December 26, 2000
GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK, GARMENTOS
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS is my last column for the New York Post. I'm sorry to leave, because covering the excesses of the garmento and dot-com worlds has been enormously fun. So before...
BMG NEEDS A NEW MUSIC CHIEF, BUT WHO?
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe sudden death of BMG's chief has left a gaping hole atop a music company in transition and increased the odds of a BMG-EMI alliance. Rudi Gassner, the 58-year old...
IT WON'T BE 'SQUARE' FOR LONG; HIP IMAGE SWEEPS MADISON PARK AREA
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHE winds of change are blowing around Madison Square Park. And for restaurateur Danny Meyer, who helped catalyze the rebirth of Union Square Park a few blocks South, change can't...
BOOK SALES SLUMP ; POLITICAL DRAMA KICKED AUTHORS OFF THE AIR
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe prolonged presidential sweepstakes may have hurt publishers' chances to pull out a fourth-quarter miracle. The big publishers had been banking on a roaring November and December Christmas selling season...
SOY GOOD IN CHOLESTEROL BATTLE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe more soy, the better. So concludes the American Heart Association after reviewing 10 years' worth of nutritional surveys. In a recent issue of the journal Circulation, the Heart Associaiton...
WEIGHT AND SLEEP: THE BAD NEWS
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amIn case you needed yet another reason to lose weight, think of how you sleep at night. The more weight you gain, researchers say, the more likely you'll develop some...
EASING THE PAIN OF INFERTILITY
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amComing soon: two new drugs that will take some of the sting out of infertility. For now, women who receive hormones in their quest to conceive must endure painful, intramuscular...
THE STARR REPORT
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amPressman honored for life as a press man Ch. 4 senior correspondent Gabe Pressman has been honored by Gov. George Pataki with New York's highest award - the Jackie Robinson...
REEL BAD CHEMISTRY: HOT COUPLES OFF SCREEN ARE BARELY LUKEWARM ON SCREEN
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN it comes to on-screen romance, what you see is not always what you get.Anyone who follows Page Six knows that Matt Damon supposedly has an off-screen involvement with Penelope...
NEXT YEAR'S MOVERS & SHAKERS; 10FACES WE'LL WATCH IN '01
December 26, 2000 | 5:00am* From behind the scenes and on your screen, columnist ADAM BUCKMAN names the people and things that will have an impact on what you see on TV in the...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amNew MOCA blend Mouthful: On Jan. 14, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Pacific Design Center (PDC) in Los Angeles will open the MOCA Gallery at the PDC....
IT'S CLASSICAL'S 'ROCKY HORROR'
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amFOR someone who supposedly died two centuries ago, P.D.Q. Bach is pretty prolific."He's the only dead composer who can still be commissioned," deadpans Peter Schickele, and he should know. Schickele,...
RAPPING UP THE YEAR ; WU-TANG'S THE BEST OF THE TOP 10
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE teen pop has dominated radio and music television for the last 12 months, 2000 didn't belong to the kids, but rather music's veterans. This was the year that many...
LENNON STATUE'S SPECS SWIPED
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amAll we are saying is . . . give John Lennon his glasses back! That's the cry of Beatle fans in Cuba after a heartless thief swiped the spectacles from...
POPE TELLS PILGRIMS: 'LIGHT' CAN DEFEAT EVIL
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amPope John Paul II used his Christmas message from the Vatican yesterday to warn that a universal "culture of death" threatened the world's future - but said good can still...
INDIA-PAKISTAN BOMB TOLL RISES
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amA car bomb killed eight people in Indian-controlled Kashmir yesterday, while bombs exploded in four Pakistani cities, injuring scores of 40 people. Punjab province Law Minister Khalid Ranjah said he...
ANDREW PLANS MEGA-$$ DRIVE TO LAUNCH '02 GOVERNOR RUN
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo will launch his all-but-certain campaign for governor next month with a "massive" fund-raising drive, The Post has learned. As part of that effort Cuomo,...
NEW DA: JONBENET CASE ; MAY GO UNSOLVED
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amBOULDER, Colo. - This county's incoming district attorney has been telling associates the bungled JonBenet Ramsey murder case may never be solved. Mary Keenan, who takes over as district attorney...
N.Y. SHIVERS THROUGH A HOLIDAY ON ICE ; 30S FORECAST TODAY, BUT WINDS WILL EASE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amJack Frost will be nipping at your nose, and everywhere else, today as a holiday cold snap keeps its chilly grip on the Big Apple. Christmas yesterday brought spiritual warmth...
SWEET CHARITY OF YOUTH ; DOT-COM & CELEB CROWDS FIND TRENDY WAYS TO GIVE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amIN THE old days, some of America's leading philanthropists were the so-called Robber Barons. These days, they are more likely to be the young lords and ladies of Hollywood or...
HERO COP RELIVES DELI SHOOTOUT ; NO ONE WAS GOING TO 'HURT MY FAMILY'
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe off-duty Brooklyn detective who killed two armed robbers who were threatening his wife and kids in a deli holdup said yesterday he was just glad to have made it...
TOO-FRIENDLY SKIES? TED'S FREE FLIGHTS DRAW SCRUTINY
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amSen. Edward Kennedy has been jetting around the country on private planes owned by companies with interests before the Senate - paying only a fraction of the actual cost of...
BARAK: IF YASSER SAYS YES, IT'S A DEAL
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said last night that if PLO chief Yasser Arafat accepts proposed U.S. compromises on a Mideast peace accord, "we will not be able...
SWEET DREAMS: GALIFI PASTRY ; CLOSES DOORS IN B'KLYN
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amAl DiMauro got the last profiteroles. Carmine Romeo got the last grain pie. And Gus Cecchini got the last cassata cake. The word was out: After 34 years in Dyker...
THE TOP 10 LOCAL NEWSMAKERS OF 2000
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amIn the second part of our week- long Year-in-Review, we look at the Top 10 local newsmakers of 2000 and the stories behind them. We also offer a list of...
STOWAWAY DEATH PLUNGE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amWitnesses watched in horror yesterday as a man plunged to his death from a jet during takeoff from London's Gatwick Airport - in the second mysterious fall from an airplane...
DRIVERS HEAD STRAIGHT FOR TROUBLE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amKeep your eyes on the road - but not too much. Scientists say drivers who stare intently at the road may actually increase their chances of getting into a crash...
COAT DRIVE SPREADS WARMTH TO NEEDIEST
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amMore than 100 homeless men received the gift of warmth on Christmas Day, as New York Cares passed out much-needed coats - just in time for the arctic-like freeze that...
CLINTONS PULL BID ON D.C. HOME
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton and Sen.-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly have pulled the plug on an offer to buy a home in Washington's swanky Foxhall neighborhood. The Washington Post said the president...
MADONNA AND MATE STAYING AT STING'S: GRAND ESTATE HOSTS HOLIDAY HONEYMOON
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna and Guy Ritchie spent a quiet Christmas at the posh country home of rocker Sting, after dropping in to a local pub for a pint and attending Midnight Mass....
PALS FEAR DESPERATE DOWNEY IS SUICIDAL
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amConcerned pals of Robert Downey Jr. say they fear the drug-plagued star is so depressed, he may try to commit suicide. Downey is due in court tomorrow on felony drug...
WAS FDNY WORKER INFECTED IN LINE OF DUTY? AXED 'LYME' MEDIC FIRES BACK AT CITY
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amPLAGUED by a deadly infection and forced to spend her days suffering on a couch in her mother's living room, Denise Chapman says her life has been ruined - all...
SCAMMERS TAKE LICENSE ; ID/ACCIDENT CON A DOUBLE-WHAMMY
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amIdentity theft, using someone's name to commit a crime, is a popular tool of insurance-fraud rings. This is the latest article in The Post's ongoing investigative series on medical mills...
THERE'S NO REST FOR THE WEARY
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON - Who'd be a British-based player at holiday time? While their children tore the wrappings from countless silver scooters and brand-new Play Stations yesterday, the peculiar tradition that makes...
A DAY OF TRUE RUE ; JETS KNOW THEY THREW IT ALL AWAY
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe sun was shining brightly upon the New York metropolitan area yesterday with the leftover snow on the ground a glistening reminder of Christmas Day. While families everywhere were basking...
YOUTH FOR AGE: A BAD TRADE
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amLET'S agree to stipulate that the Rangers as currently constructed have no realistic chance to contend for anything other than eighth place - with even that lowest conference seed anything...
THREE'S NETS' MAGIC NUMBER
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amAnd then there is the three-game winning streak goal. When the Nets returned from a real swell back-to-back set of defeats in Boston and Milwaukee this week, where the only...
NEW YORK'S ASSIST LEADER; CHARLIE'S BEST WORK DONE OFF THE COURT
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS was back in training camp when I asked Knicks point guard Charlie Ward about Allen Iverson's controversial gangsta rap CD. Ward told me he had not heard it or...
PRIDE ON DISPLAY AT GARDEN: HOFSTRA'S SHOOTING FOR HOLIDAY FEST THREE-PEAT
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amIn the "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" world of college basketball, Hofstra continues to do it. Last year, Hofstra became just the fourth team to win consecutive ECAC...
OPENER MAY BE RAM-TOUGH ; BIG BLUE WARY OF EARLY SHOWDOWN WITH ST. LOO
December 26, 2000 | 5:00amTWO weeks ago, a member of the Giants' front office admitted he was rooting so hard against the Rams that he turned his television off in disgust as the Buccaneers...