April 21, 2000
ELECTION-YEAR STREAK MAY KEEP MARKET UP
HERE'S some potential good news for battered investors. The stock market almost never goes down during presidential election years. And, Wall Street's record is even stronger in the latter parts...
LA RESERVE CLOSED - MIDTOWN EATERY ON BRINK OF NEW OWNERSHIP
The reservations book has been closed at La Reserve. The restaurant's owners shuttered the fancy Midtown eatery last night amid speculation that it's in the process of being sold. La...
DOW JUMPS 169, NASDAQ OFF 62 AS WILD WEEK ENDS
The Nasdaq Composite index posted a loss for the second day in a row yesterday but still closed for the holdiay weekend with its biggest weekly gain ever. The tech-heavy...
IDEALABS PLANS IPO - INCUBATOR BUYING STAKE IN EVE.COM
Bill Gross' latest brainwave? Go public! The man who set the trend for incubating Internet companies filed an S1 form with the SEC yesterday to sell shares to the public...
N.Y. PRESS GOING BACK TO ALL-TABLOID
The weekly freebie newspaper war in Manhattan is taking another turn as the New York Press returns to an all-tabloid format. Industry sources estimate the paper - now a weekly...
FELD'S COMPANY AT LAST HAS COME INTO ITS OWN
WITH Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech now in the fifth and last week of its annual spring engagement at the Joyce Theater, we can look back on a season where a...
THE STARR REPORT
The cable guy? "Honor For Sale" author Gerald E. Kelly, a former New York cop, is being wooed by several cable networks to be a special correspondent. Kelly, who was...
PUMPKIN HEAD - BILLY CORGAN ON STAYING SMASHING
IN the 10 years since the Smashing Pumpkins - then an obscure Chicago grunge band - climbed to the top of the rock heap under the leadership of guitarist and...
FLICK GETS SUB-PAR RATING FOR REALISM
THERE is a nugget of truth buried deep in the noisy mess that is "U-571" - but the movie gets everything else wrong. For instance: * You can't start a...
GOOD FOR 'U'
AFTER the disappointment of "Mission to Mars," it's a pleasure to see an old-fashioned blockbuster that can sustain some real excitement. In "U-571," - the action never lets up. Unfortunately,...
DRAB 'SEPTEMBER' SEEMS TO DRAG ON
'I should like something to happen - something real," complains one of the characters in "The Last September," a tepid adaptation of Elizabeth Bowden's 1929 British novel. It's a sentiment...
STYLISH 'CROUPIER' WELL WORTH THE GAMBLE
IT'S very rare that gambling shown on screen conveys any of the rush people get from real gaming, but director Mike "Get Carter" Hodges pulls it off in "Croupier," his...
OLD-FASHIONED 'TREE' DOESN'T GO OUT ON ANY LIMBS
'FAMILY Tree" is set in 1999, but this small-town kids' drama is so determinedly old-fashioned it plays like an elongated early '60s episode of "The Wonderful World of Disney." It's...
THE 'DIE' IS CAST: IT'S AWFUL
EVEN the participation (including some nude scenes) of Elodie Bouchez, charming star of "The Dreamlife of Angels," isn't enough to make "Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday" watchable. Sure,...
'GOSSIP' IS NOTHING MORE THAN TALKING TRASH
'GOSSIP" is a remarkably accurate title for a glossy, shallow thriller where not a single scene rings true. Watching this loathsome concoction, I ended up feeling like the theater critic...
IT SHOOTS, IT MISSES
'LOVE and Basketball" is part of a welcome revolution in the way Hollywood depicts African-Americans, in that most of the film takes place in the upscale L.A. neighborhood of Baldwin...
I DREAMED I WON THAT BRAINY BEN STEIN'S MONEY ... AND IT'S JUST ONE OF THE TV FANTASIES THAT LINDA STASI THINKS ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT
I HAVE a friend who sleeps with firemen. In her quest to fulfill her fantasy she has worked her way through the Lower East Side and is heading north. She...
ANOTHER 'ROADSHOW' EPISODE OUT
RED-faced PBS honchos yesterday yanked another episode of the "Antiques Roadshow" after they decided an appraisal of a piece of armor could have been staged. Two former experts on the...
'SUICIDE' BLONDES
IT'S hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppola's brilliant "The Virgin Suicides." Her adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' highly praised...
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE HAT
ANDREA Martin has pulled out of "The Seussical," the eagerly awaited new Broadway musical based on the Dr. Seuss books, theater sources said yesterday. The actress was going to play...
RE-EDUCATING RENO - THE AG LEARNS HOW IMMIGRATION LAW REALLY WORKS
FOR months now, Americans on all sides of the Elian Gonzalez case have mostly focused on the little boy and the Solomonic difficulties of his case - whether he should...
H'WOOD TIPTOES INTO THE WAR
The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S.-backed regime in Saigon 25 years ago this month, the end of a demoralizing conflict that left its mark on all aspects...
MISTRESS SCANDAL ROCKS CHINA
China's Communist Party purged a senior lawmaker yesterday and ordered him prosecuted for allegedly taking more than $4.5 million worth of bribes in order to marry his mistress. The expulsion...
RELUCTANT SOFTWARE TYCOON STOCKS UP ON GOOD WILL - WITH $40M DONATION
Joyce Young never dreamed the few thousand bucks she invested with her nephew to start a software company five years ago would turn into a $40 million windfall. But that's...
TELL THE SLAIN KIDS, 'GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE'
PEOPLE who hate guns tell blatant lies to advance their anti-firearms agendas. At least, that's what people who love guns like to tell you. So for just one muzzle flash,...
FUROR OVER PEARL HARBOR MOVIE SHIP
Furious World War II vets have condemned The Walt Disney Co. for trying to use a famed American aircraft carrier to portray a Japanese warship in a new movie about...
$10M VERDICT FOR TRAGIC MOM
A Manhattan woman has won a $10 million jury verdict for her claim that her son was born brain-damaged when Metropolitan Hospital repeatedly turned her away while she was in...
RAFT BOY FACES GODLESS FUTURE IN CASTRO'S CUBA
WHAT did the Cuban exiles gathered outside Elian Gonzalez's Miami home do when the good news came down from the 11th Circuit Court panel? They prayed. They sang hymns. They...
HACK-TEEN PROBE ENDS IN FATHER'S ARREST, TOO
MONTREAL - The probe of a Canadian teen accused of a hack attack on an American cybersite has resulted in a surprise arrest - the boy's father. The 45-year-old business...
ANDREW'S LOVEY-DOVEY LUNCH DATE WITH GHISLAINE
If you think Prince Andrew is letting any grass grow under his feet in the romance department, Fergie-get about it. The Post caught the dashing royal wining and dining his...
STATUE-TORY CRIME: B'KLYN WAR MEMORIAL IS SWIPED
Brazen thieves have stolen a 7-foot-tall World War I memorial statue honoring fallen soldiers from its home in a Brooklyn park, officials said yesterday. "My feeling is one of complete...
OUT OF AFRICA - NOW! - ZIMBABWE BLACKS SEIZE WHITE FARMS
FOR 50 years, Rina Homolka knew only joy in Zimbabwe - the world's most beautiful country, she says. But in the past two months, Zimbabwe's charm has vanished. Homolka says...
IS RUDY TURNING A DEAF EAR TO ACID-RAIN 'ECO'?
HEY Rudy, is anybody home? It's not for lack of trying that one of the state's leading environmental groups, the Adirondack Council, hasn't been able to set up an event...
Pokémon movie earns Papal blessing
Worried parents may think the Pokémon kiddie-card craze is the work of the devil, but the pope has reportedly decided the game is good for children. The Vatican gave its...
PROTESTERS WANT RUDY BOOTED - COP KILLINGS SPARK RALLY CRY FOR JUSTICE
Two thousand furious protesters descended on City Hall yesterday to denounce police brutality and demand Mayor Giuliani's ouster from office. The loud but peaceful rally began at Grand Army Plaza...
HIZZONER'S RAZING CITY HALL RAMPARTS
The Giuliani administration, under pressure from a federal judge and the City Council, is re-opening City Hall Plaza to the public. Corporation Counsel Michael Hess said late yesterday that pedestrians...
SOLDIER KILLED, 3 WOUNDED IN NEW HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS
Hezbollah guerrillas killed a pro-Israeli militiaman and wounded another and two Israeli soldiers in Lebanon yesterday, authorities there said. The bomb and artillery attacks marked an escalation of fighting as...
4 LIVERIES ROBBED IN NIGHT OF TERROR
Bandits have sown fresh terror among the city's livery cabdrivers - holding up four more hacks in less than 12 hours, police said yesterday. No one was seriously injured in...
GYNO-MITE! HANOVER'S GETTING IN ON THE ACT
New York City First Lady Donna Hanover will join the cast of Eve Ensler's controversial off-Broadway play, "The Vagina Monologues," next month. Hanover will appear in the sellout show at...
TALE OF THE TAPES: NYPD MUST GO BY THE BOOK
The NYPD's guidelines for videotaping large-scale events were laid out in a federal court ruling 15 years ago after a lawsuit accused the cops of excessive surveillance. The Handschu Agreement...
NURSE'S RAGE: NEEDLE DOC'S 'A VICIOUS ANIMAL'
Pregnant nurse Joy Schepis yesterday said the doctor accused of savaging her with a syringe is a "vicious, wild animal" - showing her fury publicly for the first time. "He's...
COLUMBINE WEEPS AGAIN FOR ITS DEAD - ONE YEAR LATER, PAIN[[ WON'T FADE
LITTLETON, Colo. - Church bells tolled 13 times and white balloons soared into the sky yesterday as students, teachers and parents marked the first anniversary of the Columbine HS horror....
ALL'S NOT WELD WITH 344 SCHOOL BOILERS
The Board of Education has shut off gas to 344 school boilers after emergency inspections found faulty welds on some of them, The Post has learned. The "dual fuel" boilers...
JUDGE ORDERS HALT TO LAETRILE SALES ON WEB
Stop selling a bogus cancer cure over the Internet, a Brooklyn federal judge yesterday told a Queens man. Jason Vale of Whitestone was ordered to stop peddling laetrile, a toxic...
RENO POISED TO SEND IN FEDS - SHE'S BEING PRODDED BY PREZ: REPORT
Attorney General Janet Reno has decided to send federal agents to take Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives, possibly by the middle of next week, it was...
FATHER PLEADS: 'AMERICANS, HELP ME!'
Elian Gonzalez's father made an impassioned plea yesterday to be reunited with his 6-year-old son. "I want to ask the American people to help me," Juan Miguel Gonzalez said, standing...
VIDEO LEADS TO TWO ARRESTS IN FUNERAL RIOT
Two people caught on NYPD videotape throwing bottles, rocks and barricades at cops the day of the funeral for Patrick Dorismond have been arrested - and three others are still...
HITLER DOOMED 'GREAT ESCAPE' POWS
Adolf Hitler personally ordered the execution of 50 Allied airmen whose 1944 breakout inspired the move "The Great Escape," according to British archives released yesterday. Nazi Gen. Adolf Westhoff disclosed...
SUMMER CLASSES WON'T BE PARED BACK AFTER ALL
Summer school this year will not be limited to kids in danger of flunking out, Interim Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday. "It looks like we will be able to...
CLINTON FLACK ON LOST $10M: A-OH!!-L
WASHINGTON - White House spokesman Joe Lockhart laughingly said he weeps when he counts the millions he's lost by passing up a lucrative Internet job - as The Post first...
WHITE MEN GET BETTER ER CARDIAC TREATMENT: STUDY
A new study reveals that white men are more likely to receive immediate emergency-room treatment for heart attacks than either minorities or middle-aged women. In many cases, the latter groups...
NYERS BACK BAN ON CELL DRIVERS: POL
A majority of New Yorkers believe drivers should hang up their cell phones, according to a new survey. Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) yesterday released the findings of a poll of...
OLD SAGE OAKLEY'S NOT BUYING INTO VAN GUNDY'S PLAYOFF MIND GAMES
ORLANDO - The Raptors are playoff novices, but know they will be extinct in no time if they fall into the trap set by Jeff Van Gundy. Despite Van Gundy's...
MNF STAR-STUCK
FROM all indications, ABC is having a heap of trouble coming up with one or more sidekicks to work with Al Michaels in the most coveted and risky position in...
FISH REIGN WITH WEATHER
THE fish are there, but the weather has been ugly, keeping many anglers away from a wide variety of fishing that has been pretty good this past week. If you...
GRANT'S GOAL: SHATTER LENNOX JUST LIKE CRYSTAL
Michael Grant says it is fine with him if Lennox Lewis wants to dump all the title belts in the garbage before their heavyweight fight Saturday night, April 29, at...
GIRARDI KNEW PUPIL WOULD CATCH ON FAST
TORONTO - The mentor is in a new classroom having taken a job in Chicago after three years in The Bronx preparing the pupil for the day when he would...
ANKLE SURGERY SIDELINES SURFSIDE
Surfside, the nation's top 3-year-old filly, will be sidelined at least until the fall after undergoing surgery yesterday to remove a bone chip from her left front ankle. A daughter...
KNICKS PLAYING FOR KEEPS - BELIEVE PLAYOFFS VS. RAPTORS WILL BE DIFFERENT STORY
Jeff Van Gundy may be worried sick about a first-round flameout, but the Knick players appear supremely confident the Vince Carter television show that begins Sunday will have a short...
BOMBERS ON WARPATH ON BASEPATH
YANKEE NOTES TORONTO - They will always be known as The Bombers because when Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris are in the family album it's hard...
STEPHON HOPES NETS CHOOSE COACH WISELY
It ended as so many Net seasons have: with lots of losing and frustration. And with a coaching change on the horizon. "I don't want them to settle it soon....
KNICKS DON'T NEED GIMMICK - LET SPREE GUARD CARTER
SOMEDAY, when you are Charles Oakley's age, put the grandchildren on the knee and tell them how you got in on the ground floor. If Vince Carter really is the...
SITTING WALLACE NO HAPPY CAMPER
KNICK NOTES John Wallace led the Knicks in scoring Wednesday night in Boston, collecting 17 points in 29 minutes; he was the low-post scoring threat off the bench that they...
FINDER'S FEE EYES COMELY
Finder's Fee, winner of the Grade 3 Cicada last out, is the co-starting highweight in today's Grade 3 Comely Handicap. Carrying 121 pounds, the Shug McGaughey trainee seeks her fifth...
RAPTORS SLIGHT-LY ANNOYED[[ AT CAMBY
The Raptors held a team meeting last night in Orlando, during which Marcus Camby's remark calling Toronto coach Butch Carter "a liar" was discussed. During the meeting, some players aqreed...
BAYLOR-VALENTINE FEUD POINTS TO UGLY WEEKEND
A week ago, Wharton-gate erupted into a media event that left no winners. So heading into this weekend, the Mets' hierarchy was looking for some calm. Too bad. Don Baylor...
MELVIN THE MAGICIAN - ONE WAVE OF WAND LIFTS METS IN 10
10 INNINGS - Mets 5 - Brewers 4 It was the first pitch Melvin Mora saw from Curtis Leskanic with one out in the 10th inning last night. It was...
DON'T OVERLOOK WILPON'S ROLE
THE problem in the Wharton-gate affair is that people inside and outside the Mets organization keep choosing sides - Bobby Valentine or Steve Phillips - and deciding the guy they...
NEW JERSEY RECAPTURES SPIRIT OF '95
SUNRISE, Fla. - It's funny, isn't it? Despite the fact that they have eight players who had never before competed for them in a playoff series, the Devils have never...
SWEEPING CHANGE FOR DEVILS - FIRST-ROUND FAILURES FINALLY OVER
SUNRISE, Fla. - Respectability regained, finally, and reputations restored, the Devils have the chance for more than just repair work. Now they want to do some damage. "We want to...
BELL RINGS UP MORE RESPECT
Derek Bell doesn't think he got proper credit for his defensive plays when he played for Houston. "You know, it was just one newspaper, one television station," Bell told a...
HAMILTON OUT LONGER THAN EXPECTED
MET NOTES Darryl Hamilton is not coming off the DL tomorrow and the 35-year-old center-fielder will not be back in uniform any time soon. The result of Hamilton's sprained left...
GIVE WILPON BLAME FOR METS' BIG MESS
THE problem in the whole Wharton-gate affair is that people inside and outside of the Met organization keep choosing sides - Bobby Valentine or Steve Phillips - and deciding the...
CUB-BOOM! IT'S BAYLOR - JAPAN FEUD MIGHT SPILL OVER THIS WEEKEND
A week ago Wharton-gate erupted into a media event that left no winners. So heading into this weekend, the Mets' hierarchy will be looking for some calm. Too bad. Don...
MISUSE OF BURE BURIES PANTHERS
SUNRISE, Fla. - So many reasons why the Devils came up short in the first round against the Senators in 1998 and the Penguins in 1999. So many reasons why...
DEVILS CATCH FIRE AT RIGHT TIME - ROBINSON: WIN STREAK IS 'WHOLE NEW BEGINNING'
SUNRISE, Fla. - The Devils flipped the switch they said didn't exist. They went from winners of only eight in 24 games to winners of four straight, including the first...
NBA FOES & COACHES: DON'T COUNT OUT PATRICK
Last year, Patrick Ewing sat helplessly by watching his Knick teammates finish up Indiana before hurling themselves headlong against a San Antonio resolve that proved impregnable in the NBA Finals....
EW DA MAN ! - AFTER TWO INJURY-RIDLED YEARS, PATRICK EWING IS BACK AND HALTHY - AND DETERMINED TO FINALLY WIN HIS RING
With all due respect to Shaq and Kobe, let's fantasize for a moment and visualize Patrick Ewing and the Knicks winning the NBA Championship this year. Quit laughing. Bear with...
L.A. GLORY - SHAQ & LAKERS READY TO FOLLOW UP 67-WIN SEASON WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP
SECOND OF TWO PARTS (MD+BO)U(MD-BO)NSTOPPABLE offensively. Unyielding defensively. Unshakable confidence. Unadulterated lock to authenticate Phil Jackson's genius for transposing most valuable individuals into a championship team. After the spectacular regular...