April 22, 1999

BET ON KERZNER TO TAKE OVER STARWOOD GAMING

Wynn, who is well respected in the gaming and business community, could be tapped out after the Bellagio project. IT'S starting to get crowded at the auction for Caesar's Palace...

SHANGHAI TANG PLANS RELOCATING GANG

Shanghai Tang, the glitzy but customer-challenged temple of Chinese fashion on Madison Avenue, is shopping for less pricey Manhattan digs. Sources tell The Post that Newmark & Company, which has...

TOP GUCCI DESIGNER IN SIT-DOWN WITH LVMH

Tom Ford is meeting with the enemy. The creative director of Gucci, which is battling a hostile takeover by LVMH, has agreed to meet with Chairman Bernard Arnault - without...

DOW SOARS 132; SMALL CAPS RECOVER

Large-cap stocks staged a comeback yesterday, but not at the expense of small companies, which also pulled off a broad-based rally. The Dow Jones industrial average, a select group of...

WSJ REPORTERS VENT WRATH AT KANN BY JON ELSEN

Dow Jones reporters packed their company's annual meeting yesterday to deliver a loud and clear message to Chairman Peter Kann: Don't mess with our retirement plan. Speaking on behalf of...

SUI SMELL OF SUCCESS ; DESIGNER LAUNCHING PERFUME, MAKEUP LINE

Anna Sui sat patiently behind a table at Saks Fifth Avenue yesterday, signing posters, perfume bottles and anything else the dozens of women lined up thrust at her. Sui, a...

MU$IC TO HER EAR$ : MORISSETTE 'NETS DEAL WITH MP3

Pop superstar Alanis Morissette is joining the revolt to put music directly on the Internet without middlemen - and getting a piece of the new action for her trouble. The...

BALDUCCI'S BAGGED BY SUTTON PLACE

Landmark gourmet emporium Balducci's has been swallowed up by a larger upscale food chain, The Post has learned. According to sources familiar with the situation, Bethesda, Md.-based Sutton Place Gourmet...

AS YOUNG AS EVER IN SPIRITED SHOW AT THE GARDEN

Y EARS ago, Neil Young wrote that rust never sleeps, a succinct statement that captures the single-minded, near force-of-nature determination and devotion Young brings to the stage. At Madison Square...

PIANO MAN FINALE?

ROCK REVIEW WHEN Billy Joel took his final bow at the arena at the Meadowlands on Tuesday, the world got just a little smaller. According to his record company, the...

HER CREEPY CREATURESTO BE THE BEAST YET

STAR WARS: 27 DAYS TO GO IF you thought the creatures in the first three ''Star Wars'' movies were bizarre - you ain't seen nothin' yet! Because the critters that...

NBC AIR APPARENT FLUNKS SCHOOL MASSACRE REPORT

TV GIRRRL "WE should tell you that we are approaching 9:15 on the East Coast, 6:15 on the West Coast, on a day that follows one and precedes another, a...

IT'S STILL IN 'SEASON'

THEATER REVIEW TERRIFIC theater; excellent production; OK play.The group called Second Stage has moved to new quarters, at Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street, a bank reconfigured into cool, pastel-painted spaces...

SLOBBO PAL PAID FOR FIRST TV SITDOWN

SERBIAN strongman Slobodan Milosevic has granted his first American TV - unpredictably - to a reporter for a local TV station in Houston. The Milosevic interview - segments of which...

TV TICKER

'Copy' canned?It looks like curtains for "Hard Copy." Insiders say that the tabloid granddaddy is history, but officials at Paramount TV, which produces "Hard Copy," had no comment late yesterday....

NETS SCRAMBLE TO SCHEDULE SPECIALS

THERE'S a lot of re-editing and lineup juggling going on as television continues to struggle with Tuesday's tragedy in Littleton, Colo. The massacre has already impacted CBS. The network was...

FAREWELL TO 'SUPERWOMAN': FASHION EDITOR LIZ TILBERIS WHO DIED YESTERDAY, NEVER LET ON HOW ILL SHE REALLY WAS

EVEN as she neared the end of her life, Liz Tilberis kept her chin up. That's what those who were closest to her say. With her gray pixie cut coiffed...

PHOTOGRAPHER SHOOTS FIRST, QUESTIONS LATER

KUKES, Albania. RON HAVIV has been shooting on the Balkan front lines for nearly 10 years - with a camera. When the fighting breaks out again, this prize-winning photojournalist from...

BIO: HILLARY HIRED SNOOP TO WATCH BILL

WASHINGTON - Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton's New York popularity is sinking, a new book is reviving reports that she once hired a private eye to track her hubby, and...

BLIND COULD SEE IT COMING

"What I don't like, I waste." TRENCH COAT MAFIA ON ITS WEB SITE SHORT of sky-writing above the United Nations, these killer kids could not have thrown out more warnings....

IF YOU THINK NEW YORK IS IMMUNE . . . THINK AGAIN

THE consensus on the streets and in the schoolyards, in the elevators and on line at the corner deli was nearly unanimous: It couldn't happen here. Now could it? The...

APPLE KIDS: NO WAY IT HAPPENS HERE

It could happen anywhere - but not likely in New York's heavily policed high schools, kids say. With metal detectors at the doors, armed cops on patrol and safety officers...

DUNBLANE'S DARK SHADOW HAUNTS SHATTERED FATHER

"It was like reliving everything we went through all over again. It brought it all back."CHARLES CLYDESDALE, DUNBLANE VICTIM'S FATHER Watching the terrified faces of anxious families flicker across his...

STYLE MAVEN LIZ TILBERIS LOSES LONG FIGHT WITH CANCER AT 51

The fashion and publishing world was in mourning yesterday after Harper's Bazaar editor in chief Elizabeth (Liz) Tilberis lost a six-year battle against ovarian cancer and died at the age...

GOTHS: THOSE LOONIES AREN'T WITH US

They wore black, listened to hard-core rock 'n' roll and were social outcasts, but the two members of the so-called Trench Coat Mafia who shot up a Colorado high school...

CANNIBAL WINS ROUND IN FREEDOM BID

A crazed teacher who killed and castrated a teen-age boy - and then ate his body parts - may soon go free after 20 years in a mental hospital. Albert...

MARY JO: I CRIED FOR AMY'S PAIN AFTER APOLOGY

Mary Jo Buttafuoco is set to publicly forgive Amy Fisher today - following a heart-wrenching letter from the Long Island Lolita that left her victim in tears. Buttafuoco yesterday told...

PREZ CALLS FOR PRAYERS, NOT TOUGHER GUN LAWS

President Clinton asked the nation yesterday to pray for the victims of the Littleton school massacre and for parents to "shield our children from violent images." But he noticeably left...

RUDY, COUNCIL LOCK HORNS ON POLICE GRADS

Nearly 1,400 new cops slated to report to precinct jobs will be shifted to task forces if a budget stalemate between Mayor Giuliani and the City Council isn't resolved, officials...

JOCELYNE CUTS HERSELF A VERY $WEET DIVORCE DEAL

It's over! A jubilant Jocelyne Wildenstein became a free woman yesterday when she settled her bitter, two-year divorce battle with her billionaire art dealer-husband, Alec. "It's a big relief for...

CITY TO MAKE CABBIES TAKE THE E-Z WAY OUT

The city will require that all 12,000 yellow cabs be equipped with E-Z Pass to speed up trips and reduce fares for customers. "All medallion cabs will be required to...

CIA REPORT BACKS BILL INTO CORNER ON CHINA NUKE SPYING

WASHINGTON - President Clinton reversed himself yesterday, agreeing to meet with key members of Congress after a CIA report concluded China stole blueprints for American-made nukes. Clinton will meet this...

SUDDENLY GORE'S IN THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE

AS if Al Gore didn't have enough to worry about in the 2000 race, he'd better start looking back over his shoulder in New Hampshire because Bill Bradley is gaining...

U.S. INVITES REFUGEES TO MOVE IN - WON'T HAVE TO STAY IN SHELTERS ON NAVAL BASE

WASHINGTON - The United States is opening its heart - and its doors - to 20,000 Kosovo refugees who want to move in with relatives or other Americans eager to...

SCOTTISH TOWN LINKED BY TRAGEDY OFFERS HELP & SYMPATHY

The townsfolk of Dunblane, Scotland, reached out to the people of Littleton, Colo., yesterday, offering to share the bitter lessons they learned from their own school-shooting nightmare three years ago....

COPS WEIGH POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY

Police found more than 30 bombs at Columbine HS yesterday - raising questions about whether the two suicidal assassins who slaughtered 13 people and wounded 28 others had accomplices. "There...

DUELING RUDYS RESUME WAR OVER SCHOOL VOUCHERS

The school-voucher war is heating up again as Mayor Giuliani unveils $12 million for the scholarships in his budget plan today - and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew swears "it will...

COPS DID THEIR BEST IN TOUGH SPOT: NYPD EXPERTS

The Colorado cops handled the massacre in Littleton in textbook fashion - but have a lot more investigating to do, experts say. Frank Bolz, the legendary co-founder of the NYPD's...

AOL HELPS FBI 'NET EVIDENCE ON KILLERS

America Online is cooperating with the FBI to turn over any information that could be linked to the Colorado killers. "AOL is reviewing the content [of Web sites]," spokeswoman Kim...

SHRINKS: SURVIVORS MIGHT START TO MISBEHAVE

Survivors of the Colorado school massacre may go through more than just grief and depression - their personalities and behavior could undergo a temporary change, experts say. Good kids who...

TEENS & TEACHERS WHO BECAME HEROES

Twin brothers risked their lives to save classmates.When the bullets started flying, Nick Foss rushed people into a bathroom. His twin brother, Adam, herded people into a cramped office. When...

A LONG NIGHT OF HOPE ENDS IN DESPAIR - PARENTS OF 13 TEENS GET DREADED NEWS

Parents of the teens slain in the Columbine HS massacre got the heart-wrenching news they dreaded last night - ending an excruciating wait and shattering their hopes for a miracle....

SHE DODGED DEATH BY INCHES

LITTLETON, Colo. C RYSTAL ARCHULETA's hand trembled as she talked - and her tears never stopped. Crystal, a 17-year-old junior at Columbine HS, came inches from having a bullet crash...

ONLY BLACK VICTIM 'WAS FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE' IN SCHOOL

There were few kids at Columbine HS who didn't know Isaiah Shoels. But not just because he was one of about a dozen blacks at the 1,965-student school in Littleton,...

ONLY BLACK VICTIM 'WAS FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE' IN SCHOOL - BLACK VICTIM 'WAS FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE'

There were few kids at Columbine HS who didn't know Isaiah Shoels. But not just because he was one of about a dozen blacks at the 1,965-student school in Littleton,...

TUNNEL CLUB LOSES ITS ; BOOZE PERMIT

"We are glad to see that the doors of the Tunnel are closer to getting permanently shut."GIULIANI SPOKESWOMAN SAMANTHA LUGO The Tunnel's liquor license was suspended yesterday as state officials...

LETHAL GEEKS WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER

Eric Harris was a nerdy loner looking for someone to lead, and he found a willing follower in awkward outcast Dylan Klebold. The pair, who were inseparable through their years...

COPS WEIGH POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY - COULD KILLERS PLANT SO MANY BOMBS ALONE?

Police investigating the Columbine HS massacre found more than 30 bombs yesterday - raising questions about whether the two suicidal assassins who slaughtered 13 people and wounded 28 others had...

BLACK TRENCH COATS HID 2 BLACK HEARTS - INSIDE THE TWISTED WORLD OF HITLER FANS

The killers were gun-obsessed, Nazi-loving white supremacists in long, black coats. Classmates of the duo, who were in the so-called Trench Coat Mafia, describe members of the group as troubled...

REVENGE EYED IN TEEN'S SLAYING

A Brooklyn teen was slain last night, and neighbors said he may have been killed in revenge for having attacked someone last week. Miguel Mendoza, 14, was struck in the...

AMONG WORST SLAUGHTERS EVER

The massacre at Columbine HS in Littleton, Colo., claimed the lives of 15 people, including the two teens responsible for the rampage, making it the worst mass slaying at a...

IT'S DEVILS IN SIX; - GILMOUR OR LESS; SOMEONE MUST SHOW SOME 'KILLER' INSTINCT

A star must be born. How long these Devils last this time depends on one question: how fast one of their forwards becomes a playoff player. This Devils team that...

POISED HOLIK: NOBODY CAN STOP US IF WE PLAY TOGETHER

Wow. Invincible, except for themselves. These Devils really believe. The three-time Eastern Conference champs do not fear failing, Bobby Holik says. Perhaps that's because they've survived to return the last...

VICAR STRUTS STUFF AT CHURCHILL DOWNS

The only Kentucky Derby hopeful to work yesterday morning at Churchill Downs was one of the favorites, Fountain of Youth and Florida Derby winner Vicar, who had his first drill...

NEW GM FINES SPREE 25G

Dave Checketts had this to say to Latrell Sprewell yesterday: Choke on this. In his first move as the Knicks' acting general manager, Checketts said he fined the brooding guard...

ARTEST COPS HAGGERTY AWARD

Ron Artest last night became the 19th St. John's player to win the Lt. Frank J. Haggerty Award presented to the best player in the metropolitan area by the NIT/Met...

CONE HINTS AT DEPRESSION DEFENSE FOR STRAWBERRY

YANKEE NOTES Steve Howe successfully used a defense of attention deficit disorder to help him overcome an arrest for attempted possession of cocaine and return to the major leagues. Darryl...

A FAULTY PROGNOSIS ; CONE PROVING DR. DOOM WRONG

Interim manager Don Zimmer can remember sitting at a bar with Joe Torre in 1996, when a physician sidled up to them and asked if they were who he thought...

FRANCO BENDS BUT WON'T YIELD

CINCINNATI - When you've been around long enough to have over 400 saves, there will be games like Tuesday night's for John Franco. The Mets' closer of the past, present...

FOR COOL, CALM CHILI, ONLY THE BAT GETS HOT

I T WOULD be easier to get Don Zimmer to dress like Marilyn Manson or get Derek Jeter to give The National Enquirer an exclusive about his best times with...

KITTLES KEEPS THE FAITH

There was the coach berating him. That was solved when John Calipari was fired. There was the worry about his contract and his long-term security. That was settled when the...

METS CATCH UP ON RULE

MET NOTES CINCINNATI - Major League Baseball sent teams a memo about the new catcher's box that is supposedly being enforced this season. It stated that, in conjunction with efforts...

WELLS ITCHIN' TO FACE YANKS

TORONTO - He tried his best to paint tomorrow night at the Stadium as just another game, but the Bronx Boomer always has been better at painting strikes that platitudes,...

TEFLON DAVE FEELS HEAT

CLEAR a path. Here comes Teflon Dave to the rescue. The question is, who does Dave Checketts think he is saving? The Knicks? Or himself? Truth is, he cannot save...

TORRE HOPES DARRYL DIDN'T DO DRUGS

Instead of coming to his defense, or blasting him, George Steinbrenner refused yesterday to discuss Darryl Strawberry's arrest last week from drug possession and solicitation of prostitution."I'm not going to...

'CHECK' THIS OUT: GRUNFELD'S GONE! GM CHECKETTS REASSIGNS ERNIE

"I'm upset about the record, but I'm also upset about things like the Larry Johnson incident, things like Latrell's agent ripping Jeff and Ernie in [yesterday's Post]. I'm not going...

'CHECK' THIS OUT: GRUNFELD'S GONE! VAN GUNDY, EWING SHOULD BE NEXT ONES OUT THE DOOR

DAVE CHECKETTS came down from his Teflon throne yesterday declaring the need for the Knicks to be unified and vowing to fix whatever is wrong before the start of next...

MCCARROLL PICKS 'CUSE

Mark McCarroll, a 6-10 senior center from Christ the King in Queens, said he has committed to play for Syracuse next season. ''I like the coaching staff,'' said McCarroll, who...

CHECKETTS NOW HAS WHAT RILEY WANTED

IT'S GOOD to be the king, Pat Riley had to be thinking last night from his throne a safe 1,300 miles away from Madison Square Garden. Dave Checketts, who would...

FURIOUS JOHNSON FIRES BACK

Larry Johnson was incredulous yesterday when asked about his alleged "flashing" of a Knicks' public relations woman in the team's locker room a couple of weeks ago. The story, which...

ROCKET NEED NOT BE AT HIS BEST TO WIN

NEITHER Roger Clemens nor the Yankees are winning in a style befitting their starry pedigree. Fourteen games and four Clemens starts into the season, it remains hard to determine if...

ROGER STREAK HITS SWEET 17

Yankees 4 Rangers 2 Good stuff, bad stuff, on his game or not, it hardly seems to matter to Roger Clemens anymore. The Rocket steps to the mound, toes the...

NETS LOOK TO '99

Nets 99 Bulls 87 With the season realistically over so long ago, the Nets plod through what is left of this misery with thoughts on next season. That's one reason...

HARPER: JAX TO KNICKS IS BUNCH OF BULL

So the scenario many envision to save the Knicks, no doubt, involves a total house cleaning and Phil Jackson riding into town and leading them back to prominence as a...

MASATO'S MESS ; METS FALL AS YOSHII BLOWS 4-RUN LEAD

CINCINNATI - As awful as John Franco's ninth inning Tuesday night might have been, Masato Yoshii's fourth inning last night was far, far worse. Franco gave up only one run...

AMAZIN'S ZONING IN ON RULE

MET NOTES CINCINNATI - Baseball's effort to change the strike zone is expanding just like the zone. The commissioner's office sent a memo to clubs about adhering to the new...