November 10, 1999
ROSS READY TO SET SAIL ON COLUMBUS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00am'COLUMBUS Centre will be the icon for New York, to replace the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center," predicts Stephen M. Ross, CEO of Related Cos,, developers of the epochal...
SEAGRAM WANTS TOP WARNER EXEC FOR WEB; EXCLUSIVE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amSeagram's Universal Music Group is in talks to steal a major player at Warner Brothers Records for its new web venture, Jimmy and Doug's Farm Club, The Post has learned....
MORGAN STANLEY MUST SURRENDER SEX COMPLAINTS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA federal judge has ordered Morgan Stanley Dean Witter to give the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission every sexual harassment or sexual discrimination complaint filed by an American employee since 1995....
BROWN FLEES BRILL'S CONTENT FOR WEB; EXCLUSIVE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amBrill's Content President Deanna Brown has bolted the fledgling monthly and is negotiating to join Kurt Andersen's new web venture, The Post has learned. Brown wouldn't comment either on her...
SAKS GETTING ITS 1ST WOMAN CEO
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amStruggling Saks Fifth Avenue is replacing its chief executive officer. Christina Johnson, the 48-year-old chief operating officer, will become CEO and president in February - the first woman CEO in...
REED GRILLED OVER MONEY LAUNDERING
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Top banking executives from Citibank were on the hot seat during a Senate subcommittee hearing on money laundering. Day 1 of the two-day hearing coincided with the release...
BRYANT JOINS WENNER'S MEN'S JOURNAL
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amJann Wenner has finally found all his men to execute his grand plan - challenging People magazine. The publisher hired Mark Bryant - a respected editor who helped make Outside...
REPORT: DRASNER PRIMED TO BOLT
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amReal estate developer and Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman and his longtime consigliere Fred Drasner are heading for a bust-up, says the Washington Post. Drasner and developer Zuckerman, who together...
ABSURD BY ANY 'LIGHT'
November 10, 1999 | 5:00am'LIGHT It Up" would be a strong candidate for the year's most irresponsible movie - if it were remotely believable. In writer-director Craig Bolotin's frenzied imagination, a group of students...
THRILLING NEW TEA ROOM - BUT A WEIRD UPSTAIRS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amTHE new Russian Tea Room is a blast. Warner LeRoy's $22 million was mostly well spent. Chef Fabrice Canelle's Frenchified Russian cuisine hits the spot. The burnished new main floor,...
'PRICE' IS RIGHT - ACTOR NAUGHTON DEBUTSAS DIRECTOR ON B'WAY
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amHE'S the top leading man of musical comedy on Broadway, but what two-time Tony Award-winner James Naughton really wants to do is direct. He gets his chance when Arthur Miller's...
'NYPD BLUE'S FRANZ: ABC 'SCREWED' US
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amUSING words like "betrayed" and "screwed," Dennis Franz described how he felt when he heard ABC was planning to delay the season premiere of "NYPD Blue." "We were told that...
'SUDDENLY SUSAN' STAR'S SUICIDE EXPLAINED
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amTONIGHT'S "20/20" reveals the tragic secret behind the suicide of "Suddenly Susan" co-star David Strickland, who killed himself in a seedy Las Vegas motel room last March. Diane Sawyer reveals...
THE STARR REPORT
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amOn the Short list King World exec Andy Friendly vows to stick by the troubled "Martin Short Show" (4 p.m. on Ch.2). "Marty started out doing too much late-night [material]...
'MILLIONAIRE' MIXUP - QUIZ SHOW HITS SOUR NOTE ON QUESTION THAT MISSES BEAT
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amONCE again, controversy is swirling around a question on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." A Washington, D.C. tax attorney flubbed a music question worth - ironically enough - $64,000...
'ACTION' MAY BE OUT OF ACTION
November 10, 1999 | 5:00am"ACTION" - the most talked-about new series of the season - is on the brink of being taken out of action for good. Fox's edgy sitcom about the inner-workings of...
IRANIAN DIRECTOR'S 'SILENCE' IS GOLDEN
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amSOME wonderful films have come out of Iran in the past few years, but "A Moment of Innocence," by highly regarded director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is too smug and too self-indulgent...
WILL KENNEY EATERY PAN OUT? - OVER BUDGET AND WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE, SKEPTICS SAY GRAND CENTRAL'S LONG-AWAITED RESTAURANT MAY NEVER HAPPEN
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amCYNICS aren't surprised that there's a new banner outside Metrazur, the would-be Grand Central restaurant owned by Matthew Kenney. Instead of greeting commuters with: "Opening Spring 1999," the latest banner...
GO AHEAD AND QUIT YOUR DAY JOB, 'MON
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amERIC Stuart has helped create one of the biggest fads of the decade, but none of the millions of American kids who live and breathe Pokemon would recognize him on...
BLACK ANTI-SEMITISM: IT'S REAL - AND JESSE JACKSON'S DENIALS WON'T MAKE IT GO AWAY
November 10, 1999 | 5:00am'[Black anti-Semites'] statusand influence have notsuffered one iota because of thehatred they've spewed.' JESSE Jackson came to town the other day to speak at Yeshiva University, which was hosting a...
COP UNIONS JOIN RANKS FOR NEW CONTRACT TALKS; EXCLUSIVE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amFor the first time, the city's five police unions have agreed to lock arms in labor negotiations with the city to prevent a repeat of the "zeroes for heroes" no-raise...
POL DOES QUICK U-TURN TO KILL SLUMLORD'S BILL
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA state Assembly bill that would have let a notorious landlord regain a Harlem building he lost for not paying taxes has been killed. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) was...
JAIL COPS LET DOWN THEIR GUARD FOR SEXY CALENDAR
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amCity correction officers say their new millennium calendars feature the most gorgeous guy and gal guards - bar none. Back by popular demand, the Correction Officers Benevolent Association's Year 2000...
JOE GOT DEATH THREATS AFTER MARILYN DIED
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amYankee slugger Joe DiMaggio got eerie death threats from a deranged fan who was upset he broke up with Marilyn Monroe, newly released FBI files show. Throughout 1964, the FBI...
SHOCKER! MOB BANKROLLED SCANDAL SHEET
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amShocking! Skeleton found in scandal sheet's closet! A new report about the National Enquirer is dishing dirt on the supermarket tab - it was bankrolled by legendary New York mob...
INDIA CYCLONE TOLL AT 10,000
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amAn estimated 10,000 people died and 10 million lost homes, livestock or livelihoods in the fierce cyclone that lashed one of India's poorest regions, the Red Cross said yesterday. The...
HEALTH WOES HIT SEPTUPLETS - TWO IOWA TOTS NEED HELP TO SIT OR STAND
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amNearly two years after the McCaughey septuplets' history-making birth, three of the adorable Iowa toddlers have serious health problems, their parents reveal. Little Alexis has been diagnosed with a disorder...
CITY PLANS OLYMPIAN EFFORT TO HOST GAMES; EXCLUSIVE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amNew York City is mounting a serious bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2012 - which could mean a new football stadium and an entirely new neighborhood for the...
HE'D LIKE TO POUND GREYHOUND - OBESE MAN: I WAS STUCK ON BUS FOR 74 HOURS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amFrederick Brunick says he'll never leave the driving to Greyhound again. The 530-pound Brunick, 56, said he was kept an unwilling prisoner for three days on a coast-to-coast bus -...
ROCK CENTER TO HAVE MOST TREE-MENDOUS YULE EVER
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe tallest-ever Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was cut down in Connecticut yesterday and sent by truck and barge to Manhattan. The 100-foot-tall Norway spruce had grown for about a century...
THE DONALD HAS CLINTON TO THANK FOR LOWERING AMERICA'S STANDARDS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amTHANK you, Bill Clinton, for single-handedly turning the office of president into R-rated public entertainment! Donald Trump yesterday launched his campaign for president in earnest on "The Howard Stern Show"...
LEAD-TAINTED BRONX SCHOOL REOPENS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amPS 37 in The Bronx reopened yesterday after a lead cleanup - but more than 20 percent of its pupils stayed home. "Some parents brought their kids in this morning...
JOCELYN GIVES BANKRUPT BEAU THE BRUSH-OFF
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amLong Island divorce lawyer Kenneth Godt, who has filed for personal and professional bankruptcy, is no longer wealthy divorce Jocelyn Wildenstein's mane man. "We're just very good friends. He's a...
PATAKI IN $125M PUSH TO AID MENTALLY ILL
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday announced a $125 million program to improve care for the mentally ill, including patients like the man who shoved a woman to her death in...
ANTI-SLOBBO STUDENTS RIOT IN BELGRADE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA demonstration against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic erupted in violence yesterday as baton-wielding cops clashed with student protesters in Belgrade. Some demonstrators were left lying on the pavement in the...
L.I. CLASSMATE: SEINFELD STOLE MY DATE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amIt's no joke that Jerry Seinfeld has a history of stealing other guys' girls, gripes one former high-school classmate. Ex-Massapequa HS student Johnny "Spuds" Marino still hasn't forgiven the comic...
WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK, AL GORES BUSH
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore yesterday played the name game to show off his knowledge of obscure world leaders and poke fun at GOP rival George W. Bush for...
KIDS GET POKEMON 'FLU' - SKIPPING SCHOOL TODAY FOR MOVIE'S OPENING
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amCountless crazed city schoolkids plan to play hooky today for the hotly anticipated premiere of "Pokmon: The First Movie" - and lots of parents say it's just the ticket. But...
TRUMP BARES NAKED AMBITION - PREZ HOPEFUL STUNS REFORM PARTY WITH RAUNCHY STERN TALK
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDonald Trump and his supermodel girlfriend - who boasted over the radio that she was naked - told the world all about their "exceptional" sex life yesterday, hours before Trump...
MTA COPS TO HIT THE ROAD IN NEW DUTY
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amMTA railroad cops now have a new assignment: patrolling the city's toll bridges and tunnels to nab speeders. The 500-member police force mainly monitors the Long Island Rail Road and...
ANGRY GRAMM CRACKLES OVER SATELLITE-TV BILL
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A popular measure to allow satellite-TV providers to show local programming may be doomed, after a powerful Senate Republican objected yesterday to a new deal. The bill, which...
EXPERTS SAY HMO'S GIVING DOCS POWER IS A PR PLOY
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA move by one of the nation's largest HMOs to cut out the middleman and let doctors decide on care could be a brilliant public-relations ploy - and an escape...
EGYPTAIR PROBE ZEROES IN ON RECOVERED 'BLACK BOX'
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amNEWPORT, R.I. - National Transportation Safety Board engineers are working around the clock to extract crucial information from the EgyptAir flight-data "black box" recovered yesterday. The box could hold the...
COUNCIL WILL HOLD HEARING ON DISGUSTING LUNCHROOMS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe City Council's Health Committee will hold a special hearing next week on the filthy conditions of most public-school cafeterias - a move prompted by a scathing report in The...
DOESN'T ANYONE HERE KNOW HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME?
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDOUG "Poker" Dalton, like most professional gamblers, is as honest as oxygen. So when he was asked, "Do you know how to play Pokmon?" he drew a deep sigh. "No,...
QUEENS PAIR RAN BROTHEL OVER KIDS' DANCE CLASS: COPS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00am"Johns" seeking a Queens brothel sometimes found girls a lot younger than they expected - because the brothel was upstairs from a children's dance school, authorities said. Peter Gavigan, 39,...
MCCAIN RIPS 'ILLEGAL' HILL ADS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - GOP presidential wannabe John McCain - a campaign-reform expert - yesterday blasted the new Hillary Clinton TV ads, claiming they "egregiously" break campaign laws, just as her husband's...
PROTESTS MAY DELAY PREZ'S GREECE TRIP
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House last night vowed that President Clinton will go to Greece, despite the threat of nasty anti-American protests. "We are definitely going to Greece," said White...
JUDGES UPHOLD CITY'S RIGHT TO SEIZE DWI CARS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA state appeals court gave the city's controversial DWI car-forfeiture policy a green light yesterday. In a unanimous decision, a five-judge Appellate Division panel ruled the policy - which allows...
LAND REMAINS BIG BARRIER IN MIDEAST TALKS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amEhud Barak and Yasser Arafat were all smiles yesterday, but there was a wide gap between them on the latest wrinkle to smite the Mideast peace process. The Israeli prime...
JESSICA'S EX IS GLAD HE LOST SKLAR WARS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe bitter ex-husband of Jerry Seinfeld's bride-to-be trashed the lovebirds yesterday - saying the cocky sitcom king deserves exactly what he gets, including his "problem" woman. Eric Nederlander, scion of...
18 KILLED AS MEXICAN JET EXPLODES IN MIDAIR
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA DC-9 mysteriously exploded over a mountainous region of central Mexico yesterday, killing all 18 on board, authorities said. The jet, belonging to the Mexican airline Taesa, carried 13 passengers...
FED-CITY STING SNUFFS BRONX ARSON SUSPECT
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amA Bronx man has been busted for accepting money from an undercover fire marshal to torch a warehouse, according to law-enforcement sources and court papers. Investigators say Francisco Castro, 21,...
COPS: BLACK MAN BEHIND KKK NOTES
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - State police yesterday arrested a black state worker on charges of leaving hate-filled notes signed "KKK" on the office doors of two African-American lawmakers. Darryl Gray, 35, of...
ARTERIES START CLOGGING IN TEENS, HEART DOC DISCOVERS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe "seeds of heart disease" take root early, starting in young people in their teens or 20s, researchers said yesterday. About one in six youths who had died in an...
MINIMUM-WAGE BILL FACES VETO
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday voted to bump up the minimum wage by a buck - to $6.15 an hour - but the bill includes tax breaks likely to draw...
ATLAS MEMORIAL DINNER SET FOR NOV. 18
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe fourth annual dinner of the Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Memorial Foundation, a charitable organization that raises money for the needy throughout the tri-state area, will be held Thursday, Nov....
THROW THE BUMS OUT! - EVANDER & LENNOX GOTTA BOOT CROOKED SANCTIONING BODIES
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS-This afternoon, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis, who were paid $20 million and $15 million, respectively, to fight 12 rounds that led nowhere in March, will try to explain...
NEW FISHING REFERENCE A REAL WHOPPER
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amIF you browse among the bookshelves of many serious anglers, you will no doubt come across a dust-covered copy of A.J. McClane's New Standard Fishing Encyclopedia, a great piece of...
HUSKIES ALREADY UNDER GUN
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe defending NCAA champs thumped the New York All-Stars by 49 points in an exhibition game Monday but coach Jim Calhoun wasn't pleased. He grudgingly admitted he liked some things...
GIANTS 'D' GURU FOX IS ON FAST TRACK TO THE TOP
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amIF THEY could, members of the Giants defense would do what was necessary to keep John Fox right where he is, in his role as their defensive coordinator. But if...
BOTTOM'S UP FOR ISLES
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amEverything else has gone south with the Islanders, so they have, too. Tied for the league basement and scoring an average of only two goals per game, the Isles visit...
KNICKS FEEL RALLY GOOD - COMEBACK SET POSITIVE TONE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amNo NBA team wants to have to play from behind, much less be down 10 points in the fourth quarter. But almost to a man, the Knicks say their come-from-behind...
ALFORD FEELS STING OF KNIGHT'S SNUB
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amWhen first-year Iowa coach Steve Alford walks across the Garden court tomorrow night to shake hands with Jim Calhoun, the one-time Indiana star won't have to worry about what kind...
LAZIO'S SITTING PRETTY; LAZIO BETTER OFF WITH VIERI GONE
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amLONDON - When Lazio unloaded its ace goal-scorer Christian Vieri as part of a $100 million refit of the team last summer, fans of the Rome club took to the...
CURRAN'S HAPPY HE STAYED HOME
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amJack Curran learned a lot playing for Frank McGuire at St. John's. But one thing the long-time baseball and basketball coach at Archbishop Molloy HS didn't acquire from his old...
BERNIE GETS GOLD, HEARS TRADE TALK
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDavid Wells for Roger Clemens. That's what Bernie Williams thinks about when his name surfaces in trade rumors involving Ken Griffey Jr. "After that, nothing would surprise me," said Williams,...
WHEELING-DEALING TIGERS INTERESTED IN TAKING RICKEY, BOBBY JONES OFF METS' HANDS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amHOT STOVE NOTES DANA POINT, Calif. - The Tigers are contemplating an offer to the Mets for Rickey Henderson and want to find out how healthy Bobby Jones is because...
YANKS, METS VIE FOR JAPAN'S BEST
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDANA POINT, Calif. - The Yankees and Mets have both expressed interest in free agent Kazuhiro Sasaki, who is considered the Mariano Rivera of Japan and whom Bobby Valentine said...
BOMBERS AWAY? - RAMIRO & CURTIS MAY GO TO BUCS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDANA POINT, Calif. - The Yankees are closing in on a deal in which they would send Ramiro Mendoza and Chad Curtis to the Pirates for starter Jason Schmidt. It...
MORRISON BECOMING A HIT MAN
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe scouts from Atlanta, Tampa, Florida, Anaheim, Vancouver and Phoenix have been getting an eyeful of something new. "I'm a goon out there," the Devils' Brendan Morrison said with a...
DEVILS FOLLOW CLAUDE'S LEAD
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 2 Flyers 1 They have changed, all in a week, emulating the explosive drive of Claude Lemieux. But the Devils remain the same, too, anchored by their defense, and...
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE - THE POST HANDS OUT JETS' MID-SEASON AWARDS
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amMOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Vinny Testaverde. Is there any question about Testaverde's value considering what's happened to this team in his absence? MOST VALUABLE PLAYER (PLAYING): Curtis Martin. He's quietly, and...
DEVS' MORRISON NOW A HIT MAN
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amThe scouts from Atlanta, Tampa, Florida, Anaheim, Vancouver and Phoenix have been getting an eyeful of something new. "I'm a goon out there," the Devils' Brendan Morrison said with a...
YANKS, METS LOOK EAST - AMONG LEADERS FOR ''MARIANO OF JAPAN"
November 10, 1999 | 5:00amDANA POINT, Calif. - The Yankees and Mets both have expressed interest in free agent Kazuhiro Sasaki, who is considered the Mariano Rivera of Japan and who Bobby Valentine said...