January 23, 2000
OBSERVER AD PLUGS CARTER'S
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amREADERS of the New York Observer may have noticed a large ad in last week's issue for an Arthur Carter sculpture show at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in February. But only...
CURRY SIDESTEPS PERJURY CHARGE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amJOE Luethke, the mysterious informant in the Christian Curry/Morgan Stanley Dean Witter case, just dodged a bullet. Luethke -- who allegedly set Curry up in a sting when the sacked...
NEW FLICK TAKES DIG AT NEWS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amIN the decade of the '80s, the film that best captured the business world was "Wall Street." By the '90s, "Glengarry Glen Ross" was the defining movie. And now, as...
WEBSITE AND MAGAZINE COMING SOON
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amColin Cowie, the swank and suave taste-maker and celebrity party planner, is about to launch a new website geared to what he does best: style. "We are dot-comming fast and...
STYLE GURU TO THE STARS: LIFESTYLE EMPIRE GROW$ BY CATERING TO GLAM SET
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amIf Martha Stewart is the '90s version of Betty Crocker, Colin Cowie is more James Bond. While Stewart slaves over a stove kneading dough with one hand and stenciling party...
NASDATRON BUILDING CURSED WITH RATS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCALL it the curse of 4 Times Square. The new building -- home to Conde Nast publishing, the Skadden Arps law firm and the $37 million Nasdaq market site --...
GOLDBERG PINS BOOK DEAL
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amDON'T ever say wrestling fans can't read. The Crown Books imprint of Random House has just plunked down a mid-six-figure advance for a book by pro wrestler Bill Goldberg, known...
INTERNET INCUBATORS IGNORE SHAKEOUT PREDICTIONS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amSOMEHOW Internet incubators continue to flourish even though investors are far more careful about the Internet firms they're investing in. Everyone keeps talking about an impending shakeout. They're predicting a...
4 QUESTIONS FOR SCOTT FOLEY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amWhen the kid's dogs died my heart broke Scott Foley who plays Noel, Keri Russell's suave ex-boyfriend on The WB's "Felicity," is all set to appear in next summer's highly...
THE BOOK REPORT
January 23, 2000 | 5:00am"Rough Draft," by James W. Hall, St. Martin's Press, 335 pages, $24.95. If ever a book needed editing, it's "Rough Draft." And that's surprising, since James W. Hall's previous thrillers...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: BERNADETTE PETERS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amBernadette Peters is back in the saddle, following a three-week hiatus from "Annie Get Your Gun," the show that earned her a second Tony Award. The Ozone Park native began...
BLUE-CHIP STOCKARD: IN THE UPCOMING 'ISN'T SHE GREAT,' STOCKARD CHANNING PROVES JUST THAT
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amBack in the '60s, when Stockard Channing was just starting out in New York, she noticed a certain kind of actress, much different from herself: "These women were very done,...
WHAT I WATCH
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amROBERT MOLES PRESIDENT & CEO CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE If I'm not watching CNN/fn or "Hardball," it's probably "Teletubbies" with my two-year-old. ROY JONES, JR. LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION I like to...
WHEN 'WRONG' IS RIGHT
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER VIEW The first new Broadway offering of the third millennium -- should some recording angel such as the Guinness Book of Records be keeping count -- was David Hirson's...
'SPIN' STAR FOX SURE TO WIN HEARTS AT GLOBES
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amMichael J. Fox is the sentimental favorite to win tonight as the ailing star makes a dramatic appearance at the 57th annual Golden Globe awards. The good-guy actor -- who...
RUSSIANS CLAIM GAINS AS CHECHEN PREZ IS WOUNDED
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Russian military last night claimed it has seized one-third of Chechnya's war-torn capital city of Grozny -- wounding the Chechen president in the process. But soldiers had yet to...
CAUCUSES ARE A NICE FIT FOR DOWN-HOME HAWKEYES
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCLINTON, Iowa -- A caucus is nothing like the secret-ballot presidential primaries that New Yorkers are used to, where you stop by your voting place, go into the booth, pull...
IRISH PM SEEKS VOTE ON EASING ABORT BAN
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Irish people may get another chance to vote on whether to ease the country's strict laws against abortion. Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has pledged to hold a referendum...
NEIGHBORS HOWL OVER JUDGE'S 'MISTREATED' DOGS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amHorrified residents of a ritzy Long Island enclave blasted a Manhattan judge yesterday for abandoning her 11 dogs in a half-built, unheated home -- exposing them to biting seaside air...
THEIR PEACE OF MIND IS ALSO IN LIMBO
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amDAY Two -- as in two days too long for the grandmothers of raft boy Elian Gonzalez to be separated from their grandson. "I have two granddaughters," declared Dr. Guillermo...
EGYPT PREZ IN BID TO RESTART ISRAEL-SYRIA TALKS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Damascus yesterday to meet with Syrian President Hafez Assad in a bid to jump-start stalled peace talks with Israel. Mubarak's intercession was...
LAZARD TO BANK ON JORDAN'S FRIENDS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe partners at investment bank Lazard Freres were thrilled when First Friend Vernon Jordan joined the firm -- until they found out his paycheck is bigger than theirs. After his...
BRADLEY'S BLUNDER: HE'S TOO DARN NICE ; BRADLEY'S BLUNDER: HE'S JUST TOO DARN NICE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES, IowaMARILYN Haley of Crystal City, Mo., turns a searchlight on what many are calling "the Bradley blunder." "Look, sometimes I get angry at Bill and say to him,...
SETON HELL SURVIVOR LEAVES HOSP AS PALS MOURN VICTIMS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amA 19-year-old victim of the deadly fire at Seton Hall University was released from the hospital yesterday as mourners prepared to pay their last respects to the three students killed...
ECUADOR VP TAKES HELM, ENDS COUP
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amEcuador's vice president ended the upheaval of a short-lived coup when he assumed the presidency yesterday - but New York Ecuadoreans said they doubted the power shift would accomplish much...
ARMED INVADERS TERRORIZE LATIN PARTY KING & FAMILY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amNew York's biggest Latin party promoter was pistol-whipped inside his New Rochelle home by five men who also tied up his wife and son and stole $100,000, police said yesterday....
ZERO HOUR IN IOWA SHOWDOWN : AL & BUSH PUSH TO GET OUT THE VOTE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCLINTON, Iowa - The two presidential frontrunners, Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush warned against complacency as they rallied troops to turn out at tomorrow's Iowa caucuses, where...
NEW CROWD OF CELEBS WILL JUMP IN YOUR CAB
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amTaxi passengers will soon share the back seat with comic Chris Rock, former Knicks great Walt Frazier, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Broadway star Bernadette Peters. They are among the Taxi...
'GEORGE III' IS BUSH CLAN'S NEW PRINCE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amNASHUA, N.H. -- George P. Bush, bright-eyed emblem of the Bush family's fourth political generation, is quietly and without fanfare making his public debut this campaign season. Posing for photos,...
PUG SITTING PRETTY DEAD STAR'S POOCH RULES CLUB'S ROOST
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amYou've probably never heard of Malcolm, but this 15-year-old has got it made with a Gramercy Park address, a fat bank account and hundreds of celebrities and society friends who...
RAGING FIRES CLAIM LIVES OF TWO BROOKLYN GRANNIES
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amTwo beloved Brooklyn grandmothers were killed in separate blazes yesterday after rapidly spreading flames engulfed their homes, fire officials said. One of the elderly women, Helen Davis, 72, was killed...
MACARTHUR'S WIDOW JEAN FADES AWAY AT AGE OF 101
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amJean MacArthur, the beloved wife of the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur, died at Lenox Hill Hospital yesterday at age 101. MacArthur shared her husband's triumphs and defeats as he rose...
HIZZONER: UNLIKE HILLARY, I KNOW ABOUT NEW YORK
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amBUFFALO -- In his first upstate campaign appearance in several weeks, Mayor Giuliani last night pounded First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as an out-of-stater who just doesn't understand New York....
THE ANGUISHED CRIES OF SETON HALL VICTIM'S PAL
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amAn anguished teen shattered the window of a New Jersey funeral home last night and cried "Give him back!" as hundreds of mourners paid their respects to a student who...
HUNTER COLLEGE GETS TOUGH ON DORM SAFETY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amOne New York college is promising swift action against students who create fire hazards in their dorms -- even to the point of throwing them out of their rooms --...
ALTERNATIVE RX'S RIGHT AT 'OM' IN SOME CITY HOSPS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amBeth Israel Medical Center is taking the leap into New Age therapy, opening a center that aims to make Chinese herbs and reiki massage as legitimate as penicillin. Beth Israel...
EMI AND WARNER ARE SET FOR $7.5B DUET
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amTwo weeks after AOL and Time Warner shook hands in the largest merger in history, the multimedia powerhouse combined its ailing Warner Music Group with British music giant EMI in...
GRANNIES IN TEARS AS THEY PLEAD WITH RENO
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Cuban grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez wept uncontrollably yesterday as they told Attorney General Janet Reno "how much they are suffering" -- then hinted they're hoping to be reunited with...
POPE DESTINED FOR WHEELCHAIR: DOCS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amAiling Pope John Paul II -- whose love of swimming and skiing once earned him the nickname "God's Athlete" -- will be in a wheelchair within two years, his doctors...
SUFFERING OF BATTLE-WEARY ELIAN POLITICAL FEUD ADDS TO RAFT-ORDEAL STRESS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI -- The tug-of-love battle for Elian has taken a sad toll on the little boy. Gone yesterday was the ear-to-ear smile the youngster has sported around the clock. He...
BUSH SEEKS TO AVOID ABORT FLAP BACKS GOP PLATFORM'S CALL FOR BAN
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCLINTON, Iowa -- Republican George W. Bush yesterday said he wants to keep the right-to-life plank in the GOP platform -- as rival Steve Forbes kept prodding him on abortion...
POLLS: NO SURE THINGS IN IOWA
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCLINTON, Iowa -- The polls make it look as if GOP front-runner George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore will romp to victory tomorrow in Iowa, but there could be...
LAWYER WITH DEM PARTY TIES IS COURTS' 185G MAN
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amA key player in the Brooklyn legal battle that prompted a probe into judicial patronage received at least 80 assignments from judges in the past five years -- including two...
THE MIND-BODY LINK IS THE SOUL OF A NEW MED SCENE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amHer peppy gait and cheery grin seemed to belie Barbara Wilson's medical diagnosis -- ovarian cancer. "I have had nothing but a positive experience for three months," said Wilson. She...
SOME SAY IT'S BETTER TO MEDITATE THAN MEDICATE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amDealing with conventional doctors left Rena Shulsky feeling sick and tired. "It was like chasing the wind to get one of them to talk to me," said Shulsky. "If I...
HEIR: GREEDY RECEIVERS LEFT CEMETERY FOR DEAD
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe receivership of Cypress Hills Cemetery has fattened the wallets of well-connected lawyers -- but hasn't done much good for the families of people buried there, says a descendant of...
BOLD-TYPE YANKEE DUO HAVE THE WRITE STUFF
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe publishing world is buzzing with word of new book projects focused on two Yankee superstars -- perfect-game hurler David Cone and heartthrob all-star Derek Jeter. Cone is the subject...
HOUSE MUST PUT UNHOLY DISPUTE TO REST
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN Congress reconvenes this week, Rep. Vito Fossella, the Staten Island Republican, will introduce a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to John Cardinal O'Connor. It's a well-deserved honor,...
POWER OF PER$UASION ON DAMASCUS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. A SPECIAL plan is under way in Washington to persuade Congress to support huge financial aid to Syria as part of a peace accord between Damascus and Israel. Slim...
FOR TITLE, IT TAKES A 'VILLE ; JAGS, TITANS BOTH CLAIM DESTINY'S ON THEIR SIDE
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE -- They have the Super Bowl song, the coach who is the closest thing to Vince Lombardi since old Vince's fedora was retired for good, and the experience, four...
NOBODY BEATS MR. WIZARD
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amLook for C-SPAN to cut back its coverage of congressional hearings in order to televise Wizard practices. LET me be the last to welcome Michael Jordan back to the NBA....
BUCS NEED A MIRACLE:GOTTA PLAY LIKE JINTS IN SUPE XXV
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- The formula is right there, no secret. It's surfaced in big games, championship games, in a variety of sports, producing miracle victories, head-shaking upsets. It can happen,...
ALSTOTT'S GOTTA BE ALL-WORLD
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amNFC NOTES ST. LOUIS -- Many players absolutely, positively must come up with huge efforts today for the Buccaneers to have a chance to upset the Rams, and one who...
PRANKSTER'S GETTING ANYTHING BUT LOVE FROM LEWIS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCOMEDIAN Richard Lewis apparently can't take a joke. Worse, he might not be able to take a truth. Either way, Lewis' sensitivity on behalf of himself may have cost a...
BRUCE JUICED FOR SHOT AT SUPE XXXIV
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- Before Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk and before the reincarnation of Dick Vermeil, all the Rams had was Isaac Bruce, a Pro Bowl caliber wide receiver on...
KARMANOS MAKES IT PERSONAL ; FEUD WITH PRIMEAU KEEPS HURRICANES AMONG NHL DREGS
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- Peter Karmanos is clearly the out-front villain here. The ridiculously wealthy Carolina owner no longer cares about the welfare of his team or league, only about emerging...
INJURY KOS HORSE CHESTNUT
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amSouth African champion Horse Chestnut injured himself in a morning workout at Calder yesterday and has been declared out of the $500,000, Grade 1 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream on Feb....
REEF BALLS DO JOB IN JERSEY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amATOTAL of 700 commercially designed marine habitats were placed on ocean reefs along the New Jersey coast last year, providing home for many types of marine life and providing excellent...
LACK OF POWER KEEPS ISLES SHORT-CIRCUITED
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amIf only the NHL would allow it, the Islanders would be better off declining penalties. The next time a referee calls an infraction on an Isles opponent, Butch Goring should...
EVERYBODY WANTS PIECE OF BUCKEYES
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amLast season the Ohio State Buckeyes were the hunters, sneaking up on unsuspecting opponents and stunning the college basketball world by advancing to the Final Four with a 77-74 win...
ST. RAYMOND'S MAKES STATEMENT
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amCHSAA St. Raymond's 86 Rice 75 St. Raymond's has been slowly making headway and gaining respect in the city, but it wasn't until yesterday's 86-75 win over defending city and...
KENDALL KEEPS PROMISE TO CASEY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amWith just under four minutes left in yesterday's game against Dallas, his Nets trailing by five and Cedric Ceballos torching his teammates, Kendall Gill turned to coach Don Casey during...
TWO SEPARATE SPILLS MAR AQUEDUCT CARD
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amA pair of jockey spills in consecutive races, one caused by broken equipment, the other by careless riding, sent one rider to the hospital and another to the track's first-aid...
TITANS' KEARSE HAS AN AIR OF INVINCIBILITY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amAFC NOTES JACKSONVILLE -- Championship games are where legends are made and if the Titans are to find a way to beat the favored Jaguars today, they will need a...
PENN POPS RED STORM ONCE AGAIN
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amAnother Garden debacle for St. John's. This one, a 65-64 rip-out-the-heart loss to Ohio State, was so agonizing it had the Red Storm renouncing the World's Most Famous Arena as...
HAPPY HOMECOMING FOR BROOKLYN'S BROWN
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amFor 37 minutes yesterday, the only Ohio State player who seemed to be at home on the Garden court was Brooklyn native Brian Brown. "I had about 17 family members...
BAD OLD DAYS AGAIN: DUNCAN STOMPS ON KNICKS IN FINALS' REMATCH
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO -- It was 70 degrees outside the Alamodome and that's not the reason why it felt like June again. The Spurs were again pounding the Knicks in this...
LJ IGNORES WALTON'S PEACE BID
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SAN ANTONIO -- NBC commentator Bill Walton got the cold shoulder from Larry Johnson before last night's nationally televised Spurs-Knicks game. Walton, who has roasted LJ on the...
ISLES FINALLY SHOW POWER IN SHUTTING DOWN LIGHTNING
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amIslanders 2 Lightning 0 With their power play outrageously ineffective this season, you would think the Islanders might be better off declining penalties, if only the NHL would allow it....
HEY, THIS IS GETTING SERIOUS ; RANGERS RIDE RICHTER TO FIFTH STRAIGHT VICTORY
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 4 Blues 1 ST. LOUIS -- Upon further review, here come the Rangers. It's five in a row and seven of the last eight now for the Blueshirts following...
CALL 'EM GANG GROH: NEW JETS' COACH FEELS 'VERY READY' TO FILL BILL'S SHOES
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amAl Groh walked in and out of Weeb Ewbank Hall on Friday wearing his Sunday best clothes. According to those who saw him, he looked happy, excited and proud --...
SPREAD THE WORD: IGNORE POINT FACTOR
January 23, 2000 | 5:00amIF there's one lesson to be learned about championship-game weekend, it's to go with the teams you expect to win the games outright and forget about the point spread. That...