January 25, 1999
BUBBLE, BUBBLE, GREENSPAN'S IN TROUBLE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amALAN Greenspan has lost what little nerve he had. The chairman of the Federal Reserve came under intense pressure a few years back when he dared suggest that the stock...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMONICA Lewinsky will be back on your local news programs full-force this week as the House managers interview her and, possibly, have her testify before the Senate. So by this...
STANCHING BAD BLOOD AT BARRON'S
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amBARRON'S Editor Ed Finn is moving to restore order in his house after two of his most senior staffers publicly humiliated a third at a recent meeting of the Barron's...
BAHRENBURG IS HITTING BUYOUT TRAIL
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amFor the second time in four years, Claeys Bahrenburg has found himself on the outside of a major consumer magazine publisher looking in. The veteran magazine man, who was eased...
ACTIONABLE AUCTION?; CITY MULLS FRAUD CHARGE AGAINST EBAY - EXCLUSIVE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amOne of the hottest companies on the Internet is being investigated by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs for fraud. eBay Inc., the online auction house, has attracted...
HEARST OUT TO TACKLE TEEN MARKET
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amHearst Magazines is looking to jump into the red hot teen market in a major way this year. In fact, the magazine publisher is so hot about the torrid teen...
TV TICKER
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amGloria gainer Rosie O'Donnell is pulling a Johnny Carson. Gloria Estefan will be the first-ever guest host of ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show'' (11 a.m. on WABC/Ch.7) on Thursday, while O'Donnell...
'DILBERT:' HE'S NOT GREAT (EVEN NUDE)
January 25, 1999 | 5:00am"Dilbert"Tonight at 8 on WWOR/Ch.9 IF you like "Dilbert" the comic strip, you'll like "Dilbert" the TV show. If you love the comic strip, you'll still only like the TV...
MONTEL PAYS SOME LIP SERVICE TO MUSTACHE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amTHE 'stache is back. Montel Williams has grown back his trademark mustache four months after shaving it off on a dare from his wife, Grace. The talk-show host said he...
DENNY'S RACIAL ADS RIPE FOR LATE-NIGHT LAMPOON
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amL ATE-NIGHT hosts think they're a joke, but Denny's is deadly serious about its new set of TV commercials promoting ethnic diversity. The spots began last week, and so did...
'CUPID'S' ARROW HITS POST READER HEARTS; OUR CRITIC HOLDS LOVEFEST TO SAVE STRUGGLING SHOW
January 25, 1999 | 5:00am'I stopped wanting Mr. Right Now and wanted Mr. Right. It's a great Harry Met Sally-meets Sleepless in Seattle. I'm hooked.' - Post reader Charlotte Jackson. O N Saturday afternoon,...
DANCE REVIEW ; WORLD PREMIERE A DREAM
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amIT seems that George Balanchine - who has a veritable library of attributed aphorisms as lavish as those attached to the likes of Yogi Berra, Oscar Wilde or Sam Goldwyn...
EVEN ACTORS, PRODUCERS CAN'T GET INTO THEIR MOVIES; NO CHANCE FILM FEST
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - After the first weekend of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, the loudest buzz here in snowbound Park City concerns movies not seen. The air is thinner...
THEATER REVIEW ; THINK GREEK, WITH A KITSCHY HIGH-TECH GLOSS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amACCORDING to the program, we're "outside Agamemnon's encampment" in ancient Greece as "Iphigenia at Aulis," the first of two plays comprising "The Iphigenia Cycle," opens. But we're also in the...
JOHNNY ON THE SPOTS!
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amA clothes encounter with the dry cleaner to the stars NEW York luxury dry cleaner Wayne Edelman got a small shock during a visit to Madame Tussaud's in London last...
SHOW'S 'GOLDEN' MOMENTS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amSURE, everyone knows that the Golden Globe Awards are a pretty good indicator for the Academy Awards - which means that "Shakespeare in Love" is a contender, up there with...
WOMEN ALL PUMPED UP OVER NEW FOOTWEAR
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Every year there's a fashion buzz item, that everyone wants - and few of us ever get around to possessing. Why? Because by the time you've caught on to...
'CURSE' OF THE PSYCHICS: CITY COPS BUST 6 AS SWINDLERS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amA police crackdown code-named "Operation Crystal Ball" has been spelling trouble for the city's psychic swindlers - one of whom charged a customer $250,000 to remove a "curse." Six fortune...
SILVER BILL WOULD MAKE PATAKI NAME VA. CONTRIBUTORS - EXCLUSIVE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amASSEMBLY Speaker Sheldon Silver will introduce legislation that would force Gov. Pataki to "fully disclose" who is contributing to his two new Virginia-based campaign committees. Sources told The Post the...
TEEN TERRORS SEND PAM FLEEING FROM S. AMERICAN BEACH
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amA mob of turned-on teens surrounded a terrified Pamela Anderson and tried to grope her on a crowded South American beach over the weekend. The blond bombshell was so freaked...
THE TIDE HAS TURNED AGAINST WOBBLY GOP
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amTHE 55 Senate Republicans have become a firing squad shooting blanks and digging their own grave. The trembling executioners have lost their coherence and confidence, while the crowd is cheering...
N.Y. POLL: ENOUGH ALREADY!
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMost New Yorkers just want President Clinton's impeachment trial to go away and they split on who is to blame for the mess, a new poll shows. The poll also...
U.S. JETS AGAIN FIRE ON IRAQ MISSILE SITES
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amU.S. fighter jets attacked more Iraqi missile installations yesterday in the second straight day of American action against Saddam Hussein's forces. Pentagon officials said the assault was carried out in...
THIS SHOWDOWN'S BEEN BREWING SINCE '94
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S time to start digging the foxholes - because the behind-the-scenes war between Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani has broken wide open. By appointing a special Moreland Commission to investigate...
GOV EYES $120M KID-CARE HIKE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday proposed a $120 million hike in state spending on child-care services, adding 13,000 new day-care slots in the largest such increase ever. Pataki's plan, part...
POPE CALLS ON MEXICO'S RICH TO HELP ITS POOR
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amPope John Paul II reminded a cheering crowd in Mexico City yesterday that the powerful must care for the weak - as a buzzing St. Louis prepared for the popular...
POL AXED BY BIBI VOWS TO OUST HIM
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amTEL AVIV - Axed Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai yesterday blasted Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he's failed Israel - and said he'll challenge the embattled prime minister in May's elections. "A...
GIRL IN CRISIS WAS JUST A GUINEA PIG TO DEVIOUS DOCS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amALL Maria wanted last spring was a therapist to talk to about her depression. Instead, she got bamboozled into an experiment. "They put a clear cube around my head, tied...
SAD NEIGHBORS RECALL 'NORMAL, HAPPY' KIDS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amRonald and Jolanta Short seemed to have achieved the American dream - they had good jobs, two apartments including a luxury condo overlooking the Manhattan skyline - and two cute...
DRUGS EYED AS TEEN DIES AT GATIEN CLUB
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old Long Island youth collapsed and died early yesterday outside the trendy and controversial Tunnel nightclub, apparently from a drug overdose, police sources said. The club, at 220 12th...
HURRICANE PAULA BLOWS INTO ARK.
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - With Monica Lewinsky storming through Washington, President Clinton went to Arkansas to talk about tornadoes yesterday - but Paula Jones crashed his homecoming. The woman whose harassment lawsuit...
CREW: SCHOOL PROBE IS JUST PART OF PATAKI'S PREZ PUSH
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew stepped up his attack on Gov. Pataki yesterday, calling the massive investigation that Pataki ordered into the city's school system a political maneuver that's "dead wrong."...
$10M BAIL FOR 'SUICIDAL' POP OF SLAIN BOYS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amThe father of two boys found murdered in the basement of a Manhattan building he managed was held on $10 million bail and placed on suicide watch last night while...
MONICA MEETS WITH HOUSE PROSECUTORS; LAWYER: INTERVIEW ADDS 'NOTHING' TO WHAT SENATE HAS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - House prosecutors spent two hours yesterday interviewing Monica Lewinsky, seeking smoking-gun evidence that President Clinton lied under oath and obstructed justice. On the eve of what's likely to...
VOTE COULD BRING TRIAL TO A SUDDEN END
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senators are expected to vote as early as tomorrow on a plan to end the presidential impeachment trial, even as House prosecutors are lining up witnesses to keep...
SHE'S 'MAYFLOWER' MONICA
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amWashington's posh Mayflower Hotel - famed stopping place for presidents and diplomats - served up pizza and pancakes this weekend to the world's most famous ex-White House intern. As more...
GOV'S WATCHDOG ALSO UNDER FIRE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amState Inspector General Roslynn Mauskopf, named by Gov. Pataki to investigate fraud and mismanagement in the city's school system, knows what it's like to be the subject of a government...
FOX 'SPINS' THANK-YOUS TO DOCTORS; WINS GLOBE AS BEST ACTOR IN TV SITCOM
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMichael J. Fox, the baby-faced "Spin City" star who recently revealed he suffers from Parkinson's disease, took home a Golden Globe as night as the 56th annual entertainment showcase got...
NBC STRIKES OUT WITH FALSE WORD ON JOE D'S DEATH
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amA technician at NBC News hit the wrong button last night, sending out a false report that Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio had died. The network flashed the report in a...
MORRIS: PROBERS DIG OLD GROUND FOR NEW DIRT
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amHouse investigators are poring over old evidence for fresh clues to whether President Clinton misled investigators in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, ex-Clinton aide Dick Morris said last night. Morris said...
'RYAN' FLYIN' AS WAR FLICK MAKES HISTORY; SNARES BEST DRAMA; 'SHAKESPEARE' TAKES HONORS FOR COMEDY
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amHistory flicks dominated the 56th annual Golden Globe Awards last night, with the World War II hit "Saving Private Ryan" and the sleeper "Shakespeare in Love" taking home top honors....
'RYAN' FLYIN' AS WAR FLICK MAKES HISTORY
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amThe brutal World War II drama "Saving Private Ryan" marched to victory at the 56th annual Golden Globe Awards last night, capturing honors for best picture and director. Director Steven...
LET THE HYPE BEGIN ; FALCS, BRONCS LAND IN MIAMI
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - They arrived in 1999's Super City from different parts of the country, with different mindsets, different motivations and yet with the very same goal: winning Super Bowl XXXIII...
AMAZIN' DAY IN BROOKLYN
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMICHELE Dougherty's smile, the one Joe Pignatano recalls adding sparkle to Shea Stadium on even the most depressing days, didn't brighten a rain-soaked Third Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday. Gone since...
IOC HAD A VERY G'DAY, INDEED ; SYDNEY PAID TO GET GAMES
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amTHE weekend's biggest story also was the least surprising: The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney have been officially scandalized, too. I don't know how NBC Sports will be able to...
SWEEP WELL GETS THE CALL IN 'CAPPY'
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amSplashing to the lead soon after the break, Sweep Well took command over a sloppy track and coasted to a 33/4-length win in yesterday's $50,000 Fred "Cappy" Capossela Stakes for...
JARVIS' JOHNNIES SPECIAL
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amThese Johnnies are special "This is what college basketball is about. ... If you didn't enjoy this game, something's wrong with you."MIKE JARVIS THERE was a moment near the end...
BOOTSY'S BRIGHTEST LIGHT ON B'WAY
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amBootsy's brightest light on B'way Bootsy's 40 light up Garden BOOTSY No one can accuse Bootsy Thornton of suffering from stage fright. Playing before a packed Garden and in a...
MATCHUP WAS PERSONAL FOR ARTEST & BRAND
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amThey played as teammates many times, but Duke's Elton Brand and St. John's Ron Artest never built as many memories as they did yesterday at the Garden during the Blue...
GALLANT STORM LOSE A CLASSIC DUKE PREVAILS IN GARDEN THRILLER
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Duke 92 St. John's 88 When the greatest regular-season college basketball game played in the Garden this decade finally was over yesterday, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski hugged Connie Jarvis...
FINALLY, RAMS' 'D' GETS IT DONE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amFordham 69 St. Bona .61 If there was an award for the understatement of the year, Fordham head coach Nick Macarchuk probably would have gotten it yesterday after his team's...
SCOTT'S DEBUT BREATHTAKING
January 25, 1999 | 5:00am"I'm in good shape, but not in basketball shape. That's the difference."DENNIS SCOTT PURCHASE - Controversial Latrell Sprewell made his Knick practice debut Saturday night, and yesterday it was newly...
FALC SENIORS LEAD WAY
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amSUPER NOTEBOOK MIAMI - There is no doubt which team has the advantage heading into Super Bowl week with regard to knowing how to deal with the intense scrutiny leading...
RELISHING THEIR ROLE ; UNDERDOG FALCONS PLAN SUPER SURPRISE
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Rather than continue to remain the NFL's best-kept secret, the Falcons approached the most grand stage of them all ready to spread their wings and soar into the...
THE WAR OF WORDS JUST WON'T GO AWAY
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - First, Dan Reeves apologized yesterday. Then Mike Shanahan bristled at a reporter for a repeated question about the acrimonious relationship between he and Reeves. And later yet, John...
SPREWELL HAPPY JUST TO BE INVOLVED AGAIN
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES"I can't even explain it to you [how happy I am]. Just being out here trying to learn the plays, being involved. It's been a long layoff."LATRELL SPREWELL It...
AN ALL-TIME HIGH ; SUPER STAGE IS NEW FOR FALCONS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Dan Reeves surveyed the surroundings of his ninth Super Bowl, which included a packed press conference for the mere arrival of the teams, and shook his head. "There's...
FLEURY WON'T SCURRY TO RANGERS
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Wayne Gretzky tried out Mark Recchi and Theo Fleury for linemates yesterday, then composed a wish list that included both when they become free agents this summer. Realistically,...
WAYNE JUST WINGS IT ; RECCHI, THEO HELP GRETZKY TO MVP
January 25, 1999 | 5:00am"I was really excited at the age of 19 and 20 [playing in All-Star games], but there's something special about being two days from 38 and playing with the players...
ELWAY HEDGES ON RETIREMENT
January 25, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - John Elway last night for the first time opened the door on the possibility of returning for a threepeat. In an exclusive interview with Fox's Ronnie Lott, Elway...