December 17, 2000
UPSCALE SUITS WILL SLIP INTO LOBBY AT 666 FIFTH
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amBUILDING owner Tishman Speyer intends to close the Fifth Avenue entrance to 666 Fifth Ave. next spring, slam-dunking a flagship shop for the suit-smith Hickey-Freeman between the NBA and Brooks...
CHAPPAQUANDRY SHOP THEIR 'HOME'
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amANOTHER post-election chad is hanging in the balance: The fate of the Bill and Hillary Clinton's Chappaqua digs. Although the "Billary" estate at 15 Old House Lane hasn't yet been...
CHARLIE'S MANY ANGLES - KOPPELMAN SEES OPPORTUNITY IN MUSIC, MODELS AND MORE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amON Thursday night, Charles Koppelman was in Toronto pulling a late night in a recording studio with a rising opera star. Friday morning - a little too early, if you...
MISS PIGGY, KERMIT & CO. NEED A RAINBOW CONNECTION
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThere's big trouble in Muppet land. A sweeping probe and stock crash at the German company that bought the Muppets and Sesame Street characters earlier this year could send Kermit,...
BANNER ADS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amDoubleClick is an incredibly rare animal: a successful B2B play. Its sales force works the phones selling ads - and the technology for serving ads - to Web site owners...
NEW DAY FOR NEW REPUBLIC - PUBLISHER HIRED TO LEAD POLITICAL MAG
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amONE might think The New Republic owner Marty Peretz would be fairly glum now that Al Gore, his close friend and former prize pupil at Harvard, has been defeated in...
WHAT I WATCH
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amSTEPHON MARBURY GUARD, NJ NETS "THE SOPRANOS." PHYLLIS GEORGE TV HOST AND FORMER MISS AMERICA "DHARMA AND GREG." DHANI JONES LINEBACKER, NY GIANTS "THE COSBY SHOW."
URBAN WARRIORS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amTraditionally, members of the military wear camouflage to disguise themselves while staking out enemy territory. But over the last few months, we've noticed that camo is being worn by a...
DOUBLE PARKER: TV'S FAVORITE SEX COLUMNIST JUMPS BACK INTO FILM WITH 'STATE AND MAIN'
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amShe may play an uninhibited columnist on "Sex and the City," but Sarah Jessica Parker, a self-described prude, draws the line at appearing in her birthday suit. So she was...
ONE-STOP SHOPS: SINGULAR LOCATIONS WHERE YOU CAN FIND ALL THE GIFTS YOU FORGOT ALL ABOUT
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amHo-ho-uh-oh!!! Holiday shoppers who wait until the very last minute to purchase gifts should think twice about putting things off this year: Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday, meaning shops...
THE ONION: PEALS OF LAUGHTER - ONLINE PARODY SLICES UP THE NEWS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIt may seem odd that an online newspaper named for a vegetable that makes you cry cracks up the most cynical and stoic readers. But that's exactly the case at...
AN EASY CELL
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amSprint's PCS TP3000 cell phone inches us closer to a wireless Web. Palm Pilot users will love this versatile -if slightly chunky -digital horn, which doubles as a mini personal...
DOWN AND DIRTY
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIf you get frustrated using your sport utility vehicle for paltry trips to PTA meetings, take a look at the PC game 4x4 Evo, a game with 16 dirt tracks,...
FRISBEE TAKES A NEW SPIN ON EASTERN EATS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amFrisbee 36 W. 46th St. (between Fifth & Sixth avenues) (212) 221-3357 In the you-can't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover department comes Frisbee, a new Eastern Mediterranean eatery in Midtown. You didn't know? That's understandable....
OFF-BROADWAY REVIVALS' DRAMATIC RETURN
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amAs the 2000/2001 theater season trudges inexorably out of its 2000 sector into its 2001, things look more and more promising. Broadway has so far been good to excellent -...
4 QUESTIONS FOR CHRIS ELLIOTT
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amWho are your heroes? I guess probably Sean Cassidy or anybody from the Brat Pack and, um, Al Roker. The Brat Pack really influenced my life in so many different...
FOR YOUR HOLIDAY VIEWING
December 17, 2000 | 5:00am'Tis the season to light the Christmas tree, pour a glass of eggnog (or something stronger) and cuddle up in front of a warm VCR with a holiday movie. Here...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: CARRIE-ANNE MOSS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIn "The Matrix," Carrie-Anne Moss leapt over buildings and ducked bullets - all thewhile sporting shiny black catsuits. In real life, Moss' style is leaps and bounds from such slinky...
TEENAGE AL'S IRONIC PHOBIA
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amMAYBE Al Gore was an evil machinist in a former life. How else would you explain his nearly lifelong fear that he'd be done in by "dumb machines" that would...
CELINE'S EGGS WILL GO ON - 2ND TEST-TUBE BABY AWAITS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amSinger Celine Dion's plans for a second child are on ice - literally! The svelte songstress has a frozen fertilized egg awaiting future implantation - even though, thanks to in-vitro...
PLAYSTATION WEB RIPOFFS ABOUND
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIt's only a game - but Sony PlayStation 2 Internet scams have people crying - and coming up with nothing but coal for Christmas. Authorities are investigating at least four...
BX. 'HOOD THRILLED FOR ITS CABINET CELEBRITY
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amTalk about local boy makes good! Residents in Colin Powell's old South Bronx neighborhood were thrilled yesterday when the onetime Morris Heights stickball player was named Secretary of State by...
LOPEZ SHOWS BRITS HOW TO BE A REAL SPOILED PRINCESS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amMove over Madonna and back off Babs - there's a new diva in town! Pop princess Jennifer Lopez reportedly acted like the real deal while she was in London to...
CYBERSCAM TURNS KID'S HOPE TO TEARS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amNatalie James thought she struck gold when she found a flyer advertising a Barbie computer - just the thing her daughter Rae-Shawna, 6, wanted for Christmas. She sent a money...
3 COPS HURT IN S.I. COLLISION
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThree police officers remain hospitalized in serious condition following a crash between two cars in Staten Island late Friday night. All three were injured when two of the cops, heading...
GELDOF WINS CUSTODY BATTLE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amHeavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily has an official home. Sir Bob Geldof has won a wrenching custody battle for the little girl with the long name -the love child of late...
AIRLINE HAS ROOM FOR IN-FLIGHT FLING
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThere's nothing chaste about Virgin Atlantic's new airplanes. The company founded by mega-mogul Sir Richard Branson will soon be making the skies much friendlier with airplanes that feature beds and...
DID HILL ALTER BOOK DEAL TO QUELL CRITICS?
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A government-ethics expert yesterday questioned whether Hillary Clinton's $8 million book deal was changed to stem the furor it had stirred up. Charles Lewis, head of the Center...
POLS APPLY MUSCLE TO HALT 'SOPRANOS' N.J. SCENE SHOOT
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amNew Jersey officials are running the mob out of town, telling "The Sopranos" producers: Fuhgeddabout filming here! Two top Essex County officials barred HBO from filming on county-owned property, saying...
VIOLENCE FOLLOWS HAIDER TO VATICAN
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amA meeting between Pope John Paul II and Austrian right-wing pol Joerg Haider sparked violence yesterday in Vatican City, with cops firing tear gas to push back angry protesters trying...
POWELL: WE'LL BE TOUGH ON SADDAM
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Colin Powell yesterday was named the first black secretary of state by President-elect Bush - and immediately pledged to stand tough against terrorist nations. "We will defend our...
RUSSIA FREED U.S. BIZMAN 'SPY' AS GOODWILL GESTURE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amEdmond Pope, the American businessman convicted in Russia on spy charges, was freed as a "goodwill gesture" to the United States and President-elect Bush, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin....
MADONNA 'AIMS' FOR MORE HITS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amLike a Virginian? Pop queen Madonna has become a gun-toting mama - while taking lessons at the West London Shooting School, the London-based News of the World reported today. "She's...
HOLLAND CRUISING TO THIS BAND LEADER, FLYING'S THE BIG HIGH
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amBryan "Dexter" Holland, frontman for the Offspring, doesn't just have a plane. He's got three of them: a single prop, double prop and a jet. And the leader of this...
DOUBLE KILLER SHOOTS SELF IN FRONT OF COPS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThe spurned domestic-violence counselor who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend on a crowded Midtown street Friday shot himself in the head in front of a police station...
A HEAVEN-SENT TOUR IN BENTLEY FOR LUCKY PRIEST
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Duesman hasn't owned a car since 1964 - when he took a vow of poverty to the Catholic Church. That's why the priest felt truly blessed when he found...
BD+]]BUSH TWINS STEPPING INTO THE SPOTLIGHT
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER years of living a media-free existence, young Jenna and Barbara Bush are about to become the most scrutinized teens in presidential history. The vivacious twin daughters of the president-elect...
W. RANCHES OUT ON HIS GETAWAYS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN, Texas - Kennebunkport? Forget it. Martha's Vineyard or the Hamptons? You've got to be kidding. George W. Bush may be moving to the East Coast, but when he kicks...
TWO TEAMS, ONE STADIUM? YANKS, METS EYE A WEST SIDE TIME SHARE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yankees and Mets sharing one Manhattan field of dreams? While just the thought of such a possibility might freak out fans of both teams, George Steinbrenner and Fred Wilpon...
WORST OF THE WORST AREN'T MAKING GRADE STATE PROBE FINDS CHAOS IN CLASSES
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThey are the Schools of Shame - and confidential records show they're even worse than you think. State Education Department reports obtained by The Post detail disastrous academic programs and...
OUT-TO-LUNCH STAFF, OUT-OF-CONTROL STUDENTS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amChaos reigns at IS 33 in Brooklyn. State inspectors found out-to-lunch administrators in charge of an out-of-control school. Students fight and cut classes. Test scores are terrible - 90 percent...
PS 6, I DON'T LOVE YOU - BX. PARENTS ASK CHANGE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amSome of Rodney Layne's earliest memories are of PS 6 in The Bronx and the teachers there who set him straight. But he doesn't think his three daughters, who are...
LOCKDOWN DAYS AT I.S. 275
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIS 275 in Harlem is run like a prison. State Education Department inspectors were shocked to find it in "lockdown" mode during their visits earlier this year. The reason: gang-related...
IGNOBLE NOBEL: SLAYER'S PRIZE BID STIRS RAGE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amLaw-enforcement officials are up in arms about the nomination of Stanley "Tookie" Williams - a convicted killer who co-founded the notorious Crips street gang - for the Nobel Peace Prize....
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN THE POST'S TAKE ON THE LAST ELECTION MESS STILL HOLDS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00am'THE END AT LAST," was the headline. "Thus closes a controversy which will be memorable in the history of the country," read the New York Post editorial, "and which, we...
THIEVES, HOMELESS HIT GOODWILL BOXES
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amWhile many of us celebrate the holidays by giving, some Scrooges are taking - ripping off donated items from Goodwill Industries' drop-off bins. The message on the outside of Goodwill's...
'COP' A SPECIAL GIFT TO 'FIRE' UP HOLIDAY
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amMOST youngsters at some point in their lives want to be a firefighter or police officer "when they grow up." So what could be more appropriate than "Finest"- or "Bravest"-themed...
IS THIS THE END OF RUDY'S ROAD? HE HAS MORE MONEY THAN POLITICAL OPTIONS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amHe has $3.5 million in his war chest, hosts big-shot Republicans at the Subway Series and the Thanksgiving parade and sticks mainly to a GOP script in a Democratic town....
INTRIGUED POLS PLAYING IT COOL ON BUSH'S APPROACH TO CRISIS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. WHEN news reached here in November that George W. Bush had apparently defeated Al Gore, two of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's ministers expressed bitter disappointment. Shimon Peres and...
ARAFAT TO MITCHELL: BLAME BARAK
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - To Yasser Arafat, the job of the commission headed by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell that came to the Mideast last week is to put most, if not...
FLY-FISHING INVADING OUR POPULAR CULTURE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amYOU may or may not have noticed that fly-fishing has become part of our psyche thanks to the folks from Hollywood and Madison Avenue. From movies to advertising to television...
DISASTER WITH A BIG D BATTERED 'BOYS HAVE GOOD EXCUSES FOR BAD SEASON
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - It may sound like an easy excuse upon which to lay fault for another disappointing season. But when the Cowboys point to injuries as the reason for their...
EMMITT'S STILL GOT WHEELS TO CHASE PAYTON
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - With an untested quarterback named Anthony Wright inserted in place of Troy Aikman (concussion) last Sunday, the Cowboys had to rely heavily on RB Emmitt Smith and he...
A GREAT PLACE TO PARTY JINTS RELISH CHANCE TO CLINCH IN DALLAS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIRVING - There is nothing quite like the joyous, ultimate sense of triumph that comes when something significant is clinched on home turf, in front of home fans, surrounded by...
BILLION-DOLLAR BLAME GAME PHILLIPS, NOT BORAS IS THE TRUE LYIN' KING
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amGIVEN the option of believing Scott Boras or Steve Phillips, which would you choose? The man who insisted to Todd Hundley that he absolutely, positively was not going to bring...
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS JETS NEED WIN FOR PLAYOFFS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amThe Jets have differing opinions on the importance of completely forgetting what happened to them last week in Oakland, where with a season's worth of opportunity sitting in their power...
VINNY: NO WAY WE'RE NOT MAKING PLAYOFFS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amW HEN Bill Parcells left, and Bill Belichick left, and Al Groh traded Keyshawn Johnson, only the Jets believed they could still somehow be a playoff team. Now here they...
MONEY IS NO OBJECT ISLES' OWNERS LOOK INTO ADDING LINDROS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amS AY THIS for Charles B. Wang and Sanjay Kumar: Unlike the procession of self-interested swine that preceded them, these Islander owners are not only willing but eager to put...
WILPON, METS JUST AS GREEDY AS A-ROD
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Mets say they were offended when Alex Rodriguez, among other things, asked for a room at Shea Stadium and that is why Fred Wilpon's team backed out of negotiating...
TRAGEDY STRIKES AT BIG A
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amYesterday's sixth race at Aqueduct, a six-furlong dash for $55,000 claimers, was named "The N.Y. Horse Rescue" in honor of the local organization that finds homes for retired race horses....
SATHER'S SEARCHING FOR BLUE-LINE REINFORCEMENTS
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amANAHEIM - Even before the Rangers surrendered 14 goals during their three-game California swing, Glen Sather was pursuing defensive reinforcements. But with the latest debacle, a 6-4 loss to the...
WON'T SHEA OREL SOON
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amAlthough the Mets won't officially announce the remainder of Bobby's Valentine's coaching staff until later this week, it appears Orel Hershiser will not be a part of it. With Charlie...
MARTIN, JACKSON PAYIN' THEIR DUES: EXTRA PRACTICE FOR NET ROOKIES
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA - Byron Scott did it. So did members of his coaching staff. It's simply paying your dues, he said, a time-honored practice that is a part of every organization...
BYRON HAS BIG PLAN FOR BACKCOURT
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES ATLANTA - The game was against a team with a worse record. It was a winnable game, in the eyes of the Nets. So they thought big, including...
HALL'S SETON PRETTY WITH FRESHMAN GRIFFIN LOOKING LIKE...THE SURE THING
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIf you really know where you are going, it takes much of the rush and most of the anxiety out of getting there. Within a few minutes, any fool filing...
VINNY STILL PLANNING TO CATCH FISH
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES Many view today's game against the Lions as the Jets merely trying to earn a playoff berth. The Jets are viewing it as more. They believe they're still...
MCKAY MUCKS TO MILESTONE: GRITTY RANDY FINALLY MAKES IT TO 300 MARK
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - This milestone was reached through the heavy traffic, mucking every foot of the way to 300 career points. Randy McKay has the right to be proud. "I've played...
FROM HOMEWORK TO HOOP STARS: OAK HILL PLAYERS MAKE THE GRADE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amWhat do Cory Alexander, Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McInnis, Ron Mercer and William Avery have in common? They were all picked in the first round of the NBA Draft in the...
STEWARDS PUT 'BELLE' ON TOP
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amAfter a stretch duel and a stewards' inquiry, Strolling Belle was placed first to win the Grade 3 $110,000 Ladies Handicap at Aqueduct yesterday. Pentatonic crossed the finish line first,...
ARE THEY BICKERBOCKERS? VAN, TEAM DIVIDED ON ISSUE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amAfter Friday night's humbling 89-58 loss to Utah, Jeff Van Gundy said the Knicks' problem was their attitude, not their execution, and he called an emergency practice yesterday. But instead...
KNICKS ARE VAN UGLY! SAD SACK JEFF'S PUTRID PLAYCALLING SINKING SHIP, QUICK
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amNOW we know how low Jeff Van Gundy, er, Sad Sack's bottom lip can go. As the New York Bricks were busily eking out a 24-second shot clock franchise feeble...
HOFSTRA STORMS PAST JOHNNIES
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amMike Jarvis found his sixth man yesterday. Now he has to find the rest of his team. In what is becoming a sad and familiar story, St. John's was outplayed...
MET IMPORT ARRIVES TO MEDIA MELEE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amIt was a crazy scene, like one from a 'B' movie. Tsuyoshi Shinjo, the latest Mets import, arrived and an estimated 50 members of the Japanese media, more than half...
OAK HILL GORGES ON COLD RICE TOP-RANKED ACADEMY ROLLS TO WIN
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amWith lots of new faces and without several stars from last year, many were curious to see just how good Rice was this season. They got there answer yesterday. "We...
WARM MEMORIES OF A COLD STADIUM
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - On a dreary, appropriately Steeler, afternoon, Pittsburgh yesterday came to say goodbye to Three Rivers Stadium. It is safe to say that eyes in Cleveland, Denver and Houston...
4'S LUCKY NUMBER FOR STEPH, NOW GILL
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Hawks' Dikembe Mutombo drives to hoop against defense of Soumaila Samake last night during Nets' victory in Atlanta.AP ATLANTA - Four games seems to be just the right...
ELIAS' MOUTH EARNS LARRY'S IRE
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amFlyers6Devils3 PHILADELPHIA - Fed up atop the Atlantic Division, the Devils coach last night promised - not threatened - to bench his leading scorer as a lesson in discipline. "Number...
NETS MAKE STAND IN FINAL MINUTE KENYON REBOUND SPARKS WIN
December 17, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA - For much of the night, they struggled. For much of the night, they were getting slaughtered off the boards. For much of the night, they looked like they...