November 19, 2000
HE'S THE WIZARD OF JIVE 'SECRETIVE' CLIVE CALDER SITS ON TOP OF THE MUSIC WORLD
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amLIKE Charlie from "Charlie's Angels," Clive Calder does not make appearances. He prefers to have his Angels represent his empire. While the sexy crime fighters solve life or death mysteries,...
GLAMOUR PUBLISHER A SURVIVOR - FINE THINKS HATCH HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO MOTIVATE AD STAFF
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTWO survivors hooked up last week: Richard Hatch, the big jackpot winner on the CBS summer hit "Survivor," and Debbi Fine, the once embattled publisher of Glamour - who now...
MEDIA GIANTS SHRINK 'NET SCALE BACK DOT-COM VENTURES
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe air from the dot-com bubble is blowing business plans in all directions - especially for the media and entertainment giants. While Time Warner has bet the farm on the...
RANDOM HOUSE EDITOR GETS OWN IMPRINT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amShaye Areheart the editor will soon be Shaye Areheart, the book imprint at Random House. Areheart - who for 12 years collaborated with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at Doubleday and discovered...
FROM 'SIXTH SENSE' TO FIFTH AVENUE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amRESIDENTS of Trump Tower are bracing themselves for possible Armageddon. Action hero Bruce Willis has purchased a $14.4 million four bedroom, 4.5 bath bachelor pad in The Donald's glossy Fifth...
GM SLEEPY HOLLOW PLAN FALLS INTO A DEEP SLEEP
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amA PLAN to co-develop nearly 100 acres on the Hudson River owned by General Motors in Sleepy Hollow is back to square one - or should we say back to...
'BRAIN' POWER
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThey say two brains are better than one. Well, this is your chance to have two. The SportBrain, an egg-shaped digital pedometer, hooks onto your belt, where it records the...
SCARF IT DOWN
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNovember is a supremely frustrating fashion month. Thanks to the hole in ozone layer, it's too balmy to bring out your heavy coat (but just wait til' January!) but still...
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER: 'THE SIXTH SENSE' DIRECTOR M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN VIES FOR A SECOND SMASH HIT WITH 'UNBREAKABLE'
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNo one had heard of M. Night Shyamalan before "The Sixth Sense" snuck into theaters last summer and gradually snowballed into a cultural phenomenon. It raked in a staggering $300...
BRUCE CUT LOOSE AS DIRECTOR AND STAR RETEAM
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amOver the course of a checkered career, Bruce Willis has walked away from some train wrecks. Battered but not broken by such cinematic calamities as "Hudson Hawk" and "Death Becomes...
BU-UEL IS SWELL AT MOMA
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Museum of Modern Art is honoring a former employee. A gentleman you might have heard of. Luis Buñuel, by name. Yes, the great Spanish-born filmmaker toiled at MoMA from...
ROMANCE CLASSICS IN A NEW STYLE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amOK, you're a male, African-American computer salesman living in the South. You write a romance novel that no one will publish. So you publish it yourself and pack your car...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ALFRE WOODARD
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThree-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alfre Woodard sure has a lot to be thankful for. The actress, currently starring in the film "What's Cooking?" - which looks at...
COFFIN UP WEB PROFITS THIS QUEENS DOT-COM THRIVES, DESPITE SHARING SPACE WITH A FUNERAL HOME
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe entrepreneurs running the Internet company Happy Media are well aware of the recent avalanche of deaths in the dot-com world, though perhaps more than most: The firm shares its...
QUITE A DIFFERENT 'GAME' OVERSEAS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON - When Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" purred its last purr on Broadway a few months ago, the only spectral survivor of his lordship's empire was "The Phantom of the...
TALES OF A TABLOID TERRORIST
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amALL I wanted to do was put on a fancy dress and hang out with my girlfriends. Who knew I'd end up being followed by goons and nearly wrecking a...
HAS AL NO DECENCY?
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amIF the "butterfly ballot" in Florida's Palm Beach County had led to the disqualification of 40 percent of the county's presidential votes, Republicans wouldn't be protesting the manual recount there....
FIRED CITY WORKERS HIT WITH DOUBLE WHAMMY
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amMore than two dozen veteran city workers are desperately seeking reinstatement after being reassigned and then fired. What's making their plight even worse is that the state is now demanding...
REV. AL: SKIP TURKEY DAY FOR ROAD TRIP TO FLORIDA
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe activist Rev. Al Sharpton is calling on Big Apple voters to give up their Thanksgiving Day dinner for a five-day bus trip to Florida to help ensure every vote...
TEAM GORE FIRES ON HARRIS 'ASTOUNDING' VOTE RULING GOES TO COURT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore's legal team threw the gloves off yesterday, accusing Florida's top election official of abusing her power in an "extraordinary attempt to disenfranchise Florida voters." Secretary of State Katherine...
TERRORIST SHOT DEAD AFTER KILLING ISRAELI SOLDIER
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian militant disguised in an Israeli army uniform tunneled into a Jewish settlement in the Gaza strip yesterday and killed an Israeli soldier and wounded two others...
HIZZONER: I'M STILL WILLING TO SETTLE A TEACHER CONTRACT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of the teachers union may have accused Mayor Giuliani of stalling to reach a new labor pact, but the mayor said any suggestion that he wants to leave...
CAUGHT RED-HANDED AT SHENANIGANS WITH HAND-COUNTED VOTES
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH. WHEN it comes to dirty fighting in this sun-kissed county, the Dems make Mike Tyson look like a lollipop. "We have just discovered what we believe to...
TEARS OF JOY AT N.Y. ADOPTION OF 209 KIDS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amManhattan Family Court - where judges often have to remove kids from their troubled families - was the setting yesterday for an emotional ceremony celebrating the adoptions of 209 foster...
GUNMAN STICKS UP COPS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTwo Internal Affairs cops had a brush with death when a gunman tried to rob them while they sat in a car on a stakeout in Brooklyn, police sources told...
HOW HURRICANE CHAD HIT FLORIDA
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe national whowonit called Indecision 2000 began about 7:50 p.m. on Election Night when the major television networks called the state of Florida for Democrat Al Gore. That triggered a...
GOP GOES TO WAR OVER MILITARY VOTES
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amLed by Gulf War commander Norman Schwarzkopf, allies of George W. Bush angrily accused Team Gore yesterday of "going to war" against overseas ballots from U.S. troops. Schwarzkopf, in a...
COPS GUN DOWN DOG IN B'KLYN ALARM CALL
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amA devastated Brooklyn business owner says cops blew away one of his guard dogs yesterday - for no good reason - while responding to a burglar alarm at his machine...
QUEEN STRANGLES GAME BIRD ON HUNT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amAt least it wasn't a peasant. Feathers were ruffled across England yesterday when British newspapers published pictures of Queen Elizabeth II killing a pheasant with her bare hands. The incident...
DI'S JEWELS ARE GONE & THE BUTLER SUSPECTED
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amDetectives looking into missing treasures belonging to Princess Diana have zeroed in on her former butler - who denies ever stealing from her. Investigators said they want to question 42-year-old...
U.S. GROWS KILLER FUNGUS TO FIGHT HEROIN
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amA secret U.S.-funded biological weapon to wipe out the heroin trade is in the final stages of development, raising fears in the scientific community that a monster germ will wreak...
MADONNA SET TO TIE KNOT AGAIN - REPORT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Material Mom reportedly had another bundle of joy recently delivered: a bolt of silk for a wedding dress. According to today's London-based News of the World, Madonna will wed...
IT'S A DIMPLE THAT STOPS RECOUNT FROM BEING SIMPLE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Broward County canvassing board said yesterday it couldn't decide what to do about 1,000 uncounted "dimpled" ballots - most probably cast for Al Gore - as new charges flared...
NO, THIS IS NOT A TYPO: NETS ABOVE .500
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNets97Pacers92 This is not a drill, not a joke. The NBA standings were not compiled by a drunken frat brother or a Florida ballot counter. The Nets are over .500....
DUBYA'S TEAM RIPS DEM 'CON' JOB THEY CLAIM FELONS GOT TO CAST VOTES
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amGeorge W. Bush's team charged yesterday that convicts voted for president, while Al Gore's team challenged ballots from U.S. troops overseas for fear they'd back the Republican. "How can felons...
NEW ORDEAL FOR SLAIN SAILOR'S MOM
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amWestchester mom Patricia Lucky Anderson has seen her sailor-son's killer convicted twice in Australia - but twice may not be enough. For the second time since the February 1998 murder...
FANS FLOCK TO WEDDING RINGSIDE FESTIVITIES
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amHundreds of tourists and passers-by flocked to The Plaza last night to catch a glimpse of last night's celeb-studded wedding of Hollywood lovebirds Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones - some...
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR'S KIN SEEK PAY FOR LOOTED ART
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amOskar Schindler saved thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi death camps in World War II - but it was Rembrandt who rescued Sybilla Katz Goldstein and her family. Goldstein's dad, Nathan...
MED MOB UNDER MICROSCOPE STATE EXAMINES NEW ACCUSATIONS AGAINST DOC
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amA New York radiologist charged by the state with negligence and fraud has been hit with new accusations that he served as a front for a medical business run by...
NYPD'S PENSION 'LOTTERY' CRITICS: COPS CASHING IN ON LAME CLAIMS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThey call it the NYPD lottery. It's the Police Department's pension system, which awards big-buck, tax-free disability and heart-related retirement packages to cops and brass with line-of-duty injuries or cardiac...
TAKING RU-486 A THREE-STEP PROCESS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTo use RU-486 for an abortion, a pregnant woman will have to pay three visits to her doctor over a two-week period. During the first visit, she'll take RU-486, chemically...
DEBATE PRECEDES ARRIVAL THIS WEEK OF ABORTION DRUG
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNew York City women will have access to the early-abortion pill as early as Tuesday, when the first shipments of the newly approved controversial drug reach local health-care providers. Overnight...
THE COMPLICATED ABCS OF ARAFAT'S PLOY
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amDESPITE the recent olive harvest in their West Bank villages, Palestinians will offer no olive branches to their Israeli neighbors. While Palestinians in towns and cities like Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem...
FILMMAKER USING CAPTIVE TEEN SCRIPTWRITERS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amCreating intensely raw dialogue and true-to-the-streets characters, a group of teens jailed on Rikers Island beat out hundreds of other youths to have their film script produced by an Academy...
AN AIR OF SUPERIORITY JINTS NEED COLLINS TO TAKE THEM DEEP IN PLAYOFFS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNO PLACE on earth becomes more blustery than Giants Stadium in the season's final weeks, unless it's the head coach's August annual statement that, this year, the team really is...
LATE KILLS GREAT EVERY TIME NEW YORKERS SNORING THEIR WAY THROUGH BIGGEST EVENTS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amYOU KNOW that feeling, that Mets-at-Padres, Tuesday-night feeling. You've felt it for years. The Mets or Yanks, or Rangers, Devils, Knicks, Nets or Islanders, are playing a night game on...
GIANTS AT TURNING POINT TODAY'S SHOWDOWN WITH LIONS PIVOTAL
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amBy the end of the 12th week of the NFL season, the Giants could find themselves locked into first place, with a coveted playoff berth securely tucked into their future....
ENERGIZED LOMAS SHOOTING FOR 20 YEARS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Heading into today's game at Giants Stadium, it is impossible for Lomas Brown to see the Lions, see those familiar uniforms and that distinctive helmet, and not feel...
VINNY'S TITLE DREAM IS AT A CROSSROADS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amMIAMI - Vinny Testaverde could not possibly have expected High Noon to come this suddenly, but here it is. How many times has he seen the classic image of Joe...
WITH THOMAS OUT, CURTIS COULD ROLL
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES The Dolphins will definitely be without star middle linebacker Zach Thomas today, which should help the Jets' running game. The Jets hope Thomas' absence will perhaps help Curtis...
'KINDER' SPREE AWAITS WARRIORS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell is not talking about "crushing" and "killing" Golden State tonight at the Garden. A victory would be good enough. Almost a year ago to the date, "crush" and...
CAMBY WANTS TO PROVE HE'S NOT BRITTLE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Injuries are the only thing that can stop Marcus Camby now. And he's on a mission not to let it. It will say a lot about how far...
TURNAROUND NEEDED SKIDDING JETS MUST STOP SLIDE IN MIAMI
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amWhen they walked - in an utter state of euphoria - off the Giants Stadium field a month ago having shocked the Dolphins with a 23-point fourth-quarter comeback victory in...
METS' NAY-ROD WILL BE COSTLY
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amALEX Rodriguez has spoken and if you listen closely you can hear the tomahawk chop. "When I sign, people will see that there are no big side deals and they...
CETEWAYO CAPTURES RED SMITH
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amCetewayo closed well on the outside and caught Understood near the wire to win the 41st running of the Grade 2 $150,000 Red Smith Handicap by a neck. It was...
PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN A GAME OF SALMON SAYS
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS week the federal government listed wild Atlantic salmon in eight Maine rivers as endangered under the Endangered Species Act after several years of controversy. "The long-awaited decision by the...
FONZIE WANTS TO DISCUSS DISCOUNT DEAL
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amIf the Mets are interested, Edgardo Alfonzo, a free agent in 2002, would be willing to discuss a new long-term deal. And since he is two years away from free...
SCOTT INSPIRES NEW NET ATTITUDE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amByron Scott had his speech all prepared. It began something like, "No one comes into our house and keeps a streak going..." Real emotional stuff, overhead screen stuff along with...
OLDER, WISER DOUGLAS ACCEPTS ROLE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES It is a bit of a dilemma. but one that Sherman Douglas understands. At least now. When he was younger, it might have been tougher to accept sitting...
RING-LING BROS. THREE-TIME NBA CHAMPION BYRON SCOTT HOPES TO LEAD MARBURY & NETS TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe season was still on the horizon. There was a training camp to conduct, a team to win over, a franchise to stabilize. Byron Scott knew where it must all...
TWO CLOSE TO CALL: ARIZONA AND DUKE NECK-AND-NECK FOR NATION'S BEST
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe writers in the Associated Press didn't call for a recount. Neither did the coaches in the ESPN/USA Today poll. Fact is, it doesn't matter who is the nation's No....
'CANES STILL SEE RED OVER ORANGE ROUT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Despite being locked in a desperate race with Florida State in the BCS standings, Miami coach Butch Davis refused to run up the score on Pittsburgh last weekend....
SEMINOLES BUGGED ALL WEEK: FLU TOOK TOLL ON FSU
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Florida State's been downright offensive this season. But nothing was more offensive to Florida State than the flu bug that struck the Seminoles this week. Star quarterback Chris...
JUST CALL HIM SIR ANTHONY
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amIf Vince Carter can be touted as the next Michael Jordan, then perhaps Anthony Glover can be reminiscent of another retired NBA legend, as well. At least that's what Mike...
MAGRONE'S BIG BOOT CROWNS FARRELL
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amFarrell 24 St. Anthony 23 As Matt Magrone lined up for a potential game-winning 23-yard field goal with 18 seconds left yesterday, his Monsignor Farrell teammates knelt in prayer, all...
DIKEMBE NOT FLYING COOP
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Knicks, Suns, Pacers and Nuggets can't lose a game without Dikembe Mutombo being prominently mentioned next day in the papers or on the radio. Being exposed in the middle...
WHISTLES POSE MAJOR PROBLEM
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amCALGARY - Ten seconds remained in the second period of last Sunday's Rangers-Coyotes Garden match when Rich Pilon went to wallop Keith Tkachuk as the winger carried the puck down...
ELIAS' OVERTIME WORK PAYS OFF BIG TIME
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTheir overtime heroics may give the Devils extra time together. For while Lou Lamoriello is believed pursuing unsigned Calgary defenseman Derek Morris, the end of New Jersey's two losing streaks...
SHEEPSHEAD CRASHES PSAL FINAL
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amThat Wagner-Canarsie showdown that was supposed to happen in the PSAL championship game won't come off, after all. Seventh-seeded Sheepshead Bay stunned Canarsie, 14-8 yesterday to advance to next week's...
ND STILL ALIVE IN BOWL HUNT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNotre Dame45Rutgers17 PISCATAWAY - Whether the rankings are crunched by hard drives or naked eyes admiring crunching 80-yard drives, as long as Notre Dame is perfectly positioned in an arguable...
PHILS, FRANCO CLOSING IN
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amA decision on whether John Franco will become a Phillie could come soon. The Phillies, who are confident they can entice Franco to come to Veterans Stadium, want to make...
LONG-DISTANCE SHOTS THE DIFFERENCE
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Johnny Newman's end-game jumper where he was on the 3-point line provided to be the most crucial shot of the game for the Nets, but there were two...
COOK MAKING STRONG POINT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's92Stony Brk.62 The opposing coach compared him favorably to Kenny Anderson and Stephon Marbury. His teammate rated him higher than predecessor Erick Barkley. And his own coach assured everyone...
'CANES MAKE CASE TO KEEP NO. 2 SPOT
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amMiami26Syracuse0 SYRACUSE - It was as strong a statement as Miami could possibly make to maintain its No. 2 ranking in the BCS standings. The Miami defense smothered Syracuse's freeze-option....
'NOLES COP FLA. SHOWDOWN - AILING WEINKE LEADS WAY
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - If Chris Weinke thinks he was sick to his stomach the last few days, imagine how wretched the Florida Gators feel today. Weinke, who needed 2½ liters of...
ISLES LOSE AS JONSSON GIVES UP 'C'
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE - Kenny Jonsson stepped down as Islander captain before last night's game against the Sharks. But that's the only thing that changed for the slumping Isles. Owen Nolan,...
LEETCH SHOWS THE WAY ... AND KAMENSKY ADDS OT WINNER
November 19, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIMERangers5Flames4 CALGARY - Nobody in franchise history has registered as many assists in a Ranger uniform as Brian Leetch. That's a fact; all you have to do is look it...