July 26, 1999
THE BID TO BAG FENDI - GUCCI & LVMH TRYING TO BAG FENDI
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amGucci Chairman De Sole has $3 billion to spend, now that he's successfully fended off the advances of LVMH's Arnault. Domenico De Sole and Bernard Arnault could be ready to...
WITH GREENSPAN, THE WORDS GET IN THE WAY
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amMOST people are happy just to figure out what Alan Greenspan is trying to say. I'd like to know why he is saying what I think he is saying. The...
EMMY-HAPPY CABLE IS SHOWING UP THE NETS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amSex and the mob are giving another black eye to the already battered broadcast networks. The biggest blow - at least to the networks' pride - came when cable TV...
$20M IS SWEET MUSIC TO WHIZ KID - INVENTION PLAYS CD SOUND ON 'NET
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amJustin Frankel, the genius behind the Internet's music revolution, could buy his own jet, his own yacht or even his own mansion with the $20 million he was just paid...
JAM TO TUNES WITHOUT JAMMING YOUR MODEM
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amNothing can stop people from swapping tracks. If you have a computer and a high-speed Internet connection, you can be part of the latest revolution in music - MP3. In...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amMAGAZINES continued to mourn the loss of John F. Kennedy Jr., with the major weeklies devoting a great number of their pages to tributes, following the plane tragedy that ended...
OFF ITS ROCKER - LOOK WHO MAKES VH1'S WACKY LIST OF GREATEST WOMEN OF ROCK & ROLL
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amVH1 should be forced to change its slogan of "Music First." When music was its first priority, MTV's sister channel couldn't get arrested. And if it had managed to get...
BOMBS AWAY? 'SEA' & 'BRIDE' TRYING TO HIDE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amTWO of the major Hollywood movies opening this week bear all the early signs of being expensive stinkers.When movie distributors suspect they've got a box-office bomb on their hands, they...
GOLDIES WITH OLDIES - IT'S HARD TO SPOT ANYONE WHO'S UNDER 30 IN TWO SUMMER GEMS WITH FUNNY ACCENTS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amLOOK hard enough and you'll find a reason to watch TV in the middle of the rerun-ridden summer. Two such reasons can be found on public TV. They're series with...
STORM DOESN'T RAIN ON A HEAVY-METAL PARADE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amYESTERDAY, just past midnight, as the raspy roar of Metallica electrified the air, the tension wasn't just an extension of the band's mighty metal prowess. Before the group took the...
'99 STARDUST MEMORIES - HIGHS AND LOWS PLENTIFUL IN 3RD WOODSTOCK FEST
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y. THOSE who were at the original Woodstock 30 years ago, at the 25th anniversary of the festival or at this past weekend's music extravaganza share a bond not...
CBS PUTS EYE ON ELLEN'S COMEBACK
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amPASEDENA, Calif. - Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres might be returning to TV next year. DeGeneres is now in talks with CBS to star in a "show within a show" similar...
INDEPENDENT'S DAY - 'HAUNTING' STAR LILI TAYLOR REMAINS TRUE TO HER BELIEFS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amIT seems a bizarre choice for a principled actor's actor known for her commitment to small, "meaningful" films, but Lili Taylor has always taken a perverse joy in wrong-footing her...
SIGNATURE STYLE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: FOR some New Yorkers, the scariest thing about the city isn't muggers or rent hikes, but becoming anonymous. That's why many city gals choose to make their presence known...
B'KLYN ERASING LAST TRACE OF '60 JET CRASH
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amWALKING past the corner of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place in Park Slope, you have a sense that something big, and not altogether pleasant, happened here once. There, in the...
CYBERSEX VICTIM'S KIN: SHE'S A LIAR - SAY SHE FALSELY ACCUSED DAD, UNCLE OF SEX ABUSE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amIT MIGHT turn out to be the biggest railroad job since the Union Pacific. I am talking about Oliver Jovanovic, 33, a kid who has spent 15 months in jail....
PATAKI'S BIG-BUCKS BACKERS REVEALED
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI'S 2002 campaign committee has taken in more than $1.6 million from 4,020 contributors this year, but just 47 fat cats account for nearly half that amount. Newly filed...
MAN SAVED FROM DEATH IN HUDSON
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amFast-thinking firefighters rescued a struggling swimmer who was swept down the Hudson River by strong currents and then sank from sight early yesterday. After receiving a report of a man...
CHUCK: CAR INSURANCE A 'STEAL' - FOR FIRMS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"Get your act together or something will happen, whether at the state level or the federal." SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday urged an immediate freeze on rates for...
JUDGE BLEW CHANCE TO CLOSE THIS HELL SPOT
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Tunnel should never have been open yesterday morning. Only last week, the State Liquor Authority filed new license revocation-charges against the Tunnel, making specific references to the absence of...
TRAGEDY WON'T KEEP MARILYN'S JFK GOWN OFF BLOCK
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amDespite the Kennedy family tragedy, Christie's is going ahead with its auction preview today of the sexy dress Marilyn Monroe wore during her famous rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President...
W0MAN SLAIN AT BL0CK PARTY
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amNaisha Peachey moved to New York just a year ago and was looking forward to starting college in the fall - before a stray bullet ended her life at a...
REV. AL: PROBE SUSPECT DEATH
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday called for a federal probe into the death of a Brooklyn man in police custody after conflicting reports from cops and witnesses on what happened....
TOUR DE LANCE FOR CANCER HERO
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"I hope it sends out a fantastic message to all survivors around the world. We can return to what we were before - and even better." LANCE ARMSTRONG Lance Armstrong...
TOUR DE LANCE! - CANCER HERO PEDALS TO VICTORY
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"I hope it sends out a fantastic message to all survivors around the world. We can return to what we were before - and even better." LANCE ARMSTRONG Lance Armstrong...
DEADLY COLLAPSE SITE NOW OFF LIMITS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's Building Department will officially post a vacate order today at the building where a mother and daughter were killed Saturday when bricks from the facade pummeled the two...
CLINTON WOULD VETO $5B 'COMPROMISE' TAX CUT
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House, talking tough on tax cuts, yesterday shot down any hint of a compromise to split the difference between what President Clinton and the GOP want...
DEMS DEFEND BID TO RAISE $200M FAT CAT CASH FOR GORE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Veep Al Gore's presidential campaign yesterday defended the Democratic Party's plans to raise a whopping $200 million from fat cats to help him win - the kind of...
HEARTBURN COULD MEAN BIG TROUBLE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amSwallowing easy-to-pop antacids could be keeping sufferers from getting treatment for more serious problems. Heartburn can be a sign of serious illness - but most Americans pop antacids instead of...
COPS: GIRL, 16, RAPED AT INFAMOUS CLUB - N.J. PAIR CHARGED AS OFFICIALS AGAIN TARGET THE TUNNEL
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"Neither [the victim nor the 19-year-old suspect], by law, should have been in the club." DEPUTY MAYOR RUDY WASHINGTON A 16-year-old girl was raped by two men at the infamous...
ACTOR SAYS HOT SPOT'S HIRED GOONS BEAT HIM; EXCLUSIVE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amCops are investigating an alleged beating at the Tunnel nightclub, where a 22-year-old actor says security guards roughed him up so badly, his rib was cracked. Kevin Benham, of Chelsea,...
THERE'S NO COLD COMFORT COMING
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Big Apple sizzled through another day of record high heat yesterday, as officials warned there's no immediate end to the hot stuff in sight. New Yorkers sweated it out...
'BODY' WON'T TOSS ROSS - BUT HE WANTS PEROT OUT OF 2000 RACE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura yesterday denied he's trying to wrestle Ross Perot out of the ring - even as he and the new Reform Party chairman...
DOWNED U.S. PLANE SOUGHT IN COLOMBIA
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. officials were trying last night to recover the wreckage of a U.S. anti-drug plane carrying five American soldiers that crashed in a remote area of Colombia. "There's reason to...
SUSPECT HELD IN YOSEMITE SLAYINGS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amA motel maintenance man arrested for beheading a woman in California's Yosemite National Park is also a suspect in the killings of three tourists there earlier this year, the FBI...
ALGERIAN LEADER VOWS TO HELP BARAK
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amAlgeria's president promised to help the Arab world make peace with Israel yesterday, in the first-ever encounter between leaders of the two nations. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been...
THOUSANDS MOURN AT KENNEDY SERVICE IN D.C.
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amThousands of mourners gathered at a Washington, D.C., church yesterday in another massive outpouring of grief for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister. The service - attended...
7 HURT IN CHAIN-REACTION SMASH
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amTwo cars collided in Brooklyn last night, setting off a chain reaction of crashes that left seven people injured - including a 12-year-old boy who was fighting for his life...
'THE BODY' SAYS HE WON'T TOSS ROSS - BUT WARNS PEROT AGAINST PREZ BID
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura yesterday denied he's trying to wrestle Ross Perot out of the ring - even as he and the new Reform Party chairman...
GONE TO BLAZES! - FIERY FINISH AS THOUSANDS RAMPAGE AT WOODSTOCK '99
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amWoodstock '99 ended in an orgy of arson, looting and vandalism last night, as out-of-control crowds set huge bonfires, climbed and trashed seven-story speaker towers, and stole merchandise from concert...
53-POINT BURTON ON COMEBACK TRAIL
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amEvery free-agent camp has its share of fascinating stories. But there is none more compelling than that of Willie Burton, who is trying to make the Knicks at the age...
ZAP! IT'S MICROWAVE TV! - MADE-FOR-TUBE EVENTS CATER TO GENERATION X
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE future of sports television is microwaved, which is just how my generation - Generation X - loves it. Quick, easy and without much taste. Thank God - or at...
NOLIE MAKES FAME PITCH FOR PETE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amHALL NOTES COOPERSTOWN - All-time great fireballers differ on Pete Rose's Hall of Fame worthiness. Bob Feller consistently has blasted Rose, but new inductee Nolan Ryan wants to be joined...
ROBIN'S AT HEAD OF CLASS - YOUNT STEALS SHOW AT INDUCTION; YOUNT'S SPEECH A REAL HALLMARK
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amCOOPERSTOWN - Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Robin Yount and Orlando Cepeda drew the largest crowd in Hall of Fame induction ceremony history yesterday afternoon, a hot summer day packed with...
FOR PETE'S SAKE, LET ROSE ENTER
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"It's sort of sad to say that if instead of gambling, I had been addicted to drugs I'd be in the Hall of Fame." PETE ROSE COOPERSTOWN - Inside "The...
SOPHISTICATED MAN ROLLS HOME
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amFavored Sophisticated Man stalked the pace, but once he took over the lead he never looked back in winning the $54,150 Evan Shipman Handicap for New York-breds. Talavera was two...
AFTER GAME OF GAFFES, REDEMPTION
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"When I hit it, everything went blank on me. I wasn't sure if it was going out, but I knew I hit it hard." RICKY LEDEE THE cynical way to...
TRIBE COUNTING ON BARTOLO TO LEAD THE WAY
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amNot long ago, the Indians were easily baseball's best team. Now that they are losers of nine of their last 10 games, Cleveland is drowning quickly and searching for something...
YANKS HAVE ONE HILL OF AN EDGE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees are trying to fix Roger Clemens. The Indians are trying to fix Tom Candiotti and Mark Langston. If you are looking for advantages that mattered this weekend, forget...
HARDAWAY'S MAKING MOST OF 2ND CHANCE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - The last time Knick fans saw Heat guard Tim Hardaway, he was loosing control of the ball in the waning seconds of Game 5 of the first-round...
LEDEE'S HR ENDS PERFECT WEEKEND - RICKY SENDS TRIBE HOME WINLESS
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Indians came to New York with baseball's best record, but after the Yankees completed a sweep with their 2-1 win in front of 54,944 at The Stadium yesterday, that...
HARGROVE STILL HAS HIGH HOPES
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amAfter losing two hard-fought games and coming up on the short end of a 21-1 debacle, it would seem logical for the Indians to be demoralized following a three-game sweep...
DOC LONGS TO BRONX
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amYANK NOTES More than a year after ex-Yank Doc Gooden joined the rival Indians, he's kept the lines of communication open with his former team in case he ever wanted...
AL'S GOTTA BE METS' MR. BIG
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amIf Leiter isn't all the way back to the Leiter of a year ago ... the Mets will be back on their couches for another October. FIRST place in the...
METS' GM EYING ANOTHER PITCHER
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets GM Steve Phillips claimed he did not give up trying to acquire former Marlin pitcher Livan Hernandez after his acquisition of starter Kenny Rogers Friday. Phillips said...
METS STILL EYE ANOTHER ARM
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets GM Steve Phillips claimed he did not give up trying to acquire former Marlin pitcher Livan Hernandez after his acquisition of starter Kenny Rogers Friday. Phillips said...
LET OTHER TEAMS DREAM - IT'S TIME USE OF NBAERS IS PUT TO REST
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - Forty wins; no losses. Forty wins - all of them blowouts - no drama, no intrigue, no competition. No mas, por favor. Since the U.S. decided it...
KENNY'S TAKING CRASH COURSE
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amKenny Rogers slipped on a blue Met jersey with "73" on the back for the first time yesterday, but it quickly became obvious he knew little about the team he...
GLORY DAYS AT SHEA - ANOTHER THRONG WATCHES AS METS COMPLETE SWEEP
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"There were fanatical Mets fans out there tonight - you could feel the energy when I got two strikes a couple of times." AL LEITER Bobby Valentine was wrong. Shea...
SOME DOUBT IS CAST ON KENNY'S 1ST START
July 26, 1999 | 4:00amAs planned, Kenny Rogers threw in the bullpen yesterday for about 12 minutes. As unplanned, Rogers' right hamstring twinge he incurred in his last start for Oakland felt more sore...
AT 40, RICKEY STILL ONE FOR THE AGES - HENDERSON ENJOYS AMAZIN' REVIVAL
July 26, 1999 | 4:00am"Every day he goes out there with the same determination he did 20 years ago and I think he's better or equal to the way he was 20 years ago."...