December 1, 1999
PHOTO FINISH: DANZIGER GALLERY CLOSING
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe art world will soon be without one of New York's most prestigious photo galleries -- the James Danziger Gallery -- as its founder and owner shuts its doors and...
SHE'S OUT TO MAKE CALVIN HER FORTE ; EX COO WANTS KLEIN EMPIRE
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amGabriella Forte is reportedly making a run at Calvin Klein Inc. Just six months after she resigned as Klein's president and COO to become an adviser to the company, Forte...
TIRADES HER TOOL FOR TIGHT CONTROL
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amShe has been called the power behind Calvin Klein, a fierce intellect, and a few other, less flattering things. Gabriella Forte's penchant for midnight meetings while running Calvin Klein Inc.,...
NEW BONY-SCANDAL BUST
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe feds yesterday arrested another Bank of New York employee in the widening international money-laundering scandal involving reputed Russian mobsters and billions in dirty cash. Svetlana Kudryavtsev, an international banking...
MUM'S THE WORD AFTER M'SOFT TALKS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amDozens of lawyers waging the Microsoft monopoly battle gathered at a private club in Chicago yesterday for a possible peace plan -- but broke up with sealed lips after two...
'SCROOGE' FLORIO'S CONDE-NAST HUMBUG
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amCONDE Nast CEO Steve Florio is playing Scrooge this holiday season. In a series of memos that went out just before Thanksgiving, he clamped down on executives' expensive gifts to...
JUNO'S $10M SEX SUIT ; NO. 2 FOR INTERNET FIRM
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amInternet giant Juno Online is run by juvenile frat boys who consider women "sexual objects" and treat them as "second-class citizens," a former employee charges in a $10 million sexual...
JUDGE LETS FALTERING NEWS OFF THE HOOK FOR $18.5M
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday ruled the Daily News does not have to pay its truckers $18.5 million in back wages and wage hikes -- saying the paper might fold if...
HEAD OF REVLON'S U.S. OPERATIONS RESIGNS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amRon Perelman's faltering Revlon Inc. took another hit yesterday after a key executive jumped ship. Kathy Dwyer, the head of the cosmetics maker's U.S. operations, said she was resigning to...
JANUS FUNDS OUTPACES VANGUARD IN OCT. SALES
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amVanguard Group isn't in the vanguard anymore - Janus Capital Corp. has replaced it as the No. 1 seller of mutual funds. In October, Janus attracted $2.9 billion in new...
'ICH BIN EIN HALLO BERLINER'
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amHallo, Berlin Food, Wine & Beer Hall Two and one half star rating 626 10th Ave. IT was the best of times. It was the wurst of times. A second...
RESTAURANT REVIEW; CARIBBEAN FANTASY IS LOST AT SEA
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amSo. Barth's Half a star rating 68 W. 58th St. JUST daydreaming about the island of St. Barts has a sunstroke-like effect on many a New Yorker. Friends and travel...
SCATTERED 'CLOUDS'
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amLEGENDARY director Michelangelo Antonioni, sidelined by a stroke in 1985, returned to filmmaking a decade later with "Beyond the Clouds," a beautifully photographed film that he completed with considerable help...
THE STARR REPORT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amCNBC's gas man CNBC's Ron Insana was tear-gassed on the air yesterday while in Seattle to cover the World Trade Organization conference, which was marred by a chaotic riot. "The...
WHEN WILL IT GO WEEKLY?
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amABC 'Millionaire' slot is a mystery When will it go weekly? Regis wins week for ABC,p. 87 IT sounds like the Nixon White House over at ABC, which says it...
LENO BEATS BUSH FOR 'TONIGHT' DATE
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amGEORGE W. Bush, Jay Leno wants you. The late-night king is trying to lure the front-running Republican presidential candidate onto "The Tonight Show," but so far, the Bush camp hasn't...
'TRIP' LOOKS FANTASTIC, BUT IT'S FAR FROM LIGHT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amPART documentary, part re-enactment, "Wisconsin Death Trip" is a gorgeously photographed, highly original film based on the well-known (but out-of-print) 1973 book by Michael Lesy. "Trip" is used in its...
TALE OF TWO HOOKERS: '20/20' SWEEPS IN CALL GIRLS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amABC News' "20/20" is going to get down and dirty with a pair of hookers tonight. As the culmination of the competitive November sweeps period -- which ends tonight --...
BLESS THEM, EVERYONE
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL: The Musical," the holiday perennial at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, is holding up well. It's a solidly entertaining family spectacle that makes excellent...
BACALL ON BROADWAY: LEGENDARY STAR TAKES TO THE STAGE AGAIN IN 'WAITING IN THE WINGS'
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amLAUREN Bacall is dead tired. She's been rehearsing all day, she didn't sleep a wink the night before and she's still recovering from the grueling Boston tryout of "Waiting in...
EXPENSIVE TASTES: NYC NEW YEAR'S RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS ARE STILL AVAILABLE - IF YOU CAN AFFORD 'EM
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amIF you're still deciding where to be when the millennium ball drops (or when the lights go out) on New York City, you're not alone - a recent survey says...
HOPE FOR PEACE HITS HOME: TWO FAMILIES TELL HOW POWER-SHARING DEAL COULD MEAN END TO DECADES OF TROUBLES
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: BELFAST - John McClure had his childhood friend John Fletcher blown away by the IRA in 1972. And his neighbor John James (J.J.) Donohue saw his young daughter bawl...
AUCTION OFFERS SLICE OF LEGENDARY GOLFER
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amEvery golfing fanatic dreams of wearing the fabled green jacket donned by winners of the prestigious Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. Now, one lucky duffer can own what may be...
SICK BORIS CHATS WITH YASSER
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amHospitalized Boris Yeltsin spoke by phone with Yasser Arafat for 20 minutes yesterday, leaving Kremlin aides to deal with stiffened resistance from Chechen rebels. The ailing Yeltsin canceled all meetings...
THE DEMS EMBRACE EXTREMISTS ; WHY PLAY ALONG WITH THE FULANI-SHARPTON 'MODERATE' ACT?ñ
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amBURIED deep within last Friday's 2,000-word New York Times takeout by Amy Waldman on the bizarre political alliance between Pat Buchanan and left-wing extremist Lenora Fulani was a paragraph that...
HILL RIPS RUDY FOR SICCING COPS ON HOMELESS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ripped Mayor Giuliani's new policy of using the NYPD to sweep the homeless off the streets--branding it immoral, ineffective and not worthy of a...
YOU'D BE SAFER FIGHTING A WAR THAN IN A HOSP
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHE fact that I have shed more than some tears over braver men than me who died for freedom in Vietnam doesn't alter the point. And that point is that...
S.I.'S PERFECTLY GOOD DUMP GOING TO WASTE
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amWhat a dump! Although residents of Staten Island won the battle to close the Fresh Kills Landfill, New Yorkers should feel a kind of perverse pride at the mound of...
WHY DOESN'T SHE OPEN HER HOME TO THE POOR?
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amHILLARY CLINTON says she wants to help New York's homeless. Well, I know of a sweet piece of property in the lush town of Chappaqua that could easily house 10,...
WRESTLERS CRY UNCLE ; WWF WILL TAME HIT SHOW AFTER SLAMS BY SPONSORS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe rock 'em-sock 'em World Wrestling Federation has agreed to tone down the raunchy antics on its weekly "Smackdown!" TV show -- but another major sponsor is jumping ship anyway....
STORES LEAD CHARGE ; FOR CHARITIES
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amWRITING a check is only one way to give to your favorite charity this holiday season. Sensitive Savvy Shoppers know to be on the lookout for "gifts that give" as...
START OUT YOUNG FOR A HEALTHY OLD AGE: STUDY
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amStarting healthy habits early on can add nearly a decade to your life in the end, a massive new study finds. The study -- which tracked more than 350,000 men...
SHRINK: HE SHOULD GO BACK HOME
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe 5-year-old Cuban boy who watched his mother die during a harrowing trip to Florida, needs the stability of his impoverished homeland more than the material comforts of America, experts...
DOC: I'LL PAY THE WAY FOR CUBA KID
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI -- A doctor is offering to pay living expenses for the 5-year-old Cuban who floated in shark-infested waters to Florida on an inner tube -- and says he'd also...
BODEGA-SLAY WITNESS FEARS KILLERS WILL COME AFTER HIM
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man who was miraculously spared when a carjacker's gun ran out of bullets says he's terrified because the thug and his partner -- who cops say killed a...
COSBY 'KID' MIGHT END JAIL TERM AT HOME
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amBill Cosby's alleged love child must start serving the remaining eight months of her sentence for extortion in the New Year, a judge ruled yesterday. But she might be able...
FEDS COMB MEXICO DEATH FIELDS ; MASS GRAVES AT BORDER MAY HOLD 22 AMERICANS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amScores of FBI forensic experts descended on killing fields just south of the Mexican border yesterday to search for the bodies of more than 100 people -- including 22 Americans...
BUSH TO UNVEIL PLAN FOR ; $483B TAX CUT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- George W. Bush today will announce his $483 billion plan to cut taxes for all Americans, including a 5 percent cut for working poor families, his campaign aides...
BRITS START NORTHERN IRELAND POWER SHIFT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST -- The British government began the process of transferring power to the Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday -- even as the IRA said it is unhappy with the disarmament timetable....
YULE SEE MAJOR STARS AT TREE BASH
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe future looks bright for the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree -- with a star-studded lighting bash set for tonight. The 8 p.m. ceremony at the skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza...
RISING NABE STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe West Side street corner where brick-attack suspect Paris Drake hung out and sold crack is an uneasy mixture of homeless people and yuppies, methadone clinics and condos. Crime is...
RACE REPORT IS INDICTMENT OF POLICE POLICY ; SPITZER STATS BARE BIAS IN STREET FRISKS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amFOR years, this city's black and Latino residents have complained they are unconstitutionally singled out for stop-and-frisk searches by the police. Police commissioners and conservative politicians have denied any suggestion...
UNION'S 500G GIFT COINCIDES WITH 'HILLARY' AD
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe city hospital workers union gave $500,000 in so-called soft money to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee three weeks before the party ran an ad boosting Hillary Clinton, federal records...
TRADE-TALK RIOT'S A GAS! ; FOES TAKE A PAGE FROM '60S
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amSEATTLE -- Thousands of demonstrators delayed yesterday's opening of a World Trade Organization parley by breaking windows and setting fires in a wild 1960s-style protest that triggered a tear-gas response...
BASEBALL'S LAWYER TO SEE NEW ROSE EVIDENCE
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amBaseball officials have agreed to meet with a lawyer for Pete Rose -- as the sport's disgraced hit king said he had new evidence to fight his lifetime ban on...
SUSPECT'S STUNNER: 'I GUESS THAT'S ME': COMMENTS ON SKETCH BEFORE HE'S CHARGED
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe ex-con panhandler charged with attempted murder in the vicious Midtown brick attack on a young woman told cops, "I guess that's me," as he stared at a wanted poster...
THUG'S RECORD STRETCHES TWO DECADES
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe violent street hustler charged in the Midtown brick attack has been spinning through the revolving door of justice at a dizzying pace for almost 20 years. Authorities say Paris...
FRENCH DISS TEEN 'PILL' PROGRAM
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amFrench girls are getting the morning-after pill in school - and their parents are livid, fearing it will encourage them to sleep around. "We're worried that sex could become trivialized,"...
JUDGE OKS $3.2B DOW IMPLANT-SUIT SETTLEMENT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday approved Dow Corning's $4.5 billion plan to emerge from bankruptcy - including a whopping $3.2 billion to settle silicone breast-implant claims. The reorganization plan marks "the...
COPS PROBE POSSIBLE DNA LINK TO DEAD INFANTS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amA DNA test is being conducted to determine if a newborn boy found dead on a Bushwick street last month is related to a dead girl found just yards away...
SOME 'INNER' SECRETS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amWhere did the year go? It seems like only yesterday that Charismatic was upsetting the Kentucky Derby, and now here we are back at Aqueduct on opening day of the...
SEASON STARTING WITH A FLOURISH
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHE cold snap came just in time to remind us that this is the beginning of the ski season and only Mother Nature knows what this winter holds for riders...
RANGERS' THOUSAND DAZE
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amMark Messier skated between Adam Graves and Vladimir Vorobiev. Wayne Gretzky was flanked by Luc Robitaille and Niklas Sundstrom. Sergei Nemchinov centered Bill Berg and Pat Flatley. Darren Langdon, Shane...
TRIBE SERIOUS IN CONE QUEST
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amHow serious are the Indians about adding David Cone to bolster a pitching staff that has been the cause of their post-season collapses? According to an AL source with knowledge...
ROSE'S LOSS IS BASEBALL'S, TOO
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amH E SAYS he's not a fighter, but a lover. Pete Rose, 58, knows better. He's always ready to grapple. Even now, with his feet dangling from the long-legged stool...
MAZZILLI SEES BOMBERS AS MEN OF STEAL
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amIt was only fitting that the first player Lee Mazzilli bumped into after being named the Yankees' first-base coach was Bernie Williams. "I saw him and he asked me what...
JETS' MARVELOUS MARVIN GIVING IT OL' COLLEGE TRY
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amMARVIN Jones has heard the whispers since he entered the NFL seven years ago. Jones was so good in college, at Florida State, he was almost a mythical figure. If...
KIN FEARFUL AS EX-MET CARREON VANISHES
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amEx-Met outfielder Mark Carreon has vanished mysteriously in Louisiana -- and his heartsick family fears the worst. "At this stage we're far beyond worried and concerned. We're hoping for a...
RED STORM COPPIN' AT THE BIT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amRarely has a team that won by 41 points been as disappointed in itself as the St. John's Red Storm was after last Tuesday night's 84-43 win at Stony Brook....
JINT OFFICIAL: MICHAEL'S COMMENTS 'DESPICABLE' ; GIANT BRASS LIVID AT STRAHAN ATTACK
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHE FIRST word used yesterday, in reaction to what Michael Strahan said and did on Monday was "despicable." That's how a Giants administrative official, who asked not to be identified,...
GIANTS FEAR WAY MAY BE FINISHED
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe confirmation by the Giants yesterday that fullback Charles Way will miss the remainder of the season and will require knee surgery comes as no surprise, but there is concern...
BIG ISSUES MERGE AT BUD'S DOOR
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amPETE Rose finally went into a full assault to gain his reinstatement into baseball. In Texas, major-league owners OK'd the Yankee-Net partnership and the sale of the Expos. And in...
UMPS GIVE THUMB TO PHILLIPS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amBy a resounding 57-35 vote, Major League Baseball umpires have ousted Richie Phillips as head of their union and voted to form another bargaining unit with new leadership. Although incumbent...
ISLANDERS PLACE PILON ON WAIVERS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThwarted in their numerous attempts to trade him due to his high salary, frequent injuries and age, the Islanders have placed veteran defenseman Rich Pilon on waivers. Teams have until...
CALL 'EM THE BAD NEWS NETS: BLOW 15-POINT LEAD TO SPOIL KITTLES RETURN
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amWizards85Nets78Nets fold vs. Wizards It was supposed to be the night when the story line was positive for the Nets, win or lose, because Kerry Kittles was back in the...
HULL SEES A STAR IN LUONGO
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amStars2Islanders1 Judging by the half-filled Coliseum last night (and plenty of other nights, too), Islander fans simply don't have much faith in their team. But if you respect Brett Hull's...
FUNKY SHOT PROVES TO BE CRUSHER
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTESSherman Douglas had position. He had his 6-foot-1 body in perfect position against 6-9 Aaron Williams of the Wizards. If the rebound came that way, Williams likely would have...
COMING UP EMPTY: OFF-TARGET KNICKS LET ONE SLIP AWAY VS. INEPT SIXERS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- This was the night the Knicks needed Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell to rise above the ugly fray and carry this depleted club. This was the night the...
VAN: NO WORD ON EWING
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA -- Jeff Van Gundy last night tried defusing speculation that Patrick Ewing will make his return tomorrow in Milwaukee. "I'd be shocked by it," said Van Gundy...
KNICK FRONT LINE COMES UP SHORT
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- Unfortunately, the NBA's rule changes appear to be doing nothing for DeMarco Johnson. Last night the Knicks and Sixers looked like they had never left Sheboygan and Fort...
KNICKS CAN USE BIG-TIME HELP
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - It really wouldn't be a bad game if the NBA would consider some rules changes. Like prohibiting hand checks. Like putting in a 24-second clock. Like the abolition...
EWING DISPENSES BAD RX TO CAMBY
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amIF Marcus Camby says he can't jump, neither will we to conclusions about whether he should be playing. It is his body. Few things bring out the dark side of...
WALLACE LOOKS LIKE NEW 12TH MAN
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - John Wallace found himself as the 12th man Monday night against Dallas. He was unable to get into a game in which the Knicks led by...
A BIG HEADACHE :CAMBY SITS AS KNICKS MUST WAIT FOR EWING
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - For the third time in four games, the Knicks were without Marcus Camby, Larry Johnson and Patrick Ewing. And it could stay the same sorry way tomorrow at...
AGE, INJURIES, BUCKS LAND PILON ON WAIVERS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amThwarted in their numerous attempts to trade him due to his high salary, frequent injuries and age, the Islanders have placed veteran defenseman Rich Pilon on waivers. Teams have until...
NETS PRAY KITTLES IS SOLUTION
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amFinally, the sound of something coming over the hill was from a cavalry of sorts, not another avalanche of injuries or a flood of losing. Kerry Kittles, who made waiting...
GILL PROMISES TO PLAY VS. KNICKS
December 1, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Kendall Gill maintained his stance that he will return to the Nets' active roster on Saturday against the Knicks at the Meadowlands. Gill was placed on the injury...