May 10, 1999
BULLS RETURN RE-CHARGED ON MART'S MANIC MONDAYS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amWas there a reason for that historic rise a week ago today? Nope, the market just seems to like Mondays. SOMETIMES stock prices go up for the dumbest of reasons...
SNEAKING BACK IN - ATHLETIC SHOES TAKE JUMP AFTER TIME-OUT
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amRebounding from last year's nasty slump just in time for the NBA playoffs, the sneaker business is showing signs of life. Fashion seems to be shifting back to basketball and...
PECKER PICKS UP PIECES AT AMERICAN MEDIA
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amEvercore Capital Partners L.P. finalized its $773.2 million purchase of American Media last week and the newly installed Chairman and CEO David Pecker quickly shook things up by firing the...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE war in Kosovo and the merchandising blitzkrieg for "Star Wars" are knocking the Columbine High School insanity from the headlines, but there are, of course, still more angles to...
IT'S A MORAL 'OUTRAGE'
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am"Our Guys:Outrage in Glen Ridge"Tonight at 9 on WABC/Ch.7 IF timing is anything, it is ironic. Three weeks after the unthinkable happened in the halls of Columbine High School -...
GWYNETH'S NEXT MOVE - MORE SHAKESPEARE . . . AND SINGING!
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amSHE'S won an Oscar, she's got a hunky new boyfriend, her every move is slavishly chronicled by the entertainment and fashion press. Quite simply, she's the most talked-about actress in...
OPERATION RESCUE: 'SOUTH PARK' KIDS MOVIE AND NEW EPISODES TO PUMP UP SHOW
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am'We're guilty of putting a few new episodes on followed by a couple of old ones.'- Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox OH my god, they're trying to save Kenny! The...
TV TICKER
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amOliver's army Fired producer April Oliver sued CNN and parent company Time Warner on Friday and also countersued retired Gen. John Singlaub. Oliver, who was fired over the ''Operation Tailwind''...
'PARADE' & 'WIT' GET AWARDS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amPROVING yet again what a lousy season this has been for new musicals, "Parade," a $4.5 million flop, won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding New Musical yesterday. The show,...
'EBERT' MOVIE MYSTERY: WHO WILL BE PICKED TO JOIN ROGER ON REVAMPED SHOW?
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMAKE no mistake about it: Roger Ebert will be back next season headlining some sort of movie-review program. That's the word from Buena Vista Television, Disney-owned syndicator of "Siskel &...
WHATEVER WILL LIZ HURLEY WEAR NEXT?
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amThursday night sees the New York premiere of "Notting Hill," the movie starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. It's an occasion which many in the fashion world are eagerly anticipating....
RUDY CREW'S UNCLEANED HOUSE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am'Giuliani made the town livable onceagain by ''[infusing] a heavy dose ofpolitics'' into what conventional wisdom held to be a hopeless situation. ...Now the mayor has positioned himselfto do the...
KILLER TEENS HAD PRESCRIPTION FOR MURDER
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amFRANK COOPER'S reticence was easy to detect, even over the telephone. Cooper was reluctant to talk about his grandson Shawn, 15, who borrowed Grandpa's shotgun, wrapped it in a blanket...
'POWERS' THAT BE MAY STAY ON WITH G0P; EXCLUSIVE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amSTATE Republican Chairman William Powers, long-rumored to be on the way out, will seek a new two-year term as chairman later this year, The Post has learned. Powers, a tough-talking...
OUR INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM'S GOING TO THE COYOTES
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE U.S. nuclear lab in Los Alamos, N.M., has a huge fence around it which is very effective in keeping out coyotes. "But we have to have a system in...
KIDDIE CAST DID COMEDY - BUT LIVED TRAGEDY
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am"Diff'rent Strokes" was a hit with viewers - but a curse for its three young stars. The lives of Dana Plato and her television "brothers" Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges...
STARING INTO FACE OF EVIL - APPLE REV. RECALLS HER POW PARLEY WITH SLOBBO
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am"We believe we were used by God to break the cycle of violence, to build a bridge of trust."THE REV. DR. JUNE CAMPBELL A Manhattan grandmother who came face to...
JUNK JUNKIES POPULATE THE INTERNET
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amI DON'T know if the Internet has forever changed our society, but it has certainly changed the way our nation does its spring cleaning. Whether on eBay, Amazon.com or other...
MONICA PARTIES THE NIGHT AWAY
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amAn ebullient Monica Lewinsky and her film-biz lawyer guy-pal partied into the wee hours yesterday after the Sexgate intern's "Saturday Night Live" cameo. President Clinton's former paramour left NBC studios...
N.Y. IS TAKEN BY 'FORCE' - 'STAR WARS' CAST AND CREW HIT THE APPLE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am"Star Wars" fever reached epidemic proportions yesterday as the cast and crew of the sci-fi blockbuster invaded Manhattan for an out-of-this-world promotion blitz. Wide-eyed kids screamed as Liam Neeson and...
KOSOVARS LOVE A BRONX TALE - WENT 'THROUGH HELL' TO GET HERE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am"This just feels so great to be in America and out of that hell. It is just a miracle that we all made it out alive." NATURA MJEKU War-weary Kosovar...
MAYOR HAS EYE OUT FOR NEW SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amCity officials have been on the lookout for a new chancellor ever since Rudy Crew first threatened to quit two months ago, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. While saying he hasn't...
DRUGS CLAIM LIFE OF TRAGIC DANA PLATO; IT WAS ALL DOWNHILL AFTER SHE LEFT SHOW
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amDana Plato, troubled star of the 1970s sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," died of a drug overdose - just a day after insisting in her last interview she was clean and sober....
CIA ADMITS IT GOOFED ON EMBASSY BOMBING; 'FAULTY INFO LED TO A MISTAKE'
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A U.S. B-2 bomber mashed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade after the CIA - believing it was a Yugoslav supply building - OK'd it as a target, a...
U.S. DIPLOMATS: 'WE'RE HOSTAGES' AS PROTESTS RAGE IN CHINA
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. diplomats in Beijing huddled in their besieged embassy yesterday, while Chinese protesters, furious over misdirected NATO bombs, hurled Molotov cocktails, rocks and insults. Thousands of Chinese demonstrators...
2 SENATORS: CHINA FUNDED CONGRESS RACES
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Key senators investigating espionage at American nuke labs said yesterday they've uncovered new evidence that the Chinese military funneled money through U.S. banks to buy influence in Congress....
SAFIR PLAN GIVES COPS A RAISE AND HIM A BOOST; EXCLUSIVE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amAlmost 2,000 cops could get $2,000-a-year raises and promotions to the rank of detective specialist - moves sources say would give the police commissioner the last laugh in his battle...
MARCHERS SALUTE ISRAEL
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amA sea of blue and white flags greeted more than 75,000 marchers who stepped up Fifth Avenue during yesterday's Israeli Day Parade. Marking the 51st anniversary of Israeli independence, the...
DAY TO REMEMBER THE MOTHERLAND
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt was their first American holiday - but Kosovar children at Fort Dix yesterday quickly got the idea. "Urim Nene," the kids wrote on Mother's Day cards - that's Albanian...
23 ARE KILLED IN NEW ORLEANS CASINO-BUS CRASH
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amA casino-bound bus on a Mother's Day gambling junket crashed in New Orleans yesterday, killing 23 people in the worst traffic accident in the city's history, officials said. The crash...
JENNY: I'M SORRY, BUT NOT GUILTY
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amA defiant Jenny Jones said she feels regret - but no guilt or responsibility - for the death of a gay man who was murdered after revealing on her show...
AT&T'S CELL PHONE USERS LEFT ON HOLD
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amAT&T cellular phones were mute in much of the New York area yesterday because of equipment problems. Service was disrupted in Manhattan north of 59th Street, all of The Bronx,...
CIA ADMITS IT GOOFED ON EMBASSY BOMBING - 'FAULTY INFO LED TO A MISTAKE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - CIA blundering led the crew of a B-2 stealth bomber to target the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing four and sparking retaliatory protests in China. Intelligence officials approved...
FAB THREE WIPING DUST OFF 'LOST' BEATLE SONG
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amThere'll be one more from the Fab Four! The Beatles will release a ''new'' song, with the late John Lennon on vocals, before the end of the year, the London...
ROSS EASES DWON ROAD TO DIVORCE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amDiana Ross isn't singing the blues about splitting from her husband of 13 years. "Through each lifetime you go through rough patches and you always hope for the best. Sometimes...
SHARPTON TO LEAD CALIF. COP-BRUTALITY PROTEST
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton will take his civil-disobedience campaign against police brutality on the road today, leading a California protest over the shooting of a black woman by four white...
SOUTH BRONX KID STEALS THE SHOW
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amIrish-born Liam Neeson and Scotsman Ewan McGregor may head the cast - but it's a home-grown South Bronx guy and a tough-talking street kid from Tennessee who steal the show....
PREAKNESS LOOKIN' LIKE ANYONE'S RACE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amSaturday's Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, has been a more formful race than the Kentucky Derby over the past 20 years. Where no favorite has won...
ROGER DOING BEST TO BE PATIENT
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amThis is a new reality for Roger Clemens. He doesn't have to rush back from the left hamstring he strained on April 28 for fear that if he can't take...
LEON: LOW-KEY, HIGH-CLASS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amI DIDN'T know Leon Hess, but I certainly admired his style. It was all wrong by modern standards; antithetical to what advertising, public-relations and marketing consultants insist upon from the...
HEAT'S HOPING ASKINS 'D'-LIVERS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - For all the shots that were missed, for all the opportunities that were blown by the Heat in the first game against the Knicks, the most troublesome aspect...
THIS TIME, NO BAN FOR P.J.
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - You might want to mark down yesterday's date, May 9, 1999, somewhere in the "believe it or not" files. For what could be the first time in the...
POSADA FLASHES ENCOURAGING SIGNS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amThis was supposed to be Jorge Posada's breakout year but it began as a bust. Buoyed by a solid 1998 - his first full season in the majors in which...
HURTIN' EWING SKIPS PRACTICE
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - After showing some improvement in his aching left Achilles, Patrick Ewing is hurting again and could be severely hindered in Game 2 tonight against the Heat. "I'm going...
TWO GOOD TO BE TRUE: VG KNOWS GAME 1 WINNER HAS LOST FIRST TWO WARS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES MIAMI - Even though he realizes his Knicks can take a death grip in the series tonight and that the Heat are just 4-9 at the Garden since...
SPREE-FOR-ALL: KNICKS' EDGE CAME WHEN THEY BEAT HEAT TO LATRELL
May 10, 1999 | 4:00am"I know it's just one win, but I want more. I'm dying for more. If this is what it's all about, I'm hungry. Feed me."LATRELL SPREWELL MIAMI - Life is...
KNICKS COME UP BIG IN BACKCOURT: KNICKS GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - Alonzo Mourning may score 40 points tonight in Game 2 of what is already another intriguing series between the Knicks and Heat. And if Patrick Ewing's Achilles is...
HUMBLED HEAT BANK ON THE RESILIENCY FACTOR
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Heat word for the day yesterday was "resiliency." Hey, relax. It could have been "anthrax." The Heat have seen gloom-and-doom scenarios before and yet they come back...
REED'S ROCKED & D-BACKS ROLL
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amD-backs 11 Mets 6 After Rick Reed's first start coming off the disabled list, pitching coach Bob Apodaca said if someone had told him the righthander would last six innings...
MIGHTY MIKE BASHES OUT SCOREBOARD
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Mike Piazza put on an awesome display of sheer strength power during batting practice that left witnesses stunned, then went out and had his best game...
STANTON, GRIMSLEY GIVE STAGGERING STAFF BOOST
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amORLANDO Hernandez approached Joe Girardi and Paul O'Neill, two of the Yankees' most esteemed leaders, late yesterday morning to request a closed-door meeting with the club to repair what he...
STRUGGLING LEDEE SENT TO MINORS
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After yesterday's 6-1 win over the Mariners, the Yankees sent struggling outfielder Ricky Ledee to Triple-A Columbus and recalled outfielder Shane Spencer. The Bombers had hoped Ledee could...
OH, WHAT A RELIEF STANTON, GRIMSLEY RESCUE YANKS WITH SPOTLESS SPOT DUTY
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 6 Mariners 1 Don Zimmer knew what he was asking, and knew the risks if his gamble failed. With scheduled starter Ramiro Mendoza out sick and the Yankee bullpen...
TAMPICO WINS BIG A'S BEAUGAY
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amTampico came roaring from last down the stretch to win the $100,000 Beaugay Handicap on the soft turf yesterday at Aqueduct. U R Unforgettable had the lead entering the stretch...
REED ROCKED & D-BACKS ROLL; D-BACKS ROCK REED AS MOUND WOES SOAR
May 10, 1999 | 4:00amAfter Rick Reed survived for six innings in his first start coming off the disabled list, pitching coach Bob Apodaca said if someone had told him beforehand that the right-hander...