October 12, 1999
'W' BAGS BEARD-FETED BOSTON CHEF
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amMove over Jean Georges, Daniel and Drew, there's a new culinary superstar coming to town. Boston-based chef Todd English has received the nod, in a hard-fought battle among the city's...
STILLMAN EATS CROW ON HIS PLANNED IPO
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amWall Street has sent back restaurateur Alan Stillman's order to develop his Smith & Wollensky's steakhouses into the next Morton's of Chicago chain. Stillman's enterprise, the New York Restaurant Group,...
ZONA SAYS TA-TA TO TEX-MEX
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amZona, which introduced New Yorkers to the Southwestern craze in the 1980s, has been given a sleek makeover. Devotees of the store's Taos style might think they've entered the wrong...
OVITZ' PIRATE TEEN ; BUYS MP3 SITE THAT STOLE AND GAVE AWAY TUNES
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amOnetime Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz is hoping an 18-year-old tech whiz kid will give his growing Internet empire a big boost. Ovitz has added Dimension Music- a website founded...
SITE MAKES STOCK PICKING EVERYONE'S BUSINESS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amEver thought you were a better stock-picker than the hotshot analysts on Wall Street? Well, here's your chance to find out - and maybe make some dough ... if you're...
THE WAR AT HOME:GH VS. MARTHA - HEARST MAG'S BRAND EYES DOMESTIC MARKET
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amA merchandising war is shaping up in the women's magazine field, pitting Good Housekeeping Editor-in-chief Ellen Levine against Martha Stewart, the one-woman dynamo behind the multimedia empire that bears her...
STEP ASIDE,TOUGH BOYS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00am* SKIN DEEP; Sole, DreamWorks The boys in the rap room best clear a space for the Kansas City hip-hop beauty Tanya Johnston, who operates under the moniker Sole. Make...
TROUPE GIVES N.J. A TASTE OF MIAMI
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE wild Latino vitality that has so energized the city of Miami has been captured and bottled by Edward Villella's terrific Miami City Ballet, which stormed north this weekend to...
'THE STRIP' SLIPS ON BAD ATTITUDE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amIF it's retread action you're looking for, "The Strip" might be just the show for you - if you didn't have to sit through all the gratuitous stuff in between...
TV TICKER
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amMets magic Ch.11 scored its highest baseball ratings in 11 years last Saturday thanks to the amazin' Mets victory over Arizona. Ch.11, which aired the feed from ESPN2, notched a...
CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK:TAKE THE FAMILY ON A FUN FALL GETAWAY TO THE LAID-BACK ISLE OF R.I.
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amOUTSIDE, Hurricane Floyd whipped menacingly at the door.Inside, our daughter Eliza whipped around our cozy room at the Bellevue House inn, oblivious to the facts of nature that were banishing...
PRIVATE PART GOES PUBLIC IN SOLO ACT
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS may not be a great age for play-writing, but it is the heyday of stand-up. The solo monologue has been evolving from Johnny Carson's nightly smorgasbord to structured patter...
'TODAY' EXEC AGAIN FIGHTS CANCER
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE "Today" show's top producer is being hit with another cancer scare just when the morning talk-show wars are about to heat up anew. Jeff Zucker, executive producer of "Today,"...
NETAID STRIKES THE WRONG NOTE IN N.J.
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amPERHAPS you can chalk it up to compassion fatigue, but fans stayed away in droves from Saturday's NetAid concert, the music industry's latest attempt to save the world. An all-star...
'SPORTS' FAN HILLARY AWAITS 'NIGHT' GUY
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amHILLARY Clinton has called ABC to request a copy of tonight's "Sports Night" episode in which one of the show's main characters goes ga ga over the First Lady. A...
B'WAY'S HOT NEW LEADING LADY
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S hard to believe, but Deborah Yates - the glowing and gorgeous star of Lincoln Center Theater's "Contact" - insists that she once was an ugly duckling who couldn't get...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amWell Mannered manor The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers will reopen Glenview Mansion on Friday following a $2 million renovation. Built in 1876, the 24-room mansion will come alive with...
THE NAKED TRUTH : 'PRACTICE' STAR HOLLAND DAZED BY EDITING OF 'NUDE' SCENE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amA 56-year old actress who plays an oversexed judge on "The Practice" had her nude scene drastically edited in Sunday-night's episode. And Holland Taylor, who plays feisty Judge Roberta Kittleson,...
FROM MURDERERS TO 'MONOLOGUES'
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: TONIGHT at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Eve Ensler, the envelope-pushing 46-year-old author of "The Vagina Monologues," hosts a star-studded benefit with performers such as Glenn Close and Rosie...
STUDY PUTS CANCER SCARE IN AIR ; 4 BOROUGHS ON NATIONAL TOP 10 LIST FOR POLLUTION
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amFour of the city's five boroughs are among the 10 regions nationwide with the highest concentration of cancer-causing toxins in the air, a new analysis of government data reveals. Manhattan...
YANK 'FAN' HILLARY IS SKIPPING BIG GAMES
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - a self-described, longtime, diehard Yankee fan - won't be there to root, root, root for the home team. With New York in the grip...
BROTHERS' 1988 PLAN COMES TO A HEAD
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe fortunes of Brian Asher and his brother, Jerry, are riding on a subway series. The bonkers-for-baseball brothers are hoping that their subway-series helmets - which failed to leave the...
ARTS COMMISH'S STATUS IN LIMBO
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe fate of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Schuyler Chapin - who has publicly disagreed with the mayor over the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art - was up in...
I'M DRIVEN TO STOP THESE IDLING IDIOTS FROM KILLING US
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amWHY, in the center of the known universe, must we put up with outrages like this: It's lunch time in Midtown. So you swim with the teeming mass of humanity...
IT'S TIME TO STICK IT TO THE HOME OF THE BRAVES
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA. IF PHOENIX needed a slap in the face, Atlanta is in need of a good spanking. When the Mets clinched over the Arizona Garter Snakes last week, I immediately...
PATAKI 'SOLE' SURVIVOR OF BUSH BET
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees booted the Texas Rangers out of the playoffs, so Gov. Pataki is finally getting his long-awaited cowboy boots, complete with spurs, as Texas Gov. George W. Bush pays...
SCANDAL-SCARRED FOUNDER OF COVENANT HOUSE DEAD AT 72
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Bruce Ritter, the Covenant House founder who resigned amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct, has died of cancer at the age of 72. Ritter died Thursday at...
BROOKE IS BOUNCING BACK WITH NEW BEAU
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amA beaming Brooke Shields stepped out in style with her new boyfriend over the weekend - and the lovebirds didn't care who spotted them. The star of "Suddenly Susan" suddenly...
AFL-CIO BACKING GORE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amVice President Al Gore is headed to Los Angeles today to pick up the AFL-CIO's endorsement in person tomorrow - and a new poll shows how badly he needs it....
SLAIN BOY'S MOM LIVID AT B'KLYN SHOW ; PORTRAIT OF THRILL KILLER ON DISPLAY IN MUSEUM
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe mother of a boy killed by a serial murderer is outraged the Brooklyn Museum has decided to exhibit a portrait of his murderer as part of its "Sensation" show....
RUDY SQUISHES STORY LINKING NILE-LIKE BUG TO TERRORISTS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani lashed out yesterday at a report asserting that the deadly mosquito-borne encephalitis outbreak is an act of bioterrorism, suggesting that the story is nothing but a publicity stunt....
N.Y. DEM BOSS 'WARNS' BUSH ABOUT PATAKI
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - A top state Democrat yesterday "warned" likely GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush not to select Gov. Pataki as his vice-presidential running mate. "You need to be aware...
HILL TOASTS PAT, BUT BILL WON'T TOSS HIM A CRUMB
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made a video toasting Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan for a dinner honoring him last night - but President Clinton refused to do the same after...
HIZZONER & DONNA ARE THIS FAR APART
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amHere's proof of the distance between Mayor Giuliani and wife Donna Hanover: exactly 2 feet! The Big Apple's first couple are enshrined in caricatures on the walls of the new...
L.I. YOUTH BUSTED IN EBAY SCAM
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amA Long Island teen pulled a clever cyberscam to steal more than $50,000 from hundreds of unwitting bidders on the eBay Internet auction site, police said yesterday. Steven Kamensky, 17,...
RUDY AND GOV IN STEP FOR COLUMBUS DAY
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and Gov. Pataki, in a rare public display of unity, marched side-by-side at the head of the 55th annual Columbus Day Parade yesterday. The governor and the mayor...
METS & YANKS FACE ARCH-ENEMIES: IT'S BASEBALL HEAVEN FOR FIRED-UP FANS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amNew Yorkers will get plenty of baseball excitement on their way to a subway series, as the Yankees and Mets first take on two teams Big Apple fans love to...
MY SQUEEZE IS ON DOPE, O.J. TELLS 911
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amO.J. Simpson called Miami police last week, worried that his girlfriend was "flipped out" on drugs and had run off with a retired baseball player, it was reported yesterday. "I'm...
TIRED CARDINAL SITS OUT THIS HOLIDAY MASS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amAn exhausted John Cardinal O'Connor finished five weeks of grueling radiation treatments yesterday and did not celebrate the annual Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. It was the second...
BEING FAT HAS HEFTY PRICE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amTwo new studies show that fat not only kills, it gobbles up at least $10,000 in medical bills as well, but experts said yesterday there's no quick fix for America's...
MET FANS ARE READY TO TAKE ATLANTA : WANT REVENGE AGAINST MOUTHS OF THE SOUTH
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amMet fans are on the warpath - rooting for the Amazin"s to chop down the Braves tonight in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. ""The Mets have a...
LOWER E. SIDERS: WHAT ABOUT US?
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amLower East Side residents are big losers in the MTA's mini-Second Avenue subway plan. And they don't like it one bit. "I don't know why they excluded us. They treat...
WHEN N.Y. WAS CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE - IN THE '50S, SUBWAY SERIES WERE A WAY OF LIFE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amDURING the 1950s, New York City was the capital of baseball, and I was lucky to be a teenager absorbing a lifetime of memories. My New York generation experienced a...
PINSTRIPE PASSION - O'NEILL'S INTENSITY, DESIRE UNMATCHED
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amBetween the second and third games of the Division Series, Paul O'Neill was in a foul mood. On the workout day in Arlington, he was short in interviews and talked...
YANKEES - RANGERS ; PETTITTE THE KEY AS BOMBERS SHUT DOWN FEEBLE RANGERS AGAIN
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe wise guys will say the turning point of the Rangers-Yankees AL Division Series was when the Rangers found out they were playing The Bombers. Since the Yankees swept the...
SUBWAY TO HEAVEN: YANK-MET SERIES WOULD BE PERFECT ENDING TO MILLENNIUM
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amIF there really is a baseball god, then all seven games of the final World Series of the millennium will be played within the boundaries of New York City. A...
RICKEY'S STILL GOT IT; HOW RICKEY GOT HIS GROOVE BACK
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amAT the age of 40, Rickey Henderson can still thrill you with his dramatics, a stolen base, a home run, an amazing catch in the outfield. He can also frustrate...
AN INFIELD OF DREAMS - AMAZIN' MET FOURSOME ALWAYS A STEP AHEAD
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amCarly Simon sang about it. The Mets infielders have made it their calling card. Anticipation is one of life's greatest gifts, just ask Robin Ventura, Rey Ordonez, Edgardo Alfonzo and...
SPEAK SOFTLY, AND CARRY A BIG STICK - HUMBLE FONZIELETS POTENT BAT DO THE TALKING IN THE PLAYOFFS; FONZIE METS' HUMBLE MR. CLUTCH
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amNot many players can develop a knack for hitting huge home runs in October, while playing in New York, and still remain virtually anonymous to those outside the Big Apple....
YANKS HAVE THE BIG MO
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amS ANDY Alomar Jr. reached across the plate and drilled a Mariano Rivera fastball to right field. That homer on the night of Oct. 5, 1997 is perhaps all that...
IT AIN'T EASY BEING V ; NOTHING SIMPLE AROUND MANIACAL MET MANAGER
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE EASIEST judgment you can make about Mets manager Bobby Valentine is that nothing involving him will ever be easy. Like winning ballgames with an $80 million lineup. Like making...
'KEEN' TOPS BC BUNCH
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amAll five winners, four of the five beaten favorites and several others who ran in the Breeders' Cup Preview stakes last weekend at Belmont Park will make their next starts...
TORRE NOT READY TO TAB EL DUQUE FOR ALCS OPENER
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Apparently not wanting to tip his hand too early, Joe Torre would not divulge his starting rotation for the ALCS, which begins tomorrow. Torre wouldn't comment yesterday on...
MCILVAINE FINE AFTER HEART EXAM
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amNets centers yesterday were in the middle of some scary-but-ultimately-reassuring news, some encouraging news and no new news. Jim McIlvaine missed the bulk of practice after re-experiencing a rapid heart...
DEVILS FLY TO EARN TIE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amDevils 2 Senators 2 KANATA, Ontario - It was the most exciting five minutes of Devils hockey in years, and the coach was horrified. Robbie Ftorek has never liked the...
ANOTHER INDIGNITY FOR RUSSIANS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Alexander Filiminov held Mother Russia in his hands and let her fall, causing a Moscow stadium packed with 84,000 fans to fall into an eerie silence, stunned at...
GARDEN SHOWS SPREE LOVE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amBlowing off training camp in Charleston hasn't dimmed the love affair between Latrell Sprewell and the Garden crowd. Sprewell made his training-camp debut yesterday in an open-to-the-public intrasquad scrimmage at...
DARRYL OFFERS TO TAKE FIELD IF O'NEILL CAN'T
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amIf Joe Torre has to do without Paul O'Neill for the upcoming ALCS and wants to a productive left-handed bat to play the outfield, Darryl Strawberry says he is available...
THE FASSEL ERA'S COMING UP EMPTY
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amI T WILL be a worse sight, a more damning sight, than the endless stretch of unsightly offense the Giants have thrust on the public in Jim Fassel's two-plus seasons...
WINNER MAKES IT LOOK EZE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amEze closed from last and outdueled Colstar and Jazz in the stretch to win the Grade 3 Pebbles Handicap yesterday at Belmont over a turf course made soft by Sunday's...
METS HOPE FOR REPLAY
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Mets know they'll be facing Greg Maddux when the NL Championship Series opens tonight at Turner Field. The only question is, will it be the same Mad...
V AT GROUND ZERO; BRAVES' ROCKER FIRES BACK AT VALENTINE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Bobby Valentine opened his mouth and it was war. The Braves retaliated. Now it's nuclear war. The world could end any day. But first, there is a best-of-seven...
BRAVES: WE HATE FANS, NOT METS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Braves know the New York media has painted them as rabid Met-haters, but as they prepare to host Game 1 of the NLCS tonight at Turner Field,...
ROJAS GETS 5-GAME BAN
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mets third base coach Cookie Rojas was suspended five games and fined $500 by the National League for making contact with left field umpire Charlie Williams in Game...
THE POST GETS UP CLOSE WITH JETER & KNOBBY
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter and Chuck Knoblauch tap fists. It's not because one has hit a home run or snared a tricky grounder, it's because Jeter has just announced he'll probably be...
TIME FOR PIAZZA TO BE AMAZIN'
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - For the first time in his post-season career, Mike Piazza is not alone in the spotlight. He is not The Show. But that doesn't mean he is not...
ALFONZO'S BECOMING A MAJOR FORCE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mike Piazza put up the mammoth numbers, Robin Ventura had the dark-horse MVP candidacy and Rey Ordonez had the lock on the highlight reels. But second baseman Edgardo...
YOSHII HAS RESPECT FOR BRAVES
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When Masato Yoshii was a top pitcher in Japan through much of the decade, he was an ardent fan of Major League Baseball. When he watched games either...
SCARY SPURS GOING BACK FOR SECONDS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amB EFORE designating the championship parade route he'd like his team's convoy to travel in late June, Blazers owner Paul Allen might want to do what I did Sunday night...
AMAZIN'S NEED ROBIN TO BE BAT-MAN AGAIN - VENTURA HAS STRUGGLED VS. BRAVES
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - How good is Atlanta's pitching staff? Robin Ventura is batting .140 this season against the Braves and .314 against the rest of the world. "That's just the way...
CAMBY: DON'T TALK BEHIND LATRELL'S BACK
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell doesn't have a lot of close friends on the Knicks. But one of them, Marcus Camby, indicated yesterday that those Knicks who made negative remarks privately about Spree's...
LOFTON SENT TO HOSPITAL
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Kenny Lofton learned the Indians' season was over in the hospital. The Indian leadoff batter was being held overnight after dislocating his left shoulder diving to beat out...
O'NO! O'NEILL HAS BROKEN RIB: YANKEE SLUGGER IFFY FOR ALCS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe first crack in the Yankees' postseason armor surfaced yesterday, and while it was described as small, it very well could develop into a dream killer. An MRI done yesterday...
RANGERS ARE MONEY PLAYERS ; LATE PAIR BUCKLES ISLANDERS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amRangers 4 Islanders 2 There's nearly a $40 million salary difference between them, but the Islanders and the Rangers seemed to be playing in the same tax bracket last night....
RANGERS ARE MONEY PLAYERS: BLUESHIRTS STILL NEED ENFORCER ON THEIR SIDE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amT HE IRONY could hardly be greater. For on the night that the Rangers won their seventh straight game from the Islanders to thereby establish a record for either team...
ONE SPECIAL PLAY NOT NEARLY ENOUGH
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES The play of the night for the Jets was - of course - not on offense. It came from special teams leader Chris Hayes, who made a diving...
A LIFETIME OF EMOTIONS - BROSIUS' LAST DAYS WITH DYING DAD IRREPLACEABLE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Yankees third baseman Scott Brosius left his parent's home in Oregon on Sept. 2nd, he knew he was saying good-bye to his father for the last time. Maury Brosius...
PEDRO PULLS A PAUL REVERE: RIDES TO RED SOX' RESCUE IN CLINCHER
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Not since Paul Revere has anyone rode to Boston's rescue like Pedro Martinez did last night. Not since Larry Bird's Celtics, probably, has any group of athletes brought...
NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME: JUICELESS JETS FALL TO JAGS
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amA week ago the Jets saved their season with a desperate, spirited performance from all phases of their game. Last night, they threw the '99 season right back into the...
OTHER MARTINEZ IN WINGS: BOSOX MAY USE RAMON VS. YANKEES
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amALDS NOTES CLEVELAND - The Red Sox are into the ALCS and feeling good, so good they'll feel for the bullet holes left in their pitching staff later. They'll think...
PIAZZA'S HEALTH BOOSTS AMAZIN'S CONFIDENCE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - During the depths of the Mets' late-September swoon, after the sixth consecutive loss, Bobby Valentine said he knew the evil trend that was hexing the Mets was going...
BP SESSION GIVES MIKE THUMB HOPE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - A much-improved Mike Piazza took batting practice yesterday and said he expected to play tonight in Game 1 of the NLCS against the Braves. But the final decision...
MANNY FEELING TIGHT IN COLLAR
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Manny Ramirez, the 165-RBI machine, was still looking for his first series hit in 15 at-bats as Game 5 began last night. "Maaaaany"s hitless"" the Fenway Park faithful...
TUNA STILL LEARNING ABOUT MIRER
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amLast night's crucial game against the 3-1 Jaguars - the Jets' first home Monday Night Football appearance since 1992 - was going to provide the next step in the progress...
TIME FOR TUNA TO COME UP BIG
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amOKAY, Bill Parcells. Show us the great coach. Show us the Hall of Fame coach. You had the Jaguars in your own backyard last night. The Jaguars were bleeding a...
WEARY ARMS FOR CLINCHER : TRIBE & SOX STAGGER INTO ALDS FINALE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Game 5 of a division series, no less desperate than any Game 7, might be a fan's feast. But Red Sox manager Jimy Williams and Cleveland's Mike Hargrove...
TUNA PLAYING A FINE-TUNE
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe odds have been seemingly stacked against the Jets this season. Many ardent Jets fans, who've been through the lowest of times, have been thinking this was some kind of...
RIVALRY'S NOT THE SAME
October 12, 1999 | 4:00amButch Goring was certainly aware of the heated Islander-Ranger rivalry when he joined the Islanders in 1980. It's just that he didn't realize how heated it really was. "You heard...