March 19, 1999
MART'S 'WEALTH EFFECT' COULD MAKE YOU POOR
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amDOW 10K could be much more dangerous than Y2K. Al Sindlinger, a guy who can honestly say he's seen it all in the stock market, is worried about the way...
COOPER'S ART-ICULATED CONTEMPT FOR MAXIM
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am"The whole magazine is aimed at losers ... If Maxim were a movie it would be 'Dumb and Dumber.'"ART COOPER Here Art Cooper's collection of quotes on Mark Golin's Maxim...
TRADERS HOPING THAT TODAY'S FINALLY THE BIG DAY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTraders are hoping the third time's a charm. Despite proclaiming the 10,000 Dow Jones industrial average barrier was no big shakes, traders were excited yesterday and said they hoped the...
MEN'S MAG EDS MAKE UP; GQ, MAXIM BOSSES ON LUNCH MENU
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amToday's the day Art Cooper, the editor-in-chief of GQ, and Mark Golin, the lame duck editor of Maxim, bury the well-honed hatchet. For now, at least. Golin, who will take...
TIME PICKS MCCARRICK
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe luck of the Irish was with Life publisher Ed McCarrick, who yesterday was unveiled as the new publisher of company flagship Time. "It's like a dream come true," said...
WOMEN'S SITE IVILLAGE HITS STREET WITH $87M IPO
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amCall her the $24-million woman. iVillage founder and Chief Executive Officer Candice Carpenter saw the value of her stock and options climb to over $24 million yesterday after the women's...
CNBC'S 2ND CHANCE AT DOW RECORD
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amCNBC made sure it didn't blow its Dow 10,000 coverage this time. Still smarting from its slow-footed response when the Dow first hit five-digits Tuesday, the GE-owned all-biz network canceled...
BARNES & NOBLE DUSTS OFF IPO FOR .COM PAYOFF
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amBarnesandnoble.com is ready to come out swinging against Amazon.com - again. Parent company Barnes & Noble has revived plans to sell a 15 percent to 20 percent stake of its...
M'SOFT NO. 2 TO GO?; MYHRVOLD'S EXIT WOULD BE BLOW TO EMBATTLED GATES
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe second-most powerful seer at Microsoft - technology wizard Nathan Myhrvold - is telling friends he's ready to leave the company. The departure of the red-bearded brains of Microsoft would...
TV TICKER
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am'Today' triumph NBC's ''Today'' show averaged 6.5 million viewers for the week of March 8-12 - over 2 million more viewers than ABC's ''Good Morning America'' (4.3 million viewers) and...
FOOD LINE:PUCK'S POST-OSCAR FARE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amONCE the Oscars have been spoken for Sunday, it's time to cue the hors d'oeuvres. At the post-ceremony Governor's Ball on the other coast, the stylish nibbles of Wolfgang Puck...
NOT EVEN WRITER CAN SOLVE THIS MYSTERY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S a reason 1993's ''The Rook'' has spent most of this decade peregrinating from film festival to film festival, but only now has found a commercial venue in New York...
TV STAR SHINES IN 'SPARKLER'
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amDOES anybody really need another movie about how charmingly eccentric the inhabitants of trailer parks, roadside diners, strip clubs and the city of Las Vegas are? No, but thanks to...
'BOYS IN THE BAND' STILL RESONATES
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amAS the first major film to treat homosexuality seriously, ''The Boys in the Band'' was a shock when it came out in 1970. This rerelease still is, though for different...
SUPER SUNDAY GIVES WAY TO AN OSCAR ORGY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amOSCAR isn't conceding anything to the Super Bowl. - with hours of pre-event viewing covering almost every aspect of Hollywood's biggest night. And today is no different, as networks jostle...
A CHEW GOOD MEN
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTO mix horror and comedy and have it work - as in ''An American Werewolf in London'' or ''Scream'' - you need a well-written script and a director with a...
MIDEAST MONOLOGUE'S A HARE SELF-INDULGENT
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review POLITICAL playwright David Hare is the gabbiest writer since Shaw. Not content with turning out approximately a play a month, he now insists we hear his views on...
ASKING UPN TO PROMISE IT WON'T FOLD
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amADDING insult to ratings injury, a major Hollywood studio has asked UPN to guarantee that the network will not go out of business before it sells it any new series....
IT'S A 'CRIME'!
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amCLINT Eastwood's would-be thriller ''True Crime'' is a carefully calibrated cadaver of a picture, and I'm afraid it's all his fault. Based on a novel by Andrew Klavan, ''True Crime''...
TRUE TO 'NATURE'
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amALTHOUGH predictable, contrived and bespattered with annoying camera tricks, this road-trip comedy does have some funny moments that weren't in the trailer. Ben Affleck plays Ben, a solid, squarish, book-jacket-blurb...
MARY LEE, SHE ROLLS ALONG
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am'I'm a very spiritual person, but I wouldn't call myself religious. . . . I can't ascribe to one and then say all the others are wrong.'' NEWCOMER Mary Lee...
'EARTHLY' HELLUVA RIDE: SUSAN SARANDON OFF ON ANOTHER CRAZY CAR CHASE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Once you get over the Grand Canyon of a credibility gap, "Earthly Possessions" is a goofy chick flick that will make Saturday night special. Susan Sarandon and Stephen Dorff...
'JONES' TRIAL: NO DELAY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The Jenny Jones civil trial will begin as scheduled March 29, a Michigan judge ruled yesterday. Lawyers for Warner Brothers - the producer and syndicator of "The Jenny Jones...
DRUG DEALER TO TESTIFY 'JUNIOR' ROBBED HIM
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amA Queens drug dealer with a rap sheet for fraud is set to testify that John A. "Junior" Gotti beat him up and stole cash, guns and drugs, The Post...
CRIME IS ON RUN AS COP BLITZ MAKES SUBWAYS EVEN SAFER
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am"We're averaging [only] 11 crimes per day. That's extraordinary."TRANSIT POLICE CHIEF GEORGE BROWN Subway crime has plummeted 17 percent this year - despite a recent wave of slashings - transit...
VAGRANT GUILTY IN TOURIST SHOOTING
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amA homeless mental patient who opened fire last year on a crowd of tourists on the Avenue of the Americas pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted murder. John Palmer, 58, wounded...
IRISH PEACE TALKS HIT D.C. HURDLE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The two top negotiators on the shaky Irish peace deal said yesterday they were hopeful about holding it together, even though they seemed miles apart on a key...
PATAKI: I MAY RUN FOR WHITE HOUSE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. - Gov. Pataki yesterday said he is mulling a presidential bid - and quickly got dragged into the race as candidate Pat Buchanan blasted his pro-abortion position. After...
RUDY, IT'S TIME TO STOP FIGHTING AND START TALKING
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amFORMER Mayor Ed Koch, one of the most decent individuals ever to hold public office, was saying: "Am I talking too much?" Ed talking too much? He could talk underwater...
PENTAGON: KOSOVO AIRSTRIKES WOULD BE RISKY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amAir Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan testified there is "a distinct possibility we will lose aircraft" trying to penetrate Milosevic's defenses.WASHINGTON - Top Pentagon officials yesterday warned that...
THE SULTRY PEPPERPOT! ; DI'S FOTOG BRINGS OUT BEST IN MONICA
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amHere's Monica Lewinsky as you've never seen her before - sultry, seductive and ready to kiss with her bee-stung lips! The steamier side of the Portly Pepperpot was captured by...
STARS' STYLES FETCH $$ TO FIGHT AIDS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amAnd the Oscar dress goes to ... That was the question on everyone's mind last night at Christie's auction house as bidders shelled out top dollar for glamorous gowns that...
BLACKLISTED KAZAN CRITICS WANT APOLOGY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Formerly blacklisted actors and writers yesterday asked America to sit on its hands when famed director - and notorious Hollywood snitch - Elia Kazan gets a...
COPS SLAP CUFFS ON 59 AT DIALLO DEMO
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe civil-disobedience protests against the Amadou Diallo shooting hit a new high yesterday as NAACP chief Kweisi Mfume and 58 other demonstrators got themselves arrested. The snowballing sit-ins at One...
T.A. TO RIDERS: CLEAN UP YOUR ACT
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe Transit Authority is launching a sweeping new courtesy campaign that'll nicely warn straphangers not to be slobs, block car doors or hog seats. The "Little Courtesies Mean a Lot"...
YANKEE JOE DANDY AFTER PROSTATE OP
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe Yankees came away with their first big win of spring season yesterday when doctors gave manager Joe Torre an "excellent" chance for recovery after removing his cancerous prostate gland....
HILLARY'S CLOSE ESCAPE ; INDICTMENT WAS DRAFTED
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - One of Kenneth Starr's prosecutors testified yesterday that he drafted - but never sought - a Whitewater indictment of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Prosecutor Hickman Ewing's revelation...
FRIGHT FIGHT JUDGE'S TALE: 'I DIDN'T SEE' KEY PUNCHES
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe New Jersey judge in the controversial Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis fight admitted yesterday she blew it. At a state Senate hearing on the contest, which ended in a controversial draw,...
BALL00NISTS IN H0ME STRETCH
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTwo airborne adventurers headed out over the Atlantic yesterday, hoping to catch a jet stream that will whisk them to Africa and make them the first to circle the globe...
AMTRAK WITNESS FAULTS TRUCKER
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amA driver who says he was behind the semi that caused the deadly Illinois Amtrak crash told probers the trucker tried to go around lowered crossing gates, a source said...
HOMICIDE RAP FOR DRIVER WHO RAMMED COP
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe New Jersey man whose sport-utility vehicle smashed into two police cars on Staten Island on Valentine's Day, killing one cop, was indicted yesterday for criminally negligent homicide. A spokesman...
RED SOX HEIRS IN INHERITANCE BATTLE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTwo fuming nieces of late Red Sox owner Jean Yawkey say the ball club's current president stiffed them out of millions of dollars in inheritance money. Patricia Hollander and her...
EXPERTS SPLIT ON HOW IT HITS SENATE BID
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - News that Hillary Clinton had a close call with a criminal indictment probably won't hurt her much if she runs for Senate, many analysts say. But others...
ED. BOARD SCOFFLAW ORDERED TO PAY UP
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amHe has been ordered to cough up more than $2,100 for tickets accumulated on his city-owned luxury car. A Board of Ed exec who brazenly ignored a growing pile of...
MAIN ATTRACTION WAS A REAL TOMATO CAN
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amSHE came into the conference room like a fighter, surrounded by her faction and trailed by a procession of TV cameras. "Be strong," referee Arthur Mercante Jr. said as she...
FEDS PROBE NYPD IN WAKE OF AMADOU
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amFederal officials have launched a probe into whether New York City cops routinely violate people's civil rights - especially the unit involved in the Amadou Diallo shooting. Bill Lann Lee,...
3 HURT AS WIND SHREDS TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARD
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amA wind-whipped billboard sign broke loose atop a Times Square building yesterday, sending metal debris hurtling dozens of stories to the sidewalk, where it injured three women. Cops quickly pulled...
ALFORD IS ONE ; OF A KIND
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amONE MINUTE he is laying into a player, a la his old college coach, Indiana's Bob Knight. Then, just when he's about to leave the impression he is little more...
TIME TO START FLOUNDERING
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTHE saltwater fishing season officially gets started tomorrow with the opening of the flounder season in New York State, and if Mother Nature maintains her course, the weather should make...
IT'S MISSION IMPROBABLE FOR SMS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThere is the charm, the potential for enormous surprise, the captivating of the imagination. It is all out there for the Southwest Missouri's of the world, the underdogs who hope...
DEVILS EYE QUICK RETURN BY STEVENS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO - The Devils' chase for a third straight Eastern Conference title received a crucial piece of encouraging news when it was learned that captain Scott Stevens will resume skating...
MEDIA: JUST SAY NO MAS ; TIME TO STOP GIVING COMFORT TO THE ENEMY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amWe in the media want it both ways. We pander to bad guys, rip them up and then do it all over again. ALL RIGHT, we've had a full week...
CALIPARI LANDS ESPN GIG
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amAhh, television. It didn't take long for a network to provide John Calipari with a between-jobs gig. Calipari, dismissed Monday by the Nets, yesterday joined ESPN as a contributor to...
FAN KEEPS KNICKS, RANGERS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amWFAN will continue as the radio home of the Knicks and Rangers, through 2005. In a five-year deal announced yesterday, Cablevision-owned MSG will buy the air time from FAN. The...
HBO HITS FANS WITH LOW BLOWS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amHBO/TVKO, so often identified in this column as the high road-takers in televised boxing, has lately shown a practiced disregard for its reputation. Following Holyfield-Lewis, it was incumbent upon someone...
MIKE SMITH SPRINGS BACK INTO ACTION
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amSpring had sprung yesterday at sun-splashed Belmont Park as horses trickling home from Florida began breathing life into a backstretch that's been dead all winter. Spring was in the air...
BRAND PUTS NBA DECISION ON HOLD
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amEAST NOTES He has received e-mails and letters and so many comments from those who want to make sure Elton Brand knows that never, in the 19 years that Mike...
RICKEY'S STILL ON TOP
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Because his brilliance comes 90 feet at a time rather than 500. Because he has complained about "hammies" and been a ham. Because it is easier...
TENDER TODD WON'T CATCH METS TODAY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - When Steve Phillips was looking to trade Todd Hundley, one of the only teams willing to take a risk on the catcher's surgically repaired right elbow was...
GALVIN 'JUDGE': I'M STAYIN' PUT
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amN.J. attorney David M. Satz, chairman of the new NYRA panel scheduled to re-hear the year-old charges against veterinarian Dr. Michael Galvin and his alleged "tubing" of the filly Hip...
JETS HAWKIN' FOLEY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amA deal to send Glenn Foley from the Jets to the Seahawks is imminent. According to sources familiar with the Jets and Foley, the deal is all but done for...
REED DECIDES UNION CAN MEET WITHOUT HIM
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - A year ago, former replacement player Rick Reed sat in on the Players Association's annual spring training meeting, a sign of tacit informal acceptance...
TEMPLE TOILS ON THE CHANEY GANG
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amDifferent coaches have different philosophies. St. John's coach Mike Jarvis, for example, said the other day that few teams in this pressure-packed NCAA Tournament enjoy the ride. He said the...
THE DREAM MACHINE ; HEART, HUSTLE KEYS TO RED STORM'S RUN
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE - The night started with 22 teams left playing, including NIT. Twenty-two out of 312 Division I schools. Everywhere else, the balls are on racks in a closet. Don't...
FRASCHILLA CONSIDERS E. C
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amSOUTH NOTES KNOXVILLE - Former St. John's coach Fran Fraschilla could be named the next coach at East Carolina, a source told The Post. The source said Fraschilla was in...
CALHOUN PAYS VISIT TO DR. TOM ; UCONN COACH ADMIRES DAVIS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am"I think as for Tom Davis, a lot of the stuff you see by Rick Pitino, by Jim Calhoun, by a whole bunch of coaches from our part of the...
COLES ALIVE AND KICKIN' ; MIAMI COACH 'TRULY BLESSED'
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Charlie Coles is talking with his fists, shadow boxing his point of how badly he wants his Miami University basketball team not to be embarrassed tonight against...
YANKS WON'T TANK WITHOUT JOE'S LEAD
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - When Joe Torre returns to the helm of the Yankees, his players don't want to look him in the eye and try to explain how the World Champions...
MARCH MADNESS FOR KNICKS ; SCHEDULE TAKES TURN FOR WORSE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am"I'd like to see [Houston] have that go-for-the-jugular-vein type mentality, I think Sprewell has that a little bit."JEFF VAN GUNDY The schedule will tell the story. The Clippers are history,...
NETS TURN DEFENSIVE REINS OVER TO MARBURY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO - For two games, Stephon Marbury complained, bitterly complained, about the Nets' defense. There was no concept, he said. There had never been any defensive teaching, he said. These...
'JEWISH JORDAN' WOWS BIG APPLE
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am"It's not like they're going to swing the ball around and say, 'We got to get the Jew a touch.' I'm just a basketball player. I'm not Moses."TAMIR GOODMAN Tamir...
STILL NO TIMETABLE FOR EWING
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES There was no Patrick Ewing last night for the Knicks. When he will come back remains anybody's guess. The perfect time for Ewing to return would be Monday...
NO NEED FOR JOE TO RUSH BACK
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Six weeks, eight weeks, 10 weeks, 12 weeks. No matter how long Joe Torre is away from the Yankees he managed to a pair of WorldSeries titles, the...
DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amWith 14 games to go in the season, with three games remaining before Neil Smith is forced to decide how much he needs in return before trading Ulf Samuelsson by...
NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE ; SMITH IN HIGH DEMAND
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amIF it's any consolation to the Warriors, they sure knew what they were doing by selecting Joe Smith No. 1, overall, in the '95 draft. It's not their fault they...
PENNY: KNICKS JUST NOT THE SAME
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amVisits to the Garden now will be different for Orlando's Penny Hardaway. There was no bigger advocate of the old Knicks' rugged style than Hardaway, who used to dread coming...
MICHIGAN ST. NOT TAKING SOONERS LIGHTLY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Oklahoma is only the third No. 13 seed ever to advance the Sweet 16 since the tournament was beefed up 64 teams. At least, the bracket sheet...
JEFF DESERVES BETTER ; KNICKS SHOULD EXTEND PACT NOW
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amIT HAS been nearly a week since Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy was so close to being fired that he had to beat the Hornets Sunday night at the Garden...
YANKS EYE KID STUD
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The Yankees could be on the verge of not only signing a stud prospect but slapping the Mets in the face by doing it. Thanks to...
JONES IS THANKFUL DISASTER DOESN'T COUNT
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Bobby Jones was hammered in his third outing of the spring last night, giving up 10 runs, seven of them earned, on 11 hits...
MARBURY GOES COLD AS BULLS BLAST NETS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Darn, just when you thought the playoff push was getting off in full force. The Nets, following their home victory over Dallas, carted out another team-wide shooting horror...
PATRICK REMAINS IN LIMBO
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES There was no Patrick Ewing last night for the Knicks. When he will come back from a sore Achilles' tendon remains anybody's guess. The perfect time for Ewing...
RED STORM COAST PAST TERRIBLE TERPS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00am"This is incredible. The journey continues."MIKE JARVIS SOUTH St. John's 76 Maryland 62 KNOXVILLE - They are making it look so simple at a time when it's supposed to be...
TURN OUT LIGHTS ON KNICKS ; AWFUL SHOOTING ENDS 3-GAME WIN STREAK
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe Knicks went through a shootaround in the dark yesterday. Then they did the same thing in the fourth quarter last night at the Garden. The afternoon blackout was caused...
ARMSTRONG WORTH MORE THAN PENNY
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amThere was Orlando's premier guard, in agony on the Garden floor, clutching his left wrist with 12.3 seconds remaining after drawing a charge on the Knicks' Charlie Ward. No, it...
VAN KICKS INTO REVERSE ; QUESTIONS LINGER ABOUT COACH'S STATUS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amTHE EMOTION the Knicks generated in rescuing their coach from potential unemployment apparently fizzled out before their important game against the Magic last night at the Garden. This was the...
NO STOPPING THE BULLDOGS ; TIP-IN WITH 4.4 SECONDS LEFT LIFTS GONZAGA PAST GATORS
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amWEST Gonzaga 73 Florida 72 PHOENIX - Quentin Hall's floater had bounced off the rim and hung in the air like victory waiting to be seized, by either Florida or...
BUCKEYES STUN AUBURN
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amOhio St. 72 Auburn 64 KNOXVILLE - St. John's won't have to deal with a hostile crowd tomorrow night when it lays it all on the line for a trip...
HUSKIES' SURGE HAMMERS IOWA
March 19, 1999 | 5:00amUConn 78 Iowa 68 PHOENIX - Dr. Tom Davis is a friend and mentor to UConn coach Jim Calhoun. But last night he was nothing more than a speed bump,...