September 19, 1999
FROM THE STREET TO A SEAT?
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT is it with Wall Streeters and the New Jersey Senate seat? In the wake of Gov. Christie Whitman's decision not to run, Garden State GOPers have been scrambling. And...
HE'S NOT HEDGING WHEN IT COMES TO DRUG QUESTIONS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amSUPERSTAR hedge fund manager George Soros has been dabbling in the drug culture. The billionaire financier provided $25,000 for a downtown art show that focuses on drug-related themes, a spokesman...
SELF-SERVE SALAD BUFFET, WITH BOSNIA ON THE SIDE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn some delis around the city, the future has touched down. A flat panel monitor behind the counter displays a loop of bite-size pieces of news and static ads. In...
GRANDPA WAS A (BUNGLING) GANGSTER
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amHELENE Stapinski is descended from Italian, Russian, and Polish immigrants who, she says, lived a life of crime and terrorized Jersey City for three generations. Now, Stapinski, one of the...
NOT A FREELANCER BY CHOICE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE special quarterly magazine that goes to Fidelity Investments' preferred customers is being edited in part these days by a journalist who was accused of lying on his resume last...
DRUG BARONS AT WAR : HAFT FAMILY FEUD HAS MIGRATED TO THE DIGITAL WORLD
September 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I think my father has always respected my judgment. And he saw what I was doing and decided to follow me in."ROBERT HAFT, Vitamins.com The Haft family is slugging it...
THE CURSE OF 'CLEOPATRA'
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amSo you thought the filming of Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" was tortured? Return with us now to the 1960s and the lavish spectacle "Cleopatra." Counting preliminary work, the pic...
GREAT SHAKES AND SMALL
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThis season, the Globe company is experimenting with staging Shakespeare with an all-male cast dressed in handsome Elizabethan costumes, as was done in Shakespeare's time. Great Shakes and small LONDON...
BACK TO THE FUTURE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amExactly a week from today, the Whitney raises the curtain on America, Part II a collection of 700 things to watch, look at and listen to: paintings, sculpture, clips of...
'KING' GEORGE: WILL CLOONEY FINALLY REIGN ON THE BIG SCREEN?
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amPoor George Clooney. He's been on the verge of movie stardom so long. Now, with "Three Kings," opening Oct. 1, Clooney may finally conquer the big screen as well as...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: DANA REEVE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: She's performed on TV, in cabarets, and on and off Broadway, but most people know Dana Reeve as Superwoman - Christopher Reeve's wife and No. 1 supporter. Growing up...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL...
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amREAL WOMEN REVEAL... HOW DID HE SURPRISE YOU? Kathy Hummel, Manhattan Dina Abrams, Brooklyn Lisa Lawrence, Manhattan Mary Kent, Manhattan Gulnar Celik, Cliffside Park, N.J.
TABLE HOPPER: LIPS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: LIPS 2 Bank Street (at Greenwich Avenue) Girls just wanna have fun. Or so it seems in the ornate dining room at Lips, where Cher (whose legs have never...
MEALS & DEALS: 2ND AVE. DELI
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Whether you squeeze in a sandwich before Yom Kippur or drop by later in the week for a regular meal, eating at the 2nd Ave. Deli is a religious...
MONTREAL: A FEST FOR MOVIE LOVERS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Toronto Film Festival gets the buzz. But it's more for professionals than for the average movie lover. For the non-pro, Canada's other big film fest, the one in Montreal,...
FASHION WEEK'S FINALE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amAside from Bill Blass' retirement announcement and all the hullabaloo about Hurricane Floyd delaying some Thursday shows, the New York Spring 2000 collections last week went off without a hitch...
THE BOOK REPORT: BREEZY RIDER
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: "I am a car nut," confesses David E. Davis, Jr., the author of "Thus, Spake David E." - and it's more a point of pride than any confession of...
OUCH! THOSE CRAZY MANHATTAN CABBIES
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Jennifer Love Hewitt's could use a little help negotiating New York's mean streets. "I've got to watch out for cabs," the pretty 20-year-old laughs, describing how an impatient cabbie...
A COP-MOM GOES TO JAIL AS JUSTICE WEEPS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amAS FALN terrorists inhale the sweet smell of freedom, tomorrow night at 8, former NYPD Lt. Patricia Feerick will tuck into bed for the last time for two years her...
'NET YOM KIPPUR: DAY OF E-TONEMENT?
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amCall it "e-Yom Kippur." The holiest 24 hours of the Jewish year begins tonight at sundown - 6:59 p.m. - and, as with pretty much everything nowadays, Yom Kippur is...
BARKER TO GO UNDER THE KNIFE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amBeloved TV game-show host Bob Barker will undergo potentially lifesaving surgery tomorrow to clear a blocked neck artery. Doctors say the 75-year-old host of "The Price is Right" could have...
LAWYER BALKS AT FEN-PHEN SETTLEMENT
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amDieters hurt by the dangerous drug fen-phen could get as much as $1.5 million each in a settlement being hammered out this weekend - but one New York lawyer who...
COP SHOT, DRUG THUG DEAD IN GUNFIGHT
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amTwo narcotics cops shot and killed an ex-convict in East Flatbush early yesterday after he shot one of the officers, who was engaged in an undercover drug buy from a...
SCIENTISTS FIND ASTHMA ANSWERS IN THE DIRT
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amBritish scientists have developed an asthma vaccine that holds the promise of lifelong protection in a single jab. Amazingly, it's made from dirt. And it stems from the theory that...
MOYNIHAN IS POISED TO ENDORSE BRADLEY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amBill Bradley's Democratic presidential bid will get a big boost - Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's endorsement - sources said yesterday, just as a third poll showed Bradley has gained ground...
COPS HUNT HUBBY OF SLAIN MOM
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amPolice late yesterday were searching for a man they suspect murdered his 44-year-old wife inside their Brooklyn home. Regina Benshiman's teenage son discovered her body early yesterday morning in a...
CITY TARGETS NEW CLUB - CALLS TWILO A DRUG HOT SPOT; EXCLUSIVE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe city has opened a new front in its war on drugs at dance clubs - the Chelsea hot spot Twilo, where undercover cops say dealers are as conveniently located...
PREZ HOPES JUSTICE RUTH ; MENDS QUICKLY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday wished Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, his first selection to the high court, a "swift and speedy recovery" from her cancer surgery. "The president...
ELDER-SCAM SUSPECTS NABBED
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Five Travelers, an infamous band of thieves who prey on unsuspecting senior citizens while pretending to be home repairmen, have been busted, thanks in large part to a 78-year-old...
A DEUTSCH TREAT FOR PARADE-GOERS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amA sea of German flags, lederhosen and happy faces flooded Fifth Avenue yesterday as more than 300,000 revelers gathered for the 42nd annual German-American Steuben parade. Grand Marshal Donald Trump,...
TROOPS HEAD FOR WAR-TORN TIMOR ; MARINES JOIN INT'L FORCE TO RESTORE PEACE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amA blazing red sunset silhouetted nine warships setting off from Darwin, Australia, yesterday bound for East Timor with U.N.-approved troops aboard, hopeful of bringing order to the bloodied Indonesian province....
RUDY HAILS NEW TEACHER RULES
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani praised the state's tough new rules for teacher candidates as a "very good" step yesterday - but others warned the measures may not go far enough to help...
ROYALS WANT SOPHIE TO QUIT HER BUSINESS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Buckingham Palace is pressuring new royal Sophie Rhys-Jones to abandon her successful public-relations business because of fears she is cashing in on family ties. The queen's private secretary...
EX BARES KINKY SEX LIFE OF DI'S KISS-&-TELL LOVER
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amA British tabloid is turning the tables on the man who has reportedly threatened to publish love letters he received from Princess Diana - by printing lurid details of his...
SINGLE GUY ANDRE TAKES TO COURTING
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe single life is smashing for tennis hunk Andre Agassi, who bedded a model, shacked up with his ex-wife and cuddled with Elizabeth Hurley - all during his two-week Wimbledon...
THIS DEM WANTS FIRST LADY TO RUN - AWAY!
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amI'M A Robert Kennedy Democrat. I favor unions, a higher minimum wage, jobs, national health insurance, a massive investment in public education, and aggressive law enforcement. I should be an...
VIACOM MOGUL COULD BE SUMNER $QUASHED - WIFE CALLS HIM CHEATER, WANTS HALF HIS FORTUNE; EXCLUSIVE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00am"The previous two times, Mr. Redstone talked her into dropping proceedings." IRVING J. HELMAN,MRS. REDSTONE'S LAWYER Viacom chief Sumner Redstone has been socked with a $3 billion divorce suit by...
SKEETER REPEATER: CITY RESUMES ITS BUG BLITZ
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe number of possible cases of St. Louis encephalitis swelled again yesterday, as the city began Round Two in its insecticide-spraying war against disease-spreading mosquitoes. The latest air-and-ground insecticide assaults...
RUDY AND HILL PLAY BEANBALL A 2ND DAY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe fur kept flying between Mayor Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday, as the two possible U.S. Senate rivals beaned each other over the freed FALN members, campaign funds and...
TEXAS CHURCH VICTIMS MOURNED : BOY DIED 'DOING WHAT HE LOVED'
September 19, 1999 | 4:00am"You're never gone as long as the last person remembers."TROY JACKSON FORT WORTH, Texas - A teen who videotaped his own death at the hands of crazed killer Larry Gene...
STORM-TORN N.J. TOWN A MUDDY HELL
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe battered town of Bound Brook, N.J., looked like a giant mudslide yesterday after raging floodwaters receded, leaving two people dead. Stunned residents shook their heads in disbelief when they...
PHONINESS AND FOUL-UPS MAKE PAGEANT A MUST-MISS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amA fashion-designer wannabe from Kentucky was crowned Miss America last night - after an hours-long telecast plagued by tacky mistakes. Heather Renee French beat out first runner-up Miss Illinois Jade...
REDSTONE HAPPILY WED - TO HIS WORK
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amHis marriage is in shambles, but Sumner Redstone still has one great love. "Viacom is me. I'm Viacom. That marriage is eternal, forever," he said in April. Not flamboyant like...
S.F. GIANTS LEAD THE WAY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amAll New York's baseball teams have to do to finance new stadiums on their own is to follow the example of San Francisco Giant managing partner Peter Magowan. Magowan -...
BOOK'S A TESTAMENT TO TRAGIC GIRL'S FAITH
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amBRAD and Misty Bernall were far from their Colorado residence when they heard about the deadly Fort Worth church shootings. But the news hit agonizingly close to home. Their 17-year-old...
RUDY JOINS BX. DRIVE FOR STADIUM RAIL STATION
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani - who once eyed the West Side as the future home of the Bronx Bombers - is urging the MTA to build a new commuter rail station near...
FOES ARE BEHIND BIBI 'SCANDAL'
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.THE political enemies of Benjamin Netanyahu last week tried to destroy his chances for regaining the Israeli prime ministership he wants - and they did it with a police probe...
IF THEY BUILD IT, THEY CAN PAY :MET, YANK PARKS NEED NO TAX CASH
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets and Yankees could bankroll the total cost of new stadiums and still have plenty of cash left to field championship teams, according to a Post survey of sports-industry...
PREZ TO MAKE THE MOST OF TAX-CUT VETO
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON The Republicans have conceded that their tax cut is dead, but that isn't stopping President Clinton from stomping it out with fanfare. Clinton put off his veto of the...
BIRON'S PUSHING TO STAY ON ISLAND
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amWithout any feedback from Islander coaches, 19-year-old Mathieu Biron wonders what his prospects are of making the team. "They don't say nothing to me," the 6-foot-6, 212-pound defenseman said yesterday...
CAN RICK WIN AD-MIRERS? : JETS START OVER WITH BACKUP QB
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Tonight the Jets start over. Again. Tonight, in a nationally-televised game against an angry 0-1 Buffalo Bills team at soldout Rich Stadium, the Jets begin Life Without Vinny....
FUTURITY FAVORITE IS MORE THAN READY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amIt's been 22 years since a future Triple Crown winner, Affirmed, stood in the winner's circle after the Futurity at Belmont Park. While it's still a long way from September...
CLOSE CALL FOR STEVENS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amHall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens was one of 114 passengers aboard the Delta jetliner that made an emergency landing last night in Cincinnati just a few minutes after it...
WARRIOR RALLY STUNS CLINTON
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amCurtis28 Clinton26 "If that ball doesn't bounce [their] way, it's a totally different game."CLINTON COACH ED GARDELLA CIf there was any doubt that Curtis' success this year was dependent on...
DOWN AND DIRTY TRIBE TIP YANKS AS BEANBALLS FLY AT THE JAKE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Hargrove was talking a lot of trash What they did to Jeter was wrong because I never expected to hit Omar. ... I never tried to hit Omar."ORLANDO "EL DUQUE"...
O'NEILL BACK IN GROOVE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND -The Indians and Yankees do not need to contrive bad blood. Their rivalry has been galvanized and heightened with 11 post-season games the past two seasons, and the anticipation...
CASHMAN NOT BEING DEMOTED (WELL, NOT EXACTLY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - While George Steinbrenner is promoting Mark Newman to keep the highly regarded talent evaluator and developer from leaving for a GM job with another team, a broadcast report...
WOODWARD IS 'KEEN'; CATINCA, 'COURT' ROLL
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThere were no superstars in yesterday's three Breeders' Cup preview races at Belmont Park, just some good, solid stakes horses, and they put on quite a show before the crowd...
LIONS DROP BOMB ON MIAMI FIELDS' 79-YARD TD WINS IT FOR PENN ST.
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amPenn St.27 Miami23 MIAMI - His name, Chafie, a French and Arabic combination, loosely translates into "child who brings great joy to his parents." Chafie Fields, Penn State's splendid wide...
METS DO AMAZIN' JOB OF LIVING WITHOUT MIKE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE METS were dressed in their black jerseys with the blue numbers for last night's game against the Phillies at Shea. That seemed to be appropriate attire for a team...
YOSHI IS PHILLIE BUSTER : HURLER WINS HIS 12TH WITH TWO RUN SINGLE SEVEN STRONG INNINGS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amWho needs Mike Piazza's fearsome bat when you have Masato Yoshii's. And Rey Ordonez'. And Darryl Hamilton's. The Japanese hurler smacked the biggest hit of his career yesterday - a...
SYRACUSE (INTENTIONALLY) GROUNDED BY WOLVERINES DEFENSE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amMichigan18 Syracuse13 SYRACUSE - Michigan came to the Carrier Dome to avenge last season's embarrassing loss to Syracuse; the unranked Orangemen were out to prove they belonged among the nation's...
MASTERS OF DECEPTION : EDUCATED NETWORK HEADS PEDDLING GARBAGE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amI CAN save networks tens of millions of dollars annually in executive salaries, expense accounts and assorted perks. Millions. And TV will look no different than it looks today or...
THREE BLIND JUDGES STEAL WIN FROM OSCAR
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Art never was very popular in this town. Paintings done on black velvet are always big sellers around here. Adam Sandler got a bigger hand from the...
ONE 'MAJOR' DISAPPOINTMENT : FELIX BEATS GOLDEN BOY IN CONTROVERSIAL DECISION
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - A furious charge finally stripped away the Golden Boy's crown - and a questionable ruling by the judges. Felix "Tito" Trinidad won a stunning majority decision over...
MIA GETS IRISH UP AFTER EARLY KNOCK ON NOGGIN
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - As it turns out, Mia St. John exploded on Irish Kelly Downey. After getting hit over her right eye that drew mascara in the first round, St....
JETS MUST BELIEVE THEY CAN STILL WIN
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amADAY after Vinny Testaverde underwent surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon that ended his season, I received an unsolicited call from a man who swore he could have the Jets...
MESSIER'S REPUTATION DOWN MARKEDLY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE omission of Mark Messier from ESPN's Top 100 North American Athletes of the Century was hardly unexpected. Let's be honest about this - there's no way the Captain could...
GIANTS GOTTA BE DOWNRIGHT RUDE HOSTS : BIG BLUE JUST CAN'T AFFORD HOME LOSS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amGIANTS Stadium knows exactly what it wants to see when it looks down at its Giants today for the first time with money on the line against the Redskins. Giants...
N.Y. SAFE, OF COURSE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amNEW YORK has been a leader when it comes to hunter safety and the main reason for this accomplishment is the hunter education course given by state certified instructors. These...
WIDEOUTS ARE EAGER TO TEST CHAMP
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amAmani Toomer couldn't believe what he was hearing. "They say he's the next Deion?" Toomer asked. Apparently, Toomer had not yet discovered the hype surrounding Champ Bailey, the Redskins' rookie...
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT: JINT OFFENSE HAS NO EXCUSES TODAY
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amThere is really no disputing this: "I'm 6-1 as a starter here, that's a good start." No one can take that away from Kent Graham. Under his direction after he...
RUMBLE IN THE DESERT - BOMBS AWAY FOR OSCAR, TRINIDAD
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - A rare desert storm rumbled through the area yesterday, just hours before Oscar De La Hoya and Felix "Tito" Trinidad waged their own thunder and lightning in...
QB ROTATION WORKS WELL FOR SYRACUSE, MICHIGAN
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amSYRACUSE Conventional football wisdom says if you have two starting quarterbacks, you don't have any starter at all. But while two-headed quarterback rotations may have been largely unsuccessful in the...
BATTLE OF LINEBACKER U. HURRICANES MATCH PENN ST. STRENGTH
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI Take away the names and numbers and put them all in the same color uniforms. Now, you tell us: Who has the best linebacking corps in the nation Penn...
ANDERSON SEES ROLE EXPANDED
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amRichie Anderson has gone from forgotten man to offensive key on the Jets' roster. Anderson, who's in his seventh season (tied with TE Fred Baxter for the most tenure among...
IT'S GIVE AWAY NIGHT FOR THE HIGH ROLLERS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS Last night's fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Felix Trinidad for the world welterweight title represented a watershed event in boxing history, a date, as FDR once...
COLEMAN EXIT IS BASEBALL'S LOSS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amI'M supposed to be excited about this baseball season and the pennant races that are going down the final weeks. But much of that is clouded now that I understand...
WILT SCORES 100 VS. KNICKS : KNICKS WERE HELPLESS AS CHAMBERLAIN SET ONE OF SPORTS' UNBREAKABLE RECORDS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn the cramped locker room of the Hershey Arena on a March night 37 years ago, members of the Philadelphia Warriors were whooping and celebrating. They had just been part...
BUCKSHOT : WITH ONE SWING AT FENWAY PARK, DENT ENSURED HIS PLACE IN YANKEE LORE
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amHe usually wore a protective device created by trainer Gene Monahan on his lower left leg to shield the area where he had suffered a blood clot during spring training....
TRINIDAD GETS HIS OSCAR:PRIDE OF PUERTO RICO HANDS DE LA HOYA HIS FIRST CAREER LOSS
September 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - A furious charge finally stripped away the Golden Boy's crown - and a questionable ruling by the judges. Felix "Tito" Trinidad won a stunning majority decision over...