April 29, 1999
MANAGEMENT BUYS LAURA ASHLEY FOR $1
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amIn what must be the sale of the century, Laura Ashley is selling its North American division to a management-led group for $1. The fire sale was forced by Laura...
'SOUTH PARK' GOES SOUR - OMIGOD! THEY'RE KILLING TIE-IN MERCHANDISE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amIs the clock ticking on Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 15 minutes of fame? The 20-somethings rocketed to stardom when "South Park," their animated gross-out fest, debuted on Comedy Central...
AOL SEEKS STAKE IN CHANCELLOR MEDIA
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amAmerica Online is in talks to acquire a stake in radio giant Chancellor Media for some $250 million, according to a published report. In exchange, AOL would gain exclusive access...
MGM, CABLEVISION MULL DISTRIBUTION DEAL
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMGM and Cablevision are discussing a deal that could merge the Hollywood studio with one or more Cablevision's national movie networks, The Post has learned. Talks between the companies are...
DOWN THE AMAZON - E-RETAILER'S 1ST.-QTR. LOSS HITS $61.7M
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amPaying the price for growth, online retailer Amazon.com posted deepening losses yesterday from its expansion binge and saw its high-flying stock drop in after-hours trading. The site for books, music...
VANITY FAIR'S CARTER BUCKS TREND, WINS AGAIN AT MAG AWARDS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amSMALL and independent publishing houses stole the spotlight yesterday at the National Magazine Awards, but that didn't stop Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter from winning one for the big guys...
FOX ONLINE, @HOME INK NEWS AGREEMENT
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amFox News Online has signed a deal to be the primary news provider to the @Home Network worldwide. Fox News Online, a division of News America Digital Publishing, will provide...
BIGGER'S NOT BETTER; INDIES ON TOP
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amSize was no advantage to winning an Ellie this year. Independent magazines and those from smaller publishing houses stole nine of the 15 awards. Past winners from the smaller houses...
RACING THE WIND INVINTAGE VEHICLES
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLAST weekend, the vast, elegant, immaculately manicured lawn of the historic Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown was in bloom with more than spring flowers. The lawn was covered with more than...
TV TICKER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am'Love' lost? Insiders say ''Love Connection,'' is history - but will still air in reruns through September. Officials at Warner Bros., the studio that distributes the show, said that no...
'DIAGNOSIS': HEALTHY ; CAMEO-LADEN 'MURDER' A HOOT
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am"Diagnosis Murder" Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch.2 IF you're going to stab someone in the back, it helps to be close to them. No one in television is safe tonight...
STORY BEHIND 'KUNDUN' IS JUST AS HUMDRUM
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amGOD knows all decent people despise China's brutal occupation of Tibet and look forward to that captive nation's liberation, but sitting through Martin Scorsese's "Kundun," a beautifully photographed but snoozy...
CRIME-TIME KING LOOKIN' FOR CLUES ; COP SHOW CREATOR STEVEN BOCHCO IS PUZZLED BY THE MYSTERY WRITER'S AWARD HE'S GETTING TONIGHT
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amFOR nearly 20 years now - from "Hill Street Blues" in 1980 to "NYPD Blue" today - Steven Bochco has been the most prolific creator of popular TV cop shows....
'UNLIMITED' OFFER FOR 'VENGEANCE'?
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amTHE producers of "Vengeance Unlimited" have joined with the show's fans to mount a last-ditch effort to revive the series. The producers were scheduled to present the case for saving...
FIGHTING VAINLY,THE OLD ANOUILH
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLIKE a meal in a expensive French restaurant, the Broadway season is ending with a fancy dessert, one of those things where a chateau is constructed out of chocolate, ice...
'TREK' RUNS OUT OF SPACE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amAS "STAR Trek: Deep Space Nine" gets ready to wrap-up its seven year run with a grand finale next month, rumors abound about how the show will end. Reports making...
ENTERTAINMENT BIZ UNDER FIRE - STUDY HITS DRUG USE IN FILMS, MUSIC
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA report by two government agencies released yesterday sounds the alarm about the depiction of drugs in movies and popular songs - like that 98 percent of movies show characters...
'SERB DEATH THREAT' DRIVES BBC'S ; NEWS CHIEF INTO HIDING
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe news chief of the BBC was in hiding today and under 24-hour police guard after receiving a death threat from alleged Serbian guerrillas, it was reported today. The British...
YES, POP CULTURE IS TO BLAME: PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED IS THE LESSON OF COLUMBINE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amDID pop culture drive Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to kill the Columbine 13? Yes, say some, who believe the voracious appetite that the two had for gory video games,...
SOHO'S CELEBRITY STOCKBROKER! MEET MANHATTAN'S MOST GLAMOROUS MONEY MANAGER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amDANA Giacchetto parties with Cameron Diaz, vacations with Alanis Morissette, dines regularly with Matt Damon and Helena Christensen. Courteney Cox invites him to family get-togethers. Leonardo DiCaprio crashes at his...
THE STORY OF FAILURE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amWhen I joined Ms. Maples at Peaches just a month ago, she was bending over backwards to breathe some life into a venture whose vital signs were fading fast. She...
CAMPS 'ON THE VERGE OF RIOTING'
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amOvercrowded refugee camps in Macedonia are on the brink of riot as another 4,000 fleeing Kosovars arrived at their doorstep yesterday and thousands more were on the way, relief officials...
THIS BABY'S BODY IS A POLITICAL BATTLEGROUND
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amTHE mother of the dead boy, starved into a corpse by the time he was 7 weeks old, was easy to pick out in the Bronx courtroom. She was one...
GOV SAYS HE'D TRADE EASIER DRUG LAWS FOR END OF PAROLE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki is willing to soften a key part of the tough Rockefeller drug laws if legislators agree to abolish the state's parole system, officials said yesterday. Pataki...
TREES AT ROOT OF S.I. ZOO FOOD FIGHT
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amParks Commissioner Henry Stern is locked in a tree-for-all with the Staten Island Zoo over long-stalled plans to build a food court on a spot lined with a row of...
MEDIA BIG LEVIN: DON'T POINT THE FINGER AT US
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMedia czar Gerald Levin, whose teacher-son was killed by an ex-student, says the media is innocent of blame in the Colorado school massacre - no matter what culture critics say....
RUDY-HILLARY SENATE RACE IS A MATTER OF PRINCIPAL
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amHillary will be the guest principal at a Queens school, and Giuliani will be top dog at a Brooklyn school. The possible Senate face-off between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mayor...
DAMMIT, BILL, DO THE RIGHT THING FOR ONCE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amHE MIGHT be brilliant and that means we are dumb. Can anyone with the IQ of room temperature tell me why Wen Ho Lee is not behind bars right now?...
'IT'S 0VER' F0R CREW, SAYS TOP INSIDER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am"The mayor is getting tired of pushing and pushing from the sidelines and then be[ing] criticized in public by the chancellor . . . This relationship is on its last...
SLASHED COP: I COULD HAVE SHOT SUSPECT
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA hero cop brutally slashed by a knife-wielding madman said yesterday he was determined to arrest his attacker without shooting him. "There was blood all over me and I had...
PALESTINIANS POSTPONE 'STATEHOOD'
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian leaders, bowing to U.S. appeals, decided yesterday to delay declaring statehood until after Israeli elections next month. The decision, reached after two days of closed-door deliberations by...
JURY TO WRITE ENDING OF SCAM-A-LOT SAGA
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA jury is expected today to start weighing the fate of a Connecticut man who made millions hawking allegedly bogus papers linking the late President John Kennedy to Marilyn Monroe...
CLINTON CAN'T KEEP A (NUKE) SECRET, GOP LEADER WARNS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said yesterday U.S. nuclear secrets aren't safe, and predicted Americans will be "shocked and horrified" when they learn how lax security is. Lott...
TEEN PREGNANCY RATE PLUNGES
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amTeen pregnancy fell 17 percent during the 1990s and is at its lowest level since 1973, researchers said yesterday. They said the rate of teen abortions also plummeted - and...
JURORS SHAKEN BY PIX OF INFANT WHO STARVED
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amJurors at the manslaughter trial of a Bronx woman whose breast-fed infant son died of starvation gasped yesterday at pictures of the emaciated baby - his leg was no bigger...
911-SYSTEM ERROR DELAYS SOME CALLS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA mysterious technical glitch disrupted 911 emergency phone service for several hours yesterday in parts of the city - causing callers to get up to 30 seconds of "dead air"...
NO-SHOW TEACHER GOT PAID FOR 7 YEARS: PROBE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA high-school teaching intern collected a salary of up to $27,500 for seven years before anyone noticed he hadn't worked a single day, Special Schools Investigator Ed Stancik charged yesterday....
SOME DEMS WORRIED ABOUT FIRST LADY OF PROCRASTINATION
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Hillary Hesitation is suddenly slamming New York Democrats in the gut as the First Lady comes to New York today to play school principal and then star at a...
LAWYERS FOR 2 DIALLO COPS WILL SQUARE OFF TOMORROW
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amCourtroom finger-pointing officially begins tomorrow morning among the cops accused in the Amadou Diallo killing, as they appear in The Bronx for their first pretrial court date. Marvyn Kornberg, the...
DEATH THREATS TORMENT COLO. KILLER'S PARENTS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. - The parents of Columbine HS gunman Dylan Klebold are being terrorized by anonymous death threats, their lawyer said yesterday. "You have to take them seriously, in light...
KID'S $2.8M EBAY SPREE LEAVES A BIDDER TASTE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA 13-year-old computer whiz is in "big trouble" after placing a whopping $2.8 million in bids on the eBay auction site - and snaring a historic bedroom suite and two...
MAYOR AND COUNCIL CONSIDER EASING UP ON CABBIES
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am''We want to do something that is safe for the riding public that won't put the taxi industry out of business." COUNCIL SPOKESWOMAN BERNICE SPITZER Mayor Giuliani is considering weakening...
SLOBBO FIRES MAVERICK DEPUTY
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic put his boot down yesterday and summarily fired a top deputy for speaking out against the regime. NATO called the firing of Vuk Draskovic...
BAD NEWS CAN'T STOP INTERNET HIGH-FLIER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA New Jersey teen's bogus $2.8 million bidding spree on the Internet auction site eBay isn't likely to hurt the Web wonder stock - but cyber consumers should be wary...
'STAR WARS' DUDS FLYING OFF SHELVES
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe Force has invaded Manhattan - the first shipment of the new "Star Wars" costumes has arrived. The six costumes - based on characters from "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace"...
RIDER IS SHOVED BENEATH IRT TRAIN
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA 46-year-old man was shoved in front a train at one of Manhattan's busiest subway stations last night as homeward-bound straphangers looked on in horror. The unidentified victim was rushed...
5 B'KLYN TEEN-AGERS NABBED IN B0MB PL0T - POLICE: TARGET WAS JHS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amFive teens were busted yesterday in a plot to blow up their Brooklyn school on graduation day after cops found them with bomb-making plans and a hit list of students...
PATAKI SEES 'FRIGHTENING' PARALLELS WITH VIETNAM
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki last night said there are "frightening" parallels between President Clinton's Kosovo policy and Vietnam, as he called on Clinton to state his goals and define "victory."...
HOUSE SLAPS COMMANDER BILL - SYMBOLIC VOTE NIXES AIR-WAR OK
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The House rebuffed President Clinton last night in what amounted to a vote of no confidence in the air campaign against Yugoslavia. By a 213-213 vote, the House...
IT'S ROUND 2: PAM AND TOMMY TOGETHER AGAIN
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amPamela Anderson says she and Tommy Lee are back together again - and plan to remarry. Seriously. "We're working on rebuilding our family. Yeah, it's really wonderful," the former "Baywatch"...
FIVE KIDS NABBED IN GRADUATION BOMB 'PRANK' AT BROOKLYN JHS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amFive teen-agers were arrested yesterday after boasting of a plot to blow up their Brooklyn school on graduation day, police said. Cops seized bomb-making plans and a hit list of...
COLO. DEATH THREATS - KILLER'S PARENTS 'TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY'
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. - The parents of Columbine HS gunman Dylan Klebold are being terrorized by anonymous death threats, their lawyer said yesterday. "You have to take them seriously, in light...
COWBOY STAR RORY CALHOUN IS DEAD AT 77
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amRory Calhoun, who overcame a troubled youth to become a popular cowboy movie star in the 1950s and 1960s, died yesterday at age 77. Calhoun - perhaps best known for...
MEDIA HONCHO: WE'RE NOT TO BLAME
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMedia czar Gerald Levin, whose teacher-son was killed by an ex-student, says the media is innocent of blame in the Colorado school massacre. "I can't help but think that television...
ROOKIE PLANS TO CATCH ON WITH GIANTS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amAt first glance, Dan Campbell appears to be a prototype Giants tight end, which is not necessarily a good thing. He's big and he's an accomplished and willing blocker. His...
NEW ERA LIGHT ON LEGENDS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amJORDAN? Gretzky? Every sport gets one per millennium, so they retired in almost perfect time. Now, John Elway, one of the top five quarterbacks ever, also is leaving in the...
VALHOL FIGHTS FOR REDEMPTION
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The trainer wore a black cowboy hat, which was perfectly appropriate since his horse is considered the outlaw of the Kentucky Derby field. "I got a closet full...
BAFFERT SETS DERBY 'MEETING'
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Only three of the 36 fillies who've run in the Kentucky Derby over the last 124 years have won, but that's not stopping two more from bucking the...
FLEET BRYLIN PLAYING FOR HIS FUTURE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amThey are playing for the Stanley Cup, but there are other issues at stake, ones they don't think about now, but know are there. These Devils are also trying out...
LOU COULD MAKE ST. LOUIS BLUE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMay Day has always been a Red holiday. The Devils can make it a Blues' bummer. The Devils must inform the Blues by Saturday if they intend to exercise their...
JINTS PROMOTE SCOUT REESE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amJerry Reese, who served as the Southeast regional scout for the Giants the past four years, has been named the assistant Director of Pro Personnel for the Giants. Reese succeeds...
WARY DEVILS TARGET JAGR : WILL BANG PENS' STAR WHEN & IF HE RETURNS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amHospitable hosts all season, the Devils are planning a welcome back party tomorrow. They hope Jaromir Jagr gets a bang out of it. They expect the two-time NHL scoring champ...
KELLY KIP OUT OF CARTER 'CAP
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMultiple track record holder Kelly Kip, winner of the Bold Ruler Handicap in his last start, was sent to a veterinary clinic in New Jersey for treatment of an infected...
OTB OFFERING EARLY WAGERS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation will take wagers on the 125th Kentucky Derby all day tomorrow and Saturday up till Derby post time (approximately 5:30 p.m.) at Churchill...
ZIM'S MUM ON ROSTER MOVE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Don Zimmer never said he wanted Clay Bellinger as a sixth infielder at the expense of another player when Scott Brosius is activated from the DL...
'KID' STUFF HAS SANTOS THINKING BIG
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Except for some routine gallops, Lemon Drop Kid, a member of the mutuel field, was the only horse out on the track at Churchill Downs yesterday morning working...
TORRE OFF TO KC, MAY WAIT TO MANAGE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Having changed his appointment with Dr. William J. Catalona in St. Louis to today instead of tomorrow, Joe Torre is expected to travel to Kansas City tonight ahead...
VALENTINE: BLAME ME FOR YOSHII ; AMAZIN' SKIPPER'S 'SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT' MESSED UP PITCHER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am"I really thought that his pitch, in moving over, was the perfect pitch. It worked for guys similar to him, like Glavine."BOBBY VALENTINE After Masato Yoshii made his third straight...
YANKS DON'T WANT ROGER TO GO ON DL
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amARLINGTON - While the Yankees aren't against putting Roger Clemens and his bothersome left hamstring on the DL, they are leaning toward having the Rocket skip one turn instead of...
POD JOB PUTS RIGO ON CLOUD NINE
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amIt probably wasn't enough to extend his stay beyond Rick Reed's return from the DL, but Mets reliever Rigo Beltran called it "the highlight of my career." Born in Tijuana,...
DAVE PLAYS PAT HAND GM LIKES CHANCES IN PLAYOFFS - IF EWING'S HEALTHY
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am"I still believe that if we can get [Ewing] 80 or 90 percent of what he is capable of doing and get a good playoff position, there isn't anybody that...
MCRAE, VALENTINE SPAR OVER DAY OFF
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES It seemed like a funny time for the Mets to sit Brian McRae, with the center fielder finally showing his first signs of offensive life this season. McRae...
DON'T BLAME REY FOR MET 'O' WOES
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amPUT CINDY Crawford's name on the marquee and I'll go see the movie. Never mind that she isn't a skilled actress, she's fun to watch. She takes your breath away,...
KNICKS LEARNING TO PLAY 'RED BALL'
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - They will honor The Coach at the Garden tonight where the Knicks return from a successful road trip and try to gain momentum for their playoff chase. Red...
TEAM BAFFERT GETS EARLY NOD ; ODDSMAKERS FAVOR BOB'S ONE-TWO PUNCH
April 29, 1999 | 4:00am"If you don't break well, you find yourself behind 10 or 12 horses real quick."BOB BAFFERT LOUISVILLE - Trained by Bob Baffert, who is going for a record third victory...
THOMAS STAR PICKS RUTGERS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amLuis Flores, a 6-foot-2 senior guard from Norman Thomas High in Manhattan, signed a letter of intent with Rutgers yesterday. "I went there for a couple games and I love...
DAVE RAVES ABOUT PLAYOFF POSSIBILITIES
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Dave Checketts has repeatedly said he is out of the prediction business, but the Garden Guru made it clear yesterday that he believes his Knicks, who are in...
LEAKY PEN SINKS YANK WIN STREAK
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amRangers 8 Yankees 4 ARLINGTON - Pin it on a faulty pen. Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez was far from sharp, but wasn't the reason the Yankees had a six-game winning...
IT'S PIAZZA TO THE RESCUE ; TWO-RUN HOMER IN NINTH TAKES BENITEZ OFF HOOK
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amMets 4 Padres 3 It is the sort of moment for which the Mets got Mike Piazza. And it is the sort of hit that had eluded him since coming...
THREE'S A CHARM FOR HARD-LUCK LEITER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amHard-luck Al Leiter wouldn't budge from his spot in the clubhouse as he watched the Mets' ninth-inning rally on the locker-room TV. And he wouldn't let Orel Hershiser or Rick...
VG: WE WUZ ROBBED! JEFF RIPS REFEREE OVER LATE CALL AS KNICK STREAK ENDS
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amHawks 76 Knicks 73 ATLANTA - The night of failure ended with Jeff Van Gundy stalking off the court and screaming at official George Toliver. Van Gundy should have been...
VALENTINE: I MESSED UP YOSHII
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amAfter Masato Yoshii made his third straight ineffective start and heard the wrath of the Shea crowd Tuesday night, Bobby Valentine was afraid his struggling fifth starter would think he...
METS HAVE STAYING POWER: HEART OF LINEUP JUST WON'T QUIT
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amPITY the knuckleheads sitting on the bridge, squeezed in among the other knuckleheads who left a one-run ballgame even though the Mets had John Olerud, Mike Piazza and Robin Ventura...
CHECKETTS HOLDING OFF ON VG
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Dave Checketts deftly sidestepped the Jeff Van Gundy issue yesterday when he was asked what it would take for Van Gundy to return as coach as...
JET OWNER HESS IS HOSPITALIZED
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amA Jets official last night confirmed that Leon Hess has been hospitalized, but the team would not state his condition. According to sources, the 85-year-old owner of the Jets has...
TONIGHT IS IT FOR ZIM; JOE'S ON DECK
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Don Zimmer picked up Joe Torre when he was floored by cancer. Now it's time for Torre to return the favor for Zimmer and take over managing the...
IT'S PIAZZA TO THE RESCUE: TWO-RUN HOMER IN NINTH TAKES BENITEZ OFF HOOK
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amIt's the sort of moment every player dreams about from Little League, and the kind of situation for which the Mets brought Mike Piazza to New York; down a run...
YANKS FEEL EL DUQUE PAIN
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amRangers 8 Yankees 6 ARLINGTON - The Yankee pitching injuries are traveling from the back of the left leg to the front. One night after Roger Clemens was forced to...
LEITER FINDS SOMETHING GOOD ON TV
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amNeither Al Leiter nor Armando Benitez was involved in the home-plate Mike Piazza mob scene, both having retired to the clubhouse. Hard-luck Al wouldn't budge from his spot by the...
RAMS HEAR GAMBLING WARNING FROM EX-NOTRE DAME KICKER
April 29, 1999 | 4:00amFresh off a two-month stay in federal prison for conspiring to fix college basketball games, former Notre Dame kicker Kevin Pendergast spoke at Fordham University last night about his gambling...