February 26, 1999
WHY THE YEN HAS IBM AND OTHER U.S. EXPORTERS WORRIED
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amLAST year's catastrophe for Wall Street started with the unexpected decline in the value of the dollar. This year's could be the U.S. currency's inexplicable rise. The greenback dropped to...
RYDER TO RESTRUCTURE READER'S
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amReader's Digest chief Thomas O. Ryder unveiled a strategic plan yesterday that he expects will double his company's revenues in five years. In addition, Ryder plans to invest some $100...
MEL'S PEACOCK ENVY ; CBS BOSS KARMAZIN OPENLY CRAVES NBC
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amCBS honcho Mel Karmazin sparked the battle of the network executives yesterday with a simple proclamation: He wants to buy NBC. Setting aside a prepared speech to advertising execs in...
IGER M0VES CL0SER T0 DISNEY THR0NE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe move expands Iger's power base and makes him the front-runner as Eisner's successor. ABC boss Bob Iger moved a step closer yesterday to assuming the throne from Walt Disney...
TIME RUNS OUT FOR BIZ MAG UNIT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTime Inc. executive Don Logan is splitting the group that once housed Fortune and Money and installing two new executives to run them as separate fiefdoms once again. Time magazine...
UNIVERSAL BUYS OUT DEF JAM
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amSeagram's Universal music group has agreed to buy the 40 percent of music label Def Jam it doesn't already own for $100 million, The Post has learned. The two sides...
EXEC HOPES OFFENSE IS HIS BEST DEFENSE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amWHAT'S the fun of being a media mogul if people keep calling part of your company takeover bait? That might have been on Mel Karmazin's mind yesterday when he dropped...
ICAHN SUES LAWYERS AS MID-TAKEOVER TURNCOATS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amInvestor Carl Icahn is suing his takeover lawyers for suddenly switching sides to protect RJR Nabisco just as Icahn mounts a new run at the tobacco-food giant. Icahn said he...
'SISTER' RELATIVE-LY GOOD
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review IS there a soul alive who wouldn't be made extremely squeamish by the prospect of a Garry Marshall comedy starring Juliette Lewis as a mildly retarded woman in...
STATE OF XTC
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amB ECAUSE XTC hasn't toured in more than 15 years, it isn't one of Britain's best-known rock 'n' roll exports - in spite of the band's massive critical acclaim and...
UNJUSTIFIED LEAPS OF 'FAITH'
February 26, 1999 | 5:00am'BLIND Faith,'' a so-so potboiler that originally aired on the cable-TV channel Showtime, starts off reasonably strong, but it can't rise above the schematic plotting and shrill message-movie piety often...
'TEATRO' SKIRTS SELF-PARODY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amA DMITTEDLY not always, but there are times when it seems permissible to think that a little Spanish dance goes a long way - like over-sweet sherry or the insistent...
'200 CIGARETTES' A DRAG
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review THE folks behind this lousy, amateurish movie are clearly hoping that its early-'80s soundtrack - an all-too-predictable collection of greatest hits - will seduce a nostalgic Gen X...
UPDATED MENU FOR TEA ROOM
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amFood Line THE Russian Tea Room (57th between Sixth and Seventh) isn't reopening until September, but owner Warner LeRoy has already found his top toque. It's Fabrice Canelle, who comes...
LOGGING FREQUENT-DATER MYLES
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review MYLES Berkowitz dreamed an impossible dream: He vowed to find love and direct his first feature within "20 Dates." The crackpot documentary, with cameos from Tia Carrere and...
ON THE WAY TO TENNESSEE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review 'NOT About Nightingales," at the Circle in the Square, a 1938 play based on real events at a sadistically run prison, is a work more interesting in its...
FILM WON'T BE HIS 'TICKET' TO THE TOP
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review WHY can't Andy Garcia find a hit? In ''Just the Ticket,'' he looks terrific, and his performance is energetic, charismatic and immensely appealing. Yet the picture is a...
LEGAL LEGEND WANTS WANTS STARR JUDGED IN TV COURTROOM
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amFAMED former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wants to put special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on trial - on TV at least. Hollywood producer Edgar Scherick and Bugliosi - who prosecuted Charles Manson...
'SCHOOL' A CLASS ACT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review ISABELLE Huppert receives an unsentimental education in director Benoit Jacquot's ''The School of Flesh,'' easily the best new French film to show here in ages. Based on a...
'MUSIC' CAST MAY SETA TRAPP FOR NEW STAR
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amWHEN Richard Chamberlain takes over the role of Captain Georg von Trapp in ''The Sound of Music'' on March 10, he'd better watch his back. Cast members of the long-running...
'THE SIMPSONS' GO STONE CRAZY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amFOX will let "The Simpsons" get away with anything - even promoting another network. That's what happened last Sunday, when "The Simpsons" concluded with a blatantly promotional - and humorous...
GRAMMYS ARE SIREN SONG
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amCBS struck ratings gold Wednesday with its coverage of the Grammy Awards. "The 41st Annual Grammy Awards" (8-11 p.m.) easily won the prime-time race, averaging 24.9 million total viewers. That's...
FINAL CURTAIN FOR CAMPY 'MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER'
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Sci-Fi Channel has cancelled the cult favorite, ''Mystery Science Theater 3000,'' but the show's producers say they want to take it to another network. ''This show is a great...
'8MM' REELS VIEWERS IN
February 26, 1999 | 5:00am'8mm'' is a somber, often portentous but mostly gripping movie about a decent man's journey into the horrifying imaginary underworld of 'snuff'' movies. It takes evil as seriously as any...
HBO GIVES THE JEWISH GANGSTA A TERRIBLE RAP
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amIf a tediuos, pretentious, cryptic gangster saga is what you're looking for this weekend, please, try "Lansky." It is as tedious, pretentious and cryptic as they come, thanks to David...
SHE BEGS BILL'S PARDON - FOR PERJURY; EXCLUSIVE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTONIGHT, Barbara Ann Battalino celebrates freedom - but victory is far from in sight. At 6 p.m., Battalino ends six months of house arrest for lying about sexual relations with...
FALWELL: I DIDN'T START TINKY WINKY STINK
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jerry Falwell now says he never outed Tinky Winky. The Christian leader writes in the March issue of his National Liberty Journal that he has never even seen...
FANS WILL BE CAUGHT IN YANK-NET $QUEEZE PLAY - SOMEHOW, YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR IT IN HIGHER CABLE RATES
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amI CAN'T even pretend to know what this Yank-Net merger is all about, but one thing is for sure - you're gonna pay for it! If this New York Jersey...
ISRAELI COURT BLOCKS EXTRADITION OF TEEN SLAY SUSPECT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Israel's top court yesterday reluctantly blocked the extradition of an American Jewish teen-ager in a grisly murder case - a decision that threatened to strain U.S.-Israeli relations. Officials...
PEACE-TALK-INTERVAL CLASHES RIP KOSOVO - NATO RENEWS AIRSTRIKE THREAT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amGunfire and explosions ripped through Kosovo yesterday as unarmed international monitors struggled to control an "extremely tense" situation during a three-week suspension in peace talks. NATO warned Serb forces they...
TEXAS BEAST SPEWS VENOM AFTER JURY'S DEATH SENTENCE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe racist fiend who dragged a black man to his death with a pickup truck showed no remorse yesterday as he was sentenced to die - even hurling a horrifying...
GOP COUNCILMEN BID TO START A RACE WAR
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTHE seven Republicans on the City Council yesterday reached for an issue even more ugly and self-defeating than impeachment. They tried to start a race war in this city three...
TOUCHING MEMORY FROM TRAGIC COP'S BOY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amDanny Dziergowski always knew his daddy was a hero, but the 8-year-old was truly amazed to see the whole city felt the same way. "I didn't know he was such...
'BODY' SLAM OF DRUNKEN IRISH BACKFIRES ON JESSE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMinnesota's pro wrestler-turned-governor, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, apologized yesterday for saying the streets in the state capital were laid out by drunken Irishmen. "If I offended anyone, I apologize," Ventura...
SCHUMER: HILLARY'S GOT A LOT OF OPTIONS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Once Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves the White House, the "world would be her oyster," says Sen. Charles Schumer, with many opportunities for the First Lady besides running for...
GI FRIENDSHIP RESURFACES 55 YRS. AFTER WAR TRAGEDY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 50 years have passed since a German torpedo sank the S.S. Leopoldville in the English Channel on Christmas Eve 1944 - marking one of the worst high-seas disasters...
G.W. BUSH TO PIN DOWN PREZ PLANS SOON
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTexas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican front-runner in 2000 polls, said yesterday he'll announce in two weeks if he'll run for president. Aides predicted it'll be a go. "In...
DEFENDANT HANDCUFFED IN BEEPER MADNESS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amWilliam Brown is beeping mad. The 54-year-old truck driver was in the audience of a Manhattan courtroom when his beeper went off - and an angry Criminal Court judge made...
DEAL PUTS BOSS IN THE CATBIRD SEAT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe Yankee-Net mega-merger won't affect where the Bronx Bombers play - but it will mean the cable company that broadcasts their games will pay through the nose, experts said yesterday....
GOP MUM ON 'RAPE' RAP - STUNNING SILENCE OVER CLAIM VS. BILL
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton isn't the only one ducking questions about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation - some of his harshest GOP critics were near-mum yesterday on her explosive claim. "Who am I?...
DWI CAR-FORFEIT SNARES FIRST WOMAN
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amSeven more cars - including the first belonging to a woman - have been seized as a result of the NYPD's crackdown on drunken drivers, police said yesterday. That brings...
UNANIMOUS SENATE TO PREZ: RIP CHINA ON HUMAN RIGHTS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amBy a 99-0 vote, the Senate yesterday called on President Clinton to sponsor a U.N. resolution condemning China for "widespread" human-rights violations and sale of human organs from executed prisoners....
STUDY: LOW MALE FERTILITY, CANCER LINKED
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMen with fertility problems appear to have double the normal risk of developing testicular cancer, a new Danish study says. But one New York urologist advises men with low fertility...
GIULIANI BARES NYPD BLUEPRINT FOR MORE CITY RECRUITMENT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amUnder pressure to hire more minority cops in the wake of the Amadou Diallo killing, Mayor Giuliani yesterday unveiled a new police-recruitment plan designed to get more city residents on...
DJ AXED OVER RACE-SLAY 'JOKE'
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amA top-rated shock jock was fired yesterday after making a foul joke about the racist murder of James Byrd Jr. Washington, D.C., rock station WARW booted Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht...
THE POST HONORS: BLACK HISTORY MONTH
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: DID YOU KNOW? Mary McLeod Bethune had just $1.50 to her name when she founded the Daytona (Fla.) Normal and Industrial School for African-American girls in 1904. The original...
BUG RIDER SMITH, AGENT PART WAYS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amAriel Smith, the leading apprentice at Aqueduct since he began riding here New Year's Eve, has parted ways with agent Steve Adika, who touted Smith as "the next Steve Cauthen"...
ESPN'S 'UPCLOSE' CRAWLS WITH WORM
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amIF pressed to describe the current state of sports, television and society in a single, concise thought, you might consider the following two sentences: Last week, "UpClose," ESPN's weekday interview...
BOSS' HOOP DREAMS HIT NOTHIN' BUT NETS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amWhat is in this mostly for George is creating the kind of conglomerate to financially fight the Turners and Foxes in baseball. TAMPA - The new company is called YankeeNets,...
YANKS: BOSS WILL GET NET RESULTS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - The clubhouse reaction yesterday to word of a partnership formed between the Yankees and Nets was praise for George Steinbrenner's business savvy, warnings that life with the Nets...
BERARD SAVES HIS RIPS FOR ISLES' AIDE CLARK
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amBryan Berard spared Mike Milbury for a change and instead went after Islanders assistant GM Gordie Clark in an interview with The Post before his Coliseum homecoming last night. Clark,...
STEP RIGHT UP, IT'S SHOW TIME!
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTHE World Fishing and Outdoor Exposition returns to the Rockland Community College Field House in Suffern from Thursday through Sunday, March 7. The Expo, now in its 22nd year, is...
PETTITTE HO-HUMS LATEST ELBOW WOES
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - The only similarity between the elbow problem Andy Pettitte experienced in 1996 and the one that kept him from throwing batting practice Wednesday is that it's located in...
KEY COULD 'UNRETIRE' WITH YANKS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Listening to the whispers in the Legends Field winds, Jimmy Key is leaning toward coming to spring training with the Yankees. According to multiple team sources,...
STRAW: I'LL BE GOOD TO GO ; WANTS NO PART OF AN EXTENDED SPRING TRAINING
February 26, 1999 | 5:00am"They have decisions to make and they shouldn't make those decisions on me not being able to play. They have decisions with other guys."DARRYL STRAWBERRY TAMPA - Darryl Strawberry understands...
MCMULLEN PUSHES HIS HOBOKEN PLAN
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - John McMullen still says Nyet to the Nets. He remains unawed by the addition of George Steinbrenner to the Nets, or distressed by the vast empty spaces of...
DAVIS NOTCHES 3000TH WIN
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amIt took a photo-finish following nine straight second-place runs to do it, but jockey Robbie Davis finally won the 3,000th race of his career yesterday when Inevitably Pirate took the...
LUKAS NOMINATED TO HALL
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amTrainer D. Wayne Lukas, who has led the national earnings list for 14 of the last 16 years and holds the record for number of year-end champions (19) and Breeders'...
WAYNE WAITS FOR MRI WORD
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amA shudder of fear swept through the Rangers' organization yesterday as Wayne Gretzky underwent an MRI in Manhattan on his neck. Results won't be available until this afternoon - until...
BEST BIG EAST ROOKIE POINTS TO BARKLEY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amBIG EAST NOTEBOOK SO MUCH for a mutual admiration society among Big East rookies. When St. John's point-guard phenom Erick Barkley was asked whom he'd vote for - if he...
NETS SAY CHRIS DOESN'T GAT IT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe record is among the very worst in basketball. Every day, or so it seems, another injury surfaces. The offense is abysmal. Players are griping with the coach on the...
CAL RIPS BOBBY V'S TAKE ON BENITEZ QUOTE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - Cal Ripken distanced himself yesterday from a quote attributed to him by Bobby Valentine. Yes, Ripken said, he did tell Valentine he thought new Met, ex-Oriole Armando...
CUCKOO BIRDS SUIT BELLE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - The Orioles were baseball's version of Cuckoo's Nest already, and then Albert Belle signed with them. And so did Will Clark. And this is what Clark had...
PHILLIPS HAS BUILT AN AMAZIN' MACHINE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - A year ago, the big question in Mets camp was: Who would the starting catcher be, Tim Spehr or Alberto Castillo? The Mets were accused of...
HUNDLEY TRADE LEAVES BIG VOID
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The other day a 16-year-old girl who has been visiting Mets spring training camp for years, paid a courtesy visit. Lara Cohen, president of the Todd...
SLUMPING SCOTT CAN'T FIND SHOT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amLost in the happiness of the Knicks' 7-3 start is the poor shooting of Dennis Scott. Scott was brought in to be an offensive force but has struggled greatly, not...
MCRAE: METS MARKED MEN
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Brian McRae says the Mets are going to be targets for a lot of teams now that they are so high-profile and high-payroll, and they had...
THE BEST MEET THEIR 'MATCH': TIGER IS ONLY ONE OF TOP 11 STANDING
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amCARLSBAD - The carnage in Carlsbad continues. By 2:30 local time yesterday afternoon, 10 of the world's 11 top ranked golfers were in various stages of elimination from this wild...
CARDOZO MARCHES ON
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amCardozo 75 Columbus 59 Newtown 56 Erasmus 43 He is a Garden regular, attending almost every college and high school game. But in his 18th season at Cardozo High, Ron...
RODMAN WINS THE WEST ; JERRY PRAISES DENNIS' SMARTS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00am"Basketball is a game of angles and he knows how to play them - in terms of rebounds, passes and screens - as well as anyone I've ever seen. One...
STEPHON SIDESTEPS THE BIG APPLE PRESS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amFOUR YEARS out of Coney Island, Stephon Marbury has become just another tourist in the Big Apple. Nice place to visit. Not sure he would want to live here. Or...
A STEP UP IN CLASS ; T-WOLVES PROVIDE TEST FOR KNICKS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThis game was a test in many ways. The Knicks and the Timberwolves played the "which team is for real" challenge last night at the Garden. Both teams were off...
UPSET-MINDED MARUYAMA TRIES TO BE LIKE MIKE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMATCH PLAY NOTES CARLSBAD - In the aftermath of the rash of upsets here at the Match Play Championships, a little-known, underrated player to watch perhaps into the weekend is...
KNICK DEFENSE NEVER RESTS
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThere's a difference between a defense that intimidates an opponent and a defense that merely stops an opponent. The Knicks mastered both techniques in the past several years and are...
DEVILS POINT TO BETTER EFFORT
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 3 Bruins 3 BOSTON - For once, concrete results are taking a back seat for Robbie Ftorek. He's interested instead in how his team looks, acts and feels. That's...
TREY-MENDOUS! ; HOUSTON'S THREE IN OT LIFTS KNICKS OVER MINNY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe Garden was breathing fire last night and so were the Knicks. The lockout was officially put to rest with a spectacular nail-biter that brought hoop excitement back to the...
THIS ONE MAKES STEW BOIL
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amMaple Leafs 4 Islanders 1 How great it was for Toronto's Bryan Berard to be in a winning locker room, playing for first place in the Coliseum. Across the hall,...
LJ PASSES ON EXPERIENCE
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amIt is called experience and it served Larry Johnson well last night. Amid all the taller, younger players with longer arms and more spring in their legs, Johnson in a...
MARCUS BURIES MARBURY: STEPHON THWARTED IN RETURN TO GARDEN
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amSTEPHON Marbury's favorite day of the NBA season - which in a normal year includes Christmas and New Year's Eve - falls on the one day a year when the...
CAMBY BLOCKS MINNY
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe next time, Jeff Van Gundy may want to put Marcus Camby on the court when his team needs a defensive stop. With 2.2 seconds remaining in regulation last night,...
WARD'S AGGRESSION STARTING TO PAY OFF
February 26, 1999 | 5:00amCharlie Ward stuck his finger in the air and proclaimed, "I'm No. 1." Just kidding. Anyone who knows Ward knows the point guard doesn't toot his own horn. Still, he...