January 10, 2001
CARTER-WALLACE UNLIKELY TO GET ‘PREMIUM’ PRICE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTHE bidding for Carter-Wallace Inc. isn't going quite as well as had been expected, but the feuding family that controls the company is determined to sell, says sources working on...
HOLDERS SUE PILEVSKY’S REIT OVER YORKTOWN SITE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe unwinding of his REIT has Bryant Park hotelier Philip Pilevsky facing a planned shareholder lawsuit centered around a prime, Upper East Side development site. Pilevsky, who was chairman of...
JOE 6-PACK IS WIRED – NEW LA-Z-BOY ‘E-CLINER’ HAS M’SOFT WEBTV
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amForget AOL Time Warner. In the ultimate marriage of New Economy and Old, Microsoft is teaming up with La-Z-Boy - the favorite of couch potatoes everywhere - to produce a...
FORGET MCCALL’S; IT’S JUST PLAIN ROSIE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amOnly seven weeks after McCall's owner, Gruner + Jahr USA, said it was teaming up with talk show host Rosie O'Donnell to try to revive the ailing women's service magazine...
CBS ON UNSOLD SUPER BOWL TELEVISION ADS: WE PLANNED IT
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amCBS is optimistic it will sell the remaining six spots slated for Super Bowl Sunday - despite a report that the network is the latest victim of the dot-com shakeout....
REMNICK GETS ‘FOOT’ IN THE DOOR
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amMANY people in the media world were left wondering about the identity of "L. Foot" the purported author of a New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece that discussed the...
HOT – AND NOT – CHUCK THE CHICKEN AND PASS THE PANINI
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amNEW Yorkers are a fickle bunch - especially when it comes to food. In with steak, out with chicken! Up with protein, down with carbs! Anchovies are hot, Chilean sea...
OLIVES IN THE GROOVE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amSATURDAY afternoon at red-hot Olives, Big Steve Ross looks to be enjoying lunch. Good thing. The development colossus known as Related Cos., of which Ross is CEO, built and owns...
NOW EAR THIS! – HOW I LEARNED TO DITCH MY AUSTRALIAN ACCENT AND TALK LIKE I WAS A REAL NOO YAWKA
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amI'VE been told my Australian accent is variously "charming," "exotic" and "unintelligible."While I'm almost deliriously patriotic, and loath to shed my native dialect permanently, there are times when making myself...
KIDS CAN HAVE WEIGHTY PROBLEM WITH PARENTS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amParents who are too strict about what their kids eat may cause them psychological problems, a new study claims. Researchers at Penn State University found that overweight girls as young...
CHAVEZ GIVES UP HER CABINET FIGHT
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In an embarrassment for President-elect George W. Bush, embattled labor-secretary pick Linda Chavez abruptly dropped out yesterday, blaming "search and destroy" politics. Chavez, under fire over whether she...
FLORIDA POL CATCHES MR. BLACKWELL’S EYE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amFlorida Secretary of State Katherine Harris can now be mentioned in the same breath as pop divas Britney Spears, Madonna and Christina Aguilera. Don't worry, the woman who was in...
COP’S WORTH MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE – GO FIGURE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amAS the emperor of this great city, we have lent him our ears to hear his wisdom - now he has to lend us his. "I never quite understood the...
CITY MAY SUE TO BOOT P.A. FROM AIRPORTS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe war between Mayor Giuliani and the Port Authority went nuclear yesterday, as the mayor talked about hauling the agency into court, while the PA charged he's already wasted nearly...
COMPASSIONATE, BUT STILL CLUELESS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amLINDA CHAVEZ is a compassionate conservative who blew a chance to defend herself as a compassionate lawbreaker. Chavez didn't provide details about her relationship with "house guest" Marta Mercado, 40,...
HEVESI MAY NIX MATCHING $$ TO TWEAK RIVALS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWould create new issue.City Comptroller Alan Hevesi may refuse public matching funds in this year's mayoral race - setting himself apart from his Democratic opponents and creating an early campaign...
CITY’S ILLEGAL STRIP-SEARCH JAIL POLICY MIGHT COST UP TO $50M
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amCash awards of between $250 and $22,500 may be paid to thousands of criminal suspects strip-searched in Manhattan and Queens while awaiting trial - in a legal deal that could...
ISLE DREAM TURNS INTO NIGHTMARE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amRemember all that optimistic training camp talk by the Islanders about making the playoffs? Not only has it proven to be unrealistic, it might have become detrimental, as well. For...
HOLY CROSS (11-1) RAISES EYEBROWS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amHoly Cross 61 - B. Loughlin 60 It's no secret that the CHSAA lacks star power. Gone are the St. Raymonds and Rices that stormed through the league to championships....
DO-LITTLE METS NOT IMPROVING
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTHE A's picked up Johnny Damon. The Royals acquired closer Roberto Hernandez. The Devil Rays added Ben Grieve. The Indians signed Juan Gonzalez. The Mets? The Mets announced yesterday they...
DONAHOE TOPS LIST OF GM CANDIDATES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe list of general manager candidates for Jets' owner Woody Johnson to choose from is lengthy, but the man at the top of the list should be Tom Donahoe. Donahoe,...
RANGERS FACE ADAM BOMB
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThere's no getting around it. The time is coming. Glen Sather is going to have to confront the most thankless and sensitive Ranger question of them all. He's going to...
SOCOL TAKES BARNEYS HELM – INDUSTRY VET HAND-PICKED BY QUESTROM
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amBarney's has tapped Howard Socol as its new boss, hoping the retailing vet will be able to continue the company's turnaround after years of woe. Socol has been named chairman,...
FILM AWARDS FORETELL SODERBERGH OSCAR SWEEP
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTHE American Film Institute yesterday conferred its first-ever "Movies of the Year" honors on 10 films - two of them directed by red-hot Steven Soderbergh, who has swept every major...
HOW THE FRENCH BETRAYED JEWS WHO FOUGHT PARIS NAZIS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00am'TERRORISTS in Retirement" is a compelling and troubling look at how Eastern European Jews risked their lives as part of the Resistance in Nazi-controlled Paris during World War II, only...
NOT A WONDERFUL ‘LIFE,’ BUT NOT BAD
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amDON'T watch the first episode of "Grounded For Life." It's not as funny as the second episode and may turn you off, which it shouldn't because in fact, after watching...
THE STARR REPORT
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amClark leaves mark on Ch. 2 viewersStephen Clark left behind many fans when he departed Ch. 2 late last month after three years. Many of those fans have been calling...
AT DA SILVANO SOUTH, CHEF WILL LET ‘EM EAT STEAK
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTHE owner of celeb-packed Italian eatery Da Silvano is hopping on the steakhouse bandwagon with an eatery that will open sometime in May. Chef/restaurateur Silvano Marchetto won't have far to...
‘GREEK TRAGEDY’ OF SUICIDE DOC & WIFE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe wife of a Long Island doctor who committed suicide ended up dying tragically herself because she tried with all of her "soul and heart" to save him once he...
MEANING OF ‘JEW’ IS KEY TO YANKEL THUG’S FREEDOM BID
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe bias-slay conviction stemming from the Crown Heights riot should be thrown out because federal civil-rights laws do not apply to Jews, a Manhattan appeals court was told yesterday. The...
PBA TO STAGE RALLY IN BID TO PROD MAYOR
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amA big police demonstration planned at City Hall is aimed at getting Mayor Giuliani involved in stalled contract talks, police union leaders said yesterday. "We are hoping this rally will...
HANDFUL OF FANS SCORE WITH 5,000 BIG BLUE TICKETS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amIt took only 15 minutes yesterday for the Big Blue sale of the century. About 5,000 ducats up for grabs to the public were sold out at Ticketmaster outlets in...
THERE’S NO REPLACING PARCELLS: FANS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amJet fans yesterday bemoaned the end of the Bill Parcells era - wondering how long it will take the franchise to get off the ground again with all the turbulence...
HE’S DOING GANG GREEN A BIG FAVOR
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amFINALLY, Bill Parcells has done something good for the New York Jets. The above statement is not really as cynical and mean-spirited as it sounds. It takes a big man...
JETS SAY BYE TO TUCKERED TUNA – HE’S HANDING OFF WITH NO GAME PLAN
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amBill Parcells bailed out of his front-office position in the Jets' cockpit yesterday - leaving behind a team on autopilot in heavy turbulence, with no head coach and no general...
LIZ WINS WEB NAME GAME
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amElizabeth Hurley's threat of a $10 million lawsuit has apparently kept her name from being used by a British Web site that promotes cocaine use. Hurley threatened her lawsuit against...
SAFETY FIRST ON THE SLOPES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWITH ski conditions across the country the best in years, the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) for the second straight year is declaring National Safety Awareness Week for Jan. 13-19...
NEEDED: ALMOST-PERFECT STORM – JOHNNIES GOTTA START WIN STREAK – OR THEY’LL MISS THE BIG DANCE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amIt's only mid-January but the pivotal game of the season has arrived for St. John's. If the Red Storm don't beat undefeated Boston College tonight at the Garden, their chances...
POLL SNUB LEAVES DESHAUN RANKLED
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amHome sweet home, eh? Well, only if you win. If Syracuse's DeShaun Williams was excited about coming back home to New Jersey for last night's game against Rutgers, he did...
HOT MOGILNY EXCEEDS SCORING CURVE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amOnly the other kind of Devil normally gets this hot. Now Alexander Mogilny will have to stay sizzling with a legal stick. The Devils' leading goal-scorer and point-getter can assume...
GILL GIVES IN TO SORE KNEE – MAY SIT OUT 5-6 GAMES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amAfter a second 0-of-6 shooting performance in three games, Kendall Gill approached Net coach Byron Scott. The conversation was very similar to one coach and player held not too long...
WAY TO GO, WOODY! – JET OWNER SMART TO LET TUNA WALK
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amHOORAY for Woody Johnson. He's already showed us how smart he is by not making the same rookie mistake three times. The new owner on the block allowed Bill Parcells...
41-19 MEANS NOTHING WHEN BEEZER IS BAD
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amB'hawks 6 - Isles 3 John Vanbiesbrouck gave himself a scathing review last night. And Butch Goring concurred. Allowing four goals on 13 shots before being pulled in the second...
ORANGEMEN FINALLY END THEIR JERSEY JINX
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amSyracuse 64 - Rutgers 63 Maybe it's the smell down the New Jersey Turnpike. Maybe it's the water. Whatever it is, Syracuse hasn't been able to put its finger on...
GILL SITS ONE OUT, MAY RETURN TO INJURY LIST
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES This time, the player won out over the coach. Kendall Gill went to Nets coach Byron Scott Monday after shooting 0-for-6 for the second time in three games....
JETS HIRING FOX WOULD BE GIANT STEP FORWARD
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amIF Mo Lewis or Marvin Jones or even Vinny Testaverde picked up the phone, dialed Jessie Armstead and informed them John Fox had just been hired as the head coach...
AIL, AIL … KNICKS’ GANG NOT ALL HERE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amGLEN RICE took himself out of yesterday's practice 30 seconds into a layup drill, complaining of continuing pain in his left foot. Marcus Camby didn't practice at all, preferring to...
MIKE’S EXCELLENT DAY – BULLISH REPORT BOOSTS AT&T SHARES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amAt long last, AT&T boss Mike Armstrong had a good day. Shares of his telco giant surged more than 11 percent yesterday after a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst -...
CALVIN’S NEW BEEF: WARNACO HAS TOO MUCH DEBT
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amCalvin Klein Inc. is on the verge of muddying the legal water once again as it prepares to file yet another suit against the Warnaco Group Inc. The two companies...
MILITARY-ACADEMY PLAN STUNS RUDY AIDES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani admitted yesterday that his plan to build a military academy in The Bronx was a bombshell that caught everyone - including his top advisers - off-guard. "I always...
PINOCHET TO TAKE COMPETENCY TESTS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amChile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet has agreed to begin taking mental and medical exams today to see if he is fit to stand trial for alleged human-rights abuses, his lawyers...
SAUDI PAPERS TAKE PARTING SHOTS AT CLINTON
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amSaudi Arabia, a strong U.S. ally, blasted President Clinton yesterday in its state newspapers. "We only have bad memories of the Clinton era," the Saudi daily al-Riyadh said in an...
CONFIDENT LOCKERBIE PROSECUTORS REST CASE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amScottish prosecutors wrapped up their case against the accused Pan Am Flight 103 bombers yesterday, telling a panel of judges their guilt has been proven despite the "circumstantial" nature of...
HEARTACHE FOR LIVER ‘DONOR’
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amA Bronx lawyer burst into tears yesterday after learning he won't be able to donate part of his liver to save the life of a woman whose first transplanted liver...
ALL BETS ARE OFF IN ANTLEY CASE – PALS FEAR COPS WILL IGNORE ‘MURDER’
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTO HIS friends and family, the mysterious death of jockey Chris Antley is a "whodunit?" To police, prosecutors and the medical examiner, it's still a "what happened?" Pals and relatives...
‘DYNO GYNO’ CONVICTED OF BILLING FRAUD
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amCelebrity gynecologist Niels Lauersen was convicted yesterday for spawning a 10-year scheme to defraud health-insurance companies by tricking them into paying for uncovered fertility procedures. The 64-year-old Lauersen, dubbed the...
STAMPEDING ELEPHANTS KILL L.I. WOMAN ON AFRICAN SAFARI
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amPaul Waldinger didn't want his daughter, Natalie, to join the Peace Corps. But after she left for Tanzania 19 months ago, he kept in touch by e-mail, and even gave...
SHE BROKE W.’S 2 BIGGEST RULES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Linda Chavez is a goner because she broke two of President-elect George W. Bush's cardinal political rules: No lies and no surprises. Now Bush will be closely watched...
YANKEES RESUME TALKS WITH JETER
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amYankees executive Randy Levine and baseball agent Casey Close, the two men who a year ago negotiated a seven-year, $118.5 million contract for Derek Jeter, only to see it fall...
VIKES: OUTDOORS WON’T BOTHER US
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe Vikings continue to insist the weather and the great outdoors will be no factor and certainly no detriment to them in Sunday's NFC Championship Game at Giants Stadium, but...
RED LIKES JARVIS – BUT NOT FOR CELTS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amCeltic patriarch Red Auerbach told The Post yesterday he thinks St. John's coach Mike Jarvis is ready to coach in the NBA - but that the Celts might be shy...
TUNA LEAVES JETS WITHOUT A PILOT – PARCELLS TELLS WOODY HE’S HAD ENOUGH
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe final curtain of the volatile Bill Parcells Show has finally dropped. Parcells' final dramatic act - resigning yesterday as the Jets' director of football operations and perhaps leaving himself...
MADDEN: TUNA HAS BIG VOID TO FILL
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amBill Parcells yesterday called coaching and the competition that comes with it a "narcotic" - and wondered aloud whether he can live without it. "I think John Madden had it...
CAPERS, FOX AMONG POSSIBLE COACHES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amA general manager who has a keen football knowledge must be set in place by Jets' team owner Woody Johnson before a new head coach can be chosen. But here's...
DISTRICT 15 SUPERVISOR SET TO QUIT AMID SCANDAL
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amEmbattled Brooklyn District 15 Superintendent Frank DeStefano is expected to step down as early as next month, following charges of financial mismanagement, sources said yesterday. "He will be out as...
SEND.COM IS SENT PACKING
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amOnline gift site Send.com is sending in the receivers. The company's Web page had ceased to operate and the home page was replaced with a forlorn message from founder and...
WHEN THE ‘DATING GAME’ MEETS ‘SURVIVOR’ IT’S WELCOME TO… PLEASURE ISLAND
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWHY they call these things "reality shows" is something I will never understand. I mean, in real life, whose reality includes being separated from your significant other only to be...
IMAGINE THIS: ‘SURVIVOR 20’ – CBS BOSS COOKS UP LONG-TERM DEAL (AND LOOK FOR BUD CANS)
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - "Survivor" will not be booted off CBS for a long time to come. CBS chief Les Moonves said yesterday that the network has hammered out a comprehensive...
‘TEMPTATION’ TEMPEST: PAIR BOOTED OVER KID
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - One of the unmarried couples competing on Fox's reality show "Temptation Island" has a child, which should have disqualified them from being chosen, TV-industry sources said last...
DUBYA DUMPED HER BECAUSE SHE BROKE THE RULES
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Linda Chavez is a goner because she broke two of President-elect George W. Bush's cardinal political rules: No lies and no surprises. Now Bush will be closely watched...
HEVESI MIGHT REFUSE PUBLIC ‘MATCH’ $$
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi may refuse public matching funds in this year's mayoral race, The Post has learned - setting himself apart from his Democratic opponents and creating an early...
SCHUMER: STOP TWA TAKEOVER
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amAmerican Airlines' proposed takeover of TWA would create a single air carrier so huge it could squeeze out fledgling, bargain airlines at Kennedy Airport, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday. In...
THREE SCHOOLGIRL ‘VICTIMS’ ADMIT SEX-ATTACK HOAX
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThree Brooklyn girls who were late to school told officials they had been sexually assaulted yesterday - but it turned out to be a hoax, police said. Still, rumors of...
‘FRIENDS’ PUT HILL IN THE MONEY FOR ’06
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amJUST as everybody was finally putting the whole Clinton-Lazio slugfest behind them, Hillary is re-arming for her next race. Clinton recently signed paperwork making Friends of Hillary her principal campaign...
4TH WOMAN SAYS COP MADE HER STRIP
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amA fourth woman has accused a Suffolk County cop of ordering her to strip after he stopped her for allegedly driving erratically, her lawyer said yesterday. The 46-year-old woman from...
RUDY: DREAM TEAM? DREAM ON
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani appeared yesterday to rule out running for state attorney general with Gov. Pataki on a "dream team" Republican ticket next year. "I'm not a candidate for attorney general,"...
MAUREEN REAGAN HAS MAJOR CANCER SURGERY
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amMaureen Reagan, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and movie star Jane Wyman, is in a California hospital battling a recurrence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer....
SOCKS MAY GET CAT-APULTED TO CURRIE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It's a dog-eat-cat world out there - just ask First Cat Socks, who may be getting the boot. While First Dog Buddy is heading to New York with...
MAYOR TO SKIP MLK MUSIC TRIBUTE
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amFor the second straight year, Mayor Giuliani is skipping the annual Brooklyn Academy of Music tribute to civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Instead, Giuliani will be hosting his own...
ZETA WIN$ IF MICHAEL SINS – DOUGLAS TO PAY $5M IF UNFAITHFUL: REPORT
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amMichael Douglas has reportedly agreed to pay Catherine Zeta-Jones a whopping $5 million if he's ever unfaithful during their marriage. The 56-year-old star - once treated for sex addiction -...
EGAN ATTACKER TO STAND TRIAL
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amMental illness won't bar a trial for the man charged with trying to handcuff Archbishop Edward Egan at St. Patrick's Cathedral on New Year's Day, a judge said yesterday. Timothy...
UNIONS GLEEFUL AT HER FALL
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTop Democrats and union leaders who were gearing up to fight Linda Chavez's confirmation as labor secretary cheered her decision to save them the trouble. Sen. Edward Kennedy, the ranking...
EMOTIONAL WOUNDS STILL TORMENT TRAGIC EMBASSY-BOMB CLAN
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amSUE BARTLEY heard the earth-shaking blast that ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi 2 ½ years ago - but it would be many hours before she learned of its...
ROLLOVER STUDY: GM HAS RISKIEST SUVS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThe feds issued their first-ever guide to rollover risks for passenger vehicles, and gave the worst grade to two General Motors sport utility vehicles. The highest rating went to the...
NO COLD RECEPTION
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amIf the Vikings were coming to town on Monday, they might be in for a wet and wild experience at Giants Stadium. But the NFC Championship Game is set for...
THOMAS HOLDS KEY TO MOSS MATCHUP
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amFOR THOSE breathlessly anticipating the impending marquee confrontation featuring Jason Sehorn and Randy Moss, hold that thought and be prepared to change your focus. That dream battle may not take...
MT. MARBURY SET TO ERUPT – STEPH SEETHES AFTER LATEST ‘L’
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amSixers 104 - Nets 87 The losing is getting to Stephon Marbury. Using a precise, calm tone but leaving no margin for mistake about his frustration, the Nets' star point...
SPRINGTIME FOR B’WAY – HOT-TICKET ‘PRODUCERS’ & ‘TOM SAWYER’ LEAD NEW MUSICALS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amTHE spring Broadway season - until just a few weeks ago still a shifting kaleidoscope - is snapping into place. So let's take a look at the upcoming shows, their...
JETS’ NEXT REGIME MIGHT SACK VINNY
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amOne of the major underlying issues involving the Jets once they find a general manager and coach is what direction they opt to go in at quarterback. Vinny Testaverde, who'll...
SMART IDEA DAWNS ON SMALL-FRY HARLEM TEST-TAKERS
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amHarlem kids hope early to bed and early to class will reward them with higher test scores. About 450 fourth-grade students in District 5 awoke to darkness yesterday and attended...