September 28, 1999
KORS' 1ST STORE TO BOW IN NY
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amFrom the pages of People magazine to the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair," Michael Kors' red-hot designs seem to be everywhere. Now, for the first time, they will finally hang...
PRIMEDIA TAPS NBC'S ROGERS TO TAKE HELM
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amNBC may not make it easy for Tom Rogers to jump ship. Rogers, the-soon-to-be-ex president of the Peacock Network's cable operations, was named chairman of magazine giant Primedia yesterday. However,...
MAGIC'S NOT BACK YET AT DISNEY: ANALYSTS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Eisner's efforts to slash costs and pump up revenue at Disney may have stabilized earnings, but some analysts insist the road ahead is still bumpy. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's...
TALK ABOUT A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY!
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amGOLD prices turned in their best one-day performance in 13 years yesterday, surging 4 percent higher, and Konrad Krill was ready to take full advantage. The portfolio manager of the...
SALON.COM SPOTS GET IN THEIR FACES
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amA handful of celebrities may be surprised to learn that their images are being used to hawk Salon.com in a national TV ad campaign. Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Bill Gates,...
GRAMM: MERGER NOT NYSE ; SENATOR REJECTS JOINT POLICING IDEA
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am"The New York Stock Exchange has the right to protect what makes their market different."SEN. PHIL GRAMM, D.-Texas The powerful head of the Senate Banking Committee yesterday popped a "trial...
KRAVIS TOOK BATH ON PRIMEDIA STOCK
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amHenry Kravis, an accidental media mogul, has watched as his Primedia holding lost a quarter of its value since April. Even with a brief spurt yesterday, its market capitalization is...
C@PITAL SIN? VA. CLAIMS IT'S MOST WIRED
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am"I don't know what they're basing it on, but our numbers show that San Francisco is first." CAROL PIASENTE, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Mirror, mirror on the wall, where's...
MORT BAILS OUT OF ATLANTIC MONTHLY
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amDaily News owner Mort Zuckerman sold off the sleepy Atlantic Monthly in an apparent effort to raise money for his ailing media holdings. Zuckerman, who is facing a $20 million...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amSpirit Airlines will start to offer daily non-stop flights from Newark to West Palm Beach and from Islip to Orlando on Nov. 20. The inaugural one-way fare for the new...
STING GETS BITTEN BY LOVE BUG
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am*BRAND NEW DAY Sting A&M Records On his first disc in more than three years, Sting turns in a nine-song album that explores the secret language of love. The style-defying...
'ALISON'S' NEW HOME
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHEATER REVIEW THIS is a golden age for the acquisition and viewing of forgotten old films, but it's harder with forgotten old plays. And that's why the mission of the...
THE SUMMER OF SELA WARD - JULY'S BUZZ MAKES HER FALL FAVORITE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amSELA Ward, the sexy, fortysomething star of "Once and Again," is the breakout personality of the young season. Ward plays Lily Manning - a divorced mother of two who is...
DTH IN STEP WITH STEAMY YET DISCREETLY EROTIC SHOW
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amDANCE REVIEW SEX is the none-too-hidden subtext of a great deal of dance. George Balanchine once observed, "Put a man and a woman on a stage and you have a...
BAD 'BOY' JUST SHOCK SCHLOCK
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Cardinal O'Connor is going to be very busy this fall. So much to protest. So little time. And the ailing spiritual leader hasn't even seen the masturbating nuns in...
THEY GOT GAME: NBC REVIVES 'TWENTY-ONE'
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amNBC is hoping to copy the success of ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" by reviving the scandal-scarred '50s game show "Twenty-One." "Twenty-One" was best known for precipitating the...
TV TICKER
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am'Face' time The folks at CBS' "Face the Nation," hosted by Bob Schieffer, are ecstatic over their ratings from Sunday. In New York, "Face" notched a 2.6 (177,000 households) from...
'ALLY' GETS THINNER - STRIPPED-DOWN SERIES IS ONLY HALF THE SHOW
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT if NBC removed all the subplots from a typical episode of "ER" and reedited the remaining main story into a new half-hour version called "ER Jr." to air on...
HEROIN USE: THE FACTS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWhat it is: Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug that is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of the poppy...
THIS IS GARTH BROOKS? - THE KING OF COUNTRY CREATES AN ALTER-EGO
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT'S up with Garth Brooks? That's the question legions of fans will be asking today with the release of the country music phenomenon's first pop/rock album. In an unprecedented marketing...
COUNTRY'S LOSS IS GAINES FOR SOFT ROCK
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am*CHRIS GAINES GREATEST HITS Garth Brooks Capitol Records Garth Brooks has just turned either the smartest or dumbest trick in modern music. The country king must be tired of wearing...
RUSSIANS BOMB CHECHNYA
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amRussian warplanes pounded Chechnya with rockets and bombs for the fifth straight day yesterday as political leaders in Moscow pledged to do whatever it takes to wipe out Islamic rebels....
HOTEL TO NEW GUMBEL SHOW: 'DO NOT DISTURB'
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amOne of New York's swankiest hotels wants to pull the plug on the lights, cameras and, especially, the action at Bryant Gumbel's new morning show. Lawyers for The Sherry Netherland...
TRAGIC EDDIE'S PARENTS EMBRACE KILLER'S KIN
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe heartsick New Jersey family of an 11-year-old murder victim yesterday embraced and made up with the parents of their son's killer. "This anger between the families had to stop,"...
PREPPY-RAPE VICTIM GOING PUBLIC
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe woman known as "the second victim" of preppy rapist Alex Kelly is going public with her story of how the Darien, Conn., jock raped and sodomized her when she...
BRITS BEGIN HEARING ON PINOCHET
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amA British court finally began hearing the torture charges against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet yesterday at the start of a long-delayed formal hearing on whether to extradite him to...
GIRL, 8, LEADS TIMOR FORCES TO HUGE INDO ARMS CACHE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amAn 8-year-old East Timorese girl, carrying a mortar bomb down the street in the capital, led international peacekeepers to a huge weapons cache left behind by the Indonesian army, officials...
TRIPP FILES 'SMEAR' SUIT VS. WHITE HOUSE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Linda Tripp, whose taped girl talk with Monica Lewinsky sparked Sexgate, sued the White House and the Pentagon yesterday - and claimed Hillary Rodham Clinton, among others, tried...
EXHIBIT A MASTERPIECE OF GENERATING PUBLICITY
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHE publicist was downright giddy. "The Catholic League is protesting this art exhibit!" he crowed in a stage whisper. "This is censorship!" he shrieked. Then, as we say in the...
MISS AMERICA'S PINK SLIP: PAGEANT CHIEF AXED AFTER ABORTION FLAP
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe embattled boss of the Miss America Pageant got the boot yesterday - just two weeks after he stunned the world by dropping a ban on contestants who've been married...
CANNING THIS CAD IS PROOF MORAL IDEALS STILL REIGN SUPREME
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amEXTINGUISH the vigil lamps, ladies. Miss America's honor has been saved! The pageant's board of directors did the right thing in giving the back of its white-gloved hand to Robert...
MILLENNIUM MTA STRIKE?
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe nation's most powerful labor leader yesterday said he would support a pre-millennium transit strike if the MTA fails to give subway and bus employees a decent raise in their...
CLINTON TO GOP: LET'S MAKE A DEAL ON BUDGET
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton urged Republicans yesterday to "work with me" to solve the fight over federal spending and tax cuts - but GOP leaders sounded skeptical. Clinton, announcing that...
STEINBERG TRIAL TO BEGIN AT LAST
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amEleven years after her daughter's death, the natural mother of Lisa Steinberg will have her day in court against the child's killer and the city agencies she claims let the...
A CRIME THAT DESERVES DEATH: JUDGE URGES PROSECUTOR: GO FOR MAX!
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am"If the state will seek the death penalty, I think it's appropriate." JUDGE WILLIAM MEEHAN A stern New Jersey judge yesterday said he thought the death penalty would be perfectly...
ISRAELI BIG: SYRIA PREZ FEARS KILLERS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Syrian President Hafez Assad is unwilling to begin peace talks with Israel because he fears he would be assassinated like Anwar Sadat, Israeli President Ezer Weizman said yesterday....
MORE REASON TO A-NILE-ATE SKEETERS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00am"This is just a reclassification . . . This is not a crisis." MAYOR GIULIANI The number of New Yorkers infected by a potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness has jumped from...
SOME DEAL! EXPERTS SAY IT'S FLAT-OUT CENSORSHIP
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amExperts from the legal world and the art world slammed yesterday's proposed deal between Mayor Giuliani and the Brooklyn Museum of Art as a form of censorship. Under the proposed...
MCCAIN HOPES A HERO'S WELCOME AS HE ENTERS RACE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican maverick John McCain formally launched his White House bid yesterday with a "New Patriotic Challenge" - an appeal to idealism that recalled Democrat John F. Kennedy. "It...
DELAYS $IDETRACK GRAND CENTRAL SHOPS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amConstruction delays in opening new restaurants and shops at Grand Central Terminal has cost the MTA almost $1 million in lost rent. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority rededicated a spiffy new...
RAPE CHARGES TO BE DROPPED AGAINST TUNNEL DUO
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amAll charges will be dropped against two New Jersey men accused of a double rape in a unisex bathroom stall at the Tunnel nightclub, lawyers said yesterday. The charges will...
A WHO'S WHO OF CITY BIGS HAILS PR KING RUBENSTEIN
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amSome 3,000 of New York's movers and shakers feted top PR man Howard Rubenstein last night, toasting his 45th anniversary in the business at a Tavern-on-the-Green megabash. Sixteen-year client George...
DREAMS TURN TO ASHES IN HARLEM :106 RESIDENTS LOST EVERYTHING IN FIRE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amDevastated residents returned to their Harlem co-op to retrieve the charred remains of their belongings after a grease fire burned their building to a shell, leaving them homeless. The 106...
SCHUMER RAILS AT SILVER'S SUBWAY STAND
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer rapped a fellow Democrat yesterday for vowing to hold up a plan to link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central terminal as a ploy to...
FAT-CAT BUDDY SORRY HE GOT FIRST LADY A LOAN
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amControversial first friend Terry McAuliffe said yesterday he no longer expects to play any role in helping Hillary Rodham Clinton buy her Chappaqua dream house - and thinks it was...
PHONY CITY TEACHER A CRASS ACT, OFFICIALS SAY
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amA "scam artist" managed to teach young kids in Bronx and Manhattan public schools for three years by stealing the identity of a former city teacher, officials charged yesterday. Why...
SIDES SEEK MUSEUM 'PEACE'
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and Brooklyn Museum officials last night were trying to work out a deal to pull a controversial dung-dappled painting of the Virgin Mary from an upcoming exhibit, sources...
HERO DAD GOT THREATS BEFORE HE AND 3 KIDS DIED IN BLAZE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens dad who was burned to death trying to save his family from a raging arson fire that killed his three children received threatening phone calls an hour before...
CRYSTAL PAYS 239G FOR MICK'S GLOVE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amBilly Crystal made a big catch at a baseball memorabilia auction yesterday - he bought one of Mickey Mantle's old gloves for $239,000. Also on the block at Sotheby's were...
VEEP LAUNCHES SHAQ ATTACK
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Veep Al Gore last night took it to the enemy court and scored a big basketball endorsement - Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal - against rival Bill...
BIDDER BITES: 7G FOR TY"S TEETH
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amA Pennsylvania housewife was all smiles after she stepped up to the plate at Sotheby's in Manhattan yesterday and shelled out a whopping $7,475 for Ty Cobb's dentures. Karen Shemonsky,...
'HUSKERS LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHREE weeks into the season, you were laughing at me. Nebraska, our pick to win the national championship, had just struggled past Southern Miss, 20-13, and halfback D'Angelo Evans had...
U.S. RALLIES 'ROUND FLAG - DISPASSIONATE PROS TURN INTO TEAM
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. - Two years ago at Valderrama in Spain, the U.S. Ryder Cup players seemed to be as much a team as a bickering baseball club playing out the...
RICKEY'S STEALING MONEY, NOT BASES; SELFISH RICKEY CARES ONLY ABOUT HIS CHECK
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amIN 21 seasons, Rickey Henderson has stolen 1,334 bases. He has been on base nearly 5,000 times, scored almost 2,100 runs. This year, he was supposed to be the table-setter,...
DEVILS DEPTH TAKES ANOTHER HIT
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amBit by bit, player by player, the depth that has been the strength of the Devils is being chipped away by age and expansion. Lou Lamoriello's empire suffered two losses...
JUST NOT ENOUGH TO WIN
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKS: C Rick Mirer (17-31, 227 yards) showed significant improvement from his first start, when he completed just 13-28 for a measly 121 yards. He was a little late on...
BIG BLUE'S ANXIOUS TO GET BROWN GOIN'
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amHelp is on the way, which is a good thing, because help is needed. Gary Brown has probably never felt quite so needed or wanted as he does today. All...
WHERE'S THE OFFENSE?
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKS: C Once again, by the numbers (23 of 36, 216 yards, 2 TDs) Kent Graham was acceptable. But he wasn't good enough because he did not make enough plays....
SHEA MUST ROCK FOR AMAZIN' ROLL; FANS MUST SHAKE METS FROM COMA
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amYOUR brand new puppy makes a big mess on the kitchen floor. What do you do? Rub his nose in it, thus ensuring he will feel so stressed out he'll...
ISLES WON'T LEAVE BARGAIN BASEMENT
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWith their owners more concerned about saving money than winning games (or fans), the Islanders are in danger of setting a team record for futility this season. In a major...
MICKENS ACCEPTS BLAME
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES The day after playing the worst fourth quarter of his professional career and leaving Giants Stadium with nothing more than a "no comment," cornerback Ray Mickens stood up...
FASSEL: NO PLANS TO CHANGE QBS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES After spending plenty of time discussing the merits and failings of Kent Graham in Sunday night's 16-14 loss to the Patriots, Jim Fassel yesterday cut thorough the rhetoric...
XAVERIAN'S PERRINA IS WHAM TOUGH
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Xaverian lost several offensive linemen to injury, head football coach Dom Laurendi stuck with his no huddle, fast paced attack. The results weren't good. "I was trying to be...
POTVIN ON TRADING BLOCK
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe Islanders and Canucks are discussing a deal involving goaltender Felix Potvin, a league source told The Post yesterday. Canucks GM Brian Burke sat in the Islanders luxury box at...
TUNA DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amAfter the Jets self-destructed in a 27-20 loss to the Redskins Sunday, Bill Parcells looked like a man who had lost more than a football game. There was little color...
RANGERS HOLSTER YOUNG GUNS - BRENDL & LUNDMARK GOIN' BACK TO JUNIOR
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe squeeze on Pavel Brendl and Jamie Lundmark came from both sides, from an NHL roster limit reduced this season to 23, from a Ranger necessity to compete beginning with...
ROCKET SHOULD LAUNCH PLAYOFFS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amSO MANY options to get the three strong starts the Yankees will need to get to the ALCS. And so little time left to feel great about a single one...
SEPTEMBER DOUBTS DEVIL YANKS - HIDEKI LOOKS HIDEOUS IN LOSS TO TAMPA BAY
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amLess than a week ago the Yankees appeared to be a fine-tuned machine, rolling toward their 25th World Series title. But after last night's 10-6 loss - their third in...
TORRE: WE'RE NOT HOME FREE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After Boston's 5-3 win over red-hot Baltimore and Texas' 3-2 victory over Seattle, the Yankees fell a full game behind idle Cleveland for the best record in the...
TORRE HAPPY FOR DARRYL
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre took time before last night's 10-6 loss to the Devil Rays to reflect on how far Darryl Strawberry has come, not as a reclamation project but...
ROCKET MAY LAUNCH PLAYOFFS - TORRE WILL GIVE BALL TO ROGER OR DUQUE
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amManager Joe Torre says he hasn't set the Yankees' starting rotation when the playoffs start a week from today. But Roger Clemens or Orlando Hernandez are likely to get the...
GOTTA GO TO CLEMENS
September 28, 1999 | 4:00amYOU have to read between the thin lines on the uniform of Joe Torre to figure out his playoff rotation. Last night, he was willing to toss around the names...