February 12, 2001
DOT-COM CORPSES REVIVED IN FASHION SHOW
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWHO better to produce a dead dot-com fashion show than a dot-com that's been to the other side and has made it back? Boo.com, the most famous failure in dot-com...
FCC'S DIRTY WORK A JOKE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHE Federal Communications Commission has, among other responsibilities, the duty to keep indecent material off the nation's airwaves. But FCC staffers can't seem to agree on a standard of indecency....
CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES ZOOM AHEAD
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amF you can't decide between the equity and bond markets, convertible securities give you exposure to the best of both worlds. Convertible bonds are issued by corporations to raise capital,...
ANDY HILFIGER TO HELP MUSICIANS GET FASHIONABLE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amAndy Hilfiger, younger brother of Tommy and sometime rock 'n' roll guitarist, is creating a company called MEFI - Music Entertainment Fashion Inc. This company will help music and Hollywood...
LET'S HOPE AMERICANS DON'T COPY THE JAPANESE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amKEEP your fingers crossed that Americans aren't like the Japanese. The Federal Reserve promised more interest-rate cuts, even as it was lopping off a full percentage point from borrowing costs...
BROWN BROS. BOOKS ; DITCHES BATTERY PARK CITY SITE FOR 140 B'WAY
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amBattery Park City has been ditched by Brown Brothers Harriman. Instead, the white-shoe financial firm is close to a deal with Silverstein Properties to take a huge chuck of 140...
TALK BOOKS' RISKY BET ; BIG BUCKS FOR CELEB BOOKS CAN TURN INTO A MONEY PIT
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amSuddenly, Talk Miramax Books is the toast of the book world, after a lightening round of big ticket deals over the last few weeks. Last week, they snagged the memoir...
FUND HISTORY SIMPLY SCANDALOUS!
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amHOW do you define scandal? Over lunch at 21 Club last week, Matt Fink, executive director of the Investment Company Institute -- the trade group for the mutual fund industry...
AND NOW HE WON'T SHUT UP!
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amBull's Eye has uncovered further proof the Mouth from the South is back in business. The AOL Time Warner executive team continued its tour of different company locations last week...
SURVIVING "SURVIVOR"
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amCAN America possibly survive the "Survivor" hype? Taking advantage of its first big hit in years, the CBS marketing machine is cranking out Survivor tie-ins faster than you can say,...
A HEAD OF THE PACK
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S ugly. It's scary. It watches you in the privacy of your home and Webcasts your every movement so others can spy on you. It even tells you what to...
ALL THAT PIZZAZ!
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amFOSSEBroadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th St., (212) 239-6200. THE derby tilted just so. The elbow bent. The fingers splayed. The hand limp. The body frozen in a pose all arrogant,...
FEMME FATAL; THE GALS ARE GREAT, BUT THE MOVIE'S NOT
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amThese Old Broads Tonight at 9 on WABC WHEN I was a little kid, I remember my mother talking - endlessly - about how Elizabeth Taylor stole her best friend's...
REALITY SHOWS GET THEIR OWN EMMY ISLAND
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S a good bet "Survivor" will nab an Emmy next year in a new category created just for reality shows. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has created two...
THE STARR REPORT
February 12, 2001 | 5:00am'Friends' proves to be a survivor on Ch. 4 "Survivor" is kicking NBC's butt from 8 to 9 p.m. Thursdays - everywhere but here in New York. Last Thursday's 40-minute...
'ANTIQUES' APPRAISES BIG APPLE; 'ROADSHOW' PRODUCERS PLANNING NYC VISIT
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amDO not flood Ch. 13 with inquiring phone calls. Do not accost the Keno twins with Baggies of campaign buttons or bottle caps. Do not begin packing shopping bags with...
SETTING HEARTS ON FIRE: GUIDED BY VOICES WILL CRANK UP THE VOLUME ON SOME HOT LOVE SONGS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWHETHER you're searching for a heart of gold or want to return a tarnished one, there's plenty of music to choose from this Valentine's Day.Robert Ellsworth Pollard Jr., the beer-loving...
WHEN A DATE'S FATE IS A GREAT ESCAPE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amON a first date, Tom was already thinking about a getaway with Denise - OK, so it was more like a "get away!"Unfortunately, what the 29-year-old writer had hoped would...
POLS JUST CAN'T COME TO TERMS WITH LIMITS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amIT ALMOST made you pity Peter Vallone. The other day at City Hall, the beleaguered City Council speaker was trying to hold back a growing revolt by more than 20...
SPRING AHEAD TO A FABULOUS FALL
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amIt's almost spring, the time of year when a young fashionista's fancy turns to . . . fall? Yep, just when we're getting used to the looks of winter, the...
ANDY'S WIFE: DEATH PENALTY NO LONGER AN ISSUE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amKERRY KENNEDY CUOMO, wife of Andrew Cuomo and a leading death-penalty opponent, says "it would be futile" to try to repeal capital punishment in New York. Mrs. Cuomo, daughter of...
GET THIS DAMN CLOWN OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT!
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amEVEN the most pathological of Bill Clinton's groupies don't get it. If you or I had eight years of scandals, embarrassments and lies unravel in front of our eyes, we...
SOME PROBLEMS COME FROM THE TOP
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amONE lesson Cold War-era enlistees in the U.S. Navy learned early on was that the senior service never ran out of coffee cups - or paint chippers, especially paint chippers....
CHIANTI, ANYONE? 'HANNIBAL' DEVOURS BOX-OFFICE RIVALS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00am"Hannibal" bit big into the wallets of movie fans over the weekend - devouring a record-breaking $58 million in ticket sales to score as the No. 1 movie across North...
CUNY COULD NET $10M FROM SALE OF RITZY HOMES
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amCity University is considering selling eight posh residences - worth more than $10 million - that are now used to provide rent-free lodging to the chancellor and college presidents, The...
RISKING KIDS' HEALTH FOR SAKE OF SCIENCE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amTWO city research institutions will extend their tentacles into our communities today, looking for hundreds of kids, some as young as 3, to use as guinea pigs. The experiments, to...
LEARNING HISTORY NOW CHILD'S PLAY
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amA small New England toy company figures if kids are going to play with action figures, why not throw in a history lesson or two? The idea has led to...
STUDY BOOSTS PUSH FOR BIRTH-CONTROL OPTIONS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amLawmakers and supporters of an Assembly bill to force businesses and insurers to cover contraceptives said yesterday that most New York health plans limit women's birth-control choices. According to a...
JAPANESE PM TOOK 'COURSE' OF INACTION DURING SUB TRAGEDY
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amCritics blasted Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori yesterday for finishing a round of golf after learning an American nuclear submarine had rammed and sunk a Japanese fishing boat, leaving nine...
IRAQ: ALLIED JETS STRIKE CIVILIANS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amIraq charged U.S. and British warplanes bombed civilian areas yesterday, demolishing 17 houses and wounding seven people - but the United States said the planes hit military targets. The Iraqi...
HILLARY: I RETURNED GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amAfter a "thank you" tour of three black churches in Brooklyn yesterday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton blasted charges that she failed to disclose gifts of designer gowns, purses and jewelry...
ISRAELI DRIVER SHOT DEAD IN WEST BANK
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - New violence erupted in Israel last night as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon labored to form a unity government. A 35-year-old Israeli settler was fatally shot while driving on...
MAN NABBED IN SENIOR RAPE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amA 36-year-old Brooklyn man with a history of arrests for sex crimes was busted yesterday morning for raping his girlfriend's mother inside a senior citizen's center, police said. Leon Frasier...
TOM & NICOLE SPLIT A QUESTION OF FAITH ; EX-SCIENTOLOGY MOMS: SHE'S; RIGHT TO RESCUE HER CHILDREN
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amSUPERSTARS Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, divorcing after 10 years, are getting ready for a potentially nasty legal battle over how their children will be raised, The Post has learned....
PROBE EYES DENISE'S BANK ACC'T - DID FOREIGN FUNDS INFLUENCE BUBBA?
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White reportedly wants a peek at the bank account of socialite Denise Rich to see if foreign money goosed President Clinton into pardoning...
RADICAL CHIC: TRAVELING THUG TELLS HOW TO PACK
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWhat does a terrorist pack in his overnight bag for an international mission at the orders of Osama bin Laden? Porno mags, lots of cigarettes - and a smile, a...
ISLAMIC TERROR GROUPS FORM UNHOLY ALLIANCE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amThe Middle East's most violent terrorists have agreed to a frightening megamerger in which they will pool resources to fight their common enemies: the United States and Israel. The new...
THIS YEAR'S OSCAR STATUES WILL BE MADE OF 'STEAL'
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Academy Award winners will walk away from the podium with particularly hot Oscars this March. "Everyone who gets an Academy Award this year will be getting something, um,...
NEW DNC LOOKS LIKE CLINTON GOV'T IN EXILE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It may be the Democratic National Committee - but it sure looks like the Clinton government in exile. Or maybe the vanguard of a future Hillary Clinton-for-president campaign,...
FUROR OVER 'BONSAI KITTEN' SITE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amMeowch! The FBI has launched a probe into a twisted Web site that purports to show how to grow kittens inside glass jars. The site, which includes grotesque images of...
PROBE EYES DENISE'S BANK ACC'T: DID FOREIGN FUNDS INFLUENCE BUBBA?
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White reportedly wants a peek at the bank account of socialite Denise Rich to see if foreign money goosed President Clinton into pardoning...
NEW FALL LOOK IS LESS 'IN TENTS'
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amIt's almost spring, the time of year when a young fashionista's fancy turns to . . . fall clothes? Yep, just when we're getting used to the looks of winter...
STAKES ON TAP FOR HOPEFULS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amThe year's first major stakes races for Triple Crown hopefuls are on tap this weekend, with the Grade 1, $200,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes being run Saturday at Gulfstream Park,...
YOU'VE GOTTA LOVE THIS GAME
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - There's a lot to love about this job, some of it not what you might think. On Saturday, in the middle of February, the Big East schedule-makers seemingly...
SPAIN PREVAILS IN LA CANADA
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amSpain, last year's Breeders' Cup Distaff winner, was able to get her revenge on Chilukki as she stalked the pace and drew away in the stretch to win the Grade...
BRODEUR HAS NO LOVE FOR BLUESHIRTS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amMartin Brodeur said he hopes Larry Robinson intended to deny the Rangers a point that they will surely need to make the playoffs, even at the expense of getting that...
HUNT FOR BOOMER MAY BE BACK ON
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amCan David Wells still become a Met? Probably not, but a situation that was dead now has the slimmest of glimmers. Blue Jays GM Gord Ash plans on seeking a...
HE'S BECK FROM THE ABYSS ; CH. 4 SPORTSCASTER GETS AWAY FROM XFL'S VULGARITY
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amPERHAPS the most hopeful sign from the weekend was that some local NBC news people began to spit up some of that NBC/XFL poison they were forced to drink. Of...
BIG LEAGUE BRONX TALE UNFOLDING ; YANK LONGSHOT GETS A CHANCE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amThis is not a story about baseball's endless supply of money. It can't be because it was spawned at St. Mary's Park in the South Bronx. It's not about a...
STARS IN A DIFFERENT SKY ; UBA HOOPSTERS KEEP GAME, LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHIS is the other side of the NBA All-Star game, minor league all the way except one vital difference. People care. A community got together yesterday. A community of minor...
MCMAHON KNOWS XFL NEEDS WORK
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amAfter brief post-game press conferences by head coaches Gerry DiNardo and then Rusty Tillman of the Hitmen, XFL founder and WWF head man Vince McMahon addressed reporters. Yesterday was the...
'GALLO' TOP HARNESS HORSE
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amPOMPANO BEACH, Fla. - The U.S. Harness Writers Association named Gallo Blue Chip harness Horse of the Year for 2000 last night at its yearly banquet at Pompano Park Racetrack....
KNOT EXACTLY GETTING IT DONE ; TIE PUTS RANGERS CLOSER TO END
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amRangers 1 Devils 1 These are now officially "desperate" times for the Rangers, whose 1-1 Garden draw yesterday against the substantially depleted and exhausted Devils left the Blueshirts 10 points...
XFL: A WORK IN PROGRESS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amPARDON the misconception. But like the women holding sons by the hand, walking out of Giants Stadium by halftime with "Why, I never!" looks on their faces, we must have...
PULERI MAY BE FIRST HITMAN TO GET WHACKED
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amHITMEN NOTES For the second straight week, the Hitmen offense sputtered at times and failed to get the job done. For the second straight week, the Hitmen lost with Charles...
HITMEN BURIED IN MEADOWLANDS: FOLD IN FOURTH TO SPOIL XFL NEW JERSEY DEBUT
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amBolts 19 Hitmen 12 If you looked close enough you could make out the NFC Championship game emblem and the NFL logo in the Meadowlands grass beneath the black and...
NBA MUST MAKE SURE ITS YOUTH IS SERVED
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It was admirable the way commissioner David Stern defended his players, his league and the future of what he called "our game" during his state of the NBA...
HOUSTON, SPREE STUCK LEADING CHEERS
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES WASHINGTON - Knicks Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell were reduced to cheerleaders when the Eastern Conference rallied from a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit to win the 50th All-Star Game...
WEST CAUGHT WITH GUARD DOWN
February 12, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Size matters. Not the size of the man, mind you. But the size of his heart. The Eastern Conference All-Stars could have called it a weekend, trailing by...