December 29, 2000
BRILLIANT COMBINATION: REPORT: DE BEERS MAY CUT RETAIL DEAL WITH LVMH
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amDiamond mining and trading giant De Beers wants to get into retailing - and Bernard Arnault may be the just the man to help out. De Beers will reportedly announce...
STYLIN' SUITOR WANTS TO BUY OUT FASHIONMALL.COM
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amAnother suitor has emerged for Miss Boo. Beverly Hills-based Narax Inc. has offered to buy Fashionmall.com, which owns Boo.com. Narax, which says it invests in Internet and other start-up companies,...
MONTGOMERY WARD'S LAST CHAPTER ; CATALOG PIONEER FOLDING, TO FIRE 37,000, SHUT 250 STORES
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe original king of mass retailing is dead. Struggling and lost among today's giants such as Sears, Wal-Mart and The Gap, the venerable Montgomery Ward is liquidating and firing 37,000...
GOING NOWHERE FAST: NBCI.COM TV AD BLITZ ISN'T ADDING SURFERS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amDespite spending $5 million a month on its TV ad blitz, NBCi.com is finding little traction in the slippery world of Web surfers. Committed to spending around $22 million a...
PRICELINE'S FOUNDER JAY WALKER QUITS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amPriceline founder Jay Walker has named his price: nada. Not for anything will he stay on with the name-your-own-price Web site made famous by tongue-in-cheek William Shatner ads and cheap...
'DRAGON' PUTS FIRE INTO '00
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amIT was a darn good year for dope movies ("Traffic," "Requiem for a Dream," "Jesus' Son") and even better for movies about fierce, feisty women ("Erin Brockovich," "Girlfight," "Charlie's Angels,"...
IT'S THE ASIAN PERSUASION
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amTHE year 2000 could be called the Year of the Asian Invasion.It was the year in which films from that part of the world came in to their own, dominating...
ANCIENT ART OF LOVE, KOREAN-STYLE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amCHUNHYANG 1/2 Star-crossed lovers in 13th-century Korea.Running time: 120 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex, nudity). At the Lincoln Plaza and the Quad. SOUTH Korean movies are in vogue these days...
INSIDE JOKE, WITH BITE ; HERE'S A FILM YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amSHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE A funny, original and surprisingly scary, fanciful biopic of the great German expressionist director F.W. Murnau, maker of the 1922 vampire classic "Nosferatu."Running time: 93 minutes....
LEND HIM YOUR EARS: IS HE MUSIC'S NEW 'KING OF SALSA'? THE QUESTION MAKES HIM UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT THERE'S NO DOUBT MARC ANTHONY IS HOT, SO . . .
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amLATIN music marvel Marc Anthony may have exploded in popularity in the past two years, but he's hardly an overnight success. The 31-year-old hometown singer is a triple threat -...
'GLADIATOR' AMONG THE OUTGOING YEAR'S REEL WINNERS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE everyone agrees 2000 will not go down as one of the great years in movie history, it's hardly the disaster cinematic Cassandras are proclaiming. As "Wonder Boys" director Curtis...
THE STARR REPORT
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amCarey on the spot in Motown controversy Ex-Ch. 2 news director Bill Carey is in the middle of a controversy over at his new station, ABC-owned WXYZ (Ch. 7) in...
THE REEL DEAL ; TALE OF THE TAPE SAVED 20 YEARS OF TV HISTORY
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amBEFORE there were VCRs, there was Phil Gries. In 1959, the 16-year-old Gries - a "Leave It to Beaver"- era techno - yanked the back off of the 1949 black-and-white...
$1M QUESTION: WHO'S 'THE MOLE?' EX-NYC COP? GAY PILOT?
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amA RETIRED New York cop and a gay New Jersey chopper pilot are among the contestants on "The Mole," ABC's mega-hyped reality show in which 10 people will try to...
STAY AT HOME ON NEW YEAR'S ; LINDA STASI'S NOT-GOING-OUT GUIDE TO 2001
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amIF you think the best New Year's Eve party in town takes place in your bed - and involves pizza, beer and TV - you are brilliant! Who wants to...
CUBA AND CHINA INK MILITARY PACT
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amCuba and China are strengthening their military ties, Cuban state media announced yesterday. Gen. Fu Quanyou, chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and his Cuban counterpart,...
DODI'S DADDY RIPS DOWN ALL ROYAL REGALIA FROM HARRODS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amHarrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed has officially cut his famed department store's ties with the royal family. The bitter billionaire removed the Royal Warrant crests from the London store in...
2001: A BUSH ODYSSEY
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amNow that the dust has settled from this year's topsy-turvy presidential election, we take a look ahead at the national political scene for 2001. WASHINGTON -- The gods of politics...
HANGOVER PILL WOULD BE EASY TO SWALLOW
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThat harrowing New Year's Day hangover could soon be a thing of the past - thanks to a morning-after pill under development. Scientists are working on a drug that would...
FROGS LEI WASTE TO HAWAII
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amMillions of invading, incredibly loud tree frogs are spreading at an alarming rate on Hawaii's Big Island - preventing residents from getting any shut-eye. The noise level of the constantly...
PICTURE DONNA GONE AT CITY HALL
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amA picture is worth a thousand words and, sometimes, so is the lack of one. An array of framed photographs of Mayor Giuliani and estranged wife Donna Hanover have been...
TWO ISRAELIS DIE IN BLASTS THAT SHAKE PEACE EFFORT
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Two Israelis were killed and 16 others injured when bombs went off in Tel Aviv and near the Gaza Strip yesterday, further snarling efforts to wrap up a...
SPIELBERG SET TO EXPLORE THE KNIGHT LIFE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amMoviemaker Steven Spielberg is to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth next month. And the honor may come just in time - the new "Star Wars" production is reportedly in trouble,...
CALIF. COPS SLAP ACTRESS DOHERTY WITH DUI CHARGE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Highway patrol officers pulled over TV starlet Shannen Doherty yesterday and busted the hot-tempered hottie on suspicion of drunken driving, authorities said. The star of the...
MCVEIGH WINS BID TO SPEED EXECUTION
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amOklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will get his date with death. That was the decision yesterday by a federal judge who approved the homegrown terrorist's request to drop all appeals...
'SCRAMBLED EGGS' STILL MESSY: NEW ROUND LOOMS IN FIGHT OVER 'WRONG WOMB' BABY
December 29, 2000 | 5:00am'IT NEVER ends." That's the frustrated reaction Deborah and Robert Rogers have after finding out the woman who gave birth to their son has launched another legal challenge for custody...
DUBYA: RUMSFELD FOR THE DEFENSE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Donald Rumsfeld, a former Navy jet pilot, was tapped yesterday by President-elect George W. Bush to return to a job he first held a quarter-century ago - defense...
TRUMP HIRED FIRM TO PROBE GOV'S AIDE: PAID 61G IN CASINO 'RESEARCH'
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Donald Trump paid a private investigating firm more than $61,000 to probe a top aide to Gov. Pataki, records made public yesterday showed. State Lobbying Commission records reveal...
CENSUS KNOCKED OUT OF US: LATEST TALLY COSTS N.Y. 2 HOUSE SEATS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amSluggish population growth has knocked New York to No. 3 in the nation, and will cost the Empire State two seats in Congress - a hefty price in terms of...
FATHER OF TEEN WHO SURVIVED SIX-STORY FALL HAILS 'MIRACLE'
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn girl's father said yesterday it's "a miracle she's alive" after she fell six stories from a bedroom window to the concrete below - and was talking just moments...
FUND-RAISER SAYS LAZIO CAMP OWES HER $1.4M
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amLook out, Rick Lazio - the repo man may be coming for you. A former campaign fund-raiser wants a judge to freeze the failed Senate candidate's campaign bank accounts to...
BLEEPIN' BLIZZARD! FOOT OF SNOW COMING
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe storm of the century is on the way. A Nor'easter brewing off the Carolina coast is expected to march north tomorrow, carrying at least a foot of snow for...
RUDY: BLACKS BEST WITH MY NO-TALK STYLE: RIPS MINORITY LEADERS IN HIS REVIEW OF '00
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani claimed yesterday that by ignoring New York's black leaders, he's actually been able to accomplish more for minority communities. The mayor said he adopted a strategy to avoid...
CONN. MAN CONFESSES TO FAMILY SLAY - AND MORE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Connecticut career criminal confessed yesterday to the stabbing murders of his aunt and her two small children - then led cops to the body of a woman missing since...
NEIGHBORS STAY AWAY OUT OF RESPECT FOR KIN
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amWAKEFIELD, Mass. THERE are too many broken hearts in this devastated city. And even though people here feel a powerful need to grieve the Harvard Mills massacre, many feel even...
CLOCK TICKS ON STADIUM DEAL
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yankees and Mets would probably be better off locking in deals for new ballparks before the next mayoral election, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. But even he hedged, saying no...
COPS SAVE WOMAN FROM ICY RIVER
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThree gallant cops dived into the frigid East River yesterday to save a homeless woman who had apparently jumped from an overpass at East 78th Street and the FDR Drive,...
7 KILLED, 3 WOUNDED IN PHILLY 'DRUG HOUSE'
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amSeven people were shot to death and three were wounded in Philadelphia yesterday at a deserted house in a neighborhood known for heavy drug activity, cops said. It was the...
BILL AND HILL HAVE DEAL ON POSH ESTATE IN D.C.
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amHillary and Bill Clinton have found new D.C. digs - a stately mansion near Embassy Row, top Washington real-estate sources said yesterday. The owners of the 4,700-square-foot manse were asking...
MUCH ADO ABOUT ZOO KOALA-NAPPING IN CALIF.
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amA pair of "stressed out" but unharmed koalas rested in their San Francisco Zoo habitat yesterday after cops rescued the creatures and charged two teens with swiping them, authorities said....
COP SHOT IN FOOT IN BX. SHOOTOUT
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amA cop was shot in the foot last night during a confrontation with a suspect, police said. It appeared that the officer shot himself in the ankle as he faced...
MASS. POLICE HUNTED 'SCHIZO' SUSPECT TWO DAYS BEFORE CARNAGE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amParanoid schizophrenia and depression afflicted mass-murder suspect Michael McDermott as he allegedly killed seven of his co-workers, sources close to the investigation said yesterday. In a bizarre twist, cops in...
GOOD NEWS, FEICK'S NOT WORSE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES For the Nets, this qualifies as positive medical news. Jamie Feick has suffered no new setback to his ankle and Achilles. "Everything is still the same," said Feick,...
RULAND: GAELS WILL GEL SOON
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amIona's Jeff Ruland isn't exactly thrilled with his basketball team's progress so far this season. But, the third-year head coach feels that all the pieces will soon be coming together....
SNOW KIDDING, BIG A MAY GO WED.
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amIf Aqueduct is snowed out tomorrow, NYRA plans to ask the State Racing and Wagering Board for permission to run a live racing card Wednesday, opening day of the Gulfstream...
TERRERI THROWN INTO FIRE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amReverse logic sometimes proves effective, and that's what the Devils are hoping for tonight when they end Martin Brodeur's 22-start streak. The Devs are sending Chris Terreri against a team...
MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE ; COLTS, RAMS ARE READY TO REASSERT THEIR DOMINANCE
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amIF the NFL playoffs were an old-time monster movie, the Colts and Rams would be emerging from the murky waters, crashing through the boardwalk and lumbering toward the terrified city....
N.J. TROUT PROGRAM PAYIN' OFF
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amAS PART of an ongoing evaluation of its Sea Run Brown Trout Program, the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife reports two recent catches of sea run brown trout...
DEVS STEPPIN' UP TO THE BLAKE? COULD SHIP GOMEZ FOR KINGS 'CAP'
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Devils are up at the rental counter again. But this time they're first in line, looking at the expensive, luxury models that can make them the plush favorites for...
COUNT ON GRIESE GETTIN' BRONC NOD
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amOn the same day that Mike Shanahan played it safe regarding Brian Griese's status, the head coach surprisingly admitted that star runner Terrell Davis could possibly return to the Broncos...
LOSING IN CHICAGO WEARING ON ARTEST
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amRon Artest cried after a loss last season against San Antonio. There have been no tears this year but the losing is even more bitter for the former St. John's...
DESPITE ROLL, VAN SLAMS INTO KNICKS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Knicks, on a two-game roll and coming off a comfortable road victory in Washington Wednesday night, expected a different atmosphere when they arrived at practice at Purchase College yesterday....
DIXON HEEDS WAKE-UP CALL ; PARENTS GET GIANT GOING
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amRonald Dixon is a retired Marine who still wakes up every morning at 5:15. Without an alarm. Therefore, it baffled him that his son, Ron, a rookie wide receiver for...
ISLES DEAL STAPLETON TO CANUCKS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amWhile the Rangers are hotly pursuing a deal for star forward Keith Tkachuk, the last-place Islanders dumped salary yesterday by trading seldom-utilized center Mike Stapleton to the Canucks for a...
DOLPHINS WANTED ONE MORE SHOT AT GANG GREEN
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amDAVIE, Fla. - Several Dolphins' players yesterday expressed surprise that the Jets didn't get into the postseason. One - linebacker Zach Thomas - said he had mixed emotions about not...
FINS ARE CONFIDENT AS COLTS HIT TOWN
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amDAVIE, Fla. - Dave Wannstedt walked off the Dolphins' sun-drenched practice field here yesterday afternoon wearing shorts and his personalized white team logo shirt, essentially looking like he'd just strolled...
'VICIUS HOPES TO GRAB PIECE OF THE ACTION
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants are hopeful that wide receiver Joe Jurevicius, who suffered a torn medical collateral ligament in his left knee on Dec. 10th against the Steelers, could be...
STAT GUY KNOWS SPREWELL TO A 'T'
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell may have been caught in a fib. Following the Washington game in which he picked up a technical foul, Spree said it was only his second...
IT'S LIKE TALKING TO AWOL ; STRICKLAND NOT HELPING WIZARDS UNLOAD HIM
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amSUBJECT: Spare the Rod, spoil the child. So, Nod Strickland was fined and benched prior to Wednesday's 89-82 home loss to the Knicks for missing practice. Shocking to think all...
ACHING KENDALL TAKES A SEAT
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES His shooting has never been worse. So Kendall Gill watched tape, a lot of tape, of his recent play. It hurt - and not just in his right...
ANOTHER BROADWAY FLOP:RANGERS GO BUST AGAIN
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amThrashers 4 Rangers 1 Another night that the Rangers were outworked and outpointed by a no-name opponent. Another night on which the finesse-oriented Blueshirts spent far too much time on...
CELTS CRUSH NETS ON BUZZER-BEATER
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amCeltics 112 Nets 111 Forget the Pyramids at sunset along the Nile. Or indisputable photos of Big Foot. Aliens living among us don't compare. We have now seen it all...
IONA SURVIVES IN OT ; TURNOVERS NEARLY DOOM GAELS
December 29, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Iona 100 Niagara 90 It seems that Iona is still full of holiday spirit, despite the fact Christmas has ended. The Gaels laid last night's game on a silver...