August 11, 1999
CASE MAY HAVE TO DEAL WITH MA BELL
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amAMERICA Online's Steve Case is feeling the heat. A precipitous drop in the value of his stock - and his own personal wealth - apparently has made the AOL chairman...
IMAGE FLIP-FLOP AT BIRKENSTOCK
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amBirkenstocks, the sandals long known for being comfortable - not cosmopolitan - are set to launch a new campaign to revamp the image of the centuries-old shoe company. Birkenstock USA,...
HYPING 'NET LOSERS - ANALYSTS IGNORING TECH SELL-OFF
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe great stock market sell-off of 1999 continued yesterday, with Internet stocks leading the slide, as they have for weeks. The downturn is becoming something of an embarrassment for the...
RAZORFISH MAKES SHARP MOVE IN I-CUBE BUY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Dachis wants to be No. 1. Razorfish, the Silicon Alley website designer he founded in 1995, is buying Massachusetts-based i-Cube in a stock deal worth $677 million, making it...
WEEKLIES' DIRTY TRICKS LAND PIX
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amTime and Newsweek are escalating their ongoing "dirty little battle" for sensational photos of tragedies. The newsweeklies are pulling out their checkbooks to pay upwards of $100,000 for pictures of...
BAND GETS TOE HOLD IN NAIL POLISH SALES
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amTrendsetters can now wear Garbage on their nails. Shirley Manson and her multi-platinum alternative rock band, Garbage, have gone into the cosmetics business with Monday's debut of "Garbage Nail Polish."...
CELINE, J. CREW PLAN NEW FLAGSHIP LOCATIONS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amCeline and J. Crew are both set to open new flagship stores in Manhattan. Celine, the French fashion house that has seen its popularity rise since the American designer Michael...
GARTH: OVITZ SHOULD BLAME HIS PARTNERS, NOT ME
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amExiled Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky yesterday fired his latest fusillade from Canada against Michael Ovitz in their ongoing legal battle, saying Ovitz's own partners got him in trouble, not Drabinsky....
TV TICKER
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amCNBC floored CNBC's "Business Center" will originate from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis beginning Aug. 16 (6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Business Center," which currently...
'SILENT HEARTS' A JERRY-BUILT QUICKIE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am"Silent Hearts" Tonight at 9 on Lifetime BEFORE we have gotten to the end of the opening credits on "Silent Hearts," we know we're in for two hours of manipulation...
THEN THERE WAS ONE ... LAST SUPPER FOR; 'FAT LADY'
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amJENNIFER Paterson, the cigarette-puffing, motorcyle-riding co-star of Food Network's "Two Fat Ladies" cooking show, has lost a short battle with lung cancer. Paterson, 71, died early yesterday morning in a...
FRESH FACES FOR 'LES MISERABLES'
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE long-running Broadway musical "Les Miserables" is getting three new leads. Beginning Sept. 7, Gregg Edelman will replace Fred Inkely as Inspector Javert, Jane Bodell will take over the role...
CNN BEEFS UP HQ SECURITY - ATLANTA ON ALERT AFTER SHOOTINGS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amIN the wake of a series of deadly shooting rampages this summer, CNN has increased security at its Atlanta headquarters, according to published reports. "Some employees will have to undergo...
RORY KENNEDY TO FACE PRESS? - INTEREST MIGHT FOCUS ON JFK JR. GRIEF
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amBUDDING documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy hasn't decided yet if she'll help publicize her latest work, "American Hollow," before its premiere on HBO in November. The problem is: If she agrees...
MUSEUM SECURITY CALLED A FINE ART
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amYOU'D be hard pressed to catch a thief as devastatingly handsome as Pierce Brosnan's billionaire financier in "The Thomas Crown Affair," but the discrepancies between life and art don't end...
LATE DANCEMEISTER STILL WOWS 'EM ON B'WAY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE summer is long, dry and hot - and the Broadway box office has broken out into a sweat, with receipts down significantly from last summer. But two radiant exceptions...
SHAKE AND BAKE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's done it. Now reporter Hallie Levine heads to Queens to find out if the Pizza Dance delivers PIZZA Dance? It sounds pretty, well, cheesy. But according to its...
WHAT A WASTE OF A GREAT LOCATION
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am'WHERE will we eat?" The question has brought work to a standstill at Conde Nast, where editors moving into their new 42nd Street tower fret over finding a square meal...
GOLD RUSH BAR & GRILL JUST DOESN'T PAN OUT
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amIN restaurant-rich Gotham, there isn't much that can make a seasoned New Yorker do a double take. But on 10th Avenue, Gold Rush Bar & Grill's covered wagon roof and...
WATERGATE & THE IMPERIAL PRESS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am'Where in the First Amendmentdoes it say that journalists forfeittheir obligation to be good citizens?' EX-PRESIDENT George Bush is quite clear on what he considers a lasting legacy of Watergate....
WOMAN SEEKS PEACE WEARING SLAIN SIS'S GARB
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe heartbroken sister of subway push victim Kendra Webdale is still so devastated by her death that she sometimes wears her sibling's clothes and visits the train platform where the...
I SURRENDER! IT'S TIME FOR GUN CONTROL
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amI DON'T lose easily, but in the end I do lose gracefully. I am about to go against longtime political allies and long-time personal friends. I am, will always be,...
NEW PHILIP FLAP OVER FLIP REMARK
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amQueen Elizabeth's husband has put his foot in his mouth again - with a cheap swipe yesterday at Asian Indians. Prince Philip - who in the past has insulted the...
CRISIS FOR NEW RUSSIA PM AS REBEL PROVINCE SECEDES
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amIslamic rebels declared the Russian province of Dagestan an independent state yesterday, handing Boris Yeltsin's latest prime minister a dangerous new crisis on his first day in office. In an...
COMMUNITY AIDS FAMILY OF SUBWAY PUSHING VICTIM
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amLegless subway-push victim Edgar Rivera has at least one thing to smile about - the firefighters who saved him are paying to put his son through an exclusive Bronx Catholic...
S. KOREA CRONKITE'S TRUMP CARD?
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amWalter Cronkite is trying to enlist the president of South Korea in his battle against Donald Trump's East Side megatower. The veteran newsman is urging President Kim Dae Jung to...
WHEN REV. AL TALKS, FIRST LADY WILL LISTEN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Clinton is likely to meet with the Rev. Al Sharpton as part of her statewide "listening tour," her spokesman said yesterday. "She's going to continue meeting and...
BROOKE MIGHT 'HIRE A SIRE' FOR BABY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amNewly divorced Brooke Shields says she feels the tick-tock of time and may wind up finding a surrogate to get her pregnant so she can have the child she's always...
SHATNER WEEPS FOR WIFE - 'STAR TREK'S' CAPT. FINDS BODY IN POOL
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amA devastated William Shatner burst into tears yesterday as he described his stunning blond wife - found dead in their swimming pool - as "the girl who meant everything to...
YANK GREAT 'CATFISH' HUNTER UNCONSCIOUS AFTER BAD FALL
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amYankee legend Jim "Catfish" Hunter was unconscious and in critical condition last night after falling and hitting his head. And his heartsick wife, Helen, made a tearful pitch to Bomber...
POL'S PHONE TAB PROMPTS REVIEW CALL FROM VALLONE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amSpeaker Peter Vallone has ordered a review of all City Council cellular-phone accounts because a Queens councilman squandered thousands of dollars on a high-priced calling plan. The Post reported yesterday...
LIRR LINK INTO GRAND CENTRAL ON FAST TRACK; EXCLUSIVE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe MTA is assembling a special team to oversee a $3.3 billion Long Island Rail Road connection to Grand Central Terminal. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is spending more than $500,000...
WORST NIGHTMARE FOR PANICKED PARENTS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe little ones straggled unhappily hand-in-hand from the sprawling community center in Los Angeles yesterday, their innocent games suddenly shattered by incomprehensible violence. Nearly two dozen children, many of them...
POLS VOW CREDIT-CARD CRACKDOWN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Platinum Card kid is spurring Congress to take action. Reacting to yesterday's report that a 3-year-old upstate girl got her own credit card - even though her...
ISRAELI PM KEEPS TABS ON TRAGEDY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak interrupted budget negotiations yesterday to get updates on the shootings in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, which he called "regrettable and worrying."...
BOOST EFFORT TO FIGHT COP CORRUPTION: NYPD STUDY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD has to do a better job of explaining why some lying cops aren't fired and to set up a system for outside agencies to inform police brass when...
NO CLEAN GETAWAY FOR NUDE-CAR-WASH COPS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amA photo of two topless female Woodstock concertgoers scrubbing a state police car has sparked a police investigation. The plate number on the car in the photo - printed last...
SLAIN 'WALL STREET' ROBBER HAD LONG RAP SHEET
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe would-be bank robber who led police on a wild three-block shootout through the Financial District was a parolee who'd been arrested 16 times, officials said yesterday. Joseph McGill, 58,...
SCHUMER VOWS GUN REGISTRY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday predicted all handguns will be registered and licensed in five years as a result of shocking incidents like yesterday's Los Angeles Jewish center shooting...
WEB JAMMED FOR CARNIE'S SURGERY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amDoctors yesterday used a scalpel in successful surgery meant to keep Carnie Wilson from using a knife and fork. Wilson, a 31-year-old singer and former TV gab hostess, had her...
PAT ROBERTSON BACKS OFF OK OF ASSASSINATION
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amChristian Coalition head Pat Robertson yesterday backed away from his controversial suggestion that the United States should consider assassinating certain world leaders like Saddam Hussein. The televangelist on Monday said...
GOP GOES ON THE ATTAX - CITES POLL SHOWING PUBLIC LIKES PLAN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans claimed a new poll showing 67 percent of Americans like their tax-cut plan as proof they're gaining the upper hand in their budget battle against President...
MANIAC SH00TS KIDS AT L.A. JEWISH CENTER - COPS CLOSE IN ON GUNMAN WHO WOUNDED FIVE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amA frantic manhunt continued last night for the mad gunman who stormed a Los Angeles Jewish community center, opening fire with a rain of bullets that wounded three little boys...
RUDY HITS JUDGES ON WELFARE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am"What they're holding on to is an anachronistic old philosophy of dependency." MAYOR GIULIANI Mayor Giuliani charged yesterday that some judges are delaying the city's conversion of welfare offices to...
LEROY AND EX 'BACK TOGETHER' FOR SECONDS; EXCLUSIVE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amLove might once again be on the menu for restaurant big Warner LeRoy and his ex-wife, Kay. Despite a bitter, public five-year pot-boiler of a divorce that ended last year,...
WORST NIGHTMARE FOR PANICKED PARENTS - DESPERATE HOURS WAITING FOR WORD
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am"Everyone here was crying. It was sheer fear. There's nothing like it. There's no terror like it." KATEY PIANKO The little ones straggled hand-in-hand from the sprawling community center in...
SHOT BECAUSE THEY WERE JEWS? - CALIF. GOV SAYS RAMPAGE LOOKS LIKE HATE CRIME
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe mad gunman who stormed a Jewish community center, wounding three children and two women, may have struck out in an anti-Semitic rage, California Gov. Gray Davis said last night....
KID, 14, HELD IN CELL-PHONE SLAY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amCops yesterday said they nabbed a 14-year-old gunman they believe killed another Bronx teen over his cell phone. Police said an anonymous tip led them to Ardie Bellamy, of Jackson...
EXPERTS' TIPS TO PUT YOUR KIDS AT EASE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amKids have good reason to be frightened - but parents should assure them they're not likely to be hurt by the type of gun-wielding maniac who shot up a Los...
SCHUMER EXPECTS GUN REGISTRY
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer predicts that all handguns will be registered and licensed in five years, thanks to shocking violence like yesterday's Los Angeles Jewish-center shooting spree. "I believe...
BETTOR BE READY FOR RAIN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Many handicappers who make their picks a day in advance got caught with their pants down last Sunday, when rain forced all four turf races to the...
SUMMER DROUGHT TOO MUCH TO BEAR
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amTHE drought that is choking the northeastern United States is having different effects on different creatures of the wild. The most noticeable are the black bears. Some of their favorite...
YES IT'S TRUE EYES A PHENOMENON
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas was livid the late afternoon of April 24 at Churchill Downs. Struggling over a bone-dry track that cupped out beneath his hooves like...
ANOTHER JINT RB HURT
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - He ripped the helmet off his head and fired it angrily to the ground. Then an anguished Joe Montgomery looked into the cloudy sky, cast his eyes downward,...
LESHON'S THUMB FIXED
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Running back LeShon Johnson should be able to practice on Monday after undergoing surgery yesterday to repair ligament damage in his right thumb, the Giants said....
TOP GUNS NOT AFRAID OF MEDINAH'S LENGTH
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amMEDINAH - After hacking through the weeds and 30-mph winds at Carnoustie, site of last month's British Open, most of the golfers at the 81st PGA Championship are glad to...
WATSON HAS HIS EYE ON SENIOR TOUR
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amPGA NOTES MEDINAH - Tom Watson has never won the PGA Championship and doesn't really expect to win this weekend at Medinah. Most of his thoughts these days are on...
PGA VOWS TO RYDER OUT STORM
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amMEDINAH - The PGA of America, hoping to quell a brewing controversy that threatened to overshadow this week's PGA Championship, has agreed to work with the game's top golfers in...
GRIMSLEY APPEALING 3-GAME SUSPENSION
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Thanks to Hideki Irabu only going four innings and Allen Watson just one-third of an inning during Monday night's 12-8 Yankees win, Joe Torre had to use Ramiro...
NO TIME TO PANIC - MINI-SKID NOT GETTING METS DOWN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am"You're never as good as your hottest streak and you're never as bad as when you're slumping. The extremes are never the time to evaluate yourself." OREL HERSHISER As far...
LUCAS GETTING HIS BIG CHANCE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amThe journey has been long and winding, with uncertainty and stress along the way. Beginning with Saturday's preseason opener between the Jets and Packers in Green Bay, though, that road...
BOBBY V NO STRANGER TO BOOS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Met fans can be among the most critical in all of baseball, as evidenced by their willingness to boo at the drop of a fly ball. In Monday's...
TE BURKE REJOINS JETS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets added a tight end to their roster yesterday - the well-traveled (literally) John Burke, who was a Jet in 1997 before moving on to San Diego....
HOLES ON HILL MET CONCERN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amAT THIS moment, the Met rotation is Al Leiter plus something old (Orel Hershiser), something new (Octavio Dotel), something borrowed (Kenny Rogers) and something blue (Masato Yoshii). It might make...
LAYDEN LANDS IN GARDEN
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amA teary-eyed Jazz owner Larry Miller yesterday compared Garden president Dave Checketts' heist of team executive Scott Layden to "a raping, pillaging and plundering." Layden, the VP of basketball operations...
KNICKS' GM NO HAYSEED
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amJAZZ owner Larry Miller cried yesterday when he announced Scott Layden was leaving to run the Knicks. Utah assistant coach Gordon Chiesa understood just how his owner felt. One half...
ROCKET FAILS AGAIN A'S TAG ROG, END YANKS' STREAK
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Is there a Yankee fan alive who still expects Roger Clemens to get on the kind of extended roll that carried him to the previous two AL Cy...
NELSON BACK TODAY; NAULTY SENT TO MINORS
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND -When the Yankees didn't make a deal to bolster their bullpen before the trading deadline, one of the reasons they held off was that Jeff Nelson was coming off...
TORRE HAS FAITH IN EL DUQUE
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Ignoring the shelling Hideki Irabu took from the A's Monday night during a 12-8 Yankee victory simply because Irabu has been too good for too long,...
METS COVERING UP HOLES ON THE HILL
August 11, 1999 | 4:00am"When we built this team, we knew we could not match the Braves' rotation ... Therefore, we had to strengthen the other areas." STEVE PHILLIPS IGNORE the boxscore. The line...
ROLSTON AWARDED 2-YR. PACT
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amArbitration worked, as far as Brian Rolston is concerned. The Devils' dependable winger last night was awarded a two-year contract with salaries of $1.3 million and $1.47 million, a substantial...
JOHNNY CLUTCH - REVIVED OLERUD (3 RBIS) PUTS METS BACK IN GEAR
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amOne day during spring training Mike Piazza was watching John Olerud stroke the ball all over the field in batting practice and he turned to a bystander and said with...
HAPPY HOMECOMING FOR BAERGA
August 11, 1999 | 4:00amCarlos Baerga walked into the Mets' clubhouse last night just like he had for two seasons here. The former Mets second baseman joked around with John Franco and grabbed his...