March 18, 1999
VENATOR'S NAME GAME - TOP HOLDER WANTS WOOLWORTH BACK
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amAl Kingsley hates the name Venator. He's not the only person who disagrees with the former Woolworth's name change to something less recognizable and harder to pronounce, but he is...
KING'S RANSOM HUNT - 'OPRAH' SYNDICATOR GOES BACK ON THE BLOCK
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amKing World is back on the auction block. The syndicator of "Oprah," "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" is in talks with at least one potential buyer, said a source close...
ABC WANTS AFFILIATES TO HELP COVER FOOTBALL COSTS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amABC execs are hoping to change the expensive relationship they have with their affiliates in a hurry. Time is of the essence, because a new deal would probably entail giving...
NO DOW 10,000? NO PROBLEM!
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amDow 10,000: fuhgeddaboutit! Top Wall Street strategists are already calling for Dow 36,000. "Stock prices are still far too low," wrote James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, economists at the American...
MILLER FINDS TIMES HAVE CHANGED IN MAG PUBLISHING BIZ
March 18, 1999 | 5:00am"I'm sure this has surprised Bob Miller, and put him in a lot of awkward positions." Steve Cohn, Media Industry Newsletter editor. Can a middle-aged executive from the buttoned-down world...
MAG AWARDS SMILE UPON NEW YORKER
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amAmid all the turmoil of changes in both its publisher and editor spots in 1998, The New Yorker topped the list of nominees for the 1999 National Magazine Awards, with...
MILLER FINDS TIMES HAVE CHANGED IN PUBLISHING
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amBob Miller must be longing for the sleepy life as a Time Inc. magazine executive. Following a 23-year career at Time Inc., including stints as publisher of the flagship newsweekly...
PERILS OF POTHOLES
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTHE yo-yo temperatures of the current almost-spring weather prompts more than your garden variety forsythia, daffodils and crabgrass to sprout. The flowers that bloom in the spring are prettier than...
TOP 'GUN' TOM: THE MUSICAL'S SECRET WEAPON
March 18, 1999 | 5:00am''At my age, I'm not going to be a movie star. But I would like to do some small roles in films. In the meantime, though, I'm enjoying the Broadway...
TV TICKER
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amNyetly News Tom Brokaw is NBC's "Man in Moscow" tonight when he conducts the first-ever North American TV interview with Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Brokaw's interview with Primakov will...
'HOME' BOY UNMASKED - BUT WILL WILSON SHOW HIS FACE BEFORE SERIES ENDS?
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amWILL "Home Improvement" unmask Wilson? That's the question confronting producers as they map out the show's grand finale. Wilson, the neighbor played by Earl Hindman, has never shown his full...
THOSE '70S MOVIES - 'BATTLESTAR' AND '$6 MILLION MAN' GO BIG SCREEN
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTHOSE sci-fi '70s shows keep coming back - this time as potential box office blockbusters. "Battlestar Galactica" and "The $6 Million Dollar Man," two popular shows with cult-like followings that...
OUR ODDS - BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTerrence Malick, "The Thin Red Line" (3-1) Scott B. Smith, "A Simple Plan" (7-1) Bill Condon, "Gods and Monsters" (5-1) Scott Frank, "Out of Sight" (6-1) Elaine May, "Primary Colors"...
DIARY OF A NOMINEE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amNew Yorker Liz Garbus, 28, is an Oscar nominee for best documentary for 'The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.'' about six prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary - two of whom died...
IT'S EASY TO MISS THE POINTE OF JAZZDANCE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: DANNY Buraczewski's Minneapolis-based company Jazzdance, which opened a week's season at Joyce Theater on Tuesday night, instantly raises an interesting question. Now what is jazz dance? From his company's...
HAMAS CHARITY OFFERS FREQUENT-FLIER POINTS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amGive money to a group linked to the Islamic extremist group Hamas, and you can earn frequent-flier miles. That is the brazen new pitch of the New Jersey-based Holy Land...
CARREY STRESSED FOR SUCCESS - WINS ANXIETY-GROUP HONORS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amJim Carrey has won the award for - being stressed out. The Anxiety Disorders Association of America tapped the comedy wildman yesterday for its annual "Realistic Enactment of Anxiety and...
TA DISHES THE DIRT ON CITY'S FILTHY SUBWAYS - FINDS RISE IN GRIME OVER THE PAST YEAR
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe subways are dirtier than they were a year ago, the Transit Authority reported yesterday. Forty-one percent of subway-car floors and seats inspected were grimy from September through December, compared...
SPITZER KOS FIGHT PROBE TO LET MORGY TAKE A SHOT
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday abruptly called off his probe of the Lennox Lewis-Evander Holyfield fight - but a state Senate hearing set for today will go...
MOOD RX MAY PREVENT HEART ATTACK - DOC SEES NEW USE FOR ZOLOFT
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA popular antidepressant, which has been used to calm Mike Tyson, may help prevent heart attacks, according to a study to be reported today. Zoloft sharply reduces the stickiness of...
BX. PROSECUTOR WANTS $2M FOR 'EMPTY' THREAT
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA top Bronx assistant district attorney is "terrified" by bizarre mail she got at home from a lawyer for a murder suspect she was prosecuting - and is suing his...
NATION OF ISLAM SAYS FARRAKHAN IS CLOSE TO DEATH
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amMinister Louis Farrakhan - firebrand leader of the Nation of Islam - is near death with a mysterious illness, his group's official newspaper says. "He has been gravely ill since...
GLOBAL BALLOONISTS MUST CONQUER ATLANTIC
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA Swiss-British balloon team drifted into the Caribbean yesterday on the final leg of their bid to become the first to circle the globe nonstop. Bertrand Piccard and Brain Jones...
BODY FOUND AT QNS. GOLF COURSE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA neatly dressed woman was found shot in the head yesterday on a road leading into the golf course in Forest Park in Queens, police said. The victim, who was...
HHC 'SURGERY' WILL CUT AWAY 90 JOBS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00am500 more layoffs need to be made by July.Ninety managers at the Health and Hospitals Corp. are scheduled to get the ax tomorrow, in the first round of 1,000 job...
NATO AIRSTRIKES NEAR AS KOSOVO TALKS STALL
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Kosovo peace talks appeared close to collapse yesterday and NATO airstrikes against Serbia could come "quite soon," U.S. officials warned. "Based on the last few days, we...
CLINTON URGES ST. PAT'S PEACE FOR THE IRISH
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Irish eyes weren't all smiling yesterday as President Clinton huddled with fighting Irish leaders and urged them to "heed the example of St. Patrick" and make peace. Clinton,...
DEMS WONDER IF SEN. HILLARY WANTS TO STAY IN WHITE HOUSE - AS PREZ
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amSUDDENLY, a lot of Democratic insiders are starting to ask each other if Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to run for New York senator as a stepping stone to the presidency....
SIX OLYMPIC BIGS BOOTED IN BRIBE SCANDAL
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe International Olympic Committee yesterday booted six of its members sullied in the Salt Lake City bribery scandal - in a bid to clean house and rebuild public trust in...
TOP STARR AIDE QUITS AS PROBES WIND DOWN
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Kenneth Starr's top prosecutor announced yesterday he's leaving the independent counsel's office after four years of pursuing President Clinton. Jackie Bennett's departure is another sign that Starr's office...
FAMILY STILL SEEKS JUSTICE FOR SLAIN TEEN
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe heartbroken family of a teen-ager fatally kicked and beaten at the St. Patrick's Day Parade two years ago returned to the scene of crime yesterday and begged prosecutors to...
SHOCKED KIN ID AMTRAK BODIES
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amRelatives of the 11 passengers confirmed dead in Monday's Amtrak crash made the grim pilgrimage yesterday to identify their loved ones and see the charred, mangled wreck where they perished....
FEDS' J0INT EFFORT MAY 0K WEED AS RX F0R ILL
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA federal advisory panel is high on the medical use of marijuana, saying pot may be the best treatment to stop the pain and suffering of AIDS and cancer patients....
LET'S EIRE IT FOR THE BIG PARADE!
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTemperatures in the 60s - and the allure of Hollywood veteran Maureen O'Hara, as grand marshal - brought record crowds to Fifth Avenue yesterday to celebrate the 238th St. Patrick's...
TRAIN-WRECK MIRACLE - DRIVER ESCAPES AS TRUCK STALLS AT LIRR CROSSING
March 18, 1999 | 5:00am"I just took one look and jumped for my life. I hadn't realized how big and powerful . . . it was." DRIVER COLIN CAMPBELL A truck driver miraculously escaped...
OUTRAGE OVER LAWYER'S BID TO SMEAR AMADOU
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTHE sound of the young girl's body smashing face-first into a black gate at the West 96th Street subway station was loud enough to attract Estelle Campagne's attention. Campagne, a...
HE'S HISSED OFF BY STATE SUIT TO SAVE SNAKES
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amJay Montfort is having more trouble with snakes than St. Patrick. But then again, when St. Patrick drove the creatures out of Ireland there were no bureaucrats around to tell...
KOCH WILLING TO BE BUSTED IN PROTEST - BUT NOT ALONE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Mayor Ed Koch yesterday offered to join the parade of politicians getting arrested protesting the Amadou Diallo shooting - but only if City Council Democrats and Speaker Peter Vallone...
GORE'S DAZE OF SWINE AND HOSES - GOP: HIS TALE'S A LOAD OF BULL
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Just days after Veep Al Gore gaffed by claiming he invented the Internet, he yesterday tried to paint himself as a down-and-dirty hog farmer - but Republicans guffawed...
MEDICAL MARIJUANA ALREADY LEGAL IN SIX STATES
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amSix states have legalized the medical use of marijuana. California was the first, passing Proposition 215 in 1996. Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington followed suit two years later. California...
WILDENSTEIN $ FACE-OFF DRAWING TOWARD A CLOSE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe end is near! Jocelyne Wildenstein is close to settling her down-and-dirty, drawn-out divorce with her billionaire art dealer-husband Alec - and is already making big plans for her new...
DUCKMAN HOPES CLIENTS AREN'T RUSSIAN TO JUDGMENT; EXCLUSIVE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amLorin Duckman, the booted former judge who sparked outrage when a woman-beater he released on bail killed his Russian girlfriend, is trying to make a comeback in the city's Russian...
SENIOR CITIZEN NABBED AS JFK DRUG SMUGGLER
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amFederal drug agents busted a 68-year-old Kenyan man who smuggled a kilo of heroin into New York from London, authorities said. "Imagine, he now faces the possibility of spending his...
SHOCKED KIN ID AMTRAK BODIES; SHOCKED KIN ID AMTRAK VICTIMS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amRelatives of the 11 passengers confirmed dead in Monday's Amtrak crash made the grim pilgrimage yesterday to identify their loved ones and see the charred, mangled wreck where they perished....
B'KLYN BOY, 4, SHOT AS GANG THUG OPENS FIRE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA 4-year-old Brooklyn boy was wounded by a stray bullet yesterday when members of the Bloods and Crips gangs got into a fight and one of the hoodlums fired a...
HOLYFIELD-LEWIS JUDGE FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY BEFORE FIGHT; HOLYFIELD JUDGE FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTHE judge who scored Evander Holyfield the winner over Lennox Lewis in Saturday's scandalous heavyweight title fight at the Garden filed for personal bankruptcy six weeks before the bout. According...
SALESMAN'S CO-WORKERS QUIZZED IN DEATH PLUNGE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amDoug Buchholz, 38, was involved in either horseplay or an argument with co-workers when he plunged through the closed window at the GM Building. A star computer software salesman -...
SPITZER LAUNCHES BIAS PROBE OF COPS - DO MINORITIES GET FRISKED MORE OFTEN?
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amCharges that city cops stop and frisk minorities more frequently than whites will be the subject of a sweeping state probe, Attorney General Elliot Spitzer said yesterday. The attorney general...
ED SEEKS COMPANY IN PROTEST BUST
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Mayor Ed Koch yesterday offered to join the parade of politicians getting arrested protesting the Amadou Diallo shooting - but only if City Council Democrats and Speaker Peter Vallone...
TA DISHES THE DIRT ON CITY'S FILTHY SUBWAYS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe subways are dirtier than they were a year ago, the Transit Authority reported yesterday. Forty-one percent of subway-car floors and seats inspected were grimy from September through December, compared...
DUCKMAN IS RUSSIAN AFTER LEGAL CLIENTS; EXCLUSIVE
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amLorin Duckman, the booted former judge who sparked outrage when a woman-beater he released on bail killed his Russian girlfriend, is trying to make a comeback in the city's Russian...
FREQUENT-FLIER BONUS FROM HAMAS CHARITY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amGive money to a group linked to the Islamic extremist group Hamas, and you can earn frequent-flier miles. That is the brazen new pitch of the New Jersey-based Holy Land...
BALLOON DUO SET TO START FINAL LEG
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amA Swiss-British balloon team drifted into the Caribbean yesterday and prepared to tackle the Atlantiic - the final leg of their bid to become the first to circle the globe...
DEVILS, OILERS ON CLOCK
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amEDMONTON - He wouldn't be a complete stranger to the Devils' coaching staff, if he comes. Oiler defenseman Boris Mironov, for whom the Devils are trying to trade, has a...
AUBURN VS. OHIO STATE: A SURPRISE PARTY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE - The basketball expectations for Auburn and Ohio State this season were about as high as those we apparently hold for our President's moral conduct - anything that wouldn't...
FRANCIS' LONG, STRANGE TRIP
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE - The worst moments were the six-hour bus rides from one small town in Texas, where junior colleges crop up like oil rigs, to another. Steve Francis, the Maryland...
OLERUD ON SWEET SPOT
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amKISSIMMEE, Fla. - Believe this at your own risk, but each spring when John Olerud steps into the batting cage for the first time against live pitching, he feels so...
GALVIN LAWYER RIPS INTO NYRA 'JUDGE'
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amAnother bombshell exploded yesterday in the year-long legal war between veterinarian Dr. Michael Galvin and the New York Racing Association when Galvin's lead attorney, Judd Burstein, charged New Jersey lawyer...
LINDEN'S FATE IN HIGHER HANDS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amIf Trevor Linden is dispatched before Tuesday's trading deadline, the Islanders captain will know it wasn't GM Mike Milbury's doing. Nor the wish of head coach Bill Stewart, who campaigned...
AMAZIN'! DUNCAN IS TOSSED
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Even in spring training fuses can be short. Mariano Duncan was ejected from yesterday's 2-1 Met win over the Astros by third base umpire Sam...
JR. COLLEGE STARS ABOUND IN REGION
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amSOUTH NOTES KNOXVILLE - If the marketing geniuses at the NCAA had a bright bulb in Thompson-Boling Arena, they would have found a sponsor for this regional and set up...
WALLY'S WORLD IS ONE BIG HOOP DREAM
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amOXFORD, Ohio - Wally's World feels like the center of the universe standing in a dark corridor that leads to a pep-rallied court of dreams. He is last in line....
UCONN MUST STEP 4-WARD
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Connecticut's Jim Calhoun has coached for 27 years and been on the bench for more than 800 games. And the Husky coach knows full well that he's judged...
STORM WARNING - HIGH-OCTANE TERPS CAN EXPLODE AT ANY TIME
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE - They are like a ticking bomb with so many triggers that even an explosive expert would be wise not to mess with the Maryland Terrapins. Which one of...
SPREE PUTS ANGER BACK INTO GAME
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe new Latrell has been more like the old Latrell - on the court - and that has made all the difference. After just trying to fit in, Latrell Sprewell...
CAL: CASEY NOT TOUGH ENOUGH
March 18, 1999 | 5:00am"I thought we needed someone who would be more assertive and tough, so I could be softer. He [Casey] is not that way." JOHN CALIPARI Fired coach John Calipari took...
MANCHESTER KO'S INTER AS RONALDO SITS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amLONDON - In the end, the most significant contribution Ronaldo made to Inter Milan's futile attempt to stay alive in the European Cup last night was his benching at the...
DARRYL WILL BE BACK
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Darryl Strawberry has 2 million reasons not to complain about getting shoved to the back burner yet again, a practice of which the Yankees never seem to tire....
STRAW: I'LL BE READY SOON - TELLS CASHMAN HIS HEART'S IN BRONX
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - If things don't work out with the Yankees, there is a strong chance another team would want Darryl Strawberry's lethal left-handed bat. However, until the Yankees tell Strawberry...
IOWA WIN'S JUST WHAT DR. ORDERS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Iowa's Tom Davis is no martyr. Dr. Tom is no tragic figure and he isn't looking for sympathy. He's a basketball coach, and like all coaches, he's just...
GONZAGA'S NOT DONE DANCING
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Don't call them Cinderellas. Tenth-seeded Gonzaga (27-6) continues its amazing March through Madness with tonight's 7:55 p.m. Sweet 16 date against sixth-seeded Florida (22-8) at America West Arena....
TORRE UNDERGOES SURGERY TODAY; PRAYERS AS TORRE FACES KNIFE TODAY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - When Joe Torre tried to sleep last night at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, he did so with the entire Yankees organization and an ocean...
HURTIN' SEIKALY'S RETURN WAS 'FOR GUYS'
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Nets center Rony Seikaly knew it was a mistake to try to come back Tuesday night from his foot injury in Toronto. But Seikaly was convinced by a...
VENTURA SOUNDS LIKE ACE AT 3RD; VENTURA A FINE FIT AT THE HOT CORNER
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets began Opening Day 1962 with a Z, Don Zimmer, at third base. They have been working backwards, looking for an A at the position,...
MARBURY LOBBIES FOR JAX - SAYS NETS NEED HIM TO TEACH THEM 'D'
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amWHEN ALL the smoke clears from this mess the Nets have made of their season, at least they will have Stephon Marbury. When you start to rebuild after a disaster,...
FASSEL WILL 'TAPE' IT EASY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amFor the record, Jim Fassel is happy that instant replay has returned to the NFL. But anyone watching the Giants play next season might be surprised to see how infrequently...
JAYSON HITS THE BOARDS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amThe hits have been there all season on Jayson Williams' thumb and to his pride. The pain from his ligament damaged left thumb has him in agony. The insinuations that...
STEPHON BULLISH ON JACKSON
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amBEFORE his home debut at the Meadowlands last night, Stephon Marbury's assessment of his new team went something like this: The Nets lack discipline, they need guidance, they can't play...
MARBURY PUTS END TO MISERY
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amStephon Marbury may be right in his pregame proclamation that the Nets need Phil Jackson to right the Nets' ship. But for the time being, their young wondrous point guard...
DEVILS OIL RIGHT SANS SCOTT
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 4 Oilers 1 EDMONTON - It happens all the time. Wayne Gretzky goes out, the Rangers catch fire. Last night, adrenaline and necessity powered the Devils, who will be...
ST. JOHN'S - MARYLAND MATCHUPS
March 18, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: PREDICTION: With all the attention on the teams' contrasting offensive styles, Maryland's defense has not gotten the credit it deserves. Maryland, which played the nation's 10th toughest schedule, held...