April 20, 1999

MODERN MATURITY GETS EDITOR

Ex-Utne Reader Editor-in-Chief Hugh Delehanty has just been tapped as the new editor of Modern Maturity - ending a protracted five-month search for the magazine that bills itself as the...

RISK CONTROL PAYS OFF FOR THIS FUND

EXACTLY one month ago yesterday, Banc One changed the name of its popular Value Growth fund to One Group Diversified Equity Fund. The bank may come to regret playing the...

BRILL SLAMS FORMER PUBLISHER WHO BOLTED FOR BETTER HOMES

Brill's Content founder Steve Brill took a few pot shots at Sally Preston, who quit as publisher last week to take a job at Better Homes & Gardens. "We're an...

CITI'S SITTING PRETTY - PROFITS UP 12% IN QTR.

Carnegie Hall will be rocking and rolling this morning as Citigroup shareholders meet to celebrate their company's bang-up first-quarter profits. The nation's biggest financial services company, which was formed last...

VERSACE INKS LUXURY HOTEL JOINT VENTURE

The late designer Gianni Versace was famous for his extravagant lifestyle and palatial home in Miami. Now the house of Versace is building a chain of opulent hotels which will...

LLOYD WEBBER BUYS BACK STAKE IN FIRM

Andrew Lloyd Webber has made himself whole again. Over the weekend, Universal Music Group agreed to sell its 30 percent stake in Lloyd Webber's production company - Really Useful Holdings...

FUMBLING PFEIFFER WALKS WITH $278M

Ousted Compaq chief Eckhard Pfeiffer is walking away with a $278 million severance package. But he would have gotten much more - up to $418 million - if he hadn't...

MONEY-LOSING SALON OFFERS 2.5M SHARE-IPO

Online cultural 'zine Salon.com is opening its parlor doors to the public. Parent company Salon Internet Inc. is offering 2.5 million shares at between $10.50 and $13.50 per share. At...

CORZINE SEEN IN BID FOR LTCM

Goldman Sachs lame duck co-chairman Jon Corzine is sure keeping busy. The 52-year-old Wall Street veteran has teamed up with Long-Term Capital Management's John Meriwether for discussions aimed at buying...

VERSACE VENTURES INTO LUXURY HOTEL BIZ

The late designer Gianni Versace was famous for his extravagant lifestyle and palatial home in Miami. Now the house of Versace is building a chain of opulent hotels which will...

YUKON DO IT - ANIMAL ATTRACTIONS WAY UP NORTH IN ALASKA AND WESTERN CANADA

AT Alaska's Denali National Park, the largest and most protected forest in the U.S., visitors get animal scorecards with photos and descriptions of the game wandering within. Spot a moose...

ISLE GETAWAY - IF IT TAKES TOO LONG TO GET TO MONTAUK, HOP OVER TO THE BAHAMAS

A FLIGHT that's cheap, easy-to-catch and gets passengers to the beach before noon is what makes the new Nassau/Paradise Island Express service a boon for New Yorkers. There's practically nothing...

HOW NOW, MOSCOW - DESPITE ECONOMIC TURMOIL, THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS TO VISIT RUSSIA'S CAPITAL AS A TOURIST

YOU'VE probably seen the bad news on TV: angry Russians besieging a bankrupt Moscow bank, inflation running at 84 percent a year, officials admitting Russian businesses can't repay $18 billion...

TRAVELER'S UPDATE

Upper-class savings Travel to luxurious Palm Beach, Fla., gets a tad more economical as summer approaches. Packages and attractions are available for less, and free outdoor performances and festivals take...

SON ALSO RISES

*RISING SON Big Bill Morganfield Blind Pig Records To blues buffs, the late McKinley Morganfield is a god. "McKinley who?" McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield - the greatest, most influential bluesman...

SKY-HIGH PREVIEW: $500

THE good news is that you can see the new "Star Wars" flick before it opens May 19. The bad news is that it'll cost you a bundle. Sci-fi fans...

HELLUVA CHANGE FOR HBO'S NIGHT FRIGHTS

THE creator of "Spawn" - the HBO series so violent it's shown at midnight - is toning down the show. Todd McFarlane told The Post that "Spawn" - which kicks...

NEW 'ROCKFORD' NOT JIM-DANDY

"The Rockford Files:If It Bleeds...It Leads" Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch.2 SOMEONE'S raping little California girls, and he looks just like an old pal of Jim Rockford (James Garner) and...

'GUNMAN' MISSES THE MARK

'THE Shadow of a Gunman," Sean O'Casey's 1923 tragicomedy about heroism in Ireland, is being done at the Irish Repertory Theatre. The first of his trilogy set in the times...

KEVIN ICED OUT BY DRAMA DESK IN SPACEY MOVE

THE Drama Desk snubbed Kevin Spacey yesterday, refusing to give the actor a nomination for his widely praised performance in ''The Iceman Cometh.'' The omission startled the Broadway community because...

SAIL OF THE CENTURY - GERALDO PLOTS COURSE TO CROSS DATELINE FIRST IN 2000

GERALDO Rivera is making his version of must-sea TV - with Travel Channel footing the bill. The pugnacious NBC newsman wants to be the first person to sail across the...

'TAILWIND' CARRIES ARNETT OUT OF CNN

ABSTRACT: IT'S official: Peter Arnett is out at CNN after 18 years. The all-news cable network announced yesterday that Arnett has "amicably" left his job - shortly after several published...

TV TICKER

Soldiers stories "CBS News' This Morning" is carving out a unique niche in covering the war in Kosovo. Last Friday, "This Morning" introduced a new feature, where soldiers abroad are...

HECHE ALSO HAS PAINFUL PAST

Ellen DeGeneres isn't the only one in her current relationship who allegedly was abused in her youth. Anne Heche also has skeletons in her childhood closet. Heche's father, Donald, led...

N.Y. LAWYER MAKES A CASE FOR THE CHILDREN

KUKES, Albania. FIGHTING for men and women's constitutional rights in the Big Apple isn't enough for Manhattan public defender David Kuhn. Kuhn, 32, likes defending the human rights of boys...

NYPD GRIDDERS FINEST TEAM AROUND

A select team of New York City cops are really into tackling - both bad guys and football players. They're the 66 patrolmen, sergeants and detectives who make up the...

HEAD START HEAD HELPED HERSELF: FEDS

The former director of the defunct Head Start office in East Harlem was charged yesterday with embezzling $250,000 from the federal program for poor preschool kids. Beatrice Richardson, who ran...

BREAK FOR EX-COP IN BEATING - 4-8 YRS. FOR ROLE IN L.I. NIGHTCLUB ASSAULT

The ex-city cop who held back a crowd of potential helpers with his gun while a black man was beaten senseless outside a Long Island nightclub was sentenced yesterday to...

BERNIE GOETZ'S 'SQUIRREL CRISIS' RUINS MY TRIFECTA

ONE chose her parents brilliantly and was born into fame that went back to that most overcrowded ship called The Mayflower. A second chose his law school well, being a...

EGG STUDY DOESN'T GO OVER EASY

New research has found no proof that an egg a day raises your risk of heart attack or stroke - but the American Heart Association yesterday took a more hard-boiled...

SHE MAKES MERYL & ME NERVOUS AT LUNCH

SO THIS is what successful women do. Hillary ''Don't Mention Bill'' Clinton and Donna ''Don't Even Think Giuliani'' Hanover lunched at the Waldorf yesterday along with legions of sister bottle-blondes...

UPSTATE ABORT FOES: BARNES NOT SO NOBLE

BUFFALO - Vastly outnumbered by cops, abortion foes yesterday demonstrated outside an upstate Barnes & Noble store, urging a boycott of the giant bookseller for offering what they claim is...

IT'S KATE VS. CELINE IN FAT 'FIGHT'

"I'm happy with the way I am. I'm not like American film stars." KATE WINSLET "Titanic" divas Kate Winslet and Celine Dion are squaring off in a battle of the...

CON ED SUED IN CARRIAGE HORSE'S ELECTROCUTION

A whoa-ful carriage operator is suing Con Edison for $100,000 for the shocking death of his horse in Midtown. The electrocution happened on Jan. 8, when Stephen Hand drove Jackie...

OKLA. BOMB VICTIMS MOURNED 4 YRS. LATER

"We need to keep remembering the people who gave their lives." JIM DENNY Four years after the bombing of Oklahoma City's federal building, the names of the 168 victims were...

JERSEY TURNPIKE TROOPERS INDICTED

Two New Jersey troopers who shot four unarmed black and Hispanic youths were indicted yesterday on charges of faking records to cover up racial profiling. Troopers John Hogan, 29, and...

GUY WARNS RUDY'S GOP FOES

Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki is harming himself politically by trying to derail Mayor's Giuliani bid for the U.S. Senate. "I think the governor...

N.Y. RUN MAY MEAN HILLARY HEARTBREAK - 'LOVES' STATE BUT SLIDES IN SURVEY

"I have always been very excited by the dynamism of the people here and the real cutting-edge approach," HILLARY CLINTON First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made a marathon campaign-style swing...

SECOND AVE. SUBWAY GETS CHUCK BOOST

Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday endorsed a new Second Avenue subway line and supported doubling an airline passenger tax he said could help pay for it. "I'm positively disposed toward a...

DA: FAKE DOC'S FACE INJECTIONS DISFIGURED WOMAN

A Queens woman who pretended to be a plastic surgeon was charged yesterday with practicing medicine without a license after she "temporarily disfigured" one of her patients, authorities said. Olga...

'MASKED' COP RIPS TACTICS OF ELITE UNIT

Black cops are shut out of the controversial Street Crime Unit because police brass don't think they'll adopt the detail's "reckless" tactics, a fearful squad member testified yesterday. Wearing a...

HAS SLOBBO SEALED OFF ESCAPE? - REFUGEE EXODUS SLOWS TO A TRICKLE

WASHINGTON - A monthlong flood of refugees out of Kosovo abruptly dried up yesterday, raising fears that Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic locked his border and may be keeping Albanians from...

SCHOOLBOY BUBBA BLEW THIS LESSON

WASHINGTON - Four decades before a federal judge weighed throwing President Clinton in the slammer for lying, his sixth-grade teacher predicted his words could land him "in the penitentiary." Clinton,...

LEO SURVIVES SHARK TERROR IN STORMY SEA - SWIMS FOR HIS LIFE AS BOAT SINKS

"There can't have been anyone who didn't at one stage think they would die." DIVEMASTER PAUL DAVIES "Titanic" heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio had to jump from a sinking boat and swim...

5 STABBED IN GANG FIGHT

Five men were stabbed yesterday when a landlord-tenant dispute led to a battle between members of Taiwanese gangs in Queens, police sources said. All five victims - apparent members of...

CHUCK HOPS ABOARD 2ND AVENUE SUBWAY

Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday endorsed a new Second Avenue subway line and supported doubling an airline passenger tax he said could help pay for it. "I'm positively disposed toward a...

NYPD'S FOOTBALL SQUAD IS FINEST TEAM AROUND

A select team of New York City cops are really into tackling - both bad guys and football players. They're the 66 patrolmen, sergeants and detectives who make up the...

MOLINARI SNAPS AT GOV'S AIDES FOR RIPPING RUDY

Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki is harming himself politically by trying to derail Mayor's Giuliani bid for the U.S. Senate. "I think the governor...

STATE POLS SUE FOR THEIR PAY

ABSTRACT: ALBANY - Fourteen state lawmakers sued in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday to nullify a new law temporarily withholding their pay because a state budget hasn't been passed. The lawmakers,...

HORRORS OF WAR HIT HOME FOR BORA

Bora Milutinovic, one of the most renowned soccer coaches on the planet, had just finished putting his first-place MetroStars through practice. And, after a quick lunch, he planned to take...

USBL HOOP TEAM GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday that the new U.S. Basketball League expansion team, the Brooklyn Kings, will play in Long Island University starting April 30. Democratic Congressman Ed Towns, a Giuliani...

KING TAKES FORD INTO THE FAST LANE

It was February of his sophomore year at Ft. Hamilton High, and Matt King was ready for a change. So on the advice of Ralph Amitrano, a coach at Ft....

PENS PLAN TO CATCH DEVILS IN DEEP END

Pounce while the Devils' forwards are caught deep - that's the scouting report the Penguins will incorporate into their game plan in the teams' playoff series, as revealed to The...

SYKORA PRAGUE-MATIC ABOUT BATTLE WITH JAGR

They are countrymen, Petr Sykora and Jaromir Jagr, both from the Czech Republic. The Devils' leading scorer wants the NHL's leading scorer to spend his springtime in Prague. "Pretty much...

BARKLEY BULKS UP FOR NEXT YEAR

Erick Barkley was all smiles last week. He stood in the corner of the Jacob Riis Settlement House, where Ron Artest had announced his decision to enter the NBA draft,...

JETS' OL BERNSTEIN KEEPS HIS GUARD UP

"I'm not in any way nervous or scared. In the NFL, no one ever hands you anything on a silver platter." ALEX BERNSTEIN One by one, as the guards came...

METS GLAD TO SEE RED - AMAZIN'S TIRED OF EXPOS, MARLINS

The Mets haven't played Montreal and Florida 50 times this year; it only seems that way. All 13 of their regular-season games and a dozen of the spring training games...

JINTS SAY BENNETT MAY SHOCK EXPERTS

He once ran for 313 yards against San Diego, punished Kentucky Wesleyan for 279, ravaged Morehead State with 238 and shredded Butler with 232. And yet, during an intense period...

TWO TOP RECRUITS SET TO CHOOSE ST. JOHN'S

With Ron Artest headed to the NBA, St. John's will have reinforcements on the way. Though not for another season. Jeff McMillan, a 6-foot-8 junior forward/center from St. Thomas Moore...

PERSON SAYS NETS MUCH BETTER WITH COACH CASEY

NET NOTES Notice a difference in the Nets? Hornets' forward Chuck Person has. And it's definitely for the better. Back on March 4, after Person torched the Nets for 21...

YANKS TRY TEXAS TWO-STEP - CONE, CLEMENS MUST STOP BLEEDING

When does a five-game stretch at Yankee Stadium against the Rangers and Blue Jays in the first month of the season take on added importance for the Yankees? When the...

BAFFERT'S FEELING BAFFLED

Is he or isn't he? Will she or won't she? For the umpteenth time this spring trainer Bob Baffert hedged his bets yesterday on whether he'll run one of his...

KNICKS POINTED THE WRONG WAY

PHILADELPHIA - Thick heads keep the Knicks on the treadmill to .500. Nothing penetrates - not Jeff Van Gundy glares, not any magic ointment that can keep Patrick Ewing in...

NEIL MUST NOT LET LEETCH GET AWAY

IN THE last 21 months, the Rangers have lost both Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky and have failed to qualify for the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time...

TIME'S RUNNING OUT KNICKS' - STRUGGLE GETTING SERIOUS

"I think we're going to play hard - whether we play well enough, I don't know." JEFF VAN GUNDY PHILADELPHIA - Nine games, nine playoff lives left for the Knicks....

SPREE GETS SNEAKER DEAL

KNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - "AND1" markets itself as the basketball shoe and apparel company for players with serious game. Now it has a serious spokesman - the NBA's most serious...

KEYSHAWN KIDS ABOUT NEIL REUNION

A reporter asked Keyshawn Johnson yesterday, if he were saddened that Neil O'Donnell was released by the Bengals. "I had no idea," Johnson said before he received The Achievement in...

SHAQ'S RAP CAN LIBERATE LAKERS

IN SHAQUILLE O'Neal's third year in the NBA, he joined forces with Penny Hardaway to escort the Magic to The Finals where they were cremated in four straight by the...

JAYSON VOWS TO BE READY NEXT SEASON

Over the years, Jayson Williams has made more predictions than anything seen on late night TV. And usually, the popular center's picks were not ones you'd want to back up...

WARD, LJ HOLLOW HEROES

I'm amused at Charlie Ward's contention that female sports writers do not belong in the locker rooms of male professional athletes. Naturally, there are millions of men in this city...

JAYSON VOWS TO BE READY FOR NET CAMP

Over the years, Jayson Williams has made more predictions than anything seen on late night TV. And usually, the popular center's picks were not ones you'd want to back up...

PARTY LINE: SMITH SEES MESS, DAD AND KEENAN

RANGER NOTES Just when things couldn't get more awkward on Sunday for Neil Smith, brutally booed during the Garden's Farewell to 99 Celebration, along came the post-game, post-season, team party...

IT'S OFFICIAL: NETS OUT OF CHASE FOR PLAYOFF SPOT

Hornets 120 Nets 113 Stephon Marbury gave all due praise and credit as he looked over a stat sheet. The Hornets, he said, shot like pros, shot impressively and shot...

WORST OF TIMES - KNICKS LOSING STREAK HITS 4

PHILADELPHIA - If the Knicks were a horse, you'd have to shoot them right about now. But because they are a basketball team - and not a very good one...

PHILLY HAS GOOD GOALTENDER

KNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - You knew it was going to be a bad night for the Knicks when Marcus Camby's first-half dunk did not count because Matt Geiger got away...

HOUSTON DOES VANISHING ACT

PHILADELPHIA - Jeff Van Gundy says that at crunch time, nothing serves a shooter better than a short memory of his last miss. Problem with the Knicks is, you need...

COLD LEDEE CAN'T FIND HIS STROKE

ABSTRACT: YANKEE NOTES If Darryl Strawberry hadn't gotten jammed up in Tampa, there was a very good chance he would have been in Yankee Pinstripes by the weekend, with Ricky...

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR STRAW

ABSTRACT: According to a person well-versed in the workings of Major League Baseball's substance abuse program, the only time a player or club is notified of a drug testing result...