April 1, 1999
DESIGNING RAPPER FASHIONS A WINNER
April 1, 1999 | 5:00am"We haven't seen anything sell like this since the (Air Jordans) ." JEFF TWEEDY, executive at Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment Sean "Puffy" Combs should change his name to "Midas." After...
CBS READY TO WEAR KING WORLD CROWN
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amCBS is poised to announce it will acquire TV syndicator King World as early as today. CBS will likely pay $2.5 billion to $3 billion for the property, which syndicates...
HAMSTER OUT, SOUTAR IN, AT MAXIM
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amSammy the Office Hamster, acting editor of Maxim, can now retire. Mike Soutar, the British editor who built FHM into Europe's largest-selling magazine, was named editor-in-chief of Dennis Publishing's racy...
DAN DORFMAN COMING BACK ON THE WEB
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amDan Dorfman is back. The tarnished-but-unbowed veteran Wall Street journalist has resurfaced as a market commentator for online news service JagNotes.com. His daily reports, targeting individual investors and day traders,...
ONE FOR THE BOOKS - DOW'S 127-PT. SLIDE CAN'T MAR GREAT QTR.
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWhat goes up must come down. That age-old adage was proven once again on Wall Street yesterday when stocks ended what had been a quarter of strong growth with a...
ZUCKERMAN JUST CAN'T SEEM TO MISS WINNING BY DEFAULT
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amErnst & Young is in substantive discussions to lease the entire 800,000 square-foot site at the Crossroads of the World for $55 a square foot. Developer Mort Zuckerman has received...
TOM FLORIO TAKES OVER AT GQ MAG
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amConde Nast was forced into another game of publisher musical chairs less than a year after the first round. The changes came about after the resignation of GQ Publisher Jack...
POTAMKIN MITSUBISHI IS THE TOP GUN OF DEALERSHIPS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amINSTEAD of the average dealer who has one or two of each model, Mitsubishi Potamkin stocks between 50 and 100 of each model, with a variety of option packages and...
40 YEARS OF INNOVATION AT POTAMKIN
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amIN New York City, it is all but impossible to say 'Cadillac' without also saying "Potamkin." The two words go together like bagels and lox, elegance and style. Potamkin sells...
TWO GENERATIONS OF LOYAL CUSTOMERS AT POTAMKIN TOYOTA/VOLKSWAGEN/DODGE/HYUNDAI
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amJASON Fischer is not at all threatened by being surrounded. Fischer is vice president of Potamkin Toyota/Volkswagen/Dodge/Hyundai at the corner of 57th St. and Eleventh Ave. On the other three...
VALUE, PRICE AND SELECTION - A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF POTAMKIN AUTOMOTIVE
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amBy the time Victor Potamkin died, in 1995, at the age of 83, the empire he built had grown to 54 franchises up and down the east coast, selling more...
GEN-XER PONDERS THE '60S
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amIN the summer of '69, Marty Kantrowitz, the character Liev Schreiber plays in the new movie ''A Walk on the Moon,'' is stuck in Brooklyn fixing televisions while his wife...
TWO TEENS FACE LIFE IN WAR-RAVAGED BOSNIA
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amINTERESTING timing: As NATO continues to attack Serb forces, New Yorkers attending the New Directors/New Films festival will get a chance to see ''The Wounds,'' a kinetic, visceral glimpse of...
TV TICKER
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amPeabody picks Among the winners announced yesterday for the 58th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards, which recognize excellence in broadcasting: *NBC's "Dateline," for a report on "Checks and Balances." *Comedy...
OUT-OF-FOCUS GROUP
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amMELANCHOLY cynicism is the hallmark of Britpop stars Blur, who played the Roseland Ballroom for a one-night stand Tuesday. Although the band - especially the casually handsome frontman, Damon Albarn...
TOM WHO? KILBORN'S A KILLER - ONLY THE NAME'S THE SAME ON HIS CBS SHOW
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: CRAIG Kilborn accomplished the unthinkable Tuesday night in his debut ad the new host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS: He actually came across like he was born...
STEALING THE SHOW - SPOILERS TRY TO EXPOSE SCRIPTS FROM HOTTEST SHOWS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: NOT all of "X-Files" creator Chris Carter's best ideas go into the twisting plots of his hit TV series. Carter is also putting that famed paranoid imagination to use...
ROTTEN YEAR CHANGED CLINTON, SAYS RATHER
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amANCHORMAN Dan Rather says that the President Clinton he interviewed yesterday for "CBS Evening News" and "60 Minutes II" was "not the same person" he interviewed more than a year...
IS CHELSEA NOW THE NEW SOHO? - A GUIDE TO MANHATTAN'S HOTTEST NEIGHBORHOOD
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S becoming increasingly less cutting-edge to say you live, work or shop in SoHo. That honor now goes to Chelsea. The area, north of 14th Street and south of 30th,...
THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO SLASH CCRB BUDGET
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amMAYOR GIULIANI'S executive budget will be the next act in New York's epic police-community drama. The preliminary Office of Management and Budget report projected an 18 percent ($1.3 million) cut...
HE SEARCHES ON, SUSTAINED ONLY BY HOPE
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amSKOPJE, Macedonia. HE HAD a face as hollow as a bell and a stomach empty as an echo chamber. "I haven't eaten or slept in four days," said Ifhan Bugari,...
FARRAKHAN STABLE IN D.C. HOSPITAL
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amNation of Islam officials confirmed yesterday that Louis Farrakhan has been admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington, but deny their leader is on his deathbed. "The minister's treatment [for...
CHILLING TALES OF ATROCITIES NOW INCLUDE DEATH CAMPS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWestern officials said yesterday thousands of missing Kosovar men may be held in Serb-run "concentration camps" - while others are being executed or mutilated. "Refugees have provided accounts of summary...
MCCALL: BUDGET IMPASSE 'ABSURD'
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Carl McCall yesterday bashed Gov. Pataki and legislative leaders for their total paralysis as the state's new fiscal year kicks off today without a budget in...
NAKED TRUTH ON JAPANESE 'TRUMAN'
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amMeet Nasubi, the Japanese Truman Burbank whose life was secretly videotaped for a year and shown on national television. In a strange twist on "The Truman Show" - in which...
CAR-BOMBED TOWN BATTLES BACK
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amOMAGH, Northern Ireland - Thirty miles from the negotiating tables of Belfast, the town where the hope of peace was shattered by a car bomb last summer is still struggling....
BRITISH, IRISH LEADERS RUSH TO SAVE FRAGILE PEACE DEAL
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amBELFAST - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern rushed back to Northern Ireland last night in a desperate attempt to salvage the struggling peace talks....
2 OUSTED DC 37 BIGS LOOTED UNION FOR 240G: MORGENTHAU
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amTwo ousted District Council 37 bigwigs were indicted yesterday on charges they plundered more than $240,000 from the union's treasury. Francine Autovino and Connie Lango - former president and treasurer...
RUDY TAUNTING HILLARY .COM-LATELY WEB RIVALS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00am"Campaigning on the Internet is a good idea for modern politics." MAYOR GIULIANI Mayor Giuliani yesterday dared opponents to battle him on the Internet - but several of his most...
BUZZ IS, BILL'S UNFIT FOR WAR
April 1, 1999 | 5:00am"It's almost like a kid's view - I got the bigger gun and I shot you, so you have to fall down." MILITARY ANALYST DAN GOURE KOSOVO has sent an...
'NET VIRTUAL WARRIORS BLAST BACK AT NATO
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amSerbian computer hackers have struck back against NATO by inundating the alliance's Web site with viruses and jamming it with thousands of e-mail messages, officials said yesterday. The NATO Web...
PRINCIPAL FIRED AT IS 22
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amIn a last-ditch effort to keep the state from shutting down Manhattan's IS 22, the local superintendent yesterday ousted its principal. District 1 Superintendent Sonia Diaz-Salcedo blamed the principal, Lillian...
N.Y. 'ANGEL' PAYING FOR ECUADORAN'S LIFESAVING SURGERY HERE
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan socialite with a heart of gold will pay for an urgent cancer operation for an Ecuadoran man whose life savings were frozen in his country's banking crisis. "I...
'LIFE OF THE CITY GOES ON,' SAYS RUDY
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amIt was business as usual yesterday for Mayor Giuliani, who dashed from a ceremony for a slain cop to a photo session with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin - while...
PENTHOUSE PAPA GUCCIONE WINS RIGHT TO EVICT SON
April 1, 1999 | 5:00am["My dad] has a tremendous ego, and the fact that I stood up to him enraged him." ANTHONY GUCCIONE Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione can evict his estranged son from his...
SERB BUTCHER LAUGHS AT WAR-CRIMES RAP
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Boastful Serbian warlord Arkan yesterday said his countrymen find it "funny" he's been indicted as a war criminal - and warned it would be another Vietnam if U.S....
DA'S BAR MAY BE TOO HIGH TO SCORE CONVICTIONS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amBRONX District Attorney Robert Johnson has raised public expectations for a conviction by obtaining a heavy, second-degree murder indictment against the four cops in the Diallo case - a move...
NATO ZEROS IN ON YUGO CAPITAL - 3 GIS MISSING NEAR BORDER
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Bombing raids against the Serbs inched closer to the capital city of Belgrade yesterday as NATO forces seemed inclined to step up their attacks, even with Easter approaching....
DIALLO JUDGE CALLED SMART, FAIR & MEAN
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amShe's described as everything from no-nonsense to mean-spirited. But one thing is agreed on about Acting Supreme Court Justice Patricia Anne Williams, appointed yesterday as the judge for the Diallo...
ACTRESS SUES FAMED LAWYER-HUBBY FOR $20M
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amActress Lori Singer is suing her estranged husband, noted civil-rights lawyer Richard Emery, for $20 million, charging he played footloose with her money and cheated her out of millions. In...
OFFICERS GREETED WITH CHEERS - BX. & OTHERWISE
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe chants of dueling protesters - 1,000 strong - filled the air outside Bronx Supreme Court yesterday, underlining the bitter anger over the Amadou Diallo shooting. Anti-brutality protesters and off-duty...
DIALLO COPS: WE'RE NOT CRIMINALS - PLEAD 'NOT GUILTY' AT ARRAIGNMENT
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amIn their first public remarks, the four cops who killed Amadou Diallo declared yesterday they did nothing wrong in firing 41 shots at the unarmed man. "I'm not guilty of...
THREE GIS MISSING IN ACTI0N - 'SURROUNDED' AS CONTACT IS LOST
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Three U.S. Army soldiers patrolling near the Macedonian border with Yugoslavia came under fire and may have been captured by Serbian forces, the Pentagon said last night. A...
JESSE: FARRAKHAN'S OUTLOOK 'EXCELLENT'
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amNation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan faces an "excellent" prognosis after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday. Nation of Islam officials issued a statement confirming...
BILL CONCEDES CARPETBAG 'BURDEN'
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton admits his wife Hillary's carpetbagger status will be an issue if she runs for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Many New York...
CENTRAL PK. COYOTE SOMETHING WORTH HOWLING ABOUT
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amFile this with those alligators-in-the-sewers urban legends: Cops and animal-control officers were hunting a coyote early today in Central Park. A Post reporter saw what looked like a coyote -...
THREE GIS CAPTURED BY SERBS - BEATEN SOLDIERS ON YUGO TV
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Serb TV early today showed pictures of three American soldiers it said its forces captured near the Macedonian border. The men were identified as Sergeants James Stone and...
KNICKS STILL NEED LEADER ON FLOOR
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amPROBLEM IS, Dave Checkett's denials that Jeff Van Gundy's job is in trouble are a lot stronger than the Knicks were in overtime in Toronto Sunday. They may even be...
DOUBLE TROUBLE? HARDLY - BUT FONZ & REY WOULD LIKE MORE PRACTICE
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amHAINES CITY, Fla. - After watching through much of this spring while Edgardo Alfonzo and Rey Ordonez get reacquainted as the Mets' double play combination, Brian McRae has no worries...
STEW'S BEEF MIGHT COST HIM JOB AS ISLES COACH
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe chances of Islanders coach Bill Stewart surviving the furor created by his Monday-night remarks are slim, according to a member of the Islanders' braintrust. "The damage could be irreparable,"...
ALL'S RIGHT IN LEFT FIELD - SHANE, LEDEE PAID DUES
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amDUNEDIN - Ricky Ledee and Shane Spencer get on a plane tonight. To the West Coast. And to the start of a regular season. This is their charter to paradise;...
LEITER'S NOT SWEATING SHODDY SPRING SHOWING
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES HAINES CITY, Fla. - Al Leiter did not have a very encouraging final start of the spring against the Royals yesterday, but the opening day starter said he...
BLUE GRASS AND WOOD LOOKING LIKE WINNERS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland April 10 is shaping up as the year's premier Kentucky Derby prep, with the East Coast's top 3-year-olds Vicar, Wondertross and Cat Thief, who...
IT'S TIME FOR IRABU TO SHOW HIS STUFF
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amWhat about his fastball? And splitter? What's the deal with Irabu's two best pitches? Stottlemyre says they will come. DUNEDIN - Forget all the noise about Hideki Irabu pitching for...
TODD IN BLUE HEAVEN - NEW DODGER CATCHER FEELING NO PAIN
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amVERO BEACH, Fla. - In keeping with annual tradition, some 300 locals flocked to the airport, located a few tape measure shots from Dodgertown, to bid farewell to the baseball...
CLEMENS SEES MINOR FLAW IN FINAL TUNEUP
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amCLEARWATER - Facing minor league hitters in his final spring-training tuneup, Roger Clemens was in the last inning of a five-inning stint when the warrior within surfaced. Twice, Clemens didn't...
VAN'S GANG PLOTS REVENGE AGAINST CAVS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Don't be fooled by Cleveland's lowly 10th-place spot in the Eastern Conference standings; the Knicks aren't. New York, at 17-14 and seventh in the conference standings, are anything...
INJURY ONSLAUGHT RARITY FOR DEVILS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amThose may be storm clouds forming over Devildom. They are suddenly being struck by the injuries they've largely avoided all season. As they faced the Mighty Ducks at the Meadowlands...
NETS' NEW MOTTO IS TRY, TRY AGAIN
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amMoral victories are worth their weight in Confederate currency. But when a season has gone so drastically wrong - as the Nets season has - some times that is all...
YANKS MAY OPEN WITH 10 HURLERS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES DUNEDIN - With today being the final day of spring training in Florida, there is a strong chance the Yankee brass, including George Steinbrenner and Joe Torre, will...
LJ OUT; SPREE IN - INJURY GRANTS LATRELL HIS WISH
April 1, 1999 | 5:00am"Am I ready [to start]? Yeah. I'm ready, if that's the case. I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully I can make some shots, have fun and get some wins. It's...
KEITH BACK TONIGHT; MURDOCK OUT FOR YEAR
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES There was encouraging medical news for the Nets: Keith Van Horn will be back tonight. "Definitely," he said. So in keeping with the spirit and the course of...
DUTCH, ARGENTINA BATTLE TO A DRAW
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amLONDON - Whatever you say about Edgar Davids, the fierce Dutchman with the dreadlocks gives his all every time. And for a fan, that's about as much as you can...
FOR STARTERS, ALL'S WELL WITH LATRELL
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amLARRY JOHNSON'S sprain is only first degree, just bad enough to force Jeff Van Gundy to submit to the third degree. Yesterday, he faced a new set of questions about...
HOLIK LINE AWAKENS TO DESTROY DUCKS
April 1, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 7 Mighty Ducks 1 The most significant 20 minutes of this long Devils season means it may last a lot longer. The Devils' second line, the one that used...