April 23, 1999
BULLS RING UP 145-PT. GAIN
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe bears have been pushed firmly back into hibernation, as a wild bull rally sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its second consecutive record high. The Dow soared 145.76...
CHATHAM VENUE ON JEAN GEORGES' MENU; EXCLUSIVE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amSuperchef Jean Georges Vongerichten has served up a proposal to open a restaurant in the new Chatham condominium building, The Post has learned. Vongerichten, known internationally for his upscale dining...
GATES CLOSED TO MAFFEI'S DEPARTURE FOR ROAD RUNNER
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amWhat Bill Gates wants, Bill Gates gets. The world's richest man yesterday killed a deal that would have poached one of his most valuable executives - Chief Financial Officer Greg...
AD AGE JOINS MORNING RADIO SEGMENT WARS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amAdvertising Age editor Scott Donaton will soon be taking on the competition, New York Times ad columnist Stuart Elliott, as he takes to the radio waves. Thanks to a new...
INKTOMI MAKES A $112M IMPULSE! PICKUP
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amInktomi Corp, a maker of search-engine software, yesterday acquired the Impulse! Buy Network for $111.6 million in stock. The addition of Impulse!, which makes online-shopping software, broadens Inktomi's product assortment...
DILLER PLUGS AWAY FOR CABLE DEAL
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amBarry Diller is redoubling his efforts to buy some of Cablevision's cable networks. But there's no indication Cablevision wants to sell. Meanwhile, in an unrelated event, Diller disclosed he's cashing...
CINEMARK MOVIE-THEATER CHAIN COULD FETCH $1B; EXCLUSIVE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amA giant chain of movie theaters in the U.S., Canada and South America has gone on the auction block, The Post has learned. Cinemark USA Inc. is being shopped by...
AT&T MOVES ON MEDIAONE WITH $62.5B 'BEAR HUG' - HOSTILE BID TARGETS DEAL WITH COMCAST
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amArmstrong said he would be able to save $2 billion a year by 2000, making an unspecified number of layoffs in the process. And he would sell off as much...
LANDING MEDIAONE IS SWEET REVENGE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amAn AT&T takeover of MediaOne would be sweet revenge for John Malone and Leo Hindery Jr. If AT&T succeeds in breaking up Comcast's deal to acquire MediaOne, Comcast's President Brian...
WHY AT&T CRAVES MORE CABLE SYSTEMS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amAT&T's Mike Armstrong wants to buy more cable systems because leasing them is turning out to be harder than he expected. Not that he has completely soured on leasing. Quite...
OH, 'NO'! OSAKA EXPO '70 TIED TO QUEBECOIS TERRORISM
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE are moments when ''No'' is so comically pretentious, you think it has to be a spoof along the lines of ''This Is Spinal Tap.'' But there's no such luck...
MUSIC IS HIS NATURAL FORM OF EXPRESSION
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"I try to follow my emotions, my passions ... I want to create the feelings of being alive." - Kitaro JAPANESE composer Kitaro, one of the most prominent performers in...
TV TICKER
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amWeek-willed Good week for NBC News, with ''Meet the Press with Tim Russert'' winning the Sunday-morning public affairs race (4.2 million viewers). And Wednesday's ''Dateline'' (8-10 p.m.) averaged 15.7 million...
FANS PLAN MARATHON LINEUP FOR CHARITY
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amA week from tomorrow, rabid New York-area ''Star Wars'' fans will show just how devoted - or just how wacko - they really are. On May 1, they'll begin queuing...
'FOUND' IS GOOD TV MATERIAL
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amAS well as being the second film in a year to capitalize on the sensual appeal of the cello, "Lost and Found" is yet another movie that exploits the comic...
VIRTUAL GENIUS - CRONENBERG'S 'EXISTENZ' AN ICKY MUST-SEE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amBRILLIANT, subversive and flesh-crawlingly gruesome, David Cronenberg's virtual-reality stunner "eXistenZ" is one terrific movie. It's a "Matrix" for those who find the artsy execution of provocative ideas more thrilling than...
MORE PANGSTHAN BANGSIN 'CIVIL WAR'
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Civil War" is a virtually bookless musical pageant that attempts to evoke not so much this nation's actual war between the states as the emotions swirling about that era....
'PEKING MAN' IS 'KING KONG' CHINESE-STYLE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am'MIGHTY Peking Man'' is one of those so-bad-it's-good movies that are best experienced after midnight and multiple cocktails. It's like eating Cheez Whiz out of the jar with your bare...
ONE-STOP CHOPPING: 'HOWIE,' 'COPY' AXED
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amPARAMOUNT TV delivered a double whammy yesterday, axing both "Hard Copy" and "The Howie Mandel Show" because of low ratings. The official cancellation of "Hard Copy" - reported exclusively in...
BLAME TV FOR KIDS WHO KILL - VILE SHOWS DRAG THEM TO THE DARK SIDE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amDON'T let anybody from the entertainment industry tell you they're not guilty of fueling the fantasies of kids who kill. The producers of TV shows, movies and video games didn't...
'PUSHING' LACKS PULL
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am'PUSHING Tin," a comedy about air-traffic controllers and the women who love them, bumps along without ever really getting off the ground. Thanks mostly to the exceedingly enjoyable cast, the...
AMBITIOUS 'ELECTION' A WINNER
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amSMART, funny and tough, "Election" is one of the best movies to come out this year. It's a terrific work of political and social satire set in a Nebraska high...
TOM, NICOLE COMING 'CLOSER'
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: TOM Cruise and Nicole Kidman are among the Hollywood heavyweights vying for the movie rights to "Closer," Patrick Marber's Broadway play about love, sex and betrayal. Kidman has been...
AGAINST ALL ODDS - TWO CHEERS FOR ROSEANNE! TALK SHOW SCORES A SECOND SEASON
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S good news and bad news for Roseanne. The good news is that her still-struggling talk show was given a firm go-ahead for a second season this week. That's bad...
'THAT JERK' PROSECUTOR TRIGGERS MRS. B'S FURY; EXCLUSIVE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHE former Mary Jo Connery threw her Irish into full throttle: "That jerk, that damned jerk, that S.O.B ..." Her father, Al Connery, a retired bank officer, said, "If I...
GOOD DAY FOR HILLARY FANS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was to address a United Federation of Teachers conference in Buffalo last night amid new Democratic hopes she'll run for the Senate next year. Clinton,...
'I'M SO, SO SORRY, MARY JO' - AMY STEP NEARER FREEDOM AFTER COURTHOUSE APOLOGY
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amLong Island Lolita Amy Fisher took full responsibility yesterday for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco- tearfully apologizing to her at an emotional court hearing. Moments later, a judge OK's a deal...
BOMBS HIT BELGRADE VILLA OF YUGO LEADER
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amNATO bombed Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic's luxurious Belgrade villa yesterday - opening up a bold and more personal offensive aimed at bringing the Balkan war to his front door. Three...
ISRAEL: ARAFAT'S AIDE GUILTY OF 'CAPITAL' OFFENSE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel ordered the closing of three PLO offices in east Jerusalem yesterday on grounds they were the base for "illegal diplomatic activity." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he...
LOUIMA COP'S FURIOUS DAD: THEY'RE 'LYNCHING' MY SON
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe father of accused cop Justin Volpe exploded in anger yesterday at the judge in the Abner Louima case, saying the jurist was "stacking the deck" against his son in...
SLOW GO FOR CIVILIAN COP-COMPLAINT PANEL
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amNYPD brass has failed to act on more than half of 448 confirmed cases of police misconduct in 1997, the Civilian Complaint Review Board said yesterday. The independent monitor's annual...
JESSE SORRY HE SHOT OFF HIS MOUTH
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amMinnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura admitted yesterday he goofed when he said that the Columbine HS massacre could have been avoided "had there been someone armed" in the school....
OOPS! HOSP THREW PATIENT'S TRANSPLANT KIDNEY IN TRASH
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe transplant patient was ready - but the kidney was missing. With time running out, Westchester doctors found the organ - in the trash. They transplanted it into the 67-year-old...
BEING 'DISSED' IS NO REASON TO KILL: PREZ
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday blamed the Littleton massacre on two teens having the "wrong reaction" to being "dissed" - adding that "even the president" gets dissed. "They had the...
RUDY'S THREAT: NO RAISES FOR CITY COUNCIL; EXCLUSIVE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is threatening to withhold pay raises for the City Council if its leaders don't scale back their proposed $41 million operating budget, The Post has learned. "They should...
BRILLIANT SEDUCTION: 'CHIN' GANG USED FLIRT IN BID TO UNMASK JURY
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"Mr. Santora fancies himself quite the lover. There was a lot of talk, but no body fluids were exchanged." INVESTIGATOR'S LAWYER, RON KUBY Vincent "Chin" Gigante's investigators hired a flirtatious...
NATO HAS 'GROUNDS' FOR NEW PLANS: BILL - CAUTIOUS ON CLAIM SLOBBO'S SET TO DEAL
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday said "it's only prudent" for NATO to update plans for ground troops in Kosovo and took a cautious view of Russian claims that Yugoslavia is...
'GOOD CHANCE' KILLERS HAD HELP - 'NEW' BOMB BOOSTS CONSPIRACY THEORY
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe probe of the Columbine HS massacre took a sinister new turn yesterday as investigators said the discovery of a powerful bomb means there's an "extremely good chance" the assassins...
JUDGE SOCKS IT TO CHUCK
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amAccused shoe-burglar Chuck Jones had a bad day in court yesterday: a judge slapped him with a gag order, prosecutors called him a forger and ex-client Marla Maples called him...
RUDY SAYS 'TIME HAS COME' FOR PRIVATE-SCHOOL TUITION VOUCHERS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amSaying he wants to "blow up" the Board of Education, Mayor Giuliani proposed yesterday that the city offer families up to $7,000 a year to send some 3,000 poor kids...
TEEN FROM SCHOOL WINDOW HANGING ON TO LIFE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe teen in a bloodied shirt who dangled from a Columbine HS window in a desperate struggle to flee the massacre going on around him was still fighting for his...
SURVIVORS OF SLAUGHTER BEING SENT TO NEW SCHOOLS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amBlood-soaked Columbine HS will be closed indefinitely and its 1,900 students will be transferred to other local schools to finish the year, officials say. "We want to be sure when...
TROOPERS, N.J. SUED IN 'RACE PROFILE' SHOOTINGS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amFour men shot by cops after being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike filed suits yesterday, alleging they were singled out because of race. "I want to know why, as...
VIOLENT VIDEO WAS JUST A DRESS REHEARSAL
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amHigh-school killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold rehearsed their rampage in a morbid video they made for school, their classmates said. "It represented what happened," Columbine HS junior Chris Reilly...
HERO SUBSTITUTE TEACHER THE PRIDE OF NEW JERSEY
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"The best way to describe her is both tough and sensitive. But her tough part really showed through here." MARTY SILVANAGE, TEACHER'S HUSBAND One of the heroes who saved the...
SHOT STUDENT PLAYED DEAD TO SURVIVE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"He asked me to read him the names of the students [who had been shot], and that is when he began to cry." RICHARD CASTALDO'S FATHER WHEN five bullets ripped...
HOPES AND DREAMS DIED WITH VICTIMS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amOne was a shy math whiz. Another was a born-again Christian. A third loved animals and Shakespeare. Still another aimed for the stars and dreamed of one day piloting a...
PATIENT PODS WAITING FOR RIVERA TO BUST OUT
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amQUIZ: When Mark McGwire hit 70 homers last year he broke the Cardinal season-homer record of 43 set by Johnny Mize in 1940. But there are actually two teams that...
DON'T FEED THE BLUE JAYS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees have a job this weekend. They need to make a statement against Toronto. To stomp a young, talented team with grand ideas. To show the Blue Jays it...
NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE - SOME OF ESPN'S HEROES ARE ROTTEN TO INTERVIEW
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amIMAGINE, if you can, that you've been selected one of the 50 greatest athletes of the century. Better still, ESPN would like to record your accomplishments not only for this...
BAFFERT PUTS HIS BIG TWO TO THE TEST
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amHow serious is trainer Bob Baffert about winning his record third Kentucky Derby in a row? Judging by the way he's cracking down in the morning on General Challenge and...
HERE COME THE SUMMER SPECIES
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amFLOUNDER are still the main attraction right now, but slowly we are starting to see an influx of summer-type species such as fluke and weakfish as well as increased numbers...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR JAGR - GRETZKY'S HAND-PICKED SUCCESSOR OUT TO PROVE HE'S WORTHY REPLACEMENT
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"I want to say thanks to him for all the nice things he said about me. And I want to prove that he wasn't wrong." JAROMIR JAGR The torch passed...
SPREE MAY CONTEST 25G FINE - LATRELL CONSIDERS APPEALING TO UNION
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amBefore simply turning over a $25,000 check to the Knicks, Latrell Sprewell is considering contesting the hefty fine levied on him by new GM Dave Checketts Wednesday. Patrick Ewing, the...
MARCUS SO SAD GRUNFELD'S GONE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amMarcus Camby was sorry to see his biggest ally removed as Knick GM and president Wednesday. After all, it was Ernie Grunfeld who acquired him this past offseason by trading...
COLLINS STARTS FROM SQUARE ONE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"His attitude and his work ethic were the two more important things for me to evaluate, and he's doing everything." JIM FASSEL The ongoing rebuilding of Kerry Collins, as a...
WARD PLANS TO ASK NBA FOR CHANGE IN PRESS POLICY
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amCharlie Ward said he plans on petitioning the NBA after the season to ask for a change in its policy regarding when the media is allowed to be in the...
BARKLEY GETS USA INVITATION
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amSt. John's point guard Erick Barkley has been invited to try out for the prestigious 1999 USA Basketball Men's World University Games Team, The Post has learned. Barkley, who comes...
AYALA: I'D QUIT FOR HER - HE'D END COMEBACK IF HIS VICTIM ASKED
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amHUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. - Tony Ayala's second life is four days old today, and he will probably have another heaping helping of his mother's guacamole. The taste of freedom. It's...
BOOMER BACK ON PERFECT STAGE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees can't paint tonight's matchup with Toronto as just another game, and Blue Jays starter David Wells hasn't convinced anyone that this visit to The Bronx is just another...
KOVALEV ABSENCE THE PITTS FOR PENS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amPenguins superstar Jaromir Jagr was his jovial self 90 minutes before the opening faceoff last night, glancing at a newspaper's sports section. Looking up, he said aloud outside the Meadowlands'...
STRAW STILL MUST FACE JUDGE GEORGE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amWith Darryl Strawberry reportedly passing multiple drug tests and his inner circle confident he will be able to beat a cocaine possession rap, what's left of Strawberry's checkered career could...
YOSHII BATTLES FOR CONTROL - METS RIGHTY LAMENTS HIS LATEST BREAKDOWN
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - Different pitchers react in different ways to different situations. After a bad game, some will forget about it, others dwell on it for days. Masato Yoshii took a...
PLAYOFFS ... OR BUSTS? - DEVILS BETTING THEIR THIRD TIME'S A CHARM
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"There's a very different feeling here now than there was last year or even the year before." SCOTT STEVENS AND SO here they are for the third straight year going...
OUSTED ERNIE WON'T PLAY BLAME GAME; FIRED GRUNFELD REFUSES TO SLING MUD
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amERNIE Grunfeld chose his words carefully. He is still an employee of the Knicks and wants to travel the high road when it would be easier to sling mud. So,...
VALENTINE CLEARS THE AIR WITH UMPS
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - After a misunderstanding about whether or not Bobby Valentine criticized home-plate umpire Mark Hirschbeck in Wednesday night's loss, the Mets manager had a pre-game conference with...
GUT-CHECK TIME - KNICKS' HEADS ON CHECKETTS' BLOCK
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks went through their practice paces yesterday at the Garden in front of a promotional crowd of American Express cardholders - one day after Dave Checketts decided to leave...
EWING: ALL JOBS ON LINE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Patrick Ewing said yesterday he was "shocked and disappointed" that Ernie Grunfeld was removed as president and GM of the Knicks Wednesday, but added that such happenings are...
ERNIE-VAN FEUD GOES WAY BACK
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE was nothing secret or subtle about Dave Checketts' cannibalistic disposal of Ernie Grunfeld. The CEO of Madison Square Garden and driving force behind The Wiz and Radio City Music...
LIMPING BONILLA LEAVES IN 2ND INNING
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Bobby Bonilla, who was limping Wednesday night, was taken out of last night's game in the bottom of the second inning because of soreness in his...
OFF TO A FRESH START - DEVILS SHOW SIGNS OF PLAYOFF PROMISE
April 23, 1999 | 4:00am"We're much more confident and comfortable with ourselves than we've been in a long time." SCOTT STEVENS AND so here they are for the third straight year competing in the...
LEITER FLIP SIDE A BIG HIT - AL TAMES REDS FOR 1ST WIN
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - In one very good outing, Al Leiter flip-flopped from "flop" to unflappable. Turns out his flame-out was a fluke. Looking for his first win of the season, the...
GREAT SCOTTS KEEP JAGR PENNED
April 23, 1999 | 4:00amPenguins superstar Jaromir Jagr was his jovial self 90 minutes before the opening faceoff of last night's 3-1 Devils victory in Game One of their first-round series. Glancing at a...