April 16, 1999
QVC TIES THE KNOT - GOES ON A $15M WALK DOWN AISLE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe marriage between QVC and The Knot isn't a match made in heaven - but one carved in cyberspace. QVC Inc. said it would make a $15 million investment in...
CHOCO-HOLICS MOURN MALLOMAR SEASON'S END
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Catsimatidas is ready for summer. It's not that he's cleaned the barbecue or taken out the patio furniture. He's stocked up on Mallomars. "I'm gonna have Mallomars all year,"...
ARE DAY TRADERS SAVING THE DAY ON WALL STREET?
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAY what you want about people who do nothing all day except trade their stocks, but say this - they are saving Wall Street right now. "Day traders" have been...
TRADING FRENZY DOUBLES PROFIT AT SCHWAB & CO.
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amDespite doubling its profit in the last year, the stock of Charles Schwab & Co. plummeted, dragging down other online brokers. Schwab stock plunged 143/4 or 10.3 percent to 123...
PRICE-FIXING, CONFLICTS ON AMEX ALLEGED
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe American Stock Exchange is facing sweeping allegations of rampant price-fixing, illegal trading and conflicts of interest by top traders and executives. A whistle-blower, who had tried and failed to...
PINK-SLIP BARBIE - BARAD SLASHES JOBS TO GET OFF HOT SEAT
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amBarbie the job slayer. Mattel Chairman Jill Barad is slashing 3,000 jobs, or 10 percent of the toy maker's work force, in an effort to get herself off the hot...
CONFECTION IS A CULTURAL ICON TO SOME SWEET-TOOTHED CELEBS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMallomars are so entrenched in our culture that they're stars not only in supermarkets across the country but also inmovies, television and books. Billy Crystal, a New Yorker who could...
NEW ROLE MAY 'FORCE' A CHANGE IN HIS IMAGE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAMUEL L. Jackson has had a hard time shaking the image of the wacko character that made him an overnight sensation in "Pulp Fiction." As the ruthless, Bible-quoting hit man...
'A HUNDRED' BAD IN TOO MANY WAYS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amA GNES Varda's 1995 tribute to cinema's first 100 years, "A Hundred and One Nights," is a shallow indulgence. She gathers a "That's Entertainment"-style collection of famous clips and presents...
TV TICKER
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amHelen back Veteran UPI White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas tells Jane Pauley on tonight's ''Dateline/People Magazine'' (9 p.m. on Ch.4) that she believes all presidents ''shaded the truth.'' Thomas,...
TRIBUTE FOR LATE CHEF
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amPATRICK Clark will be remembered at a gala celebration of his life and cuisine Monday at New York City Technical College. The popular chef of Tavern on the Green, who...
DON'T BOTHER TO OPEN 'YOUR EYES'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am'OPEN Your Eyes (Abre los Ojos)'' is yet another sci-fi variation on the ''what is reality?'' theme so popular these days. While this comparatively modest Spanish import shares the same...
'THE VIEW'S' RISING STAR ACTING DIVA DESPERATE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amDivas never crown themselves. They leave that to their worshippers. DIVAS are not real-life creatures. They are larger than life. Which brings us to "The View" and Star Jones, a...
GEAR GETS IN WAY OF FELD BALLET
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amELIOT Feld's company Ballet Tech, now in the midst of its annual five-week spring season at the Joyce Theater, sometimes reminds me of the 18th-century poet Thomas Gray's famous comment...
RAPPING WITH NAS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amIN the world of hip-hop, there are MCs who come off as tougher, there are rappers who boast more, yet 25-year-old Nas has held on to his street credibility as...
MORONIC TALE OF MORMON-COUNTRY 'PUNK' JUST JUNK
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amDESPITE some funny set pieces, "SLC Punk!" just doesn't work. It's virtually plotless, Matthew Lillard gives an amazingly shallow and unconvincing performance as the film's main character, and it's filled...
WORST OF 'FRIENDS'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amFRIENDS & Lovers'' is a leading contender for the worst movie of the spring, if not the year. The terrible, tinny, disco ballad that accompanies the opening titles - and...
'PARK' GOES SOUTH IN SEASON OPENER - KENNY AND KIDS GET KILLED IN NEW RATINGS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amOH my god, they killed Kenny in the ratings! Comedy Central's smash cable cult hit "South Park" tanked in its third-season opener on April 7, raising eyebrows and causing concern...
LOVER'S LANE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amSPRING is fire-sale season at the studios, a period informally reserved for the unloading of rotten movies that have been moldering on the shelf and are approaching expiration date. Warner...
MULLING A MUSICAL? REFRAIN
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amTONE deaf, if occasionally charming, the new French musical ''Jeanne and the Perfect Guy'' has pretensions to saying something about AIDS. But it works mainly as a hymn to bralessness...
LETDOWN? THAT'S 'LIFE'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amHOW'S ''Life''? Not so hot. The dream-team comedy pairing Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, last paired in 1992's disappointing ''Boomerang,'' again proves a major letdown. Murphy and Lawrence are two...
PRETTY AS A PICTURE BUT 'HIDEOUS' AS A FILM
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amTHE lovely-looking but slow-moving and undramatic "Hideous Kinky" works wonderfully as a photographic love letter to a sanitized, superficial Morocco but not at all as a movie. Set in the...
UNPLEASANT 'VIEW'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amFOR a while "Amy's View," the latest arrival on Broadway from prolific English playwright David Hare, looks like a drawing-room comedy from the days of Somerset Maugham or Noel Coward...
WHO'LL BE BUFFY'S NEW BEAU?
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amTHE View" and its long-running search for a new twentysomething host is suddenly old news. The most-coveted spot on TV is the as-yet-uncast role as Buffy's new boyfriend on The...
'ALLY' GOING THROUGH A STAGE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: 'ALLY McBeal" star Calista Flockhart wants to do off-Broadway this spring. But she's driving producers crazy with her scheduling demands. At one point, the skinny-minnie diva thought she'd do...
'EYEWITNESS' TO A REMARKABLE REUNION
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am'EYEWITNESS News" threw a wild 30th-birthday bash last night - drawing a one-time-only crowd that read like who's who of local New York TV. "Only 'Eyewitness News' could get this...
ETHNIC RAGE HITS N.Y.
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amA 16-year-old Albanian student in Queens was busted yesterday for attacking a Serbian schoolmate in a fight over the war in Kosovo, police said. Kushtrim Blaku hit Yros Kecman, 15,...
UNLUCKY IN LOVE, LOBBYING OR LINGUINE? ASK SEN. AL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amSenator Pothole has morphed into Dear Abby. Alfonse D'Amato's debut as an advice-giver has him offering tips about everything from lip lock to a lying president. The former Republican senator's...
DRUG THUG GETS 20 YRS. IN DEATH OF HERO COP
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amAs thousands marched against police brutality in lower Manhattan yesterday, more than 50 cops filled a Bronx courtroom where a drug-dealer got 20 years for his role in the killing...
RUDY & DONNA RAKED IN 500G, TAX RETURNS SHOW
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and his wife, Donna Hanover, made more than $500,000 last year - double what they took in during Giuliani's first year in office. Tax returns released by the...
DARRYL PLAYED US FOR FOOLS, AND WE FELL FOR IT
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am"No matter what you go through, no matter what you have to deal with, believing in God is what I believe in and my wife believes in and that's the...
CANNIBAL SHOWS NO REMORSE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amA confessed cannibal broke down on the witness stand yesterday and sobbed about his mother's death - but never mentioned his teen-age victim's name. The victim's father said Albert Fentress'...
BUSH WOULD WALLOP GORE IN RACE FOR PREZ: POLL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amBush right now would whip Gore by 58 to 32 percent, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Texas Gov. George W. Bush's status as the 2000 presidential front-runner has...
SHRINKS BLAME CANCER ANXIETY
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amWorries about cancer and the pressures of trying to make a comeback may have pushed Darryl Strawberry back into cocaine, experts say. "Darryl Strawberry's stress is compounded by the fact...
CROSSING GUARD HURT SAVING KID FROM CAR
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amA heroic Queens crossing guard jumped in front of an oncoming car yesterday to save a third-grader on his way to school. Joan Gasparro, a 60-year-old grandmother, was struck on...
U.S. PILOT EXPLAINS LETHAL BLUNDER
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amBRUSSELS - The U.S. pilot who dropped the bomb that killed scores of Albanian Kosovar refugees told investigators he believed he was aiming at a military convoy that was burning...
FRIENDS SAY HIS WIFE 'TOOK IT BADLY'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe wife of fallen Yankee Darryl Strawberry, endured a personal agony - in private and in public - one day after her husband was busted in Tampa on drug and...
AIRSTRIKE KILLED REFUGEES, U.S. ADMITS - BUT CLINTON LAYS BLAME ON SLOBBO
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - NATO admitted yesterday that a U.S. F-16 accidentally bombed a refugee convoy in Kosovo - but President Clinton accused the Serbs of using civilians as "human shields." "You...
INNOCENT ME TAKES WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amIT WAS too warm to wear an overcoat yesterday, but a raincoat would have been perfectly appropriate for my latest assignment. Here I was standing in the glorious Jacob K....
D.C. ON FULL TERROR ALERT OVER NATO GATHERING
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The war in Yugoslavia has turned next week's NATO summit in Washington into a security nightmare, law-enforcement officials said yesterday. ''We have advised all the appropriate agencies to...
CRAZED UTAH GUNMAN KILLS 2 IN MORMON LIBRARY RAMPAGE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMan fitting gunman's description "said he was very angry at the church." TV STATION EMPLOYEE COLLEEN MIRCI A deranged gunman blasted away inside a Mormon library in Utah yesterday -...
PALS: DON'T GIVE UP ON HIM ; STUNNED TEAMMATES STRUGGLE FOR ANSWERS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry's stunned teammates said yesterday they can't make sense of his bizarre sex-and-drugs arrest - but wished him the best, no matter what. "I hope his career isn't over....
B'KLYN JEWISH SCHOOL STOLE MILLION$: PROBER
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amA rabbi masterminded a 20-year scheme that put scores of Hasidic housewives on the Board of Ed payroll for no-show jobs - costing taxpayers more than $6 million, officials said...
JONES SHOEHORNS X-RATED QUESTIONS INTO MARLA TRIAL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe Marla Maples shoe burglary trial turned X-rated yesterday on the final day of her grueling cross-examination by her footwear-fetishist ex-publicist, Chuck Jones. Jones, acting as his own lawyer against...
KIDNAP FEAR LEAVES MOMS 'AFRAID TO SLEEP'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amTIRANA, Albania KOSOVAR women here have been through hell and back. They have lost countless children to death as Serbs forced them from their hometown of Drenica. Now, mothers clutching...
NEXT GENERATION GETS AN EDUCATION IN PROTEST
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMELODY COOPER was a 4-year-old in a stroller when whites pelted her black mother with rocks because they were in the wrong New Jersey neighborhood. "All I remember is my...
'THIS COULD RUIN MY CAREER' - COPS: DISGRACED YANK BEGGED US FOR A BREAK
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amTroubled Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry begged the Florida cops who busted him to give him a break - telling them that a cocaine and prostitution arrest could "ruin my career,"...
TRAGEDY PROVIDES SERBS A PROPAGANDA COUP
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - NATO's lethal goof in firing on Kosovar civilians is a propaganda bonanza for the Serbs - and a warning of the risks of trying to conduct war...
THOUSANDS ON THE MARCH - WANT NYPD PLACED UNDER FED WATCHDOG
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThousands of banner-waving protesters poured across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday for a Manhattan rally condemning the killing of street peddler Amadou Diallo and police brutality. In a theme repeated throughout...
STRAWBERRY STRIKES OUT - HE'S BLOWN 'LAST CHANCE' GIVEN HIM BY BOSS GEORGE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amTAMPA. NOTHING in sports gripped me quite the way Darryl Strawberry sitting on a 3-and-1 fastball did. Not a Jason Williams no-look pass. Not a crush-every-dimple-of-it Tiger Woods drive. Nothing....
CRAZED UTAH GUNMAN, 71, KILLS 2 IN MORMON LIBRARY RAMPAGE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMan fitting gunman's description "said he was very angry at the church." TV STATION EMPLOYEE COLLEEN MIRCI A 71-year-old schizophrenic with a gun blasted away inside a Mormon genealogical library...
TRAGEDY IS MORE 'GROUNDS' TO SEND IN TROOPS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - NATO's lethal goof in firing on Kosovar civilians is a propaganda bonanza for the Serbs - and a warning of the risks of trying to conduct war...
SHAKEN WIFE TAKES HEARTBREAK FLIGHT
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry's agonized wife flew to Florida yesterday to be at his side, family friends said. "She took it really badly," a friend said of Charisse Strawberry. "It was more...
SUSPECT NABBED IN SEX ATTACK ON GIRL AT SCHOOL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amAn intruder at a Bronx middle school was charged yesterday with sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl during an after-school program, police said. Steve Jones, 22, was arrested shortly after the...
COLLINS EAGER TO BURY PAST; COLLINS: PROBLEMS ARE BEHIND ME
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amCecil Collins is on his third chance, and The Man with a Past, whom many consider the third best back behind Ricky Williams and Edgerrin James in tomorrow's draft, swears...
GREAT IDENTITY CRISIS - GRETZKY'S THE FIRST STAR NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH ONE TEAM
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amGretzky is the first journeyman All-Time Greatest. REGARDLESS of whether Wayne Gretzky retires Sunday or in a week of Sundays, he holds a sign-of-the-times distinction that can only be equaled...
DEVILS RETURN TO REALITY
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amFrom the sublime to the nearly-subpar, the Devils return from their record-tying exploits as visitors to a home where they are merely middle-of-the-road. Ruining a decade-long streak, the Devils will...
GOTTA SNEAK UP ON WILY BONEFISH
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amBIG PINE KEY, Fla. - From Key Largo to Key West, anglers from all over the country flock to this string of tiny mangrove islands in search of bonefish, tarpon,...
SLOW GOING FOR 'STEPHEN'
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amStephen Got Even, whose 2-length victory in the first stakes race of his career, the Gallery Furniture at Turfway Park March 27, propelled him to a prime ranking among contenders...
SHAKY HOUSTON CAN'T FIND GROOVE; SHAKY HOUSTON MISSING TARGET
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - Look in Allan Houston's eyes and you see confusion. He's a scorer who has lost his rhythm and doesn't know quite how to act. He was supposed...
LEWDNESS CHARGE FOR MCILVAINE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Mets general manager Joe McIlvaine was charged with public lewdness in Florida this week after cops said he sunbathed nude on a public beach. McIlvaine - now special assistant...
GIANTS HAVE GOT BIG APPETITE - LEFT GUARD NEEDED TO BEEF UP OFFENSE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe need is certainly there. Let others go for the glamor positions. The Giants in the first round of tomorrow's NFL Draft will be focused on selecting a wide body...
SHAMED STRAWBERRY HAS LOST HIS GOOD NAME
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amDARRYL Strawberry did not need another home run. Did not need another Stadium standing ovation. Did not need one last great moment as "Dar-rylll." Because in four years as a...
PROBE WINNER OF ARK. DERBY; ARKANSAS DERBY WINNER UNDER PROBE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThere's been an electrifying development on the road to the Kentucky Derby. If you were shocked when 30-1 shot Valhol, who'd never won a race in his life, romped by...
FRANCO'S 400 DIDN'T COME EASY
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe achievement was as much a testament to durability as ability. John Franco had to survive the rigors of 15 years of big-league pitching on his arm, the effects of...
OROSCO SAD FOR STRAW
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am"Who knew how things would work out? Life goes on. Time goes by. Who knows what will happen to anybody?" JESSE OROSCO Jesse Orosco and Darryl Strawberry owned this town...
IRABU STUCK IN HOLDING PEN - YANKS MUST DECIDE IF THEY'LL UNLOAD TOAD
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am"He'll have to work his way back in via the bullpen." GM BRIAN CASHMAN The Din of Darryl had momentarily passed, and the subject for interim manager Don Zimmer switched...
LA GUARDIA COACH LANDS ON HIS FEET
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amLa Guardia 8 Humanities 7 Joe Marini was given a second chance. And to get it all he had to do was cross West 65th St. Three years after being...
'HE HAD COME SO FAR' - CONE: STRAW SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am'I wonder what I could have done to be a better friend to him." DAVID CONE Cancer rocks the Yankees a lot harder than cocaine possession and offering money for...
MCMICHAEL GETS A SHOT IN THE ARM
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES An MRI conducted yesterday on reliever Greg McMichael revealed a partial thickness tear of the right rotator cuff. He underwent the MRI at the Hospital for Special Surgery...
FED-UP LAKERS DUMP RODMAN
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Kurt Rambis, exasperated by Dennis Rodman's disregard for the rules, established a new edict for the Lakers yesterday: Better Never Than Late. Rodman, the last guy to...
JET FANS FIGHT ANXIETY ON 57TH STREET
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe Jets' 1999 first-round draft pick is ... Bill Parcells. That's right. If you're a Jet fan and you find yourself getting antsy as tomorrow's NFL Draft first day unfolds...
WAYNE'S REIGN DOWN TO THE FINAL HOURS - OFFICIAL WORD IS LIKELY TODAY
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe press conference promises to be even more emotional for the Great One than the famous "99 Tears" media briefing that he endured in Edmonton Aug. 9, 1988. KANATA, Ont....
CONE COMES TO DARRYL'S AID
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amWhile a team of lawyers went to bat for Darryl Strawberry's legal rights in Tampa yesterday, David Cone started the ball rolling on Strawberry's behalf through the Players Association. "Nobody...
MSG WOULD AIR SUNDAY'S FINALE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amShould Wayne Gretzky retire Sunday, these are the local TV options: 1) Fox-Ch. 5, with exclusive NHL rights for Sunday afternoon, has given the entire Penguins-Rangers broadcast rights, including pregame...
BROSIUS HEADED FOR DL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00am"Not much has changed with the swelling. But I don't think it will be an extended thing." SCOTT BROSIUS Hobbled third baseman Scott Brosius was expected to be placed on...
IN CANADA, HE'S SIMPLY LARGER THAN LIFE
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amKANATA, Ont. - As the days dwindle down to a precious few, most Canadians would rather see Quebec go than Wayne Gretzky. Even if the Ontario-born, and Alberta-exalted, Gretzky actually...
MCMICHAEL GETS A SHOT IN THE ARM AFTER MRI
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES An MRI conducted yesterday on reliever Greg McMichael revealed a partial thickness tear of the right rotator cuff. He underwent the MRI at the Hospital for Special Surgery...
AMAZIN'S LET WIN STREAK MELT AWAY
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amMarlins 11 Mets 4 It would be easy to say the Mets' pitching let them down in last night's 11-4 loss to Florida, but it wouldn't tell the whole story....
CANADA SAYS FAREWELL TO ITS NATIONAL HERO
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amKANATA, Ont. - Most Canadians would rather see Quebec go than Wayne Gretzky. Even if the alternative is extending his career in the city many Canadians always dreaded their game's...
OROSCO FEELS SAD FOR STRAWBERRY
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amJesse Orosco and Darryl Strawberry owned this town in 1986. One was the closer, the other was the slugger for the World Champion Mets. Their futures were as bright as...
CONE AIDS DARRYL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amWhile a team of lawyers went to bat for Darryl Strawberry's legal rights in Tampa yesterday, David Cone started the ball rolling on Strawberry's behalf through the Players Association. "Nobody...
DAVID AIDING DARRYL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amWhile a team of lawyers went to bat for Darryl Strawberry's legal rights in Tampa yesterday, David Cone started the ball rolling on Strawberry's behalf through the Players Association. "Nobody...
BRADY BATTERED BY YANKS
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees and Orioles are developing a relationship that can be best compared to that which exists between the Knicks and the Miami Heat. The weapon of choice is the...
OROSCO SAD FOR DARRYL
April 16, 1999 | 4:00amJesse Orosco and Darryl Strawberry owned this town in 1986. One was the closer, the other was the slugger for the World Champion Mets. Their futures were as bright as...