August 19, 1999
M'SFT BYTES BACK - FIVE N.Y.C. STORES SUED FOR PIRACY
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amIt's reboot time for some of New York City's computer stores. As part of its ongoing war on software piracy, Microsoft, with a value of $500 billion, is clamping down...
HEE-HAW HEAVE-HO - CBS KO'S COUNTRY FOR WRESTLING SHOWS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amCBS Chairman Mel Karmazin is trading in his cowboy boots for wrestling tights. The Tiffany Network's down-home country music cable channel canceled three national TV programs that promoted country artists...
WRITER WON'T TALK, BUT SALES DO
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amAs the editors of Talk magazine put the finishing touches on their second issue this week, they received some good news and some bad. First the bad news: George Hodgman,...
SEC PROBES - IVANA SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe company behind Ivana Trump's new TV channel is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 5th Avenue Channel Corp. revealed in a quarterly filing that the SEC...
VICTORIA'S SECRET DROPS (BRIEF) SUIT VS. GEOCITIES
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amVictoria's Secret Stores has dropped a lawsuit against GeoCities charging the web page provider with letting a client post a fraudulent website allegedly looking for Victoria's Secret models. GeoCities, bought...
DETAILS EDITOR QUITS FOR JOB AT HARPER'S BAZAAR; EXCLUSIVE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amBarbara O'Dair resigned as editor at large at Details yesterday to become the new executive editor at Harper's Bazaar under Kate Betts. It marked at least the fourth time that...
MUST-HAVE BUYS FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWE all know that preparing to go back to school means much more than just stocking up on pencils and buying a new Trapper Keeper. It means overhauling your wardrobe...
GREAT SCOT! IT'S TIME FOR INTERNATIONAL ARTS FEST
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amEDINBURGH, Scotland - For 49 weeks of the year, Edinburgh is Scotland's grave and graceful capital city. But for three weeks during the summer, it descends into an inferno of...
STARTING BACK TO SCHOOL WITH THE RIGHT BACKPACK
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN I attended high school way back in the early nineties, the last thing people checked out was what you used to transport your books from classroom to classroom. While...
THEATRICAL WASTELAND - HOW TO END THE SUMMER DROUGHT
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWILLIAMSTOWN does it with stars. The Shaw Festival in Ontario does it with class. London does it without even trying. They lay out summer banquets of theater, with emphasis on...
'DANCE' STUMBLES OVER ADULTS, NOT KIDS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amNARRATED with absurd reverence by Ruby Dee, "A Time to Dance" is a biographical tribute to "dance therapist" Norma Canner, who in the 1950s and '60s pioneered the use of...
'FRANK:' NO EASTERN PROMISE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Frank Leaves for the Orient" Tomorrow at 10:30 on Comedy Central CAN a man chafing in a painfully ordinary life find happiness teaching English in a country whose native tongue...
HAWKE MAY VISIT 'ZOO' - REVIVAL OF ALBEE ONE-ACT IN WORKS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amETHAN Hawke has entered talks to star in a revival of Edward Albee's classic one-act "The Zoo Story," possibly on Broadway, theater sources confirmed yesterday. Joe Mantello, who staged this...
THE MONEY SHOT - 'MILLIONAIRE' HITS THE JACKPOT, BUT A LONGER SERIES WOULD BE BIT RICH
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER an avalanche of hype, ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is a bona fide prime-time hit. That's good news for the charming Regis Philbin who, as "Millionaire's" dapper...
END RUN ON THE HEISMAN - TURNER AIMS TO PUT GLAMOUR IN FOOTBALL'S BIG TROPHY NIGHT
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amTED Turner's television empire could be ready to turn the long-overlooked Heisman trophy dinner into an Oscars-type night of college football television. CNN, CNNSI, Turner Broadcasting, Headline News and some...
'SPONGEBOB' WIPES AWAY 'POKEMON'
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amNICKELODEON'S "SpongeBob SquarePants" has replaced WB's "Pokemon" as must-see TV among the Saturday-morning kiddie set. According to the most recent Nielsen ratings data, "SpongeBob" is averaging 1.9 million viewers among...
A 'LOT' GOING FOR THIS NEW SERIES
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Lot" has so much going for it, it's hard to decide where to begin. Maybe the unexpected high quality of this ever-so-brief new series starts with the acting. And...
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY - FILMMAKER NICHOLAS LOEB IS FROM OF ONE OF N.Y.'S WEALTHIEST FAMILIES, BUT MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am'I was lucky to have the connections I have," admits filmmaker Nicholas Loeb, sitting in his father's five-story townhouse on East 61st Street. At first glance, it's easy to be...
DESPERATE CALL TO 911
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWilliam Shatner's agony as he found his stunning blond wife dead in the family pool was revealed yesterday on a heartbreaking 911 tape. On the audiotape, the panicked "Star Trek"...
FEWER TEENS, MORE YOUNG ADULTS ON DRUGS: FEDS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Teen drug use fell last year, but young adults picked up the slack. A government survey released yesterday said about one in 10 teenagers smoked pot or used...
BURNING BUSH RIPS 'ABSURD' RUMORS OF COCAINE USE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - GOP presidential front-runner George W. Bush yesterday called rumors of him using cocaine in his youth "absurd" - but refused to say if they're true and got snippy...
LOCAL TOURISTS RELIVE TERROR
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMetropolitan-area tourists who went to Turkey to see a solar eclipse found themselves witnessing another act of nature when the killer earthquake struck. Alex and Michal Bilu of Manhattan were...
TRAGIC SHATNER'S SHOCKER - TOLD WIFE HE WAS LEAVING HER DAYS BEFORE SHE DIED
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWilliam Shatner told his booze-addicted wife, Nerine, he was dumping her - just days before she tragically drowned in their swimming pool. In a copyrighted interview in next week's National...
BEETLES BRANCH OUT INTO MANHATTAN
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amManhattan, it's time to meet the beetles. A vicious pack of Asian longhorned beetles - which invaded from China three years ago and killed thousands of trees in Brooklyn and...
RUSSIA ABUZZ OVER PM 'ALLIANCE'
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amThere were rumblings yesterday of a new political alliance in Moscow as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with three of his predecessors - all fired by Boris Yeltsin in the...
'BLOCK THE BOX' BLITZ PUTS DRIVERS ON BEST BEHAVIOR
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amTicked-off and ticket-wary motorists carefully avoided clogging intersections yesterday - Day Two of Mayor Giuliani's crackdown against "blocking the box." Cops blitzed box-blockers with 2,542 summonses on Tuesday for getting...
B'KLYN LEGENDS EULOGIZE PEE WEE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Pee Wee Reese, "the greatest Dodger of them all," was laid to rest yesterday to glowing tributes from his fellow Boys of Summer. Reese, a Hall of...
FERGIE? FERG-EDDABOUTIT - RUDY'S YOUR CHOICE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani should hope he'd defeat the first lady at the polls as easily as he disposed of the Duchess of York in a Post readers' survey. By a 4-1...
DUCHESS DROPS THE BALL IN Y2K BID - 'NOT PURSUING' TIMES SQ. ROLE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Duchess of York isn't trying to worm her way into the Big Apple as the Times Square millennium ball-dropper, her spokesman insisted yesterday. Flame-haired Sarah Ferguson, the scandal-scarred royal...
FROM WALKING A BEAT TO RUNNING FOR SENATE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMove over, Hillary and Rudy - a former cop on the beat is also after New York's hottest seat. Retired NYPD lieutenant Peter Ruane, a Democrat, announced yesterday his candidacy...
TONY ISLAND VACATIONERS NOT FAZED BY FIRST FAMILY
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amEDGARTOWN, Mass. - Residents of this trendy island getaway are underwhelmed by today's arrival of the first family - the Clintons' fifth vacation here. Locals of Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard...
CHILDREN'S PRAYERS FILL BROOKLYN MOSQUE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMembers of a Turkish mosque in Brooklyn yesterday offered the prayers of their children to victims of their earthquake-devastated homeland. "Children are without sin," said Mehmet Yilmaz, 24, a religious...
BOARD MAY BE CAUGHT IN CROOKED NUMBERS GAME
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI'S investigation of the Board of Education seems to be hitting real pay dirt - and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew is paying close attention to the details. The governor's...
JUDGES: STARR STILL OPEN FOR BIZ
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A three-judge federal panel split in its decision to let Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr keep alive his investigation of President Clinton and wife Hillary, according to court papers...
REPORTERS' DOUBLE STANDARD IN BUSH COKE BUZZ
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amHas Clinton been pounded with questions about whether he'll finally admit he lied? Nope. THE double standard sure is wonderful. At the Iowa straw poll, reporters were all atwitter, hotly...
JOSEPH HAS NO MOMMY DUE TO A COURT STACKED AGAINST COPS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amON OCT. 1, Joseph Patrick Feerick, who will be 2 months old, will be robbed of something that should not be stolen from any boy or girl. He will no...
RUDYS SAY THEY'VE STEMMED TIDE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe number of city school kids in special-education programs is rising at a slower pace than the past two years, according to figures hailed yesterday by Chancellor Rudy Crew and...
TOMS RIVER FANS SHORE UP LITTLE CHAMPS' HOPES
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amToms River's boys of summer want to bring home a second straight Little League World Series crown - and the whole town is rooting for them. The Toms River East...
CHARTER PANEL KILLS RUDY 'VOUCHER' FUND
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's Charter Revision Commission has decided to yank some its most controversial proposals - including a special fund that would have allowed the mayor to provide school vouchers. But...
RUSSIA MOB MIGHT HAVE LAUNDERED 'DIRTY' $10B AT N.Y. BANK
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amTwo Bank of New York employees have been suspended while investigators try to determine if they played a role in the plot, a source said. Russian mobsters may have funneled...
GUNSHOT NARROWLY MISSES WEBBER
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber narrowly avoided gunfire that came from a drive-by shooter yesterday, police said. No one was injured in the 2:30 a.m. attack near...
GIANT OFFENSE FINALLY HAS WAY AND MEANS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - They had it coming. They deserved to get humbled, whipped. They deserved to be not only dominated, but also humiliated, pushed around like a bunch of wimps. He...
BEVO ROLLS AT SPA FOR SPECIAL WIN
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Bevo wasn't More Than Ready, but he was ready enough here yesterday, charging from just off the pace under the hot-riding Edgar Prado to win the Grade...
CEDRIC IS CONFIDENT KNEE IS OK
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - There is a feeling of confidence among the Giants that Cedric Jones is finally ready to tap his potential and emerge as a solid player now that he's...
TUNA: LUCAS WAS DEALT LOSING HAND
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Bill Parcells yesterday continued his defense of Ray Lucas, whose performance in Saturday's pre-season opener has been widely criticized. When Lucas' 13-of-32 night for 143 yards was brought...
A GIANT SCARE AS KERRY INJURES RIGHT FOOT
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY -- Ten minutes before the end of yesterday's afternoon practice, Kerry Collins suffered a mild mid-foot sprain during the two-minute drill. Defensive tackle Christian Peter came hard...
MET MATE 'DOGS' RICKEY - CALLS LACK OF HUSTLE 'INEXCUSABLE'
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am"If he's on third it might change the way Hoffman pitches. That was inexcusable." MET TEAMMATE ON RICKEY HENDERSON SAN DIEGO - Perhaps no other player in the game of...
PLAYOFF QUESTIONS BEGGING TO BE ASKED
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees' magic number to clinch a playoff spot was 36 going into yesterday. They led the AL East by eight games in the loss column. The simplest translation is...
CONE ON LOOKOUT FOR RIGHT STUFF
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am"From all my experience in being able to read my arm, I feel good going into the start." DAVID CONE When David Cone steps atop the Yankee Stadium mound for...
UNDER MICROSCOPE - BOMBERS WATCH, WAIT FOR NELSON TO COME AROUND
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am"He needs time, not necessarily innings, but appearances." JOE TORRE When it comes to October parts, Jeff Nelson doesn't fit the description as big. He's 6-foot-8 but he's not Roger...
WILLIAMS A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES; WILLIAMS HAS CLEAR VISION OF TOUGH TASK
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Brian Williams' vision, largely corrected, still isn't 20-20, nor is his outlook rose-colored. This is the stage of camp where he needs a periscope to focus on the...
SOONER OR LATER ... EARLY COMES HOME; JETS SIGN VETERAN WR EARLY
August 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I think it was meant to be, definitely. I used to lean up against that fence and watch Joe Namath and all the other guys. This is my hometown." QUINN...
RUNNING STAG IS ON THE WAY
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amRunning Stag, who ran one of the more impressive races of the Belmont Spring/Summer meet when he won the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap on June 12, is scheduled to arrive...
FALL OF FRANCE LOOKS INEVITABLE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Though its existing squad is superb, there remains a lingering suspicion that world-champ France is headed for a fall somewhere along the line. The French lineup did ease...
AMAZIN'S LEARN IT PAYS TO PLAY IN JAPAN
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The Mets will be opening the 2000 season against the Cubs in Japan, but it almost wasn't going to happen. The players were not enthusiastic...
TOMS RIVER FINDS A SLUGGER - FONTENELLI POWERING WORLD CHAMPIONS' BID FOR REPEAT TRIP
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amBRISTOL, Conn. - First there was Sinatra, then Springsteen, now Fontenelli. Chris Fontenelli, another Jersey kid who made good. "I just still can't believe it," The Font said yesterday. Fontenelli...
BASEBALL DIAMONDS ARE THIS GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amBRISTOL, Conn. - Back when Walter Matthau managed the "Bad News Bears" Little League team in the late 70s, his star pitcher was Tatum O'Neal, a feisty fireballer. From the...
MARK COLLINS GOES OUT A GIANT
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWhen cornerback Mark Collins decided it was time to retire, he wanted to do so as a Giant. Yesterday, he did just that. Collins, who spent eight seasons and won...
SHOOTIN' BLANKS - PUNCHLESS BOMBERS ZIPPED BY KC ROOKIE
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amAfter flirting with danger against Eric Milton and Jose Rosado in the previous two games and getting away with it, the Yankees dangled their feet into the fire far too...
AMAZIN'S ALMOST NIXED JAPAN TRIP
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - The Mets will be opening the 2000 season against the Cubs in Japan, but it almost wasn't going to happen. The players were not enthusiastic...
CONE KEEPS ON LOOKOUT FOR RIGHT STUFF
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amWhen David Cone steps atop the Yankee Stadium mound for today's matinee start against the Royals, there will be more than a bit of trepidation. Sure, the confidence born of...
TEAMMATE SAYS RICKEY DOGGED IT
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Perhaps no other player in the game of baseball today has been scouted, watched and analyzed as much as Rickey Henderson. Over an amazing 20-year career, nothing...
ROYAL ROOKIE HANDLES YANKS AND DIABETES
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe cynics said Dan Reichert, Kansas City's No. 1 pick just two years ago, wasn't ready for the big leagues yet. The doubters said the Royals' rookie had too many...
METS ALONE ON TOP - VENTURA, PIAZZA HRS SINK PODS
August 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - When Masato Yoshii saw Mike Piazza's home run leave the park in the third inning last night, he could have relaxed. Robin Ventura had already homered in...