September 20, 1999
NASCAR'S IN THE LEAD WITH FIRMS THAT BUY SPORTS ADS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amNascar is racing into the fast lane with advertisers. The car-racing governing body is No. 1 on the hit parade with the corporations that spend the most money advertising on...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Mallory and Sandy Irvine are clearly the most popular dead English mountain climbers of the year. A recent expedition to determine whether the doomed pair summited Mount Everest 30...
ALWALEED WEIGHS IN ON DISNEY JERUSALEM EXHIBIT
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amSaudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has waded into the furor over a Disney World exhibit that was to depict Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Alwaleed - a big...
MUSIC EXECS: RADIO MUST CHANGE TUNE IN ORDER TO BE HEARD
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amCD's aren't going away, traditional record labels are here to stay - but the radio business is in deep trouble, according to some of the music industry's biggest execs. At...
A DOSE OF REALTY FROMDLJ FOR CORPORATION
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe company advises corporations on every aspect of strategic real estate planning. When most people think of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, they think of stocks, bonds and investment banking. But...
OLD FRIENDS BEST - LAWRENCE, COSTNER RETURN TO THEIR ROOTS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE audience has spoken. We want to see our stars performing in familiar roles, the roles we love them in. Critics be damned. The big box-office winners over the weekend...
LADY LAWYERS, SELF-TORT MAN HATERS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amA LITTLE bit "L.A. Law" and a lot of estrogen produces a legal drama for CBS' favorite audience: Women, who can relate to Lynn Holt (Kathleen Quinlan), who will get...
FLASHERS AND SLASHERS ARE NOT A PRETTY SIGHT - 'SPECIAL VICTIMS' IS BIG ON ROUGH STUFF
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amWE will explore the dark side of familiar territory, with familiar faces, in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." If the crimes that drive "Law & Order" have the cops...
DIVINE MADNESS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00am'WE need nutrition," says Kevin, who's been trapped - by "dark forces yet to reveal themselves" - in a bathroom for 25 years with a stranger named David. Kevin wants...
BACK FROM THE DEAD - BRETT BUTLER VISITS ANOTHER HELL - AND SURVIVES
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amTROUBLED "Grace Under Fire" star Brett Butler, whose public battle with drugs and alcohol hastened the cancellation of her once-top-rated sitcom, breaks her silence on tonight's "Entertainment Tonight" (7 p.m....
SEXY NEW 'PREP' SERIES NOT DEAD YET
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amFOX'S troubled new series, "Manchester Prep," looks like it's going to make it, after all. Insiders now say "Prep," which was written off for dead by many before ever even...
TV TICKER
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amBy George Tonight's season premiere of NBC's "Dateline" (10 p.m. on Ch.4) offers a look at some never-before-seen photos of the late John F. Kennedy Jr. The photos - part...
TAYLOR MADE FOR IT - WASHED-UP ROCK STAR PLAYS, UM, A WASHED-UP ROCK STAR
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amFORMER Duran Duran bassist John Taylor's film debut in "Sugar Town," a satire of L.A.'s music scene that opened Friday, casts him as Clive, a washed-up 1980s rock star struggling...
WHERE ARE THE LAUGHS, 'MAN?'
September 20, 1999 | 4:00am"LADIES Man" is an oddly old-fashioned and predictable sitcom that seems to be saying that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. The Venutians are beating the pants...
AS AILING BORIS YELTSIN FACES HIS WORST CRISIS YET, WE ASK ... HOW DANGEROUS IS TANYA?
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amSHE savages a prime minister while straightening her father's tie, launching yet another purge of the Cabinet. She delivers what she calls "unpleasant news" to the president of the Russian...
POST'S JUDGES SAY: MONICA'S BAGS BITE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amDESIGN store owner Louis Woznicki announces Monica Lewinsky has great taste. Then, "Oh god, everything I say about her turns into a double entendre!" he confesses. No, he's not praising...
PLEASE DON'T GO, PAT: THE GOP'S NEED FOR YOU IS TOO MUCH
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amIN THE Washington establishment, meeting Democrats and Republicans alike is like shaking hands with Siamese twins. "My party is a Xerox copy of the Democrats," Pat Buchanan said. And he...
LIBRARIANS ARE SHELVING CITY CAREERS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00am"We probably should be marching in the street [for better pay], but, well, that's really not our style." BRONX LIBRARIAN WHO is stealing the great librarians of New York? That's...
ARREST IN 150G EXTORTION PROBE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman was charged with threatening to harm the children of a wealthy Long Island family if they didn't hand over $150,000 in cash, Nassau County police said yesterday....
BUCHANAN GETS BUMP FROM TRUMP - BLASTED FOR HITLER COMMENTS, JEWISH SLURS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Donald Trump accused would-be rival Pat Buchanan yesterday of espousing "repugnant" views on Hitler, amid reports of other presidential wannabes flirting with the Reform Party. "Buchanan denigrates the...
REDSTONE DENIES WIFE'S ADULTERY CHARGE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amMedia tycoon Sumner Redstone angrily fired back at his estranged wife yesterday - insisting the adultery charge in her $3 billion divorce lawsuit is a lie. And the 76-year-old tycoon...
PRAYERS AND FASTING USHER IN YOM KIPPUR
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amJews in New York and around the world today are observing the holiest day on the Hebrew calendar - Yom Kippur. The holiday, which began at sundown last night, ends...
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRIDE ON PARADE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amMessages of peace, hope and racial equality mixed with colorful costumes, festive floats and joyous music yesterday as thousands turned out for Harlem's 31st annual African-American Day Parade. Civic groups,...
CHEM FEAR LATEST WOE FOR FLOYD-FLOOD TOWN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amAs if fire and flood weren't bad enough, Hurricane Floyd unleashed an unknown amount of chemical waste in the deluged central New Jersey town of Bound Brook. Several drums containing...
HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER KILLS HARLEM TEEN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amAn 18-year-old Harlem teen was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in upper Manhattan yesterday, police said. Investigators said Taisha Polanco was crossing the intersection of 150th Street and...
MAKE UP YOUR MIND, HILLARY! - RANGEL: ARE YOU IN OR OUT?
September 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I don't understand it. Either you're in or you're out." REP. CHARLES RANGEL WASHINGTON - A frustrated Rep. Charles Rangel - a longtime Hillary Rodham Clinton booster - prodded the...
SKEETER DELETERS RESUME ATTACK
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amPest-killing spray trucks and helicopters buzzed New York this weekend as the city began the second wave of its insecticide assault on deadly encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes. Although city officials say their...
B'KLYN GRANDMA, 75, DIES IN FIRE - HEROIC HUSBAND BADLY BURNED IN BID TO SAVE HER
September 20, 1999 | 4:00am"He said he was burning alive, but he didn't care - he just wanted to help his wife." AMILIA CONNOLLY,A NEIGHBOR An elderly Brooklyn woman was burned to death when...
BILL'S AIDE WARNS OF TIMOR ; PERIL FOR TROOPS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton's national security adviser said yesterday that U.S. troops face dangers in their peacekeeping operation in East Timor - and warned that the Australian-led force will respond "sternly" to...
NEW GOV. CUOMO? ONLY IF . . .
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. HOUSING Secretary Andrew Cuomo yesterday all but ruled out running for governor in 2002 if Vice President Al Gore becomes president next year. But Cuomo, in an exclusive interview...
WORSHIPERS KEEP FAITH AT GUN-RAMPAGE CHURCH
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe regular Sunday worshipers at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, marched in courageously yesterday, just days after a shooting rampage there left eight people dead. "Let the Healing...
FIGHT FAN FRACAS ENDS IN DEATH - KIN SAY KILLERS SHOUTED RACE SLURS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amA group of Queens men stabbed a hard-working building superintendent to death yesterday after an argument over the outcome of Saturday night's championship fight between Oscar De La Hoya and...
ELDERLY PAIR LOSES 5-DECADE TAX CASE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe 77-year-old Long Island woman must fork over $4 million.It looks like the longest-running tax-evasion case in American history has finally ended. A federal judge has ruled that Ella Freidus,...
STATE'S DECAYED ARTIFACTS GIVE A NEW MEANING TO MUSEUM 'PIECES'; EXCLUSIVE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Thousands of irreplaceable fossils, dinosaur bones and preserved animal specimens have been destroyed at the New York State Museum because of poor care, The Post has learned. A...
NATURE HEALS WOUNDS ON NAVY'S TARGET ISLE - PROTESTERS HALT BOMBS FOR 4 MOS.
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amVIEQUES, Puerto Rico - This ashen island, used as a practice bombing target by the U.S. Navy for 58 years, is slowly returning to its natural state - a lush...
PRO-LIFERS TRY NEW TACK IN ABORT FIGHT
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe bill would recognize a fetus as a separate entity under federal law. WASHINGTON - In a new bid to split pro-choicers, abortion foes are pushing a controversial fetal-murder bill...
ARROGANCE DOES IN OSCAR
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - You want to know who - or what - beat Oscar De La Hoya Saturday night? You want to blame the judges, or his corner, or Don...
HERE'S THE 'SKINNY: JINTS MISS BROWN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amIt makes sense that Redskin linebacker Shawn Barber refused to say anything bad about the Giants offense. After all, he was involved in the Giants longest offensive play of the...
BEVO MORE THAN READY
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amMore Than Ready, the wondercolt who was hailed as the best 2-year-old to race this decade, showed he's no superhorse after all yesterday at Belmont Park. After taking the lead...
FELIX MAKES NO APOLOGIES
September 20, 1999 | 4:00am"[De La Hoya] showed the chicken nickname put on him by the whole world is true." FELIX TRINIDAD LAS VEGAS - It's back to Puerto Rico for Felix Trinidad and...
CAUSE FOR CONE-CERN - DAVID GETS ROCKED, BUT YANKS RALLY TO BEAT TRIBE AGAIN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - A message the Yankees insisted they didn't try to send to the Indians and Red Sox was very loud but, thanks to David Cone, not all that clear....
DAVIS RUNS FROM PAST
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amStephen Davis is running away from his past. But whatever he does - even abusing the Giants for a career-high 126 yards on 23 carries and 3 TDs during the...
JOHNNY V BELTS FIVE-BAGGER
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amAlthough jockey John Velazquez lost both stake races yesterday at Belmont, he made up for it by winning five other races on the 10-race card. "It feels good," Velazquez said....
TORRE HOPES REST WILL REJUVENATE DRAINED TINO
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - It's Joe Torre's hope that two days off is the tonic to give Tino Martinez' dead wood a jolt. After watching Martinez swing what Torre called...
YOUNG TURKS SAVE DAY
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Late in the 1996 season, when Baltimore was taking games off what had seemed an insurmountable Yankee first-place lead, Ruben Rivera made a few September cameos that helped...
LINCOLN WRECKED IN BIG BLUE CRASH; LINCOLN'S FAILURES LEAD TO CRASH
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amJASON Sehorn woke up yesterday morning thinking he might play in his first NFL game since that August night a year ago when he wrecked his knee in a pre-season...
SPENCER'S PLAYOFF HOPES FADING FAST
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - A year ago Shane Spencer was the talk of New York during September when he hit eight homers, drove in 21 runs and hit .421 in 38 at-bats....
JUST CALL JOHNSON MR. PERFECT
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amIn baseball, it is easy. Twenty-seven up. Twenty-seven down. That's a perfect game. In football, it is harder. How to measure perfect offensive execution? Fifty points is a good start....
TAPE-MEASURE BLAST DOESN'T IMPRESS OLERUD
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Olerud can barely remember where or when he's hit mammoth home runs before in his career. "In Philly, maybe, and maybe in Seattle," he guessed vaguely after the Mets'...
DOTEL: BORN TO WIN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amSAME place. Same topic of conversation. Forty eight hours later. One hundred and eighty-degree mood swing. Octavio Dotel is standing in front of his locker again, but the sad eyes...
FLUTIE CUTS ANEMIC JETS DOWN TO SIZE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amORCHARD PARK - It wasn't Rick Mirer who stunk in last night's pathetic 17-3 loss to the Bills - as many naysayers expected from a QB making his first start...
COX SAYS GANG GREEN HAS TO STAY POSITIVE
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amORCHARD PARK - When reporters crowded around Jets' linebacker Bryan Cox after last night's distasteful 17-3 loss to the Bills, knowing how much he detests losing, a frustration blowup was...
NO-VINNY JETS STILL IN STATE OF SHOCK
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amORCHARD PARK - Thirty minutes from here, water falls almost as hard and far as Jets' tears. They have shed enough to power New York state, but not an offense...
JETS' OFFENSIVE LINE PAVES WAY - FOR BILLS
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES It was the Jets' offensive failure at the Bills' goal line that ignited Buffalo's 17-3 victory last night at Wilson Stadium. With the Jets knotted in a scoreless...
LEON'S LOSS LEAVES MARTIN WITH BIG BURDEN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Bill Parcells said he had big plans for Leon Johnson this season before Johnson was injured and lost for the year on the opening kickoff of the second...
MIRER OUT TO SAVE JETS & HIS CAREER
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Rick Mirer contends he's been "dealt a bad hand" in his NFL career thus far. We'll see. He, too, openly acknowledges that this is his best opportunity as...
GANG GREEN INJURY BUG NEARLY GETS KEYSHAWN
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Already with five starters out of the lineup because of injuries, those on the Jets' sideline held their collective breath when Keyshawn Johnson lay injured on the Ralph...
GANG GREEN'S STILL GOT WHAT IT TAKES
September 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe Jets can let their defense keep them in games, tighten the reins, pound the ball. They can make their misfortune a rallying cry, the only kind of crying Parcells...