April 12, 1999
ROSEN'S TIME WARNER TICKET TO RIDE THE 'NET
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amTICKETMASTER founder Fred Rosen has resurfaced - as a consultant to Time Warner and Sony at their struggling electronic commerce site at Columbia House. The presence of the hard-charging online...
IPO TO BRING FOREIGN NEWS TO THE INTERNET
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amForeignTV.com, an Internet-based global news service, is expected to jump into the red-hot cyber IPO market with a $10.2 million offering, scheduled to kick off this week. The service, which...
LONG-TERM FIGHTING EVICTION BY SAUDI 'SLUM' LORD
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe lawyer for [Long-Term's] landlord said he'll serve the company with eviction papers tomorrow. John Meriwether's Long-Term Capital Management, notorious for its Nobel laureates, arcane trading strategies and $4 billion...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: THE war in Kosovo grinds on and China's swiping all over our missile technology, but there is still beauty in the world....
GOOD GOLLY, IT'S MOLLY! - ACTRESS SURVIVES CHILDHOOD TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I couldn't believe it when I saw my name on the poster [for 'Never Been Kissed']. I was like, 'Woo-hoo!'"Molly Shannon 'I FEEL so lucky," says Molly Shannon - remarkable...
HEARING THE VOICEOF DOOM
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amYOU won't be hearing James Earl Jones' chilling basso voice in the new "Star Wars" movie. That's because in "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace," Darth Vader is just an innocent...
TV TICKER
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amRemembrance WLIW/Ch.21 will commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow with two specials. ''A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial,'' narrated by actor Chaim Topol, includes an introduction...
REVEALING NEW RUSSIAN 'KILLING' FIELDS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"The Nazis' SecretKilling Squads" Tonight at 9 on A&E BEFORE there was the Holocaust, there were the less mechanized killing fields of the Soviet Union. And you can't watch tonight's...
10 YEARS OF BIZ TV: BOOM, BOOM BABY - MONEY CHANNEL AND DOW RIDE BULL MARKET
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amCNBC is full of bull. And that's a good thing. TV's first all-business cable network turns 10 years old on Saturday and is riding the crest of the greatest bull...
IS LETTERMAN-REGIS FEUD FOR REAL? - PUTTING OUR FINGER ON 'LATE SHOW' GESTURE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMISUNDERSTANDINGS are bound to happen in the frantic minutes leading up to a taping of David Letterman's "Late Show." Just ask Regis Philbin. He was so absorbed in the task...
BALLET TECH'S 'CONTRA POSE'A BAROQUE GEM
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amSPRING has sprung, and Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech has opened its annual five-week spring season at Feld's own home base, the Joyce Theater. Last week's opening programs included two major...
FORMULAIC 'MARLENE'
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amCELEBRITY-impersonation plays generally run to form. On a day late in her (rarely his) career, the person is stimulated by a crisis to bouts of retrospection about the triumphs and...
N.Y. FASHION WEEK, PART II
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amLast week, New York was treated to another round of fall '99 fashion shows. Of course, The Post was there to score a second helping. Fashionistas risked scuffing their stilettos...
MTA TO SIGN ON AT LAST FOR GIL'S BRIDGE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe bridge named after baseball great Gil Hodges will now have signs saying so. The MTA has agreed to put up signs on the span, which links Brooklyn and the...
RUN FOR COVER, SHARPTON: I'M BACK - AND I'M MAD AS HELL
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amREADERS of this column may wonder where I've been hiding the last three-months-and-change, my voice uncharacteristically silent amid the planet's daily din. From within the fog of my absence, I'm...
SHARPTON'S VOTE-FOR-RUDY DRIVE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am'Even if Sharpton, Attorney GeneralEliot Spitzer and Bill Clinton's JusticeDepartment manage to turn the comingcampaign into a referendum on race... where, exactly, is Giuliani hurt?' HOW'S this for irony: Al...
P.A. TALLIES RECORD $166M SURPLUS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amSoaring profits from area airports and the World Trade Center generated a record-breaking $166 million surplus for the Port Authority last year. Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports produced $260...
CITY'S 'MOB' SCENE FADING - LAW ENFORCEMENT WINNING WAR VS. MAFIA
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"The invincibility is gone. And I don't see any of the young guys stepping up. There just aren't any young, tough, smart guys." ANONYMOUS LAWMAN The Mafia is on the...
IT'S A WILD WORLD FOR ROB VICTIM CAT STEVENS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMacedonian border guards robbed former pop star Cat Stevens of $35,000 as he tried to cross into Albania to hand out the cash to starving refugees, the former singer charged....
ILL PRINCESS TO MISS NUPTIALS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amPrincess Margaret is so ill that doctors have banned her from attending the wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones this summer, a London newspaper says. The 68-year-old princess -...
BOOK: KINKY PLAYMATE PAIR JOINED ROCKER ON DEATH DAY
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amTwo American women helped rocker Michael Hutchence indulge in bondage and kinky auto-erotic sex games shortly before he died in a Sydney hotel, a new book claims. Author Vince Lovegrove...
SERVANTS GET INTO PALACE 'CAT FIGHT' OVER ROYAL TART MASTER
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"The next thing, they were grabbing hold of each other and fighting. Police had to pull them apart. It was a real cat fight." PALACE INSIDER Queen Elizabeth's longtime dresser...
THINGS PAN OUT FOR LIFETIME LOSER
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees may be the best team in baseball, but their No. 1 fan - a frying-pan-banging, sign-toting cheerleader named Freddy - is actually one of the great losers of...
BUSH KIN FLAYS HILLARY OVER LAPSES IN ETHICS; EXCLUSIVE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"Hillary Clinton . . . will get very intense scrutiny if she's a candidate - and she will not pass the test." JONATHAN BUSH THE uncle of Texas Gov. George...
COBAIN KIN KO AUCTION OF HIS CELEB DRAWINGS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe grieving family of Kurt Cobain has put the brakes on the sale of the tragic rocker's drawings of Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan. Christie's had been set to auction...
COPS' TIME OFF FOR NEW YEAR'S WILL BE Y2KO'D - COMPUTERS, CROWDS WORRY BRASS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amPlenty of Y2Kops have a Y2Kase of the blues over an order from police brass barring officers from taking time off on New Year's Eve 1999 - when huge crowds...
HOLIDAY MARRED FOR N.Y. SERBS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amSerbs living in New York prayed for peace yesterday while blasting NATO for bombing their war-torn homeland on Orthodox Easter. At the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Chelsea,...
MACEDONIAN REFUGE IS NO REFUGE AT ALL
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amPOGRADEC, Albania. AJETE BEGA survived the Serbian hit squads, a harrowing flight to freedom and the hellish conditions of the no-man's land at the Kosovo-Macedonia border. But what really disturbs...
SAFIR USED EIGHT DETECTIVES AS DRIVERS FOR DAUGHTER'S NUPTIALS - RUDY, COMMISH DEFEND $3,600 TAXPAYER BILL; EXCLUSIVE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amEIGHT detectives chauffeured and protected Police Commissioner Howard Safir, his wife and other guests during his daughter's recent wedding, costing taxpayers nearly $3,600, The Post has learned. The detectives, who...
SLOBBO BLINKS AS BOMBS RAIN DOWN - TOP AIDE SAYS SERBS MIGHT OK FOREIGN PEACEKEEPERS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"As soon as we get a political agreement . . . we will accept a foreign presence." DEPUTY PRIME MINISTERVUK DRASKOVIC WASHINGTON - As bombs fell across Yugoslavia yesterday, a...
D'AMATO: SHE WON'T BID FOR THE SENATE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Former Sen. Al D'Amato yesterday predicted that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would skip the bruising New York Senate race, leaving the Democratic campaign open for Rep. Nita...
NYPD TO BARE 'STOP & FRISK' DATA; EXCLUSIVE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe source estimated that minorities were targets in 90 percent of the cases. The Police Department is scrambling to compile a mountain of data on its controversial "stop and frisk"...
DIG IT! FREED0M DAY FOR BLAINE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amA small corner of the Upper West Side will be a frozen zone this morning as magician David Blaine is unearthed after seven days of being buried alive. Three blocks...
TV NEWSMAN SUSPENDED IN RUCKUS OVER 'HUMAN FLY'
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amA TV journalist accused of ratting out the Norwegian ''Human Fly'' who illegally jumped from three New York skyscrapers has been suspended from his job while his bosses investigate. Barry...
ASPIRIN C0MB0 MAY BL0CK C0L0N CANCER
April 12, 1999 | 4:00am"This is a wonderful example of drugs that are already available that may have an entirely different and important use." DR. FRANK RAUSCHER A combination of aspirin and cholesterol-lowering drugs...
BACHELOR-PARTY TRAGEDY - GROOM IS MOWED DOWN BY SPEEDING CAR IN BX.
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amA young groom-to-be who planned to walk down the aisle in two weeks was killed by a speeding driver minutes after his bachelor party yesterday, police said. Brendan Ryan, 27,...
STUDENT VANISHES FROM MIDTOWN
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amA 21-year-old South Carolina college student mysteriously vanished from Midtown last week, police said yesterday. Sarah Efird, a University of South Carolina student, hasn't been seen since Friday, when she...
CH. 4 WON'T AIR REV. AL'S AD ON POLICE-BRUTALITY MARCH
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amWNBC-TV is refusing to air a paid advertisement that denounces police brutality and urges citizens to attend a rally and march for change this Thursday. Rev. Al Sharpton told KISS-FM's...
DEVILS MUST FIND THEIR GO-TO GUY
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amFOR A team that started the season without a No. 1 line, or even a No. 1 center, the Devils' chance to capture a third straight conference title by winning...
GA. LINEMAN FITS GIANT MOLD
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amSons are always first-round draft picks in their mother's eyes, which is why mothers have no place in NFL war rooms. Given that caveat, Karen Johnson seems to be speaking...
AILING WONDERTROSS LOOKS IFFY
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amLEXINGTON - When the big horse doesn't run his race, there's usually something wrong. That old racetrack saying proved true again after Saturday's Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland when Wondertross,...
BAFFERT HAS ALL THE ACES
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amLEXINGTON - The glass is either half-empty or half-full when it comes to doping out this year's Kentucky Derby in the wake of Saturday's "Big 3 Pick 3" prep races:...
MUCKLER: NO NEED TO RISK PETR, HARVEY
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe tickets to the remaining three Ranger games are bought and paid for, the players are hired professionals, and so they will complete the season as scheduled starting tonight at...
BOBBY BO DESERVES BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Cheers should rain on Bobby Bonilla when he is called to the line for today's home opener against the Marlins. It should echo the ovation he heard a...
HAPPY HOMECOMING - INJURIES ASIDE, METS HIT SHEA FEELING GOOD
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMets 6 Expos 3 MONTREAL - After starting out the season with an absolute flop, the Mets exploded for five wins on their opening road trip and now return to...
FOR PUNCH-DRUNK TIGERS, A LOST WEEKEND
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAfter David Cone no-hit the Tigers into the sixth inning on Friday and Roger Clemens shut them down entirely on Saturday, it didn't seem like things could get much worse...
DUVAL FADES ON BACK NINE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - As David Duval was making his charge through the front nine yesterday, hearts around Augusta National were skipping a beat. Could it be that Duval, who'd struggled all...
ARTEST TO SAY HE'S GOING PRO
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAs exclusively reported last week in The Post, St. John's sophomore forward Ron Artest will forego his final two years of eligibility to enter the NBA draft. The official announcement...
BUCK BLAMES ERNIE FOR CLUB'S STRUGGLES
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Nets retired Buck Williams' jersey yesterday. The way they played inside, they should have let Buck dress one more time as the Knicks roughed up New Jersey, 93-78 at...
A GEM FOR RING DAY - 'DUQUE' CARRIES NO-NO INTO 7TH
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 11 Tigers 2 Orlando Hernandez' bid for a perfect game fell eight outs short yesterday at the Stadium. But as far as the Yankees and their fans were concerned,...
PIAZZA HEADS FOR DL
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - A frustrated Mike Piazza said he was not happy to be placed on the disabled list yesterday, but deep down said he understood it had to happen and...
INSIDE, STEPHON IS STILL ACHIN' TO BE A KNICK
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amSOMETIMES, you want to be something or someone so bad you start to hate it. Sometimes, you look around at your surroundings and at your situation, you gaze into your...
TIGER FAR FROM PURR-FECT
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - In the end, Tiger Woods was a non-factor in this 63rd Masters, though he never really played himself out of the tournament in the early rounds and lurked...
GARCIA ALSO REIGNS FOR SPAIN
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - It was a magical day for Spain yesterday at Augusta National. While Jose Maria Olazabal was winning his second Green Jacket, ballyhooed fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia...
REED MAY MISS HIS NEXT START
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Oh, this cursed Olympic Stadium turf. First it ensnared Mike Piazza, and now Rick Reed. Two days after Piazza sprained his right knee changing direction on the carpet,...
BEST ACCESSORY: TORRE'S CAMEO
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees, in the preceding era known largely as a three-ring circus, proudly collected their second ring in three years yesterday. They then turned on the Tigers again with a...
NO. 11 CLAIMS MAJOR VICTIMS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The 11th hole of Augusta National is the doorway to Amen Corner. The beautiful, 455-yard par-4, with a new green that was elevated about two feet to prevent...
PETTITTE SET FOR ANOTHER STEP ON ROAD BACK
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The way the Yankees have opened the season, you'd think their pitching couldn't get any better. But more help seems just over the horizon. Starter Andy Pettitte, recovering...
STEPHON: KNICKS POINTLESS - TRASHES WARD'S & CHILDS' PLAY
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amKnicks 93 Nets 78 Don't get too carried away by all this but the Knicks have won two games in a row on the road. After all, one victory came...
MARCUS MAY JUST WIND UP ENJOYING LAST LAUGH
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amIf Marcus Camby keeps playing like this, he may even get into the next game with the Heat. Camby laughed when that point came up in the Knick locker room...
CHILDS & WARD LET PLAY DO TALKIN'
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK-NET NOTES Charlie Ward and Chris Childs responded the best way they could to Stephon Marbury's critical comments that the Knicks would never win an NBA championship with them playing...
FRANCO CLOSES IN ON 400
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - John Franco closed out yesterday's 6-3 win over the Expos for his 399th career save. Franco said he was looking forward to getting No. 400 in...
IN END, OLAZABAL IS SHARK REPELLENT - JOSE OUTLASTS NORMAN FOR SECOND JACKET; OLAZABAL PULLS AWAY FOR SECOND TITLE
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Across every pristine acre of Augusta National yesterday the emotional weight of the entire golf world was willing Greg Norman to the 72nd hole for a long-awaited green...
NORMAN: DIFFERENT STORY, SAME ENDING
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - They cheered for him every time he picked up a club yesterday on the back nine of Augusta National. "C'mon, Greg," the patrons yelled hole after hole. There...
DEVILS NEED TO FIND THEIR GO-TO GUY
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amFOR A team that started the season without a No. 1 line, or even a No. 1 center, the Devils' chance to capture a third straight conference title by winning...
ISLANDERS STILL MAY SHIP OUT CAPTAIN
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amIslanders captain Trevor Linden survived the trading deadline but he doesn't know if he'll survive the summer. "A lot will depend upon if they find new ownership," Linden told The...
NEDVED DONE FOR SEASON
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe tickets to the remaining three Ranger games are bought and paid for, the players are hired professionals, and so they will complete the season as scheduled starting tonight at...
TIGER'S FAR FROM PURR-FECT
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - In the end, Tiger Woods was a non-factor in this 63rd Masters, though he never really played himself out of the tournament in the early rounds...
ANOTHER TALE OF LOVE LOST
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Davis Love III won $432,000 for his runner-up finish and made the shot of the Masters, holing out an incredible U-turn birdie chip on 16 yesterday. But he'd...
BACK-NINE FADE DERAILS DUVAL
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - As David Duval was making his charge through the front nine yesterday, hearts around Augusta National were skipping a beat. Could it be that Duval, who'd struggled all...
NO PRAYERS ANSWERED AT TREACHEROUS NO. 11
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The 11th hole of Augusta National is the doorway to Amen Corner. The beautiful, 455-yard par-4, with a new green that was elevated about two feet to prevent...
IN END, OLAZABAL IS SHARK REPELLENT - JOSE OUTLASTS NORMAN FOR SECOND JACKET
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The two men, close friends through their mutual profession and life experiences, sat next to each other in the scorer's hut behind the 18th hole after waging a...
NEW YORK POST 1999 ALL-CITY TEAMS
April 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: -ALL-GIRLS PSAL -ALL-GIRLS PRIVATE -ALL-BOYS PRIVATE -ALL-GIRLS CHSAA