June 25, 1999
GM LEANING TOWARD HUGHES SPLIT-UP
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amGENERAL Motors may soon be willing to break its Hughes Electronic operation into more than one company. Outsiders who broached the subject in past years say they were always told...
THE WRITE STUFF - VENDOME OFFERS PLUSH PRODUCT TRYOUT ROOM
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amBrowse a collection of antique and limited edition books; borrow some headphones and listen to music; indulge in gourmet coffee or tea on the house; and when you're settled in,...
FUND INDUSTRY IS ONE STEP AHEAD OF SEC
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe mutual fund industry is taking a pre-emptive strike against new layers of regulation by imposing some tough new measures on itself. For one, the industry is going to require...
DAVID-WEILL DEALING FOR CONTROL OF LAZARD
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amLazard Freres Chairman Michel David-Weill yesterday tightened his grip on the venerable investment bank and smoothed out succession issues in a well-orchestrated $650 million deal. Two weeks after he announced...
COMPUSA CLOSINGS - NOT KNOWN IF NYC STORES ARE INCLUDED
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amAnother computer superstore just got the business model blues. CompUSA announced yesterday it would be closing 14 stores nationwide over the next year in an attempt to cut costs and...
BETTS OFF TO BAZAAR - WILL VIE WITH HER MENTOR, VOGUE'S WINTOUR
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amKatherine Betts, a longtime protege of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has jumped ship to Wintour's archrival Harper's Bazaar as editor-in-chief. The move for Betts from Conde Nast to Hearst sets...
HINDERY'S NUMBER IS UP AT MA BELL
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amLEO Hindery Jr. isn't going to be an AT&T career man. The No. 2 exec at the nation's largest telecom company is likely to leave the company within the next...
MARIO LEMIEUX ICES DEAL FOR NHL'S PENGUINS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amSuper Mario scored another first yesterday. Mario Lemieux, one of the National Hockey League's brightest stars when he skated for the Pittsburgh Penguins until 1997, became the first pro athlete...
'GIANT' A BIG WASTE OF TIME
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Broken Giant," filmmaker Estep Nagy's beautifully lighted but insufferably sluggish debut, is a dreary hybrid of Woody Allen's "Interiors" and the late, unlamented TV series "Nothing Sacred." If focuses...
TV TICKER
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am'True' tales Julia Phillips finally has her own "E! True Hollywood Story," which airs Sunday at 8 p.m. "I'm always approached when they're doing a story on someone like ['Hollywood...
PRETENDERS DON'T HAVE TO FAKE IT
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE throng of aging Baby Boomers who filled the Bowery Ballroom for the Pretenders' one-night stand were visibly thrilled at being able to catch expatriate extraordinaire Chrissie Hynde in a...
BALLET FOR 'MIDSUMMER NIGHT'
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amFORGET about the calendar. At Lincoln Center it's already midsummer! At the Lincoln Center Plaza the joint is jivin' and jumpin' to the big-band sounds of "Midsummer Night Swing," that...
FILM CRITIC BOMBS WITH 'EYES' REVIEW
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amCRITIC Alexander Walker is fending off charges by Stanley Kubrick's family that he abused his special relationship with them by exclusively reviewing the late director's "Eyes Wide Shut" weeks before...
DARIUS STILLGIVES A HOOT- AFTER A SLUMP, HOOTIE & BLOWFISH ARE BACK IN THE SWIM
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER hav-ing scoredbig with a debut album that sold more than 16 million copies, Hootie & the Blowfish took a fall - and plenty of flak - with their sophomore...
LOOK OF 'LOVE' IS ITS STRENGTH
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amSHOT in New Zealand, "When Love Comes" stands out from the recent crop of bad independent movies featuring gay and/or lesbian couples by virtue of its unusually fine lighting and...
THE SINGLEMINDED SINGLE MOMMY TRACK
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN Dan Quayle gave his infamous "Murphy Brown" speech complaining about pop culture's validation of single motherhood, he wasn't attacking unwed mothers generally, many of whom show great courage in...
THIS IS HOW THE 'WORLD' WILL END
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE "World" ends today. After 35 years, the soap opera "Another World" will air for the final time at 2 p.m., A large group of die-hard fans and some cast...
'COMING APART' DOESN'T HOLD TOGETHER
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amA critical and box-office disaster when it came out in 1969, "Coming Apart" was hailed by credulous folk as a daring, avant-garde masterpiece when shown at the Museum of Modern...
A SEPARATE PEACE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Oscar-nominated Vietnam-war documentary "Regret to Inform" is a worthy bookend to "Return With Honor," the recent documentary account of American POWs who survived the horrors of the Hanoi Hilton...
'MARTIAL LAW' GETS SON OF SAMMO
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am'MARTIAL law" is adding a new character, chop cop Sammo Hung's strong-spirited student. The part - which is expected to be cast next week-is a character named Amy Dylan, described...
FOR SALE SIGN TAKEN OFF JERRY
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amBARRY Diller's Studios USA is rethinking its decision to unload "Jerry Springer" - because the show's ratings did not nosedive after the fighting and obscenities were cut out. "The show...
MY 'BUNNY' VALENTINE: A&E DIPS BACK INTO PLAYBOY HISTORY
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am'Gloria Steinem was a decade older [than the average Bunny ...' she didn't understand this new breed of women'- ex Bunny Kathryn Leigh Scott. "The Bunny Years" Sunday at 9...
A BIZARRO 'FAMILY TIES'
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amWHILE Dad skulks in the basement drinking whisky and listening to jazz, Junior sits upstairs studying Scripture and wondering what the hell's happened to the morals of parents these days....
'BASH': SMASHING CAST
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amAT the climactic moment in the monologue that opens "Bash," an evening of three one-act plays by Neil LaBute, Calista Flockhart shrieks like a banshee. It is a genuinely terrifying...
'DADDY' A BIG DUD
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amBIG DADDY Starring Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams. Directed by Dennis Dugan. Running time: 95 minutes. Rating: PG-13. At 84th Street Theater, Chelsea Cinemas, Coliseum Quad, others. IN the instance...
COUNCIL COWARDS OK VALLONE'S MISTAKE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amON TUESDAY, Manhattan Democrat Kathryn Freed read the just-printed so-called compromise bill on lead-paint poisoning of children in the slums. She looked up and declared: "This is improved by 1...
ONE HACK OF A LAW BARS NEW DRIVERS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am"Why should someone on proba- tion be driving a New York City taxicab? Our standard for professional drivers is higher." TLC CHAIRWOMAN DIANE McGRATH-McKECHNIE New drivers will have to wait...
BANNER DAY AS HOUSE OKS FLAG-BURNING BAN
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The GOP-run House, wrapping itself in Old Glory one more time, voted yesterday to change the Constitution to allow Congress to ban flag-burning. Despite a lopsided 305 to...
UPSTATERS BUGGED AS HILLARY AIDE 'FLIES' IN THE FACE OF GOOD SENSE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Angry Adirondack residents may be biting a lot worse than the region's notorious black flies do if First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to visit the popular tourist...
PARKS COMMISH FOE MAY RUN FOR COUNCIL
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amA sworn enemy of Parks Commissioner Henry Stern is seriously considering a run for a Manhattan City Council seat being vacated next month, The Post has learned. Reba White Williams,...
TIPPER CAN DO & MOMMY, TOO, FOR GORE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore has a special campaign adviser to fix him up with women. Democratic consultant Celinda Lake said yesterday she's trying to reverse Gore's weak political support among...
AN EYE FOR AN EYE: ISRAEL STRIKES BACK AT TERRORISTS IN LEB
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel launched its biggest assault on Lebanon in three years yesterday during a day of reprisal attacks triggered by terrorist rocket barrages on the Galilee region. Israeli jets...
CITY CRIME IS UP FOR FIRST TIME IN RUDY ERA
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amCrime in New York showed a real increase last week for the first time since Mayor Giuliani took office, The Post has learned. Serious felony crimes, such as murder, robbery...
TA WITHHELD BRAKE INFO IN PROBE OF SUBWAY CRASH, REPORT SAYS; EXCLUSIVE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe report charged TA officials provided "inconsistent, incomplete, inaccurate and/or unsubstantiated information" to investigators. Subway officials misled investigators about brake problems on a train involved in a Brooklyn crash that...
BELOVED PRIEST, 84, DROWNS OFF CONEY I.
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn-born Roman Catholic priest who spent 30 years teaching scripture in the Philippines drowned off the waters of Coney Island, police said yesterday. The body of Rev. Joseph Kavanagh,...
PRIEST PROCLAIMS HIS INNOCENCE IN BOGUS-BOND SCAM
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe Roman Catholic priest arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.4 billion in bogus Treasury bonds says he was an innocent lamb duped into the phony-funds scam. "I'm innocent. I was stupid....
U.S. PUTS A PRICE ON SLOBBO'S HEAD
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Uncle Sam slapped a $5 million bounty yesterday on the head of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. The State Department announced the seven-figure reward for tips leading to the...
NO SLOW HANDS AS BIDDERS GIVE CLAPTON CAUSE $5M
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amIt was nothing but sweet music for the legendary Eric Clapton. The guitar on which he wrote his scorching hit "Layla" was sold at an auction yesterday for a record...
HEY, AETNA: DOCS ARE NOT GLAD THEY MET YA
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amHundreds of local doctors have handed Aetna/US Healthcare a damning diagnosis, ranking it the worst HMO among the city's 12 leading companies. In the new survey of 257 doctors, most...
HEAVEN HELP US! - N.Y. FANS SEEK HELP OF BIG GUY
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knick faithful are literally praying for miracles as their team faces a do-or-die game tonight against the Spurs with the NBA Finals on the line. At the St. Margaret...
PARENTS MIX IT UP IN SCRAMBLED-EGG CASE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe custody agreement is unraveling between two sets of parents - one white, one black - entangled in a switched-before-birth case. Just a month ago, a black baby was handed...
SPIKE LEE HITS NEW LOW IN RACIST MOVIEMAKING
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amIf I were an Italian-American, Spike Lee would need several bodyguards. I WANT to be rich and famous - that's why I want to pitch this great idea to moviemaker...
SQUEEGEE COP'S DECISION: SHELL OUT A BULLET OR A BUCK
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE COP should have just given the bum the dollar. Instead, Officer Michael Meyer gave a crack-addicted squeegee man called Antoine Reid a bullet. Yesterday inside a packed Bronx courtroom,...
RUDY RIVAL INVITES SOME PROBLEMS ON FUND-RAISER
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amRepublican Senate hopeful Rick Lazio's campaign hit a speed bump on its way to a Manhattan fund-raiser last night - incorrectly listing a former ally of Mayor Giuliani as host...
CREW OFFERS SPECIAL JOBS TO TWO FIRED SCHOOL BIGS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am"It wasn't fair to put [District 5 administrator Askia Davis] out of work for doing what he was asked to do." BOARD OF ED MEMBER IRVING HAMER JR. Schools Chancellor...
SPECIAL-ED TEACHER IS CHARGED WITH GROPING COP
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teacher kept on by the Board of Education despite a history of arrests for lewd conduct was busted this week on charges he groped the groin of an...
U.S. PUTS A $5M PRICE ON SLOBBO'S HEAD
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Uncle Sam slapped a $5 million bounty yesterday on the head of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. The State Department announced the reward for tips leading to the Yugoslav...
MARC-US HIS WORDS: KNICKS WILL WIN TONIGHT
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amKnick star Marcus Camby vows tonight's game won't end in a Garden party for the series-leading San Antonio Spurs. "We don't want to see those guys jumping around, cutting down...
COP KNOWN AS DIPLOMAT TO REPLACE ANEMONE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amJoseph Dunne, boss of the NYPD's housing bureau, will be named today as New York's new top uniformed cop - an appointment aimed at easing police and community tensions, law-enforcement...
RAP RIOT AT THE MEADOWLANDS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amRap fans, angry over being barred from a sold-out concert, rioted at New Jersey's Continental Airlines Arena last night, but officials reported no serious injuries and no arrests. Police from...
DOWN IN FRONT! USELESS GRAPHICS GET IN WAY
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amDuring a game's most compelling moments, audiences are now encouraged to look elsewhere. THERE'S an old "Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode in which Lou Grant, against his better judgment, hires...
LARGE STRIPERS ABOUND 30-POUNDERS MOVE ALONG BEACHES
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE first official weekend of summer is almost under our belts and with the continuous run of sunny days and warm temperatures, saltwater fishing remains a hot topic amongst metro...
ISLES' PICK LOOKS LIKE BUST
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amOne year ago, the Islanders drafted power forward Michael Rupp with their ninth overall pick. He was a project then and, as Isles draft guru Gordie Clark admits, is no...
SPURS HOPING TO WALK ON AIR
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTo some die-hards, winning an NBA championship in the post-Michael Jordan era is roughly equivalent to being the toughest 19-year-old in kindergarten. For much of the decade, Jordan was a...
SUPER BETTOR WINS 84G
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amCongratulations to the New York City OTB patron who was the only winner of the ninth race superfecta at Belmont yesterday. He receives $84,810 for correctly picking 10-1 Andy's Office,...
AMES USES GREEN CARD TO GRAB CLASSIC LEAD
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amFor most of us, the thought of having six months off, away from work, away from the daily pressures and with nothing but time with the family is rather tantalizing....
VENTURA GIVES METS SUPER SENDOFF
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amYesterday's 3-2 Met win over Florida was the sort of game where the pitchers were dueling, the hitters were struggling, and runs were not going to come cheaply. Both the...
TEXAS TOWERS CAUSING HEADACHES
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTo take it hard or pull up and shoot it soft? Macho or discretion? There's a fine line between fearlessness and folly, and the Knicks are having all sorts of...
BOSS WANTS STRAW BACK ; PLANS TO MEET WITH SLUGGER SOON
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - George Steinbrenner hasn't ordered equipment manager Rob Cucuzza to press Darryl Strawberry's No. 39 pinstriped jersey but The Boss strongly hinted yesterday he is willing to dance...
NOBILO HOPES BAD LUCK STREAK IS FINALLY OVER
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amBUICK CLASSIC NOTES Frank Nobilo has been a regular Mr. Magoo the last few years. The only thing missing were the safes falling onto his head from high-rise building windows....
SPURS HOPE THEIR DREAM COMES TRUE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amFor today, the Spurs don't want to think about the only thing they've thought about since they got together to start the season. And that's the NBA championship. "It's something...
SPURS: NO QUIT IN THESE KNICKS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amIt was in the air in Minnesota, in Los Angeles, in Portland. In the air and in the music and in the faces of the players. It was acceptance of...
JEFF KEEPING A JOB HE'S PERFECT FOR
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amFATE has pushed the button stopping the music, leaving three coaching chairs all but filled. Soft as the bounce on Allan Houston's winning jumper in Miami, three men are landing...
TIME FOR TURNER-ROUND: METS SWEEP MARLINS, INVADE ATLANTA
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amMets 3 Marlins 2 Nine months ago Bobby Valentine sat slumped in the manager's office at Turner Field, inconsolable about the fact the Mets had just lost their fifth game...
DREAM DOESN'T HAVE TO END KNICKS GOTTA STOP SPURS PARTYING IN MSG TONIGHT
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amMARCUS Camby has guaranteed the Knicks will win Game 5 tonight and send the NBA Finals back to San Antonio for Game 6 and if necessary Game 7. Now we...
THREE RING, 'HONOUR' EYE MOTHER GOOSE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThree Ring and Better Than Honour, who were involved in the most controversial non-disqualification since Codex beat Genuine Risk in the 1980 Preakness when they ran 1-2 in the Acorn...
LJ FIRES BACK POT SHOT AT WALTON
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am"Larry Johnson, who spent the last 48 hours railing against the world, what a pathetic performance by this sad human being."NBC'S BILL WALTON IN POST-GAME COMMENTS AFTER GAME 4 As...
ELLIOTT DOWNPLAYS 'X' FACTOR
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThey don't scream in your face after a dunk. That don't wag fingers and shake heads after a block. Heck, these San Antonio Spurs don't even make initial signs with...
TORRE, ROCKET HAVE PITCHING POWWOW
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre have talked pitching with Roger Clemens before as the Yankees' braintrust becomes more familiar with the ultra-intense Rocket. However, it...
REY DOESN'T LIKE STAR TREATMENT
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets continue to push Rey Ordonez for the NL squad for the All-Star Game in Boston, but the shortstop and at least one other member of the...
CAMBY: WE'LL WIN ; KNICKS PLANNING ON RETURNING TO SAN ANTONIO
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amThey've been on life support since April 19 when they were 21-21. So, you're not expecting the Knicks to roll over and die just because the Spurs are one win...
VAN GUNDY SAYS HE'LL BE BACK
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm only thinking about coaching here ... I have never wanted to be someplace else."JEFF VAN GUNDY JVG-Ball will be around the Garden for quite a while. Jeff Van Gundy...
YANKS GIVE LEDEE ONE LAST CHANCE
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Before deciding if they need to look outside for left field help, the Yankees brought back Ricky Ledee last night and sent Tony Tarasco packing....
HURTIN' CHILDS WANTS TO PLAY
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amIt wasn't intended as a tribute to Yasser Arafat, but instead as a show of dejection. With an orange towel draped over his head, Chris Childs sat glumly on the...
HERE'S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON SAN ANTONIO'S ADMIRAL SHEDS 'SOFT' LABEL
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amQuick word association. What comes to mind when you hear: David Robinson. "Unselfish," shot back Mario Elie. "Greatness," replied Spurs owner Peter Holt with no hesitation. "Computer nerd," offered up...
AVERY WON'T BURY KNICKS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES Avery Johnson is killing the Knicks softly. After his penetration helped bury the Knicks in Game 4, Johnson came to praise the Knicks yesterday, saying he knows they...
CHRIS TURNS INTO A DUD IN FINALS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amOne of the few Knicks able to look eye-to-eye with Tim Duncan and David Robinson, Chris Dudley is probably not looking eye-to-eye with Jeff Van Gundy. Though he tip-toed around...
JERSEY DOESN'T FIT VAN; SOURCES: JEFF HAS NO DESIGNS ON NETS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE KNICKS are one loss away from confronting their most dreaded dilemma: Does Garden president Dave Checketts have any choice but to welcome back Jeff Van Gundy for the next...
GET OUT THE BROOM: YANKS SWEEP PAST RAYS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amYanks 7 Devil Rays 3 ST. PETERSBURG - First, Andy Pettitte had to pitch around shoddy defense by Derek Jeter and Scott Brosius. Later, Pettitte had to overcome a severe...
BOSS WANTS DARRYL BACK
June 25, 1999 | 4:00am"I will meet with him soon. I don't have an exact date, but it's going to be real soon."ST. PETERSBURG - George Steinbrenner hasn't ordered equipment manager Rob Cucuzza to...
CHRIS TURNING INTO REAL DUD IN FINALS
June 25, 1999 | 4:00amOne of the few Knicks able to look eye-to-eye with Tim Duncan and David Robinson, Chris Dudley is probably not seeing eye-to-eye with Jeff Van Gundy. Though he tip-toed around...