April 2, 1999
GOLF'S DUVALS MAY HIT GREEN
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amGetting into the sports record books along with your old Dad is no guarantee for fame and fortune. Father and son golfers Bob and David Duval - the first ever...
WALL ST. BACKS WINNING WARS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amHistory proves that Wall Street, like everyone else, loves short wars. One-two-three, the enemy is defeated and the world gets back to normal. WALL Street likes war, until it doesn't...
CBS MAY WELCOME DAYTIME QUEEN ON BOARD
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amOprah Winfrey's newest role could be that of becoming the first black woman to sit on the CBS board. Although she's called the richest and most influential woman in entertainment,...
BUY ONE, GET WINFREY - CBS HOPES KING WORLD DEAL WILL LURE OPRAH FROM ABC
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amCBS's Mel Karmazin is hoping to woo Oprah Winfrey away from ABC, The Post has learned. Karmazin announced yesterday that he'll pony up $2.5 billion in stock to acquire King...
SYNDICATION CHAMPS SEE LES IN BOSS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amRoger and Michael King aren't used to working for anyone. But the free-wheeling syndication tycoons will now be reporting to not one but two CBS execs - Mel Karmazin and...
'NET PIONEERS GET ULTIMATE PAYOFF
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner founded Broadcast.com in late 1995, Microsoft didn't even have a browser. Cuban was going door to door, trying to explain what his company AudioNet...
MUSEUMS PICK
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am"PICKLES AND POMEGRANATES - JEWISH HOMES NEAR AND FAR":The Jewish Museum's new interactive exhibition promises to transport families into two completely different Jewish homes at the close of the 19th...
KIDS' PICK
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amKIDS AND ART: Lincoln Center's "Movie for Kids" program will feature a four-part series exploring the relationship between film and video and the performing arts. It opens tomorrow at 2...
MUSIC PICK
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amCASH FLOW: With more than 1,500 songs and nearly 500 albums to his credit, Johnny Cash is arguably the most important living man in country music. To honor Cash's accomplishments...
GATHERING MOE-MENTUM
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amMOE is one of the best-kept secrets in modern pop music. The quartet from Utica was voted one of the top 10 underground bands of '97, and has been riding...
'FOLLOWING' A HOT TALE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am'FOLLOWING" is destined for a big following. It's a fabulous poison pill, a sleek, taut, black-and-white mystery that's all lean, no fat. English writer/director Christopher Nolan displays an uncanny sense...
TV TICKER
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amStern stuff Calm down, Howard - Dr. Laura Schlessinger now seems headed for Paramount Television. As The Post reported exclusively on Wednesday, radio-advice guru Schlessinger is being wooed by Paramount...
ABT ROOKIES STEPPING UP
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE ABT Studio Company is a ballet company with a mission - two missions, in fact. Indeed, call that two, three or even four. Directed for the past three years...
SINK OR SWIM TIME FOR 'BAYWATCH' BIDS - SHOW DECIDES BETWEEN HAWAII AND DOWN UNDER
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTIME is running out for the "Baywatch" soap opera. The hugely popular TV series needs to start shooting new episodes by the end of this month or early May in...
'TOWNERS' ON DOWNERS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am'THANK God for John Cleese," one peeved moviegoer said on the way out of the dispirited remake of Neil Simon's "The Out-of-Towners." Lord, yes. It is always meet and right...
ABC LURING HENSON TO SOUP UP ITS LATE NIGHT
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amE! Entertainment Television's "Talk Soup" host John Henson is in talks with ABC about a late-night talk show. The show would follow "Politically Incorrect" and pit Henson in direct competition...
PROBLEMS OF PACE BEDEVIL AFFECTING 'ANGELS'
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am'THE Dreamlife of Angels'' takes time to get going, but at last becomes an affecting story of doomed friendship between two young working-class women. It's worth watching for Elodie Bouchez,...
MSNBC WANTS NORVILLE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amDEBORAH Norville is talking to MSNBC about joining the all-news cable network. MSNBC has apparently approached Norville - the former "Today" show host and now anchor of the syndicated newsmagazine...
'ORPHANS' RAW GRIEF HITS HOME
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amI'M a Scotland junkie. I'll turn on the Glasgow-set BBC mystery "Taggart" mid-program just to hear the accents and unwind without caring who killed the corpse or why. On "Taggart,"...
RARE GLIMPSE OF MISOGYNISTIC MEXICO
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am'PAULINA,'' an earnest documentary about a Mexican woman's horrific childhood and escape to independence as a maid in Mexico City, is all but derailed by its amateurishness and film-school pretentiousness....
A VERY NUTTY 'COOKIE'
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amROBERT Altman gets all magnolia-mouthed in ''Cookie's Fortune,'' a genteel ramble through the manners and mores of a small Mississippi town. It promises to be a rich, closely observed character...
'SNAP' OUT OF IT, LIONEL - COURT TV SHOW A RUSH TO POOR JUDGEMENT
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am"Snap Judgment"Weeknights at 7:30 and 11:30 on Court TV HERE'S a snap judgment about "Snap Judgment": The show needs work. After watching the premiere last night, you couldn't quite figure...
GHOST TALES ON TAP IN 'WEIR'
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amAH, the sense of community, comfort and home that a bar can offer to the lonely, wounded and lost. Eugene O'Neill's ''The Iceman Cometh,'' opening on Broadway next week, is...
IRENE WORTH HAS STROKE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: STAGE legend Irene Worth, who is starring in the Broadway revival of "Ring Round the Moon," had a stroke Wednesday, forcing the show to cancel its first preview performance...
WTC PARACHUTIST LANDS IN JAIL, THEN CUTS DEAL
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amNew York's daredevil parachutist finally landed in front of a judge yesterday - and was offered a plea bargain on charges of jumping off three Manhattan skyscrapers. Thor Alex Kappfjel...
AID TRICKLES IN, BUT A 'DELUGE' IS NEEDED
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amSKOPJE, Macedonia. THE first mercy mission for the Kosovo refugees arrived last night - carrying just a fraction of the relief supplies needed for Europe's worst humanitarian disaster since World...
GULF WAR POW RECALLS TERROR OF CAPTIVITY
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amWhat Guy Hunter remembers the most - more than the beatings or the midnight interrogations - are the keys. The sound of the keys jingling in the hands of his...
GOV. BUSH'S EX-FIANCEE TELLS OF HIS TAMER SIDE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amPresidential timber George W. Bush was not a wild and crazy guy in his youth, his former fiancee insists. Cathy Young, 52, yesterday disputed the Texas governor's claim that he...
HILLARY TO HOST NITA FUND-RAISER
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will host a major fund-raiser next month for Rep. Nita Lowey, her political understudy for a possible Senate run. In making the announcement, Lowey's chief-of-staff,...
EX-FIRST LADY ON THE MEND
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amFormer First Lady Barbara Bush was recovering from back surgery at a Houston hospital last night. ''She feels great and is doing very well,'' said Karen Hughes, a spokeswoman for...
CRISIS TALKS PUT ON HOLD
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST - Negotiations on Northern Ireland's year-old peace accord have been scrapped for two weeks after four days of marathon talks failed to end the latest crisis. Despite the impasse,...
REFUGEES STUFFED IN TRAINS 'LIKE SARDINES'
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amThousands more Kosovar Albanians are being forced out of their homes by Serbian police and packed inhumanely into border-bound trains "like sardines," Western officials said yesterday. At least two people...
C0Y0TE C0RRALED IN CENTRAL PARK
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe wily coyote of Central Park - which eluded cops during a two-day hunt that had tourists scurrying in fear and the press corps racing in pursuit - has been...
COURT BACKS MCCALL ON BID TO AUDIT CITY
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani has no right to block his political foe, state Comptroller Carl McCall, from putting the city's books under a microscope, the state's top court ruled yesterday. Charging the...
EXPERTS CLASH ON TIMING OF BREAST-CANCER RX
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe question of how important it is to treat breast cancer quickly once women notice symptoms has been controversial for decades. Two new studies offer conflicting conclusions on whether a...
EACH 'LOST' A MOM TO MADNESS OF WAR
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST - The hopes for peace in Northern Ireland cannot erase the scars of war for Louise Brown and Michelle Williamson. These two Belfast women are from opposite sides of...
HE'S MAKING RACE HATE A CARDINAL SIN
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor says he will use his remaining days as New York's archbishop to work toward healing racial wounds in the city - including those opened by the killing...
HOW 'MOBSTERS' SNATCHED OUR BOYS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amSKOPJE, Macedonia. THE American soldiers kidnapped by Serbian terrorists were victims of a classic "mob snatch job." The claims by Serbs that the GIs were on Serbian territory would be...
LOUIMA COPS ASK FOR DELAY IN TRIAL DUE TO DIALLO CASE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe cops accused of attacking Abner Louima say they cannot get a fair trial in the wake of the Amadou Diallo killing - and want the judge to postpone their...
CITY 'GIFT-WRAPPING' TONS OF GARBAGE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amWhen it comes to shipping garbage, New York City has a brand new bag. Mint-green and hermetically sealed one-ton packages of shrink-wrapped garbage are being pitched as a stink- and...
SERBS THREATEN TO COURT-MARTIAL POWS - CLINTON PUTS SLOBBY ON NOTICE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Serbs threatened to court-martial three captured GIs today, while President Clinton warned he would hold Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic "responsible for their safety." "The United States takes...
RAMIREZ FOLLOWED IN BROTHER'S STEPS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am"He wanted to . . . see the world at the same time he was serving his country." RAMIREZ'S CHILDHOOD PAL BENJAMIN RIOS LOS ANGELES - Growing up in East...
'TOUGH KID' STONE HAS GRIT TO SURVIVE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amA photo of Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone in his high-school yearbook shows him tossing an eraser. The caption: ''There's never a dull moment.'' That certainly proved to be true...
GONZALES KNOWN FOR SELF-SACRIFICE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amSpc. Steven Gonzales always put the needs of others first - and that's what prompted him to leave college and join the Army three years ago. "He thought it would...
$TRAPPED GOTTI: SEND ME BACK TO JAIL
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe price of freedom is too high for John A. "Junior" Gotti - who stunned the judge in his looming racketeering case yesterday by asking to be sent back to...
SOME DRIVERS GET TO DETOUR AROUND DWI SEIZURES
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amDrunken drivers who get arrested on city toll bridges and tunnels are lucky - because bridge officers can't seize their cars, The Post has learned. Unlike city cops, MTA Bridge...
COP SHOOTS B'KLYN GUNMAN
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amA police sergeant shot and wounded a man who pulled a gun on her in Brooklyn yesterday, officials said. Two officers and the sergeant, all in plain clothes, were patrolling...
VICTIM'S MOM MAKES PLEA TO COPS' FAMILIES
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amAmadou Diallo's mom yesterday urged the families of the four cops who killed him to accept responsibility for his death - hoping their gesture will become "a symbol of reconciliation."...
IMAGE-MAKER TO GIVE NYPD AD-VANTAGE; EXCLUSIVE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe NYPD has retained a top Manhattan ad whiz to help polish its battered image in the wake of the Amadou Diallo shooting, The Post has learned. Arnell Group Brand...
TALKS ON HOLD AS BLAIR VOWS, 'NO TURNING BACK'
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST - Negotiations on Northern Ireland's year-old peace accord have been scrapped for almost two weeks after four days of marathon talks failed to end the latest crisis. British Prime...
SELFISH SPREE IS PAR FOR COURSE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE ongoing debate over Latrell Sprewell's particular brand of basketball and how it relates to the Knicks is best left to golfers. That's right, golfers. There are hundreds, if not...
FASSEL LIKES WHAT'S AHEAD FOR BIG BLUE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amAccording to head coach Jim Fassel, the Giants will be able to get a "rhythm" next season because of their schedule. "Last season, we had four West Coast games," Fassel...
A MINOR LEAGUE SCOFFLAW - WENDELL STILL OWES TIME FOR '94 OFFENSE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am"This one guy yells out from the stands, 'Hey, someone take a pitch. It's the seventh inning already and I ain't even drunk yet.'" TURK WENDELL PORT ST. LUCIE -...
CATCH THESE B'WAY HITS AT THE BIG A
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE cup overfloweth when entries were taken for today's seven-furlong Broadway Handicap at Aqueduct, forcing the $50,000 event for New York-bred fillies and mares to be split into two divisions,...
PHILLIPS: METS ARE ARMED FOR WAR
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - With only four days left until opening day, Steve Phillips has given up hope of making a trade for a starting pitcher in the...
JETS' ROAD ROUGHER
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amWith success comes not only reward but stiffer challenges. Such is the case with the Jets after winning their first-ever AFC East division title and advancing to the AFC Championship...
FLOUNDER FLOUNDERING SO FAR
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE flounder season is off to a slow start, with the weather being the main culprit for the lack of fish in some areas. The sun might be shining, but...
HERE'S HOW TO FIX THE FIGHTS - HOLYFIELD-LEWIS CAN'T BE SWEPT UNDER RUG
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amNow that the politicians have taken their turns before the cameras and microphones, have carved out their chunk of free publicity in the local papers, it is time to start...
A PRETTY GOOD FIT, BUT ... - SCHNEIDER A COSTLY QUESTION FOR RANGERS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amBrian Leetch will be the first post-season order of business with Wayne Gretzky following immediately after that. Will Leetch sign before taking a shot at the open market or won't...
STEWART SAFE FOR REST OF SEASON
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders coach Bill Stewart will finish the season. In an apparent attempt at quelling the firestorm regarding Stewart's shaky job status, GM Mike Milbury issued a statement yesterday saying Stewart...
JAYSON PLAYS NUMB
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amJayson Williams has had the feeling. But that's not necessarily a good thing. Because with the feeling comes pain. In his thumb. "Sometimes I can feel my hand, sometimes I...
MARBURY, VAN HORN OUT OF SYNC
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES They are so very much of the Nets' future, the pair the franchise hopes will become the Stockton-Malone combination in the East. But right now, Stephon Marbury and...
DON'T BELIEVE AIR HEADS - JORDAN COMEBACK REPORTS ARE FICTION
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO - I didn't believe word one of Fox Sports' exclusive regarding Michael Jordan until I read David Falk's denial. You can't find more accurate confirmation than that. This is...
BOSS RIPS 'FAT TOAD' IRABU - FAILURE TO COVER FIRST GETS GEORGE'S GOAT
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - A mentally shattered Hideki Irabu begged the Yankees to leave him behind in their minor league camp instead of taking him to Los Angeles last night. One hour...
KNICKS AS MUCH LJ'S AS THEY ARE EWING'S
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amLARRY Johnson was wearing a suit and tie last night as the Knicks took on the Cavaliers at the Garden. The unfamiliar dress made him more noticeable than when he...
TREVOR'S FATE ON THE BUBBLE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - With the departure of Tony Fossas yesterday morning, Trevor Wilson could be the second lefty in the Yankees' bullpen if he can prove to pitching coach...
ZIM'S NOT TAKING TITLE FOR GRANTED
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - They have no choice but to make sure their expensive yacht stays atop the AL East's waters, but Don Zimmer says to expect the Yankees to run away...
NBA FINES EWING $2500
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES "I didn't expect a suspension because [Patrick Ewing] didn't do anything wrong." JEFF VAN GUNDY Another break rolled the Knicks' way yesterday when the NBA suspended Jalen Rose...
HIDEKI SIMPLY IS NOT WORTH THIS KIND OF TROUBLE FOR THE YANKS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amHe has failed to come close to being "The Nolan Ryan of Japan" and instead has been an inconsistent pitcher and person. TAMPA - Last Sunday, 14 pitchers went through...
DUDLEY GOES FROM BORED TO BOARDS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amMuch has been made of Latrell Sprewell's status as a starter-reserve-starter. But truth be told, his minutes have been pretty much the same either way. It's been backup center Chris...
IT'S NOW OR NEVER - KNICKS ENTER STRETCH RUN TO GRAB PLAYOFF BERTH
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am"I think this has been such a weird season, I'm not sure exactly if they know how quickly it's going to end." JEFF VAN GUNDY The stretch run is on....
KNICKS WATCH & WIN - CASH IN AS CAVALIERS MISS WIDE OPEN SHOTS IN CLUTCH
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 78 Cavs 74 The Knicks have developed a new winning defense. Let opponents shoot wide-open shots. And hope they miss. On a night Latrell Sprewell started but sat out...
BENCH PICKS UP SLACK IN JOHNSON'S ABSENCE
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amFOR the first 3 quarters the Knicks stunk up the Garden. They were in one of their funks where it looked like they really weren't interested in playing the Cavaliers....
SPREE CAN'T FINISH WHAT HE STARTS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amAfter 16 games coming off the bench, Latrell Sprewell finally made his return to the Knick starting lineup last night. But as the saying goes, it's not who starts but...
AWFUL BREAK FOR JAYSON - WILLIAMS FRACTURES LEG, DONE FOR SEASON
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amNets 90 Hawks 85 The Nets defeated the team with the best road record in the East last night. And the only real reaction was, "So what?" Jayson Williams, the...
GILL STEALS GAME FROM HAWKS
April 2, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES In the morning workout, the Nets were running through several defensive schemes. At one point, assistant Jim Lynam implored Kendall Gill to "come up with a steal like...
NBA HITS EWING WITH $2500 FINE - BUT PATRICK ESCAPES SUSPENSION
April 2, 1999 | 5:00am"I didn't expect a suspension because he didn't do anything wrong." JEFF VAN GUNDY KNICK NOTES Another break rolled the Knicks way yesterday when the NBA suspended Jalen Rose for...