March 9, 1999
DILLER TO PAY $20M IN HUNT FOR OCTOBER FILMS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amBarry Diller's USA Networks is nearing a deal to acquire October Films from Universal Studios for some $20 million. The USA Networks chief may also acquire other Universal assets, including...
DIMON, WITH $30M 'CHUTE, GOES JOB-HUNTING
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Ousted Citigroup president Jamie Dimon can officially start his search for a new job, now that he's banged out a lucrative $30 million separation agreement with his old employer....
WHAT NOW FOR 'EYES WIDE SHUT'?
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amINEVITABLY, the first question on the lips of the film industry following the death Sunday of Stanley Kubrick was: What will happen to his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut"? Especially...
THE ODDS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am"Life Is Beautiful". 100-1 "The Thin Red Line"100-1 "Elizabeth"20-1 "Shakespeare In Love"2-1 "Saving Private Ryan"3-2 LET'S first dismiss the also-rans. Oscar loves "Life Is Beautiful" - and will prove it...
HOT COMEDY TEAM ON MERRY-GO-ROUND
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amFOX is in talks to hire the co-creator of Comedy Central's hit "Daily Show" to develop a new parody of network news magazines. Lizz Winstead, who helped to develop the...
BRIT HECKLERS MAKE MONICA CRY
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amPhotographers rifled off questions like, "Are you going to marry Mohamad al-Fayed?" and, "How does Bill rate in the sack?" LONDON - Monica Lewinsky fled in tears at her book-signing...
SUPREME COURT KOS MCVEIGH'S APPEAL - OKLA. CITY BOMBER'S DEATH SENTENCE STANDS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe Oklahoma City bomber will die by lethal injection. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld Timothy McVeigh's conviction and death sentence for the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people and injured...
1ST DRUNK IN CAR-FORFEIT ADMITS GUILT
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe first person to be busted in the city's DWI car-seizure crackdown pleaded guilty to the charge yesterday and faces up to three years behind bars. Francisco Almonte, 47, an...
DOCTORS HAIL GEORGE JONES AS CAR-CRASH 'MIRACLE MAN'
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amDoctors dubbed George Jones "the miracle man" yesterday as the famed country singer continued his remarkable recovery from life-threatening injuries suffered in a car crash. Jones, whom doctors described as...
LAWSUIT TARGETS DIALLO POLICE UNIT - RUDY, SAFIR DEFEND ELITE UNIT'S TACTICS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amCops in the NYPD's Street Crimes Unit routinely target blacks and Latinos and illegally search them, a civil-rights group charged yesterday. In a suit filed in Manhattan federal court, the...
KUBRICK 'HAPPY, JOKING' JUST BEFORE DEATH
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amLegendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was "happy, joking around and completely at peace" just hours before he died of a heart attack in his sleep, The Post has learned. "He was...
ELDERLY MAN IN MIDTOWN DEATH LEAP
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amA man distraught about his health jumped to his death from the roof of a 22-story Midtown building yesterday and nearly smashed into a pedestrian standing below, police said. Hans...
RUDYS AGREE TO WORK OUT DIFFERENCES ON VOUCHERS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew agreed yesterday to hash out the explosive issue of school vouchers in "conversations between two friends" - but neither backed off their opposing...
FELLOW PLAYERS REVERED THE LEGEND - MAN OF DIGNITY COMMANDED RESPECT
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amJoe DiMaggio carried himself the way a ballplayer, a man and a legend should, those who knew him best said yesterday. They recalled Joe D. as the most professional athlete...
JOE D. WAS A HUGE HIT PITCHING MR. COFFEE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amBaseball fans nicknamed Joe DiMaggio "The Yankee Clipper" - but millions more remember him as the pitchman for Mr. Coffee. DiMaggio's commercials for the automatic drip coffee maker and the...
SPOTLIGHT GAVE A JOLT TO JOE'S FIRST FAMILY
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amMarilyn Monroe wasn't Joe DiMaggio's first love. The Yankee Clipper was married for five years to another starlet, Dorothy Arnold - a union that produced a son who drifted out...
THESE DOGS SHOULD HAVE STAYING POWER
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amSleeper (n): (1) term used only in this month of madness to describe a non-top seed that shocks the office in the Big Dance, baby; a) longshot school that shocks...
MILESTONES IN LEGENDARY SLUGGER'S LIFE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amHere are some significant dates in the life of Joe DiMaggio: *Joseph Paul DiMaggio is born Nov. 25, 1914, in Martinez, Calif., the eighth of nine children, and fourth of...
STEW TO LEAVE ISLES, UNLESS ...
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amFROM Hoistgate to the hockey, so many miserable things have befallen the Islanders since August. Head coach Bill Stewart is not one of them. In fact, Stewart is the best...
YANKS SHUT DOWN ACHIN' ANDY FOR AT LEAST A WEEK
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Next Monday, at the earliest, the Yankees will know if they have a long-range problem with Andy Pettitte's left elbow. Pettitte will not throw a baseball off any...
AMAZIN' DISCOVERY ; SCHILLING: I'D WELCOME DEADLINE DEAL TO METS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - All Curt Schilling has ever wanted to do is beat the Mets. Now, for a change, the idea of joining them intrigues the National League's strikeout king. Schilling,...
TERRIFIC ADVICE FOR MET PITCHERS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am"In order to figure out how to win a game, I would first try and figure out, 'How can I lose this game?'"TOM SEAVER PORT ST. LUCIE - One of...
FOR JARVIS, SAMFORD NO JOKE WARNS AGAINST COMPLACENCY
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe joking ended yesterday morning for St. John's coach Mike Jarvis when he called Samford coach Jimmy Tillette. Actually, Jarvis thought he was returning a call from Tillette. It seems...
STRAW TO PLAY TOMORROW
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Not even a three-hour bus ride can kill Darryl Strawberry's passion to get into a game. While Strawberry was pointing toward the middle of the month to make...
S&P HAS MORNINGSTAR IN ITS CROSS HAIRS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am"Simply looking at past performance is ineffective given turnover in fund managers (and) growing volatility of the markets..."SANDY BRAGG, S&P's global mutual fund business WAR is breaking out at the...
GROVE HEDGES BETS - INTEL'S SETTLEMENT IS JUST THE BEGINNING
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amIntel boss Andy Grove removed one of the biggest thorns in his side with the 11th-hour settlement of his antitrust case, but the high-tech visionary isn't out of the woods...
TAKING WINGS AGAIN
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am*BAND ON THE RUN: THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Paul McCartney & Wings Capitol Records Of all the Wings projects, "Band on the Run" was easily the best, and the easiest...
HE LED THE LEAGUE IN HEART AND ART
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am"The greatest quality of him is there was no category in which you wouldn't put him among the very best." SPORTSWRITER LEONARD KOPPETT IN GAME 57, Ken Keltner picked two...
HOUSE MAY OBJECT TO GIS IN KOSOVO
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amHouse Speaker Dennis Hastert scheduled a vote for Thursday on sending U.S. troops to Kosovo - a step that amounts to a no-confidence motion on a key element of the...
SILVER COMES BETWEEN GOV AND MAYOR
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani were on the outs again yesterday - over a surprise move to kill the funding for Pataki's controversial 2-month-old probe of the city school system....
ON TRACK FOR DISASTER - TA: NEW SUBWAY CARS ARE SHODDY; EXCLUSIVE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe first batch of the city's expensive new subway cars look like lemons, The Post has learned. Transit Authority inspectors have issued a scathing assessment of the first of the...
O'CONNOR WEIGHING RETIREMENT
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor has told priests he may finally be hanging up his miter as archbishop of New York. O'Connor turns 80 next January - and church law prohibits cardinals...
CITY FEELING LOSS OF 'A GREAT HERO'
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe center-field flag at Yankee Stadium flew at half-mast yesterday above the territory where Joe DiMaggio once roamed - and fans flocking to the Stadium's Monument Park reflected on the...
TEEN CHARGED WITH SLASHINGS IN STATION
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amPolice arrested an 18-year-old student on charges of slicing two other teens with a razor in the subway yesterday - as more transit cops moved underground to combat a recent...
HOLLYWOOD DREAM TEAM: JOE D. & MARILYN'S ILL-FATED ROMANCE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amIt was a great love story - but a lousy marriage. Joe DiMaggio was the shy, recently retired superstar Yankee slugger more at home behind home plate than the plate...
LATER HIS PEN WAS MIGHTIER THAN HIS BAT
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amRevered baseball icon Joe DiMaggio will also be remembered for a legendary play off the field that jolted the sports collectibles industry and sent prices soaring. "He revolutionized pay-for-play autographs...
PALS WHO KNEW HIM SAID HEART WAS ALWAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amJoe DiMaggio's funeral will be held in his hometown of San Francisco - where old-timers yesterday remembered the skinny kid who went on to greatness. "This hurts me," said DiMaggio...
JONES PLANS SOME ALTERATIONS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Bobby Jones has had some fairly good years, but he thinks he can be a lot better. The Opening Day pitcher from a year...
ROGERS SHORT AND TO POINT
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - There comes a time in a man's life when he must hear about his shortcomings - unsolicited, of course. The words feel like a howitzer, shredding skin, bone...
BULLDOGS PREPARE TO RUN LIKE TIGERS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amPrinceton coach Bill Carmody and Samford coach Jimmy Tillette are a two-man mutual admiration society. When Tillette was an assistant at Samford in 1985, he saw the Tigers play in...
LAKER RECIPE: JUST ADD RICE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amCOMING OFF Sunday's inspiring victory in Utah, the Lakers have won seven straight and the next three should be a snap. They're playing harder and smarter since Dennis Rodman's arrival...
THREE N2K CO-FOUNDERS LOOKING AT $10M PAYDAY
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amIt must be music to their ears. The three co-founders of online music retailer N2K stand to share over $10 million after the merger with CDnow is completed. The deal...
MARTS EXTRA CHIPPER AFTER SETTLEMENT DEAL
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amIntel's decision to settle the federal government's antitrust suit spurred a blistering rally in the Nasdaq. The chip maker's $5 gain helped boost the Nasdaq 60.51 to 2,397.62, an advance...
LYCOS' HONCHO TO QUIT: MAJOR INVESTOR WANTS TO SEEK BETTER TERMS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am...If Wetherell were to step down, he could do as he pleases. The biggest investor in Internet giant Lycos is trying to scuttle the company's plans to merge with Barry...
TV TICKER
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amHarry situation The History Channel is getting into the awards frenzy. Remember Herodotus? Neither do we, but he's the basis for History Channel's Harry Awards, which will air on Thursday,...
GOP INTRODUCES ANTI-HILL BILL TO NIX SENATE BID
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Call it "Hillary's Law." Republican lawmakers have quietly introduced a bill aimed at barring First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton from running for the Senate in New York. The...
RUDY & GOV IN STREET BRAWL OVER HONOR
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's plan to rename Manhattan's West Side Highway for Joe DiMaggio was sidetracked yesterday when Gov. Pataki launched his own plan to rename a Bronx highway after the Yankee...
BUSH SAYS HE'D BAN ABORTION IF HE COULD
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Republican 2000 front-runner George W. Bush said yesterday he would like to ban abortions, but "America is not ready" for such a move. The remarks by the Texas...
POLS VOTE TO CUT CABBIES SOME SLACK
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amNoach Dear said the administration's crackdown has resulted in severe driver shortages - with some garages unable to lease 30 percent of their vehicles. A City Council committee voted yesterday...
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER DIMAGGIO
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amEven if another came along with the same unmistakable yet intangible blend of grace and talent and guts, could the world as it is today ever allow it to be?...
KITTLES SAYS HE'D LIKE TO STAY A NET
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Kerry Kittles' future as a Net could be determined by Saturday. Under collective bargaining rules, the Nets have until then to sign Kittles or they will have to...
BOMBERS CUTTING CORNERS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - After laying out close to $86 million for players, the Yankees are searching for ways to reduce expenses. Hot water, fresh towels and an impressive spread...
NO LONGER COUNTING ON 'EM, METS FINALLY MAY GET SOMETHING OUT OF IZZY, WILSON
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets do not need Jason Isringhausen and Paul Wilson. So they may finally get them. In the hopelessness of spring 1996, when their talent was...
WORSHIPING AT A SHRINE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA.THEY stood outside of Legends Field from early afternoon into the evening, staring at the blue and white plaque in the miniature monument park here. Little boys, grown men, young...
WAYNE'S WORLD LOOKS GRIM
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amAfter 10 days' rest, Gretzky's still in pain The bad news is just that. Ten days of rest have not made a difference for Wayne Gretzky, sidelined with a cervical...
A TOAST TO CHAMPAGNE ; BUBBLY PILGRIMAGE TO BIRTHPLACE OF WORLD'S NOBLEST BEVERAGE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amM AYBE we can't put time in a bottle. But mankind sure has figured out how to put good times in one. It's called Champagne. The very word suggests life's...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amShow your bloomers Put the pedal to the metal and check out these displays of flower power. *The Philadelphia Flower show runs now through Sunday and lovers of flora have...
AUSSIES CALLED BEACH BUMS FOR LOSING 'BAYWATCH' JOBS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Australian Prime Minister has blasted his countrymen for apparently losing "Baywatch" - which was planning to relocate to Australia's Gold Coast but could now be headed for Hawaii. Prime...
DONNA FREE SUNDAYS AS FOX CUTS 'GOOD DAY'
March 9, 1999 | 5:00am'GOOD Day New York's" Sunday edition is going off the air later this month - seriously curtailing co-host Donna Hanover's association with the station. The last Sunday edition of the...
'NIGHT' FALLS SHORT OF A PLAY THAT WORKS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review T HERE are two terrific "buses" in "Night Must Fall," the 1935 thriller being revived by the National Actors Theatre at the Lyceum. "Buses" is a term invented...
JETS JUST MISSED SADDAM: REPORT - CLOSE CALL FOR IRAQI LEADER
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein narrowly escaped a U.S. bombing raid last month, Egypt's official news agency reported yesterday. The claim by the MENA news service came on the 31st day of confrontations...
W'WATER SUE'S BACK
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton's Whitewater partner Susan McDougal yesterday said she fears a "personal vendetta" as she faces a new trial by prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "I think it has become...
CONGRESS TOLD: SWEEPSTAKES MAIL IS 'ABUSE ON OUR ELDERLY'
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - People whose parents were suckered by glitzy sweepstakes told Congress horror stories yesterday of trash bags stuffed with solicitations, endless subscriptions and junk prizes. Patti McElligott recounted how...
JURY CAN'T DECIDE IN CASE OF STARVED KID
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge declared a mistrial yesterday after a jury deadlocked on a murder charge against a drug-addicted hooker who confessed to letting her 2-month-old baby starve to death. Lora...
PREZ MOVED BY STORM'S WRATH IN NICARAGUA
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A somber President Clinton started his trip to Central America yesterday by kneeling to put flowers at the mud imprint of where a girl was killed by a...
FEDS AX CHINA SPY SUSPECT AT NUKE LAB
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. Energy Department yesterday hastily fired a Chinese-American computer scientist under investigation for alleged leaks of sensitive missile secrets to China, officials said. The firing of the...
TWO RUDYS REACH AN UNEASY TRUCE ON VOUCHER PLAN
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew agreed yesterday to try to hash out their disagreements over the explosive issue of school vouchers - but neither backed off their opposing...
CRITICS' BOOK AWARD IS SHORT AND SWEET
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amCanadian short-story writer Alice Munro last night won this year's fiction prize from the National Book Critics Circle for an anthology called "The Love of a Good Woman." Munro said...
ANDREYCHUK ADJUSTS TO GAME OF CHECKERS
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - No, Jacques Lemaire is still in Florida, and still working for the Canadiens. It only seems that he's back, now that the Devils' only two former 50-goal scorers...
CUT OF NYRA TAKEOUT PROPOSED
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amState Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, who a few weeks ago deep-sixed Gov. Pataki's proposal for a tax increase on horse-race betting in New York, went on the offensive in...
SHAKY MURDOCK: DON'T POINT AT ME
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe point of concern for John Calipari now is the lead guard position. It - keeping with the overall theme of the 3-13 Nets - is in disarray. Eric Murdock...
EVANDER PULLS NO PUNCHES
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amIF THERE is one skill Evander Holyfield has yet to master in a boxing ring, it is backing up. He has come this far without a reverse gear - 39...
REG, BOSS PLAN POWWOW
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner have been trying to set up a date when the Hall of Fame slugger and Yankee owner can meet and decide if there...
AILING GREAT ONE NO CLOSER TO RETURN
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amThe bad news is just that. Ten days of rest have not made a difference for Wayne Gretzky, sidelined with a cervical disc protrusion since the Feb. 22 match in...
BLUESHIRTS MAKING IT WORK ; NEDVED OT GOAL CAPS GRITTY EFFORT
March 9, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Rangers 3 Leafs 2 We'd be tempted to say that we don't know how the Rangers keep winning with a depleted lineup, but it was reasonably easy to see...