April 26, 1999
WIRELESS CABLE'S LOSS IS 'NET GAIN
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amUN-CABLE is looking like the next hot spot in the media industry. By un-cable I mean wireless cable - the ultimate oxymoron. Even as Wall Street and investors are being...
COMCAST'S ROBERTS NEEDS A PARTNER TO FIGHT OFF AT&T
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amBRIAN Roberts' vision of being in the top tier of the nation's media companies is probably over. The Comcast chief would have to pay more than he can afford to...
NOT SO POPULAR AT POPULAR SCIENCE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amPopular Science publisher John Crawley was just handed a pink slip from Times Mirror Magazines president and CEO Efrem (Skip) Zimbalist III. It marks the second time Crawley has been...
BARNESANDNOBLE.COM SHRINKS URL, ADDS FEATURES
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amAcknowledging that barnesandnoble.com is a mouthful, and a lot of typing, the online bookseller has given shoppers a shortcut - bn.com. "We wanted to make sure the customer could find...
SOROS' CONTENT ANALYSIS: DECIDES TO INVEST $10M IN BRILL'S MAG
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amAlthough staffers are jumping ship at Brill's Content, billionaire George Soros - always a friend of the downtrodden - is betting $10 million it will stay afloat. Soros is among...
STAR WARS: 23 DAYS TO GO - THE FORCE IS READY TO INTERRUPT WORK FORCE IN N.Y.
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Post has uncovered a growing legion of fanatics that absolutely, positively has to see "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace" on opening day. And they'll do anything...
CLONE-LY THE LONELY ; IT'S 'MURDER' WHEN YOU MISS YOUR OTHER SELF
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am"Dean Koontz's Mr. Murder" Tonight at 9 and Thursday on WABC/Ch.7 A CLONE desperate for a life with emotions is a role Stephen Baldwin may someday be able to carry....
TV TICKER
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe write stuff WPIX/Ch.11 reporter Mary Murphy has won a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for her writing. Murphy's award encompasses her 1998 work covering a range of stories including...
MOVIES BEAT COLORADO KILLERS TO THE PUNCH; CRUEL TO YOUR SCHOOL
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amThere's no more complete way to obliterate a miserable teen-agehood than to level the building that represents it. DESTROYING their high school is not an idea original to Eric Harris...
NO ADULTS, PLEASE. THIS IS A NEW SERIAL JUST FOR KIDS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE won't be any cheating wives, impotence or dirty business dealings - but young kids are getting a soap opera too. The makers of "Sesame Street" say they are developing...
TOO MUCH BORROWED AND NOTHING NEW
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am"Home Movies" Tonight at 8:30 on WWOR/Ch.9 BEYOND the imitation that is flattery, there is the homage-enousness that awaits us when the prime-time animation assembly line gets cranked up full...
'RHYTHM' & BOOS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHEATER REVIEW YOU know those endless numbers on the Oscar telecasts where a bunch of dancer-singers, recapping the year's movies, do the lives of, say, Gandhi, Lenin, Sitting Bull and...
MODERN VINTAGE - HOW TO INTEGRATE OLD CLOTHES WITH NEW
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amJust a few years ago, the only way to successfully wear the vintage look was to dress in antique clothing head to toe. No longer. From the looks we saw...
MODERN VINTAGE: HOW TO INTEGRATE OLD CLOTHES WITH NEW
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Just a few years ago, the only way to successfully wear the vintage look was to dress in antique clothing head to toe. No longer. From the looks we...
WHO'LL REPLACE LIZ?
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Rumors are already flying about who will follow Liz Tilberis, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer on Wednesday morning, as editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar. Karin Upton...
'V.I.P.' PUBLICISTS WIN THE BOOBY PRIZE FOR BOTCHING PAMELA LEE'S 'FAREWELL' TOUR
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am'V.I.P." has no shame about using Pamela Lee's best-known body parts to hype the show's season finale. The finale will be the last time you'll see Pamela's famous cleavage on...
HOME-REPAIR CONMEN RIP OFF ELDERLY
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amSpringtime is open season for the "travelers," a notorious crew of itinerant bandits who charge exorbitant prices for roofing, paving or foundation work - then disappear after doing shoddy repairs...
IF GIRLS ALONE REIGN, SONS WON'T SHINE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTo make a boy child pay for sins inflicted on girls 30 years ago is plain idiotic. But such is the state of feminism today. THE eighth-grader, a kid who...
LITTLETON, LIBERTY AND LICENSE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am'Only a society that long ago sacrificedits self-respect on the alter of abstractprinciple would allow into a high-schoolstudents wearing Nazi regalia.' HEATHER and Emily are sisters, twins, and soon they...
BRIDGE WORK WILL HIT SUBWAY SERVICE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amConstruction work will shut down train service over the Williamsburg Bridge for six months beginning next Saturday. Those who use the J, M and Z trains will be required to...
INFLATABLE-PEST ARREST? I SMELL A RAT!
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amFREE the giant rat! That's the only reaction possible upon hearing that the NYPD has still not released the giant, inflatable rat it arrested at a union rally earlier this...
BIG-HEARTED COP HONORED
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amSgt. Brian Coughlan, an 11-year police-force veteran who spends his free time working with handicapped children, was honored at Friday's Knick game. Coughlan, assigned to the Midtown North Precinct, received...
DEFIANT HONCHO WON'T QUIT; EXCLUSIVE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE head of the Battery Park City Authority is defying Gov. Pataki's top aides and refusing to quit his $140,000-a-year job, The Post has learned. Battery Park President John LaMura...
BLEATING HEARTS RIP PRINCE CHARLES
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amPrince Charles has sparked a furor for backing a charity event at which a nanny goat will be shot. The British Deer Society, in which Charles is the top patron,...
DI'S 'LOVE RAT' TO SELL SEX SECRETS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amAn ex-lover of Princess Diana plans to sell details of their sizzling sex life to the highest bidder. Maj. James Hewitt is auctioning the newspaper rights to his memoirs of...
TENSE LONDON BRACES FOR NEXT RACIST BOMB
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am"These people want to set off a race war." KUMAR MURSHID, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AGAINST RACISM London was on a full-scale terror alert today after a neo-Nazi group claimed credit for...
2 MCCAUGHEY SEPTUPLETS MIGHT HAVE CEREBRAL PALSY
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTwo of the McCaughey septuplets are being monitored for cerebral palsy because they are developing at a much slower pace than their famous siblings. Five of the seven tots born...
PICKING LOUIMA JURY A TRYING TASK; EXCLUSIVE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Abner Louima trial jury selection has been marked by behind-the-scenes bickering, insults and threats among the judge, prosecutors and defense lawyers. Lawyers for both sides are fighting over who...
SIGNS OF CALAMITY WERE IN CLEAR SIGHT
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amI AM not a shrink and I don't pretend to have any answers to the hideous calamity of the Colorado carnage. But, like most journalists, I have more than a...
REV. AL SETS DEADLINE IN N.J. SH00TING
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday threatened acts of civil disobedience if a grand jury doesn't expedite its probe into last year's shooting by police of of four minority men on...
OVEREXPOSURE GETS SHUTTERBUG TOSSED IN CAN
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amEven the strippers keep their clothes on in Times Square these days - but that didn't stop 150 ordinary people from taking it all off for an arty photo shoot...
KOSOVARS CLAIM ATROCITIES ARE SPREADING
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amKosovar refugees gave gruesome accounts yesterday of rampaging Serbian soldiers extending their massacre campaign into northern towns of the province. Towns in southern Kosovo had already been emptied "with clinical...
LAWYERS SEE A WEALTH OF TARGETS FOR SUITS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Columbine HS massacre could lead to massive lawsuits against school officials, cops, the parents of the killers and their friends, lawyers say. Even if no one is ever charged...
WHAT PUSHED OUTCASTS OVER THE EDGE?
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. ALISHA Basore has every reason in the world to hate Dylan Klebold. Her best friend, Rachel Scott, 17, was a casualty of the bloody massacre at Columbine HS....
AGENT DARED KILLER TO SHOOT RABIN
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - An informer for Israeli intelligence taunted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin just before the killing, saying he wasn't "macho" enough to do it, sources told The Post. Avishai...
YANKS & CITY TEAM UP TO HONOR JOE D.
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am"A baseball legend and an American icon. He has passed but he will never leave us." INSCRIPTION ON JOE DiMAGGIO'S PLAQUE Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio was remembered in bronze, granite...
GIULIANI: NEXT MAY0R MUST FIX SCH00L MESS - SAYS BOARD WILL BE TOP CITY ISSUE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amBarred from running for another term, Mayor Giuliani yesterday said education reform should be the central issue in the next mayoral election - just as he made crime the focus...
PREZ VOWS TO DEFEND ALL YUGO'S NEIGHBORS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday promised to stand by any Balkan nation threatened by Yugoslavia, even as he renewed efforts to chart a diplomatic way out of the Kosovo crisis....
TORRENTS OF TEARS IN AN OCEAN OF GRIEF - 80,000 MOURNERS PRAY FOR SLAIN TEENS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amA vast sea of mourners clutching balloons, bouquets and Bibles - and searching for answers - gathered yesterday at a memorial service for the victims of the Columbine HS massacre....
FAN DIES IN STADIUM PLUNGE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amA fan was killed at Yankee Stadium yesterday when he fell 90 feet from an escalator onto a concrete loading dock behind the bullpen in left field, police said. Francisco...
RUDYS GO FROM ALLIANCE TO DEFIANCE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS By declaring an all-out war on the Board of Education, Mayor Giuliani appears willing to jettison one of his closest allies - Chancellor Rudy Crew. Giuliani, positioning himself for...
ISRAEL SET TO INVITE POPE FOR Y2K VISIT
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amIsraeli officials today will extend a formal invitation to Pope John Paul II to visit the Holy Land, officials said yesterday. Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon will make the invitation when...
DEFIANT HONCHO REFUSES TO QUIT; EXCLUSIVE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE head of the Battery Park City Authority is defying Gov. Pataki's top aides and refusing to quit his $140,000-a-year job, The Post has learned. Battery Park President John LaMura...
FAN DIES IN STADIUM PLUNGE - FALLS 90 FT. FROM ESCALATOR DURING GAME
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amA 37-year-old baseball fan met his death near the left-field stands at Yankee Stadium yesterday when he slipped off an escalator and fell during the Yankees' game against the Toronto...
PARENTS MIGHT PAY FOR KILLER SONS' SINS - THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF SLAY PLAN: GOV
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Columbine HS killers' tormented parents - who have gone into hiding since the massacre - could face prosecution, authorities said yesterday. "I think that perhaps charges will be filed...
MONSTER'S MOTHER SENSED TROUBLE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amDylan Klebold's mom sensed a ''final tone'' in his voice when he went off to school last Tuesday - hours before he helped kill 13 of his fellow students. But...
IT'S AN 'EXCELLENT' WORKOUT
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The filly Excellent Meeting, who will be cross-entered in both the Kentucky Derby and Friday's Kentucky Oaks if trainer Bob Baffert can convince owner John Mabee to do...
JINTS' LEVINGSTON MAY BE SPECIAL
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amIt reached the point where it seemed almost ridiculous to kick the ball again to Bashir Levingston, and so Sacramento State simply sailed its kickoff out of bounds. Smart move....
FEISTY FEICK IS A NET ASSET
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amWell, at least he didn't call him "Barney," too. When Jamie Feick first arrived via a 10-day contract with the Nets last month, Don Casey referred to him as "Fife."...
JET PICKS KEEP GUARD UP
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amPerhaps superstitious, both Randy Thomas and David Loverne are refusing to look a gift horse in the mouth. They each know the carrot is dangling there, right in front of...
JEFF DISCOVERS CAMBY MAN CAN: EW WATCHES MARCUS, KNICKS PUT ON RALLY BIG SHOW
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amKnicks 82 Heat 80 MIAMI - Marcus Camby sat at his locker, his right eye red and blurred. His right shoulder sore, but his pride soaring. Across the room Allan...
NAME OF GAME IS VIOLENCE ; THAT'S WHAT VIDEO BIZ IS SELLING TO OUR KIDS
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE COLUMBINE H.S. massacre has inspired, no matter how fleeting, another examination of the mindlessly violent content of what's regu-larly sold to our children as entertainment. One group that has...
JOE'S MONUMENT SHOULD BE LAST: FORD
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amIf Whitey Ford had his way, the monument the Yankees dedicated to Joe DiMaggio yesterday would be the last one placed beyond the left-field wall. "That's enough - the four...
REMEMBERING A LEGEND
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amHANK Bauer stood in the clubhouse on Joe DiMaggio Day and pointed to the spot where the Yankee Clipper dressed, back row, second locker in, where Jorge Posada now hangs...
'WORLDLY' RELIES ON DUBAI TRAINING
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The movie "The Black Stallion" was one of those typical Hollywood fantasies about horse racing in which the title character washes up on a foreign shore, trains over...
HOLE LOTTA TROUBLE :STRAKA-LED PENGUINS PUT DEVILS DOWN 2-1
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 3 Penguins 4 Devils 2 Amid the calamity on ice the Devils have become in 28 short hours, amid the insults and liberties they've absorbed, one lasting painful barb...
BRODEUR HAVING DEVIL OF A TIME
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - He is among the most charming, genuine, popular Devils ever to receive mail at Exit 16W. Not only that, but Martin Brodeur is probably the biggest star in...
'COUPONS' EXCELS AT BIG A
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amWinning for the third time this year, Smart Coupons held off the favored Archers Bay by three-quarters of a length to win the $200,000 Excelsior Breeders Cup Handicap yesterday at...
METS CAN'T 'BEAR' IT AS CUBS COAST
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amCubs 8 Mets 4 CHICAGO - On a day in which the Cubs handed out 12,000 Sammy The Bear Beanie Babies, the real Sammy - Sosa - proceeded to knock...
GRIMSLEY RELIEVED TO MAKE CONTRIBUTION
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amJason Grimsley has been waiting to make a real contribution to the Yankees this season. Fortunately for the 31-year-old, he has learned to be very patient. "I just want to...
EXTRA SPECIAL WIN BERNIE DELIVERS AS YANKS HONOR JOE
April 26, 1999 | 4:00am11 INNINGS Yankees 4 Blue Jays 3 Somewhere up there, Joe DiMaggio must've looked down on Yankee Stadium's center field, that hallowed patch of grass he once owned, a smiled....
DIMAGGIO CEREMONY SPECIAL
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees did more than just unveil Joe DiMaggio's monument - the fifth in Monument Park - yesterday. They also spared no expense to make the day a...
BOBBY BO KNEEDS TO SEE DOCTOR
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CHICAGO - Bobby Bonilla's sore right knee just won't go away. The hulking rightfielder developed swelling in the joint after the Cincinnati series and instead of going to...
JEFF DISCOVERS CAMBY MAN CAN: MOURNING'S 'A' GAME TURNS INTO AN 'F' AT END
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Heat PR types are touting Alonzo Mourning as an MVP candidate for this shortened season and for nearly three quarters during yesterday's blood feud with the Knicks...
CHECKETTS LIKES WHAT HE SEES
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - There were times yesterday when Garden guru Dave Checketts had his head buried in his hands at Miami Arena as the Knicks fell behind by 20...
STEPHON HAS 20-20 VISION
April 26, 1999 | 4:00amNets 120 Pacers 98 The Knicks were down 20 against the Heat yesterday. In Miami. They came back and won. Obviously, this was a date where anything could happen. Even...