December 20, 1999
ON THE NEWSSTAND
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIS Silicon Valley really ready for a massive earthquake? That and other musings of the future dominate computer titles Business 2.0 and Wired. Wired, Conde Nast's ticket to the 'Net,...
L.A. TIMES APOLOGIZES FOR ITSELF
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe Los Angeles Times is in a sorry state. Humbled managers of the newspaper yesterday published a front-page apology to its readers for trashing its editorial principles so it could...
LOUNGE ACT GOES ONLINE - EUREKA JOE OWNERS PREP FOR SITE LAUNCH; EXCLUSIVE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amAfter serving the Internet's biggest players for almost seven years, two of the owners of the Eureka Joe Coffee Lounge have decided to jump into the game. David Pearlberg, 34,...
MILLENNIUM FOR THE MARKETS? DON'T BET ON IT
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amSOME of my colleagues in the financial press -- relying on sources who have a lot to gain -- have determined in recent weeks that neither the sharply rising price...
COURT TV'S GREATEST HITS - BEST AND WORST SCENES IN THE BIGGEST TRIALS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00am"Winners & Sinners" 10 p.m., tonight, Court TV 1/2 COURT TV is a real winner to think up the whole idea for tonight's special, "Winners & Sinners," with host June...
'LITTLE' BIG BOX OFFICE - THE MOUSE OUTDISTANCES 'GREEN MILE'
December 20, 1999 | 5:00am'STUART Little" is big! The talking mouse went whisker to whisker with the talented Mr. Jingles of "The Green Mile" -- and won the rodent race. Rumors that Jingles is...
SCHREIBER SHINES IN SERBAN'S WAYWARD 'HAMLET'
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amECLECTIC is as eclectic does, but the sheer mix and muddle of styles surrounding and soon submerging Andrei Serban's staging of "Hamlet" -- opening at the Joseph Papp Public Theater...
NETWORKS GO ALL OUT FOR GAME-SHOW GOLD
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIF it seems like all game shows, all the time on TV, very soon it wouldn't be far from the truth. For the first time since the late '50s, prime-time...
TURNER: MCMAHON BROUGHT RAUNCH
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amTED Turner blames his archrival, Vince McMahon, for making wrestling more raunchy. "Vince did that," said Turner, interviewed last week by Larry King on CNN, one of Turner's networks. "That's...
THE STARR REPORT
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amSyndicated Cindy Eyemark has begun selling cyber pinup babe Cindy Margolis' fall 2000 talk show. "The Cindy Margolis Show" will be a "nighttime hour of weekend magic on Miami's red-hot...
JAID ON DAUGHTER DREW
December 20, 1999 | 5:00am'IT'S a total nightmare," wails Jaid Barrymore, tossing back her curls and widening her brown eyes. She's referring to reports she hawked her daughter Drew's baby clothes and "E.T." memorabilia...
THE YEAR ON BROADWAY - 10 EVENTS THAT SHOOK GREAT WHITE WAY
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amAH, the high-stakes, hit-or-miss world of Broadway, where what happens off stage is often more interesting than what happens on. Gossip mongers had plenty to of tidbits to toy with...
THE BEST AND WORST OF BROADWAY
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amONE of the most difficult aspects of any best and worst list is that memory not only tends to cancel out pain - it also evens out pleasure. But, for...
Y2K FEARS WILL GROUND APT. ELEVATORS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amNew Year's revelers may be stuck using the stairs when the millennium dawns -- Y2K-fearing building managers across the city will shut down elevator service as the clock nears midnight....
REPUBLICANS BURN OVER GOV'S SUPPORT OF CIG TAX; EXCLUSIVE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amTOP Republicans are privately accusing Gov. Pataki of selling out his conservative principles by backing a huge new health-care program and a massive new tax hike. The Republicans, who were...
AMAZON CHIEF WINS TIME'S TOP .COMMENDATION
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amJeff Bezos -- whose Amazon.com revolutionized shopping on the Internet yet still loses millions of dollars a year -- has been chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Year. Time...
HISTORIC CHURCH LIKE HEAVEN IN HARLEM
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe Abyssinian Baptist Church is one of those rare institutions that can claim a world-class congregation, world-class ministers and a world-class reputation. These days, 15,000 to 20,000 mostly foreign tourists...
POPE PLANS SPRING TOUR OF ISRAEL
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amPope John Paul II has set five days next March for his millennium pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The pope will visit from March 21 to March 26, the Israeli...
RUDY DEFENDS JUDGES' DECISION
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani believes a state appeals court had no choice but to move the trial of four cops charged with murdering Amadou Diallo out of The Bronx -- saying protests...
JOY FOR BILLY'S BOY - THOSE WHO LOVED YANKEES' MARTIN CAN FINALLY RELISH CHRISTMAS AGAIN
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amBILL REEDY and Billy Martin Jr. have resumed celebrating Christmas. So shaken were they by the Christmas Day death of former Yankee manager Billy Martin 10 years ago behind the...
COPS BREAK IN TO SAVE BABY LEFT ALONE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amA 5-month-old Bronx girl was left home alone -- crying and hungry -- by her mother, whose five other children were previously taken away for neglect, authorities said yesterday. Police...
AMERICANS EVERYWHERE AT RISK
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe White House yesterday warned Americans to be "vigilant" against terrorist attacks at home and abroad as the new millennium approaches. "This is a period of heightened risk of terrorist...
SOMETHING ABOUT DIALLO SWITCH JUST SMELLS ROTTEN
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amTHE unappealable decision by five white appellate judges to transfer the Diallo trial to Albany is so rare and so illogical that it fills a reporter's nostrils with suspicion. No...
PENN STATION FIRE LEAVES RIDERS OUT IN COLD
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amA suspicious fire at Penn Station made life miserable for thousands of holiday commuters yesterday, forcing the cancellation of long-distance, commuter and subway trains for hours. The blaze broke out...
MOB SUSPECT TO SURRENDER
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe brother of jailed-for-life Genovese crime family counselor James "Little Jimmy" Ida is expected to surrender today in Brooklyn in a $1 million gambling operation. Joey Ida, a reputed capo...
VENEZUELA FLOOD TOLL AT 5,000 - ENTIRE VILLAGES BURIED IN MUD
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe monster floods and mudslides rocking Venezuela have killed at least 5,000 people, officials said yesterday. "There are thousands missing and, unfortunately, thousands of people dead," Foreign Minister Jose Vicente...
BRADLEY: AL'S 'PLOY' IS NO FAIR SHAKE - CALLS OFFER TO HALT ADS 'RIDICULOUS'
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Al Gore tried to surprise Bill Bradley in a debate yesterday by seeking a handshake deal to forgo all TV and radio campaign ads -- but Bradley dismissed...
COCKEYED CLINTON GANG HARDLY GIVES US CONFIDENCE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amWE'RE up to our armpits in terror scares and spy scandals, and we're looking to the Clinton administration people to catch the bad guys? This gang couldn't catch a cold...
BOND FLICKS' GADGET GURU KILLED IN CRASH
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amVeteran British actor Desmond Llewelyn -- who played the exasperated gadget-maker Q in 17 James Bond movies -- was killed in a head-on collision yesterday. He was 85. Police said...
GO (M)ALL OUT WHILE STAYING INSIDE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe Savvy Shopper reveals tips and trends for gift-buying in what is shaping up as the biggest holiday season of the '90s. If the weather outside is frightful and you've...
LOVE FOR HIS FLOCK INSPIRES CARDINAL'S RETURN TO MASS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amAn ailing John Cardinal O'Connor yesterday conducted his first Sunday-morning Mass in three weeks -- even though confidants urged him not to conduct the service. "I'm going to share a...
GOD DIDN'T ASK US TO WHITEWASH 'SICK' ART
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amEVERYTHING I needed to know about religion, I learned at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. My own personal epiphany came on Friday, the day after Dennis Heiner, that Jackson Pollock...
VENTURA DOES MEA CULPA FOR RELIGION SLAM
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amJesse Ventura says his Playboy interview blast at organized religion was a mistake -- he simply should have said he had no respect for "some religions" instead. The governor of...
MOTHER HEN BARBARA: MY BOY IS NO DUMB CLUCK
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Former First Lady Barbara Bush said it "irritates" her when son George W. Bush is called a lightweight thinker. "That irritates me a little because I think they're...
KGB FILES ON RABBI GIVEN TO BROOKLYN JEWS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe president of the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan yesterday gave Jewish leaders the KGB's files on the father of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson. It was a goodwill...
STARR: TRIPP STILL HAS IMMUNITY
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Former independent counsel Ken Starr yesterday said the immunity deal he gave Linda Tripp for the Sexgate tapes should have protected her against prosecution in Maryland. "It is...
MODERATES POST GAINS IN RUSSIAN VOTE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amCentrist parties in Russia have grabbed major gains in parliamentary elections -- boosting hopes for economic reform. The election for the state Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, also appeared...
IT'S KIRTONS IN RUNYON
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amStretching out from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles for the first time, Kirtons rode the golden rail at Aqueduct to win yesterday's $50,000 Damon Runyon Stakes for New York-bred...
IT'S BEEN A WRONG, WRONG TIME
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amTHE desensitization process continues. No amount of evidence that it's bringing us all down can stop it. People who know better keep rewarding the wrong people for the wrong reasons...
VERMEIL WINS, WEEPS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- It took Dick Vermeil 15 seconds. After clinching home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs by controlling the Giants 31-10 at the Trans World Dome yesterday, the Ram...
KNICK WORK ETHIC MIFFS JEFF
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amAccording to coach Jeff Van Gundy, the seeds of the Knicks' 95-83 loss to Washington Saturday were actually sown in their five-game winning streak. Victories against the NBA's lesser teams...
RAMS OVERCOME DROPSY-TURVY 1ST HALF
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- The Giants had a chance. The Rams were hyped up, trying to disprove the naysayers who argue their schedule is soft. Offensively, the Rams were too jacked....
COLT TURNAROUND AMAZIN'
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- Despite predictions to the contrary, Chad Bratzke has not proven to be in over his head, unless you are referring to the AFC East crown that proudly sits...
SAFETY HAD EYES FOR END ZONE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- As 26-year-old Devin Bush made the biggest play ofyesterday's 31-10 Ram win over the Giants -- and the biggest play of his career -- this is what...
SKINS FACE FACTS: 'BLEW BIG CHANCE'
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amColts 24 Redskins 21 INDIANAPOLIS -- When one door closes, another always opens in the NFC East, an equal and ongoing opportunity division. "I don't take any satisfaction at all...
IN THE END, CHATTY JINTS ARE SILENCED
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- As the Giant-Ram game turned into AM-radio -- all talk, all the time -- St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner brought his team into the huddle and delivered...
PACE'S ABSENCE DOESN'T MATTER
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES ST. LOUIS -- A game that was often nasty had its most heated moment with 7:49 remaining in the second quarter when Orlando Pace, the Rams' right tackle...
HEY, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE: GIANT LOSS ISN'T FATAL TO HOPES
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- Losing is never a good thing for a team trying to claw its way into the playoffs, but what the Giants knew coming into yesterday's 31-10 loss...
RAMS' JUGGERNAUT STEAMROLLS JINTS - PLAYOFF HOPES HURT AS KERRY & CO. FALTER
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- He had him in his sights, ready to deliver a heavy blow, ready to dole out some punishment near the goal line. "I just wanted to trash...
BIG BLUE 'D' SEES RED ON LONG TD PLAY
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- The Giants desperately want to forget almost everything that happened in yesterday's 31-10 loss to the Rams inside the Trans World Dome. But there is one play...
PEDERSON SHOWCASED BY DEVILS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIt looked like a showcase, since Lou Lamoriello didn't have to go through any of these gyrations at all. The Devils may have been setting up a trade of Denis...
'AIR' FEICK STEPS UP FOR NETS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe kid, if he stood on tip toes atop a phone book, might have reached Jamie Feick's kneecap with a good updraft. Feick, who had just scored a season-high 16...
LUCAS RISE SWEETENS SOUR YEAR
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIRVING -- Before our eyes, Ray Lucas is growing into a legitimate NFL quarterback. And, in a season filled with so much disappointment and angst for the Jets, Lucas' realization...
CAPT. STEVENS BLOWS HIS TOP
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIsles 5 Devils 3 After the Islanders last night exploded for their first victory of December, Mt. St. Stevens erupted on his Devils teammates. "I had my feelings, and they...
BOOSTING BIG BLUE - JETS DERAIL 'BOYS, KEEP JINTS IN HUNT
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIRVING -- With a playoff berth as much a possibility as hitting the Pick 6, the Jets had every right to come down to Dallas this weekend, lick and stick...
MARTIN BACK IN TOP FORM
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES IRVING -- Curtis Martin entered yesterday's 22-21 win over the Cowboys in a mini-slump, having gained only 226 yards in the previous four games following four consecutive 100-plus-yard...
STRUGGLING NEDVED LANDS ON THE BENCH
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Rangers 5 Lightning 4 When the clock struck midnight to signify the beginning of the NHL's eight-day holiday roster freeze, Petr Nedved was still a Ranger. And given the...
POTVIN SENT TO CANUCKS
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders goaltender Felix Potvin, on the trading block throughout the season, finally saw the rumors become reality last night when he was dealt to the Canucks. In return for Potvin,...
DEAL FOR PRIMEAU IS FROZEN FOR NOW
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amThe eight-day holiday roster freeze arrived at midnight, with the Rangers and Hurricanes frozen in their respective stances on a deal involving unsigned Group II power center Keith Primeau. GM...
POTVIN DEAL ALL BUT DONE
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders goaltender Felix Potvin, on the trading block all season, was on the verge of being dealt to the Canucks last night. No official announcement was made before the Isles...
GREEN DESERVES PRO BOWL TRIP
December 20, 1999 | 5:00amJETS NOTEBOOK IRVING - The Pro Bowl voting is being done by the players today, the results will be announced Wednesday and one Jet who deserves serious recognition is Jets'...