September 22, 1999
'I'LL BE THERE'? MARIAH WASN'T, AT NYSE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amMariah Carey has many New York Stock Exchange traders singing the blues. The sultry songstress was supposed to ring the opening bell at NYSE yesterday, to promote her new "Heartbreaker"...
YANKS BOSS BUILDING SPORTS CONGLOMERATE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner is on his way to becoming one of the most powerful figures in sports, industry executives say. In addition to his plans to sell a piece of the...
FEDS FLAY M'SOFT - BLAST 'WINNING' OVER ALL
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amGovernment trustbusters called on a federal judge to throw the book at Bill Gates and the Microsoft Corp. yesterday, calling the company a "vigilant monopolist" that unless curtailed, will completely...
MUZZLE FOR MAD DOG - CONDE NAST WILL PAY SEVEN FIGURES TO SETTLE ASSAULT SUIT
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amCONDE Nast will have to pay an estimated seven figures to settle a threatened lawsuit against the publisher of Vogue for breaking an employee's nose. Richard "Mad Dog" Beckman, the...
COURIC AUTHORS KIDS' BOOK
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amNBC Today show co-host Katie Couric is going to be writing her first book, for Doubleday, but it will be a children's book about tolerance - not grieving - as...
THE BROOKLYN CODGERS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00am"Oh Grow Up" Tonight at 9:30 p.m. on WABC/Ch.7 A DOG named Mom whose barks are subtitled (with exclamation points!!!!) is but one of the predictable characters in "Oh Grow...
NBC'S LEFT HOOK HITS 'WING'
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amPreachy Washington "The West Wing" Tonight at 9 on WNBC/Ch.4 N BC expects "The West Wing" to do for politics what "L.A. Law" did for lawyers and "E.R." did for...
MEN ARE FROM MARS, THE TV VERSION'S FROM MERV
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE smash-hit relationship book, "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," is being developed as a talk show with the same name and could air next spring. The pilot...
HASSELHOFF ON BROADWAY?
September 22, 1999 | 4:00am'BAYWATCH Hawaii" star David Hasselhoff - in the midst of negotiating a new contract -says he wants to leave the show. "This may be my last season," Hasselhoff told the...
DESPITE THE FLOPS, B'WAY THINKS SHE'S TOPS: KRISTIN SALLYS FORTH
September 22, 1999 | 4:00am"I'd love to be in a long-running show just once. To see what it's like."Kristin Chenoweth HOW'S this for an odd career trajectory? Appear in a $12 million Broadway flop...
TV TICKER
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amOn the beat John Cochran, Terry Moran and Andrea McCarren have been named White House correspondents for ABC News. Cochran will be the network's lead White House correspondent, covering the...
KEEPING POP CRACKLY: LEGENDS STANDARD FARE FOR FEINSTEIN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amNAME an old-time pop music legend, and there's a good chance Michael Feinstein has either worked with them, plans to or can rattle off their discography more readily than even...
MASLIN QUITTING TIMES
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amNEW York Times film critic Janet Maslin is stepping down after reviewing the silver screen for the paper for 22 years. One source said that the decision was reached last...
IN SHORT: GIVE JOY THE BOOT
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amWHOEVER put "Dr. Joy Browne" and "The Martin Short Show" together on Ch.2's afternoon schedule must be suffering from schizophrenia. "Dr. Joy Browne" is the dreariest new talk show of...
MESSAGE IN A COOKBOOK
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S taken nearly 45 years, but it seems Trudie Styler has finally hit her personal jackpot. "I had a very modest upbringing, with not very much in the way of...
CHEAP EATS: THE MAMA OF ALL FIESTAS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amMama Mexico 2672 Broadway (at 102nd Street) (212) 864-2323 WALKING into Mama Mexico, the first thing that hits you is the wholesome aroma of corn tortillas. A snootful of the...
CODE TO A PARTY
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amRESTAURANT REVIEW 212 133 E. 65th Street (212) 249-6565 'IF you want to stop smoking, take this guy's card," the waiter says to two young women on the sidewalk dining...
KAISER ON A ROLL: SAVING LONDON'S COVENT GARDEN IS JUST THIS AMERICAN'S LATEST TRIUMPH
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amMICHAEL Kaiser, London's favorite American, sits in his office and smiles across his desk. He's got a lot to smile about, especially nowadays. Things weren't so happy a year ago,...
HOW YOU CAN HELP THE RELIEF EFFORT
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amAs the earthquake death toll rose in Taiwan yesterday so did concern here, where Mayor Giuliani and the local Taiwanese community set up a fund to send money. "We're offering...
BUCHANAN: OFF THE DEEP END - MISUNDERSTOOD? HE'S CONVICTED IN HIS OWN WORDS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00am'He has played rhetorical footsie withthe Holocaust-denial movement.' PAT Buchanan's twisted version of world history is an issue once again. The erstwhile columnist and attack-dog commentator is under fire for...
COURT OKS RETURN OF 'NAZI' ART
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The Museum of Modern Art can return two paintings to Austria, despite claims they were stolen by the Nazis just before World War II, the state's top court...
RESCUERS OVERWHELMED AT HOTEL-COLLAPSE SITE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amNear-hysterical relatives of some 70 people trapped in the remains of a 12-story building on Taipei's Pei Tak street pleaded with rescue workers last night to try harder to free...
HELP OUR KIDS? HECK NO, SHE'S JUST USING THEM
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amTIME and again this summer, Hillary Clinton has proved herself the most selfish of users. She proved shameless by using her husband's offer of clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists as...
$UFFERIN' SUKKAH-TASH!
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amTalk about chutzpah. A city buildings inspector slapped a Crown Heights homeowner with a summons carrying a $5,000 fine for putting up a sukkah on her front porch - and...
SILVER WON'T ACCEPT 2ND BEST ON E. SIDE SUBWAY
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver vowed yesterday to derail the MTA's new capital-building program if it doesn't include funding for a "full length" Second Avenue subway from East Harlem to the...
MOYNIHAN SET TO ENDORSE BRADLEY PREZ BID TOMORROW
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan will officially toss his support to longtime pal Bill Bradley's booming presidential bid tomorrow in New York, sources said last night. The move boosts...
SOGGY METRO AREA TAKES ; ANOTHER SOAKING
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amRains yesterday pushed swollen streams to their limit - and frayed the nerves of thousands of flood-weary metropolitan-area residents still struggling to clean up after Tropical Storm Floyd. The National...
SWEATSHOP WATCHERS RIP KATHIE LEE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amTerminally perky talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford is at it again, allowing workers at one of her clothing-line factories to be abused, threatened and unjustly fired, a human-rights group said...
GEORGE HAILS ITS FOUNDING FATHER JFK JR.
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge magazine is bidding a fond and poignant farewell to its founder, John F. Kennedy Jr. In its October issue the magazine devotes more than 30 pages to JFK Jr.,...
POLICE CLIP WINGS OF 'NET FOWL CROOK
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amEagle-eyed city cops swooped down yesterday on a bird-brained thief who used the Internet to steal exotic birds worth tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said. Juan Rodriguez, 20, of...
OFFICERS PROTEST AS EX-COP GOES TO JAIL
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amFormer NYPD Lt. Patricia Feerick reported to jail yesterday to serve two years for leading three other cops to retrieve a stolen police radio by illegally searching and terrorizing an...
BANK OF N.Y. SUBPOENAS LOOM
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amBank of New York employees tied to the massive $10 billion Russian money-laundering investigation may be subpoenaed to give testimony before a congressional panel. On the first day of congressional...
NEWLY FOUND AUNT GIVES THE GIFT OF LIFE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amAn adopted woman's search for her natural family may have saved the life of her cancer-stricken daughter. Kelli Grahill, 34, of Rahway, N.J., last night got a transplant of bone...
CLINTONS' TRIPS COST US $72M
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday defended the first couple's jet-setting ways and three overseas trips last year that cost taxpayers $72 million. A government analysis, ordered by three Republican...
IT'S SEIZE-Z PASS FOR INNOCENT DRIVERS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe MTA is yanking E-ZPass privileges from thousands of motorists because of credit-card snafus. The toll collectors union charged that the MTA is mistakenly closing the gate on innocent drivers...
BABIES DESERVE MARRIED PARENTS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amREMEMBER the bad old days, when girls who got pregnant outside of marriage were either forcibly married to the guy who got them pregnant, or sent away to have the...
FBI WARNED PREZ OF NEW FALN TERROR
September 22, 1999 | 4:00am"Few of the current prisoners have expressed remorse for their crimes or for their victims; rather, most remained committed to violence." LOUIS FREEH, FBI DIRECTOR WASHINGTON - FBI Director Louis...
VIACOM TYCOON CONFESSES TO AFFAIR WITH H'WOOD EXEC
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amViacom chief Sumner Redstone - whose wife has slapped him with a $3 billion divorce suit on grounds of adultery - has admitted his affair with Hollywood exec Christine Peters....
WAS HILL'S SCHOOL VISIT RIGGED? - WHITE HOUSE PULLED STRINGS: ED BOARDER
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amA Board of Education member has accused Hillary Rodham Clinton of using White House influence to visit a Queens junior high on the first day of school to advance her...
BRITS TO BUILD DI MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe British government has finally buckled to worldwide pressure and announced today it will build a memorial to the late Princess Diana. Prime Minister Tony Blair was quoted in the...
BRIBE CASE THREATENS TO 'ANNUL' HUNDREDS OF DIVORCES
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amHundreds of Manhattan divorces may be invalid - and the "divorcees" actually still married - according to prosecutors investigating widespread bribery and fraud in the records rooms of the borough's...
NEW ENCEPHALITIS CASE IN W'CHESTER
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amA third case of St. Louis encephalitis was confirmed in Westchester yesterday, as rain grounded New York City's air campaign against disease-carrying mosquitoes. Westchester health officials reported that an 80-year-old...
DEATH COUNT TOPS 1,700 IN TAIWAN - SEARCH ON FOR 3,000 IN RUBBLE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe death toll from Taiwan's earthquake soared to more than 1,700 today as exhausted rescue workers, hampered by massive aftershocks, struggled around the clock to find survivors buried in mountains...
MILITIAS BACK ON WARPATH IN TIMOR
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe bloodthirsty pro-Indonesian militias that terrorized East Timor were back in action yesterday - even as peacekeeping forces moved in to try to stabilize the region, the commander of U.N....
BARAK PUSHES CLOSER TIES IN VISIT TO BERLIN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amBERLIN - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday became the first foreign leader to visit Berlin since Germany's seat of government moved back there this summer, and spoke of a...
S.I. HOSP TO PAY $45M IN FRAUD
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Staten Island University Hospital agreed yesterday to repay the state a whopping $45 million for filing a massive 1.6 million fraudulent Medicaid claims. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer...
DISGRACEFUL JUDGE DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER TO SHOW UP
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amCOPS took over the sixth floor of a Criminal Court building yesterday in a protest that will go down in history. They took over the courtroom of Judge Bonnie Wittner...
ARRIVAL OF U.N. FORCES CHEERED IN EAST TIMOR
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amCheering throngs greeted Australian-led peacekeeping troops disembarking from ships in East Timor yesterday - but violence continued to flare up around the ravaged region. People in Dili, the capital, danced...
L.I. LOLITA PUSHES BOOK DEAL
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amLong Island Lolita Amy Fisher is now a struggling college freshman studying Liberal Arts and holding down a part-time job - while still trying to hawk a book project that...
BOUNCING BACK FROM FLOYD
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amAS devastating as Hurricane Floyd was to people in New Jersey, Westchester and Rockland counties, it wasn't a major problem for the shores of New York or New Jersey, although...
FORGET VINNY - OR ELSE: JETS CAN'T WIN UNTIL THEY LET GO OF INJURED LEADER
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S time for the Jets to let go. Let go of Vinny Testaverde. Let go of the other injuries - to Leon Johnson, Wayne Chrebet, Jason Ferguson - and let...
JAYSON HOPES TO REBOUND BY CHRISTMAS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe jokes and quips were as spread apart as Net victories in the early going last year. Jayson Williams was down. He has been down since he underwent surgery on...
KENT'S LAST SHOT GRAHAM CAN'T AFFORD TO FAIL VS. PATS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amALL RIGHT is not all right. Not for Kent Graham. The Giants are 1-1 and after both games, Jim Fassel, when asked about Graham's performance, stated that his quarterback had...
NEMCHINOV LOOKS LIKE DEVILS' ODD-MAN OUT
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amHe is one of only two NHLers to have played for all three local teams. On Monday, Sergei Nemchinov may be headed elsewhere. Nemchinov appears to be among the players...
LUONGO GETS SHORT STICK FROM GORING
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amButch Goring can't seem to keep his stories straight. On Monday, the waffling first-year Islander coach said that either Felix Potvin or Roberto Luongo would make the team. A few...
NO LYIN': TIGER'S GOTTA BE DA MAN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. -Those of you hoping to see Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia meet head-to-head in the singles round of the Ryder Cup come Sunday shouldn't hold your breath. Those...
MANNY TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH TOO SOON
September 22, 1999 | 4:00am"I've been getting ahead of myself. Too many things are going on in my head. I'm trying to do too many things at once."MANNY MALHOTRA Manny Malhotra is a young...
RUTGERS COACH SUSPENDS FIVE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amPISCATAWAY - Rutgers football coach Terry Shea yesterday suspended five players, including starting halfback Jacki Crooks, for Saturday's Big East game against Boston College. Junior defensive end Wesley Robertson, who...
DUVAL: WE GOT HEART
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. side feels Euro heat BROOKLINE, Mass. - There's a palpable perception in golf that the Europeans are far more desperate and passionate about proudly displaying the Ryder Cup on...
SOME 'READY' MADE LESSONS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amHindsight is always 20-20, but there are lessons to be learned from last Sunday's Futurity at Belmont that can be applied down the road. BEWARE MEDIA FAVORITES Previously unbeaten More...
MAGGERT FIRES 1ST SHOT
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. - Jeff Maggert proclaimed yesterday that the American team has the 12 best players in the world, a statement that ruffled a few European feathers. "I think all...
ZANY SANDELIN EURO WILD CARD
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. - If you're looking for a wild card who could make a difference - the right way or the wrong way - in this week's Ryder Cup the...
DALTON STAR IS ONE IN A MILLIEN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amWhen The Dalton School's football team opened its season last week against Sacred Heart of Yonkers, Dalton head coach Roy Samuelson knew his game plan wouldn't be a secret. "Before...
FOR OPENERS, IT'S CHIPPER 2, METS 1 JONES BELTS PAIR AS BRAVES DROP METS TWO BACK
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amBraves 2 Mets 1 ATLANTA - Chipper Jones has been carrying the Braves all year, so it was only appropriate that he carried them to one more victory last night....
GOTTA GET THROUGH OCTOBER, NOT JUST TO IT
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY want to live within the small picture and not get wide enough to see too much of October. The Yankees prioritize an AL East title, then the league's best...
OREL, GLAVINE PRIMED FOR CLASSIC SHOWDOWN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - In 1988, when Tom Glavine was in his first full season in the major leagues, he was struggling so badly he couldn't believe how pitchers could ever get...
DEVIL HOPEFULS ROOK RANGERS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThere are jobs to be won, and the Devil AHLers have put in their bids. The Albany Line of John Madden, Steve Brule and Eric Bertrand provided all of New...
BROSIUS FINDING PEACE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe last time Scott Brosius returned to the Yankee family, on Sept. 3 in Anaheim, the third baseman was an emotional wreck. He had just came back from spending time...
PETTITTE & PAULIE PULL WEIGHT ; PROPEL YANKS PAST CHISOX TO KEEP BOSOX 3 BACK
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 3 White Sox 1 Andy Pettitte and Paul O'Neill. They are the Yankees' two most high-strung players, most prone to peaks and valleys. During a time when the Red...
CHISOX SEE DIFFERENT PETTITTE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Andy Pettitte's big-league low occurred against the White Sox on July 28 in Chicago. He allowed eight hits in 31/3 innings and there was one moment that befuddled...
CHIPPER CASTS HIS MVP VOTE
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - There stood Chipper Jones in the middle of the Braves clubhouse last night, an angry young third baseman. He couldn't find his "lucky" belt. "Here it is the...
DON'T EVEN THINK OF PITCHING TO HIM AGAIN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amINTENTIONALLY walking a man with the bases loaded simply isn't done. It's not a baseball move. But Buck Showalter did it last year when the batter was Barry Bonds and...
NEW SMOLTZ GOES BACK TO ROOTS TO BEAT METS
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Even John Smoltz can't believe the change. Elbow problems have forced him to go to a different mound act, shifting to a three-quarters windup and more guile. He's...
JORDAN GRITS TEETH, PLAYS THROUGH PAIN
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Braves president Stan Kasten is never at a loss for words of perspective. When talking about the injuries that have hit his team this season Kasten, a Jersey...
COOKIE'S RED LIGHT STOPS CEDENO
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Although Chipper Jones was carrying the hero sign last night and although John Smoltz did a lot to make sure his two home runs stood up in the...
ROGERS' LEG TO SNUFF
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - If Kenny Rogers were supposed to pitch today or tomorrow, he wouldn't be able. The most recent ace of the Mets staff is still nursing a...
ATLANTA 'PEN LIKES TO ROCKER & ROLL
September 22, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Mets have been the team with the magical bullpen this season, while the Braves have had rock-solid starters all year. Don't overlook that Braves' bullpen, though. They...