January 29, 1999
CONSUMER AFFAIRS PROBES EBAY ALL THE WAY TO CHINA
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amFAKE sports memorabilia isn't the only thing that has authorities logging on to eBay.com. The Consumer Affairs police in New York City are also looking into whether china, porcelain and...
M'SOFT TAKES A HIT ; JUDGE ORDERS KEY E-MAIL TURNED OVER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON, D.C - Microsoft suffered a potentially devastating blow to its defense in the government's antitrust suit yesterday when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the company to surrender...
ANTITRUST PROBERS AGAIN EYEING SFX
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am.Bob Sillerman's SFX Entertainment is under investigation again by antitrust regulators. The company has received a preliminary inquiry from the Justice Department seeking information on SFX's acquisitions of live entertainment...
WANTED: DEAD OR A-LIVENT
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amGarth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb are fugitives. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marcia Cohen marched into court yesterday seeking a warrant for the arrest of the two former Livent execs after they...
BILLIONAIRE'S BONANZA; 'NET EXECS HIT JACKPOT
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThe cyber bucks are flowing like water. Yahoo! said yesterday it would acquire web community GeoCities in a stock swap valued at $3.92 billion. Yahoo! soared 31 to 3673/4 adding...
NEW EYES ON VOLVO ; GM READY TO UP ANTE MASSIVELY
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA bidding war over Volvo could be erupting between General Motors and Ford Motor Co. Just hours after Ford agreed yesterday to spend $6.45 billion for Volvo, GM was prepared...
HIS 'TOM' WILL GET ANOTHER PEEP
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am'THE only really satisfactory way of disposing of 'Peeping Tom' would be to shovel it up and flush it swiftly down the nearest sewer. Even then the stench would remain,''...
'SHE'S' COME UNDONE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amAS high school movies go, ''She's All That'' doesn't hold a candle to last year's ''Can't Hardly Wait,'' let alone the classics of the genre. It tries to be an...
GOSPEL OF MATTHEWS; HE CAN RESIST NONMUSICAL TEMPTATIONS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amDAVE Matthews, currently on sabbatical from his band before their big summer tour, is relaxing with a series of concerts with a longtime pal, guitarist Tim Reynolds. The two just...
TV TICKER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amGood sports WNBC/Ch.4 sports anchor Len Berman has been chosen "New York's Sportscaster of the Year" for 1998 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. This is the third time...
IT'S 'HAPPY' DAZE FOR BIDDING VICTOR MIRAMAX; FEVER PITCH
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S been a happy Sundance for ''Happy, Texas,'' which has been the biggest distribution pickup of the festival so far. The comedy had been the focus of a ravenous bidding...
STELLAR CHEFS RATE THEIR FAVE EATERIES
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amFood Line YOU know about Zagat and Marcellino's, but a restaurant guide where the cooks rate themselves? "The Chefs' Guide to America's Best Restaurants" by husband-and-wife team, Charles and Aimee...
GIVE THE 'GUY' A BREAK...EVEN IF YOU WOULDN'T WANT HIM NEXT DOOR
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThe humor is all over the place, but the show's creator seems happiest when he's tap-dancing on the brink of bad taste. "Family Guy"Sunday at 10 on WNYW/Ch.5 MEET the...
TALENT CAN'T SAVE BORING PROGRAM
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amDance Review IN size - at 16 dancers - I suppose Ballet British Columbia is the fourth largest of the classic ballet troupes north of the 42nd Parallel. But it...
STAR UTA'S 'COLLECTED,'BUT NOT COOL OR CALM
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amTHE acclaimed off-Broadway play ''Collected Stories'' features a knock-down, drag-out fight between an older novelist and her back-stabbing young protegee. But that's nothing compared with the backstage feud raging between...
MONICA'S LIPS ARE STILL ZIPPED
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA HEARING to rule on Monica Lewinsky's request to lift a media gag order that has kept her from talking to Barbara Walters was postponed yesterday, according to officials. Lewinsky's...
DOWN TO THE WIRE; TIME WARNER HALF WAY TO PROMISE OF 100 CHANNELS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amTIME Warner has found a way to fill the nosebleed section on your cable dial - meaning those wasted channels above 81. Time Warner, the city's biggest cable operator serving...
DIRECTOR NANCY SAVOCA MAKES CHICK FLICKS WITH AN EDGE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amWriter-director Nancy Savoca's movies are fun and funny, but they have a uniquely grown-up, grounded quality that belies her relative youth. (She's 39). A daughter of The Bronx, Savoca gives...
THE '24 HOUR' WOMEN
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am'THE 24 Hour Woman'' is an original, smart, funny and moving New York film by Nancy Savoca, the maker of 'True Love.'' It takes an honest, unsentimental look at contemporary...
NEW STEP AT NEW VICTORY
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amTHE New 42nd Street's New Victory Theater - New York's first and only theater devoted to kids - offers a wide variety of theater to whet the youthful appetite. Among...
LET THIS BE A LESSON TO OUR SPORTS 'HEROES'
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amW HEN you send a kid off to a basketball game and then have to pick him up in the morgue, it's time for society to rewind the reel. Maybe...
GUY COP CLAIMS SEX HARASSMENT ; SAYS SPURNED LADY LIEUTENANT RETALIATED
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA male cop has accused a female police lieutenant of sexual harassment, claiming she's making his life miserable because he won't date her, The Post has learned. Officer Michael Clifford...
PAPAL PLEA SAVES DEATH-ROW CON
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA death-row killer who blew away a drug dealer and his family had his sentence commuted to life without parole yesterday - after the pope made a dramatic plea to...
U.S. QUICK TO COURT NEXT JORDANIAN KING
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amSecretary of State Madeleine Albright pledged strong support - and U.S. aid - to King Hussein's successor yesterday as the Clinton administration tried to assure a smooth transition of power...
MAYOR URGES WALL ST. TO TAKE STOCK IN SCHOOLS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York Stock Exchange should open a charter school in its plush new headquarters, Mayor Giuliani suggested yesterday, noting the millions in state and city subsidies the project is...
SPITZER PITCHES PSYCH DRUG LAW
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer said yesterday he wants to make it easier to institutionalize psychiatric patients because of the "horrors that result" when they skip their medication. Spitzer's "Involuntary Outpatient...
SURVEY NAMES NEW YORK AREA'S TOP HOSPITALS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amNew York University Medical Center's Tisch Hospital grabbed the gold medal yesterday, placing first in the 1998 Mercury Awards, a quality ranking of New York City-area hospitals. The 727-bed hospital...
FLEEING THUGS KILL QUEENS DAD: POLICE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA carjacking that started in Harlem ended in death in Queens as a speeding car fleeing cops struck an innocent driver, police said yesterday. Richard Simpson, 39, a churchgoing computer...
SEA-SICK TALE FROM N.J. BEAUTY'S KILLER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThe crazed Greek sailor who butchered a New Jersey model told cops he disposed of her severed head in the ocean so "I can always be with her." Prosecutors in...
TRIPLE SLAYER TAUNTS VICTIMS AS JUDGE THROWS AWAY THE KEY
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA remorseless triple killer - the first death-penalty defendant in the state to defend himself - defiantly winked at a survivor of his bloody rampage yesterday as she begged a...
GAS CLERK RESCUES VICTIM'S TEAMMATE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA heroic gas station attendant and two co-workers frantically fended off a bloodthirsty crowd threatening to kill a teen basketball player moments after a teammate was mercilessly stabbed to death....
DRIVEN TRAFFIC AGENTS, THAT'S THE TICKET
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMore parking tickets could be in your future if Mayor Giuliani has his way. The Police Department would put 60 traffic-enforcement agents on scooters to blitz wayward drivers with more...
COLOMBIAN TROOPS CRACK DOWN ; MOVE TO QUELL RIOTS AND LOOTING IN WAKE OF QUAKE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amHeavily armed soldiers swept into Colombia's "coffee belt" yesterday to clamp down on the mayhem that has erupted since the killer earthquake. Colombian President Andres Pastrana arrived in the hard-hit...
I'D HAVE DUMPED BILL IN A MINUTE, MRS. STARR SAYS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amSexgate prober Kenneth Starr's wife says if she were Hillary Rodham Clinton, she'd walk out - and if Starr was in Bill Clinton's shoes, he'd resign. "I'd rather not be...
RUDY'S BUDGET ALLOTS NEARLY $1B FOR FIVE FIELDS OF DREAMS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani, who has proposed building five different sports arenas in recent months, yesterday pulled the curtain on the potential cost to taxpayers: $961 million. But that's just a ballpark...
JAPAN PROBING OLYMPIC SCANDAL
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amNagano yesterday became the second city to come under official scrutiny in the mushrooming Olympics corruption scandal. The Japanese Olympic Committee named a seven-member panel to look into the city's...
LIEUTENANT GOV DITCHES HUBBY IN WAKE OF 911 CALL
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amPolice were dispatched to the Donohue home after authorities got a 911 call of "an active domestic dispute." ALBANY - Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue has left her husband - just...
FANS JAM KILLER CONCERT, TURN DEAF EAR TO PROTESTS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThousands of rock fans turned up at the Meadowlands last night for a concert supporting convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal - ignoring pleas from politicians and cop groups to stay...
COPS EYE CAT-LOVIN' 'TIGER LADY' IN JERSEY SCARE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amA reclusive New Jersey "Tiger Lady" is the focus of a probe into the escape of a 500-pound Bengal tiger who was shot to death, cops said yesterday. Investigators will...
WE'LL SEE MONICA TESTIFY ON TV - THANKS TO GOP
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A videotape of Monica Lewinsky's sworn deposition will most likely be played for the world at President Clinton's impeachment trial under a plan adopted last night by the...
TOP U.S. GENERAL IN GULF RIPS BILL'S PLAN TO TOPPLE SADDAM
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThe top U.S. general in the Persian Gulf yesterday rapped President Clinton's strategy of trying to topple Saddam Hussein, saying it could destabilize the Mideast. The sharp criticism from Marine...
COPS GRILL NINE TEENS ; IN HOOPS SLAY
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amCops last night were grilling the suspected killer in a bloody post-basketball-game brawl that left family and friends of the 14-year-old victim in heartbroken shock. Nine teens were in custody...
DOCS 'MISPLACE' BABY AMID COLOMBIA CHAOS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amARMENIA, Colombia. DESPERATION laced Olga Rios' voice as she screamed into the cell phone. "What do you mean he is not there?" the 16-year-old screamed as tears ran freely down...
TROOPS CALLED TO QUELL QUAKE LOOTING
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amHeavily armed soldiers swept into Colombia's "coffee belt" yesterday to clamp down on the mayhem that has erupted since the killer earthquake. Colombian President Andres Pastrana arrived in the city...
PICTURE THIS: CHUCK & CAMILLA GO PUBLIC
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amPrince Charles and his lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, stepped out in public as a couple for the first time last night - to the delight of royal shutterbugs and shrieking...
DON'T GO BUST, BET ON BRONCS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amI REALLY wanted to pick the Falcons in Sunday's Super Bowl XXXIII. I wanted to stand up in my living room, do the Dirty Bird and root for a team...
IT'S DYNASTY VS. DESTINY ; LOOK FOR BRONCOS TO WIN OT THRILLER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The verdict is in: The Broncos will win Super Bowl XXXIII in a thrilling photo finish - by a field goal in the first Super Bowl overtime. The...
LEAVING JETS WAS BLESSING FOR CADREZ
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am"When they finally released me, I was ecstatic."GLENN CADREZ MIAMI - Funny how things work out sometimes. Back in 1992, Glenn Cadrez was a no-name, switch-of-position project with the Jets...
LODISH LEADS SUPER-CHARMED LIFE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Here's Mike Lodish's life: Go to the store on Monday, buy a lottery ticket, win. Go back to the store on Wednesday, buy a lottery ticket and win...
SCHLERETH: A CUT ABOVE ; BRONCO BIONIC MAN HAS HAD 22 SURGERIES
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am"I never feel good. In the morning, I just hobble around looking crippled for a while. That's pretty much every day."MARK SCHLERETH MIAMI - Chances are heaven will have to...
IT'S DYNASTY VS. DESTINY: DAN'S DIRTY BIRDS WON'T BE DENIED
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Broncos like to throw around the 'D' word, sensing that if they gain their second straight Super Bowl triumph they will be viewed as a dynasty. Little do they...
ROLSTON STANDS TALL IN SHORT ORDER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am"I try to pressure the puck, and if I think I have a chance to poke it and get a breakaway, I do it."BRIAN ROLSTON BOSTON - At the start...
SHARPE TELLS JETS: YOU'LL NEVER BEAT US
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Outspoken Broncos tight end Shannon Sharpe had a message for the Jets yesterday: Don't make those Super Bowl XXXIV reservations just yet. Sharpe was asked if the Jets...
BRUNO VOWS TO OPPOSE BETTING TAX INCREASE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amState Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno stood up for New York horseplayers yesterday by vowing to oppose a tax hike on betting sought by Gov. George Pataki in his proposed...
DON'T BREAK UP KINER & CO. ; METS' NEW STATION NEEDS CH. 9'S TRIO
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amREGARDLESS of whom chooses the Met announcers this season when its 50-game, over-the-air schedule switches from Ch. 9 to Ch. 11 - a deal that's still not completed, but very...
FALCONS'D-LINETHE BOMB
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Don't get him started. Don't mention to Chuck Smith that the Falcons' defensive line is not filled with recognizable names, or that the group plays with too much...
NO-SHOW KOZ: 'I MESSED UP'
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Player attendance at the seemingly endless series of press conferences leading up to any Super Bowl is mandatory. Yet on Wednesday at the Falcons' team hotel, Brian Kozlowski...
ENBERG HAS EYE ON CBS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amDick Enberg, 23 years with NBC, is unhappy at the network and has asked for a release from the remainder of his contract in order to join CBS, according to...
SMITH ENJOYS HIS DAY IN SUN
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - One of the dirtiest little secrets about these birds from Atlanta is being exposed. Spend six seasons on a defensive line to no better reward than one lousy...
REPORT: CONN. NUKE PLANT IS GUILTY OF FLOUNDER-CIDE
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amFISH Unlimited, a fisheries conservation group, has announced that as a result of its investigation, it has confirmed that the nuclear reactors at Millstone, Conn., have killed at least 5...
AGENT: SALO'S GONE NEXT YEAR
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amRich Winter, Tommy Salo's agent, told The Post that his client will not play for the Islanders next season, regardless. Winter's message to GM Mike Milbury is this: Don't even...
RECALL IS SWEDE FOR NEW RANGER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00am"Getting the call to come up isn't something I was thinking about or expected."JOHAN WITEHALL GREENSBORO - The newest Ranger made his NHL debut here last night but isn't eligible...
STEWART TIGHTENING ; GRIP ON ISLES
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThere's a new sheriff in town and Islanders forward Mariusz Czerkawski found that out real quickly during the Bill Stewart reign. Technically, Czerkawski was not late for Tuesday morning's 9:45...
CHANDLER: NO WAY I'M BETTER THAN ELWAY
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Sometimes, analysis goes too far. That's what Chris Chandler thinks of the frequent argument he hears that the Falcons may have the edge at quarterback...
NETS' SAD SONG: EVERYBODY HURTS ; CALIPARI KNOWS THE INJURY DRILL
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amFor the Nets' first pre-season game, John Calipari went to war with a troop that was lacking three of its top six weapons as Kerry Kittles, Rony Seikaly and Keith...
JAYSON JOINS LIST OF WALKING WOUNDED
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES In keeping with what appears to be team policy, Jayson Williams did not practice with the Nets yesterday because of an injury. Williams rolled his right ankle in...
FRAN'S STAMP ALL OVER STORM ; AXED COACH PUT JOHNNIES TOGETHER
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amHE HASN'T been visible at any St. John's games but he's there in spirit every night. Virtually every player who takes the court wearing the red and white of St....
MASTER P'S GOT GAME IN NBA ; RAP LEGEND COULD HANG WITH HORNETS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amBass hardly knew Percy Miller when he uttered those words about a longshot guard he was bringing into training camp. What he didn't know - couldn't know - was that...
CAL, BANGED-UP NETS MULLING ALL OPTIONS
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amThere are options. There could be a free agent signing. There could always be a trade. There could be a shuffling of the personnel at hand. And the Nets, in...
CAMBY'S ON THE SPOT ; VAN NOT IMPRESSED WITH NEW KNICK
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amGood morning, Mr. Camby, this is your wake-up call. That was the crystal clear message from Jeff Van Gundy yesterday for his new Knick forward, following Camby's disappointing performance in...
SPREE'S BEST YET TO COME ; JUST WAIT TILL LATRELL SHAKES OFF HIS RUST
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amDESPITE a 14-month layoff from NBA competition, Latrell Sprewell only needed half an exhibition game to stop smelling like a cedar closet and stop playing moth ball. Before I could...
SPREWELL: I FEEL WELCOMED
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It was Spree Love again at Purchase yesterday in the Knicks' fan-friendly scrimmage. Following his amazing 27-point performance in the Knicks' 88-87 pre-season win over the Nets Wednesday...
BRODEUR ZIP GIVES DEVILS 4TH STRAIGHT
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 2 Bruins 0 BOSTON - The pain in the neck Martin Brodeur endured was nothing compared to the one he was to the Bruins. While his team was being...
RANGERS GO DOWN FIGHTING
January 29, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Hurricanes 3 Rangers 2 GREENSBORO - The Rangers raised their level of play here last night and produced 63 of their most physical, intense and competitive minutes of the...