February 11, 1999
NOT WILD ABOUT BARRY - LYCOS IS SUED BY ANGRY INVESTORS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amHome shopping czar Barry Diller continued to face an investor revolt and a firestorm of Wall Street criticism yesterday over his deal to buy Internet darling Lycos. The criticism was...
FOX UP 52% IN DEBUT; NEWS CORP. BEATS ESTIMATE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe Fox Entertainment Group took its first quarterly bow on Wall Street yesterday, reporting a 52 percent increase in net income for the second fiscal quarter. Fox - 18.6 percent...
ROAD TO RICHES IS ONLINE AT EXIT23B
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe company is planning to give 10 lucky winners each 10,000 shares in the company, which plans on going public later in the year. An e-tailer that hasn't even opened...
GRASS GETS SMOKES - RITE AID CEO CAUGHT IN NON-DISCLOSURE FLAP
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amKeeping it in the family is not the best motto when you have shareholders, and Rite Aid Corp. seems to be learning that lesson the hard way. Shares of the...
COUNTRY MUSIC GETS A DEFINITIVE CD-ROM
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amDreamWorks Records Nashville, TNN cable network and its website, country.com, are launching a CD-ROM to answer all your questions about country music. Country.com's Century of Country: Definitive Music Encyclopedia, which...
MONEY MAN MARIO'S IPO MAKES $105 MILLION
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amFamed money manager Mario Gabelli raised $105 million last night when the initial public offering of 6 million shares of his mutual fund firm was priced at $17.50 per share....
TV TICKER
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThat '70s show As The Post reported yesterday, NBC has made it official, announcing that it's moving ahead with plans for ''The '70s,'' a sequel to this week's miniseries, ''The...
WILLIE'S A NOTCH ABOVE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amBEFORE the IRS set its sights on Willie Nelson and subsequently separated him from most of his worldly possessions, the craggy-faced performer had a makeshift golf course on his ranch....
TRIPLE PLAY IS A REAL SWEETHEART
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amOUR subject today: "Friends," "Frasier" and "Cupid" and what the TV biz calls Very Special Episodes, which each offers tonight. One out of the three ain't terrible, but it shows...
MILLER'S 'DEATH' GETS NEW LIFE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amROBERT Falls' revival of Arthur Miller's ''Death of a Salesman'' is like that red '28 Chevy Willy Loman loves so: With a good washing and polishing and maybe a Simonizing...
MONICA'S BAD NEWS-INSKY - NET VIEWERS SKIP SCANDAL
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amHAS Monica Lewinsky driven the last nails into the coffin of traditional TV news? That must be how ABC, CBS and NBC are feeling these days - because millions of...
'EYEWITNESS NEWS' ON AIR FOR 30 YEARS - SO HOW COME NOBODY'S CELEBRATING?
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amA major TV milestone - the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking "Eyewitness News" format - passed last November. Did you see the parade, the on-air parties and special reports? Of...
TWINKY WINKY GAY TELETUBBIES - FALWELL WARNS PARENTS OF TINKY WINKY 'GAY' MENACE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amTeletubby spokesman Kenn Viselman looked around his packed conference room yesterday and finally responded to the inevitable, burning question: 'Is Tinky Winky gay?'' Only 24 hours earlier, to most of...
OVERPAYING FOR LOVE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amPreparing to splash out on Champagne, oysters or a romantic CD for Valentine's Day? You might be spending more than you need to. It isn't just flowers which, as The...
LOVERS SAY, THANKS A BRUNCH
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amIF you think an extravagant five-course dinner is the way to win your true love's heart this Valentine's Day, think again. That honor goes to the casual weekend brunch. Experts...
SPECIALS OF THE DAY FILL THE CITY BALLET BILL
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amTHE popular image of New York City Ballet is decoratively Spartan - long, perfect ranks of dancers dressed in somber, black and white leotards on a bare, bleak stage -...
AXED FIREMAN'S TALE OF THE TAPE: IT WAS KNOT MY TIE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00am"This is harassment." JOHN O'BRIEN SR. A 16-year FDNY veteran fired for a dress-code violation - wearing his tie undone - insists he was really axed for secretly taping Fire...
JORDAN FACES MALICE IN THE PALACE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amU.S. officials say their biggest fear is that Syria and Iraq could seek to capitalize on the tensions within the royal family. WASHINGTON - When Jordan's newly crowned King Abdullah...
'CUPCAKE KILLER' IS CONVICTED
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe 14-year-old "Cupcake Killer," who gunned down a Brooklyn laundermat worker for $2 to spend on snacks, has been convicted of second-degree murder. Deshon Ellis of Brownsville, now 16, is...
JESSE ON PATAKI: 'I DIDN'T CALL HIM RACIST'
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - The Rev. Jesse Jackson insisted yesterday he was misunderstood when he compared Gov. Pataki to two infamous southern segregationists. "I did not call him a racist - didn't...
TOP DOG HAS HIS DAY OF DINING - AND WHINING
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amIt was only hours after being declared canine of the universe, and Kirby - top dog at the Westminster Kennel Club Show - was winding down a furious week of...
CITY HOSPS SOUND ALARM OVER PLANS TO SLASH MEDICAID
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amCity hospitals would risk bankruptcy and face "massive service cutbacks" and "significant" layoffs if proposed budget cuts take effect, an industry chief warned yesterday. "I believe that, in 1999, you...
JOLTIN' JOE JR. BREAKS SILENCE ON AILING DAD
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe reclusive Joe DiMaggio Jr. was conspicuously absent as his famous dad battled back from lung-cancer surgery, but he says the Yankee Clipper only has to say the word and...
LEST WE FORGET, MANY HEROES WEAR BLUE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amTHE horrific tragedy of Amadou Diallo always should be remembered. But in this city's passionate sympathy for his mother, Kadiadou Diallo, while we remember, also lest we forget. If we...
SPORT OF OLYMPIC BLOODLETTING MAY NOT BE OVER YET
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe International Olympic Committee says more heads may roll in the scandal that has tarnished the image of the games. IOC brass said they would consider expelling more members as...
DRIVERS TURN OUT FOR SLAIN CABBY
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amHundreds of livery cabs drove single file through three boroughs yesterday in a solemn funeral procession for a slain driver. The cabs, most of them black sedans, made their way...
LEAVE PITT ALONE, JUDGE ORDERS TEEN
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge yesterday ordered the obsessed fan who broke into Brad Pitt's home last month to stay away from the Hollywood heartthrob for at least three years....
FEDS RIP MED SCHOOL'S TESTS ON PSYCH PATIENTS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amFederal watchdogs have blasted Mount Sinai Medical School for harming mentally ill patients in experiments - causing one patient to hit a doctor and another to consider suicide - The...
SUBWAY PUSHER CAN BE TRIED: DOCS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe schizophrenic accused of fatally pushing aspiring screenwriter Kendra Webdale in front of a subway train is competent to stand trial, prosecutors told a Manhattan judge yesterday. But the alleged...
CORONER RULES OUT TAMMY MURDER PLOT
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe body of country great Tammy Wynette will not be exhumed and tested for signs that she was murdered, a coroner in Tennessee ruled last night. Davidson County Medical Examiner...
RUDY AGAIN PASSES OWN TEST WITH FLYING COLORS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani may be the toughest mayor the city's ever seen, but he proved yesterday that when it comes to grading his administration, he's a real softy. In what has...
INSURANCE-SCAM RAP FOR COP
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amA Bronx cop was charged yesterday with felony insurance fraud for allegedly exaggerating the damage done to his car in two off-duty accidents, authorities said. Officer Anthony Gomez was accused...
O.J. AUCTIONEERS PUT BID WAR ONLINE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Auctioneers hawking O.J. Simpson's belongings have turned to the Internet, billing next week's court-ordered sale as the largest online bidding war ever. Buyers can bid the traditional...
RUDY'S A MAYBE FOR MEMORIAL - SAYS HE HASN'T BEEN INVITED
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's attendance at tomorrow's memorial service for police-shooting victim Amadou Diallo was a big question mark last night. At an afternoon briefing, the mayor got testy when asked if...
FATHER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN 2 SONS' MURDERS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe father of two little Queens boys pleaded not guilty to their brutal murder yesterday, looking unshaven and disheveled as a judge cut short any talk of lowering his bail....
SENATORS SEE RED OVER PROBE OF STARR
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Republicans last night reacted angrily to reports Attorney General Janet Reno has OK'd a plan to probe Kenneth Starr, saying it appears to be a move to...
GOV'S MAN RIPS RUDY ON P.A. RIFT
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's drive to yank the city's two airports from Port Authority control is jeopardizing billions of dollars in planned improvements at Kennedy Airport, a state aide warned yesterday. Charles...
GARMENT DISTRICT BLAZE STUNS RUSH-HOUR CROWD
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amA 100-pound propane tank atop a Manhattan high-rise ignited in a thunderous explosion yesterday, touching off a spectacular blaze that brought the Garment District to a halt. Six people suffered...
KIN ADD O.J. LAWYER COCHRAN TO LEGAL TEAM
February 11, 1999 | 5:00am"Dream Team" lawyer Johnnie Cochran has signed on to represent the family of Amadou Diallo, shot dead by cops last week. Leaving a Manhattan hotel after a brief meeting with...
LOSERS FAR OUTNUMBER WINNERS IN SEXGATE; LOSERS OUTNUMBER WINNERS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amFREE at last! But as Sexgate finally ends, there's an almost endless list of losers, but few winners. And sadly, just about no profiles in courage. Watergate drove out "Tricky...
GOP RENEGADES WILL JOIN DEMS IN VOTE TO SAVE CLINTON'S SKIN; GOPERS TO JOIN DEMS IN VOTE TO SAVE CLINTON
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate is set to deliver a verdict tomorrow in President Clinton's impeachment trial, amid signs a handful of Republicans will vote with the Democrats to acquit. Yesterday,...
VICTIM'S DAD: PUT SLAY COPS IN JAIL - GRIEVING MOM NIXES CITY'S OFFER TO HELP
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe father of the unarmed immigrant gunned down by police said last night he wants the four cops who killed his son in a hail of 41 bullets to be...
POLICE COMB THROUGH MISSING DUO'S BUILDING
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe new owners of 76 Pearl St. - where a couple vanished last year after fighting with their landlord - let cops scour the building yesterday. The search turned up...
MOTHER FEARED HE WASN'T TOUGH ENOUGH FOR APPLE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amAmadou Diallo had seen a lot of the world, but it was in New York that he hoped he would make his mark. "He pressured his mother. He wanted to...
SMOKER AWARDED $51.5M IN TOBACCO SUIT
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amTobacco company Philip Morris must pay a whopping $50 million in punitive damages to a former Marlboro smoker who came down with lung cancer, an ''angry'' California jury ruled yesterday....
INDIANA'S IRON BARS MAY AWAIT IRON MIKE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amMike Tyson's Indiana parole officer yesterday threatened to KO the former champ's bid for early release from the Maryland jail where he's doing time for assault. The Indiana officer, George...
WARM WORDS SIGNAL THAW IN ICY - RUDY-GOV RELATIONS; WARMING TREND FOR RUDY & GOV?
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki extended an olive branch to Mayor Giuliani at a political dinner last night - but Hizzoner wasn't around to receive it. The mayor and governor - who have...
E-GAD, THESE SUBWAYS ARE FILTHY! - RIDERS' GROUP RAILS AGAINST TRASHIEST TRAINS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amCall it the Dirt-E Train. A new survey says subway cars are filthier than they were a year ago - and the E, which runs from the World Trade Center...
BABY'S SKELETON FOUND IN QNS. WALL
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWorkers renovating a house in Richmond Hill, Queens yesterday made a grisly discovery, police said - the skeletal remains of a baby. The remains, wrapped in a blanket, were found...
THE POST HONORS:
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amDID YOU KNOW? J. Matilda Brolin was the first African-American female judge in the United States. In 1939, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed her judge of the Court of Domestic...
KEEPIN' THE FAITH - LATE MOM'S SPIRIT GUIDES SJU'S GRAY
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amMORGANTOWN, W.Va. - It's been almost nine years since Chudney Gray lost his mother to leukemia but he can still hear her voice. It comes when Gray least expects it....
LUSTER IS OFF BULLS-KNICKS - PASSIONED RIVALRY'S HISTORY
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO - OK. So the Knicks are in town tonight to play the Bulls. Yawn. I would much rather spend the evening burying my teeth into a good steak at...
TUNA'S PROMISE: WE'LL BE ACTIVE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWhen the 1998 season finally ended with the Jets falling 30 minutes short of Super Bowl XXXIII last month, Bill Parcells spoke about "seven or eight" pieces that he believed...
CITY OTB TO OFFER DERBY FUTURE BETS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amLooking to make a score on the May 1 Kentucky Derby weeks before it's run? Big Apple horseplayers will soon get their chance as New York City OTB received permission...
ALFONZO HAPPY WITH PACT, MOVE TO SECOND
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Edgardo Alfonzo got the call recently from his agent that a four-year, $18.4 million deal had been reached with the Mets, he grabbed a bottle of champagne, toasted with...
STEWART'S WORKOUT PUNISHES ISLES
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amOne day after his protein shake-tossing, post-game locker room tirade, Islander coach Bill Stewart made good on his promise: he sent his players through hell, through 2 hours of grueling...
BRATZKE, WIDMER TOP JINT LIST OF PRIORITIES
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amOn the eve of the free agency signing period which starts tomorrow, the Giants are first looking inward before setting their sights on who's available around the league. Two key...
YANKS MIGHT SEEK JETER COMPROMISE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThe last long-term offer Derek Jeter received from the Yankees was actually a five-year, $31 million package 10 months ago, not the five years at $25 million routinely reported. The...
TURK GETS $1.2 MILL ... & 99 CENTS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amIf the Artist Formerly Known as Prince were a Met fan, he might say Turk Wendell is going to pitch like it's 1999. Wendell, whose Met jersey bears the number...
HOW NETS CAME UP A PENNY SHORT
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amLast year at this time, the thought of coming to New Jersey was revolting to Penny Hardaway. Given the option of a firing squad or joining John Calipari's Nets, Hardaway...
YOU GHANA BELIEVE THIS GUY? - QUARTEY'S LEGEND LOOSE WITH THE FACTS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - What is the fight game coming to? For once, Bob Arum may not have been the biggest prevaricator on his own dais. That honor may have been...
KNICKS STILL A TEAM WITHOUT AN IDENTITY; JUST WHO ARE THESE KNICKS?
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWHETHER or not Latrell Sprewell turns out to be a bad act, the Knicks have to do a changeover without an intermission. Twenty-six practice days in a 90-day season doesn't...
CAL: IT'S CAMBY'S TIME TO SHINE WITH KNICKS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES John Calipari showed genuine concern. He has this thing about injuries, see, so he looked and sounded like he truly felt for Latrell Sprewell. But Calipari also saw...
SPREWELL: TRIED TO DO TOO MUCH TOO QUICKLY
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amSometimes hard work hurts. Latrell Sprewell figures that pushing so hard to be ready for this frantic short season after sitting out last season contributed to the stress fracture of...
UCONN'S HAMILTON IS BEST OF THE BEST
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amHARTFORD - University of Connecticut's Richard Hamilton received the most votes of any college player in a poll conducted by ESPN's internet site. It no doubt took a bundle of...
KENNEDY KOS GW WITH 1-2 PUNCH
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amJFK 82 GW 58 Johnny Mathis was considering different ways in which to inspire his team as it headed into the playoffs. So instead of offering a dramatic pregame speech,...
KURT FEELS FOR SPREE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThis isn't exactly how Kurt Thomas had hoped or expected to get his first start for the Knicks, with Latrell Sprewell sidelined by a stress fracture in his right heel....
FRUSTRATED CAL AWAITING KITTLES
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amIt was sort of "He said, He said" with Nets coach John Calipari and his guard Kerry Kittles last night. Calipari was all pumped because he thought Kittles would make...
GETTING TO KNOW YOU - KNICKS NEED TO ADJUST TO LOSS OF SPREE
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amFor the Knicks, it's a Spree for all now that Latrell Sprewell is out with a stress fracture of the right heel. Everyone is going to have to pick up...
ACHIN' KITTLES: MAYBE I'LL GO TONIGHT
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Calipari said he thought Kerry Kittles might play last night. Kerry Kittles, basically, said he thought John Calipari was nuts. Tonight, though, is a different matter. With the Nets...
HUSKIES SLEEPWALK PAST PUNCHY EAGLES
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amConnecticut 66 Boston Col. 50 HARTFORD - The rule says you throw a punch you get run from the game, must sit out the next one and are one more...
CHILDS POINTS WAY - LEADS KNICKS PAST WOEFUL WIZARDS
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 101 Wizards 88 "I think I've done a good job not bitching at the referee. I'm not bickering anymore with them. It's just a matter of maturing." CHRIS CHILDS...
NETS 'TREAT' CAL TO REAL BASHING
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amMagic 89 Nets 81 The Nets celebrated coach John Calipari's 40th birthday, basically, by taking the game off last night. And it was the well-rounded bash as the offense was...
SPREE: I TRIED TO DO TOO MUCH TOO QUICKLY
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Sometimes hard works hurts. Latrell Sprewell figures that pushing so hard to be ready for this frantic short season after sitting out last season contributed to the stress...
VAN HORN TAKES FIFTH ... OR DOES HE?
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Keith Van Horn thought something was crazy. When he was called for his sixth foul with 4:41 left to play, he would have bet the rent he only...
LJ TAKES COMMAND AT THE END
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amLarry Johnson had seen a 16-point third quarter lead whittled away, watched as visiting Washington had closed to within four points. That's when Johnson called for the ball, and allthe...
MARCUS FINALLY MAKES IT ON BOARD
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amOn the surface, Marcus Camby's 15-minute stint in last night's 101-88 Knick win over Washington didn't seem overwhelming: Eight points, two rebounds, no blocks, no assists. But considering how little...
CHILDS POINTS WAY - LEADS KNICKS TO 1ST VICTORY OF SEASON
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amThis was a Spree for all, just what the ailing Knicks needed. With Latrell Sprewell out 3-to-6 weeks thanks to a stress fracture of the right heel, the 0-2Knicks last...
KNICKS NEED IDENTITY
February 11, 1999 | 5:00amWHETHER or not Latrell Sprewell does a reprise of a bad act, the Knicks have to do a changeover without an intermission. Twenty-six practice days in a 90-day season leaves...