July 2, 1999
THE NYSE'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET IS FINALLY OUT
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTRADERS on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange can now start to sweat. While the agreement this week between the NYSE and the Securities & Exchange Commission might...
WEST SIDE STORE-Y - UPTOWN TURF ENTICES BALDUCCI'S; EXCLUSIVE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amA bigger food fight will soon be waged on the Upper West Side. Balducci's, fresh from a merger with the fiscally fit Sutton Gourmet chain is in negotiations to bring...
LEESON, THE GUY WHO SUNK BARINGS, ALL SET TO WALK
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amOn Saturday, Nick Leeson will set foot in England for the first time since he squandered over $1 billion dollars betting on derivatives and sank Barings, the most English of...
DEUTSCHE BANK DUMPS BT MUNIS; EXCLUSIVE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amFor Sale: One used municipal finance division, decent condition, originally owned by BT Alex.Brown, now in the hands of Deustche Bank. All bidders welcome. Deutsche Bank's restructuring of BT Alex.Brown...
ASK JEEVES: 'NET STOCKS NOT DEAD
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWall Street launched three more new blockbuster Internet stocks yesterday, led by the ask-and-learn site Ask Jeeves, which soared 364 percent to become the third biggest IPO gainer ever. Web...
FUGITIVE FINANCIER NOT TALKING: LAWYER
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe lawyer for fugitive financier Martin Frankel yesterday denied reports he had discussed surrendering his client in a deal with the authorities who are hunting for him. Lawyer Hugh Keefe...
DON'T BELIEVE THE FIRST-DAY IPO HYPE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amIf you miss out on the first-day bonanza of hot Internet plays, don't worry - you could make much more a few weeks later. Professional investors are well aware of...
ALL-AMERICAN BRITNEY - MUSIC'S TEEN SIREN REVEALS SHE'SREALLY MORE LIKE GIRL NEXT DOOR
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amBRITNEY Spears is America's latest teen queen. Her self-titled CD, which was released in the spring, shot up to No. 4 on Billboard's Top 200 chart, and it hasn't taken...
ARF-HEARTED SEQUEL
July 2, 1999 | 4:00am'SHILOH 2: Shiloh Season" is a rather less successful follow-up to the 1997 children's film about a boy and the beagle he saved from its cruel owner. In the first...
PRETENTIOUS 'BRIDGE' AWASH IN MELODRAMATIC HOOEY
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amONE of the most expensive French films ever, "The Lovers on the Bridge" proved too silly and bad even for a Parisian audience, when it was released there in 1991....
IT'S MATT...NO, IT'S BOB - IN 'BIO' MUSICAL CHAIRS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amNBC sportscaster Bob Costas has been brought in to host a new biography series for CNBC that had originally been planned as a show for Matt Lauer. The series, "In...
MURPHY THROWS HIS VOICE IN SNIT OVER 'PJS' DELAY - 'SEINFELD' ACTOR SUBS FOR EDDIE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amEDDIE MURPHY was so angry at Fox for holding "The PJs" until midseason that he refused to record two of the new season's episodes. The show's producer, Imagine Entertainment, hired...
GRIM NEWS FOR RATHER - CBS NEWS HITS NEW LOW
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amRATINGS for "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" have slipped to alarmingly low levels. Rather's newscast - which claimed a few first-place victories in early 1998 and last summer...
SLOW WEEK FOR 'PRESS'
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTIM Russert's stranglehold on Sunday-morning TV took a detour last week - straight into Disney World. For the first time in recent memory, Disney-owned ABC's "This Week with Sam Donaldson...
PALS MAKE CROSSROADS GIG A TURNING POINT FOR CLAPTON
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S hard enough to be a saint in the city, let alone live up to godlike status, but guitarist Eric Clapton was back on Mount Olympus at his one-night benefit...
ACTRESS SIDNEY IS DEAD AT 88
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amBRONX- born actress Sylvia Sidney - one of Hollywood's top female stars of the 1930s who made a dramatic comeback in the '70s and was still working in movies and...
TV TICKER
July 2, 1999 | 4:00am11's alive! WPIX/Ch. 11 has won the prestigious New York State Broadcasters Association Award for Excellence in the category of Best Locally Originated Newscast. Ch. 11's 10 p.m. newscast is...
LANSBURY CALLS ON 'VISIT'
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amANGELA Lansbury was in town this week to see an authors' run-through of a musical version of the classic play "The Visit." The show has a score by John Kander...
HOW LONG BEFORE THEY DROP 'EVENING NEWS'?
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN a TV show is declining in the ratings with little or no potential for improvement, it usually gets cancelled. But "The CBS Evening News" isn't just any ol' TV...
'SHREW' COLORS SHINE THROUGH
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTHE weather was a pleasant surprise - and so was the play.The prospect of "The Taming of the Shrew" being enacted under the stars - or in the rain -...
BUMMER OF 'SAM' - SPIKE LEE MOVIE IS A FASCINATING DOG
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amSPIKE Lee's "Summer of Sam" is an inter esting failure, an am bitious misfire from the director who, absent Martin Scorsese, one would have thought perfect to tell this New...
COP: I'LL TELL VICTIM'S MOM HER DYING WORDS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThis is the last part of The Post's look at the summer of 1977, dramatized in Spike Lee's movie "Summer of Sam," which opens today. Today, a cop at the...
SPIKE VIEWS THE '70S THROUGH EYES FULL OF '90S FEARS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER sitting through "Summer of Sam," I have two questions for Spike Lee: 1. When are you getting your film-school tuition refunded? 2. Why are you so angry about not...
SPITZER VOWS TO SUE CONN. OVER SALES TAX
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - A New York-Connecticut border war erupted yesterday as Attorney General Eliot Spitzer vowed he'll sue Connecticut to get New Yorkers who shop there a piece of that state's...
PREZ GIVES BOOST TO ARAFAT'S CAUSE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - President Clinton tried to jump-start the stalled Mideast peace process yesterday with unusually strong support for the Palestinians - saying they should be free to live "wherever they...
IT'S GOING TO BE A BEAUT! - SO MANY WAYS TO GET A BANG OUT OF FOURTH
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amGo Fourth! That's the motto for millions of New Yorkers getting ready for the big Fourth of July weekend, which kicks off tonight. Loads of folks will be heading to...
VIAGRA IS FACING SOME STIFF COMPETITION
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amViagra has an up-and-coming competitor. The maker of Uprima said yesterday it has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug as a treatment for sexual impotence....
FERTILITY WOES: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON - HIGH-TECH HELP HAS A CATCH: STUDY
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWhile new fertility techniques have enabled men with low sperm counts to become fathers, sons born to some of these men might also be infertile, a new study says. The...
2 QNS. SCHOOLS GAIN FREEDOM FROM ED. BOARD
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTwo alternative city high schools in Queens are set to become the first in the state to convert to charter schools - and shed the shackles of the Board of...
BLAIR TRIES TO BREAK N. IRELAND IMPASSE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amCritical peace talks in Northern Ireland go into their fifth day today after British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned rival leaders yesterday that the world will be baffled if they...
PREZ ROARS AS BUSH SOARS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton fired his first shot at George W. Bush yesterday as a new poll showed the Republican 2000 front-runner is so strong, he now poses a big threat to...
SOMEONE TEACH THESE DUNCES HOW TO OPERATE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amSONIA KING walked out of the West Harlem junior high school in disgust. The 29-year-old mother had gone up to the Wadleigh Secondary School on West 114th Street looking for...
CREW: ED. BOARD PREZ DESERVES A 2ND GO-ROUND
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew sprang to the defense of embattled Board of Education President William Thompson yesterday, saying the schools are in for a "long and arduous haul" if he's...
BILLY CLUB: PREZ INVITES HILL TO SLAM HIS POLICIES
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton gave wife Hillary the green light yesterday to blast him on the issues - if that's what it takes to boost her Senate campaign in New York. "If...
TRAILER-PARK MILLIONAIRE - MINN. WOMAN HITS $78M POWERBALL
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe "spur-of-the-moment" purchase was made because she was low on gas. A $9-an-hour Minnesota office clerk who grew up in a trailer is the sole winner of a $78 million...
SUMMER-CLASS FOUL-UPS SPARK STUDENTS' SNARLS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amDisappointed kids and frustrated parents were turned away in Manhattan yesterday after school officials failed to notify them of last-minute cancellations for many summer-school classes. District 3 officials also admitted...
HE SWIMS SIX HOURS TO RESCUE BEST PAL
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amA former fireman who spent an incredible 18 hours clinging to the side of his capsized boat got a special visitor yesterday at a Long Island hospital - the man...
SMOKY SUBWAY BLAZE TRAPS 2,500 IN B'KLYN
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amA fire in a Brooklyn subway tunnel trapped as many as 2,500 terrified commuters on smoke-filled, sweltering and darkened trains for up to an hour during the evening rush yesterday....
DIALLO COP SACKS LAWYER, EYES EX-DA
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amDiallo-slay cop Sean Carroll is firing controversial lawyer Marvyn Kornberg - and has asked ex-Bronx judge Burton Roberts to be his replacement, according to a source close to the defense....
DAPPER DADDY: JUNIOR'S A DUMMY
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amA frustrated John Gotti lashed out at his son for not heeding his fatherly advice and for surrounding himself with too many unsavory characters, court records released yesterday revealed. After...
U.S. SQUAD GIVES GERMAN GALS DAS BOOT
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe American women's soccer team blasted past Germany last night - overcoming a mortifying early misstep to advance to the World Cup semifinals. The United States battled back after trailing...
COPS: ARSON SPARKED SUBWAY FIRE IN B'KLYN
July 2, 1999 | 4:00am"The car was consumed with smoke. I covered my face and got on the floor. It was a horrendous experience." PASSENGER DONNA HENRY An arson fire in a Brooklyn subway...
KOCH OK AFTER LATEST HEART SCARE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Big Apple's "How am I doin?" former mayor, Ed Koch, is doing just fine, thank you, after an emergency angioplasty to relieve chest pain that stopped him cold during...
COP SHOT IN HEAD AT JFK
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amA Port Authority cop was shot and critically wounded in a blazing gun battle early this morning at Kennedy Airport after a drug bust that went awry, authorities said. As...
HAVE A BLAST!
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe best places to watch the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks show: * In Midtown manhattan, it's the FDR Drive, which will be closed to traffic at 7 p.m. from...
HOLIDAY FISHING'S JUST FINE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S THE Fourth of July weekend, it's hot, and the kids are out of school. What are you going to do? Take them fishing. The party boats in the New...
DEVILS HAVE EYES FOR COYOTES' ROENICK
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Devils' promised quest for a top-flight forward has turned to Phoenix's Jeremy Roenick, sources have told The Post. New Jersey is said to be putting together a package of...
YANKS ON LOOKOUT FOR LEFTY BULLPEN HELP
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amQUIZ: Roger Cedeno is nearly certain to top 50 steals this season, making him just the third Met to do so. Name the other two (answer below). ... * At...
ALL-STARS & BUSTS - MID-SEASON AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE, INCOMPETENCE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTEAMS are reaching the breaking point. The All-Star break is still more than a week away, but over this weekend clubs will begin to reach the statistical midway of 81...
CHILDS' 'OTHER' KNEE SCOPED
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amChris Childs underwent a half hour of arthroscopy on his right knee at Beth Israel North Hospital yesterday. The procedure, performed by Dr. Norman Scott, removed loose cartilage. The surgery,...
TESTS: NO ACCELERANTS IN BELMONT FIRE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTests on material taken from the barn where a flash fire killed three horses the evening of June 22 at Belmont Park have come back negative for flammable accelerants, a...
MARV JUST PAWN TO NBC
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWE don't expect much out of NBC Sports these days thus we're rarely disappointed. In fact, this week's announced return of Marv Albert to NBC left a familiar stench, the...
COLLECT ON FINDER'S FEE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY'RE not the distaff version of Affirmed and Alydar, not yet at least, but the 2-year-old fillies Gilded Diablo and Finder's Fee could get a good rivalry going when they...
ESCHMEYER'S FOOT DIDN'T WORRY NETS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe projected NBA Draft spot was in the high teens to low 20's for Evan Eschmeyer. But as the draft continued, everybody, it seemed to Eschmeyer, was selected. There were...
NASH NOW WORKING ON FREE AGENTS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amSo they didn't start dialing right after midnight. The Nets waited until they got into work to start the pursuit of their own free agents, most notably, Keith Van Horn....
PICK SIX BETTOR HITS FOR 122G
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWho needs Powerball when you could invest in the Pick Six. One lucky unidentified bettor on track successfully hit Races 3 through 8 at Belmont yesterday. Keyed by 79-1 The...
VISIONS OF NEW YORK EXCITE KNICKS' PICK
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amJ. R. Koch was so excited to be taken by the Knicks in the second round of the NBA draft Wednesday night that he bought a Knick cap yesterday at...
KNICKS' NO. 1 CHOICE IS NO AWFUL TOWER
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amBIGGER is better, in English, in French, in Brooklynese, wherever hoops are spoken. Le plus grande is the way to go, and if you don't think so, you are either...
BERNIE GLAD HE'S NOT CENTER OF ATTENTION
July 2, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm not made for the spotlight. I do my best work in the background." BERNIE WILLIAMS BERNIE WILLIAMS plays center field for the New York Yankees. This position has been...
AMAZIN'S WON'T WEAR BRAVE FACE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00am"Hey, if we sweep, then maybe we're in first place. But the season isn't over then. We still have half the season left to go." EDGARDO ALFONZO "This is exciting....
JOE: HOLD THE CHILI - TORRE SITS STRUGGLING DH DAVIS, BROSIUS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amAccording to Chili Davis, don't judge a slump by the numbers. Even if the math is horrific, the veteran designated hitter says only the batter knows when his troubles at...
SHANE SURVIVES TWO HARD HITS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amFans often watch their favorite athletes and see the number on their uniform instead of the person who wears it, look at the player and see a statistic instead of...
RANGERS MAKE FLEURY PITCH
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amSo Dave Checketts and Neil Smith flew to Winnipeg yesterday to pitch the Rangers to Theo Fleury in what became a lengthy meeting with agent Don Baizley. But in light...
THE WORD ON WEIS: 'THIS GUY CAN PLAY'
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amFrederic Weis of France might be surprised to learn that he's not just joining the Knicks, but he's also becoming a rebellious slave. Maybe he won't understand the term at...
WINNERS AND LOSERS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWINNERS TIMBERWOLVES - Needed a small forward who can shoot; got Wally Szczerbiak. Needed a point guard; got William Avery. Second-round pick Louis Bullock could be a super sleeper. BULLS...
GUARDED HOPE FOR KNICKS - NBA DRAFT MAY OPEN TRADE DOORS
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - No highly-touted player slid. No sleeper woke up to find himself taken in the Top 10. No blockbuster deals went down, although the SuperSonics and Magic pulled...
HUBIE: KNICK PICK IS NO DOMINATOR
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Think you're the only one wondering what was going through the Knicks' mind when they selected Frederic Weis with the 15th pick in Wednesday's NBA draft? You're not...
FINALLY, IRABU MAY BE LIVING UP TO HYPE
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amTELL the Tigers he's a toad. Hideki Irabu, the Japanese import Detroit has most dreaded since the Toyota, has a Motown Mojo. Put the Tigers in front of him and...
COMPLETE REVERSAL - HIDEKI TRANSFORMS FROM TOAD TO PRINCE WITH 3-HIT SHUTOUT
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amHideki Irabu and the Yankees have waited seemingly a lifetime for last night, when Irabu pitched like an upper-echelon starter and not the enigma he has been for most of...
TORRE PLANS WORKOUT FOR WOBBLY KNOBBY
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While almost everybody believes Chuck Knoblauch's fielding woes are more mental than physical, the Yankees are hoping a session on the field today helps the second baseman regain...
METS TAKE WALK ON WET SIDE - DOTEL GETS 1ST WIN; AMAZIN'S GET 11 FREE PASSES IN RAIN
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI -Sloppy, wet and wild. No, this is not a review of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's new movie, it is a description of the Mets' rain-soaked, walk-strewn 12-8 win...
PHILLIPS SET TO BRING BACK FREE-AGENT WATSON
July 2, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - The Mets will make a pitch for their former lefthander Allen Watson. GM Steve Phillips said yesterday he was planning to call Watson's agent Tony Giordano...