July 9, 1999
NERDY DOZEN STORMS THE 'NET
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThey're called the E-gang: the squeaky-clean dozen most likely to transform the online world over the next year. The new issue of Forbes magazine picks "twelve mavericks who are rewriting...
ALL'S SUNNY FOR WETHERELL, THE NEW KID
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S one of those moments that only happens here at Herb Allen's gathering of the media elite. Internet investor David Wetherell strolling around the grounds of Sun Valley and pausing...
BOARD ROOM DECEIT - PRIMEDIA CHAIRMAN BILL REILLY IS OUSTED
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amWith his job being shopped around, Primedia Chairman and founder William Reilly is opting to take an "early retirement." Reilly's departure comes less than two weeks after he learned from...
RIESE'S CHAP. 11 FILING LETS ITKEEP ITS PIECES
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amManhattan's fast-food king has completed a royal financial restructuring. Dennis Riese's National Restaurants Management Inc., which operates 130 Dunkin' Donuts, KFC, Beefsteak Charlie's, Roy Rogers, Pizza Hut and Houlihan's restaurants...
HEARST GIVES OPRAH A MAG OF HER VERY OWN
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amIt's official - Oprah Winfrey will soon have her own magazine with backing from the Hearst Corp. The deal - which was first revealed in the Media Ink column of...
OBSERVER: FROM PINK TO BLACK?
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amCanadian media mogul Conrad Black was said to be closing in on a deal to take over The New York Observer from Arthur Carter and turn it into a five-day-a-week...
BROKERS CHARGED IN $100M FRAUD, LARCENY
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amMore than 30 people connected with the former New York-based brokerage firm A. S. Goldmen were arraigned yesterday in a massive, 240-count indictment charging enterprise corruption, grand larceny and fraud....
KIROV'S 'FOUNTAIN' NOT A BOLSHOI PRODUCTION
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amMELODRAMA with a capital MELO is the medium and the message of the revered old Soviet ballet, "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray," which was given its very belated U.S. premiere at...
TEEN QUEEN DOESN'T DELIVER
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S easy to admire the marketing machine that hyped Britney Spears to the max and propelled her to the top of the charts. To get an idea how popular Miss...
FRIEL FEST'S 'VANYA' IS WORTH RUSSIAN TO SEE
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE centerpiece of Lincoln Center Festival 99, theater-wise, is a three-play celebration of the 70th birthday of Irish dramatist Brian Friel. Dublin's most distinguished and historic companies - the Gate...
TUVAN TUNES ARE TIE THAT BINDS EAST & WEST
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amROOKIE documentarians Roko and Adrian Belic stumbled onto one hell of a story for their marvelous debut feature, "Genghis Blues." It goes like this: Blind, impoverished and isolated San Francisco...
IT'S BEST TO MAKE 'ARLINGTON' THE 'ROAD' NOT TAKEN
July 9, 1999 | 4:00am'ARLINGTON Road," like "The Siege," is a dumb, overheated thriller pretending to be a smart, topical one. While Ehren Kruger's half-witted screenplay makes knowing references to the Oklahoma City bombing...
'$UBWAY $ERIES' EVENS THE SCORE - YANKS-METS MATCHUPS PUMP BALLPARK FIGURES
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS weekend's Mets-Yankees "Subway Series" at Shea is more than a battle for Big Apple baseball bragging rights. It's also a boon for the local over-the-air TV homes of the...
TV TICKER
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amJust kidding? John Hockenberry had some tart on-air words for MSNBC Wednesday night - the same day his nightly talk show was axed by the cable network. "We want to...
ANDY KAUFMAN RINGMATE RUNS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE pro wrestler best known for doing bodily harm to comedian Andy Kaufman is running for mayor of Memphis. Jerry Lawler - who nicknamed himself "the king of wrestling" in...
STRAY CAT'S NEW ALLEY - BRIAN SETZER GETS INTO BIG BAND
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amBRIAN Setzer, a self-professed "rockabilly guy," is a stray cat who managed to reinvent himself a few years ago to become one of the hottest acts on the booming big-band...
OUTTA-TOWN JUDGE BROWN INVESTIGATED
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTV's Judge Joe Brown is being questioned about his absences from his Tennessee courtroom since he started shooting his show. Judge Riley Anderson, the chief justice of Tennessee, is trying...
POP CUTIE DEBBIE BLOOMS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amPOP singer Deborah Gibson has inked a deal to star in a new Norman Lear sitcom. The show, called "Maggie Bloom," is slated to debut in the fall of 2000,...
'GRAVITY' NEVER GETS OFF GROUND
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE surprisingly sexless gay frat boy melodrama "Defying Gravity" can be summed up in one wonderfully hoot-worthy line from its script: "Are you, like, in love with him, dude?" Call...
DON'T SKIP 'DINNER'
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amIN this summer of smutty, gross-out film comedies, it's startling to realize how deeply hilarious a film as archaic as "The Dinner Game" can be. You can keep your cynical...
THIS 'PIE' IS A REAL GUT-BUSTER
July 9, 1999 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Pie" may be a tiny bit less obscene than "There's Something About Mary," but it deserves every bit of its "R" rating, and no one should eventhink of seeing...
PLENTY OF TIME TO ENJOYTHE SCENERY IN 'AUTUMN'
July 9, 1999 | 4:00am'AUTUMN Tale" is the newest film from the venerable Eric Rohmer, but there's never anything new about a Rohmer film. You know what you're going to get: a literate, talky,...
JUST SUE IT - NIKE'S AMAZING TIGER SPOT CLUBBED
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Nike commercial everyone is talking about that features golfer Tiger Woods has triggered a lawsuit. In the spot, Woods is seen effortlessly performing a near-impossible trick- bouncing a golf...
NIKE IN THE ROUGH - TIGER WOODS' AMAZING BOUNCING SPOT CLUBBED
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Nike commercial everyone is talking about that features golfer Tiger Woods has triggered a lawsuit. In the spot, Woods is seen effortlessly performing a near-impossible trick- bouncing a golf...
SHOW YOU'RE FOR US BY STANDING UP TO BILL ON HOSP CUTS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE are two big problems with Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate candidacy: *She lacks a rationale for running in New York. Until she can articulate a positive message that is about...
FORMER NANNY GETS NEARLY FIVE YEARS FOR KIDNAPPING WHEELCHAIR-BOUND B'KLYN BOY
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amRegretful - but still adamant she did it out of love - the woman who kidnapped a wheelchair-bound Orthodox Jewish boy with cerebral palsy was sentenced to 57 months in...
KASHMIR THREAT TO AMERICANS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA shadowy Kashmiri guerrilla group yesterday announced a ban on visits by Americans to the troubled Kashmir valley. In a statement, the Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Mujahideen group said it "bans the visit...
JUDGE PILES ADDITIONAL 152 YRS. ON ZODIAC KILLER
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe Zodiac killer thumbed his nose at justice one last time yesterday - refusing to appear in court where a judge slammed him with a 152-years-to-life sentence. The serial killer,...
BUDDY MAKES PLEA FOR SUBWAY VICTIM
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amSubway-push victim Edgar Rivera's best friend made an urgent plea to Bronx landlords yesterday for housing for his legless pal - as doctors at Bellevue Hospital informed the paraplegic father...
CANCELED RALLY LATEST SETBACK FOR MILOSEVIC
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA pro-government demonstration inside Serbia was suddenly canceled yesterday in the latest sign that postwar political troubles are threatening to overwhelm Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic's Socialist Party had planned...
FIRST LADY DOESN'T RETURN RUDY'S FIRE
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ducked questions about Mayor Giuliani - but the mayor didn't return the favor, taking shots at the First Lady on health care and mocking her 'listening'...
ISRAELI CAPITAL GAINS WITH HILL - SHE SPLITS WITH PREZ ON EMBASSY MOVE
July 9, 1999 | 4:00am"I personally consider Jerusalem the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel." HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON For the second time in a week, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed a major policy...
CUP OF TEA A DAY MAY KEEP HEART DOC AWAY
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amReading the tea leaves has led researchers to come up with a new tip that may help you stay heart-healthy. Sipping at least one cup of tea a day could...
RAPE-SLAY SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA man suspected in a Harlem rape-murder spree pleaded not guilty yesterday as he faced Manhattan authorities for the first time after being extradited from Miami. Arohn Kee, 25, had...
POWERLESS HOSP SENDS ITS PATIENTS PACKING
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amColumbia Presbyterian Medical Center limped through another virtually powerless day in Washington Heights yesterday, sending most of the hospital's surgery patients elsewhere and struggling to help those left behind. Officials...
BARAK STARTING WHIRLWIND MIDEAST PEACE-TALK TOUR
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM -Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak begins a peace blitz today that will have him meet with three Arab leaders - and twice with President Clinton - in the next...
'JUNIOR' POUNDS THE PRESS OVER TAPES
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amJohn A. "Junior" Gotti lashed out at the press yesterday for printing statements his Dapper Dad made from prison chastising him for making "stupid" mistakes and keeping bad company. "My...
SUBWAY-SERVICE SURVEY OFFERS RAIL BAD NEWS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amSubway service is Awful on the A line, Bad on the B train and Miserable on the M, a new survey shows. The quality of service plummeted on nine of...
COP IS CLEARED IN 'JUSTIFIED' SHOOTING OF SQUEEGEE MAN
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA Bronx Supreme Court judge found a cop not guilty on all counts yesterday for shooting an unarmed squeegee man in the chest at point-blank range - saying "there was...
THIS SAD BRONX TALE HAS A HAPPY ENDING
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Rev. Herbert Daughtry was complaining yesterday that "judges do not convict white cops." If Officer Michael Meyer - acquitted yesterday on assault charges by a judge - had a...
MAN KILLS SELF AFTER ARSON-ACID ATTACK
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens man went on an assault-and-arson rampage, tossing acid in his estranged wife's face, threatening his two young sons and torching his landlord's home - before killing himself, police...
'BLACK' TO THE FUTURE FOR CON ED - IGNORED MANY IDEAS OF PANEL AFTER '77 BLACKOUT
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amCon Edison - under fire from the city this week for the worst power outage since 1977's Great Blackout - didn't make all the changes pushed by a mayoral commission...
SPURNED MAG NOW 'TALK' OF LIBERTY IS.
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amAfter getting the boot from the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, a star-studded debut party for Talk magazine has been moved to Liberty Island - out of Mayor Giuliani's reach. The...
EAGER PARENTS TESTING FIRST CHARTER SCHOOL
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amDozens of parents - many unhappy with Board of Ed schools - flocked to an open house last night at one of the first proposed charter schools in Harlem. "It's...
ALL OF HER FLIPS MAY SOON TURN INTO FLOPS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - Lots of candidates reinvent themselves to win political office - but rarely as dramatically as Hillary Clinton, who yesterday did a sudden switcheroo on a hot-button Mideast...
HERO TENANTS WERE BEACONS OF LIGHT
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amBELINDA SPOONER was trapped. Foot surgery kept her from descending 19 flights of stairs. She was stuck in darkness inside her Washington Heights high-rise apartment without water because the building's...
52 INJURED ON BUMPY FLIGHT TO SAN JUAN
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA Continental Airlines jet traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Newark was forced to land in Bermuda yesterday after it was battered by severe turbulence that injured 52 people,...
RUDY: $100 FOR SPOILAGE A ROTTEN DEAL
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday blasted Con Ed's offer of $100 to people whose food went bad during the blackout as "not near sufficient," while the beleaguered power company raced to fix...
PROMOTIONS AT THE NYPD
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir is promoting several top cops in the wake of Chief of Department Louis Anemone's resignation, NYPD sources said yesterday. Douglas Zeigler, the chief in charge of...
TURBULENCE INJURES 61 ABOARD PLANE OUT OF NEWARK
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA Continental Airlines jet traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Newark was forced to land in Bermuda yesterday after it was battered by severe turbulence that injured 61 people,...
2ND VICTIM OF B'KLYN HOSPITAL RAMPAGE DIES
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who slit his father's throat in a Dyker Heights hospital now faces a second murder charge for killing his father's 88-year-old hospital roommate. Michael D'Ambrose, the second...
NICHOLSON CRASHES IN BRAND-NEW MERCEDES
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amJack Nicholson escaped death when he walked away with just scratches from a head-on car crash in Los Angeles early yesterday. The devilish screen star, 61, was driving his new...
COPS' BUST IS A GEM: 500G EMERALD SAVED
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe 15.46-carat Kite Emerald is said to be the largest and finest ever discovered in North America.A gang of Diamond District pickpockets might have gotten away with one of the...
WHICH SIDE IS SHE ON? IT ALL DEPENDS ...
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton has a new attitude now that she's considering a run for Senate from New York. Here's how the First Lady, as First Candidate, has reinvented her point...
TEMPS COOL OFF, ACTION HEATS UP
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE heat wave that suffocated the Northeast early in the week kept many anglers off the water and anchored to an air conditioner, as some bait and tackle shop owners,...
U.S. POPULARITY SHORT STORY - SMALLER GOALKEEPERS ADD SCORING PUNCH TO WOMEN'S GAME
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe women's game offers scoring as pro forma and without compromising the game's qualities or rules. AGAINST all odds, not to mention the better judgment of men and women with...
LET'S GET SUBWAY SERIOUS - WHAT YANKS, METS MUST DO TO MAKE POST-SEASON HISTORY
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTWO Subway Series are overkill. Three would be overjoy. The Yankees and Mets meet this weekend for a second time in 1999. It does not have to be the last...
IT'S E-YANKEES ON STAR E-MAIL
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S been a lot of talk about the Red Sox and their fans cyber-stealing Derek Jeter's starting All-Star berth and handing it to hometown favorite Nomar Garciaparra. Forget it. The...
TWENTY-FIVE REASONS WHY YANKEES OWN CITY
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe fact that [Bonilla] is still a check-cashing member of the New York Mets is all you need to know about the class gap between this town's two ballclubs. THERE...
FOLEY WON'T RIP TUNA
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amYou kept waiting for the "but" that never came. Glenn Foley spoke yesterday about the circumstances leading up to his departure from the Jets, his respect for Bill Parcells as...
BAILEY BOOTS HOME 5 WINNERS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amHall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey was the star of the show yesterday at Belmont as he won five races on the card. The 42-year-old Texan won with favorites Corroborator,...
IT'S PUT-UP TIME FOR METS - THEY MUST PROVE THEY CAN COMPETE WITH GAME'S ELITE
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amIf ever a team needed to win a July series, this is the team and the second Subway Series of '99 is the series. IF THE Mets play well enough...
BULLPEN MELTDOWN - METS BLOW 3-1 LEAD, FALL AGAIN TO EXPOS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe junior varsity left the scene after taking two games from the Mets, who now bid adieu to the lowly Expos and brace for the arrival of the Yankees and...
RANGERS REEL IN FLEURY - INK MIGHTY MITE TO 3-YEAR, $21M DEAL
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amThank goodness that The Little Big Man was at least honest about it. Because while Theo Fleury gave high marks to Dave Checketts and Neil Smith for their concerted effort...
LEITER CAN'T WAIT TO TAKE SOME CUTS VS. ROCKET
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amHe thoroughly out-pitched Roger Clemens in their previous Subway Series meeting last month. But Al Leiter said he has more to prove tonight in a rematch against the Rocket at...
ACHIN' ROBIN MAY MISS SUBWAY SERIES
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets need every bat, every arm and every glove they can muster when going against the Yankees, but it appears as if they may have to endure...
DARRYL'S ON DECK FOR TAMPA WORKOUT
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - It's a baby step compared to the footprints he has left on the game of baseball but when you have been where Darryl Strawberry has been for the...
BOB HILL PICKS ROSE HILL - EX-KNICK COACH CHOOSES FORDHAM OVER GREEK TEAM
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amFordham University has pulled off a major coup by landing former Knicks and Spurs coach Bob Hill as the man to take the Rams' basketball program into the next millennium,...
REALIGNMENT CAN MAKE IT BETTER
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amTHE sedative the 32-49 Expos administered on Shea Stadium for two days has worn off. And if you believe many of the Mets, the novelty of playing the Yankees has,...
BORED BOMBERS: SERIES NO BIG DEAL
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - Nobody has the reason why but compared to the first Mets-Yankees Subway Series in the first weekend of June at Yankee Stadium, this weekend's three-game set at Shea...
TORRE NOW HEDGING ON RETIREMENT
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - When Joe Torre has had his fill of managing the Yankees, he will let the baseball world know one more year will be it. Until then, he said...
UPROAR OVER BIG M PACE ELIMS
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amDieberspace, one of 28 three-year-old colts competing in tomorrow night's eliminations for the $1 million Meadowlands Pace, has been assigned a bad post as the result of an error by...
YANKS GO OUT ON TOP - TINO'S HR CAPS TIGER STADIUM SWAN SONG
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - While Orlando Hernandez pitched out of one jam after another, he waited for the Yankee bats to supply him with enough air to breath easier. Armed with terrific...
BRASS SAYS ANDY'S NOT BEING SHOPPED
July 9, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DETROIT - Two club officials put an end to a clubhouse rumor that had the Yankees and Angels close to a deal that would send Andy Pettitte to...