August 7, 2000
ON THE NEWSSTAND
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amIT being convention season, we had no choice but to check out the political mags. Since National Review is bi-monthly, the latest issue isn't on the convention, but Gore-haters should...
LABOR DEPT.'S NUMBERS STILL UNTRUSTWORTHY
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Clinton economic boom comes down to this: the loss of 108,000 jobs in July and inflation that is getting worse right before the Democrats will go on TV to...
SALON BIZ EDITOR OUT IN NEW SHAKEUP
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSalon Editor-in-Chief David Talbot is shaking up the staff of the embattled Webzine once again. Business editor Andrew Essex - who was lured to the Webzine only last April from...
COLUMBUS CENTER TRYING TO LURE AQUAVIT
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amBrokers for the massive Columbus Center project in Columbus Circle are penning a lease to bring a top-rated Manhattan restaurant to the complex's retail space, The Post has learned. Sources...
LESBIAN CHIC ONE MO' TIME - TEEN WITH PARTICULAR PROBLEM
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Chinese are wrong. It's not the year of the dragon. It's the year of the lesbian - at least on TV. The latest girls-kissing-girls movie is "The Truth About...
MEET THE ENEMY - 'SURVIVOR' ROUGHED UP REGIS LAST MAY - BUT NOW ALL IS FORGIVEN
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amIT TOOK 10 weeks and just as many castaways, but the newly christened "Live with Regis!" has finally embraced CBS's "Survivor." The Disney-produced daytime talk show got on the "Survivor"...
'I PULLED A FAST ONE' SAYS 'SURVIVOR' BOSS
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE producer of "Survivor" came thisclose yesterday to admitting that he had engineered the whole "Gervase-is-the-winner" hoax. "It was a game of cat-and-mouse that we were originally passively playing," executive...
MOMA CUTS BACK QUIETLY AS STRIKE DRAGS ON
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHE most imposing "sculpture" at the Museum of Modern Art these days may be the giant inflatable rat at its entrance. The labor union mascot has flanked MoMA's front door...
HIGH FIDELITY TO 'HIGH FIDELITY'
August 7, 2000 | 4:00am'HIGH Fidelity" is the longest-playing movie in town. The comedy about a Chicago music-store owner's romantic crisis is still drawing an audience - it just moved over to Loews State...
THE STARR REPORT
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amA real sister act Actress and pop songstress Jennifer Lopez could be stopping by "The WB11 Morning News" later this month for a sitdown interview with sister Lynda Lopez. Insiders...
'SWINGERS' AUTEUR JON FAVREAU IS HOOKING UP WITH CO-STAR VINCE VAUGHAN FOR ANOTHER LOW-BUDGET COMEDY
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amJON Favreau, who shot to fame with "Swingers," a semi-autobiographical take on his own experiences swimming with Hollywood sharks, is savvy about the way the biz works. Case in point:...
IT'S A MAD MAD RAG MAG WORLD - INTERNS AT FASHION'S BIG FOUR SAYIT'S NOT SO GLAMOROUS ON THE INSIDE
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amAN internship at a fashion magazine sounds like a glamorous summer job - until you hear what it actually entails. In the new movie "Intern," opening Friday, Jocelyn (Dominique Swain)...
TRUMPETING HER NEW LOOK
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amHere's a photo of a toned-down Ivana Trump as she appears in next month's Marie Claire, after a makeover by her daughter, Ivanka (right). Ivana put aside her Thierry Mugler,...
DEMOCRATS FEAR BUSH COULD TAKE NEW YORK
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSTATE Democrats are reeling from the success of last week's Republican National Convention - and now privately concede George W. Bush could win New York. A top Democratic insider told...
SAY GOODBYE TO BIAS AND HELLO TO ISSUES
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amGEORGE W. BUSH would have undergone a root canal without a needle if he could have persuaded Colin Powell to be on the ticket. Alan Keyes, a conservative African-American, will...
APPLE'S FANCIEST EATERIES SOON MAY BE TOAST
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amFolks who want two seats in the corner at that swanky Manhattan bistro had better make reservations fast - the culinary honeymoon may be over. Many of the city's upper-crust...
GEORGE STILL POLL-VAULTING
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amNORMAL, Ill. - Poll after poll shows Republican George W. Bush riding a big convention bounce to a double-digit lead, putting heavy pressure on Democrat Al Gore to pick a...
JEWISH-CENTER SHOOTING SPREE A CALL TO DISARM
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Loren Lieb nearly suffered a mother's ultimate nightmare a year ago. A crazed gunman stormed the North Valley Jewish Community Center and fired two bullets that tore...
4 YANKS ARE STARVING FOR ATTENTION IN U.N. PROTEST
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amFour Americans, camped outside the U.N. compound in Baghdad, began a three-day hunger strike yesterday to protest the sanctions that have crippled Iraq since they were imposed 10 years ago....
PARTY IN BIND OVER RUNNING-MATE GOOF
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amANALYSIS Democratic National Chairman Ed Rendell said publicly what lots of an-alysts say privately when he suggested the nation isn't ready for a Jewish veep - but it's still a...
BILL GETS WEST WING ZING FROM EX-AIDES
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amEx-staffers who worked in the West Wing with President Clinton say he is incredibly smart and an amazing politician - but has a hair-trigger temper and is given to dark...
MAN KILLED, EIGHT HURT IN BX. BLOCK-PARTY MAYHEM
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amA block party in The Bronx suddenly turned into a "battlefield" yesterday when bullets started flying, leaving one man dead and eight others, including a 2-year-old child, injured. The dead...
VERIZON PHONE LINES SLASHED AS STRIKE BEGINS
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSome 2,500 Bronx residents lost their phone service yesterday when a cable was slashed shortly after Verizon employees walked off their jobs. Phone-company officials said it was among about a...
DRIVERS PAY TWICE FOR TRIP IN E-ZPASS RIP-OFF
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe agency responsible for collecting tolls at the city's bridges and tunnels has been knowingly double-billing many E-ZPass customers for more than a year, a scathing report obtained by The...
DID ABC PAY TO GET MONICA?
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe head of ABC News reportedly paid a friend of Kenneth Starr $25,000 to help secure an interview with presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky - fueling questions about journalistic integrity at...
DEM CHAIRMAN STIRS UP A HOLY MESS - CITES LIEBERMAN'S RELIGION AS A FACTOR
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amA top Democrat yesterday said Sen. Joseph Lieberman would be the automatic choice for Al Gore's running mate if not for "the unknown factor" of a Jew on the national...
BILL: RICK MUST CONFUSE VOTERS TO WIN
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amEDGARTOWN, Mass. - President Clinton last night said the only way his wife can lose to Rick Lazio in the Senate race is if New York voters "get really confused"...
'STAR WARS' ACTING LEGEND ALEC GUINNESS IS DEAD AT 86
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSir Alec Guinness, the Oscar-winning actor who brought the same quiet intensity to Shakespeare and "Star Wars," has died after a prolonged illness. He was 86. Guinness, a giant of...
CATHOLICS TO AL: STOP THE 'GORGY'
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amAngry members of the Catholic League held a rally yesterday, demanding presidential candidate Al Gore pull the plug on $5,000-a-head fundraiser at Hugh Hefner's L.A. Playboy mansion. "We want Al...
TERROR CHIEF BIN LADEN POISED TO STRIKE AGAIN
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. security agencies are bracing for a new wave of threats from terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, with today being the anniversary of his U.S. embassy bombings - and the...
BOSNIA HORROR RELIVED IN N.Y. TRIAL
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSitting under majestic views of the lower Manhattan skyline, 10 New Yorkers spent the past week lost in chilling stories of faraway Bosnia and countless atrocities committed in the name...
TEACHER-PAY BATTLE LINES DRAWN
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe school labor wars are about to begin. The teachers union says, "Show me the money!" Mayor Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Harold Levy say, "Show me more accountability and results."...
CATHOLICS SLAM GORE FOR PLAYBOY FUND-RAISER ON HOLY DAY
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amAngry members of the Catholic League held a rally yesterday demanding presidential candidate Al Gore pull the plug on a fund-raising party at the L.A. Playboy mansion of aging Casanova...
DEM CHAIRMAN STIRS UP A HOLY MESS - CITES LIEBERMAN'S RELIGION AS FACTOR
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amA top Democrat yesterday stood by his comment that Sen. Joseph Lieberman would be a "slam dunk" veep candidate if he weren't Jewish - but Al Gore's camp said religion...
MITCHELL'S SEASON NOT OVER - TE WILL MISS AT LEAST TWO MONTHS
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amThe good news is Pete Mitchell may not be lost for the entire season. The bad news is he won't be back on the field for months. "We're not at...
DL LOOMS AS KNOBBY TAKES MORE TESTS
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch's cranky right elbow is set for another round of tests today when the ailing second baseman will have an arthrogram - an X-ray technique in which dye is...
JETER TRIES TO JOKE HIS WAY OUT OF RUT
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSome say comedy is born of tragedy, and in Derek Jeter's case, it seems to be true. The shortstop's sense of humor is never as sharp as when he's struggling....
NOW ITS EL BOO-QUE - M'S, FANS JUMP ALL OVER HERNANDEZ
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amMariners 11 - Yankees 1 All things considered, Arm Air should have been grounded in Tampa. George Steinbrenner provided his private jet to transport David Cone, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez...
SEHORN GETTING FEELING BACK
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES It was third down, eight yards needed for a first down for the Bears, and quarterback Cade McNown looked for Dez White, a rookie receiver. No contest. McNown...
ORLANDO, WE HAVE SOME PROBLEMS
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amTHREE rings not withstanding, do not assume that beneath seemingly unrelenting Yankee professionalism, sometimes there isn't a circus going on. Occasionally, the dirty laundry hangs on lines more taut than...
DIXIE UNION WINS HASKELL; TRAVERS NEXT
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amFrom out of a clear blue Californian sky, Dixie Union pounced on New Jersey yesterday and stole a million-dollar jackpot right from under the noses of local horses to win...
'HALL' LIKELY HEADED FOR TRAVERS
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amGraeme Hall, the winner of Saturday's Grade 2 $400,000 Jim Dandy for three-year-olds at nine furlongs, came out of the race in good order, according to Cindy Hutter, assistant to...
'KID' BREEZES IN WHITNEY
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It was supposed to be a nail-biter but turned into a runaway. Yesterday's Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap was billed as the race of the year, with...
METS, PIAZZA DUCK DISASTER
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amPHOENIX - It appears the Mets have again averted disaster as Mike Piazza is expected to only miss three-to-five days after having an MRI on his left knee. "It confirmed...
HAMPTON PUMPED FOR TONIGHT'S RETURN TO HOUSTON
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Mike Hampton knows he is in the middle of drama tonight. How will he react to facing his old team? "I think it is going to...
VELAZQUEZ' MEET ENDED BY SPILL
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Jockey John Velazquez, who won the Saratoga riding title two years ago and was fourth in the standings this summer with 10 winners, just three off Jerry...
HALL OF AN HONOR FOR KRONE
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Retired jockey Julie Krone will become the first woman enshrined in the Racing Hall of Fame when induction ceremonies are held at 10:30 this morning at the...
THE REPLACEMENT THRILLER - HAYES HAS HAD TO FILL KEYSHAWN'S SHOES BEFORE
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amIf anyone should be used to replacing Keyshawn Johnson, it's wide receiver Windrell Hayes. The rookie played his college ball at Southern Cal, like Johnson, and is trying to make...
'PARADE' TOPS FAME FIELD
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Two years ago, owner Will Farish and trainer Neil Howard came to the Old Spa with a colt named Parade Ground and watched the son of Kingmambo...
MO SOUNDING IFFY ON FUTURE IN GREEN
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES During the past offseason, the Jets lost an All-Pro player in Keyshawn Johnson. If they aren't careful, they're going to do the same thing again after this season....
GILL SEEKS RING IN LAKER'S LAND
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Kendall Gill told The Post Thursday that he was heavily considering joining the world-champion Lakers for the $2.25 million salary-cap exception, it seemed like a negotiating ploy aimed at...
D-BACK BREAKING - ARIZONA, REYNOSO SOLVE MET MYSTERY
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Even after Glendon Rusch's worst performance as a Met, there was good news. Despite yesterday's 9-5 loss to the Diamondbacks at the BOB feeling "kind of like a...
CONE MAY MISS START
August 7, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES How David Cone comes through a bullpen session today will play a part in determining when Joe Torre hands him the ball again. "I talked to David and...