November 28, 2000
TOM AND DOM'S DIRTY DEAL - LVMH: TOP EXECS GOT SECRET OPTIONS GRANT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Gucci-LVMH battle is getting down and dirty. Bernard Arnault's LVMH filed a lawsuit yesterday charging that Gucci's Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole will each collect stock options worth...
NYSE STILL NEEDS AN ANCHOR FOR ITS NEW TOWER
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amBRUCE Mosler, Cushman & Wakefield USA president, states: "There's a change in the lineup of anchor tenants on the prowl." And how. The short list of "anchor" prospects for the...
THE BIG EASY: CYBERCAFE'S LANDING IN TIMES SQ.
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA wacky British entrepreneur in the mold of Richard Branson opens his attack on the U.S. market today with a new cybercafe in Times Sqaure. With tech stocks falling and...
KERKORIAN SUES CHRYSLER - DEMANDS $9B, CARMAKER SPLIT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amBillionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian slapped DaimlerChrysler and its chairman with a $9 billion lawsuit - and called for the legendary American carmaker to be split from its new German parent...
HIGH-FLYING GE HAS NOWHERE TO GO BUT DOWN: ANALYSTS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amGeneral Electric's been Wall Street's best no-brainer investment for years - but maybe not anymore. Some analysts see clouds gathering over the industrial giant's rich domain, and they're voicing concerns....
M'SOFT BLASTS JUDGE - APPEAL SAYS JACKSON WAS BIASED, WRONG
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amLawyers for the Microsoft Corp. ripped the federal judge who ordered a break-up of the company charging he was biased, unprofessional and based his landmark rulings on a trial that...
HERE ARE THE FASHION AWARDS THAT COUNT!
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amAS another year careens to a close, I'd like to acknowledge the people who made my job interesting, hilarious and frustrating. The CFDA Awards may have more cachet, but here...
E-STAMP CANCELS POSTAGE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amBeleagured E-Stamp has admitted it's had enough of the Internet postage business and is throwing itself into the warehouse software game instead. The company said yesterday it had no prospect...
BERGER PLEADS GUILTY TO $485M FRAUD
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amFallen hedge fund manager Michael Berger pleaded guilty yesterday to a massive securities fraud in which he tried to cover up losses of more than $400 million. Berger, 29, admitted...
PRESENTS TO KEEP 'EM IN THE PINK - ANTI-STRESS SPRAYS AND TREATS FOR THE TOOTSIES ARE PERFECT GIFTS TO SOOTHE THE SOUL
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE we can't give our loved ones the ultimate gift - a long, healthy life - we can give things that may help them have one. A trial membership at...
'GLADIATOR' LOOMS LARGE AS LIFE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00am'GLADIATOR" has opened its campaign for the Oscars in a new arena - 20 IMAX theaters around the country. Simultaneous with its release on DVD and video this week, Russell...
FOCUS ON BEST HITS BY BLUR
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amBLUR "Blur: The Best Of" ( 1/2) Virgin Records Best-of albums and greatest hits collections are often looked at with disdain, as if an artist has nothing new to say,...
DUELING FOR DEBS - HOW I GOT REJECTED BY YOUNG RICH GIRLS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amIT must have been my shoes. Before I headed over to a brunch on the Upper East Side to audition as an escort for the upcoming International Debutante's Ball, my...
HICKS TICKS TO OWN CLOCK WITH 30-YEAR COMEBACK
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amDAN Hicks and the Hot Licks were on the cover of Rolling Stone twice. In 1973 - the second time - Hicks told the music magazine, "I am gonna be...
THE STARR REPORT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amNBC's non-coverage a 'Titanic' misstep? NBC is sticking to its guns over thedecision not to go live Sunday night with Florida's certification of George W. Bush as the winner of...
ROSIE'S REVENGE - DELICIOUS PROOF SHE'S A CLOSET CRAFT QUEEN...
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHAT'S it. I'm suing Rosie O'Donnell for personal injury. Because of her I was nearly trampled to death in an office riot when her homemade chocolates arrived yesterday. It's just...
MTV PUTS FOOT DOWN OVER STEAMY ADVERT FOR SHOES
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amMTV has banned a sexy Candie's shoe ad featuring Jodi Lyn O'Keefe and Mark McGrath cavorting nude in the shower from being shown before 9 p.m. In the 60-second spot,...
DOWNEY AND OUT - 'ALLY' LOVER BOY CAN KISS SERIES GOODBYE IF DRUG CHARGES STICK
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amROBERT Downey Jr.'s bright future on "Ally McBeal" is cloudy now that he faces the possibility of yet another prison term. Downey - arrested Saturday on drug charges in Palm...
JIVING IN JAMAICA - EXPLORE THE ISLE'S MOUNTAIN ROADS & HIP MUSIC SCENE BY MOTORBIKE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN I told people I was going motorbiking off the beaten path in Jamaica, the reaction was unanimous. If I wasn't beaten, robbed, shot, macheted to pieces and fed to...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWheely good show New Yorkers were early pioneers in the manufacture of the motor bikes. To celebrate this history, the New York State Museum in Albany will present the Great...
LEGAL FLEDGLINGS FEATHER NESTS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amRookie lawyers at some of the city's hottest firms have reportedly been guaranteed bonuses of $40,000 on top of first-year salaries of $125,000. The green hemorrhage first spurt Oct. 25,...
CANADIAN PM SHOOTS FOR MAJORITY RULE AT POLLS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amCanadian voters -urged to "remember Florida" -went to the polls yesterday in early elections that could give Prime Minister Jean Chretien his third majority mandate. Polls indicated Chretien's Liberal Party,...
'MR. MADONNA' DEALS WITH FAME
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amGuy Ritchie hates being known as Mr. Madonna - but the cocky British film director admits the only reason he's famous is because he fathered the pop queen's second child....
BABY BRAINS 'SHAPE' UP FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThey may go goo-goo, ga-ga - but babies are aware of a lot more than we think they are. New research indicates infants start to see complex objects in the...
Q & A ON THE FLORIDA FIASCO'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amQ: When will this election really be over? A: Perhaps by Dec. 12, when Florida must finalize its 25 presidential electors or risk losing their votes in the Electoral College....
GORE TAKES HIS CASE TO THE PEOPLE: SEEKS PUBLIC SUPPORT IN BID TO NIX RESULT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore launched a new campaign yesterday, this time to fight back and try to convince Americans - and Florida courts - that George W. Bush isn't really...
AL'S PRINCIPLE: DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amIT was Tom and Dick and Al and Joe. Four white guys, sitting around talking. Just when you thought this never-ending election couldn't get any weirder, when you were sure...
BAD HARE SLAY PUTS QUEEN IN THE DOGHOUSE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amShe's a killer queen! That's the cry of furious animal lovers after Queen Elizabeth watched her pet corgi dogs kill a helpless baby rabbit. The rabbit horror came just a...
ITALIAN INN BARS SINGER LUCIANO WHAT'S-HIS-NAME
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThat's the tune Luciano Pavarotti may have to be singing next time he checks into a hotel. The tubby tenor's feathers got ruffled when an Italian hotel wouldn't let him...
TEXAS HIGH COURT TO WEIGH CASE OF 'RETARDED' KILLER
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA 44-year-old Texas killer who, his lawyers claim, is so mentally retarded that he still believes in Santa Claus, has won the right to have his case heard by the...
MOMS KEEP VIGIL FOR SLAIN GIRLS - ENDURE EXPLICIT TESTIMONY DURING SUSPECT'S TRIAL
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amONE girl may have been burned alive on a rooftop. Another had her life's breath squeezed out of her, and a third, only 13, was strangled and stabbed three times....
MAGICIAN'S FRIGID FEAT DEBUTS ON BRR-OADWAY
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amMagician David Blaine - wearing nothing but a black ski cap, cargo pants and boots - took on his most chilling stunt ever yesterday when he was encased in a...
HOLOCAUST HERO WALLENBERG WAS EXECUTED: RUSSIA
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA top Kremlin official yesterday admitted that the Soviets probably killed Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. "We do not doubt that he...
DEM UPS LEAD IN E. SIDE RACE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amDemocratic challenger Liz Krueger has extended her razor-thin lead over incumbent Republican state Sen. Roy Goodman during a count of paper ballots in their battle for his East Side seat....
'TOP' DOLLAR: HURLEY MAY GET $4M TO PITCH A BRA
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Scottish lingerie company is about to create a tempest in a C-cup by offering actress Liz Hurley a record $4 million to support its newfangled push-up bra. The tentative...
APPLE OLYMPIC QUEST TAKES POLL VAULT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amNew Yorkers want the Olympic Games to come to the Big Apple in 2012 - but most don't want Mayor Giuliani to build a Manhattan stadium for the event, a...
PREGNANT VICTIM'S 'DOUBLE LIFE'
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA pregnant Long Island woman whose body was found at a Brooklyn construction site may have led life apart from her husband - she apparently had a boyfriend, police said...
CRITICS DISPUTE HAITI VOTE RESULTS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amHaiti's opposition parties said yesterday the peaceful but boycotted national elections mean apparent winner Jean-Bertrand Aristide has no mandate to rule the Caribbean nation. "The election was illegitimate," opposition leader...
DELIBERATIONS BEGIN IN BRICK-ATTACK TRIAL
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan jury starts its first full day of deliberations in the Midtown brick-attack case today after a tough-talking prosecutor slammed the accused as "a cold, violent, heartless person." "He...
GORE SUIT: DECLARE ME THE WINNER - UNCOUNTED VOTE 'MORE THAN ENOUGH'
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore was illegally denied more than 1,800 votes cast for him in Florida - more than enough to make him president, his lawyers charged in a last-ditch...
GEENA GOING '4TH' TO WED YOUNG HUNK
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amArchery-ace actress Geena Davis, shot by Cupid's arrow yet again, is aiming to walk down the aisle with much younger beau Reza Jarrahy. Davis, 44, and the hunky 29-year-old Beverly...
MIA & SON'S BRAVE BATTLE TO END POLIO
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amMia Farrow has seen the damaging effects of polio firsthand. The daughter of Tinseltown's elite lost the ability to walk and breathe on her own when she was 9 years...
ED BOARD TOLD TO TAKE BACK B'KLYN SUPT. AXED BY CREW
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe state education commissioner ruled yesterday that the Board of Education illegally fired a Brooklyn school superintendent last year - and ordered him reinstated with his $141,000 salary and back...
HOW TO 'NET GREAT GIFTS AND SKIP THE HOLI-DAZE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE'S a detour around the rush and crush of noisy city streets or suburban malls this holiday season - and it leads to the information superhighway. Since the Savvy Shopper...
RUDY TO TOUT INSURE PLAN FOR THE POOR IN $2M BLITZ
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday unveiled a $2 million ad blitz yesterday as part of his sweeping plan to enroll thousands of poor New Yorkers in government-subsidized health plans. The stepped-up campaign...
'BAIT & SWITCH' KARATE SCHOOL TAKES A HIT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe state's largest chain of karate schools has been belted with a $195,000 fine and ordered to pay refunds for what authorities called illegal business practices and "bait and switch"...
JUDGE: COPS WRONG TO FIRE 'PROFILING' WITNESS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA cop who testified in disguise against the Police Department before a City Council hearing on racial profiling was wrongly fired, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Officer Yvette Walton came...
BILL PLANS FINAL IRISH PEACE BID
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton will make his farewell visit to Ireland and England shortly before Christmas in hopes of giving a final boost to the peace process. The Dec. 12-14 trip could...
ELECT-CASE JUDGE LOST HIGH POST IN '98 SPAT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - The Florida judge who may decide the next president was once removed as chief judge of his judicial circuit. Judge N. Sanders Sauls, a Democrat, was embroiled in...
AL'S TIME PROBLEM - HE MUST 'PROTEST,' 'CONTEST' AND GET A NEW RECOUNT BY DEC. 12
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amAL Gore may think he really won the state of Florida, but judging from yesterday's proceedings in Leon County circuit court, his efforts to overturn the certified results in Florida...
GOP LEGISLATORS JOIN FIGHT TO PICK ELECTORS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Republican legislative leaders filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday asserting their authority to choose Florida's electors if court battles threaten to keep them out of...
LEAVE THE WOMAN ALONE - 'MADAME BUTTERFLY' IS NOT BLAMEWORTHY
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH. THERESA LePORE is known around these parts as Madame Butterfly, and she sings opera like I whistle Rosie O'Grady through missing teeth. Theresa is the greatest modern...
DEFECTIONS COULD MEAN PARTY'S OVER FOR AL
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amFIRST, the election mess; now, the transition mess. George W. Bush was out to send a blunt message when he pushed ahead with a presidential transition yesterday: Al Gore's refusal...
SOUND VICTORY FOR PROTESTERS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday gave AIDS demonstrators the go-ahead to use microphones at a protest outside City Hall - ruling that the city's ban on the sound system violates the...
CHENEY CALLS ON CLINTON TO HAND OVER THE KEYS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amRepublican No. 2 man Dick Cheney said yesterday he was "disappointed" in the Clinton administration for locking the door to the presidential transition offices. President Clinton denied dissing the GOP...
CIA HEAD: COUNTRY IS STABLE, DESPITE DISPUTE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe United States is holding together despite the dispute over the results of the presidential election, CIA Director George Tenet told Bronx high-schoolers yesterday. "Troops aren't in the streets. The...
HE LOOKS LIKE A LOSER AS HE TRIES TO SPIN A WIN
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amSOMETHING strange happened to Al Gore between Election Day and yesterday. The vice president has morphed into an automaton with a cause. Last night, nearly three weeks after we discovered...
GORE TAKES HIS CASE TO THE PEOPLE - SEEKS PUBLIC SUPPORT IN BID TO NIX RESULT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore told the nation last night that he'll fight on for the presidency, and claimed his attempt to reverse the Florida election result is nothing less than...
CANADIAN PM CHRETIEN WINS HISTORIC THIRD TERM
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amCanadian voters gave Prime Minister Jean Chretien his biggest election win yet, marking the first time since World War II that any Canadian leader has won three consecutive majorities in...
PRINCIPAL AT QNS. 'MOLEST' SCHOOL GETS TRANSFERRED
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Board of Education yesterday removed the principal of a Queens elementary school where four students were molested amid charges of security lapses. Cleonice LoSecco, of PS 89 in Elmhurst,...
CHILDS WON'T MAKE 'BIG' FUSS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTwo days ago, when Jeff Van Gundy revealed that he would start the 'Big Backcourt,' he said point guard Chris Childs "disagrees" with the plan. But last night, after the...
RICE IS RIGHT - FINALLY - GLEN BREAKS OUT AS KNICKS ROLL
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 97 - Grizzlies 72 Glen Rice has made a bushel of 3-point shots at the Garden in his lifetime. It's just he hadn't yet done it as a Knick....
'BIG BACKCOURT' CREATES BIG STIR
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy has insisted this is no experiment, but the way Erick Strickland is reading the "Big Backcourt" is that's it's just something to try ... for now. Chris...
VG HOPING START IGNITES RICE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe this will do the trick. Maybe getting Glen Rice into the Knicks' starting lineup via "the Big Backcourt" - an alignment that made its season debut last night vs....
LECKIE SAVORS FIRST VICTORY
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amSt. Peter's coach Bob Leckie had a couple of drinks Saturday night and who could blame him? The Peacocks had just defeated Lafayette, 76-71, to end a 16-game losing streak....
ISLES HEAR TRADE WINDS SWIRLING
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amNo matter the assurances made by the Islanders' owners last week, Brad Isbister believes that trade winds will surely be ripping through Uniondale soon unless the club can slink out...
LAZIO FANS WON'T MISS ERIKSSON
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON - Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. But now that he's lost the winning habit at Lazio, Swedish professor Sven-Goran Eriksson's arrangement to take the...
QUALITY-CONTROL CHECK - JINTS NEED WIN VS. TOP TEAM
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amThere are no freebies in the NFL. Just ask the Chiefs, who saw any chance of making the playoffs end Sunday with a loss to the previously winless Chargers. So...
NETS NEED TO BE BETTER 'ROLL' PLAYERS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amExactly how good are John Stockton and Karl Malone at operating the pick and roll? "They run it like a machine," said Kendall Gill. Call them a well-oiled machine because...
BIG BLUE'S RED-Y
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amRead into it what you will. As the Eagles and Redskins were battling on television in a game dripping with playoff implications for the Giants, Kerry Collins was watching, sort...
OUR ROOKIES GOTTA STEP UP: GROH
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES Rookie receiver Laveranues Coles, who missed Sunday's game with a sprained left knee, is "not likely" to return to the lineup this Sunday, according to Al Groh. That...
IT'S ALMOST TOO EASY
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: A Blessed with a lead and a running game, Kerry Collins (20 of 30, 232 yards, 1 TD) was the picture of efficiency. Especially sharp on third...
HUNGRY JETS IN THE HUNT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amClose your eyes Jets fans and imagine this: The Jets are a playoff team right now. If the regular season ended today, the 8-4 Jets would be a wild-card team....
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amFrancisco Martinez' senior year was a disappointment. "I thought we'd use him more," said Kennedy head coach Jerry Horowitz. "But I was really disappointed with how he came into camp...
MUSSINA ON DECK - YANKS COULD[[ SIGN RIGHTY BY END OF WEEK
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amHours after making an official offer to Mike Mussina yesterday, the Yankees and the stud free-agent pitcher made serious progress on Mussina joining Joe Torre's rotation, The Post has learned....
GOOD BUT NOT GREAT
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amJET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: B+ Vinny Testaverde (20-of-34, 215 yards, 2 TDs, INT) was sharp on a sloppy day when being sharp was very difficult. His TD passes were in spots...
BOMBERS EYE BOSOX' GORDON AS BULLPEN HELP
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amIn an attempt to bolster their bullpen, the Yankees made a one-year offer to Tom "Flash" Gordon yesterday and were discussing increasing it to a multiyear deal. "He would prefer...
AMAZIN'S NOT SHEDDING SECOND TIERS FOR MIKE
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWhile the Mets want to be players in the Mike Mussina Sweepstakes, it is abundantly clear they are in the midst of executing their plan to go after the second...
THE HALL STORMS PAST ST. PETER'S
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall 104 - St. Peter's 85 Seton Hall and St. John's are separated by a river and a ridiculous Big East Conference schedule that doesn't have the two metropolitan...
VIN THERE, DONE THAT - BLAME BIG BABY BAKER FOR WESTPHAL'S FALL
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amB EFORE giving Gary Payton full credit for Paul Westphal's firing, Vin Baker's leading role in the killing of his Sonic coach deserves to be duly acknowledged. According to a...
WARD'S NOW OUT AT LEAST EIGHT WEEKS
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Charlie Ward yesterday underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to clean out loose cartilage - and the timetable for his return has changed for the worse. The...
ISLES END SLIDE WITH A FLOURISH
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amWith nearly three weeks of pent-up frustration, the Islanders let it pour out last night. And then they let out some more. And some more, until finally, the Islanders had...