December 27, 1999
HOW JENNA FILLS HER ... PORTFOLIO
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amPorn queen Jenna Jameson is bullish on plastics. Not the kind that fills her famously ample bosom, but the kind being made by a small company called Botex. In the...
SOUNDTRACKS ARE SWEET MUSIC TO NETWORK EXECS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amFilm and TV studios are getting with the picture and beefing up their music soundtrack departments in order to cash in on the craze for the random collection of tunes....
'GUIDING' STAR TO HELP BATTLE ALS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amSOAP opera diva Beth Chamberlin from TV's "Guiding Light," has picked up the torch to battle Lou Gehrig's disease. Chamberlin announced she is joining the board of a foundation that...
SOLO FLIGHT OF FANCY
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW DID anyone ever see the dour FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and the irrepressible New York Post columnist and party-giver Elsa Maxwell at the same party? Or even...
SPORTS FILMS LOSE ; STONE TRIES TO BUCK TREND IN H'WOOD
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amOLIVER Stone thought tackling JFK was tough. But he might have pulled off something even more difficult than trying to solve the Kennedy assassination: making a successful sports movie. The...
GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING; MILLENIUM COVERAGE IS WHAT TV DOES BEST
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amTHE millennium isn't even here yet, and and I'll bet many of you are already fed up with it. My advice is: Hang in there. The best is yet to...
'MIRACLE' WORKER: IN HIS LATEST MOVIE, HARRIS HAS ROLE OF SEXY PRIEST COLLARED
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amYOU can put Ed Harris in priest's garb, but even that can't mask the intense sexuality the 49-year-old actor has brought to a raft of varied roles in more than...
AULD LANG STYLE
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThis week, there's only one question being asked more often than "What are you doing for New year's Eve?" - and that's "What are you wearing for New Year's Eve?"...
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT: ARTIST JOSH HARRIS CREATES HIS OWN VERSION OF BIG BROTHER FOR THE MILLENNIUM
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe Millennium Capsule Hotel, the cornerstone of downtown art project Quiet funded by Internet entreprenuer Josh Harris, is the destination of choice for some 150 Voyagers from around the world...
HOSPS $TRAPPED? DON'T TELL THEIR CEOS ; MILLIONAIRE BOSSES GET BIG PAY HIKES
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amSix of the city's 10 highest-paid hospital chiefs got huge salary increases last year -- despite cries of poverty from medical institutions across the city as they face state and...
EVERY HOUR TAKES TOLL ON CAPTIVES: SHRINKS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe passengers on hijacked Air India Flight 814 -- petrified their bloodthirsty captors will kill them or even blow up the plane -- are most certainly going through "a living...
INDIA JET HIJACKERS SET DEADLINE FOR KILLING HOSTAGES
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe bloodthirsty hijackers holding an Indian Airlines jet in Afghanistan said early today they would start killing their hostages if their demand to free an Islamic cleric is not met....
WINNERS AND SINNERS AMONG TOP STATE POLS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00am'TIS the season ... to present the annual winners and losers of New York state politics for the past year, an especially fun task this time because 1999 produced plenty...
NFL BIGS SLASH THROAT GESTURE FROM VIDEO GAME
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThey banned it from the gridiron -- now the NFL is banning the throat-slash gesture from its video games. "NFL Fever 2000," a new game manufactured by Microsoft and sanctioned...
WE WON'T LET MTA LAWYERS RAILROAD US: TOY MAKERS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amBetter not let those toy subway trains derail while they're chugging around your Christmas tree -- you won't be able to get any new ones if a Grinch called the...
SAFIR: LONE MANIAC IS THE BIGGEST Y2K THREAT
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- New York's top cop says he wants the public to be relaxed for New Year's, but acknowledges that even 19,000 officers on the street can't prevent a terror...
15 HURT AS LIGHTS SPARK YULE FIRE IN QNS. HOME
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amA joyous holiday gathering turned tragic when an inferno sparked by Christmas lights engulfed a Queens home yesterday morning -- injuring 15. Edelyne Pierre, 24, suffered burns on her arms...
OH, BROTHER! FEUD COULD COST $250M
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amIt's Cain vs. Abel -- with a billion-dollar twist. William Koch -- the tycoon famous for spending $68 million in an effort to land the 1992 America's Cup -- has...
'RETURN' OF THE SHOPPERS ; BACK FOR EXCHANGES, BARGAINS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amChristmas shoppers got their second wind yesterday, jamming stores to exchange gifts Santa didn't get quite right -- or cruising for sales too good to resist. The day after Christmas...
SOUL GREAT CURTIS MAYFIELD DIES AT 57
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amSoul legend Curtis Mayfield -- who electrified pop music with such hits as "Superfly" and "People Get Ready" -- died yesterday at 57. Mayfield -- credited for injecting a social...
BARAK FREES 5 GUERRILLAS IN PEACE BID
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -- Israel released five Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas yesterday, paving the way for renewed peace talks with Syria. The Israelis also hope the gesture will lead to the return of...
INTERNAL AFFAIRS COSTS NYPD INSPECTOR HIS JOB
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amA high-ranking NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau official accused of sexually harassing male cops in his command has been demoted and has retired from the force, The Post has learned. Deputy...
GENE THERAPY CURES 'FATAL' DISEASE
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amDoctors have made medical history -- successfully achieving the world's first gene-therapy cures. Kids born with a fatally defective gene for a vital blood component have been effectively treated after...
SWIPED CREDIT CARDS TURNED INTO METROCARDS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe city's new MetroCard vending machines are a pickpocket's best friend. Thieves have been using stolen credit cards to buy tens of thousands of MetroCards at subway vending machines, The...
EIGHT GOOD REASONS TO TURN OFF YOUR TV
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amHERE'S a year-end look at the best books I read in 1999. "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898," by Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University, $49.95)....
PORN TO BE MILD? '60-40' SHOPS TRY 'SLIGHT' OF HAND
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amATYPICAL day in the typical adult video shop on Eighth Avenue. The place is called Xtremes. Here, a dozen men browsed the porn shelves, meticulously broken down for every possible...
ROYALS ROIL WILLS WITH FERGIE SNUB
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amPrince William is so furious about the Royal Family's shabby treatment of Fergie he launched a dramatic protest over the weekend -- skipping their traditional Christmas Day church parade. Officially,...
(E)INSTEIN = (M)AN OF THE (C)ENTURY
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amEureka! Albert Einstein -- the absent-minded professor whose brilliant scientific theories changed the world -- was named Time magazine's Man of the Century yesterday. "As the century's greatest thinker, as...
CHANCELLOR SEARCH STARTS TOMORROW AS CREW HEADS WEST
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amLame-duck Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew flew the coop yesterday -- as the city Board of Education members who booted him prepared a search for a temporary successor. "One door closes,...
BRO-BY-BRO ACCOUNT OF GREED AND ENVY
December 27, 1999 | 5:00am"Be kind and generous to one another," Frederick Koch Sr. once counseled his four sons. His advice fell on deaf ears. The bad blood started gushing in 1983, when William...
FORMER MTA BOSS FISHER DIES
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amLegendary Brooklyn Democratic power broker Harold Fisher, who served on the MTA board from its creation in 1968 -- and as its chairman for two years -- died yesterday at...
LIBRARY'S HISTORY IS A REAL PAGE-TURNER
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amEach day until Jan. 1, The Post will take a lookat one of New York's landmarks on the eve of thenew millennium. We'll talk to people who work orvisit here...
$6M 'OMEN' HOUSE FOR 'SPOOKY' SPICE
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has made a devilish deal on a new house - plopping down $6.5 million on the spooky mansion where the "The Omen" was filmed. The...
BEN: I'LL BE 'BAT' IF GWYNETH'S MY 'CAT'
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amHoly Bat Flap! Ben Affleck reportedly has agreed to star as the new Batman, but with one big condition - that his gal pal Gwyneth Paltrow be cast as Catwoman....
DEVILS CAN'T PULL WIN OUT OF A HAT
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThis was the stuff that wins the Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year. With the Devils, however, a hat trick isn't necessarily enough to win a game. Passers,...
JETS ON A MISSION TO BEACH DOLPHINS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI -- For the desperate Dolphins, their season hangs in the balance of tonight's game against the Jets at Pro Player Stadium. For the Jets, it's been much of the...
KNICKS ARE STILL GOONS AT HEART
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Knicks couldn't have lived down to their national reputation as a team of thugs any more perfectly than on Christmas night in Indiana. Locally, we know the Knicks of...
SPREWELL HOPING HE SEES STARS UP CLOSE
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Maybe it was the national television audience, with all those All-Star voters scouting on Christmas night. Latrell Sprewell looked like a pumped-up boxer awaiting a championship bout in...
DUTCHMEN GETTING NO FAVORS IN FESTIVAL
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amSo much for being the defending champs. Hofstra, which pulled off a shocking triumph last year in the ECAC Holiday Fesital, upsetting Georgia Tech and then Pennsylvania, won't get any...
WINNING AGAIN MAY BE TWO MUCH TO ASK
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amIf we've learned anything from the Islanders this season, it's that they will lose tonight. The Islanders have not won two games in a row this season. And by coming...
ROSE BLOOMS AS PACIFIST
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Pacers' Jalen Rose, hardly the NBA's leading angel, nevertheless aspired to that role Saturday night, which was Christmas Day. And on national TV. When the Knicks' Kurt Thomas threw...
'WARNING' EARNS GALLANT WIN
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amJorge Chavez recovered from a spill earlier in the day and guided Early Warning to a gate-to-wire victory in the 61st running of the Gallant Fox Handicap yesterday at Aqueduct....
KERRY NOT FEELIN' MERRY
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amLong after one of the more pathetic efforts in Giant history -- considering what was on the line and the degree of difficulty of the assign ment -- Kerry Collins...
BIG BLUE'S A BIG FLOP IN CLUTCH
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amPLAYOFF atmosphere? Hardly. Playoff attitude? Far from it. You can crunch the numbers all you want about how the Giants might still have a chance of making the playoffs. The...
GEORGE LIVING RANDALL REPLAY
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amJeff George and Randall Cunningham's lockers were right next to each yesterday inside the Meadowlands. They're two quarterbacks who've had similar seasons. Just not this season. This season, Cunningham is...
VIKES' SMITH QUICK ON DRAW
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amA lot of people today will focus on Robert Smith's 70-yard fourth-quarter touchdown run but the scoring drive that really showed Smith's value to the playoff-bound Vikings was the eight-play,...
GIANTS LEFT DEFENSELESS ; TOASTED BIG BLUE DBS IN STUNNED DISBELIEF
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amFree safety Percy Ellsworth thought he was in perfect position. He looked at the expanse of green carpet between him and wide receiver Randy Moss -- who was about to...
BATTERED BLANCHARD: WHAT HIT ME?
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amGiant placekicker Cary Blanchard still doesn't know what hit him. All he knows is that he took the best licking of his kicking life. The emergency kicker has had his...
MOSS-TO-CARTER TD TOSS NO BIG DEAL TO RANDY
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amIt has been a ritual for much of the season, according to a couple of Viking media members. Reporters gather around Randy Moss' locker after games and he gets agitated....
VIKING SECONDARY HAS THE LAST WORD
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amStrong safety Robert Griffith had the best view of anyone on the biggest defensive play of the Vikings' 34-17 win over the Giants at the Meadow lands yesterday. The play...
JINT DEFENSE: COULDN'T STOP RUN
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amThere is no more humbling admission from the Giant defense than this: "We knew they were going to run it," safety Sam Garnes said, "but we couldn't stop them." That...
RANGERS GET POINT, MISS BIG PICTURE
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amRangers 3 Devils 3 So the Rangers wind up going the final 16 games and 34 months of the century without a regular-season victory against the Devils, wind up the...
JINTS CAN GET IN ... WITH HELP
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amWhen the Giants take the field on Sunday, they will know if their game at Texas Stadium means everything, or is merely the final game of a sorry regular season....
JINTS ARE FRUSTRATED OVER LOST CHANCES ; JINTS FEEL BLUE OVER BLOWN CHANCES
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTESAll around them, NFC teams lose, week after week, and the failure to capitalize on all the poor play has the Giants angry and frustrated. They've dropped two straight...
PACK'S GIANT GOOF GOOD FOR BIG BLUE
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA -- A playoff spot still is plausible for the Packers. If they beat Arizona next Sunday, the Cowboys lose to the Giants and Green Bay doesn't blow its 18-point...
HALL OF FAME JOCKEY STEVENS CALLS IT QUITS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amHall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens shocked the racing world yesterday by retiring from riding midway through the opening day card at Santa Anita due to degenerative arthritis in his...
NETS LASSO HORRI-BULLS
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amBOXSCORE / PAGE 56 Nets 103 Bulls 76 Somewhere, within the varying circles of Hell, there is a ring which is condemnation to roaring fires and red hot, simmering coals...
'ESCH' READY TO RETURN
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Rookie center Evan Eschmeyer, on the injured list all season, doesn't know if, or when, he'll be activated for the Nets. But he does know this. When he...
BURRELL GOES WHERE NEEDED
December 27, 1999 | 5:00amScott Burrell always has been considered a three who can play the two. But with the Nets of late, given the plague of injuries that has mowed down the bigger...