August 18, 1999
E*TRADE SCHEDULES START OF AFTER-HRS. TRADING
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amE*Trade jumped into the race to offer after-hours trading yesterday, announcing customers will be able to trade stocks until 6:30 p.m. as soon as next month. The trades will be...
JIL SANDER SHARES UP AS PRADA EYES STAKE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amFlamboyant designer Miuccia Prada may be adding some classic, understated clothes to her fashion empire. The Italian designer and her husband Patrizio Bertelli, who co-own Prada, have reportedly paid $109...
FAT CATS GET BOOK ON JETS; FANS MAKE THEIR OWN PASS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe sports business world had the New York Jets on its mind yesterday. First, prospective buyers began receiving confidentiality agreements to sign so that later this month they can receive...
INDIAN WRITER'S EXPLOSIVE BOOK COMING
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amCONTROVERSIAL Indian writer Arundhati Roy, author of a 1998 Booker Prize-winning first novel, "The God of Small Things," has jumped into non-fiction, selling American rights to "The Cost of Living"...
MARIO'S GRUB: STEAK - PIZZA KING THROWS HIS DOUGH AT ROTHMANNS; EXCLUSIVE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amPizza king Mario Sbarro's appetitte for new restaurants is insatiable. Sbarro - best known for his chain of pizza and pasta joints - just signed a lease to open a...
MORGAN STANLEY SLAPPED WITH ANOTHER RACE SUIT
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe suit claims Morgan Stanley supervisors called the executive "lazy" and a "slacker," and he was assigned menial tasks. A second black analyst is suing Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for...
PLANET HOLLYWOOD ORBITS BANKRUPTCY
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amPlanet Hollywood plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as soon as bondholders approve the company's restructuring plan. The restaurant chain, associated with actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg...
TITANS TEAM UP TO TARGET TICKETMASTER
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe big boys are battling it out for online ticket sales. Upstart Tickets.com - which is preparing to go public - nailed down a $55 million investment from Internet titans...
TV TICKER
August 18, 1999 | 4:00am'Who' numbers The debut of ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" nabbed nearly 10 million viewers Monday night (8:30 p.m.). Monday's "Millionaire" was the best performance for the debut...
CROSBY FLYING HIGH
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amDAVID Crosby may have toked plenty in his near 40-year reign as a superstar, but when it comes to making music he's no dope - he has never messed with...
'ET' CATCHES UP ON THE 'ACTION' - NEW FOX SERIES GETS A HART TRANSPLANT
August 18, 1999 | 4:00am'ACTION," Fox's controversial fall sitcom that pokes fun at Hollywood insiders, could feature the ultimate "insider" show, "Entertainment Tonight," in some of its storylines this season. A tie-in deal is...
'ROPES' GOES THE DISTANCE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00am'ON the Ropes" is a kind of "Hoop Dreams" of the boxing ring, a documentary sketch of three working-class amateur Brooklyn boxers struggling against obstaclesmost people can scarcely imagine. What...
TEENS WITH THE PLAYWRIGHT STUFF - IT DOESN'T INCLUDEGUNS, DRUGS, VIOLENCE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN James Bosley introduces audiences to the Summer Play Party, an off-Broadway presentation of eight new plays by New York City high school students that began last night, he welcomes...
CH.11 WAKES UP TO SNOOZE NEWS - STATION MAKES PLANS TO JOIN DAWN PATROL
August 18, 1999 | 4:00am'We have been evaluating the pros and cons of expanding news for years' - Paul Bissonette, Ch.11 vice president and general manager CH.11 looks like it's poised to enter the...
BLIND 'POPULAR' STAR ISN'T ACTING
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amDIANA Bellamy isn't just playing a blind character on the WB's new series, "Popular" - she is blind, and has been for over a year now. The veteran actress, who's...
ARGENTINE APOCALYPSE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amIN wrestling's pre-WWF days, a bad-guy Argentine terror called Firpo, "the wild bull of the pampas," liked to snarl "Keeel, keeel," and flash feral teeth before stomping hapless opponents into...
ROCKY SOLID - BENIHANA FOUNDER BATTLES LAWSUIT AND ILLNESS, BUT LITTLE SLOWS HIM AS CHAIN CELEBRATES 35 YEARS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY don't call him Rocky for nothing. In the last 20 years, Rocky Aoki has had three accidents, broken 21 bones, and spent a total of a year in hospitals....
FOR THE KID IN YOU
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER just one spoonful of raspberry sorbet at Le Totof, instantly I was a 7-year-old raiding my Aunt Helen's backyard berry patch for its ambrosial booty. The icy dessert was...
ON THE FRINGE - DOWNTOWN'S WACKY FESTIVAL KICKS OFF TODAY
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amNEED some Celtic wailing, ukulele love tunes, "Scooby Doo" tributes or foam body sculpture in your life? Can't live without hearing a sex lecture from "the world's most experienced lesbian"...
TURKS HERE ARE FEARING WORST
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amTurkish-Americans in New York City spent the day frantically trying to reach relatives in their devastated homeland as the number of dead continued to climb yesterday. As Turkish authorities searched...
FERGIE: LET ME BE BELLE OF Y2K BALL - BIDS FOR HONORS IN TIMES SQ.
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Duchess of York - spokeswoman for Weight Watchers and Waterford Crystal - is reportedly angling for yet another job title: Millennium Eve ball-dropper. Sarah Ferguson, the flame-haired ex-wife of...
HATEFUL LIES IN ISRAEL'S SCHOOLS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00am'The "new historians" contend - just as Israel's enemies have for the past 50 years - that the foundation of the Jewish State was rooted in immorality, injustice, deception and...
GOOD NEWS FOR BOY SHOT IN L.A.
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe little boy most badly wounded in the attack at a Los Angeles Jewish community center is expected to make a full recovery - despite losing more than half of...
PREZ'S LESSON FOR PARENTS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amParents turning on the TV tonight will get a lecture from President Clinton - urging them to talk to their kids about back-to-school gun fears. Kids "shouldn't be worried about...
PATAKI WILL HOST $2M FUND-RAISER FOR BUSH; EXCLUSIVE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe list of sponsors reads like a GOP who's-who. But Giuliani's name is conspicuously absent. ALBANY - Gov. Pataki is putting other peoples' money where his mouth is - with...
EARTHQUAKE TOLL COULD TOP 10,000 - DESPERATE RESCUE EFFORT FOR THOSE STILL TRAPPED IN RUBBLE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe death toll from the worst recorded earthquake to hit western Turkey soared past 2,000 last night as officials said up to 10,000 other victims could be trapped in tons...
DENY IT, G.W., LEST YOU PAY THROUGH THE NOSE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00am"I don't know if he did [coke], but it sounds like he did, or he would say no." LISA SCHIFFREN, POLITICAL CLUB FOR GROWTH I HAVE to part ways with...
EX-PM JOINS FORCES WITH YELTSIN RIVALS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amRussian President Boris Yeltsin's revolving-door style of governing came back to haunt him yesterday when a recently fired prime minister joined a powerful coalition that will challenge him in coming...
CITY WATCHDOG CHASES MAILMAN AWAY
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThey don't have mail! Maybe snow, rain, heat and gloom of night can't stop the U.S. Postal Service from delivering the mail - but a cranky security guard can. That's...
SERIAL SLAYS FASCINATED 'POISON DOC': LANDLADY
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amA jailed ex-doctor suspected of poisoning up to 35 patients had a morbid fascination with serial killings - and with mass murderer Ted Bundy - an ex-landlady says. In an...
$1B AID GRAB MAY GIVE GIVERS SHIVERS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amHumanitarian organizations fear the loss of millions of dollars in donations for future international crises because of shocking allegations that $1 billion in aid was stolen by corrupt officials in...
VOLPE DAD TELLS FEDS: GIVE SON A LIE TEST
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amJustin Volpe's father yesterday challenged the feds to give his son a lie-detector test to see if he's telling the truth that Charles Schwarz was not with him when Abner...
'POOR' FORBES HOLDING SALE TO STAY IN RACE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Millionaire presidential wannabe Steve Forbes is ditching his dad's island and a Moroccan palace - and may have to sell some of the family business to keep up...
MORE HOWLS OF STORE-CAT ATTACKS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amTwo more women came forward yesterday to claim they'd been viciously attacked by crazed kitties in Duane Reade drugstores in Manhattan. The new accusations came after a Miami tourist told...
WRIST-SLAP IN SEX ABUSE BY STUYVESANT TEACHER
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amAn assistant principal got a slap-on-the-wrist sentence of three years probation yesterday after admitting in court to molesting a 15-year-old girl at prestigious Stuyvesant HS. Chancellor Rudy Crew called Richard...
'BABY PREDATOR' VICTIM ; TELLS HIS STORY
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amA brave 8-year-old Queens boy told a Family Court judge in gripping detail yesterday how a 12-year-old slashed him across the throat. Pint-sized but big-hearted Adis Lucevic said he was...
PROBATION REPORT: JUSTIN MUST GET LIFE; EXCLUSIVE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSex-torture cop Justin Volpe must be sentenced to life without parole, a secret probation report says - and that means convicted officer Charles Schwarz also faces mandatory life, The Post...
STARR'S EAGER TO PULL OUT OF CLINTON PROBE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sexgate prober Kenneth Starr wants to quit his job, not even waiting to seal the fate of the Clintons, it was reported last night. Starr reportedly wants to...
UNDER-FIRE ED. BOARD BIG QUITTING; EXCLUSIVE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amA powerful Board of Education bureaucrat is about to retire in a move insiders say is part Chancellor Rudy Crew's ongoing shake-up of top officials, The Post has learned. Margaret...
REAL SAND DOLLARS ON L.I. BEACH
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amBeachgoers in Montauk were swimming in money yesterday - literally. Late in the afternoon, sun-worshippers at Montauk's Ditch Plain Beach were startled when greenbacks began mysteriously appearing in the surf....
LUCKY L.I. BEACHGOERS SCOOP UP SOME REAL SAND DOLLARS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amBeachgoers in Montauk were swimming in money yesterday - literally. Late in the afternoon, sun-worshippers at Montauk's Ditch Plain Beach were startled when greenbacks began mysteriously appearing in the surf....
AT THE HALF, WHO'S HOT, NOT
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Three weeks down, three to go. So far the racing here has been formful, competitive and clean. Favorites have been winning at a 41 percent clip, but...
AFTERNOON AFFAIR SOMETHING SPECIAL
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Todd Pletcher's undefeated More Than Ready, the best 2-year-old colt to come down the pike since Devil's Bag 15 years ago, is sitting this one out,...
FERRARA'S A SLICE OF N.Y. - FRANKIE FROM S.I. BIG HIT WITH JINTS
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY -- He's from where he sounds like he's from, and not only because he sprinkles a bunch of "witouttadoubts" at the beginning and end of so many sentences. There's...
JASON NOT JUST AROUND CORNER
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Cornerback Jason Sehorn continues to watch practice instead of participating and although he is supposedly making progress with his pulled right hamstring, Jim Fassel said yesterday...
FASSEL BACK IN CAMP BUT NOT ALL THERE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - He was gone for four days, missed one game and three practices and yesterday was finally back on the field with the Giants. "It seems like I've been...
ANDERSSON AN ISLE AGAIN
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Islanders were busy yesterday as they made three transactions. First, they traded center Craig Charron to the Maple Leafs for left winger Niclas Andersson, who played for the Islanders...
ON JUMBO, NFL NOT RUSHING TO JUDGMENT
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amNFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue visited Jets camp yesterday and shedded little light on some very important issues concerning the team's short- and long-term future. As for the present, Tagliabue said...
TUNA WANTS LEON TO PLAY ON AND ON
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Look for third-year running back Leon Johnson to get the ball often Friday when the Jets host the Eagles in their second pre-season game. And if Johnson continues...
MARTIN: I'VE NEVER FELT BETTER
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe thigh injury forced Curtis Martin to miss only one game - the fifth of the season - but it pained him the rest of the way. The strained hamstring...
AT THE CROSSROADS - ROCKET CAN'T AFFORD TO HIT SKIDS AGAIN
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amRocket launch or monster tease? That's what the Yankees will begin to find out Saturday night in Minneapolis when Roger Clemens faces the same Twins' lineup he suffocated Monday night...
PICTURE THIS: JETER, POSADA FACE FINES
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amWhile Derek Jeter joined Laura and Jorge Posada for lunch yesterday to celebrate the switch-hitting catcher's 28th birthday at his Manhattan apartment, Jeter had no idea it was going to...
DOTEL SHOWS TRUE GRIT - STANDS TALL AFTER HEARTBREAKING HR
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - As with any young, unproven pitcher, there are always doubts. Even with all the optimism surrounding Jason Isringhausen and Bill Pulsipher, there were obviously doubts. So too,...
COOK SHRUGS OFF PERSONAL MILESTONE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Dennis Cook held the Padres to one hit in the ninth inning Monday night, and when the Mets came back to win on Edgardo Alfonzo's...
DARRYL'S PLAYING THE WAITING GAME
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSYRACUSE - The scene is so hauntingly familiar. A humbled Darryl Strawberry wearing a Columbus Clippers uniform. George Steinbrenner lieutenant Arthur Richman, looking tired, head cocked to the side, shuffling...
DEALING FROM STRENGTH - DEPTH MAKES TORRE'S PLAYOFF CHOICES EASY
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amMORE pieces from the sky have been presumed falling at Yankee Stadium this year than fly balls ever dropped in front of Reggie Jackson. There has been enough angst expended...
TOMS RIVER MOVES 1 WIN FROM SERIES
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amBRISTOL, Conn. - He is 5-foot-2, 102 pounds and won't be accused of sharing muscle-enhancing drugs with Mark McGwire. Chris Fontenelli's diameter might be about the same as his aluminum...
VIRUS PUTS BERNIE ON BENCH
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES A stomach virus forced Bernie Williams out of last night's lineup and may keep the Yankees' cleanup hitter on the bench tonight. "He is not feeling good, he...
DUQUE EASES JOE'S PAIN - CONTINUES HIS BID FOR POSTSEASON SPOT
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amMORE pieces from the sky have been presumed to be falling on Yankee Stadium in 1999 than fly balls once dropped in front of Reggie Jackson. There has been enough...
STRAW: I NEED JUST WEEK OR TWO MORE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSYRACUSE - A record crowd of 12,344 turned out last night at P&C Stadium to see Darryl Strawberry continue his path toward another major league stretch. Used as the designated...
YANKS JIMMY THE LOCK - LEYRITZ TRIPLE STARTS FOUR-RUN SEVENTH AS YANKS PUT AWAY KC
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amOne struggles with the English language and the other is always better off letting his bat do the talking. But together, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez and Jim Leyritz had very...
METS LET 'ONE' GET AWAY - STILL TIED WITH BRAVES AFTER WILD, SHODDY LOSS TO PADRES PADRES
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - A great opportunity to step assertively into first place was thwarted in a wild game in the wild, wild West. The Mets failed to take advantage of...
COOK SHRUGS OFF 10-WIN MILESTONE
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Dennis Cook held the Padres to one hit in the ninth inning Monday night, and when the Mets came back to win on Edgardo Alfonzo's...
RICKEY DEFENDS HIS JOG IN NINTH
August 18, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Rickey Henderson said he had no shot to get to third base on his ninth-inning double in last night's 3-2 loss to the Padres, even...