first American theologian appointed a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. "I'm still not quite...
ASHCROFT LIKELY TO SLIDE THROUGH SENATE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A top Congressional Democrat predicted yesterday that President Bush's remaining seven Cabinet picks - including conservative icon John Ashcroft - will win Senate approval next week. Senate Minority...
SENATORS TO VOICE WAGERS ON THE GAME
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton want to bet their mouths - instead of their money - on the Giants in the Super Bowl. So, the two New...
HILL BUMPED OFF PREZ JET AND GIVEN A COACH PASS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who kissed goodbye the comforts of Air Force One when her husband relinquished his job over the weekend, will now be traveling like the...
CROWNING GLORY OF DULLES' CAREER
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amNEW YORK, New York: the city so great they named it twice. And now they're going to give it two cardinals! Everybody knew that Archbishop Edward Egan would get a...
MOM: WHY I KIDNAPPED MY CHILD
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amDYANDRIA MURRAY is only 11, but she's been living underground for the past month. The pretty preteen with the baby-blue painted nails is a foster-care fugitive whose future very likely...
DID VIAGRA GIVE RISE TO SLAY BID?
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amThe wife of a 72-year-old Manhattan doctor has been charged with trying to kill him after he took Viagra and made an unwanted romantic overture to her. It was the...
WHY WENDY'S SLAY SUSPECT COULD DODGE DEATH NEEDLE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amQueens prosecutors will tell a judge today that one of the two men charged with killing five people in the Wendy's robbery massacre is mentally retarded and cannot face the...
FUROR OVER CLINTON PARDONS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bill Clinton's 11th-hour pardons for a pair of New York's most notorious drew howls of outrage yesterday from City Hall to the relatives of a Rockland County cop gunned...
S.I. WOMAN KILLED BY CAR AFTER DISPUTE WITH DRIVER
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amA Staten Island woman was killed early yesterday after being struck by her friend's car outside a bar where the two had been arguing, according to police. Shannon Donnelly, 27,...
MEXICAN GANGS IN DEADLY BX. CLASH
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amAn upsurge in violence involving Mexican gangs continued yesterday when a man was stabbed to death and three people were wounded in two incidents, police said. In the first incident,...
W.'S WHITE HOUSE IS READY FOR ACTION - BUSH TOURS NEW HOME, PREPS EDUCATION PLAN
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush joked yesterday that he still needs a tour to learn about the White House - but says he's rested and ready to go full-steam ahead this...
ABORTION FUROR JOLTS S.I. ST. PAT'S PARADE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amAn abortion-rights tempest is brewing between Borough President Guy Molinari and the man who's been picked to lead Staten Island's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The anti-abortion Republican borough president...
THE HOTTEST DRESSERS GOING BLACK TO BASICS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amBLACK is back. All the magazines are showing it for spring - not to mention that the most chic actresses in Hollywood wore the non-color last night at the Golden...
HEROES PULL MAN AND TOT FROM BURNING CAR IN B'KLYN
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amThree heroic bystanders saved the lives of a man and a child trapped in a burning car in Brooklyn last night. "The fire started crackling and popping and the flames...
DOWNEY: BUST TO BEST - WINS ACTING PRIZE AS 'GLADIATOR' AND 'FAMOUS' TOP FIELD
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTroubled actor Robert Downey Jr. - starring in a real-life drama that could land him back in prison - walked away with a coveted Golden Globe last night in Los...
RACE FOR THE OSCARS BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amFOR movie buffs, the Golden Globes were a reassuring affair: No bad movies won awards, and several fine movies that seemed to be lacking the pre-Oscar buzz they merit- "Almost...
OUTRAGE OVER CHILD-KILLER'S SLAP ON WRIST
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amA Palestinian dad whose 11-year-old son was brutally beaten to death in the West Bank erupted in outrage yesterday after an Israeli court freed the Jewish man fingered in the...
'TRAFFIC' COPS AWARD - RISING STAR DEL TORO BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN PRELUDE TO OSCARS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amIt was a green light last night for "Traffic" actor Benicio Del Toro as he picked up the Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in a film. "I got...
STEPHON SOUNDS VAN HORN - MARBURY SINGS KEITH'S PRAISES AS ASSIST TOTALS RISE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amStephon Marbury knew the answer, but still he had to ask himself the question: Hey, what's the deal with the assists? See, Marbury was going through a stage where his...
KNICKS SUFFER A HICK-UP - COME UP FLAT IN TUSSLE WITH SUB-PAR PACERS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amPacers 87 - Knicks 74 This was sobering. This was humbling. This was the Pacers' statement that the Knicks' road to the Finals may not go through Philly after all....
CZECHMATES SKATE UP; RANGERS RELY ON CZECHMATES
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amRALEIGH - There is no debate. The numbers do not lie. At the most critical juncture of a season that will either be breathing on its own or on a...
REGGIE: WITH PATRICK GONE, SO IS RIVALRY
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWhat is the world coming to when Reggie Miller says the New York-Indiana rivalry is dead, and the Knicks can't even get up to face their one-time archnemesis? The Pacer...
ROSE TURNS UP HIS NOSE AT CRITICISM
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amPacers guard Jalen Rose spent Saturday listening to the media bash his team, dismissing them as a sorry squad that was no threat to beat the Knicks. Rose spent yesterday...
CHILDS' KNEE KEEPS HIM ON THE BENCH
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amChris Childs has missed a couple of practices the past two weeks with tendinitis in both of his knees. Yesterday, it flared up so much in the first half that...
KURT MAKES GOOD AS CAMBY FILL-IN
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amWhen Marcus Camby threw a sucker-punch at Danny Ferry last Monday and got tagged with a five-game suspension, it fell to Kurt Thomas to shoulder the Knicks' rebounding burden. It...
THE GAME'S JUST A LEAD-IN; SUPER SHOW? YEAH, IF YOU'RE 18
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amCHECK it out. Then again, you won't have to. Over the next seven days it'll be abundantly self-evident: By the time Super Bowl XXXV is concluded, the combined marketing strategies...
VG STRICK-T WITH ERICK'S PT
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Erick Strickland dove for a loose ball late in the second quarter yesterday, getting the steal, picking up a foul and getting to the free-throw line. It was...
STORM PRACTICES AS MIKE PREACHES
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amIt's taken junior Donald Emanuel the better part of two years to get the message. If you want minutes in the Mike Jarvis system, practice as if it's a game....
EDDIE DONOVAN DEAD AT 78 - KNICK CHAMPIONSHIP GM SUCCUMBS TO A STROKE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amIt was only appropriate that Willis Reed was at former Knicks GM Eddie Donovan's bedside in the end. Because the Donovan-Reed relationship was truly a beginning. The beginning of the...
HALL VICTORY A GOOD SIGN
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amSeton Hall 77 - Syracuse 65 In the early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 7, after Seton Hall had been dismantled at Georgetown, the Pirates were reeling. Eddie Grffin had...
LOMAS LEANS ON PARKER
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Glenn Parker once thought this was routine. Make the playoffs. Win a couple games. Go to the Super Bowl. Every year. Routine. Lomas Brown thought the routine was...
IKE'S LIVING OUT A DREAM
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Back in 1997 Ike Hilliard never thought he would play football again. He's not only playing in the biggest game of them all, he's playing in Super Bowl...
PARKER CAN'T FORGET NORWOOD'S 'WIDE RIGHT'
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Glenn Parker said yesterday that he'll "never forget" Scott Norwood. The problem is, Parker will never forget his former Bills' teammate for all the wrong reasons. Parker, the...
FASSEL NEARLY WOUND UP WITH CHARGERS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Funny how things work out. In 1997, before Jim Fassel took over the Giants, it was the Chargers and Bobby Beathard who wanted Fassel to be their coach....
FOR FASSELS, THIS IS THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - This was the flight that Jim and Kitty Fassel had waited most of their lives to take; the flight that would take Jim's team to a Super Bowl...
FOR GIANTS, IT'S FIRST AND GOAL - BIG BLUE BEATS RAVENS INTO TOWN AND GETS SERIOUS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Giants got here first. They hope to be the last team standing. A weekend snowstorm could not deter the underdog Giants from making an on-time arrival in...
HAMMER'S LOOKING TO NAIL DOWN TITLE
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Hammer finally nailed down a place in the Super Bowl after nine seasons, so yesterday he went Tampa in style. Keith Hamilton got on the plane as a...
FOR THE HAMMER, THIS IS BUSINESS
January 22, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Hammer finally nailed down a spot in the Super Bowl after nine seasons and went to Tampa yesterday in style. Keith Hamilton got on the plane with more...