November 18, 2000
FILM LOCATION BECOMES RESORT
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amIn the not too distant future, you may be able to play golf where the climactic castle explosion was shot for the hit movie "Charlie's Angels." Or indulge in spa...
THEY CAN'T PRINT $$ - XEROX CREDIT RATINGS ARE JUST ABOVE JUNK
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amXerox is close to running out of money - and could be forced by a technicality to cough up its last remaining bucks immediately. The fall of one of the...
IT'S CURTAINS FOR SUNDANCE
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amIf bad news comes in threes, Robert Redford should be looking over his shoulder. First, his most recent film release, "The Legend of Bagger Vance," received poor reviews and is...
SUNBEAM TO FACE SEC CHARGES
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amAl "Chainsaw" Dunlap could be facing Securities and Exchange Commission charges of hyping profits while he headed Sunbeam. The SEC has told the debt-wracked Sunbeam that it will seek charges...
IT'S THE BIG ONE! A SNEAK PEEK AT THE THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amWhat has 14 marching bands, dozens of clowns, sky-high balloons and a mobile version of Hawaii? The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, of course. The 74th annual edition begins 9 a.m....
THE NEW KIDS ON THE COURT
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amWhen the Knicks play at home these days, they've got plenty of company - even though the "company" is on the short side. Meet the Knicks City Kids - a...
BLAME PARAMOUNT 'SOUTH PARK' DUO NIX SEQUEL AFTER DEBUT NIGHTMARE
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amTHE kid genuises behind last year's raunchy, animated hit "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," say making and marketing the movie left them so frustrated, they have zero interest in...
'ANGEL' WRITER TELLS OWN TOUCHING STORY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amTHE unapologetically spiritual "Touched by an Angel" is wading knee-deep into the abortion controversy. Tomorrow night's episode (8 p.m. on Ch. 2) is based on the personal experiences of "Angel"...
BEAUTY 'QUEEN' WAS 'KING' OF SIAM
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amA Thai pageant contestant has gone from beauty queen to drag queen - admitting to judges that she is a he. The lovely Kesaraporn Duangsawan, who captured the hearts of...
Q & A ON THE FLORIDA FIASCO'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amQ: Where are we now? A: Everything is on hold until Monday because the Florida Supreme Court barred Secretary of State Katherine Harris from going ahead with her plan to...
$31M LOTTO ADDITION MAKES TEACHER RICH
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Lotto's mystery Millennium Millions winner - a 26-year-old teacher - finally surfaced yesterday, claiming she was too busy with classroom duties to collect her half of the state's $130...
SCHOOL HIRES TO GET PEACEKEEPING LESSONS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - New teachers will soon be required to undergo violence-prevention training before being certified by the state, The Post has learned. "Certainly there's a great need for it," said...
MAYORAL HOPEFULS WOO TEACHERS UNION
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of the city teachers union is hedging her bets on whether she'll be able to settle a new contract with Mayor Giuliani before he leaves office next year....
GUILTY OF SLAY BY SKI JUSTICE IN COLO. SLOPE CRASH
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amDENVER - The slay conviction of a Vail ski instructor - who killed a man after plowing into him during a wild downhill run in 1997 - should jolt some...
U.S. PUSHES FOR U.N. EMBARGO AGAINST AFGHANS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe United States and Russia are preparing to crack down on the Islamic rulers of Afghanistan as new evidence emerged yesterday linking terror master Osama bin Laden to the USS...
ARAFAT ORDERS GUNMEN TO LAY OFF ISRAELIS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amPLO chief Yasser Arafat yesterday publicly ordered Palestinian gunmen to stop firing at Israelis from areas under his full control. Palestinian gunfire erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
PREGNANT CHADS BEAR ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. THE Shame of Palm Beach County centers around the hand-count room, which looks very much like a miniature U.N. General Assembly - and is proving to...
APATHY TURNS INTO GUILT FOR FLA. NONVOTERS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amSome would-be voters in Florida, watching the fierce wrangling over the nation's closest presidential election, are feeling a much different emotion than anyone else - deep guilt. They're the folks...
ALIVE-AND-KICKING AL GOES ON ATTACK
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore - riding an emotional roller coaster yesterday as he saw his White House hopes dashed, then reborn - accused GOPers of trying to "obstruct" the presidential...
BAIL DENIED LOVERS HELD IN E. HARLEM PARENT-SLAY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Chinese teen accused with her black boyfriend of killing her parents - because they didn't approve of her interracial relationship - cried like a baby in a Manhattan courtroom...
DEM: I'LL 'KIDNAP' ELECTORS BIG SHOT'S BOAST SPURS GOP BLACKMAIL ALARM
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amA senior Democratic operative yesterday admitted he's trying to "kidnap" a few of George W. Bush's electors to make Al Gore the next president - and vowed to keep going...
PLAZA SWEET WEDDING DOUGLAS, ZETA-JONES IN $2M NUPTIALS TODAY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amMay-December lovers Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones will finally tie the knot tonight in a lavish November ceremony that's been shrouded under a wedding veil of secrecy. Douglas, 56, and...
S.I. TEEN SLAIN IN BRAZEN ROBBERY ; 'GOOD KID' DIED IN HIS DAD'S ARMS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amA teen who dreamed of being a scientist died in his father's arms after being ambushed outside his Staten Island home by two brazen gunmen who snatched a bag containing...
DUBYA'S PARTY ON HOLD AGAIN
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN, Texas - George W. Bush returned to the state capital yesterday, just in time to find out he was spending another weekend in limbo. Bush left his ranch retreat...
MIAMI-DADE BOARD OKS RECOUNT PALM BEACH AND BROWARD CONTINUE PAINSTAKING TALLY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amMiami-Dade County officials reversed themselves yesterday and voted for a complete recount of all 654,000 local votes in the presidential election. The 2-1 vote by the county's board of canvassers...
NOT-SO-BLIND JUSTICE IS ON GORE'S SIDE
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amIF Al Gore successfully steals this election - as looks a hell of a lot more likely today - the Florida Supreme Court, Democrats all, will have held the door...
PASSENGERS FORCED OFF FLAMING FERRY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amA smoky fire that triggered two explosions erupted on an NY Waterway ferry bound from New Jersey to Manhattan last night, forcing the evacuation of the 11 people on board....
NEW FLA. FIGHT ON MILITARY BALLOTS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amAn angry new front opened in the war for the White House last night as Republicans accused Team Gore of a coordinated Florida-wide effort to challenge overseas ballots from U.S....
FLORIDA HIGH COURT KEEPS HOPE ALIVE FOR AL - DEM JUDGES CALL A HALT TILL MONDAY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amDemocrat Al Gore got a surprise break yesterday when Florida's all-Democrat Supreme Court blocked the state from calling the White House winner - and put the election on ice until...
GIRL, 10, ON SCHOOL NEEDLING SPREE: COPS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amCops last night identified a 10-year-old girl as responsible for pricking 14 classmates with a small needle inside a Bronx public school over a three-day period, police sources said. Nine...
LAZIO HAS INCENTIVE TO GET FRIARS TITLE
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amForgive Frank Lazio and the rest of his St. Anthony's teammates if they weren't overwhelmed with excitement after winning their CHSFL AAA semifinal game over Kellenberg last week. "We just...
JEFF CUTS RICE SOME SLACK IN MAKING ADJUSTMENT
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHOENIX - Jeff Van Gundy has some sympathy for Glen Rice but only to a point. Of the three Gotham guns, Van Gundy realizes Rice has had to...
LATRELL HITS THE WALL: BUM BACK MAY FORCE SPREE 'TO SHUT IT DOWN'
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amPHOENIX - The NBA season is now official. Ten games and 17 days into the year, the Knicks are in crisis-mode. What took so long? "Hey, every day is a...
MALAKHOV NOT VLADY HAPPY TO BE SITTING
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amVANCOUVER - Vladimir Malakhov may be inscrutable to some, but not to his coach. "He wants to play," Ron Low said following yesterday's morning skate. "The guy just wants to...
VAN: STOP WHINING :KNICKS' EXCUSES TICKING OFF COACH
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amPHOENIX - An irritated Jeff Van Gundy ordered his struggling Knicks yesterday to decrease their excuse-making and increase their production. Before the Knicks finished their three-game West Coast-trip-from-hell last night...
PRESSURE'S ON HALL TO JUSTIFY RANKINGS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amFor some, the pressure that comes with sudden fame can be daunting, a burden they either shy away from or crumble under. But it isn't that way for Seton Hall....
TRINIDAD SAYS VARGAS WON'T PUT UP A FIGHT
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amFelix "Tito" Trinidad is gleaming with confidence. You might even say that the WBA superwelterweight champion comes off extremely cocky and arrogant. Heading into his Dec. 2 showdown in Las...
JINTS WARY OF LIONS' RECENT GROUND GAINS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThere are certain games that test speed, or patience or discipline or a team's depth. There are games when the Giants know their defense will be running, covering, sprinting to...
NETS: NO PLACE LIKE HOME
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amPACERSatNETSTonight8:00 - FSN WOR (710 AM) Pick a reason, any reason. "We're starting to play well and it would be our first two-game winning streak," theorized Nets guard Kendall Gill....
DETROIT DBS NEW NFC PICK KINGS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Beware. That is the way the Giants must approach tomorrow's game against the Lions based on one specific statistic: The glaring number of turnovers the Lions force. Their...
WAR CHANT'S GOING TO STUD
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amWar Chant, this year's Breeders' Cup Mile winner, will be retired and stand at stud for the 2001 breeding season at Three Chimneys Farm. It has not been decided if...
IT'S DO-OR-DIE TIME FOR JETS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Jets made this bed. They know they can't afford to sleep in it anymore. "We feel like we need to make our run for the playoffs and that was...
BAD BLOOD BOILIN' FOR 'NOLES, GATORS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - This is rivalry week, a week when college football teams approach their opponent with equal amounts of disdain and respect. Except here. Here there is nothing but pure...
PHILLIPS: METS ARE RIGHT FOR MUSSINA
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThere is a perception that if Mike Mussina comes to New York, he is headed to Yankee Stadium to stay in the American League. Mets GM Steve Phillips, though, isn't...
MACARCHUK BRACES FOR STORM
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amSTONY BROOKatST. JOHN'STonight: 7:30No TV, What a way to a start a season. In just its second season as a Division I program, Stony Brook, opens tonight at St. John's....
METS TARGET BUCK, OREL AS AIDS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Mets have gone low profile in trying to assemble Bobby Valentine's coaching staff for 2001, but they have high-profile targets in Buck Showalter and Orel Hershiser. The Mets are...
HALL SHAKES OFF FIRST-HALF BLUES
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall104Rider76 Like a Ferrari sloshing through a swamp, 10th-ranked Seton Hall got dragged down into a halfcourt quagmire in the first half of its season opener last night. Even...
'PRINCE' SET TO LEAD 'EM
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S been a very good year for vintage geldings. In the Breeders' Cup Sprint, 6-year-old Kona Gold clinched the Eclipse as champion sprinter setting a stakes and track record, with...
DEVILS AIMING TO END HOME SKID
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amOne losing streak vanquished, the Devils take on another today. The Stanley Cup champs return to the Meadowlands this afternoon against the Hurricanes, hoping to put an end to their...
LATRELL TO THE RESCUE - HURTIN' SPREWELL COMES UP BIG FOR KNICKS
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Hawks president Stan Kasten was in the building last night. His team wasn't. Atlanta was losing its ninth game in 10 outings in Boston. The re-tooling Hawks are...
VANCOUVER BOOS MESS AS BLUESHIRTS COLLAPSE
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amCanucks4Rangers3 Those were boos for Mark Messier virtually every time the Moose touched the puck or leaned in over a faceoff in his first return to the city he left...
FINAL REDEMPTION KNICKS HOLD ON TO AVOID WINLESS WEST COAST TRIP
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks90Suns85 PHOENIX - An irritated Jeff Van Gundy demanded before last night's game against the Suns that his sliding Knicks decrease their excuse-making and increase their production. Con sider it...
JEFF'S LOCKER ROOM RESEMBLES ER AFTER VICTORY
November 18, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHOENIX - They were the last three in the locker room late last night - sore-backed Latrell Sprewell, gimpy Marcus Camby and sore-kneed Charlie Ward. "It's the walking...