March 20, 2000
JADE'S ROCKING ON - JAGGER'S OLDEST LAUNCHES NEW JEWELRY LINE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amWhile Mick Jagger's youngest son is caught in the middle of a vicious child-support battle, his oldest daughter is out making her own money. Jade Jagger, the 28-year-old daughter of...
WHY A BIG FED RATE HIKE LOOKS LIKELY
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amIS Wall Street going to force Alan Greenspan to raise interest rates by half of a percentage point this week? The Federal Reserve meets tomorrow to decide what to do...
EDITOR MAY OUTLIVE LIFE AS TIME'S NEW MAG GURU
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amLife magazine may be dead, but its last editor, Isolde Motley, may survive the fallout as the Time Inc. guru of new magazines. Sources say that Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman...
TRUMP MAY UNLOAD RIVERBOAT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amDonald Trump is getting ready to unload one of his casinos in the next six months to help deleverage his debt-laden publicly traded gambling empire, according to a new report....
ON THE NEWSSTAND
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTWO months to go to bikini season. Time to pick up a copy of the April health & fitness magazines -- and spring into shape. Conde Nast's Women's Sports &...
HOW ODDSMAKER SEES IT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amLAS Vegas oddsmaker Lenny Del Genio says "American Beauty" and "The Cider House Rules" have even odds of winning a Best Picture Oscar, Denzel Washington is the favorite for Best...
FOREIGN FILMS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Spanish flick "All About My Mother" is the front-runner in the race for the Oscar for best foreign-language film. That's not necessarily because it is the best of the...
TRIAL RUN GIVES THIS TESTER QUITE A LIFT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTHOUGH I've never been a big fan of push-up bras, I agreed to give the Ultimo an exclusive test run -- and was pleasantly surprised by the results.Admittedly, the sheer...
UP, UP AND HOORAY - LIVING LIFE TO THE ULTIMO
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTHOSE who found Julia Robert's flashy "Erin Brockovich" wardrobe inspiring will be happy to know that her cleavage-doubling underthing is now available in the U.S. The breast-boosting Ultimo gets its...
SWOON FOR 'MISBEGOTTEN'
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amCHERRY Jones is a compact country woman as Josie Hogan. True, she's not "so oversize that she is almost a freak," as Eugene O'Neill demanded. She's short and compact, but...
TITUS: A STANDUP GUY'S LIFE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amCHRISTOPHER Titus is a funny guy. How could he not be funny, what with an alcoholic, abusive dad and a schizophrenic, institutionalized mom? Now that's humor. "A lot of people...
TREBEK: 'MILLIONAIRE' WINS NO PRIZES
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTHE bitter host of "Jeopardy!" has lashed out at "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" -- saying the top-rated quiz show's questions are much too easy and host Regis Philbin...
THE STARR REPORT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amHold the toast This is how rumors get started. Insiders were buzzing late last week that "The Ainsley Harriott Show" could be toast because the show is now officially "on...
LIGHT COMEDY - DAD'S A DRUNK, AND MOM'S CRAZY. SOUNDS DARK, BUT 'TITUS' IS LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amAS soon as you see "inspired by the real life of ... " you know right off that what you're about to see is either going to be a cheesy...
BANG! BANG! I'M DEAD - 'SOPRANOS' STAR TELLS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE BEING RUBBED OUT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amEVEN the most hardened fans of "The Sopranos" had to wince when Matt Bevilacqua begged for his life and Tony Soprano and Big Pussy emptied their pistols into his twitching...
PATAKI PAL GETTING SECRET 90G IN SUNY POST
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTHE newly named, $250,000-a-year chancellor of the State University of New York is being secretly paid an extra $90,000 annually, The Post has learned. Robert King, who was Gov. Pataki's...
PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS CAUGHT IN CONFLICT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amBIR ZEIT, West Bank. THIS hardscrabble Palestinian town is only a half-hour drive from Jerusalem, yet the followers of Jesus who live here are all but invisible to the thousands...
MONICA TO TRAINER: LET'S DO 'CRUNCH'
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky may finally be getting serious about losing those love handles -- she's hired a pricey personal trainer to help her exercise, The Post has learned. The Portly Pepperpot...
KING'S LATEST 'NET ASSETS: 450G
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amStephen King's new Internet-only tale of terror has scared him up a frighteningly good paycheck -- a whopping $450,000 for a paltry 66 pages. And the famed horror writer says...
TAIWAN PREZ TO QUIT PARTY AFTER RIOT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTaiwan's lame-duck president, Lee Teng-Hui, promised to resign as leader of the Nationalist Party -- after stone-throwing mobs attacked his headquarters following an election defeat. "Step down!" the pro-Nationalist crowd...
MAYOR A-COURTIN' COUNTRY COUSINS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amBUFFALO -- Forget about those squeegee men, Mr. Mayor. What do you think about that Northeast Dairy Compact? Mayor Giuliani said hasta la vista to Gracie Mansion and City Hall...
PANEL IS A WHO'S WHO OF PATRONAGE ; A WHO'S WHO OF PATRONAGE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amWhen it comes to boxing in New York state, politics has a ringside seat. Almost all top officials of the State Athletic Commission have made campaign donations to Gov. Pataki...
ROPE DOPES RUN N.Y. FIGHT GAME - WATCHDOG AGENCY A RING OF INCOMPETENTS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThis is the first installment of a special three-part investigative report on the New York State Athletic Commission by veteran Post columnists JACK NEWFIELD and WALLACE MATTHEWS.THE New York State...
REV. BUTTS: POLICE 'LYNCHING' HAS TO STOP
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Calvin Butts again slammed Mayor Giuliani over police violence yesterday, comparing the death of unarmed Patrick Dorismond to a "lynching" -- as churchgoers across the city came to...
SIX HURT AS FIRE TRUCK HITS SUV ON WAY TO B'KLYN BLAZE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn fire engine last night struck a sport-utility vehicle, injuring a father and son as well as four firefighters, authorities said. The crash at Nostrand Avenue and the Shore...
DI'S BODYGUARD WILL MOURN AT GRAVESIDE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe haunted bodyguard of Princess Diana has been granted his biggest wish -- a private mourning session by her grave. Trevor Rees-Jones -- only survivor of the horrific car crash...
YUCH! CITY GROCERIES MORE LIKE GROSS-ERIES
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amMore than half of city supermarkets have failed health inspections over the past two years -- including dozens cited for evidence of rats, mice and bugs, a state assemblyman said...
COP'S BLOOD ON CLINTON'S HANDS: NRA
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- NRA board Chairman Wayne LaPierre -- who has accused President Clinton of tolerating violence for political reasons -- yesterday blamed Clinton for the death of a Georgia cop....
MAITRE D' IS BACK ON JOB AFTER 1G TIP
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amOne-grand-richer maitre d' Lenny Lorando hasn't let a hefty tip go to his head. The Romanian national was back at work yesterday at the Upper East Side eatery and celeb...
PARALYZED MAN WALKING AFTER CHIP IMPLANT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amA paralyzed man has been given the ability to walk again -- thanks to a miraculous new procedure straight out of science fiction. Doctors in France achieved the stunning result...
BORIS MY BEST BUD ONCE HE QUIT: PUTIN
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amRussia's new president Vladimir Putin says he talks more now to his predecessor Boris Yeltsin than ever before -- and once went to his house to eat sushi. "Before his...
HILLARY RIPS RUDY OVER HIS 'HIDDEN' GUN DONOR
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused Mayor Giuliani of trying to hide a $1,000 contribution from a controversial gun maker by changing the word "firearms" to "farms" on federal campaign-finance forms....
LOUIMA MAKES SYMPATHY CALL ON DORISMOND'S KIN
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amPolice-brutality victim Abner Louima yesterday visited the grieving family of Patrick Dorismond, the security guard shot dead in a struggle with undercover cops. "I hope justice is served," said Louima,...
ENERGY CZAR ADDS FUEL TO THE FIRE IN OIL WAR VS. RUDY
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amSecretary of Energy Bill Richardson yesterday denied that he ever said the Clinton administration was caught "napping" by OPEC oil producers -- and then he took a swipe at Mayor...
VANDALIZED MARY STATUE SHOCKS QUEENS CHURCH
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe wave of desecrations of religious statues spread yesterday to a Queens church, where a vandal drew a mustache, a goatee and other graffiti on an image of the Virgin...
ENDORSE IS ENDORSE, OF COURSE, OF COURSE, UNLESS IT'S MAYOR ED
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amEVER since Bill Bradley's campaign hit that brick wall of ineptitude, many Democrats have been waiting oh-so-patiently for the all-important word from on high: Which lucky candidate is Ed Koch...
PESTICIDE AIR RAIDS COULD BE SCRATCHED
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amCity residents might be spared aerial spraying of pesticides this year. The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management deployed trucks and helicopters last year to cover the city with the chemical...
TRAGIC EX-CHAMP HIT BY POLS' SUCKER PUNCH
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amIn appointing popular former heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson to head the New York State Athletic Commission in 1995, Gov. Pataki committed the very sin the commission was created to prevent:...
PARENTS SET TO SPEAK OUT ON SCHOOLS BOSS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe Board of Education starts hearing from parents today on the selection of a full-time chancellor as speculation rages on whether acting schools boss Harold Levy should keep the job....
CLAPTON'S EX BREAKS SILENCE ON SON'S DEATH
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe shattered mother of Eric Clapton's son Conor - who plummeted to his death from a Manhattan high-rise that had no window guards - says the tragedy turned her into...
PROTESTS GREET PREZ IN INDIA
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amIn a historic visit to a global hot spot, President Clinton arrived last night in New Delhi hoping to curb nuclear-weapons rivalry between India and Pakistan - and ran into...
CAMBY'S GAME STILL NEEDS WORK
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES After his superb Charlotte showing Friday night, Marcus Camby raised expectations that he was all the way back from his right-knee injury. But yesterday against the Lakers, Camby...
CONNECTICUT PULLS EL-FOLDO - INJURED KHALID CAN'T HELP HUSKIES
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amSOUTHTennessee 65 - UConn 51 BIRMINGHAM -- Barely two minutes into what likely was his final game for UConn, Khalid El-Amin yesterday glanced over at his bench and shook his...
CBS MISSES BIGGER PICTURE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amI KNOW, I know, yesterday's Temple-Seton Hall was a CBS game of local interest. The same, to a slightly lesser extent, with Tennessee-UConn, which followed. But with plenty of time...
ST. RAY'S RULES CITY
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amCHSAA CHAMPIONSHIP St. Ray's 61 - Rice 56 If you had said at the beginning of the year that St. Raymond's was going to win the CHSAA ''A" championship, you...
PAT LOSES 'CENTRAL' MATCHUP
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amPatrick Ewing's frustration had been building throughout his lopsided matchup against Shaquille O'Neal in yesterday's 92-85 pummeling by the Lakers. So when Ewing cut into the lane and O'Neal slapped...
APPRECIATIVE MATES WIN THIS ONE FOR FALLEN LEADER
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amBUFFALO -- All season -- no, make that for four seasons -- Shaheen Holloway has been carrying the Seton Hall program on his back. In yesterday's second-round NCAA upset of...
L.A.'S BIG MAN ON TARGET FOR MVP -- AND NBA TITLE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amSHAQUILLE O'Neal supposedly has been playing on a bad hamstring the last two weeks, which is a frightening thought considering the way he dominated the Knicks yesterday afternoon at the...
IT'S THE HALL'S TY-ME TO SHINE - GRITTY PIRATES LOSE SHAHEEN EARLY, BUT BACKUP ZAPS OWLS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amEAST BUFFALO -- Before yesterday's NCAA second-round game, before Ty Shine and Seton Hall sent shock waves through the East Regional with a 67-65 overtime upset of second-seeded Temple, the...
ANGELS' GM: NO DEALS FOR EDMONDS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Angels GM Bill Stoneman met with Jim Edmonds and told the talented outfielder he isn't being traded to the Yankees or any other team. "As far as I...
FOUL ACT BY NIEDERMAYER
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 5 - Panthers 2 Nothing was learned from Marty McSorley's moment of madness. Last night, another stick was swung in anger at another head. There was no injury, and...
'SAME-OLD' RANGERS CAN'T CLOSE THE DEAL
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -- Spring comes today. Summer is three weeks away. This is what faces the Rangers after playing two responsible periods on a night that demanded three. This what faces...
PAYTON'S EARNED HIS PLACE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- You look at Jay Payton and you think, if there's any fat on this guy's body it must be between his ears. Then you talk to...
DOUBLE-PUMP DELIVERY JUICES JONES' TOSSES
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES VIERA -- Using a new double-pump delivery, righty Fresno Bobby Jones looked regular-season ready yesterday. "He is maybe even an improved product," manager Bobby Valentine said after yesterday's...
ROBIN'S FEELIN' NO PAIN
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amVIERA -- As one Oklahoma State third baseman leaves, another continues his return today. First, the serious stuff: 32-year-old Robin Ventura said he felt fine yesterday, a day after his...
ST. JOHN'S FINISHES ON BITTER NOTE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amWEST TUCSON -- There were no tears. Why were there no tears? When St. John's, which entered last year's NCAA Tournament with lower expectations than this year, was ousted by...
SPA HEARING IS SET FOR TODAY
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amThe State Racing and Wagering Board will hold a hearing this morning in Albany regarding the New York Racing Association's request to make $6 million in improvements at Saratoga. The...
BARKLEY MIGHT DECIDE TOMORROW
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTUCSON -- Erick Barkley's decision about whether to return to St. John's or make himself available for the NBA Draft could be made tomorrow night. Barkley is to meet with...
A BIG RED MINEFIELD
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- A relaxed Ken Griffey Jr. is well into a conversation with a handful of reporters at his locker when Griffey's roommate for the past few days pokes his...
OL' KARL GIVES NETS' HOPES NASTY JOLT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amJazz 92 - Nets 88 Karl Malone was dismantling the Nets throughout the second half. A piece of their heart here, some momentum there, whatever was left of a lead...
BOMBERS THINK RICKY CAN BE ANOTHER BERNIE
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Brian Cashman looks at Ricky Ledee and sees Bernie Williams. And you wonder why the GM suggested to George Steinbrenner there is no reason for the Yankees to...
EL DUQUE DOES HIS PART
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amReds 3 - Yankees1 TAMPA -- The beat coming out of the Yankees' camp yesterday had a very familiar sound to it: The starter pitched well and the Bombers lost....
NETS NOT INTERESTED IN PICKING UP RIDER
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Isaiah Rider's talent would be a plus for the Nets. But he simply is not worth the trouble, Admitting there was some discussion on pursuing the talented but...
'CUSE MUST BE IN ZONE TO BEAT MSU
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amMIDWEST CLEVELAND -- Jim Boeheim says he has seen good teams roll into the NCAA Tournament on a high and be gone in two games. He also remembers Villanova losing...
UPSET MAY BE BRUIN FOR UCLA
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amMIDWEST MINNEAPOLIS -- We had a pretty good idea about how good Iowa State was entering this past weekend's NCAA Midwest Regional first-round games. The second-seeded Cyclones, with wins over...
RED BULLET BULLS HIS WAY TO GOTHAM WIN
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amYou won't find a better-named race horse than Red Bullet, and there aren't many faster, either. Yesterday at Aqueduct, the flashy chestnut son of 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled took...
O-FUL KNICKS CAN'T REPEL SHAQ ATTACK - O'NEAL NETS 43 AS LAKERS PREVAIL
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amLakers 92 - Knicks 85 It wasn't just Patrick Ewing's putrid offensive outing, outscored by Shaquille O'Neal by the whopping total of 43-12. It was every Knick coming up tiny...
CAROLINA PROVES IT'S FEROCIOUS UNDERDOG
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amN. Carolina 60 - Stanford 53 BIRMINGHAM -- The bracket shouts upset. The talent proved otherwise. "As far as the seedings, yeah, it's an upset," conceded North Carolina forward Jason...
'FINALS PREVIEW' FIZZLES -- FOR NOW
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amGet ready for the dramatic NBC promos. Willis Reed vs. Wilt Chamberlain. Patrick Ewing vs. Shaquille O'Neal. Talk about Must-See TV. In the 30th anniversary season of the Knicks' first...
SHAQ-KOBE '1-2 PUNCH' DELIVERS KO
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amAt the back of the Lakers' team bus recently, rapper Shaquille O'Neal called it "the one-two punch." After four years of playing with Kobe Bryant, the 7-foot-1 O'Neal thought it...
'BOYS TURN DANCE INTO SENIOR PROM
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amOkla. State 75 - Pepperdine 67 BUFFALO -- Who says there's no such thing as senior leadership in college basketball anymore? Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton and his Cowboys --...
WHO'LL BE BEST OF BAD LOT?
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH -- The doctor drained considerably more blood out of Jaromir Jagr's thigh than there is gas left in the tanks of five teams going for two playoff spots, allowing...
PENS SHOWDOWN KEY FOR RANGERS
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Last night was more than just Game 74 on the schedule for the Rangers; much more than that. After failing to come close to making the playoffs the...
LEMIEUX SAYS HE'S ALL RIGHT
March 20, 2000 | 5:00amIt didn't take long. The trade for Alexander Mogilny has already unsettled the Devils' lineup and sent Claude Lemieux into the coach's office to declare that he doesn't want to...