February 5, 1999
REV. AL: FROM PICKET LINE TO ONLINE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amFans and foes of the Rev. Al Sharpton will soon be able to "chat" with the outspoken black activist minister 24 hours a day. Later this month, Sharpton and his...
WHAT IF I CAN'T MOVE OUT AFTER THE CLOSING?
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amGENERALLY speaking , right after the closing on a house, co-op or condo, the buyer can move right in. The house or apartment should be "broom clean" after the movers...
SPITZER QUERYING INTERNET BROKERS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amNew York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is launching an inquiry into the online brokerage industry after consumers complained of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars when trades did not...
SEC MULLS FRAUD CHARGE VS. BEAR STEARNS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am"Harriton's...30-year career on Wall St. has been built on making good faith decisions that comply with (securities) rules and regulations." HOWARD WILSON, Rosenman & Colin, attorney for Bear Stearns executive...
GUCCIONE DEAL FOR CAR MAGS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amPenthouse owner Bob Guccione Sr. is entertaining offers to sell his four automotive magazines to Emap Petersen for around $70 million, according to industry sources. The deal will include Four...
VICTORIA'S SALES SIZZLE, STOCK SLIPS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe Victoria's Secret fashion show may have been a hit on the web, but investors didn't share in the party. Shares in both Intimate Brands, the lingerie company's parent, and...
PSEUDO BRINGS IN NEW CEO, PLANS IPO; EXCLUSIVE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amSilicon Alley's Pseudo Programs, producers of Internet-TV site Pseudo.com, is bringing in a new chief executive officer to help ready the company for an initial public offering. Founder Josh Harris,...
PRINCE-POLYGRAM DEAL A DUD
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amA Saudi prince's effort to buy the rest of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment is dead, The Post has learned. Talks between Prince Muhammad Bin Bandur Abdul Aziz and PFE parent Seagram...
PRIMEDIA BUYS, SHUTS TWO SOAP MAGAZINES
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amPrimedia boss William Reilly snuffed out two of his magazine rivals yesterday when he bought Soap Opera Magazine and Soap Opera News, and immediately closed them. Primedia already publishes the...
NEW COSBY PUBLISHER
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amFunny man Bill Cosby is teaming with Disney's Hyperion books to publish his next book "Congratulations! Now What?!: A Book for Graduates." His most recent book is the kids title...
STATE FRAUD PROBE LEADS TO BUTI CALL
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York Attorney General has issued subpoenas in a probe of allegations that ousted Fashion Cafe founder Tomasso Buti and his supermodel wife Daniela Pestova looted the company. Investigators...
'FANTASTIC' VOYAGE A BAD TRIP
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amSOME movies require drugs. "Fantastic Planet" is one of them - and Prozac isn't strong enough. The Cinema Village has revived Rene Laloux's French language, subtitled 1973 animated feature. (Alas,...
HORROR'S 'LAST' DETAILS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amAS powerful and disturbing as you would expect, "The Last Days" is the first feature-length documentary from Steven Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation. Unlike previous, wider-ranging Holocaust documentaries, it deals...
PEANUTS REVUE 'GOOD' AS NEW - 'CHARLIE BROWN' REVIVAL IS FRESH AND FUN
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHEY'RE so mythical by now, so familiar, that they're like characters we've met in dreams. Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts gang is as deeply ingrained in the American psyche as Mark...
HILARIOUS 'BODY' DELVES DEEP INTO HEART OF TEXAS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHE racy title of S.R. Bindler's wonderful slice-of-life documentary - "Hands on a Hard Body" - refers to the contest at the hilarious heart of this compulsively entertaining, off-the-wall picture....
'THE 60S: 'A BUMMER, MAN - BUT THE MUSIC'S STILL A TURN ON
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am"The '60s" Sunday and Monday at 9 on WNBC/Ch.4 "THE '60s" has a great beat. You sure can dance to it. You might even be able to appreciate it. But...
RIPLEY'S MAKING A COMEBACK ON TV? YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amBELIEVE it or not, "Ripley's" is coming back. A new weekly version "Ripley's Believe It or Not" is being produced for TBS and will air in prime time starting next...
NBC : LAKERS - 11 L.A. GAMES IN SCHEDULE THAT ALMOST IGNORES BULLS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am'It was our guess that they are a team that's going to be very popular.' - NBC Sports spokesman Ed Markey NBC is betting the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant...
DIERDORF OUT OF 'MONDAY FOOTBALL' - AWAITING CALL FOR NEW FACE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amDAN Dierdorf has quit "Monday Night Football" after he said ABC refused to extand his contratct. "Yesterday, ABC Sports informed my representatives at The Marquee Group that no substantial offer...
QUINTESSENTIALLY Q - TUNES TITAN JONES CAN'T STOP REACHING FOR THE TOP
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am''I don't know how to please 50 million people; I know how to please me.'' Quincy Jones QUINCY Jones - Q to his friends and fans - is arguably the...
CALL IT SIMPLY UNWATCHABLE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am'SIMPLY Irresistible" is an early contender for one of 1999's 10 worst films, the sort of stupid, boring mess that you walk out of wondering if the direction was worse...
RUSH OUT AND SEE FUNNY & TOUCHING FABLE 'RUSHMORE'
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amA quirky, sometimes hilarious and often touching comic fable, 'Rushmore'' is at times reminiscent of both 'The Graduate'' and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'' It is also, at least until its...
BIG DEBT OWED IN 'PAYBACK' - MEL MISCAST IN COPYCAT CRIME CAPER
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am'PAYBACK'' is the film equivalent of Frankenstein's reanimated monster: It has all the freshness you'd expect of something assembled from the body parts of other movies. Except for a few...
TONY FOLKS BURY THE AX, INK PACT
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: There is plenty of behind-the-scenes Tony Award news to report today. First, the much-ballyhooed feud between the two organizations that run the Tonys has been resolved. The American Theater...
ATOM & EVES: HS GIRLS FIND NEW MOLECULE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amCall them the next Madam Curies. Three Long Island high-school students have discovered a new molecule that may be put to medical use as an antibiotic. Sara Miller, Katie Sarris...
VIAGRA GETS SOME STIFF COMPETITION
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amPfizer Riser, meet Big Brother. A Chinese drug company has unveiled a natural herbal version of the popular impotence drug Viagra that it touts as safer, healthier and cheaper than...
DEUTSCHE BANK FUNDED DEATH-CAMP BUILDERS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amDeutsche Bank AG - which is poised to take over Bankers Trust - helped finance companies that built the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, newly revealed documents show. Germany's largest...
SLY SAWYER VIDEOTAPE GETS A CHILI RECEPTION
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amDiane Sawyer yesterday apologized for secretly filming fellow ABC employees at her Upper East Side penthouse for a "20/20" segment - footage that was scrapped after a worker griped. "I...
'TIGER LADY' TOLD TO MEND HER FENCES
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amNew Jersey officials yesterday slammed the "Tiger Lady" for "substandard" and "dangerous" practices at her private preserve - less than a mile from where a big cat ran loose last...
ODB TO SUE FOR 'AS MUCH $$ AS I CAN'
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amRapper Ol' Dirty Bastard yesterday vowed to sue the Police Department after a grand jury cleared him of charges that he tried to kill cops who pulled him over in...
ALI COULD WIN FIGHT FOR REGULATION; ALI'S NEXT BOUT SHOULD BE FIGHT TO REGULATE BOXING
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHE champ's words don't float like a butterfly anymore. Rather, they crawl like a tortoise, slowly leaving his tongue, then dying softly in mid-air. But once you digest what he...
SERBS OK TALKS BUT REJECT PEACE PLAN
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amLawmakers in Serbia last night agreed to join peace talks aimed at resolving the bloody conflict in war-torn Kosovo - as President Clinton hinted he may send in U.S. troops...
REIGN STORM MESSY FROM BEGINNING TO END; REIGN STORM MESSY FROM START
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHE historic passing of the torch that sent shockwaves from the Middle East to the White House came suddenly and without grandeur. On Jan. 25, in a heavily guarded airport...
FROSTED FLAKES ARE GRRREAT, BUT WHEATIES ARE GREATEST
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amThree-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali finally made it onto a box of Wheaties yesterday, nearly 30 years after he rocked the sports world with his power, politics - and wit....
WITNESS: WEDDED WORM WAS WOOZY
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amA man who saw Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra at the marriage-license bureau the day of their whirlwind wedding says the basketball bad boy looked extremely drunk. "His eyes were...
LIEUTENANT GOV TAKES 'EXCEPTION' TO GIULIANI - HE'S ONLY GOPER SHE MISSES IN CITY HALL VISIT
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amIn the latest skirmish in the war between Mayor Giuliani and Gov. Pataki, Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue yesterday visited every elected Republican in City Hall - except the mayor. While...
STANFORD STANDS BEHIND CHELSEA
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amStanford University students rallied around the school's most famous sophomore after the White House slammed a People magazine cover story on Hillary and Chelsea Clinton that hits the stands today....
KING HUSSEIN TAKES FINAL FLIGHT HOME; LEAVES U.S. HOSP TO DIE IN JORDAN
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amA gravely ill King Hussein checked out of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota yesterday after a failed bone-marrow transplant, and flew home to Jordan to die, officials in Amman said....
DRAGGING HOLOCAUST INTO FEUD IS A DISGRACE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amHANNA RIGLER, who is married to a judge, tells you about people who couldn't walk. "They shot them," she said, talking about the death march from Stutthof, Lithuania, into German...
HEARTS LOVE CHILE WINE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amWine drinkers, get ready to ditch your favorite French tipple. If you value your heart, scientists say, Chilean wine is best. A new study by Scottish scientists shows that red...
TEEN 'THELMA & LOUISE' PULL OFF HEIST: COPS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amWestchester cops have named two teen girls from Brooklyn as suspects in a daring White Plains bank robbery that netted $9,000 in cash. And detectives last night urged the junior...
NEW YORKERS: RESPECT FIRST KID'S PRIVACY
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amNew Yorkers have one thing to say to People magazine: Leave Chelsea alone. In an exclusive poll conducted for The Post by SurveyUSA, 78 percent of metropolitan-area residents said that...
COPS GUN DOWN UNARMED MAN - 41 BULLETS FIRED AT BX. 'SUSPECT'
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amFour veteran cops from an elite anti-crime unit blasted 41 bullets at an unarmed Bronx man yesterday - insisting later they thought the young African immigrant was reaching for a...
VICTIM WAS TRYING FOR 'BETTER LIFE'; HE TRIED TO BUILD 'A BETTER LIFE'
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amAmadou Diallo was living the American Dream. Friends say he died the American Nightmare - wrongly cut down by overzealous cops. "He came here for a better life," said Diallo's...
MAJOR WIN ON 'MINOR' POINT IN SEX WAR
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe ruling means the club can't stay open just because it is willing to admit minors. By LAURA ITALIANO"Adult" establishments can't dodge a city shutdown by admitting children, a panel...
HERO TEACHER TRIED TO SAVE STUDENT'S LIFE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTeacher Jeanmarie Acunte put on her "Save the Children" button when she went to work yesterday morning - and hours later, cried for a child she couldn't save. "I heard...
SCHOOLBOY, 11, KILLED IN BRAWL WITH CLASSMATE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amAn 11-year-old special-education student was killed yesterday in a schoolroom fight with a 12-year-old classmate as other kids looked on in horror, officials said. As a teacher desperately tried to...
SENATE TO ROLL THE TAPE ON MONICA - NIXES LIVE TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF VIDEO
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday said "no" to live testimony from Monica Lewinsky but "yes" to hearing her story on videotape - including an admission she has "mixed feelings" about...
TRAVEL AGENT BEAT B'KLYN EDITOR: COPS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amA Brooklyn travel agent was busted yesterday on charges of beating a newspaper editor whose stories accused him of overbooking a tour of Pakistan. Mohammad Za Siddique, 48, was charged...
VERNON CHIDED A LEWINSKY IN LOVE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky blushed and giggled when Vernon Jordan confronted her about President Clinton - scolding her, ''You're in love with him,'' the ex-intern told House prosecutors. In her video deposition...
NEW YORK! NEW YORK! - YANKEES, METS WERE OFFSEASON CHAMPS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amRoger Clemens probably will get one wish. Look for Houston to bring him home. DAN REEVES lost the Super Bowl, the traditional symbol that pitchers and catchers are upon us....
STREAKING DEVILS FINDING AWAY - CAROLINA VICTORY UPS ROAD MARK TO 17-7-1
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am"We have a really great goaltender, and that allows you to win road games." ROBBIE FTOREK ST. LOUIS - Like nomads, the Devils are more at home away from home....
SPEEDSTERS CAN'T WAIT TO HEAT UP THE GARDEN
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe notion of USA Track & Field's new Golden Spike Tour was to create intense head-to-head competition, to provide dramatic and emotional theater for track fans to sink their teeth...
MASBACK'S FETE TOES USA'S LINE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK When Craig Masback was named as the CEO of USA Track & Field in July 1997, he was given the unenviable task of breathing life back into the flagging...
ALBAHA LANDS IN PERFECT SPOT
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S no Silver Charm, no Free House, no Gentlemen in today's feature at Aqueduct, a $47,000 allowance at a mile and 70 yards. But there is a horse who's run...
ON LAND OR SEA, IT'S ABOAT TIME
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Long Island Boat Show is in full swing this weekend, but if you need a little persuading to wet a line there are codfish out east and blackfish to...
CZERKAWSKI ON THIN ICE BENCHED AGAIN VS. BRUINS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - Make that two trips to Islander coach Bill Stewart's doghouse in nine days for right wing Mariusz Czerkawski. Czerkawski was scratched last night vs. the Bruins at Fleet...
PATRICK IS READY BUT NOT PROPHET
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am"My knee feels a lot better. A lot of the rustiness that I had is gone. So I'm expecting to be myself." PATRICK EWING At 36, maybe he's maturing. Or...
CHECKETTS: WE'LL SIGN LEETCH - GARDEN PRESIDENT CONFIDENT OF DEAL; EXCLUSIVE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amExpressing confidence that Brian Leetch will re-sign with the Rangers whether sooner or later, Garden president Dave Checketts yesterday told The Post that he is comfortable going past the Mar....
ST. JOHN'S BIG WISH GRANT-ED
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHE TIMING couldn't be better for St. John's. After faltering with just one win in its last four games - all against Top 25 teams - the Red Storm's most...
BLAZERS HAVE INSIDE SCOOP - BIG MEN ARE WHY PORTLAND GETS NOD OVER LAKERS, ROCKETS FOR NBA TITLE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amSINCE Michael Jordan punked out of the challenge to win 70 games in a 50-game season and Karl Malone can't see the basket because his eyes are filled with tears,...
METS, FONZ STILL TALKIN'
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES The Mets are taking steps to keep Edgardo Alfonzo in their organization for many years to come. With the deadline of Tuesday morning coming up fast upon them,...
ALL'S WELL WITH SPREWELL - LATRELL'S NOT NERVOUS ABOUT PLAYING FOR REAL
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell doesn't figure to get all choked up about playing his first regular-season game tonight since fastening his grip around P.J. Carlesimo's neck in December, 1997. "I...
A BLACK MARK ON TWO TEAMS - RANGERS, CANUCKS TWO FINE MESSES
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amIT CAME true after 54 years, it really did, despite the shortage of evidence at Madison Square Garden last night. After a wait of that long, the encore figured to...
THE KNICKS GOT GAME - FINALLY - SHORTENED SEASON BEGINS IN ORLANDO
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am"Whether Michael is here or not, our goal is to win a championship." ALLAN HOUSTON ORLANDO - Better late than never. You can hear the hamstrings popping. It's been nearly...
HARRIS LOOKS TO MAKE MOST OF BREAK
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES With the likes of Jayson Williams, Keith Van Horn, Sam Cassell and Kendall Gill on the roster, Lucious Harris is definitely in the "one of the other guys"...
VAN HORN WANTS IT ALL
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amHe is a building block. Actually, he is the building block in the Nets' franchise. Last year, Keith Van Horn received a pass of sorts. He was a rookie, a...
EWING STILL HOLDS KEY TO SUCCESS; MAKE NO MISTAKE, EWING'S THE KEY
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amORLANDO - His teammates, almost to a man, say Patrick Ewing is doing what he needs to do to make the Knicks the championship team they want to be. He...
NETS LIMP TO STARTING LINE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00am"Thank God we have a deep team. Hopefully, we'll have a healthy team." KEITH VAN HORN Jayson Williams, the Nets' and the state's self-appointed publicist and ambassador, was appraising both...
TORRE'S '99 GOAL: SPRING FORWARD
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amWith pitchers and catchers less than two weeks away from reporting for spring training, manager Joe Torre is still pulling in awards from the Yankees' record-breaking 1998 campaign. And yesterday,...
RANGERS, WAYNE OWN THE GARDEN
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amThis time, the brief pre-game ceremony honored a Ranger, not a former Ranger. This time, the Garden belonged to the home team. There is - and always will be -...
POTVIN BREAKS THE ICE - GOALIE GETS 1ST WIN AS ISLE
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amIsles 5 Bruins 4 BOSTON - Felix Potvin hardly stole the game, but he won a game. Finally. Nearly one month after the big trade. And as the final buzzer...
IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH - DEVILS KEEP WINNING DESPITE LACK OF PUNCH
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 2 Blues 0 ST. LOUIS - The Blues are committing the heresy of calling rookie goalie Rich Parent "Bernie," but the Devils' netminders are doing a better imitation of...
GRETZKY, MESS: MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amIT CAME true after 54 years, it really did. The banner waving on the 7th Ave. side at Madison Square Garden remains as solitary confirmation on the majority of nights,...
SPREE YOU AT PARADE - NEW-LOOK KNICKS WILL WIN IT ALL
February 5, 1999 | 5:00amORLANDO - Dave Checketts & Co. stuck out their necks for Latrell Sprewell. Call them hypocrites for landing the coach choker, but they'd much rather be called champions. That's why...