June 18, 1999
SERVES THEM RIGHT - NEW SITES SELL LUXURY GOODS WITH FLAIR
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amWhile online bookstores, travel sites and pharmacies are locked in perpetual price wars, a new breed of Internet retailer is emerging - one that offers luxury goods instead of good...
$ COULD GET STARRING ROLE IN HIL'S RACE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amHILLARY Clinton's political campaign will have money problems. Don't misunderstand. the first lady seems perfectly capable of raising as much money as she wants, as long as she keeps chowing...
HARPERCOLLINS BUYS WILLIAM MORROW & AVON
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amNews Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers has agreed to buy William Morrow & Co. and Avon Books publishing operations from Hearst Corp. The deal is expected to be completed in July. Terms...
GREENSPAN'S CRYSTAL BALL SAYS 'RATE INCREASE'
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amFor a man who usually speaks in cryptic riddles, the meaning of Alan Greenspan's comments yesterday could not have been more clear: The Fed will raise interest rates. Speaking before...
SEVENTH AVE. IS ROCKED BY CALVIN, OSCAR
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amCalvin Klein and Oscar de la Renta are resigning their top posts at the Council of Fashion Designers of America. In the wake of one of the most widely panned...
COMPAQ IS AT LOSS; 1ST TIME SINCE '91
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amCompaq Computer Corp. angered Wall Street yesterday when it held a conference call to warn that it will post its first quarterly loss in eight years when it reports second-quarter...
NEWS FLASH: WALL ST. JOURNAL GETS AN AGENT
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Wall Street Journal is going Hollywood, so you can have your people call their people. After seeing several of its articles wind up as flicks and TV movies without...
SPANISH FLAVOR IN EVIL TALE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEWS A BIG hit in Spain that has taken nearly five years to cross the Atlantic, "The Day of the Beast" is a jokey shlock-horror take on the "Omen"...
PRIME TIME
June 18, 1999 | 4:00am*DATELINE NBC: 8-9 p.m. on WNBC/Ch.4. Twenty-two years after he won a Student Academy Award for his intimate 21-minute profile of a gambler (and family) in crisis, "Dateline" producer John...
ROCK-SOLID MELLENCAMP
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amJ OHN Mellencamp, who quit smoking after his heart attack a few years ago, took a deep drag from a cigarette he shouldn't have had, ground it into the stage...
TV TICKER
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amRatings jam New R&B oldies Jammin' 105 (105.1 FM) may have already peaked. Jammin' 105, which seldom cracked the Top 20 in its past incarnations, dropped to 17th place yesterday...
ABT MISSES SHOT WITH 'ANASTASIA'
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amALL good things come to an end, and American Ballet Theater's spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House is coming to a close, ending this Saturday night. Yet true to...
'PIRATES' ALL AT SEA - MICRO-SOFT GATES FLICK A CRASHING COMPUTER BORE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00am"Pirates of Silicon Valley" Sunday at 8 on TNT STEVE Jobs and Bill Gates reprogrammed the way we live. They rewired the world we live in. They didn't do it...
'SITCOM': SITUATIONS, NO COMEDY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amIMAGINE a John Waters comedy drained of Waters' wit, timing and clever dialogue and you've still got something better than ''Sitcom'' - a slow French farce that strains desperately to...
IF YOU'RE CHOOSY IGNORE 'BEGGARS'
June 18, 1999 | 4:00am"Beggars and Choosers" Tomorrow at 10 on Showtime THE most authentic aspect of "Beggars and Choosers" is that it's running in the summer. On networks, that's the time the loser...
A DASH OF BRILLIANCE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amFAST, smart and fun, ''Run Lola Run'' is Germany's remarkably cool answer to ''Go'' and ''Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.'' It's not quite as funny as the Anglo-Saxon youth...
'RED DWARF' SHORT ON SUBSTANCE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Red Dwarf'' seems to be a latter-day attempt by Belgian director Jean-Yves Thual to remake 1932's ''Freaks'' as a Fellini movie. Shot in black and white and set in...
'DAUGHTER' LEADS YOU ASTRAY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amON the way out of "The General's Daughter" screening, Paramount representatives handed critics cards asking them not to reveal the suspense thriller's "surprising twists and ending." Even if we were...
WOLF SINKS HIS TEETH INTO 'SIDE MAN' ROLE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S nothing but good news about "Side Man," Warren Leight's Tony-winning play about a family amid the jazz world of yesteryear. Scott Wolf has taken over the role of narrator...
TV'S HAPPIEST DIVORCE - 'RUGRATS' CREATORS PLEASED AS PHIL AND LIL OVER BIG BUSTUP
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHE secrets to a happy divorce are apparently the same as the ones for a happy marriage - be friends and have a lot in common. That's what Arlene Klasky...
NYC GOING TO CHURCH
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amNEW York music lovers will get a chance to see teen phenom Charlotte Church in her first public performance in the U.S. when the 13-year-old prodigy appears June 30 at...
'HUSBAND' SOWS SOME WILDE OATS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00am'AN Ideal Husband'' shows how a play by a genius can transcend both clumsy direction and an adaptation for the screen that amputates some of its best scenes and dialogue....
VONDA WOMAN - SINGER/SONGWRITER SHEPARD EXPLAINS WHY 'MCBEAL' IS RIGHT UP HER ALLY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amOFTEN called the voice of 'Ally McBeal,'' Vonda Shepard has one of the most unusual jobs on TV. This singer/songwriter plays, well, a singer/songwriter who performs in the bar that...
MOVIE AUDIENCES APT TO GO APE FOR 'TARZAN'
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amDISNEY'S thrilling "Tarzan" opens today, and like The Post has been saying all week, it's the best animated feature the studio has done since "The Lion King." Though 47 previous...
SON OF THE ALAMO IS A PROUD N.Y. FAN N0W
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amHis great-great-great grandfather led the ill-fated, ragtag army at the Alamo, but New Yorker Jerry Travis has something to say to San Antonio Spur fans back in his native Texas:...
FEDS HAVE KING B0XED INT0 A C0RNER: INDICTMENT LOOMS FOR RATINGS FIX
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amFEDERAL prosecutors who have been probing the boxing industry for three years believe they have enough evidence to indict promoter Don King and a top official for racketeering. The investigation,...
BLOOD RAN LIKE WATER IN HOUSE OF HORRORS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amPOKLEK I YJTER, Kosovo THE villagers in this part of central Kosovo have all seen their share of horrors in the past three months - but they still shudder when...
COP WHO STARTED HUNT PROUD SON ENDED IT
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe arrest of fugitive Kathleen Ann Soliah proves that the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree - especially when cops are involved. Detective Tom King had personal reasons...
BROOKLYN SCHOOL IS 'TWIN CENTRAL'
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amIt's double the fun at one Brooklyn elementary school with a stunning 23 sets of identical and fraternal twins. Visitors to PS 276, the Louis Marshall School in Canarsie, can...
NATO FEARS 10,000 MAY HAVE BEEN MASSACRED
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - NATO has uncovered so many mass graves in Kosovo this week that it now estimates 10,000 people were killed during the Serbian crackdown that began three months ago....
SCHOOLS SHALT POST COMMANDMENTS?
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe House of Representatives wrestled with a juvenile-violence bill yesterday by debating gun control and voting to allow the display of the Ten Commandments in schools. The House action showed...
COPS HUNT SEX ATTACKER OF GIRL, 11
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amBrooklyn detectives are searching for a man who accosted an 11-year-old girl and tried to rape her, police said yesterday. The victim, whose name was not released because of the...
O'CONNOR WEIGHS IN ON CUNY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor is worried about a controversial proposal to give remedial courses only at City University's community colleges - not its four-year colleges. The cardinal writes in the current...
SOPHIE INVITES PRANKSTER PAL WHO YANKED HER BIKINI
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe man seen pulling the bikini top off Sophie Rhys-Jones in an old photo will be a welcome guest at her royal wedding to Prince Edward. Mischievous radio deejay and...
FIRE UNION: BRAVEST DIDN'T RUN OUT ON DOOMED CAPTAIN
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe firefighters union yesterday blasted the FDNY for saying some firefighters may have acted improperly in a Queens blaze that claimed the life of a captain. The Post yesterday reported...
ACTOR'S TRAINING SERVED HER WELL IN HIDING
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amFor actress and 1970s radical Kathleen Ann Soliah, hiding her secret past turned out to be the role of a lifetime. Soliah - arrested by the FBI Wednesday on charges...
COPS BUST FEDS OVER FAKE PARKING PERMITS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amCity cops yesterday busted two INS detention guards and towed away 38 cars - nearly all belonging to federal employees - over bogus police parking permits, authorities said. Police said...
FEAR ALWAYS LURKS FOR THOSE LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE, SHRINKS SAY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amLife on the lam may be filled with paranoia at first, but it gets easier as time goes by and fugitives get used to living life as someone else. But,...
SQUEEGEE MAN TELLS HOW COP SHOT HIM
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amA Bronx squeegee man yesterday faced the off-duty cop who shot him and graphically recounted in court how the angry man suddenly shoved a gun into his chest and "just...
B'KLYN JUDGE ADDS INSULT TO INJURY, JAILS SHOOT VICTIM - EXCLUSIVE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn shooting victim was jailed for not testifying - an unusual move that ultimately let his accused attacker walk free yesterday, The Post has learned. Louis Love, 28, spent...
GORE CAMP HOPES GOP PLAYS ROUGH WITH HILLARY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amVice President Al Gore's campaign chief says he'd love to see Republicans "beat up" on Hillary Rodham Clinton in a New York Senate race - because it'll help Gore. "I...
HS BACKS OUT OF 'INANE' CHARGE FOR GRAD TICKETS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amEmbarrassed officials at a Midtown high school yesterday dropped plans requiring students to pay for tickets for parents and friends attending their graduation. "We are truly appalled," said a teacher...
CAUGHT CLERK FIXED DIVORCES: DA ; ALLEGEDLY TOOK $$ TO RUSH PAPERWORK
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amA top clerk was charged yesterday with turning Manhattan's Civil Court into a Vegas-style quickie-divorce chapel - to the tune of "Here comes the bribe." Senior Court Clerk Steven Singer...
SILVER STALLS CO-OP/CONDO TAX CUT
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amA bill to extend the city's tax cut on co-ops and condos was stalled in Albany yesterday after it was attached to another real-estate measure opposed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon...
UNDERGROUND LEADER: 'NO REGRETS'
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amBernadine Dohrn, the '60s radical whose life parallels Katherine Soliah's, says she's proud of the years she spent protesting. "I have no regrets about trying to stop the war in...
CELL DOOR SLAMS ON RADICAL MOM: NO BAIL FOR HEARST-CASE FUGITIVE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amA Minnesota housewife charged with trying to kill cops as a fugitive member of the 1970s radical group that kidnapped Patty Hearst was held without bail yesterday. Kathleen Ann Soliah,...
ABORT-CLINIC BILL GAINS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The Republican-controlled state Senate last night approved legislation for the first time that would protect abortion clinics from unruly protesters, as well as safeguard women from stalkers. The...
LOTT HAILS RUDY, URGES UNITED N.Y. GOP - EXCLUSIVE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott yesterday warned the New York GOP that it needs to avoid a "messy primary" in next year's Senate race - and that Mayor...
QNS. MAN SHOOTS INTRUDER
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amA feisty Queens man shot and injured one of two gun-toting bandits who pushed their way into his home and tried to force him to join their drug-selling ring, cops...
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT:BUMPER ROOKIE CROP IS COMING UP STRONG
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amOVER the next five weeks Nomar Garciaparra will turn 26, Derek Jeter 25 and Alex Rodriguez 24. That is ammunition next time you hear a doomsayer fret about the future...
TRIBE MIGHT HAVE RIGHT BAIT TO BAG WELLS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amQUIZ: Only two players who finished in the top 10 in batting average in 1990 repeated that feat last season, one in each league. Name them (answer below). * The...
WRIGHT COULDN'T LEAVE HOFSTRA
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amIt's hard to tell whether Jay Wright is Hofstra's basketball coach or the school's public relations director. Wright turned down an offer to become the head man at Fordham, which...
CARPENTER'S TOLD TO SHOP AROUND
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amWhile the door isn't completely shut yet for Bobby Carpenter to return to the Devils as a player, Lou Lamoriello has given the 18-year veteran permission to negotiate now with...
SAVARESE SET TO TEST GRANT
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThere was a time when Lou Savarese would have heard the backhanded compliments that are surrounding his heavyweight fight tomorrow at the Garden against Michael Grant and gotten downright ornery....
JOCKEYS FINED FOR SATURDAY SCUFFLE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amJockeys John Velazquez and Jose Espinoza were fined $250 each by the stewards yesterday for a scuffle in the jocks' room last Saturday that dominoed into Shane Sellers punching innocent...
GABRIEL SAYS GOOD-BYE TO NYRA
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amFrank G. Gabriel Jr., who joined NYRA in January, 1998, as its Director of Racing/Stakes Coordinator, has resigned his position. Gabriel, 45, has accepted the duties of Vice President of...
ON-SITE GIGS MAKE US GAG: IN-ARENA SHOWS ARE BIG TURNOFF
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amREMEMBER when you told your folks that you did something stupid because all the other kids did it? Bad answer. All you did was set up mom or dad for...
CHILDS: IT'LL BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - This vow comes courtesy of Chris Childs, who Wednesday night struggled in the role of point guard and who yesterday took it upon himself to play the...
SPURS' PRAISE RUBS KNICKS WRONG WAY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - This is, after all, the NBA Finals, and teams are not supposed to get this far by merely being a plucky group that plays awfully hard and...
A SOLUTION NOT IN SIGHT FOR POSADA
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amJorge Posada knew there was nothing wrong with his eyesight when he climbed into a car leaving Manhattan bound for Ridgefield, Conn., yesterday morning. The reason Posada was so sure...
MILBURY TAKING LESS TO MAKE ZIGGY A KING
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amMike Milbury is an employee who does what he's told by bosses who have no shame. As such, the Islanders' GM is on the verge of trading Zigmund Palffy to...
NO JOY FOR LJ IN GAME 1 LOSS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - This is no fun. Here he is, playing in the NBA Finals for the first time in his eight-year career and Larry Johnson is miserable. He knows...
ONE GAME DOWN AND IT'S GUT-CHECK TIME - KNICKS KNOW GAME 2 WIN IS ESSENTIAL
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - They have come face to face with the beast, and were crushed. Now the Knicks know they must make adjustments to survive in the NBA Finals. Adjustments...
TIM TERRIFIC'S UNSTOPPABLE - DUNCAN LOOKS LIKE HEIR TO MIKE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - If his first game in the NBA Finals is a prelude to Tim Duncan's ability to handle the league's biggest stage, the question of who will be...
GAME 2 STRUGGLES CONCERN TO SPURS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The last defeat the Spurs endured was against Minnesota, at home, in a Game 2. Oh, there were other close calls for San Antonio in this current...
MARIO: WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - One of the perceptions being painted throughout this series is the "Good vs. Evil" scenario with the Spurs cast in the role of the good guys while...
JEFF BETTER COME UP WITH SOMETHING
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Now, at last, we come to that point in the basketball season known as Van Gundy Time. That point in the season where the team is practically...
HULL QUESTION STUMPS STARS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Two hard steps from the finish line, Brett Hull can't extend his leg all the way, which made the odds at him playing last night at perhaps 70...
JAX SET TO BEAM UP SCOTTIE:LAKERS COACH MULLS RICE-FOR-PIPPEN DEAL
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - If it was the action that Phil Jackson missed most during his year-long NBA sabbatical, he wasted no time in bursting back into it. Already the Lakers'...
SPREE: WE MUST ATTACK THE TOWERS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The most distressing part of Latrell Sprewell's stat line in the Knicks' Game 1 loss to the Spurs Wednesday night was not his relatively paltry 19 points...
BATTLE OF THE HEAVYWEIGHTS: DUVAL, WOODS, DALY IN HUNT AT PINEHURST
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - The 99th U.S. Open awoke lethargically for yesterday morning's first round with rain spitting down on the players with early tee times and barely enough visibility to see...
ISLES EYE 4 TOP PICKS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Islanders' dealing may not be done. Once they acquire L.A.'s eighth pick in the June 26th draft - as part of a trade for Zigmund Palffy - the Isles...
SCARY SPURS CAN HURT FROM MANY ANGLES
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - In Game 1, it was Jaren Jackson. In Game 2, it could be Mario Elie. Or Steve Kerr. Or Sean Elliott. Or Avery Johnson. Or Jackson again....
VAN HAS KNICKS THINKING BIG
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTEBOOK SAN ANTONIO - The Knicks can go big, too, in the backcourt. Latrell Sprewell said it's time to get him and Allan Houston together in the backcourt...
BIG MAC OUT OF MEAT GRINDER: PRESSURE'S OFF CARD SLUGGER
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Can it truly be that with 19 home runs and 48 RBIs on the morning of June 17 that Mark McGwire is having a disappointing year? Only...
OH BABY! MICKELSON WILL SPLIT IF STORK COMES EARLY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Phil Mickelson has the plane standing by and a co-pilot at the ready for a quick escape. Problem is, if he has to bolt quickly, he'll be leaving...
VAN: JAREN JOLTED US
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The "what if?" proposal was laid out before Jaren Jackson. So "what if" the Knicks on defense pay you a lot more attention tonight in Game 2?...
BENEDICT LIKES FILLING VALENTINE'S SHOES
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Bruce Benedict's tenure as interim manager came to a close last night. Before the Mets faced the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, he said he liked...
HOCH COMES OUT CLEAN IN RULES PROBE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES PINEHURST - A potential controversy was quelled yesterday after it appeared Scott Hoch might have been in line to be disqualified. According to USGA officials, a TV viewer...
DRAZEN NOMINATED FOR HALL
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Drazen Petrovic, the outstanding Nets shooting guard whose tragic death in a 1993 car crash plunged the entire franchise into a tailspin, is one of two international...
JETER INJURY UNDER WRAPS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amKnowing how quick the Yankees are to play it safe and shelve a player when it comes to injuries, Derek Jeter kept information to a minimum concerning his bruised left...
BIG MAC'S GLAD TO BE OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Is it possible that with 19 home runs and 48 RBIs on the morning of June 18 that Mark McGwire is having a disappointing year? Only 19...
JORGE SOLUTION MAY BE IN SIGHT
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amJorge Posada knew there was nothing wrong with his eye sight when he climbed into a car leaving Manhattan and bound for Ridgefield, Conn. yesterday morning. The reason Posada was...
ROGER'S 13 KS UNLUCKY FOR YANKS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amRangers 4 Yankees 2 On a night when Roger Clemens finally gave the Yankees the type of game everybody is accustomed to seeing from the Rocket, the Yankee bats flushed...
CLEMENS CAN'T CLOSE DEAL
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHE MYTH will not change until the math does. The legend of David Wells will not die among Yankee fans until Roger Clemens makes it go away. Like Tino Martinez...
METS SURVIVE FRANCO FLOP
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amMets 4 Cardinals 3 ST. LOUIS - The streaks continue. Mike Piazza extended his hitting streak to a career-high 20 games; Al Leiter stretched his winning streak to three; and...
STIFLING STARS ONE WIN AWAY
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 5 Stars 2 Sabres 0 DALLAS - The Stars are one victory away from bringing the Stanley Cup to the Sun Belt for the first time. The regular-season champions...
COOK CLEANS UP FRANCO'S MESS
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - If anyone ever asks general manager Steve Phillips why he gave a set-up man $9 million over three years, he can just point to last night's game....
OFFSHORE, IT'S ALL BLUE
June 18, 1999 | 4:00amINSHORE fishing around the shores of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut continues to offer a pleasant diversion from the hustle and bustle of urban living. For those working the...