August 25, 2000
STILL THINK BANKS ARE SAFE? LOOK AT THIS LAWSUIT
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amARE the rich really treated better than you and me? Not always. Let's say you were born in 1929 and were lucky enough to have a generous grandmother who put...
WHAT WHITE KNIGHT? - APBNEWS' RESCUER CHANGES MIND, PULLS BID
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amAPBnews got some more bad news yesterday. Teetering on the brink of extinction, the company discovered that SafetyTips.com had pulled its nearly $1 million bid. Stunned newsmen running the true-crime...
WENNER PICKS ROSE TO PUBLISH US WEEKLY
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amJann Wenner has tapped Vicci Lasdon Rose - a print veteran with a dollop of recent Internet experience - to be the new publisher of Us Weekly. She's currently the...
MUSIC MAN ON THE RECORD - CLIVE DAVIS LAUNCHES 'J' LABEL WITH BMG
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amClive struck his deal. Arista Records founder Clive Davis is calling his new venture J Records. As The Post first reported, J Records will be 50-percent owned by Arista's owner,...
VERIZON'S $5B IPO PLAN - WIRELESS SPINOFF COULD BE BIGGEST OFFERING EVER
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amVerizon will cut the cord on its Wireless baby this fall - and make some $5 billion in the process. Verizon and Vodaphone are taking public their 60/40 joint venture,...
'SURVIVOR' RICHARD IS 'SNAKE' IN BOOK DEAL
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amRichard Hatch, winner and "Survivor" snake, may be applying his cunning island tactics to the literary world. Even before he could reveal that he was the winner of the $1...
'SURVIVOR' WINNER GETS BOOK AGENT
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amIs Richard Hatch, winner and "Survivor" snake, ready to apply his cunning island tactics to the literary world? Even before he could reveal that he was the winner of the...
A WINNER FOR WESLEY - THERE'S ACTION GALORE IN SNIPES' 'WAR'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amAS one character aptly describes this story, it's "reality mixed with fiction, mixed with illusion - mixed with guys in dire need of psychiatric care." At its best, this slickly...
PATHOS IN A DIM-LIT POOL HALL
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amROB Nilsson's low-budget drama "Chalk" is unremittingly dark, both in its murky, nearly lightless cinematography and in its raw, edgy subject matter. Things start off leisurely, with Nilsson introducing the...
'LOVE & SEX' MIXED
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE are some enjoyably sharp, close-to-the-bone observations in "Love & Sex," the latest in a series of unusually sophisticated Generation-X romantic comedies ("High Fidelity," "The Tao of Steve") that put...
ELASTICA FRONTWOMAN FRISCHMANN BOUNCES BACK
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amALMOST as quickly as Brit punk/pop band Elastica sprang to the top of the charts in the mid-'90s, the three-girls-and-a-boy quartet fronted by former architecture student Justine Frischmann disappeared. But...
A GEM FROM 'JAM'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amGRUNGE survivors Pearl Jam made greatness out of simplicity at Jones Beach Wednesday night, in the first concert of a three-show gig that concludes tonight.There was artistry and attention to...
SOME THINGS TO CHEER FOR
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amESSENTIALLY a feature-length commercial for both the growing sport of competitive cheerleading and ESPN2 - the network that carries the principal cheerleading competitions - "Bring It On" is yet another...
IT'S CANE MUTINY AS ANCIENT MOBSTERS REBEL IN 'THE CREW'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWITH "The Crew" - "Space Cowboys" crossed with "Tough Guys" (the Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas vehicle of 1986) - the mob-comedy and grumpy-old-guy genres may have reached the end of...
WILL ROBIN STRIKE A CHORD AS LIBERACE?
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amROBIN Williams is toying with the idea of wrapping his natural flamboyance in rhinestones, gold lame and furs to portray flashy ivory-tickler Liberace in a new biopic. "Liberace," which was...
GIRL MEETS GIRL IN SEXY FIRST 'DARIA' MOVIE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amFANS of the cult cartoon hit "Daria" are in for a shock when MTV premiers a TV movie version of the Beavis-and-Butthead spinoff that includes some lesbian hi-jinx. The new...
THE STARR REPORT
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amIt's all business as CNBC inks digs deal Here's your first look at CNBC's new headquarters, which will be located on 22 acres in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The new HQ...
NEW YORK DIRECTOR SAYS SHE'LL PROVE THAT LONDON HAS . . . NO LOCK ON 'PASSION'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE New York Post, the New York Times, Variety and just about every newspaper in Britain have hailed the Donmar Warehouse's revival of Peter Nichols' "Passion Play," now on the...
BRAD NEARLY STIRS LONDON RIOT
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amLondon cops threatened to arrest heartthrob Brad Pitt at the premiere of his new film when he got up close and personal with teenybopper fans - nearly sparking a stampede....
BX. MAN DIES IN RUSSIAN ROULETTE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA 22-year-old Bronx man shot and killed himself playing Russian roulette, police said yesterday. Inside his Wakefield apartment early Wednesday evening, Marlon Johnson asked his girlfriend if she wanted to...
SPITZER: CON ED'S 'CURRENT' RATE UNJUST
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer came out swinging against Con Ed yesterday - urging that the utility no longer be allowed to pass along its cost increases. And with energy...
WE'LL NEED A MONTH TO DIG OUT: VERIZON
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amVerizon Communications estimates it will take a month to deal with 230,000 requests for phone repairs and orders for new service that went unfilled during its 18-day strike. Employees of...
MOM CHARGED IN DITCHING OF 3-YEAR-OLD
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn mom accused of abandoning her 3-year-old girl in Coney Island was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 bail yesterday - and faces as much as four years in...
AN AMERICAN KURSK? - CUTBACKS PLAYED A ROLE IN RUSSIA'S TRAGEDY - AND U.S. FORCES ARE INCREASINGLY OVERSTRESSED
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amMAXIM Rvanin and 117 shipmates died in the Barents Sea two weeks or so ago. The circumstances are not now fully understood; perhaps they never will be. Among the artifacts...
COPS: MOM FORCED KID INTO CYBERPORN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA Louisiana woman tried to turn her 11-year-old daughter into an Internet porn star - doping the child and training her to perform sex shows for cyber-pedophiles, authorities said yesterday....
O.J.'S PERFECT ATTENDANCE - AS DAD, HE GETS AN A ON FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amCORAL GABLES, Fla. HIS notorious past aside, gridiron great O.J. Simpson made all the right moves yesterday in the game called fatherhood. Simpson put his kids in a prestigious school...
ANIMAL ACTIVISTS NEED TO BE CURBED
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amTAKING a shot at Mary Tyler Moore would be like arguing against sunshine. The spunky young woman I grew up with more years ago than I'd admit at gunpoint turned...
CRAZED MAN WAS FLIGHT ATTENDANT'S 'DATE FROM HELL'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan man was arrested yesterday after three flight attendants said he terrorized them in their apartment when one of them refused to go out with him on a date....
NO DEBATING THAT GORE'S WILLING
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - How desperate is Al Gore to debate George W. Bush? The Democratic nominee has agreed to take part in a debate sponsored by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog...
IN MY BOOK, RICH THE RAT WINDS UP WEIGH AHEAD
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amI DON'T care if Rich is evil. I don't care if he's manipulative. I don't care that he quit high school, and still managed to go to West Point. Hell,...
NYERS SUPPORT VOUCHERS: POLL
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amAbout three-quarters of city residents familiar with school vouchers support sending kids to the school of their choice, a new poll has found. And support is highest among non-whites and...
LAZIO PITCHES $776B TAX-CUT MEASURE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Rick Lazio rolled out a $776 billion tax-cutting plan yesterday that would allow workers to deduct Social Security taxes - a change that would save the average New...
GOP DARES BILL TO KILL REPEAL OF 'DEATH TAX'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans yesterday set up another election-year tax showdown - sending President Clinton a bill that would end the so-called "death tax." Clinton has repeatedly vowed he would...
U.S. AIDS GULF JET PROBE - SEARCH FOR PAPERS OF DEAD DIPLO
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA team of U.S. investigators flew to Bahrain yesterday to help determine why an airliner plunged into the Persian Gulf, killing all 143 aboard, including an American diplomatic courier. Seth...
JET DODGES HIT-&-RUNWAY DISASTER AT NEWARK AIRPORT
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA maintenance worker at Newark Airport got the scare of his life yesterday - the sight of a Boeing 757 coming in for a landing on the very runway where...
PATAKI PASSES LAW PROHIBITING PIGEON POISON
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A year after vetoing a bill to outlaw pigeon poison in large cities, Gov. Pataki relented and signed the measure into law yesterday. Animal-rights groups hailed the reversal....
STIFFER FINES FOR SLOBS ON THE SUBWAY
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Better watch where you throw that garbage next time you're on the subway. A new law will dramatically increase the fines for littering in the system, said Caroline...
AL 'BOUNCING' BACK ALL OVER THE PLACE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore's still bouncing along. New post-Democratic convention polls show Gore catching up with GOP presidential rival George W. Bush in battleground Michigan, pulling way ahead in New...
ED. BOARD GETS EXTRA TIME TO FIND TEACHERS
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy will get a year's breathing room before he must find certified teachers for all the city's 94 failing schools under a court settlement reached yesterday. The...
BUSH USES LA. FAMILY AS PROPS IN TAX-PLAN DEFENSE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush trotted out a real-life teacher and his family yesterday to try to prove his big-bucks tax cut plan really does help the little guy. "We...
'SURVIVOR' RATES A RECORD - 52 MILLION VIEWERS TUNED IN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00am"Survivor" did a lot better than surviving. The ratings for the finale of the smash CBS reality show surpassed even the most optimistic predictions, becoming the highest-rated summer program in...
RED TAPE KILLING KID - CANCER BOY DENIED TREATMENT BECAUSE OF FDA BUREAUCRACY
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amIN THE hallway on the 10th floor of Beth Israel Hospital North, Mickey and Minnie Mouse prance, stuffed animals smile and paintings of handsome zebras line the walls. Inside the...
GIULIANI MIGHT SUE PETA FOR 'MILKING' HIS IMAGE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani last night threatened to sue animal-rights activists for drafting him in their bid to cow the country's dairy farmers. Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals raised...
SOBER-MINDED MAYOR MULLING FEST BOOZE BAN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said last night he's thinking about an outright ban on liquor sales at all outdoor events, including street fairs. He spoke only hours after one of his aides...
OBSCURE DEM IS HILL'S PRIMARY CONCERN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE Hillary Rodham Clinton is ducking questions about whether she'll debate her little-known foe in the Democratic primary, her campaign staff is quietly polling statewide to determine his strength. Although...
FANS DEFLATED AFTER LIBERTY LOSS
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWe have a problem - Houston. The Comets clipped the ladies Liberty in Game 1 of the best-of-three WNBA finals at the Garden last night - and now New York's...
HOW RUSSIA TREATED BITTER SUB RELATIVE - SEDATED HER WITH INJECTION
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amShocking TV footage made by a Russian station shows a medic sneaking up on the grieving mother of a Kursk submariner and knocking her out with an injection after she...
MADMAN SLAYS 2 KIDS WITH A PITCHFORK - THREE SIBLINGS FLEE FROM CALIF. PSYCHO
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA naked madman who "hated children" broke into an isolated California farmhouse and brutalized five kids, slaying two of them with a pitchfork before cops stormed the house and shot...
WIFE-SLAY SUSPECT HELD IN W'CHESTER
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWestchester cops last night were holding a man suspected of strangling his wife in Minnesota, burying her body in Tennessee and telling New York friends she died of a brain...
BOOZE LIMIT MAY DRY UP SAN GENNARO CHARITIES
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amOrganizers of next month's San Gennaro Festival are grimly predicting a huge drop in charitable contributions from this year's event because the city has slashed its liquor permits in half....
PATAKI PROHIBITS PIGEON-POISONING
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A year after vetoing a bill to outlaw anti-pigeon poison in large cities, Gov. Pataki relented and signed the measure into law yesterday. Animal rights groups hailed the...
FORCED SEDATION OF KURSK MOTHER ECHOES KGB DAYS
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amControversy is brewing over television footage that shows a medic giving an injection to the grieving mother of a Kursk submariner after she raged at a top Russian minister. The...
HOOP FANS IN SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amNew Yorkers have some basketball worth cheering about - and it's got nothing to do with a guy named Patrick Ewing and a team called the Knicks. The other Big...
NAKED LUNATIC MURDERS 2 KIDS WITH PITCHFORK
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA naked madman who "hated children" burst into an isolated California farmhouse and brutalized five kids, slaying two of them with a pitchfork before cops broke in and shot him...
GAYS HAIL GUY WHO SHATTERED THE MYTH
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amMillionaire Survivor Richard Hatch - America's newest homosexual TV star - is being hailed today as stereotype-buster by many in the gay community. "I think [his win] breaks down the...
IN MY BOOK, RICH THE RAT IS WEIGH AHEAD
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amI DON'T care if Rich is evil. I don't care if he's manipulative. I don't care that he quit high school, and still managed to go to West Point. Hell,...
'SURVIVOR' RATES A RECORD - AT LEAST 52 MILLION VIEWERS TUNED IN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00am"Survivor" did a lot better than surviving. The ratings for the finale of the smash CBS reality show surpassed even the most optimistic predictions, becoming the highest rated summer program...
AIRPORT WORKER DODGES NEWARK HIT-AND-RUNWAY
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amA maintenance worker at Newark Airport got the scare of his life yesterday - the sight of a 757 jetliner coming in for a landing on the very runway he...
PETA STEALS RUDY'S IMAGE TO 'MILK' CONSUMER FEARS
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amAnimal-rights activists have drafted an unwilling Mayor Giuliani in their bid to cow the country's dairy farmers. The Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals raised hackles all over...
'HERITAGE,' 'PLEASURE' IN SUPER SHOWDOWN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - There have been a couple of championship matches already this summer at the Old Spa. In the Whitney, Lemon Drop Kid dusted a stellar field that included...
HELTON'S PURSUIT OF RARE AIR NOT QUITE FAIR
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amQUIZ: Three teams currently have five pitchers on their rosters (DL included) who have won at least 100 career games. Name them (answer below). * Todd Helton may indeed bat...
FROM CURSE TO KARMA?
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHESE days the Red Sox have Pedro Martinez, a sense of magic and veteran starting pitching on the way. All three are fragile propositions. So we are probably going to...
THINGS START TO SIZZLE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amAS the summer winds down, veteran anglers look forward to what should be the best time of the year, the post-Labor Day bonanza. The coming weeks will offer some of...
DOWN THE JOHN - PATRICK NEVER HAD CHANCE ONCE THOMPSON GOT HOLD OF HIM
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amIT really doesn't matter if Patrick Ewing remains with the Knicks another two days or another two years. Outside of his uniform and his renegotiated salaries, he never really was...
WHAT, US WORRY?! - JINTS DON'T CARE IF THEY FINISH PRESEASON WINLESS
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amThey both learned the ways of the league in Buffalo, where pre-season games were treated as glorified practices, dressed in full pads, surrounded by paying customers and feeling no discernible...
GUYS, LOOK WHAT I FOUND
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Mariano Rivera ended up flat on his back, but when he saw the ball was in his glove and he was able to sit up, he smiled. Rivera...
BIG BLUE'S SKIPPER JUMPS SHIP TO XFL
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Less than two weeks before the start of the season, the Giants yesterday experienced a shakeup in their coaching staff when Jim Skipper, their assistant head coach and...
NINEPINS UPSETS CAMPANILE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Campanile, bidding to become the first horse to sweep both of Saratoga's stakes for steeplechasers in consecutive years, fell 3 ½ lengths short yesterday, finishing second to...
NINE SURVIVORS CLASH IN MIDSUMMER DERBY
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Welcome to the 131st Travers Stakes, thoroughbred racing's version of "Survivor." With Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, Preakness winner Red Bullet, Jim Dandy winner Graeme Hall and...
PLENTY OF TRAVERS TALK ON TAP
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amThere will be plenty of coverage tomorrow of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers Stakes prior to the beginning of the live card, with a special first race post time...
BRISBY FEELING SUPER IN GREEN
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets needed a big wide receiver who was willing to work cheap. Vincent Brisby wanted a team that would give him major playing time and had a...
REJUVENATED JUMBO WILL ONLY MISS ONE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe NFL had suspended Jumbo Elliott for a pair of games for his role in bar room brawl last summer, but the Jets' left tackle didn't think he should miss...
ON SECOND THOUGHT, KNICKS SAY WE LOVE EW; KNICKS SAY NEVER MIND
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amNEVER mind. Those were the hilarious words from the Knicks yesterday, concerning the Patrick Ewing trade to Seattle. The deal is dead and so is the Knicks' credibility, as if...
BIG UNIT'S LITTLE NEMESIS - MCEWING IS THORN IN JOHNSON'S SIDE
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amIt's a tired slingshot reference waiting to happen. Joe McEwing against Randy Johnson. Tonight's featured matchup to start this Mets vs. Diamondbacks weekend showdown. McEwing is 6-for-17 (.353) against Johnson...
FONZIE'S HOPING HE'LL BE BACK TONIGHT
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Edgardo Alfonzo's injuries have been like an annoying girlfriend. There was the strained hip and the slightly pulled groin and, the latest, a stiff neck. Nag, nag, nag....
TEST OF CHAMPIONS - BOMBERS BRACE FOR GRUELING LATE-SEASON SKED
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY straddled in. Those who arrived early almost uniformly did so to receive some type of medical attention. There are two training tables in the back room of the Yankee...
THE USUAL SUSPECTS - GLENALLEN, ANDY KEEP YANKS ROLLIN'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Rangers 7 They are an unlikely duo, joined only in the Yankees' collective awe at their eye-popping statistics. In an 8-7 victory over the Rangers yesterday, pitcher...
EWING'S COMING BACK - TRADE OPTIONS LOOK BLEAK AS SONIC DEAL DIES
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amOne more year. After trade talks with Seattle for Vin Baker abruptly ended yesterday, Knicks GM Scott Layden proclaimed Patrick Ewing will more than likely play another season for the...
REGGIE SAYS WNBA RICHES ARE 'SLAM DUNK'
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amLIBERTY NOTES Reggie Miller believes the day will come when WNBA start jumping into the million-dollar salary level. But not until they begin jumping like the NBA stars. Miller, who...
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 1Comets 59 - Liberty 52 The Liberty understood the importance of winning last night at the Garden. Even the ever-optimistic Teresa Weatherspoon had said that Game 1 of the...
PATRICK'S COMING BACK - THAT'S WHAT GM THINKS AFTER SONIC DEAL FINALLY DIES
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amOne more year. After trade talks with Seattle for Vin Baker officially died yesterday morning, Knicks GM Scott Layden proclaimed it is more than likely Patrick Ewing will play this...
ADUBATO IS LADIES' MAN - AFTER COACHING THE BOYS, RICHIE'S MADE SMOOTH TRANSITION TO WNBA
August 25, 2000 | 4:00amWhen he was named the Liberty's head coach in December, 1998, Richie Adubato was not exactly familiar with women's basketball. A long-time NBA coach, Adubato had seen just two WNBA...