July 11, 1999
BULL'S EYE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: THIS WEEK'S WINNERS * Patricia Fili-Krushel * John Meriwether * Danny Goldberg *Tim Koogle ...AND LOSERS * Gene McGrath * David Tang * William Reilly * John F. Smith...
MAYBE HE'S JUST GIVING US CHIN MUSIC
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amA WALL Street analyst who just landed on the Wall Street Journal list of "home-run hitters" last month may be off the team. S.G. Cowen's Rehan Syed powered to the...
ORIGINALITY IS GETTING DESPERATELY ELUSIVE ON THE WEB
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amIF the currency of the new economy is ideas, hyperinflation of Weimar Republic proportions has arrived. Ideas for Internet businesses are coming out of the dorm rooms, business schools and...
NOTHING MYSTIC-AL ABOUT CHAMIQUE'S MARKETING PLANS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amCHAMIQUE Holdsclaw, the hottest female athlete in the country not playing soccer, comes to town Wednesday to play in the inaugural WNBA All-Star game, and it might be one of...
HE'S A STAR WARRIOR: THE HOLLYWOOD SUPERLAWYER WHO NAILED DISNEY'S EISNER
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amPROFILE: BERT FIELDS MICHAEL Eisner has crossed paths with Hollywood superlawyer Bert Fields before. And the result was the same - the powerful chairman of Walt Disney was forced to...
IS MAD DOG RECORDS READY TO BARK?
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWILL there soon be a Mad Dog Records? Industry sources say that Vogue publisher Richard "Mad Dog" Beckman is being wooed by Atlantic Records to join the Time Warner label...
THIS UMBRELLA AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FER BOTH OF 'EM
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amONE of the world's richest men flew in to meet with the most overpaid man on Wall Street this weekend. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the single biggest shareholder of Citigroup,...
WHAT DO YOU THINK I SHOULD DO?
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amSTEVEN Rattner, the New York Times journalist-turned-banker on his way out as deputy chief of Lazard Freres & Co., has been doing some personal PR. In a rare letter obtained...
GETTING THE LAST PICTURE AT HERB ALLEN'S MOGULFEST
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amSUN Valley, Idaho - Every year, the world's most powerful media moguls gather here to schmooze and do business. But the most important part of their visit in recent years...
REAL WOMAN REVEAL... WHAT'S THE HOTTEST THING HE EVER DID?
July 11, 1999 | 4:00am*Sandra Charles, Brooklyn In the summer, he does little stripteases for me. * Maya Flacko, Stockholm, Sweden He wore a plastic, long red skirt and spiked heels. * Larisa Uryash,...
DANCING IN THE DARK... AND ON THE DECKS, IN THE STREETS AND UNDER THE STARS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT Gotta dance? There's no time like the present. Come summer, the city becomes one giant ballroom. Swing, disco, salsa, mambo -- you name it, it's all out there. And...
4 QUESTIONS FOR JANICE HUFF
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amHOT STUFF! WNBC/CH.4's meteorologist Janice Huff sure had a busy week. It was the kind of week, weather-wise, that could make you forget about Al Roker, the guy she replaced...
'SHREW' IS A PILE OF SHTICK
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWhy doesn't the New York Shakespeare Festival brush up its Shakespeare, or at least make it more festive? Instead, it tends to deck out the comedies with a kind of...
THE BOSS IS BACK:AFTER A LONG BREAK, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS HITTING THE ROAD AGAIN - WITH THE E STREET BAND
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amJUST why Bruce Springsteen and his music are so impor tant to so many people is simple - he's one of the few artists born in the U.S.A. who truly...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: BRITNEY SPEARS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Britney Spears, whose debut album "...Baby One More Time" just went quintuple platinum, has kicked off her solo summer tour. Pretty cool for a 17-year-old. The again, the Louisiana...
TABLE HOPPER: COCO PAZZO
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Coco Pazzo 23 E. 74th St. (212) 794-0205 Threesomes have been all the rage recently at Coco Pazzo. It's where funnymen Jerry Seinfeld and Garry Shandling dined with brooding...
MEALS & DEALS: SETTANTA SETTE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Settanta Sette 77 St. Marks Place (212) 777-2537 Settanta Sette, which means 77 in Italian, is not just the restaurant's name, but also its address. And though that address...
NEW YORK PET: SPECIAL FRIENDS - CARING FOR HANDICAPPED COMPANIONS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Back in January, a Manhattan couple adopted a 3-month-old pit-bull pup named Ebony from the Bide-A-Wee shelter. One week later, they returned her. Why? Ebony was deaf, something the...
WHAT'S THE HOTTEST THING HE EVER DID?
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amELISA DANE, HAUPPAUGE, L.I. - He waited on line with me -- and the other sweatly women who were screaming in his ears -- for eight hours to see Ricky...
DANCING . . . AND ON THE DECKS, IN THE STREETS AND UNDER THE STARS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT Gotta dance? There's no time like the present. Come summer, the city becomes one giant ballroom. Swing, disco, salsa, mambo -- you name it, it's all out there. And...
HOT STUFF
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWNBC/CH.4's meteorologist Janice Huff sure had a busy week. It was the kind of week, weather-wise, that could make you forget about Al Roker, the guy she replaced nearly five...
BUS-VICTIM KIN FILE $11M SUIT
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe family of a Brooklyn great-grandmother killed in the Christmas Eve crash of an Atlantic City-bound bus has filed an $11 million suit against the bus company and the driver....
'CARPETBAGGER' BARBS COME BACK TO BITE CUOMO
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Move over Mayor Giuliani, former Gov. Mario Cuomo has some of his own "carpetbagger" words to eat. Republican Giuliani got into trouble for attacking likely Democratic U.S. Senate...
BARAK'S IN A HARD PLACE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amE HUD Barak comes to the U.S. this week for his first visit as Israel's new prime minister, following a whirlwind round of meetings with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan...
HERE'S HOT NEWS ON ONE COLD CAREER PATH
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThere's a reason Smokey the Bear needs help. The 30 forest-fire prevention specialists in the New York metro area make up one of the smallest job categories in town, according...
GOLDEN GIRLS ARE PROOF THAT SOME THINGS REMAIN PURE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHREE reasons you should appreciate the U.S. women's soccer team: 1. They aren't the abused baby-girl gymnasts. 2. They aren't spoiled, dysfunctional baby-girl tennis players. 3. They aren't the WNBA...
AGONY LINGERS AFTER DAD'S SAVAGE SLAYING
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amOnly 12 people showed up at Joseph Raineri Sr.'s funeral last week - but one of them mourned him deeply enough to fill 1,000 churches. Christina Raineri had lived with...
BONANZA FOR BAD COPS SHAMED 30 IN LINE FOR 400G EACH
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amAt least 30 city cops who quit the NYPD rather than face disciplinary charges will be eligible to collect an estimated $400,000 in benefits each if Gov. Pataki approves a...
FEAST YOUR EYES ON DEER LITTLE THING
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amBronx scientists went hunting in Southeast Asia recently and made one of the world's smallest discoveries - a deer that stands just 20 inches tall and weighs only 25 pounds....
FALSE CHARGE OF KILLING SON DESTROYED DAD'S LIFE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amEdward Lauer's little boy is long buried, his wife remarried, his happiness a distant memory. He can never get them back. But the bumbling government that ruined his life can...
CITY OFFERS SQUARE DEAL: PLANS IMPROVEMENTS IN PEDESTRIAN CENTERS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amTop on the city's list is Times Square, where millions are expected to converge for the millennium celebration. The city plans to spend $46 million to make it safer for...
PLAYING DEAD TO CATCH A 'KILLER': LAWMEN FAKE MURDERS TO BUST 'HIT' SUSPECTS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amOn a cold, late November night, businessman Robert Jacobs - an Orthodox Jew in his early 60s - lay sprawled on a plastic tarp in Fort Totten, Queens. Above his...
MISSING RINGS 'JUST TURN UP' AT LIZ ARDEN
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amOfficials at a posh Midtown salon where two customers' pricey rings mysteriously disappeared say they have recovered the jewels belonging to one of the women. Liz Arden manager Teresa McKee...
TEAM GORE IN AN UPROAR VEEP'S ALLIES FRET OVER AIDES' FEUD
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore's backers are reeling after a devastating news report telling of campaign disarray and a bitter feud between two top aides who haven't spoken in...
'THE SILLY CAMPAIGN' IS JUST GETTING STARTED
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amFrom the walls of Jerusalem to the mountains of Monroe - or is it Monroe County? - the unofficial Senate slugfest between Mayor Giuliani and First Lady Hillary Clinton kicked...
METS TOP BOMBERS BUT YANKS ARE STILL BOX-OFFICE CHAMPS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets beat the Yankees 9-8 in a thrilling ninth-inning play at the plate yesterday - but the Yankees continue to win the battle to attract fans to their home...
KOCH SCARCELY MISSES A BEAT AFTER HEART OP
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Ed Koch walked out of the hospital yesterday, a day after he underwent four hours of surgery, and took a stroll down memory lane - to the movies....
NYPD PROBES COPS' WORK FOR MISSING MONEY MAN
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD says it is investigating the role of cops who worked second jobs for fugitive financier Martin Frankel's securities brokerage firm. It was not clear how many NYPD officers...
FINAL FRONTIER FOR U.S. HEROINES: WE'RE ON TOP OF THE WORLD
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe sporting event of the summer came to a red, white and blue climax yesterday as the U.S. women's soccer team played China in a soldout Rose Bowl for the...
FEDS NEARING DEAL WITH CITY ON COP WATCHDOG
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors are in "serious negotiations" with City Hall about appointing an independent civilian board of "auditors" to oversee the NYPD's internal disciplinary process, sources told The Post yesterday. Talks...
EHUD, YASSER LOOKING FOR CONCESSIONS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - PLO chief Yasser Arafat is ready to consider newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's plans for negotiating peace - but only if Barak agrees to freeze all...
THE BOASTIN' STRANGLER DESALVO BRAGGED TO ME ABOUT THE 13 MURDERS I KNEW HE DIDN'T COMMIT
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amALBERT DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, crocked his arm around my throat and said, "This is how I did it." With the assurance of a pinstriped suit I turned to the...
ROUND-BALL FEVER HITS THE APPLE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWomen's soccer wasn't just for ladies in New York yesterday. At the Sporting Club in downtown Manhattan, the spirit in support of the American team's effort was high - win...
UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS BY JETS TRIO
July 11, 1999 | 4:00am"We had a hell of a time getting them under arrest and into the precinct. They were huge - and they weren't going easy."LT. JOSEPH KEARNS Two Jets players and...
NFL HAS LONG HISTORY OF OFF-FIELD VIOLENCE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amBad-boy behavior is nothing new in the National Football League. Here are some recent examples of footballers' mix-ups with the law: * Former Jets linebacker James Eaddy was accused of...
GLORY FOR U.S. WOMEN - & GIRLS: VICTORY A MILESTONE FOR FEMALE ATHLETES
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe sporting event of the summer came to a red, white and blue climax yesterday as the U.S. women's soccer team beat China in a tense and thrilling game at...
ROUND-BALL FEVER HITS APPLE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe jubilation of watching the victorious U.S. women's soccer team wasn't just for ladies in New York yesterday. At the Sporting Club in downtown Manhattan, the spirit in support of...
THE ROAD TO GLORY: HOW OUR GALS WENT ALL THE WAY
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWAY TO GO! *Round 1: U.S. women's team defeats Denmark, Nigeria and North Korea. China beats Sweden, Ghana and Australia. *Quarterfinals: America's "goal-den" girls defeat Germany, 3-2. The Chinese shut...
PLENTY OF BLAME FOR DODGERS' MESS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Dodgers, with a National League-high payroll of $70 million, rank as the No. 1 disappointment in the first half of the 1999 season, and everyone deserves a share of...
IRON MIKE'S THE HEAVY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amHE used to be the bull in the china shop. Now, he's the china. And just about everything else about Mike Tyson is pure bull. You can believe what you...
CARNOUSTIE'S NO BREEZE: WIND COULD WHIP UP WILD BRITISH OPEN
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amCARNOUSTIE - The best golfers in the world are slowly filing into this tiny northeast Scotland town with major expectations. Tiger Woods, with three victories in the last five starts,...
GIVE FOND FAREWELL TO TIGER STADIUM
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amLast call at Tiger Stadium TY COBB Detroit great. It sits at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in a run-down section of downtown Detroit called Corktown. It's a creaky...
ROOT, ROOT, ROOT FOR ... ; LOCAL ANNOUNCERS SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amOn WABC, the Yankees' station, John Sterling and Michael Kay led me to believe that Ordonez had made a ho-hum play. No big deal. A quick switch to WFAN found...
IT'S ABOUT TIME RANGERS TOOK CARE OF TODD: SMITH MUST MAKE SURE HARVEY FEELS WANTED
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amSO THE Rangers still need a second-line center behind Petr Nedved, who has never been a first-line center before in his career. They still need a checking center, they still...
GIRARDI'S PAIN IS YANKEES' GAIN
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Andy Pettitte was without his familiar security blanket yesterday when a minor neck problem sidelined Joe Girardi and forced Joe Torre to use Jorge Posada behind the plate....
LEDEE'S WORLD FULL OF QUESTIONS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amRicky Ledee shot a glance at the lineup card hitting instructor Chris Chambliss was about to post on the clubhouse wall yesterday morning. Since it was face down, Ledee couldn't...
JUGGLIN' JOE GIVES JETER CLEANUP GIG
July 11, 1999 | 4:00am"It doesn't make any difference where I hit."DEREK JETER Derek Jeter hasn't turned into a One-Size-Fits-All hitter in regards to where he hits in the lineup, but one thing has...
FORESTRY GUNS FOR DWYER
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amForestry ships in from Churchill Downs seeking his fifth straight victory in today's Grade 2, $150,000 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont. The mile and a sixteenth race attracted a field of...
ROBIN JUST WINGS IT: FLIES HOME IN FOURTH DESPITE SORE FOOT
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amIt's hard to assess just how much Robin Ventura's professionalism means to the Mets, running on a bad set of wheels and playing on a bruised left foot. He won't...
STRUGGLING ANDY STILL FINDIN' WAY
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amIT WASN'T life and death, the fact that Yankee fans' lives wouldn't be worth living after a loss to the Mets, notwithstanding. And another bad outing yesterday would not even...
YANKS GOTTA REALIZE '98 IS LONG GONE
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amPerhaps the team has fallen too under this spell; become too comfortable that as long as [Joe] Torre is around all will work out for the best no matter how...
HONOR GLIDE CAPTURES BOWLING GREEN 'CAP
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amUnder a patient ride by Jose Santos, Honor Glide wore down pacesetting Fahris and went on to win the Grade 2 $150,000 Bowling Green Handicap by a half-length at Belmont...
'98 SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME AGO ; BOMBERS GOTTA WAKE UP SOON
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE greatest tribute to Joe Torre was paid this week in silence. A non-story story broke in which Torre said he planned to retire after the 2001 season, and no...
YANKS COLLAPSE WHEN IT COUNTS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amBernie Williams' judgment, Jeff Kellogg's eyesight, Edgardo Alfonzo's legs and Matt Franco's clutch hitting combined yesterday to turn euphoria into disaster for the Yankees in the ninth inning at Shea...
MIXED DAY AT SHEA FOR POSADA
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amJorge Posada was going to be the hero. On a day he was not even supposed to start, Posada was going to be hailed for winning a mano a mano...
MIKE'S MONSTER MASH: PIAZZA CRUSHES 482-FOOT HOMER
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amYankees hit close to a half-mile worth of home runs off Met pitching yesterday, 2,392 feet of long balls in all. But none of their six homerscould measure up to...
PETTITTE BETTER, BUT NOT A WINNER
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amBetter? Since Andy Pettitte didn't lose and wasn't spanked, his performance against the Mets yesterday can be described as an improvement over his last two outings. Was it good? That...
OL' RICKEY KEEPS ROLLING
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amWe shouldn't have been surprised when we looked up moments after all five of Ricky Henderson's at-bats yesterday and found him standing on first or second base. And we shouldn't...
TWO HOMERS DON'T EASE PAUL'S PAIN
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Paul O'Neill had just finished explaining his role in the final play of yesterday's pulsating 9-8 Mets win over the Yankees when he was asked what he thought...
FRANCO HEROICS CAP AMAZIN' DAY AT SHEA: TWO-RBI PINCH-HIT IN 9TH OVERCOMES YANKEES' SIX HRS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amTheir emotion, joy and frustration seemed to be spelled out as distinctly as the word "Mets" on their jerseys as they piled atop one another in celebration. As much as...
BONILLA AND VALENTINE GO AT IT AGAIN
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amIn the midst of all the euphoria over yesterday's dramatic 9-8 win over the Yankees, the Mets still had a little nasty business lingering. The feud between Bobby Bonilla heated...
A GIFT TO NY FROM THE BASEBALL GODS
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amIT may get better than this in the next life, where the games always go more innings than you can count, Mel Rojas is always pitching for the other guys,...
HERO FRANCO: I WAS JUST DOIN' MY JOB
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Matt Franco said that after three years as the Mets lefthanded pinch hitter, he has grown accustomed to the role of staying sharp after sitting on the bench...
PINE & DANDY: NEW JERSEY COURSE IS A SHORE THING
July 11, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT There are times when your golf game doesn't coincide with the quality of the course you're playing, and it's a damn shame. This was my sin this past week...