November 22, 1999
CEO LUX QUITS PSEUDO AFTER SPAT WITH HARRIS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amLarry Lux is logging off -- for real. The CEO of Internet broadcaster Pseudo Studios dramatically quit his post Friday after clashing with Pseudo's founder and chairman, Josh Harris. Lux...
THE CRACKS IN CRAMER'S CRYSTAL BALL ; CRAMER'S UNLIKELY PROPHECY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amGoldman Sachs' renowned investment library can be turned into a bowling alley. The Internet revolution has rendered it and most everything else on Wall Street useless. All investors are now...
CASH ME, 'KATE' ; RAVES & A HIT AT BOX OFFICE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00am"KISS Me, Kate" has come to hit it wealthily on Broadway. Fueled by across-the-board raves, the $6 million Cole Porter musical pulled in nearly $500,000 at the box office Friday,...
007: BIG, VERY BIG ; 'WORLD' ON TOP; 'HOLLOW' NOT SLEEPY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amCONTRADICTING the James Bond title "The World Is Not Enough," the world was big enough for two mammoth hits this pre-Thanksgiving weekend. MGM's 007 ruled with an estimated $37.2 million...
'TOGETHER' IS A LITTLE UNDONE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00am'I worship the ground he kicks me around on," sings Carol Burnett in "Putting it Together," a compilation of some 35 songs from Stephen Sondheim works of the last two...
DANCE NUMBER COMES ON LIKE GANGBUSTERS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S tough to steal a Broadway show right out from under two seasoned Broadway performers like Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, co-stars of the hit revival of "Kiss Me,...
HEFNER VERSUS 'HEFNER'; PLAYBOY BOSS NO FAN OF UPCOMING BIOPIC
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amHUGH Hefner thinks he could have done a better job of turning his life into a TV movie than the unauthorized biopic he saw last week on a review tape....
THE STARR REPORT
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe Trump card True story.Donald Trump was down in D.C. last week to tape an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews (it aired Thursday night). Someone wanted to know if they...
THE CIA'S REAL Q: DR. GARY L. SMITH IS THE COMPANY'S TRUE-LIFE MASTER OF TECHNICAL WIZARDRY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amLANGLEY, Va. -- Dr. Gary L. Smith has to be the most unlikely spy-tech wizard in the history of espionage. Just seven months ago, the bearded and friendly 63-year-old nuclear...
STATE DEMS FRET OVER CHAOS IN GORE CAMP
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amWHILE Hillary Rodham Clinton's stumbling campaign is worrying New York Democrats, they are increasingly fearful about Al Gore's bumbling efforts as well. Top Democrats said yesterday that down-to-the-wire efforts by...
POLL REVEALS QUIET 2K PLANS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amMost Americans plan to ring in the millennium at home -- and one in five hopes to be making whoopee when the clock strikes midnight, a new Time/CNN poll says....
IT'S HORSED AROUND IN CENTRAL PARK 128 YRS.
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amIf a time-traveling New Yorker from the turn of the century landed in today's Manhattan, there aren't many places to which he could direct you with certainty. But one that...
KEY WEEK IN EGYPTAIR PROBE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amInvestigators are hoping for a breakthrough week in the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash probe -- as Egyptian and American experts put the finishing touches on a detailed transcript of the...
CLINTON AIDE RIPS 'NEGATIVE' TV SPOTS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amTV ads attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton's embrace of Yasser Arafat's wife were blasted yesterday by the likely Democratic Senate candidate's top aide, who claimed the ad was orchestrated by Mayor...
GLENN CLOSE SHOULD HANG HER HEAD IN SHAME
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amWITH the help of movie star Glenn Close, a woman who fatally smashed in the skull of her 2-year-old daughter is expected to be released from an upstate prison today....
CAN'T IMAGINE NOT HAVING LENNON VIGIL
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amTED and Rita Bell of England had a splendid time in New York -- until Sunday. That's when they heard about the city's plan to snuff out an all-night Dec....
EXPERTS SPEAK OUT ON DOWN-HILL ROLL
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amWith most New Yorkers saying they want Hillary Rodham Clinton to take a walk, political pros say the first lady needs to move quickly to save her wobbling Senate campaign....
KO PUTS BOXER INTO COMA - QNS. PUG IN JERSEY HOSPITAL
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amBoxer Stephan Johnson was fighting for his life last night in an Atlantic City hospital, 24 hours after he was knocked out in a junior-middleweight bout. The fighter, who lives...
E-BROKERS' ADS TO WARN OF HOLES IN 'NET
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amTrading stocks online has plenty of pitfalls -- and Internet brokerages have agreed to help pay for an ad campaign to teach investors about the risks. The deal results from...
BRADLEY-GORE A TOSSUP -DEM PRIMARY TOO CLOSE TO CALL: POLL
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe race for New York's Democratic presidential primary next March 7 is wide open right now -- Vice President Al Gore holds a small lead over rival Bill Bradley, a...
O'CONNOR LOOKING 'WONDERFUL' AT MASS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amAn energetic John Cardinal O'Connor returned to the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, a week after stumbling from his feet after his final blessing. O'Connor, 79 -- who is...
GEORGE W.'S PAST IMPERFECT MAKES PRESENT SENSE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amH IGH ROLLER Sky Masterson was teaching the wannabe hustler Nathan Detroit a lesson in common sense. Masterson was warning Detroit about taking any bet from a person who would...
PREZ RIVALS MUST LEAP GENDER GAP
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amDemocrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley have a gender gap -- and it's a key to why Gore does better in the Democratic primary but Bradley runs better in a...
BUSH: I'D OK BID TO BAN ABORTIONS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- George W. Bush said yesterday he would support a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions, except in the case of incest, rape or to save the mother's life....
GAY ICON QUENTIN CRISP DIES
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amEccentric gay icon Quentin Crisp, who championed the rights of homosexuals as he paraded around unapologetically in makeup and high heels, died yesterday at 90. The death of Crisp, who...
DEAD MAN'S KIN TO SUE 'DWI' COP, CITY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe family of Afif Hazim -- the construction worker killed last month by a police captain accused of drunken driving -- plans to file a wrongful-death suit against the city...
TODDLER-SLAY MOM GOING FREE TODAY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amPrecious Bedell -- the Syracuse woman who killed her 2-year-old daughter in a restaurant bathroom because of the girl's messy table manners -- will be a free woman today. Bedell...
THE RISKS AND GLORY ECHO THOSE OF LIFE; TRAGEDY OF BOXING LIKE TRAGEDY OF LIFE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amRARELY are both the horror and the glory of boxing on display as closely together as they were Saturday night. At 10:30 p.m., junior middleweight Stephan Johnson was carried from...
BADILLO RIPS BID TO DELAY CUNY REFORM
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amCity University Chairman Herman Badillo last night blasted a last-minute revision that would postpone a plan to end remedial classes at two of CUNY's senior colleges. State Education Commissioner Richard...
TEARS FOR BONFIRE KIDS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amCOLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Across the Lone Star State, mourners attended funerals and memorial services yesterday for 12 people who died in the collapse of a four-story stack of logs...
TEENS TURN AWAY FROM DRUGS: STUDY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amDrug use doesn't carry the cool cache it once did with teens, a new survey shows. The 12th annual survey by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, released today, found...
BUS-CRASH TRAGEDY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amFour charter buses carrying Penn State students home from a New York shopping spree hit a foggy patch on I-80 yesterday and smashed into one another -- killing a student...
COPS HUNT WOMAN IN BOWLING-ALLEY SLAYING
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amCops say they expect to make arrests today in the vicious stabbing death of an 18-year-old teacher's assistant who was attacked by another young woman at a Queens bowling alley....
TWO DRUG SUSPECTS SLAIN IN BROOKLYN
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amTwo suspected drug pushers were murdered in Brooklyn yesterday - and cops were questioning the boyfriend of a woman the dealers had ordered off their corner, police said. Cops say...
2 DEAD, 106 HURT IN 4-BUS SMASH
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amFour charter buses carrying Penn State students home from a New York shopping spree hit a foggy patch on I-80 yesterday and smashed into one another - killing a student...
HOLY MACKEREL! CAN ANIMALS BE OUR 'SOUL' MATES?
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amScientists have found startling new evidence they say suggests some animals could have souls. Researchers located the cells responsible for self-consciousness in the human brain - and found similar clusters...
PRINCESS ANNE TERRORIZED BY SEX STALKER
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amA sex-obsessed stalker made a terrifying bid to get to Britain's Princess Anne - smashing his car through the security gate of her sprawling country estate. Jim Quinn, 55, drove...
TEXAS WEEPS FOR BONFIRE VICTIMS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amCollege Station, Texas - Across the Lone Star State, mourners attended funerals and memorial services yesterday for the 12 people who died in the Texas A&M bonfire tragedy. The regular...
SLASH SUSPECT ARRAIGNED AT BELLEVUE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amA teenager suspected of pulling a box-cutter and slashing five commuters on a Manhattan subway car was arraigned in his pajamas yesterday in a locked psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital....
BRUISED, BATTERED NETS ; TAKE ACT ON ROAD
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO -- It truly could be worse for the Nets. Exactly how cannot immediately be fathomed, but it stands to reason that it could be worse. They face a four-games-in-five-nights...
RANGERS ARE ROTTEN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHE INFECTIOUS disease of failure has spread so quickly and thoroughly through the body of the Ranger team, the players may not even realize it themselves. This is the only...
FARRELL REIGNS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amCHSAA A Championship Msgr. Farrell2Holy Cross1 Holy Cross beat Monsignor Farrell 10 days ago on its way to a state championship. But rather than having to spend the whole offseason...
CALL 'EM GANG DREAM:THIRD STRAIGHT WIN HAS JETS THINKIN' PLAYOFFS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amJets17Bills7 A month ago, the Jets' season was awash in humiliation. There was, quite simply, no place for the Jets to hide. They staggered into their bye week, tail between...
SCHAEFER TAKES $25G TOP PRIZE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amAllan Schaefer used his final wager in the two-day $60,300 Aqueduct Fall Handicapping Challenge to take home the $25,000 first prize yesterday at the Big A. Schaefer, who is self...
VAN STANDS BY HIS MAN: JEFF'S AT PEACE WITH SPREWELL'S WILD ACT
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- Jeff Van Gundy stuck up for Latrell Sprewell regarding accusations the Knicks' forward acted unprofessionally in his emotionally-charged, sometimes X-rated return to Golden State Saturday night. Van Gundy...
VAN STANDS BY HIS MAN: HOUSTON CAN RELATE TO SPREE
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES OAKLAND -- They are "The Odd Couple" in so many ways, Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston -- the coach choker and the coach's son. In his first visit...
CUMMINGS: ALL'S NOT WELL WITH SPREWELL
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amOAKLAND -- You saw and read all about Latrell Sprewell's theatrics in his bizarre homecoming when he scored 14 angry, animated points in the Knicks' 86-79 romp over the Warriors...
OGBOGU ENJOYS RARE OPPORTUNITY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Eric Ogbogu had been on the Jets' inactive list the last two games, and it was eating at him. So, when the defensive coaches told him during the...
SKINS' WIN GETS NORV ALL TEARY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amAfter yesterday's 23-13 victory over the Giants, moisture built up in Norv Turner's eyes. He didn't cry, but you could see the tears were pushing to come out. "That is...
UNINSPIRED GIANTS: SKIN SWEEP INTO 1ST ON BIG BLUE BLOOPERS
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amLANDOVER -- Until a change comes over the Giants, they will remain a mediocre pretender that views first place as somewhere they dream about but aren't good enough to visit,...
DAVIS RIPS HOLES IN BLUE CURTAIN
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. -- You watched Stephen Davis dominate the Giants yesterday. You saw him rush for an NFL-best this season 183 yards on 33 attempts. You know that he became...
KERRY SUPPLIES SOME RELIEF ; COLLINS OFFERS HOPE AT QB
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md. -- The quarterback the Giants are going to rely on to lead them out of an offensive malaise, in his two extended opportunities, has lost the ball three...
COLEMAN, REDSKINS HAVE D-LIGHTFUL DAY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amLANDOVER, Md -- If you were watching yesterday's Giants-Redskins game on TV, you missed its biggest moment. You were away in commercial. It occurred right before the beginning of the...
RAY STAKES CLAIM: BACKUP PROVES HE'S A KEEPER
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amSURE, he's got the size, arm and, seemingly, leadership skills, too. But as Bill Parcells says, we're only starting down the long road with this kid. We can't be sure...
MATES WON'T PENALIZE PERCY
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER, Md. -- Teammates came to his defense, which is understandable, if slightly misguided. A lack of composure at precisely the wrong time cost Percy Ellsworth and the...
MAGICALMSYTERYCAT SAILS IN 'STREAM'
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amMagicalmysterycat went through an opening on the rail at the top of the stretch and went on to a length victory over favored Sahara Gold to win the fifth running...
KEN'S HOLD ON QB SPOT TAKES A HIT
November 22, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES LANDOVER - The way things were going, it was only a matter of time. The Giants were not going to go on forever with Kent Graham operating at...