November 16, 1999
FINANCIAL WEBSITES' PARENTS TO MERGE
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amCBS.MarketWatch.com and the Financial Times website are getting into bed together. Data Broadcasting Corp. -- which owns 32 percent of the American financial news website -- yesterday announced it had...
GETTING THE BUGS OUT:WB CONSIDERS SHRINKING RETAIL
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amBugs Bunny may be high-tailing out of the retail business. Media giant Time Warner is considering shutting or shrinking some of its 140 Warner Brothers Stores. While the company didn't...
PURCELL WANTS A NEW TRADE GROUP; MORGAN STANLEY CEO GETS SUPPORT
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amPhil Purcell may be looking to do an end-run around his industry's own lobbying organization. The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter CEO is leading the charge to start a new lobbying...
GRUSHOW IS APPOINTED CHAIRMAN AT FOX TV
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amFox Entertainment Group yesterday named Sandy Grushow to the new post of chairman of Fox Television Entertainment Group. Grushow, who's been responsible for hits including "Ally McBeal", "Dharma and Greg"...
LABEL'S CHIEF ALWAYS HAD A FREE HAND
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amTwenty-five years after launching Arista Records, Clive Davis is still making headlines. The former lawyer, who opened his own label after getting the ax from Columbia Records in 1973, is...
CLIVE ON HOT SEAT:STAGE SET FOR MUSIC LEGEND'S OUSTER
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amBMG honcho Strauss Zelnick has put the screws to Arista boss Clive Davis, telling him to boost his bottom line -- or else. BMG, parent of Arista, apparently isn't happy...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amWinter whirl Pick up a free Ski & Snowboarding catalog from Central Holidays and try heli-skiing or ski safaris all over Europe and North America. Example: a ski safari to...
TRULY A PLACE OF WORSHIP ; IN SEARCH OF THE CHURCH THAT INSPIRED VAN GOGH
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amAUVERS-sur-Oise, France -- Beneath my feet lies the very ground where he painted the picture. Finally, my pilgrimage is complete. Since I first saw Vincent van Gogh's "Church at Auvers"...
APOLLO MAKES ROCK HISTORY, SERVING EARS OF KORN
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amWHITE thrash-rock group Korn shocked the music world last night, booking themselves at the legendary Apollo Theater for a one-performance engagement. The famed Harlem stage, which launched the careers of...
NOW AND IN AUSTEN ERA, WOMEN NOT ON TOP
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amMANY consider war the true test of a man's mettle. But Jane Austen knew marriage was the ultimate test of character. And of all her tomes, "Mansfield Park," (the film...
CHURCH'S NEW CD HAS MASS APPEAL
November 16, 1999 | 5:00am*CHARLOTTE CHURCH Charlotte Church; Sony Classical It is difficult not to be slack-jawed over the success of Charlotte Church, who at the age of 13 is a top professional soprano,...
'AIDA' STARS TAKE 'BREAK A LEG' TOO LITERALLY
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amTHE stars of Disney's Broadway-bound musical "Aida" spent yesterday recovering from injuries they sustained in Chicago during a performance Saturday night, when a cube-like tomb they were riding in plunged...
THE STARR REPORT
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amSeasoned with Curry NBC's Ann Curry revisits the McCaughey septuplets tonight (10 p.m.) for "Dateline." This marks Curry's fourth visit with the kids -- turning 2 on Friday -- big...
'THE PRICE' IS RIGHT
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amARTHUR Miller's funniest play comes electrifyingly alive in the splendid revival of his 1968 "The Price" at the Royale Theatre. Director James Naughton and four brilliant players attain an intense...
DRUDGE, FOX PHOTO SPAT CONTINUES - MATT WALKS OFF SHOW; SAYS THAT HE WILL RETURN SATURDAY
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amANOTHER confrontation is looming between cybergossip Matt Drudge -- who walked off his cable TV show this week in a dispute over whether he could show a picture of a...
HART DIDN'T WANT TO WRESTLE - TRAGIC GRAPPLER'S LAMENT IS AIRED ON 'BIOGRAPHY'
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amBEFORE he was killed last spring in a pay-per-view WWF stunt, wrestler Owen Hart said in a taped interview he wished he'd never gone into the ring. "I always said,...
UNPLANNED CLIFFHANGER RACKED UP GAINS FOR FOX - 'GREED' IS PICKING UP WHERE 'MILLIONAIRE' LEFT OFF
November 16, 1999 | 5:00am'THE guy with the hair" has put "Greed" on the TV map. He's Curtis Warren, and his electric-shock hairstyle, prominently displayed on last Thursday's "Greed," has everyone talking about Fox's...
WHAT'S WITH MRS. ARAFAT?
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - When Suha Arafat made a speech in front of Hillary Clinton last week accusing Israelis of gassing women and children, it was the second extraordinary public gesture she"d...
PERIOD PERIL: SHOCKINGLY, DOCTORS SAY MONTHLY MENSES CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO WOMEN'S HEALTH
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amALL women know what a bother monthly periods can be, but could they actually be harmful? Shockingly, the answer is yes. "Women have moved from the age of constant reproduction...
WHY YOUR KID CRAVES POKEMON
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amPLOT? What plot? Production values? Who cares? Certainly not the hordes of kids who have turned the crudely drawn Japanese animated feature ""Pokemon: The First Movie"" into a box-office sensation....
ATM FEES TARGETED: VALLONE BIDS TO BAN 'DOUBLE DIPPING'
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone -- seizing on a red-hot issue that has battle lines drawn in California -- announced yesterday that he intends to ban "double-dipping" charges at ATMs...
EH . . . WHAT'S UPSCALE, DOC? SUITE DEAL FOR POSH PATIENTS
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amFeeling under the weather? Slip on a monogrammed robe and, as your marble bath fills, gaze at the stunning Hudson River view from your 14th-floor suite. Choose a movie from...
TREATMENTS OFFER HOPE VS. ARTHRITIS
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amAdvances in treating arthritis were announced yesterday, promising sufferers welcome relief. The first advance is an over-the-counter dietary supplement that appears to slow the progression of osteoarthritis -- the most...
SPITZER SUES GE OVER POLLUTION OF HUDSON RIVER
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY -- Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, invoking an obscure navigation statute, sued the General Electric Co. over PCB contamination in the Hudson River yesterday. "With this initiative, we intend to...
CANCER KID GETS NEW LEG 'BONE'
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amA 7-year-old Queens girl was all smiles yesterday after doctors removed her cancerous thighbone and replaced it with a prosthesis that will expand as she grows. Within two days, spunky...
ARAFAT REJECTS ISRAEL'S LAND OFFER
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM --The Mideast peace process hit a new snag yesterday when Yasser Arafat, who wants Israel to turn over more West Bank land, refused to accept an additional 5 percent...
N.J. TO CITY TRASH TRUCKS: GO TO HAUL
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe mouse has roared. Pipsqueak Elizabeth, N.J., (pop. 110,000) took on New York City (pop. 7.3 million) in a battle over trash -- setting up roadblocks yesterday to intercept city...
TOP N.Y. DEM WARNS HILLARY: ACT AS IF YOU REALLY MEAN IT
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amIn blunt advice to shake up Hillary Rodham Clinton's sputtering campaign, the state Democratic Party's boss said yesterday that Clinton should start acting more like a Senate candidate -- and...
SHE CAN TRY TO SPIN, BUT SHE STILL WON'T WIN
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amHILLARY CLINTON is about to become a punch line in a long-running political joke. The first lady's farcical non-campaign for the Senate -- a taxpayer-funded exercise in wounded wifely vanity...
TRUMP TELLS BAY OF PIGS VETS: CASTRO'S THE PITS
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amDonald Trump yesterday launched a blistering attack on Fidel Castro -- saying the United States must maintain its economic embargo of Cuba. "He's been a killer, he's a criminal, and...
SUBWAY CRIME DOWN, BUT MURDERS ARE UP
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amSubway crime has plunged more than 10 percent this year -- despite a jump in murders, officials reported yesterday. In the first 10 months of the year, there were 3,678...
CARDINAL'S 'FAREWELL' LETTER TO BISHOPS
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amAn ailing John Cardinal O'Connor sent a farewell letter to his fellow American bishops yesterday, saying he doesn't expect to remain New York's top Catholic cleric much longer. "Although I...
CHINA LOOKS SET TO JOIN THE GLOBAL TRADE CLUB
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amU.S. business leaders are giving a tentative thumbs-up to the breakthrough deal to bring China into the World Trade Organization -- clearing the way for more access to the huge...
BRATTON RIPS NYPD'S 'IRON CURTAIN'
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Police Commissioner Bill Bratton yesterday ripped the "incredibly dysfunctional" police discipline system -- and the "iron curtain" of secrecy around Police Headquarters. "This is a truly dysfunctional system," said...
UNGODLY SUM OF $1 IN AA SUIT
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amUpstate probation officials must pay a symbolic $1 to a drunken-driving atheist they forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings that involved prayer, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Robert Warner of...
CLINTONS ON TRAGIC TURKISH TOUR AMID EARTHQUAKE'S DESTRUCTION
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton and wife Hillary today travel to a Turkish tent city for earthquake victims as experts warn it would take a miracle to find any more survivors of the...
COSBY'S 'LOVE CHILD' GOING BACK TO PRISON
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amBill Cosby's alleged love child, Autumn Jackson -- convicted of trying to extort $40 million from the comedian -- is heading back to prison. A federal appeals court flip-flopped yesterday,...
HIS GRAND CENTRAL IS SHINING TIME STATION
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe shops are almost all brand-new at the renovated Grand Central Terminal, but Henry Mays' seat in the landmark building has remained the same for 22 years. Mays, 56, has...
BUSH BOOK'S LONG SUIT? IT'S SHORT ON SURPRISES
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S a reason why so few people, aside from reporters and political professionals, bother to read campaign biographies -- they're excruciatingly dull. George W. Bush's "A Charge to Keep," in...
NEIGH-SAYERS RAISE STINK OVER CENTRAL PK. HORSES
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amCentral Park South city slickers say they've had enough of the barnyard smells coming from their street's fleet of horse-drawn carriages. They want the carriages moved into the park --...
BUSH: I WAS DENIED VIET WINGS: BIO SAYS HE WAS SHORT FLIGHT TIME
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amRepublican 2000 front-runner George W. Bush says in his new autobiography that he wanted to go to Vietnam as a pilot -- but was told he hadn't logged enough flight...
DOES 990 PILOT'S PRAYER SUGGEST SUICIDE?
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe co-pilot on EgyptAir Flight 990 is heard on the doomed jet's cockpit voice recorder uttering a prayer about "embracing death," officials said yesterday. Investigators are working to synchronize the...
RUCKUS OVER 'CLEAN' BUSES
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amTransit officials yesterday proposed putting 250 new "clean fuel" buses on city streets - but critics say the plan stinks. A Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee approved a measure to accept...
GIANTS WORK OUT LONG-DISTANCE SPECIALIST
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants yesterday worked out kicker Joe Nedney, who has been cut this season by the Cardinals and Ravens. They would like to sign him as a kickoff...
CHILDS FEARS WORST AS KNICKS HEAD WEST
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER -- Maybe Chris Childs' summation late Sunday night that the Knicks "could easily come back 4-9" from their five-game Western swing was stretching it. After all, the Clippers are...
FASSEL FEELS 2 DON'T NEED A HUDDLE
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amChanges are coming for the Giants and their ill-defined offense. The no-huddle approach, largely responsible for their only two touchdowns last Sunday, is evolving into a cure and not merely...
PILON'S KNEE REHAB PROGRESSING WELL
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amHow old is Rich Pilon? He's so old that he can actually remember playing in an Islander playoff game. Now that's old. Still, despite his age (31) and experience (521...
WHITTAKER DEALS WITH DOUBLE DUTY
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amShevar Whittaker had been the starting quarterback at DeWitt Clinton H.S. for a season and a half when, after his team was shut out by Sheepshead Bay on Oct. 10,...
NETS LOOK SICK AT 1-6 ; SORRY NETS CAN'T CATCH THE SONICS
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amSonics 100 Nets 92 Stop us if you've heard this one before. The Nets played like garbage, employed an invisible transition defense and with a jump-shot oriented offense that missed...
VAN HORN DOES 180 ON KITTLES
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amKerry Kittles was activated from the injury list by the Nets for last night's game. Sounds like a simple enough transaction, huh? Well, it was anything but simple. And that's...
ROAD TEST TOO EASY TO FLUNK: KNICKS CAN'T DO WORSE THAN 2-3 IN THE WEST
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amEIGHT games into this season, the Knicks find themselves performing on the same mediocre (.500) level they were last season with eight games remaining when Ernie Grunfeld lost his Cable....
THEY AIN'T DEAD JET!
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amFOXBORO -- Put a hold on the funeral arrangements. Dig out those home-game tickets stuffed under paperwork at the bottom of the drawer. Pass the remote control. Fill the tumbler...
KNEE INJURY KOS FABINI FOR SEASON
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amJets win game but lose Fabini JET NOTES FOXBORO -- The night started with the Jets' starting left tackle, Jumbo Elliott, on the sideline with a bad back. It ended...
CARROLL FINDS OUT THAT RAY CAN PLAY
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amREVENGE never tasted so deliciously sweet. Three years ago, Pete Carroll looked Ray Lucas in the eye and told him he didn't think Lucas had what it takes to play...
VICARIO LISTLESS IN LOSS TO SCHETT
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amBarbara Schett gained from a listless surrender by Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in the first set and then had a slightly harder time slaying the scrambling Spaniard in the second, but won...
LIGHTS ON LUCAS: START VS. PATRIOTS COULD DEFINE JET QB'S CAREER
November 16, 1999 | 5:00amFOXBORO - The greatest test of Ray Lucas' professional life began with last night's start at quarterback against the Patriots at Foxboro Stadium. It was the second start of Lucas'...