February 22, 1999
ON THE NEWSSTAND
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amPICK up a men's magazine these days and it's one big T&A show. The categories two big boys, GQ and Esquire, both bucked the trend with refreshingly little T&A. Russell...
HILTON'S GAMING SPINOFF MAY BE BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amIS Park Place Entertainment going to have trouble just months after being spun off from Hilton Hotels? Not financial trouble, but regulatory trouble - the kind that gets casino licensers...
MORALE'S NOT PRETTY SINCE MERGER OF CITI
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amTrying to quash growing employee confusion and resentment about changes that have gone down since Citicorp merged with Travelers Group last year, Citigroup is taking over Madison Square Garden tomorrow...
WITH $1B TO SPEND, IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING (WORLD)
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amMICHAEL King believes this time things will be different. The King World boss says he has given his new acquisitions guru, media veteran Frank Biondi, strong financial incentives for success...
BROOKS BROS. ON SELLING BLOCK: REPORT
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amIs the venerable men's clothier Brooks Brothers on the block? Executives at London-based Marks & Spencer PLC, the chain's parent, in the midst of a top-to-bottom review, recently told European...
CIPRIANI'S SAYING 'SEE YA' TO WALL ST. SITE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amCipriani International is pulling out of downtown. The Cipriani family will sell its interest in Cipriani Wall Street to focus on its latest acquisitions, the Rainbow Room and 110 East...
ALL ABOARD FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE IN DINING - PARTY IS JUST THE TICKET
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amPRIVATE rail-car riding and dining is making a comeback. Traveling rail-car owners can park on the tracks at Grand Central Terminal and wine and dine their guests at bargain prices....
TV TICKER
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amHe's a Flake NBC's Tim Russert must be scarfing down those Flutie Flakes. Russert's "Meet the Press" won the Sunday-morning public affairs race again last week, notching nearly 5 million...
CHER AND CHER-ALIKE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00am"And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story" Tonight at 9 on WABC/Ch.7 "THE Sonny and Cher Story" is for rabid fans and retro fashion freaks only. To...
SHERRY CASTS A 'LINE' INTO 'BORDER' DRAMA
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: THE heart's in the right, albeit predictable, place in "Border Line," a thriller-cum do-good story about what can happen when whole groups of people are disregarded. Sherry Stringfield, who...
O.J.: HERE'S A SHOW FOR YOU
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amROSEANNE has an unusual guest on her talk show this Thursday: Nicole Brown Simpson. Well, not really. But Nicole, the murdered estranged wife of O.J. Simpson, will speak out for...
TALKS UNDERWAY TO BRING BRYANT OUT OF MOTHBALLS FOR A.M. SHOW; EXCLUSIVE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amBRYANT Gumbel could be joining the super-hot morning TV competition as early as May, according to TV sources. Gumbel, the former host of NBC's "Today" show, has been talking with...
WILDLY IMAGINATIVE 'JEWELS' IS PRICELESS
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHE most intriguing aspect of New York City Ballet's wholesale exploration of its repertory during its 50th anniversary celebration at the New York State Theater - its vaunted 100 different...
THUMB-THING SPECIAL - AN APPRECIATION OF GENE SISKEL
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHE death of Gene Siskel at the age of 53 silences one of the two most influential voices - or rather, thumbs - in the current cinema. In fact, it's...
KEY TO NYPD REFORM LIES IN REPORT RUDY IGNORES
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amMAYOR RUDY, please reread your police task-force report. It was wonderful. In the aftermath of the sickening, and still incomprehensible, shooting of Amadou Diallo, NYPD tactics and procedures are being...
A PEACETIME INCONVENIENCE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00am'Real warriors make everybody else a little nervous, andthey always have.' JOHN L. Behan, a fellow of rough demeanor and a Vietnam combat veteran of demonstrable authenticity, has been chucked...
MAYBE 'TAXI DANCERS' PREFER TO STRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amI REALLY do wish the woman in the white bustier would stop thrusting her breasts at me. You see, I just want to dance. I thought I had chosen the...
'PART TIME' GOV CATCHES IT FROM BOTH SIDES
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amNEW YORK'S most powerful Democrat yesterday accused Gov. Pataki of putting national political ambitions ahead of the best interests of the people of the state. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, in...
EBERT GIVES THUMBS-UP TO CONTINUING SHOW
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amA grief-stricken Roger Ebert vowed yesterday that the show will go on - with guest hosts for the time being - in the wake of Gene Siskel's untimely death. "It's...
I SURE HOPE BILL'S NO RAPIST
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amIF I were falsely accused of rape - whether I were Bill Clinton, Prince Charles or Joey Bullets from Brooklyn - I would move like a cougar. I would whisk...
SINGLE ROD'S THE HUNTER NOW - RANDY ROCKER: I'M DIVORCING, WANNA DATE?
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amRockin' Rod Stewart has decided to divorce Rachel Hunter - and is already back to chasing gorgeous blondes! The London Sunday Mirror says Stewart begged a stunning law student for...
600 COPS SET TO LAUNCH CITY'S NEW DRUG BLITZ
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amPolice will step up their dual war on drugs and the crime rate today, reassigning more than 600 cops to nine key precincts around the city, The Post has learned....
SUSPECTS FINALLY NABBED IN N. IRELAND HORROR BLAST - BOMB KILLED 29 VILLAGERS, HURT 370 LAST AUGUST
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amCops yesterday made numerous arrests in connection with the worst bombing in the history of Northern Ireland. The busts - linked to last August's bombing of the town of Omagh,...
REPORT: CRADLE-ROB TEACHER THREATENED TO CASTRATE TEEN LOVER
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe jailed Seattle teacher who had a torrid affair with her sixth-grade student threatened to castrate him if she ever catches him "touching or talking" to another woman, a new...
FIRST LADY'S N.Y. 'RUN' IS FRONT-PAGE NEWS NATIONWIDE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's unofficial campaign to be New York's next senator continued to snowball yesterday, with the First Lady snagging the covers of Time and Newsweek. And a...
PRAYERS & PROTEST AT CITY'S POLICE HQ
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 250 protesters descended on NYPD headquarters in downtown Manhattan yesterday to denounce alleged police brutality - and demand justice for cop-slay victim Amadou Diallo. "We're standing for righteousness....
REBEL YELL OVER KOSOVO PEACE PLAN PUTS U.S. HOPES ON HOLD
February 22, 1999 | 5:00am"Some really earthshaking decisions are being made, which is why it is difficult." U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels dug in their heels yesterday, snarling U.S....
TYSON NEEDS 'CHILL' PILL - LAWYER BLAMES PRISON RAMPAGE ON KO OF RX
February 22, 1999 | 5:00am"He was upset. He had not been medicated, and something happened, and he broke the TV." TYSON LAWYER PAUL KEMP Mike Tyson was taken off his antidepressant medication several days...
EBAY ENDS ONLINE SALE OF GUNS AND AMMUNITION
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amItems recently listed for sale include a "pre-ban Hungarian AK47" and a "pre-ban Uzi." The leading online auction house is shooting down sales of guns and ammunition on its Web...
RUDY: I WON'T HANG BILL ON HILL - VOWS NOT TO RAISE SEXGATE IN SENATE RUN
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday vowed not to make President Clinton's impeachment a campaign issue if he winds up running for Senate against First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I was one who...
TEEN 'STILL IN LOVE' WITH SLAY SUSPECT - 'NIGHTMARE' FOR B'KLYN PARENTS
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe 16-year-old Brooklyn girl who ran away with an accused killer-rapist was duped but still loves him, say her parents - who feared for a week she'd be his next...
TEACHERS-UNION BIG: GET A GRIP ON HELL HIGH
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amTeachers-union President Randi Weingarten yesterday called upon school administrators and police to get control of Lafayette HS, where students are running amok. "This is inexcusable," she said, reacting to a...
BOOZE IT & LOSE IT: DWI CAR-FORFEIT BEGINS
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amPolice were set last night to begin seizing the cars of drunken drivers in a tough new crackdown aimed at making streets safer, officials said. A memo obtained by The...
S.I. FERRY HERO COP DIES
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amEdward delPino, a hero retired cop who once captured a sword-wielding killer on the Staten Island Ferry, died this weekend. He was 67. Two died and nine were injured in...
THEO WON'T COME CHEAP
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amDEVILS at LIGHTNING Tonight 7:00 - FSNY WABC (770 AM) TAMPA - If the Devils decide to trade for help to run for the Stanley Cup, they won't find the...
CONTRACT TALK PLEASES LEETCH
February 22, 1999 | 5:00am"We both want the same thing, which is for me to stay in New York." BRIAN LEETCH EDMONTON - Though neither numbers nor proposals were exchanged between Neil Smith and...
BERNIE JUST ONE OF MEN-Y
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Had Bernie Williams arrived at any of the 29 other major-league camps with his new near-$90 million contract, he would have instantly felt the tonnage of being The...
VICAR CRACKS DOZEN
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amAlthough Exploit remains the top seed in this week's "Derby Dozen," there were some big shakeups in the wake of Saturday's Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park. It looks...
ROGER NOT AVERSE TO ADVISING IRABU
February 22, 1999 | 5:00am"If [Irabu] wants to talk and the opportunity arises, I would be more than happy to talk to him about the forkball." ROGER CLEMENS TAMPA - Roger Clemens is making...
NO DOUBTIN' THOMAS IN EARLY GOING
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amIn this age of advance scouts and videos sent around the country to get a peek at an opponent, there are not many secrets in the NBA. Here isone about...
GUNNER JONES: MUST BE PATIENT
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amMore than one person familiar with Charles Jones' fire-'em- up approach when he was at LIU stopped by his locker yesterday to offer some advice: You should shoot the ball...
MEDIA'S TRAGIC EXAGGERATION - STRAW WRONGLY PORTRAYED AS NOBLEST CANCER SUFFERER; MEDIA TURN DARRYL INTO SPECIAL CASE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amENOUGH, already. There's hardly a family in this country that hasn't been profoundly affected by cancer in a loved one. Yet, for the last six months Darryl Strawberry has been...
ROGER, BROSIUS BURY HATCHET
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Darryl Strawberry spotted Roger Clemens and Scott Brosius conversing in the Legends Field clubhouse yesterday and wanted to know if the Hall of Fame hurler and World Series...
HOLLOWAY STEALS THE SHOW - HALL DIMS RU'S NCAA CHANCES
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amSeton Hall 55 Rutgers 53 Seton Hall point guard Shaheen Holloway has the nerves of a gambler and the hands of a thief. And yesterday he used both to lift...
'ALL' FAVORED IN FUTURE BETTING
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amHorse players around the country wagered $267,748 on round one of the inaugural Kentucky Derby future betting conducted by Churchill Downs and offered by New York City OTB, Monmouth and...
BERNIE'S GOTTA MAKE MINOR MOVE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The Yankees certainly appreciated Bernie Williams showing up early yesterday to start earning his $87.5 million. However, after taking batting practice with hitting coach Chris Chambliss...
APODACA LIKES WHAT HE SEES - CALLS MET STAFF 'STRONG, STABLE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - After seeing all his charges throw one session in the first spring-training workouts, Mets pitching coach Bob Apodaca was asked yesterday to think of himself for...
BARUCH TURNS UP THE HEAT - PRESSURE DEFENSE FINALLY WEARS DOWN BRIDGES
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amBaruch 79 Brooklyn 61 "Eventually, we were going to wear them down. They lost all of their energy and that's when we can pull away from teams." BARUCH'S JOHN PERCODANI...
KING: TRINIDAD DESERVES OSCAR
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amFelix Trinidad stood in the bowels of the Garden late Saturday night, juggling two Puerto Rican flags and a kiss to an adoring public that always seems to make it...
LJ SAYS HE'LL HAVE TO PLAY THROUGH THE PAIN
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Johnson gained peace of mind last night but will have to learn to live with pain in his left knee. LJ finally had an MRI done on...
OH, SO HORRI-BULL WITHOUT MICHAEL - KNICKS PUMMEL PATHETIC CHI
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 79 Bulls 63 Now that Michael Jordan has left the building, the thrill - not to mention the skill - is gone. The Knicks, who for years talked about...
BOBBY V: WE DON'T NEED WELLS; FOR STARTERS, BOBBY'S HAPPY
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Behind the desk sits a tortured genius. He is intelligent enough to discuss wide-ranging complex issues in such a way as to leave his spellbound audience...
SURGING GAELS SEND MESSAGE - SHOW THEY'RE READY FOR TOURNEY
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amIona 97 Siena 80 The message was clear, stamped in the form of Iona's 97-80 domination of Siena yesterday on the foreheads of the Saints' players as they quietly filed...
PIAZZA IS LIVING BY OWN RULES
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Players received a handout yesterday of the team's standard spring training rules, which prompted reporters to wonder if the team's biggest star, and one...
STATEN ISLAND & YORK ROAR INTO WEDNESDAY'S SEMIS
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amCUNY ROUNDUP Don't expect College of Staten Island head coach Tony Petosa to have much of a sense of humor before his squad takes on Baruch during the CUNY Athletic...
GOTTA GIVE VAN CREDIT FOR KNICKS' FAST START
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amBEATING THE Bulls isn't as satisfying as it once was. It's certainly nothing to brag about, not with Michael retired and the rest of the dynasty scattered like confettithroughout the...
MARK MADNESS - JACKSON'S FLOATER AT :00.6 OVERCOMES VH'S HEROICS
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Throughout the fourth quarter, the Nets made defensive play after defensive play to halt the Pacers. For nearly eight full minutes, they denied, denied, denied, as 14 straight...
BARUCH, CSI & YORK ROAR INTO SEMIFINALS
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amCUNY ROUNDUP Baruch guard John Percodani likens his team's defense to a prize fighter's body blows. Their effect might not be immediately apparent, but eventually they take their toll. If...
CASSELL MAKES A CAMEO
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The plan was to keep Sam Cassell out. He admitted he aggravated his injured right ankle Saturday in Cleveland, so last night was a time to...
EVERS FOULS UP FINISH - MISSED FTS AT :01.9 ALLOW HUNTER TO SURVIVE
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amHunter 78 Medgar Evers 77 "I knew he was going to miss. It was all about who wanted it more and we did." HUNTER GUARD NICK PLEVRITIS Henderson stood on...
BLUESHIRTS STRIKE OIL IN EDMONTON
February 22, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Rangers 2 Oilers 1 EDMONTON - The journey of a million miles to a playoff berth may have begun in earnest here last night. For the first time in...