July 22, 1999
SCHWAB, FIDELITY PLUG IN TO TRADE TOGETHER
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amCharles Schwab & Co., the nation's biggest discount broker, joined forces with its arch-enemy Fidelity Investments, the second-largest, to create a new electronic trading network. Electronic trading networks, which use...
SHOOT THE MOONVES - CBS BOSS IN CONTRACT TALKS; EXCLUSIVE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amLeslie Moonves' ship is about to come in. The CBS programming chief has the good fortune of entering the early stages of contract renegotiations just as he is emerging as...
DUELING EDITORS' BAD BLOOD RUNS DEEP - BATTLE JOINED OVER PREMIERE ISSUE OF TALK
July 22, 1999 | 4:00am"Tina and Graydon hate each other. It makes the rivalry more pressing than it might have been. I'm sure Tina would have been very happy if things unraveled at Vanity...
MP3.COM SPINS NEW IPO SUCCESS STORY
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amP3.com made sweet music for its shareholders yesterday, more than doubling the value of its shares in the company's first day of trading. The San Diego-based website that allows consumers...
TINA'S TALK TRUMPED - VANITY FAIR GETS JFK STORY AFTER BROWN'S DEADLINE; EXCLUSIVE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amTalk has already closed for its Aug. 2 debut - forcing Brown to miss the news story of the year for her premiere issue. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is...
FOUNDER OF OGILVY & MATHER AD FIRM IS DEAD
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amDavid Ogilvy, the master ad man who put the eye-patched Man in the Hathaway Shirt and created the distinguished Commander Whitehead to pitch "Schweppervescent" mixers, died yesterday at his home...
FHM VS. MAXIM: NEW BRIT TITLE FHM TO TITILLATE HERE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amBritish publishing giant Emap is jumping into the white-hot beer-and-babes magazine ring. The title - FHM - doesn't exactly roll off your lips or conjure up sexy visions, but it...
SAFETY AND SECURITY AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amPICTURE this - You are in a fender-bender serious enough to deploy the airbags, and as you sit there collecting yourself and checking on your passengers, you hear a voice....
TV TICKER
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amIntense interest Viewership numbers for the all-news cable networks have soared since they began covering the Kennedy/Bessette tragedy. CNN scored a combined 2.2 rating for Saturday and Sunday (1.6 million...
GO AHEAD AND MISS 'SAIGON'
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amBroadway's Old Chestnuts: A Second Look This week, Post theater critic Donald Lyons revisits four long-running musicals. 'MISS Saigon" opened here in April 1991 at the Broadway, and it's still...
EXPENSIVE FRIENDSHIP: NBC FACES $5M-PER-EPISODE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amNBC might have to cough up a whopping $5 million-per-episode to keep its megahit "Friends." NBC's current multi-year deal with Warner Bros. - the studio which produces "Friends" - expires...
'BLAIR WITCH' SPOOKS STUDIOS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Blair Witch Project" was made on a shoestring by recent film-school grads Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick, but it has major studios running scared. The ultra-low-budget indie horror flick...
THE DALY SHOW: MTV'S NEW TEENY-BOPPER IDOL IS PACKING THE STREETS OF TIMES SQUARE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amEach day at 3 p.m. a corner of Times Square erupts into a cacophony of squeals and catcalls as MTV's "Total Request Live" goes on the air. The crowd jamming...
ROSEANNE'S TRAPPED BY KING-SIZE FEUD
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE standoff continues between the NBC owned-station group and King World over "The Roseanne Show." King World isn't budging from its vow to continue producing the show and the NBC...
IF TRUE, IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU SICK: MOTHER ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGEDLY POISONING HER YOUNG DAUGHTER TO GET ATTENTION
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Sitting beside Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Capitol Hill, little Jennifer Bush cut a compelling figure. The big eyes and the red bow on the 7-year-old from...
WHY WE WEEP FOR A MAN, NOT A HERO
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amWhenever someone this famous, this talented, with such a fortunate face, dies young, we feel cheated. HOW do we explain this worldwide outpouring of sorrow and affection for 38-year-old John...
BUCKINGHAM BOOZE HOUNDS - QUEEN BITES AIDE WHO GOT CORGIS DRUNK
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - A Buckingham Palace footman is in the doghouse after officials discovered he was getting Queen Elizabeth's beloved corgis drunk. Matthew King, one of the queen's two personal footmen,...
BRAVE GIRL DIES OF LEUKEMIA
July 22, 1999 | 4:00am"She was a very brave child. She was a fighter, she was strong." MARIA REUTER, MICHELLE'S MOM A Long Island girl who touched the hearts of Post readers with her...
ALBANY RELEASES ITS GRIEF AT REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Nearly 300 mourners yesterday filled St. Mary's Church here to remember John F. Kennedy Jr. as a regular guy who would drop in for a pizza during his...
LAUREN LIVED QUIETLY, TWO BLOCKS FROM FAME
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amTWO blocks from the carnival of grieving, there is peace. It is a nondescript building, almost drab, wedged between the chaos of Sixth Avenue and the surreal calm of a...
GUN MAKERS AIM FOR DEAL WITH STATE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Three major gun companies, seeking to avoid a possible lawsuit, have begun "a dialogue" with the state over the way they sell their products, it was revealed yesterday....
GOV TURNS LOTTERY WINNER INTO LOSER
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Call him Gov. Grinch. Gov. Pataki yesterday vetoed special legislation that would have allowed Long Island cabdriver Howard Reid to collect a $7.4 million lottery jackpot, even though...
CLINTONS COMING HERE FOR PRIVATE MEMORIAL - KENNEDYS WEIGHING SEA BURIAL
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Kennedy family will hold a private memorial for John F. Kennedy Jr. tomorrow morning at an Upper East Side church - but the body of the late Camelot heir...
NEW YORK GROUP SPARKS MASS ARRESTS IN CHINA
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amRiot police in China yesterday continued their crackdown on a New York-based meditation group viewed as a major political threat to communist rule, arresting hundreds of followers in at least...
THE SEA GIVES UP ITS DEAD AT LAST - BODIES OF TRAGIC TRIO RECOVERED
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amSearch teams, using a robot camera and including deep-sea divers, recovered the bodies of John Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law from 116-foot deep waters yesterday, five days after their...
CRITICS: HMOS GET OFF EA$Y
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe state has hit 11 HMOs with fines totaling $66,100 for paying hospitals, doctors and patients late - an amount blasted by critics as peanuts compared to the billions they...
CLINTON OFFERS NO APOLOGIES FOR EXTENDING SEARCH
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday said he ordered no expense be spared to find the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister because of "the role of the...
ANOTHER GRIM TRIP TO ID A DEAD LOVED ONE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amMENEMSHA, Martha's Vineyard. IT LOOKED like a rerun of a bad nightmare. A solemn Ted Kennedy, head bowed, face ashen. Behind him, his two sons, Teddy Jr. and Patrick, who...
GOTTI IN-LAW SUES CITY FOR HARASSMENT
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe son-in-law of "Dapper Don" John Gotti accused the city in a lawsuit yesterday of mounting a harassment campaign to shut down his scrap-metal business because of his "family" ties....
SHOT FIRE CHIEF LOVED BEING ON FRONT LINES, SAY COLLEAGUES
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe veteran fire chief fighting for his life after being shot five times in the head outside a Queens gym turned down two promotions so he could stay with his...
GHANAN WOMAN'S RELEASE CHEERED
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amA small group of City Council members yesterday gathered to celebrate the release of an African woman held in U.S. custody for more than two years after seeking asylum over...
WOODY IS ASKING $15 MILLION FOR HIS 'MANHATTAN' APT.
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amWoody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi, want to take the money and move. The Woodman has put his Fifth Avenue duplex penthouse - which he used in a scene from...
ICAHN DIVORCE FINALLY A DONE DEAL
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amCorporate raider Carl Icahn yesterday cemented a deal he'd been working on for six years - his divorce. The billionaire and his wife of 20 years, Liba, settled their bitter...
'ECSTASY' TURNS INTO AGONY FOR ARRESTED HASID
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe feds yesterday arrested a Hasidic man they said was part of a smuggling ring that used other Hasids to bring a popular hallucinogen into the United States from Holland....
CRITICS SHOOTING OFF AT THE MOUTH SHOULD TRY COP TEST
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE dimly lit light-blue hallway is long and scary. I am responding to a burglary inside the NYPD's tactics house - a make-believe building set up to simulate real-life encounters...
WOODSTOCK PUTS TOWN'S MERCHANTS IN THE MONEY
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe townspeople of upstate Rome aren't showing Woodstock '99 concertgoers any free love. This weekend's three-day rock fest in Rome coincides with induction ceremonies Sunday at the Baseball Hall of...
CAR0LYN'S TERRIBLE PREM0NITI0N - SHE TOLD SAKS GIRL SHE DREADED FLYING THAT NIGHT
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amOn her last day of life, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was busy getting ready for an out-of-town wedding - and she went about her errands with a frightening sense of foreboding....
FINDING BODIES WAS A HI-TECH JOB - 'SWIMMING CAMERA' PROBED OCEAN DEPTHS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amHigh-tech underwater surveillance led expert divers to the badly mangled plane carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette. Sophisticated underwater cameras spotted the fuselage of...
JOHN AND CAROLYN TO BE BURIED AT SEA - SERVICE THIS MORNING TO FOLLOW CREMATION
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr., and his wife, Carolyn, were to be cremated and their ashes scattered over the waters off Kennedy's beloved Cape Cod this morning - less than a...
CLINTONS COMING HERE FOR PRIVATE MEMORIAL - AT JACKIE'S OLD CHURCH ON E. SIDE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Kennedy family will hold a private memorial for John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn, at an Upper East Side church tomorrow. The "Celebratory Mass" at St. Thomas...
NOW STORMS HALT SPACE SHUTTLE - WOMAN COMMANDER WAITS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe launch of Space Shuttle Columbia - the first American spacecraft to be commanded by a woman - was scrubbed early today because of thunderstorms. It was the second disappointment...
PICK SIX JACKPOT HITS 234G
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amWith two favorites that were even money and less losing and only one favorite winning in the designated races, there is a $234,973.68 Pick Six carryover into today's program at...
CYBER CROOKS PROFIT FROM BIG-NAME SITES
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amA new generation of cyber-mercenaries are taking aim at athletes. The mercenaries are gobbling up athletes' names by registering them as web sites and then approaching the jocks in a...
STRAW STRATEGY: BOSS MULLS 2 PLANS TO BRING DARRYL BACK INTO THE FOLD
July 22, 1999 | 4:00am"I told him, 'You are not a big deal in my eyes. You didn't let me or the Yankees down, you let everybody else down.'"GEORGE STEINBRENNER ON DARRYL STRAWBERRY Darryl...
MILAN CURBS ITS FOREIGN IMPORTS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Milan is going back to the future as the buildup begins to the Italian champion's defense of its title. Rather than importing stars from other countries, as has...
PARTY OVER, KERRY REBUILDS CAREER
July 22, 1999 | 4:00am"It wasn't like I was drunk playing, but you party one night and for a couple of days you feel it, no doubt."KERRY COLLINS There were the all too frequent...
BOSS NOT PUSHING FOR TRADES
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amKnowing that the cost of making a deal before the July 31 waiver trading deadline will be exorbitantly high because it always is when teams deal with the Yankees, George...
U.S. CAN'T EXPECT HELP FROM ZEBRAS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - Memo to Dream Team IV: Hush. That's it, guys, hush. You guys knew what you were getting into. You guys said before this Olympic qualifying tournament of...
BOGGS STRUTTIN' TO 3,000 : WADE, AT 41, STILL HIT MACHINE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amWADE Boggs wasn't born, he was programmed. He has controlled a bat like nobody since Rod Carew, alternately lined balls to left and right field that have mocked the eternally...
CONE BEGINS WORKING ON HIS ENCORE
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES David Cone has left the rarefied air he had been breathing since throwing a perfect game Sunday against the Expos. "Today is a back to earth day for...
JETER: K-K-K-KABOOM: HOMER WINS IT AFTER 3 WHIFFS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 4 Devil Rays 3 Bobby Witt had gotten Derek Jeter swinging in the first, third and fifth. Now, in the seventh inning of a tie game against a team...
BOSS DOWNPLAYS TALK OF PRE-DEADLINE DEALS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amKnowing that the cost of making a deal before the July 31 waiver trading deadline will be exorbitantly high because it always is when teams deal with the Yankees, George...
DARRYL LEARNS FATE TODAY
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry is expected to clear a major hurdle on his way back to the big leagues today when Bud Selig reinstates the slugging outfielder early from a 120-day suspension....
AMAZIN'S NARROW THE GAP: CUT BRAVES' LEAD TO 2
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amMets 7 Expos 3 MONTREAL - Around the backstretch of the long season the Mets have pulled to within a length of the Braves. The surging Mets beat the Expos...
MO CAN DO - BARELY: RIVERA RECORDS SHAKY SAVE VS. RAYS
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amDerek Jeter's clutch two-run homer had erased a three-strikeout night and glossed over a lackluster performance by the Yankee bats against Bobby Witt. Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez chipped in with...
BRAVES HOT FOR EXPOS' URBINA
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - In a development that could have a bearing on both the Mets and the Yankees, the Braves have made serious inquiries to Expos about getting closer Ugueth Urbina...
DREAM TEAMERS FEEL FOR ELLIOTT
July 22, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. 83 Venezuela 61 Neither Allan Houston, nor any of his Knick teammates, knew about disease that was slowly destroying Spurs forward Sean Elliott's kidneys during the NBA Finals, and...