August 23, 2000
DRKOOP'S TRANSFUSION - GETS $20 MILLION, BUT IT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amDrkoop.com got an unexpected lifeline yesterday - but some are calling it a $20 million Band-Aid. Just as the Street was about to pronounce the death of the health information...
GREENSPAN BOOSTS BANKS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amUSUALLY it's hard to translate Alan Greenspan's words into something sounding like investment advice. But the meaning of the Fed chairman's recent statements - and yesterday's decision not to raise...
HARLEY-DAVIDSON CAFE'S BUILDING SOLD
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe 35-story tower that houses the Harley-Davidson Cafe at 1370 Avenue of the Americas has been sold for just over $100 million, sources said. The building was bought by the...
AXED EDITOR GETS LAST LAUGH
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amBD+>GREG Gutfeld, who was fired as editor of Men's Health last month, won't have a chance to say good-bye to his readers. Rodale President Steve Murphy stepped in to stop...
TW-EMI DEAL DOUBTED - REGULATORS ARE CRITICAL OF MERGER
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amConcern over the planned merger of Time Warner and EMI - and Time Warner and America Online - went into overdrive yesterday as regulators on both sides of the Atlantic...
LAUREN GOES 'BALLISTIC,' SACKS MONACO BOSS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amHis Polo-ness is not pleased. Two weeks after Ralph Lauren told Wall Street analysts that Club Monaco sales were dropping, he gave the boot to the chain's founder, Joseph Mimran....
GOOD GRIEF, JIM! - FOX MORNING MAN HAS HIDDEN TALENTS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S 8:30 a.m. and Jim Ryan, the centerpiece of "Good Day New York," is smashing a liquor bottle over the head of weatherman Dave Price - on live TV. The...
IT'S EASY BEING GREEN AT NEWCOMER BARRIO
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE roving the ever-trendier Lower East Side last month, Cheap Eats spotted the menu posted outside newcomer Barrio. Before you could say "gentrification," we were inside, checking out a chic...
CURTAINS FOR CRITIC ON CH. 2
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amDENNIS Cunningham has resigned as the theater and movie reviewer for WCBS/Ch. 2. The critic, who has covered Broadway openings since 1978, has accepted a buyout from the station. His...
THE STARR REPORT
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amYour first look at Dr. Laura's TV show Paramount has kept a tight lid on information about Dr. Laura Schlessinger's upcoming show - but here's an inside look at the...
'BIG BRO' ON THE COUCH
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA SHRINK hired by CBS is secretly counseling some of the contestants living inside the "Big Brother" house. CBS officials yesterday confirmed that a psychologist is involved with the show...
CURRYING FAVOR WITH THE ELITE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amNOW that New Yorkers are over the shock of the $100-plus prix-fixe dinner, a new milestone is coming to challenge today's out-of-control spenders. The Ducasse of Indian food, restaurant ADA,...
SAVE THIS 'DREAM' - WHY NEW FILM SHOULDN'T GET NC-17 RATING
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHOSE wacky censors at the Motion Picture Association of America are at it again, with another bizarrely hypocritical rating decision that will destroy a serious, artistically interesting independent film -...
LIVE DIDO SHOW SHOWS FEW SIGNS OF LIFE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amBRIT-pop chanteuse Dido will be deader than a dodo if she doesn't learn to deliver live as well as she does from the safety of a studio. At the Roseland...
IT'S FUN, BUT DON'T LOOK UP
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSHELLY'S New York must be causing hiccups at Rue 57 down the block. More consistent and better-run than that mixed-up mimicry of a French brasserie, Shelly's is an American place...
HOW YOU CAN RESTAURANT-PROOF KIDS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amIF you can't control your child - or if your child can't control himself - stick to Burger King before working your way up to Bouley Bakery. Happily, Parents magazine...
FOR MOUTHS OF BABES - MANY CLASSY RESTAURANTS WELCOME, KIDS - IF THEY BEHAVE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY'RE nibbling calamari at Zoe, tucking into stuffed bread at Tabla and sizing up the sushi at Nobu.At fine restaurants all over the city these days, kids are all right....
CAN 'WEST WING' SURVIVE BUSH? - GEORGE W. WIN COULD SINK SERIES
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT would happen to The West Wing if the Republicans win? It's a question that's been buzzing around the heads of people who take these things very seriously. The answer...
TRUMP ANTI-CASINO ADS RULED LOBBYING
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A state lobbying commission's ruling could force Donald Trump to admit he paid for ads run by an obscure upstate anti-gambling group, sources told The Post yesterday. In...
THIS ONE IS FOR US, MY FELLOW FANS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00am'SURVIVOR" fans, this is your night! Thirteen weeks ago, you got in on the ground floor of a bona fide national phenomenon. And now, the finale is at hand -...
LAZIO IS OK'D BY FED PROBE - SEC PROBE FINDS HE ISN'T GUILTY OF INSIDER TRADING
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amWill meet with Hillary. Federal watchdogs yesterday dropped their two-month investigation into GOP Senate candidate Rick Lazio's quick-profit 1997 stock deal and said no action would be taken against him....
BUILDINGS CHIEF SPLITS AS HIS REALM CRUMBLES
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amRichard Visconti - acting buildings commissioner for 15 months - resigned suddenly yesterday. Sources said Visconti, 53, submitted his letter of resignation just hours after being told "he wasn't going...
WOMEN IN THE WILD: OUR MARIA ROUGHS IT
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE TV show "Survivor" has women everywhere wondering how they'd do if dropped into the wilderness. SELF magazine decided to test the notion, using four savvy women - pit-bull types...
SUBWAY MISHAP ECHOES ACCIDENT IN '99
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAn electrical contractor whose workers lost control of a 7,500-pound reel of wire - injuring two women on a subway stairwell last week - is being sued over an eerily...
SAPPHIC SONG SAME OLD TINSELTOWN TUNE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY weren't exactly Fred and Ginger. Heck, they were too grungy to be Ginger and Ginger. Anne Heche and Ellen DeGeneres - the first of the red-hot lesbian lovers to...
BITTER SUB KIN MEET SAD PUTIN
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe angry widows and mothers of the 118 sailors who died on a sunken submarine assailed embattled Russian President Vladimir Putin during a tense meeting last night. "When will we...
IT'S A MIRACLE THAT THE SECRET SURVIVED
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amListen, do you want to know a secret? Sorry. There are more than 100 people who promised not to tell who wins "Survivor" tonight. Keeping mum has turned out to...
BAR-SLAY FUGITIVE BUSTED
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA fugitive in a 1998 Hell's Kitchen barroom slaying - his picture featured on the "America's Most Wanted" TV show twice this month - has been nabbed in Maryland, cops...
NEW MIST-BLITZ DUE IN THREE BOROUGHS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amPesticide spraying will take place tomorrow in three boroughs after the discovery of eight more birds and several mosquito pools infected with the potentially deadly West Nile virus, officials said...
ANXIETY HITS HOME FOR ME
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE dead bird was sprawled face down on my back porch like a homicide victim in an alley. There wasn't a white blanket covering the body to shield it from...
$39M CONEY ISLAND BALLPARK IS ON DECK FOR A JUNE OPENING
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe cost of building a minor-league stadium for a Mets farm team - hailed as a catalyst for revitalization of Coney Island - has ballooned from $31 million to $39...
INS CANCELS CHECKMATE ON TEEN CHESS CHAMP
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA teenage chess wizard from The Bronx notched his biggest victory yet yesterday when immigration officials decided not to boot him from the country. Child chess champ Ricky Ramoutar, 16,...
LIEBERMAN'S LIBERAL HELPING - A PLIANT MEDIA GIVES THE WOULD-BE VEEP AN OUTRAGEOUS FREE PASS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amNOW that he's been dubbed the Democrats' "Mr. Integrity" - and his nomination for vice president widely credited with turning around Al Gore's sagging political fortunes - is Joe Lieberman...
HURRICANE DEBBY MAY DO DAYTONA
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amDire Debby narrowly missed Puerto Rico yesterday - but meteorologists warn the Category 1 hurricane is picking up speed and strength and may be heading straight toward Florida. "It's too...
CAN YOU HELP ID THIS VICTIM?
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amPolice yesterday released a sketch of the woman whose hacked-up body parts were found last week in two blue Samsonite suitcases floating in the waters around lower Manhattan. Cops are...
BAD OLD DAYS IN BRONX AS HOMICIDES SURGE BY 50%
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amIt's been murder in The Bronx. The number of people shot to death, stabbed or strangled there so far this year - 139 - is more than the total for...
'SEX' TEACHER SUES EX-PUPILS FOR $36M
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA teacher at prestigious Stuyvesant HS is suing three of his former students for $36 million, charging they made him "distraught and suicidal" with fake sexual misconduct charges. In papers...
HECHE BACK TO REEL LIFE - 'DAZED' STAR AT WORK ON NEW FILM
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - A "dazed and tired" Anne Heche hopes to pull a theatrical reversal this week - and go from real-life patient to on-screen caregiver. Heche, 31, touched down at...
FINAL VERDICT: FUEL EXPLOSION DOWNED FLIGHT 800
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amFederal probers have reached the "inescapable" conclusion that heated vapors in a fuel tank exploded to bring down TWA Flight 800 off Long Island - and that there's no evidence...
MADONNA'S BABY PACKIN' ON POUNDS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amMadonna's premature baby is already a "big fat lad." That's the description delivered by proud papa Guy Ritchie, who spoke about roly-poly Rocco for the first time since Madonna gave...
SWEEPSTAKES GIANT WILL CLEAN UP ITS ACT
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amIf you spent thousands of dollars on magazine subscriptions because you were duped into thinking that'd help you win the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, you may be a winner. An...
BIO SAYS EMINEM USES 'ECSTASY' LIKE CANDY - EX-BODYGUARD'S SAYS SEX AND DRUGS FUEL BAD-BOY RAPPER'S LIFE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amVENOM-FILLED hip-hop phenom Eminem is driven by sex, drugs and the affection of his mistresses, the rapper's former bodyguard claims in an explosive new book the rapper wants killed. Byron...
STRAW COULD STILL PLAY BALL WITH ONE KIDNEY
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe removal of Darryl Strawberry's kidney during colon-cancer surgery should not affect his prognosis or his ability to play ball again, The Post has learned. Surgeons had to take out...
PRO-BRIT MILITANT JAILED IN IRELAND
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA prominent Protestant militant - nicknamed "Mad Dog" - was arrested in Northern Ireland yesterday as officials struggled to control a turf war between pro-British guerrillas. Johnny Adair had been...
BUSTY BLOND HITS WORM WITH $10M DATE-RAPE SUIT
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA buxom blonde actress has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Dennis Rodman, charging she was drugged and repeatedly raped by the basketball bad boy at his posh California home....
WE DON'T NEED A LIE DETECTOR WITH THE CLINTONS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTELLING me that Hillary Clinton is a liar is a little like telling me that boiling water scalds. But it had to be done, and it was great that we...
'BOOT CAMP' GRADS EAGER TO TACKLE CITY'S WORST SCHOOLS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe vast majority of the career-changers drawn to Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's four-week academic "boot camp" will likely go on to become teachers in the city's worst schools. The Teacher...
RUDY SPRINGS VOUCHER PLAN AS A SOLUTION TO SCHOOL SUIT
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani dropped a bombshell on the Board of Education in court yesterday - saying students stuck in failing schools should have the right to enroll in any other public...
$1M? HAH! NETWORK IS MAKING OUT LIKE A PIRATE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAnd the real winner of the "Survivor" jackpot is ... CBS! The network is getting up to $600,000 for 30-second commercial slots airing during the survival-of-the-fittest show's finale, CBS officials...
TERRIFIED TOT LEFT AT CONEY HOUSES
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA "scared" and shy pig-tailed preschooler was found wandering at a Coney Island housing complex, apparently abandoned by her mom to fend for herself, authorities said yesterday. The little girl,...
TEENS' OUTING TURNS TRAGIC
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn teens were feared drowned last night after they went swimming in the choppy Hudson River during an outing in Westchester and disappeared, officials said. Rescuers searched into the...
2 HURT IN CARNEGIE HALL MISHAP
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amLegendary Carnegie Hall was the scene of a freak accident when a freight elevator that was carrying a forklift plummeted to the basement, injuring two construction workers. The men -...
TODDLER ABANDONED IN B'KLYN PROJECTS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amA "scared" and shy pig-tailed pre-schooler was found wandering at a Coney Island housing complex, apparently abandoned by her mom to fend for herself, authorities said yesterday. The little girl,...
ADWATCH
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amCANDIDATE: Hillary Rodham Clinton TITLE: "Won't See" RUNNING TIME: 30 seconds WHERE SHOWN: Statewide PRODUCED BY: "Team Hillary," which includes admaker Mandy Grunwald, pollster Mark Penn and ad firm DeVito/Verdi...
COLLINS ABOUT READY FOR SEPT. 3 OPENER
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES He will play for no more than one quarter in the final pre-season game, which is just fine with Kerry Collins. He would like to put these practice...
NINE EXPECTED TO TRY TRAVERS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Just like this year's Belmont Stakes, which fell apart when both Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus and Preakness winner Red Bullet defected, Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes...
HOW TO SPOT BOMBS ON TURF
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - When Amaretta, a 2-year-old maiden filly making her first start on turf, lit up the board with a $115.50 mutuel in last Sunday's third race, handicappers went...
FASSEL AIMS TO KEEP BARBER RAZOR SHARP
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amIf you want to catch a glimpse of Tiki Barber in Friday night's pre-season game against the Ravens, be advised to tune in early and watch intently. Now you see...
THIS 'RALLY' REALLY HELPS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSINCE its inception, the Northeast Inshore Rally has been a big success, as anglers register their wide-ranging catches. Each registration carries a story, the most important of all being that...
JET BUILDING BLOCKS ARE COMING TOGETHER
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAt this time last year the Jets' offensive line was an inexperienced group. They were players learning new positions, insecure in their starting status or unsure if they'd even make...
REQUIEM FOR A REFEREE; TEARS & RESPECT FOR TRAGIC REFEREE
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amI AM watching Mitch Halpern work and I am wondering, "How could a man so in control of a chaotic situation ever allow his own life to get so out...
PETE ROSE AT MONTCLAIR ST.
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSay what you want about Pete Rose, but the man can still command a crowd. Yesterday, playing in a charity softball game at Montclair State University, Rose drew as many...
YANKEENETS WRAP DEVILS' DEAL
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amThe Devils' era of old-fashioned ownership is over, and the team had best hope operations under YankeeNets go more smoothly than this sale did. The $175 million sale of the...
LIBERTY READY TO UNSEAT COMETS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSo it's you, again. For the third time in the WNBA's four-year history, the Liberty will face the three-time defending champion Houston Comets in the Finals. Game 1 of the...
BELL PITCHES IN WITH COMIC RELIEF
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The public-address announcer at the ballpark formerly known as Jack Murphy Stadium did not misspeak in the ninth inning yesterday when he said, "Now hitting, No. 16,...
TORRE: CORTISONE FOR KNOBBY'S WORTH A SHOT
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAccording to Joe Torre, the direction Chuck Knoblauch is going isn't clear. "He is doing the same routine and he still feels it," Torre said of his DLed second baseman...
NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT - METS EMBARRASSED IN BLOWOUT BY PODS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Pat Mahomes was embarrassed. He started and caused yesterday's 16-1 debacle to the last-place Padres. His four-inning, 10-run performance was the biggest reason why right fielder Derek...
EWING DEAL'S IN JEOPARDY - MEGA-SWAP NOW '50-50' POSSIBILITY
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing remained a Knick for another day yesterday - and perhaps for another season. Resembling the final few years of his Knick career, the blockbuster trade that would have...
HAMPTON POINTING AT SUNDAY
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The plan for Mike Hampton, whose start was skipped yesterday, is for him to throw off a mound Friday and possibly start Sunday. Hampton, who...
GARDEN FULL OF SNAKES
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amIN bubbly and sensitive Vin Baker the Knicks will either get a doughnut maker or shot maker. That is, if this trade ever gets done. The fact that they are...
HARDLY PICTURE-PERFECT - RECORD PAYROLL CAN'T FIX ALL BOMBERS' FLAWS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amTHE YANKEES took their team picture yesterday, risking the possibility someone else will slip through waivers into pinstripes. If it happens now - and who would ever bet against it?...
BELLINGER CATCHES GRIEF OVER ERROR
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amClay Bellinger hung his head and admitted it "wasn't a good feeling" to flub a ball in center field in the critical first inning last night. Just hours after his...
MEL MIGHT MAKE TRIP OUT WEST
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Mel Stottlemyre returned to duty last night, and if all goes well with a blood test this morning, Stottlemyre will be with the Yankees tomorrow when they embark...
A BLASTED MISTAKE! - PALMEIRO HR IN 8TH BEATS NEAGLE, YANKS
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amRangers 5 - Yankees 4 Denny Neagle isn't ready for the Old Pitchers Home. Yet, he is far too old to make stupid mistakes like he did last night. When...
BUYING TITLE? OF CORE'S NOT - IT'S YANKS' OWN STARS WHO COST MOST
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAFEW days ago, partially out of deadline-approaching desperation, I asked Paul O'Neill what column he would write if he were me. Though he showed no desire whatsoever to be me,...
BELLINGER CATCHING ON IN CF
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amClay Bellinger has heard the sequence said with amusement: "DiMaggio, Mantle, Williams ... Bellinger?" But Bellinger, the Yanks' all-important, all-position utilityman, doesn't laugh. Sure, he's playing in hollowed ground -...
LET'S GIVE IT A SHOT - VEXED TORRE SUGGESTS CORTISONE FOR KNOBBY
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAccording to Joe Torre, the direction Chuck Knoblauch is going isn't clear. "He is doing the same routine and he still feels it," Torre said of his DLed second baseman...
SAN DIEGO CHICKENS - METS BLOWN OUT BY LOWLY PADRES
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amPadres 16 - Mets 1 SAN DIEGO - The last-place Padres own the Mets. Spot starter Pat Mahomes, who some might call the Super Glue of the Mets, became absolutely...
PATRICK DEAL STILL IN WORKS - LAYDEN, SONICS TRY TO RESTRUCTURE SWA
August 23, 2000 | 4:00amAs was the final few years of his Knick career, the blockbuster trade that would have made Patrick Ewing a Sonic has become a muddled and murky mess, leaving the...