April 9, 1999
REJIGGERING THE B00KS: ABC GETS CONTROL OF DISNEY'S HYPERION
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe Walt Disney Co. has split its publishing operations, dispatching the Hyperion adult book imprint under control of its ABC subsidiary. At the same time, it gives worldwide responsibilities to...
BIBLIOWICZ TAKES MONEY, RUNS NAT'L FINANCIAL
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amJessica Bibliowicz is finally running her own show. The 39-year-old daughter of Citigroup Chairman Sandy Weill is becoming chief executive officer of National Financial Partners - a Leon Black-backed firm...
DE SOLE TURNS UP HEELS AT LVMH BID
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amGucci's Domenico De Sole has spurned the advances of LVMH's Bernard Arnault once again. De Sole said no to a sweetened $85 -a-share offer from the world's biggest luxury goods...
ROCKETTES TO STARS; DOLAN WANTS OSCARS AT RADIO CITY
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amCablevision CEO Jim Dolan's big dream is to get the Oscars into Radio City. The move is unthinkable to Hollywood and would spark a broad show-business war against Dolan and...
NORDSTROM GOES SHOPPING FOR EAST SIDE SITE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amIt would be the first Nordstrom store in Manhattan, a market it hasn't been able to penetrate. Nordstrom - the upscale store known for pampering customers - is likely to...
HIGH PRICE EXPECTED FOR HIGH-TECH MAGS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe envelope, please. The Leeds family of Long Island is expected to reap a $1-billion payday when final bids are submitted in two weeks for their high-tech publishing empire, CMP...
CAMPY SEX FARCE TURNS ON PET RAT
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amNEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 'SITCOM'' boldly answers that burning question: Which wine goes with rat? Red or white? We learn more than we ever wanted to know about the other, other...
TV TICKER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amInk is dry As expected, Deborah Norville has inked a new deal to continue hosting "Inside Edition" as it enters its 12th season. Norville is also reportedly in discussions with...
ROOKIE'S 'BULLETS' A MISFIRE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEWS 'BLOOD, Guts, Bullets & Octane" sounds like the title an eighth-grader might give to his home version of a Tarantino flick. Which is more or less what first-time...
MAG DISHES UP TOP 10
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amFOOD LINE IT'S that time again. Food & Wine magazine dubbed its 1999 best new chefs in America Tuesday at BB at 17 (formerly Barneys New York). Union Pacific's Rocco...
DREW IS DRAW IN 'KISSED'
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEWS DREW Barrymore is so good in "Never Been Kissed" that you can overlook the execrable writing - and the fact that you've already seen all the best jokes...
MEANEST MAN ON TV ; HOW DOES COURT TV'S LIONEL SLEEP AT NIGHT?
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amIF you think poking sticks and throwing stones at scraggly animals in a zoo is fun, "Snap Judgment" is for you. Court TV's new 7:30 nightly show is cruel and...
'DRAGONS'MAY SLAYFARCE FANS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEWS 'T WIN Dragons" is a 1992 action-comedy re-released to capitalize on Jackie Chan's success with last year's "Rush Hour." "Dragons" is not Chan's best movie, but it does...
BOMBS HAVE BEEN DROPPING IN THE BALKANS FOR 16 DAYS... WHY HAVEN'T THESE GUYS GONE TO WAR?
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amSO where are the network anchors you'd expect to be describing the horrors of war direct from the front lines of Kosovo? As the conflict continues to rage in the...
ALL-SOAPS, SCI-FI CHANNELS NEAR
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amTWO new cable channels - one exclusively for soap operas and another dedicated to sci-fi shows - are on their way. The soap opera channel - which has yet to...
HORNSBY GETS OFF ON THE RIGHT NOTE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amBRUCE Hornsby - a lanky Virginian - has had an unlikely career. As a kid, he played piano in cover bands. He went on to graduate from Boston's famed Berklee...
VALUE OF 'CALIFORNIA' MERE 'MYTH'
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amDIRECTOR Michel Katz's 1994 low-budget ''California Myth'' is earnest and eager to please, but very, very bad. Uncommonly inept, even: It reminds you of how technically accomplished even the most...
THE DIRT ON 'FORBIDDEN'
April 9, 1999 | 4:00am'F ORBIDDEN Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!" is how the long-running satirical revue, now ensconced in the basement of Ellen's Stardust Diner on 51st and Broadway, bills itself. Judging from...
YOU'VE GOT TO 'GO'!
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMovie Review H IPSTER filmmaker Doug Liman's breakneck, raucous and thoroughly exhilarating "Go" is flat-out the best thing I've seen all year. It's pedal-to-the-metal mayhem and misadventure from the first...
LEARNING TO LOVE LIFE IN 'METROLAND'
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMovie Review T HE word "Metroland," the title of Philip Saville's modest but acutely poignant melodrama, is Londonspeak for "suburbia," the draggy, gray neighborhood where husband and father Chris (Christian...
'ICEMAN' IS HOT!
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amTheater Review 'W HAT kind of joint is it anyway?" asks a new arrival about Harry Hope's saloon and rooming house in downtown New York in the summer of 1912....
KOCH YOU LATER, JUDY
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amBEGINNING next fall, the judicial juggernaut of Judge Judy Sheindlin and her husband, Judge Gerry Sheindlin, the new star of "The People's Court," will rule two full hours of daytime...
FELLINI'S NUMBER IS UP
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Though it's widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of world cinema, I like Federico Fellini's "8 1/2" - beginning a six-week revival at the Paris Theater today - less each...
'CHANGED' SHARPTON UNLIKELY TO RUN
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Rev. Al Sharpton dropped two political bombshells in one sentence yesterday. "I'm very seriously considering not running for mayor in 2001 and just being part of a broad coalition...
MCCALL IN Y2K PRIS0N UPR0AR: REPORT SAYS CELL DOORS MAY SPRING OPEN
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Year 2000 computer problems could cause electronic locks on prison cells statewide to break down, state Comptroller Carl McCall warned in an audit yesterday. "Security surveillance, parking-lot gates...
IT'S 'SOAR' POINTS FOR TAXPAYING TRAVELERS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amTaxpayers can get frequent-flier miles for using their American Express, MasterCard or Discover cards to pay their tax bills.High-flying Americans have found a new way to take the sting out...
CHRISTIE BEGINS BID FOR SENATE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amNew Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman launched her bid for the U.S. Senate yesterday - but she didn't hit the ground running. Ending weeks of feverish speculation about her political future,...
SEARCH FOR LOVED ONES IN LAND OF THE LOST
April 9, 1999 | 4:00am"I've been here for five days, and I will not leave until I find my parents."SANAJIE RUSTAJTIRANA, Albania.THE nightmare of Kosovo hasn't ended for Sanajie Rustaj, a 34-year-old mother of...
AMID THE HORROR, ALL THEY WANT IS TO RETURN HOME
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amSo many who survived talk of their hearts breaking at the thought of never seeing Kosovo again. THEY are gone now, scattered to refugee camps and God knows where -...
DR. KING'S SON JOINS DIALLO KIN
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMartin Luther King III and the family of cop-shooting victim Amadou Diallo joined forces yesterday in Manhattan for a hearing on police brutality. The son of the slain civil-rights leader...
RUDY JOB RATING HITS A NEW LOW ; BAD NEWS IN POST-DIALLO POLL
April 9, 1999 | 4:00am* Mayor Giuliani's approval rating continues to plummet in the wake of the Amadou Diallo shooting, with only 40 percent of city voters saying he's doing a good job, a...
TRIO CHARGED IN SLAYING OF QUEENS RAPPER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amThree men have been charged with the shooting death of the rapper known as Freaky Tah in what appears to be a retaliation hit, police said. The three suspects -...
'MELISSA' SUSPECT IN CYBER-LAW WRANGLE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe lawyer for the New Jersey man accused of creating the Melissa cyber-virus said yesterday prosecutors are misapplying the law to his client. The charge came after computer programmer David...
CYBER-DRAGNET COLLARS 152 PAROLE VIOLATORS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE Looking for new ways to cut crime, Bronx cops and parole officials ran a computer check on 8,000 parolees, found that 399 of them were wanted - then went...
KIMESES: WE'RE PRAYING FOR MISSING MILLIONAIRE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe mother-and-son grifters charged in the murder of elderly East Side millionaire Irene Silverman say they pray for their alleged victim in jail. "We don't know where this woman is....
U.S.-CHINA TRADE PACT NO BIG DEAL
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The United States and China failed to reach a major trade agreement, but struck a mini-deal in time for Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's visit yesterday with President Clinton....
BRONX SUSPECT'S DNA LINKS HIM TO 17 RAPES
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amGenetic evidence from 17 rapes matches the DNA of the man who has confessed he's the vicious Bronx Rapist who terrorized the city with a six-year spree of sex attacks...
FEARS FOR; 80,000 WHO VANISHED: SLOBBY'S HUMAN SHIELDS?
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Western officials voiced fears yesterday that Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic may use 80,000 missing Kosovo refugees as human shields against bombing attacks. The refugees, in a column stretching...
FEARS FOR 80,000 WHO VANISHED
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Western officials voiced fears yesterday that Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic may use 80,000 missing Kosovo refugees as human shields against bombing attacks. The refugees, in a column stretching...
CIG-PRICE HIKE CUTS NUMBER OF PREGNANT SMOKERS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amPregnant women quit smoking because it's bad for the baby - and better for the pocketbook, a new study indicates. Researchers found that hiking cigarette prices increases the number of...
MAN IN '89 RACE ATTACK LINKED TO MOB DRUG DEAL
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors say a young man once charged with being part of the bat-wielding gang that attacked Yusuf Hawkins has found a new mob: John Gotti's Gambino crime family. Hawkins,...
WOMAN: COPS HOUNDED ME AFTER I HIT MRS. SAFIR'S CAR
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is looking into whether his top cop dispatched detectives to the home of a Queens woman after she got into a car accident with his wife. Monica Nascimento,...
ARREST HAS WOMEN FEELING SAFER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amWomen in neighborhoods prowled by the notorious Bronx Rapist breathed a sigh of relief yesterday knowing police had made an arrest. "I feel safe now that he's caught," said Lisa...
IT COULD BE GUANTANA-NO FOR THE REFUGEES
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe United States is having second thoughts about using the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba to shelter 20,000 Kosovo refugees. "It's possible it won't happen," J. Brian Atwood, the coordinator...
NATO MAY NOT TRUST FRANCE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amFrance has been frozen out of some NATO plans because the United States fears Paris will leak top-secret material to Belgrade, it was reported today. ''Washington has started cutting Paris...
SCHOOL HEAD DOUBLED AS DRUG DEALER, COPS CHARGE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amCops arrested the head of a Brooklyn private school yesterday for peddling cocaine right under the kids' noses, officials said. "It's absolutely outrageous," one investigator said of the alleged drug...
SUSPECT NABBED IN BRUTAL HARLEM ROB
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amA suspect in the heartless attack on an elderly Harlem woman was busted by cops yesterday. Anthony Woods, 19, was charged with robbery, assault and attempted murder. Cops said he...
N.J. COP FOUND SHOT TO DEATH AT SIDE OF ROAD
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amAn Orange, N.J. police officer was shot to death last night on a highway service road. Officer Joyce Carnegie died at 9:25 P.M. of wounds to her head and abdomen...
LEO HAS SINKING FEELING ABOUT PAL
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: BURIED ALIVE DAY 4 Leonardo DiCaprio is concerned about his buddy David Blaine. The "Titanic" star - who is filming a movie in Thailand - has been getting regular...
SALTWATER ANGLERS MAKING BEST OF IT
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amT HE best we can tell you about the local saltwater action is that it is encouraging, with flounder fishing on an upswing and a fair amount of bottom action...
GIANTS EYE LINEMAN WITH 19TH PICK
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amWell-stocked at QB, Ernie Accorsi may opt to beef up Big Blue's offensive line in next Saturday's NFL Draft. Quarterbacks might be taken with the first three picks in next...
FEAR FORCES KRONE TO QUIT
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE FIRST race at Aqueduct had just gone off around the time that Julie Krone was finishing up the announcement that her last race was just ahead. And Donald Krone,...
JEFF'S GOTTA GO ; PATHETIC KNICKS HAVE TUNED OUT VAN
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amFor his sake and the sake of the Knicks, it is best to cut the cord now. Like the Nets before them, they should "Go Interim" until Phil Jackson makes...
EXPOS LOOK LEAN & MEAN ; GIVE OLDER, RICHER METS FITS AGAIN
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - The Mets looked like the older brothers returning from college, pot bellies just beginning to break out. They head to the familiar sandlot to dominate their younger brothers...
METS TAKE STEP BACKWARD ; SUB-PAR OREL, GOOFS SPELL DOOM VS.'SPOS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amExpos 5 Mets 1 MONTREAL - One of the main reasons Orel Hershiser signed with the Mets during spring training was because he felt they had a very good chance...
IT'S A BANNER DAY FOR STADIUM OPENER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE are few finer sports events. Opening Day at Yankee Stadium. Opening Day at Yankee Stadium to welcome a champion to a new season. Opening Day at Yankee Stadium with...
RANGERS MUST GET MEANER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00am"You certainly don't walk around with the same feeling as when we won the Cup."BRIAN LEETCH CHICAGO - One by one, these career winners filed onto the ice here yesterday...
2ND CHOICE VICAR GETS NO RESPECT
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amLEXINGTON - What must Vicar do to get some respect? After post positions were drawn yesterday for tomorrow's Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes, final stop on the long road...
WOOD, ARK. DERBY LACK STAR POWER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amLEXINGTON - The $600,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and $500,000 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park, the second and third legs of tomorrow's "Big 3 Pick 3" Kentucky Derby preps, play...
FTOREK DOESN'T FORESEE A FOLD
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amIt happens every spring. When the barbecues are fired up, the Devils face questions of burnout. Robbie Ftorek doesn't believe it applies this season, despite his team's lofty record, and...
RICKEY: TOO LATE TO STOP NOW : HENDERSON PUTS SPUNK INTO METS
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - A day after one of his best games in an amazing career, Rickey Henderson walked out onto the Olympic Stadium Astroturf field before last night's game and was...
CHAMBLEE'S DREAM COMES TRUE
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Brandel Chamblee first saw the Masters on television in 1975 when he was 12 years old. Since then, watching the tournament had been annual event, even when he...
MAGIC'S BACK IN THE BRONX: YANKS BATTLE TIGERS IN HOME OPENER
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amSchools and businesses are open today. So much for the formalities. Today is a holiday in New York as the World Champion Yankees return to Yankee Stadium for the first...
PETTITTE PASSES SIMULATED TEST
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amYANK NOTES One day after being forced to miss an extended spring training game due to a sprained right ankle that was supposed to shelve him for a few days,...
THREE'S A CROWD AT AUGUSTA
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - One by one, some of golf's big guns poked their heads to the top of the Masters' opening-round leaderboard yesterday for a look only to tumble back down,...
SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP ; METS' NEW LINEUP HAS WINNING SOUND
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - I believe a shining sun heals the mood and gray clouds cultivate depression. I believe reading expands the mind and bad sit-coms contract it. I believe Muhammad Ali...
A $64-MILLION MESS ; KNICKS ROTTEN TOP TO BOTTOM
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amIMAGINE the unconditional effort the Knicks would be giving and the utter interest Patrick Union and his rank and vile would be showing if they didn't care so much for...
TWO MUCH, TWO SOON ; TIGER-DUVAL RIVALRY NOT BLOSSOMING RIGHT NOW
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The 63rd Masters had been billed as a showdown between essentially two players, Tiger Woods, David Duval and no one else. For three days there has been an...
POTVIN NOT READY TO END HIS SEASON
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amIsles 3 Canadiens 1 It says here the Islanders should shut down goalie Felix Potvin for the rest of the season. They should allow Potvin to relax this summer at...
TIGER KEEPS COOL AFTER SNOWMAN
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: AUGUSTA - On Tuesday, Tiger Woods sat in the Augusta National interview room and spoke confidently about how he doesn't "make the big numbers" any more, and that a...
GALVIN LAWYER MURPHY SUES NYRA FOR $10M
April 9, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: LEXINGTON - Attorney Karen Murphy, who has been representing veterinarian Dr. Michael Galvin in his year-long struggle with he New York Racing Association, upped the ante yesterday by socking...