March 8, 1999
ICAHN READY TO LIGHT A FIRE UNDER RJR NABISCO
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amCARL Icahn has big plans for RJR Nabisco - and in the unlikely event they are implemented, they could shake up the entire tobacco industry. Icahn is gearing up for...
PAUL ALLEN'S BOX SET - MOGUL MULLS IPO, JUNK-BOND SALE
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amOne of the world's richest men is about to get a whole lot richer. Paul Allen - who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates - is getting ready to make an...
DIAMONDS ARE BASEBALL-HUNGRY DOLAN'S BEST FRIEND
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amFIRST Chuck Dolan wants to buy the Yankees. George Steinbrenner wants to merge with the Nets. Now Dolan wants the Mets. It's all a dance - and it could go...
AD TRADES BESTOW CONFUSION WITH AWARDS LISTS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe media industry's two leading trade publications, Advertising Age and Adweek/MediaWeek, unveil their magazine "best" lists today - and the widely divergent results are sure to spawn arguments debates, even...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amSKIN, and plenty of it, continues to grace the covers of the men's magazines - but there is a difference among the titles. If you only read the table of...
EMI DIPS INTO COOKIE JAR FOR NEW CHAIRMAN
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amEMI, the recording company that is home to Garth Brooks and the Spice Girls, has tapped United Biscuits group chief executive Eric Nicoli as its new chairman. Giving Nicoli the...
WIN OR LOSE OSCAR, FOR SPIELBERG ... IT'S A 'PRIVATE' TRIUMPH; EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am"I would have been happy to have just gone to work for George Lucas making cliffhangers and adventures. But when my first child was born, everything kind of changed." Steven...
HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE - UPN HITS NEW LOW WITH 'REDHANDED'
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am"RedHanded" Tonight at 8:30 on WWOR/Ch.9 IMAGINE Jerry Springer doing "Candid Camera" for Fox and you've got a rough idea of "RedHanded," with which UPN makes a desperate bid for...
NO 'STRANGE' LOVE FOR PHONY 'X-FILES' RIPOFF
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am"Strange World" Tonight and Tuesdays at 10 on WABC/Ch.7 BAD medicine meets "The X-Files" in an artificially inseminated ripoff titled "Strange World." Instead of Mulder, we have an expressionless Michael...
TV TICKER
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amKelley's hero David E. Kelley says he expects Fox's "Ally McBeal" to "have a very long life." Kelley was responding to a Post story on Friday in which he was...
HARMONISTS' TALE TOLD
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am'BAND in Berlin," at the Helen Hayes, has a moving and engaging story to tell. The Comedian Harmonists were a cheerful quintet of singers, plus a pianist, who, from their...
HOW TO MAKE GUCCI JEANS AND SAVE $3,429
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amThere's no question that this season's hottest item of clothing is the ripped, feathered and beaded hippie blue jeans by Gucci. They're in all the magazines: Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire......
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD FIGHT OVER WHO'LL BE BURGER KING - MCDONALD'S FOE MOVES NEXT DOOR
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amWest Third Street in Manhattan has become the Omaha Beach of the burger wars. A Burger King has opened next to a McDonald's. The opening of a new outpost of...
CLICKED-OFF CUSTOMERS TELL AT&T: WE'RE IN CELL HELL!
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am"I'll be in the middle of a business deal and I'll suddenly be cut off. It's hurting my business." ED WEINSTOCK Manhattan cellular-phone customers who sign up for AT&T service...
N.Y. BOXER: MY DAD FIGHTS THE GOOD FIGHT VS. SERBS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amELVIR MURIQI is a skilled boxing prospect: a 1998 Golden Gloves champion, now 19 years old and unbeaten after four pro fights. His trainer is Teddy Atlas, the Michelangelo of...
LATEST BUZZ ON WHAT BUGS UPPER E. SIDERS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amFOLKS on East 91st Street shouldn't put away their mosquito netting just yet. The bugs are back. No one can explain it, but like rich people to the Hamptons, mosquitoes...
ASSEMBLY TO BLOCK FUNDING FOR PATAKI'S SCHOOL PROBE; EXCLUSIVE
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amSTATE Assembly Democrats plan to kill Gov. Pataki's controversial Moreland Commission probe of city schools by denying the effort all its funding, The Post has learned. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...
ROD'S RACHEL FINDS LOVE WITH HOT YOUNG HUNK
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amRockin' Rod Stewart faced new heartache over the weekend as it was revealed that his estranged wife is dating a hunky TV actor young enough to be Rod's son. Model...
NUDE PIX CAUSE ROYAL BLUSH FOR SOPHIE
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amMore embarrassing topless photos of Prince Edward's bride-to-be have emerged - and Buckingham Palace is furious about plans to publish them on the eve of the couple's royal wedding. The...
ARNOLD-LOVING JAPAN OFFICIAL WILL NOT BE BACK
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe Japanese defense minister terminated himself yesterday - for being too rabid an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. Shozaburo Nakamura resigned after sheepishly admitting he held onto a handwritten government document that...
BACKSTAGE AT THE RUDY CREW SHOW
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am'Rudy Crew has extracted as much from his relationship with New York City as he's ever going to get; there couldn't possibly be a better time for him to move...
MONICA PRESSING THE FLESH IN U.K. BOOK JUNKET
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amClinton "undresses you with his eyes. And it is slow, from the bottom of your toes to the top of your head, back down to your toes again." MONICA LEWINSKY...
SLAIN INDIAN FROM BROOKLYN FELT SAFE 'WITH MY PEOPLE'
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amIngrid Washinawatok - one of the Americans killed during a mercy mission to Colombia - didn't fear for her safety because she was "among her people," her shattered husband told...
TAKE HEART! NEW LASER TREATMENT EASES PAIN
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amA new method in which doctors burn tiny holes into a patient's heart to relieve pain - instead of cutting the chest open - is safe and effective, researchers said...
BIG-LEAGUE BASEBALL HEADED BACK TO CUBA FOR FIRST TIME SINCE '59
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amViva beisbol! Americans will once again play their national pastime in Cuba, after a 40-year drought that started after Fidel Castro's communist revolution, Major League Baseball officials said yesterday. The...
STILL NO 'SIGN' OF PEACE - KOSOVO ALBANIANS HAVEN'T INKED DEAL
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amKosovo's ethnic Albanian rebel commanders met yesterday to discuss a Western-brokered peace deal - but didn't sign it, even though the Clinton administration had said they would. One source close...
15 ARRESTED IN FUR FIGHT
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amFifteen anti-fur activists were arrested and hauled away in handcuffs for chaining themselves to concrete barrels outside Macy's yesterday. They were among dozens of animal-rights demonstrators protesting the department store,...
'HE MADE FILMS FOR THE AGES'
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amSTANLEY KUBRICK hadn't given an interview in the two decades before his death. And he hadn't been recognized in public in that same time. So it was a historic night...
BUSH UNVEILS TEAM THAT MIGHT PUT HIM IN 2000 PREZ RACE - POPULAR TEXAS GOV RIPS 'PETTY POLITICS'
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Texas Gov. George W. Bush, adored by Republicans who think he can win the White House in 2000, yesterday opened his campaign by naming a team of hot-shot...
HOLLYWOOD MOURNS LEGENDARY DIRECTOR - MAN BEHIND '2001,' 'SHINING' AND 'STRANGELOVE' DIES AT 70; LEGENDARY DIRECTOR DIES
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amBronx-born Stanley Kubrick - who directed such groundbreaking films as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange" - died yesterday, just weeks after completing his most controversial movie. The...
SHALALA SHELLACS THREE D.C. MUGGERS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00am"Ms. Shalala did what she felt was necessary to protect herself, and it worked well for her." LT. PAT BURKE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA POLICE WASHINGTON - Donna Shalala, one of...
HURT HILL WILL SKIP HURRICANE MITCH TRIP
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't accompanying her husband on a goodwill tour of Central America. An errant skier slammed into the First Lady during her recent holiday in Utah,...
GEORGE JONES IS BACK FROM 'DEATH'S DOOR'
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amFabled country-music star George Jones was making remarkable progress yesterday from injuries he suffered in a Tennessee car accident that left him "at death's door." "It's remarkable that he's alive...
WEDDED DISS: CAMILLA OFF GUEST LIST
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amPrince Edward has bowed to his mum's wishes and booted brother Charles' longtime lover from his list of wedding guests. Camilla Parker Bowles won't be invited to the royal shindig...
NO VOUCHER TALKS YET FOR TWO RUDYS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amNearly a week after Chancellor Rudy Crew's bombshell threat to quit over proposed school vouchers, he has yet to speak with Mayor Giuliani. Giuliani, who is sticking to his guns...
HE ASKED FOR A STORY - AND GAVE ME ONE; HE GAVE ME A STORY
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amThis is a story about how I got a cameo appearance in Stanley Kubrick's upcoming movie, "Eyes Wide Shut." Or at least my byline will get a cameo. I thought...
ACTORS GUILD AWARDS HAIL GREAT 'SHAKES'
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amHollywood's in love with Shakespeare. The cast of "Shakespeare in Love" and its lead actress, Gwyneth Paltrow, took home top honors for the spoof of the bard's romantic life, at...
DEVILS CLOSING IN ON OILERS' MIRONOV
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe rumbles persist and even intensified. The Devils are believed to be closing in on Edmonton's Boris Mironov, even if it takes some doing. The word is that the Devils...
VALENTINE, HUNDLEY WAGE COLD WAR
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - Four times yesterday Todd Hundley and Bobby Valentine were within 60 feet of each other and yet hostilities did not break out. And Hundley had a bat....
AW, SHOOT! GILL'S BAFFLED BY SLUMP
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amKendall Gill has become almost symbolic of the problems plaguing the Nets. Some areas are just fine, thank you, but then you come to the matter of shooting. And when...
BRYANT CHARGES INTO FINAL
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amPSAL GIRLS B As Jenelle Rivera raced down the court with only seconds remaining in yesterday's PSAL Class B semifinal, it seemed certain that she would go in for the...
NO-FORTITUDE ISLES CAN'T TOUGH IT OUT
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 4 Islanders 2 The Islanders didn't just lose a game yesterday. They lost their spirit after being bullied by the Devils. On the heels of Saturday's 3-3 choke job...
LASORDA BLEEDS FOR BOBBY V
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - If you have ever had two close friends who hate each other, you know how hard all of this is for Tommy Lasorda. The former Dodgers manager...
MARCH MADNESS IS SHAM DUNK
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing quite so spiritually uplifting as spending an entire week listening to grown men - media professionals, no less - in earnest debate over NCAA Tournament seedings and whether...
NO. 1 LANE'S LATE RALLY UNDRESSES CENTRAL PARK
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amSEMIFINALS Lane 64 Cent. Park 61 Cleveland 58 Wingate 55 Its new uniforms were not ready for yesterday's PSAL semifinal. No problem. Central Park East figured to have its deluxe...
PETTITTE'S LEFT IN LIMBO - ANDY MIGHT MISS 10 DAYS WITH STIFF ELBOW
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - The first panic attack of the spring arrived before Andy Pettitte's debut was two innings old yesterday when the Yankees' No. 2 starter hooked himself from a game...
LATRELL'S INTO SHARING
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The Knicks got to see a different Latrell Sprewell yesterday. Sprewell, who came into the game with four assists in 104 minutes this season, handed out five assists...
KNICKS OWN THIS TOWN
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 97 Nets 86 The Nets talked the talk before the season about being the best team in town. They must have been talking about East Rutherford, certainly not the...
VANDER-LEWIS: NO CLASSIC
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amMORE THAN 50 years ago, A. J. Liebling, the greatest writer of fights who ever lived, wrote that the one thing all fight guys can agree on is that boxing...
SORE BACK ENDS IRABU PEN SESSION
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Andy Pettitte wasn't the only Yankee starter who had his work day shortened yesterday. Hideki Irabu was forced to shut down a bullpen session after seven...
ULF-LESS BUT NOT WINLESS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amRangers 3 Bruins 1 BOSTON - One by one they go down, one after another important Ranger an injury victim, yet somehow it doesn't seem to matter. Somehow, no matter...
GOOD TIMES & BAD, IT'S PATRICK'S TEAM
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amTHE horse still doesn't have to be made to drink. Undeterred by back-to-back end-game misses in back-to-back one-point losses, Patrick Ewing yesterday was back at the Garden scoring 30 points,...
DERBY HORSES GET DOWN, DIRTY
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amOne of the more crucial weekends on the road to Louisville is coming up when eight "Derby Dozen" horses race this Saturday and Sunday. Bob Baffert's two fillies, Excellent Meeting...
HEALTHY REED VEROS IN
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES VERO BEACH - After a miserable side session two days ago, Rick Reed was ecstatic to come back with a fine first spring outing yesterday. Reed gave up...
HOW IT ALL SHAKES OUT
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amEAST DEVILS TOUGH ENOUGH? For the last two months - since Duke overwhelmed Kentucky in the Jimmy V Classic, survived St. John's in overtime in the Garden and then rampaged...
YANKS HOLD BREATH; INJURY SENDS CHILL THROUGH YANKS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Andy Pettitte tried to look relatively unconcerned yesterday afternoon as he walked out of the radiology department of St. Joseph's Hospital, a place where no human being wants...
NCAA TO SCARLET: WE DON'T GIVE DAMN; COMMITTEE SNUBS SCARLET KNIGHTS
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amPISCATAWAY - Rutgers' dreams of its first NCAA Tournament berth in eight years ended last night when the Selection Committee didn't invite the Scarlet Knights to the Big Dance despite...
NIT MAKES HOFSTRA, HALL HAPPY
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amIt is not the NCAA Tournament, but Hofstra and Seton Hall celebrated their NIT selections last night as if it were. Conversely, Princeton was not popping any bubbly. "This is...
UCONN, WEST'S NO. 1, HAS EASIEST JOURNEY; NO. 1 IN WEST, HUSKIES HAVE EASIEST TRIP
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amHe is a control freak, a trait common in all coaches. Connecticut's Jim Calhoun happens to be a very successful control freak. Calhoun is 548-257 in 27 seasons as a...
SAMFORD NO PATSY
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amIt's Samford, not Stanford, and it's easy to make fun of a team from the Trans America Athletic Conference that is making its first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament. But...
XAVIER FEELS KNIGHTS' PAIN
March 8, 1999 | 5:00amOne team that can empathize with Rutgers over not getting an NCAA Tournament berth is Xavier. Despite posting a 21-7 record and playing in a respectable conference - the Atlantic...