April 22, 1999
BET ON KERZNER TO TAKE OVER STARWOOD GAMING
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amWynn, who is well respected in the gaming and business community, could be tapped out after the Bellagio project. IT'S starting to get crowded at the auction for Caesar's Palace...
SHANGHAI TANG PLANS RELOCATING GANG
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amShanghai Tang, the glitzy but customer-challenged temple of Chinese fashion on Madison Avenue, is shopping for less pricey Manhattan digs. Sources tell The Post that Newmark & Company, which has...
TOP GUCCI DESIGNER IN SIT-DOWN WITH LVMH
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTom Ford is meeting with the enemy. The creative director of Gucci, which is battling a hostile takeover by LVMH, has agreed to meet with Chairman Bernard Arnault - without...
DOW SOARS 132; SMALL CAPS RECOVER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amLarge-cap stocks staged a comeback yesterday, but not at the expense of small companies, which also pulled off a broad-based rally. The Dow Jones industrial average, a select group of...
WSJ REPORTERS VENT WRATH AT KANN BY JON ELSEN
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amDow Jones reporters packed their company's annual meeting yesterday to deliver a loud and clear message to Chairman Peter Kann: Don't mess with our retirement plan. Speaking on behalf of...
SUI SMELL OF SUCCESS ; DESIGNER LAUNCHING PERFUME, MAKEUP LINE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amAnna Sui sat patiently behind a table at Saks Fifth Avenue yesterday, signing posters, perfume bottles and anything else the dozens of women lined up thrust at her. Sui, a...
MU$IC TO HER EAR$ : MORISSETTE 'NETS DEAL WITH MP3
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amPop superstar Alanis Morissette is joining the revolt to put music directly on the Internet without middlemen - and getting a piece of the new action for her trouble. The...
BALDUCCI'S BAGGED BY SUTTON PLACE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amLandmark gourmet emporium Balducci's has been swallowed up by a larger upscale food chain, The Post has learned. According to sources familiar with the situation, Bethesda, Md.-based Sutton Place Gourmet...
AS YOUNG AS EVER IN SPIRITED SHOW AT THE GARDEN
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amY EARS ago, Neil Young wrote that rust never sleeps, a succinct statement that captures the single-minded, near force-of-nature determination and devotion Young brings to the stage. At Madison Square...
PIANO MAN FINALE?
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amROCK REVIEW WHEN Billy Joel took his final bow at the arena at the Meadowlands on Tuesday, the world got just a little smaller. According to his record company, the...
HER CREEPY CREATURESTO BE THE BEAST YET
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amSTAR WARS: 27 DAYS TO GO IF you thought the creatures in the first three ''Star Wars'' movies were bizarre - you ain't seen nothin' yet! Because the critters that...
NBC AIR APPARENT FLUNKS SCHOOL MASSACRE REPORT
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTV GIRRRL "WE should tell you that we are approaching 9:15 on the East Coast, 6:15 on the West Coast, on a day that follows one and precedes another, a...
IT'S STILL IN 'SEASON'
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHEATER REVIEW TERRIFIC theater; excellent production; OK play.The group called Second Stage has moved to new quarters, at Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street, a bank reconfigured into cool, pastel-painted spaces...
SLOBBO PAL PAID FOR FIRST TV SITDOWN
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amSERBIAN strongman Slobodan Milosevic has granted his first American TV - unpredictably - to a reporter for a local TV station in Houston. The Milosevic interview - segments of which...
TV TICKER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00am'Copy' canned?It looks like curtains for "Hard Copy." Insiders say that the tabloid granddaddy is history, but officials at Paramount TV, which produces "Hard Copy," had no comment late yesterday....
NETS SCRAMBLE TO SCHEDULE SPECIALS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S a lot of re-editing and lineup juggling going on as television continues to struggle with Tuesday's tragedy in Littleton, Colo. The massacre has already impacted CBS. The network was...
FAREWELL TO 'SUPERWOMAN': FASHION EDITOR LIZ TILBERIS WHO DIED YESTERDAY, NEVER LET ON HOW ILL SHE REALLY WAS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amEVEN as she neared the end of her life, Liz Tilberis kept her chin up. That's what those who were closest to her say. With her gray pixie cut coiffed...
PHOTOGRAPHER SHOOTS FIRST, QUESTIONS LATER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amKUKES, Albania. RON HAVIV has been shooting on the Balkan front lines for nearly 10 years - with a camera. When the fighting breaks out again, this prize-winning photojournalist from...
BIO: HILLARY HIRED SNOOP TO WATCH BILL
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton's New York popularity is sinking, a new book is reviving reports that she once hired a private eye to track her hubby, and...
BLIND COULD SEE IT COMING
April 22, 1999 | 4:00am"What I don't like, I waste." TRENCH COAT MAFIA ON ITS WEB SITE SHORT of sky-writing above the United Nations, these killer kids could not have thrown out more warnings....
IF YOU THINK NEW YORK IS IMMUNE . . . THINK AGAIN
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE consensus on the streets and in the schoolyards, in the elevators and on line at the corner deli was nearly unanimous: It couldn't happen here. Now could it? The...
APPLE KIDS: NO WAY IT HAPPENS HERE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amIt could happen anywhere - but not likely in New York's heavily policed high schools, kids say. With metal detectors at the doors, armed cops on patrol and safety officers...
DUNBLANE'S DARK SHADOW HAUNTS SHATTERED FATHER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00am"It was like reliving everything we went through all over again. It brought it all back."CHARLES CLYDESDALE, DUNBLANE VICTIM'S FATHER Watching the terrified faces of anxious families flicker across his...
STYLE MAVEN LIZ TILBERIS LOSES LONG FIGHT WITH CANCER AT 51
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe fashion and publishing world was in mourning yesterday after Harper's Bazaar editor in chief Elizabeth (Liz) Tilberis lost a six-year battle against ovarian cancer and died at the age...
GOTHS: THOSE LOONIES AREN'T WITH US
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThey wore black, listened to hard-core rock 'n' roll and were social outcasts, but the two members of the so-called Trench Coat Mafia who shot up a Colorado high school...
CANNIBAL WINS ROUND IN FREEDOM BID
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amA crazed teacher who killed and castrated a teen-age boy - and then ate his body parts - may soon go free after 20 years in a mental hospital. Albert...
MARY JO: I CRIED FOR AMY'S PAIN AFTER APOLOGY
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amMary Jo Buttafuoco is set to publicly forgive Amy Fisher today - following a heart-wrenching letter from the Long Island Lolita that left her victim in tears. Buttafuoco yesterday told...
PREZ CALLS FOR PRAYERS, NOT TOUGHER GUN LAWS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton asked the nation yesterday to pray for the victims of the Littleton school massacre and for parents to "shield our children from violent images." But he noticeably left...
RUDY, COUNCIL LOCK HORNS ON POLICE GRADS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amNearly 1,400 new cops slated to report to precinct jobs will be shifted to task forces if a budget stalemate between Mayor Giuliani and the City Council isn't resolved, officials...
JOCELYNE CUTS HERSELF A VERY $WEET DIVORCE DEAL
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amIt's over! A jubilant Jocelyne Wildenstein became a free woman yesterday when she settled her bitter, two-year divorce battle with her billionaire art dealer-husband, Alec. "It's a big relief for...
CITY TO MAKE CABBIES TAKE THE E-Z WAY OUT
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe city will require that all 12,000 yellow cabs be equipped with E-Z Pass to speed up trips and reduce fares for customers. "All medallion cabs will be required to...
CIA REPORT BACKS BILL INTO CORNER ON CHINA NUKE SPYING
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton reversed himself yesterday, agreeing to meet with key members of Congress after a CIA report concluded China stole blueprints for American-made nukes. Clinton will meet this...
SUDDENLY GORE'S IN THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amAS if Al Gore didn't have enough to worry about in the 2000 race, he'd better start looking back over his shoulder in New Hampshire because Bill Bradley is gaining...
U.S. INVITES REFUGEES TO MOVE IN - WON'T HAVE TO STAY IN SHELTERS ON NAVAL BASE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United States is opening its heart - and its doors - to 20,000 Kosovo refugees who want to move in with relatives or other Americans eager to...
SCOTTISH TOWN LINKED BY TRAGEDY OFFERS HELP & SYMPATHY
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe townsfolk of Dunblane, Scotland, reached out to the people of Littleton, Colo., yesterday, offering to share the bitter lessons they learned from their own school-shooting nightmare three years ago....
COPS WEIGH POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amPolice found more than 30 bombs at Columbine HS yesterday - raising questions about whether the two suicidal assassins who slaughtered 13 people and wounded 28 others had accomplices. "There...
DUELING RUDYS RESUME WAR OVER SCHOOL VOUCHERS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe school-voucher war is heating up again as Mayor Giuliani unveils $12 million for the scholarships in his budget plan today - and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew swears "it will...
COPS DID THEIR BEST IN TOUGH SPOT: NYPD EXPERTS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Colorado cops handled the massacre in Littleton in textbook fashion - but have a lot more investigating to do, experts say. Frank Bolz, the legendary co-founder of the NYPD's...
AOL HELPS FBI 'NET EVIDENCE ON KILLERS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amAmerica Online is cooperating with the FBI to turn over any information that could be linked to the Colorado killers. "AOL is reviewing the content [of Web sites]," spokeswoman Kim...
SHRINKS: SURVIVORS MIGHT START TO MISBEHAVE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amSurvivors of the Colorado school massacre may go through more than just grief and depression - their personalities and behavior could undergo a temporary change, experts say. Good kids who...
TEENS & TEACHERS WHO BECAME HEROES
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTwin brothers risked their lives to save classmates.When the bullets started flying, Nick Foss rushed people into a bathroom. His twin brother, Adam, herded people into a cramped office. When...
A LONG NIGHT OF HOPE ENDS IN DESPAIR - PARENTS OF 13 TEENS GET DREADED NEWS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amParents of the teens slain in the Columbine HS massacre got the heart-wrenching news they dreaded last night - ending an excruciating wait and shattering their hopes for a miracle....
SHE DODGED DEATH BY INCHES
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. C RYSTAL ARCHULETA's hand trembled as she talked - and her tears never stopped. Crystal, a 17-year-old junior at Columbine HS, came inches from having a bullet crash...
ONLY BLACK VICTIM 'WAS FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE' IN SCHOOL
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThere were few kids at Columbine HS who didn't know Isaiah Shoels. But not just because he was one of about a dozen blacks at the 1,965-student school in Littleton,...
ONLY BLACK VICTIM 'WAS FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE' IN SCHOOL - BLACK VICTIM 'WAS FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE'
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThere were few kids at Columbine HS who didn't know Isaiah Shoels. But not just because he was one of about a dozen blacks at the 1,965-student school in Littleton,...
TUNNEL CLUB LOSES ITS ; BOOZE PERMIT
April 22, 1999 | 4:00am"We are glad to see that the doors of the Tunnel are closer to getting permanently shut."GIULIANI SPOKESWOMAN SAMANTHA LUGO The Tunnel's liquor license was suspended yesterday as state officials...
LETHAL GEEKS WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amEric Harris was a nerdy loner looking for someone to lead, and he found a willing follower in awkward outcast Dylan Klebold. The pair, who were inseparable through their years...
COPS WEIGH POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY - COULD KILLERS PLANT SO MANY BOMBS ALONE?
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amPolice investigating the Columbine HS massacre found more than 30 bombs yesterday - raising questions about whether the two suicidal assassins who slaughtered 13 people and wounded 28 others had...
BLACK TRENCH COATS HID 2 BLACK HEARTS - INSIDE THE TWISTED WORLD OF HITLER FANS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe killers were gun-obsessed, Nazi-loving white supremacists in long, black coats. Classmates of the duo, who were in the so-called Trench Coat Mafia, describe members of the group as troubled...
REVENGE EYED IN TEEN'S SLAYING
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was slain last night, and neighbors said he may have been killed in revenge for having attacked someone last week. Miguel Mendoza, 14, was struck in the...
AMONG WORST SLAUGHTERS EVER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe massacre at Columbine HS in Littleton, Colo., claimed the lives of 15 people, including the two teens responsible for the rampage, making it the worst mass slaying at a...
IT'S DEVILS IN SIX; - GILMOUR OR LESS; SOMEONE MUST SHOW SOME 'KILLER' INSTINCT
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amA star must be born. How long these Devils last this time depends on one question: how fast one of their forwards becomes a playoff player. This Devils team that...
POISED HOLIK: NOBODY CAN STOP US IF WE PLAY TOGETHER
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amWow. Invincible, except for themselves. These Devils really believe. The three-time Eastern Conference champs do not fear failing, Bobby Holik says. Perhaps that's because they've survived to return the last...
VICAR STRUTS STUFF AT CHURCHILL DOWNS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe only Kentucky Derby hopeful to work yesterday morning at Churchill Downs was one of the favorites, Fountain of Youth and Florida Derby winner Vicar, who had his first drill...
NEW GM FINES SPREE 25G
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amDave Checketts had this to say to Latrell Sprewell yesterday: Choke on this. In his first move as the Knicks' acting general manager, Checketts said he fined the brooding guard...
ARTEST COPS HAGGERTY AWARD
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amRon Artest last night became the 19th St. John's player to win the Lt. Frank J. Haggerty Award presented to the best player in the metropolitan area by the NIT/Met...
CONE HINTS AT DEPRESSION DEFENSE FOR STRAWBERRY
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Steve Howe successfully used a defense of attention deficit disorder to help him overcome an arrest for attempted possession of cocaine and return to the major leagues. Darryl...
A FAULTY PROGNOSIS ; CONE PROVING DR. DOOM WRONG
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amInterim manager Don Zimmer can remember sitting at a bar with Joe Torre in 1996, when a physician sidled up to them and asked if they were who he thought...
FRANCO BENDS BUT WON'T YIELD
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - When you've been around long enough to have over 400 saves, there will be games like Tuesday night's for John Franco. The Mets' closer of the past, present...
FOR COOL, CALM CHILI, ONLY THE BAT GETS HOT
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amI T WOULD be easier to get Don Zimmer to dress like Marilyn Manson or get Derek Jeter to give The National Enquirer an exclusive about his best times with...
KITTLES KEEPS THE FAITH
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amThere was the coach berating him. That was solved when John Calipari was fired. There was the worry about his contract and his long-term security. That was settled when the...
METS CATCH UP ON RULE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Major League Baseball sent teams a memo about the new catcher's box that is supposedly being enforced this season. It stated that, in conjunction with efforts...
WELLS ITCHIN' TO FACE YANKS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - He tried his best to paint tomorrow night at the Stadium as just another game, but the Bronx Boomer always has been better at painting strikes that platitudes,...
TEFLON DAVE FEELS HEAT
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amCLEAR a path. Here comes Teflon Dave to the rescue. The question is, who does Dave Checketts think he is saving? The Knicks? Or himself? Truth is, he cannot save...
TORRE HOPES DARRYL DIDN'T DO DRUGS
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amInstead of coming to his defense, or blasting him, George Steinbrenner refused yesterday to discuss Darryl Strawberry's arrest last week from drug possession and solicitation of prostitution."I'm not going to...
'CHECK' THIS OUT: GRUNFELD'S GONE! GM CHECKETTS REASSIGNS ERNIE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm upset about the record, but I'm also upset about things like the Larry Johnson incident, things like Latrell's agent ripping Jeff and Ernie in [yesterday's Post]. I'm not going...
'CHECK' THIS OUT: GRUNFELD'S GONE! VAN GUNDY, EWING SHOULD BE NEXT ONES OUT THE DOOR
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amDAVE CHECKETTS came down from his Teflon throne yesterday declaring the need for the Knicks to be unified and vowing to fix whatever is wrong before the start of next...
MCCARROLL PICKS 'CUSE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amMark McCarroll, a 6-10 senior center from Christ the King in Queens, said he has committed to play for Syracuse next season. ''I like the coaching staff,'' said McCarroll, who...
CHECKETTS NOW HAS WHAT RILEY WANTED
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S GOOD to be the king, Pat Riley had to be thinking last night from his throne a safe 1,300 miles away from Madison Square Garden. Dave Checketts, who would...
FURIOUS JOHNSON FIRES BACK
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amLarry Johnson was incredulous yesterday when asked about his alleged "flashing" of a Knicks' public relations woman in the team's locker room a couple of weeks ago. The story, which...
ROCKET NEED NOT BE AT HIS BEST TO WIN
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amNEITHER Roger Clemens nor the Yankees are winning in a style befitting their starry pedigree. Fourteen games and four Clemens starts into the season, it remains hard to determine if...
ROGER STREAK HITS SWEET 17
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 4 Rangers 2 Good stuff, bad stuff, on his game or not, it hardly seems to matter to Roger Clemens anymore. The Rocket steps to the mound, toes the...
NETS LOOK TO '99
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amNets 99 Bulls 87 With the season realistically over so long ago, the Nets plod through what is left of this misery with thoughts on next season. That's one reason...
HARPER: JAX TO KNICKS IS BUNCH OF BULL
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amSo the scenario many envision to save the Knicks, no doubt, involves a total house cleaning and Phil Jackson riding into town and leading them back to prominence as a...
MASATO'S MESS ; METS FALL AS YOSHII BLOWS 4-RUN LEAD
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - As awful as John Franco's ninth inning Tuesday night might have been, Masato Yoshii's fourth inning last night was far, far worse. Franco gave up only one run...
AMAZIN'S ZONING IN ON RULE
April 22, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Baseball's effort to change the strike zone is expanding just like the zone. The commissioner's office sent a memo to clubs about adhering to the new...