December 3, 2000
NIKE DISS HURT THE STARS OF MVP.COM
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amIt was just before Christmas in 1997 and Sears, riding high on CEO Arthur Martinez's revival, came to New York to wine and dine the media and bask in the...
TINA VS. ANNA BRAWL BREWING
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE semi-dormant feud between Talk Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown and Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour appears ready to explode onto the New York media scene once again. Sources say that Tina has...
DONNY MAKES HIS MARK : AD WIZ GETS A FORTUNE BUT HE'S NOT DONE YET
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amHE'S made his name in an industry that is based on creating hype and image, but Donny Deutsch is the antithesis of puffery. However down-to-earth he may be, this ad...
PRADA COULD FILL FULLER BUILDING
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amALL It took was a second of hesitation, and jeweler Bucellati's hopes to take a very prime swath of retail space at the Fuller Building were whisked away. That created...
SUN EXEC LATEST TO JOIN HEAVY HITTERS IN PERRY ST. TOWERS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE tony twin-towered building going up at 173 and 176 Perry St. is shaping up to be more of an upscale think tank than a condo. Forget its world-class amenities,...
JOHN ELWAY IS SACKED : SALE OF CAR BIZ FOR STOCK IS THROWING HIM FOR A BIG LOSS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLife on the football field seemed so easy for John Elway. Forty-seven times over his glorious 16-year career he trailed in the fourth quarter only to reach into his bag...
TAKING THE TIGER BY THE TAIL
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amAng Lee's mulish commitment to realism nearly landed him in court. One of the most perilous stunts in the director's lyrical martial arts epic, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," required Chow...
MEALS & DEALS: PERSONAL TOUCH FARES WELL
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amCynthia's Restaurant 212 W. 14th St. (bet. Seventh & Eighth avenues) (212) 633-2820 When the owner of Cynthia's opened her self-named restaurant last year, she was aiming for a turn-of-the-century...
ALL THAT 'JAZZ' : KEN BURNS' REMARKABLE NEW DOCUMENTARY RELATES THE STORY OF "HEROIN, SEX, ADVERSITY, CREATIVITY -- AND THE GREATEST MUSIC INVENTED BY AMERICANS"
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amKen Burns' 18-hour history of jazz is the best American documentary film I have ever seen. Period. It is the culmination of Burns' "trilogy on race" that began with "The...
HIDE AND CHIC
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThere are several reasons why short, fitted leather jackets are the coolest coats around this fall. One has to do with the style world's current obsession with all things '80s,...
NEW BOOKS IN TUNE WITH GENRE'S PAST
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThere's a new wave of jazz books bopping down the production line and swinging their way onto shelved stacks. Looking for a jazz CD? Flip through the 1,638 pages of...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JULIE BOWEN
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amJulie Bowen may enjoy dressing up as Carol Vessey -who wears Prada pumps and Michael Kors outfits to work at her high school in the new TV series "Ed" -but...
STRANGE FRUIT: THE TIME IS RIPE FOR TRYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amForget sugar plums, this Christmas you can have visions of cherimoyas and lychees dancing in your head. Never before has such a wide variety of foreign fruits been available to...
FOR THE BIRDS: GREAT GIFTS FOR YOUR TWEETIE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amWhat do you get the bird who has nothing? Granted, Harry, our parakeet, has a swing, rings and a climbing toy. But those get old. Hanukkah's nearly here and Harry...
WHAT I WATCH
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLARRY HAGMANTV ACTORI NEVER WATCH TV. IT'S ALL SO BORING. I JUST WATCH SPORTS AND "FRASIER." THAT WHOLE SHOW IS SO WELL-ACTED AND SO WELL-WRITTEN THAT IT LEAVES ME STUNNED.BARBARA...
THE SAVVY SHOPPER
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amAPPARELShowroom Seven 498 Seventh Ave., 24th Floor, between 36th & 37th streets (212) 643-4810 Sale: Dec. 5-15 Open: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Head to Showroom Seven for savings on pricey...
THESE FANS ARE 'X'-CITING
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThey're known as X-philes, and they're obsessed with the hit TV show "The X-Files." Now there's a movie about these fans. It's called, naturally, "X-Philes," and it will have a...
A GIG THAT'S BOD TO THE BONE!
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amI'VE judged writing contests, and I've judged cooking contests. But how in the world I ended up judging a Chippendales stripper contest last week was truly beyond me. I swear...
U.S. TARGETING BIN LADEN IN PLANS TO AVENGE COLE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe Clinton administration is stepping up contingency plans to bomb or otherwise retaliate against terror master Osama bin Laden and the Afghan Taliban for the bombing of the USS Cole,...
JACK HEMINGWAY, SON OF ERNEST, DIES OF HEART DISEASE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amJack Hemingway, author Ernest Hemingway's eldest son who was immortalized as the child "Bumby" in his father's paean to Paris cafe culture, "A Moveable Feast," died yesterday at the age...
LEGAL BACKLOG SWAMPS FLA.
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amOne thing was certain yesterday as lawyers grilled election experts about chad buildup, optical scanners and voting patterns in a Tallahassee courtroom - when this is over, it still won't...
I'M THE PREZ-ELECT, : BUOYANT BUSH PROCLAIMS SUMMONS GOP HEAVIES TO HELP MAP OUT HIS AGENDA
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amA confident George W. Bush met with the GOP's congressional top dogs at his Texas ranch yesterday, saying he has to get cracking on his agenda because he's "soon to...
SCHOOLKIDS AT RISK AS CITY SKIMPS ON SECURITY
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLITTLE Angie's mother has to stand by the bathroom door whenever the 8-year-old brushes her teeth. The traumatized youngster also refuses to sleep alone. And whenever she walks to her...
D.A. PROBES NIGHTCLUB :SUSPECTS TWILO SNEAKED OD'D PATRONS PAST POLICE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe Manhattan DA is probing charges the nightclub Twilo has hired private ambulances to quietly whisk unconscious drug-overdose victims past cops and into local emergency rooms, The Post has learned....
N.J. OLYMPIC DISS WON'T DOUSE FLAME
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amWho needs New Jersey? That's the reaction city officials had to the Garden State's surprise decision to drop its support for a proposal to lure the 2012 Olympics to the...
SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT 'O' WOMEN GET THRILL IN A PILL : NEWEST SEXUAL REVOLUTION TAKES PLACE IN THE LAB
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE second sexual revolution is here! But this new era of sexual experimentation is not taking place in the bedroom - it's in the lab. Heady with the success of...
SURREAL PAPER CHASE CRIPPLES THE OFFICE ; ABSURDITY REIGNS AS OFFICE IS CHEAPENED
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amRESERVOIRS become filled prematurely . . . Pointers might not be sharp enough to get the job done. So testified Kimball Brace, the Gore team's fuzzy-faced expert yesterday, explaining not...
MEMORIES OF TRAGIC NIGHT MEMORIES OF TRAGIC NIGHT
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amDESPITE the fact that Vern Shibla is a newsman's newsman, he has a distinctly gentlemanly manner. And that's what surprised me at 11:15 that night 20 years ago when he...
LIEBERMAN'S CONNECTICUT NEIGHBORS GET AN EARFUL
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amNEW HAVEN - More than 400 Joe Lieberman supporters and detractors butted heads during dueling rallies yesterday outside the Connecticut home of the senator and Democratic veep nominee. "Give it...
HOW THEY GOT INVOLVED ON A FATEFUL NIGHT
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amJOHN LENNON'S death thrust a small group of people into a white-hot spotlight in the hours and days after Dec. 8, 1980. For all of them, life has gone on,...
STATE BIGS DIVIDED ON COURSE OF ACTION
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Florida lawmakers wrangled last night over just when the GOP-controlled Legislature might convene a special session to name a new slate of 25 electors for George W. Bush....
PREZ PLEDGES MIDEAST PEACE AS FIRST PRIORITY
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amAs long as he is still commander in chief, Mideast peace will remain the adminstration's top international priority, President Clinton said on Friday. Clinton wandered into a White House meeting...
JAGGER KIN SURVIVE SMASH-UP IN SPAIN
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amA lot more than time is on Mick Jagger's daughter's side - she and her two young kids have miraculously survived a horrifying head-on collision with a truck on a...
CHEERY OWE! BRITS FORGIVE THIRD WORLD DEBT
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amBritain promised yesterday to forgive more than $1.43 billion in debt from 41 of the world's poorest countries - if they can ensure the money goes for health care, education...
GORE'S HOPES HANG ON EXPERT WITNESSES
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore's bid for the White House yesterday rested on testimony from an Ivy League math whiz and a voting-machine expert, as lawyers tried to convince a Florida...
IT'S SONY MATRIMONY AS MOTTOLA WEDS SONGBIRD
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amFor Tommy Mottola, three's a charm. By tying the knot last night with Latin lovely Thalia Sodi, close friends say the Sony honcho, who's been married twice before, has finally...
SAVING MONEY'S A DARN SITE EASIER NOW!
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe Post's Savvy Shopper offersdaily gift-buying tips through theholiday season.YOU don't have time to shop, so you figure online's the place to buy your holiday gifts. But where do you...
BEHIND-THE-WHEEL KILLERS N.Y. LAWS GIVE DEADLY MOTORISTS FREE RIDE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amBad drivers have a license to kill in New York because of weak state laws and decades of court decisions that make it hard to prosecute murderous motorists, a Post...
GRIEVING MOTHER STILL SEEKS JUSTICE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amAfter her 6-year-old son was killed by a speeding motorist in The Bronx, Evelyn Cancel asked District Attorney Robert Johnson why more serious charges weren't brought. Johnson's answer, as she...
$40 FINE FOR VAN DRIVER WHO MOWED DOWN MOM
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amJorge Cerda's punishment for mowing down a pregnant Brooklyn mom who was legally in a crosswalk was a $40 fine. Agueda Castillo had the "walk" light July 5 when she...
IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO : YOKO CARRIES THE MESSAGE :LENNON'S MUSIC TRIUMPHS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amIt's been 20 years since John Lennon was gunned down by a deranged security guard, but the music still hasn't died. The Beatles' greatest-hits "1" album is at the top...
NORV JUST FIDDLES AS FASSEL BURNS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amREDSKINS' embattled coach Norv Turner is trying to conduct business as usual, while Giants coach Jim Fassel is employing the business unusual approach heading into today's crucial NFC East game...
GIANTS FED UP AT FED-EX :HELL-BENT TO REVERSE REDSKINS' MASTERY
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLANDOVER - Everything leading up to this says they can't. Using history as a guide, the Giants will most likely leave here in despair, having lost, badly and decisively, having...
RICH-SKINS FIGHTING FOR LIVES ; $KINS CLINGING TO LIFE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLANDOVER - If the Redskins believe they have been under fire this season, they haven't experienced anything yet. If they lose to the Giants today at FedEx Field, they fall...
ANNOYING DEVIL WORSHIP : MILLER'S GOAL CALL IS NOISE POLLUTION
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amMUCH credit is due Devils' radio play-by-play man Mike Miller for an enthusiastic call of Wednesday's Rangers-Devils game despite a hoarse voice that made him sound like Bo Schembechler. But...
MCHALE AND TAYLOR AREN'T CRYING WOLF : KARL'S NOT IN BOSTON MARKET
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amFUNNY how secrecy isn't an issue regarding Kevin McExit's plans should the NBA suspend him for his role in the Joe Smith caper. Evidently, the Timberwolves VP will resign. His...
'PARTY' TIME AT THE BIG A IN QUEENS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLaunching his bid along the rail on the far turn, Boston Party swung out for the stretch drive, collared Talk's Cheap with a sixteenth of a mile to run and...
HALL SLIPS PAST LA SALLE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall63 La Salle54 Tommy Amaker had warned his players not to expect much of a Garden crowd yesterday. No matter the city's thirst for college basketball, he assumed Seton...
HEADING FOR TROUBLE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTORONTO - He will always have this macabre link with Eric Lindros. Scott Stevens, the man whose devastating blow in Game 7 of the Eastern Finals last season knocked No....
HELP'S ON WAY FOR BLUE AND WHITE MARLIN
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE numbers of blue and white marlin have dwindled drastically over the past decade due to foreign longline fleets, but this may have come to an end thanks to the...
KENNEDY'S DETERMINED TO GET EVEN WITH WAGNER
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amAfter his team lost to Wagner in overtime early in the season, Kennedy coach Jerry Horowitz told his players not to get too down. "Everybody thought Wagner was the best...
IT'S A WAIL OF AN OFFSEASON
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN the Yankees offer Derek Jeter an eight-year deal worth $140 million in the near future, the howling will begin again. It will start in Boston and work its way...
RICE-A-MOANY: FOURTH-QUARTER BENCHING IN KNICK WIN NO TREAT FOR SIMMERING GUARD
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThere was one very angry man in the Knick locker room late Friday night at the United Center. As Glen Rice sat alone at his locker, staring vacantly ahead, his...
THE COLT-HARD FACTS: INDY'S GOTTA FIND WAY TO TAKE IT AWAY
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES If you're seeking a reason for the Colts' struggles, you need to look no further than turnovers. The Colts are second-to-last in the NFL having forced only 14...
THE COLT-HARD FACTS: JETS MUST END HEX TO KNOCK OUT A NEMESIS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amPasted to a cabinet in a hallway every Jets player passes through on his way from the practice fields into the locker room is a piece of paper with a...
DOUGLAS: OUR ONLY CONCERN NOW IS GETTING WIN
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Sherman Douglas did not want to dwell on himself. He had been the eye of a mini-fire storm over his lack of playing time. Nets coach Byron Scott...
JERSEY CLANG'S GANG: NETS GETTING GOOD LOOKS, BAD RESULTS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amRain is wet. Gold is expensive. Babies cry. The Nets are shooting like garbage. There simply are some universal truths that never change. Byron Scott is the latest coach to...
WHAT'S GONE WRONG WITH THESE COLTS?
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Colts need a pass rush, they need a linebacker who can separate people from the ball, and are nearing the point of frustration where their fans will conclude they...
HOPKINS' TIME RUNNING OUT: AGING STAR DESERVES SHOT IN LIMELIGHT
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Nobody ever said the boxing world was fair. Last night, in his 21st pro fight, Fernando Vargas, a 22-year-old former (we think) street punk from Oxnard, Calif.,...
GROSEK CAN'T FIND THE TIME: FOURTH-LINER BURIED ON BENCH
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTORONTO - Have a few minutes? So does Michal Grosek, because that's all the ice time the winger has been getting from Ron Low since being assigned to fourth-line duty...
PENDERS GIVES JARVIS PROPS FOR PROGRAM
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTom Penders knows what big time college basketball is all about. He also knows what small time hoops is about. He prefers the former, which is exactly what he has...
LOUGHLIN SHOWS ENOUGH TO WIN
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amIf Bishop Loughlin hopes to make a run at the CHSAA title this year, the Lions will have to do better than they did yesterday. But rookie head coach Ted...
THIS RACE STRICTLY FOR AMATEURS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amAt noon there will be a non-wagering race for the Amateur Riders Club of America. This is the final event on the ARCA circuit. Leigh Offut and Eric Cohn share...
BUTCH SEES SOME GOOD SIGNS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amConsidering his on-edge pre-game demeanor - snappy comments with reporters and a reported tirade during a team meeting - Butch Goring knew the gravity of Friday's game against the Devils....
ALLEYNE MAKES BIG IMPRESSION
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amThe future has finally arrived for Shagari Alleyne. The 7-foot-2 sophomore made his first start for Rice yesterday and helped lead the Raiders to a 72-54 win over Kennedy at...
FORDHAM'S ROBIN SINGS SWEET TUNE
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amFordham81 South Florida72 Rose Hill was a sour place to be last season, with Fordham's coach and best player not seeing eye to eye. But by putting their differences aside,...
TERPS SNAP OUT OF FUNK
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amMaryland82 Michigan51 WASHINGTON - The nation's most disappointing team finally put on an impressive performance. Maryland, ranked 11th in The Post's pre-season poll, went into yesterday's game against Michigan in...
CLASSLESS DISPLAY MARS JOHNNIE LOSS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amGW85 St. John's75 WASHINGTON - First St. John's got outplayed. Then it got outclassed. The Red Storm, in its most classless display of basketball in the Mike Jarvis era, lost...
SCOTT'S DILEMMA: TO REST AILING GILL OR NOT?
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amCoach Byron Scott admits he is thinking of sitting down the ailing Kendall Gill to rest his knee. But Scott quickly responds and says he needs Gill, despite his shooting...
THEY COULD'VE SAVED THE AIR FARE:; RANGERS BLOWN AWAY IN TORONTO
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLeafs8 Rangers2 TORONTO - Pick a game, any game, from the last three lost seasons and we promise that it couldn't have been much worse than the travesty of the...
MCGRADY PURE MAGIC : POURS IN 40 AS ORLANDO NAILS NETS
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTracy McGrady could get 30 points provided the defense kept everybody else down, coach Byron Scott predicted last night. Well, the Nets pretty much kept everybody else down but they...
VARGAS BRAVE IN DEFEAT : TRINADAD SCORES 12TH-ROUND TKO
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - The kid who calls himself El Feroz - The Ferocious One - ended his night with his limp body being placed on a ring stool as tenderly...