August 2, 2000
TOYS TAKES TIMES SQ. SITE FOR MEGASTORE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amIn a deal of breathtaking size, Toys 'R' Us is coming to Times Square - just as The Post first predicted back on May 30. And the National Rifle Association,...
PEPSI CHALLENGE ; BIDDERS LINE UP FOR FAMOUS EAST RIVER SITE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amSome of the city's most active developers are lining up to bid on a 19-acre East River site owned by the PepsiCo Bottling Co. that is being offered for some...
INTERMIX FASHIONING A WEST SIDE STORE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amIntermix is blazing a trail to the West. The trendy boutique that got its start catering to the Downtown crowd and then moved on to the ritzy Upper East Side...
THE BIZARRE WORLD OF INTERNET COMPANIES
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amDIGEX Inc.'s stock rose more than 11 percent yesterday because another company isn't showing up at an investment conference that it wasn't supposed to attend anyway. Needless to say, Digex...
ELKIN LEAVES WEB VENTURE 6 MOS. AFTER HE LOGGED IN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amStephen Elkin has shocked the fashion world for the second time this year - leaving Fashion500.com just six months after he left Bergdorf Goodman to join the Web site as...
AUG. SHOWERS BRING MORE SELLOFFS TO THE NASDAQ
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe springtime tech selloff is getting a reprise this summer, as the Nasdaq resumed its fall yesterday. Repeating what happened after first-quarter earnings were announced, tech stocks are again under...
WINDOWS ME'S COST SLASHED BEFORE INTRO
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amFacing accusations that he overcharges for software, Bill Gates is slashing the price of Microsoft's latest version of Windows - even before it hits the stores. Windows Millennium Edition, also...
OXYGEN DEPRIVED AS EDITOR QUITS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAnother gasp for air at Oxygen? Sarah Bartlett resigned as the editor-in-chief of Geraldyne Laybourne's Oxygen Media. No replacement has been named. Bartlett told The Post she is stepping down...
AOL CUTS LATIN IPO PRICE, AGAIN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAOL's blunder south of the border just keeps getting worse. In its second attempt this year to launch its sputtering public offering, the Latin American online company has slashed its...
ROCK ON, BABY - LITERALLY ; BON JOVI'S DRUMMER BACKS MUSICAL CLOTHES FOR TOTS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00am"Rock a bye, baby" is about to take on a whole new meaning. Starting next month, rocker Jon Bon Jovi will star in a magazine campaign for a new, music-themed...
DEAL CLOSE FOR DIGEST ; JOINT DRIVE WITH BERTELSMANN SEEN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGERMAN media giant Bertelsmann AG is in serious talks about a massive joint venture with the Readers Digest Association. Rumors about talks between the two media titans have been in...
GOLDEN MARSANNE GRAPE BURSTS WITH LAYERS OF FLAVOR
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amA family friend sent us six bottles of wine when my wife and I got married a few years ago. Nothing fancy, a mixed half-case, half red, half white. We...
A SCOT GOES TO POT ; 'CAREY' BOSS IN BRIT DRUG FARCE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amCRAIG Ferguson's film debut was released by a major studio - but he's much happier his second movie is going out in New York this week via one of the...
BRITS' ROYAL BALLET FLUSH WITH FOREIGNERS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Britain's Royal Ballet is unquestionably as Royal as it ever was, but it is not as British. When the company first visited the United States in 1949, the...
LAN PACKS 'EM IN WITH ALL THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amLAN ½ 56 THIRD AVE. (BETWEEN 10TH AND 11TH STREETS) (212) 254-1959 WALKING into Lan one recent Monday, the first surprise was having to wait for a table. Monday is...
A VIEWFROM THE BRIDGE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGUASTAVINO'S (CLUB LEVEL) ½ (MAIN LEVEL) 409 E. 59TH ST. (212) 980-2455 GUASTAVINO'S, Terence Conran's plunge into the forbidden vaults of the 59th Street Bridge, has paid off big time....
THE STARR REPORT
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAnimal attraction "Big Brother" is adding a new cast member tonight - just as the second "houseguest" is being voted out by viewers. While CBS continues to monitor the viewer...
DUCASSE MAY TRUMP HIS ESSEX HOUSE KITCHEN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amCOULD Alain Ducasse be opening a second restaurant in New York?He and Donald Trump are in negotiations to bring an eatery to the Trump World Tower condominium project on First...
A NEW (BROWN) BAG:THE HUMBLE SANDWICH GROWS UP TO BECOME WORLDLY WISE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amYESTERDAY'S heroes are today's panini. Where Reuben once ruled, now there's De Niro and Versace. If a tramezzino is headed in your direction, should you duck? It might sound like...
WALTERS GETS HER WAY FOR $12M
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amBARBARA Walters is about to sign a new multi-year deal with ABC worth more than $12 million a year, sources told The Post yesterday. Walters, 68, who had publicly flirted...
NO BIKINI ATOLL: 'SURVIVOR' MOM SEEKING $500G TO TAKE IT ALL OFF FOR PLAYBOY
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amLewis, 23, the single mother of four-year-old twin daughters who was booted off the island last week, said she got an offer from Playboy and is mulling it over. "I...
WHAT YOU MISSED AT GOP CONFAB
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S not often you get to see Connie Stevens and Robert Conrad on the same stage - well, not unless you've somehow found yourself trapped in an old episode of...
MOSTLY YOUNG: HERE ARE THE BRIGHT NEW STARS OF MOZART FEST
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY'RE young, they're cute - and they can play the bejesus out of Beethoven, Bach and nearly anything else. When they're not playing, rehearsing or recording, they're often shooting pool...
BACKER BALKS, LANSBURY WALKS - AND NOW ... 'VISIT' A CLOSE CALL
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGLENN Close is being sought to replace Angela Lansbury in the troubled Broadway musical "The Visit," theater sources told The Post yesterday. Close, who's on location in Australia making a...
DOZENS HURT IN MIDTOWN BUS SMASH
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAn out-of-control city bus clipped a traffic agent in Midtown yesterday evening before careening onto a sidewalk and slamming into an office building, injuring dozens of passengers. The lumbering M34...
BOSNIA RAPE VICTIM FAINTS AT FED TRIAL HERE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amA sobbing Bosnian woman collapsed in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday after testifying about her months of sexual torture at the hands of Serbian soldiers. The woman's gut-wrenching story had reduced...
HUNDREDS NABBED IN VIOLENT PROTESTS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - More than 280 protesters were arrested yesterday in militant confrontations with cops aimed at shutting down the Republican National Convention. Among those injured was Philadelphia Police Commissioner John...
GOP PAYS TRIBUTE TO NANCY REAGAN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Nancy Reagan was silent but teary-eyed as she was honored at the Republican National Convention last night for her loyalty and grace. Mrs. Reagan, wearing a margarita-green dress...
RUDY AND JUDI GRAB SOME LIMELIGHT FROM RICK AT BASH
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Mayor Giuliani brought girlfriend Judi Nathan to a fund-raiser for Rep. Rick Lazio's GOP Senate campaign - causing some Lazio aides to gripe that the mayor was stealing...
MCCAIN SAYS: I'M READY TO SERVE DUBYA
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Like the old soldier he is, former fighter pilot John McCain last night tipped his hat to the man who beat him, telling Americans that Texas Gov. George...
WOMAN, 81, SLAIN IN QNS. PROJECTS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAn 81-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in a hallway of her apartment building in a Queens housing project, police said. The victim, who was not immediately identified, was...
'SURVIVOR' & DICK CHENEY
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amHOW ironic that the most TV-friendly political conventions in history, carefully scripted to be free of any surprises or dissent, are taking place amidst television's current obsession with "reality" programs,...
PARTYING WILLY-NILLY IN PHILLY - BUT SOME BASHES ARE NOT AS GRAND AS OTHERS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - For those who like spring break, the Grand Old Party is living up to its name. Estimates vary wildly about the number of parties, tours, cruises, breakfasts and...
LIZ HURLEY TURNS HUGH'S REPUTATION AS STUD TO MUD
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGlamourpuss Liz Hurley is hitting ex-lover Hugh Grant below the belt - revealing that their sex life was "less than adequate" before they ended their 13-year romance. In fact, even...
UNREEL! SIX MOVIES FOR FIVE BUCKS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not often film fans can catch six flicks on one bill in this $9.50-a-shot town, but that's one of the highlights of the Harlem Week 2000 Black Film Festival....
LOOKS LIKE 'HIT WOMAN' HAS A NEW CONTRACT
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA. THOMAS A. Rodick, a federal statistician, is the kind of guy who if you asked him the time he would tell you how to make a Swiss watch. He...
DIALLO-CASE RAPIST GETS LIFE IN PRISON
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amSmirks at sentence.Sketch: Shirley ShepardThe "Bronx Rapist" was slammed with a 155-years-to-life prison sentence yesterday by a judge who called him "a remorseless menace to society" who "hunted" women and...
RICK'S HAD HIS PHILA. HILL : SAYS HE COULDN'T BEAR 6 YRS. OF HER LECTURES
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Senate candidate Rick Lazio yesterday urged New York convention delegates to help elect him so he won't have "to be lectured for the next six years by Hillary...
THEY MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH ; OB-GYN BROTHERS ARE CHARGED WITH DOCTORING DATA IN SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amTWO renowned gynecologists - one who's poised to become a full-time faculty member at Mount Sinai Medical Center - are under fire from colleagues who say they falsified data, and...
NUDE JERRY HALL WOWS MICK ONSTAGE - BUT BARELY MOVES CRITICS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amMick Jagger thought she was "fantastic" - but the critics got no satisfaction from Jerry Hall's debut as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" on the London stage. They savaged her...
THE BUY-WORD IS: 'WOMEN' - YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WIELD SPENDING POWER
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amYou go, girl! Professional, well-educated single women are the new millennium's yuppies, wielding unprecedented spending power and social influence, a revealing new report says. And the majority of these independent...
GI GETS LIFE FOR KOSOVO KID SLAY
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amA U.S. soldier who apologized "from the bottom of my heart" was sentenced yesterday to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing an 11-year-old Albanian girl while...
W. NILE DANGER TIME BEGINS NOW
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe next two weeks will be critical for public-health officials as they keep a hyper-vigilant eye out for human outbreaks of the deadly West Nile virus, experts say. "The bulk...
WALL STREET PARKING METERS MADE IN HELL - TICKET-BLITZERS CAN'T TELL WRONG FROM WRITE WITH REPAINTED SLOTS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amWall Street has the parking blues. Drivers using a metered parking area at the eastern end of Wall Street have been getting zapped with hundreds of tickets - even when...
INSIDE THE DIVERSITY GAME ; THIS SHOW'S NOT AIMED AT MINORITIES
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA THE message of the Republican National Convention is that George W. Bush's GOP is a "new Republican Party." Substitute the word "nice" for the word "new" and you have...
ABE HIRSCHFELD DRAGGED OFF TO JAIL, SCREAMING
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amMillionaire developer Abe Hirschfeld was dragged shouting and struggling from a Manhattan courtroom yesterday to start a prison term of one to three years for plotting to have his business...
A FIRST- FAMILY FEUD ERUPTS - PREZ'S PERSONAL ATTACK HAS BUSHES 'RILED UP'
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amA family free-for-all broke out between the Clintons and Bushes yesterday - with President Clinton claiming his enemies have turned their attacks on Hillary, and George W. Bush slamming the...
ATTACK MAY BACKFIRE ON HILL AND AL
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amANALYSIS HARRISBURG, Pa. - At least for a moment, President Clinton managed to steal the show at the Republican convention by grabbing the role of Alpha Male Democratic attack dog....
BAD-SCHOOL BONU$ MAY LURE GOOD TEACHERS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amCertified teachers would get pay hikes of nearly $10,000 to work in the city's worst schools under an agreement reached yesterday among Chancellor Harold Levy, Mayor Giuliani and the teachers...
BUSH USE OF 'R.O.C.K.' OK - SO FAR
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Indiana rocker John Mellencamp's staying mum on George W. Bush's liberal use of his song "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." on the campaign trail. Bush has been playing the...
WEB WATCH
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPost Surfer gURL Mary Huhn will present a daily guide to Internet political hotspots during the convention. Here's her pick for today: "Who Wants to be President?" www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/president/index.html Of course,...
KING GEORGE GETS SET FOR CORONATION - PLEDGES A RETURN TO INTEGRITY
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush joins the Republican convention unity fest in Philadelphia today - vowing to reach out to minorities and bring "honor and integrity" back to the White House. Bush's...
FORD OK AFTER HEALTH SCARE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Former President Gerald Ford was treated at a local hospital last night for a sinus infection - shortly after he was honored at the Republican National Convention. "When...
SLAY-SUSPECT DOC FACES SURPRISE THREAT
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe prominent plastic surgeon charged with killing his wife and dumping her from a plane in 1985 confronted a new legal threat yesterday: his own parents. Dr. Robert Bierenbaum was...
OWN ANGRY WORDS MAY HAUNT DOC IN WIFE SLAYING
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe prominent plastic surgeon charged with killing his wife and dumping her from a plane in 1985 confronted a new legal threat yesterday: his own parents. Dr. Robert Bierenbaum was...
SECRET RULING DECIDES FATE OF PINOCHET
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amChile's Supreme Court yesterday voted behind closed doors on whether to strip Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity - but kept the verdict secret. The Chilean media reported later that...
PROBERS TO KEEP FRENCH CONCORDES GROUNDED
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amFrench officials decided yesterday to keep Air France's fleet of Concordes on the ground until investigators learn more about last week's supersonic-jet crash. Probers have already determined that Flight 4590...
HUNDREDS ARRESTED IN VIOLENT PROTESTS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - More than 230 protesters were arrested yesterday as they switched from two days of peaceful demonstrations to militant confrontations with cops in a bid to shut down the...
BOSNIA RAPE VICTIM TELLS FED TRIAL HERE OF ORDEAL
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amA sobbing Bosnian woman collapsed in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday after testifying about her months of sexual torture at the hands of Serbian soldiers. The woman's gut-wrenching story had reduced...
DIALLO-TRAGEDY RAPIST GETS LIFE IN PRISON
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe "Bronx Rapist" was slammed with a 155-years-to-life prison sentence yesterday by a judge who called him "a remorseless menace to society" who "hunted" women and terrorized them for his...
MCCAIN: I'M A GEORGE W. MAN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Vietnam vet John McCain invoked faith, war and patriotism last night while declaring himself ready and willing to "serve" his one-time foe: Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Setting...
KING GEORGE GETS SET FOR CORONATION - RIPS 'DESPERATE' PREZ'S 'DADDY' CRACK
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush joins the Republican convention unity fest in Philadelphia today - vowing to reach out to minorities and bring "honor and integrity" back to the White House. Bush's...
WELL-ADJUSTED FRANCO DOING ALL THAT HE CAN
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amLast night could have ended one of two ways for John Franco. He would have either exited to a standing ovation or been hung in effigy. Fortunately for him -...
TINO'S FUTURE IS ON THE LINE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amWITH deep pockets, prospects o' plenty and the aggressive nature of a cornered lion - The King of the Jungle, after all - the Yankees proved a roaring success before...
KNICK QUEST FOR POWER MAY LEAD TO WILLIAMS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe Knicks may get a 28-year-old power forward from Xavier after all, but it won't be Brian Grant. Agent Mark Bartlestein told The Post last night that the Wizards' Aaron...
THE DOCTOR HAS HEALED HIMSELF
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amIf Dwight Gooden had two strikes on him when he revived his career last time as a Yankee, what do we think on this occasion? Two and three-quarter strikes? Besides...
NELLIE GETS TOUGH WHEN NEEDED MOST
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankee reliever Jeff Nelson knows the source of his pitching woes. Now he's starting to do something about it. Nelson admits he's been too tentative, picking at the...
WIZARD NEXT ON NETS' LIST: WILLIAMS IN FOR VISIT
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amSuddenly, a shooting guard with a history of two knee surgeries doesn't look all that bad to the Nets. But since they still might not have a shot at Derek...
SHREWD STEVE DIDN'T DRAW SHORT STRAW WITH BORDICK
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amNOT that they take it personally that a guy who has lived his entire life in Cincinnati callously turned his back on New York just for the sake of a...
FISHERY CLOSURE IS NMFS TRAVESTY
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAFTER having caught practically nothing up to this point, recreational anglers and all those financially dependent on school bluefin tuna fishing have been shut out of the fishery as of...
NETTLES' SON HAS HIGH HOPES
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amWhen some boys go to work with their dads, they get to play with computers and meet secretaries. When Tim Nettles went to work with his dad, he got to...
MUDDLE IN THE HUDDLE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - They break the huddle, step up to the line of scrimmage, mess up the formation and retreat back to the huddle. Welcome to the Giants' offense...
HOW TO JOIN THE 'CHASE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - They only run a baker's-dozen steeplechase races at the Old Spa every summer - the opener on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and the New York Turfwriters Handicap -...
HE LOOKS GOOD ON FILM ; FERRARA HAS GIANT HOPES
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - He has escaped the clutches of Godzilla, dived out of the way of oncoming trucks and nearly ran over Brad Pitt before that hunky actor tied the knot...
SUPER SHOWDOWN LOOMS IN WHITNEY
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Last year's Whitney Handicap here was one for the ages, a no-holds-barred, head-bobbing battle down the stretch between Victory Gallop and Behrens, the two best older horses...
GREEN'S CATCHING ON ; WR AIMS TO TAKE KEY'S SPOT
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amTen knee operations later, Yatil Green became a factor yesterday. Buried on the Jets' wide-receiver depth chart during training camp, Green suddenly emerged during practice to overpower the defense at...
DREAMASTER IS SET TO DELIVER
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAlthough he has driven over 48,000 races in his career, Dave Magee has never had a chance to win harness racing's biggest prize. That will all change Saturday when he...
FEISTY OGBOGU MISSES PRACTICE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Eric Ogbogu, who had fights with separate teammates at practices Monday, did not practice yesterday. Until Monday's practice, the Jets defensive end had missed 12 days because of...
HOUSTON: LOOK FOR CAMBY TO REBOUND NEXT SEASON
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amAllan Houston believes the Knicks' free-agent search for a starting power forward who can increase their rebounding power can end by just looking at their current roster and locating Marcus...
THOMAS OKS NEW CONTRACT
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe Lakers had a lot of interest in acquiring Kurt Thomas, but the Knicks' backup power forward/center thought he could accomplish the same thing in New York. "Everybody thinks about...
BROSIUS SAVES THE DAY: HOMER IN EIGHTH LIFTS BOMBERS
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEES 5 Royals 4 Scott Brosius had missed the Yankees' last two games with a sore right calf, and on his first three trips to the plate last night he...
AMAZIN'S, BRAVES NOW ON LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Mets have caught Atlanta on paper that will fly like hot dog wrappers around Shea in the October breeze, paper that can be recycled into tissues to dry the...
BROSIUS, KNOBBY ON THE MEND
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The banged-up Yankees seem to be getting healthy all at once. Chuck Knoblauch and Scott Brosius seem fully mended and the Bombers are hoping pitchers Orlando Hernandez and...
YANKS GO WITH LEFT-OVERS: THOMPSON, HILL HAPPY NO TRADES WERE MADE
August 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe trade deadline came and went Monday at 4 p.m., but no left fielders did - at least, not as far as the Yankees were concerned. Despite all the trade...