January 26, 2001
WHAT MADE GREENSPAN CHANGE HIS MIND ON TAX CUTS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amALAN Greenspan said "Yes" to tax cuts yesterday. Now we have to see whether the money markets can handle the news for more than a day. The Federal Reserve is...
PORN-AGAIN FASHION - PRIVATE MEDIA TO STRUT STUFF AT 7TH ON SIXTH
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amPorn is not exactly an industry you associate with fashion - or even clothes. Yet Private Circle, a sportswear company owned by an adult entertainment giant, is planning to introduce...
NEW YORKER ONLINE EDITION GETS GO-AHEAD
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThanks to a sudden reprieve, The New Yorker is back on track to go live on the Web next month - a mere four or five years after most major...
SCHOOLS ON THE RISE ; BOARD OF ED LOOKS TO DEAL AIR RIGHTS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe Board of Education is willing to trade sites for seats. The city education agency intends to swap some Manhattan schools to developers, who can then build apartment towers on...
INTV ACQUIRES PSEUDO, PLANS FALL RELAUNCH
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amPseudo's back. The streaming video site will be relaunched this fall by Midtown-based INTV, a 20 person company that produces corporate video and Web content. Papers were signed yesterday morning,...
BURNING ONE'S BRIDGES: DOW JONES WRITES OFF LAST OF ITS STAKE IN DATA SERVICE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amDow Jones is paying the Bridge toll. The owner of the Wall Street Journal is writing off the remaining $80.3 million investment in Bridge Information Systems, perhaps ending the last...
EU TO PROBE MUSIC BIGS OVER PRICE-FIXING
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe European Commission is planning to investigate the world's top music companies over allegations they have been fixing artificially high prices for CDs sold in the European Union, it was...
M'SOFT BLAMES HACK ATTACK FOR NEW WEB CRASH
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amAdding to Microsoft's embarrassment, the software giant admitted last night that the renewed blackout of its Web sites was caused by a hacker attack. "During the morning of Jan. 25,...
'REQUIEM' & MORE FROM A HEAVYWEIGHT
January 26, 2001 | 5:00am'WHEN things get tough," Giuseppe Verdi said, "put your hand over your heart, look straight ahead and keep going." That's Vincent La Selva's motto. With limited funding but boundless passion,...
UPPING THE DOSAGE ; VITAMIN C SAYS 'MORE' TRULY IS - MORE FOCUSED, MORE FUN AND MORE MUSICAL ; DAH LEN
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amCOLLEEN Fitzpatrick, professionally know as Vitamin C, insists, "I am not a health nut."That said, the singer, who was the subject of a question on "Who Wants to Be a...
MIXED MARRIAGE : EVEN SWEET JENNIFER LOPEZ CAN'T SPICE UP FLAT FLICK
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTHE WEDDING PLANNERMechanical romantic comedy vainly aspiring to old-fashioned screwball sophistication. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras.Running time: 102 minutes. Rated PG-13 (Sexual humor). At Empire 25, Loews...
SWEDE 'N' DOUR
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amFAITHLESS 1/2 Cheating spouses, directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Ingmar Bergman.In Swedish, with English subtitles. Running time: 142 minutes. Not rated (sex). At the Lincoln Plaza and the...
'RAW DEAL' FUROR PROMPTS BIDDING FRENZY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - A bidding war erupted yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival as studios scrambled to buy a documentary containing shocking footage of frat-house sex, including an alleged...
THIS WRETCHED 'ROAD' LEADS NOWHERE FAST
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amR2PC: ROADTO PARK CITY Half a star Tiresome, barely-watchable "comic" pseudodocumentary about a clueless idiot who decides to become a Sundance-winning filmmaker. Starring John Viener.Running time: 75 minutes. Not rated...
THE STARR REPORT
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amRhea to stayCaroline Rhea will be handling double, and perhaps triple, duty when she begins hosting her new talk show, "Caroline," next fall. Not only will Rhea host the weekday...
'TWO NINAS' VIDEO-BOUND, DOUBLE-QUICK
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTWO NINAS Two Ninas too many. Fourth-rate imitation Woody Allen.Running time: 88 minutes. Rated R (sexuality, profanity). At the Empire, Chelsea, Sutton, others. MARTY Sachs (Ron Livingston), the aspiring novelist...
INDIE IN 'MELROSE' MODE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amRESTLESS 1/2Running time: 98 minutes. Not rated (nothing offensive). At the Cinema Village, 12 St., East of 5th Avenue. 'RESTLESS" boasts exceptionally attractive locations, but its painfully amateurish plotting, dialogue...
TEMPTING FATE; FOX'S HIT IS SCARY STUFF BEHIND THE SCENES
January 26, 2001 | 5:00am'TEMPTATION Island" was filmed in 11 days last September, and it's still not ready. For any other show, that kind of delay would have network executives tearing out their hair....
A LOVE LETTER TO LATKES ; SIMON CELEBRATES POLISH TEAROOM
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amFOR more than three decades, the cafe in the Hotel Edison has been serving up blintzes, latkes and piping-hot matzo ball soup to the denizens of the Broadway theater world....
'ISLAND' HOST PITCHES SEXY SINGLES SWAP
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTEMPATION Island" is only supposed to last six weeks - but the show's host, Mark L. Walberg, has a plan to keep the cheap thrills going. Walberg and TV vet...
NBC APOLOGIZES TO LATINOS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amNBC yesterday apologized for a "Law & Order" episode that enraged Latino leaders because of its portrayal of the Puerto Rican Day Parade - but series creator Dick Wolf growled...
A SIGN OF THE TIMES AT ABC
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amSOME of the shows that were part of ABC News' trumpeted move downtown to the network's Times Square studios may be heading back uptown. ABC's "20/20" with Barbara Walters and...
LEADING WITHOUT POLLS ...
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTHE increasing acceptance in both parties of the need for and desirability of across-the-board tax cuts is the most significant political development in recent memory - and not just because...
MEET THE LIFE OF THE PARTY CRASHER - HE'S SNUCK INTO 33 SUPER BOWLS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Admit it, there's a part of you that wishes you could sneak into the Super Bowl. You could enjoy all the incredible parties, get your picture taken with...
JESSE'S WIFE MAKES UP WITH 'OTHER WOMAN'
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife is trying to make peace with her husband's mistress - promising that the civil-rights activist's family will embrace his love child, a new report says....
LETTER OF THE LAW LETTING PATAKI 'SWIPE' W LICENSE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amGov. Pataki stands accused of going after Dubya - the license plate. Warren Davis, a 70-year-old Manhattan man, has had his beloved, hard-won, single-letter "W" New York license plate for...
A SNEAK'S SECRETS TO GETTING IN FREE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Still can't find tickets to the Super Bowl? If you are really desperate - and can keep a straight face - try the following tips to sneaking into...
JENNIFER CAPRIATI'S TOUGH ROAD BACK
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amLOOK out, Anna Kournikova, tennis has a new golden girl! Comeback kid Jennifer Capriati's heartbreaking descent into drugs and crime seems like just a distant memory in Australia. The sexy...
WRESTLE-FAN BOY GUILTY OF KILLING GIRL, 6
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA hulking Florida boy who claimed he accidentally killed a 6-year-old playmate while imitating pro wrestlers was convicted yesterday of first-degree murder. A Fort Lauderdale jury took only three hours...
SUPER REWARD FOR SETON HALL SURVIVOR WITH A GIANT HEART
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants worked a pre-Super Bowl miracle yesterday, giving one of The Post's Super Fans - and his overjoyed dad - an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Game. "I can't...
GREEN WAGED CAMPAIGN-$$ WAR WITH THE CITY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amMayoral candidate Mark Green last year secretly fought with the city's Campaign Finance Board over how much money he owed the agency following his 1997 run for public advocate, The...
ALL PRESENTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR, SHE SAYS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday defended taking more than $190,000 in furniture and other gifts from fat cats like Denise Rich, whose ex-husband got a controversial pardon from...
RUDY BIDS TO CUT CANDIDATES' MATCHING FUNDS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration is threatening to slash the Campaign Finance Board's budget in half - raising the possibility that funding for the mayoral race could be plunged into chaos, The...
RAVENS STRONGER ON THE 'OFFENSIVE' LINE - COMPARING FOOTBALL PLAYERS' RAP SHEETS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe Baltimore Ravens have the Giants beat in at least one contest before Sunday's big game - number of players who have been arrested. Eleven members of the Ravens' Super...
TAX-CUTTING RUDY BARES $39B BUDGET
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani released his eighth and final budget proposal yesterday - a $39.3 billion opus for 2002 that allocates a record sum for education and includes hefty tax cuts his...
EX-TEAMSTER BOSS INDICTED IN $$ 'LIES'
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amEx-Teamsters chief Ronald Carey was indicted yesterday on charges of lying to the feds about an illegal money-funneling operation to win re-election as union boss. Carey, who was ousted from...
MOURNERS SALUTE TRAGIC EMS HERO
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA dedicated Emergency Medical Service lieutenant who died Sunday shoveling snow outside a Brooklyn firehouse was hailed at funeral services yesterday for making "the world a little better every day."...
RALLYING FANS TRAIN SIGHTS ON GIANT VICTORY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA Giant throng of Big Blue backers led by Jints greats held a spirited rally yesterday in Penn Station, where a lucky "superfan" sacked the competition to win two tickets...
ASHCROFT DENIES 'GAY' QUIZ OF JOB-SEEKER
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A former aide to ex-Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan yesterday claimed Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft demanded to know at a job interview if he was gay. Ashcroft denies it....
GREENSPAN JOINS TAX-CUT CHORUS - FED BOSS GIVES BOOST TO BUSH PLAN
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush got a huge boost for his tax package yesterday when Fed chief Alan Greenspan endorsed tax cuts "sooner rather than later" and warned against government spending....
PA COMPROMISES IN $6 TOLL BID
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTolls on Port Authority bridges and tunnels will jump 50 percent, to $6 round-trip, for cash-paying drivers under a compromise plan approved by the agency's board yesterday. The proposed toll...
HUNDREDS OF CITY HS TEACHERS FACING AX
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amHundreds of high school teaching positions could be eliminated next week, even as Mayor Giuliani has proposed millions of dollars in new education programs, the head of the teachers union...
BUSH WON'T GO AFTER WHITE HOUSE VANDALS - BUT AIDE SAYS HIS STAFF IS 'CATALOGING' DAMAGE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's staff is "cataloging" possible vandalism to phones and computers by outgoing Clinton-Gore aides, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said yesterday. "What we are doing is...
TIME'S UP! JANE'S CNN SHOW AXED
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amJane Fonda - here's your pink slip! Ted Turner's estranged wife has become the latest casualty in this week's massive layoffs at AOL/Time Warner. Fonda hosted a show airing several...
CRAZED SLASHER HELD IN PENN STA. ATTACK: COPS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA crazed homeless woman inside Penn Station slashed the face of a Wall Street worker with a 4-inch blade yesterday, using a racial slur in a boast to cops just...
LEVY'S LATEST CLASS ACTION: STUDYING PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amChancellor Harold Levy - struggling to turn around failing public schools - said yesterday he would investigate whether city parochial schools are providing a quality education. Levy said he has...
SETON HALL SETTLES WITH FAMILIES OF FIRE VICTIMS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA dozen families have reached out-of-court settlements with Seton Hall University following the dorm fire that killed three students and injured 58 others. Twenty students or their families had filed...
BEG PARDON, BUT HILLARY IS LYING LOW
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pulling a disappearing act today amid the furor over last-minute presidential pardons - even dropping out of a long-planned event with the Rev. Jesse Jackson....
MURDER EYED IN FATAL BX. BLAZE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA man and a woman were found dead in a burned Bronx apartment early today, and firefighters said they appeared to have been stabbed before the blaze was set. The...
DIABETES 'HELP' FOR KIDS MAY BE DEADLY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA common treatment for kids with diabetes whose blood sugar has risen too high can cause fatal brain swelling, researchers warn. The treatment involves giving a sodium bicarbonate injection to...
CELINE'S NEW HIGH NOTE: A BABY BOY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amCeline Dion had a titanic smile on her face today after giving birth to a baby boy. The infant - named Rene-Charles, after Celine's husband - was born at 1...
HIZZONER WANTS TO SLASH CITY $$ FOR MAYORAL RACE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration is threatening to slash the Campaign Finance Board's budget in half - raising the possibility that funding for the mayoral race could be plunged into chaos, The...
'CORPSE' AWAKENS IN FUNERAL HOME
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amA Massachusetts funeral director was stunned when a body bag containing a supposed corpse suddenly came alive with the sound of gurgling. "It scared me half to death," John Matarese...
LOOKS LIKE SUPER DAY FOR GIANTS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amFOR a team that went an entire month without scoring a touchdown, a team whose quarterback completed five passes in a playoff game, a team that gave up almost 500...
BUD'S 'BALANCE' PLAN IS WAY OFF BASE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amQUIZ: Name the active homer leader within each of the six divisions (answer below). * The "competitive balance" issue commissioner Bud Selig has promised repeatedly to address is filled with...
BARROW'S EMERGENCE A TRUE LEAP OF FAITH
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Ask Micheal Barrow what the Giants have to do to beat the Ravens in the Super Bowl Sunday night and his answer is simple. "Pray." This is not...
AN AMAZIN' COINCIDENCE ; LIKE VALENTINE, FASSEL MADE GOOD ON PROMISE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTHEY have touched paths now more in spirit than in substance. In the late 1960s, at the University of Southern California, they were glamour athletes who shared a campus, but...
PSAL SEEDING CATCHES SOME COACHES OFF GUARD
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amOn the surface, the game between Cardozo and Robeson on Feb. 9 should be huge. Robeson has been the PSAL's best team this year and Cardozo has improved into a...
ONE MORE HILL TO CLIMB ; GIANTS' COMELLA REACHES FOR SUPER SUMMIT
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Think of Greg Comella as the anti-Ray Lewis. Not only must the Giants' young fullback find a way to neutralize Lewis, his story is so heart-warming, you can't...
ISLES BRING BEEZER BACK TO THE GARDEN
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amFrom Mike Bossy through Pierre Turgeon, goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck faced them all during nine seasons of Rangers-Islanders games. But tonight, eight years removed from hearing the Ranger crowd chant "Beezer"...
DEVILS DANGLING JAY TO WILD, L.A.
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - The Devils aren't putting all their eggs in the Rob Blake basket. While they resist giving up Scott Gomez for the Kings' defenseman, it appears the Stanley...
COOL, CONFIDENT DILFER SHAKES OFF CRITICISM
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - It is 48 hours until the most crucial, pressure-packed and defining game of his career and yet Trent Dilfer is cool. He's smiling, looking relaxed and handling all...
NEW YORK HUNTERS ARE PLAYING IT SAFE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTHIS past hunting season was the safest year ever for New York State's more than 700,000 hunters. The number of hunting injuries reported last year represents a 17 percent decrease...
NFL COMMITS BIG EAR-ROR ; OWNERS LIKE SNYDER MAKING ENEMIES IN BROADCAST BOOTH
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTHE most predictable NFL story in an otherwise highly unpredictable season was that Redskins' owner Daniel Snyder would break the land-speed record for making enemies. And among his lesser-known new...
HOUSTON EARNS NOD FOR 3-POINT CONTEST
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amAllan Houston is no lock to be selected for Feb. 11's Eastern Conference All-Star Team but he'll be there for festivities the day before. Houston was named as a participant...
CITY ZIP SET FOR HUTCHESON
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amCity Zip, who became the first horse in 40 years to sweep Saratoga's major 2-year-old stakes last year, will make his seasonal debut when he heads a field of 11...
MURPHY SAW GUARANTEE ON FASSEL'S FACE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - No one anticipated Jim Fassel's pre-Thanksgiving guarantee. No one, that is, but Mike Murphy, who is in charge of Giants security. "I knew after the Detroit loss when...
TO PROTECT AND SERVE; GIANTS' MIKE MURPHY HAS FASSEL'S BACK
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The moment of sheer jubilation may come late Sunday night, and if it does, Mike Murphy will be closest to Jim Fassel. If the Giants do not win...
JUST DON'T LOSE, BABY! FEAR OF ULTIMATE FAILURE JINTS' PRIME MOTIVATOR
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - They are driven by fear, an intense, bone-chilling fear, a fear that they will be forgotten. As much as they thirst for victory, the Giants understand their wondrous...
RICE: JAX HAD ME AT BOILING POINT
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amGlen Rice, primed for a Garden battle against the Lakers Super Bowl Sunday, revealed that his relationship with L.A. coach Phil Jackson was so "messed up" that it affected his...
JINTS FEEL A BIT QUEASY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - There must be something in the water. Jim Fassel and a few of his players came down with bad stomachs not long after hitting town, and yesterday Michael...
FOR FASSEL, LESS IS MORE ; NOT CALLING PLAYS HAS COACH MORE FOCUSED
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Jim Fassel describes it as "a call that tore my guts out." It came during the opening game of the 1999 season when the Giants where clinging to...
RAVENS' DE BURNETT FINALLY REAPS REWARD
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Rob Burnett is from New York, so you know he's a survivor. The thing is, though, there have been times when Burnett himself wondered whether he really was...
J.R. MAY NEED A PARDON: RIDER COULD FOUL OUT FOR REFUSING DRUG TEST
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amFOR the last week or two, J.R. Rider has been quoted extensively by a particularly hard-up segment of the media (what's the matter, wasn't Charles Manson unavailable for comment?) regarding...
ANIMAL MAGNETISM ; FUN TO TAKE GANDER AT GOOSE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Animal House has come to the Super Bowl, the sequel featuring the Ravens. This time, Boone is played by Brian Billick, Flounder by Jonathan Ogden, Dean Wormer by...
DITKA: LEWIS GOOD, BUT NO SINGLETARY
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Hall of Famer Mike Ditka knows his football. He knows his defense, his 1985 Bears were incredible. And he knows all about tough guys. This is what he...
YANKS INK KAMMY IN SURPRISE MOVE
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amWhatever lingering animosity persisted between Dwight Gooden and Joe Torre perished - at least publicly - last year when the player's need for a job intersected with the Yankees' need...
DEVILS DANGLING PANDOLFO
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - The Devils aren't putting all their eggs in the Rob Blake basket. While they resist giving up Scott Gomez for the Kings' defenseman, it appears the Stanley...
TURGEON OT GOAL ICES DEVILS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME Blues 4 Devils 3 ST. LOUIS - If record chases must end, these expired with honor, by the narrowest of margins to the winningest team in the NHL in...
TURGEON'S OT GOAL ICES DEVILS
January 26, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIME Blues 4 Devils 3 ST. LOUIS - Streaks galore ended on one tick off Pierre Turgeon's stick. When Turgeon deflected home Todd Reirden's shot to give the Blues a...