January 18, 1999
HILTON'S RIVERBOAT GAMBLE MAY CARRY HIGH PRICE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S called getting rid of the evidence. But will Hilton Hotels' decision to nearly give away its scandal-ridden Missouri riverboat casino to Donald Trump really get regulators off its back?...
VERBAL ROUNDHOUSE AT BARRON'S ROUNDTABLE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amWHAT do you do if you're the editor of a powerful financial publication, and two of your top journalists attack one of their colleagues in front of a distinguished panel...
SPIDER-MAN CREATOR PENNING CYBER STRIP
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amStan Lee, the creator of the world's most famous web crawler, Spider-Man, is heading to the 'Net. The founder of Marvel Comics and creator of many beloved superheroes is ready...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S a sadness over the country this week. A feeling that a leader won't be there for us this spring. No, it's not President Clinton because of the Senate trial,...
FINE PAIRSUCCEED, FILL A NEED
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amTHE differing motives to make a ballet are vast and variable, but most can be summed up as either to fill a gap, also described as meeting a need, or...
NOW TOMMY'S SINGING A LAS VEGAS TUNE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Tommy Tune, a month short of his 60th birthday, has embarked on a neon odyssey, and said he'd inject a slice of the Broadway beat to a...
HOW NIKE GOT MIKE ON AIR DAY HE QUIT
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: NIKE was prepared for Michael Jordan's retirement announcement with a ready-made 60-second salute, but the sneaker giant had no prior knowledge that he would call it quits. The company's...
ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MY SHOW - IN A DARING PROPOSAL TO SAVE THE SERIES 'CUPID,' OUR CRITICS INVITES YOU TO WATCH IT AT HER HOUSE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: 'CUPID" is doing a Camille act that can not go on much longer. And so we who have seen - and, therefore, adore - the romantic-comedy come to the...
NATHAN'S TRUE CONFESSION - DOUBTFUL BEING GAY WILL HURT HIS CAREER
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amNATHAN Lane? A homosexual? I'm shocked! SIMPLY SHOCKED! I can just see Lane, one of my favorite comic actors, cackling over a gimlet about his recent confession in the Advocate,...
'X-FILES' APPROACHING FINAL FRONTIER
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif.- "X-Files" creator Chris Carter expects the popular paranormal series to end after next season. "We're all looking at the end of the seventhseason as the last ... and...
MISTRESS OF THE UNIVERSE - MAUREEN REIDY, ONCE DONALD TRUMP'S ACCOUNTANT, HAS TRANSFORMED THREE KEY BEAUTY PAGEANTS FROM TACKY CHEESE INTO SLICK, CHIC AFFAIRS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDONALD Trump's launch party for the next Miss USA Pageant was held at the trendy downtown nightspot Life, and there wasn't a single Big Hairdo or garish ballgown in sight....
DRESSING FOR DIVORCE - WHAT CLOTHES SAY ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Rachel Hunter and Rod Stewart separated last month, it came as no surprise to us fashion watchers. We could have told you months ago that the relationship was running...
'BUTTERFLY' DEBUT REALLY FLIES
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: SARASOTA, Fla. - Over the weekend I traveled to Sarasota, Fla., to inspect a crisis about to happen in the ever-expanding world of American ballet. It is a crisis...
TA PLANS BUS-DRIVER HIRING BINGE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe Transit Authority will hire 500 new bus drivers this year to keep up with surging ridership. And the TA plans to hire a total of 2,000 bus drivers through...
FAT FEAR WEIGHING ON ROSIE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amA stressed-out Rosie O'Donnell says she now tips the scales at over 200 pounds - and she's not happy about it. "I'm the fattest I've ever been. I'm like 208...
SPITZER WANTS BOXERS' 'BILL OF RIGHTS'
January 18, 1999 | 5:00am"There is clearly inadequate supervision of the sport." ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER ALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is climbing into the ring to launch his campaign to clean...
THE LONELY FIGHT FOR GOOD SCHOOLS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00am'By every available honest (that is, independent) measure of performance - state-run reading and math tests; graduation and dropout rates; SAT scores; college-admission rates; the quality of post-high-school employment -...
RUDY'S TRASH TALK MAY YIELD HEAP OF TROUBLE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amNew York chauvinism plays well in the city. But it has proven to be a bad platform for raising money for a national campaign. FOR a guy who's trying to...
RUDY'S JABS MAKE A STAR OF DIBRIENZA
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amA JEALOUS political rival of City Councilman Steve DiBrienza let the cat out of the bag yesterday. "Steve ought to list Rudy Giuliani as an in-kind financial contributor with the...
PATAKI BIDDING TO BLOCK RUDY RUN?; EXCLUSIVE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amA KEY adviser to Mayor Giuliani yesterday accused Gov. Pataki of working behind the scenes to block Giuliani from getting the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. State Liberal Party leader...
BLEEDING ULCER PUTS YELTSIN IN HOSPITAL
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amRussian President Boris Yeltsin was rushed to the hospital yesterday with an acute bleeding stomach ulcer. It was the latest dramatic health setback for the 67-year-old leader. Yeltsin was in...
ADVOCATES PLEDGE TO FIGHT PLAN IN COURT
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Lawyers for the mentally ill vowed yesterday to go to court to block the state Health Department's plan to allow patients incapable of consent to be used in...
50 VEHICLES IN ICY MICH. PILEUP
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amSheets of ice and pea-soup fog caused more than 50 cars and trucks to collide in a wild freeway pileup in Michigan yesterday. Interstate 94 south of Detroit was shut...
ALEC SAYS HE'S OUT OF THE RUNNING
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amAlec Baldwin says he's sticking to pictures - and leaving politics to others. The Hollywood hunk, 40, insists he's not about to follow in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood, Ronald...
ASSEMBLY RESISTS KID-SEX CRACKDOWN
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amFor two years, Assembly Democrats have blocked a governor's proposal to close a loophole that lets New York's perverts get away with little or no jail for raping kids as...
LOOPHOLE LETS PEDOPHILES OFF WITH LITTLE OR NO JAIL TIME - LAW PRESUMES CONSENT BY ABUSED YOUNGSTERS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amFormer movie executive Sidney Kiwitt liked to have the little girl pleasure him among the trappings of his wealth. In the front seat of his shiny red sports car. In...
TOWN-HALL NEW YORKERS RIP IMPEACH TRIAL
January 18, 1999 | 5:00am"Legislators who'd had extramarital affairs . . . have no right to stand in judgment." BELLE FELDMAN City residents vented their outrage over President Clinton's impeachment trial at two old-fashioned...
TOP DEM: WITNESSES WOULD GIVE US SHOT AT TRIPP AND STARR
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A Massachusetts senator yesterday said that if the Republicans ask Monica Lewinsky to testify in the impeachment trial, Democrats will put Linda Tripp and Sexgate prober Kenneth Starr...
POLICE GET GO-AHEAD TO COMB ODB'S CAR FOR GUN
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amNYPD investigators have obtained a subpoena to search rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's truck for a gun cops claim he fired at them during a traffic stop last week. But probers...
NATION PAUSES TO REFLECT ON DR. KING
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe nation today is celebrating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 70 had a sniper not assassinated him in Memphis 30 years ago. Tributes...
WARM TEMPS C00L 0FF TAX-FREE SALES
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amA downright balmy afternoon, combined with New York Jet fever, placed a small dent in anticipated sales during opening day of tax-free shopping yesterday. "It's slow today because of the...
GREENBACKERS GRATEFUL THEY GOT THIS FAR
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - There was plenty of green peppered among the orange and blue of Mile High Stadium yesterday, as Gang Green groupies matched Bronco boosters yell for yell with chants...
EX-PROSECUTOR GUILTY OF SLAYING DEL. MISTRESS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amA former prosecutor was convicted yesterday of murdering the governor of Delaware's secretary and dumping her body at sea because she tried to end their three-year affair. A jury found...
SWEET WIN FOR RAIDERS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amRice 68 Christian Bros. 53 On a team with some of New York's premium players, Rice junior Andre Sweet tasted stardom at the Garden. Until yesterday, he had been mostly...
NEW SUBWAY PLAN A 'PIPE DREAM': RUDY
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amA plan to dramatically expand the city's subway system - including a Second Avenue line - is so big that it might never get approved, Mayor Giuliani warned yesterday. "I...
NYERS SAY FANTASTIC SEASON IS A SUPER START
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amGreen-with-envy Jet fans had a rallying cry after last night's 23-10 loss to the Broncos: Just wait 'til next year! Despite the crushing defeat, Gang Green boosters thanked the team...
PROBERS SEEK 'CONCRETE' CLUES
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amInvestigators probing the collapse of an underground parking garage on the Lower East Side are focusing on how the builder poured concrete and fixed it to steel reinforcement bars, officials...
JETS HAVE WINGS CLIPPED IN DENVER - BUT SATISFIED FANS SAY: WE'LL FLY THIS ROUTE AGAIN!
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe Jets hit heavy turbulence in Denver yesterday, losing 23-10 to the Broncos in a heartbreaking AFC championship game that ended their dream season and extinguished fans' Super Bowl fantasies....
ROCKY MT. GOONS SLUG WAYNE'S SIS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Jet receiver Wayne Chrebet's sister, Jennifer, was punched in the face and harassed by a group of trouble-making Denver fans after yesterday's AFC Championship game, witnesses told The...
FIRE FORCES 747 BACK TO JFK
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amAn engine fire forced a San Francisco-bound Tower Air flight to turn back to Kennedy Airport last night, with frightened passengers saying they feared for their lives. San Francisco investment...
PROUD JET FANS: TEAM IS STILL SUPER - DEFEAT IN DENVER STINGS BUT FUTURE MAY HOLD RINGS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amVinny Testaverde's father spoke for Jets fans everywhere after yesterday's game. "We'll be back," Al Testaverde, the proud papa of the Gang Green quarterback, told The Post at his Elmont,...
FIRE FORCES JET BACK TO JFK
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amAn engine fire forced a San Francisco-bound Tower Air flight to turn back to Kennedy Airport last night, with frightened passengers saying they feared for their lives. After the plane...
PROUD JET FANS:; TEAM IS STILL SUPER ; DEFEAT IN DENVER STINGS BUT FUTURE MAY HOLD RINGS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amGlenn Foley had this message for Jet fans as he stepped off the plane bringing Gang Green to LaGuardia Airport last night. "We'll be back," the Jets' No. 2 quarterback...
LUTHERAN GETS BLITZED BY NATIVE OF LONDON
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amMarist 58 L.I. Lutheran 51 Born and raised in London, Robert Reed hardly felt the same thrill as his teammates did about playing at the Garden yesterday. Nevertheless, the 6-foot-11...
IVY CENTER HOPES TO MAKE THE GRADE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amLast winter, Steve Goodrich was behind the ivy-covered walls of Princeton University, studying things like The History of The American West. But this winter, he hopes to be studying Nets...
NO-SNIPER DEVILS KIDDING THEMSELVES
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amHALF-done, half-decent, and halfway to their third straight 100-point season, the Devils are also only half a championship team. They'll be better off if they don't delude themselves otherwise. This...
'DIRECTIVE' COMES THROUGH
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amPrime Directive, the 3-5 "sure thing" in yesterday's Count Fleet at Aqueduct, looked anything but in midstretch of the mile-and-70-yard stakes. After rallying from mid-pack to wrest command from pace-setting...
WILLIAMS DISPLAYS RIGHT STUFF
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amHe didn't shatter the backboard this time, but it was enough to win, anyway. Cardozo's Ryan Williams, who ripped down a backboard last week at his school's court in Queens,...
LA SALLE ADDS INSULT TO INJURY
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amLa Salle 61 St. Benedict's 52 Don't expect St. Benedict's to want to come back to the Garden any time soon. When your best player goes down just three minutes...
TYSON'S BACK, BUT MYTH IS GONE; IRON MIKE'S BACK, BUT MYTH IS GONE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - You listened to one Francois Botha speak in his heavily-accented South African English, and it told you everything about Mike Tyson, about how about the myth has...
FEEL THE POWER? FEEL THE GREED!
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amYESTERDAY, during the AFC and NFC Championship Games, the NFL launched its "Thank you, fans" TV campaign. What a crock! At the same time the NFL is paying lip service...
HOMEBOY COULD JUST KICK HIMSELF
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Talk about the hometown boy not making good. Early in the second quarter of yesterday's AFC Championship game, Denver punter Tom Rouen - who played his college ball...
TERRELL TOO MUCH FOR JETS' DEFENSE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Jets coach Bill Parcells had heard his fill of how complicated the Broncos' offense is. So Parcells boiled it down to this earlier this week: ''The nuts and...
ELAM'S FGS SPARK BRONC COMEBACK
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - He has been lost among all the Denver stars. Heck, even on a team devoid of big names, about the only time a kicker gets noticed is when...
SUPER ENDING FOR FALCS - FG IN OT SENDS BIRDS TO MIAMI; FALCS STUN MINNY IN OT SHOCKER
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Falcons 30 Vikings 27 MINNEAPOLIS - As Morten Andersen's 38-yard field goal sailed through the goalposts, your pounding ears suddenly eased. With one swift kick, the noise had been...
ELWAY MAKES MOST OF MILE HIGH FINALE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Three years from now, John Elway's paradise will be a paved parking lot. "I'll be able to tell my grandkids that I played in the parking lot next...
DAN BELIEVES IN MIRACLES; GRACIOUS DAN BELIEVES IN MIRACLES
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Under normal circumstances, he would have been lifted atop his players' shoulders and carried out to midfield, the customary salutation for a coach who has just won a...
MISTAKES DOOM JETS' DREAM - SUPER BOWL BID WIPED OUT BY BRONCOS' RALLY
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amBroncos 23 Jets 10 DENVER - In the end, when the Jets' magical season came to an unceremonious close, they'd abandoned everything that got them to within 60 minutes of...
SPENCE DENIED HIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE SUPER HERO
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES DENVER - Quietly, a little-used rookie tight end by the name of Blake Spence was included by Bill Parcells on the active roster for yesterday's AFC Championship Game....
HOUSTON MAKES SOME KEY POINTS FOR WARD
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amOn the court yesterday, Allan Houston was making his case for how valuable Charlie Ward is to the good health of the Knicks. Off the floor, the Knicks and Ward's...
RANGERS SPURNED AS BURE GOES TO PANTHERS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amPavel Bure was traded to Florida yesterday without Brian Burke giving Neil Smith so much as a courtesy call to find out whether the Rangers would trump what amounted to...
FALCONS' QUEST DRIVES CHANDLER
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Since "The Drive" is already taken, maybe they'll call this "The Quest," as in Falcon Quest. Regardless of whatever title it is given, the Fal-cons' final drive in...
VIKE KICKER'S AGONY
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - As Viking kicker Gary Anderson paced the sideline in overtime after going wide left for his first wide of any kind this season, quarterback Randall Cunningham told him...
JETS, BOTHA: VALIANT LOSERS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amEach did more than anyone could have expected, and each came undone because of an opponent who had one weapon they simply could not handle. DENVER - Sometimes, sports will...
DEJECTED VIKES CAN'T BELIEVE IT
January 18, 1999 | 5:00am"I am very disappointed. It was a solid season, it wasn't the great season that we really wanted." DENNIS GREEN MINNEAPOLIS - The devastation of all purple was obvious at...
TESTAVERDE'S 13 IN ROW BRING JETS NO LUCK
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - The 13 consecutive passes Vinny Testaverde completed in the first half were mere statistics, damn lies, that didn't move the ball much farther than Pinocchio's nose. "It doesn't...
DAVIS RUNS THROUGH JETS FOR 167 YARDS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - The Jets knew what was coming. They knew and they couldn't stop Terrell Davis. In the week leading up to yesterday's AFC championship game at Mile High Stadium,...
ROUEN COULD KICK HIMSELF
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Talk about the hometown boy not making good. Early in the second quarter of yesterday's AFC Championship Game, Denver punter and University of Colorado alum Tom Rouen fielded...
VINNY STILL OFF-BROADWAY - NAMATH REMAINS ALONE AT THE TOP
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amAs the Broncos broke out for a 20-point third quarter and the pressure mounted on the Jets, it became clear that there were no miracles in Testaverde's 35-year-old arm. DENVER...
SHOWDOWN IN MIAMI - ELWAY, REEVES RENEW RIVALRY IN SUPE XXXIII
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - It doesn't matter what denials John Elway may offer or what praise the Denver quarterback gives his former coach, Dan Reeves. The perception remains that it was a...
COX: OUR WORK'S NOT DONE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Bryan Cox sounded a warning last night to his Jet teammates: We'll be the Giants if we don't make a Super commitment in the off season. "We didn't...
JET HOPES ARE DEEP-SIXED - MAGICAL SEASON ENDED BY TURNOVERS
January 18, 1999 | 5:00am"I don't think I can be any more disappointed in a football game than I am right now ... We got here and didn't get the job done." CURTIS MARTIN...
FUMBLING CURTIS: MY MISTAKE HURT US
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Curtis Martin acknowledged that he messed up. Keith Byars said he'd do everything the same if given the opportunity. Both lost fumbles that contributed heavily to the Jets...
IF IT'S FINALE, ELWAY GOES OUT IN STYLE
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Three years from now, John Elway's paradise will be a parking lot. Local voters have already approved funding for a replacement to Mile High Stadium, to go up...
DEFEAT STINGS KEYSHAWN
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Keyshawn Johnson sounded incredulous when someone wanted to know how disappointed he was after falling 30 minutes short of the Super Bowl. "Obviously I'm disappointed; we're all disappointed,"...
BRONCS' BOMB A MOMENTUM TO REMEMBER
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - No play in yesterday's AFC Championship loss was more devastating to the Jets than a John Elway bomb to Ed McCaffrey that didn't even produce points. The play...
JETS' BLOCKED PUNT WAS NO GAME BREAKER
January 18, 1999 | 5:00amAFC NOTES DENVER - Quietly, a little-used rookie tight end by the name of Blake Spence was included by Bill Parcells on the active roster for yesterday's AFC Championship game....