October 2, 2000
HOLLYWOOD 'SOLD!' ON AUCTION SCANDAL
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amHollywood is salivating over the Christie's-Sotheby's scandal now that the main players can start telling their tales. The green light came after the auction houses created a $512 million pool...
PRES.: "CAN YA SPARE A DIME, BUDDY?"
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amIs the White House the poorhouse? Wondering why the Clintons are still working so hard to raise money for their legal fund? It's not just that the Clintons are one...
HK DISS IRKS O'REILLY
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amWhat do newspaper mogul Tony O'Reilly and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Larry Ellison have in common, besides their billion-dollar net worths? Both have had trouble landing their private jets -- because...
THE SIGN OF THE BULL
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amHE's an astrologer to the stars. He's a stock picker. And now he's a folk singer. Marcus Goodwin, the financial astrologer and author of ''Psychic Investor,'' is planning a singing...
SECTOR FUND FINDS PLENTY TO CROWE ABOUT
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amCheck out the list of best-performing mutual funds from week to week, and inevitably, a sector fund will be in the top spot. The problem is that it's never the...
DON'T TELL MOM ABOUT MY PORTFOLIOS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amSEX and drugs have been on Carrie Pomerantz Schwab's mind of late. Charles Schwab's daughter said she was recently disturbed to discover that American parents are still not adequately discussing...
WORK HARD, FLY YOURSELF
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amNever in aviation history have so many commercial airline passengers voiced their discontent with the burgeoning industry. While the turbulence continues to manifest itself with routine delays and cancellations, private...
GREENSPAN'S UNLIKELY TO BOOST INTEREST RATES AGAIN TOMORROW
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amWill he or won't he? Alan Greenspan and the governors of the Federal Reserve meet today and tomorrow to decide what to do about interest rates. Few economists or Wall...
OCTOBER IS WALL STREET'S CRUELEST MONTH
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S October. If you are an investor, that's really all you need to know as far as the stock market's outlook is concerned. October is historically a very difficult month...
EMI COULD BE LEFT IN THE LURCH IF DEAL TANKS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amEMI could soon be back at Square One: a struggling British record company without a white knight. The music company's tug-of-war with the European Commission over its proposed merger with...
BLUETOOTH GETTTING LONG IN THE TOOTH
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amGartner Group. It'll be a while yet before your fridge talks to your Palm Pilot. Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology that lets all sorts of digital devices talk to each...
THE 'OTHER' ROYAL AND ALL THAT JAZZ
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amBIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET ANYTHING named a Royal Ballet must carry, at least around its edges, a certain stuffy aura of the Establishment The Birmingham Royal Ballet, which has been billing...
IT'S ALL JUST A MATTER OF STYLE: FASHION WEEK LEAVES THE RUNWAYS AND HEADS STRAIGHT FOR THE GALLERIES
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amIF New York's Fashion Week somehow passed you by -- or if you've yet to get your fill of clothes and makeup -- take heart. Galleries and museums all over...
THE STARR REPORT
October 2, 2000 | 4:00am'Plants' growing in'Dr. Laura' audience Add another to the growing list of "plants" in the "Dr. Laura" show. "Dr. Laura" researcher San-D Duchac was on the show which aired Monday,...
FUTURE DIMS FOR ONCE-BRIGHT 'FELICITY'
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S going to be a do or die year for "Felicity." The show, once considered one of the brightest spots on any network, hit rock-bottom ratings last season, and has...
UNFIT FOR PUBLIC VIEWING
October 2, 2000 | 4:00am"Yes, Dear" Tonight at 8:30 on CBS/Ch. 2 Zero stars"Tucker" Tonight at 8:30 on NBC/Ch. 4 Zero stars IF you see either of these two shows coming at you, run!...
OFF THE MARK; 'DEADLINE' AND 'ARREST & TRIAL' BOTH MISS THE BELIEVABILITY TARGET
October 2, 2000 | 4:00am"Deadline" Tonight at 9 on NBC/Ch. 4"Arrest & Trial" Tonight at 7:30 on WWOR/Ch. 9 DICK WOLF, who loves cops more than my friend Gloria (who hasn't dated a civilian...
3 SHOT IN SPAT OVER VID-CAM IN 59TH ST. SUBWAY
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amA dispute over a video camera ended in a vicious shooting in a Midtown subway station yesterday that left one man fighting for his life and two other people wounded,...
ROCKER MANSON 'RIGHT,' AFTER ALL
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amHe's a minister in the Church of Satan whose act was banned in Salt Lake City - but controversial gory Goth rocker Marilyn Manson leans Republican. Interviewed in November's Talk...
GOP MAN'S 'SIDE EFFECT' MAY BOOST HILL
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amA TOP political aide to Gov. Pataki might reluctantly help elect Hillary Rodham Clinton to the U.S. Senate, worried Republicans have told The Post. The Republicans said that Pataki political...
RACETRACKS HAD $$ LAUNDER ALERT
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The New York Racing Association, facing two probes over possible money laundering, was warned last year about its sloppy money-handling procedures, official records show. State records obtained by...
GAMES FINISH WITH FLOURISH
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - A splashy who's who of Australian pop culture yesterday helped close the 2000 Summer Olympics, sure to be remembered for its swimming records, lavish galas - and athletes...
CHINA FUMING OVER POPE'S LATEST PICKS FOR SAINTHOOD
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amChina slammed Pope John Paul yesterday for making saints of 120 Catholics who died under Chinese religious persecution. China's Foreign Ministry branded the new saints "evil-doing sinners" guilty of rape...
POLITICAL CIRCUS NEEDS A FEW ISSUES
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amAL GORE might be in a little trouble tomorrow night - I mean, he can't win votes by kissing George W. Bush, now can he? The famous kisser of Democratic...
NEW TIANANMEN CRACKDOWN
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amBlood flowed again in Tiananmen Square yesterday as baton-wielding cops beat hundreds of protesters during China's National Day celebrations in Beijing. Members of the Falun Gong sect were dragged away...
N. IRELAND GUERRILLA BOMB GETS WRONG MAN
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amA Protestant man's leg was mangled in a thundering bomb blast in Northern Ireland that cops blame on pro-British guerrillas. The explosion occurred near a railway line about 20 miles...
PARISHIONERS RECALL PRIEST OF GENEROSITY
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amWhen an armed Queens man threatened to jump with his baby from a seventh-floor window 12 years ago, it was Monsignor Thomas Gradilone who stood outside his door in a...
RICK LAZIO'S UNWISE BET
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amTWO weeks ago, Rick Lazio chose to make campaign-finance reform the centerpiece of his Senate campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton. He demanded she sign a piece of paper banning the...
CRASH KILLS 3 AT DEVIL'S OWN B'KLYN CORNER
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amAn intersection called "Devil's Corner" in Brooklyn lived up to its name early yesterday when a horrific two-car crash left three dead and four seriously injured, police said. The crash...
MONSIGNOR SUSPECTED OF BILKING HIS OWN CHURCH
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amQueens parishioners were stunned to learn yesterday that their beloved former pastor is suspected of breaking the Seventh Commandment - Thou shalt not steal - by allegedly embezzling about $2...
RICK: '86' MEDICAID FOR RU-486
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio said yesterday that he opposed using public funds to help poor women afford the just-approved abortion pill RU-486 - putting him at odds with opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton....
BRITISH TV: COPS TRIED TO FRAME O.J.
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amA new TV documentary claims Los Angeles cops planted damning evidence to try to frame O.J. Simpson in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and her friend. The BBC show...
RUDY HAS RESERVATIONS ABOUT TRANSIT BOND ACT
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has yet to weigh in on the state's $3.8 billion transportation bond act, which goes before voters next month - but he said yesterday that he's not sure...
AL, DUBYA PREPPING TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush swung an ax while Al Gore read a book yesterday as the party's two prizefighters readied for a 90-minute debate tomorrow in Boston - their...
DEATH TOLL 29 IN ESCALATING MIDEAST RIOTS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amPalestinian gunmen shot at Israeli troops, who responded with fire from helicopter gunships as violence escalated on both sides of the widening conflict yesterday in Israel, the West Bank and...
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amTHE WEEK AHEAD: Hype and overhype? The presidential race is locked in a dead heat, so tomorrow's debate looms as the head-to-head test that could break it open. It's Al...
TRAGIC DAD: 'I COULD NOT SAVE MY SON'
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe Palestinian father seen in dramatic TV footage trying in vain to shield his 12-year-old son during a West Bank firefight said yesterday he and the boy weren't rioting -...
B'KLYN BIAS THUGS ATTACK JEWISH MAN
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was beaten and slashed during an apparent bias attack in Sunset Park yesterday, police said. The victim was jumped from behind by two unidentified men who punched...
RATE YOUR DATE BY HOW HE EATS: DOC
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amHey, bachelors, better watch your table manners! That's the word from researchers who say women can spot a man's potential as a lover by the way he eats. German psychologist...
BRATTON COPS OUT OF RACE FOR MAYOR
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amBill Bratton has taken himself out of the running for old enemy Rudy Giuliani's job. Bratton - whom Giuliani appointed as police commissioner and then forced out after public squabbling...
SURVIVAL STORIES FOR WOMEN OF EVERY AGE
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amBreast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40 and 55 - and the most common form of cancer in America. A new case...
BIDDER PILL: BOARD OF ED HAD CHANCES TO HALT 'SCAM'
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amFOR three years, Board of Education headquarters officials ignored red flags signaling irregularities in the awarding of $6 million in computer contracts in a Queens school district, a Post investigation...
PLANE STYLES TELL MUCH ABOUT CANDIDATES
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amGREEN BAY, Wis. - Traveling with Al Gore is like being in a classroom. Traveling with George W. Bush is like being in a locker room. That's how reporters covering...
BOONDOGGLE HIGHWAY - $420M FACE LIFT FOR 'ROAD TO NOWHERE'
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amThe Bronx's little-used Sheridan Expressway - long mocked as "the highway to nowhere" - is in line to get a projected $420 million face lift in what some critics have...
AGBAYANI'S FEELING FINE
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES The most important aspect of yesterday's 3-2 13-inning win over the Expos was that Benny Agbayani's right hamstring held up for the entire game. This means he will...
WHO NEEDS THE OLYMPICS? MELTING POT OF CORRUPTION, DRUGS AND RACISM
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Nowadays, the only way to see the Olympic ideal is to close your eyes. Because to have them open is to recognize the worst of ourselves at an...
TRAPANI STEALS SHOW
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amXaverian 28 Hayes 18 Xaverian head coach Dom Laurendi called Cardinal Hayes' Danny Rodriguez "the best quarterback in the city." But after his team beat Hayes 28-18 yesterday, Laurendi can...
CHOOSE YOUR POISON; WITH PITCHING DEPTH, GAME 1 STARTER ISN'T SO IMPORTANT
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amIf we were Bobby Valentine, the guy we would want lined up for Games 1 and 5 would be one who pitched the seventh game of a World Series, who...
HERE'S TO THE LOSERS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - What will you remember from the 27th Summer Olympics? Ian Thorpe slashing through the water with size-17 feet? Marion Jones chasing five gold medals? The feisty Lithuanians running...
ETHIOPIAN NOVICE WINS MARATHON
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Ethiopia's Gezahgne Abera had run only four marathons before yesterday, but now he has his fifth - and an Olympic gold medal - under his belt. When the...
AMAZIN'S FINISH STRONG
October 2, 2000 | 4:00am13 INNINGS Mets 3 Expos 2 It was the last, but it certainly wasn't the least. The Mets won 3-2 in 13-innings in their longest game of the regular season....
NBC SEES NO EVIL ; NETWORK SWEEPS U.S. UGLINESS UNDER RUG
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amENTRUSTING an international news and sports event such as the Olympics to NBC during the Dick Ebersol Era is like swapping the Dept. of Agriculture for magic beans. Friday night's...
U.S. LOSES BOXING PROTEST
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - There was no boxing on the Summer Olympics schedule yesterday but the U.S. boxing team still managed to lose one. Its appeal of Ricardo "Rocky" Juarez' loss in...
HAMPTON ON THE HILL; MIKE GETS BALL FOR GAME 1 IN SAN FRAN
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amMike Hampton, a better pitcher today than the one who was 2-4 with a 6.52 ERA in May, will walk back on the Pac Bell Park mound this Wednesday in...
CONE ADDED TO PLAYOFF ROSTER
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - If David Cone's numbers belonged to any other pitcher, that chucker's season would have ended yesterday. However, when Joe Torre's feelings for the veteran right-hander entered...
TORRE: I DIDN'T DO A VERY GOOD JOB
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - As the losses mounted and their AL East lead dwindled, Joe Torre saw signs of tightness and could hear the Yankees grinding their teeth. A nine-game bulge on...
WILDCATS' WALKER MOVING UP IN RANKS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - I saw the Heisman Trophy winner on Saturday. Unless he suffers an injury that keeps him out of several games, there is no doubt that Virginia...
SEEING IS BELIEVING; UGLY-LOOKING YANKEES HAVE LITTLE CHANCE
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amOrioles 7 Yankees 4BALTIMORE - Think of the Yankees as a heavyweight champion stepping into the ring with a broken nose, legs heavy with age and injury, one eye bloodied,...
JESSIE: WE'VE GOTTA STEP UP
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amTitans 28 Giants 14 NASHVILLE - This might be the right time for Jessie Armstead to call a players-only team meeting. Because it is already time to circle the Big...
NO-SHOW GIANTS A BIG BLUE DISGRACE: TITANS TOY WITH FASSEL'S FLOPS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amTitans 28 Giants 14 NASHVILLE - The euphoria has turned to disaster. The Big Blue Ship has taken on water and everyone is seasick. Something's broke, and Jim Fassel better...
YANKS' GRADE: THEY GET A'S; WILL FACE OAKLAND IN ALDS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - With the longest losing streak of the season attached to their backs, the Yankees flew to Oakland last night hoping the serious funk they have been in across...
NO-SHOW GIANTS A BIG BLUE DISGRACE: LACKLUSTER JINTS SHOW SPLIT PERSONALITY
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amNASHVILLE - The good news for Jim Fassel is, now no one will ever call him Knute. The bad news is, they might soon be calling him Allie, as in...
'DANSEUR' BREEZES IN BONGARD
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amDespite veering in at the start and spotting the field five lengths, La Grande Danseur swept by the field to take the lead at the top of the stretch and...
THUNDER & LIGHTNING FADE
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES NASHVILLE - The Titans rained on Thunder and Lightning yesterday, holding Tiki Barber and Ron Dayne to a net one yard in Big Blue's 28-14 loss. It was...
KEY: MAYBE WE'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amLANDOVER, Md. - The ball slipped through Keyshawn Johnson's fingers as easily as the game slipped from his Buccaneers' grasp. And after his fourth-quarter fumble led directly to a Washington...
DEION DELIVERS 'BIG ONE' VS. BUCS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amOvertime Redskins 20 Buccaneers 17 LANDOVER, Md. - The game was an afternoon tilt, but with Super Bowl contenders Tampa Bay and Washington facing off, clearly the contest was Prime...
NEW SEASON, SAME RANGERS
October 2, 2000 | 4:00amHARTFORD - A preseason that was nothing less than a disappointment finally ended here with yesterday's 2-1 Ranger victory over the Islanders. Veterans such as Theo Fleury, Valeri Kamensky and...