April 21, 1999
LAURA ASHLEY MAY SELL U.S. STORES
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amPat Robertson is on board, but he has failed to deliver Laura Ashley from its troubles so far. Three months after electing the televangelist to its board of directors, the...
CITI SPLITS ITS STOCK 3-FOR-2
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amCitigroup co-chairmen Sandy Weill and John Reed had a gift for shareholders at yesterday's annual meeting at Carnegie Hall: a 3-for-2 stock split and increased dividend. And while shareholders applauded...
DIET GURU SERVES UP BOOK ON AGING FOR $1M
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amDIET guru Dr. Robert Atkins has landed a $1 million hardcover-softcover deal with St. Martin's Press to write a new book on the aging process. St. Martin's senior editor Heather...
MICHAEL OVITZ PLAYS BUSINESS OVERTURE FOR MADONNA; EXCLUSIVE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amMike Ovitz is making his move on Madonna. The former Hollywood superagent has stepped up his effort to lure the Material Girl to his new management and production company, Artist...
WHITNEY COLLECTION COULD FETCH $150M AT SOTHEBY'S
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amNear-record crowds of collectors have packed Sotheby's galleries this week for an early peek at one of the most extravagant art and antique collections ever to hit the auction block....
PLIMPTON TALKING TURKEY WITH TINA; EXCLUSIVE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amLiterary lion George Plimpton and Tina Brown's Talk Media are chatting about a long-term relationship, The Post has learned. Plimpton is already penning a piece for the first issue of...
M'SOFT 3Q PROFITS JUMP 43% TO $1.92B
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amBill Gates and his bread-and-butter Windows business helped Microsoft beat Wall Street profit expectations yesterday, with quarterly earnings soaring 43 percent. Although Gates' own personal stake in Microsoft has lost...
TECH-STOCK REBOUND LIFTS NASDAQ 64
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTech stocks are back. After a dramatic one-day swoon, the technology-heavy Nasdaq rocketed 64.03 points yesterday, rising 2.73 percent to 2,409.64 - its best showing since March 29. Just a...
ATKINS SERVES UP NEW BOOK ON DIET AND AGING FOR $1M
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amDIET guru Dr. Robert Atkins has landed a $1 million hardcover-softcover deal with St. Martin's Press to write a new book on the aging process. St. Martin's senior editor Heather...
HE TAPS 'LIVE' POWER
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amSAVION Glover terms his downtown show, which officially opened at the Variety Arts Theater last night, "Live Communication." Well, it is certainly as lively as an electric eel and it...
WITH 'EXISTENZ,' DIRECTOR CRONENBERG IS . . . PLAYING AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amIN the flesh, David Cronenberg resembles a philosophy don who has won the lottery. Beneath the casually expensive charcoal suit and tie-free shirt, he could be one of his own...
MALAYSIAN BISTRO SERVES UP KUALA-TY FARE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amON a TriBeCa corner, with the Bubble Lounge, El Teddy's and Layla for neighbors, sits Franklin Station Cafe. It calls itself a French and Malaysian bistro. That's not to say...
HIGH-TECH COMPUTERS CHIPPED IN
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY don't make movies the way they used to - and the new "Star Wars" is the bona fide proof of that cliche. Director George Lucas has boasted that 95...
TV TICKER
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amABC sweep CBS' Dan Rather might have been in Belgrade last week, but ABC News and Peter Jennings swept all the major categories in the evening-news race. ABC's ''World News...
SENOR WENCES IS DEAD AT 103
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amLEGENDARY ventriloquist Senor Wences - who made millions laugh with his wacky hand puppet Johnny on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' - died yesterday at the age of 103. Wences -...
HIDDEN CAMERA FINDS HOUSE OF HORRORS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am"60 Minutes II" Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch.2 THE desperate parents took their 15-year-old to a psychiatric hospital for counseling. She had done some things that might or might not...
CAN 'STRIP' SHOW RESCUE UPN? - NETWORK ROLLS DICE WITH VEGAS SERIES
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amUPN hopes a gritty new show "The Strip" will be its knight in shining armor. Officials at TV's lowest-rated network are hedging their bets that it will - and have...
'DIAGNOSIS' STILL IN BEST OF HEALTH
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am'DIAGNOSIS Murder" doesn't get the kind of attention the media lavishes on trendy younger-skewing shows like "Dawson's Creek" or "Ally McBeal," but Dick Van Dyke's six-year-old mystery series is actually...
POST FILM CRITIC REVEALS THE SHOCKING TRUTH: MOVIES STINK!
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amEXITING a screening of the woebegone 'The Out-of-Towners,'' longtime film critic Rex Reed huffed, 'Doesn't anybody know how to make a movie anymore?'' Nope, at least not on evidence of...
THIS AIN'T NO STEAK JOINT
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amDAVID Ruggerio is back in the kitchen - and let's hope he stays there. Just months after he closed his namesake East 57th Street restaurant following a guilty plea on...
GOO-GOO GOURMETS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amHERE'S something special for the babies of the ladies who lunch: gourmet baby food. A top restaurant on the Upper West Side - where highly educated, rent-stabilized yuppies are cranking...
SKYDIVER IS SPARED CHUTELESS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amAw, chute. Skydiving daredevil Thor Alex Kappfjell is finally free to fly home - but this time, the stunt jumper will have to land without his trusty parachute. A Manhattan...
TRAGIC N.Y. 'ANGELS' MOURNED BACK HOME
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe grieving family of a prominent Manhattan couple killed on a mercy mission in Albania said yesterday their loved ones were "angels" who lived to aid struggling people around the...
GIULIANI'S 'TAX CUT' IS ONE FOR THE BOOKS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani wants to wipe out the city's sales tax on books as part of a sweeping plan to cut or eliminate 12 different taxes - cuts totaling more than...
CRIMES OF THE HOLOCAUSTOLOGIANS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am'The most unspeakable event of themodern age has become a career for somefolks - the source of their livelihoods.' IN 1977, the Israeli scholar Yehuda Bauer offered a heartfelt warning...
FEDS INSIST NEW PAINKILLER IS OK - DESPITE 10 DEATHS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amDespite reports of the deaths of 10 people who took the new painkiller Celebrex, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday said its use poses no "special risk." Nearly 3 million...
COPS OUTNUMBER ABORTION FOES AT BUFFALO PROTEST
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - The leader of "Operation Save America" and a small band of fellow abortion foes yesterday descended on a women's clinic, going toe-to-toe with a larger crowd that had...
WE'D SEEN OFFICERS' TRUE COLORS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amNEW JERSEY'S law-enforcement honchos admitted for the first time yesterday that racial profiling exists. No kidding. Just ask William Bowles. Or Juan Polk. Or any other young black or dark-skinned...
N.J. TROOPERS DO TARGET MINORITIES - STATE ADMITS TO PROFILING TURNPIKE DRIVERS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amNew Jersey Turnpike troopers routinely single out black and Hispanic drivers - and treat them more aggressively than white motorists, state officials conceded yesterday. In releasing findings from a report...
EX-LOVER'S ATTACK KILLS AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER: COPS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amAn innocent bystander who designed affordable housing for Brooklynites was killed in a drive-by shooting near his Queens home, police said yesterday. Vernon Willis of South Ozone Park was killed...
JFK TRAIN ON WRONG TRACK, COUNCIL SAYS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe City Council yesterday blasted the proposed Van Wyck rail line to Kennedy Airport as an incovenient ride that passengers will shun. In a scathing report, it said the Port...
RACIAL 'HEALING STARTS' AS REV. BUTTS EMBRACES RUDY
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Calvin Butts, who last year called Mayor Giuliani a racist, yesterday embraced him during a prayer service designed to bridge the city's painful racial gap. "That's the start...
PENTAGON: SERB TROOP BUILDUP IS A SIGN SLOBBO'S WEAKENING
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As Apache helicopters headed toward Albania, two U.S. leaders yesterday defended the four-week NATO air campaign against criticism that it has failed to halt ethnic cleansing in Kosovo....
BILL: WE MUST STOP CHILDREN FROM KILLING CHILDREN
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton said last night he was "profoundly shocked and saddened" by the Colorado school killings and said more needs to be done to curb youth violence. "Surely people will...
TUITION LOTTERY OPENS DOORS FOR 2,500 KIDS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTwenty-five hundred of New York City's poorest families have won the jackpot in an educational lottery - snagging scholarships for their kids to attend private schools. They're among 40,000 winners...
LIBBY'S BIG THRILL: NOT BEING HILL
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe state's First Lady yesterday took a big swipe at the nation's First Lady, saying she's "happy" she's not Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I am happy every day that I wake...
NEW STADIUM WOULD BE A BU$T: STUDY
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amA New York-based baseball team playing in a new or renovated stadium would barely make a ripple in the city's economy, according to a new study released yesterday. The Citizens...
'YOU'RE GOING TO BE DEAD': GUNMEN - TEENS SEE PALS MOWED DOWN
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTerrified Colorado teens - some cowering in fear, others fleeing for their lives - watched yesterday as their friends dropped, injured or dead, from sudden gunfire. "We saw three people...
BRADLEY SPEAKS ON RACIAL UNITY IN DIALLO AFTERMATH
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amDemocratic 2000 hopeful Bill Bradley yesterday said the tragic police shooting death of Amadou Diallo shows why the quest for racial unity is "the defining moral issue of our time."...
TOO MANY MONSTERS WALK THIS EARTH
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE may have been more people killed in Littleton yesterday than in Belgrade. Slobbo the Slob deserved everything he got. But those kids in Colorado did not deserve to die....
TRENCH COAT MAFIA JUST PLAIN 'WEIRD'
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThey call themselves the Trench Coat Mafia. Others call them outcasts - "weird," "abnormal." The group implicated by witnesses in yesterday's shooting attend Columbine HS in Littleton, Colo. But they...
EERIE SIMILARITIES TO '95 DICAPRIO FILM
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Basketball Diaries" emerged last night as possible inspiration for the Colorado high-school slaughter. It's the second time the raw 1995 movie, based on Jim Carroll's...
NEWS CHANNELS CAUGHT GRIPPING DRAMA FROM START
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe all-news cable networks captured the horror of yesterday's high-school carnage in Littleton, Colo., as it unfolded in all its drama. CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC provided vivid, wall-to-wall...
BLOODSHED TARNISHES 'SAFE' TOWN
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am"We let our kids ride their bikes because it's safe. This is Middle America. That this should happen out here is unbelievable." LITTLETON CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BEVERLY FANGANELLO Residents consider...
KIDS' CORPSES SILENTLY SHAME THE NRA
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHE children filed out of the school in Littleton, Colo., hands clasped over their heads like prisoners of war. In America, it can be impossible to tell the hunters from...
DOZENS KILLED IN COLORADO CARNAGE - SUICIDE TEENS OPEN FIRE ON FELLOW STUDENTS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTwo heavily armed teen gunman giggled as they blasted and bombed their way through a Colorado high school yesterday - killing up to 25 people and injuring 20 in a...
SHRINKS TELL HOW OUTCAST KIDS TURN INTO KILLERS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amStudents who turn violently against their classmates and teachers are alienated from the rest of the world, experts say. They tend to have no connection to their families and have...
PENTAGON: YUGO TROOP BUILDUP IS A SIGN SLOBBO'S WEAKENING
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As Apache helicopters headed toward Albania, two U.S. leaders yesterday defended the four-week NATO air campaign against criticism that it has failed to halt ethnic cleansing in Kosovo....
60 KIDS MAY OWE LIVES TO TEACHER
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am"Don't go that way. Go into the choir room and hide." MRS. MILLER A heroic teacher saved more than 60 teens from two gun-toting schoolmates who embarked on a murderous...
TRENCH COAT MAFIA IS JUST PLAIN 'WEIRD'
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThey call themselves the Trench Coat Mafia. Others call them outcasts - "weird," "abnormal." They include about a dozen juniors and seniors at Columbine HS who worship Hitler and the...
SECURITY BEEFED UP AT SCHOOLS IN APPLE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amStudents in New York City's schools will be greeted by beefed-up police security this morning - to protect against copycat shootings. Board of Ed and police officials were still working...
HELP YOUR YOUNGSTERS FACE FEARS - PARENTS MUST BE CALM BUT DIRECT
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amWhat kids need most after yesterday's horrific massacre at a Colorado high school is reassurance that the same thing won't happen to them. As children see the terrible images on...
STUDENTS & TEACHER TAKE TURNS AS HEROES
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amOne minute, they were teachers and teens, linked merely by their daily classwork. The next minute, Columbine HS filled with bullets and blood - and their work became the shared...
KIDS SHARE NEWS AND RUMORS ON INTERNET
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amAlmost as soon as the shooting stopped at Columbine HS yesterday, students across the country flooded the Internet with chatter about the savage school massacre. Information - and rumors -...
PUPPY'S SAD TALE HAS A HAPPY ENDING
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amA heartless thief abandoned a stolen car with a month-old puppy inside - forcing the little dog to go nine days without food or water, police said. The parched pooch...
WE'D ALREADY SEEN OFFICERS' TRUE COLORS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amNEW JERSEY'S law-enforcement honchos admitted for the first time yesterday that racial profiling exists. No kidding. Just ask William Bowles. Or Juan Polk. Or any other young black or dark-skinned...
'HEALING STARTS' AS REV. BUTTS EMBRACES HIZZONER
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Calvin Butts, who last year called Mayor Giuliani a racist, yesterday embraced him during a prayer service designed to bridge the city's painful racial gap. "That's the start...
JUST ONE MORE IN A LONG LINE OF TRAGIC RAMPAGES
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Yesterday's Colorado shooting was the latest in a rash of horrifying attacks by students and others running amok with guns in schools. Among earlier incidents: *March 24, 1998: *May...
'WE DIDN'T THINK IT WAS REAL, - AND THEN WE SAW BLOOD'
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Witnesses to the horror inside Columbine HS yesterday described a hellish nightmare of bullets, blood and fear. Here are some of the accounts, in their own words:
FISHING CLUB AIDS VISUALLY IMPAIRED
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Helen Keller Fishing Club, which may be the world's only deep-sea fishing club for the visually impaired, welcomes new members and volunteers for the 1999 season. Now entering its...
HOLIK LEADS DEVILS' REDEMPTION DRIVE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe strong words were tough and straight to the point, much the way Bobby Holik plays. Major motivation, strong and deep, resides in the Devils' locker room as they begin...
TIME TO LEAN TOWARD SPEED
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amTrack biases - whether the surface favors speed or closers, inside or outside - are nearly impossible to predict. In fact, depending on how deep the track superintendent sets the...
ANSWER LIVELY TO TRY DERBY
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe latest big news about the May 1 Kentucky Derby is that Answer Lively, last year's 2-year-old champion and winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs, will run...
STEPHON: WHOLE SEASON A WASTE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe Nets and Bulls play tonight at the Meadowlands in a game that presents the two worst records in the East - a game that, like all games this season...
HOUSTON KEEPING FAITH
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amWhile many of fans and media have written off the Knicks' playoff chances, Allan Houston hasn't. "I tell people the same thing I told them two months ago," Houston said...
25 YEARS LATER, HANK GETS HIS VICTORY LAP
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amBetter late than never. That's the phrase that came to mind yesterday as you watched Hank Aaron smile and talk about how these last few weeks have been among the...
RANGERS SHOW CHAMPS UTMOST RESPECT
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amOne has to wonder, when the Texas Rangers dream, do their nightmares have pinstripes? Before last night's game at the Stadium, Texas had lost 19 of its last 24 regular-season...
JOHN O-FER? NOT FOR LONG
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - In case you blinked, John Olerud went through a slump. It was a John Olerud slump, though, so naturally it didn't last very long. In fact, it lasted...
CUP CHASE WILL BE THREE-WING CIRCUS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amCAROLINA, the team with the eighth-best record in the East, has the conference's third playoff seed, which means that theoretically the sixth-seed Bruins have an easier first-round match than the...
KNICKS, NBA PROBE LJ 'FLASH'
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe NBA and the Knicks are each "looking into" the matter involving the team's director of media services Lori Hamamoto and forward Larry Johnson that was reported in a New...
FREE SPREE - OR ELSE! AGENT BLASTS VG, ERNIE OVER LATRELL'S ROLE; EXCLUSIVE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amRobert Gist, the agent for Latrell Sprewell, said yesterday that Sprewell will not return to the Knicks next season unless he is the starting shooting guard and the team works...
BLAME TEFLON DAVE FOR GARDEN FRAUDS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amDAVE CHECKETTS was on jury duty yesterday, deliberating someone's fate in a courthouse, which was only fitting since undoubtedly, in an office at Two Penn Plaza someone else was deliberating...
AYALA ANSWERS THE FINAL BELL - 16 YEARS LATER, 'TORRITO' EXITS PRISON
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am"This guy was another Marciano, Graziano, all rolled into one." LOU DUVA LEESBURG, N.J. - Fog gathered over the coils of barbed wire just before dawn, encasing the quiet dread...
CASTING A STRAW VOTE - BOSS' PARTNER DEFENDS DARRYL
April 21, 1999 | 4:00am"He never offered her money or stopped at the hotel. He kept driving by. Why anybody would be stopped under those circumstances is beyond me." MARVIN GOLDKLANG While Darryl Strawberry...
PIAZZA TAKES LIVE BP; SET FOR SUNDAY
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Mike Piazza proclaimed himself ready to play yesterday, unfortunately he can't until at least Sunday. Piazza took live batting practice off a minor-league pitcher named Mike...
BROSIUS READY TO 'GET OUT OF CAGE'
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The first thing you noticed about Scott Brosius as he entered the Yankee clubhouse yesterday afternoon was that he wasn't limping and had ditched the crutches he needed...
METS SURVIVE FRANCO SCARE - BONILLA'S FIRST HR BIG ONE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amMets 3 Reds 2 CINCINNATI - After 13 games in which he was barely a presence, Bobby Bonilla is hobbling no more. After going homerless since last September, Bonilla finally...
RANGER NIGHTMARE GETS EVEN SCARIER
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amOne has to wonder, when the Texas Rangers dream, do their nightmares have pinstripes? With last night's 4-0 loss at the Stadium in front of 24,514 boisterous fans, Texas has...
25 YEARS LATER, HANK TAKES BOW
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amBetter late than never. That's the phrase that came to mind yesterday as you watched Hank Aaron smile and talk about how these last few weeks have been among the...
FRANCO MAKES MESS, THEN CLEANS IT UP - CLOSER THANKS LUCKY COIN FOR DIFFICULT SAVE IN CINCY
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amMets 3 Reds 2 CINCINNATI - It was a ninth inning that looked as if it had crawled out of John Franco's worst nightmare, where gruesome ground ball hits lead...
DAVID RIGHTS BOMBER SHIP - HURLS 3-HIT GEM TO STOP SLIDE AT 4; PAUL BELTS 2 HRS
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 4 Rangers 0 David Cone sensed it on the way home from Detroit, where the Yankees had been embarrassed by the Tigers in three straight games. Three runs in...
YANKEE PARTNER CASTS STRAW VOTE
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While Darryl Strawberry sweats out the wait for a court date in Tampa, the troubled slugger received a show of support from a former boss and a member...
BONILLA FINALLY HAVING A BLAST
April 21, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Bobby Bonilla has been saying that his knee injury has left him three weeks behind his teammates, but now, after hitting his first home run as...