January 12, 2001
NASDAQ SOARS 116 FOR ITS 3RD-DAY GAIN
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amInvestors sent the Nasdaq soaring yesterday, helping the tech-heavy index post its first three-day winning streak since Labor Day. The Nasdaq rose 116.39, or 4.6 percent, to 2,640.57, led by...
NOT A BANNER QUARTER FOR DOUBLECLICK'S 'NET PROFIT
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amDoubleClick joined in the 'Net hangover yesterday, reporting a break-even fourth quarter and gloomy prospects for 2001. The fourth-quarter pro-forma net income of $216,000, or zero cents per share, was...
DENNIS, ANYONE? BRIT TO LAUNCH 2 MAGS HERE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amFelix Dennis strikes again. The maverick British publisher now says he plans to launch not one but two magazines in the United States this year. Blender, a music magazine, is...
WALL ST. PARTY ENDING - AFTER GETTING BURNED, SMALL INVESTORS TURN SOUR ON MARKET
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amHERE'S a homework assignment for you. The next time you get invited to a party, bring up the topic of the stock market. Someone will probably beat you to it....
2ND TOP EDITOR IS EXITING TEEN PEOPLE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTeen People has been rocked by the imminent departure of a second top editor in a week. Executive Editor Amy Paulsen - considered by many observers to be a shoe-in...
TIME WARNER SELLING WRESTLING OPERATION
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amAOL Time Warner's clean-up of Turner Broadcasting continued yesterday with the sale of its ailing World Championship Wrestling operation. Once recognized as the most popular TV wrestling brand, the WCW...
CHEAP NEWS NETWORK - MORE CHAT, 1,000 FEWER STAFFERS AT PRESSURED CNN
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amCNN is about to go back to the future. The once mighty cable news network is on the verge of jettisoning much of its traditional news gathering apparatus in favor...
SIBERIA BAR FEELS EVICTION CHILL, MAY GO TO ROCK CENTER
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amBattling to stay alive, Midtown's legendary subterranean "dive" bar is eying a move to a nearby underground site that's more glam than grungy. Siberia, the dank, celebrity-infested haunt at 1627...
AOL-TIME WARNER OK'D - CASE'S DOT-COM IS NOW WORLD'S NO. 1 MEDIA CO.
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amAmerica Online Chairman Steve Case has pulled off the unthinkable: He's turned a dot-com startup into the largest, most powerful media and entertainment company in the world. While the rest...
COST-CUTTING PEACOCK MAY PLUCK JOBS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amNBC execs are weighing cost-cutting measures that may include a 5-to-10 percent cut in the company's work force, The Post has learned. Layoffs are just one possibility for cost savings,...
BENCH WARFARE - 'CENTRE ST' IS LIKE THE OLD 'NIGHT COURT' BUT WITHOUT THE GAGS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00am"100 Centre St." Monday at 9 on A&E ( ) I HAVE this friend, Jeffrey Barman, who is a real Sidney Lumet-o-phile. I mean, I think he is, because he...
'ANTITRUST' IS A BUST
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amANTITRUST ( 1/2) Remarkably unimaginative and predictable cyberthriller. Running time, 120 minutes. Rating: PG-13 (violence). At Empire 25, Loews Orpheum, Chelsea Cinemas, others. 'ANTITRUST" is an inferior factory product, cranked...
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHE Gotham, once one of the East Side's top movie theaters, will close its doors at the end of this month as the financially ailing exhibition industry continues shuttering older...
DIFFERENT STROKES FOR MODERN FOLKS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amALTOGETHER DIFFERENTThe Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street (212) 242-0800. Altogether Different Series runs through Jan. 28. Further performances by Mark Dendy Dance are Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
ALIVE AND PICKIN' - FRAMPTON'S BACK AND BABY, YOU'LL STILL LOVE HIS WAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amPETER Frampton's is a simple story - of a talented young guitarist who experiences wild success, depressing failure and lives to put it all in perspective.Frampton, now 50, is best...
'LAST DANCE' MISSES EVERY BEAT
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amSAVE THE LAST DANCE 1/2 Interracial romance and not-quite-dirty dancing. A snooze. Running time: 113 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence, sexual and drug references). At the E Walk, the Kips...
'DOUBLE' TROUBLED
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amDOUBLE TAKE () "Traffic" for the brain-damaged. Skip it. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, mild profanity). At the Empire, Murray Hill, Battery Park City, others. THE press notes...
REVEALING PORTRAIT OF PORN STAR
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amWADD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF JOHN C. HOLMES 1/2 Fascinating if depressing documentary about America's most (in)famous male porno star. Running time: 110 minutes. Not rated (full- frontal but...
EYE DOCTOR LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHE PERSONALS An attractive, successful woman in Taiwan advertises for a husband, with funny and poignant results. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. Running time: 104 minutes. Not rated (sex talk)....
'MASTERCLASS' CUTS BARD'S VILLAINS TO THE QUICK
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amSHAKESPEARE'S VILLAINS: A MASTERCLASS IN EVILAt the Public Theater's Anspacher Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Telecharge: (212) 239-6200. Limited run. STEVEN Berkoff is a sort of William Burroughs seeking to upend...
A NEW 'KING' REIGNS - WILSON PLAY RECAST
January 12, 2001 | 5:00am'KING Hedley II," the new August Wilson play, was nearly dethroned this week after its leading man, Charles Dutton, decided he'd rather do a movie than a Broadway show. But...
MAURY XMAS - POVICH IS BREATHING DOWN OPRAH'S NECK AFTER HOLIDAY WEEK RATINGS WIN
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMOVE over, Oprah - here comes Maury! Maury Povich has vaulted past Jerry Springer to finish second to the talk show queen for the first time. "Maury Povich" notched a...
LEEZA GETS LUFT ON LIZA
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amLEEZA Gibbons has snagged an exclusive interview with Lorna Luft, daughter of Judy Garland and sister of Liza Minnelli. On tonight's "Extra" (7 p.m. on Ch. 4), Luft describes to...
LEE GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR 'HULK'
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amANG Lee, currently riding high with his martial arts romance "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," has been tapped to direct Universal's "The Hulk." The film, which has been in development for...
THE STARR REPORT
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amHemmer hits the 10 spot on CNN CNN's Bill Hemmer will get his own half-hour show under the massive, network-wide reorganization as CNN parent company Time Warner merges with AOL....
THESE OFFICERS HAVE 'LAW' AND ORBACH ON THEIR SIDE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amACTOR Jerry Orbach, who isn't a cop but plays one on "Law and Order," escaped from shooting yesterday to give support to The Finest. He had given up sleep, a...
FLYING HIGH? AIR CADETS DRUG-TESTED
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Most top guns at the United States Air Force Academy will be drug-tested starting this week after dozens of cadets were found using or dealing drugs,...
HOPE FOR SUFFERERS OF PSORIASIS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA miracle vaccine that switches off part of the immune system may treat the debilitating skin condition psoriasis. In tests, signs of psoriasis vanished in 25 percent of the cases,...
FEED-MAKERS TARGETED FOR MAD-COW HAZARDS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amCompanies that make livestock feed are facing shutdowns - even prosecution - after the feds found they are violating rules intended to keep mad-cow disease out of the United States....
CABBY KILLS WIFE IN MURDER-SUICIDE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA crazed Queens cabby, angry that his estranged wife was seeing another man, shot her to death at her factory job before turning the gun on himself yesterday, police said....
RUDY GAL PAL KEEPING TWO BODYGUARDS ON CITY'S TAB
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's complicated love life could end up costing city taxpayers at least $200,000 a year. The NYPD has two detectives guarding the mayor's "very good friend" Judith Nathan 12...
THE CABINET CRISIS - WAKE UP, GEORGE: IT'S WAR
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHE ferocity of the Democratic opposition to George W. Bush's Cabinet appointments is not, as many have been claiming, business as usual in Washington. Opposing presidential picks has been a...
BURNING BUSH BLASTS BACK AT BUBBA
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA visibly irked President-elect George W. Bush fired back at President Clinton yesterday - saying he won the White House no matter what the incumbent says. "He can say what...
EMPEROR'S GUARDS FIND OUT THEY'RE JUST PEONS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHE gates around City Hall were padlocked shut and heavily guarded by cops who wear gold badges and make their money protecting the emperor. Metal barricades filled the western sidewalk...
HILL WINS ANOTHER SHOT AT HEALTH-CARE REFORM
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will get to wrestle with health-care reform - again. Democratic leaders yesterday gave the rookie New York senator a spot on the Health, Education and...
DUBYA PICKS CHAVEZ SUB
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMoving fast, President-elect Bush yesterday nominated another conservative woman from a minority group - Chinese-American Elaine Chao - as labor secretary to replace Latina Linda Chavez. Chao, 47, a former...
SCHOOLS BOSS WOULD PUT WINDFALL TO TEACHER PAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy said yesterday he wants to significantly boost teacher salaries with the expected windfall from the landmark state school-aid court ruling. "We could do hundreds of things...
GENE-ALTERED MONKEY MAY HELP CONQUER HUMAN ILLNESS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amThe world's first genetically modified monkey has been born in the United States. Scientists at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center say the birth is vital in the development of...
INTERIOR PICK'S IN THE WOODS ON CIVIL WAR: FOES
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amPresident-elect Bush's nominee for interior secretary once praised Confederate soldiers who died defending "the sovereignty of their state" against federal efforts to abolish slavery. Gale Norton, a former Colorado attorney...
'BULL' BACK IN BROOKLYN COURTHOUSE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amNine years after his bombshell testimony helped lock up John Gotti, Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano was back in the same Brooklyn courthouse yesterday, charged with buying 40,000 hits of ecstasy....
FUNDING REFORM A SLOW-GOING PROCESS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amOverhauling the state's complex school-aid formula could take years - not the months ordered by a judge - if the experience of other states holds true. States resorted to everything...
YOUR CHANCE TO BID ON VERSACE'S TCHOTCHKES
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amPrecious art and antique furniture from the Miami Beach mansion where famed designer Gianni Versace was brutally murdered are going on the auction block. The stunning collection of Italian-style paintings...
VALLONE FACES A REVOLT AS COUNCIL BIDS TO KO TERM LIMITS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMembers of the City Council are planning to pass a law overturning term limits, despite fierce opposition from Speaker Peter Vallone, The Post has learned. It would be the first...
B'KLYN HS READMITS BOY WITH 'DANGEROUS' RULER
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA 16-year-old Brooklyn boy kicked out of school for carrying a "dangerous" metal ruler - a required, school-issued tool - returns to class today. "I was happy when I heard,"...
FURIOUS FINEST OUT IN FORCE: RIP RUDY AT CITY HALL PAY PROTEST
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amChanting, "show us the money," and blasting Mayor Giuliani, thousands of off-duty cops gathered at City Hall yesterday for a noisy but peaceful rally calling for a wage hike. The...
DANCIN' DENNIS DRIPPING BABES: STRUTS STUFF ATOP BAR AT CITY HOT SPOT
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amIf you're wondering why Dennis Quaid isn't crying in his beer - it's because he's having too good a time dancing on the bar. The star of "Frequency" and "Traffic"...
INDONESIAN TYCOON MUST PAY $8.6M 'BILL'
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amIndonesian billionaire James Riady has agreed to pay an $8.6 million fine as part of a guilty plea to illegally raising nearly $1 million for President Clinton's 1992 campaign. The...
TWO SIDES GET HUFFY OVER PUFFY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTempers flared yesterday in the last pretrial face-off between Sean "Puffy" Combs' defense lawyer and prosecutor - with each side accusing the other of trying the sensational shooting case in...
OKLA. EXECUTES WOMAN AMID PROTESTS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amDespite a last-minute protest by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a death-row inmate was given a lethal dose of drugs in Oklahoma last night - becoming the first black woman to...
DOC COPS PLEA IN NEEDLE-ABORT TRY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA Bronx doctor pleaded guilty yesterday to assault charges for viciously and repeatedly stabbing his pregnant lover with a drug-filled syringe in an attempt to kill the fetus. In a...
SLAIN HS GRID HERO MOURNED
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA Queens teen who died of a gunshot wound was remembered yesterday as a good student and a football star with "a lot of potential." Thomas Johnson, 17, of Edgemere,...
OVERDOSE, NOT FOUL PLAY, KILLED JOCKEY: CORONER
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amJockey Chris Antley died of a drug overdose - not by foul play, as first believed, according to a coroner's report released yesterday. The ruling saddened family and friends of...
JEFF SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT - SAYS KNICK DEFENSE HAS BEEN SLUMPING
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy was not going to give back the defensive record if the Knicks set it last night but he does believe it is antiquated. The Knicks were poised...
SHAQ-BRYANT LAKER FEUD PUTS SMILE ON RICE'S FACE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Now we know why Glen Rice always has a smile on his face. He's been relishing the Lakers' implosion and the Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O'Neal catfight. Rice, who missed...
SCOTT: NETS STILL HAVE SHOT TO MAKE PLAYOFFS
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amForget .500. But don't give up on the playoffs. At least that's how coach Byron Scott sees the remainder of the season for his struggling Nets who, entering last night's...
FRANCESA HAS 'BILL' TO PAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amI SUSPECT that one day in the near future Mike Francesa's overviews of the Jets and Giants will again strike me as credible and valuable. After all, in 1987, his...
SMITH'S ENGINE THAT MAKES VIKINGS RUN
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amEDEN PRAIRIE - For all of Daunte Culpepper's picture-perfect spirals and Randy Moss' highlight-reel catches, for all of Minnesota's gaudy passing statistics, the facts are these: The Vikings' season-ending, three-game...
MINNY BRINGS MOUNTAIN TO STRAHAN
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amEDEN PRAIRIE - If football games really are won in the trenches - a cliche coaches use so often because it's true - then Sunday's NFC Championship Game will be...
INJURY FORCES BRUSHED ON TO RETIRE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amBrushed On, who scratched from the feature race Wednesday, has been retired from racing due to a reoccurrence of a suspensory injury in his left foreleg. The race Wednesday was...
GEORGE YOUNG, MARTY SAY JETS GOT IT RIGHT
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amWhen the call came into Marty Schottenheimer's new office with the Redskins yesterday, he couldn't have been more delighted. It was The Post that first informed Schottenheimer that Terry Bradway,...
PETITGOUT'S PREPARED FOR VIKES' RANDLE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amThey know where John Randle will start, but they do not know where he will eventually land. The Giants, though, are braced for the physical and verbal assault that they're...
BASEBALL LAYS DOWN LAW ON MEMORABILIA
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMajor League Baseball took a step closer to becoming the OPEC or DeBeers of the sports world yesterday when it unveiled a memorabilia cartel to authenticate autographs and game used...
RHAPSODY IN BIG BLUE - GIANTS WILL SPIKE VIKES WITH SUPED-UP DEFENSE AND EARN TRIP TO TAMPA
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amIF it's true that a football team is only as strong as its weakest link, then it'll take 46 other players, more than a dozen coaches and some 78,000 sets...
N.J. SHOW READY TO ROLL
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amTHE winter doldrums are already setting in, but there are always a few things going on that will keep both your mind and body occupied. The N.J. Convention and Expo...
BARROW: IT'S GIANTS VS. GOLIATH ON SUNDAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amGiants fans might want to check out the King Barrow version of the Bible. As far as the Giants being 21/2-point underdogs Sunday against the Vikings, veteran linebacker Micheal Barrow...
FACING MARIO A TREAT FOR STARRY-EYED ISLES
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amWith autograph books in hand, the awe-struck Islanders have the privilege of having Mario Lemieux torch them as he continues his dazzling comeback tonight at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. Somehow,...
JET SAGA NOW BRADWAY SHOW - WOODY TRIES TO HIT JACKPOT ON QUICK-PICK GM SELECTION
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMaybe this really is a new era for the Jets. After Bill Parcells took what seemed like an entire millennium to make up his mind before finally calling it quits...
ROBESON FINISHES JOB
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amRobeson 80 - Boys & Girls 57 With his team tied at 33-33 at the half against Boys & Girls, Robeson's Kenny Adeleke had one thought in mind. "We couldn't...
TERRY LOOKING NEAR & FAR FOR NEXT GANG GREEN COACH
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amHere's a look at the coaching candidates from which new Jets GM Terry Bradway could choose: * Dom Capers - Jaguars defensive coordinator. He's believed to be at or near...
TOOMER STILL PLANS TO PLAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES He did not practice again yesterday and his sprained left ankle continues to be a major concern for the Giants, but Amani Toomer vowed to play in Sunday's...
GRIFFIN KEEPS DAD'S MEMORY BURNIN' BRIGHT
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amGiant rookie defensive lineman Cornelius Griffin will not be alone on the field come Sunday. His father, Willie Griffin, a pastor who was killed by a drunk driver nearly four...
GAME PLAN TO BEAT IVERSON - BLAZER 'D' MADE IT LOOK EASY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The 76ers have proved they can win without Allen Iverson on the court (8-5 over the last two seasons), a regal tribute to Larry Brown's coaching and the...
COLLINS IN COMMAND - KERRY BECOMING BIG BLUE'S TAKE - CHARGE GUY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amIt was late in the game and the Giants were on their way to victory, but Kerry Collins was not quite ready to let his guard down. Luke Petitgout had...
STADIUM WILL MAKE THE TRAITOR PAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amBENEDICT Arnold was a New Englander and so is the modern Benedict Arnold. His name is David Cone. David "Benedict Arnold" Cone. Arnold was born in Connecticut and Cone resides...
SAY IT AIN'T SOX! - CONE OPTS TO SIGN PACT WITH ARCH - ENEMY BOSTON
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amDavid Cone earned $12 million, went 4-14 with a 6.91 ERA and pitched in front of one of the most demanding audiences in professional sports last season. Yet, Cone was...
FRIGID KNICKS GIVE ONE AWAY
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amRockets 76 - Knicks 75 Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich raced onto the court at the final buzzer, hugging Cuttino Mobley as if his club had just beaten the Knicks for...
SCOTT RIPS NETS' COURAGE, HEART
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMagic 101 - Nets 87 After watching his players roll up into a fetal position and drool during a 101-87 chunk of filth defeat to the Magic last night at...
SHAQ-KOBE FEUD MAKES RICE SMILE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Now we know why Glen Rice always has a smile on his face. He's been relishing the Lakers' implosion and the Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O'Neal catfight. Rice, who missed...