June 11, 1999
IT'S TIME TO DEPOLITICIZE THE JOBS REPORT
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S a comedian by the name of Norm Crosby whose shtick involves putting mangled words together into completely garbled and meaningless sentences that sound like they make sense. You almost...
NEW NEWS CORP. POST FOR ANTHEA DISNEY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amMedia executive Anthea Disney, who revamped TV Guide Inc. into a global multimedia company, resigned as the company's chairman and CEO to return to News Corp. in a top creative...
ECONOMIST PICKS UP DESIGN PRO IN ALLEY; EXCLUSIVE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amHotshot Silicon Alley firm methodfive has been hired to put some class into The Economist's website. The aim is to make www.economist.com more user-friendly while retaining features such as the...
IS M'SOFT JUDGE A CLAIRVOYANT?
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial was prophetic yesterday, asking if Microsoft's product bundling strategy increased the danger of computer viruses. On the same day, a new virus was...
PAUL ALLEN JUMPS INTO E-STOCK GAME
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe scramble for ECNs continued yesterday in two separate transactions, as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and J.P. Morgan each bought a piece of an electronic stock-trading network. J.P. Morgan bought...
IGLESIAS' SON NEAR $40M UNIVERSAL DEAL
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am"Universal is betting that the Ricky Martin phenomenon is not going away." FRED DAVIS, a partner in Davis, Schapiro & Lewit. Universal Music CEO Doug Morris is betting big that...
IT'S TIME FOR WOMEN - PLANS MAJOR CABLE CHANNEL & WEBSITE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTed Turner is finally getting his long-sought women's network. Turner Broadcasting and Time Inc., both part of Time Warner, announced yesterday they are going to team up with the glitzy...
MORGAN STANLEY'S TOP LAWYER QUITS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amMorgan Stanley Dean Witter's chief legal officer stepped down yesterday, and a managing director resigned in the wake of the sordid affair of a young analyst who was fired after...
LESBIAN ROMANCE IS A DREARY AFFAIR
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amIF, as the Talking Heads once sang, heaven is a place where nothing ever happens, then the lesbian lovers in "Out Of Season" are dwelling in paradise on the Jersey...
NEW 'SHOVE' PUSHES OFF AT THE MET
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amWE all know conventional wisdom is wrong and lightning can strike twice in the same place. But how often? And when you look at it carefully, how same? In 1976,...
REGIS IS MR. MONEYBAGS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amREGIS Philbin wants to make you a millionaire. ABC has tapped the debonnaire co-host of "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" to host a new summer quiz show called "Who...
A TRIUMPHANT 'RETURN'
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE exceedingly fine historical documentary ''Return With Honor'' takes its title from the creed American prisoners of war adopted while being held in Viet Cong prisons. As Ed Mechenbier, one...
CHARMLESS 'HARMLESS'
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amEVERY overworked battle-of-the-sexes cliche of the decade gets the microwave treatment in ''Just a Little Harmless Sex'' - an attempt at wry flipness filled with dialogue that ranges from sitcom...
WB SAYS YEAH 'BABY'
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE WB is the latest network to jump into the primetime animation craze with a new show called "Baby Blues." The series, expected to debut in December, will be the...
'ALL' NOTHING BUT COWARD FOR CABARET
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am'IF Love Were All,'' at the Lucille Lortel, is a soggy misfire. Yet another of those celebrity-impersonation stunts, the show, devised by Sheridan Morley, sketches, in song, anecdote and play...
'VIOLIN' A ROMANCE STRUNG OUT OVER CENTURIES
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amA film directed by a French Canadian that tells the history - in five languages - of a cursed musical instrument across three continents and four centuries, ''The Red Violin''...
BYE 'MELROSE PLACE' AND HELLO ASTOR PLACE: LOCKLEAR TALKS TO 'SPIN CITY'
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amB LONDE bombshell Heather Locklear could be getting into a New York state of mind. The primetime vixen is in talks to join the cast of the sitcom "Spin City,"...
QUEEN OF COMEDY'S A FUNNY JOKER BUT YOU SOON FORGET THE CARMEN MIRANDA SHOES
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am"Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill" Saturday at 11:30 on HBO IF you weren't lucky enough to catch Eddie Izzard's "Dress to Kill" at the Westbeth Theatre Center, you must catch...
B'WAY PRODUCER TRASHES TONYS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am'YOU couldn't possibly print what I thought about the Tonys this year," Alexander H. Cohen, the legendary impresario who created and for 20 years produced the Tony telecast, said when...
TV MAN GOES APE: CHIMP TV CREATOR IS FIRED
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE co-creator of TBS' new all-chimp sitcom was fired after staging a bizarre, naked protest against the show's producers. And now he's airing his grievances in a lawsuit filed this...
THE SPY WHO DISAPPOINTED ME: AUSTIN POWERS SEQUEL IS AMUSING BUT WAN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amCRIKEY! Like teen-age sex and Rolling Stones tours, it turns out that anticipating the new 'Austin Powers'' movie is a lot more fun than actually experiencing it. Mike Myers' swinging,...
THE LIFE OF BRIAN: ECCENTRIC BEACH BOY BRIAN WILSON SPEAKS OUT
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amLONG before anyone took his music seriously, Brian Wilson was one of rock 'n' roll's first geniuses. As a composer and founding member of The Beach Boys, he created some...
'TIP OF THE SPEAR' MARINES LAND ON BEACH IN GREECE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am"We're here to do a job, sir, and we're happy to be here to do it . . . Just tell my family that I love them, my girlfriend, Jasmine,...
DRUG STUDY MAKES IT PAY TO BE AN ADDICT
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS is a fine time in America to be a drug addict. Not convinced? Perhaps you will be in a moment. This news item reads like some kind of futuristic...
LIBELED EX-BOXER $CORES K0 OVER SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amA federal jury today decides on punitive damages for bit-part actor and burly ex-boxer Randall "Tex" Cobb - accused in a libelous 1993 Sports Illustrated article of smoking crack and...
MARINE'S KIN: KEEP OUR BOY SAFE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amA worried Brooklyn family is praying for the safe return of their youngest member - a 22-year-old Marine who will soon go to war-torn Kosovo to make sure it's safe...
MCCARTNEY SERVES UP HEALTH FOOD FOR THOUGHT
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amPaul McCartney yesterday said the world must get back to eating natural foods - and announced a new campaign against genetically modified eats. The legendary pop star revealed his campaign...
CANNIBAL TEACHER WON'T GO FREE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - A state judge yesterday threw out a Long Island jury's decision to free cannibal Albert Fentress - who killed and ate parts of a teen-ager - ruling he...
LOVE GOV DITCHING WIFE FOR HIS OLE MISS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amMississippi's Republican governor said yesterday he was divorcing his wife of 44 years and will marry a recently widowed Memphis woman - his junior-high-school sweetheart. Rumors about Kirk Fordice's relationship...
FEDS SLAM LINCOLN HOSP - AGAIN - NOBODY NOTICED ER PATIENT HAD DIED
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amA federal agency has cited Lincoln Hospital for life-threatening problems in its emergency room for the second time in less than a year - noting one man died there after...
JUDGE TAXED BY ABE'S MANY LAWYERS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amAbe Hirschfeld was scolded in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday for having hired and fired enough lawyers in his $2.2 million tax-fraud case to field a baseball team. ''There have been...
MUHAMMAD VOWS SECOND HARLEM YOUTH RALLY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe organizers of last year's controversial, violence-marred Million Youth March yesterday vowed they'll hold another rally in Harlem on Labor Day weekend. "We're going back to Malcolm X Boulevard. We're...
PROSPECT OF SECOND TRIAL PUTS BIG CHILL IN AUTUMN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amAutumn Jackson, who claims she's Bill Cosby's love child, enjoyed her newfound freedom yesterday, but worried she'll be retried on charges of trying to extort $40 million from the funnyman....
LABORERS' GAIN IS MY COPS' PAIN - SAFIR
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amA plan to hire unskilled laborers to move police barriers - and pay them nearly a third more than rookie cops - left Police Commissioner Howard Safir fuming yesterday. "I...
SHE'LL ROOT WITH VOTERS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amHere are some of Hillary Rodham Clinton's past sports loyalties: Arkansas Razorbacks Married to Hogs fan extraordinaire President Clinton, Hillary has also cheered on his home team. After the Razorbacks...
TOP MAN IN BLUE QUITS FORCE IN NYPD STUNNER
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD's hard-charging top uniformed cop - a key figure in the city's war on crime - quit the force yesterday after clashes with Commissioner Howard Safir over how to...
SUMMER-CLASS 'VOUCHER' PLAN IS RUDY'S NEW HOT IDEA
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani dropped another bombshell on the Board of Education yesterday, suggesting it enlist private and parochial schools to instruct public school students who are sent to summer school. "Why...
REFUGEES HERE FEAR RETURN TO RAVAGED HOMES
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amKosovar refugees aren't budging from the Big Apple, fearing that Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic may double-cross NATO and resume his terrible campaign of ethnic cleansing. "How can you trust a...
VALLONE OUT OF STEP ON P.R. PARADE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThere was no "Seinfeld" outrage over the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade this year - just confusion. It happened at a City Council ceremony yesterday - where council Speaker Peter...
SCHWARZ DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO LOUIMA
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amANDRA SCHWARZ said quietly and simply: "My husband told me, 'I would rather have been shot dead on the job than accused of sexual torture.'" Andra is a simple Staten...
BEAU CHARGED IN PARK SLAY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amPolice charged a man yesterday with killing his girlfriend with a single gunshot to the head in a Queens park - after they'd argued about $250 he had loaned her,...
CUNY CRITIC LOOKING TO CASH IN ON CITY SCHOOLS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amBenno Schmidt, the author of a damning report on the City University that also slammed public schools, says his profit-making company may seek to run New York public schools for...
CITY IN TALKS TO SELL OTB
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe city is in negotiations to sell its Off-Track Betting operation to the New York Racing Association, The Post has learned. Officials from NYRA, which runs the state's thoroughbred racetracks...
LOCO FANS CAMP OUT FOR RICKY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amFrenzied fans of Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin descended on Rockefeller Center - some as early as Tuesday - to get a primo spot for the superstar's mini-concert today. The Puerto...
PREZ: VICTORY MEANS SAFER WORLD - SAYS MILO'S CAMPAIGN OF REPRESSION IS OVER
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton last night declared victory in the 11-week military showdown in Kosovo, doling out praise to U.S. pilots, NATO allies, European negotiators and Boris Yeltsin. "The demands...
SOONER OR LATER, SORIANO CAN HELP YANKS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amQUIZ: Jeff King retired in the week before the draft, leaving 12 overall No. 1 picks remaining in the majors. Name them (answer below). * Alfonso Soriano, the Dominican for...
NOT ALL OF THE NUTS AT SHEA ARE SALTED
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees and all that surrounded them used to be known as the Bronx Zoo. Now they are known as classy World Champions. The Bronx Zoo has given way to...
YANKS WON'T CHANGE STRIPES: CASHMAN: NO MOVES PLANNED
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - They are in first place by one-half game over the reeling Red Sox. But is there anybody connected to the Yankees' universe who believes the World Champions have...
KNOBLAUCH MAY LEAD OFF AGAIN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES WASHINGTON - You can look for Bernie Williams to hit third, Tino Martinez fourth and Paul O'Neill fifth tonight when the Yankees open a three-game series in Miami...
SAVARESE SETS SIGHTS ON TITLE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amLou Savarese knows his time is running out. Savarese will turn 34 next month and as the No. 10 contender in the WBC, he can't afford to waste any opportunities....
YOU NEED EARPLUGS TO LISTEN TO WFAN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE button on the car radio that brings WFAN, 66 on the dial, used to be pushed the moment after ignition, an involuntary reflex. Now it's pressed with a practiced...
FOUR-RUN EIGHTH GIVES ADAMS TITLE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Adams 7 Pt. Richmond 3 Even after its coach was fired for allegedly slashing the tires on an umpire's car, John Adams High was hardly deflated. Instead, with assistant...
BROOK HIRES MACARCHUK
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amAs was widely speculated, Nick Macarchuk was named head basketball coach at Stony Brook yesterday. "I really like the idea of being secure," Macarchuk said yesterday. "I feel like I...
KNOCKIN' ON FAME'S DOOR: IT MAY BE NOW OR NEVER FOR 10 HALL CANDIDATES
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTO date, 1999 has gained a reputation as the year offense became, perhaps, too offensive. The long-term implications could be rule changes (such as raising the mound), re-thinking the configuration...
JEFF STANDS TALL IN PLAYERS' EYES
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am"The chess match between Van Gundy and Larry [Bird] at the end was magnificent."LARRY JOHNSON Credit this impassioned plea to Larry Johnson, who cannot help himself when Jeff Van Gundy's...
BETTMAN TO ICE SUMMER HOCKEY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Turns out, Gary Bettman can't take the heat. At least not the climate of hockey in late June. With the reality of this Stanley Cup final in Dallas,...
BUFFALO'S UNKNOWN SOLDIERS:SABRES WINNING WITH NO-NAME CAST
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - One thing about the top two scorers in this year's playoffs - they're both home. In the case of the Sabres, one had to scan down to eighth...
KNICKS GETTING CLOSE - & GETTING PARANOID
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTalk about a bunker mentality. The Knicks actually hired four security guards from the firm Spectaguard to blanket their practice facility at Purchase College yesterday and keep the media from...
PACER VOW: HARD FIGHT TO FINISH IN GARDEN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amSo now the Pacers stand on the brink of extinction for the millennium. And they must face what they have failed to be: a team with a killer instinct. Indiana,...
TRAVIS ON COURT BEST CASE SCENARIO
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTravis Best, like the Pacers in general, is relying on hope. Best, the Pacers' rapid, change-of-pace point guard who was felled by a pulled right groin muscle in Game 3...
FELIPE'S HAPPY HE PROVED HE BELONGED
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amHis game is built on athleticism and flash, but Felipe Lopez always was the humble young man. Not once in his four seasons at St. John's, when Lopez was asked...
ALBERTRANI HIT WITH 15-DAY BAN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTrainer Louis Albertrani has been suspended 15 days and fined $2,500 for a positive test of Clenbuterol in the post race urine sample of Carny's Creek. The horse finished third...
BOBBY 'NO' AS GOOD AS GONE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe insubordinate Bobby Bonilla's Met days are numbered, and the number is apparently very low. In fact, the only thing keeping him on the team at this point is the...
AGE-OLD QUESTION HAUNTS STARS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - The Stars own seven Stanley Cup rings and a few more around their trunks. They have redwoods on the backline. Craig Ludwig has lived longer than memories of...
KATZ MAKES IT CLEAR CASEY'S HIS MAN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S nothing I like better than an NBA owner who's a big fan ... of himself. Lewis Katz knows exactly who I'm talking about. When you're as accomplished at self-promoting...
COACH EARNED SHOT TO BAG $2.5M BONUS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amIT is the NBA Finals that are at stake tonight. A chance to get Patrick Ewing and the other members of the Knicks organization a shot at the championship ring...
KNICKS FEELIN' IT CAMBY DONE: MARCUS AND CO. OUT TO AX PACERS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00am"I want us to be focused and intense, but relaxed and confident as well."JEFF VAN GUNDY Time is finally on the Knicks' and Marcus Camby's side. Only 48 minutes of...
PACERS NOTHING BUT FRAUDS: SHOW TRUE COLORS IN FADE VS. KNICKS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amUH-OH. Looks like somebody forgot to tell the Pacers that you can't just anoint yourselves NBA champions, that you still have to put up with the inconvenience of playing the...
'STAG' A RUNNING NAG: EUROPEAN EYES UPSET IN BELMONT'S BROOKLYN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amIt's the triple crown nobody talks about anymore, New York's handicap triple: the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban. Together the three races have been run 331 times, and only four horses...
KNICKS WARY OF RECENT HISTORY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amPLAYOFF NOTEBOOK Holding a 3-2 edge in the series and playing at home tonight for the right to go to The Finals and play the Spurs, the Knicks don't want...
HILL THROWS HAT IN YANKS' RING: BOMBERS A HIT AT WHITE HOUSE
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Their egos freshly massaged by President Clinton and still-undeclared U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, the Yankees strolled out of the White House yesterday saying they were impressed with...
BETTORS TREAT KNICKS LIKE DOGS
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amPerhaps Jeff Van Gundy is right. Maybe the Knicks do not get any respect, after all. Here they are, playing tonight in what could be the Eastern Conference finals clincher...
SINK YOUR TEETH INTO SHARK
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amSALTWATER fishing in the marine waters of the New York Metro area is proceeding at a fairly good clip, especially with the addition of an offshore fishery for sharks. The...
DISGUISE MAY COST BOBBY
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mata Hari of managers is facing disciplinary action from the National League. Shortly after being ejected from Wednesday night's 14-inning, 4-3 win over the Blue Jays for...
JAX, BUSS MAKE TENTATIVE DEAL
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amAccording to those with a need to know, the Lakers and Jackson cannot have a formal deal until the six-time Bulls' ring bearer returns Monday from Alaska. THE LAKERS dispatched...
NO-NAME CAST GETTING IT DONE FOR BUFFALO
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - One thing about the top two scorers in this year's playoffs - they're both home. In the case of the Sabres, one had to scan down to eighth...
HULL EVENS IT UP: STARS GET EVEN ON HULL'S GOAL
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 2 Stars 4 Sabres 2 DALLAS - Just as another spectacular season was slipping away, the man the NHL regular-season champs brought in to be the difference brought them...
STARS GET BETTER WITH AGE: SENIOR CITIZENS GET EVEN
June 11, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Seven Stars own seven Stanley Cup rings, plus a few more around their trunks. Dallas has redwoods on the backline. Craig Ludwig has lived longer than a Texan...