September 7, 1999
GATES TOPS IN POWER, MONEY & PULL
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amDespite his ongoing legal battles, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has for the fourth year in a row landed in the No. 1 spot in the Vanity Fair list of 50...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amWITH the fall TV season nearly upon us, TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly are serving up their annual "set" pieces. Both magazines are dutiful and thorough, but neither offers anything...
ESTEE IS ALL OVER - COSMETICS EMPIRE PLANS RETAIL ROLLOUT
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amEstee Lauder, whose Clinique, Prescriptives and other cosmetics are a staple at prestige department stores, is boosting its own retail presence. The company will open as many as 75 freestanding...
NJ SHOULD GET SERIOUS ABOUT PARK PLACE; NJ NEEDS TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT CASINO
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN the FBI and the Justice Department last year turned a Mafia bigshot from Philly into an informant about the goings-on in Atlantic City, they didn't bother to tell casino...
'EARLY' SIGNS LOOK DULL - BUT MAYBE BRYANT WILL LIGHTEN UP...
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amOnce upon a time, networks tried to distinguish themselves from each other, especially in fiercely competitive time periods. FOR a clear sign that creativity and originality have become dirty words...
TRAGEDY LEADS TO 'HEAVEN'
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH Cindy Bullens Artemis Records Artistic inspiration is more often spawned by thunderstorms of loss than diamonds of morning dew on Central Park's Sheep Meadow. Cindy...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amCapital art The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the nation's first museum of modern art, is presenting a landmark exhibition of some 350 of its 19th- and 20th-century masterpieces from...
THE SUMMER WITH A LATIN BEAT
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amTONIGHT instead of "NYPD Blue," ABC will explain why "Livin' La Vida Loca" is such a big hit. The one-hour special called "Latin Beat," anchored by "20/20" correspondent John Quinones,...
LONI'S NEW CALL LETTERS: COPD - ANDERSON SHARES TRAGEDY OF HER PARENTS' DEVASTATING LUNG DISEASE
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHROUGHOUT her childhood, actress Loni Anderson woke up every morning to the sound of her father coughing. When she walked into her parents' room to say good morning, her mother,...
WEB OF INTRIGUE - WHEN IT COMES TO SELLING MUSIC ON THE INTERNET, ATOMIC POP LEADS THE FIELD
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHE upcoming film "Sugar Town" features a band in crisis. Its members are fictional rock stars from the 1980s who in 1998 find it impossible to interest a record label...
BEN STEIN'S GOT MAJOR REGIS ENVY - $$$ PRIZE SIZE DOES COUNT TO COMEDY CENTRAL MONEY MAN
September 7, 1999 | 4:00am'Regis only has to ask the questions - and he gets paid more' 'I SURE wish I was the host of a gigantically successful network game show with 22 million...
'ASSIGNMENT HANOI:' HAUNTING TRIP BACK TO THE BATTLEFIELD WITH AN OLIVE BRANCH
September 7, 1999 | 4:00am"Pete Peterson:Assignment Hanoi" Tonight at 10 on WNET/Ch.13 AN hour is not nearly enough time to follow all the storylines that cross in "Pete Peterson: Assignment Hanoi." Peterson's is a...
BOOK: CREW'S 'MIRACLE' WAS A FRAUD - TACOMA SUCCESS LINKED TO COACHING; EXCLUSIVE
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe sharp rise in test scores in Tacoma, Wash., that shot Chancellor Rudy Crew into the national spotlight was an "educational fraud" resulting from heavy test-coaching, a new book says....
FIRST LADY'S GIVING CYNICISM A GOOD NAME; GIVING CYNICISM A GOOD NAME
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amNOBODY could complain if Hillary doesn't sleep with him, but not talking to him ... well, that is ridiculous. When James Hoban designed the White House, and redesigned it in...
RUDY: HILLARY MUST EXPLAIN FALN SWITCH
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would "have to answer questions" as to why she changed her position on the president's offer of clemency to 16...
VAST REFUGEE HORDE FLEES TIMOR CAPITAL
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amDecapitated heads on sticks lined roads in the capital of Dili. The 3-day-old crisis in East Timor deepened yesterday as tens of thousands of refugees fled the capital while pro-Indonesia...
BUZZ WORD: SPRAY - CITY EXPANDS MOSQUITO ASSAULT
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe number of suspected encephalitis cases rose to 42 yesterday, while the mayor promised the city will spray more pesticide to kill mosquitoes carrying the potentially fatal virus in The...
BOOK PAINTS WWII POPE AS HITLER ALLY - AUTHOR: VATICAN FILES SHOW PIUS HATED JEWS
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amPope Pius XII helped Adolf Hitler gain power and did nothing to stop Nazi atrocities because he believed Jews got what they deserved, an explosive new book charges. The shocking...
NEW BIAS OUTRAGE IN L.I. RACE-BEAT TOWN
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amA Long Island town was rocked by a bias crime for the second time in a week when someone scrawled racist graffiti all over a Centereach school, officials said yesterday....
FINANCIER TERRIFIED OF VICTIMS IN U.S.: LAWYER
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amHAMBURG, Germany - Rogue financier Martin Frankel might fight extradition to the United States because he's terrified of the people he's accused of swindling, his German lawyer said yesterday. "If...
PUZZLE OF SUBWAY COP'S GUNFIRE
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop repeatedly fired two guns into the air in a West Village subway station yesterday, claiming he was injured and trying to get help, police said. The incident...
TRAGIC BOY COULDN'T WAIT TO GET TO CARNIVAL
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amEleven-year-old Dawn Joseph was celebrating his first big day out in his new hometown yesterday at the gala West Indian Day Parade. Decked out in a bright green-and-yellow costume to...
'CANDID CAMERA' HOST ALLEN FUNT DEAD AT AGE 84
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amAllen Funt, the "Candid Camera" host whose hilarious, prank-filled shows were the forerunners of the genre of reality-based television, is dead at age 84. Funt - who ended his gags...
CELEBRATION & SORROW FOR CROWD
September 7, 1999 | 4:00am"I feel terrible about the accident, but things happen. It could have been any of us, but we can't let a tragedy stop us." RICHARD SMITH Thousands of colorfully clad...
2 CHILDREN DIE IN B'KLYN MARCH HORROR - MERRYMAKERS SEE PAIR CRUSHED AT WEST INDIAN FEST
September 7, 1999 | 4:00am"What do you want me to do or say? My baby is dead. There's nothing you or anybody can do about it." MOTHER OF DAWN JOSEPH One of the city's...
FALNERS READY TO OK TERMS OF RELEASE: REPORT
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amSeveral of the Puerto Rican militants offered clemency by President Clinton are ready to accept the deal, a Puerto Rican newspaper said yesterday. Citing anonymous sources, El Nuevo Dia said...
MARTIAL LAW IN 'OUT OF CONTROL' TIMOR
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amDecapitated heads on sticks lined roads in the capital of Dili. Indonesia declared martial law in East Timor today after tens of thousands of refugees fled the capital while pro-Indonesia...
THUG AWAKENS PRIEST TO ROB HIM
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amA brazen bandit broke into the rectory of a Harlem church, woke the priest and then robbed him early yesterday, cops said. The Rev. George Hannah, 65, was awakened at...
PARADE-GOERS FACE AGONIZING DILEMMA
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amStunned parade-goers were divided over whether the event should have been canceled after the tragic deaths of two children. Following the deadly accident at the beginning of the parade, thousands...
THREE KILLED AT WEST INDIAN PARADE - VAN CRUSHES TWO KIDS - THEN TEEN DIES UNDER TRUCK
September 7, 1999 | 4:00am"What do you want me to do or say? My baby is dead. There's nothing you or anybody can do about it." MOTHER OF DAWN JOSEPH A day of festivity...
'THE SWEETEST KID' - KIN GRIEVE FOR BOY WHO DIED IN ARMS OF DEVASTATED MOM
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amEleven-year-old Dawn Joseph, "the sweetest kid you can imagine," died in his sobbing mother's arms after being crushed in the gala West Indian American Day parade, the boy's heartbroken grandfather...
VIACOM-CBS DEAL MAY BE NEAR: REPORT
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amViacom Inc., which owns Paramount Pictures and MTV, reportedly might announce a merger with CBS Corp. as early as today. Managers of both companies huddled over the weekend to work...
CALL 'EM CLINTON NAY-BORS
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amIt was a case of the ones that got away. Many Westchester County residents whose neighborhoods were given the once-over by the house-hunting Clintons said yesterday they'd have loved having...
DEVILS' MORRISON CZECHS OUT OF U.S.
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amLocked out of camp in New Jersey, Brendan Morrison has put as much distance between himself and the Devils as there is in their stalled contract negotiation. Morrison yesterday arrived...
SEAN EXPECTS EARFUL OF SAPP
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES And what, exactly, does a youngster like Sean Bennett know about Warren Sapp? "[He] talks a lot, I know that," Bennett said. A formal introduction will take place...
FASSEL MAKES 'EM SWEAT - PUTS JINTS THROUGH HEATED PRACTICE
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amJim Fassel yesterday turned up the heat on the Giants. With the preseason completed, the roster set and the team intact, there was nothing left for the Giants but to...
NFL REPLAY II STILL STINKS
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amGIVEN that last year's NFL season was ridden with horrible calls, one can understand why general managers and team owners, as well as fans, were so eager to return to...
WEIS WAITS FOR HIS TURN
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Bill Parcells announced Sunday that William Roberts was being added to the Jets' coaching staff for "I don't know how long, but it'll be through January 31," it brought...
HARVEY MAY BE PIVOT-AL
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amBURLINGTON, Vt. - The phone call from Neil Smith to Todd Harvey took place during the middle of July, about a month after the trade fell through that would have...
CAPRIATI'S SOB: DON'T PRESS ME - JEN COMES UNGLUED AFTER PLEA TO MEDIA; PAST STILL HAUNTS CAPRIATI
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amJennifer Capriati began her post-match news conference yesterday reading an emotional 500-word statement that begged the media to refrain from asking questions about her sordid past while claiming she never...
BONDS HAS 3 KS & NOTHING TO SAY
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amApparently not satisfied with striking out three times during the Giants' 3-0 loss to the Mets at Shea yesterday, Barry Bonds K'd again after the game. A reporter came up...
RECORDS FALL AT SPA
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - They came, they saw, they bet. More than half-a-billion dollars, in fact. The 36-day summer stand at Saratoga ended yesterday as the most successful meet in history,...
CRAFTY FRIEND HAS JUST ENOUGH TO TAKE FOREGO 'CAP
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The final meet of the millenium at the old Spa ended with a bang yesterday as Crafty Friend and Affirmed Success staged a virtual match race in...
RICKEY DOES IT HIS WAY
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amThere is no doubt that when John Olerud drew ball four to load the bases in the bottom of the seventh inning yesterday at Shea that some among the 35,727...
NYRA CIRCUIT TAKES BREAK
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - With the end of the Saratoga meet, thoroughbred racing on the NYRA circuit takes a break until Friday. Entries for Friday's Belmont card will be taken tomorrow....
KENNY KING OF NEW YORK - BURIES BRONX DEMONS UNDER PILE OF WINS
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amHE still tugs at his cap, ever so slowly wipes the dirt from the rubber, shakes his arm as if it's asleep, exhales in a way that makes it seem...
POTVIN LOOKS TO BLOCK OUT '98
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - As he tries to block out the haunting memory of last season, two-time all-star goaltender Felix Potvin looks at his first training camp with the Islanders as...
SELES EARNS SHOWDOWN WITH SERENA
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES Even when Monica Seles knocked out fan favorite Jennifer Capriati, she was unable to grab any attention at the U.S. Open. But now she clearly will be in...
'GROUND RULES' ABSURD
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amBEFORE Jennifer Capriati burst into tears at the mention of her "adversary" - the media - she praised the fans who buoyed her through tough times. "They don't want anything,"...
BERNIE PUSHING FOR RESULTS ON MEDICAL MYSTERY TOUR
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Bernie Williams' painful left shoulder didn't undergo an MRI during his four days in Southern California. And while the Yankees had planned an MRI when they return home...
ROCKED ROCKET LOSING GRIP - BID TO OPEN PLAYOFFS TAKES HIT AS ANGEL BATS ROUGH UP ROGER
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Darryl Strawberry had a chance to take Roger Clemens off the hook. One solid swing on a Troy Percival fastball and the score would be tied in the...
VAUGHN'S NOT THINKING ABOUT MOVIN' ON TO N.Y.
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - With the wrecking ball ready to level the Angels as we know them, Mo Vaughn was asked if he would accept a deal to the Yankees...
BERNIE IN DARK OVER AILMENT - SHOULDER PUTS HIM ON BENCH AGAIN
September 7, 1999 | 4:00am"Joe saw I wasn't swinging the way I was capable of. I am trying hard but if I can't do it, I can't do it." BERNIE WILLIAMS ANAHEIM - Bernie...
HER CRY IS FOR HELP
September 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHE FLOWERY language sprouted blooms from the journal binding. The sap made the pages difficult to turn. But the raw, painful emotion behind Jennifer Capriati's surprise soliloquy yesterday gave it...