November 14, 1999
JIMMY'S GOT RHYTHM
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amGRAMMY-winning record- producer-turned-music mogul Jimmy Iovine does not exactly fit the corporate mold. There's Iovine, standing on stage at a press conference in Midtown Manhattan last week, surrounded by some...
BURNED INVESTORS MAY GET THEIR DAY IN COURT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amMORGAN Stanley Dean Witter Chairman Philip Purcell could face a big come-down soon. A 10-year-old legal mess Purcell inherited in his acquisition of Dean Witter could wreck Wall Street's protection...
DONNA KARAN, BILL GATES SR. DO KATMANDU
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amKATMANDU is all the rage these days. Fashionista Donna Karan was there the week before last with a small group of friends on a luxury tour arranged with the help...
UNSAFE HARBOR LOOKS TO TRADESCAPE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amHARBOR Securities is looking for a deal. The firm, which has proprietary traders as well as day-trading customers, is talking about a possible partnership or buyout with Tradescape.com, a trading-software...
AMATEUR BOXERS LINE UP TO BEAT LAWYERS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWHAT do Steve Martin and Robert Rubin's son Phil have in common? They'll both be strapping on boxing gloves and doing their best to beat a lawyer senseless at this...
DOCS, BEAUTY PROS ARE PARTNERING TO PLUMP UP PROFITS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe worlds of beauty and medicine are blurring, as makeup and medical practitioners look for inspiration - and profits - in each others' businesses. At the SoHo Integrated Health Center,...
MICROSOFT: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amW HEN it comes to Microsoft, my jury is still out. I don't know what to make of the protean beast of Redmond. On the one hand, as a chronic...
MY FONDEST 'AFFAIR': WHEN WE WERE TABLOID-TV KINGS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amJOHNNY Lester had just gotten out of the slammer after 13 years for canceling the ticket of a guy who insulted his wife. He wasn't a victim of nightmares in...
MEALS & DEALS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amSamalita's Tortilla Factory 1429 Third Ave. (between 80th and 81st streets) (212) 737-5070 Fresh from a three-month renovation, Samalita's Tortilla Factory is again adding sizzle to the Upper East Side,...
75 YEARS OF COLUMBIA CLASSICS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amColumbia Pictures, whose 75th anniversary the Film Forum is celebrating with a two-month-long tribute, owes its existence to one man, Harry Cohn. The son of an immigrant tailor, Cohn (with...
SUNNY STARS REVIVE 'RAINMAKER'
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe good news about N. Richard Nash's "The Rainmaker," currently revived by the Roundabout Theater Company at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, is that it's better than you might have feared...
TABLE HOPPER
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amCello 53 E. 77th St. (between Madison and Park avenues) (212) 517 1200 While "Cello" is an Italian word, the multi-level restaurant is French - without the attitude one usually...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: KATHY IRELAND
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amSupermodel Kathy Ireland is more than a pretty face -she's also a savvy businesswoman. Her swimwear, accessories and workout clothes are selling like hotcakes, and she has one of the...
BOND AND BEAUTIFUL: 'THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH' LEADING LADY DENISE RICHARDS TALKS ABOUT BEING THE LATEST LOVE OF 007'S LIFE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00am'I don't think a single other role changes a man quite so much as Bond," Sean Connery once confided to the Sunday Mirror. "It's a cross, a privilege, a joke,...
TECH IT OUT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe Siemens Pocket Reader is a scanner that looks like a chunky highlighter pen with an LCD screen on one side. Aimed at road warriors and students - those who...
BIG GUY'S BEAT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00am"Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics," by Jack Germond, Random House, 288 pages, $25.95.( Long before Jack Germond achieved modern American immortality - characterization on...
GUY-GERCOUNTER
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amNAME: Alexander Pacion AGE: 32 SPOTTED: Prince Street, SoHo HOMETOWN: Manhattan RESIDENCE: Williamsburg, Brooklyn HEIGHT: 5'9'' WEIGHT: 165 lbs. OCCUPATION: Art director PERSONAL CLOTHING STYLE: I define my style as...
IT'S NO PARTY WHEN KIDS OD ON LEGAL DRUGS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amClub-hoppers and college kids looking for a high are ending up in the hospital as a dangerous - but legal - drug ravages New York nightlife, a new report says....
ROB VICTIM JAILED FOR SHOOTING TORMENTOR
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amTom Durden was an easy mark - ripped off dozens of times, he says, by the same three teenagers over a four-month period. But when Durden finally fought back, he...
Y2K-EVE TICKET SALES JUST NOT TAKING OFF FOR AIRLINES
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWhether it's the flat champagne, the cramped seats or Y2K-bug fears, most Americans don't want to fly on New Year's Eve - forcing airlines to cut back on flights nationwide....
QUAKE TOLL SOARS IN TURKEY'S RUBBLE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe death toll in quake-ravaged Turkey climbed to 362 yesterday as rescuers found just a handful of survivors - including a pregnant woman whose hand had to be amputated to...
AFGHANS DEFY DEADLINE TO HAND OVER BIN LADEN
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Afghanistan has until the end of today to turn over terrorist Osama bin Laden - or face international economic sanctions. "There's not much more to talk about. They...
LEGAL EAGLES MAY GO WAY OF DODO
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWhat's the difference between a computer and a lawyer in the next millennium? Computers will work. "Computers and the Internet are going to do to the lawyers [what] the printing...
SIMULATOR TO RECREATE LAST SECONDS OF FLT. 990
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBaffled investigators will try to recreate the final terrifying moments of EgyptAir Flight 990 by feeding data from one of its "black boxes" into a Boeing flight simulator. The National...
EQUALITY'S 'SUPREME' CHAMPION
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLawyer Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) helped bring the gavel down on racial segregation when he persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to declare "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional. After the famous...
FIRST LADY: I KEPT SILENT FOR BILL
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amHillary Clinton, dogged by the flap over her silence during an anti-Israeli outburst last week, defended herself yesterday by saying she was acting as her husband's goodwill ambassador in the...
SERVICE AT THEWALDORF IS A 'CLASS' ACT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThey don't have a fight song, and there's nary a long-legged cheerleader in the place. But each spring and fall, the venerable Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's concierge "school" churns out another group...
TURKEY QUAKE TOLL SOARS : AT LEAST 374 DEAD, HUNDREDS MISSING
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe death toll in quake-ravaged Turkey climbed to 374 today as rescuers found just a handful of survivors - including a pregnant woman whose hand had to be amputated to...
SECRET PROCESS GIVES GEMS CROWNING GLORY
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe revolutionary Pegasus process recreates nature's extremely high heat and high-pressure conditions to transform a discolored diamond into a flawless gem, according to its inventors at General Electric. "We have...
U.N. PUNISHES AFGHANS FOR HARBORING BIN LADEN
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The United Nations slapped sanctions against Afghanistan today after ignoring its last-minute plea for more time in turning over terrorist Osama bin Laden. The U.N. is demanding that...
NAVY BRINGS UP THE LAST BLACK BOX FROM FLT. 990
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe Navy last night recovered the crucial cockpit voice recorder from doomed Egyptair Flight 990 - and investigators hope it will help unlock the baffling mystery of the plane's bizarre...
BRIDGE-JUMPER DROPS IN ON WEDDING
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amNothing could stop a group of wedding guests from partying on a cruise boat last night - not even the boat crew's rescue of a man who'd jumped off the...
CHUCK'S GROWN POUND-FOOLISH
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON- Sometimes success goes to your waist. In his first year as a U.S. senator, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has picked up a lot of accolades for his hard work -...
ENHANCING THE STONE HAS JEWELERS WRINGING HANDS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amA top-secret new process that transforms dud diamonds into glittering gems will hit the market around the New Year, The Post has learned. The new technology has thrown the jewelry...
DEAR RUDY: THANKS FOR THE RIDE - BUT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amDEAR Mr. Mayor, I have a simple request, and not to be presumptuous, but I think I speak for something of a majority of African-Americans when I say this: Please,...
KOSHER KIBITZERS SAY UP WITH VIAGRA
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amHere's the long and the short of it: it has a non-kosher ingredient, but Jews can take it anyhow - if they're married. Viagra contains "a stearate which is non-kosher...
A SHORT HISTORY OF JURISPRUDENCE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00am1639: During a trial, Thomas Lechford speaks to a jury outside a Massachussets courthouse and becomes America's first disbarred attorney. 1735: New York Gazette editor John Peter Zenger is acquitted...
WHY WE'RE SEEING LESS OF RUDY! : NEW DIET PROVES A REAL FAT-BUSTER
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani is tilting to the right - the right foods, that is. After shedding 35 pounds last year, Hizzoner has pulled off an even more impressive feat this year:...
CITY LANDMARKS PANEL SHOULD CUT THE CREPE!
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amYOUR average New York deli nowadays has all the charm and personality of Penn Station. But a splendid little deli in Brooklyn has a stylish Grand Central kind of thing...
SARTORIAL HERO TAKING A FLYING LEAP BAT-WARD
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amHoly Bat-briefs! The Caped Crusader of Gotham City will be sporting a new "retro" look for the millennium - he'll be wearing shorts over his tights once again, The Post...
RING-A-DING-DING : JERRY'S GIRL GETS ICE-ING ON THE CAKE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amJessica Sklar sported a hefty hot rock from funnyman fiance Jerry Seinfeld as she hit the town yesterday - lunching, shopping and trying to duck paparazzi. And as The Post's...
ARAFAT FLAP HOUNDING HILLARY
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe flap over Hillary Clinton's silence during an anti-Israeli outburst by Yasser Arafat's wife continued yesterday as the first lady wrapped up her four-day trip to the Middle East. Before...
RUSSIA IN CHECHEN BOMB BLITZ
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amRussia turned up the heat on Chechnya yesterday, battering the rebel province with an unrelenting 24-hour bombing blitz and pushing troops toward the capital amid terrified villagers. Russian planes flew...
MEMORABILIA MAVENS ARE BETTING ON BRADLEY
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe NBA superstars gathering at Madison Square Garden today to throw their weight behind Bill Bradley aren't the only ones hoping to see the hoops legend take the White House...
HOME AT LAST
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amSpree's finally ready to settle down in NY WHEN they come to clean the room of their famous guest, the maids at the Residence Inn in White Plains usually encumber...
PRIMEAU'S STILL HIGH ON RANGER WISH LIST
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Rangers, now considering a pitch for Washington's 37-year-old playmaking center Adam Oates, have of course inquired again about Carolina's 27-year-old power pivot Keith Primeau. The cost, though, as set...
GILL'S HAD FILL OF NETS' LOSING
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe frustration after just six games has filled Kendall Gill to the brim and become as much a part of him as the double consonants in his name. It is...
METS, YANKS TO WATCH JAPANESE RELIEVER
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amKazuhiro Sasaki will make a pitch for big major-league money next week, with the Yankees and Mets getting the opening view of the best closer in Japan. Sasaki will throw...
CURTIS DEFENSE OFF TO BIG START
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amOn two different drives yesterday, Sheepshead Bay had the ball inches from the goal line and touchdowns seemed imminent. Both times, Curtis turned the Sharks away. "That was beyond even...
TIME FOR GIANTS TO SHOW HEAVY METTLE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe most important game the Giants play this month is next Sunday's clash with the Redskins at Jack Kent Cooke Stadium. It will be a battle for first place in...
VG KNOWS KNICKS IN DOUBLE TROUBLE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amDrafting a scouting report on the Knicks is becoming a simple process, until the club wants to do something about it. Double-team Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell at all times...
LATRELL CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER PIECE OF PJ
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell is going to try to break Wilt Chamberlain's record Saturday night in Golden State. At least that's what he told his best buddy on the Knicks, Marcus Camby....
ALLAN RECALLS 'THE SHOT'
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amAllan Houston finally got to see The Shot alone, without teammates or friends or journalists asking him to describe the play. It was during the summer at Purchase College. He...
JORDAN'S STILL GOT GAME: BUT NEXT BIG PLAY MIGHT COME AS NBA OWNER
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amI ONLY wanted to pose one question (so I lied) to the suave-looking, shiny-domed, broad-shouldered spectator sitting on Madison Square Garden's celebrity row for the Knicks-Bucks game last Monday night:...
VELAZQUEZ LEADS JOCKEY RACE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Velazquez holds a slim lead atop the New York jockey standings with 33 days of racing left in 1999. Velazquez has a record of 161-134-136 from 883 starts. Jorge...
MR. PERFECT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amNo. 3: LARSEN PITCHES PERFECT GAME IN WORLD SERIES THERE it was, as placed by coach Frank Crosetti for the Yankee starting pitcher every day: The baseball in Don Larsen's...
MICHIGAN RALLY STUNS VALLEY
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Michigan has won 794 football games in its long and illustrious history, more than any program in the nation. And while many have been more hyped...
THE BUCS MIGHT STOP HERE: METS MULL DEALING CEDENO FOR PIRATES' SCHMIDT OR RITCHIE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe Pirates like Roger Cedeno, and the Mets need more pitching. Can a deal be worked out? With a small army of advisers and scouts in Arizona to see some...
MIDNIGHT LINE ROLLS HOME
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amJerry Bailey took control at the start and never looked back with Midnight Line in winning the 43rd running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Long Island Handicap yesterday. Win For...
CAPITALS EXTEND DEVILS' SECOND-NIGHT SKID
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amCapitals 4 - Devils 2 WASHINGTON - You can't play the guy all the time forever. In his 18th NHL season, Scott Stevens remains one of the finest defensemen in...
MITCHELL TRIUMPHS ON UGLY UNDERCARD
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - The undercard was an ugly scene. The only fight worth noting was the WBA Super Lightweight Championship between Sharmba Mitchell and Elio Ortiz. Mitchell won a unanimous...
TWO DAYS LATER, REALITY SETS IN
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBlues 5 - Isles3 It was just 72 hours ago that a spirited Butch Goring was talking about the Islanders inching into the playoff picture. Two defeats later, the dejected...
IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT DEAD: DISGUSTED FANS CALL FOR MUCKLER'S NECK IN DISMAL LOSS TO BRUINS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBruins5Rangers2The Rangers have been bad other times this season, but never before had they seemed slower, smaller or more helpless than last night against the Bruins. The final score of...
HOKIES CLOBBER 'CANES, STAY IN NATIONAL TITLE HUNT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - There's a new beast in the East. The Virginia Tech Hokies are mentally strong, physically punishing and apply pressure in every phase of the game for 60...
THIS TIME, IT'S EVANDER WHO IS ROBBED
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Now, they are even. Eight months ago, Evander Holyfield got the benefit of a disgraceful and possibly criminal decision when two alleged fight judges named Jean Williams...
LENNOX RULES WORLD ON UNHOLY DECISION ; LEWIS' UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONSHIP IS EASILY DISPUTED
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - There is an undisputed world champion in the heavyweight ranks this morning. And there is controversy. Such is the way with boxing. There always appears to be...
STRAHAN HAS GOODS TO BE TV GIANT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amHE'S only 27 and he already has a job that pays him $32 million over four years. But you can smell his next job coming from a mile and a...
DEER YE! DEER YE! SEASON'S AT HAND
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE deer-hunting season through the southern tier of New York State opens a week from tomorrow, leaving hunters little time to get their acts in order. While the season has...
NASCAR PULLS A HIT-AND-RUN
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE colossal, unmitigated, unyielding greed of modern sports - all of them - is stunning, beyond revulsion. Consider that since 1981, NASCAR's steadiest TV home has been ESPN. Between ESPN...
RUTGERS MUST FILL BILLET ; BROTHER'S POINT MAN FOR KNIGHTS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBy all accounts, the younger brother is better. He is quicker. He is more of a classic point guard. And he can get his shot off faster without losing any...
LEWIS FIGHT IS LESSER OF EVANDER'S BATTLES
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Evander Holyfield was looking forward to his rematch with Lennox Lewis last night for all the conventional reasons - money, redemption, perhaps a tinge of revenge -...
BOXING ON THE BRINK : SPORT NEEDED GREAT NIGHT
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - After so many bad decisions and bad fights, boxing has been backed into a corner. You could see it in the eyes of all the sports movers...
IT'S A QUESTION OF GARBAGE : MUCK: RANGERS' NOT CONVERTING ON EASY ATTEMPTS
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amSo there on the ice at the conclusion of the morning skate was what up until this point has been laughingly referred to as the Ranger power play unit. There...
MORRISON INSISTS HE'S CLOSE TO TOP SHAPE
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON- The jaw squared, and the eyes flashed. Asking to be traded makes everything sound suspicious. Fresh off his first goal and three-point game of the season, Brendan Morrison was...
ISLES LOOK FOR QUICK REBOUND
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBurned beyond recognition by the Great Chicago Fire Friday night, the Islanders had less than 24 hours to recover. After suffering a humiliating 5-0 loss to the previously slumping Blackhawks...
VA. TECH'S VICK QUICK TO GAIN ATTENTION
November 14, 1999 | 5:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - Exactly how Michael Vick ended up at Virginia Tech remains somewhat baffling. Although he grew up in Newport News, Va., he didn't care much for the Hokies....