May 15, 1999
JUDGE DOESN'T COTTON TO BUNNY TALE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amA federal judge called the folks behind the Energizer Bunny "opportunistic" for misleading the public in recent ads in which the drum-beating hare pummeled, burned and stomped on Duracell and...
IT'S OFFICIAL: KLIGER GOING TO HACHETTE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amHachette Filipacchi Magazines made it official yesterday and tapped Jack Kliger as its new president and CEO, ending a three-month search for a successor to David Pecker. Industry sources said...
OFF-TARGET LJ SHOOTS TEAM IN THE FOOT
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amIt seemed bizarre that Larry Johnson continued to find himself wide open last night against the supposedly vise-grip Miami defense. What were the Heat thinking? As it turned out, the...
'WARS' IS GOOD FOR KIDS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amRECOMMENDED ''STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 - THE PHANTOM MENACE'' (PG): The Trade Federation (bad guys) invades Naboo, an outpost of the Republic (good guys). Naboo's queen, played by Natalie Portman,...
DAVE'S NAUGHTY LITTLE SECRET : 'WORD' IS HE'S PULLING YOUR LEG
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- WE'RE LOSING SLEEP OVER DAVID LETTERMAN THESE DAYS. AFTER WEEKS OF WATCHING HIS 'SECRET WORD' SEGMENT AND A COUPLE OF CONVERSATIONS WITH 'LATE SHOW' HEAD WRITER RODY ROTHMAN, WE...
'MASK' PLOT'S A SNORE AND REVEALS ONLY GORE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amARTISAN opened the Hong Kong chop-socky extravaganza "Black Mask" yesterday without screening it in advancefor critics. Surprise, surprise. Aside from some furious martial-arts combat sequences stylishly choreo-graphed by Yuen Wo...
NO-SHOWS AT WORK MAY SEE DARK SIDE OF BOSS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amA major employee-relations firm has issued a stern warning to ''Star Wars'' fans: Don't play hooky from work when the movie opens. The Society for Human Resource Management says it...
JFK RAIL-LINK PLAN PUTS LOBBYISTS ON GRAVY TRAIN
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amBOTH sides in the war over the proposed Kennedy Airport rail link are shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of the city's top lobbyists. Records show powerhouse...
YOU WILL RETURN HOME, HILL TELLS WAR VICTIMS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Clinton visited Kosovo refugees in Macedonia yesterday and pledged new Balkan aid - while friends in New York put out word that she will use a vacation this month...
YELTSIN FOES SURE HE'LL GO DOWN FOR COUNT IN IMPEACHMENT VOTE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amBoris Yeltsin's opponents declared yesterday they had the votes to impeach him on at least one count, setting the stage for a brutal showdown that could plunge Russia into chaos....
NAVY ENLISTS SPIKE LEE ; FOR A FEW GOOD ADS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Navy is hoping it did the right thing by hiring controversial moviemaker Spike Lee to direct six TV commercials aimed at shoring up recruitment. High-powered advertising agency BBDO recommended...
COPS BUST SUSPECT IN SLAYING OF MOVIEGOER
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an innocent 21-year-old bystander inside a crowded movie theater, police said yesterday. Devon Purvis, 17, was arrested...
CREW FINDS SUPPORTERS ON STEPS OF CITY HALL
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew walked out of a "good meeting" with Mayor Giuliani yesterday - and right into a press conference that bashed the mayor for putting politics above education....
TEARS OF JOY AS 'WELL TOT' LEAVES HOSP
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amAll's well that ends well for a spunky Kansas toddler whose life was saved in a dramatic underground rescue. The parents of 17-month-old Jessy Kraus cried tears of joy as...
JAILED JUROR WANTS 500G FROM JUDGE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amA prospective juror and the Bronx judge who tossed him in jail because he didn't like his attitude will be reunited in court, The Post has learned. Judge Alexander Hunter...
DOG THAT BEAT DEATH ROW IS HISTORY
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe New Jersey dog who got sprung from death row - where he lived in the executioner's shadow for nearly three years after biting a young girl - has died....
INFLATION REPORT LETS SOME AIR OUT OF DOW
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amStocks went into a freefall yesterday after a new report showed evidence of growing inflation in the economy. In reaction to a 0.7 percent increase in the consumer price index...
GOP GETS GUN-SHY AND OKS CHECKS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Republicans did an about-face yesterday and passed legislation to require background checks of buyers at gun shows. A day earlier, the Senate rejected similar legislation brought up...
SERBS: NATO KILLED FLEEING KOSOVARS BUT U.S. SAYS ENEMY ARTILLERY MAY BE TO BLAME
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Serbs yesterday claimed NATO bombed a convoy of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, killing as many as 100 refugees one week after U.S. pilots mistakenly hit the Chinese...
COPS GIVE UNIONS BACK THEIR BIG BLOW-UP RAT
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Big Rat is finally free. After 36 days in custody for a crime it didn't commit, a local union's beloved 30-foot-tall inflatable rat - a prominent fixture at labor...
TAXI TIX BLITZ NAILS 1,000-PLUS DRIVERS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amCops blitzed cabbies with 1,040 summonses for reckless driving and busted a dozen others for driving with suspended licenses as part of Operation Safe Taxi, authorities said yesterday. Police wrote...
WOUNDED HACK NABS BROOKLYN BANDIT
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amA brave Brooklyn cabbie chased and captured a teen gunman who grazed his head with a bullet during a violent struggle in his livery cab, cops said yesterday. "I think...
B'KLYN NABE CLEARED OUT IN TOXIN SCARE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amCops evacuated 20 homes in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, yesterday after they discovered a cache of jars containing possibly explosive or toxic substances, cops said. Initial tests of the jars turned...
HIZZONER AND VALLONE LEAN ON ALBANY POLS TO KEEP COMMUTER TAX
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone scrambled for 11th-hour support yesterday to save the city's $360 million-a-year commuter tax. Giuliani aides racheted up the pressure with a memo...
MINISTERS HAIL COLO. SLAY VICTIM AS MARTYR
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amColumbine HS victim Cassie Bernall - gunned down by killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris for professing her faith in God - is becoming a modern-day martyr and role model...
BARAK POISED TO KO NETANYAHU IN FIRST ROUND: POLL
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Former army chief Ehud Barak is close to toppling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Monday's election and avoiding a runoff contest, a new opinion poll shows. The Maariv-Gallup...
MALCOLM X KIN FIGHT FOR 'FILCHED' DEATH BOOK
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe family of Malcolm X is fighting the planned auction of a bloodstained, bullet-riddled address book found on the civil-rights leader's body after he was murdered in 1965. The 146-page...
RAP STAR HELD IN BEATING OF W'CHESTER MAN
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amRap star DMX was behind bars yesterday - accused of beating up a Yonkers motorist and wanted in Denver on charges he was involved in a stabbing. The chart-topping singer,...
VEEP BLEEPING MAD AT CLINTON'S 'HELP' IRATE HE PHONED REPORTER
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amAl Gore is angry at President Clinton's unsolicited call to the New York Times about worries over the Gore campaign - an attempt to help the vice president that clumsily...
ONE MAN'S CRUSADE FOR BIG RED RECORD
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The longest fight of Clem Florio's life is finally in the championship rounds. When he used his fists, Florio never was asked for more than 10 rounds, but...
ANOTHER DEMOLITION DERBY LOTS OF BUMPS EXPECTED IN CROWDED SECOND LEG
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - This year's Kentucky Derby was so much fun they've decided to do it again. The Run for the Roses Part 2, otherwise known as the 124th Preakness Stakes...
TECHNICALLY, IT'S STILL A FIELD OF 14
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - At the same time Silverbulletday was 1-9 on the board for the Black-Eyed Susan yesterday, she was the biggest price she'll ever be in her life - 85-1...
TRIBE'S TEAM TO BEAT NOW
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE YANKEES are World Champions until someone dethrones them, but that doesn't mean they are the team to beat in the American League. Nearly two months into the season, the...
YANKS TOTIN' WHOLE LOTTA DEAD WOOD
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amDon Zimmer was sitting 50 feet away from the Yankees' bat rack holding court in the dugout yesterday afternoon when Derek Jeter passed on hisway to a pre-game stretching session....
SCHILLING'S A PHIL UNTIL THEY FALTER
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Prior to last night's game between the Mets and the Phillies, Curt Schilling came over to a group of Mets to say hello. There was John Franco, Al...
CAMBY EARNS JEFF'S TRUST
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThanks, but no thanks. That was, in essence, the message Jeff Van Gundy relayed to Marcus Camby back on March 2, when the season was young and the skinny stringbean...
JONES ELBOWS WAY INTO MONDAY START
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Bobby Jones threw on the side before last night's game against the Phillies and reported no pain in his slightly swollen, slightly sore right elbow. Therefore, Jones will...
KNICKS ON GUARD BUT NOT LOOKIN' FOR FIGHT
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amIn a building filled with tradition, it would be only right for a Knicks-Heat brawl to break out in Game 4 last night. Not only has it happened during the...
EIGHT MAY BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR KNICKS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amIF EVER there were a year for an Eastern Conference eighth seed finally to beat a first seed, it was this one. Fifty games packed into 80 nights allowed only...
JUST A HEAT RACE KNICKS CAN'T CALL '99 A SUCCESS YET
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks have made some good strides lately, but they have to continue to move ahead with some new key people to truly call it progress. They went looking for...
DIAZ OK AFTER SURGERY
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Vladimir Diaz, who was thrown hard to the ground and run over by Thunder Search after his mount, Hugh Eff Oh, broke down in the ninth race at Belmont...
'BULLET' TOO MUCH IN BLACK-EYED SUSAN
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - As Silverbulletday charged down the stretch yesterday at Pimlico for a two-length victory in the Grade 2, $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in near-track-record time, the one question on...
IVERSON'S STEALING THE SHOW
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - They stood along the First Union Center's celebrity row - Will Smith, Jada Pinkett, reputed local mob boss Joey Merlino - and saluted the building's only true star...
ACHING ROGER'S RETURN UP IN AIR
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amRoger Clemens was supposed to pitch Thursday and didn't. Then the Yankees penciled The Rocket in for tomorrow and had to scratch him when his left hamstring didn't respond fully....
CHECKETTS: PATRICK'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amDAVE Checketts said last night that he wants nothing more than for Patrick Ewing to retire as a Knick. Whether it comes in two years after his current $68 million...
SPREE OFF BENCH IGNITES GARDEN
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amWith Latrell Sprewell scoring, Marcus Camby rebounding and Chris Childs shutting down Tim Hardaway, the Knicks' bench had been the difference heading into Game 4 against the Heat last night...
KNICKS GET LITTLE REST
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThere would be a quick turnaround for the Knicks if they won last night and the Hawks disposed of the Pistons. That means the two teams would meet tomorrow in...
HARDAWAY BREAKS HIS SILENCE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe self-imposed silence ended for Tim Hardaway last night. Hardaway, who shot a dreadful .188 (6-of-32) in the first three games of the series, said his two-day silence toward the...
NINE HOPE TO TAKE GENUINE RISK
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amToday's feature race is the 13th running of the Grade 2 Genuine Risk Stakes. Run at six furlongs, it features a field of nine quality fillies and mares. Co-starting highweights...
CHECKETTS SAYS PATRICK'S STAYING PUT
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amDave Checketts said last night that he wants nothing more than for Patrick Ewing to retire as a Knick. Whether it comes in two years after his current $68 million...
BOMBERS GO QUIETLY AGAIN
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amWhite Sox8 Yankees2 Horrible! And that doesn't only go for the way Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez pitched last night against the White Sox at Yankee Stadium. It also describes the...
ROGER STEALING METS' HEARTS CEDENO LEADS ROUT OF PHILS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amMets7 Phillies3 PHILADELPHIA - Speed, power and second place. The Mets have won two in a row and, after dropping into third place in the National League East standings, now...
HARDAWAY MAKES SOME NOISE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe self-imposed verbal silence ended for Tim Hardaway last night before the game. And then the Heat point guard ended his self- and Knick-imposed exile into a production wasteland on...
MELTDOWN LEADS TO TRIP SOUTH
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE HEAT were there for taking last night at the Garden. Alonzo Mourning wasn't dominating the middle, Tim Hardaway was still struggling with his shot and Jamal Mashburn was pulling...
SCHILLING NOT THINKING TRADE ... YET
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Curt Schilling said before the game he was not even thinking about a trade away from the Phillies, whether to the Mets or anywhere else. But at the...
KNICKS SEE LEAD WILT IN THE HEAT 10-PT. 4TH QUARTER GIVES MIAMI LIFE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThis was a gag order of the highest degree. The Knicks, with the chance to close out their arch-rivals and make the most of a terrible season, gave it away...
PORTER HITS KNICKS WITH PAINFUL SHOT
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Heat were 12 minutes from becoming the first Eastern Conference No. 1 seed to be ousted by a No. 8. They trailed the Knicks by four points. So Pat...
VOSHON HELPS HEAT BENCH-PRESS KNICKS
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amVoshon Lenard was not exactly well-known in New York until he scorched the Knicks in last year's playoff series. And, after missing the first 35 games this season due to...
HEAT FIND SOME WAY TO LIVE ANOTHER DAY
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY were bound, gagged, chained in a trunk, dropped off a boat in the middle of an ocean. They were down 11, early in the third quarter, sinking like a...
SPREWELL LEARNS A HARD LESSON
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amThis is a time of firsts for Latrell Sprewell, who is a relative stranger when it comes to playoff basketball. "I'm learning as I go along," he said. The Knicks...
FANS ARE NO STRANGERS TO HEARTBREAK
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amKnicks fans should know by now that May is usually a time of disappointment. But that's part of the deal you make being a Knicks supporter: heartache, aggravation and frustration....
FRAZIER SAYS ROAD WIN IS POSSIBLE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amWalt Frazier has seen the Knicks in this position before, when they dropped a home game that would have won a series, only to go on the road and be...
SPREE: SOMEONE WILL GET IT DONE
May 15, 1999 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell is looking for a hero tomorrow. "I feel if I don't step up, somebody else will," Sprewell said of Game 5 and the final countdown with the Heat...