June 16, 1999
BANK SAYS IT GOOFED ON ROBERTSON
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amOfficials from Bank of Scotland apologized yesterday for "bad judgment" in having formed a joint venture with televangelist Pat Robertson. The bank had backed away from the deal to form...
HANKS TOPS LIST OF CELLULOID'S MOST-BANKABLE NAMES
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amPerformers were ranked on their ability to secure financing for a film, obtain studio distribution and open a film to blockbuster status on the strength of their name alone. Hollywood's...
JUDITH LEIBER PACKS UP ITS BAGS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amJudith Leiber Inc., maker of glittery handbags carried by the likes of Sharon Stone, Hillary Clinton, and the late Princess Diana, is up for sale. The 35 year old company...
STEPHANOPOULOS TO TALK
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBUZZ QUEEN Tina Brown is pulling out the big guns as the hoopla for the Aug. 2 launch of Talk heats up. Seven weeks from launch, Brown bagged best-selling author...
EX-CON'S $3.6B CASINO CAPER STUMPS STREET
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amWall Street hadn't seen such cojones in years. A porno peddler - who once spent three years in prison for fraud - launched a surprise $3.6 billion cash bid yesterday...
MORE 'NET FALLOUT FROM DOBBS' EXIT AT CNNFN
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amTwo high-level Internet execs at CNN Financial News have followed their leader, Lou Dobbs, out the door. Craig Forman and Helen Whelan announced yesterday they were quitting their top jobs...
TV TICKER
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amHeat strokes MetroGuide wants to run you out of town - and toward sizzling summer getaways! Today through Saturday, MetroGuide will feature ''Weekend Countdown,'' a series of programs guiding viewers...
TROUBLED SOULS WALKIN' IN A WITHERED 'WONDERLAND'
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY'RE 30- somethings gathering for New Year's at the woodsy Sag Harbor home of Edgar and his sister Frances, and they're troubled souls; besides love troubles, there's a free-floating anxiety...
O.J. COP ON CABLE: MARK FUHRMAN PITCHES CRIME TALK SHOW FOR 2000
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amO J. cop Mark Fuhrman is developing a syndicated true-crime show for cable. The one-hour show, targeted to debut in fall 2000, will be produced by Sonny Grosso, the former...
KNOCK, KNOCK. GORDON'S BACK
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amWACKY Gordon Elliott is returning to ''Good Day New York.'' Elliott, the tall (6-foot-7) Australian native whose assortment of stunts kept ''GDNY'' viewers entertained on-and-off from 1988-97, will return to...
SABLE SENDS WWF A SIGNAL FROM RINGSIDE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amGORGEOUS wrestler Sable - who has slapped her World Wrestling Federation bosses with a $100 million sexual harassment suit - slapped them again Monday night by showing up at ringside...
'VOICE' OF FOOTBALL BACK
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amK EITH Jackson is "unretiring" and will return to announce 14 college football games for ABC this season. Jackson, 70 - considered the "voice" of college football - retired last...
STEPPING OUT FROM BEHIND THE BUSHES: TEXAS GOV'S WIFE BRACES FOR CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amMANCHESTER, N.H. THERE'S one thing you have to ask Laura Bush straight off. How does she - the self-professed 'most private'' member of the Bush family - feel about her...
TIBETAN TREATS GO DOWN LIKE BUDDHA
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amTibet on Houston 136 W. Houston St. (212) 995-5884 Rating: Three stars A chalkboard on the street promises 'Tibetan Home-style Cooking,'' a prospect intriguing enough to entice a steady stream...
TO EVERYTHING A SEASONING AT STIRRING STANDARD
June 16, 1999 | 4:00am27 Standard 116 E. 27th St. (212) 447-7733 Rating: Three stars 'I'M breaking a sweat,'' my friend Barry celebrates the torrid Moroccan barbecue sauce on his perfectly grilled chicken breast....
STANLEY KUBRICK, SELF-HATING JEW: THE ECCENTRIC DIRECTOR OF 'EYES WIDE SHUT' AS SEEN THROUGH 'THE EYES WIDE OPEN' OF SCREENWRITER FREDERIC RAPHAEL
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amTHE late Stanley Kubrick once remarked that 'Hitler was right about almost everything,'' and insisted that any trace of Jewishness be expunged from the 'Eyes Wide Shut'' script that author...
THE WRITER OF KUBRICK'S LAST FILM
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amChicago-born, British-educated Frederic Raphael, who inked the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut," is a prolific writer - with 19 novels, four short-story collections and innumerable screenplays and teleplays...
BUSH PRODS GOV & RUDY TO BURY AX - NEEDS HELP FROM BOTH IF HE'S TO CARRY N.Y.
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amGOP front-runner George W. Bush says he's urged Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani to cool their feud because he needs help from both to become president. "I've told them both...
AT L0NG LAST, 'IT'S 0K T0 C0ME H0ME' - REFUGEES REJOICE UPON THEIR RETURN
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amPRISTINA, Kosovo. LIKE everyone else who enters Kosovo these days, Srli Shiroki was a little apprehensive. Three months ago, he and his Albanian Muslim family were forcibly removed from their...
DAN WARNS G0P ON KING GEORGE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amRepublican 2000 presidential hopeful Dan Quayle yesterday said the GOP's race to back George W. Bush as the nominee is "a recipe for disaster." "I think the organized Republicans and...
TEXANS ARE DIGGING THEIR SPURS INTO THIS KNICK FAN
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amI AM a wanted man in Texas. After I exposed San Antonio - the town where the Knicks play for the basketball championship starting tonight - as a measly two-horse...
ICE-CREAM TRUCK KILLS 8-YEAR-OLD BOY IN BROOKLYN
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amA well-liked Brooklyn second-grader died yesterday after an ice-cream truck accidentally backed into him while he sat on his new bike. Justin Chris Hamilton, 8, who lived in the Jonathan...
HEAT'S ON MILO AMID ATROCITY EVIDENCE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - Yugoslavs braced for a bitter new phase in the Balkan crisis yesterday as they vowed to rebuild their country and ignored reports of mass graves in Kosovo. President...
FINES MAY BE COIF MEDICINE - CITY WARNS SNOB STYLIST ON AGE LIMIT
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amA trendy East Side hair stylist was accused yesterday of age discrimination for brushing off customers over 25 - because they're too old for his "funky" 'dos. "I'm just being...
NEW ESTROGEN PILL REDUCES RISK OF BREAST CANCER: STUDY
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amA ''designer estrogen'' pill taken to prevent brittle bones in post-menopausal women dramatically cuts their risk of breast cancer, a new study shows. The three-year trial showed that women who...
QUAYLE KNOWS HOW TO SPELL RELIEF FOR KIDS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amFORMER Vice President Dan Quayle is as square as a butter box and as exciting as a turtle farmer. His life is uncluttered by the vicarious pizza deliveries and his...
AILING POPE MISSES MASS FOR 1 MILLION IN POLAND
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amPope John Paul II, bedridden and fighting the flu in his native Poland, appeared briefly at a balcony window last night to greet a worried crowd keeping vigil outside. Thousands...
RUDY PADDLES HILL WITH RAFT OF RIDICULE ON WHITEWATER
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amTaking a jab at another of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's political soft spots, Mayor Giuliani yesterday said he'll visit the "Whitewater River" while he's in Arkansas next month for...
SHOE-HORNY CHUCK OFF TO JAIL
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amGoodbye, patent-leather high heels. Hello, plain white tennis shoes. Foot-fetishist flack Chuck Jones was led away to prison yesterday to serve a 1-to-4-year term for burglarizing Marla Maples' apartment. That...
HIZZONER HAS TICKER-TAPE READY
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amOne more reason for the Knicks to beat the San Antonio Spurs: a ticker-tape parade up Broadway. Mayor Giuliani said yesterday the Big Apple would host the fast-break heroes if...
FBI SEIZES CITY FILES IN PROBE OF TOXIC SPILL
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amFBI agents raided several offices of the city's Department of Environmental Protection yesterday - searching for evidence that officials endangered the city's water supply. Agents armed with subpoenas ejected city...
EX-CITY UNION BIG INDICTED IN $1M DUES RIP-OFF
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe ex-president of the largest local of the city employees union was charged yesterday with looting more than $1 million in dues - but his lawyer defended the windfall as...
PAULA JUDGE WINKED AT BILL'S SEXCAPADES: BOOK
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Paula Jones judge secretly told Jones' lawyers that "everyone in Arkansas" knew President Clinton fooled around, but warned that no jury would convict him, a new book...
KILLER QUAKE WREAKS HAVOC IN MEXICO
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amAt least one person died and tens of thousands fled their homes yesterday when a strong earthquake rocked central Mexico. The quake measured 6.7 on the Richter scale. A quake...
STATE GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO OPEN 5 CHARTER SCHOOLS IN BIG APPLE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00am"There's a real hunger out there for a solid education for people in poor communities. Parents want choice for their children." SUNY TRUSTEE RANDY DANIELS In a historic vote, SUNY's...
GORE WILL MAKE IT OFFICIAL TODAY
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amCARTHAGE, Tenn. - Talk about a tough act to follow! Vice President Al Gore today kicks off his 2000 presidential bid as his own man, smack on the heels of...
KILLER QUAKE JOLTS MEXICO
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amAt least 12 people died, hundreds were injured and tens of thousands fled their shaking homes in fear yesterday when a strong earthquake rocked central Mexico. The quake measured 6.7...
BOGEY & KATE TOP LIST OF SCREEN GEMS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBogie and Hepburn are back together for the first time in 48 years - on a new list of movie legends that's catching flak for slighting stars of silent films...
WOMAN, BEAU DIE IN MURDER-SUICIDE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens woman and her boyfriend died in a burst of automatic-weapon fire on a Rockaway street last night in what cops called a murder-suicide. The woman, who lived on...
IT'S TIME TO MAKO FUSS OVER TUNA, SHARK LIMITS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amRECOGNIZING a potential for economic disaster, two New Jersey assemblymen, with the backing of tens of thousands of New Jersey anglers, are urging Gov. Whitman to file a lawsuit against...
THIS IS NO HELLHOLE - SAN ANTONIO IS NOT NEW YORK, BUT ...
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - I don't want to remember the Alamo the way Davey Crockett did. Or the Alamodome the way Pernell Whitaker does. That is why you will not find...
STARS' SUCCESS IS SAME OLD STORY
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - A smaller man might be somewhat intimidated coaching a team with so many veteran Cup winners as the Stars, but not Ken Hitchcock. Instead, Hitchcock revels in the...
TAKE A SHOT AT PICK 6 POT
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amToday's pick 6 at Belmont, with a $50,762 one-day carryover, presents bettors with what psychology textbooks call an ''approach-avoidance conflict.'' Think of it as a hot sports car with expensive...
JAX, L.A. AGREE ON 5-YEAR, $30M DEAL
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amPhil Jackson and the Lakers have reached agreement on a deal that will pay Jackson $30 million to coach the team for the next five years. Jackson was expected to...
IT'S NEXT GEAR OR NEXT YEAR FOR SABRES BUFFALO'S LOOKING TO FIND NEXT GEAR
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Not quite ready to renounce Satan, who is goal-less in three games, the Sabres went into Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals last night on their knees,...
OPEN & SHUT CASE: TIGER WILL WIN IT; TIME RIGHT FOR TIGER TO POUNCE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - He's an older, wiser student of the game, sometimes sounding like a grizzled veteran who's survived the wars over the years. The thing about Tiger Woods, though, is...
KINGS VAULT INTO LEAD FOR ZIGGY
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amFor the last couple of weeks during the Ziggy Palffy auction, Islanders GM Mike Milbury has waited for Kings counterpart Dave Taylor to offer up either of two prospects -...
VG'S DAD DISSES DAVE: WONDERS HOW SON CAN WORK FOR LIAR
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amIf his son is fired after the NBA Finals, Bill Van Gundy said he can accept it, confident that Jeff will find another job. But what Bill said he can't...
TOAD-AL TURNAROUND IRABU'S FINALLY FINDING STRIDE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe expectations were always unfair, the stage pre-set for failure. No one should have been surprised when Hideki Irabu fell short. But what has impressed the Yankees lately is how...
HANDICAPPING THE FIELD
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amThe Post's picks for the 99th U.S. Open: 1. TIGER WOODS: He comes in on his game, confident in all aspects, most importantly his putting. He's one of the most...
TURK LONGS TO START
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - "Give me the rock," Turk Wendell joked. "I want to start." Wendell was only kidding, of course, but only to a degree. The tireless Mets reliever doesn't want...
DEAL FOR PALFFY COLLAPSING
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - It was in September that Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta called Howard Milstein and Steven Gluckstern "pigs at the trough" after the team evicted itself from the Coliseum...
TALE OF 2-BY-4 LEAVES SPREE & KERSEY BOARD
June 16, 1999 | 4:00am"That's under the bridge. We shook hands and everything is fine. We speak to each other. It was blown out of proportion, really." JEROME KERSEY SAN ANTONIO - Before there...
KNICKS FEEL SPURNED - ELIE INSULT HAS KNICKS PUMPED UP FOR GAME 1; MARIO INCITES KNICKS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - If the Knicks didn't know before, there's no doubt now. To the Spurs, they are a bug on a pickup truck's windshield. Nothing more. That message came...
JEFF'S FOCUS ON GAME 1
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Upon his arrival here Monday afternoon, Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy went out to relax and eat some Mexican food along the Riverwalk. Who says he doesn't...
EWING: I BELIEVE IN MY TEAMMATES
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Mixed emotions played a taunting game of tug-of-war inside Patrick Ewing's body yesterday afternoon at the Alamodome, where the Knicks held their final hard practice before Game...
MARIO'S TALKIN' THE TALK: N.Y. NATIVE NOT SCARED OF KNICKS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00am"This is probably the weakest team we're going to play in the playoffs."MARIO ELIE SAN ANTONIO - The road to the NBA Finals has been rough for the Spurs, Mario...
PETTITTE FLIES HOME TO BE WITH AILING DAD
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Andy Pettitte turned 27 yesterday, but it wasn't exactly how he had hoped to spend his birthday. He spent it on a plane, flying home to Texas to...
LUGO'S LEGS, ARM DELIVER TITLE: XAVERIAN STAR ZIPS IONA, SCORES WINNER
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amCHSAA 'A' PLAYOFFS Xaverian 1 Iona Prep 0 The star pitcher became the star base runner. In a dramatic finish, Ruddy Lugo scored in the bottom of the seventh to...
DUVAL'S FATE? FINGERS NOT FICKLE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTEBOOK PINEHURST - The David Duval burn scare seems to have healed. Duval, playing with tape around his right thumb and index finger because of burns he sustained from...
VALENTINE WILL BEGIN TWO-GAME BAN TODAY
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - National League president Leonard Coleman upheld Bobby Valentine's two-game suspension and steep $5,000 fine yesterday. Valentine and GM Steve Phillips made a case for Valentine on...
FOR ALLAN, THIS IS DREAM COME HOU
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The campers are watching. That was Allan Houston's first thought when it finally hit him - he actually was going to play in the NBA Finals. For...
KIDS ARE KEY TO CHILI CALL
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amChili Davis looked nothing like a man contemplating retirement Monday night when he knocked in four runs, including a three-run monster homer in the Yankees' 8-2 win over Texas. But...
KERR FEELS FOR ERNIE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - You know the Knicks internal front-office mess is a big deal when opponents start chiming in with their take on the situation. Spurs reserve guard Steve Kerr,...
SPURS FOCUS ON THEIR DEFENSE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The Spurs enter the NBA Finals with one overriding thought: defend. Defend in transition, defend the paint, defend homecourt, defend individually, defend collectively. And the Spurs must...
LJ DOUBTFUL FOR OPENER
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTEBOOK SAN ANTONIO - The brace on his sprained right knee is big and bulky and as Larry Johnson took the long walk from the visitors' locker room...
KNICKS HOPE DUD & THOMAS DON'T FOUL UP FINALS CHANCES
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - On the basketball court, there is a fine line between aggressive play and downright stupid play. And the Knicks, especially with Patrick Ewing out and Larry Johnson...
YANKS AGAIN, TEXAS CONE & JETER HELP BOMBERS CONTINUE MASTERY OF RANGERS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 6 Rangers 2 "You got me - they're obviously a good ballclub, but we've been fortunate against them."JOE TORRE For the Texas Rangers, The Bronx must be starting to...
WRIGHT'S ALL WRONG IN FORDHAM FIASCO
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amFordham basketball has quickly gone from a program on the rise to a program in disarray. Fordham's public relations firm sent a press release yesterday announcing a press conference for...
CLASSIC LOOMS AS SABRES GET EVEN
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 4 Sabres 2 Stars 1 BUFFALO - The Stanley Cup Finals not only have evolved into the competitive series the NHL desperately had been wishing for, but into an...
CONE REMAINS ROTATION'S ROCK
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amAmidst the occasional chaos that has marked the Yankees' starting rotation, David Cone has been the rock. And continues to be the rock. Just look at the fleshy ERAs of...
GOING GETS RUFF, BUFFALO GETS GOING
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Not quite ready to renounce Satan, who remains goalless for the series, the Sabres went into Game 4 last night on their knees, looking for the hellfires with...
METS' POWER SURGE SIMPLY SIX-SATIONAL
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - For one game, it was as if Cinergy Field had become Wrigley in the Round, a kind of Coors Field at sea level with the Green Monster ringing...
SIMPLY THE BEST JETER SHOWS OFF MVP SKILLS - AGAIN
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amHE IS the best baseball player in the American League at the moment. He plays for the most storied sports franchise on earth. He is the most eligible bachelor in...
RECOVERED REED GIVES REDS THE CHILLS
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Yesterday morning, Rick Reed wasn't even sure he would be able to start. But an excruciating urinary infection cleared up in time and Reed was able...
FORDHAM FIASCO: WRIGHT'S WRONG
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amFordham basketball has quickly gone from a program on the rise to a program in disarray. Fordham's public relations firm sent a press release yesterday announcing a press conference for...
C'MON & TAKE A SPREE RIDE
June 16, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: SAN ANTONIO - A year after he was the poster boy for everything that's wrong with sports, Latrell Sprewell is savoring Knicks' incredible run. The words are so commonplace,...