October 20, 2000
THROWING A LIFELINE TO SINKING MARKETS WORKED; HERE'S PROOF
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amI SUGGESTED in last Friday's column that the Federal Reserve should step in whenever the stock market flirts with real disaster. The column was timely. Stock prices had fallen sharply...
CURRY BUYS NEWSPAPER, HAS BIG PLANS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amChristian Curry is going to be a newspaper man - and a modeling mogul, and a television producer, and a hedge fund operator. Curry - who made headlines when he...
TIME'S THE WINNER ; WILL PAY $475M FOR TIMES MIRROR MAGAZINES
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTime Inc., the magazine wing of Time Warner, has emerged as the surprise winner of the hotly contested derby to buy Times Mirror Magazines from the Tribune Company. Sources close...
CHAIN REACTION: ROMANCE FALLS FLAT AND GOOD DEEDS GO UNPUNISHED
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amPay It Forward Inspirational Oscar-bait undermined by bad castingt Starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment. PG-13; Running Time: 118 minutes For self-consciously inspirational Oscar-bait, "Pay It Forward" works...
I MET MY DAD'S GHOST ON TV: SCI FI GETS GOOD NEWS (AND BAD) FROM THE OTHER SIDE
October 20, 2000 | 4:00am"Crossing Over with John Edward" Sunday-Thursday at 11 p.m. on SCI FI BETWEEN you and me, I haven't spoken to my father in over 20 years. Not a word. But...
ROD, STAFF COMFORT HIM ; SEGOVIA STUDENT LOVES FLY FISHING AND PLAYING CLASSICAL GUITAR
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN you're talking classical guitar, there are two names to remember - Andres Segovia, who died at age 94 in 1987, and his American student with the boyish face, Christopher...
MOBY'S TRICK: HE MAKES DISCO PUBLICLY PALATABLE
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMOBYHammerstein Ballroom, 34th Street, off Eighth Avenue. Continuing Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m. WHETHER or not you know Moby's music, be on notice that this slight New Yorker with...
HEY, DAVE! GIVE BACK THE EMMY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID Letterman is the Milli Vanilli of late-night. The singing group's fakery cost them a Grammy. Dave's trickery should cost him the Emmy he won this year. Think that'll happen?...
THIS BUDDIES-BUY-A-BAR FLICK GOES DOWN EASY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE TAVERN Belly up to this bar. Well-drawn characters in an entertaining little slice of life.Running time: 88 minutes. Not rated (profanity). At the Village East, Second Avenue and 12th...
'MASTER'-FUL CHAN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER Jackie Chan at his high-kicking best. Some sequences are simply amazing.Directed by Lau Ka Leung and an uncredited Chan. Dubbed. Running time: 104 minutes. Rated...
A PRISON PIC WITH RESTRAINT
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amANIMAL FACTORY Exceptionally well-acted, understated prison drama.Running time: 93 minutes. Rated R (violence, language). At the Cinema Village, 12th Street, between Fifth Avenue and University Place.'ANIMAL Factory" is a wonderfully...
FAUST,TECHIEDWEEB
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amBEDAZZLED 1/2 Brendan Fraser delivers a tour de force as a modern-day Faust in a fun but instantly forgettable farce.Running time: 93 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual innuendo, profanity). At the...
DARK NEW YORK CORRUPTION DRAMA IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE YARDS A dark drama of urban corruption.Running time: 116 minutes. Rated R (bare breasts, violence). At the Lincoln Square, the Cinemas 1,2,3 and the Angelika. VISUALLY accomplished and wonderfully...
THE STARR REPORT
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amDan quotes get site inspection Dan Rather has sparked some strong feelings among viewers - but nothing like a new website that contends the CBS anchor is politically biased. Ratherbiased.com...
O'CASEY CAPTURES CHAOS OF CIVIL WAR IRELAND
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amJUNO AND THE PAYCOCKAt the Gramercy Theatre, 127 E. 23rd St., (212) 777-4900. Or Ticketmaster (212) 307-4100. THE dreams and delusions of a Dublin family - legacies, rugs and chairs...
THIS SPUD'S NOT FOR YOU ; EVEN THE PLAYWRIGHT HATES IT
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amALTHOUGH "Big Potato," a dark comedy by Arthur Laurents at the Jewish Repertory Theater, doesn't open until Sunday, it's already getting bad reviews. Not from the critics, but from the...
NEIL SIMON SERVES DISH WITH DIFFERENT, DARKER TWIST
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE DINNER PARTYThe Music Box, 239 W. 45th St., (212) 239-6200. ARTISTS re-invent themselves to stay alive. Some, like Picasso, do it in explosive bursts. Others, like Neil Simon, take...
FEDS ARREST REAL JERSEY 'SOPRANOS'
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe reputed rulers of New Jersey's main Mafia family - the basis for HBO's hit show "The Sopranos" - were rounded up on massive racketeering charges, including murder, extortion, and...
WEST BANK BATTLE STRAINS TRUCE: TWO KILLED AS REGION TEETERS ON BRINK OF WAR
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amA fragile Mideast cease-fire was severely shaken yesterday as Israeli helicopters and Palestinian gunmen waged a seven-hour gun battle on a West Bank hillside. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called...
A COUPLE OF CUT-UPS :GORE AND BUSH IN WHITE-TIE JABS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amPresidential rivals Al Gore and George W. Bush took jabs at each other - and themselves - last night in a contest of wit at the annual Al Smith Dinner...
W. IS GATHERING STEAM IN LATEST ROUND OF POLLS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amRepublican George W. Bush is still ahead in the first round of polls after Tuesday's final presidential debate - and some show his lead widening. Bush led by 10 points...
'LIVE' ACTION WITH BUSH & GORE IN TOWN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amWhite House rivals Al Gore and George W. Bush hit New York yesterday and zinged themselves, instead of each other, as they taped a skit for "Saturday Night Live." Gore...
THE NEW LIEBERMAN ; FROM FARRAKHAN TO ISRAEL, HIS PRINCIPLES HAVE VANISHED
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amJOE Lieberman apparently doesn't watch "Meet the Press." How else to explain his astonishing insistence that he's still open to a sitdown with Louis Farrakhan? On the NBC program this...
SHE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A POUND DOG - AND A HERO!
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amA pooch adopted from the pound is a true-life canine hero today after helping save her owner's life when the 85-year-old grandfather collapsed from a stroke. "She completely blew our...
HILLARY'S FALL CLA$$IC
October 20, 2000 | 4:00am'I'M going to be rooting for the Yankees," says Hillary Rodham Clinton - and who's to doubt it: The Quinnipiac poll says New Yorkers prefer the Bombers, 47 percent to...
MAMA BUSH FEARED GORE WOULD HIT W.
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amAl Gore's tough-guy body language at Tuesday's debate may have scored points with the American public, but Barbara Bush said she was frightened that Gore would turn violent. "I thought...
IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY - YANKS, METS BRING BACK MEMORIES OF 44 YRS. AGO
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amOUTSIDE Shea Stadium, on a breezy morning of glorious sunshine, fallen leaves scattered around the empty ticket windows. Around to the left, four television sound trucks stood in a bulky...
MAC'S BACK IN SPOTLIGHT WITH SEXY STAGE ROLE
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amHIS career was in tatters, his personal life a disaster. But now it looks like Macaulay Culkin is the Comeback Kid. Culkin, the eternal 10-year-old from the 1990 blockbuster "Home...
ISSUES DIVIDE EVEN CLOSEST OF FAMILIES
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE family dinner table in the Tel Aviv suburb was its own kind of war zone. The opinions came flying like bricks, landing with a series of staccato thuds. Nothing...
HODGES GRANDSON COPS PLEA IN DWI DEATH
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe grandson of 1969 Mets manager Gil Hodges will get probation in exchange for pleading guilty to killing his best friend in a drunken-driving accident last July, a reluctant judge...
BAD NEWS FOR HILL: COPS CAN VOTE, TOO
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE hood had shot eight bullets at Sgt. Mike Mulcahy and his partner, and he could have got lucky with a ninth and splashed both their brains across 157th Street....
PRIVATE BOX IS SITTING WELL AT PARKS DEPT.
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amPsst! The Parks Department has a little secret that's going to drive ticket-starved baseball fans nuts: It's got a private box at Shea Stadium and won't say who'll get to...
BENNY'S BOAST: AMAZIN'S IN FIVE
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amA confident Benny Agbayani hurled the Subway Series' first hardball yesterday, with an Amazin' prediction that the Mets will need only five games to beat the vaunted Yankees. In two...
ADL BOSS CHIDES JOE AGAIN ; ENVIRO 'NO TEST OF FAITH'
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Anti-Defamation League's director said yesterday it was "unfortunate" that vice presidential wannabe Joe Lieberman linked belief in God to environmentalism when blasting George W. Bush. "If you believe in...
DUNG-ART WHITEWASH MAN: I DID IT FOR MARY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe man who smeared paint on a dung-encrusted image of the Virgin Mary at last year's "Sensation" exhibit testified yesterday that he was redressing a centuries-old slur against the mother...
JEWS: SABBATH TICKET LAUNCH EXCLUDES US
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer blasted the Mets yesterday for not making Series tickets available until the Jewish Sabbath. Tickets for Subway Series games at Shea Stadium go on sale...
SAME JUDGE OK'D FOR CYBERSEX RETRIAL
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe appeals court that overturned accused cybersex torturer Oliver Jovanovic's conviction because the trial judge made "egregious" errors ruled the same jurist can handle the retrial. The Appellate Division's one-line...
U.S. EYEING SANCTIONS IN BID TO RATTLE BIN LADEN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Clinton administration is considering seeking new U.N. sanctions against the Taliban militia that controls Afghanistan in an attempt to disrupt the terrorist operations of Osama bin Laden, The Post...
RUDY BLASTS BILL GIVING DRUGGIES 'SECOND CHANCE'
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday voiced strong opposition to an attempt by city and state legislators to seal some felony and misdemeanor records, letting ex-cons get jobs more easily. A bill pending...
VALLONE TO OPPOSE TERM-LIMITS REPEAL
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone won't support a bill to overturn term limits, The Post has learned. "Peter Vallone believes this shouldn't be done in darkness," said a source. "It's...
VALENTINE'S DAY AT MODELL'S
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amBobby Valentine just had to go to Mo's last night - on a shopping trip for Mets merchandise. "Why is there so much Yankees stuff here?" the Met skipper asked...
RUDY THROWS BRUSHBACK PITCH OVER BALLPARK $$
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani blasted state officials yesterday for shortchanging his drive to build new ballparks for the Mets and Yankees. "The city is more than willing to contribute its fair share,...
RAUCOUS RIVAL FANS READY TO RALLY - 200 COPS WILL TREAT FEVER AT BRYANT PARK
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amLet the cheering begin! Met and Yankee fans by the thousands are set to descend on Bryant Park this afternoon for a raucous rally - a day before they scream...
BEST OF ENEMIES DOLL UP FOR OPENER
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Doug Rota wants his Yanks to score big in the Subway Series, he'll whip out 2-foot-tall Andy Odi and light him up like a Christmas tree. His buddy, Met...
PRO-YANKEE SURVEYS ARE FOUL POLLS TO MET ROOTERS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn the battle for baseball supremacy, the Yankees are a bigger hit among New Yorkers than the Mets, four polls released yesterday found. New Yorkers favor the Bronx Bombers 42...
SHOW YOUR TRUE BASEBALL COLORS TO SCORE TICKETS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amIf you wear Yankee blue from head to toe or have so many Met shirts that your friends think you and Mike Piazza are cousins, this could be your lucky...
CANDIDATES SETTLE ON OCT. 27 DEBATE DATE
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amGET ready for Round III of the Senate debates. Rick Lazio and Hillary Rodham Clinton have tentatively agreed to an Oct. 27 showdown on WNBC-TV/Channel 4, Campaign Buzz has learned....
12-YEAR-OLD SLAIN IN B'KLYN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amA 12-year-old Brooklyn boy was stabbed to death yesterday just steps from his Canarsie home - shortly after a gun-toting pal who was protecting him was arrested, police said. Anthony...
POLL-VAULTING RICK LEADS HILL - BUT BARELY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio has tied up the Senate race with Hillary Rodham Clinton - gaining crucial ground with voters upstate, where he's focused his attention over the last two weeks, a...
AGENTS CAN'T GET TO 'POINT'
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amWashington - Despite being in the same city for two days, any talks between Devils GM Lou Lamoriello and the agents for Jason Arnott and Scott Niedermayer were going to...
FIEDLER ON THE HOOF ; LOOK FOR GANG GREEN TO RUN DOWN MIAMI'S QB
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amDAVE Wannstedt and Jay Fiedler have the Dolphins off to their customary fast start, but this is the time of year when the Fish begin their descent to the 10-6...
NOT 'BLACK & WHITE' ANYMORE FOR ALLAN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amALLAN Houston regrets it now. He knows he wouldn't do a movie like "Black and White" again. He'd never do another raunchy movie filled with guns, teenage sex and obscene...
HARD ROAD FOR STRICKLAND
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy has been all over Erick Strickland this preseason for his turnover-prone game and poor shot selection. Strickland, whom the Knicks obtained in a draft-night trade...
THE GREATEST SLOW ON EARTH
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amYOU know the snail joke? Stop me if you've heard it. A guy answers a knock at his door. But there's no one there. He looks down and sees a...
UNCLAIMED DOIG HEADS TO HARTFORD
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe someday Jason Doig, who has size and who can skate, will figure it all out. Maybe then the likable but confused defenseman will be able to capitalize on his...
JACKSON MAKING BEST NET GAINS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amYou don't need to be a psychic to figure part of the Nets' immediate future in the wake of three straight preseason defeats and the loss through injury of Keith...
LINCOLN STUNS PSAL
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amHS NOTEBOOK Lincoln's first year head football coach Shawn O'Connor had plenty of goals set for his inaugural season. He wanted to restore pride to a downtrodden program, he wanted...
BRANCA'S PROUD OF HIS SON-IN-LAW
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amRalph Branca has always been staunchly loyal to and fiercely protective of his son-in-law. The fact that his son-in-law, Bobby Valentine, has been one of the most analyzed, criticized and,...
WAYNE'S PHAN CLUB; DOLPHIN CORNERS GIVE CHREBET TWO FINS UP
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amListening to the reverent way in which the Miami Dolphin cornerbacks speak about Wayne Chrebet makes you wonder why the Jets don't throw to him more often. In interviews yesterday...
HAMPTON'S WISH WILL COME TWO
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amAll the signs pointed toward Mike Hampton starting Game 1 of the Subway Series tomorrow. He'd thrown 16 consecutive scoreless innings to win the NLCS MVP. He'd get to start...
FINE FISHING IN WIND
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amLAST weekend's full moon turned on the bass fishing with a vengeance along Long Island's south shore and although the nor'easter early this week made fishing a bit more difficult,...
ABRAHAM SIDELINED FOR MONDAY NIGHT
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jets' rookie sensation, linebacker John Abraham, was downgraded on the injury report yesterday to 'out' for Monday night's game against the Dolphins. Abraham, who pulled a muscle in...
HURTING COOK MAY BE SHELVED FOR SERIES
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amDennis Cook, who's never given up a run in 16 post-season innings, doesn't think his kidney stone will cause him to miss the Subway Series. "I don't think so," said...
BOMBERS HAPPY TO LET BENNY DO THE TALKING
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amBenny Agbayani can talk the talk. The Yankees prefer to walk the walk with the same stride they have used to win the past two World Series. Yesterday, the Mets'...
TOOMER WILL BYE HIS TIME WISELY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Amani Toomer will not stray too far from Giants Stadium this weekend, even though the Giants are on their bye week and have three days off. "My plan...
BOSS: YOU CAN LOOK IT UP
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe George Steinbrenner was counting in dog years. Or maybe the history major at Williams College could use a little brush up of his researching techniques. But in the course...
WHEN YOU'RE A MET YOU'RE A MET FOR LIFE
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amHELLO, everyone, my name is Wallace and I am-gulp!-a Mets fan. There, I said it. I probably should have said "was" a Mets fan, or at the very least, "recovering...
A DYNASTY FOR THE AGES
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTRY to put yourself 15 years into the future. Try to gain the perspective that will only come from time away from now. Try to comprehend what is so hard...
STOTTLEMYRE FEELS LIKE PITCHING IN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMel Stottlemyre was at Yankee Stadium yesterday but split before too many people could come in contact with him. Because his doctors fear Stottlemyre catching a cold as he recovers...
YANKEES MAY LOSE KEY STAFF
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Thanks to a clause in their contracts, the Yankees could lose two of their best minor league people. Trey Hillman, who managed at Columbus (Triple-A) for the past...
INSIDE SCOOP ON CLEMENS ; SOME OF THE METS SHOULD GROW UP AND PIPE DOWN
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTURK WENDELL says Roger Clemens would show how brave he is by pitching during this World Series at Shea Stadium, where Met pitchers could demonstrate their long memory for the...
MONTJEU FORGETTING PARIS FOR THE CUP
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amBREEDERS' CUP NOTES Montjeu, winner of the 1999 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and rated the top horse in Europe this year before finishing fourth as the heavy favorite in...
VENTURA TAKES CUT AT HILLARY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amRobin Ventura gets a big kick out of "Yankee fans" like Hillary Clinton. Ventura was with the White Sox in 1996 when the Democratic convention was in Chicago and Hillary...
TORRE'S TIRED OF ROGER-PIAZZA CONTROVERSY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amJoe Torre has had it with all the talk about Roger Clemens drilling Mike Piazza and hopes the first Subway Series in 44 years isn't smothered in the controversy that...
BUBBA VS. PETTITTE IS DH DELIGHT
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Bubba Trammell is well aware of how he's done against the Yankees expected Game 1 starter Andy Pettitte. The right-handed Trammell is 7-for-18 (.389) with a homer and...
DEMAND FOR TICKETS DRIVING METS CRAZY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTickets, everybody wants tickets. The Mets and Yankees, who only have to worry about performing on the biggest stage of their lives over the next 10 days in the Subway...
T'WOLVES-NBA DEAL IN WORKS?
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE arbitration hearing, regarding the NBA's bold face assertion (signed documents don't fib) that the Timberwolves and Joe Smith collaborated to circumvent the salary cap, resumes today after a 72-hour...
BOBBY V ADDS SOME SPICE TO SERIES THAT REALLY DOESN'T NEED ANY
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amLEAVE it to Bobby Valentine to add a little intrigue to what was supposed to be a routine optional workout in preparation for the first Subway World Series in 44...
VALENTINE SAYS: LET THERE BE LEIT - TORRE HINTS CONE MAY START GAME 4
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amAs if the Subway Series needed a handful of amphetamines, David Cone has a strong chance to be the Yankees' Game 4 starter at Shea Stadium against the Mets. While...
VALENTINE SAYS: LET THERE BE LEIT - NAMES AL TO START GAME 1 VS. YANKS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn a surprise move, Bobby Valentine is going with Al Leiter in Game 1 of the Subway Series at the Stadium tomorrow night. "It's an honor," Leiter, a former Yankee,...
MUCKALT CAN'T GET IT RIGHT
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amFew Islanders have shouldered more misfortune than Bill Muckalt. After missing the final 40 games last season because of a dislocated left shoulder, the feisty 26-year right wing will be...
HOST OF CHANGES IN JOCKEY RANKS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amWith Aqueduct opening next Wednesday, there are plenty of changes within the jockey ranks. Local jocks Heberto Castillo Jr., Masi Ebina and Jose Espinoza recently have switched agents. Castillo is...
TROUBLED TYSON GONE FROM SOUP TO NUTS?
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Mike Tyson either is a very troubled man on the verge of utter madness or he is a brilliant actor, who has been fooling the boxing...
HORSEMEN OUT OF GATE WITH SERIES PICKS
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amJack Mazzie likes the Yankees in six. Steve Skullesstad picks the Mets in seven. The two TV cameramen at Belmont Park are old friends, but they also wear the hats...
DEVILS CHOKED BY OATES
October 20, 2000 | 4:00amCapitals 5 Devils 2 WASHINGTON - This Stanley Cup defense is starting off the way the Devils' last one ended. At the same time Lou Lamoriello wasted a golden chance...