January 18, 2001
NYS EYES DURST BAILOUT - CONDEMNATION WOULD CLEAR 42ND ST. SITE FOR TOWER
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amA holdout porno palace and some small stores may be condemned by the state to make room for a giant new 42nd Street office tower, The Post has learned. The...
ARNAULT TICKED AT GUCCI REPLY TO QUERY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amGucci's Domenico De Sole and LVMH's Bernard Arnault will fight about almost anything. The latest exchange was yesterday, after De Sole was quoted in ANSA, an Italian news service, countering...
MAGELLAN MANAGER PUTS CASH INTO STOCKS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWhat? Put more cash in stocks? Mega-fund manager Bob Stansky is bucking Wall Street's bearish gloom and yanking cash from its safe harbor to plow into very broad bets on...
CNN'S HELL WEEK - BOSSES PREP STAFFERS FOR MASSIVE CUTS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNote to CNN staffers: Mark your calendars next week for a bloodbath. In a series of internal memos sent to all CNN News Group staff and colleagues, Turner's top dogs...
WHO'S IN CHARGE? MANAGEMENT SUITE CHANGES
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amAs part of yesterday's blockbuster management shake-up at CNN, top Turner execs also filled three senior-level posts. Ken Jautz will become the executive vice president and general manager of CNNfn,...
YAHOO! SAYS 'YIPPEE!' ON VIACOM BUY RUMORS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amTroubled portal Yahoo! got a boost yesterday - on talk that it was in line to be bought by media giant Viacom. Shares in Yahoo! were up 16 percent even...
KAHN ON TRACK TO REPLACE NEW YORKER PUB.
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe New Yorker was jolted Tuesday by the resignation of publisher David Carey, who is going to Gruner + Jahr to head its newly formed business information group as president...
SPORTSCASTER WANTS COLD CASH IN ICE HOUSE DEBACLE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amAttorney General Elliot Spitzer is looking to bar sponsors of a luxury building that drew howls of complaints from celebrity tenants from sponsoring any such buildings again. CBS sportscaster Warner...
PUFFY TO STAR ON FASHION WEEK TV - 2-HOUR SIMULCAST SET FOR E!, STYLE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Style network will break from tradition in covering New York's fashion week next month with a live two-hour special that includes Sean "Puffy" Combs' Sean John fashion show. The...
NORTHPOINT BLAMES VERIZON FOR CHAPTER 11 FILING
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amDSL company NorthPoint Communications has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming New York's Verizon Communications for its woes. The San Franciso-based broadband wholesaler has been looking for a buyer...
THE PERILS OF POTHOLES AND OTHER ROAD DANGERS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE yo-yo temperatures of our recent January thaw are causing a bumper crop of potholes to sprout on streets and highways. As soon as the snow melted, they were everywhere,...
THE STARR REPORT
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amAnti-'Dr. Laura' site As John Cleese might have said, Stopdrlaura.com has "ceased to be." John Aravosis pulled the plug on his site, which has hounded Laura Schlessinger since Paramount launched...
CNN FASHION VETERAN STITCHES UP NEW SHOW - NBC TO CLINCH KLENSCH
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amEX-CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch could be headed for NBC - and a spot on WNBC/Ch. 4. It is expected that Klensch would serve as some sort of fashion correspondent...
STALE AND TEDIOUS 'TAMICANFLY' GOES NOWHERE FAST
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amTAMICANFLYMcGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway, at 75th Street. (212) 239-6200. ---- THE naturalism of the 1950s lives on - well, "live" may be the wrong word - in the theater. In...
'SEUSSICAL' FLAT DESPITE ROSIE'S CAT
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amSEUSSICAL ( 1/2) Rosie O'Donnell as the Cat in the Hat.Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 W. 46th St. (212) 221-1211. ----- THEY love her, they really love her. It was a...
IT'S NOT EASY TO MUG PUFFY - GUN-RAPPER TRIED TO BLOCK MY COURT TV PROFILE - PRODUCER
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amSEAN "Puffy" Combs tried hard to derail a tell-all Court TV profile of himself set to air Monday night, producers say. "Puff Daddy never directly threatened anybody on my crew...
I'M NOT CHANGING MY CLOCK FOR NBC
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNICE try, NBC, but I'm too inflexible to adapt to the wacky schedule you've announced for combating "Survivor 2" on Thursday nights. At the risk of sounding crotchety, I'm just...
TEMPTRESS GETS 'TEMPTATION' BOOT
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amLOLA Corwin was the first of the sexy temptresses to be tossed off Fox's new reality show "Temptation Island" last night - but thanks to her pinup past, you'll get...
SEE, TEMPTRESS LOLA WASN'T LYING...
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN Lola Corwin, one of the 26 temptees on the Fox's new reality show "Tempation Island," said she had posed for Playboy, she wasn't kidding. In the week since she...
DIARY OF A DAINTY DUFFEL : LAURA BUSH'S BAG LADY HAS LOTS OF EXPERIENCE ACCESSORIZING FIRST LADIES
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN it comes to the purse Laura Bush will carry to the inaugural balls on Saturday night, the Judith Leiber company has it in the bag. The New York luxury...
BORKING ASHCROFT - A DOUBLE STANDARD ON FAITH
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amFOR nearly two decades after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment, the state of New York was unable to enact a death-penalty law, despite tremendous public support and overwhelming...
HIDEOUS RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amJOHN ASHCROFT is the Elmer Gantry of American politics - evangelical piety disguising ambition and intolerance. The attorney-general nominee thinks dancing is a sin, but that school segregation, assault weapons...
ALEC'S TEMPER DROVE HER AWAY: KIM'S DAD
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amKim Basinger, who split with bad-boy hubby Alec "Bloviator" Baldwin last week, had talked about fleeing her crumbling marriage for a year and a half, the sexy star's dad has...
BASINGER MAD AT DELI CLUCKS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amVegetarian Kim Basinger is hopping mad at a famed Manhattan deli for naming a meat-filled sandwich after her. The Kim Basinger Sandwich, a new addition to the Stage Deli menu,...
CITY SHAKING OFF A QUAKE, RATTLE AND MORNING ROLL
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amA minor earthquake shook the Big Apple not quite to its core yesterday, rattling residents and fraying a few nerves, but causing no damage or injuries. The quake, which measured...
EGAN: ASHCROFT'S ABORTION VIEWS AREN'T THE ONLY ISSUE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amArchbishop Edward Egan weighed in on the John Ashcroft nomination yesterday, saying his confirmation should not hinge on his abortion views. A day after President-elect George W. Bush's nominee for...
APPLE WAS ONCE TOO BIG FOR HAYSEED BILL
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNew York's a nice place to visit, but he wouldn't want to live there, a college-age Bill Clinton says in a letter that a Manhattan collectibles shop has up for...
WOMEN HUMILIATED BY NYPD PHYSICALS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe NYPD will review the way it conducts group physicals for women job-seekers after a distraught Queens mother complained of having to stand, nearly naked, in front of a male...
HE SPEAKS SOFTLY, BUT CARRIES A BIG STAFF
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amYOU don't spend 14 years working in the Roman Curia without learning a thing or two about the art of diplomacy. Archbishop Edward M. Egan, who came to lunch at...
VALLONE URGES HIKE IN HOUSING, SCHOOL $$
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amCouncil Speaker Peter Vallone set the tone for his mayoral run yesterday with a speech tailored to his middle-class voting base - hammering populist themes like school spending, housing and...
GOV. WOULD LIGHTEN UP ON ROCKY DRUG LAWS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amGov. Pataki yesterday proposed softening the state's tough Rockefeller drug laws, saying there are better ways than prison to deal with addicts. Pataki's plan would cut minimum sentences for nonviolent...
TERRIFIC TIKI IS RUNNING ON BRAINPOWER
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amTIKI BARBER loves his football, but he doesn't need it. Nearly 15 years ago, the Giants running back told his mother he'd distance himself from the stereotype of the doltish,...
CLINTON HAS HIS EYE ON PARK AVE.
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amBill Clinton not only has been looking at some of the city's loftiest towers for office space, he's also been perusing Park Avenue for an apartment, Realtors say. The soon-to-be-ex-president...
SCHOOLS CHIEF: APPEAL WILL FAIL
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday he's confident a landmark court decision funneling another $1 billion to $2 billion in aid to New York's schools will survive an appeal. "I...
DID CAPITOL GATE-CRASHER HAVE BEEF WITH GOV?
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe driver who smashed his tractor-trailer into the California Capitol, igniting a spectacular blaze, may have been a deranged parolee with a grudge against the state's governor. Driver Mike Bowers,...
HILL'S READY TO GIVE NOD TO CHRISTIE FOR EPA POST
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - nine minutes late to her first Senate hearing - spent most of the session lobbing softball questions at EPA chief nominee Christie Todd...
BRAVEST BID FAREWELL TO 'BEST OF THE BEST'
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amFriends and family of beloved firefighter Donald Franklin yesterday fondly recalled him as not only an outstanding member of New York's Bravest, but also a terrific cook, jokester, loyal friend...
RUDY ALLY BECOMES GREEN-BACKER - EXCLUSIVE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amOne of Mayor Giuliani's biggest political fund-raisers is now helping rake in big bucks for one of the mayor's biggest enemies - Public Advocate Mark Green - The Post has...
BURMESE SQUEEZE REBEL TEENS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE violent and bizarre odyssey of the Karen militiamen Johnny and Luther Htoo was steeped in two contradictory elements: the Bible and the gun. In the sweltering Thai jungle Tuesday,...
SHE WROTE THE BOOK ON HIM BEFORE GOING BETWEEN COVERS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe brainy activist who romanced Jesse Jackson and bore his child had an academic interest in the civil-rights leader long before she became his love interest. Karin Stanford, 39, began...
SPITZER SNIPS HAIR-SHOP BIAS SUIT IN THE BUD
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amInternational hairstyling giant Jean Louis David cut a deal with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday after being accused of religious discrimination against Jews. "They said I had to leave...
WE'RE NOT OUT TO OVERTURN ROE VS. WADE, ASHCROFT SAYS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - John Ashcroft, President-elect George Bush's controversial pick for attorney general, rocked right-to-lifers yesterday when he said Bush isn't out to "overturn" legal abortion. Bush's spokesman later confirmed that...
HOW'S LEVY DOING? DEPENDS ON WHO'S DOING THE GRADING
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy gets high marks from politicians and educational experts in his first year running the city school system, but parents and local schools officials aren't impressed. The...
WITNESS SAYS LOPEZ 'HAD TO SEE' SHOOTER
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amJennifer Lopez was again dragged into hip-hop honey Sean "Puffy" Combs' gun and bribery case yesterday - by a witness who says that the screen siren "had to see who...
'MIRACLE' ON PATH TRACKS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amGilbert Johnson yesterday had a view of a passing train that most people never live to recall - from the bottom up. Johnson said he was waiting for a PATH...
BUSH TWINS 'TOO HOT' FOR COMEDY CENTRAL?
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amMAYBE the Chelsea Clinton privacy rules (leave her alone) will apply to the Bush twins after all. Comedy Central suddenly seems to be getting cold feet about plans to portray...
DUBYA GOES TO D.C., BUT HE'LL 'STAY' A TEXAN
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sporting a white cowboy hat, President-elect George W. Bush bade goodbye to Texas yesterday and flew to the nation's capital, vowing to change the tone and put aside...
JESSE ADMITS HE'S LOVE CHILD'S DAD: PUTS EVERYTHING ON HOLD TO BE WITH HIS SHATTERED FAMILY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amA "truly sorry" Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed last night that he fathered a love child two years ago - and said he's dropping out of public life to reconcile with...
COP PROBED IN EX-GIRLFRIEND'S SLAY STRIPPED OF HIS BADGE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amOfficials stripped a police sergeant of his gun and badge yesterday as cops worked to solve the mysterious murder of his ex-girlfriend - the mother of his two children, cops...
CLOSE CALL FOR KHEEL & WIFE IN AUTO CRASH
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amFamed labor lawyer Theodore Kheel and his wife walked away unscathed from a bizarre auto mishap last night that nearly landed them in the East River. Kheel, 86, was backing...
BLACKOUT DESCENDS ON PARTS OF CALIFORNIA
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amIt was "lights out" in Northern California yesterday as cash-starved electric companies shut off the power in parts of Sacramento, San Jose and San Francisco. TV stations were knocked off...
A FISH FILET A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY: STUDY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amGood health may be just a fish filet away. A team of scientists say eating fish five times a week can cut the chances of having most forms of stroke...
CONFUSION'S ALL THAT REIGNS IN CONGO FOR NOW
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amCongo President Laurent Kabila's son emerged as leader of Africa's third-largest nation yesterday amid confusion about his father's fate. Congolese officials said Maj. Gen. Joseph Kabila, head of the armed...
EMPIRE STATE LOVES 'THE KID'
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amLemon Drop Kid, the first horse in 50 years to win the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap, Grade 2 Suburban Handicap, Grade 1 Whitney Handicap and Grade 1 Woodward Stakes in...
MARA, MODELL A PAIR OF SUPER PALS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amOWINGS MILLS, Md. - Baltimore owner Art Modell and Giants' co-owner Wellington Mara, native New Yorkers both, have been the best of friends for 40 years. Their friendship has survived...
HAND UP, NOT HANDOUT FOR FORMER FIGHTERS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amSeveral ex-fighters are coming together tonight to help those still in the ring better handle their post-boxing days. Gerry Cooney, who formed the non-profit group F.I.S.T., Fighters Initiative for Support...
GLENN'S FINAL GRASP - PARKER HOPING FIFTH TIME IS A SUPER BOWL CHARM
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amBack then, he was a player, a pretty darn good player, a starter. But that's it. "No more of a leader than anybody else on the team," Glenn Parker surmised....
ALEXANDER PICKS DUKE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amPhil Alexander's days of leading both his school's football and basketball teams are coming to an end. That's because the 6-foot-4, 210-pound Alexander, who is a solid hoop player but...
ACHING RICE IS IFFY TO PLAY VS. PISTONS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Not only will the Knicks be without Marcus Camby tomorrow night when they play the Pistons in Detroit, but they could be without forward Glen Rice. Rice is...
MOGILNY SELECTED AS WORLD ALL-STAR
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWith 22 goals and 47 points, Alexander Mogilny was the only Devil named to the World Team squad for the Feb. 4 All-Star Game in Denver. Larry Robinson will be...
MESS GOIN' STRONG AT 40 - LOW: HE'S AMAZING FOR HIS AGE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amAs he turns 40 today, Mark Messier remains amused that some had questioned his durability, and his future, when he first joined the Rangers in 1991. "I heard about the...
ERNIE'S FIELD OF DREAMS - ACCORSI HOPES 'MOONLIGHT' MEMORIES BRING JINTS LUCK
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNow this all makes sense. This improbable run to the Super Bowl by the Giants had to happen this way. General manager Ernie Accorsi, the architect of these Super Giants,...
JESSIE, LEWIS STILL TRUE BLUE PALS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amOn Tuesday night, two of the fiercest competitors in the NFL dined together in Manhattan. On Jan. 28, the two will be on opposite sides, looking for glory in Super...
DIXON VOW: I WON'T BE DELINQUENT - SAYS HE'LL VEER AWAY FROM TAMPA NIGHTLIFE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants ship has sailed merrily along this season, and the few waves they have experienced have usually been generated by Ron Dixon. The skinny rookie receiver has run afoul...
RE-MARC-ABLY HARSH - CAMBY BANNED 5 GAMES - AND KNICKS CRY FOUL
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amMarcus Camby never landed a punch Monday. But yesterday the NBA knocked him out for five games and fined him $25,000 for throwing a roundhouse right that missed Danny Ferry...
FEAR NOT! NETS NOT DEALIN' FOR D.C. - COLEMAN RUMOR STARTED AS JOKE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNow the Nets have been known to make enormously dumb moves - just check out the list of people they've drafted over the years - so nothing should come as...
TUNA HOOKS UP WITH MARA ON WINNING CALL
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Co-owner Wellington Mara said he received a call from Bill Parcells prior to Sunday's NFC Championship Game against the Vikings. "He said 'don't forget, 10 years ago we...
WINFIELD DAY WILL CAP DEBATE
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amTHE population explosion in the sports media has led to questions that become so fashionable the answers actually are considered newsworthy. The questions take on lives of their own and...
COURAGEOUS KIRBY ALWAYS A HALL OF A GUY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amOn the brink of fame and fortune and wondering how to handle it without caving in to the forces of conceit and paranoia? Follow Kirby Puckett around for 24 hours...
KNICKS RIP 5-GAME BAN FOR CAMBY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amMarcus Camby never landed a punch Monday. But yesterday the NBA knocked him out for five games and fined him $25,000 for throwing a roundhouse right that missed Danny Ferry...
YANKS, JETER MAY CLOSE DEAL TODAY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amDerek Jeter's contract negotiations are expected to progress today to the same spot they were a year ago, which is to say that agent Casey Close and Yankees negotiator Randy...
'STREAKING' NETS WALLOP WIZARDS
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNets 108 - Wizards 89 A rock that floats. Pigs that fly. The candle that stays lit in a hurricane. Yes, all that is illogical and seemingly impossible can be...
LYNCH SAYS HERMAN WILL BE JET HERO
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWhen he first heard the news last night that Herman Edwards would be joining the Jets as their new head coach, Buccaneers' strong safety John Lynch was ecstatic for Edwards,...
FEAR NOT! NETS WON'T SWING DEAL FOR DERRICK
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES The rumor that won't die - that the Nets are interested in reacquiring Derrick Coleman from the Hornets - was hotly denied by sources in both Charlotte and...
JETS MAKE EDWARDS THEIR FINAL ANSWER
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amThe Jets yesterday completed their interview process in search of a head coach and the winner is . . . Herman Edwards. The energetic, 46-year-old Edwards, a 10-year veteran defensive...
GILL GETS 2ND OPINION ON KNEE INJURY
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES Kendall Gill is expected back against Sacramento Tuesday. Leave it at that, OK? Gill went to Florida for two additional opinions on his knee which had been diagnosed...
HOAX IS ON ENGLAND COACH
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amLONDON - Now that he has begun his new job as England coach, Sven-Goran Eriksson will have to get used to a few things. Having his every decision analyzed on...
MEET THE JETS' NEW PILOT
January 18, 2001 | 5:00amWHO: Herman Edwards. WHAT: 14th head coach in the Jets 40-year history. AGE: 46. PERSONAL: Native of Fort Monmouth, N.J., but grew up in Seaside, Calif. Married to Lia and...