July 3, 1999
STATE LOAN SWEET MUSIC TO HARLEM JAZZ CLUB
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amHarlem is swinging again, thanks to a renewed interest in revitalizing the world-famous music mecca. The owners of the well-known Showman's Cafe, the "living room" for top-flight jazz entertainers who...
EMI GETTING $200M WINDSWEPT WINDFALL
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amEMI Music Publishing is on the verge of signing a $200 million deal to buy independent music publisher Windswept Pacific - one of the highest price tags ever paid for...
ROBERT CONRAD, STAR OF TV'S WILD WILD WEST, SHOOTS HOLES IN THE REMAKE: WHY I HATE THIS MOVIE
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amTV TOUGH guy Robert Conrad doesn't like the new "Wild Wild West" movie. He hasn't seen it - and he has no plans to see it, either. "Will I go...
SHANDLING SUIT SETTLED
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Comedian Garry Shandling and mega-producer Brad Grey quietly settled the comic's $100 million lawsuit yesterday, heading off a trial that threatened to rock Hollywood. Lawyers on both...
BROADWAY BABIES' FAVORITE THINGS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amThere was a time (and it wasn't so long ago) that you wouldn't want your kids anywhere near Times Square. But in the last few years - after a massive...
BEST FROM THE WEST BRIT 'OKLAHOMA!' MORE THAN OK
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - The visionary revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 "Oklahoma!" produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Trevor Nunn, which opened in London at the Royal National Theatre in...
LATEST AMERICAN IS ALMOST UNCLE SAM'S AGE!
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amA 99-year old Bay Ridge woman made her lifelong dream come true yesterday when she traded in her 87-year-old green card for a certificate of U.S. citizenship. Grace Minervo, a...
RUDY KEEPING HIS COOL WITH HILLARY - SO FAR
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amMAYOR Giuliani, nice guy? The combative mayor is used to taking on any and all comers, but aides say Giuliani won't be drawn into serious battle with First Lady Hillary...
'POSH' WEDDING SPICED WITH MYSTERY
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amPosh Spice is wearing a veil of secrecy as she prepares for her dazzling wedding tomorrow to soccer star David Beckham. There are unconfirmed reports that pop megastar Victoria Adams'...
HE WROTE A BOOK WE COULDN'T REFUSE
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amMARIO PUZO changed American culture, but not in the way he expected. He wanted to be a serious writer, an Italian-American James Jones or Norman Mailer. Instead, he achieved his...
COPS FIGHT UPSURGE IN TRAFFIC DEATHS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amTraffic fatalities in the Big Apple have skyrocketed 15 percent this year - mostly because drivers are speeding and failing to wear seat belts - cops said yesterday. Figures obtained...
MAYOR BACKS OFF PLAN TO UNSEAT BOARD OF ED PREZ
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday he's decided not to oust Board of Education President William Thompson because he doesn't want the "disruption" of installing a new leader. Giuliani's comments were a...
EX-COP TELLS MOM STACY FELT NO PAIN
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amToday The Post concludes its look back at the summer of 1977, dramatized in Spike Lee's movie "Summer of Sam," which opened yesterday. Today, the mother of a victim speaks...
TESTS REVEAL HONDURAN KID MAY HAVE TB
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe doe-eyed Honduran teen who tore at heartstrings with a tale of an adventurous journey to New York after losing his mother and brother to mudslides may have tuberculosis. City...
BELFAST TENSE AS BLAIR AND IRISH PM TRY TO SAVE PEACE
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amAfter five days of torturous talks, Britain and Ireland yesterday announced plans to set up a new Northern Ireland government this month and start a paramilitary arms handover within days....
IT'S GONNA BE A BAKED APPLE THIS WEEKEND
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amNew Yorkers may want to grill their burgers indoors this Fourth of July week-end, where they can get some air-conditioned relief from the heat, haze and humidity. The mercury will...
BRAZIL IS HARD NUT TO CRACK FOR SOCCER'S SWEETHEARTS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe U.S. women's soccer team is gearing up for a revolutionary Fourth of July battle tomorrow against Brazil in a dramatic push to recapture the World Cup. America's sweethearts are...
BARAK WISHES BILL WOULD BUTTON HIS LIP
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amIsrael's new Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak yesterday blasted President Clinton's call to let Palestinians live "wherever they like," saying that's "unacceptable" to Israel. American Jewish leaders also voiced distress about...
JULIUS: YES, I'M DR. DAD: TEEN TENNIS PHENOM IS OFF-COURT LOVE CHILD
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amJulius "Dr. J" Erving 'fessed up yesterday to fathering teen tennis wonder Alexandra Stevenson, whose career is suddenly soaring. The basketball legend first denied siring the 18-year-old, after her birth...
MARIO PUZO SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES
July 3, 1999 | 4:00am"The Godfather" author Mario Puzo, who created fiction's seminal wiseguy dynasty, died yesterday at his Long Island home of heart failure. He was 78. Puzo, who won two Oscars for...
COUPLE CLEARED OF ASSAULTING COPS IN TICKET ROW
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amA Bronx fashion model sobbed with relief yesterday after a judge cleared her and her dentist sweetheart of all charges in a 1997 sidewalk brawl with two cops over a...
GOP COMES OUT SMOKIN' OVER GORE'S STAFF CHOICE
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amRepublicans lit into Vice President Al Gore yesterday after the anti-smoking veep hired one of Big Tobacco's top image-polishers to help him sell himself to the American people. Carter Eskew,...
'FREAKY' FARE FOR FOREST HILLS FILMGOERS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amMoviegoers in Forest Hills - where David Berkowitz struck twice - greeted the opening of "Summer of Sam" yesterday with mixed emotions ranging from "bad memories" to ho-hum. "It's freaky...
INJURED DETECTIVE IS DEVOTED FAMILY MAN
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amOff-duty, Port Authority Detective Philip Stephenson is a "laid back," suburban father who loves to coach the local kids in baseball and basketball. But he also loves the job that...
MANHUNT FOR PUSHER WHO RAN DOWN COP
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amCops last night were hunting for a suspected drug smuggler who allegedly ran down - and critically injured - a Port Authority detective as he raced to escape police at...
AIR-TRAFFIC JAM DELAYS NYERS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amA power failure that knocked out Boston's radar system caused hours of flight delays for holiday travelers at New York's regional airports, aviation officials said last night. Federal Aviation Administration...
DERANGED STALKER SLAYS 2 EX-LOVERS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amA crazed man stabbed his girlfriend to death yesterday in Queens, raced to Brooklyn and killed an ex-lover in front of their daughter - and finally went home to confess...
SUBURBAN IS GRAND FINALE TO NYRA FIREWORKS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amBehrens, ranked as the top older horse in the country with 28 points in the "NTRA Champions on Fox" series of national stakes races, will be odds-on to add to...
HOOKED ON OUTRIGGER
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amIT was early on June 6, the morning after the Belmont Stakes, and trainer D. Wayne Lukas was standing outside his barn here talking to a group of reporters with...
STOPPING BRAZIL'S SISSI NO EASY TASK
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amAfter taking a chartered flight from Washington to Palo Alto yesterday, the U.S. team arrived pondering one main question: How to avoid getting beat by a Sissi? "We are thinking...
BLUE JAYS ENTICE APODACA AWAY FROM METS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amAfter 28 consecutive years in a Met uniform, Bob Apodaca is finally leaving the organization that devastated him by firing him as pitching coach and re-assigning him to the minor...
METS NEED MORE THAN JUST A BRAVE FRONT
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amWE NOW know the Mets can shoot Fish in a barrel. Prey does not come easier to subdue than the Marlins, a major-league team in the schedule-maker's imagination only. To...
FINDER'S FEE PROVES
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amFinder's Fee, favored at 8-5, took the overland route but still got home first in yesterday's $100,000 Astoria Stakes at Belmont Park. The daughter of Storm Cat held off Deed...
MACBETH FUND IN SPOTLIGHT
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amToday is the 11th annual Jockeys Across America Day. More than 50 tracks will hold special events to raise money for the Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund. The fund assists...
ERRATIC KNOBBY, TORRE TALK AGAIN
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amInstead of taking ground balls and working on his erratic throwing arm yesterday afternoon, Chuck Knoblauch opted for a talk with Joe Torre and came away from the meeting appreciating...
BRAVES CLAIM COOK CHEATS
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe Braves went on the record about Dennis Cook yesterday. They think the Mets' ace lefty reliever is cheating, and though they haven't been able to prove it or catch...
MILLWOOD PICKS UP THE SLACK FOR ATLANTA
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amThroughout Atlanta's domination of the National League, the Braves' starting pitching has been their steadying rock, despite offensive slumps and defensive lapses. But when Cy Young winners Greg Maddux and...
PETTITTE: IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amIn between raindrops yesterday afternoon, Andy Pettitte attempted to find a pitch he misplaced almost two years ago and desperately wants to get back. Yesterday was Pettitte's normal throw day....
METS NEED MORE THAN BRAVE FRONT
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amYOU CAN'T play the Marlins forever. In fact, the Mets are done with the shooting Fish in the barrel portion of their schedule. And they also are done with simply...
SIXTEEN SHAMBLES :YOSHII LIT UP, J. FRANCO HURTS FINGER IN BLOWOUT BY BRAVES
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amBraves16 Mets0 The biggest cheer of the night came when infielder Matt Franco was announced as the pitcher and Rick Reed was announced as the new right fielder in the...
MILLWOOD PICKS UP THE SLACK
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amThroughout Atlanta's domination of the National League, the Braves' starting pitching has been their steadying rock, despite offensive slumps and defensive lapses. But when Cy Young winners Greg Maddux and...
BRAVES' 'DR.' REMLINGER FIRES BACK AT 'LIAR' BOBBY
July 3, 1999 | 4:00am"I was one of the few guys that admitted to liking playing for him, and then he's going to turn around and call me a cheat?"MIKE REMLINGER Bobby Valentine's controversial...
YANKS DON'T GET LOSS IN SHUFFLE TINO, BERNIE MAKE TORRE LOOK SMART
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amYankees2 Orioles1 When George Steinbrenner says he has never employed a manager like Joe Torre, The Boss is absolutely on the money. What other manager working for Steinbrenner would tinker...
SPENCER SENT TO HOSPITAL
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amShane Spencer's weak hacks last night during a sixth-inning strikeout told you something was wrong with the Yankees' left fielder. Like any hitter, Spencer gets fooled. However, his swings during...
WHAT A RELIEF, MATT FRANCO PITCHES IN
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amIt must've seemed like a mistake to anybody listening to last night's Met game and hearing Otis Nixon lining Matt Franco's pitch into right field, past a sprinting Rick Reed....
YANKS DON'T GET LOSS IN SHUFFLE CONE, BULLPEN MAKE TORRE LOOK SMART
July 3, 1999 | 4:00amOnly a man with ice running through his veins and cast-iron guts like David Cone can fully appreciate what makes Joe Torre tick. What other Yankee manager in the George...