April 24, 1999
RIESE PROMISES A-1 MAKEOVER FOR TAD'S
April 24, 1999 | 4:00am"We might look at franchising the (Tad's) format, which will be quite a departure from our usual role of franchisee."DENNIS RIESE, president, Riese Organization New York City's fast-food king has...
STREET IS NOT SOLD ON AT&T'S $62.5B BID BUT FEDS LIKELY TO OK MERGER
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amAT&T's C. Michael Armstrong's $62.5 billion bid for MediaOne may not be ringing any bells for his investors, but it looks unlikely that regulators would try to disconnect the megamerger....
WELLS GUILTY OF JAYWALKING ; WILD-CHILD DAVID LOSES BRONX RETURN
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amYankees6 Blue Jays4 Greeted by a pre-game standing ovation as he waltzed in from the bullpen and another one when he strolled to the Yankee Stadium mound for the home...
DON'T PUSH 'TIN' ON TOTS
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amNOT RECOMMENDED "PUSHING TIN" (R): The stresses and high-flying sex lives of air-traffic controllers are dramatized in this flick by Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral"). Billy Bob Thornton...
FOR SERIOUS SERIES FANS, NO DETAIL'S TOO TRIVIAL
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amDIEHARD "Star Wars" fans insist they know everything about the red-hot sci-fi series. And with "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" debuting on May 19, "Star Wars" trivia is growing fast...
RETROSPECTIVE WILL GIVE FILM FANS NEW REASON TO . . .; 'TOUT' TRUFFAUT'S HORN
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLE-known fact: The gangster classic "Bonnie and Clyde" originally featured a menage a trois. This is only one of the fascinating ways Francois Truffaut and films like "Jules and Jim"...
GIMMICKY 'MENDING' JUST SEW-SEW
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHOSE three strippers in Broadway's "Gypsy" were dead wrong when they declared with blase confidence that in dance "You Gotta Have a Gimmick!" You don't. Nothing succeeds in dance like...
SOUL SEARCHING IN WAKE OF MASSACRE COVERAGE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amTUESDAY'S Colorado high school massacre is forcing local TV news operations to reassess how they cover hostage takings - and what they show to their viewers. Even before the Columbine...
'MENACE' TICKET SCRAMBLE STARTS MAY 12
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amMovieFone tickets to the new "Star Wars" blockbuster go on sale May 12, a week before the movie's release, the company announced yesterday. Tickets will be available by both phone...
N.Y. ALBANIANS OPEN DOORS FOR WAR REFUGEES
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amA Bronx landlord who lived the American dream after immigrating penniless from Kosovo 30 years ago has a gift for some Kosovar refugees desperate for a home - keys to...
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JOE D? ; PALS PACK ST. PAT'S IN TRIBUTE TO YANKEE CLIPPER
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amHundreds of Joe DiMaggio's friends, family and former teammates - including Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto - packed St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday to pay homage to the beloved Yankee Clipper....
GUNMAN GUILTY IN PIZZA-DELIVERY SLAYING
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amA 20-year-old New Jersey man was convicted yesterday in the thrill-kill murder of two pizza deliverymen. Thomas Koskovich, who could be sentenced to death, showed no reaction after the Sussex...
PREZ PLEDGES $1.5M TO AID FAMILIES
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday pledged $1.5 million to help pay for funerals of the Colorado massacre victims - while stressing that kids are still safer in schools than anywhere...
WHO WILL ATTEND KILLERS' FUNERALS?
April 24, 1999 | 4:00am"They wanted the world's attention and now they got it. But that's enough."COLUMBINE HS STUDENT KATIE KIRKERIC LITTLETON, Colo. - Friends, neighbors and classmates are grappling with conflicting feelings over...
GAY SLAYER: MY PARTNER ABUSED ME ; 'BATTERED-WIFE' DEFENSE OK'D
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amA gay man who killed his lover can use "battered-wife syndrome" as a defense at his trial, a Brooklyn judge ruled yesterday. Supreme Court Justice John Leventhal's landmark ruling marks...
QUEENS COUNCILMAN MIGHT DERAIL TRAIN-TO-THE-PLANE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Port Authority's fast-tracked train-to-the-plane is suddenly facing some unexpected opposition in the City Council - which could mean the $1.5 billion project is approaching its final stop. Councilman Morton...
CLUB KING'S TUNNEL REOPENS
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amClub king Peter Gatien won his latest legal skirmish yesterday with state and city officials trying to close his west Chelsea nightspot, The Tunnel. The club reopened last night after...
BUILDINGS BOSS WHO RANKLED RUDY QUITTING
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amBuildings Commissioner Gaston Silva, who often ran afoul of the Giuliani administration in his three years at the agency, is leaving next month, officials said yesterday. There was no official...
A CARROT & A STICK FOR SLOBBO ; BILL'S OFFER: BOMBS OR DIPLOMACY
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton sent mixed signals to Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic yesterday - NATO is ready to "fight to prevail" in Kosovo, but diplomacy can still bring an end...
COPS HAVE NEW SUSPECT WHO SAYS OTHERS HELPED: REPORT
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amInvestigators have reportedly identified a third suspect in the Columbine HS massacre who says others helped plan and carry out the attack. The NBC report, quoting unnamed sources, came amid...
TOWN SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS BELOVED SON ; FAMILIES SHARE GRIEF IN FIRST MEMORIAL SERVICE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo., - This town of tears poured out its grief yesterday for a 16-year-old who loved God and his beat-up Chevy pickup. More than 500 people said an emotional...
WOODY'S FILM GOODIES STAR AT AUCTION
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amWoody Allen fans are going "Bananas" over today's auction of props and memorabilia from a decade of his films. The items include everything from 1930s mahogany radio consoles from "Radio...
PREZ'S WAR OF WORDS MARKS HIS 'DEFINING' MOMENT
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Suddenly President Clinton's Kosovo strategy seems to spin around word games about the meaning of "permissive." At first, NATO - and Clinton - insisted ground troops would go...
BOY WHO HUNG FROM WINDOW IS PARALYZED
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe brave teen who dangled bleeding from a Columbine HS window was shot in the brain and is paralyzed - possibly for the rest of his life, his doctor said...
DOC HAD TO PLAY GOD AND ; LET TEACHER DIE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo.SOME will call it playing God. Dr. Christopher Colwell calls it a "balancing act." In the desperate seconds after two teen-agers blasted and bombed their way through Columbine HS,...
JEALOUS HUBBY BRUTALLY BEATS HIS ; MONEY-MANAGER WIFE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amAn unemployed Upper East Side man bludgeoned his financial-wizard wife in the head with a barbell because he was in a pill-and-wine-fueled jealous rage, his lawyer said yesterday. "He still...
TEACHER BEGGED AS KILLERS STALKED ; COPS REPLAY HER CELL CALL FROM LIBRARY
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amA terrified teacher trapped in the Columbine HS library desperately begged police dispatchers for help as the gunmen closed in, 911 tapes released yesterday revealed. "Oh, God! Oh, God! ......
NEO-NAZI KLEBOLD WAS HALF-JEWISH
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amDylan Klebold, the Columbine HS killer who spouted Nazi slogans and embraced Adolf Hitler, has a Jewish mother and is the great-grandson of a Jewish philanthropist. His mother's maiden name...
CREW CANS FIVE OVER JEWISH-SCHOOL SCAM
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew yesterday booted a Brooklyn school superintendent and four local board members for allowing a no-show job scam that siphoned millions of tax dollars to a Jewish...
JETS SEE CONTI AND THINK CHREBET
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe actual living of the dream began yesterday for Eddie Conti. It was his first official act as an employee of the New York Jets, his first day on the...
SILAS THE REASON HORNETS BUZZING
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Knicks have a Garden full of reasons why their season has been such a disappointment. The list starts with a season shortened by labor strife that minimized training-camp time...
CHEER, BUT REMEMBER - WELLS WAS IMPERFECT HERO
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amDAVID Wells did not cure polio. He did not take that small step for a man and larger one for mankind. And he was very responsible only for the 24th...
ISLES, SFX DEAL HINGES ON NEW ARENA
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amNHL commissioner Gary Bettman is making strides in his attempt to broker a deal that would have Bob Gutkowski's investment group signing a letter of intent to purchase the Islanders...
ODELEIN GOES 'APE' OVER BARNABY BARB
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amIt has turned nasty early, this Devils-Penguins playoff series. Trash talk left the ice and entered the public realm. Lyle Odelein and Matthew Barnaby simply don't like each other, and...
LESHON: GIANT DOSE OF COURAGE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amWE see comebacks all the time in sports. We talk about courage and perseverance all the time it seems. So and so rehabbed a wrecked knee. So and so slayed...
DERBY TRIAL ON TAP
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It's called the Derby Trial, a $100,000, Grade 3 stakes at a flat mile opening day at Churchill Downs a week before the main event, and decades ago...
BLUE JAY WAY WORKS SO FAR ; TORONTO THRIVING WITHOUT CLEMENS
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Roger Clemens began moving toward the exit door of the Blue Jays' clubhouse last November, The Rocket's decision was based on him wanting to play with a team that...
POUTING REY BENCHED AGAIN
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Rey Ordonez may have been left out of yesterday's lineup because of his supposedly immature reaction to being left out of the lineup the day before. But Bobby...
CHILI ENCOURAGED BY STRAW TALK
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amChili Davis needed to hear it from Darryl Strawberry's mouth and when he did, he felt a lot better about a friend he has known longer than any other Yankee...
BAFFERT'S READY TO HIT HIGH GEAR
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - All was quiet before the storm at Bob Baffert's barn on the Churchill Downs backstretch late yesterday morning, giving him a chance to relax in his office with...
NO PRACTICE FOR GIMPY JAGR
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe head coach didn't attend the season's most important practice. The superstar hasn't given a legitimate explanation to why he bailed out with 31 seconds remaining in Game One following...
CASEY: I WANT TO BE BACK
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amDon Casey was not campaigning. He was responding to a couple questions and in so doing, acknowledging he feels that he and his staff have done a creditable job with...
KNICKS HEAR BATTLE CRY VAN'S TROOPS IN LAST-DITCH TRY FOR PLAYOFFS
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe fight is not about women in the locker room. The fight is no longer about who is right, Jeff Van Gundy or the fired Ernie Grunfeld. The fight is...
PENGUIN COACH WON'T BE FINED FOR NO-SHOW
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe bankrupt Penguins won't be fined by the NHL for coach Kevin Constantine not making himself available to the New York media yesterday. Constantine blew off Meadowlands practice yesterday, presumably...
JINT DRAFT PICK BEATS THE ODDS
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amJoe Montgomery chuckled when asked about the difficult journey through violence, disappointment and nightmarish injury that somehow led him to become a second-round draft pick of the Giants. ''It's really...
OFFER MADE TO PICK UP SPREE'S 25G FINE
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amIf the Knicks' $25,000 fine against Latrell Sprewell holds up, Sprewell will not have to dip into his own wallet to pay the bill. AND1, which markets itself as the...
METS WRIGGLE PAST CUBBIES
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amMets6 CUBS5 CHICAGO - A quick survey of the post-game Mets clubhouse sought to find a good one-word description of yesterday's 6-5 Mets win, but it quickly became clear that...
STRAW 'LEAVE OF ABSENCE' LIKELY
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry and his representatives will participate in a conference call with Major League Baseball and Players' Association officials today with the expectation that Strawberry will be put on a...
POUTING REY LENDS A HAND
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - One day after being criticized for not being prepared to come into a game off the bench, Rey Ordonez emerged in the eighth inning and may have made...
BRANDIES RALLY SPIKES STUDIES
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amEnvironmental Studies seemed to have the right elements for a victory. Playing on its home court on the West Side, the Eagles flew to a 10-4 lead against Brandeis in...
BOOMER LOOMS AS YANKS' WORST OCTOBER BUMMER
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amT HE nightmare scenario involving David Wells for the Yankees did not occur last night despite several Stadium standing ovations for the off-beat lefty, calls of "Boomer, Boomer" and the...
CUBBIES SEND NOMO PACKIN'
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe Hideo Nomo experiment is no more. At least not in Chicago. The Cubs released the former NL Rookie of the Year yesterday after he declined to stay in the...
KNICKS HEED BATTLE CRY STING HORNETS TO BEGIN DRIVE TO PLAYOFF SPOT
April 24, 1999 | 4:00amKnicks110 Hornets105T he fight is not about women sportswriters in the locker room. The fight is no longer about who is right, Jeff Van Gundy or the fired Ernie Grun-feld....