October 15, 1999
REPORT OF MOVE IS UN-TIMES-LY - GRAY LADY WON'T CONFIRM ITS OWN STORY OF NEW HQ
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amAll the rumors that're fit to print. The New York media world is scratching its head in disbelief over a New York Times story about itself that the paper's own...
THE ONE ONFLATION INDEX THAT REALLY HAS THE FEDERAL RESERVE WORRIED
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amDO you know how much the price of burlap has risen recently? How about polyester? If you are investing in the stock market, you'll be closely watching this morning's goverment...
WHAT'S IN A NAME? A LAWSUIT - CELEBRITIES ARE MOVING IN ON WEBSITES BEARING THEIR NAMES
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amAll is not a "Stairway to Heaven" for one die-hard Led Zeppelin fan who owns the domain name, www.ledzeppelin.com. Lawyers representing the legendary rock band have asked Robert Siciliano to...
'POTTER' PANNED - PARENTS RAISING HELL OVER 'EVIL' IN 'HARRY' BOOKS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amParents throughout the country are enraged over the wildly popular "Harry Potter" books, charging the fictional character glorifies the occult and encourages rebellion. Bands of parents from South Carolina to...
'TURN OF THE CENTURY' AUTHOR AIMS TO LAUNCH OWN WEBSITE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amKurt Andersen, accidental zillionaire? It could happen. The New Yorker writer who satirized lame New Media ideas in his novel "Turn of the Century" is said to be on the...
HANGIN' WITH ALICE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amALICE Cooper - Vincent Furnier to his preacher dad - is a complex showman who discovered early in his career that outrageousness is one key to success. For Cooper, who...
TALE SINKS IN 'CHESAPEAKE'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amMARK Linn-Baker is a national endowment who ought to be cherished by all citizens under penalty of law. He's the sole actor on stage in Lee Blessing's "Chesapeake," a cutesy...
AMUSING 'SONG' WORTHY OF NOTE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00am'SAME Old Song," from legendary French director Alain Resnais ("Hiroshima, Mon Amour," "Last Year at Marienbad"), is a lightweight boulevard farce about a ditzy amateur historian (Agnes Jaoui) and her...
'JUDGING AMY' IS SITTING PRETTY - SURPRISE HIT SHOW GIVING 'NYPD BLUE' RUN FOR MONEY
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amNO one expected "Judging Amy" to have this much of an impact - but it's reverberating throughout TV's Tuesday-night landscape. The warmhearted family drama starring Amy Brenneman as a single...
PERFORMANCE WITH PUNCH - NORTON, PITT SCORE A KNOCKOUT IN 'FIGHT CLUB'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00am'FIGHT Club" badly wants to be "A Clockwork Orange" for the millennium - and succeeds to a surprising extent until director David Fincher ends up sucker-punching the audience. Edward Norton...
CROWNING GLORY
October 15, 1999 | 4:00am'JOE the King" starts off badly, with Camryn Manheim going over the top as a vicious school teacher in an unbelievable school-room scene. But it eventually grows into a poignant,...
METABOLIFE SPOOKED BY "20/20"
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amABC News is trying to turn the tables on Metabolife, a company that launched a $1.5 million media campaign to discredit a "20/20" report airing tonight at 10 p.m. Last...
'WHEN HARRY DUMPED SALLY' IS STORY OF 'US'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Story of Us," a dramatic comedy about a couple on the brink of divorce after 15 years of marriage, doesn't live up to the promise of its trailers. It...
SHULL, ACTOR IN B'WAY'S 'EPIC,' DIES
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amVETERAN character actor Richard B. Shull died of a heart attack yesterday morning at his home in Manhattan, just hours after taking his nightly curtain call in the Broadway comedy...
LYNCH'S 'STRAIGHT STORY'; IS BOUND TO BE DEERE TO YOUR HEART
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amYUP, the credits confirm that "Walt Disney Pictures Presents a Film by David Lynch" - and "The Straight Story," Lynch's first G-rated feature, turns out to be one of the...
COLLETTE JOINS 'PARTY'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amSCORE one for the Public Theater's upcoming new musical "The Wild Party."Faced with the loss of Vanessa Williams, who bowed out of the show two weeks ago because she is...
SOCCER ROMANCE IS A REAL KICK
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amESSENTIAL viewing for anyone who has to live with a soccer fan or other sports-obsessive, "Fever Pitch" is also a contender for the best romantic comedy of the year. It's...
A TOUCHING LOOK AT SWEDE 'LOVE'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00am'SHOW Me Love," Sweden's nominee for this year's foreign-language-film Oscar, is a sensitive portrait of a Swedish teenager discovering her lesbian longings. Elin (Alexandra Dahlstrom), a blonde who harbors vague...
NO 'BLUES' CLUE - ABC CONTINUES TO IGNORE LOYAL FANS OF TOP COP SHOW
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amMOVING "NYPD Blue" reminds me of the time Coca Cola introduced New Coke a few years ago. Coke was certain its customers would embrace a new version of an old...
U.N. CHIEF NIXES KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe United Nations will not endorse an independent nation of Kosovo, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday as he wrapped up a two-day visit to the Serbian province. "We are not...
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD VOTES YES
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amLike millions of baseball-crazed New Yorkers, Bomber legend Whitey Ford is rooting for a subway series. The Hall of Fame hurler - nicknamed the Chairman of the Board when he...
CIVIL-RIGHTS GROUP MIGHT; GO TO BAT FOR KKK ; RIGHTS GROUP MAY GO TO BAT FOR KKK
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe New York Civil Liberties Union said yesterday it will "most likely" represent the Ku Klux Klan in its bid to stage a white-pride rally in Manhattan next week -...
REAL MEN DON'T WEAR A WHITE NIGHTIE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Wizard has a lizard in his gizzard. "Oh yes, he's very concerned about what's going on at City Hall," said James Sheely. Sheely was talking about the angst of...
PREJUDICE PROTECTS MOTHER OF ALL EVILS; BLIND TO THE MOTHER OF ALL EVILS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE word came down clear as the Rocky Mountain air: No one will pay for the painful, slow and senseless strangulation of a 6-year-old girl named JonBenet. Should we really...
BRAIN CELLS GET SMART ENOUGH TO REGENERATE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amPrinceton University scientists say they have refuted one of the oldest beliefs about the brain - that its cells don't regenerate. The researchers say the brain constantly produces new cells...
STAR LOSES ALMOST EVERYTHING IN DOWNTOWN FIRE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Union Square apartment of Tony award-winning actress Elizabeth Ashley went up in smoke yesterday morning when a cigarette she left behind sparked a four-alarm blaze, fire authorities said. Among...
DUNG-HO MUSEUM BUYS ART INSPIRED BY FUROR; EXCLUSIVE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn Museum is buying artwork about its controversial "Sensation" show - with plans for a possible exhibit about the flap over the show, The Post has learned. The illustrators...
MTA ADMITS E-ZGOOF ON BILLS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe MTA admitted yesterday it mailed 130,000 error-filled billing statements to E-ZPass customers - including tens of thousands of overcharges. The computer goof covers more than 10 percent of the...
CITY PLAYED FAST AND LOOSE ON NAVY YARD DEAL: DE NIRO
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amRobert De Niro and his partners in the ruptured Brooklyn Navy Yard film-studio deal yesterday charged Mayor Giuliani double-crossed them by giving the contract to rival developers. The movie star...
JURY HEARS GRUESOME DETAILS ; OF SUBWAY-SHOVE DEATH
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amHer beautiful face was virtually untouched. But Kendra Webdale's slender body - pushed by a mumbling schizophrenic into the path of a speeding subway train - was devastated by the...
BILL BLOWS UP AT GOP AFTER SENATE NIXES NUKE PACT
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A furious President Clinton yesterday accused "reckless" Republican hard-liners of nuking his no-nukes treaty - as Veep Al Gore began dropping bombs on the GOP in a TV...
SAFIR DISMANTLES COP UNIT THAT SHOT DIALLO
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir broke up the controversial Street Crime Unit yesterday and put its members under the control of NYPD borough commanders. It was the latest change to rock...
'MUFFIN KILLER' COULD BE EX-WORKER: COPS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amA witness to the deadly SoHo muffin-shop heist thought he recognized one of two gunmen in the botched robbery as a former worker, investigators said yesterday. Terrence Wells, 22, was...
HILL HITS BILL ON BUDGET AS THEY LAND A MORTGAGE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe White House announced yesterday that Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken a big bank loan - and ditched financial angel Terry McAuliffe - to buy their $1.7 million house...
FANS: STICK IT TO PUNK ROCKER! - WANT METS TO BUTTON BRAVE'S BIG MOUTH
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amAtlanta Braves closer John Rocker hates the Mets - and Met fans say the feeling is mutual. "He's just a tough cookie and I'd like for the Mets to kick...
COLD, HARD CELL AWAITS 'JUNIOR'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amJohn A. "Junior" Gotti will need his long underwear when he heads to prison Monday - the jail is in the heart of the Adirondacks, where it has already started...
STARR AIDE SET TO TAKE OVER
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amKenneth Starr will step aside next week and one of his assistants will take over as Whitewater independent counsel, it was reported last night. Robert Ray, a federal prosecutor who...
YANKEES FOLD SOX IN A THRILLER - FANS CONVINCED THERE'S NO NO STOPPING BX. BOMBERS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees are coming! The Yankees are coming! That's the cry in Bean Town as the Bombers and their fans head north leading the Red Sox two games to none...
PITCHERS ANSWER CALL TO ARMS IN DOOZY OF A DUEL
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS didn't figure to be your classic pitchers' duel. Not with Ramon Martinez pitching with a newly repaired shoulder and David Cone throwing with a questionable one. More than five...
EX-MASS. GOV HAS EYE ON ALBANY
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amGov. William Weld ... of New York? That's what the former Republican governor of Massachusetts hinted at earlier this week in a TV interview promoting his new novel "Big Ugly."...
PAKI GENERAL: I'M BOSS NOW
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amPakistan's top general declared himself the country's new leader today in defiance of international calls for a return to civilian rule. Fighter planes could be heard flying over the capital...
LUCKY TURK FINDS POT OF GOLD AMID QUAKE TRAGEDY
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amA Turkish man whose house and store were damaged in the August earthquake got a lucky break this week when he went back in to assess the damage - and...
THESE STARS WON'T COME UP SHORT
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amBERNIE Williams emerged the ultimate hero of Game 1 of the ALCS with his game-winning home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Yankees a 4-3...
TOO MUCH HORSEPOWER - MANNING'S COLTS SHOULD THROTTLE LOWLY JETS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amLAST year, when the Colts visited the Meadowlands in Week 3, the Jets were winless and desperate. Bill Belichick tortured rookie Peyton Manning with blitzes and coverages and the Jet...
BOBBY V PERFECT MAN FOR THIS TOWN & TEAM; METS SHOULD LOCK UP VALENTINE ... FOREVER
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amNOW THAT the Mets are halfway to extinction in the NLCS and the Subway Series is on the verge of becoming a train wreck, there is only one thing left...
STEPHON TRYIN' TO CARRY THE LOAD
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amStephon Marbury has one goal for his individual game with the Nets. "I'm trying to become unstoppable," he said. The problem is, until the Nets become whole, that task is...
CHREBET: ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO FOR COMEBACK
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amWayne Chrebet stood in front of his locker yesterday donning the frayed and faded Yankee cap he always wears and answered questions about whether or not he'll play this weekend....
BOTTOMS UP FOR FISH OFF SOUTH SHORE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE fall run of saltwater species is just about at its height, so now is the time to take advantage of every opportunity that Mother Nature offers you. Striped bass...
LEITER: WE CAN BEAT THIS TEAM
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amAl Leiter sat by and watched the Mets lose a pair of nail-biters to the Braves in the first two games of the NLCS. Tonight, he gets something to do...
BIG-MOUTH ROCKER WALKING WALK
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amBraves reliever John Rocker has started to make a name for himself by shutting down the Mets so far in the NLCS. He is making just as much of a...
VALENTINE: 'I WASN'T UP ALL NIGHT'
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Valentine left Kenny Rogers in the game for one batter too long when the Mets lost to Atlanta 4-3 on Wednesday. But the manager refused to kick himself while...
REY BUNT 'SURPRISING' TO BOBBY V
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amRey Ordonez' hitting has gotten appreciably better over the past year. His approach to hitting, however, is still highly questionable. At no time was that more apparent than in the...
'READY' TO SIT OUT CUP
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amMore Than Ready, the sensational 2-year-old who breezed through his first five starts, then lost his last two, will skip the Breeders' Cup and won't race again this year, trainer...
SPREWELL MIGHT OPT TO WAIT FOR FREE-AGENT OFFER
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amWhile the Knicks are his first preference because of his adoration for the New York fans, Latrell Sprewell indicated yesterday he'll likely test the free-agent waters after the season if...
'VERSE' TRIES BIG M 'CAP
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe rain that pelted Belmont Park last Sunday was a blessing in disguise for Vision and Verse. The 3-year-old son of Storm Cat hates a sloppy track, so trainer Bill...
SECONDARY MIGHT BE DRY WITHOUT ATWATER
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Steve Atwater, one of the Jets' marquee off-season acquisitions, strained a hamstring in Wednesday's practice and missed yesterday's session. He's listed on the injury report as questionable for...
DOG-GONE IT! METS JUST WON'T HUSTLE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amYOU'VE got to give the Mets points for consistency. No runs, but lots of points. Their team-wide, season-long disinclination toward running to first base continues to both blow the mind...
VAN: EWING'S NOT READY
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy said yesterday what everyone around the team already knew but wouldn't put on the record. Patrick Ewing will miss the start of the regular season...
MIRACLE MET HERO BATTLES TOUGHEST FOE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amLEUKEMIA first came for his grandfather and got him at 40. Then it came for his father. It got him at 32. Now, it is coming after the MVP of...
PREPS ON TAP FOR BREEDERS' CUP
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThis will be the final weekend of prep races for the Breeders' Cup and you can follow all the action at Belmont Park. Tomorrow, along with the Kelso Handicap and...
WILPON STILL SOUNDS UPBEAT
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amFred Wilpon stood in the Mets' dugout during his team's off-day workout yesterday and ranted that Bobby Valentine will be fired if the Mets don't rebound from their NLCS deficit,...
RICKEY'S READY TO GO TONIGHT
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson, removed from Wednesday's Game 2 game in the middle of the second inning, said yesterday he felt "fine" and should be ready to...
TIME FOR MIKE TO WAKE UP - SLUMPIN' PIAZZA'S GOTTA GET GOING
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE ROY Campanella of the regular season. The Mario Mendoza of the postseason. Such is Mike Piazza's tag until he busts outwith a big October game. Or four. Or eight....
COX MANAGING TO MAKE V LOOK BAD
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amJACK McKEON could have been in Bobby Valentine's shoes. His Reds, if not for a final weekend flub in Milwaukee, would have played the Braves this postseason, so it is...
RICKY'S READY TO GO TONIGHT
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson, removed from Wednesday's Game 2 game in the middle of the second inning, said yesterday he felt "fine" and should be ready to...
PENS INK LATEST RANGER DEBACLE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amCost of free agents signed over the summer: $67 million. Cost of the 1999-2000 team payroll: $58.815 million. Ranger effort last night: worthless. Which is to say that if there...
WILT'S GREATNESS WAS A CUT ABOVE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amLARRY BIRD'S Hall of Fame induction, Springfield, Mass. Two summers ago. There I was, an hour or so before the ceremony was to begin, a nobody from Hollis, Queens, invited...
ATLANTA THRASHES ISLES
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amSo which was the real expansion team here? In what was surely one of the most dreary evenings of hockey in the history of the NHL, the Islanders embarrassed themselves...
BOMBERS ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER - SECOND ONE-RUN WIN PUTS BOSOX IN 2-0 HOLE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amHow much better can Roger Clemens-Pedro Martinez at historic Fenway Park tomorrow be than the first two games of the Red Sox-Yankees ALCS? If Clemens, one of the best pitchers...
BOSOX: NO CURSE, WE BLEW IT
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Red Sox don't believe in any Yankee curse. They believe in blown opportunities. In last night's 3-2 loss to the Yankees in Game 2 of the ALCS, Jason Veritek...
NOMAR CAN'T DO IT ALONE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amBoston manager Jimy Williams was borderline exasperated even before his team dropped Game 2 of the ALCS 3-2 to the Yankees last night. He has watched Nomar Garciaparra do things...
KNOBBY'S A BIG HIT IN GAME 2
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amDerek Jeter calls Chuck Knoblauch "Chuck Chill Out," and that's exactly what the second baseman did in his fourth at-bat last night. "I was actually pretty relaxed up there," Knoblauch...
THAT COULD BE ALL FOR POSADA IN ALCS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amIf the Yankees sweep the Red Sox out of the ALCS in four games, Jorge Posada will have to wait until the World Series to strap on the catching gear...
JIMY TIPS CAP TO HARD-WORKING RAMON
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amBoston manager Jimy Williams wondered if he pushed starter Ramon Martinez too far last night. Martinez said he did not. Martinez, who missed 15 months after undergoing shoulder surgery, threw...
HURTIN' O'NEILL SUCKS IT UP, GETS IT DONE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill called it "basically a big break for us," but the lefty once again showed how experience overrides postseason nerves, a good pitcher and even a fractured rib. Against...
YANKS' PEN AUTHORS KEY SAVE - RELIEVERS DELIVER FOR BOMBERS
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amIT is amazing how huge a shadow a man standing only 5-feet-11 can cast. The angle of the low October sun may have something to do with it. So does...
O'NEILL HIT GIVES BOMBERS LEAD - SINGLE IN 7TH PROVIDES BULLPEN WITH 3-2 LEAD
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amKnowing their task tomorrow at Fenway Park is a daunting one even if they have a revitalized Roger Clemens working their side of the street, the Yankees went into last...
RED SOX BLAME THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF UMP
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amGive the Red Sox some credit. With all the post-season heartbreak they've experienced in the franchise's storied history, the Boys from Beantown weren't ready to condemn the umps for Boston's...
PEDRO STILL LOOMS LARGE - YANKEES NEED 2-0 CUSHION TO FEEL SAFE
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amIT is amazing how huge a shadow a man standing only 5-feet-11 can cast. The angle of the October sun has a lot to do with it. So does the...
RED SOX: IT'S ONLY ONE GAME
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Red Sox are the team that wasn't supposed to be here. They weren't supposed to make the playoffs. They certainly weren't supposed to beat the mighty Indians, especially after...
AILING O'NEILL LAUGHS OFF HIS INJURY
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amAs Paul O'Neill walked out of the clubhouse after the Yanks' 4-3 win over Boston, his 10-year-old son Andrew said, "Hey Dad, that was a great catch you made out...
THEO BACK TO POINT THE WAY :FLEURY RUNS SHOW ON PP
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe way John Muckler saw it, Theo Fleury belonged on the power-play right point, not on its right wing. And he said so, rather emphatically, in Edmonton on the day...
IT'S 'CRUNCH TIME' FOR SALE OF ISLES
October 15, 1999 | 4:00amWith progress continuing to be made involving the sale of the Islanders to a group headed by Bob Gutkowski, sources said there is a 60 percent chance that the deal...