March 12, 1999
ICAHN'S SECRET PLAN FOR RJR
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amWHAT does Carl Icahn want? Icahn seemed to have won his battle with the food and tobacco giant this week when RJR Nabisco announced that it would not only sell...
EXCHANGE: NO BIG-TIME CELEBRATION ; PLANNED FOR 10,000 MANIACS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amDon't expect any fireworks at the New York Stock Exchange today, even if the Dow Jones industrial average breaks through the historic 10,000-point mark. True, NYSE officials, The Post has...
PAXSON ATTRACTS 'EM; MEDIA MOGUL IS MAGNET FOR TAKEOVER TALK
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amLowell "Bud" Paxson has been approached by a variety of media companies interested in creating joint ventures with his broadcast network, said sources close to Paxson. There is also increased...
BT PLEADS GUILTY IN $19.1M FRAUD CASE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amBankers Trust agreed yesterday to pay $63.5 million in fines after pleading guilty in federal court to keeping some of its customers' money for itself. Bank employees, encouraged to make...
ICELAND FAMILY SAGA NOT SO HOT
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amAlthough you only get to see some of Iceland's extraordinary scenery at the end, there are some lovely sunsets along the way. P ARTLY about the subversive effects of American...
LANG'S GOT IT GOOD, AND THAT AIN'T BAD
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amRock Review J ONNY Lang - the skinny white kid who has developed into one of the best blues-belting guitar slingers on the circuit - hit the Hammer with a...
BOB COSTAS JUMPS FENCE FOR A STINT ON ESPN BASEBALL
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amNBC's Bob Costas is becoming the cable guy. Costas - NBC's lead baseball announcer - will cross over to cable's ESPN to call a handful of major league baseball games...
'BABY GENIUSES' A LITTLE BUNDLE OF OY
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTHE advent of a baby has a way of separating even the crankiest reviewer from his inner Fran Lebowitz. Since my wife and I discovered we were expecting, I have...
COUNTDOWN TO THE OSCARS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amBEST ACTRESS Our Odds Gwyneth PaltrowEven Cate Blanchett10-1 Fernanda Montenegro10-1 Meryl Streep30-1 Emily Watson50-1 THIS year's Academy Awards field is the hardest one overall to predict in years. But best...
A BLACK DRAMA - AT LAST ; BOCHCO DEVELOPS 'DREAM' SHOW WITH MINORITIES IN THE LEAD ROLES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amSUCCESSFUL dramas with lead characters who are black have become as rare as a Knicks' Championship ring. But Steven Bochco, the creator of "NYPD Blue" is looking to break the...
FEROCIOUSLY GOOD 'LION'; FORGET HEPBURN IN THE MOVIE; CHANNING IS AN ELEANOR TO BEHOLD
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review WHO'S afraid of Eleanor of Aquitaine? Pretty much everybody gathered to celebrate an affectionate family Christmas in 1183 at a castle belonging to her husband, King Henry II...
WAR SCENES 'WING' A BELL
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amB ASED on the science-fiction computer game, "Wing Commander" cheerfully borrows scenes, characters and storylines from World War II movies and resets them in outer space. For the most part...
'ANNIE GET YOUR GUN' PRODUCERS FIRE BACK
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amCAN the musical ''Annie Get Your Gun'' survive the evisceration it received from critic Ben Brantley in The New York Times? The $6-million revival, starring Bernadette Peters, opened March 4...
HARMONIC CONVERGENCE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amIF the story told in ''The Harmonists'' weren't true, it undoubtedly would have been invented for the movies. Whenever a scene in this pleasant but conventional German import seems too...
CHOW: MAIN MAN
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTHOSE of you who remember "Year of the Dragon," the intense Mickey Rourke thriller, along with "The Replacement Killers," starring Chow Yun-Fat, may have excessively high expectations for this dark...
EAGER SCHOOL BANK MARCHED OFF ROSIE: KIDS HEARTBROKEN WHEN TOLD THEIR SHOW'S OFF
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amROSIE O'Donnell has some off-key news for a Georgia high school band - don't bother showing up to appear on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" this week as promised. The marching...
'CARRIE' - D AWAY ALL OVER AGAIN
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTHE RAGE: CARRIE 2 Starring Emily Bergl, Jason London. Directed by Katt Shea. Running time: 100 minutes. Rating: R. At First and 62nd, Union Square 14, Criterion, others. AS much...
'OCEAN' EBBS AFTER SWELL BEGINNING
March 12, 1999 | 5:00am'THE Deep End of the Ocean'' is about what happens to a family when a kidnapped child returns years later as an adolescent - as the millions who read the...
TIPPI'S TV MOVIE FOR THE BIRDS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Inside a beach bungalow at Cutesypoo Corner, a marriage of 16 years and three kids is brought tumbling down by infidelity and other cliches worn smooth in many movies...
PLAYING TOP COP COULD BE KID'S BEST MEDICINE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amA 12-year-old Mississippi boy who had a brain tumor had his dream come true yesterday when top city cop Howard Safir made him honorary police commissioner. Matthew Ford - in...
PREZ, FIRST LADY FACE TRIAL BY JERRY
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amIINTERRUPT my maternity leave to tune in to a special news report of historic political, cultural - make that biblical - proportions: Announcer: On the next "Jerry Springer" - "Women...
CHEF BURNED FOR POACHING TIPS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amCable-TV chef David Ruggerio pleaded guilty to cooking his books yesterday - avoiding jail by admitting he padded customers' credit-card payments with more than $100,000 in fake "tips." Ruggerio, 36,...
$33M LOTTO JACKPOT JUST THE TICKET FOR BETTOR LIFE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amLotto Fever hit the Big Apple yesterday as the jackpot skyrocketed to a whopping $33 million. The huge payoff for tomorrow's drawing was announced by state lottery officials after there...
COLO. GRANDPARENTS IN TRAGIC TREK TO STREET OF TEARS; EXCLUSIVE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe father and grandparents of slain social-work student Amy Watkins stood yesterday on the spot where she was murdered and said they will "always carry the scars" of her death....
DEVOTED MOM OFFERS HER LUNG TO AILING SON
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amA loving Connecticut mom is set to give her 13-year-old son a new breath of life - part of her lung to replace his diseased organ. Bobby Scoopo, who turns...
'MONICA'S' ON TOP OF BEST-SELLER LIST
March 12, 1999 | 5:00am"Monica's Story" knocked Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" off its No. 1 perch on best-seller lists yesterday - but a random sampling of bookstores shows Monica mania may already have...
SUSPECT'S PIC SCARED LOUIMA: COP
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amA cop testified yesterday that Abner Louima "appeared to be afraid" and "opened his eyes very wide" when he saw a photo lineup that included a picture of his alleged...
COP HIDES OUT IN CLOSET TO COLLAR CHURCH THIEVES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amA outraged Catholic cop put two heartless Bronx thieves behind bars yesterday after watching from a church closet as they tried to break into a poor box, police said. "I...
FOES TRY TO KO ST. PAT'S COP BOXERS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amA controversial boxing tournament between cops from the NYPD and Ireland has gone underground because of threats of violence and political interference, The Post has learned. PBA boxing team coach...
JOE'S BRO: 'EVERYTHING LOOKS ENCOURAGING'
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA, Fla. - Yankee skipper Joe Torre's prostate cancer hasn't spread and he'll be back in pinstripes "in the near future," big brother Frank Torre said yesterday. "No cancer is...
TV WEATHER WOMAN CHARGED WITH DWI
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTV weather forecaster Julie Golden was arrested for driving while intoxicated after she hit another car yesterday on the East Side, police said. Golden, 37, was alone in a 1999...
RUDY SETS CREW STRAIGHT: I'LL FIGHT TO GET VOUCHERS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amLess than 24 hours after Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew declared Mayor Giuliani's explosive voucher proposal "off the radar," the mayor said yesterday he won't give up. "It's not off my...
MCCALL: NIX GOV'S COSTLY ED PROBE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe city's once-troubled School Construction Authority has turned around, eliminating the need for Gov. Pataki's multimillion dollar probe of the agency, a state report contended yesterday. Comptroller Carl McCall said...
HELP COPS BAG THE BEANIE BANDIT
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amA brazen bandit is still on the lam after stealing Jabber the Parrot and 200 other Beanie Babies from a store last month, Suffolk cops said yesterday. Police yesterday asked...
IS IT DIVIDE AND CONQUER? - HILL BOOSTS SENATE ODDS BY DITCHING BILL: EXPERTS; EXPERTS SAY SPLIT WITH PREZ BOOSTS HILL'S SENATE HOPES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amNew York Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf predicted "voters won't blame [Hillary] and they might even support her more." A First Marriage on the rocks could spur Hillary Rodham Clinton to...
STEPHANOPOULOS THINKS BILL FED HILL LIES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton probably didn't come clean when he first told wife Hillary about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, former top aide George Stephanopoulos says. In his new book, ''All Too...
ABC SLICING INT0 J0AN'S PRE-0SCAR GAB-A-TH0N
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amABC is putting an Oscar-night squeeze on Joan Rivers - sweeping her off the red carpet a half hour before the ceremonies begin to make way for its own competing...
RUDY OFFERS 10G REWARD IN BID TO SNARE KILLER
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday put up a $10,000 reward for information leading to the killer of Amy Watkins as cops prepared to release a sketch of a suspect. Detectives continued to...
INMATE 'MIDWIFE' SUES FOR $100M
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amAn ex-inmate is suing Nassau County for $100 million, claiming she delivered a fellow inmate's baby in a cell unaware the woman was HIV-positive. Keenya Simmons said she went to...
ANGRY ORTHODOX JEWS TIE CITY TRAFFIC IN KNOTS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amIsrael's culture wars exploded on the streets of Manhattan last night as more than 7,000 chanting Orthodox Jews converged outside the Israeli Consulate to denounce Israel as a "police state."...
STARR FLACK RESIGNS AMID FUROR OVER 'LEAK'
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sexgate/Whitewater prober Kenneth Starr yesterday said his spokesman - suspected of leaking information to The New York Times - has resigned. "As we announced on Feb. 1, 1999,...
FEDS DROP PHONE RAP FROM GOTTI INDICTMENT
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amFederal prosecutors yesterday dropped phone-card-scam charges from a massive racketeering indictment against John A. "Junior" Gotti. But prosecutors said the action would have no effect on the remaining charges accusing...
FIRE HEROES SAVE BABIES - FEARLESS DUO RISK LIVES IN HIGH DRAMA
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amFirefighters yesterday plucked 6-week-old twins from the arms of their panicked mom as she leaned out the window of her blazing, smoke-filled Upper West Side co-op. The twins - Isabella...
PAT & CHUCK SQUEAL AT $79M PORK GRAB
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New Yorkers stand to lose $79 million after powerful lawmakers in Washington, Maryland and elsewhere raided the money pot for pork. The money comes from New York's welfare...
HOUSE DEBATES SENDING U.S. TROOPS INTO KOSOVO
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The House spent yesterday debating whether to send 4,000 U.S. troops to Kosovo - while critics warned the mission was a mistake. In a debate that lasted into...
EASY-READ DRUG LABELS COMING
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe FDA yesterday announced new rules requiring aspirin, cold remedies and other over-the-counter drugs to have standardized, easy-to-read labels. The regulations, announced by Vice President Al Gore in Washington, require...
HOUSE VOTE BOOSTS BILL ON KOSOVO
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The House last night gave President Clinton a key foreign-policy weapon on Kosovo when it rejected a bid to oppose sending troops to the war-torn Serbian province. By...
POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THIS MAN IN AMY SLAYING
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amPolice last night released a sketch of a possible suspect in the Amy Watkins murder case - identified by a passer-by who came face-to-face with him just moments after the...
LAFAYETTE'S EHLERS OUT TO PROVE HIS POINTS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amAs a senior at Bay Shore High School on Long Island, Brian Ehlers averaged 31.4 points per game, more than anyone else in New York. But because Bay Shore isn't...
UCONN'S OVERLOOKED STAR ; FREEMAN DOES WHATEVER IT TAKES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Looking back, Jim Calhoun figures he should have known from Kevin Freeman's very first game in a Connecticut uniform. There wasn't much excitement about Freeman's arrival on the...
BEWARE THE MANE EVENT ; WHEN KING'S INVOLVED, PPV FIGHTS CAN GET HAIRY
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amI'M not sure why, but tomorrow's Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis fight has a lot of people juiced. It doesn't do much for me, but what do I know? I was a...
MANHATTAN HIRES GONZALEZ
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amBobby Gonzalez, who was the top assistant to Pete Gillen at the University of Virginia, will be introduced as the men's basketball head coach at Manhattan during a press conference...
DROP A LINE WHILE YOU WAIT
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amT HE last of the major sporting shows has come and gone, and with little more than a week to the opening of the flounder season and almost three to...
LEITER FINALLY COMES UP ACES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - The inspiration for Jason Isringhausen and Paul Wilson dresses a couple of locker stalls over at the Met complex. More than a decade ago, Al Leiter was...
DEVS OWNER HEATS UP MOVING PLAN
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amLaunching a pre-emptive strike at a forthcoming New Jersey state report that is expected to be critical of his Hoboken Station arena plan, Devils owner John McMullen yesterday claimed his...
BOOTSY OR BUST ; ST. JOHN'S NEEDS THUMBS-UP EFFORT FROM THORNTON IN DANCE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00am"When you're a scorer and you don't score, it feels like punishment."BOOTSY THORNTON SOUTH ORLANDO - Unless the name on the back of the jersey is Pollyanna, no one wearing...
GIBBONS HAS MAJOR POTENTIAL
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - The Mets have what they think is a can't-miss prospect in Triple-A, but he will never again play in the majors. The reason for that is because...
HEALY HAMMERS ISLANDER PURGE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amScott Lachance's salary purge Tuesday night made defenseman Rich Pilon the last player left from the Islanders' 1993 playoff team that stormed to theconference finals, beating the two-time defending Cup...
COWBOYS CONNECT EARLY, OUST ORANGE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amOkla. St. 69 Syracuse 61 INDIANAPOLIS - The game - and the NCAA Tournament, of course - pretty much ended for Syracuse the way it began, with Oklahoma State picking...
JERSEY GIRL RETIRED
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - Jersey Girl, runner-up for last season's 3-year-old filly championship after going 7-for-7 in '98, has been retired and will be bred to A.P. Indy. On the comeback...
'THIEF', 'ALLEY' SET TO GO
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - The two Florida Derby hopefuls were only yards apart as they circled the walking ring at Gulfstream Park yesterday, which is a lot closer than they were...
DOMINICAN PRESIDENT PLANS TO MEET METS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES FORT LAUDERDALE - The Mets are sending a split squad to the Dominican Republic today and besides playing two games against the Expos there, they also will get...
LEWIS: WEIGHT AND SEE ; LEWIS CARRIES HEAVY BURDEN
March 12, 1999 | 5:00am"He's much too light. Lennox will destroy him."LEWIS' MANAGER IN boxing, they don't say, "May the bigger man win." But it has been said that, "The bigger they are ..."...
ODOM FINALLY TASTES TOURNEY
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - This talent-stacked Midwest Regional today will begin to sort itself out with no shortage of compelling stories of determination and inspiration accompanying the four games at the Bradley...
FRANK'S HEART GOES OUT TO JOE
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Settled 29 months into its new home in Frank Torre's chest, this heart is more than strong enough to bear another cross, no problem. One brother died of...
ZIMMER'S NO JOKER
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Don Zimmer was done telling stories in a Legends Field dugout, tales that took him back 30 years and made the listeners roar with laughter. "You tell a...
PROP 48 STILL ANGERS CHANEY
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - John Chaney didn't look like a man that had just won the battle, hardly sounded like a man whose beliefs had just been vindicated. But he's always seen...
NETS ARE NO STRANGERS TO BLOCKBUSTER DEALS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Some things just go together. Peaches and cream. Horse and buggy. The Nets and blockbuster trades. The Nets struck again. The team that was involved in the biggest...
PATRIOTS DON'T FEAR CINCY
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - No. 14 seed George Mason opens the NCAA's East Region facing a daunting task, playing without injured guard Erik Herring against a third-seeded Cincinnati team that's favored by...
STRAW LEFT IN LURCH BY TORRE ILLNESS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Having made his debut as a DH Wednesday against the Red Sox, Darryl Strawberry is looking to play left field soon but realizes not having Joe...
ARKANSAS SILENCES DOUBTERS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amArkansas 94 Siena 80 DENVER - Heavy favorites usually move on, but there was a strange feel to this first-round game, a feel that Kareem Reid could not ignore nor...
VAN: MARBURY SHOULD CURE SICKLY NETS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe Knicks' major financial move of the day was the official signing of Marcus Camby to a six-year deal. Give the Nets credit. Lots of it. That was the word...
MSG PERFECT STAGE FOR HOLYFIELD-LEWIS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amEvander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis stood on the same scale yesterday that Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier did in 1971. It is rusted red now, the wheels wobbly and the...
NETS BRING MARBURY HOME ; 9 PLAYERS, 3 TEAMS INVOLVED IN SWAP
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Something had to be done. Something bold. Something exciting. Something that would make people sit up and take notice again. Stephon Marbury is the answer on all those...
DON'T LOOK FOR ACHING EWING BACK IN LINEUP ANY TIME SOON
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Don't expect to see Patrick Ewing in the lineup for awhile. While coach Jeff Van Gundy wouldn't pinpoint when he expected The Franchise to be back in the...
ROCKET RAISES PULSE RATE, LOWERS ERA
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Firing bullets doesn't get Roger Clemens' heart beating fast enough or his mind concentrating at peak performance during a spring training game. So, in between innings The Rocket...
NETS BRING MARBURY HOME: BLOODSUCKER FALK PULLING ALL STRINGS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - My prevalent thought regarding yesterday's agent-infested, nine-player, three-team, three-starting point guards trade is that everybody got what they wanted, and dumped almost everyone they didn't want, except the...
ISLES' COMEBACK SHORT-CIRCUITED
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe Scott Lachance salary purge Tuesday night made defenseman Rich Pilon the last player left from the Islanders' 1993 playoff team that stormed to the conference finals. Two of those...
HIGH PRESSURE FOR HURRICANES
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - The uniforms and the names are the same. Miami brings essentially the same roster into its second straight NCAA Tournament - but the similarity stops there. Last season...
CAMBY DISPLAYS WEALTH OF TALENT
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 98 Wizards 86 Marcus Camby was asked before the game how he planned to celebrate his new-found riches, after signing a contract that could pay him as much as...
JOHNNIES STORM INTO ROUND TWO: RELENTLESS ATTACK TAKES BIG BITE OUT OF BULLDOGS
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amORLANDO - Now the stakes get higher. Now the journey begins in earnest. Now we get to see if this St. John's team is one of the nation's best or...
HUSKIES DON'T NEED CALHOUN
March 12, 1999 | 5:00amUConn 91 Texas-SA 66 DENVER - Even in his weakened state, Jim Calhoun no doubt enjoyed the view from his hotel bed. Forced off the bench because of an intestinal...