February 2, 1999
MARTHA'S SPECIAL K ; STEWART SALES SEEN TOPPING $1B AT KMART
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amMartha Stewart is whipping up more than colorful sheets and towels for Kmart. Her two-year-old Everyday line for the discount retailer is expected to rack up more than $1 billion...
SCHULHOF HITS BACK OVER SEX ALLEGATIONS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amEmbattled ex-mogul Mickey Schulhof lashed out yesterday against his former bosses for claiming he used an expense account for hookers and sex club romps. Calling them "crude and vulgar," Schulhof...
CARUSO OUT, GOLIN IN AT DETAILS HELM
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amMichael Caruso's reign as editor-in-chief of Details came to a sudden end yesterday, just short of two years after it began, as the Conde Nast title raided Maxim editor-in-chief Mark...
PINK SLIPS THE NEW STYLE AT RALPH LAUREN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am"The women's area is not really contributing to profits."MARGARET WHITFIELD, Tucker Anthony Ralph Lauren is doing some belt-tightening. Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is firing 200 people, about 4 percent of...
AN EMBARASSMENT OF RICH'S
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York Times apparently thinks two acerbic Baby Boomer critics on its Op-Ed page the same day are too many - so one of them is going: Frank Rich....
UNPLUGGING THE BELLS AT&T, TIME WARNER IN $300M VENTURE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amMike Armstrong is getting ready to stick it to the Baby Bells. The AT&T boss announced a deal yesterday that will let him offer local phone service over Time Warner...
AT&T AIMS TO DIAL-UP THE REST OF CABLE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amNOW comes the easy part for AT&T - signing up the rest of the cable industry. With a Time Warner phone deal under his belt, AT&T cable chief Leo Hindery...
BILL:IF WE LOSE, CUSTOMERS LOSE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Washington - Embattled Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warned economists yesterday that innovation in the high-tech industry could be severely hampered if the justsice Department wins its antitrust case against...
EX-EXEC HITS IVILLAGE WITH SEX BIAS LAWSUIT
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Candice Carpenter's iVillage is being sued for breach of contract and misrepresentation by one of its former executives who says he was fired in a wholesale purge of men...
NEW R1 IS A-OK ; RENAISSANCE SHIP LETS YOU COVER LOTS OF MEDITERRANEAN TERRITORY & HISTORY IN CASUAL ELEGANCE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amT HANKS to the biggest ship-building boom since the era of the dreadnoughts at the start of this century, cruise passengers have choices today they wouldn't have imagined a few...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amChilly charmer Austrian Airlines wants to waltz you to Vienna this winter for $378 round-trip. You have to purchase your ticket by Feb. 14, and complete the journey by March...
SOME ENCHANTED DAYS & EVENINGS ; SAILING THE WESTERN CARIBBEAN ON THIS SMALLISH SHIP CAN OFFER BIG $AVINGS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amC RUISING on a smaller ship (23,000 tons) can be more fun - and sometimes cost less - than taking one of the 50,000-ton mega-ships. Lines on board are much...
CELEBRATING? BARGE IN!
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amF RENCH Country Waterways offers couples celebrating their silver wedding anniversary this year a 25 percent discount on select Burgundy, Champagne and Upper Loire barge cruises in July and August....
OLDIES, MOSTLY GOODIES REVISITED AT CITY BALLET
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amDance Review ONE particular joy of the vast and omnivorous repertory season New York City Ballet is giving in celebration of its 50th Anniversary is the restoration of many ballets...
PRINCE IS 'MASTER'OF HIS OWNDOMAIN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am*1999 - THE NEW MASTER The Artist NPGThe Artist Everyone Still Calls Prince leads his New Power Generation raid on Warner Bros. by releasing a series of rerecorded versions of...
IT'S FRANK 'N' STEIN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review THE avant-garde Wooster Group is putting on a 75-minute performance called "House/Lights," which blends two very different sources: Gertrude Stein's 1938 play "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and...
STORY OF FORBIDDEN LOVE IS NO 'BLESSINGS' IN DISGUISE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amCarter, whose claim to TV fame was as 'Wonder Woman,' wouldn't know how to play swept away if you cast her opposite an Oscar-nominated broom. "LaVyrle Spencer'sFamily Blessings" OLDER widow...
ATLANTA BURNING YEAR'S MOST-WATCHED SHOW BUT... ; SUPER BOWL RATINGS HIT
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amOVER half the nation's TV sets were tuned to Super Bowl XXXIII on Sunday - continuing the game's dominance as the year's most-watched TV event. But the game, in which...
'FAMILY' DEBUT SECOND BEST AFTER 'SIMPSONS'
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amFOX took advantage of the Super Bowl's massive audience to preview its new animated show "The Family Guy" and showcase a new episode of "The Simpsons." According to Fox officials,...
TV GUIDE WINNER HAS 'X' APPEAL
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amCOUCH potatoes last night made hot winners out of "X-Files" hunk David Duchovny and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at the TV Guide Awards. TV Guide said more than 1.2 million...
GOV. ZIG-ZAG ALTERS IMAGE TO SHOW HIS CONSERVATIVE FACE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amPataki was a fiscal liberal last year and a fiscal conservative this year. The only difference is that he doesn't need your vote this time. GOV. PATAKI Going national. IN...
CITY HOSPS RACING Y2K BUG
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amNew York's hospitals are scrambling to fix year-2000 computer woes that could potentially cost patients their lives. While industry leaders are quick to reassure the public that life-support machines and...
TRAGIC PATIENT INSPIRES PUSH TO BARE ALL ON DOCS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA coalition of medical watchdog groups wants the public to push for legislation that would make available doctors' backgrounds - including pending malpractice charges. The measure would be known as...
SKIN CONDITION IS MAKING STRESSED-OUT BUBBA BLUSH
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe president's been caught red-faced again - and once again, Monica Lewinsky may be the cause. Tension over his former intern's testimony yesterday may have caused the president's latest outbreak...
FEDS RIP LOUIMA COPS' PRIVATE EYE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amFederal prosecutors asked yesterday for an anonymous jury in the Abner Louima trial - saying one of the accused cops' private eyes "cannot be trusted" not to harass the panel....
STUDY: GENE THERAPY MAY OFFER A CURE FOR CIRRHOSIS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA new study shows a cure for cirrhosis of the liver in lab rats - raising new hopes to cure a disease that kills 25,000 Americans a year. In this...
PLAN TO SELL DRIVER LICENSE PHOTOS NIXED
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki scrapped his plan to sell millions of New Yorkers' driver's license photos to a private company yesterday, just hours after the controversial proposal was made public....
WOMAN SEEKS $25,000 OVER 'PEEPING TAN'
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman with a skin condition claims she's too traumatized to tan after a big-name Peeping Tom gave her the once-over at a sunning salon. In a suit filed...
IRAQ PUTS BOUNTY ON U.S. PLANES
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein is offering a bounty of about $14,000 to any Iraqi who shoots down a U.S. plane, a Baghdad newspaper said yesterday. The Iraqi president is also offering about...
STATE: HARLEM WILL BE GETTING MALL AFTER ALL
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amState officials said yesterday they are moving ahead with a scaled-down plan to build a mall in Harlem - over the strong objections of Mayor Giuliani. In the latest salvo...
BRONX'S IS 135 STILL CLOSED FOR TOXIC TESTS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amIS 135 in The Bronx remains closed again today while frustrated investigators continue conducting tests to try to solve the mystery of what has been sickening its students and teachers....
PAT: I RUE RUDY 'THERAPY' CRACK
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA contrite Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan yesterday apologized for suggesting Mayor Giuliani might better belong on a psychiatrist's couch than in the U.S. Senate. In an interview published yesterday in...
ORTHODOX JEWS IN ISRAELPROTEST REFORM SERVICE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - About 100 Orthodox Jews shouted, "Nazis!" and "Go back to America!" to a U.S. group of Reform rabbis who held a prayer service for men and women at...
VICTIM LOVED HIS KIDS & HIS WORK
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Vermont contractor who died of a heart attack while the city's 911 system crashed was described yesterday as a rugged outdoorsman and devoted father of two teen-age girls. Relatives...
RUDY'S HEADING TO 'FROZEN' NORTH FOR BUDGET TALKS ; ICY RELATIONS MAY PRECLUDE PATAKI MEETING
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Mayor Giuliani and Gov. Pataki are expected to give each other the cold shoulder today when the mayor comes to town to pitch for more state aid. As...
COMPROMISE NOT CONSTITUTIONAL: BORK
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Ex-Judge Robert Bork yesterday said it would be unconstitutional to punish President Clinton with a "findings of fact" resolution, but Republicans said Bork is confused. Bork, a conservative...
EYE-OPENING IDEA FROM DOZE FOLKS AT THE MTA
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe MTA is hiring sleep experts to help prevent crashes by keeping train operators and bus drivers from falling asleep behind the wheel. The fatigue management program will look at...
SCORES-SLAY TRIAL ENDS IN A HUNG JURY
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amJurors deadlocked yesterday in the Scores strip club double-murder - unable to unravel a tangled "he-said, she-said" case where the "hes" and "shes" are mostly mobsters, thugs and strippers. The...
FBI TAKES OVER NASSAU JAIL-DEATH PROBE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe FBI yesterday announced it's taking over the probe of jail guards at the Nassau County lockup, where one inmate died in custody and another was brutally beaten. "We came...
ANTICLIMAX IN DATE WITH MONICA - GOP MIGHT NOT MAKE HER TESTIFY
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky turned the tables on House prosecutors yesterday, deftly answering their questions and dimming chances she'd be called as an impeachment witness, sources said. Lewinsky stared down...
BIDDER END FOR O.J. - HEISMAN AMONG ITEMS IN AUCTION
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson's memories - and most of his assets - are going on the auction block in two weeks in a sale that could fetch some $200,000....
PREZ ROBBING N.Y. TO PAY FOR BUDGET GOODIES: GOV
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am"It's clear they [the Clinton administration] want to reap the benefits of our hard work."PATAKI PRESS SECRETARY MIKE McKEON WASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki's office yesterday fumed that President Clinton's 2000...
BILL & HILL AMONG FRIENDS IN N.Y.
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton and wife Hillary - the maybe-candidate for senator from New York in 2000 - will be back in the Big Apple today rallying fat cats as...
911 BACK-UP CENTER YEARS BEHIND SKED
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA back-up 911 center that could have kept emergency calls rolling during Sunday's computer crash is two years' overdue and is likely to remain on the drawing board for years...
BEVONA IS LAST OF A BRUISING BREED
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am"It's a great day when Gus Bevona steps down. He has a well-earned reputation as a symbol of everything that's wrong with the labor movement." CARL BIERS, ASSOCIATION OF UNION...
GOV RIPS DEM BID TO BLOCK SEX-ASSAULT LAW REFORMS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki blasted Assembly Democrats yesterday for opposing an overhaul of the state's sexual-assault laws, saying he'd urge legislators today to put politics aside and pass the measure. But the...
CREW URGING CITY LEADERS TO FOUND CHARTER SCHOOLS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew wants the city's arts and business leaders - from classical musicians to car dealers - to sponsor career-geared charter schools. Jumping on Gov. Pataki's charter-school bandwagon,...
HEVESI TARGETS NYPD DESK JOBS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThere are more than 1,200 uniformed police officers sitting behind desks, pushing mops and doing other jobs that could be done more cheaply by civilians, a city comptroller's audit charged...
PACT WOULD GRANT AUTONOMY TO KOSOVO
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amSerbia would effectively lose control over the ethnically Albanian province of Kosovo under draft peace proposals circulating in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, it was reported today. Word of the...
AT&T AND TIME WARNER IN PHONE-TV MEGADEAL
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amAT&T and Time Warner said yesterday they'd agreed on a mega deal in which the telecommunication giant will offer phone service over cable-TV wires. The deal - expected to eventually...
PATIENT'S KICK KILLS HOSPITAL COP: POLICE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA Health and Hospitals Corp. police officer died after he was kicked in the chest by an irate patient at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn yesterday, police said. Sgt. James Low...
DOORMAN-UNION BOSS IS OUT AFTER IRON-FISTED REIGN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amGus Bevona - one of America's highest-paid labor leaders - stepped down yesterday after 17 years as doorman-union president to settle a suit brought by dissident members. Bevona's sudden resignation...
GIRL, 6, AMONG THREE DEAD IN FIRE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amA 6-year-old girl, her grandmother and another person were killed last night in a smoky Bronx blaze that firefighters said started in a mattress. The little girl's 5-year-old brother was...
DEAD END KID HUNTZ HALL DIES AT 78
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: One of the last original Dead End Kids - goofy group mascot Huntz Hall - died at his L.A. home over the weekend at 78. The cause was heart...
WILL IT BE ELWAY OR THE HIGHWAY? ; QUEST FOR THREEPEAT MAY PROMPT RETURN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am"At 38 years old in the twilight of my career, you really have a tendency to focus on the now and not tomorrows."JOHN ELWAY MIAMI - They flew home to...
BRONCS PROVE 'D' MATTERS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amM IAMI - The hot coaches in the NFL are offensive guys like Mike Shanahan, Mike Holmgren, Steve Mariucci and Tom Coughlin. Even Bill Parcells, in his old age, has...
REEVES: NO THOUGHTS OF RETIRING
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Given his health concerns, the question was not out of line, and Dan Reeves did not take it as such. After a highly-successful but grueling...
WEARY REEVES WANTS TO RELAX
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The final gameplan of the season calls for rest. After all he's been through the past six weeks and the vast range of emotions that tested his mortality...
RULAND DREAMING OF BUFFALO SWEEP
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amSo heading into last night's home game against Niagara, the Iona Gaels' record stood at 11-10 (7-4 in the MAAC). So the Gaels had lost three of their last four....
MAYBE GLENN'S ONLY PLAYING DUMB
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amLONDON - Last summer the Sun newspaper mocked up a picture of national team coach Glenn Hoddle bound up in a straitjacket, and like one of his predecessors famously portrayed...
SHANAHAN WOULD FIT IN JERSEY
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am"I don't want to go anywhere, but I'd go wherever they sent me, whether it's New York, New Jersey or wherever."BRENDAN SHANAHAN At one time he was the Devils' poster...
GENERAL MANAGERS TO DEBATE POSSIBLE CHANGE IN TV REPLAY
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amGMs will debate giving referees discretion to overrule a video replay crease violation. From the NHL general managers' convention being held this week just outside Palm Springs: After a meeting...
HE GOT GAME - AND HE GOT BRAIN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amAndre Logan Sr. had it all figured out. Assuring himself that he'd eventually be playing in the NBA, the 6-foot-7 forward mostly neglected his studies while starring for Andrew Jackson...
LOWELL DEAL ARMS YANKS ; YARNALL HEADS TRIO OF MARLIN PROSPECTS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amInternally, the Yankees debated whether it would be easier to trade a third baseman in July for a stretch-drive need or pitching. Ultimately, they came to a cliched, but eternally...
BURRELL'S WOWED BY COACH CAL
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES The Nets may wind up with Scott Burrell after all. And they could get the 6-7 defensive-minded forward as soon as today. Burrell is expected to announce his...
SEIKALY'S SHOOTING FOR EARLY RETURN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amMaybe it was the sense that his Nets had hit a training-camp wall. Maybe it was the realization there is still a lot of work to do but very little...
HURTING HUSKIES HAMMERED BY CUSE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amHARTFORD - The first sign of trouble for UConn last night at the Hartford Civic Center was visible in pregame warmups. The layup lines looked a little short. Leading scorer...
HOT WINTER HELPS FONZ STATE CASE
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amWith his agent about to resume talks with the Mets regarding a multi-year deal, Edgardo Alfonzo helped make the case by tearing up the Venezuelan winter league. Playing third base...
RIB STRAIN CAN'T STOP WAYNE ; GRETZKY DECIDES TO PLAY VS. CAPS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amWayne Gretzky played in his 213th consecutive game since joining the Rangers, skating with a strained rib cage last night against the Capitals at the Garden. Gretzky tested the injury...
FIT GATLING RARIN' TO GO
February 2, 1999 | 5:00am"I'm more aggressive. I'm trying to get my play to where it was two years ago when I was an All-Star."CHRIS GATLING There never has been a doubt about Chris...
ORANGEMEN STOP UCONN'S UNBEATEN RUN
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amHARTFORD - Seldom in the history of college basketball has an undefeated, top-ranked team played such an ugly game as injury-weakened UConn did last night in a 59-42 loss to...
IONA REBOUNDS & NIAGARA FALLS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amIona 88 Niagara 75 Prior to last night's game, Iona first-year head coach Jeff Ruland said the most important statistic for his inconsistent basketball team is rebounding. The numbers against...
REPLAY, OVERTIME ON GMS' AGENDA
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amFrom the NHL general managers' convention being held this week just outside Palm Springs: After a meeting yesterday in which the GMs expressed satisfaction with the adjustments that had been...
A BRUTAL NIGHT FOR BACKLINERS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe hospitalized defensemen tally will end up tied, too. While Red Wing Larry Murphy was headed for observation in Detroit for a possible concussion on the night he tied the...
MADISON SQUARE GARBAGE ; ROTTEN RANGERS CLUBBED BY CAPS
February 2, 1999 | 5:00amCapitals 3 Rangers 1 If the Rangers were a Broadway show - which anyone who has seen them at the Garden this year assuredly knows they are not - they'd...