October 30, 2000

Newly restored print of 1921 film Nosferatu to be shown at Walter Reade Theater to mark Halloween; Prof Harold Bloom to make acting debut with American Repertory Theater leading reading celebrating Shakespeare's Falstaff, Cambridge, Mass; 66 old master drawings on loan from British royal family library to be on view at Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in show focused on Raphael; International Toy Theater Festival is set to open; photos (M)

Fresh Start for the N.B.A. With top players in new cities, among them Patrick Ewing in Seattle and Grant Hill in Orlando, the National Basketball Association season opens tomorrow with a different look. SPORTSMONDAY, PAGE D1

Investment pendulum swings back toward value investing, Wall Street's black sheep during bull market, as technology growth stocks fall out of favor; mutual funds that use value-stock model finished second consecutive strong quarter of performance, outpacing Standard & Poor's 500 stock index and their growth-fund rivals for first time in nearly three years; mutual fund companies that had excised 'value' from titles of their funds are returning it or starting new value funds; chart; photo (M)

Crash of Internet stocks has tainted term 'incubator' for investment companies that foster Internet startups; problems at companies backed by Idealab, first and best-known Internet incubator, has been chilling sign for stocks of technology-financing companies that provide office space, administrative support, marketing and public relations in return for equity stake; graph of incubator stock prices; table of Idealab startups; photos (M)

Archbishop Edward M Egan, interjecting New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese directly into next week's elections, bluntly urges its 2.4 million parishioners to cast votes for candidates in local, state and national races who 'share our commitment to fundamental rights for unborn'; Egan's remarks are contained in letter sent to 413 parishes in diocese (M)