October 29, 2000
WOODY ALLEN GETS A THUMBS-DOWN ON GOTHAM RENTAL
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amHOW absurd is the rental market in Gotham? How does a studio apartment for $18,000-a-month sound? How about having to fight Woody Allen to get that $18,000-a-month studio? We thought...
MIDTOWN BROWNSTONE GETS NEW LEASH ON LIFE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA FORMER Midtown carriage house is going to the dogs and cats. Uptown's Biscuits & Bath will open its new, 27,300 square-foot Doggy Village on Nov. 16, dedicated to serving...
MUSICIANS STRUT THEIR STUFF DUO TARGETS SHOWS - AND SCORES
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE fashion flock has just returned from another season of designer shows - but the big news coming out of Europe wasn't just the clothes. The buzz was about the...
CO-ED HOUSING SQUEEZE - COLLEGES STRUGGLE TO OFFER ROOMS IN HOT MARKET
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amNew York City's colleges and universities are facing a serious housing crisis. As the Big Apple has become a popular destination for Jill and Joe Freshman, the concurrent run up...
READ THEIR LIPS: FEWER NEW MAGAZINES NEXT YEAR
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amLOOK for fewer magazine launches to reach newsstands in the coming year. The nation's magazine titans may have been congratulating themselves for another record-setting year when they gathered at the...
POWER BROKER? DAMON BIDS FOR MOGUL ROLE IN HOLLYWOOD
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt may seem that Hollywood golden boy Matt Damon has it all - fame, fortune, a stellar love life, an Oscar - but the actor is not entirely satisfied. In...
MEALS & DEALS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe House of Pita 32 W. 48th St. (Plaza Arcade between Fifth and Sixth avenues) (212) 391-4242 When a line forms outside a food stall, you can be sure that...
CARVING OUT NUTRITION FROM YOUR PUMPKIN
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIf you haven't carved your jack-o'-lantern yet, think about saving the insides. They could save your life. Now that we're in the midst of pumpkin season, it's prime time to...
FASHION IN ACTION: CHARLIE'S GIRLS, BOTH NEW AND ORIGINAL, INSPIRE HEAVENLY STYLES
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amFarrah Fawcett's feathered hair. Jaclyn Smith's bikini tops. Kate Jackson's jumpsuits. The original Charlie's Angels have proven to be nothing short of enduring fashion icons. So, what's in store style-wise...
SPIRITED NEW SEASON: HOLLYWOOD HOPING HOLIDAY STOCKINGS STUFFED WITH BLOCKBUSTERS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amWith ticket sales down an astonishing 17 percent from last year's all time high, and with many moviegoers cranky about a lousy summer of films, Hollywood is praying for a...
PLAY STATIONS, TOO: GET YOUR GAMING FIX ONLINE - AND EVEN EARN EXTRA CASH - WHILE WAITING FOR THE NEW SONY SYSTEM
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amSony's coveted PlayStation 2 hit stores on Thursday, but odds are you won't be dunking basketballs or discovering hidden treasures before the New Year. "We're backlogged until March 2001," said...
WRITE GUARD
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amFinal Draft: The Screenwriter's Choice Final Draft, Inc. $249 3 stars Movie-script formats are notoriously idiosyncratic. Some agents won't even look at a script if it's in the wrong font...
LOVE TRIANGLE, FRENCH STYLE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00am'I don't like my films very much," Jean Eustache, the French director, once told an interviewer. "I don't forget them very quickly, but I'd like to." Fortunately, Eustache's movies haven't...
O'CASEY'S IRISH LIFE IN THE RAW
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe English systematically forced their language on the Irish, little realizing that the Irish would have the last laugh by often using it more poetically than the English ever envisaged....
BOOK REVIEW
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDUBYA, DUBYA, TOO: GETTING A READ ON THE BUSH CANDIDACY 'Tis the political season, and books on the candidates abound, including one by George W. Bush and one that skewers...
J IS STILL WALKING WITHOUT JR.
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amJ Mascis & the Fog "More Light" Artemis Records Despite having a doormat voice that's been stepped on one time too many times and a Jurassic notion about guitar heroes...
MASCIS UNMASKED A REVEALING LOOK AT THE EX-LEADER OF DINOSAUR JR.
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt seemed odd that J Mascis, a resident of Chelsea and trail-blazing musician once described as God, would be here ordering a late breakfast from room service at Midtown's nouveau...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: MICHELLE BEHENNAH
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amGrowing up the youngest of three children in Sheffield, England, Michelle Behennah dreamed of going to medical school and becoming a plastic surgeon. Her mother had another profession in mind....
IT'LL BE ALL DOWN-HILL WITH THIS SKI BUNNY'S $PREES
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amWE HAVE to be protected from Hillary's snow jobs - they cost too much money. Ski magazine, in its November issue, gives a chilling picture on just how much. On...
MOBSTER'S CONVICTION ENDS 6-YEAR-OLD MURDER MYSTERY
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA horrific 1994 murder - witnessed by dozens of people who kept their mouths shut - was solved last week, when a reputed mobster was convicted of the killing of...
FIRST LADY ALREADY FLUNKED A TEST IN EDUCATION REFORM
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDay 1: Education Hillary and Rick want Granville Leo Stevens. Badly. He may be one of, oh, about 36 desperately courted New Yorkers who still don't know for whom he'll...
DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT FOR HILL, RICK
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDay 1: Education Education has emerged as a major issue in the campaign for Senate pitting Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton versus Republican Rick Lazio. Both candidates have made numerous visits...
CANCER-STRICKEN GOTTI HAS YEAR TO LIVE: DOCS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDoctors have given cancer-stricken Gambino crime boss John Gotti less than a year to live and believe neglect of his dental implants can be linked to his illness, The Post...
FORGET 'THE FRIDGE,' HERE'S 'THE HOUSE'
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amForget about "The Refrigerator" - Reny Nunes is a whole house. At 517 pounds, the 6-foot-8 Nunes is one of the biggest kids ever to play high-school football. He's also...
VETS HIT THE ROAD TO HONOR THE YOUNGEST OF OUR FALLEN
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA platoon of veterans from the New York area gathered yesterday in Brooklyn to embark on a 600-mile journey to remember one of their forgotten own. The caravan of cars,...
FATAL STABBING IN E. VILLAGE APT.
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA 50-year-old man was found stabbed to death inside his East Village apartment early yesterday, police said. Edward Vaughan had been cut numerous times, police said after responding to a...
HILLARY BLASTS GOP OVER TERROR-LINK CHARGE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she was "outraged" the state GOP was making phone calls linking her with the bombing of the USS Cole and demanded rival Rick Lazio apologize...
YANKEE VICTORY-FLOAT GUY REALLY DOES HAVE IT MADE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amTomorrow's Yankee victory parade will have more floats than ever before, but the man who makes them isn't stressed - in fact, he's taking it easy. Robert DeVito, owner of...
NEW RUDY AD WILL TOUT RICK TO JEWS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is going to appear in a Rick Lazio campaign commercial aimed at Jewish voters that paints Hillary Rodham Clinton as a foe of Israel, The Post has learned....
LAZIO LEADS IN A RAZOR-CLOSE RACE: NEW POLL
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio is clinging to a slim lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton as their Senate contest enters the final stretch - and has held strong with crucial Catholic and upstate...
LUCKY FOR SOME: GORE HAS N.Y. VOTE BY 13%
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDemocrat Al Gore holds a solid 13-point lead over GOP rival George W. Bush in the race for president in New York, a Post poll has found. With nine days...
PROTESTERS: RUDY'S TARDY ON JOBS PLAN
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amChanting "real jobs for real pay" and "stop trick-or-treating welfare workers," workfare protesters yesterday demanded training and jobs that pay more than their $1.80-an-hour positions. More than 50 demonstrators picketed...
TEEN'S SLAY COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED: SOURCE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen's death could have been avoided if his alleged killer had been busted for attacking his girlfriend hours before at a Manhattan high school, a school source said...
NIRVANA FOR FERGIE?
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amSarah Ferguson, the black sheep of the British royal family, is reportedly set to become a Buddhist. "Sarah is not treating this lightly. She was a material girl, but now...
DESPERATE GORE SINGS: CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt wasn't supposed to be this way, but suddenly California is a real battleground in the final push of the 2000 race as Al Gore races West to defend a...
COPS: 911 CALLER ADMITS DEADLY GAL-PAL STABBING
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan man dialed 911 yesterday afternoon and confessed to stabbing his girlfriend to death, police said. When authorities arrived at the woman's East 46th Street walk-up, near the United...
HILLARY DOCTORED HIS IDEAS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amTHE doctor whose ideas formed the basis for the 1993 Clinton health-care proposal blames "know-it-all" Hillary Rodham Clinton's arrogance, hunger for recognition and ideological rigidity for dooming the plan he'd...
WHEELCHAIR-TOUR HELPER COULD USE HELPING HAND
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA wheelchair-bound Brooklyn man is asking for help - so he can continue to help others. Calvin Alderman, 31, is hoping someone will donate a van to him so he...
FLU FEARS RISE WITH TOO LITTLE VACCINE SOME DOCTORS STRUGGLING TO MEET DEMAND
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDoctors are bracing for a devastating flu season - one that could be made significantly worse by delays in the delivery of vaccine. Manufacturing problems have delayed some flu-vaccine shipments,...
WIN-SOME BUSH ALPHABETIZES HIS ATTACK ON GORE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amAn upbeat George W. Bush flashed a "W" sign for "win" as he rode a slim lead in polls yesterday, while aides to rival Al Gore vowed to convince America...
THE LAST STRAW: HOPELESS 'HERO' BATS ZERO AGAIN
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDARRYL Strawberry is in trouble again. And, yes, it involves drugs and women. Again. While his former teammates were playing Game 1 of the Series, Strawberry was busy escaping from...
GENE TESTING A HARD CHOICE FOR AT-RISK WOMEN
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amMeg Sweeney Lawless, 36, wasn't particularly surprised when she was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago. Four family members - including her mother, her grandmother and her grandmother's father...
SPEWING BUSES HAVE WEST SIDERS FUMING
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amBroadway is beckoning tourists like never before, but residents on the West Side say city officials have turned a blind eye to the hundreds of charter buses that park illegally...
FIGHTING IS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.THE warfare of the last month between the Palestinians and Israelis is different in many ways from the Jewish state's military confrontations with the Arabs since 1948. In the past...
QUEENS UNION TIED TO MOB: FBI
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe FBI is preparing to hit officials of a powerful union with racketeering charges for allegedly shaking down construction firms and giving no-show jobs to mobsters' kin, The Post has...
CITY HOSPITALS CRITICAL CASH SHORTAGES THREATEN VOLUNTARY HEALTH CARE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amA funding crisis has put some of the city's private hospitals on the critical list. At least 16 of the city's 64 voluntary, not-for-profit hospitals have less than a week's...
TV-AD NURSE PLEADS AGAINST CUTS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amFor her television acting debut, Claire Marie Panke took on a role she knows quite well: the dedicated nurse who fights for her patients despite a lack of resources. Panke's...
GOODMAN IS BATTLING TO SURVIVE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIt's time for a woman and a Democrat to represent Manhattan's East Side in the state Senate, says Liz Krueger, who hopes to unseat 16-term Republican incumbent Roy Goodman. "The...
SPORTS HERO'S KIN: CITY CHEATING US OUT OF 20G
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amBeloved sports hero Junius Kellogg dedicated his life to New York's kids - but now he's being cheated out of $20,000 by a baffling city bureaucracy, his family says. Kellogg's...
TIMO EXCUSES ARE LAME-O FACE IT, LAZY RUNNING SET TONE FOR METS' WORLD SERIES DOOM
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amAS GOOD as the Yankees were during the 2000 World Series, if Timo Perez had been running hard with two out in Game 1, there's no reason to believe that...
LET BYE-GONES BE GONE RESTED GIANTS LOOK TO REVERSE TREND VS. EAGLES
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amThe word of the week for the Giants? Different. As in, we're different. "Like I talked about to our team," Jim Fassel said. "If we're going to make this season...
EAGLES PLOT REVENGE FOR MASSACRE AT VET
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amRevenge is not a motive often associated with weekends in the NFL, but it certainly could be a factor in today's game between the Giants and Eagles. Thus far this...
CARDIAC KIDS COULD USE MORE RELIABLE SAFETY NET
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES ORCHARD PARK - Free safety has been a revolving door for the Jets for too long now and its becoming an Achilles' heel on the team. The Kevin...
ONE MORE WIN PUTS JETS IN PILOT'S SEAT
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amORCHARD PARK - Remember Pittsburgh. Remember the Steelers. Remember the 20-3 humiliation at home against a team you were supposed to beat. Remember the emotional and physical letdown and breakdown....
GM SPREE GOIN' HARD AFTER JOE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amMarcus Camby sat out the last pre-season game with back pain. His replacement at center, Kurt Thomas, picked up two fouls in the first six minutes against San Antonio's David...
NO GUARANTEES: WITHOUT EWING AND AN ODDLY CONSTRUCTED LINEUP, JEFF VAN GUNDY HAS HIS WORK CUT OUT FOR HIM
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amWe've been waiting for Jeff Van Gundy to praise the Patrick Ewing trade. We've waited for him to talk about how much better, quicker and more durable this club could...
ACHIN' SYKORA RIDES PINE: GROIN INJURY SIDELINES DEVS' RW AGAIN
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Little tonsils have led to big worries for the Devils. The chronic groin injury that Petr Sykora had so maniacally fought off the past three seasons has returned,...
BEAM 'EM UP SCOTT: BYRON FACED WITH YOUTH, INJURIES IN MAIDEN VOYAGE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Three years ago, the Nets seemed on the right track. They were young, exciting, coming off a playoff appearance against the Bulls. With the experience they looked destined to...
FLEURY HURT BY LOW BLOW RESENTS COACH'S PUBLIC RIP
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amBRUINSatRANGERSTonight7:30 - FSN WFAN (660 AM) Theo Fleury was stunned. Perhaps not as much as Ron Low was while watching the winger take an unnecessary offensive zone slashing penalty with...
FIRST PHILLIPS, THEN V
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES No matter what happens during the negotiations of Bobby Valentine's contract, it will have an effect on the sometimes tense relationship between the manager and Met GM Steve...
JUSTICE, DOC: MANNY'S PERFECT FIT
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIf George Steinbrenner listens to David Justice and Dwight Gooden, he will open the vault for Manny Ramirez and watch him carry the Yankees to a fourth straight World Series...
MUTAFAWEQ WON'T GO IN TURF
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amBREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - There was one defection yesterday from Saturday's Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs while a number of horses had key morning workouts for the eight championship...
WAGNER RUBS OUT RAILSPLITTERS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amEvery year, there are upstart teams that build a good record in the PSAL against somewhat weak competition. Then they hope to get a test at some point to prove...
AN 'AFFAIRES' TO REMEMBER
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amCharge d'Affaires closed well in the stretch to catch Devine Wind near the wire to win the Grade 2 $150,000 Knickerbocker Handicap by three-quarters of a length. Understood finished fast...
OKLAHOMA ; RAINS ON HUSKERS' PARADE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amOklahoma31Nebraska14 NORMAN, Okla. - With 10:23 left in the third quarter, the oranges came raining out of the stands like Josh Heupel passes. None of the throws was especially impressive...
SCOTT, NETS GIVING JACKSON NEW LIFE
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amNET NOTES Stephen Jackson was essentially a nowhere man when the Nets began preseason. Now he's a starter. Coach Byron Scott admitted yesterday that, while nothing is etched in stone,...
AN UN-4-GETTABLE NIGHT MCKAY, MADDEN COMBINE ON HISTORY
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amDevils9Penguins0 PITTSBURGH - The red line, 60-foot blue lines, the Zamboni, the Rangers, Maple Leaf Gardens, helmets and forward passing: none of those was around the last time. Randy McKay...
SLATS' SHOTS FALL ON DEAF EARS ; SATHER CAN'T WAKE UP RANGERS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIF YOU'RE the Rangers, it apparently doesn't matter which management voice delivers the locker-room lectures at Rye or at what decibel level they are communicated. You'll recall that it was...
GET OUT AND VOTE - LOTS OF ISSUES AFFECT GUN OWNERS
October 29, 2000 | 4:00amIF YOU'RE a hunter or a target shooter, an angler or a boater your vote in this election is critical. Experts believe this will be one of the closest presidential...